Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-12-17

" Wednesday Morning. Dec. ~. 1896.
Celenisastsn Of virginia.


Celenisasten Of virginia.
ITALIAN REFrerrs IN vtasrSi,.--We learn that a
considerable number OF Italian refugees who recent
~ arrived h. re- and other emgrants, including some
the French refugees from Cayenne have Just been
settled in Virginia under very favorable eirennstan-
ccs through the influence of the American Industrial
Association of New York Some ofthe Italians were
prisoners under the Papal Government on account
of their participation in the revolution of ls47, but
were released not long since aAer m imprisonment
of seven years Others were members Of the Italian
Legion which served in the Crimea Seventy more
of the same Legion now in Canada. DESTROYS of
accompanying their associates to Virginia ard were
expecting TO do so NJ they unable 10 obtain en-
ploymeni in Canada during the winter months, but
the funds ofthe Industrial Association are insufficient
for their removal. The committee of French citizens
having in charge he refugees from Cayenne objected
TO these men being sent to Virginia, the ground
that their labors in tina; State would be too severe
they had already suffered much from privation and
exposure. Mr.. Thomson the corresponding secre-
of the Society who accompanied the Italian emf
grants to Virginia reports very favorahly OF thor To-
cation and prospects Each man will have the oppor-
tunty Of obtaining homestead by easy purchase
giving half his time TO his employers and hall TO the
cultivation OF the nds which he may acquire and
which are we'll adapted for health aud agricultural
pursuits
The Italians have already produced good impress
sion by their department, and the intelligence and
aacrity with which they entered on their work-tor
which tnPlr military training, anu theh HhpRl ~
trenches before Sebastopol peculiarly qualify them.
A company in this city offer strong inducements for
the settlement Of emgrants in Virginia. and another
company In New England, with 1000 acres. are
making similar arrangements for the colonization oil
free labor in the same Sate.-N J. Journal 81 Com
mtrcs,
A statement very much akin 10 the extract u
bove appeared some two weeks ago in our tel
egraphie column NJ more Importance was at
II Il. IL III,
Washington correspondence of the n. ]. Her.
Gid or the Kansas column Of the Tribune. II
was regarded as rather an unsuccessful hoax
But now that il appears under the sanction OF
that grave Democratic paper, the Jonrnn! Of
Commerce. il is the part ut least of polieness
not idly to dismiss it from notice
Yet even now are at IA loss how to under
stand this statement. The novelty,ihe audacty
of the thing. excifes less our Indignation than
our WONDER and the cool difference with which
the Journal Of Commerce puts the case before its
readers, q mere ordinary news item, completes
our embarrassment.
We had heard of the Authorization of Cuba,
of the Coolie trade, Of the Emigrant Aid socie-
ties. of tho revival of the slave trade. and Of ma
ny new schemes of colon cation, not excepting
that # the Americanization Of Nicaragua. We
fattered ourselves that aud the public were
prepsred for anything in the way of colonization
bat this proposition TO aboiionze Virginia has
taken us n completely abacs as if neither Cuba
nor Kansas had ever existed.
Our attitude is still that of curiosity. not # dis
cussion. We want to know many things. In
the first place. we are anxious to learn how much
r A. n. -. IL
city and in the New England States many
thousands uf acres Of land in Virginia, and do
they really contemplate settling them up with
free labor Are there any Italian refugees now
in Virginia; audi so, in what part of the State
are they located Secondly: lnasmuoh rs this
statement Of the gravest import has appeared
in the columns Of democratic Journal, we would
be glad to know why other democratic journals
have taken no more notice Of it than if it had
been "Whig lie 7" Especially glad would we
be to know why Wise j. silent in this great cr
ssl IL that fierce sentinel asleep upon the
watch .towrrl Is he engrossed with some let
ter, or. persdventure, with gubernatorial mes
sagel What "perilous stuff has stuff, up
the keen nostrils Of the great battle stallion that
now he scents no, from efar this outrageous in
dignity II the fierce sentinel is asleep upon
the watch tower. If the ncse Of the great battle
stallion is stuffed up, then Virginia sa goner"
We shall all be aboli,onists in. less time than it
took Geary to drive Lane out of Kansas We
are suffering a world of uneasiness of mind
Won't somebody tell us something abou, some
thing