The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-21
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THE EXPLOITS OF GARiBALDI-C0M0 LIB


Events have rushed BY US with frghttul rapidity.
Twelve days ago intelligence that Garibaldi had
crossed the TicnO with his 5000 braves filled the
city with enthusiasm, and the garrison with alarm,
for the Austrian soldier pron0unces the name of
the guerrilla chief soto uoce; beeveshim invulnera-
bic, that balls fatten on his forehead! Two days
after heard ne had entered Narese through
forced marches without horse or artillery, having
routed the enemy by the way at the point of the
bayonet. Then our garrison sent out an exploring
party. In few hours they came running back in
wild disorder, covered with dust, without their
arms crying "CloSe the gates!" The garrison was
up in an instant. A strong detachment hurried
out to reconnnitre ''the enemy in ambush" but
found nothing the cast-off arms of their panic
stricken comrades. 1t not Garbaldi, but
herd of cattle encamped in thicket The lieuten-
ant of the alarm was shot by night in the ditch of
the fort.
Next morning procamations were found on the
walls-EThe Chasseurs Of the Alps are coming to
the relief of Lombardv.'' The treason subjected us
to domiciliary visits for days. | was fortunate
enough to conceal my fowling-piece and revolver.
The general agitation to breathlessness; not
word was spoken; fear and trembling prevailed
the bishop escaped in the pause; women fed with
their children to the mountains.
Another morning, at break of day. the city
reused by the trumpets of the garrison the drums
beating quick marches, the streets ruDbling with
the tread of horsemen and the heavy roll of artil
lery. Sentines stood at every corner. MY servant
threw open the shutters to look out, when of
the ruiiians levelled at him with a terrible oath.
The poor devil threw himself back upon the floor
as fine had BEEN shot. found difficulty in
surfing him. Armed with bottle of eau de RE
ventured to the door to concate the German; sue
ceeded, and learned that the inhabitants were to
keep their doors and windows sealed until further
orders. for 900 OF the garrison had gone out in
pursuit of the ''brigands," | beat retreat. The
population entnmbed alive, and the silence of
death prevailed in the streets.
The stupor was first broken on the morning of the
9th by distant cannonade, sounding solemnly
through breasts beating with hopes and fears. Be
fore noon forty mules passed my windows on trot,
bearing wounded men screaming with torture the
listening streets reverberating the while with the
sharp music of the distant musketry. Minutes were
as hours to the imprisoned: but death guarded all
doors. Towards O'Clock broken squadron of
Hussars precipitated themselves into the PiazZ
Nuova and attempted to rally, but men and horses
were alike manageable; the furious animals flying,
head downward and sides bleeding from the spur
and bayonet, into the open road to Milan. In mo-
ment more 1000 footmen, rusty wi dust and blood,
came running in from Borgo-Vico dropping sacks
and muskets they passed. The great bell of the
Cathedral then broke silence, waking echoes from
every belfry in town, the longed-for signal of hope.
The imprisoned city burst into liberty at bound;
arms came from their hiding places as by magic;
men rose from the ground; within hour 10 900,
from town and country, had assembled to receive
the deliverer fastening to the gates. What greet
ing for mortal mani But Garibaldi rushed through
the open ranks, waving his sword for free passage
lis eager followers sweeping after from a six hours
fight, heavy carbines Tapping their sh oulders
they ran. Another encounter the Milan rail
way renewed the bloody strife. few rounds, and
the enemy showed his heels leaving heaps of dead
and wounded on the field.
The conquerors re-entered the city in triumph,
with all the enemys cannon trophies of victory.
1t was the festival of freedom-night turned into
| day Ill doors were thrown open, and every sol
der found home. In the midst of the bell ring
| ings and Examinations, the women proved angels
| of mercy ministering to the wounded and refresh
| ing the weary; not even forgetting the bleeding
and deserted Austrian. The general jov even
unbounded; the streets were in extasy with the
delight, ringing through all the night with wild,
| irrepressbe bursts of liberty. Como is free !!
