The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1870, Page 6

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Pace. : 1 Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 8—The War: Situation of Affairs in Pars and Throughout France; righting near Paris Yes- terday; Crossing of the Seine by the Prus- sians; An Early Capitulation of Strasbourg Necessary—A French Muli Leader Wanted— Attempted Assassination of Napoleon—Return of the French Iron-clad Fleet from German Watiers—German Mass Meeting nm New York— Volunteers a ms tor France, 4—Siate and : A New Interpretation of the Horoscope—Pans Fashions; What is Worn in a City Strongly Fortified and in Great Danger—Crime m New England: Two Terrible Mu rs in a Country Village—Pros- ect Park F h Horse Notes—Mr. ogers’ Exp): emng High Schools. 5—Reiigious Intelligenc ires During the Past 6—Editorial: Leading Artic! he Papal Drama— lts Closing Scenes—Aiusement Announce- ments. '7—Telegraphic News from All Parts of the World: Papal Refusal to Surrender Rome—Washing- ton News—Political Meetings Last Night and Miscellaneous Politics—The Strange Fever: Activity of the Health Authorities—Long Branch—A Boy Shot Dead in Jersey City—New Items—Military Chit-Chat—Business 8. Youthful Depravity—Conjugal In- ity mm Cincinnati—Murder In Ontario— Financial and Commercial Keports—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements, S—Advertiseme: 9—A‘ivertisements. 10—A_ Suspected Smuggler: Horrible Discovery; ‘The Corpse of the Brig H. G. Berry Found Con- ceaied in the Cargo of Sugar—Personal Intel- ligence—Yachting Affairs—Preparations for the Funeral of Admiral Farragut—Brooklyn City News—Shipping Intellgence—Advertise- ments, 11—Aclvertisements, 12—advertisements, CAREFUL OF THE LiFE oF NAPOLEON.—A boy was recently discovered at Wilhelmshihe, where Louis Napoleon is now sojourning, with aloaded pistol in his pocket. It was decided by the authorities that the pistol could not have been intended for any purpose except the assassination of Louis Napoleon, and the boy was punished accordingly. Tae Lanon QuEsTION AND WENDELL Pu.rs.—Wendell Phillips has seized the reins of the labor movement, and will direct it, as he did his anti-slavery agitation, to some important end. As the prohibition and labor reform candidate for Governor of Massa- chusetts Mr. Phillips has a new and interest- ing field upon which he can display his foren- sic abilities. Let us see what use he will make of them. Farr GRranvitte’s Kinkenny Cat Pontcy.— Earl Granville says that the French and Prussians must fight it out. That is the only solution he sees; for if England should inter- fere, having no ideas of her own on the sub- ject, she must necessarily interfere with a message or a thought coming from either one or the other of the belligerents. If it should be a thought from France it would jastly offend Prussia; if a thought from Prussia it would justly offead France. 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 on business at the old stand. Customersin any country sup- plied with improved arms and fixed ammuni- tion on reasonable terms. All articles stamped with the well-knowa trade mark, “neutrality.” Tae Democratio Stare 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 plat- form should be made to conform with the progress of events since the last State Con- vention wa» Seld. it is unnecessary and use- less for the Convention ts take a back track and introduce matters not pertinent to the issues of the present day. Those ‘issues are principally a reduction of taxes and @ iirm recognition of the principles of Ifberty as they are beginning again to take root and spread in Europe. If the democrats in their conven- tion on Wednesday fail to recognize these principles they will fail to make a stand in 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 shape their deliberations accordingly. Tho Papal Drama—Its Closing Scones. The Papal drama bas been long upon the stage. Some say that it has been on the stage since the days of St. Peter. More modest historians speak of the third century as the age which witaessed the commencement of the Popedom, Others more modest still are quite content to date the Papacy from the year 800, when Leo IIL, who had been pre- viously made by Charlemagne, placed the imperial crown on tho great monarch’s head and hailed bim Emperor of the Romans. Since the latter date, with many reverses of fortune, the Papacy has been a grand world fact—for good or for evil for many centuries the mightiest Power among the sons of men. The fall of the Western empire on the oceasion of the death of Charlemagne, con- trary to the expectation of the great mouarph himself, left the Pope absolute monarch of Europe. The empire was dead; the Papacy remained. Europe became civilly and politically divided; but every suc- cessive division of the empire into smaller and smaller fragments made the Papacy stronger and stronger. The Avignon period came with its seventy years’ captivity, with its ecclesias~ tical divisions, with its double and triple Popedoms, with its Guelphs and Ghibelines, with its Council of Constance, its burning of Jolin Huss, its trial of John XXII. and its elec- tion of Martin V., makes another grand act in the Papal drama, The new Pontiff made his entry into Rome in 1420, and for tho first time for more than a century a Pope began to hold permanently his court at Rome. The unity of the Papacy had heen restored, and under a man fairly entitled to respect a vigorous attempt was made to resurrect the almost defunct spiritual empire. It was hard work, however, for Martin and his