Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-05-17
The Blasphemies oil Rome.

"Dck Tinto," the able and observing Paris cor.
respondent Of the New York Times, has been
over to Rome" and thus remarks on some Of
the Church's" mpostions and blasphemies in
that vicinity: @
San Pleto in Montoro is built upon the precise
spot where the Apostle was crucifed in an in
vcrted attitude. hi hole extending, rather deep
ly in the ground hangs lantern, and further down
is buried the identical cross. II Is never shown,
as according to the sacristan, 1t is in poor state
Of preservation, and sadly IN want Of repair.
have no doubt the original mess of pottage is
somewhere to be seen in Rome, kept in sacred
cubby and covered over by Cathedral.
place is shown which was once inhabited by
ST. Dominic, the founder Of the Inquisition, who
received letters from Heaven, written by the Holy
Trinity However, this is of lower order Of bias
phemy than that INDUCED in at little old house
of Siena, which produces the love correspondence
of the Saviour and st. Clarine. ! hardly expect to
be believed when ! say the letters are actually
shown which profess to have been written to her
by our Lord Those written by her to her hus-
band, Jesus Christ, and to her mother-inlaw, the
Virgin Mary, may be seen by anybody. The exact
spot is also pointed where the Saviour and St.
Clarine stood when they were married, and where
the wedding-ring was put upon her finger Of this,
the best modern writer in Italy, Charlotte Easton
says:
"That such legend should ever have been
credited in the darkest ages of extravagant fanat
cism, / could scarcely have. believed; but that it
should be gravely repeated as authentic in the nine
tcenth century, nothing, think, but the evidence
of my senses could have convinced me-"
Now, in regard to all these assumptions, impos-
tire and impossbilities it must not be supposed
that they are the inventions and creations of cice
rones, handbooks and fanatical sacristans. The
Pope is guarantee for them ALL and the Church is
responsible for them one and severally Where no
evidence exists evidence is coined or in some way
trumped up, or, better than ALL papa bull declares
no evidence to be necessary. The Vatican, armed
with infallibilty pronounces without appeal upon
the authenticity Of any relic which may be judged
valuable, either for the collection of fees the pro-
motion Of church influence, or for the extension OF
idol worship. For instance, the "Sacred Baby"
declared to be the work of st. Luke, and put for
ward as miraculous healer Of diseases-for which
service he makes the most extortionate charges
is perfectly well known by the Church to be gross
imposition
X 1t was the above letter which called forth the
frc or HomanIst, as Publiahod in Mondays Organ.
TRouDLEs AMONG THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AT
SAvAsaAH.--Thc Savannah Journal and Courier of
late date says, that serious disssension is now
in progress in that city, similar to the movements
for independence Of late years undertaken by the
Roman Catholics in Buffalo, Hartford, New Haven,
and in several other places in the North and West
writer of their own church comes out in bold
and lengthy article, and exposes the tyranny Of
their late bishop (Gartland) and the assumptions
and falsifcations Of the present incumbent of the
cathedral.
lie charges the late bishop with having taken
from them their chartered rights obtained from the
Legislature and Of setting Aside their vestry con-
stitution and by laws. He goes on to say: "He
changed our mode of government, took the reins
completely into his own hands, and not member
Of the Catholic church had voice in the dsburse-
ments of the revenues accruing TO the church for
the maintenance of the bishop and his priests, OF
the salaried lay officers Of the church. The con-
gregation was too Catholic to demut openly,
although silently chagrned on the occasion"
ST. LOUIS, May 1.-THE SANDER suit of Birch
against T. II. Benton was decided in the Hepry
county Circuit Court on Friday last, after trial Of
four days, by the rendition Of verdict Of a., 006
damages for the plaintiff. The case will be car
ried TO the Supreme Court.
STATE SrocK.-We are pleased to learn that the
credit of the State is again "rght side up;n that
large amount Of Stock has been taken in New
York at 9S, and that the State is again in funds,
and the Board of Public Works are paying the
States subscriptions to works Of internal improve
ment Tho sum Of thirty-onc thousand dollars
has been received on account OF the States sub
scription to the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad,
and more win soon be forthcoming Herald
A Day SpELL.--The Chckasaw Intelligencer
printed at Fort Washtenaw, in the Chickasaw ma
ton, Of April 7, says; FfEs
"on last Sunday night we were favored with a
heavy shower Of rain the first that has fallen in this
vicinity since the LIST Of june last. The prospect
for good crops the coming season are now very
fattering"