The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1873, Page 6

‘ ‘Glia Majesty's Health Improved—The Patient Out of Bed. TELEGR/M TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, Dec. 24, 1873. ‘The Emperor William is much better, He haa been up all day. THE VIRGINIUS. Blinister Sickles’ Statement of Spanish Radicalist Feeling Towards America. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Manprip, Dec. 24, 1873. The Zpoea publishes a letter from General kles declaring that early in the Virginius dls- ite the intransigentes of Madrid proposed to @ demonstration hostile to the United tates, The Zpoca denies that there was any such inten- Mion, and regrets that General Sickles took no to contradict the despatch from America ting that such a demonstration had actually ‘aken place. . BAZAINE. ‘The Convict Marshal Still Held at the Trianon: TELEGRAM TO°THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Dec, 24, 1873. Marshal Bazaine is still confined in the Palace of ho Trianon. ITALY AND FRANCE. f (President MacMahon’s Reception of the King’s Envoy. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Dec. 24, 1873, + Ohevaiter Nigra was well received by President MacMahon yesterday, and the interview was of the . Most friendly character. ENGLAND. Bullion on Balance to the Bank, TELEGRAM 70 THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Dec. 24, 1873. The amount of bullion gone into the Bank of England on balance to-day ts £34,000, SPAIN. @ Republican Army in Sore Strait from the Carlists—General Moriones’ Prevara- tion for a Retreat by Sea. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, BAYONNE, Dec. 24, 1873. The steamers sre at San Sebastian for the pur- pose of embarking the force of republicans under General Moriones, which is surrounded by 30,000 Carlists and cannot escape capture except by tak- {ng refuge on the vessels. Republican Preparation for the Assault on Cartagena. Lonpon, Dec, 25—5:30 A. M. Despatches from Cartagena state that active Preparations are making for an assault on the city. The besiegers have received large quantities ‘of shells and grenades. General Dominguez holds frequent conterences fwith the Admiral for the purpose of securing the wo-operation of the fect. The insurgents have ‘$nade several ineffectual sorties. THE GERMAN BOURSE. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. FRaNxFort, Dec. 24, 1873, United States 5-20 bonds closed at 975; for the ‘Assue of 1862. ROME. ‘American Contributions Remitted to the Pope. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Rome, Dec. 24, 1873, The Rector of the American College has remitted to the Pope the sum of $25,000, contributed by the Faithiul in the United States. NEWS FROM KEY WEST. Sudden Departure of the United States Steamer Pinta for Cuba—Rumors ot Fresh Complicatio: Key West, Fia., Dec. 24, 1873. ‘The United States steamer Pinta was suddenly Ordered to sea to-night, under sealed orders. Her destination is known to be one of the Cuban ports, It is rumofed that some new complication has arisen. THE CHRISTMAS SEASON OF OPERA. Mr. Strakosch commenced last night at the Academy of Music a short season of opera, to con- sist of three nights and a matinée. Nothing more ‘welcome in opera could be selected to inaugurate ‘the visit of Santa Claus than the masterwork of all operas, Meyerbeer’s immortal “Huguenots,” given with such a perfection of ensemble and Minish in every detail as it is presented by the @trakosch company. The grandeur of the qmusic and the genius displayed by Mme. ONiisson and Signor Campanini in the fourth act cannot failto awake the liveliest interest in the mninds of the mugical public at all times. The sub- fect is strange, ‘however, for such an occasion. ‘Christmas Eve and the eve of the massacre of St. {Bartholomew can scarcely be reconciled. Yet the ice «last evening was of such a @uperior character that few, probably, con- idered for a moment the incongruity of fhe at it and the occasion. Mme. Wlisson"a vother sink into insignificance beside her artist and passionate impersonation of the tiny bd of St. Bris, and Campanini has only the standard of his Raoul in the réle of Miss Cary, in the two airs of the page, as as piquant and brilliant as ever, and the hy rerengers bigoted St. Bris of Maurél an effective contrast to the chivairous, gal- it iyge 2 Of Del Puente. The best representative the Old Huguenot soldier, Marcel, we have onthe American boards alice the days of 18 undoubtely Signor Nganetti. Even the ‘smaller roles in this opera are so admirably filled sthat nos & flaw is allowed to mar the beanty of the Ohorus and orchestra are so carefully id and rehearsed by Signor Muzio that not yonly absolute correctness, but even the most deli- yr oops goa aia ression, are attained. The per- of ‘Les Huguenots’ last night, like its 4 will stand as a monument of the suc- oess of the ae troupe, “Alaa” is the fea- ——$_$__________ NAVAL INTBLLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Dec, 24, 1873. , Captain Edward Barret has been ordered to the command of the Ticonderoga, at Key West. Commander William K. Mayo to the commana of ‘the Omaha, relieving Captain John 0, Febiger, who 148 ordered to return home and report his arrival, . Passed Assistant Surgeon Simon, Acting As- Dae neg Myers and Paymaster Smith have trom the Minnesota and placed on s O. F. Kmmerick and M. C. Dimmick, are ordered to the Roanoke. rT. M. Poster, from the Mare Is- Mae hy laced on Pig orders, ir a Brown, from the Naval Yard, a re nan, is ordered to the Navy \ Siar Dungan, from the Minne- { " Mare . & to the Navel Hospital at KAISER WILHELM. [|WASHINGTON. — Dissatisfaction with the Virginius Settlement. The Name of Williams Not To Be Withdrawn. