The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1852-01-02
FRANCE.

The news from Paris brought by the
Europe and published yesterday. is most
important. It amounts to nothing less tho n
revolution in political affairs, and may BE-
regarded az the commencement Of new
state Of things.
1t appears from teiegraphic dispatches
which we find in the Richmond papers OF
Monday. that coup de eftt was made by
Louis Napoleon on the second instant. He
seized the rens Of Government and dissolv-
e9 the National Assembly-Icclared Paris
in state of seige, and appealed directly to
the People 10 sustain him in his movements
to urrcs. the 'r:usarchcsl Jetdency Uf Ihu
Assembly,
Louis NapooOn's arrangements had been
made with consummate skill and secrecy.
During the night of the 1s;. inst. the whole
plan was formed, and before the public re-
| ceived any inlimalion Of the event, a new
Ministry was formed and a proclamation
issued restoring universal suffrage TO the
people, and proposing new system of Cow
eminent, the leading features Of which are,
the election by tho people and the army, of a
President of the Republic, who shall hold
office for tea years, and be supported by a
Council Of State, and by a Legislature to
consist Of two houses.
At daylight on Tuesday morning, the
Presidents Proc clamaiion was found posted
throughout the city Of Paris. In this proc
Iamutiun he advised the immediate disper-
sion of the National Assembly, and present.
ed the projet of new form of Government.
The election of President, under Louis
NapoIcon's plan, is TO take place throughou,
France during the present month; (Decem'
Der, and he promises 10 bow 10 the will Of
the People.
So secretly and yet so systematica'l was
the whole plan carried INTO execution, that
it was fully consumma,ed before the AS.
semby received the slightest iniimailon of
the designs of its author, an entire new
Ministry having been formed during the
night. The President proposes that pe"dlng
The election The Executive power remain in
his hands. He says that he had been forced
into his present. atstude by the course Pur'
sued by his opponents in the Assembly; and
i, is cer,nin thet Theirs. ChSgarnier ana
others. of his opponents, had determined TO
demand his arrest aid impeachment on the
ID inst, and were lmost in the act of NOV.
ing in the matter when, they, together with
their principal friends. were arrested md
conveyed TO VIncenhes, where the members
of the Assembly Attempted to meet Official
ly. They were ordered TO disperse, and
upon refusing, were arrested. About two
hundred members were arrested, but may
have been subsequently released
All the prlncipa leaders of The opposition,
however, are now i'll prison.
Three hundred members of the Assembly,
il is reported have given in their adhesion
to the new order of things, and telrgraphic
OPSpH lCHeS lIOll 'Hc btpul'hVh'S S'"'NJ
intelligence to the effect that the Presidents
declarations had been hailed with the utmost
enthusiasm throughout the country. Sub
scquenlly these reports were conlrAdlclef;
and it is said barricades had been erected In
different quarters Of Pans, but they were
speedily broken down by 'he troops.
Other udvicss state lhu, b!oody conflie;
had taken place between the teople and the
troops, in which the latter were victorious,
New outbreaks were. continually occur
ring in all parts Of the city. and the troops
were ircJ upon from the hOusetops OF The
citizens.
Accounts were generally favorable 10 the
President; but several Generals had declared
against him; and General Neumver was
marching on Paris with four regiments to
oppose The President and the army. The
most intense excitement prevailed and there
was no telling to what extremity of Blood
sh cd the conflicts between The people ord
Louis Nupoleon's forces might be carried.