The New York Herald Newspaper, November 15, 1875, Page 4

£ A ROMAN TRAGEDY Trial of the Assassins of Raphael Sonsogno. A DEEP-LAID PLOT. How the Celebrated Journalist Was Slaughtered at His Desk. A Strange Medley of National Politics, Jealousy and Domestic Treachery. Rome, Oct 19, 1875. Rarely, if ever, has Rome been in such a state of ex- citement as this morning. After eight months’ delay | Frezza, the presumed assassin of Raphael Sonsogno; | Luciani, the instigator; aud Paymaster Armati, the go- between, with these accomplices, handcuffed and Mrongly guarded, were transported from the prisons {Carceri Nuove) to the Court of Assizes, The streets, win- dows and roofs lining the road were crowded with peo- ple who rush to see an emperor to-day and an assassin jo-morrow with the same gusto and the same indiffer- ence. Now and then you beard a regular Roman hiss, tirected especially at Luciani. Police, soldiers, cara- bineers, by dint of herculean efforts, cleared the way to the court, where the corridors, upper loggias, win- flows and a terrace overlooking the courtyard were one mass of human heads. In these days correspondents have to pair and heip each other. “You go there and see with my eyes; I will go there and see with yours.” 1, by dimt of elbowing the crowd, baranguing the carabineers on their duty and the police on my right to pass with ticket riven by Commendatore Ghiglieri, succeeded m reaching the wretched post assigned to ihe press, The howling of the crowd without sounded like the howling of wild beasts waiting to be ted, They had for the most part taken up their po- Hitions at dawn, and now thatthe hour appointed for the court to open (ten A. M.) had passed were clamor- bus for entrance. Suddenly the great door of the hall ppened, and, in the middle of a triple line of soldiers, of guards and of carabincers, again surrounded as by a chain with @ circle of carabineers, the accused were brought in. Armati came first, pale, convalsed, clutch- ing his long red beard; then Frezza, a giant, broad shouldered and robust, Looking at him, 1 understood how Raphael, so slight and pale, though fighting like a lion across his study, through the anteroom, down the first fight of stairs, was vanquished at last and fell with twenty-three wounds on head, back, chest and hands, mortally wounded in the intestines on the landing place of the Capitale. “The other three accused are men of the commonest stamp. Morelli and Farina look harmless enough ; but Scarpette, nicknamed Vespillone, who is by profession a gravedigger, is, perhaps owing to his hay- ing but one eye, hideous, LUCIANI CAMB Last, snd on bim alleyes were fixed. He was dressed ina new suit of black, blue waistcoat, shiny hat, his fair mustache well wuxed—alsogether got up in accordance with his profession asa lady killer. He smiled upon the crowd, but as be passed the three Sonsogno brothers—Edward, Alberto and Cwsar, dressed in deepest mourning—he paled visibly and turned his head. The accused took their seats on the benches in the cage, Frezza, Searpette and.Luciani on the upper tier; Armati, Morelli, Farina on the lower. When the Presi- flent ordered the doors to be opened to the public a perfect avalanche invaded the hail and scarcely one- tenth obtained admittance. Tho entire sitting was Bcoupied with re@ling the act of accusation and in talling over the names of the witnesses. I may as well make the tragedy as intelligible as possible to your readers, SKETCH OF SONSOGNO. Raphacel Sonsogno, the murdered man, was the youngest ef four brothers. The father, a clever, enter- prising man, was on author anda bookseller. Edward is now at the head of a printing and publishing firm in Milan, without exception the most enterprising in lualy. They have published a magnificent edition of Dante, 700 pages in folio, with Gustave Dore’s illustra- tious, for 271, whereas the French edition costs 200f Their popular pamphlets, “History of Italy,” “Gramma Mythology,” &., which co8t but 15 centimes; all the classics at 1f., and all the chief musical compositions, all excellent, 600,000 volumes, at 1f cach, issue from their establishment annually. The Gazzetta di Milano at the time of the murder, which represented the moderate liberal party, be- longed to the brothers. It has since been discon- tinued, The Secolo, which has the largest circulation ofany paper in Italy, issuing 30,000 and on special occasions 40,000, is theirs, also-the Capitals, edited by Raphacl Minsey, im Rome. He was one of those men whom it is difficult to define completely; but his most Bulient quality was combatievness. He had written literary articles for the Gaszetla, yet, at the fame time kept well up im all news that would favor the Italian cause in 1859, and for this was sent to Josephstadt and only liberated when the allied armies iverated Milan, Then he went io for politics and Journalism ; edited the Gazretta ati Milano and was made member of Parliament. His special object seemed always to be to unveil the evildoiugs of the moderate party. In Milan he accused the municipal authorities of peculation and nepotism. They brought action tor livel, but Sonsogno proved his accusations and the Syndic and municipal Giunta was compelled to resign, He went in for the.Lobbia case, and especialiy placed in reiiet the fact that five of the principal wit- nesses in Lobbia’s favor have died violent deaths. Finally, with the Itahan uoups, he entered Rome by the breech and set up the Capitale, Here the pen seemed a six-barrelied revalver in his hand—now a shot atthe Vatican, now one-at the Minister of Finance for expenses scarcely justitied by the state of the country’s Treasury, now atthe Minister of War for compelling the troops as an experiment to live on potted meats, which tertainly did produce colic and diarrhoa at atime when cholera was rife; now at the Democratic Syndic Piacictani because the patients in the hospital were ill- fed ana their beds anclean, until every person in au- thority quaked at the name of the (apitale, One thing | in justice must be said of Sonsogno—i. ¢., that he never attacked persons unless those persons represented some public office, His paper was seized, sequestrated, actions brought imnumerable; pow he was condemned, bow absolved; no matter, be beld on his way unwa- veringly. SONSOONO AS A JOURNALIST. Asa worker 1 suppose few journalists equalled him. Abstemious, sober, an early riser, from early morning to late at night, where writers and sub-editors were worn out, invariably you found Raphael at bis desk, He was full of contrasts ; for # political demonstration would lavish thousands, for a new hat deliberate till the season was passed. So much for the public life of the murdered man, Vrivately he was much beloved by his family, espe- cially