, 1860-06-25

attack. This, With the bad roads, cut up with
ras1nes aod ascending up hill at an angle Of
twenty-five degrees, with noisy, frightened
horses, was no sasJ task.
TEE srRrnsx OF PA1Exxo.
Garlbaldi's original plan was to surprise the
Tended part Of the town, to snter and gradually
work his way from street to street.. On the op.
posite side Of the city from that intended for
the attack, watch-6res were kept burning to
mlslead tue Neapolitan troops. .Unluctily aoue
Of the Insurgents began shouting; and attracted
the attention Of the guards stationed at the
bridge of the Ammir7gliAto, or otherwise ths
two might have been entered without the loss
Of single man. -:
"lnstead, therefore, of surprising the post Of
the bridge, the drdaf.g1rde was received, By
weli-sustained fire, not only in front, but: from
the houses in their 2anks. At the; frat sound
Ct the musletry, most Of ths sR'ecptti Is The
garden walls, but not with the view Of firing
from behind them, leaving thus the thirty or
forty men Of the erdnkgarde all Isolated 10 the
large exposed street which leads to the bridge.
The first battation Of ths Cacciatoi WAS sent
up. aud as it did not carry the position fast
enough, the second was sent after it soon after.
While these we're driving back the Neapoltans,
every one did his best to drive the Pioeioai for.
ward. 1t was not 80 easy, in the beginning
especially, when thu sound 0fcannon was heard
in front, although its effects were scarcely vsi.
bic. However, the Pieciotti, who remind me
very much Of Arnout Bashi-b -bo1ouks, can beled
On after the first unpleasant sensation has
not all shots that Kill or wound, not even the
cannon shots, which make 80 formidable noise.
They could see this to perfection this morning,
for, although the Neapolitan rifles are scarcely
inferior to the best frearms never saw 30 little
damage done to by 20 much shooting. Every one
put himself, therefore, to work 10 lead and
urge on the Picciotti, driving them ont Of tho
sheltered places By ali kinds Of contrirances,
and often by blows and main force. After soue
trouble most Of them we're safely brought
through the open space before the bridge, but
the general tendency was to 60 under than
abore the bridge, which is, like tie bridges over
torrents, high. and was in this Instance exposed
to heavy cross.fire from the Piana di Borazol,
where the Neapolitans had a loopholed wall
and some guns mounted, which threw few ILL.,
aimed shells. While the General himself and
many Of his staff did their best to make them
leare this shelter again and proceed, the arank
gards had chased back the Neapositans to the
stradont which runs down to the sea just in
front Of the Porta di Termiui. The Neapoli-
tan fort at the gate, considerably reinforced,
opened hot fire, which swept down the long
avenue OF houses leading to the bridge, while
at the same time the two guns and the troopa
posted ut the Porta SAINT Antonio brought =
cross FIRE to bear On the Attackers. But this
was no obstacle to the brave fellows who
led the way. They did not loose time with fir
ing, but rushed on with the bayonet. The
commander Of the ardnt. garde, Major Tuhori, =
Hungarian, and three ct the guides were the
first across the sandbag barricade in the town,
but the leader was wounded By shot which
shattered his left knee. .Otherwise t3e loss had
been tr.ting. While the arant.qayd< and the
Cacciatori chased the Seapolitans from spot to
spot. the palermitans began likewise to stir, but
justice compel1s me to say, only in the parts
which the troops had left
After this the Insurgents pushed their way
twoards the next cross street:
"But the most critical thing was decidedly
the crossing of the stradont, where the Cross
fire Was kept up, AID all kinds Of lodges vera
resorted to to make them risk this sdsso, which
they thought mortal and one Of the follow
era Of Garibaldi held out of the men BY main
force exposed to the fire, which soon made him
run ACROSS. It was here, above ala, that the bud
firing of the Neapolitans told. I was locking
on for some time, and did not Sec q single man
erea wounded. In order to encourage the Pc
ci0tto, one Of the Geonese Haemen took four or
five chaira, planted the tri color on one OF them,
and SIT down upon it for some time. The thing
took at last decidedly, and you saw the Rce1ofts
stopping on the road to. fire of their nuskets.'
HOW TEE poprLAcE RECEIVED GARlDALp1s TROOPS
Close to the Porta di Permini is the Vecchia
Fieri-the old market place. This was the first
point where Garibaldi stopped. One must know
these Slci1ians to have IN ide, Of the frenzy,
screaming, shouting, crying and hngging; nil
would kiss his hand and embrace his knees.
Lrery moment brought new masses, which de-
bouched in troops from one Of the streets, anx-
ious to have their turn. AS the Cacciatori grad
ually cleared the lover part Of the town most Of
the inhabitants came to have look, aud give a
greeting to the Iibera:or Of Palermo and Sicily.
The entrance was effected about half past hve
4. u, and By noon more than one.half Of the
town was clear Of tie troops. But two hours
before this was effected the citadel had opened
its fire On the tvwn, at first moderately enough.
but soon after with great yigor firing large thir-
teen-iuch shells, red hot shot and every ether
prciect;le calculated to do the greatest possible
damage. About noon or so the ships in the bar.
bor opened their fire. and between the two they
contrived to destroy great number Of houses
in the lower part of the town, killing and woun-
ding large number Of people Of all ages and
both sexes. Two Of the large shells we're sent
right into the hospital, and exploded in one Of
the wards. Every where yon perceived ruins and
condagra.ious, dead aud wounded, not a few oi
whom must hare persisted among the ruins oi
the houses. If the object Of the Neapolisana
Was to inspire terror thcy certainly succeeded.
Whoever look refuge in whatever he though!
tho most bomb proof place, and those who cou.d
not you saw crying, pray ing and wrlnglng their
hands in the street.