successors. The divided authority of the Avignon period had allowed bad seed to be sown. The Bohemian goose had become a power. In France, in Switzerland, in Eng- land, in Scotland, in Spain, in Ger- many, brave men, men of brain and men of heart 2s well, had begun to think; and although there were not as yet any telegraphs or railroads, or New York HeERALps, the blood of the Bohemian became the seed of the new Church—a Church which disowned the Papacy, but which had not as yet given birth to the Reformation. Early, however, in the sixteenth century—thanks to Master Tetzel and his money box—Germany, England, Scotland, Switzerland, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Nor- way revolted from the authority of the suc- cessor of St. Peter. Once again Christendom was divided, but this time the revolted tribes would have nothing to do with Popery. Be- hold the close of another act in the grand Papaldrama. Such men as Huss and Wickliffe had been succeeded by men like Luther and Melancthon and John Knox. Follow the Diet of Worms and the Coun- cil of Trent, and the thirty years’ war—a war which lasted, in fact, for ninety years, coloring the politics of Europe, mixing itself with every combination, occupying the attention and exhausting the energies of every statesman and every warrior, the parent of sieges, massacres, untold crimes, and we come to the peace of Westphalia, 1648. The events that followed for over a hundred years, although all! important in the grand drama of history, were more political than religious. At the close of the thirty years’ war Europe settled down religiously divided. The question as between Protestantism and Catholicism has never since formally led the nations to war. The religious landmarks remain to-day very much as they were when the treaty of Westphalia was signed. Protes- tantism has not encroached upon Catholicism. Catholicism has not encroached upon Protes- tantism. The political triumphs, the triumphs of liberty have been numerous; but the Pa- pal drama, up until the great French Revolu- tion of 1789 may be said to have been sus- pended. With the French Revolution of 1789 opened, as many think, the last act of the magnificent drama which has been in progress more or less regularly since the eighth century of our era, if 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 sad experiences of the Papacy under the first republic and under the first empire. What Leo III. was to Charlemagne Pius the Seventh was, though in less magnificent style, to Napoleon the First. As in 752 Pope Zachary crossed the Alps to crown Pepin Le Bref; as on Christ- mas Day, 800, Leo III. put the crown'on the head of the King of the Franks and proclaimed him Emperor of the West, so, on December 2, 1804, did Pius the Seventh sanction the coronation of the new Charlemagne, Napo- leon the First, Never in all history had the 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 of some two million francs, reduced him to the rank of a French subject. It was the opinion of many 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 other- wise arranged. With the fall of the French empire, in 1814, the Pope found himself again at Rome, a powerful temporal prince, with many powerful temporal princes at his back, and the acknowledged religious chiet of sympathizing millions in all lands. The events of 1848 were serious and destructive, so far as the Papacy was concerned. The Pope had fled and Rome was a republic. 1848, however, proved a failure all over, and the Holy Father in due time found his way back to his temporal throne. Since his resto- ration he has been maintained in his position mainly by the power of Napoleon. But another French empire has fallen; another Bonaparte has gone into exile; and the Holy Father, wherever he may now be, has practi- cally 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 subject 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 ~ ; closed the long drawn out Papaldrama. We witness the elosing scene. In closing this article, however, we caution our readers agaiust leaping to the conclusion that because the temporal power of the Papacy is gone the Papacy ftself is dead. In spite of its many shortcomings, faults, crimes, if the reader will, it is an institution hoary with years and rich with noble memories. All the world owes much to it. It was ancient and honor- able when Europe still was young and centu- ries before America was discovered, Although it is our firm belief that the temporal power of the Papacy is gono forever the Papacy itself in its true spiritual character may bo mightier than ever when America has become old and when Europe has been rejuvenated, when all the dynasties and aristocracies have been consigned to oblivion, and when the great Sun god looks down only and always on the universal republic. Who can say it will not be so? Leren Opening Operations in the Siege | of Paris=Tho General Feeling in france. What may be regarded as tho first scene in | the great war drama to be enacted in and around Paris is the reported blowing up by the French of the fort of Vincennes, one of the eastern outlying fortifications erected for the defence of the city. The reason assigned is that the fort was regarded as untenable. We doubt, however, the correctriess of the information, and suppose that it must apply to a small redoubt in the neighborhood of Vincennes. The railroad between Paris and Orleans has been cut by the Germans about eight miles south of Paris, and the Germans have planted a battery at that point. Heavy firing had been heard on Friday in that direction and it was thonght that a