The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

CRIME IN FRANCE.

A strange drama has just occurred near Rochelle (Cha.
rente-Inttlrieure). A young man named Cossevin, aged 20,
had for the last two years courted a young girl named Julio
Baillon, aged 16, inhabiting the commune of Lagor. His
addresses were well received by the girl, who was quite
willing to marry him. Her mother, however, had refused
to consent to their union in consequence of their youth.
Three days back Cossevin called on 111 me. Baillon and made
a formal offer of marriage, and was refused. Cossevin then
asked if he might be allowed to visit the daughter, and the
mother appearing to hesitate, he added, "If in ten minutes
you have not made up your mind, you will see what I will
do I" After a silence of about a quarter of an hour, he rose,
and offering a pistol to the young girl, proposed that they
should take each other's lives. On her refusing, he pointed
a second pistol at her, but the mother rushed forward and
turned aside his hand at the moment he fired. He then
directed the other pistol at the mother, forced her to go on
her knees, and swear to keep secret what had taken
place. The following morning Cossevin waited for the
girl as she was carrying milk to Rochelle, and entered
into conversation with her; but on their arriving at the
edge he seized her hands, and then, forcing her
into of a wood,aditeh,aain produced his two pistols, fired one at the
young girl's breast, and with the other attempted to blow
out his own brains. The girl escaped with a slight wound,
but the second ball had lodged in Cossevin's skull, and he
now lies in a desperate state.

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(aLrosiosne)a h
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just been engaged two days in trying n
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ployed on the St.-Etienne to Roanne railway, charged with
having through their negligence caused the fatal accident
at La Fouillouse, on the 24th August last, by which four
persons were killed and nine others more or less seriously
injured. 24 witnesses were examined for the prosecution
and 12 for the defence. The defendants pleaded that they
had acted in accordance with the regulations, and had not
been guilty of any neglect. This plea, however, was not
supported by the evidence, for the tribunal declared the
charges proved against them all, and condemned M. St.-
Martin, deputy station- master at St.-Etienne, to 15 months'
imprisonment, and I,ooofr. fine; Taillaed, station-master
at Villars, to a year's imprisonment and 500 fr. fine; Bar-
bet, train-conductor, Fevre, engine-driver, and Mitaine,
stoker, each to six months' imprisonment and 500 fr. fine ;
and the four other defendants, 411 gate-keepers, each to 15
days' imprisonment and 50fr. fine. Nearly all the defend-
ants have lodged appeals against their sentences,
The Journal de l' leone states that an attempt at murder
was committed three evenings ago at Fulvy, in that depart-
ment, on the person of M. Bonnetai, On returning homo
after dark he found some difficulty in opening the street
door, and had scarcely got inside when he was seized by a
man, who attempted to strangle him, and in the struggle
both of them fell to tbo ground. During the conflict the
man fired a pistol at M. Bonnetai, who then loosed his hold,
and his assailant got up and ran away: Fortunately, owing
to the darkness the shot did not take effect, and M. Bonnetai
received no injury. It is supposed that the man had entered
the house with intent to commit a robbery.
A crime which appears to be involved in mystery has ju.st
taken place at Calais. A blacksmith, named Delannoy, who
recently came from Data irk, has for the last month kept a
low catis in the Rue de la tiler, which was managed by a
woman named Monteville, who lived with him as his mis-
tress, and by whom he has a daughter about seven years of
age. Delannoy, the woman, and the child slept in a room
on the second floor, another room in the same storey having
been oceupied for three or four days by a man named
Waren' a Belgian, and an old acquaintance of Delannoy.
On the day of the crime, Delannoy and Waron came down
about seven in the morning and went out together. A short
time after the child ran down and told a sister of the woman
Mentsville, who acted as servant, that she th ought her
mother was dead. The sister went up and found .her sister
lying lifeless in a pool of blood in the room ocalpied by
Karon, and a hammer on the ground with which the crime
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The Court of Assizes of the Promo, sitting at Valence
was last week engaged during two days in trying a farmer
named Garden, aged 25, charged with having, on the 17th
August last, at Lons-Lestang, murdered his mother, a
widow, and his two brothers, Jean, aged 27, and Felix,
aged 17; the prisoner was also charged with setting xire to
their dwelling-house, in order to destroy all traces of his
his crime. It appeared from the indictment that, in April,
1862, the prisoner purchased a house and some land for
6,100 f., at Bellegarde-Poussieux, about two leagues from
his native place, and not having sufficient funds to pay even
the first instalment, sold to Jean all his right to a share in
the family property for 2,OAf, but the brother received only
1,100 f., the other 900 f., being left as a security for his
share of a yearly sum to be paid to the mother as long as
she lived. The prisoner soon after wanted his brother to
let him have the 900 f., but meeting with a refusal, he
raised funds liy forging bills in his brother's name, for
above that sum. In the night of the 17th August last,e
shortly before these forged bills fell due, theto pr 00
wises of the widow Garden were observed
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found the bodies of the widow and the youngetshreuoi flit;
dead in the kitchen, both having been shot
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head. The premises were entirely destroyedia,
too had
of the eldest son was found among theeru ho
bonised, but a fracture of the skull showodea chatmusPected and'
been murdered. The prisoner was attare a
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arrested. When interrogated, ho declared tau
and brother and
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doubt that Felix had murdered his rniorien, ssnd the body
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Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Cotton, much better in. tone. Sales, 5,000, or
much more. import, 9,84 ; previortsly, 32,141,

