Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-12-30
HISS JESSIE MERTON WHITE.
HOW SHE LOVED AND HOW SHE
WAS DISAPPOINTED
Romance and Revolution.


forms Us that Miss White, the friend of Maz
zini aud of Italian liberty has at length beer
set at liberty, with the injunction to leave
Immediately the Italian states This lady, a,
you viii recollect, was compromised in the
affair of Leghorn and Genoa in June last
since that time has lain a prisoner in the du-
cal palace. I DO not know whether you have
ever Published a biography of Mss White,
but certainly there are traits in her short
history we'll worth telling.
Miss Jessie Merton White is an English
girl, scarcely % years of age. the daughter
of a well known and rich ship builder She
was educated at Paris. at the boarding school
OF Madame Bascaas. French, German and
Italian are languages as familiar to her as
her mother tongue, and she makes some pre-
tensions to writing verses At 1G Miss White
had one of those IDEAL physiogomies Of the
kcepsakcs; tall, straight, mcagre. schooled
to gymnaSt;c exercises, but, wrapped up in
the languil reverie Of those organizations ia
which mind domincers the Gesl, there was IL
al her person such harmony Of form such
an expression Of melancholy, that every ore
stopped to gaze AT her Her hair had the
golden ,itt which Italian painters give to
their angels. The deep blue OF her eyes
doubled the power and the charm OF her ex-
preston.
When Miss White LIT school AMI resnrucd
to England, she read The poems Of Thomas
Moore, q Iallc Rool;2 an the Loves Of
the Angels" fascinated her her heart was
awakened She was prepared to abandon
herself to one of those romanceS Of the brain
which terminate ordinarily by a marriage at
Gretua Green. Happily, Miss White ca
ccuntcred at Lor fathers house one Of those
enthusiastic friends Of Italy. who excited her
Imagination on the wrongs Of that country.
and thus turned the channel Of her thoughts
Among the Italian rovolutlonists there i
one who, seen frnm distance, : IL = the im-
agination more than the others BY his da
ring, his words. and even by his costume
Garitalli resembles more the hero Of u 70
nance than man 0 our prosaic age, Fos
the soldiers Of the king Of Naples, who saw
him at Yelle.ri, Garibal.,i Is myth he is
inyulneraJie, he has tie Gift Of ubiquity, Ae
is the devil himself Miss White saw him at
London AM loved him. But Gar.balI is al
honest man, and in pity for this diseased mind
lie undertook to di>cuchant ii, by demon
stration Of plain habits ana tastes Often.
too, he spoke Of his regretted wife; of that
heroic flight after the fall of Rome, through
the gauntlet of Austrian posts; of those
nights passed i'll bitches full of water, and on
a fishernan's boat IN the Adriatic; of all tie
terrible trials where his poor wife, at the end
of her strength, had succun,bed without
murmur OF complaint. Miss White conquer
ed her love, but she preserved her admiration,
and, during the voyage of Garibaldi to Am
erica, she took care of his cLildron. who had
been placed in boarding school at London
The departure Of the Piedmontese for the
Crimea, during the late war, gained for the
king, Tictor Emanuel, as every one knows,
a great popularity in England A king who
has made war aud f ught valiantly in the
ranks like the commonest of his soldiers a
king who was as gallant TO women as was
Francis |. or Henry ", who aims at the re-
constitution of Italy, who detests the Aus
TRANS, and who mocks at the rawlings OF vi
emma and the Vatican. Miss White had
found her ideal she loved Victor Emanuel.
The king made visit to London Miss
White asked for and gained an audience
Alas, She learned tOo soon that romance en-
she's quick in the presence. Of this soldier
king, of this grand-nephew of Henry "
who carries love by storm Miss White fell
into a profound melancholy,
1t was then that she knew and became and
connected with Mazzini.
Nothing resembles less the real Mazzipi
than the Mazzni of the European police.
he bears the tye Of Jew, has an aquiline
nose, saffron sompiexion, small, gray, live
ly eyes, shaded under heavy eyebrows, gray
beard, and cigar always in his mouth !; me-
dunn height, slim, and manners more euer-
getic than distinguished Mazzini has the
genius os pTopagandism he is always search
ing for prosolytes. His mind, highly color
ed, insinuating, caressing language. has an
irresistible charm One would saw that
something speaks in the man that is not of
the man.
Miss White took him for an apostle, and
loved him, perhaps cnly by vanity, for vanity