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New-York tribune., 1870-09-21
IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS AROUND Paris

IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS 4ROUND PdRLS
No dispatches were yesterday received from
Paris. TelegraphiC as well as railway cOmmu-
nicatiOn has doubtless been severed; and the
only trustworthy accounts which we can receive
of the operations of the siege must come from
the German armies which invest the city. We
have reports from Orleans and Tours of move
ments in the vicinity of Paris, but these are
given as rumors, and the public will doubtless
exercise its discretion, and accept them as such.
The news this morning gives intimatOn of
an important movement to the south and west
of Paris which has apparently been going on
! for some days. The infantry first arriving de-
| plOyed along the east and south banks of the
| Marne, and in front of the eastern defenses of
the city, Moving behind this line, as a mask
and protection, other corps of the Ger
man army-in what force we cannot
yet discover-have boldly crossed the Seine at
Choisy, only six miles south of Paris and al
most under the guns of Fort de IvTy. After
some skirmishing i'll front of this fort and at
the village of GhatillOn, the Germans have
succeeded in advancing as far west as Vile
neuve, and from that point on Sunday last,
attacked Fort Mont Valerien, the most west
erly of the defenses of the French
capital. This is an isolated work, but
also very strong one. In making this move
ment the Germans have occupied, evidently in
force, the villages of Meudon, Clamart, and
Fontenay. These points mark the nights of
MeudOn and Bagneaux, which are said to
command the southern line of forts. If so, the
position gained is one of primary Importance,
and it is strange that the French have
not disputed its possession. The few particu-
lars given establish the line of the beseiging
army extending from the Mame around the
southern half of the city nearly to the river
Seine on the west. At present the northern
half of the circle of investment seems to be
formed or maintained only by the light troops
of the German army.
Meantime movements southwark toward
Orleans are in progress. A part of the Crown
Princes army has reached Fontainebleau, half
way between Paris and Orleans. Another
portion attempting the passage of the Seine at
EssOnnes on the 10Th was driven back, by what
force does not yet appear. The design of the
Crown Princes movement seems TO be to
meet and disperse the force said to be form
ing on the Loire.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

A French rival to Ward and Bureevioe H.,
been developed in China by the war aDaaa..
the MOhammedan rebels, and ne bids f,;, .,
share with them the admiration and merriam.
the worship of the Chinese IA a Savior os a..
Empire. He has stayed and turned the t;an
Of Moslcm invasion of the FlOwery KinOdo,
in a remarkably romantic manner. Rnmor. "a
the frequent losses of the ImpeTialists Vsr.
exciting considerable attention al the mort.
open 10 foreign trade, when il occurred 10 ~,
Intelligent adyenthTer named MOnrens that he
had here an opportunity of reaping certain
fame and possible fortune by offering his .er.
vices to the dismayed and dishearted officials.
More modest than Ward or BurgeviLe. bs
made no attemLt to get command, but simpIy
proposed to work small ield-piece, which ba
supposed would I've most effective against
troops to whom felt artillery was unknown
Joined by a Greek If equally adyentnrou.
disposition, he pTOcu.ed field-pieee md
small arms, with suppl If grape
langridge, and joined tht ,. ,nese armies
Advices from the neighbgbood of the Ia.
battles fought between the v. .anf 1ons an.
Imperialists attribute the success Of ...e latt..
entirely to the Kai hTa pas, "G -, 'owers
cannon of NJ Mourens. T., era
army, divided into two sections, u. lie. ~.
foO-tae and Tang -ta-men, have captI ID
cheng and u fortified position mean I H. D..
Mohammedan capital, with unexpecte' ca
while other important forts have alsC .
taken-all owing TO NJ Mourens' q e
The prospects of the MOhammedans, i IA
seem almost "a hopeless a. were those Of theif
opponents a short time ago.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