battle was then in pro- gress. No particulars of it, however, have been received. Several minor engagements are reported to have taken place on the same day outside of the fortifications. The railroad NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. he? Where was he? Mr. Sickles finally turns up as the recipient of the favors of the Spanish brigands, and but for the Spanish government guards he might have met a dis- astrous finale, Our Ambassador at Madrid should present a better front in these bigh republican times in Europe. State and City Politice=State of Parties. We present in our usual article under the head of ‘State and City Politics” another expo- sition 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 sub- terfuges and doublings they adopt and pursue to gain personal ends at the expense of sound policy and inherent principles. , On the sido of the republicans facts incontestably prove that the political gtake played for is one of place and patronagé, at the Bacrifice of parly 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 the demoralizing fact that chicanery and de- celt and the prostitution of all the higher at- tributes of youthful and laudable ambition present the only road to such political emi- nence as is now attainable in the republican ranks. This truth is exhibited not only in the in- testine strifes waged among the republicans themselves, but is most flagrantly patent, from our exposé of the secret machina- tions for coalition and fraternal alliance carried of between them and the lead- ers of the dangerous classes in our midst, the Messrs. Morrissey, O’Brien & Co. | This state of things is pitiable in the extreme, communications have been cut for forty miles | The party of moral ideas is rotten to the core. around Paris, except in Normandy and Brit- tany, and no train bas been permitted to leave the city since Friday last. The siege, there- fore, has been regularly established, although the besiegers have not yet commenced to plant batteries within range of the fortifica- tions. Some of the departments of the gov- ernment have been removed to Tours, and several of the Paris journals are to be pub- lished in that town. No news has been transmitted of the sur- render of Strasbourg, Metz or any other of the besieged fortresses; so that it may safely be inferred that they have been, for so far, able to repel the attacks of the besiegers, It is reported that the siege armament directed against Strasbourg consists of eighteen bat- teries of mortars and rifled cannon, from which seven thousand shots are daily thrown into the city. The intelligence from Metz makes no mention of the successful withdrawal of Canrobert or Bazaine, but speaks of Bazaine still holding out there with seventy-five thou- sand men and a_ sufficient supply of provisions. It is possible, however, that this intelligence is not of so late a date as that which announced that Can- robert was on his march to Paris with six thousand men, and which located Bazaine near Sedan. We are thus left completely in the dark as to the present position of the army which occupied Metz. One of the correspondents of the Heratp, in attempting to reach Paris by a circuitous route, telegraphs that he has had pretty fair opportunities of judging of the tone and temper of public opinion in France, and he represents it as being adverse to the continuance of war. He says that the French people are downcast ; that outside of Paris there is no military organization, no chief, no controlling mind, No political confidence. The desire for peace is universal, but there is a very general belief that no treaty of peace will be signed until after the German army is in the military occu- pation of Paris. It is also said that great numbers of Frenchmen are emigrating, which may be true of the inhabitants of the depart- ments overrun by the German troops, but hardly applies to the other parts of the coun- try. Our London correspondent telegraphs that M. Thiers was definitely informed by Earl Granville, the English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that the British government declined positively to interfere in the matter of proposing peace arrangements. He adds that ministerial information to the same effect was placed by the English Foreign Office in the hands of the Prussian Minister at London. ‘That disposes finally of the last attempt at peace negotiations, and leaves no alternative to the French government and people but to strain every nerve and make every effort to protect their capital and to repel the enemy from the country. The Germans give no indication of relaxing in their demands; for according to a correspondent of the London Standard Count Bismarck affirms that Prussia will prose- cute the war indefinitely rather than abandon the idea of territorial aggrandizement. In fact, the two conquered provinces of Alsace and Lorraine are already treated as integral parts of Prussia. Much excitement is said to have been caused by the arrest at Wilhelmshéhe of a German who had a loaded pistol on his person with which he confessed his intention to assassinate Napoleon, while on the other hand many ar- rests have been made in Paris of persons charged with being concerned in a Bonapartist plot. But these are only small ripples com- pared to the tremendous storm which is now upheaving French nationality from its very foundations and threatening to engulf it. We rejoice to learn that the Americans residing in Paris are showing in every possible way their sympathy with the cause of France and are courageously identifying themselves with the fate of the city, declining to leave it even though it be subject to the perils of bombard- ment. They may, with Mr. Washburne at their head, be yet able to render valuable ser- vices to France. We hardly think, however, that it is the purpose of the besiegers to en- deavor to reduce the city by bombardment and assault, but rather to starve it into capitula- tion. Hearp From at Last.