Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1859 — The Papal Government and it's subj cis. [ARTICLE]

The Papal Government and it's subj cis.

[Correspondent c f the London Post

* R.*mk. June 25, 1859. Th ' sanguinary f«'>-nci:y «:-,• >l nyi■«I t»y the so railed Swiss regiment in the t* ir>a 1 ser- ! vice, which stormed the rein " >. -a ’city ol ; Perugia on the 20th inst., si uving. burning. ! and plundering as it in an en. mie’s country, j lias already produced such an impression in > the other revolted provinces, tlia. many cit- j iea and towns; seeing no hope of support ! from either the French or the Piedmontese, | after the explicit declaration of those two I sovereigns, and desipairing of rnttiptainiy— a | separate independ».-«<j ) J iave sent in thei; ° cla 0: submission to the supreme Pontiff. The inhabitants 1 o! Perugia having been twice, hut. fruitlessly, summond to return to their aiit-gfcnce by the Pope's Envoy, the Advocate Liitanzi, himself a native of Perugia, the column under Col. Schniiet ad- i vanced to the assault. The force consisted of two battallions of the Swiss regiment, 1,700 strong, 300 Roman infantry, two pieces ot artillery, and a cornpanv of gendarmes, who were placed in ambush on the road to Florence. The attack wa - made at three of he gates, and one of them was speedily burst open by a connon slmt, affording *a passage for the entrance ol the troops. An obslinate, though an irregular defense was made, end the citizens retreated, fighting w itn interior arms and ammunition, to the Pa.iazzo Cummunale, situated in the middle ol the Corso, nearly a mile from the original point of attack, where the conflict soon came to an end; but not. the vengeful tury of the soldiery, who burst into the nouses whence tiny had been fired on, and committed the most dreadful excesses. Ah ut sixty Peiugians were taken with arms still in their hands, above seventy were slain, and a great number wounded; but, as many of the latter were taken into private bouses as well us hospitals, their precise number cannot be determined. Nine w- men and children were victims to the ruthless soldiers in various houses, and the cruelties of war were aggravated by the horrors of licentiousness. The loss on the side of the troops was comparatively trifling. Two officers and nine soldiers w ere killed, and two officers and thirty soldiers wounded. It appears that a number of Tuscans were in the ranks ol the besieged party. These, alter the capture of the town, endeavored to make their escape to Arrezzo, but many of them were shot d iw n by the gandarines, who were in ambush on the road. An American gentleman. Mr E. N. Perkins I Boston, who arrive i at. p.-ruagia from Rome on the loth, with Mrs. Perkins and three other ladies, had a very narrow escape from the hands ot the ruthless soldiery, who Ourst into the Hotel de France, where he was staying, shot the master of the hotel and the waiter, and would most probably have murdered the travelers also, hud they not been concealed by the mother of the unfortunate hotel keeper in a dark recess, lead; ing by a secret door out of one of their bedrooms. In this suffocating hideous place they all remained lor fourteen hours, and when they at las' ventured out they found that the whole hott ’ had been gutted, furniture and property destroyed or carried off. und that Mr. Perkins’ 1. ggage, money arid valuable effects, to ttie amount of 000, had likewise become the prey of these freebooters in 'uniform. The U S Minister in Rome, Mr. Stoctou, has received an e-vact account of the occurrence from the sufferers, and is making energetic rt, -es. nu-'i-. ns to the government in order to obtain a mutable reparation. balloonists who recently “went up” irum St. Louis and came down in the State ol New York, are quarrelling over their ••honors.” Wise and La Mountain are “ut it,” through the newspapers. The former attributes the lailure of the voyage to the latter's mistakes; all the latter rejoins is by | saying in effect that Wise don’t know wh.it |he is talking about. La Mountain “in labor” alledges that Wise can’t cross the ocean in a baloon, by its costing him less than .20.000. wnile Wise declares that he can do it for $6,000. La Mountain says with much cunfid nee “I shall cross the Atlantic * in Oetobm