The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-12-04

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The Government by this time hav
carried out their threat of expellin
the unauthorized congregations almost
| if not entirely, throughout the lengtl
ana breadth Of france InsParis thor
were only eleven unauthorized monas
teiiss remaining; these have all beel
closed to-day. The monks were ex
IEpelled from their homes in sixty-thre,
Idepartments yesterday, and. as tn
work has been vigorously continued
|to-day, it is probable that at this houl
all the recaIcitrant congregations have
been dispersed. In Paris the unpleas
ant business has been done without
very great disturbance, and at all events
the Parisians may congratulate them
selves on their streets presenting none
of those scenes of rioting which have
to besdeplored in several provincial
towns. No man has been killed, as at
Lyons; no rcvolvers have been fred, as
at Amiens; nor has any officer, as at
Bourges, taken upon himself to horse
whip a by-stander for crying out, "Vi-
vent les Decrets r. The man who was
stabbed at Lyons died without being
able to identify his assailant; and, to
show how high religious party spirit
runs here, may mention that mod
erately Republican newspaper, La
France, edited by M. de Girardin, the
Nestor of French journalists, deems
itself justified in haunting with cow
ardice the young man, who, at Lyons,
drew his sword from his cane in de-
fence of threatened monk. He is
hidden to prove his christianity by de-
livering himself up and making himself
a martyr, if only to show that he is
not a Royalist rather than Clerical.
If no such scenes have occurred in
Paris, it is not because the agents of
the Government have not been resisted
l..-.
The mot d'ordre having evidently
been given from headquarters, precisely
The same system of resistance has been
pursued in Paris as in the provinces.
Doors have been bolted and barred; the
police have been parleyed with through
buckets as though they were ENJOYS of |
IN enemy bcsieging fortress; barri-
;ades have been erected in the interior
If the monasteries; the cells have been
orked, the tocsin has been sounded;
rails and passages have been filled with
'otable Clericals, and the chapels with
'lack-robed women, who, as they were
lriven out, chung to the rails and in
oned hymn to the Virgin, while the
Monks themselves, after cxcommunica-
ing the police inspectors, have had to
re turned bodily out of doors. In one
'ord, adj the dramatic effects which
he Roman Catholic Church has at such
mple command have been EMPLOYED
0 lend dignity to what IL, in itself, ri
iculous, and reality to what the ac-
ors must have known to be a hollow
ham.
All the non-authorized male coagre-
atoms throughout the copntrysslmye
ow been expelled, with the exception
the Trappists and the Carthusians.
is stated that Lord Lyons has made
D application for legalization on be-
alf of the English Passionists in Paris
nd the English Benedictines at Douai,
nd that the Minister of the Interior !,
as granted them temporary authori-
ltion.- The total number of .arrests,in
aris this morning amounts to about
xty, of which only third are main /
lined, comprising those of many of
he influential friends of the religious /
rders, who were found in the monas- |
'ries and who refused to leave except
Y force. ~ qsSaE ssy.ses