Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-07-28
THE PARIS INSURRECTION

| now fdTlS correspondent OF tnat journal, Will
| be read with interest. After devoting several
columns 10 the details OF the conflicts which
have been already published at length, he
goes on to say -
The breaking up of the national work.
shops in Paris has been the origin and preiext
of this social war, which has had for its vic,
TINS the workmen on one side, and the Ma
tonat Guards and soldiers OF the regular army
on the other
lhe establishment of these national work.
shops was the most unfortunate act OF the
Provisional Government. They supplied
refuge 10 all the idters and hangers-on who
had swarmed from every part of France. 10
this sort of general almshouse, where labor
was a fiction and pay was the only real thing
The number of these birds Of passage, who
| had perched upon this roost, amounted tn
nearly $50, 1000, of whom, it is said, 90 600
were released or absconding convicts, and from
80, 600 10 10000 porters and Gomestcs, who
J thus added TO the income OF their real business
the POTTS of an assumed title The exhausted
public treasury could no longer distribute the
wealth Of France among the host of idle hands
and hungry mouths The National Assem-.
! bly,, therefore, resolved to shake them off; but
| it was seconded only feebly and irresolutey
| in this bold design by the Executive power
on whose part the creation of the national
workshops bad not been without an ultimate
purpose.
81" In the view of certain members of the
Provisional Government, belonging more or
| less closely 10 the Socialist or Communist
School, such as Louis Blanc, Albert, Ledr1
Rollin, and Flocon, this agglomeration OF
workmen, taken into pay by the State, WIS
designed for two objects One, disclosed by
NJ. GoudchauX, temporarily charged with the
| portfolio of finance, was TO form n sort of
| PGatorian Guard, which certain members of
the Government desired 10 have always at
command, as an instrument of coercion, all
ways ready, against their political adversariesi
the other was, to lay the foundation for sys-
TEN of concentration in The hand of the state
of all public WoIkS-a system which should
serve as n common practical basis for the doc
trnes held by the various sectS of the Social
isl school Thus the Executive power was
seen proposing 10 the National Assembly, in
succession, two pro Jects of law having for
their ends the appropriation of all the rail roads
and all the companies of insurance against
fire, for the profit of the State. Enjoying the
sole control Of these great establishments, the
State would thus convert Individual into ma
tional wealth, and, in the distribution of this
wealth, would substitute the rational element
Of capacity for the blind element OF hereditary
succession, which is the grand theoretical pa
nacea of the modern philosophers, for all the
evils of the social state. At the same time,
while Withdrawing industry and property from
two other malevolent influences of these phi
IOsophies, speculation and competition, the
State would gain the additional advantage OF
having at its command the means of commu-
nication, enhanced in value for a time of war,
by the fact that the lines of rail road are also
to be those of the electric telegraph.
| "The additional motives are of some weight,
| admit but their validity is more than neu-
tralized by the immense dangers of favoring
the ideas OF Communism, and of placing I'M
der control Of any Government thousands of
employers, who would be SO many means of
influence, so much inducement to corruption
"These results being well considered, the
committee 10 which the matter was referred,
came TO the conclusion that the projected APP
preparation of the railways ought to be refu-
sed, and lis report to this effect found nume-
rous supporters in the Assembly. A discourse
by Nj. Montalembet, on 22d June, boldly re-
vealed the secret tendencies concealed beneath
the project, and made deep impression. 'Af-
ter obtaining the Confscation of the rail roads
and fire insurance companies exclaimed the
courageous orator, they will demand that of
the marine insurance companies, and the mo-
nopoIy of salt works, factories, machinery,
&c. Vote this law and you will have no plea
against host of pro jects of the same nature.
Individual industry will be crushed and de-
stroyed in this great machine of the state
The effect wrought by the speech OF M
Montaembet was such that The parrzans of
the project could entertain no nope Of success.
Urged by the energetic resolutions Of the AS
4bo
TO take measures for the gradual extinction Of
the national workshops. 1t decreed that the
workmcn from the provinces should return 10
their former places of residence, whittier they
should be conveyed at the expense Of the state,
and employment be given them on the public
works; or they might enlist in the army, even
at the age of II, and set off for the frontier
" But this alternative was little 10 the taste
of these Pratorians in biOuses, and the hour Of
conflict was recognized as come, By men who
had tOreseen the result and been preparing for
it. These men were undoubtedly the aSsoci-
ates and accompIices of the bands who, on the
18th Of May, attempted the overthrow of the
National Assembly, and 10 place the reins of
authority in the hands Of Barbee, Blanqui, and
others OF the same stamp. Therefore on the
morning of June %, sinister reports were
spread among the workmen by the managers
OF the plot, that they would be ma'treated in
the provinces; that some who had gone thIths
or hal been beaten; that the country about
SoIogne, to which they were destined, was
poisonous soil. where they would perish of
hunger and disease Under the Influence of
these representations, a body of 400 presented
themselves before NJ Marie, &C.
Here NJ Gaiardet repeats the story of NJ.
Maries, . that the men were not the slaves of
their spok csman,' &C., and then goes on 10
describe the conflict and lis results
To DESTROY CocKRoAcHEs-Mr Downing,
the celebrated Editor of the HoTtcmlfur'st,
says that he has tried the following and found
it perfectly edectua
If your Correspondents will try the follow
ing simple plan. will warrant them that ev-
! erV beefIe and cockroach will shortly disap.
nea, and hat the kitchen will not again be
| infested Add about a teaspoonful OF pow
dereI arsenic TO about tablespoonful ofmash-
ed boiled potatoes; rub and mix them well to-
gether, and then crumble about third OF it,
every night at bedtime, about the kitchen
hearth it will be eaten up, or nearly so, by
the following morning. The creature is very
fond of potatoes, and deyouring them greedi@
ly, crawls again into it's hole and perishes.-
| had occasion to have some alterations made
IN fha L;tchar ctoyo civ months after DurSuPd