—Our people had almost lost recollection of our Minister at Madrid. Spain seemed almost blotted out from American diplomacy, so far as the Anterican Minister was concerned, Where is Their offence smells rank to heaven and stinks in the nostrils of all men. The present ‘leaders, ignoring the great 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 the Real funeral demonstration a few weeks ago, and from which they have been most appropriately dubbed the ‘‘Real democracy.” They enter into an alliance offensive and de- fensive with the standard bearers of the pro- cessionists who on that occasion marched under banners inscribed ‘in memoriam” of one whom outraged law and public 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 flat class of whom Real was the characteristic Ns and representative. ‘We mourn our loss.” Such is republicanism and republican affiliations to-day. The farce enacted at Saratoga on the 7ih instant is now deemed too farcical. The leaders who bolted trom Greeley on that occa- sion would gladly substitute his name or that of “‘any other man” on their ‘‘bill” for that of Woodford ; but this “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 the company gene- rally. 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 fature. The Tammany democracy hold their nomi- nating 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 is no doubt of the success of the whole Tammany ticket, from Governor down to that of Coroner, as the democratic masses area unit for good government and for the supremacy of law and order in their midst. That 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 has done splendid service. If anybody noticed the excellence of the English consti- tution a reference to the roast beef of old England accounted for it, on rational princi- ples. In the same way British freedom, the mental and physical vigor of the people, the superiority of English cutlery, English race horses, English bulldogs, 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 possi- bility without horror. England cannot con- tribute a word toward peace, lest she violate her neutrality; but she 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 the interest of peace will offend it ! Our First Autumnal Equinoctial. The northeaster which commenced here on Friday night, and 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, remarkable for its duration, these returning autumnal rains will be everywhere welcomed as a godsend; for gardens, or- chards, fields and forests, springs, wells, mill streams and many navigable rivers, in both hemispheres, have severely felt the effects of the late exhausting, withering and 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 ever aince the region of active military opera- tlons aiid heavy cannonadings in France has been deluged with heavy rains. From our observations on this subject during our late war with the Southern confederacy, and from the rains uniformly attending all great warlike operations in Europe, we are satisfled as to the fact that heavy cannonadings do bring on 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 the dry land from the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard islands. An Attack on Crime. . 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 use of deadly weapons, regardless of consequences. The same con- dition of society Js 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 slungshot and knife as an agreeable diversion, This class fs 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 profes- sion, such as bank and bond robbers, check alterers and counterfeiters, do‘not seem to have been very largely increased. This class have adopted callings which require great ingenuity and mechanical skill, besides a cer- tain amount of capital. Men possessing these qualities and who are willing to run the neces- sary 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 certain amount of education, more, probably, than -most people imagine. The higher branches of the calling depend upon secrecy, careful and patient work, and prompt and de- termined effort when the decisive moment comes. Violence, however, does 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, dan- gerous 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 ruf- fians 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 justiee 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; so 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 pro- bably restored his property or the value thereof. When the only witness upon whom the State depends for a convic- tion is summoned to appear before the Grand Jury he does not come; he has to be sent for again and again, and finally is brought down by threats of an attachment. The man is indicted at last; in the meantime some ward politician besieges the District At- torney with appeals for mercy, as, unfortu- nately, these ruffians almost all have some ocal political influence. And so it goes on ; the Court and prosecuting officers are met at every turn by the apathy and indifference of our citizens. And now a word to the politicians who endeavor to screen these fellows. Mr. Sym- pathizer, 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, not caring much whether I succeed