Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-07-01


Anita, the heroic wife Of GaribaId,,
who died during her husbands peril
GUS passage from Rene to Venice, in
ls49, was q South American lady Of
great beauty and accomplishments
Beside the wrongs Of his country.
Garibaldi has the pale phantom efthis
dvoted being ever before him to nerve
bic arm against the monster tyrauy Of
Austria. The. following is an account
which We gather faom several sources,
Of her sad fate during the last war Of
Italian Independence
When, after the bombardment ofthe
city the French troops entered Rome,
Garibaldi, issuing the following procla-
nation, left the city by the gate OF St.
Giovanni " Soldiers, what have to
offer is0fatlgue, danger, struggling and
death-the chill of the cold night the
open air, and the burning sun no
lodgings, 90 munitions, no provis,ons-
but forced marches, dangerous watch
posts, and continual struggling with
bsyonets against batteries. Let those
who love freedom and their country
better thsn life, follow me-" And 1000
followed him. His hope was to cut bis
way through French and Austrian
troops to aid the brave Venetisns, who,
in spite Of cholera and famine, were
IT'LL holding out against the foe.
At st. Marine he was met and near
ly surrounded BY large body Of Aus
trians. The Austrian general offered
to permit Garibaldi and his troops to
return to their homes unmolested, upon
depositing their arms with the authori-
ties, out refused any terms to twenty
five Frenchmen who had fought
with the Republicans against their own
countrymen. Garibaldi nobly refused
conditions from which his allies we're
to be excluded, and Selling favorable
opportunity escaped with tritling loes
into the mountains.
Making his way to the Adriatic
coast, he seized thirteen fishing smacks
in the little port of Cesenatico, and
embarked for Venice. BY dint of I'M
paralleled courage-fatigue by land
and sea; he had just rounded the Punta
di Maestro, and could see the towers
of the Queen of the Adriatic, when the
Austrian ships attacked his boats and
eight were taken; and the rest gained
the shore, and Garibaldi knowing that
the Austrians, furious at his escape,
had set price upon his head, lid his
followers dispense, and with his wife,
who though close on her confinement,
had never left his side, and one other
friend, set out for Ravena. But before
they could reach the city the mother
of one dead little one on the American
shore, of three children anxiously
waiting her return at Nice, of the
unborn one never destined to see the
earth-light fading from her eyes-that
mother knew that she was dying, yet
bore on by her husbands side uncom-
planning still, for the Austrians we're
on their track. He knew it too; but
through the lonely desert no aid, no
shelter was at Land. At last he took
her in his arms and bore her on till
they reached peasants hut, and there
with her last look and thought, and
folding clasp on him who had been
her all in life, the soul Of that noble
woman went up to the great band
of waiting martyrs 60 tell them of her
husbands deeds, Of Italy's and of
Rome's. Not.eve tomb had Italy
togive to the gentle, braveAnita. From
the grave which her husband himself
had dug for her in worldncss grief, her
corpse, ferretted out by an Austrian
dog indicated to its masters (less
human than the brute) the generous
peasant who had sheltered her in her
dying hours, and he paid the penalty
awarded to any one who "should give
to Garibaldi or his followers fire, food,
or shelter" He scas hang, dram and
quartered.