New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-14

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for themselves and their families they would have
waited d not in content ~ east Ia endurance
Bu, the Assembly was not disposed % heal the
breach the men of the Provisional Government, re-
tanned A. Ministers or as Members Of the Executive
Commission bad siready been ired md found wanting
and had Joe, the confidence Of a casses and or the
Bourreoisis the actual ruling power they were imPa
tent and ss ncsr O. the pitch Of isnaucism and icrociy
on their eide IL. were The people on theirs.
The only mode IN which the public Ed was bestowed
on the starving lsborer. and their families through
Louis Blanc. National Workshops. which as : s'id
were Isl -rea, snd growing source of expense They be-
-rn with 5000 men. and now contained 5000 while
some 5000 more we're rismonng for admittancs not
lss. than seventeen millions of francs had already been
spent on them The Sour scoisie bad determined that
they should the people knew this. and prepared
arms powder and bs. and arranged their plan OF opc
raton. They were resolved d possible % overthrow
the Assembly and puf n "a new Provisional Government
which should provide Tor them. They were starving.
miserable beyond description the bankers and specu
lstor, of the Chsusse Antn and that quarter were
rolling 10 wealth 0f which The .s5orer- who had pro
duccd 90 asd been cheated This should be taken from
them by public decree and al, The same time their IA
Dor should be organized that they could NOT 5e chest
ed 20 such extent szain ln word they were pre-
pared tor that worst and most terrible o. al
vile war Of those who have nothin. against those
who have Ll-and The immediate efficient cause which
urged them 20 b. was starvation n the midst of is spen
dors OF Paris
A great deal said in ihe French papers about the
employment Of foreign gold in stirring mp this difficulty
The ntr ger- of course did not miss 30 good chance
of doing something they gave money in considerable
quantities aud no doubt thereby increased the ranks OF
/ the insurgents ono ol them the Count De Narbonne
n leyirmst was taken with biz seri ant on Monday 40
helpauiheon, attempting 20 buy over battalion of the
Garlic Mobile and shot instantly and the other cyi.
dences of similar tamperny not only strong bat ma
merous lt s said that Russia and England also had b
hand ia this part Of the s. 5ut this rests only
NOR and may be- seq down as absurd certainly SO aras
/ England Is concerned
/ A direct and outright dissolution OF the National
/ Workshops va, not rc.ortcd Co. The worknen were
organized into divisions preicnce OF being dispatched
/ here and there into the country. where they were
/ told wor. would await them. some thousands Of
them were actually of and the report that they
are ~ work and tranquil large body were marched
C0rbeu place forty miles 70 the southeast OF
the city but received with contempt by the au-
thorit.es there and told that there work for
them They came back on Wednesday last ON the
morning OF 'Nhl Jay tue lfiAiti Wtli ANA liAtt tN
was no more money ia the hands Of the Government
and their stipend could no longer be paid When they
could expect again !, impossible TO say. Per
haps after a while there would be money and then
they should have IT, Meanwhile they must shit Tor
themselves the best way they could However if they
would become soldiers the Government would find
means TO pay them they might have that alternative.
This was the signal for what both parties were pre-.
l in
blnds and raversed the parts Of the city which they
had arranged to make the OF their operations
bearing banners with inscriptions expressive Of the
feelings uPpermost in their minds. In the evening the
public alarm had become general. The avenues 70 the
National Assembly occupied by guards and troops
of the line and the police were busy dispensing the
groups that were gathered in the streets whether Of
workmen or others In the night bsrricodes were
formed In several quarters and Friday morning the
battle began.
For the mere details OF the lighting have space
and you viii ind them in the newspapers. Enough to
say that il most desperate and bloody The mum
Der of workmen engaged the course Of it l. varously
estimated and in many quarters exaggerated have
taken great pains 30 ascertain what IL really was and
believe that there at least thirty iyc thousand Of
them. To this add i've or sis thousand conyicts dis
charged from the caleys and four thousand chioncrs
thieves and others of the very dregs OF the population
and You have the whole body of the insurgents Their
held operation very extensive, including all the
poorer quarters OF the cy-beginning at the south and
extending around ON the eastern eide to the north 10
the Rue 81 Denis and 81 Martin, and ON the BouIe
wards n that direction the builders OF barricades
not attacked but IN the Faubourl t. Antoine, and
the other side in the Rue - Jacques and la the Cite
and about the Cathedral OF Notre Dame there the
most bloody scenes. Near the Pantheon where there
were barbados, Araso attempted 10 appease the in
surgents We distrust your promises was the re-
ply. I'VE have had many Of them already and they
have been badly kept We esteem you personally Cit
izen Arago but in the name Of God lei words be fol
lowed by earnest actions
Ia the Cite especially that afternoon, the lighting
was terrible from til o'clock the insurgents held
their posts with desperate resolution they fought with
all the reckessness Of ianalcism they were attacked
with equal courage piles Of dead bodies lay In the
streets aud the cutters thick with blood 10 was
not battle but massacre. At the Porte st. Denis and
the Porte 81 Martin the strife was hardly less furious.
The people were shot down but the loss OF the National
Guard which made the attack in that quarter,
even greater for the insurgents protected behind
the barrcades where few men could keep regiment
~ bav Al the barrcade OF the Porte 81 Denis. after
long anu destructive llt -ll-it ufiilltl Vi tilt Va
tonsl Guard rushing forward found only one man re.
msining alive behind the bsrricsde and after brief
struggle made him prisoner.
Friday night fell la doubt and gloom the city. The
insurgents had lost some Of their posts but they had
been taken Al an immense cost Thousands Of widows,
80 said al the journals mourned the loss OF husbands
slain in the iratric.dal strife many Of the most
spectacle families Of Paris were deprived Of fathers
and brothers while the hospitals @ere filed with
wounded and and everywhere the scene OF scaon
you could see many building, bearing the inscription
Ambulance showing that they had been devoted 10
the same purpose The people 90 their side. were
encouraged and believed that they should succeed.
Moreover. the National Guard had not turned on, n
such force az wa expected and il not unlikely
that large portion Of would take part with the n
surgents
Meanwhile 10 the Chamber new measures OF a sum.
mary character suited 20 the emergency d been
taken The Assembly had declared itself Ea peemaa
,qce hsd ted that Paris should be- put state Of
siege and had Invested Gen Cavagnac ah dictatoris
powers Attempts were made ~ accompany these
measures with proclamation 10 the insurgents of a
pacific character. They are FFenchmen-they are
brothers o. il was said mised indeed but still
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