Newbern weekly progress., 1860-10-02
GARIBALDI AND Ills COMPANIONS.


\ correspondent of the London Times, who
recently made q trip to Messina with Garibal-
di, thus describes the liberator and his chief
companions:
Trecchi, major in the Sardinian army, who
resigned his place as an orderly officer near the
Kings person, thinks, and with good reason,
that the King himself would be the happiest
of mortals were it in his power to don a red
flannel shirt and join Garibaldi, the love of ad-
venture being far stronger in Victor Emanuers
heart than that ambition which some of the
clerical organs so freely impute to him. There
was Fruscianti, "A Roman veteran, without
whom Garibaldi never moves, with two or three
more gray-hcaded men who have been with
him throughout most Of his adventures in the
New as well as the Old World, and as many
younger men accustomed to do his bidding,
whether the task imposed upon them may
seem practicable actually impossible one
Besides the Italians and the Hungarians, we
had also some of Garibaldi's English cham
pions-Major, now Colonel Leveson, a young
man only 33 years DID, and of a small stature
but gifted with almost hercuean strength and
heaven-storming courage-a with whose
name few persons cOnyerSant with the Crimean
and Indian wars can be unacquainted. He
comes to fight with Garibaldi by land and sea-
and is, besides the owner Of yacht, and
means to embark dozen English sailors in it
and about 60 volunteer dare-devils, of whom
the world will hear some news by and by. We
had Capt u. Dowling r. A. who is to COM
mand a battery of Whtworth guns, and Mr..
Edward +. Jarvis r. n, a young sailor who
resigned the command of his vessel in England
to place his skill and valor at Garibaldis ser
vice. The master of the Amazon, Capt r. L.
Weeks, is no less Garibaldi-mad.
l almost fancy have made out few of the
peculiar charms by which Garibaldi seems to
exercise so great an ascendency on all who APP
proach them. We were yesterday en- ia mile,
and although Capt. Weeks had placed his pri-
vate cabin at the exclusive disposal of his il
lustrious guest, yet Garibald came forth among
us, and made himself for day perfectly hap
py, and even heartily merry with his friends.
The General moved among the various groups
upon deck, with a kind and an apt word for
each of them, evincing that readiness of recog
milton, that perfect accuracy Of recollection,
that memory of men and things and circum-
stances, however trihng which are ranked
among the innate privileges of royalty. He had
on his usual dictatorial suit, consisting of the
unfailing flannel shirt, with silk bandana ker-
chief thrown loosely and widely round the
neck, by way of scarf, light grey trowsers,
and the modern wide-awake hat with the turn
up brim. The prodigious breadth of the Gene
RAILS shoulders, his colossal chest, and the ma
tural dignity and lion like majesty of his coun-
tenance, again and again incline beholder to
overrate his real stature, which is certainly
not above the middle size. You must go near
him, and measure him by the standard of COM
mon men, before you recover from the error IL
to which awe for that commanding figure leads
you.
There arose loud peals Of laugher, in which it
did a mans heart good to see Garibaldi take a
share-Garibaldi, the man on whose should
ers weigh at this moment the destinies of Italy.
Accustomed as they must be to the exhibition
of such unaffected cordiality, Garibaldi's com
panions were as fully charmed to see their chief
tain in such good humor as a comparative
stranger might be. The love and devotion of
all men who ever draw near Garibaldi are some
thing that passes all understanding. He loves
all, and is loved by all; yet there is none with
whom his supreme authority is ever shared,
who is ever intimately taken into his
councils. 1t is only his heart that is open to
all. His mind is exclusively bis own and his
viii admits no doubt or dispute