Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-05-02
The Insurrecrion 30 sicr,r.

The inuneetion in Sicily has been attended
with brutalities and bloodshed. We adj scme
ofths details brOughtby the Vanderbilt:
It had been determined to commence the re-
volution at Palermo on the 4th of April; the
signal was to be a musket shot in a certain
spot, following which the monks, who favored
the insurgents, were TO ring the bells of the
Monastery della Granecia, on the Piazza della
Marina. The police were informed of this BY
traitor, and the signal shot was fire. By them,
thus, precipitsting the revolt The monastery
was sacked, four of the monks were killed, the
others seized and imprisoned.
As party of the Royal soldiers were going
along the street early on the morning Of this
fpht, they heard a slight noise from house by
which they had Just passed; at once they turned
about and discharged their muskets at the Pa
lazzo PeIrOells, where Mr. Gardner, an English
merchant, resides, killing servant girl who
was just unclosing q shutter. Indeed, it ap-
pears that the troops, after Fastening on the
catastrophe, az Just narrated, went firing at
random along the street, seeming careless, or
wantonly mnrderous in their inclinations
Through this day there was much fighting in
different parts of the city, but it is impossible
I to obtain anything like authentic information;
| for telepraphic communication across the
Straits Of Messina has been suspended, and
the Government takes good care that nothing
true shall 20 forth. The official dispatches
are tissues of lies, being little more thsnt reit-
terated assertions that all is quiet, when every
one who knows anything about the matter
knows that the island is thoroughly uneasy
and daily breaking out into positive violence
Hosts Of the residents Of Palermo, Messns,
and Catauia were leaving the island, and num-
bers had been arrested. From Palermo alone
200 had been sent into exile within fortnight.
The Government dispatch concerning the out
break Of the 4th was as follows: That few
i'll intentioned persons bad dared to attack the
royal artillery troops in Palermo, and had killed
four soldiers and three companions of arms;
| thatlthe troops had taken possession OF the
monastery Of the Granecia lin the Piazza
Marina, almost in the center of the capital), and
that somo armed bands which had appeared in
the neighbOThoOd Of the capital had been de.
stroyed, bnt that tranquility and order had
been perfectly Ic-established.
| The fighting, thus began, continued daily
through the week till Sunday, the sth, to which
date only we have anything like reliable mfOr>
nation. It is said that twenty monks were
taken out and shot. Among other brutalities
recorded by an eyewitness, he says be saw an
abbess and nun dragged along through the
street by soldiers, some Of whom urged them
on BY thrusts Of the bayonet. Their offence
was that they had given shelter to a comPrOm-
ised person.
At Messina it was arranged that the rising
should De made on Sunday, the sth, aud an at
tempt was made to carry out the designs; but the
insurgents were disheaTtened by the bad news
from Palermo, and therevolt was failure, assl
the Scilian TeVolts seem fated TO be unles.
some leader with discretion as well as courage
shall head the movement. The insurgents had