The New York herald., 1870-09-16
Paris Isolated and New York tho WORLDS
Safe Depository.

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or in few hours will be, completely cut of
from the outer world. The Prussian lines, long
threatening, long drawing moro and moro
tightly around the doomed city, will have
closed in upon it with the deadly weight of the
anaconda, sitting and crushing its prey. But
the great serpent in this case is mass of
which every scale and link has separate intel
ligence and covers an independent sting.
Each coil thrown around Paris bristles with
bayonets and is ready to blaze forth with the
deadly fire of besieging guns. The whilom
gay capital of the most joyous and volatile
people on earth feels itself suddenly surrounded
and confronted, close up to the very margin
of its pleasure grounds, by stern, relent-
less foe, overpowering in numbers, Of iron
discipline, and still reeking with tho dust and
blood of victory. We'll may the beautiful and
voIuptuous city quake to her inncrmost boule-
wards and prepare herself as those only
prepare who feel that their last hour ihpends.
Well, too, may capi al, trade and peaceful
enterprise fee in utter dlsmay from such
scene of ruin. Bankers, merchants, wealthy
speculators, people OF fashion and artistic
ease, have hastily departed. Coin, plate,
paintings and s.atuary, elegant furniture, rare
curiosties and costly books-in fac, all things
portable OF beauty and value have been
gathered up and sent away, SO far as possible,
in these breathess days Of terror that have
preceded the march of the Germans from
Sedan on Paris.
. But as we carefully scan our dispatches
from every part of Europe and ponder the
universal agitation that they reveal the ques-
ton instantly arises: Whittier shall capital and
valuables be taken with tho perfect assur-
ance of safety? Italy and the Iberian
Peninsula are fred hot" with suppressed
popular passion Switzerland is remote and
isolated among her mountains; Germany,
Austria and Russia are in actual war fever or
on the verge of it; Holland, Belgium and the
scandinavian countries are liable at any
moment to be overrun in their fecbleness by
their more powerful and now cxasperated
neighbors Where, then, is the refuge? No
one thinks Of Russia, since general disturb
ance must inevitably involve her. and that
such disturbance is at hand none but the
wilfully blind can fail to see. OF course
Greece, with her bandtti, Turkey, with the
''sick man" failing daily more and more, and
Egypt, merely half-established viceroyalty
as YET, are ludicrously out of the question.
What is left? Is, it England? All! she
had that prestige of safety in the days when
Wellington studded every weeks history with
British triumphs on land and Nelson swept
the seas. But Wellington an Nelson are both
dead, and steam and electricity have made the
English Channel but creek. The old island
group is by them rendered Continental. An
Dover, and, disguise it as the dreamers of the
past may still attempt to do, there is trouble,
deep, widespread, all-embracing trouble close
to the surface in London, in Birmingham, in
Leeds, in Liverpool, in all the mines, in all
the mill towns and districts, in the army and
IN the navy, vL~.~v~i Tho telling poople and
their real representatives are thrown tos ot,er
in masses. This very week has been signal
lied by their murmurJ, and the days that fol-
low are regarded with unfeigned apprehen-
sion, do what paid employees Of the govern
ment will to belittle the crisis. In one word,
the strong box of Great Britain is no longer
secure, and we need not conjure up Ireland
and the Fenians while British artisans cheer
the republic in the streets of London.
There is, then, but one real asylum left for
capital and substantial moneyed interests, and
that is found in the United States. Union and
tranquility have been restored. Liberty reigns
here with peace and order. Our unoccupied
domain is endless the resources on the soil,
in it and under it, are without limit; nascent
cities call aloud for builders and owners rail-
roads and new river and lake transportation
implore moneyed aid for grand developments
opportunities and profits invite on all sides,
and the broad Atlantic on the one hand and
still broader Pacific on the other separate us
from the broils and the ambition of the turb,l-
lent Old World. Pack up your crown jewels,
your baubles and your knicknacks, oh I! ye
princes and potentates just going out of bust
ness, and send them hither to u.s. Let the Roths-
| childs and the Torlonias transfer their stocks
| and bonds and coin and bills to this favored
shore. Popes, emperors, kings and queens,
| with endless trains Of artistic, financial and
mercantile princes can all find room. shelter,
welcome and employment in the great repub-
lie. The centre of exchange, as of intellectual
power, is shifting visibly while we gaze. The
highest grandeurs Of Venice, Genoa and Leg
horn in the South of the old Hanseatic cities
in the North, and of Amsterdam and Rotter-
dam, as money changers, are past; and now
Paris has gone into total eclipse and London
trembles downward to her sunset. The West
ward star Of empire is in the zenith of New
York.
THE LAW MADE TERRIBLE.-A garroter
named Egan was sentenced yesterday to
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