The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-26

Sicily, GARIBALDI is yet so nearly so as to make
his possession also of Messina and few places OF
minor importance which at present are held by
the Neapolitans, merely question of time. But
time with the hero of Montevideo and Rome. OF
Como and Varese, is chronicled rather by acts
than by days, and now that he has captured Pal
ermo and has undisputed communication with all
parts of the interior, there is no point upon the
sea.board where the enemy will venture to make
protraced stand. To most men the ENTERPRISE
undertaken by GARIBALDI appeared to be rash and
unadvised, and there were net q few even of those
who classed themselves among his admirers, who
believe, that he had staked his reputation
upon an issue so desperate 10 partake rather of
the nature of sacrifice than of high and well con-
sidered resolve. Men of equal genius for war, but
OF less daring, might well have pronounced insu-
perable the difficulties to be overcome. With not
more than eleven hundred men and four thou
sand stand of arms, he had, in the first place,
10 run the gauntlet of well-appointed
Neapolitan squadron, already apprised of his
his intentions, and under orders to intercept him.
lie had to cooperate with an insurgent peasantry
already partially dsheartened by the losses they
had sustained at various points, and by the ter
rible punishments which had been inflicted upon
the Palermitans by ruthless soldiery and san
culinary police. When he landed at the little port
OF Marsha, almost entirely deserted of its inhabi-
tants, General LANDI with a royalist army,
was at or near Calata Fimi, ready to dis
pute his progress towards Palermo; while at and
around Palermo ITSELF and almost within striking
distance of Calata Fim, the Neapoltan forces mum
bered from ten to fifteen thousand men
The second day after landing at Marsha Carl
BALDI began his march. His only troops at that
time were some one thousand Italian volunteers
and five Hungarian officers-most of whom had
served under him during the campaign in Lonbar-
dy. TO these were added such struggling bodies Of
ill-armed Sicans as he picked up by the way
On the third and fourth day he halted at Sa emf
to organize the insurrectionary bands which flock
ed to join his standard at that point With this
motley array, numbering in all four thousand
men, he marched the following morning against
LANDI, who with thrty-fve hundred veteran SOL
diers and a numerous artillery, occupied five
strong positions at Monte di Pianto Romani. in
the vicinity OF Calata Fimi. In the desperate
conflict that ensued, GARBALDI had eighteen men
killed and one hundred and twenty-eight wound-
ed; but be finally carried all the positions of the
enemy, captured one of his guns, and drove LAND1
back upon Calata Fimi but which the latter hastily
abandoned during the night, and retreated with
MS dlsorganzed forces upon Palermo As he fell
oack he was harrrassed by outlying bands Of
peasants. At Partenico, the Neapoltans were
again vigorously assaulted, and at Borghet-
n Harpp oh
the forces under LANDI were so completely routed
ana cut up that not more than four or five hun
dred of the fugitives succeeded in reaching Paler
mo. Four days later GARIBALDI was ON the out
skirts OF Palermo, man9uvrng to draw the enemy
from the city and from Monreale, small village
near by, whose heights commanded Palermo.
DIX days, or from the goth to the 25th of Nav.
were occupied in skirmishng and in feigned attacks
and retreats At length the. concentrated forces Of
the Royaists, amounting to ten thousand men, were
brought within range of the insurgent artillery.
winch had been transferred from point TO point,
throug hrugged defles by mountain paths, in the
darkness of the night and in the midst of torrents of
rain by day, and which, until it opened upon the
enemy, had been skilfully masked from observa-
ton. The battle thus commenced on the 25th.
was continued on the 26th, when the shattered
forces OF the Royalists were thrown into disorder
and were only saved from destruction by falling
rapidly back behind the Notifications of Palermo
But little time was allowed the discounted Nea-
poltans to recover from the panic into which
they had been thrown. Following up the
success OF the previous day, GAR1BALDI, at
four O'Clock on the morning of the 9th, COM
menced his assault upon the CITY on the
Southern side, and, after a brief but bloody
struggle in which he was partially aided bv
the Palermitans, firmly established himself in the
Strada di Toledo in spite of tremendous fire from
the fortress and from the Neapolitan ships-of.war
In the harbor. Three hours later the RovaIists
were rallied by General LAMA; but in this desne-
rate effort to expel the insurgents from the town
they were themselves driven back upon the
Falace where hand to hand struggle ensued.
which was continued until ten O'Clock, when If
terminated Of itself from mutual exhaustion. After
pause of two hours the battle recommended. and
was finally closed by the successful stormine of the
Royal Palace by the insurgents, which soon after
wards fell prey to the flames but whether if was
set on lire by the victors or by the shells which
were discharged against it from the NeanoIitan
squadron, is not known. Forced back into Castell-
amare, his last stronghold, General LAMA
asked for an armistice, to which GAR1BALp,
consented, and at length, after many de-
lays terms of capitulation We're agreed upon, to
which Francis II. would not at first consent. when
they were transmitted to Naples for his sanction,
he trusted that in this emergency some one or
more of the four Great Powers, to whom he had pa
thetlcally appealed for assistance, would come TO
MS relief; but when he found that his request for
an armed mediation was met by prompt refusal,
ne submitted TO conditions which he could not
modify and which GARIBALDI was in a position
10 extort. The latter, by the last accounts
occupied the Palace of the Senate and was busily
ensageo IN organizing provisional government.
His next step will doubtless be, to rednca Massive
unless the Neapolitans evacuate that place before
he reaches it, The first scene of the second Act IN
this heroic Italian drama will most probably dis
close the population Of Calabria in full insurrec
ton; and, if subsequent events follow in their ma
tural order, the den0uenleu will exhibit the youno
Neapolitan despot in full flight from his ancestral
domlnions, and the rule of the Bourbons complete
pletely extnguished in Italy.
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