Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-13

vers at the bounding dog. One ball went
through the feshy portion of his thigh, but
it did not slacken his speed, and five minutes
afterwards was carving the Neapolitan
turkey, and helping Turr to wing and
Bixio to drumstick. Seyton Burgh had
taken out his campaigning mediciDe-chest,
and, after satisfying himself Mustang had
no bones broken, he bathed the wound with
brandy and water, and said to me, General,
when you hGys picked the bones clean,
please give them to your puryeyor.'
"Mustang had the bones, and although
our surgeon pretended that in wounds by
/ firearms it was absolutely necessary the
patient should be strictly dieted, Mustang
rapidly got well. He entered Palermo in
triumph with us, and, saving the scar which
remained visible as glorious token of his
courage, Mustang was perfectly cured"
"Huarah for Mustang~ exclaimed the
Duke of Sutherland, who had returned t.
the drawing and had heard the last
part Of the first story.
$50 on, General. Go on You have
not told us all % cried the ladies with one
voice. 2a
.Willingly, my ladies, replied Garibaldi,
!" although the remainder of he story is not
to my honor. AT Reggie it became very
| desirable to send a message to the Neapoll-
tan commander. He had brutally declared
he was resolved to blow up the fortress and
everybody in it, sooner than surrender; and
he added, he would hang every bearer of a
| flag Of truce sent to him, as such banditti
and rebels as we were had no right to invoke
| the law Of nations. IF we believed his own
menaces, to send him man was to sentence
| this man to certain death. was extremely
embarrassed, when Seyton Burgh came up
and said: General, if you will give me
your proposals IN writing and signed by
you, I viii undertake to transmit them to
Don Bernardo Marini.' This was the name
Of the terrible governor.
81 wrote The lives of al spared all
officers promoted one step. Ten ducats for
each soldier. Provided the fortress be sur
rendered without combat. Ii I~take it by
assault, every officer and man shall be put
to death 1 signed it.
ssSeyton Burgh took it, slipped it in to-
bacco- pouch, which he fastened around
Mustangs neck, and put in Mustangs
mouth one end Of white handkerchief,
leaving the other ends floating in the air.
At the same time l ordered a white flag to
hoisted at the vanguard, and made the
trumpeter sound the flag of truce flourish.
''The Neapolitan sentinel, seeing q dog
coming towards him with tobacco-pouch
around his neck and handkerchief in his
mouth, determined to make himself master
of pouch and handkerchief by ripping open
the dog with his bay onet. But Mustang
perceiving- unfortunately q little late--the
hostile intentions Of the sentinel, jumped
aside. Nevertheless, the sentinel's bayonet
hit the poor dog in the eye and destroyed
1t; but Mustang was not a dog to stop for
one eye more Or less. He did not even yell,
for fear of dropping the handkerchief, but
ran around the sentinel and entered the
fortress. a, es
'IThe commander of the fortress, in
formed that white flag was displayed at
my vanguard, went to window, and seeing
dog with white handkerchief in his
mouth advancing towards the fortress, I'M
derstood q portion Of what had taken place.
To discover the whole truth he went out
himself to meet the messenger, took the
tobacco-pouch, read my missive, assembled
q council of war, discussed the question,
sent back his reply by Mustang, and sur
rendered the fortress that night.
81 heard with the greatest ~egret the
accident which happened to my bearer of
the flag Of truce; but remembering Philip
Of Macedon lost his right eye in battle, and
Hannibal lost his left eye in another battle.
l consoled myself, and mentally placed
Mustang on level with the most illustrious
one-eyed heroes of saneient and modern
times. Moreover, when [ entered Naples he
was completely cured, and it was for him
the famous saying, See Naples and die,
came near being the truth.
g Mustang followed me, or rather his
master, to Caserta. Ineed not relate to you
an account of the battle of Volturna, which
decided the fate Of the Neapolitan mon archy.
1t was fought from daybreak, and about one
o'clock Of the evening it was well nigh lost
to US. Nevertheless. | had at Santa Maria
about one thousand men who had taken no
part in the fight. 1t became extremely i'm
portant to handle in the best possible man
ner this last resource.
.tAt one o'clock [ went to Mont st. Angelo
accompanied by an abide camp, I climbed
half way up the mountain to get a general
view of the whole battle field, and see our
true position. After an examination Of ten
minutes, | went down the hill to regain my
carriage, which had left at the foot Of the
hill The ambulance was half way between
the two places. Seyton Burgh was at the
ambulance, sick and wounded but feeling
the battle coming near him, he could not
resist his desire to take part in ii. saw
him firing on the Neapolitans with long
range rifle from his carriage. Mustang was
| on the front seat. I cried to him as / drove
| by: sGood morning, Seyton Burghi We
have won the battle. expect you to sup
per at Caserta this evening"
"' Hprrah for Garibaldi!' he exclaimed,
while Mustang, whom he had taught to bark
whenever he heard my name, sprang up and
began to bark Justly.
-" kept on my way. AS l turned around
the hill a battery of Neapolitan artillery,
which had secretly been posted in clump
Of trees, opened FIRE on me. [ thought for
en- instant L was in the midst Of an eruption
! of Vesuvius. One Of the horses of my car
rage fell dead. My driver tunbled from
the box uortally wounded. The ordnance
officer, who followed me on horseback, had
his arm broken. In the very height Of all
this confusion, fifteen Croat horsemen
charged on US. They surrounded my car
rage in the twinkGng of an eye
As usual, unfortunately had no often
sive and defensive arms except my sabre.
L used it so well that two horsemen fell
Meantime my aid-de-c camp did his best with
his revolver. He killed one man and dan.
gerously wounded another Still there
were twelve horsemen against us three, and
we should have had the greatest difficulty in
getting rid of them had there not fallen
from the sky allies we were far from
expecting.
s'When seyton Burgh saw us attacked by
fifteen horsemen, he drove his carriage to-
wards us as fast as he could urge the horses
Suddenly he charged those who we're at