The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1839-06-08
From the N. Y. Evening Star of June l.
RIOT IN PARIS.

the passage in day sooner than was cx-
pected. She would have arrived yesterday
at noon, but for two days Of head winds.
The passage has been delightful.
The difficulties in France have, as we
had anticipated, assumed a serious aspect
and blood has been shed by the government
in suppressing an insurrection in the streets
Of Paris.
InSurrection IN Paris On Sunday the
18th Of May, at three in the afternoon,
seme or 400 men attired in the usual
workmen's dress of frocks (blue smocks)
and caps, collected in the Rue St. Dennis,
and followed by crowd presented them
selves at the gun shop of Lepage brothers,.
After breaking down the doors and mason
ry with their hatchets, they took $50 spot
ting pieces, and armed with these they pro-
ceeded. After passing down the Rue st.
Dennis, the favorte focus of all previous
instructions, and reached the quays, thev
divided. One portion went to the post on the
Quai aux Fleurs, adjoining the Palais de
Justice, and firing on the Sentnels, killed
a young man and wounded the sergeant in
command, when the rest being young con-
scripts surrendered. They then attacked
the Palais de Justice where they were re-
pulsed by the municipal guard and lost sew
eral killed. The military post of the Place
du Chatelet, and the Hotel de Vile, de-
Tended by national guards were surprised
by the other two parties, and taken possess
sion of. A party then proceeded to the
Prefecture of Police, where they found the
gates shut. They then returned to the Ho-
tel de Vile, and turned over the omnibusses
they met with, erecting them into bsrri-
cades: A letter says:
Another party returned to the Point Neul
perfectly at leasure and al their ease, as |
saw at the revolution, and subsequently, on
the fifth of June, 1892.
Several dead bodies were brought 10 the
Mcrgue, and among them two women
-one elegantly dressed, and the other of
the working or lower orders.
These events took little time. But soon
the troops were able TO assemble, and by 4
o'clock several bodies Of municipal guards
Greve, before the Hotel de Vile. A de-
of horse municipals issuing from
the Rue des Arcis, first received the fire of
the insurgents. The detachment lost the
TWO first horsemen by the discharge,
and Immediately turned round to rally
somewhat further back. Other detach-
ments, however, arrived. Firing continu-
ed and at length the insurgents abandoned
the Place and the Quai, and retired in the
direction of the Rue st. Avoye.
Such was the situation of affairs at 5
o'clock. The three disarmed posts were
shut. The municipal guard occupied the
Hotel de Vile and the quays between the
Polt au Change and Port and Bless. Great
emotion was of course produced. The re-
call was beaten by the drummers of the ma
tional guards, whilst the insurgents, about
400, marched in long file towards the
Boulevards. Up to the hour we write, the
movement is concentrated between the
Place du Chatelet and the Hotel de Vile.
SeUen O'ctOck.-Nothing has taken
place in the Boulevards. The insurrection
is this moment concentrated in the lower
parts of the Rues st. Dennis, Montmortre,
and ST. Marin. Barricades are formed,
one in the Rue st. Dennis, near the church
OF st. Leu the other at the corner of the
Tiquitonne and Montorguei. This last
was attacked about half-past six by the
grenaders of the third legion of the Ma
tional Guard, aided by detachment of the
line. The officer commanding the post of
the Palace of Justice and two soldiers were
killed.
M. Sedoux, of the Sd Legion, was killed
in the attack of the barricade Marshal
Gerard has taken command of the troops of
the garrison"
AT eight O'Clock the insurgents received
reiniorcemeats and made demonstration
upon that part of the Louvre by the Rue
Cog 81. Honore, and the Rue Croix des
petits Champs, but were deferred from an
attack by finding the gates shut, and the
troops within ready to receive them. At
the Rue HauteyiIIe they shot a National
Guard-a painter by profession.
The whole garrison of regular troops at
Paris, and all the National Guards were by
this time in motion. A strong body was
sent to protect the castle of Vincennes.
Six or eight regiments of the garrison
were it is said, at that moment, under Or
ders to be transferred to the departments
indmations having been given that they had
been successfully tampered with by the dis
organizers, whose intention to create an
eHneute had long been anticipated II is