The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-26
a CURIOUS SCENE IN ROME
French Soldiers Crying "DOwn with
the POpei'


A letter from nom commissioned officer OF
the Roman Legion at ViterbO, dated November
l, and published IN the OptnlOn hdt0ndse, coll
tains the following extraordinary naIrsuve;-
This morning our flag, which nad Oeen pro-
missed us ever since we left Anuoes, was given
10 us. IL is yellow and white, and when the
General said, Swear 10 serve u with hdeuty, and
cry altogether, "Long Live the Holy Fatherl"
only tins officers responded And when they
had finished their cry, The church foreverl
Long live the Pope y all the men of the legion,
and myself with them: shouted:-'France tor
everl Long live the Bmperorp If you had
seen how the Ponti6cal General looked he was
furious. sergeant and ten men then ad-
Vanced towards HIM and said:-'Generai, we are
in Italy to fulfil q different mission from that
which you assign to us. You force us to go to
mass under penalty OF imprisonment. That Is
not the way things are managed in France.
Also, IN the name of the whole Roman Legion
teXcept the Otficers), we do not wish tor your
nag. We only know one, and that belongs TO
France. Let that be given 10 US, and we shall
be proud OF it, and we will display 1t every
where with deleht and confidence; for it Is
everywhere loved, and yours IS not General,
ysu shall judge for yourself that 1t Is preferred
to yours Then he drew small tri color from
his pocket and showed IL to the men. Every
one shouted, Long live the Emperor! France
tor ever ~ .-
at was curious, assure you; but no one
aughed, for every one feared that something
was going to Happen. In fact, when the General
mounted his horse to march at the head OF the
legion, be had handed the flag to the standard
bearer, but he no sooner let go than some one
fired at it, and the officer who held IL was
wounded. The General then said he was
going to write to France, to know what punish
ment to infllct on us. Then the legion became
excited, they all broke their ranks, surrounded
the General, and shouted, Down with the
POpep 1t was considered necessary TO esta-
blish posts of security in the streets. The idea
occurred 10 somebody of sending thel gen
darmerie after us; when the men of the legion
saw that, they turned against them, and at this
moment-4 O'Clock in the afternoon-there are
twenty-five gendarmes killed and great many
wounded. Efforts were made to get the men
to their barracks, but they would not march.
believe it is all over with the legion; since
we have arrived in Italy ten or fifteen men have
deserted every day. They pass the frontier, and
give themselves to Garibaldi. You may
expect to see us again soon, for as matters
stand do not reckon upon more than three
months before the legion will be dissolved"
Whe Temporal Power of the Pope.
NJ, Erdan, correspondent of the Paris Temps
at Florence confirms the report that an
arrangement is contemplated by which the
various powers are to guarantee to the Pope q
small portion OF the territory which he still
retains. He says:-"A great many people are
convinced, and the Roman revolutionary
Committee and the Italian Government among
others, that the only practical settlement of the
difficulty is to leave the Pope the absolute
sovereignty over the Leoliue City aud strip OF
territory, excluding Civita Vecchia, but includ.
ing the port of Palo. According to this plan,
all that part of Rome on the left bank of the
Tiber and the Trastevere, as far as the gate of
Porto Santo Spirto, would become exclusively
Italian. The Leoline City is walled in, and the
Pope could thus feel himself at home"