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24, 1878, The President Firm Regarding His Nomi- nation of Chief Justice—Senator Ed- munds Vindicated. ‘The President, since his return from St. Louis yesterday, has, in conversation with prominent re- publican Senators, plainly declared that he-would not withdraw the nomination of Mr. Williams for Chiet Justice, but that it must abide the verdict of. the Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee will therefore be compelled to patiently investigate every charge which comes properly before it af- fecting the character of the nominee for this posi- tion. It was stated in these despatchés of the 11th inst. that Senator Edmunds, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, had sold his influence for ‘$7,000 in favor of the confirmation of Mr. Williams. Your cerrespondent is confident that sucha charge is as unjust as it is unfounded, and is asgured that, whatever rumor may say, there is no member of the Senate who will more fearlessly and impartially fulfil his duty in protecting the honor of the ju- diciary than Mr. Edmunds, While he remains at the head of the committee the country need have no fear of any charges being “whitewashed.” On the committee reporting the name, even should all the accusations prove groundless, upon the Senate will rest the responsibility of its confrma- tion, Little Prospect of Reduction of the Es- timates of the Department of the In. terior. The Secretary of the Interior, previous to his departure for Minnesota, to pass the Christmas holidays with his son, who is in bad health, held a consultation with the chieis of various important bureaus of his department respecting the practi- cability of reducing the estimates to a smaller sum, as necessitated by a prospective deficiency in the revenues of the government, and as requested by Congress, in hopes of bringing the appropria- tions nearer to an accord with the financial situa- tion, In the office of the Secretary the amount estimated for the year is needed almost entirely for salaries. In answer to a question as to whether it were not prac&cable to reduce them, it ‘was stated that the force was now inadequate, and the few temporary employés were also fully occupied. Tie business is constantly increasing, and, if it were not for the present embar- rassment, it would be necessary to ask for @ slight increase of force. In view of these facts it will be impossible for the Secretary to make any reductions in this office under his im- Mediate control. The office of the Commissioner of Public Lands might be slightly reduced in its al- lowance, but it is said injuriously to the interests of the sales of public lands. The amounts required for the survey and collecting the revenues from these lands is about $800,000 and the receipts from sales yield a total 01 $3,500,000 annually. There are many offices in which the business has materially declined, and it is thought not impracticable that a re-arrangement of the land districts might result in adiminution of expenses, without destroying the efficency of the important business connected with vhe administration and sales of the public lands, ‘The office here, of course, vindicates the present arrangement, but the accounts show a decline in many of the offices, which will at once suggest to the Committee on Appropriations the propriety of con- solidation. The Commissioner of Pensions says that the act of Congress granting pensions fixes the pensions to which soldiers and sailors, or the widows and certain relatives, shall be entitled. The estimates of his bureau are based on this, instead of on the decreasing numbers, as might be presumed, AS the years have passed by since the rebellion the Jact is the other way, Every session Congress passes some law by which additional persons are let into the list of the famed, and to carry out these laws it is necessary to appropriate large sums ofmoney. There are now 238,411 pensioners of the government. The increase of the pasty ear was 16,405, ‘The increase in amounts over previous al- lowances was over $900,000 tor one class and $50,000 more for another. The total thus required for any pensions for invalids, widows and dependent rela- tives, survivors of the war of 1812, including the expense of agencies for artificial limbsor appara- tus for resection, with transportation or commuta- tion and compensation of pension agents, amounts to $30,000,000, and for the same purposes in the navy is $480,000. Considerable has been said about the growth of expenses of the Indian Bureau, and the enormous outlay on this account has naturally occasioned no little inquiry on the part of Congress. The Com- missioner of Indian Affairs, in conversation to-day, remarked that there was no doubt about the in- creased expenditures, but that the responsibility of the government every year became greater as the Indian country became settled. It was impos- sidle for the Indians to find