by his mother, who, with his father, he lost last year, He married some twelve years since a lady of Como, and by her had one son, now ten years old. They aeeined to live happily together, until gradually: Raphael, more and more occupied in poiitics, lett his ‘Wile to be escorted and amused by his political friends. “THe FALSE WRIEND, Among these—indeed, bis most esteemed—was Lu- Cian}, a handsome, clever, brilliant seapegrace, who seemed to possess remurkable attractions for men and Women, His mother is of the Roman populace, his’! father nameless; bi brother, nicknamed Paino dell’ aimo, a noted thief, now in prison, whe, it seems, Maintained Guiseppe with the proceeds of his thefts, But until now Guiseppe’s origin was unknown. was a clever por writer, had served under G: bald) in 1867, was Ratazai's private secretary until tho Minister, finding him too intimate with his wite, showed him the door, Then Raphael Sonsogne took him up, helped him in every sort of way and trusted bim entirely, Iu one of his articles in the Capitale Raphael had cast fidicwle on the economical kitchens founded by the | flite of Roman society and patronized by Princess Margaret. The young Rowan, Prince Udesealdei, con- sidered himself offended, aad challenged Sonsogno, in March, 1874. Guiseppe Luciani was one of Somsog- no's seconds, His wife at that time was at Milan in He | | | | reads more like a romance than a legal document. ‘the house of Alberto Sonsogno, and the mother was on Rar dying ved, On the idth of Mareh Alverto, we NEW favorite brother of Raphaci, received a letter from him telling him of the duel, and sayin, do not trust Lucian; he bas had a two hours’ @bnference with Odescaldei, my adversary; do not let him see my wife. The duel is to be fought on Swiss territory; provide me with pistols.” Alberto, much disturbed, rose very early on the fol- lowing morning, and to his astonishment found Luciani, whom he believed still in Rome, coming down the staircase leading to Mra. Raphael Sonsogno’s room. He tried to secure Cavalotte, instead of Luciani, for his brother's second, but it was too late, Odescaldei and Sonsogno fought on Swiss territory. Odescalde! was wounded in the face, Luciani, who, the family assert but I by no means confirm, received money {rom caldei, did not draw upa proces verbal, as is always done, Odescaldei refused to give his hand to Sonsognor and renounced trom that time close friendship with Luciani, who from that day was disowned by Sousogno as afriend. All this will be declared by the first wit- nesses} summoned by the Royal Procurator. Tum but anticipating, but violating no confidence, A FAITHLESS WIR, Later, when Raphael found his wife to be with child (since stillborn), he brought an action against her and Luciani for adultery, He wrote his own act of accusa- tion, It ts still in the hands of nis lawyer in Milan, and Per- haps it will be produced on the trial; if not I sball send quotations, Meanwhile Luciani stood for Parhament and was elected in Rome. He could not take his seat, being under age, but while the verilication of powers was guing on he did frequent the hall of Monteatono, The election declared null, he stood again for one of the colleges left empty by Garibaldi; stood against the wishes of a large portion of the liberal party, who preferred Fran- cesco Cuichi, one of the foremost Garibaldians, who lived and conspired in Rome in 1867 at the hourly risk of liberty and life. I think I have omitted to say that Raphael Sonsogno, member of Parliament in 1866, had resigned owing to the publication by the Perseveranza of certain letters of his to Montazio, a famous spy, well known in London to be in the pay of Austria, During the frst election the Capitals, edited by Sonsogno, was not specially hostile to Luciani, Son- Sogno, Wanted to beat the moderates and the clericals at any cost; but at the second election, well knowing that between two contestants the third wins—i, ¢,, that with two liberals dividing the liberal yote the moderate candidate would win—be Urst warned Luciani, then published the assertion that ‘Guiseppe Luciani was unworthy to represent the democratic party.” Moreover, it is affirmed that Raphael, who possessed the secrets of Luciani’s parentage and life, threatened to divulge them, In any case, both Luciani and Cuichi failed, and the moderate members triumphed. Luciani was suspected even then of using his liberalism asa cloak for service rendered to the government. Accused of having pur- posely divided the yotes and enabled the moderate [ party to win, Luciani, who was the intimate friend of Menott! Garibaldi, was, on the arrival of General G baldi himself in Rome, a irequenter of Garibaldi’s rooms, availing himself of every opportunity to present his own friends and exclude his enemies. The most strenuous efforts were made by him to induce General Garibaldi not to receive Raphael Sonsogno- All the old charges of the letters to Montazio, of his having written in the Austrian Gazetle, were brought up against him, But Garibaldi, who, of necessity, cau- ‘not sift his visiting list with the nicety ofa Fifth ave- Rue matron, and who sees a number of people to whom he would give neither a brevet of patriotism nor of morality, very rarely so brands an individual as to refuse to receive him. Moreover, the Capitale had been the real instrument im securing bis double election, and Sonsogno’s articles on the Tiber and Agro Romano project were by far the best of any newspaper in Rome. that Garibaldi would refuse, as in the Perseverdnza of Milan—the organ of the extreme moderate faction, the personal enemy of Sonsonno—was published a private telegram stating that Garibaldi had refused an audi- ence to Raphael Sonsogno. ‘This roused Sonsogno, who had never stirred from his desk evento be presented to Garibaldi, and with some friends he went up to the General’s villa, was received cordially, and, perhaps, for the first time in two years, invited some friends to dinner, This was on the 4th of February. THE ASSASSINATION. On the 6th of February, at eight P. M, Raphael was assassinated in bis own office at the Capitale. So tre- mendous were his elforts to defend himself that with twenty-three wounds he still kept hold of the assassin, the athlete Pio Frezza, until the printers, still at work im the court at the printing press, rushed at his cries dud secured the murderer just as Sonsogno’s strength failed and he sank down dead. . For several days the assassin preserved a stolid silence and said that he was on the staircase, ana for reasons of his own, aud that he was not guilty. At first, while all who knew Sonsogno personally whispered the name of Luciani with bated breath, pub- Jie opinion inclined to the belief that some of the politi- cal