He also half promised to let all correspondents have a pass, on stating who they are.
The worst of a pass is, that it is no protection against arrest, for, say your captors, "Prussian spies are so cunning that they would be precisely the persons to have papers, either forged or stolen." Another trouble is, that if you are arrested, you are generally shut up, with half-a-dozen thieves and drunkards, for about twenty-four hours, before a Commissary condescends to inquire into your case.

No one as yet has ever troubled me; but the spy mania certainly does not add to the charm of the residence of a stranger in Paris just now.

I would rather run the chance of being hit during a bombardment, than affront the certainty of twenty-four hours in a filthy police cell.

Suspicion is, no doubt, carried to a ridiculous excess; but it is equally true that unquestionable spies are arrested every day under every sort of disguise.

Mr.Washburne told me yesterday that he saw a _soi-disant_ "Invalide" arrested, who turned out to be a regular "spectacled Dutchman." _September 28th._ Nothing new at the front.