The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-08-20
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NV eRLEANs. SUNDAY. AUGUST 20. lsn.
IRON Ro1H.
ROME, July GA general arming is the
order of the day, it 10 the question OF the
hour. LAMA is hurrying to and from
fro. Ricotti never sleeps but in q railway
carriage. We are to have rified cannon
and ali sort of things; all the officers are
ON the qMi viUe, and expect their promo
tions. The generals are inspecting the
fortresses and the admirals are inspecting
the coasts, and the engineers are craving
the Capital - may be " defnitively SET
tied here in 1873. Will it,
Warfare has already broken out between
the mob and the party of order or ia.aer
the mob seem determined 10 make sys'e
matte attacks on everybody it suspects OF
being a friend to order and to the Pope.
Hitherto the conflict has been limited for
the most part to cuffs and cudgellings, and
the breaking of windows; soon, however,
we shall have stsbbings with the s .SI
yolyers, a Ia Yankee. Here are few facts
on which You may depend rs authentic, and
which will afford some idea of the state OF
things in Rome at present: You are al
ready aware that the Cardinal vicar mas
in consequence of q PontiAcal brief lssped
q Pastoral interdicting the reading OF bad
books and newspapers. The voice OF the
shepherd has been obeyed, and the bad
newspapers, in spite of their own asser-
tions to the contrary, are dying out ior
thougbt. must be done, 30 they have got up
q riot against the Offices of the GOOD news
papers. They would have made demon
stration under the windows OF the Cafo1-
nal Vicar himself, only that the ponce
through fear of petroleum-haye lnee.o.c.-
lar sentiments. The first attack was made
against the Frusts (t'the scourge y. an
ugly name but . respectable paper In !ts
way, and one that has one OF the best CIT.
culations in Rome, and goes chiefly amongst ,a
students and Others assembled and assailed
the Office, broke in the doors, and smasnea
the windows. The news-boys were seize0
as they were going to sell the FThsto tneir
papers were taken from them, anu tne
thieves then made bonnre IN Sae s'1 No..
with the copies they had purloined: not
a policemen OF civic guard showed himseii,
or offered the slightest interruption to
these lawless proceedingsj in tact, tney
cay, that an officer of the national guaro
was the dur facti ON this disgracet9l occa-
rences like these prove 1t, that there 10 q
Belleville in Rome a. we'll as IN fsiis:
The bad papers, Of course, assert that the
Rrusta was the aggressor, and that the PEG.
ple merely stood on the defensive and
even "preserved, in the midst OF tneir vic =,
w. " d.
x friend tells me that Rome is full of
petroleum, and can we'll believe 1t. II
the fact is SO, the inf1ammable mineral OIL
has not been, introduced without q mali
cious object. Be that as it may, there le
assuredly an overflow Of that moral petro-
1anna which ia Thousand times more dan
perous and more destructive than the mate
rial substauce-I mean the abominablt
doctrines that flow daily from the pens Of
the editors of the bad press. They excite
their readers to every species OF crime
they lash them on to wage war to tn:
knife against all the religious orders, ane
especially against the Jesuits; and these
good men are consequently placed In con
tinual danger Of their lives, and the dange
ia daily and hourly increasing. The mos
infamous assertions and worse lnsin u ia on
are hurled at them every morning In th'
columns of the revolutionary press, ant
the masses are stimulated to murder ant
inceudiarism. One of these papers, for OK
ample, urges it's readers to join the soclet
of the cudgellers of the blacks I .s
Sect to the Catholics, and especially to tn
clergy. Another paper tolls the people
ado Justice on the clericals;" third 81
claims-"Oh! that / had my hands on til
Coliegio Romano and the Gesu wouiG n'
I reform them with a vengeance I" Eve
the comparatively respectable Liberia, IL
serni- official organ, has the following in
number of to-day "Merely as a curiosit
and because it may possibly come into prac
cal use before gerry long, we copy the folio'
ing short prayer, which we understal
that Catholics of the different cities of 1ta
are now in the habit of placing behind t
doors of their houses: praised and than
ed be the precious Blood of Jesus Vide
Sauenimem ct Transibo vos, nee crit in v
bis playa disperdens.'" Truly, cam
help thinking that all these signs of I
times forbode days of terrible calam
fearful events at hand from which pray
alone can deliver us. This may be the
planatlon of the earnestness with VIII
the Pope ls always insisting on prayer, q
saying that it is more needed in our di
than ever.-London Tablet.
That was rather a sorry and captious jok'
the cid Pater Families, who, when his beaut