parties whom Sonsogno had attacked were at the bottom of the crime. Meanwhile the funeral was gigantic. The brothers came from Milan to embalm the corpse and transter it to the magnificent tamily tomb in the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, where the previous year he and his brothers had erected a tablet to the memory of father and mother. “All Rome’ followed the hearse, and among the mourners were Menotti Garibaldi and Gen- eral Fabrizzi, Benedetto Caeroli—in short, all Gari- baldi’s most intimate friends; also the chief representa- tives of the Mazzinian party, old Manrizio Quadrio, G. Battista, Cuneo, Sig. Sarma Nathan and all the family of Nathans, in whose house Mazzini breathed his last. ‘These details reached Frozza in his prison cell, and those who saw him say he became from that moment another man, He had at first assumed a Brutus-like air, though denying; but now he sent for the royal procurator and confessed that he was the author of the assassination ; that he had been instigated to the deed by acertain Armati, who had promised bim and his accomplice 1,000 francs, and bad furnished him with the dagger which was left in the body of the murdered man. Bat he stated distinctly that patriotism waa the motive of his crime; that he had been told by Garibaldi’s inti- mate friends that he, Garibaldi, wished for Sonsogno’s death asthe enemy of Italy and of democracy, and that he had undertaken the deed only oa these motives. Armati was arrested. As yet only the gravest s picions rested on Luciani; but, though closely watched by the police, he was left at large, first at Rome then atTurio, But iu the course of the revelations made by Frezea aud Armati one of two 500 tranc notes paid was found, and Prince Odescal recognized it as the one he had given to Luciani, to whom he had Jent 1,000 francs a few days before. A PRIEND’S ADVICE, Bottero, editor of the Gazzetta del Popolo at Turin, Summoned Luciani, to whom he was devotedly attached {and who bears 4 strange resemblance to him), to his office, and in the most solemn tertas conjured him to tell him the trath. “If you are guilty, Guiseppe,” said be, “there is but one course left, You must blow out your brains, 1 pledge myself to care for your family and explain what can never be excused as far as it 1s possi- bie. But if you are innocent then I will see you through, Go to Rome and act and live as usual’? Lucian) Wept, protested, swore that Le was innocent of the deed, that he knew no more of Frezza’s intention than a child unborn. Bottero believed him, made bim go back t> Rome and engage Villa, his own intimate friend, and one of the most celebrated lawyers of the Italian forum, to defend him if accused. ing what Bottero believed, accepted the office. ‘Still it must have been hoped | Villa, believ. | YORK HE im the part of his spotless integrity and pagriotis! and this is why we see Menotti Garibaldi, Cucelli, Mouro, Maertu, &e., &¢., among the witnesses. Every effort will be made to prevent the Sonsogno brothers from acting as plaintiffs; indeed, it was the first ques- tion raised this morning. This attempt will be see. onded by the Royal Procurator, who will limit his ac- cusstions to the six accused sitting in the cage at the present moment But the brothers Sonsogno, who are willing to spend their last furthing, and, self-made men as they are, to begin life afresh, if only they can obtain justice and | vengeance on ali their brother’s enemies, high and low, | are resolved to trace up the murder to what they call | first causes, They mean to have detailed all the rela- tions between Odescaldei and Sonsongo; and here | beg to insert my full belief that, whereas the most cordial hatred existed between the Roman Prince and the Roman journalist, it is preposterous to imagine that Odescaldei, when he lent money to Luciani, as he and others bad often done before, had the fuintest glimmer- ing of the uses to which it would be applied, Again, the Sonsogno defence will try and force the government to compel the telegraph authorities to denounce the sender of the telegram to the Persever- anza, It looks very ugly tor the editors of that paper that they, the declared champions of Luciani, | decline to name the sender, Again, in proof that Luciani was-not a vietum but a favorite of the goveru- | ment, they will produce the Stetani telegram, support- mg the evidence of Suceani, the witness who | ailirms that be recaived money trom the Roman Bank | 4o warn Luciani, They have confided their cause to | the famous ex-royal procurator Taiani, the deputy who made such extraordinary’ revelations on the state | of things in Sicily when the exceptional laws were under debate, and Cresi Vastanini, another celebrity, Vleoa, member of Parliament, being ill. ‘The question is still pending, the Gourt having post- poned all decision us to whether the Sonsogno family | may or may not constitute themselves parte civile; but as brothers of the murdered man the right can hardly be denied them. Ifsuch a preposterous step were to be taken of course the pubiic would say that there is something very ugly to hide. I do not suppose that the wife will be called unless it should result she wasan accomplice Of Luciani, The family blame the police exceedingly for not having searched at once both her house aud that of Luciani, as some peo- ple say that her taunts and upbraidings in allowing her to be brought before the public as an adulteress led him to the crime. But such complaints are exaggerated. It is very certain that they would have burned all crim- inal correspondence, if such existed, aad that no traces | would have been found. Certain it is that Raphael’s death puts an end to that trial, Whether his wife and Luciani were guilty toward him in that respect is a thing that can never now be proven, The young son of | ten lives with Edward, who has adopted him; but, le- gally, he cannot now be taken from his mother, and she is going to jaw to get back the guardianship and the property of her murdered Lusband, A COMPLICATED CASE, Altogether it is oue of the most tragic and compll- | cated trials that has ever taken place in Italy, Oct, 21.