Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-11

The bold and patriotic Garibaldi is still
successfully pursuing his mission of destroy.
ing tyranny in Sicily. So say the latest &c.
counts. he had approached near Palermo
the heights around which were occupied by
the insurgents, and the insurreotion was ma.
king great progress on all sides. The reports
are conflicting, but largely inclined to the
scale Of Garibaldi. As he is now the Here
Of Italy, the subiOined sketch of the remark
able man end leader from the Tribune will
be read with interest
Garibaldi has fought under many flags
and in many elimes, by land and by sea, but
not in the fashion Of Dugald Dalgetty, never
for money, ever for fame. To the betrayal
Of freedom no money would tempt him.
6aribaldi was q second mate on board a
vessel trading between Nice and Odessa when
he was first innoculated by q disciple Of
Mazzini's with the idea that Italians were
made for some higher destiny than to be
the cooks, hair-dressers and warblers for the
world, Driven 10 South America soon after,
when he and his small band of Italians
which joined his standard held the
lines Of Montevideo against Rosas, he
might have had his weight in gold to
yield the pass. At that time he is pictured
as having been so completely penniless that
his clothes were in tatters, and he had often
to wait until morning light to write report
by being unable to buy a candle. For days
and days, his fare and that of his followers,
was a few beans stepped in water. Such was
the force of his example, ard their own sense
Of honor, that his countrymen were as faith
full as himself, and as uncomplaining,d despite
all hardships, and privations, and arrears Of
pay, to the astonishment Of the crew of com
missaries in every country, who fancy that
punetual pork rations and cash pay are the
sole sustenanoe Of military stamina, the sole
incentive to soldierly ardor. 1t is notorious,
they were obliged, so unwilling was to he re-
&c. we anything which could subject him to the
taint OF being mercenary, to borrow his
worn cloak and other attire, and then affect
TO have lost them, in order to replace them
with new outfit. And some years since,
when a similar epithet of "soldier of for
tune" was applied to him by Lord Brough-
am, in ignorance of his true character, these
facts were detailed by the British Embas-
sador, Lord Howden, who, as Colonel
Caradoc, was in South America at
the time, and who bore the highest testimo-
ny TO his noble character, both as a SOL
der and a man. In his course of command
he was sharp short and decisive, as the Iron
Duke himself Whenever there was black
sheep in the hock, who preyed upon the peo-
pie, he coolly had him shot; yet was he
when fighting against Rosas, as when fight
ing for Italy, as considerate of the comfort of
his band as a mother of her children; nursed
them in sickness, sustained them in sorrow;
the first to advance where danger was great
est-the last to retreat, whatever the odds,
and they were often thousand to one
Eight bullets at Montevideo have been known
to riddle his ragged costume in a day, leaving
his Csrrara skin. white as monumental mar
ble, unchiseled by a single scratch.
Then his defense of Rome under the trium-
virate of Mazzini, Armanelli, and Saffi, was,
in ITSELF sufficient to stamp the uprising of
the nationalities in ls4s, as an intellectual
phenomenon that will command the admira-
ton of posterity The military judgment
and fertility of resource exhibited by Carl
baldi on that occasion is admitted, by the
highest military authorities, to have never
been surpassed. A more thorough type of
the genuine old Roman never thundered at
the gates Of tyrants, or lightened in the field
beneath the eagle crowned banner of the Re
public. In appearance, as may be remem-
bered by those who have seen him, while,
with true republican energy and independ-
ence, he earned his livelihood rs a manufac-
turer of candles on Staten Island, he is not
unlike the portraits of the great Genoese,
Columbus, from whose native city he has
started on this last expedition of freedom
Like such old stamp Of hero, in whose mould
he has been cast, he is an amphibious warrior,
~ h,A IL, IL
and hardihoOd. Unlike Mazzini, who consid-
ers a crown on any brow, from the Alps to
Syracuse, a sin, he is practical, and thinks
Piedmontese freedom better than none. Thus,
now, after countless vicissitudes, but ever
true to the one cause, he has unfurled the tri-
color in Sicily, amid the prayers of all lovers
Of freedom for strength and victory to its
folds.