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111 III. ft NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN MTKEET. JAMES GORDON BENNITT, pkopkietor. All business or news letter uud tclegraphio dcHputchea must be addressed New York Herald. Volume XXXV No. a?l AMU3E1BZNTS TO-M^OW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery. -Rou* OP TUK UlLLtt? J AUK l.ONU. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twentr-fourUi jlsk Wir?. OLYMPIC TUEATRE, Broadway.?Opeqa BobpfuLittlk Kad?t. ROOTH'S THK VTRE, "3d it., D?'.nra?a 6lh and Ctn ???.? UNA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.- Blah Ey'D SQZINU?GAMIIXE. NTBLO'B GARDEN. Broadway Tub New Domestic DBAUA or HKATT'B EAST. WOOD'S Ml'SEUM AND MENAOEPIE, Hroadway, corner Slab ?t.-Performance! e?#iy afUrnooo nnd erenlufi. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of EUhtli aveuav and ad at.-lBUSU.A, DKMO.N OV tax NlOU'l'. STE1NWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.?Uuanb Nilsson COMCBUT. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 4S Bowery.?Ob ani> OK3.MAN UFBItA-UlKlENOVlB.N. MRS. F. n. CONWAY'S PAHS THEATRE, Brooklyn.Kif Van WlKkll. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOWE, 101 Bowtry.-Tabinr entertainment. THEATRE COUIQl'E, 614 Emudtray.?Csmio Tooalibm, 8mm Acts, Ac. PAN FRANCISCO MIV8TREL HALL. 585 Rr?a way.N'COBo MlN8TKEl.ur, FABOBIJ, IJCB EIT4UE8, *0. KEIXY A LEON'S MINSTRELS. No. 806 Broadway? TltE liAl lKH OK TUB l'BUIOD?TlIK ONLY LEON. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.?Nbubo MinKTKF.tbY, llLKLEHQL E3, AO. BROOKLYN HALL, Myrtle avenue and Adama (treat. tiKANU iNSTBtMENTAl, CONCERT. EMPIRE RINK, Third avenue nnd Sixty-third street ? LEEP8' ART C1ALLF.R1ES, 817 and 819 Broadway.- J tlUilHlOM or PAl?TLKt>?. NEW YORK MVSECM OF ANAT#MT. ?ll Broadway.? Cciocs AMU AST. j DR. KAUN'S ANATOMICAL. MCSECil, 745 Broadway.Fcieioi and axt. T RIPLE SHEET" New York, Suuiiay, September IS, 1870. ?IMII OF TC-DAVS (1ERIL9. Pi GE. , 1? Advertisements. 3? Advertisements'. 8?Tno War: Situation of Affairs in Pari* and Throughout Franco; Fighting near Paris Yesterday; Crossing of tno Seine 0/ tlie Prussians; An Early Capitulation of Strasbourg Necessary?A French Military Leader Wanted? Attempted Assassination of Napoleon?Return of Hie French Iron-clad Fleet from German Waters?German Mass Meeting in New YorkVolunteers and Arms tor France. 4?State and City Politics: A New Interpretation of the Political Horoscope?raits Fashions: What is Worn in a City Strongly Fortified and In Great Danger?Crime in New England: Two Terrible Murders in a Country Village?Prospect Park Fair 0 rounds?llorse Notes?Vfr. Rogers' Explanation?Evening High Schools. 5?Religious Intelligence?Fires During the Past O? Editorial: Leading Article, The l a;>al DramaIts Closing Scenes?Amusement Announcements. 7?Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: papal Refusal to surrender Rome?'Washington News?Political Meetings Hast Night and Miscellaneous Politics?Tlie Strange Fever: Activity of the Heilth Authorities?Long llranch?A Boy Shot Dead in Jersey City?New Jersey Items?Military Out-Chat?Business Notices. WeaK?Youthful Depravity?Conjugal Inleliclty 111 Cincinnati?Murder in unta.no? Financial ami Commercial lleuorls?Marriages and Deaths?Advertisements. 8?Ad vertlseme uts. ??Advertisements10?A Suspected Smuggler: Horrible Discovery; The Corpse of the Brig 11. G. Berry Found Concealed In the Cargo of Sugar?Personal Intelilgence?Yachting Affairs?Preparations for the Funeral of Admiral Farragut? Brooklyn Citv News?Shipping Intellgence?Advertisements. 11?Advertisements, 1 a?Ad vertwemenin. Cakkfil of the Life of Napoleon.?A boy was recently discovered at Wilhelmshohe, where Louis Napoleon is now sojourning, wilh a loaded pistol in his pocket. It was decided by the authorities that tho pistol could not have been intended for any purpose except the assassination of Louis Napoleon, and the boy was punished accordingly. The Labor Question and Wendell Phillips.?Wendell Phillips has seized the reins of tho labor movement, and will direct it, as he did his anti-slavery agitation, to Borne important end. As the prohibition and labor reform candidate for Governor of Massachusetts Mr. Phillips has a new and interesting field upon which he can display his forensic abilities. Let us see what use he will > make of them. Earl Granville's Kilkenny Cat Policy.? Earl Granville says that the French and Prussians must tight it out. That is the only solation he sees; for if England should interfere, having no ideas of her own on the subject, she must necessarily interfere with a message or a thought coming from either ??? nfhor nf fchtt hpl I i <rr*r an t a If if I should be a thought from France it would lastly