—Nothing of importance has occurred either yesterday or to-day, The crowds increase each | morning. The accused are interrogated one by oue. Frezza narrated the circumstances preceding the deed and the details of the deed itself with cynical sang frou, All traces of emotion, if he ever felt them, have disappeared, Luciani listened with breathless attention, There were ral contested points, Frezza’s written confession was read, Morelli, in round, rolling Roman accent, gave his share in the deed, spoke of his presentation to Garibaldi, and ram- bled; then burst into tears and sobs, and was carried out to calm himself, Returning, he indulged in a | series of heroics, declaimed on his patriotism, and was | loudly hissed for his pains. Then his written examin: tion was read, and the contradictions brought ont, | Farina, a regular popolano, rambled in similar style, | said that he believed he was serving his country, and | the hisses grew so loud that the ushers entreated silence on the populace, and threatened to turn them | out. Armati’s affirmations are the same as those | written; he was to have had 6,000f., but did not get | them—how he received the dagger, and so on. Nothing of sensational importance will occur until the wituesses are called, and the first will be Alberto Sonsogno, the brother of the murdered man. I should say that only one of the brothers Colas acts | ag plaintiff for himself and the young son, Edward and Albert, being witnesses, are incapacitated, | law. Meanwhile a messenger (who affirms that he was paid | by De Lucea, director of the Roman Bank) arrived at Turia to warn Luciani that the police were on bis track. He tried to escape, but was hounded and obliged to return to Rome. Here he wus arrested, hid- den in a closet by his mother and sistor, Armati openly | accuses him, and brings forth trightfully weighty evi dence. Of course the counsel for Armati and Frezza, whose declarations agree, try to prove the guilt of Lu- ciani, Villa, one of the ablest of living aavocates in criminal cases—Mancini being his only rival living— hos chosen for big colleague Giordani, resident in Rome; and chosen non-Roman counsel should offend the belfry- tower susceptibilities of the jurymen, Romans all, has added Avocato Bartolini, a rather celebrated Roman pleader, The by the ne of counsel will be taken of Luciani fs, that he is % victim of governmental bate, Fifty-seven witnesses ure summoned to testify to their intimate relations with him—to their belief, at least defence that | talwerto Bansarna and Depury Fellee Cuvalotie, she soot, now Jest the fact of Luciani's having | | will then start for Washington, and during a v: THE PRUSSIANS IN AMERICA. WHAT THE CROWN PRINCE I8 GOING TO DO HERE. [Translated from the Cinefunati Freie Presse. ] Frederick William will visit the Poiladelpbia Exhibi- tion next year, the cable informs us, and at the same time itis announced that German war vessels will ac- company him, This looks very suspicious. Bismarck has not gone to Italy, but has retired to Varzin, ou the | pretence of being sick, but all the world knows that he is engaged in getting upa big coup d'état, It is pretty well known that he for some time since has had an eye on America, and that he will setzo the earliest oppor- tunity to make a conquest of this country, It bas not escaped the attention of this tar-seeing statesman that Rome is laboring to obtain a permanent foothold in this country. This he seeks to prevent. Moreover, Bismarck is on a sharp lookout for America. He bas, no doubt, been informed, per telegraph, of the contemplated plot of “Mr. Hacke’? against hig life, Therefore, some inportant events may be looked for in the coming year. It is evident that a Prussian invasion of this country has been in contemplation for the past few years. During the past two years thousands of able-bodied young men, liable to military duty in Germany, have been swarming to these shores, and itis evident that they are sent here by the military authorities to organize themselves here secretly and be prepared to strike the moment the signal is given. Why, German military organizations, by the battalions, are openly formed in this country before our own eyes. The Exhibition next year affords a welcome opportunity to smuggle thousands of Ger- man soldiers and officers 1mto this country in the guise of workmen and persons employed for the Exhibition. They will quietly await the arrival of the Crown Prince aud the German fleet. It 1s quite significant that Krupp will send some of his heaviest aud most dangerous guus to the Exbibi- tion, and most of the German space in the Exhibition building has been reserved for the reception of arias and munitions of war. When everything shall be in readiness the Crown Prince will make his appearance with his flect and at once proceed to Philadelphia to communicate with the commanding general, who, probably, is already in this | country in the gaise of an agent for the Exhibition. He the White House will suddenly distribute bis nu suite atnong the different departinents, and before the people have time to realize the situation the President and his Cabinet will be taken prisoners, Military de- tachments will at once be forwarded to occupy Baltt- more, Boston, Cincinnati and other cities, to prevent any Uprising in its incipiency The leaders of the radical element will be secured, and while the German batallions keep in chock all olutionary attempts, the whole country will be- mapized ian brief period. The Amencan tee will be effectually reformed by filling the ublie olfices with non-commissioned Prasstan oflicers, he English language will be abolished and the Low | German will take its p! 48 the official language of | the country. | With the application of the rigorous discipline of | the Prussian army, Biswarck, in @ brief period of six | mouths, will be master of the’ new world a# well as of | the old.’ Ofcourse the enforcement of this rigorous discipline will require the summary punishment of all rebels, who wil! each be promptly exceuted in accord ance with the juagments of the courts of martial THE CANARY IN THE TOMBS. On Saturday night Thomas Canary drove his horse and cab recklessly down Chatham street. H@ was drunk at the time and ran the bead of the horse (which | was blind) violently against the cluster lamppost re- cently erected in front of the Staats Zeitung building, atthe intersection of Chatham and Centre stre 18, The animal doubled back from the force of t collisi« and broke his spinul bone, He was suon atter put out of agony by oue of Mr, Bergl’s men, who came along and shot the poor brute, The elaster of lamps was sinashed Lo atoms, Canary was arrested, and yexteraay atthe Tombs Justice Bixby beld him’ in defaait of $1,000 to answer a charge of cruelty to animals, HOBOKEN'S MASONIC EXCITEMENT. About four years Captain William Burrell, for- merly of the celebrated Stevens yacht Maria, became @ Freemason 1» Hoboken and took his first degree. Owing to bis having a sui? kuee be was prevented from taking his second deyr da grout deal of con troversy has existed in th nd Lodge of New Jersey | as-to whether he should be allowed tu take any further | degrees on account of not having periect limbs. The | newspapers also took up the discussion, Finally and | yery recently it wae ordered that Burrell might take his second degree, aud this week be is to take mis third deured, RALD, MONDAY, NOVEM | is so fond of motion that when in battle he runs con- | | these exhortations be makes use of epithets which are | | pened to look into the chamber where the dinner was | they had nearly finished it when Luca Petcovie pounced | talking of Luca, Of Peko they had not so much to say. | disturbed bim. | features and nodded pleasant greeting as we ap- HERZEGOVINA. A Night Spent in the In- surgent Camp. LJUBIBRATIC AND WASHINGTON A Council of War to Determine on a New Plan of Campaign. 