Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-02-03
In AID around Paris.

In and around Paris.
From Paris and Versailles correspond.
ence we make the following notes
Tho German guns at present in posi-.
tion arc all applied with 500 rounds OF
ammuHition, and both guns and ammu-
milton are So placed as, in German osti-
nation. 10 render them perfectly safe
from being hit by the French return fire.
The Prince OF Hohenloho has been Civ
en- the command aud direction Of thc
scigc operations, while the engineer ON.
Ger in charge under him is the same who
carried out the seigo OF Strashourg.
Thus, everything is ready but cannot
help believing that il is SO only 10 stop
the cries aud elamors OF tho German
people at home, aud Of the soldiers
abroad, who, ono and all, are in somi-
state OF open mutiny at the long delay
which has taken place ia their long-cher-
ished hope being realiEed-of entering
Paris in triumph and of speedy peace
being made.
Tho provisional government Of Paris
meets daily 10 consider the policy 30 h5
adopted 10 end the siege The majority
OF members are. Il Is reported, thinking
Of leaving Paris in balloons 90 avoid
signing the capitulation General Du.
crot is for massing the troops and foI
heNing their way through the German
lines 80 JOIN the provincial armies. He
declares il treason 10 he rrpu5iic u sur
rsi.dsr 2OO, 600 soldiers Irregular army and
Cards MObilesl, To the Germans, and
swears he viii neither sign nor take part
in any capitulatlon like Sedan or Metz.
IL was rumored in Paris he had gone OF
in balloeh during the preceding night.
This is mistake he is still here. He
viii probably make his ext by this
way for lie fights with rope around
his neck. You know he has be-
trayed his parole, which he gave up at
Sedan.
General Blanchard is opposed 10 any
such steps Of desperation, He says there
Is no plain in the ncighborhood Of Paris
sufficiently wide for 200, 600 men 10 make
such dasL that the enemy's cavalry
would make them prisoners that the
few who escaped would perish of hunger
and cold by the roadside moreover,
where could they go? The Garde
Mobile would refuse To obey any such
orders, aud il is believed the regular
army would prove equally refractory 10
them. To attempt 10 carry out such a
scheme would lead 10 the disorganization
Of the army aud probably 10 fngh,fUl
scenes in Paris. Conceive zoo, coo men
suddenly released from decipline and
eager 10 make amends in not for weeks
OF every sort OF severe prlYauon.
The Germans have opened = cannon
ade at this great distance because II ena-
bles them 10 worry the French aud not
expose their own men. They have
opened the cannonade 10 force the
French troops 10 keep the field In tins
severe weather. which is not only killing
or disabling the French by hundreds
daily 800 men have been brought In
frozen in one night J. but is dishearten-
ing them.
The order for the return 10 Paris OF
the troops was given only under pressure
OF officers, who declared their men would
not. and could not, stand the severity OF
the frost. They sleep on the frozen
ground, with no covering but n very thin
blanket They are insuiiiciently and ir'
regularly fed They'are misenlbly shod
One night passed IN these conditions II
more fatal than pitched battle There
fore the Germans, with accustomed sa-
gacity, have forced the French from the
cover OF Paris into the open fields, COW
cred with snow and swept by cutting
winds which penetrate the thickest gar
ments.
There needs no bomharlment 10 end
the siege. Its contamination is nj hand.
There were 1900 omnibus horses gt the
beginning Of the seige there are only
3. 900 left-not four days supply. We
have eaten so many hearse- horScs--you
know funerals are a monopoly which Is
farmcd 10 company-Crusus himself,
were he to die, would be obliged 10 con-
tent himself with one horse To his hearse,
though no Craasus ever yet quilted Paris
for Pere ia Chaiso except with four or
six horses tails turned on him. went
to Pcrc Ia Chaise yesterday; was there
only three hours, during which time
thirty funerals passed by me. Two
thousand seven hundred and twenty
eight persons died here between the 18th
aud oath inst. Typhus fever swept away
21l last week 173 perished 10y the same
maladyl, smallpox 3os insteld Of 39ll
and numerous cases Of lock-law, gam
creme, and puruleni infection are report
ed in the hospitals, The apothecaries'
shops are getting as empty rs the gro
Gers.