Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-07-24
Vivid Account of Affairs at Palermo.
PEN PICTURE OF GARIBALDI.
OF THE ROYAL rnoops,


writing on the 9th of June at Palermo, gives
the best description of affairs there that we
have seen anywhere. Wemake extracts
LEAVING NAPLES
The weather was exquisite and the sea
calm, and as the sun set, we steamed slowly
down the bay of Naples with the two YES
sells in tow Towards ten o'clock, when
went on deck to take last look before going
to bed, the moon was rising and | could see
the island of Capri still on the left and away
behind us the great fiery blotch on one side OF
VesuVus. tes
ARRIVING AT PALERMO
As we came along into sight of Palermo
we heard the reports and saw the flashes and
smoke of quick cannonading. watched it
with u feeling of decided discomfort. The
idea of being shot, occurred to me with new
and unpleasant force.
FIHDING THE AMERICAN CONSUL
The next morning, the 7th, | went on board
our war steamer, the lroquois and presented
the papers was charged with, and from here
TO an American merchant vessel, 10 fnd our
Consul. | found him bearing brayely up,
though he had been some three weeks penned
up, with several other families, on this tempo
rary boarding house, living from hand to
mouth. The deck, us | saw it, was paved TO
some depth with dogs, chickens, pigs, feas,
babies, trunks and other articles. His spirits
we're good, however, under all this weight of
trials, and he was preparing to return to his
house on shore.
THE CONDITION OF PALERMo-How THE PEOPLE
WERE ARMED.
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paign was over. The shops were still shut and
the city still in arms but there was no more
fighting, nor was it likely there would be any
more in Palermo. OF course, the first eXplo-
rations we're on the main street, the Toledo,
which the royal troops could have raked up
and down--at one end from the palace, and at
the other from their frigates in the harbor
There were barricades at every five or six
rods higher than my head, and mostly cannon
proof Swarms OF people were hurrying about
but no one was doing any work that ] saw
except few Piedmontese on guard at the
important points
Almost every one had gun on his sholder,
and the peasants who had come down from
the interior in crowds looked about az dirty,
tive could wish. They were sleeping in the
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guard houses, their guns in their hands, and
in costumes suggestive of brgands and cut
throats Ii was a strange coll ,ction of arms
that the insurgents had There were guns of
every shape and length, from the short, FIAT
blunderbuss, suggestive of stage-coaches and
highway robberies two centuries ago, up TO
the long-barreled, thin affairs, such as the
Arabs might have shot with when Mohammed
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politan muskets about too which deserters
had brought, or towards had thrown away to
run better All the towns-people seemed to
have a rage for cutlasses and dirks which
we're half the time tied over their shoulders
with twine Among other armed individuals
there was riest in his black robes rushing
about day after day, with gun in his hand
A large average of the arms were too old and
rusty to be dangerous TO any one but the own
err
Providence seemed particularly kind to the
city for though every one was carrying his
gun loaded and capped, and sometimes at full
cock, and jamming against the stone barri-
eades in the crowds at the narrow passages,
and gesiieulating as only these Scilians and
Neapolitans can gesticuate, we heard of no
one case Of an accident, though il is hardly
possible but there must have been n few.
Still to do the Sicilians Justice, for all their
laziness and british look and dirt, it was
peaeeable, good-natured crowd, and | have
seen in all only one drunken man, and no
fighting nor insolenee. Perhaps it might not
be so well behaved if Garibaldi was not dicta-
tor.
VISIT 10 GARIBAI.DI.
was taken to see the Dictator. The par
ty was five in all, officers and civilians, and
the visit was informal indeed, Garibaldi
seems to discourage all forinality, and though
he has Just now all the power OF AN Emperor,
he win not even adopt the state of General
Europeans are fon nd Of calling him the Wash
ington Of Italy, principally because they know
nothing about Washington Catch Washing
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