Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-04-12
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and then a terrific battle tocA place betwee II
them, their principal weapons being bottles y,
length they fell 10 the ground, overcome b. in
toxicat;on by wounds. Meanwhile the men
vino went into the apartments ravaged and pill
aged them completely, after which they set them
on fire, and the whole building soon in
flames. la short time the men in the cellars
were either burned to death sufoca;ed On
Sunday, from 10 TO 800 dead bodies We're dug ont
ASAT1oSAL characteristic.
Three Irisli'nen found auIongs. the killed
at one of the barricades, during the late revoIu-
tim in Paris ...--,-,..~s. rsnAi.f.EL.
The following most extraordinary coIuc nee
can be passed by the historian W itiiout aston
i.hment aud wonder. when describing the last
two French Revolutions. In 1880, no sooner
had the Dey OF AIgiers arrived in France as a
prisoner ofCharles the Tenth than the King was
dethroned and exiIed: and in lSiS, sooner had
the Etnir Abd-eI- kader reached the shores OF
France the prisoner of Louis Philippe than
the King Of the Barrcades dethroned and
exilcd.
EXCITEMENT A IRISH RE voLuTIoN
The recent scenes in France are producing
their natural effect in Ireland the people are
preparing for outbreak, and the press OF Dab
lin is using every effort to drive them into a
state of anarchy and bIoodshed.
Though had reason to expect that the
French revolution would be hailed by the lrisf,
press the harbinger of similar event IN their
own country, yetwe confess that we were not
quite prepared to read the reasonable attempts
they are making to rouse the worst passions Of
the populace and TO embroil them in all the hor
rors Of u civil war.
For the information of our readers, We take
a few extracts, commencing with the Omitted
Irish,nan," paper that seems to nothing
but blood and carnage, TO hear nothing but the
clasl, of steel and tho Of artillery. and to
pant for slaughter with rebels frenzy. II ex-
horts the peasantry of Ireland to procure arms
and "arise from the dust
Then follows an elaborate detail of the mode
in which the populace should carry on d. bloody
slaughter through the streets and lanes of acity
such as Paris, and such Dublin; and after a
comparison of the localities of botii the plan of
carving on the work is thus systematically des-
crsbed.
LIST. Every street is an excellent shooting gall
cry for disciplined troops; but it is better de-
file in which TO take them. In the vocabulary
of drilling is no such phrase as "Infantry, pre-
pare for window-pots, brick bats, logs Of wood,
chimney pieces, heavy furniture, light boxers
&C. &c.;' and these thrown vertically on the
heads Of a column below, from the elevation Of {
parapet or top story, are irresistible The pro-
pe!ling forces, viz: ladies' chambermads. OIL
men who can do no better, have the additional
advantage OF security; and the narrower the
street ard the higher the houses, the worse the
damage and the greater the security. A mill
tary proposition recommend to the study Of
the best lady in the land.
The following directions for strewing the street.
with broken glass, manning men aud horses fec t
and making grenades and then it adds:
/ ITO these missiles, from windows and house
tops, revolutionary citizens, and always boiling
water, grease, better cold vitrol, if avalla-
BILE. Molten lead is good. but too valuable-it
should be always cast in bullets, and allowed L
cool. The house-;ops and spouts furnish in ev
ery CITY ahn ndance, but care shonld be taken, a
they do in Paris, to run the balls solid-you can
not calculate on a hollow ball, and that mi ght b
the very one selected to shoot field officer"
The ripping up Of pavements and of raisin.
of barricades are next enJoined, and then the re
suit of the Irish instruction is thus triumphant
ly antc pated-
And may have republic nearer HON
ere long, for in these events lies our fate.''
So much for the United Irishman now for til
Nation, the organ of the confederates, as the
call themselves, and the advocates Of physica
force. In commencing an article, headed 81 h
dawn of freedom" the Nation, of Satu rday
thus re-echoes the reasonable language OF 1t
fellow -aborer, the Irshman:--
'.Hear it, and rejoice, all men Of Ireland, liv
ing within the four seas, or eating the bite
bread Of exile--the day Of our deliyerance is a
hand.
"Ireland'- opportunity, for which patriots sigh
ed, swearing to make it memorable ill the an
nall Of mankind, is coming fast. If we be no
braggarts and perjurers accu rsed of God an
despised of men, the knell Of our slavery has ID
ready rung the night. We were peaceful
we patient, bded our time, (oh. Heaven
with what bitter and Inundated hearis.) an
, now, by the sacred name of justice and of G. cd
that time is come. Now. now, now. Aread
the dawn Of Freedom raises like May morn
ing in the East.
"Ireland's opportunity. thank God & France
has come at last! Its challenge rings in on
ears like call to battle, and it warns our bloc
! like wine. 1t demands of US what mission "
have to entrust to its ministry. SO often and
fervently evoked. We must unite, We must &C
; We must leap all barriers, but those which al
Divine; il needs be, we must die, rather than lie
this provden,al hour pass over us uniiberate'
8 "Do not fear that France is exhausted. Even
will lead on event, as hour ushers in hour. Sc
how they have followed each other already: witt
in a week the ministers resignation, the King
flight, and the Republics birth No Repube
can stand in France schieh Is not AGGRESSIVE
neither can war take place in Europe wi,hot
, Eng land. The first gun England 6res seiA
the sunset gun Of her dominion in Ireland.
"The consideration is not now of when, b,
Of how, Irish indepe ndence is to be won. II
time is at hand; it comes with the deep soundir
of asea filling its channel. Are the people read,
They must-they must be ready. Now Ne