The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-09-27
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order Of Charles X, declaring that the
freedom Of the press was no longer to be
permitted in the kingdom. There had
been for some time bitter murmurings
! dgsffmSs sSse aespotiSm of the king. Upon
the appearance of this ordinance, OK, it, =
nent famed like a confagration through
every lane and alley of the city. All the
thoroughfares leading to the Tuilerics
and the Palais Royal. were thronged with
the reused masses. Readers, mounted on
doorsteps and barrels, read the ordinance
to the excited multitude. During the
whole day the commotion increased in its
menace of violence. As night came, the
tumult multiplied in the darkened streets.
TdL tej'S SCGgc-e,& NSSTcp< tie thor.
ODgbfares ~ AisprrSe the crowd. At one
point the people to protect themselves
| from the rush Of the troops, overturned
an omnibus, and throwing around it such
material as was at hand, formed barr-
cade which shS c~Y"lSy NetsA not force,
The hint was instantly adopted, and in all
the leading streets barricades were formed
pavemcnts torn up, and the people behind
them defended themselves with pistols,
guns and stones. Thus passed the night.
When the morning dawned, these for
midable barricades were everywhere seen,
and instead Of the unarmed mobs who,
on the preceding day, had fled before the
Dragons. large masses of well armed cit
liens presented themselves in military
array, many of them led by veteran gem
erals Of the revolutionary armies. Lafay-
ette had come from his retreat to aid the
people in their new struggle against des-
| potism. From the towers Of Notre Dame
the tri-cOlOr floatcd detiantly. Tri ,olor-
ed cockades were on every hat. The ex.
citing tones OF the tocsin and the drum
rallied the multitude for war. Paris was
n military camp. The King had at his
immediate command eighteen thousand
highly disciplined troops To encounter
them in serious war was no child's play.
They were all assembled in the garden oi
the Tuiieries. With the rising sun, in
solid phalanx, marched forth to sweep the
streets Of the insurgent city. A terrible
conflict Immediately ensued. Ball and
grape-shot moved down the reckles
masses. Shells demolished houses where
the people sought covert. 1t is not easy
to conceive the horrors Of such conflict,
in the crowded streets of city. One
lady, in terror, buried herself beneath the
clothes of her bed. A cannon ball pierced
the house, passed through her bed, and
scattered her mangled limbs over the
room, continued its path of carnage.
Eight gentlemen were taking their lunch
at a table. A large ball swept over it,
brushing it clean of its contents and
buried itself in the side of the house, in
juring no one. That ball was afterward
gilded and suspended in front of the
dwelling, with this inscription: "Ar
orange from Charles Y. the last token o.
his paternal love"
AS the Kings troops struggled through
the streets, impeded by barricades, they
were assailed from the windows, roofs
and every available point with storm o
bullets, and all the missiles Of destruction
which fury could grasp. For three days
streets were red with blood. More thar
one thousand Of the royal troops were
killed in the first Of the three days. New
troops were, however, continually brought
in from distance, while at the same time
through every avenue, multitudes of en-
ragged countrymen were continually gath
ering to swell the powers of resistance
During the three days, eight Thousand
persons were killed and wounded.
The king now became thoroughly
alarmed. His troops, defeated, were al
driven in upon their headquarters at the
Tuileries and the Palais Royal, and from
the asSailants became the assaiIed.-
Charles ", aStonished at the fury which
he had excited, recalled the ordinance anc
dismissed the ministry. But it was toc
late for compromise. The king. with hi,
family, had fled from the peril0us tumul
Of the city to st. Cloud. There, with hi,
spy glass, he watched the national flag
the emblem Of Bourbon power, floating
from the turrets OF the Tuileries. Sud
denly he saw it fall and III moment after
the tTicO(or rose upon the same flag
The king turned pale as death, and ex
claiming "All is lOst!" staggered to a
! chair Yhe triumphant people had, like
an inundatiOn, swept into the Louvre and
the TuilerieS. and the exhausted roya
troops were before them like rubbish or
the flood.
st. Cloud is but six miles from Paris
The royal family, in the utmost terror
anticipating an attack from the insurgenI
Populace, fled to one Of the royal hunting
seats at Rambouillet, thirty miles from
Paris. Scarcely had the king arrived Al
his hunting seat ere the alarm courierS
from their foaming steeds, rushed into thu
presence of the royal family to tell then
that the whole populace Of Paris seemd
to be on the move to attack them. Men
women and children, on horseback, ir
hacks and in omnibuses, in carts and OF
foot, motley throng of uncounted thou
sands, were on their way to paw their
fallen monarch very unwelcome visit
Charles y. had not forgotten the scenes
which the French monarchy had so fre
quently witnessed. His own brother
Louis XVI., but few years before, had
been torn from his throne and his palace
and dragged on a cart to tho gullotine.-
Thus admonished, the king sought safety
in fight and exile. 1t was the third time
he had been compelled to escape from
France. The peril was so great that the
royal family could not wait for the dawn
of the morning. 1t was indeed night Of
terror and tears, when Charles and his
family, in midnight gloom, entered their
carriages, accompanied by a few adhe.
rents, and fed from their foes. The
shouts Of the approaching multitude, and
the crack Of musketry, filled the night
air, as the Bourbons commenced their
journey. from regal magnifc.nce to igno.
Ininy and exile.
When the morning sun rose over the
hills Of France, this funeral procession ol
departed power was seen vending its
way through the distant provinces Of the
empire, to find, in foreign lands, refuge
or a grave. The alarm bells of the nation
tolled the kncl of departed royalty while
now and then was heard the distant thun.
der of the insurrection gun. The tri-col.
ored flag, floating from every castle and
turret, proclaimed that the Bourbons had
gone down into a grave, from whence