Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-26

would burn like finder; and as revolts are
OF frequent occurrence, owing to the
divided public sentiment between the
Liberal and the Papal element, the people
live in perpetual apprehension. Over the
entrance TO many of the better houses are
large squares of tin, painted TO represent
the flag of the country from which the
owner halls, and printed notice to incendi-
aries or revolutionary hooters, like the fol-
lowing: THE proprietor of this mouse is a
| citizen of Great Britain or OF Germany.
France, the United States, as the case may
be; the robber or torch-hearer being ex-
pected to stand in wholesome awe of that
foreign Government, and TO believe in the
length and strength of its protecting arm.
There is commercial house whose tin
flag announces in glazing letters that the
owner thereof is faithful subject of her
Majesty, Queen Victoria, and also adds
that the inmates are prepared to shoot
thieves on their own account, reminding
one of the
DoUBLE-BARRELED WARNING
Which the good deacon posted over his
melon-patch, viz: "Boys, don't touch these
melons. They are greenland God sees
you"
During the greater portion of the year
the President of the republic does not live
In his palace at Quito, the capital, but here
IN Guayaquil in gloomy barracks. sur
rounded by bare-footed soldiers, where he
| can keep an eye on the customs whence
his revenue is derived, and find easy escape
should some rival get up revolution
strong enough to GUST him. Armed reyolts
are epidemic in Ecuador, especially in the
interior, where the people of the higher
attitudes are more patriotic and energetic.
| But the contagion seldom spreads to this
point-whether because the Guayaquilians
are better satisfied with the existing order
of things or the excessive heat disincIines
them to the exertion of "revolutinc,7 or
that they are weary of fighting and glad of
peace on any terms, having suffered so
much IN the past from pirates and bucca-
| neers and wars innumerable-I am unable
| to say. Certain it is that a tumble-down
| fortress overlooking the town, the funny
little gunboat in the harbor, and handful
of hungry-looking soldiers, serve to keep
the ease-loving people of the vicinage in
perfect subsection.
While the citizens of the interior are
intensely loyal to the church party, those
| nearer the coast, where some knowledge of
the world has penetrated, are more in
cllned to Liberalism; and il is said that
| the President at heart fayors the former,
although elected and kept in office by the
latter party.
The city supports two newspapers named
respectively Los Andes and La Pdtria.
They are generally issued at least ten DAYS
behind date, or whenever it happens to
suit the convenience of the editors, for in
this Acadia nobody troubles himself much
about the doings of the outer world.
Every night the principal streets are pa
trolled by watchmen, and the cry they
send forth to mark the hours is as musical
as that of the Muezzin in Constantinople.
For example at midnight they sing out:
"Acs Maria Purissina! Los doce han dodo.
Noche ctaro g Sereao Viya la Patria r
Twelve o'clock has come. The night is
clear and serene. Long live patriotism. +"
FANNIE B. WARD.