The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1871, Page 5

BERGERET'S ESCAPE. A True Story of the Last Hours of the Commune. THE BURNING OF THE TUSLERIES. No Petroleum Used Nor Distributed by Women and Children. HOW THE LOUVRE WAS SAVED. Bergeret and His Men Surrounded in the Rue de Rivoli. HUNTED DOWN. Nights of Distress and Terrible Days of Danger. NADAR TO THE RESCU Bergeret’s Opinion of Revolu- tions ghtiy Modified, Paris, August 5, 1871. Having heard that Kergeret was in tne Isle of Jersey I determined to go there, see him, hear the Distory of the last, four days? fight of the Commune ‘as seen from the lines of the federals by one of the Principal actors tp the bloody drama, and learn the story of his escape. To thoge of us lying hid in the Boulevard des Capucines, over whom the tide of battle rolled like the waves of a troubled ccean, the scenes that were passing furtuer on at the Hotel de Ville and far up the Rue (6 Rivoil, where we could see shadowy figures gliding about in thesmoke atid Dame, possess an intense and thrilling mterest, Which has not yet died ont; and we fee) a strong de+ | sire to know something more of the events that wok place within that circie of fre when the meu of the scorpion-like Commune found themseiver | hemmed in, cut off from ali hope of escape, with a terrible and AVENGING DEATH staring them in the face. $id they meet it bravely or Ike cowards? What was the narure of their parting when iney saw their situation was hopeless, and whenamid the crasuing shells, the whizzing Chassepot bullets and the crash and roar of the | Mawes and the thick black smoke tuat was settling | down over them jike a pall, they understood they were taking leave of each other amid that carnival Of destruction and uproar never to meet again upon | this earth? Then was the time to bring men out In their true colore—the moment when If there was any- thing Jett of good in their natures it would be thrown into bold relief at the touch of the finger of @eath; and one cannot help wondermg how they passed the fiery ordeal and how many of them proved to be of the true metal. We imagine them shaking hands with each other for the last time, With looks that spoke of ruined hopes and crushing despair, with the certainty of their fate awaiting them and the toils of the meshes in which they were eanght closing around them; aud in spite of our- selves A MELANCHOLY INTEREST attaches to their last moments, and we feel giad when we hear one of them dying like a brave man. To wee ove of those who had fought to the last; who, tracked and hunted down like a wild beast, had vevertheiess escaped, and to hear his story would seem almost like talking to a dead man or hearing news from VHE WORLD BEYOND THE GRAVE. With the intention to visit one of them I took the tratn to Granville, a litue watering place on the French coast, about fifty miles from Jersey, where I arrived at s1X o'clock in the morning, and found, to my disappointment, that there was no steamer ran- ting, and that I would be obliged to wait two days Im that dryest of ali dry watering places or charter A vease! to make the voyage. I tried to get some fishermen to lake me over in @ stall sailing boat, but the wind was contrary and the sea rough, and they said it would be a diMcult thing to accompheh, as we would provably beat about all day and night, and might then not be able to reach there. This Was discouraging. Looking about the harbor, how- ever, J espied a neat. RAKISH-LOOKING LITTLE CRAFT lying at anchor, and saw at a giance that she was a ; yacht, probably belonging to some of the notadles of the neighborhood, and [ determined to get her, if possible, to aid me in my difMficuity, I found le maitre on board, and upon making known my wisbes he told me in his curious patois that she be- longed to Monsieur Tuompson, living at Avranches, abouc ten miles away, and that if 1 would send him @ despatch and get his permission he (the mattre) wouid be glad to take me, for a pourveoire, of course: “Who was M. Thompson’ I asked. “A minister of ihe Church of England,” he re- plies. “Whew! He must be a gay priest “Oh! he doesn’t go yachting often, “4 je his son who owns her.” “And who is his son *’ said T. “Mais est Monsieur Thompson fils par bleu? “Oh! Tsaid; “but what does he do!’ «He is first mate on an East Indtaman.”? “Is he @ pretty £000 feliow,” 1 asked. SH est bun enfant #” “send him a despatch and you will see.”’ This looked wel), aud so 1 sent a despatch to M. Thompson telling him a HPRaLp correspondent would Jike to have his yacntto go to Jersey. In Just half an hour the answer came cilcking back over the wires: — “Yacht at your orders, Walt two hours and ! will fo with you.” I wailed you may be eure, and in just two hours a young salior-looking fellow, with @ lace as brown as a walnut and a frank, open, waik ing down (he quay and was pointed out to me by the martre as M, Thompson fils, We shook hands and were friends tn a moment. In less than an hour more we had Iaid in a stock of sandwiches, wold chicken, cigars and a few bottles of Burgundy, and if we did pot “fold up our tents like the Arabs and silently steal away’ we at least unfolded our wings Itke a sea guil and showed @ clean pair of heels to A PIG-HEADED GENDARMR, qo told me | could not go without a laisser passer from tbe Commandant de la Marine, A splendid voyage it was, A bright July sun, ander which the clear biue waters were giancing hike mirrored silver, and the waves rolling with that feep, heavy swell which is Bo delighttul to an old sailor like myself, we crowded on sail until our little craft went dashing through the water like a thing of hfe, throwing he foam over her shoulders like a Face horse, and seeming to enjoy tt as much as we, NEARING THE ISLAND, After a deligutful voyage of six hours, in which We had plenty of time to discuss our sandwiches and cigars, We approached the harbor of St. Aubin, where We tet with an adventure which reminded me father disagreeably of the days of the Commune, The mulitia of tne tstand were exercising at ARTILLERY PRACTION, and were fring at a target out in the ocean, which target Was placed almost directly m our path. We kept on our course, supposing they would cease firing a3 soon as our proximity should make it dangerous for us. But not tn (he least. They kept up their stupid shooting until a plece of shell which fell within twenty feet of our vessel warned us that we need look for no mercy from tbeve brave defenders of tue Briush lion, and we were obliged to ta about and await the good Pleasure of these zealous artilerymen, who wiil, no doubt, distinguish theniseives some aay in THE BATTLE OF DORKING. They ictus in alter keeping us at our distance Tobservea, he repiicd, | sary. clear blue eye, came | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDA ili, which entered by bal, it whan tne odor of things watch one wi Dati expect find in a stable yard, Neither M. Delafosse nor his subjects seemed to in- terest the of Jersey very much. There were not over twenty-five persons present and | str suspect that most of them, the lecturer tnclay were refugees from the wraith of M, ‘When it was over I went up to a man who was standing near the speaker’s stand and tapped him on thesfonlder. He turned aronnd with @ sudden start and I found myself face vo face with GENERAL BERGERET, the most violent and desperate man of the whole Paris Commune. He 1s litte changed. The last time I saw him was ‘on the 234 of May, in the Tuileries, where he had just taken up bis quarters in the old apartments of the Emperor, Madame B., wo accom) him every whel having found the chambre rose of ‘the Empress to suit ner amazingly. He had plapted three or four twelve por the great entrance and ‘when | left him, about ix o'clock in the evening, was pull shelling with might and main the Champs Elyates, while dense coumns of black smoke were rol ung. ‘out of the ‘Treasury building on one side and out of the Legion of Honor on the oiner. I nad not seen or heard of him since, and here, after passing through that storm of battle and fre—after having beon tracked and hunted down for weeks, the whole civilized world resounding with his deeds of violence, he stood before me safe and well, seeming very little the worse tor it all, He was peed lad to see me, as I, Win the exception of Andrieux, a member of the Commune, was the first person he had seen of all those he had known in Pari. We adjourned to a neignvoring café, and there until the WEE 6MALL HOURS 1 kept him up telling me the history of the ovents which followed after i had taken leave of him and the story of his Cryin His story, which I give as nearly 4s possible in bis own words, runs about as jollows:— “Monday evening, when you left me, 1 thought the Position stil good, and believed thas, by # turning Movement operated from Montinartre, we should be able to drive back the enemy and perhaps catch a few regiments of them. I kept up a heavy arullery fire pretty much all that night and during the early part of the next Gay upon the Trocadéro and the Arc de Triomphe, kilung, I am sure, great numbers of them and rendering all advance down the Champs Elysées utterly impossible, although they attempted It several umes, 1 supposed, of course, that La Cecilia, who was in command at Montmar- tre, would do the same from his side, and that the enemy would find it impossible to advance between us. What was my astonishment to learn on Tuesday at about five o'clock that the barricade in the Bou- levard Malshebes had been taken and that they Were «wivancing ip the direction of the Place Ven- Géme with the int.ntion of turning me.” «How did you get this news?” I askea. “From the Hotel de Ville, with an order TO KURN THE TUILERIES, which order I fmmediately put into execution.” “How did you go about ity’ ] inquired, I simply had a few combustibles piled ap in dif- ferent parts ot itand set them going all at once with a train of powder. This was about seven o'clock In the evening, but the flames did not break out until about ten”? “Did you use any petroleum 1? “No, for the simple reason that 1t was not neces- You may easily imagine that in a palace like the Tuileries there was enough combustible matter to make it burn without putting ourselves to the trouble of using petroleum, 4 ca a jait un jolt Jru—weet ce pas ? 1 then established my headquar- in the Louvre, where | passed a night such as I hope to never pass again. The vattie was raging all around; but 1t was not only the Versailies troops I bad to tight, but my own men. I had received NO ORDERS TO BURN TRE LOUVRE, and would net have done so if I bad, But'my men, who were in a state of freuzy, were determined to burn it, and when I ordered them to desist they tn- Sstantly set upon me asa iraltor and threatened to shoot me. J} expostulated with them, I begged them, I threatened them, argued with them; but the struggle was @ jong and wearisome one, ‘fu es un gravure tu ev unlache!l Fusiliezie, fusiilez-le,) was the ery, and for three hours or more filty or aeee them bad their guns levelled at me all the ume. But I WAS MAD WITH DESPAIR, and would not have cared, I think, if they had shot me, J ran atong the ives, | knocked up their guns, 1 beat some of them with my sword; I was farious with rage. At last two of my otticers who had seconded my efforts all the while told me it woud be impossible to restrain them longer, and that we might as weil give it up. Idetermined to make one more effort, and mounting upon a caisson I catled them around me ‘and wade them a speech. 1 told them they did not know what they were doing, thatthe men who painted those pictures, who carved those statues, were poor workmen like themseives—men who had worked hard for their lpving—and that it was not right to destroy their works, works which were 80 beautiful that strangers came thousands of miles to see them; works that could never be replaced; that nese ‘workmen would have heen in despair {f they could have thought that one day other workmen like themeeives wouki rise ap to destroy their produc- tions, which would otherwise have lived for ages. 1 told them they would be worse than the Versail- jeux; that tney would be greater enemies to the Workingman than Thiers himself. ‘nis congidera- tion staggered them. “Mais fl a raison,” they commenced saying to each other, “est un bon en- Sant tout de meme, atlons UJaut Vodiér,” and 80, at three o'clock Wednesday morning, I lay down for a Momenv’s rest, feeling that TUE LOOVRE WAS SAFB.” “You mean to say you saved the Louvre?’ J asked j mn astonishment. “Certainly,” he continued, “Thiers knowsit. One | or two of his moucbards were among my men, it seems, and gave a very accurate report of what oc- curred; and Lave it (rom a very good source that. when he heard that it was | who saved the Louvre he remarked that he hoped I had been killed ip the fighting, but that if] was taken he would feel con- strained to pardon me.” “But why should you wish to save the Louvre and not the Tuileries *” I asked. “Because,” he replied, am as great a lover of art as anyoody, and Tshould have been sorry to see | 80 vy fine works destroyed. But the Tuileries was anest lor kings and emperors—a hole where for centuries the hard-earned money wrung from the sweat and toil and misery of the people has been squandered in luxury and dissipation and mot and debanchery by a parcel of disgusting, rotten-belied brates calling themselves kings. 1 determined to rid the earth of THE ACCURSED SroT and Il did it, Wednesday the fight continued in the Kue de Kivoli wita unabated vigor; but many of my men had been Killed or wounded, many more had deserted, anda I was obliged to fall back from the Louvre in the evening and take up my headquarters near the Tour de St. Jacques, in the Rne de Rivoll. It was here that I saw Delescluze for the last time, ‘The brave old man KISSED AND EMBRACED ME at parting, saying he would never see me again, and J felt that it was but too true; that probably neither of us would escape; but my heart was too full of despair and rage to give more than a hurried thought to that, and I fought on, never once con- sidering or caring how it would end. Allday Wed- nesday and the folowing mght I kept sending to the Hotel de Ville or to the headquarters beyond it for reinforcements, which never came. The answer always Was—fight on; reinforcements are coming. I did not even know that Monunartre was taken, and if I could have raised 2,000 men to follow me I would have marched to the Porte Mailiot or done any other desperate thing that might have occurred to me.’ THE CAPTURE OF MONTMARTRE. “When did you hear of the capture of Mont- martrey” J asked. “Not uptul Thursday morning, although, as ] have since learned, it Was surrendered by THAT TRAITOR LACECILIA on ruesday night.” I told him 1 thought It was taken Monday night. “That may be,” be replied. —*Tuey kept me in ignorance of the real state of affairs at the Hotel de Ville, and it Was only from one of my own oficers— who heard itt aon’t know how—that 1 got the news. I did nottell my men even then, but kept them at It by every means in my power until Thurs- day aiternoon, whe! I HAD TWO OFFICERS AND FIVE OR SIX MEN LEFT. | The greater part ot them had deserted Wednesday | night, and the next morning they kept supping off one by one, until Lonly had the five or six I speak of around me. They were ail brave fellows, and said they would stay by me to the last. The Jast barricade between the Louvre and the Tour St Jacques had been already abandoned, the last three or four couriers I had sent for reinforcements had not returned, and] was onthe point of giving tie order to retire, when A FRW RED LEGS | appeared in the Rue de Rivoli, between us and the Hotel de Ville, and we knew we were surrounded. I gave the order sauve qui peut and dashed Into &@ house on the other side of the | street—he gave me the number—followed vy one of my officers, and I found myseif in the arms of an old friend, While we were discussing sume ineaus of escape the soldiers broke into the louse, and my Iriend pushed US into a deep, dark closet far up near the roof, where we awaited their coming, de- termined to sell our lives dearly, ‘They searched the house thoroughly, saying they had seen us en- ter, aud flinging open the door of te very closet im Phage | we were hidden, glanced in without seeing {wo revolvers ready cocked, and we had deter- mined to never be taken alive. ‘They tert the house without discovering us, and we stayed in our hiding place all night, The next morning my friend fur- nished me With eltizen’s clothes, and | gailied out in broad daylight, A CIGAR IN MY MOUTH and a cane In my hand, and made my way leisurely among officers aud soldiers, looking on curiously at the burning buildings, as if | knew nothing more about It than a simpie spectator, and I passed un- molested. Jsoon found a friend near the Hollies, Who took me in and gave me shelter for two ays and who jound another place ot refage for me when he thought I was in danger of beng discovered. Froi this day on I lived in @ most terrible staie of auxiety and fear, and Lt wished anundred times that Thad been killed on @ barricade, During the six weeks { was in hiding I changed my quarters no less than twenty Umes, I was nearly always among friends, who kept the sharpest lookout, and when- about a ball an hour, and we glided inio the harbor and cast anchor. Quite & fasiionable and well- ressed crowd—among whom were many lads Stood on the pier awaiting ns, for the arrival in (iis little, out-of-the-way place of a iast sailing yacnt seemed To be quite an event. We made onr way up into the little, old fashioned town of St. Beltey, where 1 soon observed by the Diile on the wails that one M. Delatosse, of the Paris press, was to lecture that evening upon the Com- mune of Paria, and feeling sure that | would there as Hews of the wan of whom I was In search, conciided to go, Tk Was ome ever they saw anybody show the slightest curiosity about the house or its inmates | was warned and within the hour another place of refuge indicated. Sometimes it was Belleville, someitmes at Mout: martre, sometimes in the Faubourg Antoine, some- times in a house where soldiers and officers were quartered, Oiten and often | was awakened at twelve o'clock at BY A ON MY DOOR and would hear @ whisper through the keyhole we2? ow certatn place, and getung up and goug to the place indieated | would find some one await Ing me perhaps Wiat 1 never remembered seeing be- fore, who, without @ word, would take me to his room and show me anew hiding place. | oftener changed my quarters, however, in the early part of the evening, just between daylight and dark, for I found the dim, uncertain twilight favored these continual fittings more than any other time, f always strolied leisurely to @ cab stand, with acigar in my mouth, playing the part of a boulevard idier W perfection. “Yougmust have had many friends,” | observed. “More than 1 ever dreamed,” he repited. “I Was more popular than | had ever supposed. 1 Know, however, that many of those who helped me were WOMEN 1 HAD EMPLOYED In the Corps Légwiatif, You will remember I showed you @ number of them there whom 1 bad employed in making sandbags at the price the government usu- ally pays the contractors. ‘They all earned good wages, insteac of the miserable pittance they had been in the habit of getting, and I am sure there was not one of them who would not have helped me at the risk of her a The trath 1s, I found trends everywhere—in many cases ple | had never known before. And those who think that Thiers has crushed the Commune in the 32,000 prisoners he has ed will one day find themselves grievously mistaken, IDEAS NEVER DIF, and I Will yet live to see the Commune of Paris an existing fact. But toreturn to my story. The kind of lite I was leading became in the end unsupport- able. The constant apprehension of arrest; the con- Unual listening to every footfall, with ears sharp- ened @ hundred times by danger; the starting at the shghtest unusual noise, with NERVES TAXED AND EXCITED almost beyond endurance by the continual strain upon them; the awakening in the night with a sudden start, feeling sure of hav! heara the tramp of armed men outside, which, in troth, was often the case—it was terrible. cae those who have ex- pertenced it, who have led such a tife, can con- ceive of the suffering one can endure in this way. THE LAST PLACE 1 WAS IN ‘Was & very large house on one of the most fashion- able poulevards, in whioh there were a great num- ber of officers. I stayed here week, a8! found it Particularly safe, no one dreaming of searching a Y, AUGUST 22, 1871.—TRIPLE THE DUBLIN RIOTS. Public Feeling and Opinions Re- garding the Disturbance. Testimony of Eye-Witnesses—Barbarous Conduct of tho Police—Beating Prostrate People—In- veitigation Demanded by a Member of Parliament—Great Indignation. Dosiin, August 6, 1871. Great commotion still existe in thig city, owing to the unfortunate collision between the police and the people in the park on Sunday. A report was cur- rent here yesterday to the effect that there was an intention to attack the police om night duty; such an intention, however, was not carried into effect. The authorities no doubt heard that such a rumor Was In circulation, for they took the precaution of doubling the beats and strengthening the force at the different stations throughout the city, The police, I have reason to know, are rather frightened ut the terrible outrages they committed on Sunday, particularly so since they find that public opinion in Engiana is against them, The holding of the meet- ing at such a place and onder such circumstances was, to Kay the least, injudicious and imprudent; but few will, have the hardihood to say that it was iliegat. The people say that Sunday