New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-02

was sent and was for some time pupil of the Rev.
Father Tutlier, who was aiterward one of the Paris
Communes victims. At eight years of age the boy
was sent TO the Seminary of Moniiaucon, from
whence he entered tho Lyceum of CahOrs. There he
became distinguished for his oTatorlcal powers and
for his retentive memory. Although up 10
his entry luto the lyceum he had been under
priestly tuteage, with view of himself becoming
priest, his mind had been steadily departing fur
Their and further from eccesiastical doctrines. He
was frequently guilty of INSTRUMENTATION, and 80
vexed his clerical masters that his uncle. the Able
Massabie exclaimed III despair; You can never
make priest out OF him. He Is an utterly undis-
clpinable character" And so the future enemy OF
ecclesiastioism, like Renan. hugo and Rochefort.
having begun his career under the auspices of the
Church, like them also abandoned its fold
and entered purely secular institution His
studies there were soon interrupted, how
ever, by serious accident-the loss OF
of one of his eyes According to many, this injury
self-inicted In tit of rage at being forced to
study something he did not like. According to
others he destroyed his eye to fulfil threat to that
effect made to induce his father to remove hun
from school. A third version. gwen on fair au-
thority, is that the mutlaton was the result of
accident while playing III carpenters shop. Gam
beta himself always stubbornly refused to state
winch of the stories was the correct one. What
ever may be the truth of the matter, the total
destruction of his right eye exercised an important
influence his future career, for during his con-
fnement 10 his bed at that time be resolved to
abandon the study of medicine, in which he had
been engaged, and to devote himself thencefOrth to
law and politics. Continuing his studies he was
graduated as Bachelor of Arts at the age of elgh-
teen, and IN the competition among the five lyce-
ums of Toulouse be won the first prize for French
dissertation.
He then went to Paris and took up his lodgings
in the famous Latin Quarter in order to pursue his
studies for admission to tho ba. There he was
"hail, fellow, well met" among his fellow-stndents,
and spent his evenings at the cafes drinking smok
ing, playing cards, but above all, arguing and dis
putting on topics of law, government and society.
From the first he was an ardent Republican, and "a
good hater" of the Empire and all its works. His
harangues in the cafes and street attract
ed much attention, and brought him more than
once under police surveillance. However, he es-
capped aerrst, aud did not allow these nightly
carousals and fulmnations TO interfere with his
studies, for 1855 he admitted to the bar with
honors, and entered the law Office of NJ. Gre
mieux bidding fair to become one of the
ablest advocates in France. In 1862 his first brief
was gwen him, WREN he acted Cr5mieux's assist
ant in the defence of Greppo, who with dfty-three
accompIces, was prosecuted for conspiracy against
the Emperor. So ably did Gambetta speak on this
occasion that the Public Prosecutor privately con-
graduated him, and advised HIM to put himself
at the service of the Empire. The
young lawyer, however, would not do
this, although he little sympathized with
such fanatics as GreppO aud his companions aud he
threw himself earnestly into the electoral contest
of 1868, when Pans chose all its nine members
from the Opposition aud thus struck the first note
> l. Nn. ha
was nearly implicated IN the trial of I" the Thir-
teenn prosecution brought against steady-go-
ing club of Liberals who were absurdy suspected
of revolutionary conspiracies Ganbetta ESCAPED
arrest but at once volunteered to defend his less
fortunate comrades. and again distinguished him
self as an effective pleader aud brilliant orator.
At this time he was looked upon
and described as jOvial leather-unged brazsn-
voiced fellow, who woud tread In tho steps of
Danton if occasion served and YET let himself
be gulloined by new Robespierre.
WAR AGAINST THE EMPIRE.
The famous a6aire Bae,lin came up in the fall of
1865 When the Empire prosecuted the journals
whose Editors lad opened subscription lists for
funds for monument TO Baudin the victim of the
Third Napoeous coup d6at. Gambetta was engaged
to defend the Recel The people of Paris had COW
cred the tomb of Baudin with flowers on All Saints
Day The Empire had strengthened the hands of
the police. and conflict between the people and
their oppressOrs was seen to be imminent Then
came from Leon Gambetta speech that shook tho
thrones of Europe. On a dull December day he
stood up in a stuffy little Paris police court and
poured forth from his bot Southern heart an attack
upon the Empire. which for beauty vivacty, power
full invective, and bitter denunclatiOn Is almost
without parallel in the French language
For two hours and more judges and policemen sat
H., IL 4raac
that. elsewhere. would have consigned the speaker
TO dungeon in a moment. Through the city ran a
whisper, from mouth to mouth, that a great orator
was preaching revolution. and tradesmen locked
their doors and barred their windows, parents
called their children home from school and from
play. and the city awaited in breathless suspense
the throwing up of barricades. But for q time the
storm passed by. The Government, fearful, pad
locked the teegraphs, bat despite all precautions
the speech was within week circulated into the
reInotest Departments and murnlnr arose through
out France that meant death to the Napoleonic
dynasty.
Next spring Gambetta went to Toulouse to defend
another Republican journal, the Emancipation.
There he spoke still more freely, aud still more
openly declared wal against the EmDire He
became the idol Of the who sought tr' edom
from the CALLING yoke of Imperialism. And while
alarms. riots and rumors of revolution prevailed
throughout the Nation, lie stood for the Legisla-
lature as the candidate of the artisans OF Belleye
and of the excitable republicans Of Marseilles. He
went through terrible campaign. always present.
ing himself as an "Ireconciable Oppositionist."
He nearly worked himself to death, aud after the
election was Immediately Frustrated by serious
throat disease; but he had won, polling 35.4l7
votes in Beeville and AZ. S65 in Marseiiles.
CIVIL WAR AND REVOLUTION
He entered the Corps L6glsatil the central figure
nj n oroup of men sworn never TO accept he En-
p,re nor to forgive the Emperor for the treason OF
the coup d6iat But he INDUCED in no revolution
airy rant 10 the tribune. He spoke boldly, but with