Garibaldi's Wife

The story of Garibaldi's wooing is this : He was ono day sitting in the cabin of a sloop ou the Juke of Santa Catharïna, and looking towarcla the shore, wben suddeuly hu saw, at a farm house situated oa a ttefgh boring hill, three or four girls busily engagea in dimestic dutics. Thoy were uil remarka ble beauty, bul ouo in particular arrestea hls atlenlion fur her uooommon grace and lovelinees. He was stil! watehiug them, wlien be réoeived ra or der to go ou shore. Iiuiii.diuteiy on landing be dirccted his steps to the house. He was admitted by the owuer, whom he happened to know slightly, having met him odco before. The impulse which had prompted him to go to the house waa to address the girl he had so much aduiired. On seeing her, he immediately besought hor to beuome Lis wife. 'I he girl, itseein?, conceived au affection as warm und sud den as he had feit for her ; and after the lapse of i few short d.iys, they were man and wifo. . The surnarue of this j lovely Braziliun girl of the provinee of j Santa Catharina, who becaine under suoh romaotie circuinstancen, the wit'e of Garibaldi, bas never been revealed. In all the biographies of our hero, she is alone mentioned by her Christian name of Aniita. She seems to have been a brunette of rioh, warm complexion, with black and pieroing eyes ; of beautifully rounded figure, and a sort ofqueen ly majesty of deportment ; active, daring high spiritcd, and in every respect worthv of being the C( rapauiou fot lifo of sueli a man as Garibaldi. Her courage was remarkable. A short time after their marriage she went through an engagement at sea, with her husband, relusing to go ashore, and during the fight would stay nowhere but on deck, where she wielded a carbine and cheered the men. In the heat of the battle she was standing on deck, flour ishing a sabré and inspiring the men to deeds of valor, when iihe was knocked down by the wind of a oannon ball that had killed two men standing byherside. Garibaldi was ipringiqg forward to her, thinking that he would tind her a oorpse, when she rose to her feet, covered with the blood of the men who had fallen close to her, but quite unhurt. Ho begged her to go belotv and remain there till the aetion was over. " I will go below," was her reply, " but only to drive out the sieaking cowards who are skulking there;'' for only a few seconds before she had seen three men leave the deck and hurry rapidly down the hatehway, so as to escape out of danger of the etorm of bullets that was sweepiug the deck. And, going below, she immediately after re-appeared, drivins before her the three men, overeóme witff shame that they should have been surpassed in courage by a woman. Shn accompan ied her husband in a'l his undertakiugs, and died while fiying with him from the Austriaus.