The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-15

ANECDOTES OF GARIBALDI IN NEW YORK.
Gen. Garibaldi arrived in North America few
months after the fall of Rome in 1649, for the first
time in his life. He had fought for the republicans
on the La Plata and its branches fourteen years. be-
fore the revolution in Europe of 1916 recalled him
to Italy. After spending few weeks in the house
ofhis countryman and friend, Signor Pastacaldi, in
Irving Place, with the late admired Professor For
esti, he withdrew awhile to retired lodgings in the
country, for the benefit of his health, which had
been greatly enfeebled by his long and severe la
bors, exposures and Affections, and partly to avoid
the annoyance of numerous visitors. From that
retreat he returned respectful replies to the urgent
invitations he had received from foreign and native
associations, to public reception in this city, de-
clining the protfered honors the score of i'll
health, and of their napproprateness IN the exist
ing circumstances.
He afterwards took up his residence at Clifton,
on the east end of Staten Island, in the house of
Signor Meucci, where he remained most of the time
before his departure for the Isthmus and the
Pacific. Such was the regard that Signor M. had
for him, that he kept Garibaldi's room locked
whenever he was absent, saying that no other per-
son should ever be allowed to occupy it. As Carl
baldis health and strength returned in
sufficient degree to permit bm to take some athletic
exercise, he began to ramble about the fields and
woods with his fowling piece, in pursuit of such
game the season afforded; and he was good
a shot that he often returned with sufficient for
himself and his friends and neighbors, to whom he
occasionally sent such presents.
He was almost equally fond of fishing, and spent
on the rocks floating logs, under the steep bank
of the island where he displayed the SKILL patience
and success of good fisherman.
Of bathing he was equally fond; and, as he was
usually accompanied by several of his fellow exiles
and countrymen, who were fine singers, the fields
and shores resounded at twilight with their patri-
otic sons, Savi, being the leader, with his noble
tenor voice, and Garbaldi performing his part in
the choir. Some of the inhabitants of that part of
the island still retain agreeable recollections of
those fine displays of cultivated vocal art to which
they used to listen with peculiar pleasure.
Sometimes, joined by anumber of their friends
from New York, that band of foreigners engaged
in games at ball the lawns of Clifton, and these
offered spectacle peculiar interest to specta-
tor sufficiently acquainted with their histories and
character to appreciate it. While hearing their
cheerful voices, and witnessing their activity and
hilarity at these simple game,t was interesting to
recall the various tolls, privations, prosecutions
imprisonments which they had endured, to witness
the evidence of their early education, in scenes of
refinement, shown by their movements and gest
ures, their military bearing, acquired in the armies
of freedom, and the cheerfulness with which they
endured present trials in the hope of rendering fu
ture service to Italy. With such reflections, there
wsuld come, to an American spectator, the graft
flying consciousness that country had the honor
of giving to such noble hearted men refuge from
persecution, and an asylum which their Unsuitable
enemies dared not to invade.-N 7. World.