The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-06-22

arms Italians VINO were IN eNlle III uuUse |
regions, and to prepare them to fight for
their own country. Such was his success
that, although he commenced under many !
adverse circumstances, "The Italian Lee
gion" soon began to reap laurels, and at !
length took the front rank in the armies
for discipline, daring constarcy, and sue
cess. In his services in Italy during tho
last revolution, he had many Of his old
soldiers in his files and doubtless some
of the survivors must be with him now, to
struggle against the Austrians.
Some of the interesting passages in
Garibaldi's life relate to his wife, He
married lady OF extraordinary qualities,
a native of one Of the States Of South
America. She was trained to horseman-
ship apd the most athletic habits which
prevail among the females of those coun-
tries. Though, like him, noble-hearted,
affectionate, and disinterested, she also
possessed q similar degree of personal
courage and fortitude which have seldom
been displayed, and still more rarely de-
picted, by any authentic pen. After her
marriage, she accompanied him in his bat
ties, by sea and land and although usu-
ally unarmed, and keeping at his side only
as his companion, she sometimes aided in
his most desperate conflicts, by dealing
out powder, loading guns and even firing
them at the enemy The suferings which
she endured among the mountains, in
times Of adversely and seasons of tempests,
were severe and almost Incredible. The
short account Of her escape from Bra
lillian guard, after capture in an engage
ment, and her journey of several days and
nights, on horseback and alone, through
wild forests, swimming swollen torrents,
on her way, by holding TO the name or the
tail Of her horse, is exceeded only by the
sad narrative of her death, in lS49, on
the banks of the Po, when after resolutely
accompanying Garibaldi on his retreat
from Rome, she landed with him, in one
of the boats, in which he was seeking to
reach Venice, then the only place in Italy
which held out against the enemy.
Garibaldi declined the profered honors
of public reception, on his arrival at
New York in l849 urgently recommend
ing to his exiled countrymen here, to apply
themselves to such honest employments as
they could obtain, fol their independent
support, "not hesitating at accepting the
most humble-even sweeping the streets"
As soon as his feeble health was restored,
in strict consistency with his precepts, he
set the example Of engaging in daily labor
in the candle mandatory of his friend
and countrymen, Signor Mencci, on Staten
Island. While thus employed by day. he
continued at evening, for some time 10 add
to his manuscripts, at the request Of the
American friend to whom he had commit
ted them, until he found it necessary to
intermit his literary labors, in consequence
of his physical fatigue,
He afterwards spent several years in
commanding commercial vessels between
Peru and China, and then returned to
Piedmont, his native country, where he
was allowed to reside, by the government
and where he superintcnded the education
of his two young sons, and endeavored tC
coldnize the little island of Caprea, on the
coast of Sardinia, which he had purchased
with money bequeathed to him by his
brother. When the present war wa'
threatened, he was placed in command o
division of the army of Piedmont, and
assigned TO an important advanced pos
on the left wing, where his standard hai
been joined by thousands of the mos
enthusiastic Italian soldiers, viz the vol
unteers who have focked, in arms, from
every part and corner of the Peninsul,
How HE DID NJ gave her a rose ant
gave her ring, and l asked her to MARI,
me then; but she sent them all back, in