The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-14

an attack on post In the Rue Jocquelet which was
occupied by the Garde Mobile. The Garde Mobile
made resstance; they took to fight leaving their
arms behind them which fell into the hands Of the ag-
gressors.
1t is impossible say whether the affair is over or
not. A htavy thunder storm has for the moment
driven both troops and conspraors into places Of shell
ter and the streets pretty clear but great appIc
tensions entertained for to- night The conspiracy
is very formidable one from the imsense numb r. MS
well as from the desperate character Of those engaged
in it, and great fears entertained of another rising
In the Of this night Paris has the whole of this
day had the appearance OF bosieged place The mob
is very much exasperated at its defeat
been heard Of pillage and burning Fear may
exaggerate the danger, and ii is To be hoped that It
does so but the rumor at present is that the insur
gents of the morning threaten to turn out at ninht
with torches and to ain the object in which they have
hitherto failed by endeavorng to destroy the city,
Such is the position OF Paris at the moment while |
write these lines,
HALFpAsr SIX o'CLocK.-Things are worse ttan ever.
The cannon are to be heard roaring in the Faubourg
ST. Antoine. The executive government having re-
ceved most alarming reports of the of Paris has
determined on going in n body to the bsrrcades NJ
de Lamartine, accompanied by his colleagues in the
Directory and the Ministers quilted the National As
semby at "A for the Faubourg St. Antoine in the STAFF
of General Cavagnac 1t appears that the insurrec-
ton, which was put down in the Faubourg has broken
out with still greater violence in the neirghborhood
the Hotel de Vile and the Place de Greve
The Assembly has declared itself pe,manence.
The whole Of the troops which surrounded the hall of
the Assembly having been to the place where
the fighting is going on the Assembly has adjourned
any longer safe for them remain.
If the affair be not put down to night it is the gene
raj Paris tomorrow will be in the hands of
the mob.
Among the persons killed is NJ. Avral, banker and
merchant Of Paris and among those MORALLY wounded
is NJ Thayer the colonel of the LIST battalion of the I'd
legion and one of the richest proprietors in Paris
Distant and heavy cannonading is to be heard, just
as close my letter. The executive government, at
tended by a heavy body oftroops, has just passed
In tie Rue de la Cite there is huge barricade in the
hands of the insurgents, which is defended by large
body of the mob, with a considerable number of Re
CONTINUED FIGHTING IN PARIS.
PARIS, Saturday morning.
When wrote to you yesterday evening stated
that the fighting, put down at the Porte St Denis,
and that neghborhood had extended in the direction
of the Faubourg st. Antoine, the one side of the
river and the Faubourg st. Marceau, the other,
tanned for the night The night has now passed. and
unhappiy the result has UNNECESSARILY surpassed the
worst antcipations of the greatest alarmists This
unhappy city has been during the last eighteen hours
given to the most frghtful carnage and at the mo-
ment while am writing these lines the of ar-
ery and the continued roll of musketry is incessa
Since four o'clock this morning this has been the
and there is hitherto not the slightest appearance
of cessation of hostties on either side, GOD only
knows how IL is all to end The part of the city in
which the fighting is is at present going is the
left bank of the river from which the right bank
entirely cut of, the whole of the bridges being
strictly guarded and one allowed to pass under any
pretence. The information, therefore, which | am
able to give. must on this account be sometimes
futed, and sometimes, perhaps contradictory, as
obliged to pick it from those who, in the Of
their military duties have penetrated into the dis
tricts now in the hands of the populace
The instruction of the present day is totally diff
ferent from that of which the was the revolution
of February In February the insurrection though
broke out in the part of the city the present
the Porte st. Denis spread towards and was in fact
almost confined to, the portion of Paris occupied by
the mercantile and richer classes The quarter Of the
Tuileries the Bourse the Faubourg St Honore, the
Chausee d'Antin, and the rich outskirts of all that
great district the of the revolt 1t was
fact, insurrecon got up by bourge dissatis
fed with their government. with the determination of
