Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1848-07-22
On saturday night the state of The capital

On Sunday, the President of the Assembl
announced that the Government had com
plctely succeeded in suppressing the revol
on The LETT side of the city, and that Gen Cav
aigiiac had given the insurgents on the righ
bank of the Seine till 10 O'Clock. TO surrende,
II they did not do so by that hour, prepara
lions had been made TO bring the heavies
artillery to bear upon them, and no doub
remained that the insurrection could be pu
down.
lhe hope, however, was not realized. The
fight continued daring Sunday with fearfu
loss of life
The last band took refuge in the Cemcter,
of Pere la Chaise.
A commission has been appointed to ,r,
those taken with arms in their hands.
The insurgents and especially the womel
engaged in the affair, treated the prisoners
with unexampled barbarity, cutting Off thei
hands and feet and torturng them in ever,
conceivable manner
FURTHER DETAILS.
HE DEATHS OF TIE ARCHBISHOP AND NJ
LARocnE.
We copy from the New York papers re-.
ceived last evening, the following additional
details OF the dreadful intelligence received
from France.
On Saturday, the 2lih, the National Assem-
bly, declared itself in permanence, and Paris
was declared liz a state of seige the eyecu.
tive power was delegated absolutely TO CAV
aignac, and at half past 10, the members of
the executive had resigned They declared
that they should have been wanting in their
duties and honor, had they Withdrawn be-
fore As sed'ion is a public peril, they only
Withdrew before vote of the Assembly.
Reports poured in every hour to the AS
| scnbly-and as the Intelligence arrived of
The slaughter of the National Guards. and the
tall OF one general after another, who was
killea or wounded by the insurgents, the
sensation became deep and alarming
During the whole of Friday night, and un-
til o clock on Saturday: the roar of artillery
and the noise of muskets were incessant.-
In this frightful state of things, the Assembly
betrayed not little alarm. A deputa,ion
from the Assembly was proposed to 20 and
entreat the combatanis to cease this strife,
but all the successive reports proved that the
insurgents were bent on only yielding up the
Struggle with their lives, and their valor was
only surpassed by their desperate resolution.
On Saturday night at II O'Clock the capital
was in an awful state. Fighting continues
with undated fury Large numbers of
troops poured in from all the neighboring de-
partmeu,s, but still the insurgents, having
rendered their positions almost impregnable,
resisted more or less efectnally all the force
that could be brought against them. The
red flag, the banner of the 2epubliquc Demo-
cratiare a Socia'c, was hoised.
The fighting continued the whole of Sum
day, with a fearful loss of life, especially to
the National Guards
On Monday the achievements Gen. La
moriciere had received from Cayaignac ena-
bled him 10 route the insurgents in the
eastern part of the city, and although redu-
ced to extremities they still fought with in
credible valor.
Ii was thought on Monday morning early
that tney would surrender but the hope thus
held ont of the termination of the nsurrec-
tion was not Immediately realized.
AT about half-past ten, the fighting was re.
suned, and it was only aftera IA frightful strug-
gle of about two hours that the Government
troops every where prevailed, and the nsur-
rection being broken the insurgents We're Ell
ther shot, taken prisoners, or fled into the
country in the direction toward Vincennes,
The Eastern quarters, comprising the fou-
bourg st Antoine, due Temple, Meuilmontant
and Pepingcourt, We're the last subdued
On Tuesday the insurrection was definitely
quelled. The loss of life has been terrific, no
fewer than fourteen general officers had been
put hors du conabat-a greater loss than in the
most splendid engagements of Napoleon
The DEATH OF THE Four
or five members of the National Assembly
are among the killed, and as many more
wounded, but the most touching death of all
is that of the Bishop of Paris. The venerable
prelate on Sunday volunteered to go to the
insurgents as a messenger of peace. Cavaig-
nae said that such step was full of danger,
but this Christian pastor persisted. He ad-
vanced, attended by his two Wears, towards
the barricades, with an olive branch borne
before him, when he was ruthlessly shot in
his groin add fell mortally wounded. The
venerable patient was ordered by the insur-
gents to the nearest hospital in St Antoine,
where he received the last sacraments, Ian
guished and has since died.
The editor of the Pere Ducherse, M. La
roche, was shot in the head at the barricade
Rochechoart, where, in the dress of a work.
man, he was fighting at the head of insur-
gents, twill probably never be correctly
ascertained to what extent this sacrifice of
human life in this frightful struggle has reach
ed. Some compute the loss on the side of
the troops at from 1000 to 10000 slain, but
we hope this is exaggerated
The women were hired to poison the wine
sold to the soldiers, who drank il, reeled, and
died n seemed to be believed generally,