alter Sunday Bradiaugh and Odger and their friends are allowed | to hold house occupied by officers. It was here | saw Mrs. B., for the first time after sending ber away from the scene of conflict to find a piace of safety for herself, We had two little rooms 1 the attic, from whence we had a splendid view of the city, and even of @ part of the country. I slipped in quietly in the evening, FOLLOWING A LITTLE CIGAR GIRL employed in one of the cigar stores in the doule+ vard. The rooms belongen to her and her sister, and, although J wad never known them before, | found as ready a welcome and as cordial a recep- tion as if we had been old friends, Wie here I senta NOTE TO NADAR, asking him if he could not help me to get out of the country, J received an answer immeatately, invit- ing me to take up my quarters at his house, as 3t would be sale enough, they having searched bis house thoroughly a few days before in sea of Communists. ] accepted his invivation, and for a few days found myself in comparative security. Nadar immediately ‘set about devising means for Ty escape, which proved to be as simple as eflicient, He went to one of the most influential members of the Assembly, who, although a staunch Jegitimist, 18. & particular friend of bis, told bom he had me in his Belgium. ‘His irtend refused at first and tried to mduce him to turn me adrift. But he expressed bis determination to protect me at ali hazards, eve: the risk of deiection, arrest aud ruin. Finally member acceded, and notenly procured me tne passport but accompanied us ACROSS THE BELGIAN FRONTIER. His breast was covered with decorations, among others the Grand Cross of the Legton of Honor, and of course he had no difficulty tn getting us through, But when we had got fairly across the frontier and found ourselves on Helgian soil we all three set up such acheer, and indulged im such extraordinary manifestations of Solight, shouting, laughing, sing- ing and clapping our hands, that @ man who hap- pened to be in the same compartment with us turned pale, thinking, no doubt, he had fallen in with @ parcel of escaped lunatics, It was weli for some of them, for we had eacit | PASSED THROUGH BELGIUM AND WENT DIRECT TO ENGLAND, where Mrs, B—, assisted by the same friend, s00n after followed me, and here you see me, sound and well, a8 if the Commune dé Paris had never existed”? “Yes; and your experience has been pretty severe,” | opserved. GLAD TO RSOAPE. “Tt has, indeed; and 1 would not go through it all again for anything that could be offered. 1 would much rather meet death at the barricades. 1am glad, of course, to have escaped. There 1s, besides, @satisfacuon in defying old Thiers, He has mur- dered thousands of people who had taken no part in the Commune, many of his own friends, even—for which I don't blame him—and yet many of us who were the principal offenders bave escaped to shake our fisis in bis face, to show him how stupid and blind, HOW IMPOTENT WAS HIS REVENGE, brutal and savage though it may have been. Cest égal; nous nous sommes Lien amusés tom de mene” NO PETROLEUM. “You say you used no petroleum tn burning the Tuileries, Do you think there was much tsed 4m other places 1”? “It may have heen used here and there for that purpose where tt was necessary, but generally it ‘Was unnecessary. Anybody who has the smaliest amount of intelligence above that of a Varisian knows that it does not require petrolenm to burn houses tnat are full of combusnvle matter, A Parisian, however, will believe anything.’? “And the stories about women and childen dis- bio ees petroleum?” LIES. There was nothing of ii; 1 am positive that there was no order to that effect, nor thougnt of any such thing among us. All of these stories were lies, and cruel, cowardly lies, directed as they were against helpless women and chiidren, I have no Treason to deny it it 1b were true; you see | speak pretty freeiy, and I can assure you that I do not he- heve there was a sing!e women or child in the whole of Paris that aistributed petroleum. How many have been shot for it 1 dowt know. When ine account comes to be footed up I shall be curious to Jearn who killed more innocent people, we bandits of the Commune or rs _honnotes gens, Who go church ana say their prayers like Trochu and Galitiet.”” “Did you know anything of THE INTENDED EXECUTION OF THE ARCHBISHOP and his companions?" “No, had nothing to do with it. I knew, of course, that the Commane had passed a decree to what effect, but had almost forgotten about 1 until 1 saw the announcement of the execution of the hos- tages in tne papers.”” “Did you approve of ity? “Well, we told Thiers that if he did not quit kiliing our prisoners we would kill his priests, General Kosecrans and General Mc shot hostages in al Auman iife is bomao ite, and I hold that the hives of my friends are as precious as those of the friends of ‘Srochu or Gulli- let, Fora tout.” HIS OPINIONS REGARDING REVOLUTION: 1 obgerved in the course of further conversation With him that nis ideas had changed somewhat with regard to revolutions. He said it was rather the genius of the present half of the century to revolu- uonize with ideas rather than with bullets, aud that they would yet pe victorious upon those grounds, I thought what a pity 1t was thatevery generati of Frenchmen is obilged to learn the same old | son. He seemed, besides, to have lost @ good deal of confidence in the National Guard, and remarked that trained soldiers were necessary to success in war. Jn answer to my question as to His FULURB MOVEMENTS he told me that ie had been oftered the command of the army of Bolivia, and that he would sail shoruy Jor that country Lo accept the posiuion. He walked down to the quay with inc when I was leaving the { Island and stood on the pier as we skimmed past him in our little bark out mto the open sea, jooking alter us with @& wistfui-mealanciioly expression wiuch 1 shall never forget. And so we left him Watching Us as We stood out to sea, and, following our glistening satis with bis eyes no doubt uli they sank in the ocean, and pursuing them with how many thoughts and recollections of that France he Will probably never see again. NADAR GLORIES IN HIS ACT. Upon arriving at Paris | went to Nadar and asked him if he objected to having his part in ine escape of Bergeret made known to the pabite, “Ye men fas ma ylowe” (i giory in it and"tell it to everybody.) was his reply. Nadar is, of course, jy known to your readers as the director of all jioon expeditions from the beleagured city | during the siege. He does not hide im the least his sympathies for the Commune nor his intention to | help any Communist in distress, espectaliy to French officers who come to get (heir pictures taken. ‘Nice business you are in,” he te:ls hem, “poking around and borting up POOR DEVILS OF COMMUNISTS, whose lives are bot worth taking, playing the part of spies and marchands! ‘Time was when a French officer consiaerea himself above sven things. 