New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-23

trsry In the discharge OF Known duty a. Ieneh
man; and the gentlemen having INDUCED in .
lsuah at the officers expense be grew violent, ana
either fearing rescue or being DESTROYS Of taking
revenge ON the prisoner for the slghts paid bis
dignity, be seemed Opposed to hurry Oh to the
prison with bis precious charge, without listening
10 spy propositions Of settlement. Several gentle
men offered to 90 security for Mr.. Greeleys APP
pearance at court whenever he should be called
ior but they did not care for security, since the
passport ~ stem and the Police Of France rendered
his escape impossible without it. They desired
security for the twelve thousand francs demanded
for the lost ststue bat Mr.. Greeley would not
allow bis friends to 60 security for that sum, on
the principle that il might seem to some extent an
Acknowledgement Of the justice Of the claim, and
thus operate preudicialy in the trial OF the case,
He saw at glance the gravity of the difficulty into
which be had fallen, and preferred to have legal
advice before taking any steps himself There
WIS therefore no alternative but to 60 to prison.
On the way to prison the horses were frightened
on the Champs Elysees and ran away. The driver
10 step them directed their heads against tree on
tie sidewalk, which arrested them, but not until
the carriage was so badly injured as to require
spotle r one TO continue the route: The officers
had spsced TO escape before the conclusion took
plsce. but bad refused Mr.. Greeley the same prvi-
ieee, prelerriDg rather to let him be killed than
that be should get out OF the carriage He escaped
erably comfortable room for Paris prison, and was
visited BY several American gentlemen during the
courfe OF the evening, who supplied him with every
fling which be required for his prison residence
II was Saturday night and the lawyers of eminence
had gore TO their homes in the country to remain
over Sunday, so that the hope Of being prepared
for the tribunal before Monday afternoon was out
Of the question.
On sunday we spent an hour with Mr.. Greeley
:-f'o IL, ota1 of tch
entering the front office we were told TO wait until
our names, written on printed request, should be
carried TO the prisoner and to the officer in charge
of tie building 10 be rsfd. The considerable num-
Der of visitors who bad already preceded us had,
found given the employees of the establishment an
exalted idea of the importance OF their charge; for
while we were waiting in the anteroom we heard fire.
auent illusions TO the "Grand Scigneur" from Amer
lea ard his brilliantlevee in the "partir" Wepassed
through many guards and slightly bolted doors in
the ricLety cid building and at last arrived at the
"parloir" This is a dingy, dirty room, the size
of an ordinary parlor, where the inmates of the
prison are allowed to receive and converse with
their friends The room was badly ventilated, badly
lighted, and contained no furniture but chairs.
There were about thirty persons in the room, the
visitors ard the yisitt d, men and women gong
through all those little ecstatics to which French
human nature is susceptible under difficulties; and
in the midst of this little school of French charac
ter we found Mr.. Greeley quietly seated with the
process, in a bad specimen of French callgraphy
in one hand and copy of the Laws of the State OF
New. York fresh from Mr. Vattemare's library, In
the other To frd Mr.. Greeley in such position
with such surroundings, and upon charge for
which be was in 10 way responsible, called up at
once all the indignation of which we were capable
These feelings, however, were soon modified by
til good humor with which the prisoner recounted
his adventures since bis entrance, by his criti-
cisms on the characters around us, and ON the gen.
eral character of life in French prison
The general feeling Of sympathy manifested for
Mr.. Greeley by the Americans in Paris, and the
eaeerness with which their services were offered
in any capacity in which they might be useful,
must have contributed very much toward allie
WAITING the dissgreeabeness of his position. 1t is
not believed that politics or the Government had
ANYTHING to do with this arrest. WE. J.