offend Prussia; it' a thought from Prussia it would justly offend Franc?. It is dangerous, therefore, and England wants to be out of danger. Let them fight on, and the longer the better. Let all powerful nations do the same; for thus only may all the rivals of John Bull remove themselves from his path. N. B.?Mr. Bull still carries ou business at the old stand. Customers in any country supplied with improved arm* and fixed ammunition on reasonable terms. All articles stamped with the well-knowa trade mark, "neutrality." The Democua.uo State Convention.? This Convention assembles in Rochester on Wednesday. No doubt the present incumbents will be renominated. The only question of interest is regarding the platform. That platform should be made to conform with the progress of events since the last State Convention was ield. it is unnecessary and useless for the Convention Is take a back track nd introduce matters not pertinent to the Issues of the present day. Those :s8ues are principally a reduction of taxes and a urm recognition of the principles of liberty as they I are beginning again to take root and spread in Europe. If the democrats in their convention on Wednesday fail to recognise these principles they will fail to make a stand in I support of the policy of the democratic party since its organization. The Convention has the opportunity of fashioning the Presidential campaign of 1872, and it will rest with the delegates to Bhape their deliberations accordingly. * ii?, NEW TOR] I The I'npnl Oram it?ltn Cloning Rroncm. < The Papal drama has been long upon tbe 1 stage. Soma say tbat it baa been on the stage sinco the days of St. Peter. More ( modest historians speak of the third century as * the age which witnessed the commencement 1 of the Popedom. Others more modeat still are 0 quite content to date the Papacy from tho r year 800, wlien Lso III., who bad baen pre- 8 viously m-ida by Charlemagne, placed tho c imperial crown on tho great monarch's head n ? - i t!? n ?* iU- T> ~ ? r and uuueu uini liiiihmui ui uiu ivjujuiib. oiuuu the latter date, with many reverses of fortune, ' the Papacy has bejn a grand world fact?for c good or for evil for many centuries the ' migh Jest Power among the sons of men. 1 The fall of the Wostern empire on the c occasion of the death of Charlemagne, con- v trary to the expectation of the great ^ mouurph himself, left the Pope absolute k monarch of Europe. Tho empire was u dead; the Papacy remained. Europe became civilly aud politically divided ; but evory sue- c cessive division of tho empire iuto smaller and smaller fragments made the Papacy stronger and stronger. The Avignon period came with j its seventy years' captivity, with its ecclesias- j tical divisions, with its doublo and triple 0 Popedom^, with its Guelphs and Ghibefines, 0 with its Council of Constance, its burning of 0 John Huss, its trial of John XXIII. and its cl?c- f, tion of Mill-tin V., makes another grand act in fc the Papal drama. a The new Pontiff made his entry into Rome r in 1420, and for the first time for more than a 1 century a Pope began to hold permanently his t court at Rome. The unity of tho Papacy had s been restored, and under a man fairly entitled a to respect a vigorous attempt was made to 1 resurrect tho almost defunct spiritual empire, v It was hard work, however, for Martin and t his successors. The divided authority of tho t Avignon period had allowed bad seed to be a sown. The Bohemian goose had become a d power. In Franco, in Switzerland, in .ung- c land, in Scotland, in Spain, in Gcr- a many, brave men, men of brain and ti men of heart as well, had begun tl to think; and although there wero not as yet ft any telegraphs or railroads, or New York tl Heralds, the blood of the Bohemian became P the seed of the new Church?a Church which ti disowned the Papacy, but which had not as e yet given birth to the Reformation. Early, si however, in the sixteenth century?thanks to li Master Tetzel and his money box?Germany, England, Scotland, Switzerland, France, Spain, r< the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Nor- tl way revolted from the authority of the sue- bi cessor of St. Peter. Once again Christendom a' was divided, but this time the revolted tribes is would have nothing to do with Popery. Be- aj hold the close of another act in the grand tc Papal drama. Such men as Huss and Wicklifle se had been succeeded by men like Luther and It Melancthon and John Knox. n< Follow the Diet of Worms and the Conn- Ci cil of Trent, nnd tho thirty years' war?a war 9t which lasted, in fact, for ninety years, 83 coloring the politics of Europe, mixing P1 itself with every combination, occupying the *h attention and exhausting the energies of a every statesman and every warrior, the ro parent of stages, massacrea, untold crimes, tb aud we come to the peace of Westphalia, 1(>18. n< The events that followed for over a hundred " years, although all important in the grand w drama of history, were more political than religious. At tho close of the thirty years' 'E war Europe settled down religiously divided. r( The question as between Protestantism and ?J Catholicism has never since formally led the ?