getting reform, and if it turned out afterwards into
republican revolution the result was one certainly not
intended by those who the authors and chief
actors in it. The present instruction is quite diff
ferent 1t is confined entirely to the working classes
employed in the Ateliers Nationaux, and who being
now threatened with deprivation of that employ
ment-their only means of support, at period
when all the ordinary sources of labour are de-
stroyed-are driven by the desperation Of hunger
into rebellion. No doubt there among these
wretchod labourers some who have other and far
more culpable views, and who urge them to their
distinctions but the real combaants are the aborng
classes and their hope and object is the faacous one
of lettering their position Yesterday the ony aass
shown were those of Les Atelers Natonaux with the
inscription Of 'Le trepait on Ia mort" There
very few party cries In the whole of the day
the cry Of "Vive Napoleon" "Vive Henry V or even
"Vive la Republque," was very little to be heard on
ale travail Paris" that whatever may arise ult-
mately from the present instruction the cry for
bread and the dread of starvation its real origin
1t must not. however, be supposed that there
cries but those for bread and labor The evaporation
of the people naturally led them to execrate those
whom they considered the authors of their evils and
occasionally "a bas les Pouvoir Executif, "A bias
pAssemblee Rationale" "A bas Maren (who is pecu-
liar unpopular at the present moment, from false
port which has got among the insurgents that he call
ed the curriers' slaves) were to be heard mixed with
cries give la Republique rorge,n and "vive Barbesn
1t is singular how different Paris is to-day from
what it was in February. In February the fighting
was. as have already said, in the richer districts
while the Faubourg of ST. Antoine and the other por
tons of the capital occupied by the laborng classes
were perfectly quiet and apparently ndfer ent as to
the result The Quarter Latin and the Faubourg of
St Marceau also fighting on that occasion FRO.
day the fighting is entirely in the Faubourg st ntone
the Faubourg st. Michel the Faubourg ST. Marceau and
the Quarter St. jacques or other words the poorest
districts of the capital The distant roar of cannon
and musketry which now hear is from the Rue de Ia
Harpe, the Rue St Jacques, and the nnumerab BILE and
close streets in the same neighborhood, which are
barricaded In every direction and which it has deed
the 1000 troops of the line and the numberess Ma
onal Guard of Paris to capture although they have
been at it for the last twelve hours All the other
parts Of the city perfectly quiet and take no mart
whatever in the contest.
shall proceed to describe the scenes which oc-
CURED after the despatch Of my packet last night
correctly as the numerous and confused details which
reach me will allow.
When closed my despatch of last night, little was
known beyond the fact that the barbados of the
Portes St Denis and st. Martin had been taken and
that the insurgents had retired to the remote
districts OF the capital where 1t was feared-and
has turned out, feared ccrrectly-that they would
make further stand. The first of hostilities is
thus described bv Paris paper
"The first act Ct hostility attempt of the in
surgcnts to dsarn the post of the Boulevard Bonnie
Nouvelle against which shots were fred but the
ire was returned by the Guard, and the assailants
many of wh.m Were boys, fed in confusion Up to
nearly twelve O'Clock, the insurgents were entirely
masters Of all the barrcades which they had erected
for neither National Guards, nor Gardes Mobile nor
troops of the line had yet made their appearance At
about twelve. some attachments of National Guards
arrived by the rue St. Martin. They we're received
with shots from the barbados and returned the fire
Soon afterwards feeble detachment of the I'd and th
leqions advanced towards the barrcade of the Porte
- DE Thay xtfrn ais yal ,vtt
of muskets.
"Out of humanity, most of the National Guards in
the fire pointed Their muskets in such way
not to hit the insurgents hoping that they might be
brought to parcy but this human proceeding only
rendered the insurgents furious, and produced
another discharge, by which some Of the National
Guards were killed or wounded. They then fred in
earnest but being very inferior in number to the force
of the barrcade, they dsarmed and in this state
were again fired upon by of the rioters from the
windows OF the houses in which were stationed the
leaders giving signals to their infatuated partisans At