The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-03-23

On0Ot mo6t az faC6 aCt6
modern y dali.m W. the q Eructio!
Of the block Of marble - pted y
Plus the Ninth 70 hingso
monument. It shows ! cat 81 fanlti
cism-a blind and beasly fury Of th
mob. th4t would not have diagrace'
the followers Of Alric, when the tenn
pies Of old Rome, in all their unsur
passed grandure and magnifcens'
were given up, aprey to.the swarminl
barbarians Of the North. Must thil
fact pass down to posterity, as part o
the history Of the ninteenth century,
unmitigated by any paliating circum
stance9 Must it be said. that in the
very heart Of this great Republic, one
single arm was found sufficiently mis-
guided BY the bigotry Of ignorance, to
raise the axe Of destruction against a
contribution to our national monument
from the most exalted potentate on
earth-a contribution from the Eter-
nal City-the cradle Of Christianity,
the great centre of refinement, from
whence all the dearest features of CIV
ilization have radiatedls If it be fact
land we are disposed to doubt it) the
man who consented to perform a SER
vice so contemptably mental, should
be sought for, aud his name written
with the names Of Caligula, Domitan,
and Nero, for this act is sufficient to
entitle him to internal immortality.
The religious excitement prevailing
at this moment, all over the Union, is
certainly to be regretted. There are
many movements now being made
which have tendency toincreasc the
excitement and embitter this hatred.
The excitement created by the Five
Point Mission, and the appearance Of
Monsieur Bedini, the Pope's Nuncio,
at an unpropitious hour, has awakened
a feeling in the masses, that must
bring about a revolution in public
religious sentiment, for good or bad,
sooner or later. Nothing serious is
to be spprehended in our government
if the masses are educated, but when
we look about us and find the millions
Of free white citizens who are unable
to read or write, the very worst re-
suits are to be looked for. There is
no subject upon which the mind Of
man is more susceptible of wild and
unreasonable excitement, thar. the SUBJ
ect Of religion and with the ignorant
mob, it is a fire-brand that inAames
hem to acts of blood and violence +;
he number of Religious papers, pub
ished at the present day, will serve to
latch up any fact, and by its partial
md partizan discussion wrankle the
hearts Of the different sects against
me another. Each one of them, are
opposed to the very spirit Of christian
ty, which inculcated without price, is
he only system that can possibly har-
nonize the discordant elements in hu.
nan nature, and keep the world at
,eace. /
PETRrFIED SKULLs.-A cave was
ecently discovered in Calaveras coun-
y, California, that is awakening at
ention from the character OF its con-
ents. Some petriied skulls were
Dund therein-fve whole ones, and
more than five pieces of skulls aud
ther bones, many of them covered
ntirely with stone. One of the
kulls presents to the eye nothing but
tone, and yet it has nearly the exact
ize and shape Of the original. Moth
ng like it, it is said, has ever been
'und in any other portion Of the
'orld. Another of the skulls has a
Ugh, full forehead, and the large IA.
ial angle, which are considered to
elon0 in this aoo almost ovcl,,s;,ol,,