The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-06 00:00:00

GARIBALDI IN _YEW YORK.

General Garibaldi arrived in North America a
few months after the fall of Rome, in 1849, for the
first time in his life. He had fought for the re-
publicans on the La Plata and its branches four-
teen years before the revolutions in Europe of 1846
recalled him to Italy. After spending a few weeks
in the house of his countryman and friend, Signor
Pasticaldi, in Irving,:place, with the late admired
Professor Foresti, he withdrew awhile to retired
lodgings in the country for the benefit of his
health, which had been greatly enfeebled by his
long and severe labours, exposures, and afflictions,
and partly to avoid the annoyance of numerous
visitors. From that retreat he returned respectful
replies to the urgent invitations he had received
from foreign and native associations, to a public re- ,
ception in this city, declining the proferred honours
on the score of ill-health, and of their inappropriate-
ness in the existing circumstances.
He afterwards took up his residence at Clifton,
on the east end of Staten Island, in the house of
Signor Meucci, where he remained most a the
time before his departure for the Isthmus and the
Pacific. Such was the regard that Signor M. had
for him that he kept Garibaldi's room locked when-
ever he was absent, saying that no other person
should ever be allowed to occupy it. As Garibaldi's
health and strength soon returned in a sufficient
degree to permit him to take some athletic exer-
cise, he began to ramble about the fields and woods
with his fowling-piece, in pursuit of such game as
the season afforded ; and he was so good a shot that
he often returned with sufficient for himself, and
his friends, and neighbours, to whom he occasionally
sent such presents.
He was almost equally fond of fishing, and spent
portions of his time in that sport, standing on the
rocks, or floating logs, under the steep bank of the
island, where he displayed the skill, patience, and
success of a good fisherman.
Of bathing he was equally fond; and, as he was
usually accompanied by several of his fellow-exiles
and countrymen, who were fine singers. the fields
and shores resounded at twilight with their
patriotic songs, Salvi being the leader with his
noble tenor voice, and Garibaldi performing his
part in the choir. Some of the inhabitants of that
part of the island still retain agreeable recollections
of those fine displays of cultivated kocal art, to
which they used to listen with peculiar pleasure.
Sometimes, joined by a number of friends from
New York, that band of foreigners engaged in
games of ball on the lawns of Clifton, and these
offered a spectacle of peculiar interest to a spectator
sufficiently acquainted with their histories and
character to appreciate it. While hearing their
cheerful voices, and witnessing their activity and
hilarity at their simple games, it was interesting to
recall the various toils, privations, persecutions, or
imprisonments which they had endured, to witness
the evidence of their early education in scenes of
refinement, shown by their movements and ges-
tures, their military bearing, acquired in the armies
of freedom, and the cheerfulness with -which they
endured present trials, iti the hope of render.
ing future service to Italy. With such reflections
there would come, to an American spectator, the
gratifying consciousness that our country had the
honour of giving to such noble-minded men a
refuge from persecution and an asylum which their
insatiable enemies dared not to invade.— 7Vew York

REJECTION OF AMERICAN CLAIMS
AGAINST PARAGUAY.

It will probably be remembered that one object
of the costly expedition lately sent to Paraguay by
the Government of the United States was to enforce
a claim for damages, amounting to nearly a million
of dollars, made by an American company, for in-
juries alleged to have been inflicted by President
Lopez. Hostilities being avoided, through the good
offices of General Urquiza, President of the Argen-
tine Confederation, and the judicious management
of Mr. Bowlin, the United States Commissioner, it
was agreed to submit the claim to two commis-
sioners, one appointed by the government of Para-
guay, the other by that of th United States. It
appears from the report of the referees, Mr. Cave
Johnson and Senor Berges, that the company,
which was organised in 1852, with a view to trading
in the products of Paraguay, was managed by Mr.
Hopkins, the American consul at Asuncion, whose
overbearing disposition was the sole cause
of the failure of the enterprise. Most favour-
able concessions were granted by the Para-
guayan Government, and when funds ran low,
through the loss of a steamer belonging to the
company, 10,000 dollars were advanced by Presi-
dent Lopez ithout security ; but Mr. Hopkins
disregarded the laws, insulted the people, and em-
broiled himself with the authorities so systemati-
cally that the Government was obliged to withdraw
his exequatur as consul. He immediately aban-
doned the company's property, and claimed an
indemnity of 400,000 dollars, which President
Lopez refused to pay. Subsequently the sum
demanded was swelled to nearly 1,000,000 dollars
by charging for a steamer and her cargo, lost at
sea, for ships and machinery which the failure of
the enterprise was represented to have rendered
useless, for profits which might have been made,
and seven years' interest on the whole. The Com-
missioners, after hearing counsel on both sides, and
examining witnesses, declared the claim of the
company untenable. "It has always," says Mr.
Johnson, in closing his report, " been the pride and
the glory of the Government and citizens of the
United States to submit to nothing wrong from any
Government or people, but at the same time to de-
mand of them nothing but what is right. The day
is far distant, I sincerely hope, when East India
fortunes are to be accumulated, with their appro-
bation and sanction, by the plunder of feeble states,
extorted from them at the cannon's mouth." The
decision appears to have given general satisfacttion
in the United States, judging from the toneitraihd,
press. "We are glad," says the .Neto
" that the facts of this iniquitious clai
jr:rhhave been
thoroughly sifted and exposed. Whilst the ard
rejecting it will be a lesson to such of our citizens
as seek to make the State Department the. instru-
mentmoral
of their dishonest speculations, its
effect upon the South American Governments
can-
not fail to be beneficial to our interests. The fact
of an American commissioner not
, exaggerated
only deciding
,
against the pecuniary claims ar:d
grievances of his countrymen, but doing full justice
to the conduct and motives of a ruler whom we had
humiliated and forced to this inquiry, will
go farther
to convince them of the fairness of our disposition
towards them than all the assurances that can be
conveyed through a diplomatic b medium." Similar
language is held y the Times, Sun, and all the
leading independent New York journals.

DEATH OF LADY ADELA IBBETSON.—We regret
to announce the death of Lady Adela Ibbetson, youngest
daughter of the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, and sister
of the late Princess Nicholas Esterhazy and Lady Clemen-
tine Villiers. The lamented deceased, who was in the
bloom of womanhood, expired on Tuesday last at Osterley-
park, the Countess of Jersey's seat, near Hanwell. Lady
Adela was the youngest of the family of the Countess of
Jersey; she was born on the 25th of March, 1828, and
married in November, 1845, Captain Charles Parke abet-
eon, then of the 11th