* nations to war. The religious landmarks ^ remain to-day very much as they were when H the treaty of Westphalia was signed. Protes- ^ tantism has not encroached upon Catholicism. 01 Catholicism has not encroached upon Protes- n< tantism. The political triumphs, the trinmphs *a of liberty have been numerous; but the Pa- ^ pal drama up until the great French Revolu- a' tion of 1780 may be said to have been sus- P pended. n With the French Revolution of 1789 opened, 11 as many think, the last act of the magnificent n (i rain a which has been in progress more or ^ less regularly since the eighth century of our era, ii not earlier. That act, according to these interpreters of history, is still in ^ progress. Since 1789 we have had certainly ^ many scenes, not a few of them full of * interest. Our readers do not require to be ^ reminded of the Bad experiences of the 0 Papacy under the first republic and under * the first empire. What Leo III. was to T Charlemagne Pius the Seventh was, though * in less magnificent style, to Napoleon the ^ First. As in 752 Pope Zachary crossed the 11 Alps to crown Pepin Le Bref; as on Christ- 1 mas Day, 800, Leo III. put the crown on the 8 head of the King of the Franks and proclaimed * him Emperor of the West, so, on December e 2, 1804. di^ Pius the Seventh sanction the ? XI e ik. m 1 XT t COrunailuu u? iuc ucn uukucuia^uc, unpuleon the First, Never in all history bad tyie c Papacy experienced so great a scourge as this man proved to be. Napoleon made the Holy Father a prisoner in France, robbed him of all his territories, and, with the compensation ol* Borne two million francs, reduced him to the rank of a French subject. It was the opinion of mauy hard students of history and of not a few jubilant Interpreters of Scripture that the last scene of the Papal drama was before the world. Fate, however, had otherwise arranged. With the fall of the French empire, in 1814, the Pope found himself again at Kom<*, a powerful temporal prince, with mauy powerful temporal princes at his buck, and the acknowledged religious chiet of Hympathizing millions in all lands. The events of 1848 were serious and destructive, so far as the Papacy was concerned. The j Pope liad fled and Rome was a republic. 1848, however, proved a failure all over, and .< " i n.ii? u .i..1.1. II1C flOlJ r UUlt'l 111 uuc Viiuc iv/uuu Uio n aj back to his temporal throne. Since his restoration he has been maintained in his position mainly by tbe power of Napoleon. But another French empire has fallen; another Bonaparte has gone into exile ; and the Holy Father, wherever be may now be, has practically ceased to be a temporal prince. Rome is the capital of Italy; Victor Emanuel is King of all the Italians ; and Pope Pius the Ninth is the Biibject of the man whom he has excommunicated and persistently refused to recognize. In a mysterious manner the German revolution of the sixteenth century has come up again with power and effectually j 4 ..... ,nl . 4. - ? HERAO), SUNDAY, SJB closed the long drawn out Papal drama. We iritness the closing scene. In closing this article, however, wo caution >or readers against leaping to the conclusion hat because the temporal power of the Papacy s gono the Papacy Itself is doad. In spito if its many shortcomings, faults, crime.?, if the eader will, it is an institution hoary with years md rich wilh noble memories. All the world twes much to it. It was ancient and honorible when Europe still was young and contuies before America was discovered. Although t is our firm belief that the tomporal power n mo x apacy is gouu mruver me i'apacy tself ia its true spiritual character may bo aigbtier than ever when America has become >1(1 and when Europe has been rejuvenated, rben all the dynasties and aristocracies have ecu consigned to oblivion, and when the great iun god looks down only and always on tbo miveraal republic. Who can say it will not ieso? , . Ipenlag Operations la tfae niece of Fiurla?Tho General Feeling in France. What may bo regarded as tho first scene in he great war drama to be enacted in und around 'aris is the reported blowing up by the French if the fort of Vincennes, one of the eastern utlying fortifications erected for the defence >f (bo city. Tho reason assigned is that the ort was regarded as untenable. We doubt, lowcver, the correctness of tho information, .nd suppose that it must apply to a small edoubt in the neighborhood of Vincennes. ?ho railroad between Paris and Orleans has ?een cut by the Germans about eight miles outh of Paris, and the Germans have planted i battery at that point. Heavy firing had >een heard on Friday in that direction and it IV. Li iL..i l.ill. 11 !