The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-09-02

The Expected Attack ON the Holy CITY
What May Follow tho Removal Of tho
French TrcOps--Chance Of tho GaribaIdi-
ans Pnpat Preparations and Church PO-
!icy-The POntidcnI Commanders and
Force-Fortresses and Recruitmcnts-itaiy
Taking Position-2sOmo Foriifyinns
.-----s~~ ROME, August TO, 1870.
The Papal government Is fully convinced that the
departure OF the French troops VIII not have been
accomplished very long before second Garibaldian
Invasion Of the dOmlnions OF the Church Will take
place, in spite OF the assurances given by the 1tal
ian government to the contrary, and the consider
able military force with which 1t has encrcled the
Ponti1cal frontiers The information received IN
Rome OF ClandestDe eDl.stments ut Terni, Riet and
other Italian frontier towns has led the government
to consider the danger so imminent as to require an
immediate organization of measure OF defence, and
q plan has consequently been drawn up at the war
Office which does not differ essentially FROM the one
carried out successfully In 1867
TEE SWORD.
The Papal territory liz divided into two military
divisions, OF which the drst Rome and Comarca) Is
commanded by General Zappi, and the second
(northern and southern prOvlnces) by General De
Courtea, under whose orders Lieutenant Colonel
de Charette, Of the zoUaves commands the military
district Of Vlterbo chef do battalion d'AlblOusse, OF
the same CORDS that OF Civita Vecohla and Colone!
Azzanese Of the Roman line regiment the southern
provinces of FrosInOne and Veeri In this latter
district the battalion Of peasanry, called SQuad,z
teri, who wear the picturesque costume OF the
country and were originally organized to hunt the
bugands out OF their mountain Businesses, is to be
increased to three times its present numerical
strength. An extra military division will have its
headquarters ut Monte RotondO and Montana, ex-
tending thence all up the valley OF the Ano to
Tivon, and thence to Subiaco.
The fact Is, however, that the whole Roman from.
tier is geographically speaking, very difficult to
guard, the mountainous nature OF nearly all the
land side laying 1t open to the lngress Of invaders
through numerous passes. For this very reason 1t
Is considered that the force placed by the Italian
government On the frontier is not sufficient to In
sure the safety OF the POpe's dominons. On the
other hand, although the attitude OF the Italian
people, decidedly opposed to a French alliance and
the recent course OF military events on the Rhine,
seem to exclude any probability OF the Italian gov
ornment's having TO send contingent Of 10000
men to aid the Emperor Napoleon. Ill, the difdence
with which the movements OF Austria have been re-
Gently regarded has necessltated considerable con-
centratOn OF Italian troops in the Quadrilateral.
AUSTRIA.
Our latest accounts nom the Tyrol, however. con-
traaict the current reports Of a strengthening Of
the Austrian forces and forltcatlons In the Trent
district The Italian squadron is cruising up and
down the Papa coast from Terracina to Civita
Vecchia, and its movements are duly telegraphed to
the government az Rome as are also all the details
procurable on the land side by special corps of
spies, whom the Director Of Police, Marchesc Cap.
ranica, has organized and distributed in various
DISCUSSES along the Italian frontier districts
PREPARISG FOR WAR.
On the first intimatlOn OF Invasion or instruction
the whole country, including the capital, Will be de-
clared in state OF siege. AS a preliminary precau-
nflin how rim oil
siding IN Rome whose papers were at ell irregular,
ana especially Italian subjects suspected OF political
missions. About one hundred individuals have
been thus summary expelled. A secret passage
through drain near the Castle OF st. Angelo, cacu-
lated to admit from the meadows outside the walls
clandesne visitors into the city, has been just dis
covered.
Tne armament OF this ancient fortress and the
batteries or the Aventine hill are TO be strengthened
With the mortars, about thirty in number. which,
with 900 Shells have been sold TO the Pope by the
departing French, aud the Catholic Committee OF
France resolved that his Holiness shall not want for
any OF the most approved appliances OF modern
warfare, are going TO make hlnl pre- sent OF mi
against the GaribadiaDs than tue Emperor has been
with IL against the RUSSIANS and that the Pontif5
temporal thunder VIII be more convincing tnan MS
spiritual
General Kanzer is seriously occupied with restor-
ing the dwindled numbers OF the POpe'S army to
something like It's former effective force OF $4,000
men, and mas issued orders to his recruiting officers
abroad 10 spare neither exertions nor money to OBJ
tain recruits Their numbers do not as yet amount
10 fifty week.
The Antilles legion gives the War Minister more
trouble than all the other corps in the Papal army
on account of the eagerness OF the best class OF
French soldiers, which comprises, to gel recalled
under their national flag, at the present emergency,
and the unccremonious manner In which the less
scrupulous members OF the legion effect that pur-
cny of the frontier at COrese at1Ordlng very fair
chance OF escaping across the Italian boundary.
Nearly two hundred soldiers Of the legion met
lately and drew up petition TO the Empress re-
questing to be recalled from the Papal army, where
sympathles for the OF Prussia prevailed, and
danger THE telegraph authorities refused to for:
ward the despatch unless signed by the colonel
o OF ne Know snd .b az the EMPRESS not
therefore we are not surprised that few evenings
afterwards no fewer than twenty legionarles,
comprising q subadjutant, should have deserted at
once 1t seems the order OF the day. read TO the e-
Ieaux has mad but little effect although he reminded
the ofhcers and men Of the great honor which had
devolyed upon them since the departure OF me
French tr0ops-vlz., that OF representing Franco In
the ranks of the P0ntncal army 1t Is even rum0red
that the legion will be dsbanded, and Its elements
distributed between the Zouaves ana German rine
regiment
LUYATIC ARMED.
A deplorable incident occurred yesterday about
noon, at the Zouaves club rooms, near inc campo ui
Flore An individual who had come to Rome To
enlist in that corps, but who had not yet put on the
uniform, was seized with an access or furious MAD.
ness, and taking up ride belonging to an orderly
soldier fired several shots from the windows oil the
cluD rooms, WOundlng q nuInDer OF paSserSpy
among them ZouRve, 1t Is feared mOrtally. He
was with difficulty secured by patrol OF Zouaves.
who had to fire upon and wound HIM very severely
before he consented to be captured.
This morning the colonel OF tue ZOuaves published
an order OF the day to this CORPS abiding to the
tragical occurrence as follows-"You are all aware
Of the deplorable events OF YESTERDAY, Although
the unhappy man who rendered himself guilty in
an access OF furious madness did not belong to the
CORPS the regiment must, nevertheless come to the
aid OF the families Of the innocent victims. sub
scription Will, therefore, be opened throughout the
regiment and the painful emotion felt BY OIL ou