4 O RAGUSA. Racesa, Oct, 16, 1875, In my iast letter I gave you a sketeh of our journey to the camp of Gretzi, and introduced you to some of the igsurgent cbiofs, I invited you with me tothe hut of the italian volunteers, where Luca, Petcovic and others recited to me the history of some of the many skirmishes through which they have passed, Luca BACK tinually from point to point, crymg out to bis men, “Now then, boys, kill every Turk that you see, At them, my pretty birds of prey!” And in addition to perbaps ingpiring in battle, but which do not print well, As there was uot a table in the whole camp, and | probably not a single chair, we gathered around a huge board in the open air, and, seated on the ground, regaled ourselves with the ribs of roasted sheep and | the fragments of broiled liver, which were served by the good natured Montenegrins and Italtans, who had ofliciated together as cooks, The sheep was carved with a long knife, which, as some one among the Italian volunteers suggested, had prob- ably served to cut off Turkish heads, A curious kind of soup, which I alterward observed the refagees mak- ing here in Ragusa and eating with great gusto, was served in a wooden bowl. It was a kind of cross be- tween hulled corn and the savory French julitune, and was far more platable than the masses of meat*set be- fore us, Each one passed around to the bowl, plied the solitary spoon until he was satisfied, then made way for another, The occasional outbursts of laughter from the darkness convinced us that the insurgents had gathered to see the visitors at their meals, and found the spectacle intensely amusing. | After the dinner was over and some of the insargents had made a tour of inspection among the rocks to as- sure themselves that there was no immediate danger of a surprise, the camp disposed itself for sleep. In some of the cottages groups gathered around the fires and sang monotonously together. Passing by others one could hear the stertorous breathing of a score of war- riors, and in still others men were playing at rude games of chance, Guirc; the alde-de-camp, and your humble servant, being but little desirous of sleep, found a bench under the lee of a cottage and fell into conversation. “‘You, perhaps, think that we are barbarous our- selves,” he said, “as we can offer you so little; but the Voivoda and myself were well equipped when we came into the fleld, When we were attacked at the Monas- tery of Duzi we were compelled to leave nearly every- thing behind. All our stores, our spare clothes and a hundred personal articles so useful ina campaign went into the hunds of the Turks. We had the pleasure of hearing that some of them were afterward put up at auction or atu kind of crier’s sale in Trebigne, I shall never forget the day of the attack on Dazi. We were reaily very comfortably installed there, There were rooms and something very like beds, We had managed to get together « very good meal, and in our supposed security were about to enjoy it, when there came ina hungry family of refugees, perhaps twenty persons, all of the same name—man, woman and child. ‘They hap- spread, found it quite natural that they should eat, and down uporf them. He terrified them out of the cham- ber, and we were just about to eat the remoants, when crack! came the attack, and we had nothing to cat for the next twenty-four hours !”” ° LUCAS POPULARITY. Guire and all the others took especial delight im He was not overpopular in the camp, although he is always doing many things which should make him beloved, Since writing my last letter I have received intelligence from the insurgents to the effect that they marched from the camp of Gretzi on the afternoon of the day that we left it, and, crowding down to Tsarina, drew # thousand shots from the Turks without getting hurt at all. On the forced march which followed the next day one of the Italians gave out, and would have been left behind to starve among the rocks had not Peko, with a sympathetic grunt, swung him over his shoulders as a shepherd would have done with a lame kid, and bore him gently over the stones. If such a man i3 not a good Christian. who is ¥ After Ljubibratic had gone to his rude couch and Guirc had designated a man to watch over us during the night, we went to our “apartment,”? which was a square loft over a stable. We mounted to it by foar rickety stone steps, and by tha smoke-obscured gleam of a fire on @ stone floor in an outer ,room roped our way to an inner one strewn with fresh straw, There were three little windows set into the thick wall; there was not an art- cle of furniture save a species of barggl, on which lay half'asheep’s carcase, inthe room; the walls were black with emoke and dirt, Yet Guire assured us that this was a sample apartment in a well-to-do farmer's | house, and that in nine out of ten of the other cottages | in Grebzi we should not have fared as well. 1 am conti- dent that in no other cottage should be have found any more bugs. Bugs, indeed! That ig a poetic name for ‘then. Our guardian divested himself of his outer garments after Guire bad departed, aud, sticking his pistols and knives in the girdle which he wore about his coarse | linen shirt, he stirred the Gre and stretched himself in | front of our boudoir, 1 do not think that the bugs We slept not at all, Toward dawn the guardian awoke, and after some mysterious commun. ings with the fire brought us some delicious cofleo, copked in the Turkish fashion, and served in tiny cups, which must have been taken from some Bey’s cot- | tage. We revived, Tho morning chill, so severe | in the mountains like those of Herzegovina, passed away under the influence of the gemial herb, and we were thoroughly ready to promenade when | Guire’s genial voice cailed us to come and have a look at the Council. The sun was just rising as we strolled out to the little knoll where Ljubibratic was seated in | the centre of his subalterns, The meu were all in fuly | costume, as if: ready fora march; their guns were | slung over their shoulders, and they lounged about the narrow streets of the village as if expecting to be summoned to march as soon as the Council was ended, Luca and Peko, with their rivbed jackets of mail | flushing in the early sunbeains, and with tueir brown | js thrust into their girdles in loving proximity to their long knives, looked martial and impressive, The | mouk Minja showed his jovial face near Peko’s stern proached, The “chiefs of ten’? were hstening eagerly to the low voice of Ljubibratic as he gaye them details of his journey to Ragusa, which one of them—so sad BER 15, 1875.