Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-27

report to the President Of the Republic dated the 7h
s.Monsieur lie President The departments of the He
raut and the Gard exposed to eeryescence whc
the leaders of the socialist party have kept up for
time with detestabe perseverance, Symptoms Of disturb
have already manifested themselves in this region
the SOUTH and the evil would assume much gray,
proportions if the Government did not hasten apply
remedy by Of the most prompt and vigorous mea
On point of the territory have secret societies
been organized with ensemble and audacity. They
propagate every where the most subyerve doctrines
prepare sort the eyentualties of instruction
1t is important therefore, to anqulze honest men who
oppressed and menaced with impunity by minority
of agtators With this view have the honor to submit
your sanction decree declaring the departments
Herault and the Gard in a state Of siege"
The above report is followed in the oneu by decree
of the President of the date declaring these two de-
partments in u state of siege.
The Minister of the Interior has sent circular to the
projects of departments containing instructions relative
to the taking of votes in the appeal to the people The
following are the principal points
THE votes to be taken the Goth and 2st in
slant The electors to be the who would be
entitled to vote in virtue of the electoral law of the 10Th
March, I849 that is to say all those aborng under
certain specified dsquafcations who are twenty-one
years of age and have resided six months least in
commune The lists to be published at the latest
the 10TH and to be denitiyely closed the 10TH
Citizens whose names omitted may call the mayors
or JUICES de pax to insert them The voting is be
tnued each day from eight o'clock to four Where the
population is too large to vote entirely in place.
tons may be established The presidency Of the bureau
Of the voting places is to be occupied by mayors deputy
mayors, and municipal councillors, in their absence
by persons delegated by JUICES de pnix Each bureau
to consist OF president four assessors and secretary
chosen by them from amongst the electors The
are to be taken from amongst the Municipal Councillors
in the order of inscription, unless the JUICES de pax shall
have directly proceeded to designate them Electors
to bring their ready prepared They to
contain the word yes no, to the PROPOSE
ton submitted to the people by the President of the Re-
public They may be printed written, and to be
ON white paper without exterior marks When his
called the eector is to present his vongpaper closed
and the president deposite it in the baotbox This
box is to have two locks the key of Of which
be kept by the president the other by the senior
The vote of each eector is be recorded by the sigma
tre mark Of Of the members of the bureau in the
margin of the list The of the electors who may
not have voted to be called The balotboxes
to be sealed up and deposited during the night at the
Maire and be protected post of the National Guard
or the army The room containing these boxes is to be
sealed up. The counting Of the votes is thus to be pro-
ceeded to- The boxes be opened and the number
Of votes to be verified If this number be greater less
than that OF the voters the fact is to be mentioned in the
minutes The counting of the votes is to be made by
the members of the bureau The tables which this is to
be done to be ranged in such way that electors may
walk round them Blank voting papers, together with
those in which it may be impossible to recognise either
adhesion or REFUSAL not to be counted but to be
annexed to the minutes Immediately after the counting
OF the votes the result of the ballot to be published and
the minutes to be burnt in presence of the electors
In the communes divided into sections the result of the
votes expressed in each section be settled and signed
BY the bureau and afterwards be conveyed by the pres
dent to the bureau of the first section who is to make the
addition The examination of votes for all the depart
ments are to be made by commission of three counci
lors-general to be named by the Project"
The National Guard lucus non ucendo) has taken no
part whatever in the civil strife of the last week Not
one of its uniforms to be seen it is now however
beginning to reappear. see its uniform at some Of the
usual posts To be sure its general just appointed Gen
Lowoestine is devoted the fortunes Of the President
and respecting the dispositions of the Guard issued
order of the day requesting it not without orders
from himself We're Ia Partisan should be ashamed,
after the shameful inacon which has characterized it
during the eyentfu week just passed. when, if the
salvation of the country in question: to appear in the
Uniform of National Guard 1t should certainly have
made its appearance, and thrown the weight of its nfu
and its muskes side the other, according
the opinions of its individual members 1t is ridiculous
nenceforth talk of reliance upon the National Guard Of
Paris for the protection of the republic or indeed Of
my form Of Government in presence Of determined
usurper who may be able to gain over to
MS cause pretorian cohort.
In the Monew of this morning have two documents
touching the National Guard of Paris:
The Minister of the Interior has addressed the fol-
owing letter dated the 7th to the Chief
Of the National Guards:
General: In several parts Of Paris owners of
houses have shamelessly written their doors 1nes
lonnes One could conceive that national guard might
write rmes arachss de force in order to cover his
ponsby regards the State and his honor towards his
fellow citizens but to nscribe mark of shame the
front of ones house is revolving the French cha
racter have given orders to the Project of Police to
these inscriptions to be efaced, and request you
to point out to the legons in which such things have
taken place. in order that may propose to the President
Of the Republic to decree their dissolution"
BY decree of the President of the Republic dated the
7th the fifth legion of the National Guard is dissolved
The motive for this decree the following letter to the
Minister of the Interior from Gen. Lowoestne:
Monsieur lie Ministre The National Guard viii ap-
paud the sentiments expressed in the letter which you
have done the honor to address to One OF the
egons of Paris has submitted to the double insult of be-
ing dsarmed at the houses of its members and the shame
full inscriptions of which you speak The Marie notwith
standing the presence of sixty taken by the in
surgents. This the fifth legion. communicate this
fact to you and call for its dissolution happy on
the other hand to be in possession of great number OF
facts which show that the spirit of order and obedience
has not ceased to reign in many other legions.
The Monr publishes decree Of the President of the
Republic forming commission composed of the President
the second SIXTH and eighth ACCOMPLISHMENTS, NJ JAY
architect of the city Of Paris and M ARsAL, physician
inquire into and estimate the injury received the
third fourth and fifth by innocent victims Of the nsur
rection The decree opens to the Minister Of the
Interior credit Of 200 900 francs for the first necessities
The Constitutional says: es
We have already contradcted the false reports which
current to the manner in which the representa-