1 know one you Won't get though,” and then he tells | them or Bergeret’s escape, 1 bad curiosity enough to go and seo THE CIGAK GIRL Who gave Hegeret shelier for solonga time, She 1s about twenty-five and has a plain, but ime ligent face. T soon engaged a conversaiion with her, and was struck by a significant fact which she unparted co me~ that is, Ihat her tather was sent to Cayenne, where be died, for Aghting the coup eétat, in 1861, She was almost an infant then, and her mother has died since; but she has never forgotien it. Bergeret, a rebel and an outiaw, although | unknown to her, took the place of her father—a_ revel and an ouuaw—and = #lie would have protected him with her tife. And tis Is nota soiltary Instance. There are thousands of the elildren or relatives or friends of those whi were killed and transported in the Ume of the corp erat who have been frowned down, or crushed down ratner, by the respectable part of society, (es honnéles gens, the Podsnaps, Who put things of This sort behind them, who do not want to hear them spoken of in their presence, and these people will rebel against Kn Aid Ii this giri had been a boy she would, of course, have been on # barricade; ana looking at things tn this tight we begim to see how revolutions are perpetuated in France, THE NUMBER OF COMMUNISTS KILLED, Thave it from good authority that Thiers com- putes at 15,000 the number of Communisis who have been shot, There are now 52,000 in the different prisons of the government awaiting their trial, and when we remember the long files of women and house and that he wanted a passport tor me to go | | police had orders to disperse it MEKTINGS OF A MOST DISLOYAL NATURE IN THE LONDON PARKS and squares, and ask ‘Are Irishmen to be blud- geoned for meeting quietly to ask for the release of their imprisoned friends?” ‘There can be no doubt that the leaders of the Phoenix Park demonstration were actuated by the most peacetul Intentions; and their chairman, Mr. P. J, Smyth, M.P., expressly declared that they wanted quietness. His words are:—"One wora to my fellow countrymen and the police, All we wanthere ts quet. If any man is touched it will be me, 1 wish w have the whole Meeting gO Off quietly, because 1 mean legally wo test the legality of tnls proclamation.” Notwithstanding this advice, the police, without warning or intimation of any kind, rushed on the unarmed, defenceless people, when congregated round the monument of jreland’s greatest warrior, and felied them mercilessly to Ube earth. All per- sons present, irrespective of creeds snd politics, agree in condemning THE BSNBAROUS CONDUCT OF THR POLICE. On this subject Mr. Mayne says:-—"'l had a good view of Sunday’s proceedings, and I saw no attack on the police. In fact, there could not be, for the | crowd consisted of the ordinary park goers, totally unarmed, anu one half, at Jeast, women and chil- dren, Jn the last charge made by the police they attacked a fying crowd, anxious to escape, who had no connection with the meeting at all, When I was Jeaving the park a retuforcement of police came up on cars, who, to my astonishinent, jumped off, and, aluhough tere was no crowd tere, began to strike right and left among the parties going to the park, who plainiy Were ignorant of any disturbance. ” ‘This letier very faithfully expresses public feeling relative to the bratality of the police, Mr. Denis 8, Sullivan, brother of Mr, Suitivan, of the Nation, describes very fully and faithfully what took place, wad nis description will give your readers A CORRECP IDEA OF THE MURDEROUS PROCEEDINGS that came under his observation on Sunday evening. He says:—“‘After the first large body of police ap- peared ai the base of the lestimoniai J saw tbem rush directly at imdividuals of the crowd and feil them bleeding to the earth. But wnat } confess I ‘Was bot prepared for was ihe hormble brutality with which the prostrate men were treated by those wno had struck them down. in three distinct cases 1 saw from seven toadozen policemen engaged in kicking the prostrate vicums. The man in each case was first struck to the earth by a blow of w baton on the head; then the regular course was to prevent him frem rising by kicking him op. the body and head. 1 saw one man who, spurting blood from bis temples, feebly attempted to raise himself on one arm. ‘Ihe effort was the signal lor a shower of blows and kicks from eight or ten policemen around hin, which soon stretched the wretched man in an apparently lifeless stare. As arule | noticed that the moment a policeman struck a blow that instant his brethren turned on the person so siruck, unul the disgraceful sight of eight or ten large wcemen snowe! Weir blows simultanevusly on, one biced- ing and helpless object in the cenire became quite wirequent spectacie. It is possible, though } can hardiy conceive it, that such couduct may be screened irom punishment; but I am convinced that nothing worse to the Briush government in Jreland tnan such aresult could be desired by the bitterest of heir focs,”? TESTIMONY OF ANOTHER EYE-WITNESS. Mr. R. C. Cumming, of Edinbarg, says:—*l pro- ceeded to the park in perfect ignorance of the Jace that a mecting for any purpose was about to be held ; 1 Was Only on entering the gateway that I vered from a proctamation posted on it that such an affair was to take place; I had no intent of joming it, however, nor did J do so, but while passing through the park I saw a sudden attack made Cy ihe poilee on the peopie; I ceriainiy never Baw anything ai nome, in Scotland, to equal the shocking Vioience employed by the police; the people broke and fied, but the police pursued them in all directions, suriking those they overtook and beating them with barbarous cruelty; some of te people retaliated by throwing stones at the police, but I saw pothing to justily the extraordinary violence used agaist the people; 1 was forced myself to fy to the enclosed gardens for safety, being in grave personal danger while in any poruion of ine park outerde.” ‘This is THE OPINION OF A PERFECT STRANGER in our city, who has no ititerest either way jn speak- ing his mind on this unfortuate question beyond that of doing justice to what he considers to be ins jured party, WHAT AN AMERICAN SAW, Zo, United Staies, —L was quietly taking @ stroll and smoke L observed a large assemblage oj people, the pet of which, | aiterwards learned, Was for the rejease of the remaiing portion of the political pris- opers. | joined in tie crowd, and when the row commenced I saw a buriy-looking policeman stuke an unofending litte buy and knock him down. TL | remarked that le wos araMan todo such a th to such a lad, When Immediately another policeman aampnistered a fearfui blow of a bludgeon on the k ol my head; the Diew coming on me so unex- pectedly and savagely, | was latd prostrate for neariy ten minutes. I have been in nearly every j country, and I must say that so uigallant, cowardly, savage preservers of the peace | have never seen. Irisimen in every clime are generaliy cbaracterized by chivalry, warmth and charity, but J certainiy must confess that t could not expect worse treatment from a vand of the red Indians of | the Par West.” ‘the above OPINIONS OF FOREIGNERS, as well as Irishmen, afford some idea of the real na- ture of this dreadiul affray. It would be impossibie to descrive the indignation of all classes of ctuzens at this Wanton outrage upon their liberty. Had the police confined their brutality to those unmediately concerned in the demonstration they might have had some shadow of excuse for their conduct, but as it is they