--TRIPLE SHEET. | Ragusa, | him money afier reaching town. clamber forty miles # day, and their muscles are as hard as the rocks they live among.” It struck me that they must be matnly recruited from the better class of Herzegovinians, as they were so different in general ap- pearanco trom the broken and abused fellows whom I saw among the refugees. I asked Ljubibratic about this, nnd he said that it was the truth, There are large nuim- bers on whom it @vould be worse than useless to rely, as centuries of oppression have made them completely cowards in will, But there are no mon tm the camp who will ever run away, When in combats their mu- nitions give out they choke down their rage with sobs aud throw themselves on the ground, much as an en- raged animat does when it is deprived of the means of doing harm, When the time came to leave, the Voivoda, to whom Thad become strangely attached in my brief acquaint- ance with him, volunteered to accompany me to the frontier, We wll bade adieu to Peko and the others, receiving from the venerable Montenegrin a parting S'Hogum, and from the rest a warm grasp of both hands, A goodly group followed us to some distance trom the camp, looking curiously at us At last Ljubi- bratic signed to them (o follow no further, and they retired. The Voivoda looked weary and troubled when we reached a huge rock perhaps half a mile from the fron- tier, where he had decided to leave us. He leaned ayains¢ the stones and talked earnestly for half an hour, His mind was made up; he had determined to begin on that very day a pew campaign as vigorous a8 bis limited munitions would allow, and he would only stop when weather and fatigue made it necessary, I thought, as I saw him standing there baggard and weary, with his old torn cap in bis hand and his great breast heaving with emotion, how once a certain other obscure revolu- tionary hero was in similar trouble and want, and how, perhaps, a parallel between Wasbington at Valley Forge and Ljubibratic at Grebzi might not 100 years from this seem at all ludicrous. 1 told him the story as well as [ could, and tried to encourage him, He smiled faintly and said :— “I have always had Washington's portrait {n my pri- vate room: dt Beigrade. I have got no little comfort out of it im times past.’” PARTING PROM THR CHIP. We talked over anew the prospects of intervention, the hopes of success for the winter campaign, the danger of being surrounded among the rocks, &c, At last little knots of tusurgents began to appear on the path behind us, and some of the more hardy coughed their impa- tie: It was evident that Ljubibratic was wanted in camp. So he caught Doth my hands, and, holding them tightly, he said:— “Monsieur, je vous recommande mon pauere pays.” (“Sir, L recommend to your sympathy my poor coun- try.) He gave to each and all of us a parting kiss, which no one for a moment thought of refusing, He did it ma grave and dignified manner; then turned and waved his and to us, leaped from rock to rock and disappeared behind a ragged mass of limestone, Alter he had disappeared we ail drew a long breath, and each agreed that Ljubibratic was every inch and in every sense a clean-handed, white-souled, straightfor- ward gentleman, Guirc and one or two others went farther with us, The guide appointed to show us the way was a broad-shouldered six-footer, who cared no more for the broiling sun than he did for the rocks which s& bruised our tender feet. He insisted that we should pile our bundles upon his back, and while we were cautiously picking our way and Jooking in all directions for Turks, he went half a mile abead of us and compelled us to seramble post haste after him, ‘The return to the Austrian village, where we stopped on the way up, was effected without adventure, Shortly after parting with Ljubibratic we all bad a start, how- ever. As we were straggling along in a line reaching perhaps over 600 yards of space, and were about de- sending into a valley, we heard a musket shot behind a ledge, and a moment after one or two others, Then a group of men came hurriedly around the corner on the hill bevond, Our first thought was that it was a ‘Turkish patrol; but we were presently reassured by noticing that the men came toward us, whereas had they been enemies they would have taxen up a position among the rocks. They were merely insurgents bring- ing up provisions from the village. On the frontier we found the little Italian curé of the village, who, learn- ing from the insurgents that we were coming down that morning, and fancying that we must have passed a hungry and sleepless night, came to invite us to his httle house, where he had spread wine, cheese, coarse bread, and where also be had laid out Jong Turkish pipes and a profusion of loose tobacco, ‘The little curé, who carried his gun, as every one does in this country, leaped from rock &® rock ahead of us, as yayly aga kid, and sprang over his own high wall in the village at a bound, while we laboriously mounted by the primitive style, Perhaps I have in these letters said enough about rocks; but I cannot refrain from alluding to them once more, The journey trom the Herzegovinian frontier down to this place under the blazing sun gave me new ideas on the general difficulties 1n this region, I recom- mend any volunteers who may think of coming out from America to practice going up and down a ladder ina Turkish bathhouse, with the temperature at 250 degrees a few times before they come here to fight. And the shade of the olive troe is a delusion. I tried it on the way down—got no shade—on the contrary, got nearly sunstruck, and stung by a hornet into the bargain, and on the ear, Getting down was much more diffieult than getting up. Itset Virgil all wrong. I never did believe in an indiscriminate use of the fucilis descensus, and 1 be- lieved less than ever after 1 had got down to Ombla again, | walked down Vesuvius to Torre del Greco once, and I would rather do it three tames than come down from Gubzi again. And there was no water to be had after we bad left the little curés, Looking back from time to time on the gray uplift of mighty crag and stony pinnacle which we left behind us 1 could imagine how men could love the barren country with a passiouate adoration, It had a singular enchantment for us all; it seemed to possess an unusual faculty of casting a glamor over everything belonging to it, I know that