The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-09-05
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RoME. August 6-The heat has been some
thing ineorceivable during the last fortnight,
Fahrenheit standing through the coolest part
of fbe night. and In shady balcony, at 50.
Your readers may imagine what 1t was at md
day, and the sun has lately taken Gull
orange tint, from the accumulation OF yapor on
the horizon, and the calgine, or fog, has
generally obscured the mountain outlines
slight shock of earthquake was feit at Albano
saya1 n, ACriooiA on Wednesday last, and many
of the Inhabitants took alarm and went into
tbe country TO sleep. Tho health OF the city
is very good Notwithstanding the heat, put t
1000 or inundation Of the Piazza Aayona, for
fear Of tho calculations, and on Sunday, the
4ste t,ok Mace in the villa Borghese in place
of the Largo. Chariot races and athletic
gporta were held in the amphitheatre, and
.rrsas saccess. accompanied by two amateurs,
who describe the sunset as seen from an aItl-
4ude of 20O0 feet az one OF the most subiime
sights shat can be imagined; The balloon
came down at Ave Maria, near Ponte Mammoio.
The Pardon Of Assist is always great DAY
in Rome, and from the first VesPers on Sunday
10 the ave Maria on Monday, every Franciscan
church was crowded. The Holy Father went
ON Sunday morning to gain the Indulgence at
San PietTo in MontoriG. and aserSaIas .ra an
column. It is most interesting fact that,
among tho recent discoveries at the emporium,
. nurnber of pieces Of marble have been found
addressed 20 the Emperor Nero the very year
of the martyrdom Of st. Peter. Ihey were
zPPaIoIi5EEy s1i;s5iis;E ;ts
1nonnraant which will recall, while Rome
stands, the memory OF ono OF her pr0aoes'
friumphs. - -.
Gsgribaldiars were arrested and expelled rom
Rome. There are still an immense number OF
foreign agents attempting to create move
a -menf but unless some change takes place IN
France they will have had their labor foI
nothing. There is literally sympathy now
With the revelation AereEyen the mo mod S;a5
nnontesc Kingdom, refuse to aid cause which
thoy know to be committed to arepubhc of the
most anarchial kind, as soon as the shadow OF
Tnonarehy can be dispensed with. Politics arc
s1t comparative stand-stin in Florence since
the INQUEST. and all the deputies have gone Il
the baths or to their provincial seats. Veto
Emmanuel was reported to be going to Parls
but the official papers contradict it:
At Tuyeligo, village in the Bfianza,
gentleman named CRiveM was attacked an
Beaten for WALKING with u priest The prose
cution of religious for refusing to give absolu
tion 70 purchasers Of Church property occHP
m the courts of law, and the prisons are tui
Of priests charged with this offence. IN
poverty of tho clergy is so great that poo
streets of Northern Italy. Only few day
ago a poor priest fell fainting with lnanitlo
ON tho pavement fFlorence. No ono attempt
ed to assist him. when Jew, indignant Mt til
fDhuuianity of tho bystantlers, gave him
franc, aud carried round his hat 70 the Chrl:
tian crowd 3or aims, 10 save ono OF CHRIST
T1rtests from dying of starvation The cor
s4iscations Of the ecclesiastical establishment
haTo placed in tho hands Of the Italian govern
1nent 2S monuments of Christian art. ines
rvfII be communicate soi-disaRf art commission
ore aidod by two or three monks of eac
order, and tho dscaY which has been observe
in several of the establishments already close
s1nd oinceA in the eaIne Guardianship ig so d.
DloralBle - TO cali the repTobatioa OF all tn
italian papers. The nrt-treasnres are in man
cases being sold and dispersed, Others arc cor
aianed 10 public libraries where they are los
And forgotten, separated as they are iEen% tue
local associations. Ignorant municipal Aure
4ionnxiss Gre entrusted with their ciassif icatto
and IN few years, IL the present Tegsn
7aatg, 1tHly will have to deploFe tho loss
nearly an tho frescoes in churches ana Co
Wents, save in the very large and most tEea uels
I'd 4oWnB. There Is no money 70 spend on q
and 70 sell undorhana every thing thRs can ]
sold 8 In nine cases ont Of ton the course w1i6
- being taken. The dealers fn Church plat
old lace, and wOrls oT devotional art, 81
Buying mp All they can lay hands on all oV1
She Romagnaas Umbria, and Sicily