The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-30


The unusual nature OF several oftho projecties ms
Dufaotud by the insurgents, has produced in several
OF the wounded fortunately not numerous most extra
ord nary accidents. Those volumi and irregual
prjeotiles on entering the flesh made very
rents, ard accustomed vast wounds laying the bones
completely bare Sometimes they renal ned xed in the
ht 81 and conld not be Immediately extracted
There exists come slight difference between the
wounds of the military or National Guards and tho se
OF the in ents-the former have been wounded al
most ipdstinctly in every part of the body and al
most sways in front several who had been fired upo
rom the windows Of upper stories, have received
wounds on the crown Of the head others have been
wounded by balls rebounding. while hers have bee u
injured by proectiles ev.ll at them in obliqus
position PREF ent of long sinuous wound which
very serious and allows Of cure Others
are more fortunate, the bells which have struck
them having fallen sideways along q bony surface.
over the most important organs without njuriug them
seriously he direction Of the bloody
light upon the peint from which II sped and thus it
was We have been enabled to ascertain precisely
criminal hand caused the death of the archbishop of
Paris.
Asf'r the insurgents II has been ascertained at La
Pete. Saint Louis, and Saint Antoine hospitals, to
whlon they were principally conveyed that their
parts Of the body such the top of the chest the
neck and face, in consequence oftheir lying in ambush
In windows. at The of houses those
mere seldom presented themselves more openly to the
ball. they are generally wounded in the upper part Of
the BODY their wounds present an oblque form up
waros inns popularity has been remarked at the
hospital Saint Antoine than snywhere elsein fact,
the greater part of their wounded brought from
the barracks of the Rue de ReuiiEv These bar
racks, which contained a small detachment OF
the LIST and 9th line commanded by captain who
bad taken his oath he would rather perish than
render resisted, well know the most violent nd
reiterated attacks balls and confagraton the be-
seiged opposed barbados to barricades and lying
ambu IN those parts of their barracks which the
most favorable to defence, they did infinite mischief
the sRgressors at this single point counted thirty
killed aud sixfy-six wounded the most Of them among
the insurgents.
Some very singular wounds well deserve to be men,
TONED Four or hve patients present cases in which
the has ent red the cavity of the mouth
at the moment when they were vociferating their
cries, or standing with the mouth open In
the balls have .nt the lips Two patients lying in
the wards OF the Hotel Dieu, offer peculiar the
bali has ntered freely in the buccale orice without
touching of them had the lower maxillmry bone
broken, and the ball got under the teguments of tho
neck wh,re it projects but in the of the other
1t has lodged itself in the palate NJ Bavediu extract
ed it and when it was in the hands of the sku
geCn, the youthful Garde Mobile exclaimed " Oh! give
it me- VIII send 1t to my motber.''
NJ. Ntlatn, surgeon to the Hospital de Saint An
tome who was blocsadrd in that hospital during the
four days Of the instruction, tells us he the
corpses Of brothers brought to the hospital whose
heads had been cut of by bullet An insurgent we
several were wounded by shells the apothecary of
Saint a tome was wounded by a piece of one he
was quietly crossing the hospital courtyard, where all
knd- of pr'cctiles were hailing down. ne
was merely bruised
We have also observed some wounds ocoasioned by
paving stones, whale destroying the barrcsdes by
cannon. hen the bullet strikes those heaps of free
stone, the Tue de Faubourg Saint Antoine had been
unpaved up"n length of from thirty to forty yards
creates thick cloud Of dust in which it breaks
the stones and hurls the pieces to immense dis
lance, and in every direction One Of these pieces,
after The third firing, struck the thigh of Of the
principal rioters and threw him down; he a kin d
Of ftrocious maniac who. his being conveyed into
the hospital threatened both the of the in
frmary and the surgeon cursing and vociferating he
comIla ned in his savage derum, that he had fought
two Gays without having had the luck (they his
own words)o meeting with his father in the opposite
and lis fat haria n Gard Ran n.
