The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-07-13

fellow, who knew the ropes, and under
took to engineer our case. We might
have made application through our Con
sui, but this was the least trouble. We
almost gained admission on one occasion
went as far as the ante room and Mr..
Ferretti was only in the room beyond.
| We had passed his Swiss Vatican guard,
a body of Enthusiastically dressed men, in
part1-colored uniforms of black, red and
yellow longitudinal stripes, armed with
pixies, members of the church militant,
and assembled several broad and elegant
flights of stairs and could see all before
us. The personal attendants of the Rev.
gentleman were dressed in crimson fgur
| ed silk coats and small clothes with some
| superfuous ornamentation, red long
stockings, black shoes with silver buck
les, and plain red close fitting cap. But
we had not on a wedding garment" and
were obliged to retire till the following day
at 10, NJ, precisely. Our Jesuit friend
was to meet us at the hall of the Vatican
at IL q o'clock. In the meantime we
made arrangements with tailor near our
hotel to furnish us the necessary outfit
for the occasion for snal consideration,
consisting of black pants and swallow
tail coat of the same color. We searched
over our wardrobe and found clean
shirt, bought new paper collar, shaved,
applied double the usual quantity of
bears grease or some other grease to our
hair, combed and brushed and laid every
hair in its proper place, brushed our
whiskers with unusual care, scraped our
hnger nails, paid two cents for an extra
polish on our boots-(boot backing is
cheaper here than in Chicago, and we
could afford it on this occasion)- brushe
our hat and dressed in our new suit of
black. AS we surveJ Jed ourself from head
TO foot before the large mirror, we thought
we had seldom seen more respectable
looking parsonage among all our acquaint
ance-we looked like a divine of the
olden time. Drawing on our kids and
swelling with Importance we descended
| to the street.-the porter atthe door dotted
his cap and bowed much lower than
usual, and we ordered him to call vet
turina. Our friend Poiero had also
smashed himselfup in his best bib and
tucker, and we drove down to the Vati-
can in all the pomp and magnitude of one
horse splendor. We were to meet our
Jesuit friend at the great hall at II q pre-
| oisely, to be in perfect readiness az IL.
| We had not omitted to post Ourself how
to salute the old gentleman, in q manner
becoming protestant American citizen,
and also secretly prepared and practiced
a miniature OratiOn-Gf the spread eagle
order, to deliver epte0aDore, if occasion re-
quired, for we felt that the responsibility,
dignity and reputation of the American
Republic, was resting upon us to main
tain.
AS it was yet early we spent an hour or
two in the cathedral of St. Peter adioin-
| ing the Vatican, and in the adjacent little
garden on the south, and notwithstanding
the dignity of our black and reverend
suit we could not resist the temptation to
snatch couple of forbidden rose buds,
and assume an air of child like innocence
when a gems d arme turned and looked
| inquiringly at us, but we said not word.
| By little bride to one of the attendants
in the cathedral we were admitted into q
private apartment containing the choicest
robes of the pope and bishops embroider.
ed in silver and gold, and the embroider-
ed robe worn by Charlemagne at his COR
onation in the ninth century !; the crown
ofthe statue of st. Peter, used OH festive
occasions to adorn the statue, and all the
other holy implements of salvation, stud
ded with diamonds and precious gems.
We were not aware before that 1t requir-
ed so many implements to carry on the
business. We thought there should have
been holy slipper for the sore toe nail
of St. Peter, which we mentioned in our
last while his devotees worked at the 9th
er toe few years. a sl
At length the critical moment arrived, 1
and we repaired to the appointed rendez-
Yous and anxiously awaited the arrival of
our Jesuit friend to introduce us to the
maggior domo, who superintendent the
ceremonies of the Vatican. No Jesuit
was to be seen, and our anxiety increased
to suspense the Precipitation stood on
our face, what was to be done? The
great clock of ST. Peters at length SOL
emily tolled the hour of twelve, and the
death knell of all our hopes at the same
time. 1t was amystery what had become
of our Jesuit friend--would he fail to
fulfill the programme? Alas he had
done so. Disappointed and crestfallen we
soalEed home by the back streets and
alleys, and slipped into a side door to our
room, doffedour disguise in supreme dis
gust, and sent it home by the PORTER to-
gether with c5nquo lire without having
derived any benefit Our time and mon
ey had gone for naught. HSne SIle ZACH
rynae Our friend Pojero called on the
Jesuit, who offered an apology, which is
rot interesting here to relate. 9a ss
On descending to the table d'hote, in
quiries were naturally made about His
Holiness, the pope. Pojero entertained
them with a highly interesting account
of the wonders of the Vatican, and the
distinction shown US by His Holiness