The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-08-04
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THE IRISH IN IdtAI

TaorgH we should GLADLY see Irishnler
pulling the trigger or aoufsltiag tie
shfllitlah IN a better eanse flipii the
/ pope's, yet As they have deliberatt II pre-.
ferred ttttt side of the quarrel, d confess
E5it aratiIies us highly to see them nsaFttlfly
stlstaiuing tic character of their country.
/ The new spapeEs Of the rentipeat, ltNlian,
Austrian and French, IRE already. full Of
the exploits Of tie galtfnt atlyehtufers
from the Green Isle, who are nlreaifg@be-
ginning TO divide tile admiration OF The
world with Gartbaldi aid lis followers.
Indeed, II appears to MS That already. the
Irish volunteers have eelipsed the Italfans.
+ tfnribaldi's troops haye certainly exhihit.
| cd Us much rrowess as WINS wanting for
their; triumph. hut from tile day. The
fexpedition set ont, we look ias vain foi
Ethe exuberaHt palor of tile BOYS from
/ Limerick md Tipperarg. Garibatlfs
fmen ttrashed the &capoIitans, but com.
| mend us to tile heroes vito have shown
! that they can thrash themselves. An
Austrian journal; the " aqtdeycji; informs
/ MS that "on the arrival of detachment
tef the Irish volunteers at Maeernia they
| got up q fgltt among Themselves md
hammered AWAY at epch other's skulls
with so mich good will that the gen
darnies were ordered tp.iateffprcW And
interfere they did, but, we are proud to
say. not with impanfty, for several: .ol
the geHdarMes were sorelY Haulest By the
conbatants, who did not like 10 have.
their sport iftcFra, tied "a The truth is,
We have no manner of denbt, that the
Papal government had arranged this
aftray with the police, in order TO make
their Irish friends feel at home as soon as
possible, gu landing IN the Pope's doini.
MONS. II was not only n delicate compli.
Inent to the volunteers, but capital
stroke of policy, for when the news Of tile
fun to be had ut Maeerata had traTersed
ireland, tile nlngic effect may be eGsily:
foreseen All the young blood will be off
to Italy on finding that his holiness, in
addition to Ills other attractions FOR the
Irish, has got a police to be trauled, Ike
the best oil Protestant governments IT.
Is said that the rose with the gtndaFmerie
was about ra.ions and quarters; but
though We canl enter into the feelings Of
a true freshman on being presented with
q dish Of polenta or maccaroui, any other
bone Of contention would have answered
quite rs well, for we may be sure It was
not for the sake Of being either better fed
or lodged that the neediest freshman
made up his mind 10 translate himself To
Rome. His holiness, in fact, proyidgd /
his dellrerers with both meat and. driuk, !
III providing them with the police to pun
mel; and as we confess TO taking awicked /,
pleasure in the pummelting of those Of
ilcIals, We wish the Hlbernian brigade
plcnty of the SAME diet, and fresh rem (.
from home to enjoy It along
with them. Let them thrash the Popp's |
police all the whole way from Macefata
10 Rome, it viii go far to atone for the
crime or rather the folly, of cnlisting in
his army. " +
IL is observable that though the Wien. /.
IA Journal records so much cracking Of
'kulls in the first action, or that in which
he Irish fought one another, there is not
syllable said of injury to the brains of u
Jingle combataHt ...:s La
Some of the same brigade are reported
o have adventures equally exciting in
mother way. Their chaplain aud one of
heir officers were robbed Of / 800 scudf a
N the road between Macerata aud Lo.
etto, and it Is even said that the bandiltiI
eft them in plight which would have
hooked Lord Haddo. Probably that ,
situation, cool as it is is not I
be most favorable for political retlectionS;
the chaplain and his ggliant \
might have drawn CONCLUSIONS I
rom their own disaster little calculated I