Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-09-29

ported. ruled tho MARSHAL BAzAINE.
bodies Of his subjects, though he had no do
miniou over their hearts. Baxaine, while In
Mexico, In 1854. married for his second
wife Mexican lady Of Spanish descent,
and In another year Maximilian and Car
lotta stood sponsors for their frat child.
Tho close Of tho civil war In tho United
States enabled the government at Wash.
ington to turn its attention TO the French
intruders In Mexico; and convenient
force Of half . million Of veterans stood
ready to submergc tho little French army
IN Mexico, like tidal wave. Bazaine
embarked for France on March 49, 1867,
- : ~ the Mexicans to manage their
own ansssss-. are Ssss,e.n !s career. how
ever, only added " IA !STyr3., s3ss,a
soldier, for during the time q 'A.'l E0p
pancy he did not suffer single defeat
Three years after B..aine's return to
France there came the great and eyentfu %
was destined to play so important part.
ana TO culf upoA Ainself the name OF "le
miserable, lc traitro B1S6fhe.s~ gpon the
opening Of the war Bazaine was node
commander Of tho Third Army corps.
His reputation began TO wane from the
6ryt. He was blamed for not. supporting
the second corps (0en. Ffossard) on the ter
fible 9th Of August, though he excused
himself on the ground that he had no
orders to do 30. On tho 12tb Of August,
when Napoleon was called by public
opinion among tho people and the
army 10 retreat Baxaino was appointed
gensralln.chief' Of tho Army Of tho
Rhine. He inaneuvered 30 skillfully
ss to allow Napoleon to proceed safely
TO Chalons.sur. Marne. Bazsine was
in command Of 10000 men, includ-
ing the Imperial Guard, $1,000 cavalry
and $50 pieces Of artillery. But no
achieved nothing, and allowed himself to
be shut up In Metz. After the fall Of
Napoleon Bismarck declared that he would
hot treat with tho provisional govern
Inent at Paris, and artfully told Bazaine
that "far better conditions of peace would
be granted to France II he kept his army
intact to support . serious government
With which Germany could negotiate and
treat. Bazaine listened to this sugges-
tion, and on Oct. 20, 1870, surrendered
Meta with an army Of 178,00O starving
soldiers and Immense stores Of war mate.
RIAL and the general and his army were
sent into captivity beyond the Rhine.
Then came tho storm of indignation
from tho French people. After the war
Baxaine returned TO France only to receive
> torrent Of abuse in the newspapers and
from crowds wherever he appeared. Often
he would have been stoned to death by
mob had he not been protected by the
police. In 1871 he published his defense.
In his "Army Of the Rhine" he owned
that he did not consider himself bound to
obey the government Of national defense,
Or take any notice Of Favre, Gambetta,
Trochu or the rest.
In 1873 Bazaine was tried by court
martial, and at tho conclusion Of the trial
In December Of that year, no was sen.
tenoed to death and military degradation;
but the court signed an appeal for pardon,
which was at once granted by President
MacMahon. The sentence was committed
to twenty years imprisonment In q fort.
ress, and he was sent to Isle of Sainte
Marguerite, In the Mediterranean. From
there one night in August, 1874, aided by
his devoted wife and possibly by the con.
niyance Of his jailers, he escaped.
Since then Bazsine has spent his time
in Italy, Belgium and Spain. For some
time past he has resided In Spain.