A GARIBALDIAN CAMP.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 781, 25 February 1871, Page 3

A GARIBALDIAN CAMP.

Achille Bizzoni, writing from Bourg on the 10th, thus gives the first impression- of the Garibaldian camp:— We seem here in the midst of a bal masque. Thousands of different costumes are to be seen. Children, at most sixteen years old, are camping in the mud of the fields, scarcely covered with a thin blue blouse, like those worn by our carters. The Bretons and the French Garibaldians wear low broad-brimmed hats, like those in the opera Dinorah. Tho Francsweurs all dress unlike each other. J-he Mobiles, intermixed with the last remnants of the Line, a few Hussars

between the Dragoons and Chasseurs d'Afrique, who escaped from the Prussians at Sedan and Metz; hospital attendants, with the red cross on a white field; and amid this mass of Boldiers, who are not serious but careless, a number of women and children, who wander through the field in order to avoid the terrible enemy—such is the picture which presents itself to mo.