The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-11
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rb;cb has been since subject to moro or less OF /
emporal vicisstudes, appears to be again serious
10 threatened by the revolutionary elements which |
have been lately evoked by Garibaldi, and when |
b;s arrest bv the Italian Government, insteId Of
weakening, seems to have intensified. Ii therels
in the capital city OF Rome, it does not
seem to have been yet manlfestea' 40 e''oenee
Of local revolt has yet been given, but the move
ment appears to be external, though none the less
dangerous on that account. 1t ID stated that III
Viterbo the authorities have not yet peeu apie W
suppress the instructions which followed the III
rest of Garibaldi, and that the Northwestern por-
ton of the Roman territory ls N the nahuS oi .he
insurgents. II it be true, rs announced III tne
csble telegram of the I'd, that the command
ar of tbs forces of the Pope has called upon
tha italian Government for assistance, and
that this has been refused, there can be little
doubt that the situation is serious; yet II can
hardly be expected that it will be allowed to con-
+inue so. The Italian Government may be ex-
nectod to take iurther action, and if necessary,
France may intervene. 1t was reported when Carl
baldi advanced to the frontier that French soldiers
we're embarkng for Rome, but this report was not
confirmed. BY the Convention OF 1864 the Italian
Government agreed to suppress any invasion OF
the Roman territory from Italy, and France was
to withdraw her forces from Rome, which wasdone
in 1866. and it is contended that the spirit OF ths
treaty will be violated if France should again un-
dertake intervention. In that event, the friendly
relations of France and Italy might be interrupted
unless the former should act with the consent of
the latter Still later cable dispatches from Italy
are of sn exciting description. Fighting has be-
gun at various places, aud in one engagement the
Papal troops are said to have been beaten
meeting Of the friends Of Garibaldi had been held
at Turin, and revolutionary speeches made, ano
meetings at other points were projected.
TIE LEsPiDAsA STRATA, new grass in this
country, has excited considerable attention OF
late in Georgia, Alabama and also in dlherenl
parts Of this State. The Tuskeege alabama
News, in noticing It's advent in that place, de-
scribes it as fellows The horses, COWS, sheep,
goats, hogs-everything that eats grass are de-
lighted with and are fattening upon it, 1t appears
10 be a variety OF clover; does not grow high |;
higher among weeds, briars and sedges thSn any
where else. Three or four inches IL lta common
height in the woods and old fields; eight OF ten
inches among weeds, briars and sedSe GROWS
thick, and is very rich and green. Dry weather
has but little influence upon it. 1t comes early
and remains fourishing and green all the season.
We believe it to be the greatest blessing in the
form OF grass that has ever been bestowed
upon the South 1t will be great agent in re-
newing our exhausted lands. Farmers need not
fear it, for it can be easily killed, having only
straight tap root, and but few fbres. Whether it
can be 80 improved by cultivation that it can be
cut as hay remains to be tested. What u 1t !!
Where does it coma from?" AS we have already
stated, it clme from Japan. We lately conversed
with planter from Morgan county, who informs
Ills that it has been cut for hay this summer IN
that county, and that it made large yield,
which all kind OF stock seem to be fond OF. We
learn, also, that. large planter in Columbia
county has made his crop OF cotton this year upon
the Lespidasa alone without corn or fodder. We
believe, with the editor of the News, that it will
prove g the greatest blessing in the form OF
grass that has even been bestowed upon the
South"
THE PAN-ANaL1oAN SYNOD in London has dis
cussed the following questions l. lntercommnnl-
cation between the members OF the Anglican oom-
munion. 2. Colonial churches. 8. Cooperation in
missionary action. These general proposals e.
braced variety of details which, for the conYe-
nience of the Synod, were embodied in resolutions,
Bishops were present from all parts OF England
and her colonies, Scotland, and the United States.
But the English press thinks the proceedings use
less. The London News says: "After all the ex-
plantations that have appeared, the public does not
quite understand for what purpose his Grace the
Prlmate has summoned sixty OF seventy OF his
Episcopal brethren from the four corners Of the
earth, and assembled them here in the dead sea-
son, when there is positively nobody in town. Per-
hsps it would not be too much to say that this
doubt and uncertainty must be to some extent
shared by many of the visitors themselves. Three
and twenty bishops are reported to have come
from the colonies, seven from Scotland, aud as
many as nineteen from the United States, to take
part in the Conference at Lambeth Palace, whore
they are to meet twenty-six bishops Of the United
Church of England and Ireland" The Pail Mall
Gazette says: "The really melancholy part of the
matter is that the arstocracy, to speak, Of the
Pan-Anglican Church-to use the strange title
which has somehow or other been appropriated to
them-should meet together at such time as this
with such an absolute want of appreciation Of the
real religious problems of the time, with which
they will most assuredly havo to grapple sooner
or later, unless they mean to fall into silent, un
honored decay"
TEE WASHINGTON correspondent Of ths New
York Tribune October S, says sThe Government
has Just begun to prosecute two prominent New
Workers, one a citizen of Bath aud the other OF
Corning. They are charged with s1indling the
State Of New York out of about 5000 1t ap-
pears that in 1864, whom President Lincoln made
cal for 900 man, these two New Workers
charged with fraud w,ee recommended by the
Board of Supervisors OF Steuben County as agents
Of the County to go South and recruit colored men
to help fill me quota Of the county. On this Ie-
the Governor commissioned them,
Ind they went South. They succeeded in recruit |
ng four hundred men, who were duly mustered
INTO the service the Government. These re-
fruits each to receive about 5000 State bounty
md 80 county bounty. It is charged that these |
men who were recruited were never paid cent Of
this money, but the agents, by means of forged |
touchers and false representations collected the
whole amount from the State and pocketed the |
same. The soldiers who were swindled have made |
claim for their money, and the Government in |
ends prosecuting the same. Proceedings have |
been instituted against the accused at Albany for
obtaining money from the State -on falss pre-
ences, and indictments are about being issued |
,gainst them by the District Attorney at Charles
on, in behalf Of the negro soldiers, in the vicinity
If which city most of them reside This, it is said,
s but one of many similar cases. and the Govern |
nent, through the Freedmen's Bureau, is after |
,ther parties charged with similar offences"
HoMBURa, the rival of Baden-B Baden, has lately |
lad new sensation in Quixotie encounter be- |
ween MIR. Labouchere, m,mber of the British |
Parliament, and an Italian named Farina. MIR.
Labouchere il seems thinks II his duty to act as