New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-24

hen, vhie r would ~ eJ oesrveiy berdansohA u bet
pnous to commerce. ABe:ber measure proposed
s that ibe Bank sbcul3 make 8 disnoets'n es'"eso
ordinary commercial paper and hat offered ey the
money dea~rs-a distinction. one would .hinh, easser
a. tab about than TO efect
The actual cond.on Of .se Bank "a rep,esen.ed
a. be very gooS.
Som. reief in the present state Of things is hoped
from the issue by the Bank OF 80 franc biis-an
i.sue to which il shows great repugnsnce as u
formerly showed great repUgDance 70 the issue o.
hills Of 200 and 100 francs. The latter pertinent
has been followed with advantages and no incOn-
vepience, but still the Bank hesia,es and resis,s II
logically continue i. with the bills OF 30 francs.
Tbese tickle French curlOusy devoted - rcuhne.
regret 10 announce the suspension on the |tn oil
the respectable American banking house OF Joha
NuDrOe Il Co.
The only place in the world where money seems
TO be plenty St. Petersburg II is to be had tnere
at per cent. Shareholders IN the newly
planned Russian railways anticipated their install
inents in the fortnight preceding the I'd Of Ncvem-
Der, 10 the amount of tueDiy-four million francs.
So writes, or rather te!egraphs, ~. Petersburg
correspoudent of the Partisan telegraphic agency.
hsd intended 10 close this letter with some item
Of cheerful news gossip, but find myself, with
the hour Of closing the mail just a! hand, before the
famous Lem ARE case.
A most singular case it is Of family crime,
Assizes at LaOn, in The department of AisDe. The
mere newspaper heading Of the reports is striking
enough 10 be quoted: 1.-The LerDare case; fifty
"rObberes; two fires; three murders; society OF
" malefactOrs; fourteen persons accused ASIDE
from their NUMBER there nothing extraOrd nary in
the nature Of these crimes. But the utilization
crime, tie deprsyty Of blood, the family prochsiy
b. guilt in the prl,on is monstrous IN ln singular
ity Except that they are low and base in acts and
,ao4;voe ths family tXaul1 pyrite n us somethinp
of that awful interest that Grecisn poets have
thrown around the fated horrors of their tragic per
sonsges AS it is, they remind US rather Of HOf
man nightmare invention of generated wickedness
in bis Devils Elixir
The fourteen prisoners, roen and women, young
and old, are, with one or two exceptions, closely
related by blood and marriage. Their lawless d ;ts,
extending through many years, have been long sus-
pected by Justice, but the fear they inspired in the
community where they lived, prevented the obtain
ing of attested proofs. Their present trial and
probable condemnation now depends mainly on
their own interchange Of accusations The same
district of country where they have killed, burned
and robbed forty year. ago the scene of similar
crimes, being carried on with an IMMUNITY,
owing to similar inspiration ofterror, by band of
DaefactOrs a part of whom were relatives of the
prisoners now on trial. The Journal de PAime
publishes the following monstrous genealogy of
this family: The grandchildren of Jean
Chretien great grandfather of Lemaire, were
l. Jean Francois, died four years ago in the gal
leys where he condemned for life 2. Francois
Thomas, condemned TO the same penalty for killing
his wife: ,. Martin, brother of Francois Thomas,
executed for murder; 4. Jean Francois (second of
the nancy, condemned for robberies and died in
prison; s. BenOit died in consequence of fall from
a roof, which he had mounted for the purpose OF
breaking into and rObbing house; 6. Claim, con-
demned for several robberies, died in prison. :.
lare Refine, wife Of her cousin Martin, son of the
Martin above mentioned, condemned for robberies,
and died in prison; :. Marie Rose, died IN prisons
9. Victor now in prison on charge of robbery; 10.
VictOrie Chretien, mother of Lenlare never con-
demned by court ofjustice; II. Martin Iaccharie,
uncle Of Len aire, died at Cayenne, where he had
been transported for robberies II. A natural son of
Marie Rose above mentioned, has undergone two
imprisonments for robberies. pess over the family
of Taure and the statement Of relationships existing
between the families Chretien, Lemare Hugot and
Pilot, of one or the other of which the fourteen
prisoners now on trial members, and come to the
note that concludes this strange genealogical chap
ter: band Of robbers who, about forty years ago.
spread terror through the country in the ne'gbbor
hood of Vrely, counted in its ranks Andre, Taure,
" Jean Francois, Chretien aud Pierre Parvilliers
Their chief was uncle of Martin Zacchsrie Chre-
" tisn, and was condemned and executed"