nave no excuse Whatever, They can find no excuse for striking down men, women and ehilaren Who merely came ont to enjoy themselves mthe park, knowing nothing and caripg nothing about We meeting which nearly cost them their Hives. Jam afraid that the feelings aroused by this upjustiMable conduct of the anthorities will not sub- side until the responsible partes are properly pan- ished, and already Mr. Sullivan anc, f betiev others aiso have applied for a suminons against the police auihorities, MR. SMYTH AND MR. SULIJVAN ASSERT that they took upon themselves the respousibulty of hoiding the meeting; that they were prepared to answer aly charge that might e against them for doing so; that they were solely to blame for ine prot AL the people, thinking them- pught not to have ce, Instead Of NSIng their baton: Id have summoned the respons party tO appear beture a judge in a court Of |; Tr, Smyth is a very deiermined man ana will, th can be ho doubt, push the matter to the uimost, leaves town to-night for the House of Common: where, it is expected, he will have the matter fully invesnigated. Atthe insiance of several persons | here he addressed @ jetier to the Irish Chiel Secre- | tary, which throws some light on the proceedings | and correctly interprets public feeling regarding | them j TO THF Richt Hoy, THE Manguts ort HaRtiNeTON— | MY LORD—On behalf of a numerous boay of my fellow citizens | dema events of esterday in the P 0 be held there SHEET. Of, and the porice themserves are greatly shat Public opinion is so decidedly i them. — l@ are peculiarly tn that such ity shomid nave been resorted to om the eve or the departnre of the royal visitors, after @ week of uninterrupted festivity and within a few Te of the Vice! 1 Lodge, It isthe only cloud darkens @ bri week. The responsibility of this whole affair, there can be no doubi, rests wit the govern- ment; for it I» quite certain the Board of Public ere wonld, pever have prohibited the mecting had ne tO do é teary nite eae do so by the highest au- FOREIGN ToPtcs. Fires io the Algerian Forests. The Akbar, an Algerian paper, in its issne of August, remarks that fires have been kindled 1 al- most all tne forests of the colony, Among the re gions the most severeiy aMicted are those of Sétif, Batna, the environs of Bone, tie valley of Seybouse, the district of La Calle and the conntry around Miliana and lida. In the department of Algiers the corkwood forest of Bon-Koum) has been on fire since July 26, and ihe loss t4 estimated by mililons, The Akbar attributes those fires to incendiarism, ana says the incendiary insurgents are oniv following the example given them by the Communists of France. The mt Cenin Tunnel, Preparations on a iarge seale are being made for the opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel for tram ‘The 15th of September appears to be the date fixed upon, and characteristic national festivities for several days in honor of the event. A cattle show, 4 fower show and an exhibition of ftalian produce and manufactures are to form part of the proceedings. All the representatives 1 italy of foreign State have been invited by the Italian government to be present, and a subsidy of 10,000 lire towards the ex- enses of the opening ceremonial ts to be granted rom the national treasury, to say nothing of tue Jarge sums voted by the municipal corporation and other public bodies. Some delay in the opening has been caused by the fact of the smoke fr the en- gines hitherto employed accumulating In such dense volumes that the drivers and siokers were aiiost rated; but the diffienity has been overcome hy the adoption of smoke consuming engines, wii have just been sent out trom England, The Pope on the ficligious Struggte in Ger- many. The Germania, the German organ of the ultra- montanes, gives the following account of an inter- view with the Pope:—A few days ago a German gentleman, who bas been well Known at the Vatican for years, had an audience with the Holy Father, After some remarks, which displayed au intimate a quaintance with the condition of the Cathortes in Ger- many and the great tnterest wnicn he takes in this country, His Holness asked, What, tn your opinion, js the cause of the present unhappy state of things? To the Church such things are not new; we find them under different forms and at different times in history.” The German replied, “The cause is the coquetiipg of governments with bie false |iberal- ism which leads to Communism, to irreltgion, This it if which makes man forget bis digmity and his destiny. One step brings another. With us, on tne conclusion of peace and tbe formation of a new empire, we shouid have regained the ground we Jost in right and justice, in order to opeu the way to anera of internal peace in Germany. ‘To turn back was then not dufcuit.”’ The Holy Father nouded as a sign of assent and replied as follows:—"! am very sorry for that; | can even say it pains me. I should have very much desired that greater justice had been shown to the German Catholics, 1donotdeny that hoped that sich @ clever guide of the rudder of the State as Prince Bismarck appears to be would not bimeelf evoke a spirit of discontent in the new empire, since inter- nai peace is more necessary even than external peace for the strengtuening of the new empire, for Germany is strong. The Germans always were a positive, prudent people. Catholics and Protestants ve fought bravely side by side, They gave to Cesar what is Ceear’s, Prince Bismarck would render the greatest service to the new empire if he aid not forget that he is self-sacrificing who be- Heves in God and religion. He who has no faith gives to Cesar only what he ig compelled to give. Only he who has faith has @ confeience, and @ man without a conscience 18 a bad subject of a State, History is the teacher of wisdom. Jt showed us last year where coquetting witl false liberalism Jeads; it showed us that he who is not with God, the Lora, as destroyed. Now him whom God wishes to de- stroy he blinds, Let us hope and pray to the Lord that before He punishes He way warn. Hitherto, to the Church conflict has vnly brought good. it made her firmer, united her members ano strengthened her belief.” Roumania Threatened. ‘The intelligence which was forwarded to whe HERALD some Gays ago, and which represenved ne condition of Roumania as eritical, has been con- firmed by ail the information since received from that country. The excited state of teenng in Aus- tria on the question may be judged from the fact that @ report Las been spread that the railway com- panies had received orders to hold themselves in rea- «iineas for the transportation of troeps. ‘The report, 1t is true, bas since been oMctally contradictea; but, even so, the fact that tt was ever started is very significant. By many it is supposed, and pot with- ont some reason, that Hungary would be inclned to hurry on rather than to avoid a ropture with Roumania. First, acontiet with that country would be agreeable, and, secondiy, it would be safe. As Count Hovenwart mm Northern Austria, so Count Andrassy in the South, has discontented nationaii- tes to contend win, The Croats and other branches of the great Slave family are as unwilling to submit to Magyar domination tn the Soucy as are their brethren, the