The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-27

Within the space Of few months, the genius of
one man has accomplished for Italy what no King
restricted by international formulas, would have
dared to have attempted. With but little over ff-
teen hundred men, hastily collected together, and
wanting in nearly all the essentials for cam
paign-wanting, indeed, in almost every thing but
courage and devotion 10 their Chie-GARIBALDI
undertook to overthrow the power of the Bourbon
in Sicily and Naples. 1t was daring enterprise,
and there were many who predicted that it would
end disastrOusy. The result has shamed the
prophecy. Sicily is free; and of Naples, only the
port and citadel of Gaeta were, at the last ad-
vices, in possession Of the young despot, who but
short time ago, was sustained upon his throne
by an army Of more than fifty thousand men, and
the shores of whose kingdom were supposed to be
guarded against invasion by numerous and
well-appointed fleet. OF that army three thousand
men were placed Hors du combat at the battle of
Volturne; five thousand were driven into the
mountains and dispersed; fifteen thousand were
chased across the boundary into the Papa1 States
where they have been disarmed, and, still more
recently, ten thousand five hundred have sur
rendered themselves prisoners of war at Capua-
the remainder, numbering some twenty thou
sand, ill-oficered and disheartened by successive
defeats are either in garrison at Gaeta or are en-
camped before its walls and the news of their capt.
ulation to the beseging force may reach us at any
moment At the mast head of the Ncapolitan
ships Of war, the flag of Sardinia is flying. With
the arrival Of Admiral PERsANo in the bay of
Gaeta, and Of VICTOR EMMANUEL and CGALDINI on
the banks of the arigliano-connected as those
movements were with the almost unanimous decla-
ration of the people of Sicily and Naples in favor
of Italian unity under the rule of Constitutional
king-GARIBALDI sheathes his sword and trans
fers the provinces he has conquered and the au-
thority he has exercised into the hands of the
sovereign in whose name he has fought to SO tri-
umphant close the battle of liberty In the
mountains to the north Of Capua Victor EMMAN-
UEL and the man whom the legitimists and ultra
montanlsts sarcastically style CHEMIsE ROUGE l.
met recently for the first time since the departure
of GARBALDI from Genoa. AS they approached
each other they both quickened their pace The
Sandman officers who accompanied the King
shouted enthusiastically "Long live VICTOR EN-,
MANUEL"-''hmg of HaLy' added GARIBALDI
and thus compressed into one terse sentence the
object of the struggle, and the scope and limit of
his own aspirations. ''Thank you,'' said the
King, and clasping each other by the hand thus |
linked together, the monarch whose ancestors |
were rulers a thousand years ago, and the man. |
sprung freshly from the people-the loyal king
and loyal subect-rode onward, side by side. to-
wards Capua. On the 9Th of the present month,
a spectacle still more imposing, and scarcely |
less suggestive, was witnessed ut Naples |
On that day VIcToR EMMANUEL entered the Nea-
toll A.
magnificent provinces which were thenceforward |
to constitute IN integral portion of his new King
dom. IN the same carriage, and seated by his |
side rode GARTBALDI The following morning |
the Dictator and the members of his Cabinet an
nounced to the King, in the throne-room of the
palace so recently vacated by FRANCIS II, the re-
suit of the popular vote, and when the deed of
annexation drawn up and duly authenticated, |
the Provisional Ministry resigned their functions
and the Dictatorship at an end. The next
day GARIBALDI quietly took his departure for his |
home on the little Island of Caprera. The work |
which he had undertaken TO perform was so far
completed that what remains yet to be done may |
be Safely and perhaps more prudenty, confded |
to other hands. The war of Liberation in Naples |
is drawing towards close. The soldier must |
now give place TO the statesman. The retirement |
Of GAEIBALDI into private life is, therefore in ac-
cordancc with the simple grandeur of his charac-
ter. 1t is not often that absolute power has been
welded with such infexihle honesty Of purpose
Less frequently still has it been laid down so |
calmly and unreludanuy. Every nation has its
special hero; but of all the great names embla-
zoned on the worlds history, there are very few
which bear the promise of shining in after ages
with serener lustre than that Of GIUSEPPE
GARIBALDI.