_ vu3 mougui mat u uaiuu w as meu iu progress. No particulars cf it, however, huve >een received. Several minor engagements ,re reported to have taken place on the same lay outside of the fortifications. The railroad ommunications have been cut for forty miles 1 round PariB, except in Normandy and Brit- I iny, and no train has been permitted to leave ie city since Friday last. Tho siege, thereire, has been regularly established, although 10 besiegers have not yet commenced to lant batteries within range of the fortiflcaons. Some of the departments of the govminent have been removed to Tours, and jveral of tho Paris journals are to bo pubshed in that town. No newB has been transmitted of the Burjnder of Strasbourg, Metz or any other of le besieged fortresses; so that it may safely 9 inferred that they have been, for so far, ale to repel the attacks of tho besiegers. It reported that the siege armament directed gainst Strasbourg consists of eighteen batrics of mortars and rifled cannon, from which tven thousand shots are daily thrown into ie city. The intelligence from Metz makes > mention of the successful withdrawal of mrobert or Bazaine, but speaks of Bazaine ill holding out there with seventy-five thou,nd men and a sufficient supply of ovisions. It is possible, however, at this intelligence is not of so late date as that which announced that Canbert was on his march to Paris with six ousand men, aud which located Bazaine ;ar Sedan. Wo are thus left completely in ie dark as to the present position of the army hich occupied Metz. One of the correspondents of the Herald, i attempting to reach Paris by a circuitous >ute, telegraphs that he has had pretty fair iportunities of judging of the tone and temper public opinion In * ranee, and he represents as being adverse to the continuance of war. e says that the French people are downcast; iat outside of Paris there is no military ganization, no chief, no controlling mind, 3 political confidence. The desire for peace universal, but there is a very general belief iat no treaty of peace will be signed until Fter the German army iB in the military occuation of Paris. It is also said that great umbers of Frenchmen are emigrating, which lay be true of the inhabitants of the dopartlents overran by the German troops, but ardly applies to the other parts of the couury. Our London correspondent telegraphs that I. Thiers was definitely informed by Earl rranville, the English Secretary of State for 'oreign Affairs, that the British government eclined positively to interfere in the matter f proposing peace arrangements. He adds hat ministerial information to the Bame effect ras placed by the English Foreign Office in he hands of the Prussian Minister at London. 'hat disposes finally of tho last attempt at teace negotiations, and leaves no alternative o the French government and people but to train every nerve and make every effort to irotect their capital and to repel the memy from the country. The Germans ;ive no indication of relaxing In heir demands; for according to a :orrespondent of the London Standard Jount Bismarck affirms that Prussia will prose;ute the war indefinitely rather than abandon he idea of territorial aggrandizement. In act, the two conquered provinces of Alsace md Lorraine are already treated as integral tarts of Prussia. Much excitement is said to have been caused >y the arrest at Wilhelmsh<?>he of a Germa n vho had a loaded pistol on his person with rhich he confessed his intention to assassinate Napoleon, while on the other hand many arests have been made in Paris of persons iharged with being concerned in a Bonapartist >lot. But these are only small ripples com>ared to the tremendous storm which is now tphe&ving French nationality from its very oundations and threatening to engulf it. We -ejoice w learn mat ine Americans residing id Paris are showing in every possible way their lympathy with the cause of France and are sourageously identifying themselves with the ate of the city, declining to leave it even .hough it be subject to the perils of bombardnent. They may, with Mr. Washburne at heir head, be yet able to render valuable services to France. We hardly think, however, hat it is the purpose of the besiegers to enleavor to reduce the city by bombardment and insault, but rather to starve it into capitula,ion. IIeakd Fbom at Last.?Our people had ilmost lost recollection of our Minister at Madrid. Spain seemed almost blotted out Tom American diplomacy, bo far as the inlerican Minister was concerned. Where it 1PTEMBER 18, 1870.