The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-10-01

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in frmaNfence
These sleat llae time syaf iNo
thou.and guns u various ealibfe on
ihe foiligsaiiegs VI Paris. The @-
iilltry lesyhe an 10 perforated y,
gunner. from the men.of.wg, ile
naval ,Icbsa- asi ior's ~ 'he.ea
shore. ssssll zasl,e~,- srisd = illi
heavy artillery Will gpsrals, on The
Seine. TIC %pat+aesaeefhins il'e
strength Of the gwnsou difm very
widely, butil Is apparently not two
hundred thousand strong. There art
! in IL about forty.thousand soldiers
OF the line, most Of whom are armed
with Chassepot rifles. The rcpssin-
dcrof thc gafrisonco OfdArdcs
Mobiles, armed with percussion mus
kcts, s,d .ratissal Euar'lr, SONG pi
whom arc still armed with old flint
lock muskets. Of cavalry thefc is
very little, nearly the whole French
cavalry having been destroyed IN
/ the disastrous battles from Weisscn-
burg to Sedan. General Trochu Is
the Commander. a-chicf of the gar
rison Of l'aris. In case lie should
fall or be disabled, General Ninoy
will probapbA he his slccesses.
NoG,thcsgreat question Il, which
of these forts that we have enume-
rated abosegwiit the German troops
attack first? Some very interesting
hints aststhqeNse wid d<hfha Ger-
man GeAefas Mn probably ADOPT
in order to take Paris may be found
in a work written seven or eight
years ago bya Prussian Lieutenant
Colonel, ,whq had been commissioned
by the General Staff Of the Prussian
army to thqroluslly examine the for
tifcations Of Paris, and to'point out
the way in which they might be at
tackled with the best prospects OF
success. otGtvr, rre ,gtsE
The eaather Of the werkEJh aucs-i
ttion, after minutely describing the
Character of the Notifications which
'hc examined . says that the Forts De
rEst, Romaayille, Ndiscy, Rosny,
Nogept and Yihccnnes are % favor
ably Situated On the summit of a
PLATEAU, covered in part blythe Marnc
River, that it would be imprudent
to make an attack upon Paris on that
side. Nor would it be advisable to
attack Fort de Charcnton first, in
asmucll as tile assailants, after ta-
King that fort, would be under the
necessity of crossing theScinc or the
| Marne under the combined fire from
the artillery ofthe forts of Vincen-
nes, Ivry and the eaceinte of Paris.
Attacks upon the forts d'Ivry and
Bicetrc, situated south of Paris and
west of Fort Clarendon, would like
wise be dangerous and, az all events,
require frightful sacrifices, inasmuch
as the assailants would be exposed
to a msrderous cross-frp from the
neighborpg forts. The other three
forts south Of the city rise on the
steep heights extending from sccaux
to Versailles, and, owing to the pc
culiar confguration of the ground, a
lbesieging army would hardly choose
any one Of them as the most acces-
sible pdet forIan assault. a.
Between Fort d1ssy and Fort
Mount st. Valerien, a distance Of
six miles, there is no other fort ; but
Paris is on that side well covered by
the Seine which makes here a long
bend, in the middle of which Fort
Mont yarlen is situated, so that the
besieging army, ifit should attempt
an attack upon this side, would have
to cfoss tie 9hStr twice, under the
fire of the gunboats and that of the
artillery planted on the wooded hills
\ risingbchindthc Seine. 80 nothing
would remain for the besiegipg army
but to direct its attack upon the
tnotthern forts St. Dennis, &c. The
author of the work says, in regard to