subsistence in the chase, and, to prevent trouble, the government undertook to feed them, which was a very expen- sive item. The total amount required for the In- dian service—current and contingent expenses, fulfilling of treaties with Indian tribes and paying the interest on trust fund stock—was nearly $7,000,000, and could not be accomplished on less without increasing the expenditures ip another direction by warring upon them. He said the purchase of rations increased as the In- dian came into the first stages of civilization, which was to consent to eat the white man’s beef. During the past few years the Kiowas, a majority of the bands of the Comanches, the Apaches, Cheyennes, Arapahoes and Sioux have raided upon reservations and are served with rations by the government. Admitting that the race is declining, the Commissioner said that the number on the hands of the government has largely increased. During the coming winter, he states, at least 25 per cent more Sioux will have to be fed. The Apaches also are being drawn in by the military operations of General Crook. The Comanches have also increased; the Modoc of Oregon and Kickapoos of Mexico, now in the Indian Territory, also swell the numper, In view of these facts, the Commissioner will be unable to recommend a reduction, and fears that there will be necessity for additional appropriations, The Commissioner of Patents, in addition £o sal- aries, 1s at a large outlay for printing, photograph- ing and draughting in preparing the documents and drawings of his office and publishing the Patent Office Gazette, the oficial publication of his oMce, and which takes the place of the old Patent Office reports. The estimates are about $700,000, and ‘were computed on the smallest possible margin. This office, however, is self-supporting, and 1s, therefore, no actual expense. The fees paid by inventors and patentees amount to upwards of $700,000. There is also a fund composed of the excesses of a number of years and amounting to over $1,000,000. The Bureau of Education has already been reduced by Congress to its smallest possible working force, and will not admit of any further diminishing, except with the sacrifice of the usefulness of the bureau. Congress, it ap- pears, therefore, may expect but little from tne Department of the Interior in the way of respond- ing to its request for reduced estimates, Alleged Weighty Evidence of General Howard's Guilt. Aprominent army oMcer, who has investigated the accounts of veneral 0. 0. Howard, says that the real extent of his eriminality will become more evident and incontrovertible as the investigation proceeds. One of the aark Warriors who were victimized by the sanctified Freedmen’s Bureau consoled himself, in making Nis complaint, by the refrain that when they were in the hands of the saints they were swindled; but now, as they had got into the hands of the sinners, they were going to have justice, The evidence Ggainst General Howard, it is satd, will stamp him a6 qullty beyond @ doubt, and there ia aroat regret fett among West Pointers at his detection for they say that the instanees have been very ‘are in which they tiave been found unfaithful to their ‘trusts in @ fiduciary capacity, as theie sense of honor has preveated them from proving recresat to an honest discharge of duty. The sense of tie regular army officers is unreservedly expressed against Howard, Economy on an Old-Fashio: Plan. One of the secretaries, anxtous to do his part towards the curtailment of the expenditures of nis department, gave orders not to have the usual number of visiting cards printed for New Year's and charged to the “stationery account.” He them told his chief clerk to have six packs of blank visiting cards purchased and to have a. clerk, who writes a handsome hand, write on each, “The Secretary of,” with the remainder of his official title. This 1s “retrenchment and reform’? Southern Republicans Disgusted with the Virginius Settlement—Revol¢ in the Dominant Party Imminent. There is a great deabof indignation felt among the leading Southern republicans at the course of the administration in the Virginius affair, A movement will be organized among them looking to the: combination of their influence to take a stand by themselves, and possibly to identify tleir action with the party of the future, perhaps the Grangers,. who have shown such strength and are sull displaying great activity. It is freely said that, on account of the bungling of the republican party and the discreditable manner in which they have acquitted themselves in the recent State cam- paigns and in Congress since tts meeting, not one Southern State can be relied upon to be carried again by the republican party. They feel that the silly working of the Civil Service law has brought ruin on them and shorn them of the great strength they had when patronage could be most powerlully wielded to reward their favorites and provide for the working rank and file. A strong republican politician from North Carolina, who has been able to carry two counties in that State, hav- ing become embarrassed, came to Washington to seek government employ, He was respectiuily heard, when the official whose aid was sought obsequiously handed him a copy of the “Civil Ser- vice Instructions,” and told him how to proceed to undergo the examination prescribed. He left the