Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-31


When he had passed essayed further progress to-
wards the Rue st. Denis but the hedge Of bayonets still
orsted as ominousy as went into little tobac-
comsts shop and the pretty maychand showed me =
nghtfu trace OF the passage of ball. which had
gone right through the shutter and glass smashed
ON cases OF cigars and half demolished the little tobacco
nists parlor. A
My countrymen in great force ON the Bouleyards
walking arm and arm, fourabreast it is the proud
tom OF Britons to do. From them heard how Major
Pongo, OF the Companys service would certainly have
placed his sword at the dposa of the Government sup
OF law and order had he not been confined his bed
with severe attack Of rheumatism; how Mr.. Bellows,
rarsian correspondent Of the Evening Grumber" had
been actually led out to be shot, and was only saved
through the inerposon his tailor who was sergeant
IN the National Guard, and who passing by, though not
on duty, exered his influence with the military authors
ties 70 save the life of Mr. Bellows; how the reverend
Mr. Faidstool ministre anglican discovered in
bin moaning peously; how Buckley the man who talked
SO much about the Pytchy hounds and of the astonishing
leaps he had taken when riding after them concealed
himself in acoa-cear and lying down his face never
stirred from that position from till midnight on
Thursday athough to be sure have right to taunt
him with his prudence;) how, finally McGropus, the
Scotch surgeon boted nconnenty in cab, with an i'm
mense quantity OF luggage, towards the du
Nord and being stopped in the Rue St. Denis gno
minousy turned out Of his vehicle by the mobthe cab,
together with AcGropuss trunks being Immediately
verified into the nucleus Of barrcade how returning the
following morning to whether he could any
portion OF his effects he found the barbados in posses
sion Of the military who quietly cooking their soup
over hire principally fed by the remnants of his trunks
and pormanteaus whereup0n, ranticay endeavorng to
rescue some dyeca mem5rq of his property from tho
wreck, he hustled and bayenetsa ~ - ssnncly'
hreatsned with arresi ana suasaary mihsary
and ultimately paraded from the vicinity Of the byouac
by bayonets with sharp points.
With the merits demerits Of the struggle have
nothing to say But the horrible ferocity and bru-
taity OF this ruthless soldery them bursting INTO
shops to search for dragging the inmates
forth like sheep from saughterhouse smashing the FUR
niture and windows saw Them when making passage
for convoy of prisoners wagon full Of wounded,
strike wantonly at the bysanders with the butends OF
their muskets and thrust at them with their bayonets
might have seen but my exploring inclination was
rapidly subdhed by gigantic lancer at the corner Of ne
Rue Richeieu who, seeing stand still for moment,
stopped from his horse and putting his pistol to my head
fright between the eyes, told me to trdrersr" As
believed he would infaiby have blown brains out IN
another minute turned and fed So much for what saw
know, far know from trustworthy per-
sons from eyewnesses from patent and notorious re-
port that the military who now the supreme masters
of that unhappy city and country have been
most frghtful barbarities since the riots were over
know that from the Thursday arrived to the Thursday
left Paris they daily shooting their prisoners IN cold
blood that man caught on the Pont Neuf drunk with
the gunpowder brandy the cabare and shouting some
baderdash about the Rspubigue Democraque ct SoGle,
dragged into the Prefecture of Police and some SOL
ders cartridges having been found in his pocket was Led
into the yard and there and them uned unshrven,
unanealed, shot know that in the Champ de Mars
one hundred and fy-two executed and heard
horrible story $50 horrible that scarcely credit
m that batch of prisoners tied together with ropes
like fagot of wood and that the struggling mass was
fired into until not limb moved groan was utter
ed Iknow-and my informant was a clerk in the ONCE
of the Ministry of War-that the official return Of in
surgents killed tco thousand and seven and soldiers NJ
teen. Rather long odds.
We were indoors bemes this Friday evening, compar
ing busiy as to what had during the day
We momentary expected to hear the artillery again. but
thank Heaven the bloodshed in the streets at least was
and par still lty in
barrcades all demolished and another struggle was
for the moment crushed
The streets next day full Of hearses but even
the numbers of funerals that took place insignificant
in comparison to the stacks Of corpes which cast
into deep trenches without shroud coffin and covered
with quickme. went to the Morgue in the afternoon
| and found that dismal charnel-house fully tenanted
Every of the fourteen beds had corpse dead
with gunshot wounds, some sabred some horribly mu
tilated by balls There queue outside Of at
least two thousand people laughing talking smoking
eating apples though it pleasant spectacle
they going to instead of that frghtfu exhibition.
Yet in this laughing talking crowd there were fathers
who had missed their who came there dread
to the corpses of their fathers wives of Socialist
wormen sick with the almost certainty of finding the boz
dies of their husbands The bodies only exposed six
hours but the clothes remained very grove of bouses
The neghborng churches hung with black aud there
funeral services at St. Roch and at the Madeleine
And yet, with this Gogotha closes with the blood
not yet dry the Boulevards with corpses yet lying
about the streets; with five thousand soldiers bivouacRg
in almost every street; with brutal military in almost
every printing Office tavern, cafe with procamations
threatening death and confscaton covering the walls
with the city in siege, without legislature without laws
without Government-this extraordinary people was
the next night dancing and flirting Mt the Sale Valentino
the Prado oungng in the ers Of the Italian Opera,
gosspng their cau-sucrt, squabbng their
dominoes outside and inside the cafes Rachel in
"Les Horaces went to the VorSs the Opera Comqx,
and end Of theatres and walked home at night
through lines of soldiers broodng their bvouacs
went into restaurant and, asking whether had been
ball which had starred the magnificent pergass before
me- got for answer, Ball, sir! cannon ball, siryes,
sir for all the world though had inquired about the
mutton being in good cut or asparagus in season
So, while they shooting prisoners and dancing the
Schottsch at the Casino; burying their dead selling
breoques for watch chains in the Paais Royal demosh
ing barrcades and staring at the caricatures in M Au
bers windows; taking the wounded to the hospitals and
stock jobbng the Bourse, went about my business,
as well the state Of siege would let me. Turning my
face homeward took the Rouen and Hayrc railway, and
hat Of the last gendarme disappear with the recedng pier
at Havre pleasant vision Of the blue-coats oskn hats
and lettered collars Of the land going to be-
fore my eyes and say that descending the
panion-ladder / thanked Heaven l Englshman.
was excessively ea-sk but not the less thankfu and
getting at sleep, dreamed Of the bill Of rights and
habeas corpus wonder how they would flourish amidst
liberty equality, fraternity, and musketryl
Household Words.
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.
REsUscrrATros or FROZEN FIsH.-Prof s. ID. Lathrop,