The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-13
Poverty of the Pone.


his age, but we are glad to perceive that, ins1
stead of becoming down in the mouth, or
chapfallen on the occasion, he is pluoking up
his courage and soundly berating those who
have left him in such plight He goes
farther than that too, for he pelts and puu-
ishes as we'll as reprimands them. Victor
Emmanuel, it seems, owed him lately three
millions of francs, but there was no possibility
of getting the swash-bucklipg king to pay up.
ALI the money was required for defrsying the
expenses of his Majesty's various humbug
establishments and other petite pleasures. In
this emergency the effect of anathemas was
tried in vain. The Italian King stood firm
against all the threatened thunders
of the church, and does not seem to
have been specially moved by the
Holy Fathers refusal to bestow his bsne-
diction upon the recent marriage of the Crown
Prince. In these circumstances, before re-
sorting to accommodation, Pic Mono fortu-
nately applied to Louis Napoleon, and a hint
from the French Emperor at once made the
recusant sovereign "s'ump up" or "knuckle
down"-whicheve of the two be the latest or
most elegant synonym for the remarkably
disagreeable ceremony, to such persons, of
paying in cash. Louis Napoleon, according to
all accounts has not much of that commodity
at present to spare himself, but he has host
of bayonets and broadswords on hand, which
can readily enforce payment from others. A
hint accordingly was sufficient to make the
money forthcoming from the delinquent.
But mark the amusing part of the affair
we shall not venture to say the ingratitude of
the Pope. The tables are nsxt turned upon
Louis Napoleon himself, or his troops; and the
Holy Father has wounded them in the ten
derest and most susceptible of all parts-that
is, in their stomachs. The Pope, it appears,
was lately called upon to inspect some legion
of the French Guards in the neighborhood of
Rome, and-what must have been very
desirable ceremony to such innocents-to bless
their banners. Inspired by that gratitude
which is said to be lively sense of future
favors, his Holiness complied, and volun-
teered, moreover, with his own sacred hands
to perform mass in the camp for their
special qualification. The devout troops
were in ecstacies, but the weather, we
regret to say, was not propitious. 1t lowered
most menacingly in the early part of the day,
and when Pho Mono arrived on the ground the
rain descended in torrents. With exemplary
pluck, however, he went through the whole
ceremony, though long before the end Of it he
was drenohed to the skin, and eventually
quilted more like halfdrowned duck than
the head of the most numerous body of Chris
tians upon earth. And the wrath of the Holy
Father was commensurate; for, like the black
ram on Salisbury plain, which invariably
turned the posterior portion Of its spine to the
wind when shower was approaching he had
foreseen the shower, and ordered a temporary
shed to be erected over the altar, in wood
with the view of guarding against it. The
French commander had used one of the ordi-
nary tents instead, and thus his Holiness got
ducked. In revenge, Pho Mono counter
manded dinner which he had ordered for
sixty superior officers, and matters were in
this precious state of embroglio when the
latest dispatches left.