licAine
Has the medical examination of the wounds of their
dicted the atrocious accusations laid against some
Of the insurgents Has the faculty, by the de-
vsioi ment Of accidents peculiar to the Wounded
proofs Of those Internal combinations of poison
snd IRON? We are happy to say such proofs have
not been found. Sundry projectiles prepared with
the most inf rnal art. have indeed been found in
the houses Of some of tn. insurgents, and In their
magazines. One surgeon has declared, in the Revue
Dedicdfe that he has metallic bodies In which
mic was mixed up in very considerable portion
with other metals. The surgeon has remarked in
speaking Of those bullets which crossed with
copper wire that the copper by producing verdgris
the fts must add to the wound n compile .ton OF
poitons; and that 1t was for that reason. the insuI
We also shown balls melted in thimbles aud to
which we've afised pieces Of cloth Of grrenish color
But If insurgents in the highest parox ysm of
furious mania did indeed form such crni nal combi-
nations, they have fallen short of their aim either
because they have Mortified at their own inventions
RETAINED from making of the venomous balls.
because these prtectes having crossed through the
flesh with the most Incredible rapidity. had snt-
cient time to manifest their double effect True 1t is
that the surgeons have not as yet met with logical
phenomenon, nor any anominal complication they
could attribute to poison Such is the result at least
of our obstrvatioBs up to The present moment
And now, leaving the exclusive domain of surgery,
1t would doubtless be interesting to the
reln,i,e numbers Of the wounded now lying In our
hospitals and compare the losses of the army and
the National Guards wi those of adversaries To
inquire into those professions which have supplied the
.Ir h.
average age of the rioters or among them to be
found both old and children) the assistance they
baye ohta'nrd from their women whose part appears
to have been that of preparing the ammunition; or
from the other aocomplices who had joined them
There are no less than ten wounded ftmaes in the
Hcpital st Louis The study Of the moral state Of
the insu nts would not be less interesting The de-
Tenders of order exhibit the quiet of pure
resulting from the feeling of having oourageously
con plished vigorous duty and the internal content
Of having saved their country and society, ssddened
however. ~ the affecting thought tost their victory
spectacle of the greatest detection. With them mis-
trust has assumed the place of excitement, and tho
fury OF the first days instead of cries Of passion
appeals to an appr aching revenge We find obsti-
nate silence or protestations of their innoce uce
much so that were we to nterrcgatc them after
another we should doubt whether civil had
when We find so many spectators whore thought
we had to b. hold combatants are led to inquire
what iDvisible band has sp'lt the blood we derore?
But let US stop in our Investigation Such investi-
cations belong to justice. who will with frmness and
ulscrlmDaIon the truly guilty from those
who we're merely led astrsy They ore the domain of
philosophy. whose mission II is to sound these moral
wounds, and TO seek the remedy which can Veal and
them First all let allow the justice Of the
rel ubc to have its course, and then let philosophy
supported by Christian fraternity-that sacrsd aud
cter bss find the remedies proper the evils
OF society and certainly philosophy will succeed
in finding these rsmedes for as M. de Chateaubria
rightly observes that man Is an able physician who
draws his whole learning and his whole experience
from the bottom of his own soul
Paris continues TO be haunted by the continued APP
prebsbsion Of insurrection and every
mtasur~ Of the government every proposition to give
tincreased power, indeed that be possible is hailed
with reclamation by the Assembly decree has just
been adopted almost unanimously, to establish per-
maDent camp around Paris, consistnR of An efhoiept
force Of SO 0O0 with the usual complement Of
>alry, artillery, and engineers. Rigorous laws have
also been adopted 10 restrain the cenoe of the press
No daily paper be published until the prcprie
tor deposits 5000 dollars with the State, security
for such fines may be inflicted in Of any abuse
MeanW lille unlimited power of immediate suppression
s invested in Cen Cavagnac, whatever other chief
Of the ex. cuiye power the Assembly NAV time to