The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-06-30

The italian Hero--Romantic Career.
The annexed brief biography Of Carl
baldi will be read with interest:
A native Of Piedmont, Garibaldi, like
his father and grandfather, in early life
became a sailor, and performed numer-
Gus voyages in the Mediterranean and
Lcvant, until, having joined the secret
society Of Italian patriots, he was con-
domned to death, and escaped from
Genoa to Marsoillos in disguise. In one
Of his early voyages he had visited
Rome.
Having subsequently spent a few
months at Rio Janoiro, aud learned the
condition of the Republic of Rio Grande,
which had rebelled against the tyranny
of the Brazilian Empire, he embarked
with General ROsetti in q small vessel
to 60 TO their assistance, and captured a
few cOasting vessels on his way, under
the authority of the flag of the new
State. He was soon after attacked in
the Bar0na by a Brazilian vessel of
much superior force, and laid senselcss
on his deck by a shot in the neck, which
rendered him unconscious till after the
repulse of the enemy. Here COM
menced his military life, which con-
tinued fourteen years in South America
and through the revolutions Of 1852
in Italy, and afforded a variety Of scenes
of alternate trial, success and dis.
aster seldom paralleled. A chief object
at which he constantly aimed in his TO-
mantle South American military career
was to train to arms Italians who we're
in exile in those regions, and to prepare
them to fight for their own country.
Such was his success that, although
he commenced under many adverse cir
cumstanCes, the "Italian Legion" soon
began to reap laurols, and at length took
the front rank in the armies for disCi-
pline, daring, constancy and success. In
his services in Italy during the last
revolution he had many of his old sol
diers in his files; and, doubtless, some
of the survivors must be with him now
to struggle against the Austrians.
Some Of the most interesting passages
in Garibaldi's life relate to his wife. He
married a lady of extraordinary quail
ties, a native Of one of the States of
South America. She was trained to
horsemanship and the most athletic
habits which prevail among the females
of those countries, Though, like him,
noble hearted, afectionate and disinter-
ested, she also possessed a similar degree
of personal courage and fortitude, which
have seldom been displayed, and still
more rarely depicted, by any authentic
pen. After her marriage, she accom-
panied him to his battles, by sea and
land; and although usually unarmed,
and keeping at his side only as his com
panion, she sometimes aided in his most
desperate conflicts, by dealing out pow
der, loading guns, and oven firing them
at the enemy. The s0lathgs which
she endured among the mountaihs, in
times Of adversely and seasons Of tenn
pests, were severe and almost incredible.
The short account of her escape from a
Brazilian guard, after capture in an en-
gagoment, 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
Pc, when, after resolutely accompany
ing Garibaldi on his retreat from Rome,
she landed with him in one of the boats
in which he was seeking to reach Ven
ice, then the only place in Italy which
held out against the enemy.
Garibaldi declined the prOffered honors
of a public reception, on his arrival at
New York in l849, urgently recommend
ing to his exiled countrymen here to
apply themselves to such honest en-
as they could obtain, for their
Independent support, "nOt hesitating at
accepting the most humble-even sweep
ing 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
factory of his friend and CoUntryman,
Signor Mencci, on Staten Island. While
thus employed by day, he continued at
evening for some time to add to his
manuscripts, at the request Of the Amer
lean friend TO whom he had committed
them, until he found it necessary to in
termit his literary labors, in consequence
Of his physical fatigue,
He afterward 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 govern
ment, and where he superintonded the
education Of his two young sons, and
eudeavored to colonizo the little island
of Capre, on the coast Of Sardinia, which
he had purchased, with money be-
queathed to him by his brother. When
the present war was threatened he was
placed in command Of a division Of the
army Of Piedmont, and assigned to an
important advanced post on the left
wing, where his standard has been join
cd by thousands Of the most enthusias-
tic italian soldiers, viz: the volunteers
who have hooked, in arms, from every
part and corner Of the peninsula.
The English have disposed Of their
last great enemy in India by hanging
Tantin Topee He died bravelv and IL