The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-14
HUMBERT |.
TINE NEW KING OF ITALY-HIs VIEWS
AND LEANlNGs.
A Major General mt Twenty-.1lis Military
Achievements In the Austrian War.

Achievements In the Austrian War.
Humbert Renter Charles Emmanuel .Jear
Mario Ferdinand Eugene King yictors oldes
son and successor, was born March H. 1874
and Initiated into public affairs, civil and mill
tary, at q very early age At fifteen he nc
eompanied his father TO the war against Aus
tria, and In 1862 he took an intimate part II
the reorganization of the old kingdom OF the
with. Garibaldi to receive an enth,-
siastic reception On the eve of the sec.
ond war with Austria the Crown Prince was
sent TO Paris to sound the Emperor on the
Important subject of the preliminary treaty
that Italy had concluded with Prussia. He
returned from this important mission 10 take
part with his brother Amadeus afterwards
King Of SPAIN In the battle OF Custozza,
where the two princes commanded division
of Cialdini's army Forming his regiments
into squares. In one Of witch he took his
stand, Prince Humbert was able to resist the
Austrians till Bixio came to his aid and helped
him to cover Duyandos RETREAT, which other
wise would have been converted into o rOut
Though Acknowledgement In the army, the
Prince had few months before tho breaking
out of the war declined the pay and allowances
to which he was entitled, TO ease the burden OF
the national treasury.
At the Paris Exposition of 1867 he acted a,
president of the Italian Commission. On the
32d Of April of the following year nS6s) Prince
Humbert married his cousin the Princess
Margherita Marie Therese Jeanne of Savoy.
daughter Of his fathers dead brother, Duke
III 4eHea,- and nf tho Princess Elizabeth.
daughter Of King John Of Saxony The Duke
of GENOA died i'm 1865. and his widow next year
contracted q morganatic marriage with the
Marquis Rapallo. The wedding. was cello
bratcd amid universal public reioic-
ings, and when, November H. 1869, just as
Victor Emanuel was recovering from his
dangerous illness, the young Crown Princess
she was then eighteen years and a day old
gave birth, at Naples, to an heir, Victor EInau-
uel Ferdinand, Prince OF Naples, tho popular
reioicings were redoubled. and The procla1na-
tion of O general amnesty still further in
creased the gladpess. Queen Margherita has
always been the idol of the Italian people and
has made her emblem flower the daisy, popu-
lar beyond measure at all fetes and public de-
Der the generous part she played ut the time
OF the recent foundations of the Tiber and
how enthusiastic was her reception every
where by the sufferers. 1t Is not too much to
say that weak-minded woman as she Is, she
Ia to-day the main pillar of the dynasty.
King Humbert is said to be the exact coufl-
terpart of his father in his tastes, tempera-
ment and disposition, exceedingly straightfor
ward and unaffected In his manners, and
earnest I'M his friendships. OF the latter char
acteristic he furnished evidence on the occasion
of the death OF his fathers aide-de-camp. Gen.
Cuneo. When the funeral occurred Humbett
walked In the procession bareheaded through
the streets Of Rome In binding storm Five
years ago, when his father desired to legalize
his marriage with the Countess Mirhftot'e hr
declared to the King he would leave Italy Ii
she should be declared Queen. Signors Mena-
brea and Rata1zi were In favor of tho Kings
plan, but the hereditary Prince never relaxed
his opposition for u moment.