Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-11-09
SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 9 1867
OLD SERIES, VOL. %, NO. 4

All udy ionS, On some pretcSt or Otncr,
black robed professions OF nuns and friars
march to the dolefu drone of Latin mum.
bles. From every part of the world pill
grims, students, invulids, hermits, ambitious
bishops come, anxious for blessing or IL
/ Preierment. Cardinals go by in palanquius,
borne on sturdy shoulders. The Roman
/ women are OF noble cuuntenances-- heir ripe
! ohVe iaces like Il Southern midday. The
heh are almost gigantic, wearing peaked
| ha'S ahC untanncd leggins, wtl.a stealthv,
! midhlght gravity upon them From the
! cdmP"gha the women come in bright head
scaris and spangled with brazen ipwclry.
/ Inc South, over ripeness and sullenness-
! these are the atuuspheres.
/ vi independent municipal povernmets
I the Church has scarcely tolerated a vestipn
the prisons under ST. Angelo are generally
luil justice need not he dispensed in omen
court; there IS an inordinateIy large secret
ponce; Protestant worship is forbidden
! within the walls; the Protestant hurying
ground Is far removed ; every person is held
subject to arbitrary police regulations; the
only press is an official one books are even
more sCrutiniAed than men. The army is
recruited from zca!otS of all countries, chiefly
/ French and Spanish. with nucleus of Swiss,
the hereditary body.guurd Of the Pontiil
/ The Pope is the absolute sovereign his real
| name is John Ferretti, the son of count
and lie Is now seventy-itve years of age. He
/ Is native of Rome, and was two years Il
priest in Chill, South America. He was
elected Pope twenty-one years ago, aud be-
! gan to rule SO literally, that the Protcstants
OF New York city, in 1913, held meeting
to indorsc him. II was at this time that
/ Garibadi offered him his sword, as the re-
preventative of Christian Italy, but the Pope
had already wcaricd OF reforms. His pco-
| pie rose and repelled him. lie fed in dis.
guise to Gacca, and called upon the foreign
monarchs to reiustate him.
At the end of seven months the Roman
Republic, hcroically defended by Garbaldi
succumbed to a siege by the French, and the
! Pope, returning to the Vatican, has been
ever since sincere mater Of the popular
! party. lie is u fat, smooth faced, benevO-
( .ent.looking man. The real rucr Of Rome,
and head of the body of prelates, is Jacob
! Antuncili, perhaps the most unpopular per-
son in Europe, Jesuit, of singular intel
ectual yigor and beauty an advocate of eX-
treme measures against Republicans, and the
executive soul of Rome as she remains. The
. popea palace is probably the largest single
ediicc in tue world, nearly twelve hundred
feet square, or three times rs large as the
,,nst yaI"olI, Iihra2r anI nrt ,,aIIary '',i
inc, # j. cn,ror,.i Lro nr;r,tn c,II.ry
Xxi, -, a,,I ~, So ,,,,,aln
also, with St. Peters Church, whose dome
is one hundred and thirty feet higher than
The Washington dome.
Rome has few industries, and gets a rev
Cnue ont Of the exports Of WORKS of art
chiefly, and presents from pious Foreigners
re o'''G ia ia "cp' t"e Peop.c; are nau,'
nous ,rt"".il"n 'oeIIe' o'l''li''ee NC
pCi"'"ti' os'i'Hcc' anu .G"u! ~ "s'
'''iie A'''''" 'HN"s'"" ''"i' "'''''"''
ROME As \ DEFENsIBLE CITY.
!fGarlhaldis friends should push up to the
walls of Rome before the French or Spanish
arrive at Ciyita Ncccuia thcy will have
either tough battle OF an easy triumph
according as the Roman people within the
walls are disposed towards them. The cas-
tie Of st. Angelo is the only considerable
work in Rome, and good for nothing against
siege cannon. The city walls are about fifty
feet high, defended by i few Hank batteries
poorly armed.
Civita Nccchia is about two days march
from Rome; the GaribaIdians could readily
tear up the railway and embarrass the high
road. Rome has been but twice attacked
by a foreign army, once i'll 1877, again in
lo49, both times by the FRENCH.
On the last occasion. GarihaCi defended
the city. He met the French army, forty
thousand strong. at the western gate, called
san Pnncrnzio, where they attacked at tive
points. Their superior artillery soon dis
mounted his own from the walls, when he
sa1'iea out oi the gaze, c!arSeu theIh 1t
flank with the hayonet took seven hundred