Treasury in disgust, saying that in future he would work for some other party who would recognize his services. The repeal of the Civil Service law‘is loudly clamored for by the strongest workers in the republican party, which, having bridged over a Presidential campaign, can now be dispensed with. No Irreguiarity in the Papers of the Edgar Stuart—Caution of the Govern- ment. The investigation by the Treasury Department into the character of the steamship Edgar Stuart has thus far failed to discover the slightest irregu- larity in her papers, or anything concerning her employment which would prevent her clearing from Baltimore to-morrow. Secretary Richardson has been at much pains to inquire into every cir- cumstance, that the Secretary of State may be able to assure the Spanish Minister of the integ- rity of the Edgar Stuart as an American vessel en- titled to an American register, and her right to freedom from Spanish insolence on the high seas in the event of her departure to West Indian waters. It will be some weeks before the repairs of the Edgar Stuart can be completed. Her papers are now 1n the custody of the Collector of ghe Port ‘of Baltimore, and he has been instructed not to deliver them except upon the order of the Secre- tary of the Treasury. Since the decision of Attor- ney General Williams in the Virginius case the government will carefully endeavor to prevent our vessels from further irritating the sensitive pride of our Spanish ally. Credit Mobilicr Takes Refage in Con- tracts. When Congress reassembles a call is to be made upon the District Board of Public Works for the names of all persons who have optained contracts, with the names of those who have recommended their appointment. This may show that the rela- tives, friends and followers of some who have “put, through” large appropriations have profited by the contracts under which this money hasbeen lavishly expended. The Protection of Patents. The Hon. J. M. Thacker, Assistant Commissioner of Patents, together with Messrs. Hamilton A. Hill and Willam P, Blake, three members of the Perma- nent Committee appointed by the, International Patent Congress, recently held at Vienna, have issued 4 call inviting all‘ persons interested in the subject or patent protection to assemble in conven- tion at Washington on Thursday, January 15, for the purpose of discussing this topic, and, if thought desirable, of organizing a National Patent Association. The call alludes to the difficulties to which American inventors are subjected in attempts to procure some protection for their inventions in foreign countries, and states that the International Congress at Vienna | authorized the members of the Permanent Commit- tee to organize branch associations in their re- spective countries, and in general to adopt meas- ures in aid of the movement for patent protection imaugurated there. The committee aiso say that the unanimity with which the Vienna resolutions favoring the American system were adopted afford encouraging signs of ultimate success; but meanwhile our friends abroad greatly | need the information and aid which we | can readily furnish, for we are the foremost nation in the world in the liberality and success of our patent system. Specimen Postage Stamps Not Obtain- able. The departments are constantly in receipt of let. | ters trom stamp collectors throughout the country enclosing money and requesting to be furnished with sets of the new department postage stamps- | The requests have to be refused as there is no lawfui authority allowing such use to be made of the stamps, and the money 1s returned to the senders, i Calls at the White House. ‘The President has received no visitors to-day, with the exception of two or three members of the Cabinet, and the Executive office will be closed until after New Year's. Washington City Steck Exchange. The first regular session of the Washington City Stock Exchange was held to-day. There are about 1% members. FLIGHT OF A BANKRUPT. * Escape of Edson Bradley to Canada | with $70,000 in Gold—H. B. Claflin, A. | T. Stewart and Others Swindled=Are rest of His Partner. ‘The whereabouts of Mr. Edson Bradley, the Broadway merchant, who disappeared a few days ago, and who was supposed to have met with foul play, were ascertained by Detective Mooney yes- terday. The latter was informed by his assistants | that the missing man had fled to Canada with | 0,000 in gold to escape from his creditors, It | appears that Bradiey was at the head of the cloth establishment of Bradley & Ci of No. 495 Broadway, his partners being his son, Major William G. Bradley; his son-in-law, Mr. Hofman, | and @ gentleman named Church. The firm sus- pended payments on the 10th inst., and it was proposed by Mr.