The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-12

AN AMERICAN Consul VISITING SICILIAN PRISON.
Rev. G. w. Bridges writes to the London Times
of the 9th an account of visit made at the time
of the revolution of lS4S to a prison in Palermo:
81 was at that moment on visit to Mr.. Marston,
the American Consul there, whose influence among
the Siciians almost equal to that of our own
venerable talented and higly-respected Consul
Mr.. Goodwin, and adjoining whose house was the
prison into which we had seen the orty-eight
Sbirrt, the hated spies and torturers under the
Neapolitan system of police, Just then humanely
brought TO save them from the raging vengeance
OF the infuriate mob. With that gentleman l inn
mediately Joined the returning crowd, curious to
see the place where they had been captured which
was at the distance of some streets; and when we
reached it we found the excited populace venting
their harmless Indignation by merely throwing
from its windows the papers, books and furniture
until their attention seemed to be drawn to por-
tion of the building into which they had not pene
trated-had not, in fact, discovered any visible
trance 1t was soon, however, found and forced,
has been described and the scene then disclosed
within excited such fresh outbreak of quite
controable fury, as threatened that foul and hor-
rible outrage which actually ensued, and which,
for our own safety, called us homeward, past the
prison where the sbtrri were secured, but not be-
fore we had time to realize the astounding scene
before US which impressed us with the idea that the
illfated apologst for the bodies affixed to the wall
spoke false in the vain hope OF saving his lite, in
asmuch as they hung there loosely, and crouching
almost on the floor, their flexible weight bearing
them down far below the points of suspension, in
Wfltnlng ATTITUDES tucH as aspiring sufferers might
be supposed to die in, and which would not, we
imagined, be the case had they been nailed up as
rigid corpses. "We noticed, moreover, that some
of the rooms, all opening into each other appeared
to have been used as mere charnel chambers-not
uncommon in Scilian houses and convents-their
tiers of stone shelves mostly piled with bones and
rags others, especially the largest, seemed adap-
ted to living subjects, for there stood vessels or
the remains of them, evidently used for food and
water-suilicent proof of what had been so long
tranSactinp therel However we hastanad hnn,a
wards, soon heard the volleys of fmusketry which
disposed of the wretched sbrr and met the Shrek
ing mob of men and, alas women, triumpbantlv
bearing on poles and bayonets their bleeding heads
and discovered limbs, with wild expressions of the
most savage Notwithstanding certainly. of
no palliation except in the frightfui provocation~
the maddening, the overpowering conviction that
they were thus avenging the blood of their own
parents, children, or relatives, vino had so long
been missing, and whose fate had been till Bow
mystery"
Captain Ellsworth, commanding the Chcago
Iouave Cadets, to visit this city, Will go WIN
his company far as Boston, then return 10 Snl-
cago, after which he will enter the ONCE OF Apra-
ham Lincoln at Springfield, Illinois, to study law