Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1879 — How Garibaldi Rules Caprera. [ARTICLE]

How Garibaldi Rules Caprera.

He is absolute lord of that little island, and, if the truth must be told, governs it despotically. The rights of conscience are understood by few persons out of Great Britain or the United States, and no one need be surprised to hear that Garibaldi allows no priests on the island. A peasant could not receive the last sacrament if so unfortunate as to die at Caprera. Similarly, during the period of his French command, he showed himself singularly, and, one might add, wantonly, intolerant., At Dijon he turned the nuns out of a convent to find quarters for his troops, which, possibly he had a right to do; but he added the gratuitous affront of ordering them to be dressed in secular garb previously to being sent to their respective' homes. A few facts more to his credit. He is essentially a “good fellow;” to friends kindly, gentle, generous, withal frugal. An Englishman should make the acquaintance of a Nizzan if he would understand what thrift is. A gentleman I knew was once talking to Garibaldi, when the latter took out his cigar-case and proffered it. A cigar having been accepted, Garibaldi took out another, deftly broke it in half, and restored one portion to the case; the remaining half he lit, and composedly proceeded, to smoke. “All I have left of my country,” he added, with a mournful smile—for the tobacco was Nizzan-grown.—Lon-don Truth. American fathers are beginning to disinherit wayward sons who play baseball.