-H. B. Claflin, A. T. Stewart, Dale Brothers and other creditors to put them into bankruptey. Their liabilities were found to reach $500,000, while all they had a8 assets was about $15,000 ‘worth of go and notes representing 100,000, %s To avoid being made a bankrupt the elder Brad- ley promised Mr. Clafin that he world pay SEVENTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAK iness himself. | Last week the creditors began to 3 merchant was not acting honestly | cepted the Emperor's statements as correct; but | | been based on the original notion of alliances, and Mooney’s detective agency to watch his move- ments. They ascertained, it is alleged, that he met with two, of his partners at the house of Mr. Hoffman, in Brooklyn, on Sunday evening, and there ARRANGED FOR BIS FLIGHT. He had with him $70,000 in gold, which he had ob- tained in exchange for notes belonging to the firm's assets, From Brooklyn he went to the Grand Central depot, where he took the midnight tratn for the Cliton House, in Canada. Oficers have been sent ater him to secure his extradition. ARREST OP HIS SON AND PARTNER. His son Bradley was arrested at his store last evel by Detective Mooney, on a charge of at- ‘tempting to swindle the creditors of the firm. The com} it was made by his brother-in-law, Who alleges that he has concealed $35,000 in ne accuse@ was en to Ludiow id notes. treet Jail MARSHAL BAZAINE. Epitome of the Irapeachment Against Him. DAMNING CHARGES. Paris, Dec. 8,\3873. As these lines ave being written the trial of Mar- shal Bazaine js drawing to an end, and in # fow days more all the world will be discussing a verdict which Will be.of permanent importance wherever armies exist, The point at issue has been whether the commander of a besieged fortress may undev’ any circumstances, short of actual storming or starvation, surrender his citadel to the enemy, and if 60 what are the precise conditions under whict he may capitulate. That is a subject which is of interest to France.to-day, bus which may con- cern any other nation to-morrow ;-and as a mili- tary precedent it is of such deep historical moment that American readers may like to have a fall epitome of the events which form the Bazalue case laia before them, beginning trom THE OUTBREAK OF THE FRANCO-PRUSSTAN WAR. The French government formally declared war’ against Prussia on the 15th July, 1870. Hostmities had long been regarded as inevitable, both in France, and Germany; but when the Hohenzollern candidature, which formed the casus belli, was started by Count Bismarck, the French were not prepared for a great military struggle, as their own War Minister, Marshal Lebeeuf, wellknew. As the rst rumor of diplomatic difficulties the Marshal hurried to Napoleon lL, at St. Cloud, and stated his position frankly. He said:—‘‘The Sadowa cam- paign opened our eyes to the fact that Prussia had an army at once larger, better organized and better armed than our own. My predecessor, Marshal Niel, set himself to reform our forces, He’armed the infantry with the chassep0t rifle, gave us the mitrailleuse and brought in a bill which rendered military service general and compulsory by the in_ stitution of a mobile reserve. But Marshal Niel died last year, before he could pat all the details of his new scheme into execution, and when I took his place 1 was given to understand that the outcry of the liberals against excessive armaments: was soleud that I must goim for retrenchment. We have retrenched. The Mobile Guards have not been called out for drill at all this year; they have no stores, commissariat or arms, and the conse- quence is that, although we have an effective of 1,200,000 men on paper, we can only bring 400,000 men into the ficld, even if we summon all our gar- risons from Algeria. It will require at least two years of incessant preparation before we can meet Prussia on equal terms.” To this the Empress, who was present at the conference, answered, in- dignantly:—‘If 1 were a French officer I would blush to speak in so faint-hearted a way. Do you count the valor of our troops for nothing, and do | you suppose that we require to be equally matchea with our foes in order to beat them? Austerlitz was fought at dounle odds, and the Prussians had 100,000 men more than ourselves at Jena!” ‘he Empress was very eager for the war. The men- acing progress made by the radical party in the elections, the insolence of the opposition press, and the fact that 63,000 soldiers had voted against the Emperor at the plebiscitum, all pointed to the urgency of obtaining some sensational military triumph which snouid restore the prestige of the Imperial name and,enable Napoleon II. to strike a new coup d'état against the enemies of his throne. Therefore the Empress followed up her first words by others equally bitter, and Marshal Lebeuf was so hurt that he retired from the room and asked for a sheet of paper in the antechamber, in order to write his resignation on it there and then. But the Emperor came out and told him not to mind the tll-temper of a lady. He asked him to go and do his best, adding that France would not fight Prussia single handed, for that she was as- | sured of the alliance of Austria and possibly of Italy, and that as to the States of Southern Ger- many, it was more likely that they would march on the soil of France than on that of the ambitious Kingdom which was seeking to subdue them all. ‘These things the Emperor honestly believed. His foreign Minister, Duke de Gramont, “the greatest simpleton in Europe,” as Count Bismarck called him, had been Ambassador at Vienna, and | was persuaded that the Austrians were burn- ing to revenge the humiliations of 1866. The Emperor himself, who had lived among Bavarians and knew much of Wurtemburg 35 years ago, was convinced that there would be no friendship be- tween these Catholic countries and the Protestant State of the North, and he counted that Sadowa had made an irreparable breach between them. He