The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-03-30
NUMBER AZ.

grandson, the Count of Paris in the midst
OF a defeat; but even then the people sale.
loo late too latep While the cham
was discussing the proposed regency of
the queen during the minority of the
Count de Paris, and Lamartine trvine, "to
stay the plague both ways" loTd Soise
was heard in Of the tribunes. and a hodv
of men armed with muskets entsred tLa
Chamber, forced their way to the front
seats, and pointed their weapons at the
Deputies and the royal party. 1t was ev-
ldent that compromise was out of the
question; provisional government, inc
cludlng Lamartine, was formed; the
Chamber of Peers was forbidden to meet:
the Chamber of Deputies dissolved, and
Louis Philippe ran away from the exas-
perated people IN one horse brougham.
Inc people remembering how they had
Deen treated II 1880, We're suspicious of
all public men, and jealous of authority.
In one day they assembled five times n
front Of the Hotel de Vile, and insisted
that the Provisional Government shouId
report it's proceedings to them every ff-
teen minutes 1t took all the eloouence
even OF Lamartine, whom they loved. to
keep them within bounds. For a time
tpe people were quiet, but the National
Assembly, knowing that designing men
were exciting them, and more trouble Was
In store, commissioned General Cavipnac
to concentrate troops at Paris. and whep
June had arrived garrison of 45, 600 men
was stationed in and about the capital
But the outrages of anarchy were multi
phed IN Paris, but were resisted bv the
government only by persuasion, vigilance,
police regulations, and the National Guard
Inc Tepresslve laws of the old MONARCHY
had been broken down, and the new laws of
the old monarchy had been broken down
and the new laws of the Republic had not
been enacted, The clubs, public gather.
ings, and the press were danSerous weap-
ons for the masses and against the Repub-
lc. Only the army could sustain the
| Government which had become odious to
the population because it endeayored to
obviate the panger of riots by disturbing
the workmen over the departments.
at ten o'clock in the evening of the 22d
Of June an armed mob assembled at the
Luxembourg, intending to fight. Gener-
al Cavlgnac took command of the troops
and the National Guard, and the night
was passed IN preparation for attack and
defense. AT seven o'clock next morning
ten thousand rioters or revolutions were
forming upon the Place de Pantheon IN
tending to attack the Luxembourg. Some
batalllons of the Eleventh Legion attack
ed them, and they dispersed through the
quarters en- the banks of the Seine and
over the boulevards, crying, "To arms
to arms From every side thew were ioin-
by others, headed by agents of sedition
rnd the clubs; the National Guard MIGHT
then have crushed them and saved the
blood that afterward flooded the streets of
Pans. but the National Guard was slow in
responding to the call of Government.
While General Cavignac was consentra-
ting his troops the combat was raging on
the boulevards. Two detachments of vol
unteers assaulted the burricades, and fell
at the trst fre OF the insurgents. Through
out the city the terrible battle ragged. The
gallant Duvlvler, Damesne, and Lamor-
iclere were everywhere encouraging the
troops, and by four o'clock in the after
noon all the left bank of the Seine was
cleared OF the insurgents, and theFpopu-
lace rising in the Quarter de Pantheon
was overawed. Lamoriciere. although
surrounded by 100000 men, succeeded in
| giving courage to the troops, and the dis
mayed and faltering National Guard de-
tachments of the National Guard of the
Balene began to arrive, and the Govern
ment felt sure of victory. General Cayaips
nae, surrounded by his staff, Duclerc.
Lamartine and Pierre Bonaparte-Iately
the murderer of Victor Noir-and follow
ed by hls troops, charged the rebels from
the Chateau d Eau, crying "Vive la Re-
pubhque !" PIare Bonapartes horse was
short under him. The cannon sent bv
General Cavaignac demolished the last for.
tlhcation of the insurgents at this point
and four hundred corpses lay strewn along
the faubourg. On every hand the rioters
were beaten and bafied, and the Assembly
gave all civil power into the hagds of GEN
eral Cavaignac.-NelO York World.