-TRIPI he? Where was he? Mr. Sickles Anally turns up as the recipient of the favors of the Spanish brigands, and but for the Spanish government guards he might have met a disastrous finale. Our Ambassador at Madrid should presont a batter front in these high republican times in Europe. State and City Politic*?State of Partlr*. Wo present in our usual article under the head of "Stato and City Politics" another exposition of the events which have marked the crooked and devious course of politics for some time past up to the present moment. A truthful, but deplorable picture it is? exhibiting the "low estate" into which the leaders of the once great party of "moral ideas" has fallen, and the dishonorable subterfuges and doublings they adopt and pursue to gain personal ends at the expense of sound policy and inherent principles. . On the side of tho republicans facta incoutestably prove that the political gtake played for is one of place and patronage, at the Sacrifice of party and all the higher objects of political ambition. Principles and the public welfare, even from their standpoint, are absolutely tabooed; the title of citizens to the honest suffrages of their peers is ignored, and the young and aspiring men of the day have inculcated into them tho demoralizing fact that chicanery and deceit and the prostitution of all the higher attributes of youthful and laudable ambition present the only road to such political eminence as is now attainable in the republican ranks. This truth is exhibited not only in the intestine strifes waged among the republicans themselves, but is most flagrantly patent, from our exposS of tho secret machinations for coalition and fraternal alliance i carried on between them and the leaders of the dangerous classes in our midst, tho Messrs. Morrissey, O'Brien & Co. Thin stain of things is mtiable in the extreme, i The party of moral ideas is rotten to the core. Their offence smells rank to beaven and stinks in the nostrils of all men. The present leaders, ignoring the groat principles which inspired and stimulated the inaugurators of the republican movement, now crave unholy alliance with their ancient and natural foes, with the men who got up and participated in i the Real funeral demonstration a few weeks ( ago, and from which they have been moBt appropriately dubbed the "Real democracy." They enter into an alliance offensive and defensive with the standard bearers of the processionists who on that occasion marched 1 under banners inscribed "?? memoriam" of on? whom outraged law and publio sentiment justly consigned to a felon's doom; with those who adopted that appropriate inscription as the most expressive that could be devised to identify themselves with the contemners and violators of the law; with that class of whom Real was the characteristic tyta and representative. "Wo mourn our loss." Such is republicanism and republican affiliations to-day. The farce enacted at Saratoga on the 7th instant is now deemed too farcical. The leaders who bolted from Greeley on that occa- 1 sion would gladly substitute his name or that ik .a -M ?. iv4rt.:n" vi uuy uiuer uraii uu tuun uni iui tua.ii ui Woodford; but thi9 "bright particular star" is determined to "star" it to the end, no matter how detrimental the great mistake may be to the managers and to t&e company generally. It was a delicate strategy by which the "peace general" was for the first time placed in the front rank, and as there is no personal danger in the situation he will fight it out on that line all the fall, to the decline and fall of all republican hopes of supremacy in the future. The Tammany democracy hold their nominating Convention on Wednesday next, when they will present as their standard bearer for Governor the name of the present Executive, John T. Hoffman, as against Woodford, the republican. There 1b no doubt of the success of the whole Tammany ticket, from Governor down to that of Coroner, as the democratic m&BseB are a unit for good government and for the supremacy of law and order in their midst. Thnt Beautiful Neutrality. From Mr. Lowe also, the English Chancellor of the Exchequer, we now hear of neutrality. How dearly every Englishman loves his neutrality. It is something that is growing as dear to the national heart as all, especially English, institutions have been time out of mind. There is the roast beef of old England. That, hna ilnnp nnlandid norvio.fv TP nnvhnrlir noticed the excellence of the English constitution a reference to the roast beef of old England accounted for it, on rational principles. In the same way British freedom, the mental and physical vigor of the people, the superiority of English