Litchfield enquirer., 1867-07-04
Flummery.
The following by Atlantic cable appears in Mondays dailies:


 The following by Atlantic cable appears in Mondays dailies:
 ROME, June %, 1867
 The religious ceremonies in celebration of tie eighteen hundredth anniversary of St Peter's mar tyrdom and in reverence of St Paul and the can nonization of twenty five Dutch French and Span ish martyrs, who died in Japan, as saints. Was ol of the most gorgeous rellgiou ce aonles Wltnes sed in the world since the days Of King Solomon The observances were commenced yesterday eve ming with general illumination of the city O1 Rome.
 Saint Peters shone like great church on fire
 At seven o'clock this morning there was grand procession of prelates priests monks and soldiers from the Vatican to Saint Peter's. His Holiness the Pope, was carried on his throne. There was an immense crowd assembled i'll the interior of the church before his arrival. St. Peters most rlagni6cently, decorated with cloths of gold, silver tapestries, paintings. and two hundred thousand yards of crimson silk. The building was lighted with many millions of wax candles. There were one hundred thousand people inside it's walls, in cluding the ex-King of Naples, the foreign Minis try, five hundred cardinals, archbishops and bslI- ops, and many thousands of clergymen, priests, friars and monks. There were even nuns and sol diers from almost every country in the world pres ent and the assembled multitude made up most brilliant co aggregation.
 Pope Plus the Ninth celebrated the Gregoran mass in Latin and Greek. There were two inter ruptiOns to the ceremoNv The curtains of one of the windows of the church caught fire at one mo- ment, but they were speedily torn down by the guard and no damage was done d7t9Fttts 'oq1i Nlo hld 6econlc crazy from cfc1eAtet pyo0tced 6H tte p17iaD aud qitto, dad iIits ct Ats N7ONt, and die inst under the bronze statue of St. Peter. T3e3v 'rH& c0nfttSiG,l lt 0use1Nen"e, Ills b0d5j ras q1iciiy rem0ced oMsj1e. T9e Pope ct once proceeded tD TCc0n2cCrlto te ciNrct tHtneG "lt ttc T00l Dt He 5utc.Ie al1 then proceeded with the service of the alter. Iistz comp sed extra musc for the grand Mass. and choir placed On tA: dome of St. pct2c'8 made thc angelic responses, the cannon Ot Castle ;s2i Angelo nEld2r1H for T the aoc0mp1Ii;1cft instead of the organ. The POpo8 voice dur;ne the celebration WAS clear and very sweet, anl heard 2ll over the church. It was most sublime scene when at the elevation of the Host, ii" prclat@s priests and lIo0,es, pcasantry st,Id soldiers, who were spectators. kn2. to the earth 5o d. reverence to the Higher than the High est. and who Lad boc@mo for men I2yTier than t1o i.owl;aSt o al those present. Lhc city u-lni!la- t'on@. tifC#p!s EAt,s &:I general t@st ,:-,c@. !I n0n"r oi t." ct2-@u Iy u2r.TA-a2.E, will c1G.:" during q week.
 Csn aayta:n~ ne conceived aAoro at v"- r:a0oa Wjt1 tno simplicity ot primitive Christianity :a1" :'.as2 po"5povs cc@emo- nic~ ir @'o.;h:ati,1 Of 5he PouJ.*s Ilei- uay& O. Modern Ro:l,. h fact, il .he great contest 1s@;wa41 Ca..stlaniev and EcatAoudos0, each half converted the oth e, @..l thv reaat. &a~ tI> Doaisn hiorar- chv.
 How indecent of 5Ilat poor Ritaulistic soul to snuff itself ont just as high mass commenced. putting the Supreme PontiA to the trouble ot reconsecrating the 'ouild- ing Yet jt caused no confusion and little dcIay-3carcely more than if an extinguisl1- 1,n7 ny,ft ', candles.
 It was altogether tho most magnificent and perfect form of that Christianity which entrances the human eye and ear-a little melo dramatic and out of keeping, as 1t seems to us, sometimes; for does not the laundering of the most perfect and de- structive of human engines contrived for sending human souls unprepared to their final account, make very queer accompa- niment to the music of angels ill heaven?
 A sweet, clear voice, it seems, is de- hghtful thing in 8 Pope-in fact, about all the excellence demanded by such occa- sions. And when all these magnificent priests and prelates, having, as they say, conjused tbeir Maker into actual, material presence before them, fall down and wor- ship; it is spectacle of humility so touch ing and profound, that even the Atlantic cable waxes eloquent!
 That there are so many infidels in coun- tries where there is no Christianity but Romanism we do not wonder-what does surprise us is that there are so few.