GARIBALDI.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20, 7 December 1861, Page 3

GARIBALDI.

A Turin letter of September 18, in the Opinione Nationale, supplies the following detailed history of the negotiations between Garibaldi'and the United States: —

"You know that Garibaldi lived for many years ra New York, where he was much beloved. ."He ha 3 great atFection for the country, and his independent' Icharacter sympathised with the individual liberty which he found prevailing in it. When the war between the North and the South broke out, all his sympathies were in favour of the Union ; he wrote a3 much to his friends in America, and they in reply entreated him to come out to help them. While the North Americans were thus paying court to Gari- | baldi, ttKne of the South also made attempts to gain him to their cause. A deputation from the South (represented to him that the merits of the quan*el between the two branches of the great Western Hepublic required very close examination, and that the question of slavery was, in i%ea!ity, of less importance than the Fres-trade platform upon which the South took ite stand. • The arguments are said to have made some impression upon Garibaldi. After the defeat of the Federal army, the American Minister at Brussels was charged to sound Garibaldi. As to the conditions submitted to him, I can only speak with all reserve. It seems, however, beyond doubt that he was offered! the command-in-ehiei* of the United States' army; but it is also saijl that he was to take no important step without the sanction of a council of war nominated by the Washington Government. His staff wa3 to be composed mainly of officers of his own choice, but in no case-was he to be allowed to put Italian Generals into principal commands. The rewards to his ofncer3 were to consist of nominal rank, or in cases 'of pre-eminent service, territorial allotments. Garibaldi, whose habit is to take council of himself akme in difficult case 3, did not like the idea of being followed by an itinerant council of war, to which he would be bound to defer, and he, moreover, insisted upon a condition which the American Minister was not prepared to accede to —namely, that he should be permitted to return to Italy'at any moment when his presence might be necessary. The United States', envoy returned from Gaprera to Genoa without having concluded anything. Many, however, pretend that the matter is still open. Let U3 hope the contrary,"

The anniversary dinner of the Hand-and-Heart Lodge of Odd-Fellows took place in Jones' Provincial Hotel last evening. About sixty guests sat down to a bill of fare that a Lueullua might have envied, and which the genius of a Soyer might have provided. As with everything else which our spirited townsman Mr. Jones undertakes, the dinner and its whole appointments were not to be excelled. We shall in our Monday's issue give a detailed account of the proceedings.