The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

EVERY EVENING.

LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 14.

GENERAL GARIBALDI AND AMERICAN

TRAVELLERS.

As a rule, travellers inform us of their social
PROMAilee, and keep their disappointments in the
background. No man—traveller or otherwise—
likes to confess to a rebuff. However he may
tell tLe story, there is still a danger that
his failure was due to his demerits. Mr.
BA YARD TAYLOR, who describes in the cur-
rent number of the Atlantir Monthly a
provoking misadventure in his own recent ex-
perience. runs no risk on this score. He is too old
a traveller, and possesses too iiitieh knowledge of
the world, to have committed any nii,take likely to
be met by a repulse on any personal grounds. It
sip/ ears that ,beingde.irous to make the acquaintance
f Gem ra'. GARIBALDI. Mr. Tayt.oit resolved to visit
Lim at Caprera, fortifying himself with letters of in-
troduction of a specially felicitous kind. Upon
being landed on the Island of Maddelena.
site Caprera, he lost no time in forwarding his
letters by a boatman. and waited in anticipation
of an interview which would repay him for the
peculiar disagreeables of the voyage. Asbve read
the narrative, the boatman returned in due time,
but without bringing any reply. Fearing a
mishap to his letters, the author of '• Views
a-foot " sent another letter by the same mes-
senger, assuring the General of the friendly
motives of his intended visit. A reply then
came, but, alas' it was almost worse
than silence. General GARIBALDI curtly de-
clined to see Mr. TaYr.on and hie wife
on the ground of indisposition. The feelings of
an American traveller, under such circumstances,
must have been poignant indeed. Within sight—
within rifle-shot--of the object of their pilgrimage,
after travelling hundreds, of miles, and yet unable
to get at it ! A large drop of bitterness in the
cup was the fact that three days must elapse
before they could get away. Worse still, while
waiting at a miserable inn in a most uninteresting
spot for the return of the steamer, they learned
that General GARIBALDI, instead of being confined
to his bed, as they supposed at first, was well
enough to take open air exercise, thus apparently
placing his refusal to see them in the light of an
intentional slight. Mr. TsvLoß professes to be
at a loss to account for the General's conduct, but
a Boston contemporary attributes it to the treat-
ment which GARIBALDI has lately received from
Americans in Europe, and which has determined
him to keep Caprera locked against them, each
and all. There was, in the first place, the ridicu-
lous conduct of the State department at Washing-
ton in making him appear as a paid agent
of the American Government during the'
civil war. The American Consul at Rome,
who was conspicuous by his aid to the
Papal power when GARIBALDI was before the walls
of the city, is still at his post. " Moreover," says
the Boston Adeettiser, " the General is no doubt
" aware that the officers of the principal American
" squadron in Europe, after hobnobbing with the
" Liberal,' in Florence, Genoa, and Naples, went
" from the latter city all the way to Rome to
" render homage to his mortal enemy, the POPE.
" And last, though not least, he cannot be ignorant
" of the disgusting eagerness with which not a
" few of the same Americans that cheered, hugged
" and kissed him last fall at Florence subsequently
" sought an opportunity at the public audiences
" in the Vatican for bowing their knees to the
" ' monster of iniquity,' as he calla the successor of
" St. Prraat." It is more pleasant, perhaps, as
well as more just, to see political motives in the