, 1862-12-11
Dethronement Of Charles =.

ernment Of France, by order Of Charles x, de.
claring that the freedom Of the press was no
longer to be permitted in the kingdom. There
had been for some time bitter murmurings against
the despotism Of the king. Upon the appearance
Of this ordinance, excitement famed like q con.
hagration through every lano and alley Of the
city. All the thoroughfares leading 10 the Tuil-
cries and the Palas Royal were thronged with
the reused masses. Readers, mounted on door
steps and barrels, read the ordinance to the ex.
cited multitude. During the whole day the com
motion increased in its menace Of violence. As
night came, the tunult multiplied In the dark
ened streets.
The royal Dragons swept the thoroughhres
TO disperse the crowd At one point the people,
to protect themselves from the rush Of the troops,
overturned an omnibus, and throwing around il
such material as was at hand, formed q barricade
which the cavalry could not force. The hint was
instantly adopted, and ir'all the leading streets
barbados were formed, pavements torn Up, and
the people behind them defended themselves
with pistols, guns and stones Thus passed the
night
When the morning dawhed, these formidable
barricades we're everywhere seen, and instead Of
the unArmed mobs who, on the preceding day,
had fed before the dragons, large masses oi
well armed citizens presented themselves In mill
tary array, many Of them led BY veteran gerer.
ais Of the revolutionary armies Lafayette bad
come from bis retreat 10 aid the people in their
new struggle against despotism. From the tow
ers Of Notre Dame the tFi-eolor doated dehanlly.
Tri-colored cOckades were on every hat The
exciting tones Of tho tocsin and the drum rallied
the multitude for war Paris was 4 military
camp. The Ring had at his immediate command
eighteen thousand highly disciplined troops. To
encounter them in serious war was no rhilds
play. They were all assembled in the garden Of
the Tueries. With the rising sun, in sOlid pha-
anx artillery, infantry and cavalry, they marched
forth to sweep the streets Of the insurgent city.
A terrible conflict Immediately ensued. Ball
and grape shot moved down the reckless masses.
Shells demolished houses where the people sought
covert II is not easy to conceive the horro
Of such conflict, in the crowded streets Of q
city. One lady, in terror, buried herself bo-
meath the clothes Of her bed. A cannon ball
pierced the house, passed through her bed, and
scattering her mangled limbs over the room, con-
tinued is path Of carnage.
Eight gentlemen Refe taking their lunch II q
table. A large ball swept over III brushing Il
clean Of is contents and buried itself in the side
IF the house, iniunng no one. That ball was
aiterward glded and suspended IN iFont 81 The
dwelling, with this inscription: An orange
from Charles Y the last token Of his paternal
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streets, impeded by barricades, they were as
sailed from the windows, roofs, and every avail
able point with storm Of bullets, and all the
missiles Of destruction which fury could grasp.
For three days the conflict continued unabated.
The streets were red with blood. More than one
thousand Of the royal troops were killed in the
first Of the three days. New troops were how
ever, continually brought in from a distance,
while at the same time, through every avenue,
multtudes Of enlaged countrymen were cohtin-
ually gathering 70 swell the powefs 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 Paais
Royal, and from the assailants became the as
sailed Charles X, astonished at the fury which
he had excited, recalled the ordinance and dis
missed the ministry. But Il was too late for
compromise. The king, with bis family, bad
fed from the pefilous tumult Of the city 10 st.
Cloud. There, with bis spy glass, be watched
the national flag, the emblem Of Bourbon power,
floating from the turreis of the rdilefiek Bud
denly he saw It fall, and in q moment after the
tri-color rose upon The same flagstaff The king
turned pale as death, and exclaiming /" An Is
lost |" staggered to . chair. The triumphant
people had, ike an inundatiOn, swept into the
Louvre and the Tuileries, and the exhausted
royal troops were before them ike rubbish on
the food.
ST. Cloud is but six miles from Paris. Tho
royal family, in the utmost terror, anticipating
an attack from the insuFgent populaee, fed to
one Of the royal hunting seats at Rambouilloi,
thirty miles from Paris Scarcely had the king
arrived at bis hunting seat ere the alarm couri-
ers, from their ioaIning steeds,, rushed into the
presence Of the royal family % tell them that
the whole pOpulace Of Paris seemed TO bo On
the move to attack them. Men, women and
children, on horseback, in hacks and IN omni-
buses, in carts and on foot, q motley throng Of
uncounted thousands, were on their way % pay
their fallen monarch very unwelcOmo visit
Charles x. had not forgotten the scenes which
the French monarchy had So frequently wit
messed. His own brother, Louis XVI, but a
few years before, had been torn from bis throne
and bis palace, and dragged on acart to the gull
lotine. Thus admonishsd, the king sought salty
In flight and exile. TWAS the third time he had
been compelled to escape from France The
peril was 50 great that the royal family could
not wait for the dawn Of the morning, Il was
indeed q night Of terror and Of tears, when
Charles and his family, ia midnight gloom en-
tered their carriages, accompanied by few ad-
herents, and fled from their foes. The shouts Of
the approaching multitude, and the crackle Of
musketry, ilied the night air, as the Bourbons
commenced their midnight journey from regal
to ignOminy and exile.
When the morning sun rose over the hills Of
France, this funeral procession Of departed power
was seen vending It's way rough the distant
proSinees Of the empire, 10 find, n foreign lands,
/ refuge and grave. The alarm bells Of the
nation tOlled the knel Of departed royalty
while now and then was heard the distant thnn-
iers Of the instruction gun. The tri-colored
iag, floating from every castle and turret, pro
Claimed that Ihe BOuTbOns had gone down into
! grave, from whence there was no resurrection.
Charles and bic son aud grandson, three gvnsrk-
lions Of kings with the sobbing females q lhe
househoid we're crushed by grirf not ralilv i'm