The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-25

About IL o'clock the appearance of the insured
ton became serious that the soldiers at all IA.
email posts ia Paris were Withdrawn, TO pryeu
any surprise and being disarmed by rioters befed
the arrival of sufficient troops. About oclocl
large relnforcenlents arrived consisting OF threl
or our regiments Of cavalry, six batialions Of ar
tlery, and four five regiments of infantry.
understand from good sources that the newt
from the departments arc most frightful General
de Castellane, the commander in chief at Lyons
has declared against the President. AT Amens
the Council General and the Municipal Council ARD
en- peTmanenee. The National Guards OF that place
have declared in iavor of the Assembly, and tho
troops are undecided. Rheims has risen. There
is great uneasiness about Bordeaux. At Roueh
there has been no rising, but there Is the greates
uneasiness
p. s. At the moment while W ~ c the people arr,
crying "Vive PATmee,' s'Viye la Lyme" Ii ii
said General Magnan cannot be found, and tina
he opposes the views Of the President. Some regi+
ments said to have gone over to the people.
Thursday, 8 II. NJ MATTERS here aIe going iront
bad to The state Of Paris 10 the most terri
BILE. The insurrection of June was not nearly 81
bad the present, and the troops not TO be Dc
pended upon. The fighting at the barricades il
going ON with the same vigor; but as il is impossi
bic 10 approach the district of the town which Is
disturbed, it ID impossible TO know how the affair ID
going
The most alarming rumors current as to the
state of the departments II is generally reported.
(and know that the information comes from good.
sources) that General Castellane and the army
which he commands have gone against the Presi
dent, and taken part with the Assembly.
At Lille, General Neumayer, with two regl-'
ments, said TO have refused to adhere to the acts
of the President Strasbourg and Rheims are said
10 have risen. The journals which have arrived
from Augers contain violent articles against the
government, and call for resistance.
Nj. Carrier has been sent of to Lyons, as commits
sary general.
M. Berard, late representative Of the people, haz
been sent to Amens, where the Project, NJ. Leon
Mason, has made common cause with the Mum,
he. ai
government.
mention these rumors they reach OF
course some of them are exaggerated, but the very
fact of their circulation shows how serious the cri
sis is.
At the moment when write there are numerous
and formidable barricades raised in the quarters st.
Denis, st. Martin, and the neghborhood of the Rue
de Rambuteau. Even at the corner of the Rue de
la Grange Bataliero there Is large barrcade, and
shots fired on the troops from Toronis coffee
house. Several people have been killed in the Rue
de Ornament. M. Sallandrouze's carpet factory
has been riddled by cannon, and il s said that
thirty people who were in it have been killed 1t
appears that shots had been fired from the
windows. The Boulevards swept every five
minutes by large bodies of lancers. Orders have
been given 10 the troops TO give noquarter. very
few of the barricades have been taken. con-
siderable number of insurgents taken in the Rue
Chaplin, between two barricades, were shot on the
spot.
Several members of the club of the Rue des
Pyramids met this morning and resolved to sup
port the Government against the insurgents.
do not know where they met, but their usual place
OF meeting 10 occupied by so soldiers, and the
government has given orders to prevent meeting.
You aware that the l52 representatives who
we're imprisoned at Mont Valerien were set at
liberty last night The greater number of them
were legtimists. They all refused to pledge
themseves TO remain neuter, TO leave the prison
if any were retained. Ultimately they were all
set at liberty commissary of police conducted
them in prison vans TO the garden of the Luxem
bourg, where he told them to alight, and, having
politely taken off his hat, said they at liberty
Since then several have again been arrested.
Half past Sr. The government denies all the
sinister reports in circulation. The Minister of the
| Interior declares that the news from the depart
ments, which has reached the government, ia ia
general satisfactory; and that at Lyons, after
moment of establishment and hesitation, the
whole place accepted the acts of the government.
| The system the President has announced, of taxi
ing the opinion of the people, as given great
offence, and has turned many peaceable people
against him.
| p. Sat the prese moment the firing has
ceased. The insurgents have been driven back
in several quarters. The affair is, however, not
over, and will tainly be renewed in the morn
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