Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-02-21
New Series--Vol. 7, No. 4.

luces Light-Horse had been fascinated
by Giuseppina Raimondi. He belonged
to avery wealthy Bergama family, He
was very handsome fellow, brilliant
horseman, n great conqueror of hearts
I'm fine, an Italian Don Juan. How far
had he then won his way into Giuseppina
Raimondis good graces? This is ques-
tion which IL Is hard to solve, although
the Marquis -'s accusation Ito be sure,
that proves nothing) unquestionably
stated her conduct in the manner most
unfavOrable 10 her. 1t is, however, GER
tain, after having paid her assiduous
court, when she talked to him Of marri-
age he refused to wed her. Was il from
pique, coquetry, design to bring back
Carroll, or from sincere enthusiasm for
the man who filed the world with his
exploits, that she went to Garibaldi and
won him with her dazzling beauty and
fascinating advances? All these hypo-
thesis have esucessively been advanced and
discussed. May be all of them are true,
although apparently most contradictory.
Logic is not the law which commonly
governs woman's heart, and the most
heterogeneous and complex sentiments
may, all at the same time, exist in it. As
for myself, have always believed, and
/ still believe, Giuseppina was sincere,
and if she deceived herself, she honestly
deceived herself in the enthusiasm, in
the admiration, she felt for Garibaldi.-
May be afterwards when her marriage
with him was determined, when pFoba-
bly, Carroll, seeing her on the eve of escap-
ing from him., attempted to keep her
back and returned to her side, she was
painfully agitated and divided by two
contrary and equally warm sentiments.
My opinion, therefore, is, she was more
to be pitied than blamed, and that her
real misfortune was to have fallen into
the hands of a melo-dramatic traitor like
the ignoble Marquis -. Atall events,
terrible was the chastisement meted out
| to her and her accomplice. Seeing her
glorious husband would never pardon
! her, she eloped with Carroll. They as
sumed false names, and went Abroad
| They concealed their melancholy hap
piness in Switzerland. Their secret was
! kept for six months; but they were re-
cognized at Friburg, where they had re-
sided for short time. The people broke
| their windows and threw stones at them.
He carried her back to Como. She re-
! turned to her fathers house overwhelm-
ed with shame, nigh heart-broken, half
dead. Carroll rejoined his regiment. He
was at once put into Coventry, everybody
gave him the cold shoulder, every finger
was pointed scornfully at him. No man
could stand that life. He quilted the
army, and when the last Polish insur-
rection occurred, he, with Nullo and a
| handful of other Italian volunteers, join
ed the Polish insurgents. Nullo was
| killed. Carroll was not so fortunate. He
was made prisoner, and carried to Siberia.
! There this handsome young fellow, the
heir of millions of dollars, accustomed
from his cradle to all the comforts, all the
pleasures, all the luXuries of life, died o
i'll treatment, want, povery, and priva
tions. He was not quite eight-and
twenty years old.
Garibaldi returned to Caprera with {
lacerated and bleeding heart. But 1tal,
soon summoned him to her service, ant
she healed his wounds. Patriotism, duty
danger, solaced him. Glory rewarded
him. One very remarkable and yer,
commendable fact is, that when thi
mournful incident occurred, not ont
single italian newspaper-not ever
L'dTm0nid nor LIE Cttmpdnitc, the mos
ardent clerical organs of the Peninsula
-ventured upon the least pleasantly
about this domestic calamity.
When Garibaldi saw Como last sum
mer, his heart must have been a"itateC
by two souvenirs of a widely differen
nature: His brilliant and triumphal ell
trance into it in 1S5S-and his marriage
for he possesses heart as insensible K
age as his fame and his arm.