The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-13
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Editorial Opinions ofthe Leading Journals
upon Current Topios-compiled Every
DAY for the Evening Telegraph
AN INSIDE VIEW OF PARIS.

From the M Y. Herald
By balloon express special correspondent
inside of Paris furnished us the very interest
ing report given on Monday to our readers of
the condition of things in the city under the
siege, day by day, from the 10Th of September
to the 5th inst, inclusive From this diary it
appears that on the 10Th of September a de-
taobment of Gardes Mobiles and Zouaves,
after three hours fight had been defeated
outside the walls and that these soldiers,
flying Into Paris, spread great CONSERVATION
among the people, who filed the Streets"
that ''the reds have prepared to avail them
selves of the first serious defeat to seize the
Government" that 'the telegraph wires to
Brest and New York have been cut, and Paris
is now completely isolated from the rest of
the world" and that ''many foreigners have
been arrested, a number of them charged
with being spies" A gloomy exhibit, this,
of decentralization, divisions, conspiracy, and
distrust
On the Goth of September numerous par
ties, under various devices, attempted to get
away from the city, but in every case they
failed. The German investment round cir
cult of thirty miles was found complete and
tight as q drum. ''Many of the shops we're
shut and jewelry has entirely disappeared
from the show windows and bazaars" A bad
sign. September 81, the anniversary of the
republic of 1892, proclamation is issued in
honor of the event. ''Rumors of an armis-
tice sent the funds up, and immense relief is
evident in the public mind" No wonder,
for 'tmarauders have broken loose and are
robbing in every direction" and ''Paris is
encumbered with people utterly destitute of
all means, in consequence of the stoppage
of all work" Nearly half million of armed
men in the city of all sorts. On the 22d we
find provisions getting dear, milk, butter and
vegetables getting scarce, and the cost of fuel
enormous. All the newspapers published on
half sheets. No news from the outside world
since Sunday last. suggestive picture of
"the mysteries and miseries of Paris under
siege.
On September 23 heavy cannonading out
side all day creates great excitement inside.
News of Jules Favres failure with Bismarck
had prodigious effect The "reds" were
headed off in the general cry for war to I" the
last ditch" Very little gas used, and at mid
night Paris is as still as q graveyard. "Can
such things be" in Paris, where the fun ought
to be in full blast at midnight? The saloons
of the Grand Hotel on the oath are turned
over to an ambulance corps, and the statue
of Napoleon the First has been pulled down
at Courbevoie and thrown into the river"
The Parisians have had enough of the Bona
parties. Provisions are getting so high that
riots and plunder are feared. The new opera
house is opened for the distribution of food
to the poor, and October y "the smallpox
is rapidly increasing thereby adding one
more to the horrors of the siege" On the 3D.
Gambetta says to Picard, "The proper place
for us is Tours. We must make up our minds
to venture out in balloon. 1t is our only
means of getting out" We know what fol-
lowed. Gambetta did get off in a balloon,
but it was narrow escape. He reports Paris
as tranquil and resolute, that her provisions
still hold out, that half million of armed
H. L.
that the women are making a million of cart
ridges day.
Now, to reduce all these details to a few
hard facts, what is the condition of Paris
under this siege? There are two millions of
men, women, and children within the walls
on a limited supply of provisions. From day
to day this supply is so far diminished as to
lessen the amounts distributed and to in
crease the price of everything nearer and
nearer to the point of starvation to thous-
ands. What, then, does it signify that there
are three thousand cannon mounted and five
hundred thousand armed men within the
walls for the city defense, if the city is so
reduced in its supplies that within a month
it must capitulate or make desperate sortie,
in order to procure food, or suffer the terrible
extremities of starvation.
A note from the Prussian Government on
this subject says that if the oity resolves to
hold out till starved into submission there
are two millions of people to whom the Prus-
sian army would be unable to supply food for
single day; that there is nothing eatable left
within several days march of Paris, and that
consequently in the extremity suggested hun
dreds of thousands of those people must
starve.
One of two things therefore, may be very
shortly looked fora desperate sortie from
those five hundred thousand armed men il
Paris upon the German line of investment
or capitulation, and we may, perhaps, have
both. We look first, however, for des
perate sortie and bloody engagement
THE WAR AND THE COTTON CROP
From the NJ Y. Tribune.
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