Can it be possible that Mr.. Wendell Phil
lips at any time thought Of acquiesciDg ir
the small deceits' and sinful games' OF
the politicians In his letter lately published
accepting the nomination for Governor
Massachusetts he says:
when your Convention nominated for Governor u ~
State agreed satisfactory and ~ that
Official notice Of the nomination should DO sent and formal
ceptaocS asked"
Mr.. Phillips is also the candidate of thu
Labor Reform party, great many members
of which are opposed TO Prohibition. Can il
be believed that, for " satisfactory reasons
he ever thought of getting the Temperance
vote without formal avowal, made distinctly
for the occasion, of his approval of PrOhibi-
ton However, it is needless to discuss thia
question. Mr. Phillips is young politician,
but he is an honest man; and he has nov
written a letter to the Temperance meR
boldly ayowing his views. Now what Will the
Labor RefOrmers say7
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

place, and see in this only the cheap dodge of
q financial charatan seeking for plunder in
this underhand way. If this sugar-coatiDg
of valuation and taxation goes on for ten
years, tho City of New-York will be worth
Qor purposes of plunder) about five thousand
millions of dollars.
On the valuation of 1868, at a rate of S2 30,
nearly $l700O,OOO was raised by tax. Apply
that rate to the valuation of 1870, and it
would raise over $25,OO0,0OO; but as the Ring
want only $23 ,24O (at present., they make
a flourish of reducing taxation by running the
rate down from Sc 80 per 800 of valuation to
So 25-an apparent saving of five cents on a
hundred dollars. Yet in 1866 the levy was
S16,05O 76s; in 1870 it is S23,5G6,2 ,24O-increase,
S7,615,472. And this is the way Tammany
reduces taxation.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21
MR. TWEEUS LITTLE ELL.

The masters of the Ring have caused their
puppets, the sO-called Supervisors, to put forth
the edict for taxation long ago arranged by
Sweeney, Tweed g. Co. We looked for no
mercy at their hands; and have got none
But would it not be quite az well to steal
without such shallow attempts TO explain
away the robbery The Ring boast that
their rate of taxation this year is less
than for many years before. Granted. But,
Mr.. Tweed, how is it that, while You have de-
creased the rate of taxation since 1866 but
twO-thrds OF one per cent (O.77), you have in
creased the valuation of taxable property to
the frightful figure of more than az per cent
You know, the common practice OF watering
stock" and how easy il is to hoOdwink
thoughtless voters in this way. But how
| about the Taxpayers
John Jones, say, paid on his several
houses in 1885, valued at 100000, 81 30 per
! SlOO-tOtal, $1,000. You bring in your state
ment tins year, and boast that you have re-
| duced taxation; he finds the rate 81 25 instead
Of ~ 3O-an apparent reduction Of five cents
on a hundred dollars, in all $50. Bnt John
Jones, with impertinent curiosity. goes
| TO the Assessors office and finds that
| the valuation of his houses bas heen
raised to $4,000, and that the reduced
rate of taxation demands of him s31a5 q.
AN increase of only 1896. How do you think he
will sees" the reduction OF course he knows
! that no such rise Of his property has taken
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

We commend to Gov Holden his own card
concerning the garblng of the TOurgce letter,
printed elsewhere in our columns, with accom-
"panying documents Nothing could bc more
pitiablc than the position in which he is left.
After the wantOn charge against our
correspondent of breach of conf
dence, and the wantOn charge against
our prOof-readers of making the mistakes
which appeared in the copy he gave our cor
respondent, he is welcome to all the credit he
can get for his declaration that he knows
nothing about the garbling.
The case stands thus: Judge Tourgee wrote
that 400 or 500 houses had been broken open
by the Ku-Kux. Gov. Holden furnished our
correspondent q copy of this letter, in which
the figures were raised to 1000 or 5000, at a
time when the political benefit of this start
ling change would be immensely in his
favor, We printed it exactly according
to copy. Senator Abbott proves that it was
correct when he gave it to Gov. Holden. 1t
was garbled when Gov Holden gave it to us.
We leave him to make what further explana-
tions he may think needful at his leisure.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21
NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER si 1870

cars, we have fondly thought that New York
could not bo distanced but it seems that IN
Philadelphia they nre beating us ID the bad
ness of their cOnveyances, and that, in compaT-
ison with the Quaker vehicles and the Quaker
conductors, our own are chariOts of ease and
gentlemen quite Of Chesteriieldian turn ex-
cept, indeed, in the severity Of their morals.
An elaborate article in Philadelphia journal
complains that the city railway carriages are
full of vermin; that they charge seven cents,
when five would be enough; that they are over
crowded; that they rival those of New York in
filthiness - that they are thick with dirt
4" and dust;r that the conductors are scala
"wags, as ignorant "a they are rude" that
the cars do not start on time :" that they are
frequently started before the passengers are
either on or off, that intoxicated persons
are allowed in them. especially if the revelers
happen to be officers of the Company; and,
finally, although there are Thirty-fye Rules for
the guidance of conductors, that each and all
of them are systematically violated. If it be
right for misery to love company, these fra
grant reports ought to console us. Great cities
have usually been denounced by mOrallsts "a
great nmisances and we begin 70 suspect that
a large and compact population ls IncompatI-
BILE with the highest degree OF social excel
lence while we are reasonably sure that
cities might be well governed if we could but
find somebody TO govern them well
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21
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New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