cutlery, English race horses, English bnlldogs, English everything, was accounted for by reference to the national diet. But neutrality now comes to push the roast beef from the place of honor. Neutrality accounts for everything, and so it accounts, of course, for England's present position with regard to the war. England, says Mr. . Lowe, cannot do anything, because that would violate her neutrality, and the British government cannot contemplate such a possibility without horror. England cannot contribute a word toward peace, lest she violate her neutrality; but sbe can contribute fifty thousand rifles to the war and neutrality feels no shock. How substantial is this neutrality that feels no tremor while all those guns go off, and how sensitive it is that a little word in tbe interest of peace will offend it! Our Fir?i Auiumnnl llqninoi'iinl. The northeaster which commenced here on Friday night, :md which continued through the day yesterday, with light drizzlings of rain, may be set down as the first of our equinoctial storms of this season. After a dreary period of rainless skies all round the globe north of the Equator, reinarKame ior uuntuuu, iuenc returning autumnal rains will be everywhere welcomed aB a godsend; Tor gardens, orchards, fields and forests, springs, wells, mill streams and many navigable rivers, In both hemispheres, have severely felt the effects of the late exhausting, withering aad fire-creating drought. It is, however, a remarkable fact in this connection that the drought which threatened a famine in France and Germany down to the beginning of the war ended with | the first battles on the Rhine frontier, and that ,E SHEET. ever since the region of activo military operations and heavy cannonadlngs in France has been deluged with heavy rains. From our observations on this subjeot during our late war with the Southern confederacy, and from the rains uniformly attending all great warlike operations in Europe, we are satisfied as to the fact that heavy cannonadings do bring pn and bring down rain. But as with us, in the order of the seasons, the time has' come for our "latter rains," we hope that the promise held out in our opening autumnal northeaster will be followed by a plentiful watering of all - ? ? * ?i ?ii- A- iv. "o tne dry land rrotn tuo Aiianuc 10 me x hviuu seaboard islands. Ao Attack on Crlfne. The so-called "dangerous" classes were never more dangerous than at present, never more reckless of human life. Every rough carries a knife or a pistol, and is always ready to resort to the nse of deadly weapons, regardless of consequences. The same condition of society Is prevalent in England, In that country, as well as in our own, the authorities find themselves opposed to a large class who have adopted crime as a profession, who, indeed, regard, murder as a fine art, and the use of the elungshot and knife as an agreeable diversion. This class is constantly growing, and of late it has become more violent and more brutal in its operations. The long and hot summer which we have just passed through has been unusually prolific of deeds of appalling violence. The papers have been full of murders and murderous assaults, which only failed in touching the higher crime on account of the vitality of the victim or the clumsiness of the would-be assassin. Those who occupy the dignified ranks of the profession, such as bank and bond robbers, check alterers and counterfeiters, do' not seem to bavo been very largely increased. This class have adopted' callings which require great Ingenuity and mechanical skill, besides a certain amount of capital. Men possessing these qualities and who are willing to run the necessary risk are, fortunately, rare; for, setting aside the moral elevation which education gives, it also gives a reasoning power which balances the chances and advantages to be obtained by a course of crime. And these classes of criminal industry demand a norfoin nmrvnnf nf orlnoatinn mnrnhnKltr ^"""u ? ?r? wviawj? than most people imagine. The higher branches of the calling depend upon secrecy, careful and patient work, and prompt and determined effort when the decisive moment comes. Violence, however, docB not form a part of their scheme and is very seldom resorted to, never, in fact, unless the need is a most desperate one; so that these men, dangerous as they undoubtedly are to property, very rarely and only in exceptional cases, take life. The lower walks of the profession, the river thieves, ignorant, brutal burglars, the corner loafers who are always "on the lay," as they call it, are the ones which are the most reckless of human life. These men form the great bulk of the class which spend the greater part of the time in our prisons. It is this dangerous and reckless class that