The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-20


most prominent falsehoods are those writ
ten by the Roman correspondent of the
Pail Mail GnSette. The last new thing in
this line is the tale that n number of the
Zouaves had deserted their cOlors. A gen
tleman who left Rome since the letter as
serting this fiction was written, tells us that
there is not shadow of truth in the story;
and that concerning the Prussian Zouave
who has been condemned to imprisonment
for corresponding with q foreign journal,
the true version is that the man committed
very gross military offense toward q Ro-
man officer, and his punishment was ordered
by the military tribunal, not by the minis
ter of police. But with Protestant journal
lists the Pope cannot do right. The English
correspondents are, with one or two excep-
tons, men who do not know or speak
word of Italian, and take for gospel all that
their vagabond ralets de place, who are to
man Garibaldians, tell them. And this rub
bish is believed in by the readers of the pa
pers in England"
August Is being the Festival of the As
sumption, the Pope assisted at the Basilica
of ST. Marie Maggiore. and gave his bene-
diction to the people. At the church OF st.
Louis DIES Frapeais the French ambassador
and the staff of the embassy were present at
a Ie Deum in celebration of the Emperor
Napoleon's fete. A similar ceremony took
place at Civita Vecchia, General Dumont
being present. The Pope sent his congra-
gether with the expression of his good
| wishes for the happiness of the Emperor.
the Imperial family, and France.
We learn, says the Monde, by a private
telegram, that the Pope attended the Mass
of the Assumption in the Churh of Santa
Maria Maggiore, and that, at the conclusion
of the services, he bestowed his solemn
benediction from the upper portico of the
Basil;ca. On the occasion of the national
| festival, Mass was performed at the
church of Saint Louis des Francais, by a
prelate of the Pontifcal Court 1t was
by n deputation from the French Academy,
and by the officers of the Antilles Legion.
The buildings occupied by the French were
Illuminated.
A Cologne paper gives the following ex-
tract from q letter written OH the goth ult.
the Pope's German Chasseurs Our cficers
are gentlemen, and treat us with greet
kindness. Desertions do occur occasionally,
though very rarely, in spite of al the enemy
can do to corrupt our men. Here is an in
stance of their BLACKBOARD doings: Some
time ago, a young man of education and
agreeable manners joined our company as
a volunteer. He very soon ingratiated him
self with my comrades by his attentions
and as he was we'll versed in French, he Of
fered to teach us the language gratis. He
proposed also to advance us money in order
!
books, and we were to reimburse him in
small monthly instruments. Our captain,
| on being informed of this, bought the books
for us himself out of his private purse.
| Shortly afterwards, however, he became
| dissatisfied with the behavior of our teacher,
and one day, when the latter was out, he
had his effects searched. Letters from Ca
ribaldians were discovered and he was
found to be n Garibaldian officer who had
joined us in order to induce us to desert
He was accordingly arrested and confined,
in the Castle st. Angelo.
PROPOSED CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL IN
WESTMINSTER The Dublin Freeman's
Journal says: Measures are In forward
state for q beginning with the Catholic ca
thedral to be erected in the metropolis as a
memorial of the late Cardinal Wiseman. A
piece of ground of nearly three acres in ex-
tent has been secured i'll Westminster, near
Buckingham Palace and the splendid range
of buildings now in course OF erection On
the Belgravian estate OF the Marquis OF
Westminster. Some idea of the magnitude
. and Importance of the proposed church,
which will be the first cathedral which the
Catholics of the metropolis have been able
to build since the so-called Reformation,
NAV be gathered from the fact that the cost
of the site alone will be ESQ., 900. Of this
sum one-ffth is to be paid on the lst OF
November next, and the committee charged
/ with the duty of procuring funds hope to
be able to push on the WORKS IN uhe spring.
On the completion of the Cathedral, the
, remains of Cardinal Wiseman, which now
= rest at st. Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green,
will be removed to Il chapel to be built for
:, their reception. Meantime,@NIr. Pugin has
been commissioned to furnish design fol
, the shrine which is to cover the grave in
:, the cemetery and which will be removed
! to the Cathedral with the ashes. of the Ia
a mented prelate."
i The tunneling of the Alps goes on slowly
n but regularly eight thousand three hun
IS dred and eighty four metres have been tun
= neled, and three thousand eight hundred
% and thirty-fiv remain to be finished. TIL
q work accomplished last year was ffteeI
- hundred and fifty lone metres, and abou
the Same win be made in 1868. 1t II est