People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — GARIBALDI’S NERVE. [ARTICLE]

GARIBALDI’S NERVE.

ft* Darias n 4 Dramatic Method of Mia Entry Into Naptae. A writer who retched Naples a few days after the -event, heard from the Ups of the people an account of the taking of that city by Garibaldi, says the San Francisco Argonaut. The king was still there, the Neapolitan police were sullen and inactive, what the action of the military would be was not known, and upon it depended the fortune of the hour. The people turned out in a body to witness the arrival of Garibaldi. Numbers of them climbed upon the engine and cars of the slowly approaching train which bore the general and his staff to the city. Entering a carriage with Cozens, Garibaldi started, followed by three other carriages containing his officers of staff. The fortress of St. Elmo bristled with guns and gunners, and they were ordered to fire and clear the streets with grapeshpt as soon as the Garibaldians were within range. On the carriages came slowly, amid a roar of “vivap.” As it approached the guns of CaStelle Nuovo the artillerymen, with lighted matches in their hands, pointed their guns. At that moment the voice of Garibaldi rose above the uproar, commanding: “Slower! Slower! Drive slower!” This he reiterated until the frightened coachman instinctively obeyed the man whom no one disobeyed. Then, under the very mouth of the guns, and before the gunners who were already under orders to fire, Garibaldi rose to his feet in the carriage, with one hand on breast, and looked fixedly at the artillerymen. A silence fell upon the tumultuous crowd. Those who were present declared it was as if Garibaldi magnetized them. Three times the order to fire was given, and, with his own fate and Italy’s in the balance, the general stood looking upon the men. At the third order the gunners flung away their matches, threw their caps in the air and shouted: “Viva Garibaldi!" The city was taken.