is constantly receiving recruits from the lowest and most degraded ranks of our population. Philanthropy stands helpless and alarmed when brought face to face with the brutal ruffians who, armed with slungshots or pistols, are always fighting and robbing; it can do nothing here; swift, relentless and severe punishment is the only remedy. And the best way in which this can be done Is by the hearty aid of all good citizens in sustaining the courts and officials who are trying to stem the tide which threatens to overwhelm us. Now no one will deny this, but let us see how they aid justiae in her efforts to preserve the peace. A citizen is knocked down and robbed, brutally beaten, let us say, in addition to the loss of his property. Indignant and furious he rushes to the nearest police court and has the man arrested and committed. Very well; eo far he has acted the part of a good citizen and the authorities have done their duty. A week elapses before the case can be put before the Grand Jury. In the meantime the victim suffers his wrath to cool. The prisoner's friends have been to see him and have probably restored his property or the valu< thereof. When the only witness upot whom the State depends for a convic tion is summoned to appear before thi Grand Jury he does not come; he has t< be sent for again and again, aud Anally it brought down by threats of an attachment The man is indicted at last; in the meantime some ward politician besieges the District Attorney with appeals for mercy, as, unfortunately, these ruffians almost all have som< ocal political influence. And so it goes on ; the Court and prosecuting officers are met at every turn by the apathy and indifference ol our citizens. And now a word to the politicians wh< endeavor to screen these fellows. Mr. Sympathizer, what good is this fellow to you, for whose sake you are willing to belittle yourself and your position ? None whatever : but some friends of his have been to see me, and out of good nature I have come down, nol oaring much whether I succeed or not. Now good nature is out of placa with these fellows; public security demands something else; quick and sure punishment is what they need and must have. Judge Bodford and Recorder Ilackett g( hand in hand with the District Attorney in trying to check these ruffians; but they need and demand the help of our citizens. Shall luey noi nave it: /\s an enruesi ui wuui tucjr are doing let tbe severe sentences they have imposed show our people the kind of work they are at. On Thursday Judge Bedford sentenced a notorious ruffian, and in doing so made use or the following language: ? "Before passing sentence in this case, which is of a roost aggravated character, I shall take this opportunity of stating that the Recorder and myself have determined to dc our utmost to check burglars and robbers in their desperate course, and in this determi nation have resolved, with the approbation ot the District Attorney, to urge upon the next Legislature the practical necessity of changing the terms of imprisonment in cases of burglaries and robberies from a term of years tc imprisonment to life; holding, as we do that all burglars and robbers are would-b< murderers, and, if needs be, will take life if the occasion requires it." And as a common Ury on the abore he sentenced the offender ti the State Frison Far eighteen yearn and six months. Such language, coming from an officer so zealous and respcoted as Judge Bedford is, must carry weight; and we can rest assured that, with the help of all good citizens, ho will put a stop to the ruffianism which threatens the fair name of our good city. Hint* t'roin tbo Boh*. For the political philosopher and the taxpayer the letter of Mr. Tweed to the Common Council is a paper of rare and peculiar Interest. Mr. Tweed Ib not the Mayor of the city ; he 1b not the occupant of any position that entitles him to become ex officio the instructor or director of the actions of the Common Council, so that it can only be from the excessive wealth Of hl? wisdom and warmth of i his friendship that fliriy advice to these gentlemen can flow. He loves them, however, and, perhaps remembers that he is the Boss, and 8 such is in a great degree responsible for. , their good condnct, and so ho gives them a ! lecture, just as he might if ho had been specially appointed by the people guardian to the Aldermen. He advisea them to give up all hope of securing any personal plunder to themselves, their heirs, administrators or assigns by the Cremln gas burner job. His first reason is that there is no authority in law for them to vote the money. Here is the hint of a now policy in the city government. The authorities. are to do nothing for whioh there is not a warrant in law. This will at first cripple them