The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-01-12

lhis man, hitherto considered vulgar. puesile, thea,rcal and vain, was sodddeniy discovered 10 be capable of the most audacicus acts. On the sa os December and the day following he dissolved the government. suppressed the lays. expelled the high court of justice. imprisoned the representatives. seired twenty-five mil lions cf francs belonging to the bank of i France. deluged the backwards of raris with blood and tcErufized France. He afterwards exported ten thousand reput- licans to the penal colonies of Africa and Cayenne. and exised forty thousand more in Belgium. Spain, Switserland and Eng- land. A pretty lively record for an idiot
 Ca the mosning of the Coup d'Etat ali Paris was in ccmmotion. Resistance te the usurper assumed proportions unex- pected. BArucades and redcubts spsans up as d by magic in many places. chiefly br,stlcd with combatants. A committee cf resistance had been formed which en- eoursged antagon,sm ln every way poss,- bic. Victor Hugo. ~ho subsequently was compelled to iy from France not 10 return during the existence of the em- pire. vas one of the mos, active mem. bers ot this committee. Every~herc ~cre heard erics of Tive Ia kepubllque.' "A bas Souleuque'" and io, ,,mc It seemed that Louis Napoleon was lost, A hulc stses one o'clock p. m. the boule,ards were suddenly covered with cavalry and infantry. by order of NApo- leon. conveyed to his commanding gen efal. Rogue, They reached from the Madeleine almost the entire length oi the boulevards Hugo says the whole number oi troops was 10 iio men. There were hve bngades. and each brigade had a battery ot artillery. Several guns were framed 10 sweep streets on which there were no signs of bartieadc, People i from the side salks and the windows ob served with \ sort of s,upor ih,s array oi sabtcs. bayonets and cannon. The sol diers laughed and ohaued together. and some of them exchanged ehah with the | bystanders An old officer who had re- garded the soldiers closely, sald. m pass. i ing cafe. They arc drunk" and Il was afterwards established sha, hauot was distributed freely among the soldier, on that fatal morning, as If to prepare them iof bloody work dclibeIaiol, laid out iur them.
 Al moment when the crowd efie,i Ia Inc troops. l" NNe la Republtaue \ bas, l Lotus Napoleon '" an o.itset wa. heard io say m low voice. lhts wil! soon be turned into a pork butt hers buslneAs . 1 liy thus tune the w,de s,dewalkS were thfonscd ~tih people There were na mefous mothers with babes m thetf arms. The cnes oi Nive Ia kcpuhlique !, icaioubled. when suddenly colonel of dancers sputfcd has horse into the midst oi the group. followed by his troops. who femnrselessly rode down men. women and children and pu, them ,o the sabre. which. according io an observer. VAS the work ot an instant This was at the loscf extremity ot the rue Taitbout. where Il connectN with the houlevat dcs liahens About this tune some ho~lucfs opened htc upon batt,e ade a, the extremity oi the boulrsaIie rois sonnlere. Inc hts, proletulc pas>ed over the batris adc and killed ho, who ~a, drawing water from basin al the ] Ghateau.d Eau Inc stores were closcd immediately ard almast all the wiado.s The haffie .de ~as ieehiy defended. and i the few shots disl haged Al Il injmred no one save the boy al the basin
 All at once these WAS movement ca traotdinary and terrible, frs, among the infantry and then with the ayairy The troops suddenly hanged froui and opened tie upon the people who iined the bnulc- ward The apologis,s of iauis Napoleon say pistol shot was hfrd agalnsi the soldiers from an open window at the coi ncr of the tue du Sentlei others ly ,ha, i' was iiIcd from Inc tooi nf n mansion here atc slill many who hehes- hh ,he pistol shot WAS not the canse of the mas safre winch foIlo~ed. bui an agreed .,y nal Howesei II may hase been. Asalf, infantry and artillery. suddenly and of one accord. hted full front upon the fro~d m2ssed on the sidewalk and without any one aisihing ~hy the whole length oi the boulevard, the us hest. the iisehest and the most joyous of raris. wss turned into great siaaghteung place The night, 'he eriea of pam and alarm. were some'hing terrible The efo~d flew in all directions hal oi halle,s raiLing upon lhefn and mouatIny hou the pavement to the roofs In s u4lna'e the walks ~ere hesped ~i,h ,h. lead and the dytns Young men fell. the eigaf in the mouth. Women ~l,h th,ldGen ln
 
 ihe slaughter went on fot ialiy 's~nty minutes The snldiers hred into windovs. and even thrass ,her carbines into the apert res opening into cellar and d,s charged them, so that sesefaI ~ho had refuged there were killed and wounded
 If y"o ~'ah all the pAr'" ulars of 'hiA ruassafre of ,hr innff~nsiVe st,n-ns sf faris by order of the usafpef. ior there ls htiie douol ths, II ~as done In accord Ance ~ith pteMfanged plan, read tte- tor Hugo's % Htstoty of Crime a In the execution Of his programme T ~ss ueees- sAfy for Napoleon to iB,ifn date Fan. and through II France. and he succeeded IT oa, efedually he people killed ihai after noon did no; constitute ali of his victims by any means. for hundreds were. in he days that foilo~ed. sho, m bztoh~a of tweriy or thiuy on the Champs de .ats 4..x IA .L. ka