The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-27


fighting. correspondent of the London Morning
Chronicle writing late on Friday, the 5th, says;
The Paris instruction is at an end This morn
ing the barricades at the Barrierc Rochechouard
were carried without any great difficulty, but so
threatening was the appearance OF matters all day,
that Immense bodies OF troops have been kept
the Of the il surrection and especially along
the Boulevards and the neigbborhood of the prnci-
pal public Offices There were several barbados
made in the course of the night, but they were
abandoned this morning, and no attempt was
made TO day to make any additional ones.
The appearance of the Bouevards to-day has
been curious one. From the Madeleine To the
Rue Richelieu the public circulate freely-not the
slightest let or hindrance being offered To any
But from that point on towards the Boulevards dc
Bonnie Nouvelle, strong bodies of cuirnssiers are
posted at short intervals from each other, and no
one permitted to stop for a angle instant. The
crowd in the street is Immense.
understand that at an carly hour yesterday, the
leaders OF the insurgents gave the mot d'ordre to
their followers not 10 defend the barrcades, and
that the greater number of the victims the
ders who were drawn by curiosity into the
danger
The news from the departments, though in gene
raj favorable 10 the cauae OF Louis Napoleon not
invariably SO. IL appears that General d'Arbou-
vile. who commands at Bordeaux, has not adj
hered to what 10 called "the great measure of the
President of the Republic" General de Bourjoly
has consequently been sent off in all haste to take
his place. He left Paris this~morning. General
Castellane he commander in chief at Lyons, also
hesitates. The only thing he has done ia TO
the government that he will prevent any insurrec-
ton. The Lyons journals, which arrived in Paris
to-day, give long details of the coup d'etat, and
speak OF the affair with great bitterness
] am just told that in Paris there ID an army Of
l00, 900 men. and not less than one hundred guns
exclusive of those in the forts
| PAnis, December 6.--Not a soldier is to be seen
10. day from the Madeleine TO the Place de la Bas
tile. Carriages circulate freely, and though the
weather 10 sloppy and dsagroeable, immense
| crowd OF persons throug the streets.
The accounts Of the lists of killed and wounded
vary from 5000 10 $50. A list OF 5000 has been
shown me, and another of 1000, and another Of
300. should imagine the latter to be somewhat
nearer the mark than either OF the others; but that
the carnage was severe there can be no doubt as
the Infatuated soldiers showed no mercy, but
bayoneted all who came within their reach, OF
whatever age or sex they might have been. AS
the cannon roared for a couple of hours, mingled
with the sharp crack of musketry, the havoc must
have been appalling.
1t seems that the troops did their work SO effect
uay that there but few wounded left to tel the
fate of their proves There but 80 at the hos
pital of the Charlie, and 81 at the Hotel Deu. But
there are, of course, hundreds of poor MAIN
ed wretchcs who have shrunlS away to breathe
their last in Obscure corners, no plying hand
being stretched forth to allay their dying agones
Scores of wounded men also concealed by their
relatives.
A number of prisoners who made an attempt to
escape from their escort on Thursday evening were
day from the Conciergerie was also shot 80 young
men belonging to the same manufacturing estab
| lishment, who were taken prisoners, are now in
course of trial by court martial.
Two hundred men, arrested at the barricades,
were taken yesterday evening, under a strong es
cort, to the prison Mazas Eighty-two others of
the most dangerous character, arrested by the Ma
tional G uard of Beeville, also lodged in the
| prison Mazas. Gold and silver coin found in
their possession Arrests still continue to be made
| Several persons captured on Thursday were yes
| terday placed in the cellars of the Tuicries to
await their trial by court martial Two hundred
and ten of the cx- gardens de mutt, who arc known
| to be devoted to Ledru Rollin and Caussidiere,
have also been arrested, and are to be tried.
| PARIS December Sh.-Tbe Minister of the In
terror has sent circular to the projects of depart
ments, containing instructions relative to the tan
of votes in the appeal to the people. The following
are the principal points:
| "Thc votes to be taken on the goth and 2lst
| instant. The electors are to be the persons who
would be entitled to vote in virtue of the Electoral
law Of the 9Th of March, lS49-that ia to say, all
those not aboring under certain specified disqua-
| fications. who are twenty one years of age, and
have resided six months at least in commune.
The lists to be published at the latest the
10th, and are to be definitely closed on the 18th.
The voting is to be continued each day from eight
O'Clock to four. Electors to bring their votn q
papers ready prepared. They are to contain the
word yes or no, as an answer to the proposition
submitted to the people by the President OF the
Republic. Immediately after the counting of the
IL,
the voting papers, with the exception of those an
nexed to the minutes, are to be burned in presence
of the electors"
II is said that Louis Blanc had been arrested as
he was leaving steamer. Ledru Rollin and Caus-
sidierc said TO have gone from London to
Belgium.
Notwithstanding the assurances of the govern
ment, it is calculated that at leaet dozen of the
departments are In a state of seige.
The London Times commenting ON the charac-
roF Aha nlo hof ,.t
that on Monday, the lst of December, the Minister
of Finance induced the Bank of France to lend him
million sterling, alleging that twas mere affair
of temporary accommodation, to be provided for
by treasury bills. The use made of these funds is
sufficiently apparent, for the coup detat took
place next morning, and services were required
and performed for which the most liberal donations
to the army and the police would hardly seem dis
proprotioned.
The same journal remarks
"Two of our contemporaries, the Ministerial
Globe and the Conservative Morning Chronicle,
which have had the spirit to defy these menaces,
and some of the Belgian journals, have already in
consequence been intcrdicted from entrance into
France, and the correspondents themselves ordered
to quit the country Their offence, it will be UNI
derstood, is the publication of truth, and their
fusal TO make the press of England the vehicle of
the lies of the French police; for we can well un-
derstand that government which has extinguished
all light in the heart OF its capital will endeavor to
shut out every intrusive ray from its frontiers.
These occurrences involve important national in
terests, and an infringement of the rig hts az
well the property of British subjects in friendly
country. We trust, therefore, that they will meet
with the immediate attention of our own govern
ment, and the measures taken by Lord Palmerston
will be successful"
"In fact, from the part assumed by the army at
this period of the eyentful history of the
army being, the forces of the continent now are,
a war establishment for internal purposes--it is
probable that if Louis Napoleon once makes his
new position secure 10y the union and energy of his
military resources, the only serious danger he will
have to parry for come time is that of military dis
affection. The popular and republican party lie
identified with the Socialists faction and prescribed.
The Parliamentary and Constitutional party is
broken up by the misconduct Of the late Assembly,
the intrigues of NJ. Theirs, who has lived to com
plee the ruin of all he proessed to serve, and the
incarceration of its other leaders. The army is
master Of the field; all parties and all ambitions
merged in its ranks; but in spite of ia discipline
and its success, shall perceive that politi-
cal passions are inherenti in body which has ceased
10 be a mere instrument and that every other inter
est will he made to bend to the qualification of it's
desires aud the maintenance of its ascendauts.
"B1t we believe, for the honor of France, that