Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-17
PARTISAN NOTES.
THE RELIGIOUS oUEsTIoN-ExpULsIoN
OF TIE JESUIrS.
Gambetta-An Old Custom-Dog BARRIERS
The Salon-Art-The Drama
General Notes.
PARIS. March %. 1850.

that the prosecutors of the Jesuits have
but placed in the hands of the prosecuted
greater power and security than they have
heretofore possessed. Mr.. Freycinet,
doubtless frightened by the precarious
position in which he found himself after
his inexplicable speech before the Senate,
has tried to redeem himself in the ewes OF
the enraged Deputies. After the recon.
sideration Of the Article I by the Senate.
and it was found that the votes remained
unchanged, Mr.. Freycinet made another
speech before the same House, in which he
stated that a transaction had been proposed
in regard to the Article 7, but that the
Article was a transaction on the laws
already existing, and since theSenate refused
to accept the Article 7, there remained but
the application of the existing laws, and
they would be applied The determi-
nation with which the usually timid
Mr.. Freycinet expressed himself on this
occasion caused the Jesuits, who had cried
victory, to draw down their faces
into an unusual gravity of ex-
preston. There are now existing
three different laws, made at different pc
RODS, condemning the Jesuits to Danish
ment or inaction. There exists, besides, a
law by which, on any occasion deemed
proper by the authorities, all strangers can
be ordered to leave the French territory
within twenty-four hours. 1t is stated
positively that all foreign Jesuits are
40 BE EXPELLED
After notice of fifteen days. The rest of
the Jesuits and other Orders not author
lied are to be disbanded and scattered ;
they will be prohibited from owning prop
erty or from dwelling in France as organ
lied communities. Now these Orders, be-
fore obeying, can demand an authorization,
which can be granted only after special
law is passed by both houses. 1t can easily
be imagined the amount of time which will
be engrossed by all these proceedings, the
discussions which will arise, and when once
authorized these Orders will enjoy more
privileges than before. The Reverend
Father Beckx, the Director of the Jesuits,
is now i'll Paris, and will, of course, be
on the President of the Republic, NJ
Grevy, and had with him a private
interview, but the particulars have not
reached the public. Eighteen months ago,
when the possibility of the Article 7 was
talked about, the Jesuits, who enjoy wide
reputation for their sagacity and intelli-
gence, sold all their property in France for
forty millions of francs. This property
was bought by an association of rich En-
gish noblemen, converts to the Catholic
faith, and who have established a bank
called the Anglo Bank, in view of succor-
ing the Jesuits. The property now in the
hands of these gentlemen will be rented to
those Orders already au thorized, to be
handed over to the Jesuits when they re-.
turn to France, which must surely come to
pass. Now it is easy to ask, where is the
benefit to be derived from all this agitation
and persecution? The most ardent parti-
sans of the Article 7 at present acknowl-
edge that they have made fur pas and
for which they have only to thank Gam
BETA. Ever since
GAMBETTA
Has become President of the Chamber of
Deputies, and has through that title taken
up his residence in the elegant palace for
merly occupied by the Duke de Morny, the
famous Minister of Napoleon III, he has
become singularly conservative. 1t seems
that the Injuries of the palace have had
somewhat the same effect on him as the
fertile valleys of Italy had ON the Vandals
of the past. No one recognizes in bin the
Gambetta OF old, who, when the Republic
was in danger, with hurried feet sped from
one part of France to the other, callingthe
faithful to action and exciting the indiffer-
rent His friends have dropped off one by
one, and his most intimate friends offer as
an excuse for him, that as he has labored
hard to establish the Republic, he is now
entitled to ease and repose. Many older
and as hard working soldiers in the ranks
of the Republic are far from considering
their labors finished, and Gambetta is re-
garded by his former friends only as dem
agogue who has made ofthe people ladder
to help him to comfortable little nest
where he is sheltered from the storms. He
was reported seriously i'll the other day
and the news caused much CONSERVATION,
among what party do you think
Among the Republican party? Not at all,
those alarmed were the enemies of the
Republic, for so long as Gambetta yields
the scepter the French Republic will remain
Repu6fque coRSerUdtYice in the same state
as the Empire left the country, for since
all these years not single reform has been
accomplished-liberty of reunion, liberty of
association or liberty of the press has not
yet been granted. Yes, the reactionaires
tremble at the idea of Gambetta disappear
ing from the horizon, for in his place would
mo rasoluta foY.
action, such patriots as Louis Blanc and
others, when France would then become a
Repubtqae retormdtTice In order that he
may not lose all popularity he has acquired,
Gambetta has agitated this religious ques-
ton to occupy the public attention and
that the country may not too severely
criticise his inaction.
At present along the banks of the Seine
may be perceived remnants of
VERY OLD CUSTOM
Which has been almost entirely destroyed
by the railroads. In former times canal
boats brought from Normandy and other
parts of France apples in large quantities,
to be bought up by more modest mer-
chants and retai1ed to Parisians. The
apples arrived in the spring time, when
these boats to the number of fifty and
sixty adjoining were stationed along the
banks of the river. They presented
most lively scene amidst wagons, carts,
buyers and sellers, for all Paris was there
procuring months provision of apples.
This much-appreciated fruit in those days
was within the reach of the poor, for what
was then paid for a basket must now be
given for pound. This apple market is
called the mail" 1t scarce retains a
vestlge of its former Importance, for its
presence now is hardly noticed. Aside
from twelve or fourteen boats, few mer-
chants, and stewards of hotels and some
extensive private houses, who pass leisurely
from one boat to the other, there remains
nothing to attract the attention. In the
fall it is the grape market, when these
boats come from Fontainbleau and else
where, but the railroad has proved as dis
to that as to the apple market.
Each season Paris brings to view singular