SKIPPING—This Day.

Lorrvos, Nov. 12.—Witl this day at coon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and title weather, but rather
cloudy.

PLYmorrx, Nov. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Try
Again, flout London for Carthagena, with forenmst Epruhr
and other damage.

ll.utwicil, Nov. 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Astrea.,
from St. Jibes.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 12.—Wind N.W.--Sailed—Diary
Melia, for Bahia.
PonTsmouTu, Nov. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Assinee,
from Calcutta.

DARTMOUTH, Nov. 11,—Wind S.W.—A.rrived—Wil-
1i amtina, from Rio Grande for Fslmoutb, wits loss of sails
and other damage.
CARDIFF, Nov. 11.—Wind N.—Arrived—Donna Maria,
from Bahia.
SUNDERLAND, Nov. 10.—Wind N.B.—Arrived—Caw,
front Moulmein.

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Queen Christina, the Juke tie Itianza-teF,
their family, have returned to Paris from, their
sidence near IT e.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA,

(From the Special Correspondent of the Tunes.)
NEw YORK, Oct. 27.

The .1' .merican " Fall" is in all its gorgeous
beauty. The weather for the last two or three weeks
has been as near perfection as man may hope to enjoy
it anywhere out of Eden—neither hot nor cold, nor
damp, nor cloudy, the very best that could be con-
trived for the furtherance of the arts of peace; the
most favourable also that could be desired to help
on the murderous work of war. Autumn on this
continent, however, is a reason as fleeting as it is
lovely. On Saturday last we had heavy, incessant
rain in this city. Sunday was dark and windy, and
we felt the wintry chill in our veins. At St. Louis,
Miss several degrees to the south of New York,
the y had the other day six inches of snow, with a
sh arp frost; the snow, by the latest accounts, lingers
still on the ground. If present indications mean
anything, we must make up our minds for an early
setting in of winter.
Every one feels that now or never is the time for
the Federal armies to be up and doing. But
Meade's army of the Potomac has just been crippled
by the destruction of the Alexandria and Orange
Railroad, and that of the Cumberland, under Grant,
has come into the hands of a new commander, who,
however quick and far sighted, must yet require a
few days to look about him, to take in the difficulties
of the position into which his forces were thrown
by the blind impetuosity of his predecessor, Rosen-
cranz, and hit upon some plan by which he may ex-
tricate himself. Gen. Meade is not expected to move
forward for a month. Gen. Grant is said to have to
deal with a Confederate force of 80,000 men under
Berlgg ; a force so aided by the natural and artificial
strength of the position, that the Federals have but
little chance of Marching against it with success,
and hardly more probability of marching away from
it with safety. General Grant may condense a
host of 150,000 combatants at Chattanooga, bat the
battlefield is not favourable for the manoeuvring of
large masses. Cavalry
is no great help in the nar-
row mountain defiles, and artillery little better than
a positive encumbrance. Bragg, who occupies a
ground of his own choice, a territory known to him
inch by inch, need hardly shrink from a conflict in
which the odds are no worse than two to one. On
the other hand, although few here doubt that the
object of General Lee in his last movement was
merely to place a month's distance between himself
and Meade, and that aim was signally attained.—
although he might now spare a division or two to
strengthen Bragg, still it is well to bear in mind
that the direct. communication between Lynchburg
and Chattanooga is through East Tennessee, in
the hands of the Federals under Burnside,
and that lee's reinforcements can only reach Bragg
by a roundabout way through the best part of the
territories of North and South Carolina and Georgia,
a distexce that can be computed at not less than be-
twee'a 600 and 700 miles, and along railway lines
whi'Jh have been so used up, both as to rails and
6material, owing to the wear and tear of the
W ar, that the rate of travelling is nowhere more
than 12 miles an hour. All this leads people here to

