New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-30
Yne Police oatrages in Rome.


Details of the outrages by the ge1darmerie of
Rome on the 10th have been received. After de-
scribing the charge of the gendarmts down the
Corso, and their reckless attack On all-mep,
women and children--the results are described by
a letter in the London Times:
Many Of the wounded were, In the meantime
being conveyed to the hospitals; some to the
apothecaries shops hard by. There we're coach
fnlls of wounded, bruised, bleeding and swooning
women. ] saw one picked up in doorway, with
an ugly cash in her left breast not far from it
child with a deep cut in the neck, tb all appear
anee almost lifeless. One Mazzotti was left on the
ground with two sabre cuts student (Cerapia)
Ind received two broadsword cuts und stab in
the arm.
Another (ZaccaleonD was fallen upon in the
Vieolo dello Sdrucocioio, and knocked down by
three blows Of loaded bludgeon; priest, near
the Cafe San Carlo, received thrust of saber,
and was felled to the ground by the butt end of a
horsep pistol. One d'Angels was pierced by three
sword thrusts; Ross, a merchant. had severe sa
Der cut in the neck. The American Vice-Consul is
laid down with severe stab in the side; O Ger
man artist with a deep dagger wound in the arm !;
a nurse and baby were both struck with the same
weapon, in the carriage where they sat; another
sword cut struck beth the legs of lady seated in
another carriage, wounding them severely; an
other lady, who had tainted, and in that state was
being carried into the Bernin Palace, was struck
in the breast with gendarme's broaasword.
The above barbarous onslaught upon peaceabie
citizens on the 18th Of March, seems to be but the
commencement Of trouble in Rome. On the 9th
March, the London Times correspondent writes:
On Saturday, the Oath, printed bills were seen
stuck up at the street corners, which said, Ro-
mans, do not tomorrow bring the women with
you, nor yet the children, for we Ihust have our
reyenge.n Elsewhere ! read, tGdndarmes, to-
morrow ne await you at the Corso.n Up to late
hour in the morning Of Sunday saw these bills
with my own eyes, in the Cerso md yet. mark
well, the Corso had been all the foregoing night,
like ancampment, thronged with troops Of every
description. Towards s on Sunday morning, two
guns went out of Porta Angelica, and were taken
round to the barracks of the Piazza iel Popolo--a
clear hint Of the precautions taken by Govern
ment, which harborod designs evidently in the
style of King Bonlba. In the morning, however,
nothing happened. The tanners who really
thought those bills had been stuck up by the Libe
raj Committee, were preparing for Vengeance
The same did the Transteverini, tile Montigiani,
the oop0ld1ai of every description. These same
bills had been spread in the adjoining country so
that from several villages men in arms came to
town to have their reUdaehe. The Liberal Com
nittea, aware Of the danger and knowing the in
stgators Of the impending strife, as quick as light
ming printed and distributed the proclamation
which here translate and enclose:
Rornans-an atrocious and bloody outrage has
been perpetrated. You wish for Vengeance, and
it is due to you. II goes hard against our own
hearts to have TO moderate the passions of peo-
Pile provoked to the greatest of exbesses by the
most abject Of Governments, but in public no less
than in private life we must learn DO endure and
wait, to conquer our feelings and give them vent
only when We have at least chance of success.
Certainly, if our only object were to show the
priests that you do not dread their cutthroats-
those sbirri whom, with cruelty unknown to the
Bourbon or even to Austria they, the ministers OF
Christ, have armed with daggers--you well know
the trial would be neither long nor arduous. But
your purpose is to free Rome from their yoke. The
time for it is not far off, but it has not come yet.
Any movement at this moment would be not only
unreasonable, but We might increase the difficult
ties the noble defenders Of the national cause have
10 contend with, and might como into collision
with the French, to whom you, IS Italians, owe a
debt of gratitude.
For the present, then, give proofs of discretion.
Those who arc provoking you will sec alta proper
moment whether you lack courage. Those who
are now prompting yon to violent revenge act in
the interest OF the Government; they would wish
to shed fresh Roman blood-a blood which would
do harm, not good to the country. These sugges-
tions come from the priestly and Austrian party
the foes to our re- generation. Beware of them.a
These few lines had wonderful effect. The Pope
went to the Minerva. Some of his friends cheered
him, but the town was mute. In the afternoon the
| Gorso was almost entirely empty. Thus did tic
| scheme miaearry.
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