[Extract from the Paris Moniteur—Translation.], December 1

[Extract from the Paris Moniteur—Translation.]

The Havre Correspondence publishes the following letters from Mr. Jefferson Davis and from his Holiness Pius IX:

Richmond, September 23, 1863.

To his Holiness the Pope, Pius IX:

Most venerable chief of the Holy See and sovereign pontiff of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman church:

The letters which your Holiness has addressed to the venerable chiefs of the Catholic clergy of New Orleans and New York have been communicated to me, and I have read with emotion the terms in which you have been pleased to express the deep sorrow caused you by the carnage, the ruin, and the desolation, which are the consequences of the war now waged by the government of the United States to the States and peoples who have chosen me to preside over their government, in which letters you command these chiefs and their clergy to exhort the people and the authorities in the exercise of charity and the love of peace.

I am deeply sensible to the Christian charity and sympathy which have inspired your Holiness in the reiterated appeal made to the venerable clergy of the Catholic church, to induce it to use all its authority in behalf of the restoration of peace and tranquillity.

I therefore deem it my duty to express to your Holiness personally, and in the name of the people of the Confederate States, that we are deeply sensible of the sentiments of love and of Christian charity which have guided your Holiness on this occasion, and to assure you that this people, threatened, even within its very hearthstones, by a cruel oppression and by a fearful carnage, desires now, as it has always fervently desired it, the termination of this impious war; that we have manifested in our prayers, addressed to our Heavenly Father, the same sentiments as those with which your Holiness is animated; that we do not wish any evil to our enemies; that we do not covet any of their possessions; but that we only contend that they may cease to desolate our country, to shed the blood of our people, that they permit us to live in peace under the ægis of our institutions and of our laws, which protect every one, not only in the enjoyment of his temporal rights, but also in the free exercise of his worship.

I therefore pray your Holiness to accept, on my part, and on that of the people of the Confederate States, our sincere thanks for your efforts in behalf of peace. May the Lord prolong the days of your Holiness, and have you in His holy keeping.