! The Austrians are gonel Como is free! free! Do
| you understand! We are freel free p The very
words seemed alive. VIVA Italia Viva hide
! pendensa! ViUa GdrriJaldiW
And where, think you, was the old chief himself
during the universal Joy? Up to his ears in bust
ness with undiverted eye looking into every de-
partment of his commando repairing losses: aug
| menting MEANS discriminating amongst crowds of
! fresh volunteers organizing for the morrow, when
he must be off for dangers and duties. All this
revel proves the need. | saw him a moment in the
midst of his suite in the widest hour of the ovation
"a picturesque object truly Tall and well limbed,
a noble head, with thick flowing beard and eve OF
fire, on Atlantean shoulders, covered with scarlet
mantle tied round an open neck with cord and tassel
| lance and carbine swinging at his Sides declare at
once an extraordinary person. Accounted as he was
never saw such hero before. And yet this terri
BILE AZURE can be gentle and courteous a wo
man; sober to excess; he is at the time cautious
and daring, exalted and cold. Severe with his
men as with himself, he inspires faith quite equal
to the fears of his enemes the moral power of ac
ton and reaction. The Veni, Vidi, Vel method is
instructive with life Listen to his words eros
sing the Ticno-''My sons, we are one against
five Before us hope; death behind We have no
cannon: the enemy has, and we must take them
On! Italy must be free, or we perishp'
If he be not good general, he is certainly a
great chief. and the King showed his military
/ ipSti wi nd wi he
would. And look at his work. Within ten DAYS
he has had FIVE deadly conflicts with superior forces
has dislodged the enemy from all his strOnghods il
this rough and mountainous province, and compel
led him to evacuate Northern Lombardy with it;
500 communeS now all misunderstanding The
while almost impossible swamps and passes witt
incredible celebrity to elude observation and
advantages. The story of these rapid marches anC
counter-marches rehearsed by his men, stirs tn,
blood like romance. On one occasion he ESCAPED
being surrounded by two overwhelming divisions
which seemed to promise his destruction within Al
hour by suddenly diSbandng into an impenetrablt
untain-forest, on the other side of which be en-
countercd and routed one OF the detachments will
the bayonet, his darling instrument One Of thos
stratagems which declare his genius. And all thi;
has been accomplished with comparatively triiine
loss, though the death of Cristoforis, who fell al
Camerlata, was a sad blow. Poor fellow 1ou
knew him, all accomplished he was. IIurrying
from his London exile at the first note of war, h.
accepted captaincy in this corps, in the hope o
the Joy of once entering his beloved Milan
freeman He fell Just ten days too soon, in the ver'
bloom of life, one more noble martyr in Lombard
history.
Order is completely restored under the Piedmon
tese protectorate. 1t seems like the recovery from
nightmare. Men breathe freer, and nope for bette
things to come. As no part of Italy has suffered 81
much from tyranny, so part of it can feel tn
same degree of jov in the prospect of emancipation
The Austrian rule here, since the opening of tn
war; has been inexpressiby brutal. Its eXacton
and prescriptions always oppressive enough
but its war impositions have been perfectly merci
less. For example-General Urban, a brute of tn
Haynau genus, imposed demand on Varese, tn,
other day. for three milliC of Austrian lire, to b
paid within twenty-four hours, before Garibad
could come to its relief, under the penalty of bein
sacked The thing was impossible for town o
ten thousand, but the population robbed @
every dollar it could muster the instant-whe
the deiverer arrived. You may fancy his recep
ton. And yet certain English ladies residing her
prove to have been in reasonable correspondence
with this man Urban. They were arrested on tn
discovery, and would probably have been shot bu
for the intervention of the Sandman commissions
(Visconti), who has banished them from the cour
try. The enormous tax imposed by the Imperis
Government upon the whole department of Milan
to be paid the 18th inst, is happily forestalle
by the fortunes of war, and the people natural
wild with JOY in the prospect of speedy and fna
deiverance from the hated German rule