seriously on many important points. Hitherto the plan has been for each functionary to do just what he chose. If anybody called his conduct in question he laughed ; if the question was persistent he simply stated the case to bis attor ney, and directed that person to find law for the transaction. All any good attorney has several thousand volumes of law in his library be can find law for anything, and thus the warrant was always forthcoming in time. If now the warrant in law is to be found first the municipal government will be cramped in every department. There is something worse than this in ik also. If nothing is to be done that the law does not warrant it is implied that everything is to be done that the law requires. This side of the difficulty will be worse than the other. Mr. Tweed feelingly calls the attention of the Board to the faq? that it is a new body nominally; to the fact that it is created by a charter that promised reform, and therefore begs it not to disgrace that charter thus openly?not to be the first and only body existing by that new charter to return to the plain old outrageous stealing that distinguished the conduct of everybody under the former charter. He also' tacitly informs them that it is the new charter that has taken away their power to profit by these jobs, and that they are now in the hAnds of the Commissioner of Public Works, William M. Tweed. All this is touchingly frank?especially th? appeal to the Aldermen to be good because they are new. Did Mr. Tweed ever hear of the white cat in the fairy story that was transformed into a beautiful woman and behaved herself with perfect propriety till some mice ran across the floor? Alas, instinct is equally strong in the men whom he has covered with the garments and the appearance of morality. But what will the Aldermen do ? There is a good course open. Let them take a leaf i from the practice of that great constitutional lawyer, Judge Dowling. He had a culprit before him the other day whom he should have sent to prison under the law made for the protection of hotel keepers. He did not desire to be harsh to this culprit, and he forthwith cut the gordian knot by an off-hand declaration that the law was unconstitutional. Here is the course for the Aldermen. Lst i them pass a resolution that all lawB which restrain their instincts and proclivities are uni constitutional. I ' Dress Fashions In Paris. "Paris remains terribly calm," says our 3 special writer in the French capital in the 1 cable telegram report of the situation which - appeared in our columns yesterday. Paris ; preserves her good taste in toilet costume; ) Paris Is neatly dressed; Paris is to some j extent joyous; Paris is out "shopping," and the Parisian modistes remain all powerful over i the rapidly lightening purses of the people and just aB mysterious as before in their utterances with respect to "garments of much mya) tical sublimity." So saye our special writer ; on dress fashions ia the letter from Paris t which appears in our columns to-day. The f Parisians repeat the comforting sentence of ".never say uie even ia me unrKest nouc > of the history of their fair city, and repeat il just as persistently as did Barnaby Rudge'a raven daring the period of the great riots ia i London and when the gallant Sim Tippertit ; conspired against the British Grown. The , citizens of Paris could see the Prussian t advance, behold the Germans coming "down like a wolf on the fold," but i they were determined to be dressed, at all hazards, for his reception, following the rule of their Celtic cousin in Ireland, who, when engaged in "waking" his > dead father, told his wife to "put a clane pipe" in the month of the corpse, so that he should "iook dacint before the company." So Paris dressed and smoked and endeavored to be happy, peering from her fortifications as did "Warsaw's last champion" from the heights, when he surveyed the "waste of ruin" which pervaded "wide o'er his fields" in the track of i the advancing foreigners. The Parisians bad - even brought out a new hat?a great and very , confident venture, as it appears to ns at this 1 distance; for who knows but that within a few minutes after its first display in the street this ) gem ot millinery win dc Druisea ana rumed i and ruined forever as a "duck" by means of - one of those "horrible" spikes of steel which glitter, as we are told, on the helmets of the troopers of Kiug William's body guard. The Parisians had the hat, however, with a variety of very new and "very pretty things" beBidea. > So even in this way the French municipality , appeared to enjoy a decided worldly advan9 tage over the Berlinese, who were for the moment wounded and in prayer, and looked rather "dowdyish, and suburban" even, after 9 their victories.