Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-06-07
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Garibaldi In Sicily.


cally lying aud lying in the most silly manner,
about the movements and fortunes. of tho insur-
gents. Dispatches published at Naples and Rome
stated that the bands Of Garibald had been met
aud totally routed bv the royal troops at Calata
Fim on near tho l4th Of May.
The popular feeling on the subject of the insur-
rection. gathered from various Sources is strongly
aud enthusiastically with Garibaldi. Full conf
dence is felt in his ultimate success by the Italians
who are focking to the seaports in numbers too
large for transportation, desiring to join their lea
der in Sicily. The following letter. written by
young volunteer to his parents on the eve Of act
ting out with the expedition is representative of
many-the italian papers arc full of them:
ut would be in vain to sndeavo- any longer to
conceal the truth from you am about to lrase
for Sicily, for that noble Italian Province which
the infamous Bourbons are bent turning into
! cemetery. have been brought up by lather
who always loved God and his country more thnn
himself. have been petted by masters who in.
stillrd the noblc-t feelings into me. | raised an
alter in my heart with God n tho middle. nv
country "n the right, and my parents the lett.
We're God to call me, | would leave both country
and porents: n Nv, the call il from God and my
! country, must obey the call
With more in the same strain The letter is
signed "Rinaldo Arcona,i" mere b"v OF n noble
family. OF such stuff is the rank ami file of Gar
abnlIi's army male up.
OF the French p,ess the nsfr and the Gazette
de Francc publish strng articles against the Gnr-
baldi movements tue former arguing that the at
tempt, even If successful must lead to bitter dis
appointment and the Inter expressing its aston
shment that tho Powers of Europe stand quietly
by and permita private individual to treat inter.
national law with contempt, while doing his
own authority whit no State. however powerful.
would ever think ni attempting
In the English House oi Commons on the ODD
Of May. Mr.. A. W. King slakc asked the Secretary
for Foreign Affairs. whether he cona give to the
House nny information to the light in which
the Sicilian insurrecton was regarded by the 9th
er Powers Of Europe, and especially BY France?
Lord j. Russell replied: II cannot undertake
to answer the question which the honorable men,
her has put to me us to what tho other Powers Of
Europe think Of the Sicilian instruction. | can
only say that am told that th' ship sent by the
Austrian Government to the waters Of Naples has
been dispatched entirely for the protection OF Aus
trian subjects. do not find that any Of tho Pow
ers of Europe-certainly neither Austria
SSpain-intend to take any rart ngainst the Siel
ian insurgents on behalf Of the Neapoltun Govern
ment. Hear. hear. ii
..- From the London Times.
! Garihaldi is hero or brigand; all men of bis
stamp divide the world in admiration execra-
! ton II he should he tied to a tree and shut to
| death somewhere in the ucighborhood of Palermo
| history will describe him rs rash adventurer,
like thousand other nameless victims. who had
zeal without judgment and courage without con
duct. II he should drive the Neapnlitans out Of
Sicily, and hold his own there until he has raised
Naples and chased tho BourbonE from the Penin-
suln he will be the Toll nr tire Washington Of rem
ovatcd Italy. Hnw Is this to be , Our British
public has been for the last week inpatient Ia
know " is only very few days since it heard
that the idea Of this Invasion had been conceived.
We can number the hours since GaribalI sailed
from Genon, and succeeded in efecting his descent
kupoh Sicily. Ever since that telegram arrived
F0ur British public has considered itself iliused
that the next expected news loitercd. Unfortun.
ntely, however Sicily is an island. Unhappily
tho roads arc few and very bad, the mountains
are very numerous, the tclegraphs in the hands of
the Government and the railway yet to be made.
Add to this that Garibaldi has been so very
thouchtless as to land upon that pont of the island
which IL furthest away from the Straits of Me-
sina and the coast Of 1'aly, and which. although
it may possibly be best adapted for his own iu,,
me late object. as being furthest from Naples,
yet is i'll situated for the carly qualification of ie
laudabe curiosity felt by his well wsher- here in
Enginl.
When. therefore, Garaballi on the 1lrh Of ibis
month, sprang ashore at Marsaln. leaving bis two
steamers 10 he taken ns trophies by his prudent pur
sners, he disappeared from the civilized world
For while we heard nothing Mt all, Etna *
, ed no higher than usual and the ships OF
and transit that passed the island bad heard
wonderful sounds than in all ages have
been supposed to reach the ear Of those WIN
passed through those terrible straits. In these
days when we have hAcn spoilt by kilograms.
naturally grow first indignant and then disgust
ed if hero should take more than three days in
ovcrturning adynasty conquerng a continent.
The more fckle portion of the pnblic were Begin
ming to doubt in Garabnldi. Some went SO far as
to thing him altogether myth and as Horace
Wapole has disaproved all the accusations against
Richard ILL.,, and Archbishop Whately has de-
:nons' rated the existence Of Napoleon l., so it
became quite likely that the Napotan Govern
ment would succeed in pursuadng Europe that
there was in Sicily no such person as Garabaldi
Gradually however, there camc vague sounds from
this island of classical echoes. The power of the
King of Naples over this wild mountainous piece
Of earth is concentrated chiefly in Paermo and
Mcssina. Sicily is the great ahapeless stone
which as we see in the map the toe OF the Italian
boot is always kicking before it. Palermo. is at
the outer side of this stone. 1t became known at
last that Garabaldi had landed about so miles
from Palermo, at the seaport town called Marsha
Of ill renown for its wine, but now partially re-
deemed by it's connection with the desperate en-
terprise in favor Of liberty Soon after it was
certain that Garbaldi had landed, news came
that he had held the town of Marsha under q
bombardment. that he had sent forth his outposts
to reconnoitor the positions Of the Royal forces,
that he had received the insurgent chiefs of the
island, and that the Nepolitan General had
thought it prudent to call in all his forces from the
| outlying rosts and to conotnirats them in Paer
mo. Then came doubtful and Inconsistent ru-
mors. how Garabaldi had advanced to M'rreale
| which is within four miles of Palermo, that he
was at Alermo. which is twenty Ave miles from
Palermo; that he had been utterly routed at place