The New York herald., 1879-12-25

| Garibadi was dominated by overmastering sense
most exceptional circumstances he was not in
dtion to think properly OF affairs OF private and
personal kind and induced to consent to the
soleinnization of marriage between him and the
Signora Rzimondi by the parish priest. without the
for the validity of the said marriage. That soon
the marriage ceremony was completed Garibadi
came to know that the lady was in the condition
contem plated by paragraph So of the Austrian Civil
Code. then in force in the Lombard provinces. and
thereupon decided to absent himself without giving
young woman Raimondi approach him in any sort
of way. That from that day to this there never
GaribaIdi and Raimondi and that to the repeated
attempts of the latter to return to him and to be re-
eeSsd by him ss as Tor
the annulnent OF the marriage as being contracted
under defects Of form and more particularly without
her valid consent She was born on the l7th OF
March, 1841, and baptized the infant daughter or
parents unknown; hence. ON the 24th OF January.
lS60 she but eighteen years OF age and the mar
ringe could not take place without the consent Of
her legal guardians consent which was not given.
but for which substituted that OF the Marquess
Giorgio Raimondi. her so-called guardian although
he could not be her real guardian. she being his
illegtimate offspring. The tribunal on the 10th Of
July, 1S79 ignored the appeal of the General as we'll
that of the Ngnora Rimond, holding rs mad
missible the evidence OF the Sgnora-evidence ad-
having beon solemnized General Garibsldi. under
the impression OF agrevous discovery. absented him.
self from Fino." and that "there never took place
between him and the Signora Raimondi aLy cohabi-
tation. connection contact or any kind from that
lay to this The grounds which the tr1Duh2l
held the evidence to be inadmissible were twohrst.
because such evidence is directed to elicit from the
confessions OF the woman facts unfavorable to her
self; second. BECAUSE even though her confession
had been affirmative. they would not have sufccd to
furnish proof for the annulment OF the marriage.
Against this finding General Gxrlbaldi appealed.
The showing of the advocates Mancini and Busso-
lni amply demonstrates that the consent OF the
Signora Ramondi to that marriage there none
not, indeed, because the General would not have
been honorable match for any woman. but be-
cause it was matter OF notoriety III the province OF
Como that the Signora Raimondi was at that time
enanored OF young military officer. Carroll by
name. and that her wish to marry this man was set
aside. ana she was made to consent to her union
with Garbaldi at the urgent instance Of her natural
father. the Marques Giorgio Raimondi. OF
this Marquess the showing gives brief
sketch. To strange and scarcely credible
prodigality he united monomania for outward
grandeur. having always imagined himself on terms
OF the closest intimacy with soveregns. and claim-
ing for himself as right every position of rank.
dignity title that civil society has to Offer This
OF lunacy has, in fact led to his seclusion
alacrity lie coerced Giuseppina to marry General
Garibad. the legendary hero Of tho age Having
demonstrated the nullity OF the marriage as want
ing the womans consent to II. the advocates, Man
cini and Bussoini prove that even il 1t were valid
in other respects there was ously cohabia
the document that on the non-conjugal
lation between Garibaldi and Iaimondi the Court
should admit the evidence OF witnesses, and that
the Signora Raimondi should herself be interro-
gated to the which induced the General to
abandon her when the marriage had just been cele-
Court of Appeal In Rome to decree the annulment
Of the marriage on the primary count. and on the
secondary, should necessity declare itself, to admit
the evidence Of the Signora Raimondi.