The Shasta courier., 1859-07-23
SHASTA COURIER.
Gen, Gariba1di.

As this dashing and able soldier is likely to
become the hero of the present war in Europe
a short sketch of his life will prove interesting.
He was born at Nice, and is So years of age.
He entered the Sandman army when quite
youth, and greatly distinguished himself. Hav-
ing taken part in the revolutionary movement at
Genoa in 1884, he was forced to fly the country.
He took refuge in France. Shortly after he was
in the Moorish service, in command of feet of
the Bey of Tunis Becoming disgusted in a few
months, he sailed for South America, and OBJ
tanned command of the feet sent against Buenos
Ayres by the President of Uruguay. Afterwards
he raised a partisan command of 5000 men and
fought long and valiantly against Rosas. During
this period he married South American lady
OF extraordinary beauty. In 164S the cry of
Italian liberty brought him again on Italian soil.
Piedmont being over matched in that war, he
settled down and became a member of the Sar-
dinian Chamber of Deputies.
The proclamation of the Roman Republic
again aroused him into action. With his faith
full legion he beat the French army in several
desperate engagements. He then fortified Rome
and held the External City against the i'm
mense army of France for whole month He
then proposed to blow up the bridges, abandon
the city, and take refuge in the hills His coun-
sci was not followed. The day after the sur
render he cut his way through the enemy s line,
and escaped to the little republic of San Marin.
After brief stay at Genoa, he sailed for New
York, where he established candle factory
Not succeeding very well, he started for Califor-
MIA. Shortly after his arrival here, he took
command of an American merchant vessel, and
sailed to China, thence to Peru. Here he accept
ed the chief command of the Peruvian army
Peruvian tactics not being to his taste, he again
returned to the sea, and for several years COM
manded trading vessels which frequently sailed
to New York. His last employment was as
commander of a Genoese steamer. We Gull the
foregoing facts from article in Harper's
Weekly of June 18th.
A correspondent of the Paris Steele thus speaks
of the men who now compose the ligion with
which he is sweeping the Austrians from North
ern Italy:
81 do not know If you have read in some for
eign journals the strange exaggerations on the
subject of Garibaldi's volunteers. 1t has been
said that his little army corps is the refuge OF
persons more or less compromised they have
been presented as reiters' and lanz necht SOL
diers of the wallet and cord who despise all
discipline, and are only fit to make bold stroke
in enterprises by night. Not a word of it is
true. There is not regiment in Europe where
discipline is more severely carried out than in
the companies of volunteers. Garibaldi chooses
the men, and when he does not personally know
those who come and offer their services to him.
he does not accept them without good references
This volunteer corps is composed, besides, in
great part, of young men belonging to the best
families in Naples, Bologna, Modena, Parma, and
especially of Milan.
"To speak to you frankly, our scapegraces
would not have frightened me, from the moment
especially when fighting with Gyulai's soldiers
was in question, and on my first journey to Tu-
rim, on meeting under the archways all these
young fellows, | was going to say stripings
who were getting ready to go and fight under
Garibaldis orders, | asked myself if it would
not have been better for the papers l spoke OF
but now to have stated the truth. Now, howev-
er, there is no longer doubt about the courage,
the moral strength and determination of these
mobiles, so young indeed, who have focked in
from all parts of Italy. Full of confidence in
| their chief, they follow him wherever he wishes
to lead them, and harass, necessarily, the enemy
night and day-not an hour at rest, always on
the march, and with the musket forever on the
shoulder. In less than month these children
have become old soldiers. They have abandon
ed ererything-they, the inheritors of great
! names and great fortunes-for scrvitude the
platter and the hard camp couch These dukes
marquises, counts, these latest scions of the old
est patrician stocks, have become simple soldiers
warning for independence. Spare, then, these
proud children, who are followed by the anxious
eyes of their mothers, all dsdain and insult; let
lalumny at least respect such noble hearts, who
will be an eternal honor to Italy, their country