New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-22
GARIRALDI IN SICHY.

After variety OF the most contradictory lniOrlna
ton, we receive, at last something like trustworthy
news of the details of Garibaldis wonderful march
from MARSHA to Palermo. 1t is, indeed, one of
the most astonishing military feats of the century,
and il would be almost unaccountable were it not
for the prestige preceding the march of triumphant
revolutionary general. The success of Garibaldi
proves that the royast troops of Naples still hold
in terror the man who has borne high the flag of
Italian revolution in the face of French, NeapOl-
itan, and Austrian battalons, and that the people
of Sicily have not lost their faith iu him. or in the
national cause
On the 9th of May, two steamers leave the c0as
of Genoa with about /, 400 armed men, organized
inseven companies, each of them, evidently, des
tined to become the nucleus of battalion to be
recruited among the insurgents On the Sth, they
land at TalamOne on the Tuscan coast, and per-
suade the commander of the fort there, by some
sort of argument or other to furnish them with
coal, ammunition, and four field pieces. On the
10th, they enter the harbor of Marsala at the ex-
IRENE western end of Sicily, and disembark with
all their material, in spite of the arrival of two
NeapOlitan men-Of.war, who are p0werless, at the
right moment, to prevent them; the story about
British interference in favor of the invaders has
proved false and is now abandoned even by the
NeapOhtans themselves. On the 10Th, the small
band had marched to Salemi, l9 miles distant in
the interior, and on the road toward Palermo.
Here the chief men of the revolutionary party ap-
pear to have met Garibadi, to have consulted with
him, and collected insurrectionary reenforcements
amounting to some 1000 men; while these were
being organized, the insurrection, repressed but
not queled few weeks before, was kindled afresh
all over the mountains of Western Sicily, and, as
was proved on the 10th, not without effect. On
the 18th, Garibaldi, with his 400 organized vol
unteers and 1000 armed peasantry, advances
northward across the hills upon Calatafimi
where the country road from MARSHA
joins the high road from Trapani to Marsaa. The
defes leading to Calatafmi, across spur of
the lofty Monte Cerrara, called the Monte d
Pianto Romano, were defended by three battaons
of Royal troops with cavalry aud artillery, under
Gen. Landi. Garibsldi at once attacked this posi-
ton, which was at first obstnately defended; but
although in this attack Garibald could not have
employed against the 5000 or $500 Neapolitans
more than his volunteers and very small portion
of the Sician insurgents, the Royalists were sue
cessiyely driven out of five strong positions, with
the loss Of one mountain-gun and numerous killed
and wounded. The loss of the Garibaldians is
stated by themselves ut Is killed and 1913 wounded.
The Neapolitans profess to have conquered one of
Garibadis flags in this engagement, but as they
found flag left behind on board one of the aban
doned steamers at MARSHA, they are quite capable
Of having exhibited this same flag at Naples as
proof of their pretended victory. Their defeat at
Calatafm, however, did not compel them to aban-
don that town the same evening. They left it on
the following morning only, and after that they
appear not to have offered any further resist
ance to Garibaldi until they reached Pa
lermo. They did reach it, but in terrible
state of dissolution and disorder. The certainty
of having succumbed to mere "fllibusters and
" armed rabble" reproduced in their minds all at
once the terrible image of that Garibald who,
while defending Rome against the French, could
vet find time TO march to Velletia and send to the
right-sbout the advanced guard of the whole Nea-
politan army, and who had since conquered, on
the slopes of the Alps, warriors of far superior
mettle to any that Naples produces. The hurried
retreat, without show even Of further resistance,
must have still increased their dependency and
the tendency to descrti0n which already existed
in their ranks; and when all OF once they found