Czechs, to German domina- uon Im the North, now one of the most discontented of the races under Count Andrassy’s rule in the Wallach. ‘The Wailachs form one-wail of the popue lation of ‘Transylvania; and Transylvania stands, next to Wallachia, that province of Koumania which, 18 almost exclusively occnmed by the same yace. No wonder tiat the Wallachs of Austria and the Wallachs of Roumania should have a longing for the union of their scat- tered race, the more so as Roumania has, like Servia, ier dream of forming a great kingd on {such views tnd no sympathy in aud au opportunity 10 cies of Transylvama by low oD Routuahia would probably not be unwelcome to the government of Count An- drassy. Meantime, what is poor Prince Charies doing during a this threatening crigis? Orall places hie has retired to a monastery, hidden in the Carpatiian mountains. The reasous given or this move are various. Some bint that, having got so far to the end of nis princtpality, the Prince may be luclined to go sll further, and otners say that he Das selected his present abode as & convenient base of operations for (ove mUrigues In favor of foreign Intervenuion with which he has been credited, A leiter from Bucharest in the Kohusche Zeitung gives @ rather ale coun: of the imorale of the army. Among Wh dice ext Charies quench t inflicung rman—Prine Y against wh a cousptr dynasty nivrmed, at the teud of | Which stands a Captain Cretsulesco, who boasts that he has already expelled two «princes, and Lieuten- ant Leoca, Who is known to have on one oc penetrated, with a revolver in mis hand, tn sieeping apartinent ol Prince Coase. A Augsburg Allgemeine Zeuwne story of the Kohusche Zeitung. Tania at this moment, it says, The abdtcauon of the ce Is called for, and @ signi ficant sign of the popular disposition is given by ie Appearance of a new Journal in Jassy which openly | calls for the return of the expelled Mince Ce m the the The rempes very inet exert FOREIGN MISCELLAVEOLS ITEMS. A panic prevails at Athens on onnt of an anticipated brigand invasion, Av expedition is un doubiediy organizing ov Turkish territory and miil- lary preparations have been made to oppose it, It Is stated in the weekly health return trom Bi In that cholera is certainiy entering Baltic, at the mouth oft Dwina. in Tambow, in | Central Asia, ont of 30,000 inhabitants 455 died from cholera in (he week ending July 1. The Voicsiaat, speaking of the number of #tck and wounded tn the German army during the late ar, Says thatapart altogether from deaths the entra Bnreau of Information in Berlin reports that sit had authenticated 66,000 eit Wounds and sickness and 75,000 jing tax dog t 7 pe the act of Partiament, t ied £19,947, Which Was paid over to the } authorities in reduction of local taxation, that effect, but simply aco mp! nt Lappeared to ine on read: Ing that novice that the people Hf Dubin were not bound to orasby's “notice” as law, and — that, view of te its legality, “the meeung hs I wold the Inapector on the ground that | nipieny him belore a magierate, an ight be imp but impio ¢ by permitting fix me words were disregarded and peac aud trampled upon by men paid t ; order and the protectors of life and property ean testify Lhat L have proved myset! to be the friend, not the emy of the police; but never haw}. been my lot to winess Mmitignted, Cowardiy barbarily as that displayed by the force yesterday, If the inquiry | demand be not imme- Mintely gran condign punishment Inficted upon the perpetrators of inbuman outrages, the ¢ is an end o sian your J. SMYTH, niservators of Your Lordahiv chidren we have seen marching bare-headed and weeping througi the streets we begin to form some idea of the proportions ot the wind which bas just Leen sown for those Who shall live (9 reap Wie \ xa wind some twenty years hence, The whole press of Iretaw!, witi (ie excepuon of & few tory organs, spewk of tus event In prectsely the same terms as Mr Smy vi) condemn the * police Ma Lhe stroDgest jabyuage Miey can wake use | from Algeria public opinion in tbe excited by the continuance of the insurrection, which displays unexpecied acity and persist: ce. ‘the troops are quite equal lo their duties; slony is much they proceed with devotion and activity to the | places threatened and fight whenever with the enemy, but the insurrection is no seoner put Gown at one spot than it breaks out at another, they meet and ine straggle that wis consiiered at an end 18 coustanuy being resumed, Shonid it conunue much jonger tie French army in Africa wiil, the Pairie Ubinks, be raised to 100,000 men. At the commencement it was fixed at 40,000 men and has since been increased to nearly $0,000 men. | The Paris Coche, on the other hand, firms that the insurrection in Aigeria is assumiog alarmiog dimensions, The insurgent tribes perpetrate acts of the greatest atrocity, destroying everytiung on their passage. The large forests in the province of Con. | stantine have deen set on fire, an’ weni Salah, the i woods of Kabyli and on the mountains of Bejestma are in fame 2 province of Oran is | joining the revolt. A trom Algeria in the Journal deg Debais complains of the Wantof troops, and orges @ prompt and exem pression of the mmsarrectaen onjims Ue GeWwe Of the fore Being Het ont There are to be gorgeous public ceremonics | According to advices received vy the Paria Paty er | | appear for wa 5 ROCKFORDS ROUTED. A Victory for the Mutuals at Last. A Wery Good Game—The Mutuals Defeat the Forest Sity, of Rockford, After a Sharp Struggle—The Score 6 to 5. ‘The Mutuals having partially recovered from the disartrous effects of thelr late tour, engaged yesterday afternoon in a struggle with the Forest City Club, of Rockford, who are at present on their second East- | ern tour. That the former do not play anything like the game they did play at the commencement of the season is evident, but whether the inferiority | arises from nervousness caused by the severe pan- | ishment they recetved when on their Western tour, | Or whether they are all so far advanced in the stage of the sere and yellow leaf, it 18 bardly possible to tell. Perhaps itis a little of both; at any rate, they | Appear to play without confidence 1m themselves or other. It might be snpposed that men who | have had their practice ought to have nerves lke iryn, unless they had been SHATTERED BY DISSTPATIO Although it was gratifying to see the home olu® once more Victorious, they owe their victory not by | any means to their own good play—notwitastanaing | they played well—but to the result of an accident arising {rom the stupidity of one of their antago- j nists. It arose thasly:—in the sixth mning Mack, | the first baseman, Ima his hand hort, and as he 1s } not anextra “good wooled ‘an’ he retired to left | field to norse bis thumb, When tt came to ms turn | co bat in the seventh inning there were three Rock- | ford men on the bases, ana the score stood 6 to 2 | against them on even innsngs. Here was a fine op. | portunity for distingulabing himself, and as he is @ | good batsman his companions expected to see as | east one of the men come home on bis hit. He told them they mast not expect mach, on account of bis thumb, Well, he hit @ very pretty bounding ball to jeft fleld, which was so well and quickly stop] by