BY constant depredations upon the shipping
in the harbOr and bOldness in Tesis iLa
officers when detected in the comm % u.
their crimes, our river thieves are 60 usllr
reminding us that they are an increash ? "a
to life and property. 1t is, therefore, p
what strange that we yet depend upon prh
tive means for thwarting these pirates, and IL
a port where property worth millions of dol
lars is constantly exposed have nothing better
than small boats propelled by hand for the
use of the harbOr police One of the Police
Commissioners recently stated that steam
launches could be provided at cost of $1,000
each, and maintained at trifing expense.
They should be obtained at once. The pirates
almost every night prove that they are better
oarsmen and have better boats than the police
The crimes in our harbOr have lately increased
so alarmingly that it is evident some decided
action must be taken, or the pirates vii b.
masters of the situation and at liberty ID rit
every vessel with impunity and shoot dow
every patrolman who from a pier bids them
come ashore and be bandCuffed or laes behind
them in a small boat which they easily out
strip. We have no fayOrite reform to urge in
this matter, but we must have reform, or We
may as we'll abolish tho harbor police as Q
useless expense.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21
New'Uork Daily gribma1e.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1870.

The Prussians gradually completing the invest
uent OF Paris and skirmishes take place daily. It..
il reported that King William has consented TO receive
ules Fayre today at Rheims and consider his PROPOSE
rious for peace. severe engagement took place
E.sonnes near Lyons, In which the Prussans
,,elled 20 retreat There Is great distress In the
r.yaged districts Of France aud the local authorities
ltye appealed to the neutral powers for aid. = The
foreign troops in Rome continue 10 defy the authority Of
t poe and resist the entrance Of the Italian soldiers
who have now invested the city
The centenary celebration OF Unversalism began yes
ter1ay al Gloucester Mass - The citizens OF Athens,
A. have shot the leader Of KuKlux band ana lmpris-
oDrd four other members. = $4,000 nre occurred In
Boston yesterday. The boiler Of steam hTe-engihe
burst 80 Providence injuring four men. S Inc oianu
Iaho of l. o. OF o. f. is still in session In Baltimore
- boiler in a planning mill in Auburn eHploueu XIII
3ug one man and destroying the building
Thomas Donohue, who shot on Monday nlght' -
not dead. = The story published OF sWindie lh
woil-st. was a fabrication. Rowland H. west, the
Prcsideut Of the Anti-Gambling Association mas
boon sent 20 State Prison for three years. 80 fhe
American Dental Association is holding its sixteenth
annual convention. Cold l13s, llSI Thermometer,
D. fg.S
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

The Investment of Rome has been completed
by five divisions of the Italian Army under
Gen. Cadorna, but no attack had been made
down to the date of our latest dispatches. 1t
is intimated that there will be only show of
weak resistance made by the foreign legons
against the wishes and advice of the Pope.
The design is, doubtless, less to resist Italy
than to embarrass her by opposing the occu-
patton of the city, though it is difficult to un-
derstand how an attack forced upon Victor
Emanuel can damage his personal popularity.
OF render less sacred the cause of Italian
Unity.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

The DAILY Nclrs of London has distanced all otnei
European journals in the fulluess, promptness' al"
accuracy of it's news from the war, and echpsed oNon
The London Times not only in the activity OF ls cor
respondents but in the vividness of its descfip,,s
letters from the field Its managers deserve ihe i''
est credit for an enterprise which Is almost wthou'
parallel in European journalism. and Se regt"' -
perceive that paragraph in columns based up-.
"A misunderstanding of certain facts, has ie' % 'SN
American papers TO rob The Daily Ae0s OF Sono u -
credit which belongs " il IN order TO trahSioi 80
credit 10 us We refer especially 10 the s'''0" ,,.
that TIE Daily Necs obtained s description 20
of THy rRImIss This is All error whch Wa "N-'VN
4. o.srrsOk
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