was also so little acquainted with the temper and strength of Denmark, Hanover and Saxony as to think that these three Kingdoms would rise in rebellion against Prussia, and, with respect to Italy, forgetting how thoroughly the policy of France in the Roman question had alienated the gratitude of Italians, he supposed that Victor Em- manuel would side with the French, to repay the dept of Soiferino, Marshal Lebwut, being little conversant with diplomatic affairs, naturally ac- when he discovered that the hopes of a foreign alliance were groundless, he proposed the only plan of war which, under the circumstances, seemed to him feasible, He suggested that all the French forces should be massed together and marched across the frontier to Saarbruck, there to fight one mighty battle—a very Armageddon—in which, by dint of num bers, dash and confidence, the French would be victorious. Now, a first victory gives French soldiers so much courage, and, consequently, such an advantage over their worsted rivals that they might have been relied on to march ahead and win a second battle, after which the Emperor could have offered to conclude peace. It was the plan of the Italian campaign over again, and, just as the Austrian Emperor nad accepted the peace of Villa- franca, when by forcing the French to continue the war he might have checked and eventually routed them by means of the Quadrilateral, so Marshal Lebeuf was of opinion that Count Bism: would consent to make peace too, if the Prussian armies were twice beaten. However, Napoleon, acting under the advice of General Frossard, the Prince Imperial’s tutor, who was the evil genius of this war, bad already adopted another plan, which had which consisted in scattering the French army | over an area of some 300 miles. The Emperor started for Metz to take the command in chief, | with Lebwut for his staifcommander; the right wing was entrusted to Marshal MacMahon—sum- moneda in haste from Algeria; and, after several | days of disastrous hesitation, the left wing and centre, including the Secona, Third and Fourth Corps d’Armée, were placed under : MARSHAL BAZAINE, Bazaine received his command on the 5th of August, and on the very day following the French suffered two crushing defeats at Forbach and Woerth. The corps engaged at Forbach was the Second, that ts one of Bazaine’s, and was com- manded by Frossard, whom Bazaine p.rsonaily disliked, as indeed did most other general officers, Frossard being, after the manner of court favorites, at once presumptnous and arrogant. There can be no doubt that Frossard’s own blundering rash- ness, and his alone, brought about the catastrophe at Forbach. Having thoroughly studied tne For- bach battie fleld, on paper, Frossard felt sure of it, and on the morning of the 6th he telegraphed to Bazaine that the enemy were about to attack him, but made no request for reinforcements. It is con- tended by the prosecution that Bazaine should have guessed for himself that reinforcements would be needed and have despatched the Third Army corps in order that the issue of the contest might be placed beyond doubt. Had he done so Forbach must have been a French victory, for it is acknowledged now that the Prussian General Kameke had been too hasty in attacking Frossard, and the arrival of the Third Army corps would have lefs him completaly at the mercy of the French, To this Bazaine replies that he understood from Frossatd’s despatch that the Prussian force was but a si@ll one. against whica the Secom corpus could cope by itself, and te persis Ty cecmrmg that Frossard was of this opinton himself and pur- Posely forebore to ask for retuforcements fx order that he might have the giory of winning # battle unaided and so carn his marshal’s baton, Tnisis certainly the trath ; but, on the other hand, Marshal Bazaine was heard to say with a sneer on the af- ternoon of the 5th:—“Frossard has been studying the position of Forbach for three years and thinks itan excellent one for an engagement, Well, he has now what he wants,” It is obvious that there was ili blood and jealousy between all the'generals at this period, each one being anxious to distinguish himself alone, and being, furthermore, hopelessly ignorant as tothe real strength of the’ enemy. Bazaine may be ex- cused for not sending to tie relief of Frossard, te more 80 as this singular General was breakfasting coolly with the Mayor of Forbach white his troops were being beaten; but, after Forbach ana Woerth, Bazaine has no more valid excuses to offer for the truly unaevoantable series of errors which he perpetrated, one after the other, and it is here we reach the beginning of what the prosecu- tion terms HIS POLITICAL INTRIGUES. The ¢efeats of Forbach snd Woerth caused a Wall justified panic im Paris; One defeat would have been serious enough; but’ the two together were felt with good reason to be calamitous, and public opimion loudly demanded that the command- in-chief should be removed from the Emperor's handgand given to some one more capable, On the 7th Bavaine’s wife called, at eight o'clock in the mom#ing, on Count de Keratry, one of the fore- most members of the opposition im-the Corps Légis- latif, and@urged upon him to inetst that the com- mand should be delivered to Bazaine. She showed ‘him a ietter, in which the Marsha! stated that he could save France if left