suppose that Lee's efforts will rather be directed to
the demolition of Barnside's army in East Tennessee.
Preponderance of numbers on the part of the
North and advantage of position on the part of the
South may keep the armies on either side in mute
and inaeti.ve observation of each other, so that we
may hasee nothing to note down from week to week
except, unimportant cavalry and light infantry skir-
mieb es, such as the one reported to have taken place
nal Saturday last near Bealeton Station, when the
Southerners, crossing the Rappahannock, drove
',back Gregg's cavalry and established themselves on
the left bank of the river. Should nothing decisive
occur either in Virginia or Tennessee during these
four or five weeks before the close of the Indian
summer brings about a suspension of hostilities in
those regions, it is questionable whether the weari-
some operations of the siege of Charleston and the
desultory warfare in the remote South-west will
have power to keep up the warlike enthusiasm of
the North at its present fever heat. It is not any
amount of adversity, not any startling disaster, I
take it, that can ever wear out the endurance of
these stubborn Yankees; it is the consciousness of
the utter impotence of all their enfleavours, as illus-
trated by day after day, year after year, slow, un-
eventful campaigning. Nine or ten Commanders-
in-Chief have been immolated to their impatience
from M'Dowell to ResenCranz. Broad hints are
thrown out now that the authorities of the War-
office, or, indeed, the whole Administration at Wash-
ington, should be superseded. An outcry is raised
that the way to Richmond is not through Culpep-
per or Fredericksburg; that a new experiment
should, be tried of a landing on the peninsula be-
tween James and York Rivers ; that from Novem-
ber to February the season is most favourable for
military operations on those low grounds, free at
that time from malaria, and often hardened by frost
for the passage of artillery. " The way to Rich-
mond," people say, " lies today where it lay two
years and a half ago, when Gen. M'Clellan followed
it up to the gates of the Virginian capital." But
" the only road to Richmond," they add, " lies over
the `taanity, the arrogance, and self-satisfaction of
the -Washington Administration, which, out of
blind hostility to M'Clellan, will not allow the re-
lleteal of the experiment in the peninsula."
We must not see in these bitter remarks any-
thing but the natural outburst of popular impa-
tient,.
these
the
the Government, in obedience to
into tt_pstions, to undertake a second compaign
the
tivait4etaraes and York River peninsula, and run
thsa euarsillenewing the calamities which have made
doubt thYground for ever memorable, I have
-providence would
e Clamour against their reckless im-
providence
be far louder than it now is
against their
the fall of Iliehsa temporising helplessness. The fact is,
however itself, like that of Charleston,
gratifying to Northern vanity and vindic-
tiveness, would
not bring the war materially nearer
its conclusion, and
newW :lad hardly be rash to anti-
cipate that the
spring of 1864 will naamurigning season in the
of
this
.no further advanced
towards the solution
we are at this moment. American puzzle than
nearly dento f
Little as one may sympathise with the stiff-necked
and stubborn North, it is inapossible
to
it brings into the cause of Union am
ou y
u that
melees
consistency and unanimity
realty
pea every hich
re-
sembles heroism. The
Peace-at-
any-price men—are a very small flock an
s.. fat
as I
Most of the
am able to count them. "'aerate
many of the Southerners themselves, evince an
unconquerable tenderness for the preservation or
restoration of their great united country. Tan,
to them of the appalling waste of human life, talk
of national bankruptcy
staring them in the face,
and their ever recurring argument is, the dissolution
'
of the Union would be by far the greatest of evils.
" Can you cut a man in twain right round the
P" they say. " would
England and expect him to live .
England part with Ireland on any
of
rity
terms ? Or would
not Austria stake her existence on the integ
her empire by maintaining her hold on Venetia, or
Russia upon Poland ? Not the greatness, merely,
and the prospect of boundless empire,
but the
peace and freedom, the security and c omrnercial
prosperity of the North would be et an end for ever
if it and the South went asunder. The first halving
oae great Republic would lead the way to endless
divisiorie and sub-divisions; and what is now one
country and 'see nation would split up into as mans
'Wrangling Powers and rival fractions of people as
now
y taake
up the European council of nations."
Ou maw well try to reason with them, and tell
them that--,“ such is,
indeed, likely to be their des-
tiny ; that States of one hundred, or four hundred
millions of people such as they expect theirs to
become—are not seemingly in harmony with the
general scheme of this nether world of ours; that
the dream of world-wide dominion, of universal em-
Piro, is no new phase in
the annals of mankind;
but that such edifices fall and crumble from the
weight of their balk and
mere lextent ; that even if
get over their present '
they could difficulty, there
would be no lack of future causes of dissension no
scarcity of
new hydra-Leads springing '
ging from the
very blood of the one they vainly hope now to lay
underground."
They are not to be reasoned with ; they via fight
their brethren to the bitter end, and " the blood be
d ca that of their children's
upon their own head an