Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-08
GARInALpE PRIsoN.
Eassres'iHE T"ferrseao with tie GeaeraE.

spezzi, COet 81 Correspondence Of the London POstI
I arrived here last night late, and this morn
ing, as ! srose and saw close under my window
| the blue sea of the gulf, with its mountain mar
| gin covered from base 10 summit with olives
the bay itself broken by many prOmontory
rocky or vine-clad, and far away to the east
ward the rugged Alps of Carrars, began Il
imagine that was the Columbus Of La Spez
! zis
For the first eight OF ten days after Gsribaldi':
arrival two large frigStes and four gunbosts were
| noored opposite Yarignano, and perfect feel
\ OF armed boats circulated about the harbor
/ Now, as l write, there is but a small dispatch
boat remaining. The rigid orders against land
/ ing are Withdrawn, and l stepped on shore at
the stairs and wended my way up to the fortress
unopposed aud uuquestioned. A letter to the
| colonel commsndant, Santa Rosa (the son, by
the way of the General Santa Rosa, who was
! killed in Lord ByrOns expedition to Greece }.
from the Minister of War, procured me a very
gruf and not over conciliatOTy interview with a
bushy whiskered, very coarse looking man Of
about fUty, who curtly told me the general was
| wearied, he had seen so many people, and that
[ had better leave him in quiet After briefly
assuring my courteous informant that my visit
would be Of the briefest, he gave me permission
to proceed, and I mounted a wide and dirty
stair to a corridor as wide, as dirty, and in many
ways ss disagreeable. Two gendarmes were
stationed at a small door In this passage, en-
teriDg which, 1 found myself in a room with
some seven or eight persons, dressed in scarlet
shirts and seated at dinner.
They received me with much politeness, and
one, q tall, dark compleIioned young man o
about eight and twenty, Msnotti at once offered
to conduct me to bis father.
On a small truckle bed, scrupulously clean,
but Of the humblest kind, lay the wounded man,
with his arms folded and his head little bent
forward, SO deep in thought that we were beside
him b-fore he noticed us. He gave me his hand
and addressed me at once in English, but speed
ily added;
-'' You must talk French to me- for my English
has rather rusted lately" He. knew my name,
friend, but added again, Talk to me freely,
but don't be displeased if l can say little in re-
turn. Tell me everything about c., where
be Is, how he is, and what he is doing"
/ tried to obey him. though far more eager to
learn tidings Of himself, aud learn if there was
anything which the solcitude of bis English
friends could do to tighten his solicitude and his
sUfferiUgs.
mo said he, &" I believe I want nothing
have had sympathy enough for thousand men.
Your great nation is greater in nothing than in
It's generosity"
Il was no time nor had presumption to ad-
vert to late events; and so we talked only of his
wound asd the time it would take torostore him.
q" Patience" said he, with smile, " is not said
to be NY characteristic; but they shall see that l
can exert it."
With a permission to be admitted to see him
soon again, I Withdrew; and, after a few min
utes Of civil intercourse with the Doctors Ra
psri, Bssile, and Altaneso, whose dinner I had
already disturbed, I came away.
As [ Towed back to Spezzia had time to
think over my late innteTview, and was aston
ished to own to myself how powerfully the
magic Of that mans simple and gentle manner
had worked upon me. I was prepared in
measure for the charm of his unsff cted ease,
his winning SMILE and the bell-like clesrness of
a voice that was perfect music to the ear; but l
was not prepared for an amount of dignity,
which, it is no eXsggeraton TO say, would have
become q prince. Indeed, / am ready to ae-
knowledge that I have stood in the presence OF
some royslties with less painful sense of infe-
riOrity than I did beside that humble truckle
bed, with a soldiers cloak for a coVerlet.
Ny boGtmen, who knew where I had been,
and who certainly were not restrained from
questioning me by any modest Difference, never
asked me how he Was or how ha looked. They
told with complscency how much employment
they had in carrying strangers across to see
III GeHcrals;" that there were Italians and En-
glish ana Swiss every days and, in fact, gave
me to see that whatever fate might issue from
Aspromonte, it was rather lucky bit for Spez-
zis that made Varignano the hospital Of Carl
bal3i
Rather piqued at last, I said "The general is
going on well" "Tanto HsegiiO -" so much
the better was the response, aud no more
passed between US.
A LESS ROMANTIC REPORT.
Paris Oct. q Correspondence Of the London POST
Il is melancholy TO witness the lamentsble eff
iects produced upon Gsribsl1l's mind by his
wound, and still more by his captivity. His
procismations have at all times had a tendency
to theatrical exsggeratiOn, "a common fault
arnnrcr Itcl:sns hnf the frnthv nnnsense w Vhicn