The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-04-25
Florence March ~ Cor. London Times.
RELI0IOUs TROUBL Es IN ITALY
- .@ssfg6 49, Rfs- rEs
Details Of the Massacre Of Protestants IN Bar
/ letta-Sir Persons Killed and about Tscenty
WSxnded - FkF5 Of tAeg Mob S0oul
Priests, Monks and Friars Under A,rest.

The BaSlettA massacre turns out TO he very
little inferior 10 attrocity and extent to the
worst Of the FIRST accounts that reached Us,
and the Deritto scarcely spoke in an exagger.
ated etreia VIXEN Il declared Hat - priest, at
the head Of m ignorant and brutal people, had
renewed in little Barletta the savage scenes OF
the night Of st. Bartholomew IN France. y
The instincts Of fanatical priests seem the
same in all ages and conptFies Otherwise one
might we'll wonder at the preparation Of such
atrocious crimes IN the name Of religion in
rank with the most civilized.
A letter Of the Oath OF March, from Bar.
letta, published in the Corriere dele Marche,
says 49, ssfe S. se
Three houses burnt and six persons killed.
visited the ruins this morning, and the fami-
hes Of some of the victims. 1 will not dwell
on the painful impression produced BY the
biackened walls and broken furniture. the
traces Of blood still visible on walls and pave
ment, and the grief of weeping orphans;
will limit myself 70 facts II appears that
the Lent preachers, instead of exciting the
faithful TO repentance, regularly preached
hatred to the Protestants, representing their
destruction as q necessary work, good and
agreeable in the sight Of God OF love. No
wonder ifsuch bad seed produced abomina-
BILE fruit. But itappears chat politics and re-
action we're combined with religious motives.
| am assured that one hundred and fifteen
houses were doomed to sack and fire, and
that list of them is in the hands Of justice.
Be that as it may, on Monday, the ninteenfh
in which the Evangelical meetings are held,
killed in cold blood two brothers who fell into
their hands, smashed everything in the house,
and set frp to The uroDrIpfor and tho
preacher escaped over the roof, and am
happy to say that the latter found shelter in
the house of the Canan Gabriel Bizzi. The
conduct OF the National 0aard cannot be too
severely blamed. The meeting house is not
more than thirty metres from their post, and
the butchery took place literally before their
eyes, without their stirring finger to prevent
it. For two hours the mob of fanatics did
what it pleased and during that time it burnt
three houses aud killed Ave persons. A sixth
died yesterday Of his wounds. The number
of wounded is great, but the list il not vet
complete. Besides the prizes. Ruggleri Pos
tigione. two other priests. monk, and more
than two hundred persons are already incar-
cerated. and fresh arrests are being con-
stantly made
A letter from Trani, in the Naples nngole,
SAYS the clerical reaction had been planned on
large scale. and it was to have lis echo IN
other towns, but the movement failed, or at
least Was only partial.
A letter Of the twenty -sikth. from Bari.
gives the following account of the town OF
Baretta: ~
at has about twenty FIVE thousand inhabi-
tants Of which aa least three fourths belong
to the class Of cafoni, or agricultural labor
ers, who do not live in cottages scattered over
the country or collected in villages, as in
other countries, but are here agglomeraied in
wretehed streets Of the town, filthy and stink
ing. aud in certain habi,aiions which should
more properly be called stables. the more Sc
as men and women dwell there under the
same roof with asses and every variety oi
domestic animals. This class of citizens, ig-
norant, poor, superstiiious to feroeity, is uatn-
rally led by the priesthood. while the two
other classes, artizans and persons in easy
circumstances. have almost a repngnance 10
approach il, owing to prejudices which are
really not justifable.
| Under date of Ancona, the twenty fourth
| ul,lmo. the Monifeur Of the Marches mentions
the arrival in that city of Signor Giannini, the
| Evangelical pastor, who, with his two sons,
escaped miraculonsly from the new ST. Bar.
tholomew which took place in tha, town on
the nineteenth"