Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-10


THE CAREER or GARIBALDI.-Born in the
middhng rank of life, he was obliged to flee,
when still young, from his native city, Ge-
noa, during the persecution of the sect of Car
bonari, of which he was amember. He after
wards went to the Brazils, with the object of
engaging in some commercial undertaking,
but, devoted to the cause Of liberty, he soon
joined a small band of Italian refugees who
were serving as volunteers i'll Monteyideo, de-
Tending the cause of liberty and the republic.
His desperate courage, his personal prowess as
a soldier, and his heroism, never stained by an
act Of cruelty, made him the theme and admit
ration of the country; he quickly rose to the
rank of general. But Garbaldi was more than
warrior. If he took away life, il was from
devotion to cause which he believed to be
that of humanity and be dosdainod to contam-
mate the purity of his motives by receiving
riches in reward for his services, and he lived
always in the greatest poverty. In lS47, be
returned to Italy, His deeds at Rome are
well known. When the siege of Rome was
over, and the city taken possession of by the
French, he collected about four thousand Of
its defenders, and made rash attempt to cross
Italy to the Adriatic, thus hoping to make his
way by sea to Venice, where the last ray of
Italian liberty still fingered. He was quickly
surrounded with Austrian troops from Flo
renee, Bologna, and Ancona, and he reached
with difficulty, with portion Of his force,
/ the little republic of San Marine: here nine
hundred men gave up their arms to the author
tiles of the republic, who as authorities Of an
independent state, proposed to make terms for
them with the Austrians. They were, how
ever, made prisoners, and sent to Mantua,
many of them first being Observation-Disclosures
Garibaldi and about three hundred compan-
ions reached the shore, and embarking during
the night on board some fishing boats, made
sail towards Venice; as morning dawned, the
wind fell, and two Austrian steamers were IL
sight. Some boats were taken, others sunk,
| and two only reached the shore, near Rimini
III one of these were Garibaldi and his wife, a
| lady of the Brazils, who had insisted on ac-
| companying her husband on his retreat from
Rome. Galibaldi and his companions i1nme-
diately separated themselves, as the only
chance of escape, and carrying his wife in his
arms, who was unable to support herself from
fatigue, left the shore and went inland. Two
days afterwards, he appeared at the cottage of
a peasant, still carrying his wife, and asked
for water to be given her, but she expired as
he put it to her lips. His companions were
hunted about, and most of them shot down,
like beasts Of chase. Two months later, Carl
baldi arrived at Genoa, having passed through
the midst of the Austrian forces in various
DISCUSSES; and he who had always refused to
enrich himself by war, who disdained self-in-
terest, and defed all perils III devotion to a
noble cause, now thinksi it no dishonor to earn
his living asthe captain of merchant vessel
trading between China and America
The LAKEs.--The trade of the Lakes is in
creasing from year to year with q startling ra-
ito, and is at all times a subject Of intense in
terest.
% In the year lS00--or half century ago
the Lakes were almost without commerce.
while in 1850 their tonnage had risen to 2l5,-
900, and the value of the traffic was estimated
at 1892, 900, 00O
The tonnage Of the Lakes, in 1929, was on
ly $500 tons; in the next ten years it rose to
10000; in l849 to $4,000, and in 1850 to
215,7S7. The ratio Of increase has thus been
much greater every succeeding decade But
the present hardly gives an idea of the vast
commerce of which these Lakes are destined
to become the scene in future 1t is estimated
that the American States which border on the
Lakes are Of themselves capable Of sustaining
population of 22,000,Oo0.'
The annexed table will show the measure
ment of the Lakes, which are as follows:
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