Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-02
LEON GAMBETTA.
THE GREAT FRENCHNIAN NO
MORE.

saddened by His Demise.
PARIS, Jan. IN. Gambetta died at his
residence at the Vile D'Avrav at mid
night. He was quite conscious to the last.
The death agony lasted two hours. NJ
Spuller, NJ. Etienne and DR.. Fienzal were
present at the last moments of the deceased.
The physicians who attended NJ. Gambetta
state that his death was due to pyamia.
caused by suppressed erysipelas. A clot
of blood, which had formed in the heart.
sutfocated the deceased. A plaster cast
of the face was taken this morning. and
there will be an autopsy tomorrow. A
State funeral, it is expected, will be given
! in honor of the deceased.
The death of M. Gambetta has created
an immense sensation here. Groups were
gathered in the bOulevards by nine O'Clock
this morning discussing it. Gambetta
finally died quite peacefully. 1t is re-
! ported that he will be bllS.sd at Nice be-
I side his mother. President Grevy was
much affected by the news.
Gambetta's face is peaceful, and his lips
| wear a smile.
For nearly two hours before Gambetta
became unconscious he complained that
he was tortured with pain as if ball of
red hot iron were inside of him.
| ana
| 1t was, therefore, not permissible to Yenti-
late his room properly. Several times
during his illness he spoke to NJ. Bert,
member of the Chamber of Deputies, upon
! some matter weighing ON his mind, but
| always briefly. NM. Ranc and Spuller
were summoned to his bedside for the pur-
! pose of receiving his communications.
! but the syncope preceding death had be-
1 gun when they arrived. 1t is believed
that the hopeful tone Ofthe bulletins issued
! during NJ. Gambetta's illness was due to
! the advice of DIR. Chariot, who did not
| wish the sick man, when the papers were
read to him, to hear anything that might
| have depressing effect upon him.
! The funeral will be conducted with
| purely civil rites. The family are anxious
| that the burial take place at Nice, but
| friends advise that it be at Paris. In
consequence of the high functions the de-
! ceased had filled the authorities
| have thought it eXpedient to
| place seals on his papers.
| But few newspapers have appeared to-
| day in consequence of it's being holiday.
| None of the articles published so far re-
! fleet on the political effect of Gambetta's
| death, but cOntine themselves to deplOring
| the loss of the statesman who did not
! despair after Sedan.
| The RepubLiQue FrdncdiSe states that at
| 6 O'Clock yesterday evening the doctors
! present in the room with Gambetta per-
| ceived that the abscess had burst inter-
nally. AT 10:45 o'clock Gambetta recov-
| cred consciousness sufficiently to thank
| his friends for their attention, which he
| did with perfect calmness. His
breathing then became more diff
| cult. A stream of the most noted
| Republicans is now passing through
| the death chamber. The face of the de-
! ceased has already become swollen and is
| greatly changed. This afternoon man
! selling copies of lie Rddicdl containing
| scurrilous article concerning Gambetta,
| was seized by a crowd on the boulevard.
| His papers were destroyed, and the police
| had great difficulty in rescuing him from
| the excited pOpulace.
| President Grevy's New Year reception
was attended by the Presidents of the
| Senate and Chamber of the Deputies.
| President Grevy expressed sincere regrets
! at the death of Gambetta.
| LONDON, Jan. 1.-The Standard says on
| intimate friend of Gambetta states that he
! had become confirmed hypOchondriac.
! WEAKNESS and disgust at the failure of
| his prospects may explain much that is
mysterious in the life just closed
| A Paris dispatch in the second edition
| of the Times says; '"'Fhe death agony of
! NJ. Gambetta began before midnight, after
| great suffering, which ceased when the
! agony began. The RepubtiqNe FrdncdiSe,
! OF Whlck he was proprietor, appears in
! black but gives no details of the final
! scene.
! "Messrs. Arnaud, Proust and Hecht
were also present at his death bed, 1t is
| stated that he left no political testament
He made private viii on Saturday."
A deep impression has been produced
| here. Papers reporting his death are SELL
! ing in nearly every street and crowds are
| struggling to procure them.
kilograms were sent to President GreVv
and other authorities Immediately after
| the death. Gambetta died in a state of
uncOnsciOusness, but in the course of the
! afternoon he exclaimed: II am lost. 1t
! is useless to dissimulate. But have suf-
cred 50 much that it will be a relief"
| His death came like thunderstroke upon
| a bewildered nation.
The Pau Mall Gazette Of this evening
says: ''It is thought that the death of
Gambetta will not break up the Republic.
1t will have minor effects of very obvious
Importance. Though far too sagacious to
be other than a convinced partisan of the
Republic, Gambetta has always been very
susceptible to the force of French tradi-
tion. He thought himselfanew Mazarin or
| Richelieu. Liberalism ali over Europe
will deplOre the loss of the great and re-
markable figure of a statesman who used
his truly Write mind for a noble cause,
and who will live in French history among
the most courageous, acute and effective
founders of the republic. The measure of
his loss is the secret or avOwed satisfac-
tion with which it will be hailed by the
reactionists and enemies of free govern
ment all over Europe"
Sir Charles Dixie, in a speech at Chel-
sea to-day, said the entrance of 1883 was
saddened by the death of the greatest of
all modern Frenchmcn. Sir Charles bore
testimony tnn n
for the loss France has sustained. He
said that all the English commissioners
who took part in the recent negotiations
for commercial treaty with France had
been struck with Gambetta's extreme
courtesy and kindness. In England all
parties admired Gambetta's magnificent
courage, his tremendous energy, his
splendid oratory and his unmatched
gaiety and sparkling wit, which cOnsti-
tuted him the First of FrenOhmen,
dispatch from Paris says: ''The OPP
pOrtunlst party appears to be stunned by
the death of Gambetta."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The following
was received to-day
'PARIs, Jan, Ito Mr., FreltnGhaySen,
Secretary Of State, Washington, d. c.:
The death of NJ. Gambetta has caused a
profound sensation in France. In his
death the government and people of the
United States have lost a devoted friend,
whose great admiration for our country
and its institutions was expressed on
various occasions. His death is to the
members of this legation great loss and
personal sorrow. MORTON"
BERLIN, Jan. ALMOST all the news
papers have articles on Gambetta. The
semi-Offcial Post says: '"The most e,ni-
nent politician of France has departed.
He was man of strong passions and
great power, who seemed still destined to
play a great part in history. 1t is a sig
niticant question whether it. would have
been a beneficial one"
The National Zeitong says that Ger
many has lost a great enemy. Gambetta
knew that his reputation in the future
was bound up with a war of revenge, and
his whole energy was directed in prepar-
ing therefor. He may be said to have
constituted himself a permanent dam
ger to the peace Of Europe.
The Idgbldtt says; "a man of uncom-
promising revenge is dead. His decease
affords us better security for peace than
any sort of alliances. His grandly con-
stituted character commanded certain
respect even from his enemies, but now
he is no MORE"
MADRID, Jan. 1.-The announcement of
Gambetta's death has caused a great sem
sation here. 1t is universally considered
that France has sustained heavy loss,