Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-04-26
From France.


We make the following very interest.
ing extracts from the admirable Paris NJ.
!respondence of the New York Courier r
! Enquirer:
Besides accomplishing an almost incred =
ible amount OF public labor, the provision.
Ial government has participated in two
mighty popular demonstrations. The SIM
day alter Revolution, after solemn serv;c.
for the dead in, all the metropolitan
churches, procession was commenced At
the Hotel de Vile. At its head marched
the Provisional Government on foot dis
tinguished by nothing save tri-colored
sash and small rozette on the breast. tben
the students Of the military schools .f,o.
that body of $4,000 National Guard,
splendIdly uniformed and equipped. and
ilnally an immense multitude of citizens
making the welkin ring with la .MorssI
Ia'se and cries of Viva la Republioue--
Having arrived at the column of Julv m
the very spot where the Bastile was do.
molished, Arago, with a few enereet;c
words in voice, in the name of the neo-
pie, proclaimed France to be Republ;c
The flags waived, the trumpets sounded
the drum beat, and the people answered
with deafening acclamations. The entbu-
sIasm---the magnifcence of the scence
was bewildering. could almost fancy
that the guided angel of liberty, on the
pinnacle of the towering column, with hi,
wings splendidly FURNISHED by the raw,
OF the clear setting sun, was about to Av
with exultation. 1t was a spectacle such
as no country but France ever exhibits
but glorious as was this demonstration.
1T was far exceeded in grandeur and sub
Unity, by the celebration of the funeral
obsequies Of the dead, which took place
on the ensuing Saturday. This was one
OF those rare pageants that live in the
memory Of generations. The bodies of
the victims were, at an early hour, carried
to the Madeleine, the most plendid church
in the city. The exterior Of the noble ed
lflce was clad in deep black, and the in
terror was furnished with funeral GAIA.
toIques, tripods and all the paraphernalia
of mourning. The streets around the
church, as far as the eye could reach, soon
became filled with dense mass Of bu.
man beings.
At twelve, the funeral service was read
by the clergy before the altar, while in the
porch Of the building the most celebrated
singers and harpists of the operas and
theatres performed chants and drges be-
ore the people. l shall attempt no de-
scription Of the procession. lis priests in
heir cassocks, its judges in their vest
nent, its'protessors in their crimson robes,
is uncounted thousands of infantry in
heir glittering uniform, its battalions of
Iurassiers with their flashing breastplatcs,
IS schools and separations, and masonic
odges, its triumphal chariot. drawn by
eight milk white steeds, caprisoned with
yo!d and velvet, its faces, with the place
If the aveDging consular's Ratchet sup
'iied the spear that turns only against en-
mics; its provisional government, ruling
nation by the power of their genius and
integrity lis wounded in the late con-
licts, its widows and orphans, weeping
'ver the friends they had lost; its thou
and singers chanting requiems and direc<;
IS heroes who had fought in 1890 for the
amc cause that triump Pied now; its Pol
h refugees; It's thick ranks of those WHO
lad suffered in prisons for their political
principles; It's vast multitudcs of people
# every calling and condition-all make
!p ageant that no Pen can describe.
Two hundred thousand marched in that
procession. five hundred thousand specta-
ors beheld it. 1t passed alorg the Boul-
wards. and every foothold, from door steps
chimney tops, was occupied. The still
ess was broken only by the sound of muc-
led drums and the chanting Of tie slrs-
is as the professions slowl. and mourn
ully moved on. The most perfect order
nd decorum reigned every where, until
he sad duty was performed OF consignirg
he remains of freedoms martyrs to their
asst resting place under the column Of Ju-
y, where already repose the bodies Of
he heroes of 1880.