The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-17

ulHary every day respectable British citi-
zen. Besides this their career has general
~ been enlivened by adventures of one
KIND and another before they finally were
driven for the sake of a living to resort to
the not altogether honorable calling of a
''mouchard," the expressive word BY
which secret police spies are known in
France.
The more important of these secret
agents of the British government report
directly to one of the heads of the divis-
ion of the home department in London
who has the power to invoke, when he
considers it necessary, the services of the
regular detective department. But the
inferior agents here used formerly to re-
ceive their instructions and likewise their
supplies through government official
stationed here in New York for the pur-
pose, although as far as the public was
concerned he occupied an entirely differ
ent position. He departed few months
ago, appointed to another and on the
whole more agreeable position in an en-
tirely different part of the world as a
reward for the services that he had rem
dered in this country to the secret service
bureau of the secretary OF state of the
home department in London
Although English people, as a rule have
the reputation of being distinctly inferior
to the Russians, the Germans and the
Latin races, in just those particular quail
tiles which are supposed to be most in
dlspensible to secret service agent, vet
they have at least been able to succeed in
performing their work with a minimum of
publicity, whereas at ST. Petersburg, at
Paris and especially at Berlin. unsayorv
scandals, the result of bungling Jobs, are
continually occurring and bringing popu-
lar odium. not only on the secret service
Itself, but upon the government and the
executive that employs it.
Volumes upon volumes have been writ
ten about the secret service of Russia,
the authors in such cases being dismissed
agents or else its victims until nothing
remains secret except the identity of the
agents employed. In this, however, the
mystery has been maintained to such a
degree that no Russian diplomatic or con-
sular official will ever commit himself to
an opinion about a fellow countrman,
even if he is convinced that he is an i'm
poster and swindler, for fear lest the
man might be some secret agent of the
ST Petersburg government.
These Russian agents are mostly en-
ployed for the purpose of keeping watch
upon the doings of those of the cZar's
subjects who live beyond the frontiers of
Russia; and when it is borne in mind that
these number close upon a million, and
that every Russian has in his blood the
characteristic Asiatic taste for conspir-
acy and intrigue against his government,
| it will readily be understood that the Sc
| cret agents of the Chancellerie of the
| emperor have their hands very full in
deed. In each country they are under the
! orders of a chief, who provides them with
money and directions, and who reports,
| not to any government department at St.
| Petersburg, but, as intimated above, direct
| to the cars chancellerie. Till two years
! ago it was generally understood at Paris
| that the chief of the system in France
| was Nj. CatacaZy, at one time MuscoVite
| envoy to the United States; while, since
| his death, the duties are believed to have
! been entrusted to the Marquis of Campo
| Sagrado, who married a half sister of
| Queen Isabella and spent the major por-
ton of his life as Spanish envoy at st.
! Petersburg whence he was, however. com
| PEELED TO depart in a hurry and without
| presenting his letters of recall, in conse-
! quence of financial difficulties.
In France this branch of government
service was at it's best, or, rather more
elaborate during the reign of the late
Emperor Napoleon. 1t embraced people in
every walk in life, from Corsican semi
| bandits, who thought nothing of plunging
| Il knife into the back of any one who
either interfered with their work or who
! constituted a danger to their imperial en-
| plOyer, up to mobiles bearing the most il
| lustrious names in France but who had
to their extravaganza, to enter the pay
of ia Police Service"
The Corsican Griscelli, whom I last
| heard of at Constantinopie, and who gen.
| orally worked in unison with an asso-
| citation of the name of Rumini, is known
to have at least five knifings to his rec
! ord. Thus, when Count Camerata a cou-
sin of Napoleon III, was assassinated in
| the Tuileries under circumstances which
would not bear publication to the world,
| Griscelli distinguished himself and fol-
| lowed the supposed murderer a man nam
ed Zambo to London, where the latter
was subsequently found dead, floating in
the Thames with dagger thrust through
his back into his heart. Identically the
same fate overlook Salvani de Perruggio,
who had organized plot for wrecking
the imperial train near Biarritz. The day
before the project was to be put into exc
cution he fell a victim to the Corsican
| dagger at Bordeaux. Two other Mazzinist
conspirators named Rassini and CALI, who
were engaged in a scheme to murder the
emperor were likewise stabbed by Girls
celli, while a certain Sinibaldi, Mazzin-
list, who was staying at the Hotel Mira
beau at Paris under the English name of
Peters, was after his arrest found hang
ing stone dead to the bars of his cell in
the Nazas prison a few hours after an
| interview with Griscelli.
Lord CoWley, the BRUSH ambassador at
/ Paris, while discussing one day the secret
| police service with it's chief, NJ. Pietri, and
banterng him about the ubiquity of his
| agents, put forward the assertion that,
at any rate, there was one place where
! they could never penetrate, namely. his
| embassy. Lady Cowley being renowned for
| her eNclusiveness. Smilingly Pietri re-
marked: 1.-THE countess gave a dinner
! followed by a small reception last night"
! Certainly" replied the ambassador,
"but what do you mean? It was a very
! small and select affair. and certainly no
one was present with whom we are not on
terms Of intimacy"
well, my lord" exclaimed Pietri. did
| you not make this and that utterance. and
did not the conversation range over the
! following subjects?" he inquired. referring
to a report written in a womans hand be-
! fore him.
Lord Cowley was compelled TO admit
that Pietri had been correctly informed.
I But not even the closest examination OF
Lady Conveys visiting list enabled him
ever TO discover the identity of the guest
who had accepted his hospitality only for
the purpose of acting as a spy. That
| agents of this kind are still employed by
| the French government was made a Dnar-