Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-08-20
Escape of Marshal BaZaine from
the Island of Sainte Mar
gUerite.

the Island of Sainte Mar
.guerite.
PARIS, Aug. 1l.-There is great ex-
element in this city in consequence of
tue receipt 0f Intelligence that Marshal
B5Zaine escaped from the island OF
Sainte Marguerite some time on Sun
day night. Details of the manner in
/ which he succeeded in getting away
are unknoMn n except that he used rope
ladder and got on board ship bound
i for Italy. The night was dark and
stormy.
| The Journals of this city declare that
! the government will act promptly and
energetically in Furnishing all who con-
nived at his flight.
: LONDON, Aug. 1.-THE following in
teresting particulars of the escape of
/ Marshal Baz,ine from his prison on the
Isle Of Sainte Marguerite have been
received -a-'- -v.
I sfThe apartments occupied by Marshal
kazaine opened upon terrace, which
was built upon lofty and preeipitous
}iff overhanging the sea. A sentry
] was posted on the terrace with orders
to watch the prisoners every move
nheut.
: On Sunday evening the Marshal
walked upon the terrace with Col. Viii
lette, his Hid-de-camp. AT ten O'Clock
he retired as usual, apparently to
sleep, but before daybreak he mad es-
capped. .l
! He must have crossed the terrace in
( the dead cf night, and, eluding the sem
tinel, gained the edge of the preeipice.
I Thence, by means of a knotted rope, he
! descended to the sea. lie evidently
/ slipped during the descent and tore his
/ hands, as the rope was found stained
with blood in several places.
/ Under the cliff in hired boat were
/ Bazaine's wife and cousin. They re-
ceived him as he reached the water and
Madame la Marechale taking the oars
herself rOwed directly to strange
steamer. which had been lying off the
! island since the previous evening.
They reached the vessel in safety,
were taken on board, and the steamer
then put to sea. Itis thought that they
have landed at Genoa, As the steamer
proceeded in that direction.
! The first news of the affair came TO
! Grasse, the nearest place on the coast,
and the magistrates of that town i'm
mediately sent officers in every direc-
tion to search for the1ugitive..
There was great comnOtiOn in Mar
seilles when the facts became known
An Investigation was opened. Col.
! Vilette, who was walking with the
Marshal on the evening of his escape,
was discovered there and imprisoned.
The commandment of the fort of
Sainte Marguerite was placed under ar
rest, and Gen. Lewal has gone to the
island tO invpStiUafp thn affair
PARIS, Aug. 13.-It has been ascer-
tair ed that the plan for Marshal Ba-
zaine's escape from the island of st.
Marguerite was arranged six weeks
ago. Et was entirely the work Os Mad
anne BaZaine. The Marshal refused at
| first to fly, but finally, owing to his
failure to obtain some modification of
his sentence, yielded. He sailed from
the island in the steam yacht Baron
Ricasols, belonging to an Italian COM
pany. The prisoner refused to employ
French vessel. He was accompanied
in his flight by his wife and brother.
His place of refuge is not known. Some
persons say he is in Spain. The dOmes-
tics at the fort where the Marshal was
imprisoned have been arrested.
The men who are setting up high
standard of character for the occupants
of political places, continually refer to
past history of the country, to show
that in previous generations there were
giants In the land, compared with
whom the present race Oh. PUBLIC men
are but pigmies. Yet the Philadelphia
| MorJb A,,ao.,;..oa, obn,uS that not ono nf
these men would have been able to
come up to the mark that is now de-
manded. 1t says:
''Take any of the giants who figure
in. political history-pick and choose,
take the very best and greatest-and
how would it have Jared with him had
his follies and foibles, his trespasses on
license and his littleness, been served
up daily in the public prints? What
would have have become of Jefferson
had all that he did been spread before
the greedy public daily? Take Web
ster, or Clay, or Wright, or indeed any
of the giants of those days, and put
them in this modern crucible of cllti-
cism, and what residum would be
founu? Do We not know that none OF
those man could have borne the or
deal, whether as regards morals or de-
Pertinent All of these men were fire.
quently drunk. Their morals other
wise were not angelic. They were of
the earth, earthly. They did not mo-
nopoliZe all the virtues by any means.
Of course they were abused and lied
about; but had only the truth been
told, how then ? They could not have
borne it. Ihey were in intellect and
in patriotism full head taller than the
average of mankind. Had a call been
made for men of spOtlesS purity to take
possession of public affairs in that age,
business must have come to a dead
halt. Average excellence has done for
the world all that has been done. Now
and then ht all rises above this aver
age, but not for long. Such head is
certain to ije stoned; for the world new
er did tolerate anything above the av-
erage of goodness. Make a call for
spotless men to-day, and ifsuch existed
and put i'm an appearance, they would
be stoned back to their former obscu-
rity."
A GALLANT ELEPHANT.-Few sem
timental damsels would approve of the
transformation of well-known line |
into "a trunk was ON M shoulder, / |
knew its touch was kind" Accord |
ingly, young lady who lately visited
the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, in COM
pany with her friends, was more terri
fed than fiattered on perceiving that |
the elephant in the menagerie was ne
glecting the sugar and cakes placed
aithin reach of his long proboscis to
pursue her wherever she went. When |
She stood still, he stood still; when she
moved he followed. An elephants
trunk is indeed marvel of animal
mechanism, but TO the unseientific OBJ
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