to do it im his own way, but that he could not act under the Emperor's incompetent orders. Bazaine’s counsel allege that Mme, Bazaine’s visit to Count Keretry was one of simple irtendship, and that no military or po- litical questions were touched on durung the inter- view. But visits of friendship froma lady to a gentleman are not paid at eight o’lock in the morning, and it is positive that on the 7th Count Keratry stirre@ up the whole opposition to clamor for bazaine’s appointment. He was successful. On the 12th Bazaine was gazetted to the commandin-chief, and two days later the Emperor left his headquarters at Metz for Cnalons, whither MacMahon was understood to be retreating with his shattered forces and such rein- forcements as were being sent every day from the diferent depots. Between the 6th and the 14th eight precious days had been lost in discussing and rejecting the impracticable idea of concen- trating all the French forces round Metz, and it is due to Bazaine to state that he was the first to point out that the plains of Chalons would bea much better battle field for the French than the Lorraine country. The French armies were fa- muiliar with Chaions; the position was a strong one, and might be fortified to any. extent; and, admit- ting the improbable hypothesis of defeat, there would be a far shorter and easier retreat from Ch&lons to Paris than from Metz to the capital. These counsejs prevailed, but no sooner was Bazaine in possession of the 160,000 men and 570 guns which the Emperer had handed over te him than he changed his ideas and wanted to fall back on Nancy. He himself asserts that he had per- ceived the impracticability of the Ghalons scheme, and had only yielded to it because tt had struck the Emperor’s fancy. The prosecution main- tain that Bazaine grew averse to the Chalons plan simply because it was generally believed to be the Emperor's, and because, ifsuccessful, he (Bazaine) would not reap allthe glory of it. Another con- struction put upon his conduct is that he lost his head on finding himself in command of 160,000 men and felt utterly unable to manage such a host. This is very probable; for, like all the French gen- erals trained-in Africa, Bazaine had no experience of large armies, In Mexico he had never had more than 20,000 men at a time under his orders in the field, and even this number had seemed to him un- wieldly. However that may be, Bazaine’s behavior from the 15th was utterly wild and extraordinary. Instead ofdistributing his army over several roads, to make their retreat the more expeditious, he massed them on the single road from Metz to Gravelotte and neglected to reconnoitre the ap- proaches to his left, where the enemy were gather- ing prepared to attack him in flank. The conse- quence of this strange neglect was that the army was delayed an excessive time in crossing the Moselle and leaving Metz; its, ‘march was rendered fatally ‘slow; and the Germans had an opportunity which they promptly seized of heading him on his retreat, and barrimg the road to ChAions, The battle of Mars-la-Tour followed on the 16th—and a murderous battle it was, The French fought splendidly, repulsed the enemy with loss and remained masters of the field. If Bazaine had renewed his attack on the i7th, as Prince Frederick Charles expected and feared he would, itis admitted that he could have reached the Meuse unhindered, for the Germans were not yet in a position tostop him; but, on the 17th, instead of advancing, he began a backward movement on Metz, allowing the Germans to bring their rein- forcements, and on the 18th took piace the san- guinary battle of Gravelotte which definitely cut off all Bazaine’s communication with Chalons and drove him imto Metz for good. Bazaine'’s own version of this matter is that his army had neither ammunition nor food enough to continue the march to the Meuse after the 16th; but these assertions are contra, dicted by facts. The prosecution have brought evi- dence to show that there was no Want either of food or of ammunition, and they infer that Ba- | zaine’s object in retreating was to play a wholly independent partin the war. He calculated tnat aiter the Emperor and MacMahon had been beaten: | at Chaions he himself from the snug security of | Metz could treat with the Prussians on his own ac- count, and then with his army, 150,000 (for 10,000 had been killed or disabled in the battle of the 16tn), march on to Paris as the master of France. At first 1t looked as if this dream—ifso it be that Bazaine had ever dreamt it—was likely to be realized, for after three desperate battles on the Meuse MacMahon was finally vanquished at Sedan, the Emperor was taken prisoner to Germany, and Bazaine’s army remained as the only one in France that appeared capable of fighting. BAZAINE IN METZ, However, Bazaine had not reckoned Paris. He never supposed that a city so large could think of standing a siege, and when news reached him that General Trochu and the Parisians were actually preparing for resistance he solaced himself—so argues the prosecution—by reflecting that the giddy, unwarrior-like capital would soon be forced to yield, and that then his plan of concluding peace with the Germans and placing himself at the head of atfairsin France would become easy, What | gives a strong color to these accusations is that already in his Algerian