The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-06-29
From the Boston Post. I
PARIS GOSSIP.

Our weeks are always full of news now
The to be or not to be of the war occupies us
fully. Every day changes the aspect of affairs
in Italy. Garibaldi's success, strange to say,
has delighted every lover of liberty every ad-
mirer of patriotism, but the French; and the
journals are full of recriminations concerning
the exaggerated praises given by one paper to
the bravery of Garibaldi, and the forgetfulness
manifested by another in the share claimed by
] "Frerch valor" in smoothing the difficulties
| which the hero would otherwise have met with
The truth is, that both the King of Sardinia
and Louis Napoleon have the most ardent de-
sire to get Garibaldi out of the way, and he
was dispatched to Varese, without cannon to
fall sacrifice to the Austrians, to whom his
approach was meant to form diversion from
their main corps. But in this case both enc
mics were. triumphant. Garibaldi kept posses
sion of Varese unopposed, gained the greatest
and most rghteously acquired glory by his
wisdom well as bravery, proclaimed not the
King of Sardinia but the Holy revolution as
| leader of his banner, and has already placed
his foot in the stirrup by which he means to
vault into the saddle. On the other hand, the
Austrians, too wise, also, to be lurcd from
| their one great object, suffered Garbaldi to
occupy what ever post he chose; fully secure
in their power to dislodge him whenever they
may see fit In this they may be mistaken
Glribaldi, unlike other partzan chiefs, has ex
perience and disinterestedness as well as bra
very to guide him. He has vowed eternal
hate to Louis Napoleon.
l. Rumors of the interview which took place
at Allessandria before the chieftan's departure
on his expedition have reached US even here
1t seems that the smooth tongue of the Emper-
or had no power Garibaldi. He is rough
and plain spoken, and told the murderer of
French and Italian liberties a few of those |
wholesome truths, which may trouble his di-
gestion of the lies with which he has been fed |
so long; and make them turn rather sour on |
his stomach. 1T seems that the interview was |
so stormy that it was put an end to rather alb
ruptly, and the unrelenting nature of the feel |
ing by which Garibaldi is actuated may have
been judged since by his proclamation, where
in, while due acknowledgment is made to the
King of Sardinia for his aid in expelling the
Austrians from Italian soil, no mention what
ever. is made of France anything French
whatever! / cannot describe to you the extra
ordinary effect produced by this pointed in
suit. 1t would be ludicrous, were it not pitiful.
Garibaldis herosm is sunk, and, unfortunate
ly, Louis Napoleon's with it; for even the
meancst French capacity is beginning to suspect
that French assistance cannot be so highly ap-
preciated abroad as it is at home. " But the
confusion carried into the whole scheme by
Garlbaldls outspoken, plain, and limpid rhe-
toric, has completely overthrown the whole
system of policy by which the two Sovereigns
were going to bestow "the best of republics
on Italy. The patriots second proclamation
speaks plainly of the future state, and holds
forth sketch of the end for which he and
his merry men working. He boldly hints
that it is for the liberty of Italy, and not for
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of France-for the estab /
shment of Republican Governments, not for S
the throning of kings upon italian soil So L
hat the perplexity is increased tcnfold on I
earning by this same document that the e
House of Hapsburg is deposed'
This is not at all the account run up by the a
and interested partners in the war e
gainst Austria. What is to become of the snug o
title kingdom for Plon plon, the troublesome t
cousin of the one and the hopeful son-in-law of t.
he other? Where is to be sought the crown d
f Lombardy, to add to the royal bandeau of a
King Victor? And what in the world is the ii
se Of fighting for Rome and Naples, if Rome
nd Naples become republics and not the prop p
rty of the Prince Imperial and Murat? Then, m
gain, it is suddenly discovered that the three d
eneralissimos are fighting for three distinct NJ
bjects, and this discovery quite consoles the vc
artisans of the House of Hapsburg with the
onviction that its deposition is not SO nigh
Pter ALL Meanwhile, we who remain at home IN
,mewhat i'll at ease revenge ourselves by fiji
aking bon mots and puns and euolibets upon
lie actors in this wondrous scene and I must