The daily gazette., 1881-01-24
FIRST EDITION.
OUR PARIS LITTER.

TAklsy january otn, lools
Walking down the Passage dc
pOpera the other day, our attention
was arrested by q singular sign over
dingy Office:
"Ni Diem Nj Ma'ire."
(Neither God nor Mastery
On inquiry we were informed that it
was the Office of the newspaper Of
Auguste Blanqui, the notorious revo-
lutionist, who had been a trouble to
Paris and France fer the past half Gen.
tury, with his conspiracies against all
governments, all kood citizens, and
finally aga inst God and Christianity.
on'New Years day this man died,
and yesterday. he was. buried in Pere
la Chaise and had the funeral Of q
hero and martyr. at his home, an
humble fat, the fifth floor in the Rue
dItalie, assembled vast concourse Of
people, most of them disorganizers
and communists like himself, who
made his bad excellence q model for
their own questionable principles.
Blanqui was man of strong mind
and persistent will. He has been q
prominent writer and worker in the
interest of discord for fifty years, and
has been 90 often n1ticed in our own
newspapers that most Of our people
are familiar with his name and repu-
tation.
He has passed forty-two years Of his
life in exile and in prison for his trea-
sonable acts and publications. When
the Republic was firmly established,
one Of its first acts was to set BlanQui
at liberty. True to his nature, he be-
gan to eonspire against the Republic
the day succeeding his release.
He did not, however, have follow
ing of much importance, so he tried
his hand at higher game, and estab-
lishsd his blasphemous paper above
mentioned, which, after brief exist
ance, waned and died; probably be-
cause 1t was nnnoticed BY the aulhori-
ties and disregarded by the better
citiaens; passing away in its own pu-
tridity.
Blanqui and his paper were of the
past, even before the death of the
editor and proprietor, but the circum.
stance Of his death was seized upon
by the various clubs and societies of
anarchists, irrecoonsilables and athe-
lists, always abounding in Paris, IN or
der to make united demonstration Of
their forces, and infuse vitality into
their organizations.
The funeral was devoid of all SOL
emnity-a plain hearse covered by
wreaths Of red immortelles and the
red banners OF, the delegaLions-or SO
many Of them as could find place upon
the hearse. A large red cloth upon
which many red flowers were placed,
was carried by four bearers after the
hearse.
There were about fifteen thousand
persons at the house, and by the time
the cortege had reacked the gates Of
the cemetery the crowd had swelled to
the number of forty Thousand persons,
perfect rabble or mob, the like OF
which was never seen in our coun-
try.
Rochefort was to have headed the
procession. and 30 he did, until the
funeral reached the avenue Of the
cemetery, when becoming alarmed at
the demonstrations of tn mob who
climbed the trees, ran over the tombs
AID made all kinds Of noises, he broke
rank, and attempted to escape by
cross avenue.
The crowd headed him of, and for
time refused TO allow him to 90 with
out speech, but he finally reached his
carriage and drove rapidly away. This
afforded Louise Michel an opportuni-
ty to shrek out her anathemas against
almost everything good in earth and
Heaven. Gambetta came in for good
share of her attention, and she declared
herself the Charlotte Corday, to make
a Marat of Gambetta. The mob all
around were cheering, hooting, groan-
ing and making all kinds of noises DUR
ing her speech, though not one in
hundred could hear word she said.
She called upon the police to ''cnt the
throats of the Gambettites" around her
and "precipitate them into the grave
prepared for her friend BlanQui."
The funerals We have heretofore
seen in France were connected with
impressive solemnity, and were noted
by profuse display of black cloth and
black Grape lighted tapers and attend
act priests, while sweet, sad music
from the grand organ filled the church
and requiems were sung by trained
singers over the grave.
But here the absence Of the priests
was conspicuous and no church door
was entered.
1t had been arranged that Rochefo 1T
should be the orator at tho grave OF
Blanqui.
Hseri Rochefort ! . thin, sharp visaged,
keen eyed man, with steel gray hair,
who looks M though he could hold TO
purpose with grip OF death, and yet be
kind to such as he could love. He is
Just now the most popular man In
Fraase, the idol OF the crowd and king
OF the rable Of Paris, though not him
self Of the rahble. He II one of the
hrst and ablest art coniseurs, and his
house In the cite Maiesherhes Is filled
with bric-A-brac, piotnres, statues, curl
Gus furniture, china, etc. He sees his
visitors like king, and denies all after
his dinner hour. when he prepares him
Aelf TO write his tFenchent articles for the
Intrdnsiosdnt newspaper, always directed
/ against the French government or Its
offi icers, and like Louise Michel, always
making q target OF Gambetts fer his
| sharp arrows and ieroe invectives. He
makes an open boast that he will yet
bring down that great statesman, and
| Ultimately triumph over him and his
government.
There is . bond Of sympathy between
| RochsfOrt aud Louise Michel. They we're
| banished TO New Caledonia, and both
aant To their destination In an old wool