The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-11-10
From the Ne,o York World.
How Long vim Paris Hold Out Z

There is probably at no time more than
weeks full supply of food in New York, and
the break of the Erie Railroad would seriously
diminish the supply of fresh meat. What,
then, if by any extraordinary contingency all
the railroads that converge on New York should
be cut simultaneously at forty miles from the
city2 The million of New Workers would be
Immediately reduced to their stock on hand of
-four and salt provision. This is precisely the
condition of Paris. Not only are railroads and
canals blockaded, but the very supplies which
might otherwise by extra exertions find their
wsy to the city are carefully intercepted.
The ordinary ration of food for an adult,
ranging between the close allowance of the
prison or the workhouse to the more liberal
quota of the emigrant or the soldier, may be
placed at half pound of meat, clear of bone,
per diem, and one pound of bread, with an ad
squate ration of vegetables, either stored or
desicated, salt, sugar, vinegar, and other sun
dries Taking this as rough average esti-
mate, it would require 10000 barrels of -four,
and i,50O middling-sized beeves for the daily
maintenance of the population of Paris in
bread and meat Multiply these quantities by
120 days, and we find that twelve hundred
thousand barrels of -four, with one hundred and
eighty thousand oxen, are necessary for the
four months consumption in those articles
alone. Not impossible quantities truly, but
very large, when gathered together suddenly
during the rapid advance of triumphant en-
envy, in the face of great difficulties of trans
port, and utter failure of public confidence.
The animals, too, must be fed and their forage
supplies in period of general drought and
Fretched harYests, must have presented no Or
linary difficulty in collection, to say nothing of
transit and storage. Totally cut Oft as they
are from all outer aid, the Parisians have man
AGED as vet not merely to subsist, but to keep
mn the rnercurial spirit and confidence so dis
tinctive of the French people But in the in
evitable progress of events day must come
when that supply will be exhausted. Bonn
bardment may be politically inexpedent, since
its horrors and its destruction would be the ex-
ecration of mankind But if Paris be not re-
Eeved, and the Germans persist in their invest
rnent, the last rations must be reached some
day. Count Won Bismarck evidently antici-
pates some such crisis, by the apologies of his
recent proclamations, in which he anticipates
condemnation but seeks to throw all the blame
of destruction by bombardment, or the horrors
of starving city, on what he treats as the OBJ
stinacy of the Parisians, who will not surren-
der. The suggested terms of capitulation also
contain clause for one days supply to the
straitened city. Stop that one day and the
vail of starving millions goes up to heaven
II has been announced by Gen. Trochlh and by
M. Gambetta that the city has still good sup
ply for "long months" at the rate of abouttwo-
Hfths of pound of bread per day. According
to other reports, there is meat for five weeks at
five and half ounces per head per day; also
there are 100000 horses within the walls, to-
gether with vast supplies of Irish bacon !,
Bread, if they have enough, and bacon, II they
have enough, would be good lighting allowance
Our men, on both sides in the war, had noth'
ing better. But the nervous depression OF
besisged city would require more stimulating
open air would demand,