Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-07-22

pIenude Of means, for which MATCH scarcely an ap-
proxmaon, be found in any city plots and conflicts known
in human archives. We have just gone through of
battle and bloodshed witnessed hitherto any capital Of
modern We can record instances the deepest
concern, of intense pahos of admirable prowe than
iant in the narrative Of any Of the longest and mill
tsy campaigns The of the assaiants were npeed
the journals truly remark, by an Internal rage unexampled
at any era Of civilization" Never did the nvagcs Of New
Zealand or North America of island continent wage
fercer war, with wilder deader anmosity, than this
French profGraf all the other classes Of their esh
in this population Of million. The caution the secrecy
the elaborate ingenuity, and extent and variety Of their pre-
paraons might have seemed impossible with the demonaca
passion and mpeuosy the headong fury and desperation
of their onslaught which did nermit for moment the
end on the fourth afternoon. The immediate pretended
provocaton official of the 2ls that
the Geersthe national workshops-were dissolved And
you must Judge Of their situation, Of the power which the
Jacn insgatos Welded BY the following facts auhent
aly submitted the committee 81 the Assembly the labor
topic The inscriptions for them amounted hundred
thousand stout and lads the applicants at the Offices of
the mayors to sixty thousand. On the goth, all but ten
thousand Of the hundred inscribed without employ
ment and allowed, unavoidably to remain at home, to
spread themselves through the capital receiving still the pay
of thirty cents EACH and maintaining their divisions into br
revolutionary upto Of the Ma, ona acknowledged the
Assembly that they frs designed as revolutionary
republican army They themselves understood their poll
cal and beIigerent vocation the socialists, communss
vsonaies and incendares Of every description, super
ssded the dynasty Of the National established journal spe
cay in the midst Of them and BESIDES twenty other
daily sheets breathing fendish fire. and teaching the
anarchy, operated upon he with the aid Of abundant sup
plies Of money lavshed from quarters yet fully exposed
An almost universal belief excited that the Govern
meni dssolyng the ateie and dispatchng portion Of
the multitude into the interior, extermnae the
whole, chiefly by famine On the 2lst, member of the
Assembly, Lagrange, hero Of former baricades well COM
pretended. leader of the anarchists venured to call in
the tribune, the name Of the uortmen and clubs, the
Ministers for information touching the ministerial designs
Most of the members the floor voceraed against such
delegation from bodies with which the Assembly could hold
formal intercourse but Lagrange conrved make him
self heard nay and the Ministers weak atorous
promise the call the day. The ateKers
were thus kept duly alert and sef-imporant
When the Government began its task Of segregang the
masses, the signal for the general revolt and conflict
given. On the morning Of the 23d barrcades in the
faubourgs if by magic. II nearly before the
forces Of the Govenmenthough il professed claimed to
have been appzed Of the powere brought to bear the
tactics Of the insurgents do moi undertake to relate in de-
tall describe at ALL military operations and particular events
which would require very long chapter. You must adopt
Gagnanis record you herewith The Direct active
unceasing com6aiants the side Of the mob eckoned
thirty thousand my calculation would reach double the
number who least fought by rotation, relieving
ceedng each other Their auxiarie in the conveyance of
information oriers ammunition, food, and in manifold other
help say nothing Of jealous accompes and sympahizers
the ei6ces the Of their efforts, would
augment the number beyond hundred thousand Their
advantages point Of strategy, position concert purpose
over the guards and soldery obvious
General Cavaignac, the Minister Of War, Immediately
invested you will see, with military dctatorshp the
forces which he put movement kept foot during the
entire period could have been less than hundred and
thirty or fifty thousand, Of all march to the Rhine
trial Of strength and skill with the largest army and best
commanders Of foreign foe, would have been attended, per-
hsps, with less exerton, evolution, socude, doubt and
havoc. His divisions were assigned several Of the most
renowned African generalsLamoriciere Bedeau Negre
Duvivier-who may suppose, never in all their
erpses and engagements in Ageris personally much
posed and critically tried in their capacity, resolution and
various resources There noble competition of valo
ardor between the old national guards the
new young body, the mobile and the oops Of the line The
red flag the barcades; the cries from them of pe Bar6
and down with the National Assembly the doctrines and
exhoatons Of the Jacobn Sheets and the gigantic propo
tons which the nsurecon assumed, taught the citizens
that it was final defence Of their lives families, and proper
W; Of every thing valuable and sacred in life and the Gen.
erals and National Assembly, that all liberty, all law, all
cuty and dignity, all civilization, indeed stake with
sequel fatal in every respect for their country.
No one could doubt the second day, that, II the bar
prevailed the capital would be uthessy sacked and
Barbes Blanqui and their felowpsoner at vincennes
brought back triumph to rule by the principles Of their pro-
pramme Of the 18th umo-dissouton of the National As
semby disarmhg and dsbandng Of the national guards
exaction Of billion Of francs (two hundred millions Of dol
a from the substantial classes for the pockets Of the
s,ous finally the giotne On many Of the flags cap
tured from the barricades read Page and Rape These
incentives would have been beed Az immediate nsru
close body .guard-ihe chiefs would have
poyed the twenty thirty thousand old convcs and harden
ed maefacors collected and marhaed in Paris from all parts
Of France apd Belgium, along with almost equal number
Of foreign political refugees ripe for whatever service
Within this month have conversed, on the historical
changes in the character and habits Of the population Of Paris
with three French gentlemen beyond the age Of eighty and
fourth seventy, who have filed high stations in the
capital and abroad and preserved superior mental faculties
The first well acquainted with the lower orders in 77s
80, and s and the last had opportunity know them from
1895 1900 and all down late period. They
red in the opinion that the proportion Of vasabonds and
depedstors Of iders and cupre Of every description far
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