as I lay under the olive tree above mentioned (just before the hornet stung me, by the way, for afterward | was pot so charitable) I thought Vhat a scraggy vineyard which had struggled into life among the stones was positively beautiful, To the men who have never been beyond the Adriatic’s archi- pelago and stouy and mountainous islands which garland) the Dalmatian coast for a couple of hundred miles I cam readily imagine that cliffs of Herzegovina area paradise, For the last few miles before reaching Ombla there was not a particle of shade, and when I reached the border of the arm of the sea my bead was on fire; 1 knelt down and plunged head and shoulders into the salt water, A boat was im waiting; the old boatman rowed us around to the har- bor of Grorosa, and we sent for a wagon to take us to Our guide flushed haughtily when we offered We did not insist that he should ive it, In the camp when we left it there was a little com- pany of Russians, some of them real types of Mujike who had come to fight with Ljubibratic, The day after we were at the camp they had a taste of war and didn’t like it, Nine of them returned to Ragusa as soon as they could, doubtless much to the diggust of the Rus- sian Consul. This Consul, by the way, 18 a remarkable figure, and I will try to sketch him for you, THE RUSSIAY CONSUL AT RAGUSA, The Consuls of the great Powers at Ragusa—which Guire—bad noisily demanded just as we drew near, | ‘The scene had nothing of modern in it, We seemed to | have flown over the barriers of probability aud to have | strayed back 1,600 years into the past, | A COUNCHL OF Wan We went to visit & curious grotto in the neighborhood and when we returned we found the Council ‘seated in | another quarter of the village, ‘This time it way evi- dent that they spoke of war and that immediate action was intended, -Chief alter chief made surring addr and shook their hands menancingiy at the rocky bar rier behind which lay the Turkish torts, our sympathy. But there was not a man in the whole tbrong who would have taken from us @ button by stealth, Their sense of hospitality was so, keen that tt was with much dificulty that I prevailed on our friend who had 8! tion. I noticed particularly the insurgents and it seemed to me that they wore likely to last, They all realized in the completest sense the terse and vivacious descrip, tion which the French Consdl General at Ragusa, the siniable ad accomplished Count Jouffroy d’Albans, had given me of them in these words:—‘They eat or made out of bitter roots; they drink little but water; they {mM | the litte principality of Son Many msur- | } gents came up and shook our hands as if demanding | 4 at our door to wevept a Blight remuuera. | may fairly be considered a# the European gate of the Orient—are really political ~— agents. ‘As some one said of them the other day, they are commercial agents where there is no commerce. ‘They are a kind of éclatreurs tor their gove ‘Alexandre Yonine, the Russian Consul General, ts the real prince of Montenegro, ry one knows that Russia subsidizes and maintains by ‘ber influence LZTO 1M Its inveterate hostility to the Turks, M. Yonine i the agent near the Montevegrin Princo, and quently may be considered ax possessing no small in in the direction of atluirs there. of bis Une 1m Ragusa, because . Montenegrin hoot Austrian move an, of delicate taste: He sp th beeunse Ub | He is an a | diplomat, | Than is ‘allotted hin, and. w! | mired, even by his political | honse’in Ri | terions manner. asubtle who would grace a much higher position 1s very generally ad- enmuies and gets intelligence Ina most mys: He is bur little im the company of the Kuglish, Turkish and French consuls, who are mach | together, aud whose comments on passing events are | fr his naturally ean be. y to Ragusa from the various | camps without « Russian Consul or his agents, | aud giving them all the uews which they bring, A day or two atter we were at Gubzi, Gruie passed | through here en route lor Casteimoro, where be was to join a newinsurgentvorps, Be sure that be did not pass without Youine’s knowledge, and that all his viens wore known betove he leit, ents, | He keeps open | FRENCH AFTPAIRS. The Approaching Session of the Assembly. THE ELECTORAL LAW- Accidental Meeting of M, Thiers and the Comte de Paris, A FOLYGLOT MARRIAGE Panis, Oct. 30, 1875, Deputies are pouring in from the provinces for the coming session, while hammer and chisel are busy at Versailles preparing for the reception of the unborn Senate and of the representatives of the people, many of whom kuow full well that this is the last winter dur- ing which they will go to Versailles in au official capa city, These gentlemen may at least claim the merit of distinct policy, for, irrespective of trumpery national interest, they mean to cling to their seats and thelr $2,500 w year so long as by any means, fair or foul, the Iife of the present Assembly can bo prolonged. On the other hand, there is reason to believe that neither Ministers nor opposition have as yet quite made up theif minds as to the best plan of cainpaigy to be adopted. Official papers haye so strepnously denied that any dissensions exist in tho Cabinet, that it is very clear they do exist. Indeed, it is impossible that M, Bullet, a timid Orleanist whose conservative instincts led him at length to accept office under the Empire, should be very heartily agreed with an out spoken liberal and freothinker like M. Léon Say, The probability, however, is that the government, as it i now constituted, will stand of full by the Electoral bill, and that ifthe Assembly should reject the scrutin Warrondisse- ‘ment it will resign, but only to be reconstructed with the least possible modification, M. Builet would in that case have to retire and M, Dufaure would become Vice President of the Council, while M. Say would be recognized as his colleague,on equal terms, CAUTIONS MODERATES. Still, it is in no way certain that M. Buffet will be de- featenl, for there are not a few members of the Left Cen- tre and moderate left who are unwilling to run the risk of & coupd'étaton what they do not hold to be after all a matter of vital importance. The fact is, too much bas been made by this question through its being treuted from aparty point of view, and it ia well worthy of note that in his “Posthumous Me moms,” now Dbemg published, Odilon Barrot pleads in favor of the scrutin @arrondissement from a liberal point of view, and he urges that the in- fluence of the local authorities, of the village priest and the petty Mayor, is greatest. under the serutin de liste, for, when five, six or eight names are submitted to the peasant as candidates for the department, he generally knows nothing of any of them, and trusts to tne local officials