The Indians are to be admitted to one os
the chiefest blessings of the day. They are to
be supplied by the Secretary of the Treasury
with large amount of small paper currency.
Heretofore, when money vas 10 be paid them.
it has been paid in largo notes; or rather, thu
discussing officer has kept the large notes, and
issued orders in small amounts upon them
These the sharpers would buy for a song
and, when they got enough of them, they
would call at the Captains Office and take uI
one of the large nOt,a. Now the payment
are to be made in sm IA notes, with currency
to make them availall ana supply circulat
ing medium. We "A not sufficiently admire
the ingenuity of his deyice. Only, we hops
that Secretary Co Vi ake care to supply the
poor Indian als0 largo number Of
arithmetics; else be- sbarpers' game may not
be blocked afte- /
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

President Grant has expressed precisely the
opinion we should have expected from him
concerning the Graft Brown move
ment in Missouri He considers 1t
an effort to disorganize the Republican
party without cause, which no good Re-
publican who has the interests of the country
and of the party at heart can fail zealously to
combat. How any man processing Republicanism
can fail to take the same view is one of the
mysteries which only Revenue Reformcrs,
Tammany Republicans, and other political
nondcscripts can be expected to understand.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

There never - any safety in taking
medicine until r.s careless druggists clerk
receives exem u glnishmeut for the murder
he may have omitted. Here is little girl
in Bridgeport 40 wants quinine. The physi-
clan writes pr ,scription therefor. Tho
apothecary's y ing man puts 1t up. No: ne
doesn't put it up. He puts up morphine, and
the little grI is dead We have often thought
that, consd llng the peril of swallowing
physicians prescription, it would be well to
give up taking physic by formula altogether
and to confine ones self to catnip tea and the
other herbaceous domestic remedies. 1t
frightful, this practical paradox OF taking
something for your health which Immediately
kills you; but it is paradox pretty ire
quently exhibited in these days of universal
medicine swallowing.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21
THE CENTENARY or THE UNITERS1LIST
CHTRCH

THE CENTENARY or THE UNITERS1LIST
CHURCH.
The doctrine of the final holiness and hap
piness of all men has been held in nearly every
age and every branch of the Christian Church /;
but JoHN MURRAY is very justly regarded as
the founder of the Universalist Church in
America. The Universalists of this country,
therefore, date the origin of their denomination
to September, 177O when AIr. Murray preached
his first sermon in the United States, and
when the first Universalist Society was or
ganized in the land.
TO signalize the year to express their graft
tudc for the success which has been gwen them,
and to prepare for better future, the United
States Uniyersalists Convention, through Com
mittees appointed for these ends, has sum-
m0ned its conventions and churches to hqui-
date their debts, to renOvate old churches, and
build new ones; 70 endOw colleges and schools,
and multiply means and agencies for mission
ary work. And, specially as a memorial of
their centenary year, they have proposed to
raise the generous sum of 100000 AZ Muir
ray Centenary Fund" to DO invested. and
the income TO be given 20 the missionary work
of their Church. The Convention met yestor-
day at Gloucester, Mass, and the reports IN
other columns shox something VI tho VITALITY
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

the numerous birds Of prey who have Their
nests in Ann and Fulton-sts. and on Broad
way. The gambling fraternity are disposed W
look upon this conviction of an informer rs
triumph of their own particular vice over very
uncertain sort of virtue, and rejoice accord
ingly. A few sudden descents by the ponce
NAV teach them more wisdom
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

1t has been stated that the Rebel Generals
"Beauregard and Ripley are aiding Trochu IN
the defense of Paris. and that these two ex-
"Confederates, who assisted in the fortihcations
cot Charleston, will again have an opportunity
"of surrendering." This is mistake ~ re-
CARDS Beauregard. who is in this country, ana
has not been in Paris for several years.
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21
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eriand Is the enthusiastic pa triotism Of the
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least 80 branch societies have trsnsmitted
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New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

The extent of the benefcent rain which
closed the tree months drouth may be clearly
seen in the complete dispatches given this
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

There il some danger that the conviction of
Rowland X. West, the President Of the Anti
Gambling Association. may tend 10 embOldcn
New-York tribune., 1870-09-21

of tho body and the vigor with which they
have pushed forward their work. The Con-
vention will be in session for three days.