The New York herald., 1870-09-15
BOHEMIA m PARIS.


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The ssDan9er0us ClasseH'' rs They Arc~IIor-
riblc Realities but NO ROmance--Riot, Revel,
Brandy, Absinthe, Pcppered Drinks and
Their Vi0tisns-GeneraI Trochu's Efforts for
Reform, Security aud Redemptien-What
Bohemianism Was aud Is--The ssWiId
Beasts Of Civilixation."
Paris august 2s) correspondence Of London Tele-
It'll the sad fashion IN this sa.lder time of fren-
zied passion, abtecr terror, gross ingratiude and
When we read that which Ia written and listen TO
that which IL said every day about the EN-.
S Ss s % o. tho ynSn T5s
French ruler Is not precisely 10 snch evii case as
was the Persian M monarch who lay ..we!tering in his
TOO severe a fate" He is .,iallen. fallen fallen.
utmost need by those hts former bounty fedD /
have nothing to do to-day with Napoleon IN pouti-
Saa & am not his I Bu. those 20
who have watched his career ana marked the acts
Of his governmens during tho last eighteen years
win at least admit thus inuch--that he put down
Bohemia and swept from the face Of the DEPART
ment OF the Seine. BY Bohemia, let me
eccentric region--the debatable land OF literature
aud art--which Henry Mtrger has so inimtably de-
terms Bohemia and Bohemians nave been very much
misappiied within late years, and we have grown
look upon the Burgomaster Of The city Of Prague
table IL may be- bu, on the whole Jovial SOUL and
when be mad any pence in his pocket--generOus.
Nothing could be further from The truth; aid, as
usual the dramatIsts and the novel writer's, have
been the persons most 10 blame In spreading the
Nigel" or The engaging novel Of @whiteriars,- or
go to see Mr.. Andrew Haliiday's exciting drama OF
king of Scots,'' and You viii fancy Asatia tn have
been quite a picturesque and romantic place. But
read Deloe and Ned Ward and the Old Bailey Sessions
century and YOU win discover that tho precinct Of
sanctuary which existed between the Temple ana
abandoned OF mankind; OF cheats and forgers, and
foofpads and midnight murderers. who, when they
terror Of the city. An equally false notion has been
disseminated respecting The Partisan Bohemia. The
wonderful genius Of Victor Hugo has thrown q halo
Of poetry ana reverence round the deOus hOthouse
OF felony, mendlcancy and vagabondage, which,
during the Middle Ages, was known as the Cour des
nction has converted. the ruiiianls beggar, Oopin
Trouilleou, into an interesting characters the chiefs
glng wench of Inc cutters, inc gipsy Esmeraida.
INTO the sweetest and purest OF womankind.
qnarter OF century SINCE there arose . IN France
men Of what elements the Partisan Bohemian was
really composed. That writer was Eugene Sue.
Vehement to frenzy, passionate to voluptuOusness,
as are some Of tine scenes and conversations In the
mysteries OF Paris" that strange and powerful
Which, in The last generation, was exact and literal
truth The authors perversity plunged his readers
by times into situations madder than the maddest
opium. dreams OF De Quincy; but these inter-
spersed with narratives and descriptions as calm,
as accurate and as appalling as the driest minutes
OF evidence collected in blue book emanating
from sanitary commission or an inquiry
into the crime aud destitution OF the metro
really really existed. The p%,vis Of Sotrs Dame and
the purlieus OF the Palais de Justice were really
choked up BY foul and M noisome sSes, reeSng With
really Rue aux Feves; there was really q OOtqe
usJa7ne-a tavern by the sign of the "Lapin Blanc"
have been there. The OgreSS. the ChOur1neur the
SchoOlmaster the Chouette tile Gouaieuse, Torbil-
lard, the dehionacal ganlt'a; Bras Rouge, the re.
her ruian sons In the lie des Ravageurs char
acters AZ genuine as any OF the rogues and drabs
who oa up er rs mands snfra In me oq%n qDcK 81
Court The penal system aar o. France ene tasn
desperate wreches, the scum Of the galleys OF
Brest and Rucheort and Toulon. The Joredt H6ere
was standing danger and standing terror. The
r0deurs deS OasrteTes, or rufians Of the exterior
Boulevards, were always waiting after nlghtfan,
bludge0n in hand, for the inebrated or the unwary
the dregs of that unhappy class or fallen women OF
whose organization Parent du Chatelet has left us
so terrible analysis, infested the outlying quarters
of the city, ana to their own shocking trade were
always ready 10 aid that OF the highway robber IN
swarmed with pickpockets, buliies, so,Ae'aeuTs OF
loose women, tramps beggars, itinerant mounte-
is WAS acus ESs to Establish distncfion and an In
hnlty OF other knaves, male and female. VINO could
only be classified under the generic title Oh gems
sans doeu.
This was the bOhemia--lese were the B0hemians
that were stamped out by the government vi tne
Second Empire. Will not say that the operation
was performed with entire anu definite success me
experience OF the last few days proves tne contrary
and has shown that even III the ashes OF baStened-
down vllalny their wonted tres continued 10
smoulder. Still The Napole0n1c regime wcrKem
most marvellous change III Bohemian Paris. me
CITE entirely disappeared. The Rue aux Feves ls
now as extinct locality as our Buckel1dge street.
Prior TO the second Enipredhc police or Pans were
bu. feeble folk. Tue streets were patfolled 3t night
ana at long intervals by squads OF munich
thieves, OF course, took care to carry on helr aVo
cations ut the precise time tlat the pattoi was not
passing Under the influence or Napoleonism or
HausslnanIsu--ca 1t which you w1--pafis became
city in Europe. Not only were broad and handsome
boulevards driven through the dangerous ustrcls,
but through benIcently despouc system Oh Eek
proprlaiOn,r the entire districts themselves Van-
isneda significant contrast TO tllat Dinderlhg ana
half.hearted course which prevails In our own
country where we pierce New OXFORD street, ana
leave 81 GileS': where we bufld flcOrla street ana
leave the suMs OF Wcstnosisr outstanding anu as
yhapous AS they wore 200 years ago. Flliily, While
rigid but humane administrator VI tlc assistance
PubIoua cleared the tioroughfareS or common
beggars vagrants ana while tle vigilance OF the
pol,ce confined the lower orders OF want0ns Within
decent limits the development OF system OF con-
wet TRANSFORMATION the evacuation or the 6dgles at
the southern seaports and the establishment Of penal
settIements in Guiana and New CaledOnla relieved
Paris from It's hideOus population OF liberated felons
lean Vatican no longer infked beind d0orways, the
SchoOuaster no longer dstlgnfed MS features Win
vriol to baie the gaze Of the ueectlves Jean val
lean and the SchO0master indeed, were no longer
permitted to iufest the capital at all. do not say
thar these reiormat0ry and fepressiye measures
completelg abCllshed vice ana immortality or CRIME
i'm Paris but do say that from 1852 downwards the
increase oil deceacy, oil Cleanliness OIL dec0rum Oh