or note Now good nature is out of place with these fellows; public security demands some- thing else; quick and sure punishment is what they need and must have. i Jadge Bedford and Recorder Hackett go band in hand with the District Attorney in trying to check these ruffians; but they need and demand the help of our citizens. Shall they not have it? As an earnest of what they are doing let the severe sentences they have imposed show our people the kiud of work they are at, On Thursday Judge Bedford sentenced a notorious ruffian, and in doing so made use of the following language — “Before passing sentence in this case, which is of a most aggravated character, I shall take this opportunity of stating that the Recorder and myself have determined to do our utmost to check burglars and robbers in their desperate course, and in this determi- nation have resolved, with the approbation of the District Attorney, to urge upon the next Legislature the practical necessity of changing the terms of imprisonment ia cases of burgla- ries and robberies from a term of years to imprisonment to life; holding, as we do, that all burglars and robbers are would-be murderers, and, if needs be, will take life if the occasion requires it.” And as a commen- tary on the above he sentenced the offender to een eeeareeenerenennttttimersonn tenant” the State Prison for eighteen years and six months. Such language, coming from an officer so zealous and respected as Judge Bed- ford is, must carry weight; and we can rest assured that, with the help of all good citi- zens, he will put a stop to the ruffianism which threatens the fair name of our good city, Hints from the Boss. For the political philosopher and the tax- payer the letter of Mr. Tweed to the Common Council is a paper of rare and peculiar in- Mr. Tweed is not the Mayor of tho city; he fs not the occupant of any position that entitles him to become ez officio the instructor or director of the actions of the Common Council, so that itcan only be from the ex- cessive wealth of his wisdom and warmth of his friendship that litly advice to these gentle. men can flow. . He loves them, however, and perhaps remembers that he is the Boss, and ‘as such isin a great ‘degree responsible for their good condact, and so ho gives them a lecture, just as he might if ho had been spe~ cially appointed by the people guardian to the Aldermen. tet : He advises them to give up all hope of secnring any personal plunder to themselves, their heirs, administrators or assigns by the Cremin 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 new policy in the city government. The authorities are to do nothing for which 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 per- sistent he simply stated the case to his attor- ney, and directed that person to find law for the transaction. AS any good attorney has several thousand volumes of law in his library he 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 it also. If nothing isto 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 itis 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 the appeal to the Aldermen to be good because theyarenew. Did Mr. Tweed ever hear of the white cat in the fairy story that was trans- formed into a beautiful woman and behaved her- self 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 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 de- sire to be harsh to this culprit, and he forth- with cut the gordian knot by an off-hand de- claration that the law was unconstitutional. Here is the course for the Aldermen. Let them pass a resolution that all laws which re- strain their instincts and proclivities are un- constitutional. ae Dress Fashions in Paris. “Paris remains terribly calm,” says our special writer in the French capital in the 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 extent joyous; Paris is out ‘‘shopping,” and the Parisian modistes remain all powerful over the rapidly lightening purses of the people and just as mysterious as before in their utter- ances with respect to “‘garments of much mys- tical sublimity.” So says our special writer on dress fashions ia the letter from Paris which appears in our columns to-day. The Parisians repeat the comforting sentence of “Never say die” even in the darkest hour of the history of their fair city, and repeat it just as persistently as did Barnaby Rudge’s raven during the period of the great riots in London and when the gallant Sim Tippertit conspired against the British Crown. The citizens of Paris could see the Prussian advance, behold the Germans coming “down like a wolf on the fold,” but they were determined to be dressed, at all hazards, for his reception, fol- lowing the rule of their Celtic cousin in Ire- land, who, when engaged in ‘‘waking” his dead father, told his wife to “‘put a clane pipe” in the mouth of the corpse, so that he should ‘Sook 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 the advancing foreigners. The Parisians had even brought out a new, hat—a great and very confident venture, as it appears to us at this distance ; for who knows but that within a few minutes after its first display in the street this gem of millinery will be bruised and ruffled 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 King William’s body guard. The Parisians had the hat, however, with a variety of very new and ‘‘very pretty things” besides. So even in this way the French municipality appeared to enjoy a decided worldly advan- tage over the Berlinese, who were for the moment wounded and in prayer, and looked rather “‘dowdyish, and suburban” even, after their victories.