GARIBALDI.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 758, 3 January 1871, Page 2

GARIBALDI.

A letter from Tours describes an intevvsw the writer had with Garibaldi, win, he says, since his arrival there, lias been reported ill and desirous of repose. The writer says : —" I found him in a small room at the Prefecture, of which the windows look out on the venerable garden of that building. One of the Ministers was just leaving the room, and only one person was with him. He struck me as looking older than when I saw him, now, I think, about three years ago, in Florence—a few more lines added to the furrows which the hardships and sufferings of an eventful life haveploughed iu his benevolent countenance—but not more infirm, and he spoke in his usual clear, cheerful tones of the past, the present, aud even of the future. He was not in pain, and he hopes he still has vigour left to render some service to a cause which, so short a time ago, none would have dreamt of his being found sustaining. But it is a Republican cause, as \selL as that of the unfortunate and comparatively feeble, and either consideration might suffice to enlist him in it. He had not been fatigued by his journey ; the railway company had put a commodious saloon carriage at his disposal, and he had travelled at his ease. He had no difficulty in getting away from Caprera. Up to a short time before his departure the island was strictly guarded. An Italian corvette and a number of smaller vessels cruised around it, troops had been landed and encamped, and he could see their tents as he lay in his bed. A.ll these precautions suddenly ceased —probably when the Roman business was over—and he was free to go where he listed fortunately, perhaps, for him, for he was determined, under any circumstances, to quit the island. He spoke of Rome, and of the great event that has just happened there, and s with which at another time the whole world would have rung, but which now seems to have passed comparatively unnoticed, amid the clang of arms that deafens Europe and the streams of blood that sully its soil. He traced the similarity between the foil of the Pope and tbat of Napoleon, each occurring on the morrow of what seemed a great triumph —the Encyclical and the Plebiscite. When I mentioned La

fitnnora'B hufW gone to Eome, he niled, and eaft** little ; it is not his 'outy in his .grdibary conversation, to nveigh agaiust person* whom he disikes or ead his IhpuglAs, and that it occurred o him tiptoe aero' of Custozza was ont now to Home as he had been to \aples, when the work was done, to kino in the laurels he had had no hare in gathering. Garibaldi said ho lid not know whether he should leave Tours that night, as had been reported : t was not yet settled ; but he expected o leave very soon, and probably, in he first instance, for Marjon. His jommand is to bo that of Erarcstireurs in the east of France, which drill, of course, include the Vosges, likely to be their chief stronghold and field of action. I asked him if he really, after all he had suffered and gone through, felt himself equal to take the field once more, and personally to direct operations. He did, he said ; not on foot, certainly, but partly on horseback, partly in a carriage, he hoped to be able once more to render some service."