Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1878-04-04
The NEW POPE.
LEO XIII. A MAN OF DETFRMrNA-
TION AND FIRNTNEss-RouE
TO BE AGAIN THE SCENE
OF PAPAL PONIP AND

&
OF PAPAL POMP AND
sPLENDOR.
A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from Rome under date
of Feb. y, says
~ the energy which DISTINGUISHED
Peccl both as a delegate and a Bishop
at Spoleto and Perugia, he gave proof.
dS taiherlengo, as soon as Plus TX.
upon the removal of the cloud under
which the Archbishop of Perugia was
m Antonelli's lifetime, called him to
Rome and invested him with that i'm
pOftant Office. | have already told Won
that the determined and, as his col
leagues said, "impetuous - manners
OF the CamerlengO had struck dismav
among the Vatican functionaries ac-
cuStomed to the extreme leniencv of
the late POntitf in his declining wears.
and had raised against him an outcry
of unpopularity dr the vacancy 81
the See which YER W. i him his
chance Of am ele several of
the well-kApssn Goa >nrss of Plus TX I
Pecci very plainly intinnated that lie
would not put up with the liberties they
had been long allowed to take with the
supreme authority, and in single in
stance, when the body Of the deceased
Pontitf was being removed from the
death-chamber to the Basilica, where
1t was to lie i'll state, espying among
the few distinguished persons whom he
had allowed to attend the ceremony
one or two ladies to whom he had given
no tickets, he summoned the Master of
Ceremonies, upbraided him in very
strong terms for his presumption in de-
parting from his Instructions, and be-
fore the very body of Plus IN, told
him emphatically, 81 am not Pic
Mono" The clerical papers, and es-
pecially Don Margotti's Unita Haliana
of Turin, had predicted with great as
surance that the new Pope should be
Plus X, a hint that the policy of the
new POntificate should be based on that
of the one which had just come to an
end. Pecci, upon his election, declared
that his name should be Leo KILL, a
clear determination that the new reign
should usher in new era being thus
conveyed in the mere choice of his
name. A few homs after his prOcla-
nation, when the Cardinals, crowdlng
around him, were silently watching hls
he suddenly rose ana,
afihf65 ana fogtgi3t, and 'iP;fioceedad to the
balcony whence, according to custom,
a newly elected Pontiff is expected to
give his benediction to the multitude
assembled on the Piazza to acclaim him.
There is another balcony looking out
upon the church and fronting the main
altar. Had he chosen the outer bal
cony, the ice would have been broken,
and the accession of the new Pontlll
would have been attended by all the
ceremonies which surrounded the Pa
pacy before the tabled captivity which
eclipsed its lustre in the latter years OF
Plus TX. Leo XIII. heSitated one mo
ment. Franchi, who had been by his
side throughout the election, and by his
self-denial favored Pecci's eXaltation,
whispered a few words, and the Pope
took his stand ON the inner balcony.
Both the church and the Piazza were
already swarming with an immense
multitude, but when the Pope's mind
was made manifest, there was a great
rush through the doors, and thunder
ing applause rose from that laborlng
mass, needless of the sacred locality.
Little accustomed to exhibitions of
that nature, the Pope stretched out
both hands to allay the popular storm,
and his voice, sonOrOuS and authorlta-
tive as he pronounced his - Benedicat
vos, OmnipOtens Deus, Pater, Flilus,
ct Spiritus sanctuS, was heard as
tinctly by all the hushed and aWed as
semblage. Inside or out, however, the
blessing is given, and the solemnities of
the Church, which for so many years
have been the chief attraction at
Rome, will again be performed with
all publicity and with all the pomp and
splendOr of which the late Pope, brood
ing over his grievances, and bemoan-
ing his intended Imprisonment, had tie
prived them. Pecci, as Camerlengo
ordered those State carriages to be
newly polished and vanished in which
Pecci, as Pope, will one of these day.
make his appearance i'll the crowded
and delighted Roman thOroughfares
A programme of the new Pope, bear
| ing the date of the 10th instant, just
three days after the death of Plus IN.
and published this very day, is ad
dressed to the people of Perugia as ;
Lent Pastoral, and entitled " LaChies;
la Civilta." 1t is perfectly Chris
tian enumeration of the titles tn
Church is entitled to put forward as ;
prompter of civilization and tn
founder Of a moral society based on tn
sacredness of the family, on the meek
ness, purity and self-denial Of the Chris
tian character, and on the authorlt
exercised by Church modelled on tn
faultless type of her Divine founder
| There is nothing aggressive III TIL
homily. no allusion to the Tempora
Power as "a necessary basis of Papal IN
dependence, nothing whatever TO wllcl
an English or German divine OF IN
Reformed Churches could not 1reel
subscribe.
There is still some uncertainty abou
the Pope's resolutions. His corona
tion will probably be celebrated tn
Sunday after next. The taking po
session of the I4ateran Basilica is e
pected to be done by delegation, as WI
. usual in the Middle Ages, when Il
Papal Court resided at Ayignon, Il
Pope evidently not knowing IN his oN
mind whether or not he will be pr
: | oner.
The results of the various ballots
. the Couclave are differently reporte
> In the last Peeci had Al votes.
: The Pope is the youngest of fol
/ brothers, the oldest of whom is elght
: six. The second has four sons, two
. them Volunteers in the Italian arm
r The third brother of the Pope IS
4 yinity Professor, formerly Jesuit, D