The New York herald., 1870-10-12

footing up Of the returns for the Legislature
of Indiana, not fully received at the present
writing, will therefore have much to do with
the future of Senator Morton and ex-senator
Hendricks. as well as with the general well
fare at home and abroad.
An Inside View OF Paris-A Gloomy PFC
ture--A Crisis at Hand.
BY balloon express special correspondent
inside OF Paris furnished us the very interest
ing report given yesterday to our readers Of
tho condition of things in the city under the
siege, day by day, from the 10th Of September
to the 9Th inst, inclusive. From this diary it
appears that on the 10th of September de-
tachment 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 tho
people, who filed the Streets" that s'the reds
have prepared to avail themselves of the first
serious defeat to seize the government !" that
ssthe telegraph wires to Brest and New York
have been cut, and Paris is now completely iso-
lated from the rest of the world" and that
"many foreigners have been arrested, num-
Der of them charged with being SPIES" A
gloomy exhibit this, Of Generalization, divi-
sions, conspiracy and distrust
On the Goth of September numerous parties,
under various devices, attempted to get away
from the city, but in every case they failed.
The German Investment round a circuit Of
thirty miles was found complete and tight as
/ IF I'M oh shut md
jewelry has entirely disappeared from the show
windows and bazaars." A bad sign. Septem-
ber 81, the anniversary of the republic Of 1892,
| a proclamation is issued in honor Of the event.
"Rumor5 OF an armisice sent the funds up,
and immense relief is evident in the public
mind" No wonder. for s'marauders have
broken loose and are robbing in every direc-
tion," and 'Paris is cncumbercd with people
utterly destitute of all means, in consequence
Of the stoppage of all work" Nearly half a
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. A sugges-
tive picture Of ''the mysteries and miseries of
Paris under siege.
/ On September 23 heavy cannonadin2 out
side all day creates great excitement inside.
| News Of Jules Favre's failure with Bismarck
had prodigious effect. The 'treds" were
headed off in the general cry for war to s'the
last ditch" Very little gas used and at mid
night Paris is as still as 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
Parisians have had enough of the Bonapartes
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 Sd Gambetta
says to Picard, ''The proper place for US is
Tours. We must make up our minds to
venture out in a balloon. 1t is our only
means Of getting out" We know what
followed. Gambetta did get off in a balloon,
but it was narrow escape. He reports Paris
as quill and resolute, that her provisions
still hold out, that half million Of armed
men are within the walls for her defence and
that the women are making million Of
cartridges day.
Now, to reduce all these details to 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
limited supply of provisions. From day to
day this supply is SO far diminished as to les
sen the amounts distributed and to increase
the price OF everything eatable nearer and
nearer to the point of starvation to thousands.
What, then, does il signify that there are three
thousand cannon mounted and five hundred
thousand armed men within the walls for the
city's defence, If the city is so reduced in its
supplies that within month it must capitulate
or make desperate sortie, in order to pro-
| cure food or suffer the terrible extremities of
! starvation ?
A note from the Prussian government on
this subject says that If the city resolves to
hold out till starved into submission there are
two millions of people to whom the Prussian
army would be unable to supply food for a
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 in
Paris upon the German line Of investment, or
capitulation, and we may, perhaps, have