for information, M, Odilon Barrot’s view— valeat quantum, atleast shows that scrutin de liste is no necessary part. of a liberal platform, On the subject of local authority in” France there are two items of jnformation which deserve to be recorded. In the first place the Mayor of Lille has issued an order forbidding trom the Ist of November the playing of pianos or organs 1m any public place under his jurisdiction, on the ground that such music tends to promote dancing and inde cent songs, takes away artisans from their work und becomes a cause of immorality. Whether the Minister of the Interior will uphold the decree of this new Dog. Derry remains to be seen. THX DION STATUE. At Dijon there is astorm ina teacup, provoked by quite other causes than any relating to the moral wel- ture of artisans, To commemorate the “sheroic” de- fence of that city during the war of 1870-71—by the way, all French’ cities were “heroically” detended previous to the usual capture by the Prussians— to commemorate the defence of the old capital of Burgundy, the Municipal Council decided on erecuung astatue, which was to represent an allegorical figure adorned with a mural crown and grasping the navoni colors im one hand and a broken spear in the other, 'The other day the statue was reported as tinisted, upoi which the Prefect of the Cote d’Or said he should like to see it, The Mayor hoped M. le Préfet would wait for the regular day on which it was to be unveiled. M. le Préfet bowed, promised to restrain his curiosity and took the first convenient opportunity to lift the veil. His worst suspicions were veritied. Instead of a decent mural crown the statue wore the hateful Phrygian ap, He immediately wrote to the Mayor, telling him that the statue must be taken down, Th Mayor replied that he could find no workmen for the job—a statement which was perfectly correct, for not man of Dijon would take the wages of such work, General de Gallifet, the military gover: nor of the district, was next applied to, This oilicer, whose principal exploit has been the execution of hum dreds, possibly thousands, of Communists without trial, joyfully undertook the business reqyired of hira, and adetacliment of soldiers soon brought down the statue, which they also, no doubt purposely, managed to break. should here mention that thi munists still continues, and this who wore the military medal of merit, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for having been pressed into the service of the insurgents. M. THIERS AND THE COMTE DE PARIS. M. Thiers has just returned from Anzin, whither he went to take part in a meeting of shareholders ina mining company. On the way there his train met an. other, which was conveying the Corte de Paris and ¢ hunting party to Chantilly, According to Frenck custom the Count, the ex-Président and their respective suites found themse locked up in @ waiting room for a quarter of an hour while a change of carriages was being effected, Tbe son of Louis Philippe looked at bis father’s old Minister and the Minister looked at the son of his old master; but for a few moments neither of them moved. “Thea the Comte de Paris advanced a few steps. M. 'Thiert on bis part advanced a few steps and held out his hand, which the Prince warmly shook, After a brief inter. change of courteous phrases, M. Thiers and the Prine separated, General de Cissey, then came forward, and “the ¢ His Excellency fora few minutes o of the army, He was farther pleased to say that he thought peace assured for this year and the next “after tha’? nobody could tell what might happen, A REMARKABLE MARKL in French “high-lite’—if it may be celebrated on Sunday last, at Dresden, was Prince George Bibesco, an officer in the Freach army, a Wallachian by birth ‘and a Greek by retigion, The bride was thé Countess Valentine de Caraman- Chimay, Belgian by birth, Catholic by religion, wite of a French basband from whom she ss separated ‘bat not divorced, She is turther a naturalized Saxon subject, and in that little kingdom has been formally divorced from her first husband. ‘This curious wnion was cole- brated by a Russian priest. Since the builders of the Tower of Babei were dispersed, there can have veen ng such contusion of languages and nationalities, The lady, it will be — perceived, has twa husbands, both of them legally assured to her, though in different countries, while, the Franco-Wallac gentleman cannot be said to have more than h wife, seeing that he can only call her his own in fore parts, Should there be any issue of the murriage, t children will be strangely puzzled to a name they should call themselves and even to know whether they can be considered as having any legal existence. It is au ill wind that blows nobody any good, and therefore attorneys and counsel have cause to look forward with hope to many fees as the most probable result of this singular domestic arrangement THE OLD, OLD STORY. Thomas Price, hailing from New Orleans, was walk- ing through Fourth avenue on Saturday night, and in his peregrinations met Miss Carrie Bliss At her solicitation he accompanied her to her home, at No, 109 Fourth avenue, where he remained for some time, and, lying down ona sofa, fell asleep. * On awakening he was somewhat startled to find that $400 had becn abstracted from his pantaloons pocket, and as Carrie was still in the same room with him he procured hor t, 1 before Judge Otterbourg yesterday morning, and $1,000 bail to answer, Price, who said he had been in New York only afew days, and came bere on a surveying expedition, was sent to the House of Detention to imsure his pri As u Witness against the false Carrie, ¢ prosecution of Com- y week a veteran, lectured the reconstruction » terined—wae he bridegroom _ w Yout, Nov. 12, 1875, To tHe Epiron or tne Herain:— Under the heading of “A Suggestion” in the Heranp of this dato the writer proposes to exhibit the remaing of Washington at our Centennial colebration, charging asmatl amount for the same, Which shall be appro: priated to the purpose of finishing the monument in process of erection in Washington. Are our people jullen so low that they must need raise funds for so great a purpose in so despicable a manner? Must they beg of foreigners money to build «monument to our greatest benefactor, when we have so many rich mea among us’ Let the Herato start a subseription list at is ollive, inviting all Who can give ten cents and up ward to contribute to the cause, and there will soon pour into the treasury suificient ty Unieh it botore the Ist of July next, and thus, while we honor the mumory of our illustrious dead, bring, if possible, a blush of mn u heek of out 1g Statesinen, who have neglected it so long. Please give this @ place in your columns and oblige yours, &o,, au a