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"Scene. 3."

Garibaldi blows his ship up
Escape to the shore with Annita———

At Rio Grande, whose cause had been the
subect of so much suffering, Garibaldi
was warmly recieved, and was
immediately invested with the command
of a small fleet.

It was here, that, taking advantage of a
momentary respite, he satisfied the desire
of his heart by marrying a young lady
of Laguna.

Dark, like the tropical Creoles, graceful,
active, and with eyes full of ardour,
and an undaunted courage, she was
worthy of Garibaldi—and the glorious
sympathy which has attached to her
memory among all the people of Italy.

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Their nuptial hymns were the songs
of battle and noise of cannon,
for the Imperial fleet had suddenly
entered the port of Laguna to suppres(s)
the rebellion

Annita went on board her husbands
vessel. The battle with the imperial
fleet was obstinate, and Garibaldi
seeing the impossibility of victory,—
—provided for the safety of his followers
remaining alone in presence of the
enemy.

He at last jumped into a boat
with Annita, and gained the
shore with amid the shouts of
the townsmen, while his vessel
fired with by his own hands
—blew up—and severly damaged
the Brazilian fleet

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[gap of 2chars]ile in Brazil. Garibaldi had to retreat
(w)ith his troop through that inhospitable
region known as "La Picada das Antas"

This retreat, undertaken in the winter
season across mountains and through
a dense forest attended with incessant
rain was most terrible and disasterous.

Annita, during this retreat of three months
suffered all that can be humanly suffered
without yeilding up life

It is necessary to be acquainted with
the forests of this part of Brazil to form
an idea of the privations endured by
troops without means of transport.

As a crown to their misfortunes, the
rivers which are very near together in
this virgin forest were flooded to
an alarming extend—by the heavy rain
which never ceased to fall.

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Then hunger performed its work
particularly among the women and
children; It was a more
lamentable carnage than could have
been made by sword or bayonet!

The poor infantry were reduced to
the last extreamity, for they had
not has the cavalry had, the resource
of eating their horses

Few of the women, and still fewer
of the children got through the forest

The few who did escape were
saved by horsemen, who having
had the good fortune to keep their
horses took pity on the poor little
creatures left by their dead mothers.

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kind, with which, for the love of me
(t)hey nourished and revived the mother
(a)nd child.

Some of Garibaldi's division were in the
forest. the general found his way out on
foot 9 days

The tempest seemed confined to the
Picada, for scarcely had they left it
and drew near Vaccaria than they
had fine weather and fell in
with some oxen, which idemnified
them for their long fast and caused
them to forget hunger, fatigue &rain

Scene 4th

Ship aground
Escaping to shore

Not long after the incident just
now mentioned, being chased by a
Brazilian cruiser into a lagune, where
he did not expect they would follow him
Garibaldi as a last expedient ran his—

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As however, the enemy might have been
on the alert,—Garibaldi had provided
for this, by collecting large quantities
of "Brush-wood and drift", which he
fired to make the enemy believe he
had burnt his ship, and would—
attempt to escape by land.———

Garibaldi speaking of his friend John
Griggs, says,—"I have never met
with a man of more admirable courage
or of more charming character!

Born of rich parents, he had come
to offer his gold, his genius and
his blood to the nascent republic.

One day a letter arrived from his
friends in North America inviting
him to return to enjoy a collosal
inheritance, but he had already—

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And I who had witnessed so many
glorious deaths, never saw one
like his—I saw the body of
my poor friend sepperated in two!

—The bust remained standing
upon the deck of the Cassa-parra
with his intrepid countenance
still purple with the flame of
fight,—but the members
broken and detatched from the
body were scattered arround.

A cannon-ball had struck him
at the distance of twenty paces
and he presented himself to me
thus mutilated when I got
on board his ship which was

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Scene 5.

Turin and the Plains of—Piedmont

When Garibaldi, after an absence of four­
teen years, once again stepped in his
native shore, the narrative of what had
occoured during the last three months
struck him with astonishment.—
—The establishment of the french
(repu)blic constitutions granted where only
despotism had hitherto prevailed,
—Vienna in revolt—The Austrians
expelled from Milan.—Charles Albert
crossing the Ticino to respond to the
appeal of Lombardy.—Tuscany
and Rome sending thousands of
volunteers to the Holy War—
Ferdinand of Naples compelled by
the pressure of public opinion to
cooperate in the national struggle.

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Never would the Guerillero have
ventured to concieve such prodigies

Yet there were spots on the brilliant
picture.

Pio-Nono, who had blessed the
warriors of liberty as they defiled
before the Quirinal, spread
consternation through the peninsula
by his mournful "encyclical" breve
of April "29" th

When La Farina, the Sicilian
representative, tried to make
the pope see the injury his
words would cause Italy,—
Pio-Nono answered him—
"I am more Italian than you,"
—but, you will not distinguish
in me the Italian from the Pontiff

La Farina , bowed his head, saying