days Bazaine had dipped in intrigues which proved him to be a man of un- scrupulous ambition. He had risen from the ranks tothe Marshalate, and in Mexico haa acted so curiously that it.was thought he had some idea of supplanting Maximilian and becoming Emperor of Mexico himself. He had been heard to say at that time that if Maximi¥an could not keep his throne he (Bazaine) would set a better example, and that Napoleon would be proud to see a French. Mau effect that which ap Austrian Archduke had; been unable to accomplish. When the attitude of the United States.in the Mexican question counselled. the French government to recall their forces, Ba- zaine was fain to forego his exalted ideas; but, on returning to France, he had astonished many high political personages by his fuppancy in ex- claiming—chiefy in after-dinner conversations— that France wanted & strong man at the helm, and that if the Emperor would call him to the Premier- ship he would show the world how a fractious na- tion should be ruled. It is certain that from the first Bazaine refused to hold any commmnications with the goverment of the National Deience, and lost no occasion of declaring to the generals shut up in Meta with him that it was @ revolutionary government of cutthroats and lawless, and that Trochu, for heading such a gang o/ demwagogues, ought to be shot, Despatch iter despatch was sent him by Gambetta, but he returned no answer, and declined to co-operate in any way with the the armies being levied on the Loire to force the Germans to taise the siege of Paris. On the other Rand, when aa uskaowa person, Called by nim faithfully reporved in the Prussian ‘The Germans thus learned what were the resources of Metz, and when Bazatue,, perveiving that the to negotiate with Prince Frederick Chartes, he found ail his offers haugbtiy repuisea, Ba- zaine wished to sign a peace, march out with iit 150,009 men and help the Germans;to subdue Part — as an insurrectionary stronghol tm the possession of an illegally constituted goverhusent. The Ger~ mans would hear of no terms bu®absolute surren~ der, and Bagaine, who now saw into-what a pitfalt bis ambition had dragged him, ayplied himself tor disheartening the garrison and*population of Mets tm every way im order to prepare themt for @ capitulation, Instead of reviving the energies of his soldiers by consol-’ ing words ke spread it everywhere time the Germans were gaining victoric® all over’ France, and were gathered in such nuvwers round Metz that to attempt sorties would be madness,- The better to force this trath home he somt vut oc- casional raids of 5,000 men, which were “repulsed” by forces 10 times a8 numerous, and these fore- gone defeats he magnified into crushing disasters. in his proclamations in the leading articles he caused to be'inserted in the oficial newspapers, im his casual conservatismyhe atways did his utmost to dishearten, never to-cheer, and the resu!?of all this was that, on the 25th of Ostober, Metz formally capitulated, though there were still six weeks? provisions in the city. A# the Germans themselves admit, @ resistance of but 10 days more would have changed the whole aspect of the campaign; - for the Loire armies would have come to the rotief of Paris, and, as the Germans*were forced to keep 200,000 round Metz they’ would not “have been sufficiently strong to continue the siege. of the capital, and would have been obliged to raise it. But Bazaine preferred to sur render bis army sooner than act in cons cert with the republicans and: hear it satd* that they had saved France. Since he could now play the leading part himself he was resolved * ~ that the whole country should go toruin and that — every general should fail as he had done, He ac cordingly signed the most humiliating capitulation: ever recorded, for not only was the citadel of Meta, with all the arms, stores and ammunition im it, given up—not only were the whole garrison of 150,000 men made prisoners of war, but 57 regi mental standards, which, by all the:laws of mili- tary honor, ought to have been burned up, were surrendered too, The prosecution accuse the Marshal of having yielded these fags under threat of Prince Frederick Charles that If aught were withheld from the Germans the Prince would pab- lish the intrigues into which Bazaine had dipped and the unworthy negotiations he had undertakem with a view to extinguishing the republican gov- ernment for his own advantage. Such are the charges adduced against Marshal Bazaine, and it may be said that the sum of them forms the most heinous impeachment ever brought. against a general. RHODE ISLAND, Hire im a Rubber Factory—A Boy Drowned—Burning of an Old Woman. PROVIDENCE, Deo, 24, 1873. A fire occurred this morning in the cast room of the National Rubber Company of Bristol, and was confined to that room, which ts freproof. The loss is between $5,000 and $6,000, fully insured. . Ira, son of William Bicknell, 12 years of age, was drowned yesterday in Belleville Pond,’ Noro& Kingston, having broken through the ice while crossing on his way to school. Patience Watson, wile of Robbin Watson, a col- ored woman, over 70 years old, was fatally burned on Monday when alone in her cottage at Allenton, North Kingston. Her clothes caught fire and she was unable to extinguish it. Died. 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