Hatfleld that only Ham came home upon the hits still, as there was only one Man out and three men continued to occupy the bases, it was reasonable to suppose One or TWO runs atleast would be made. Mack, however, was so absorbed in his thumb that he acwually FORGOT TO GO TO HIS FIRST BASE on bis hit. Start looked all around the base to se@ M there was a stray Kockford man avout; but not one was to de seen. He suon espled Mr. Mack, however, walking gentiy, not to create attention, ‘ard the base, wnd Ferguson twiggimg litm at the uileu on Walters to pass the ball to lone aud the umpire gave Q was, Without exception, about the sillest thing seen ina very loug time at base ball. Had he gone to his base one run more would have been certain, a3 Fulmer would have got home on Anson’s hit, which, as the game tnrned out, would have been enough to have tied the score at any rate, and they would still Lave Had the chance of getung another man home on Fisher’s bir. The principal fault upon both sides yesterday, ag far as fielding was concerned, consisted in bad Rerowiog to the first baseman, Anson and Fulmer on the Rockford side and Ferguson on the Mutual side being gullty of this error. Indeed the two runs got by the Rockford men in the uinth inning were | obtained through that; otherwise the jieiding was sharp and effective on both sides. Little “pieky’? Vvearce, of the Mutuals, PLAYED LIKE A YOUNG LION yesterday, stopping era and everything that came near to him ho matter how hot, and one irom Hastings was a stinger and no mistake. The batting on both sides was very weak, not even & two buse hit having been made during the game, and some of the first base ones being very muctt dilutea, ‘The attendance, in consequence of the threatening appearance of the weather, was hot very numerous, but it fas very select. Betting ruled about even, and @ pretty fair business was done. Mr. McVey, of the Boston Club, was chosen umpire, and, ex- cepting one case—where Higham touched a man out at second base—his ruling was unexceptionable, At fifteen minutes past tree Hd was called, the Rockiord men being frst at the bat. In the first inning the Rockford team scored one run, which was earned through a good hit by Mack, and the Mutnals were very preltily disposed of without scoring, Fisher, Addy and Mack making a preuy double play. in the second and third innings the Mutuals kept up thelr good flelding, pattung the Forest City men out in one, two, three order in both innings, while they, through a mult by Addy and ap error Celie by Fisher, scored three runs. A bad throw Ferguson in the fourth inning gave the Rockfords one run, and as they were themselves disposed of im one, two, three order the game was becoming very INTERESTING AND EXCITING, the score standing at 3 to 2 in favor of the Mutes, The next two innings were whitewashers fur the Rockford team, while the Mutuals in the same Inaings talleyed three runs, one tn the Sfth inotn, through a bad throw by Anson, and two in the sixt through a similar error by Fulmer and Anson. ‘This gave the Mules a strong lead, the game now being 6 to 2 in their favor. Good batting, however, gave the Rockford men one ran in the sevevia ipning, and they put the Mutes out in one, two, three order, Quick and effective flelding was the order of the day on voth sides in the eighth inning, and the result was a whitewash for each team; but in the ninth inning pad throwing by Ferguson and not very effective catching by Siart gave tne Rock- ford’s two runs, while the Mutes were again dis- posed of in one, two, three order, Tke Rockford inen certainly appear to have bad Inck when they come here, for, although the, ony! &mucb stronger game than the majority of the professional cluba which visit New York, they seldom win a game, ‘The following is THE SCORE. eT ©) g MUTUAL. O.RAB.TB.PLA OR AB TBP, ack, 4 22 i 40004 Anson, B000TS “2 01 115 4 oo 4 40002 Hastings, c.. 3 1 LL 1 2 31001 Addy, ud... 2 004s 1008 . fo... 2 Ferguson, 8.b 3 0 Fulmer, 11220 4 Highamgdb.2 2 220 Bird, «f....8 0 1 1 1 0 Pearce, s..2 122 0 Totals., 275 8 Totals.....27 6 5 527 id Ge. tube, At. Sd. 4th, St, Cth. 7th, Bh, MW. y. , j AE tel ikeh kal: RS: 0 AiR 36 20 6 0 1 Vey, of the Boston Club. ne hour aud filly minutes, Base Ball Notes. Olympics, of Washington, and Woite Stock. ‘The ings, of Chicago, played the second of their series of “exhibition” games yesterday at Cincinnat. The poor Olympics were badly worsted on what Was the last lew years the “stamping ground” of many of them, ‘he score of yesterday’s game stood :—White Stockings, 25; Olympic, 6, To-day the Mutuals will play the Boston Red Stockings on the Union Ground, and af the day shouid be wet they Will remain over till Wednesday, the Flyaways defeated tie Montauks yesterday at Jersey City, with a score of 17 to 12, THE GOLDIE TESTIMONIAL. To THE, EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— In your issue of a few mornings ago there was an offer of a silver-mounted bat, presented by Peck & Snyder, to be used in any way thought proper for the benefit of the late Joha Goldie’s family. Would it not be a good idea to have the bat voted for on the day of the match, at say ten centsa vote? £ think it Will bring more in that Way than apy other sides deckling Who is the most popuiar bail player. Respectfully yours, CALEDONIA, ALLEGED ARSON, The Accused Held for Trial, Morris M. Silverman, owuer of a fancy dry goods store at No, 570 Third avenue, Was arraigned at the Yorkville Police Court yesterday charged with arson, Mr. Stivermoan had about $2,000 worth of stock on hand, amply covered by insurance in the Globe, Germania and St, Nicholas companies, About three o'clock on Sunday morning the place was found to be on fire by @ private watebmal named Joseph R. Shephard, With the excep- ion of the spark of fire noticed by him un- der the connter the store was in com- plete darkuess, He instantly aroused Silverman, | who came down statrs and opened the door Silverman was completely dressed at the time and apparently did not feel In the least alarmed on seeing his place on fire, The police were soon on hand and notified the Fire Department, who extin- guished the fire before it had caused much damage, Curious to say, when the sen watchman | notified Silverman of the fre tn his place hie made | no effort to extinguish 1, although @ few buesets Of water might have done it. When the police found the place on fire they naturally enovgh ran up stairs to notify the tenants, While engaged tn this laudable object they allege that they suw Sil- verman leaving the house With his wife aud family and a large wrank, ‘The fire originated in the tguttion of a quantity of false hair. Alderman Plankitt, presiding at the aoove court inthe absence of Justice Bixby, com. mitted the prisoner, in default of $2,000 ball, lor ial, ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE KELLY. Patrick McGuire, a resident of Brooklyn, wat arraigned yesterday before Justice Ledwith, charged: with highway robbery, on the complait of Michael Kelly. The latter alleged that while passing through Cherry street he was snddeniy assaulted anc knovked down by the prisoner and @ siver waten, of the value of $39, rected from his person MeGuire was ox in defanit of $1,500 vail t¢ Jeneral Sessions, { :