The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-01-25

Inside Parfs--The Effect of the Bonn.
MISUNDERSTANDING Of the French
Troops--Mortality I'm the City--Scarci-
ty OF FueI-Trochu's and Ducrot's
Plans to Avoid CapItulation-The
Reds Plotting Again.
Correspondence Of the New York World.l
PARIS, December 80.
.sThe bombardment has begun" Every
body In Paris is shrleklng, and, with the ig-
norance characteristic OF these people, every
body is insisting the bombardment is q sure
indication that the "Prusslans, despairing ID
overcome the noble resistance oil the Parislans
(which is the admiration Of the whole world:
and terrified by the approach oil the invinclble
legIons of the provinces, have determined TO
try 10 end the matter at once"
The fact Is the Germans have opened hen
Wv cannonade on Avron heights, which are
seven miles from Paris, while the German bat
terles are three miles and q halt or four miles
still further off, Mentally measure these dis
tances around your place OF residence, and
Imagine your house bombarded by cannon ten
or twelve miles oil.
The Germans have opened cannonade at
this great distance because it enables them TO
WORRY the French without exposing their own
men. They have opened the cannonade to
force the French troops to keep the held IN
this severe weather. which Is not only killing
or disabling the French by hundreds daily
uhrce hundred men have been brought IN
frozen in one night,) but is dishearteniug
them.
The order for the return to Paris of the
troops was given only under pressure OF OIL
GERS. 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 Il very thin blanket. They are insufficient
ly and irregnlarly fed. They are miserably
shod. One night passed in these conditions Is
more fatal than a pitched battle. Therefore
the Germans, with accustomed sagacity, have
forced the French from the cover OF Paris into
the open fields, covered with snow and swept
BY cutting winds which penetrate the thckest
garments.
There needs no bombardment to end the
siege. It's consumlnaii0n is at hanu. There
were 5000 omnibus horses at The beginning OF
the Siege; there are only 5000 left-not four
DAYS supply. We have eaten so many hearse.
horses (you know funerals are a monopoly
which is armed to company CrGsus him
sell, were .he to die, would be Obliged to con-
tent himself with one horse to his hears',
though no CrCesus ever yet quilted Paris lot
Pere Ia Chaise except with iour or SIX horses
tails turned on him. went 10 Pere la Chalse
YESTERDAY; was there only three hours, during
which time thirty funerals passed by me. Two
thousand seven hundred and twenty-eisht per-
sons died here between the 18th and 9th inst.
Typhus fever swept away 22l (last week l13
perisf.l by the same malady,) smallpox 3SS
(nstead of 39l.) and numerous cases Of lock-
jaw, gangrene, and purilent Infection are re-
ported Ia the hospitals. The apoL!ecarles'
shops are getting as empty as the grocers'.
Bands of thousands OF people go ont at night
to cut down trees and tear down fences Tor
fuel. IL is impossible TO do anything with
them, for there are no lights In the most dis
tanv streets. Petroleum oil alone is used in
the street lamps. All the gas Is kept tor the
balloons. So great Is the scarcity of fuel and
the severity OF The weather, we are burning
mahogany, sandalwood, and all other precious
woods heretofore reserved for cabinctmakers'
use. The lecturc-rooln (the old concert-room)
OF the Musical Conservatory, aud some ambu-
lances are heated with fuel OF these costly
tropical woods. Many poor families are burn
| ing their furniture.
The provisional government meets daily to
consider the policy to be adopted to end the
siege. The majority Of members are, 1t Is ru-
mored, thinking of leaving Paris in balloons to
avoid signing the capitulation. General Du.
crot Ia for massing the troops and for heWlng
their way through the German lines to JOIN tne
provincial armies. He declares 1t treason "
| the republic to surrender 1000 soldiers reg
ular army and Gardes Moblles,) to the Ger.
mans, and sWeara he will neltner Hgn noi