The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-25
The Situation in Italy.

GARIBALDI AT ooMo-THE SOUTHERN TYRoL OF
AUSTRIA AND HEAD OF THE oUADRILATERAL
THREATENED.
From the London Times, June 1s.
The kilograms from Italy last evening an
nounce the arrival OF General Garibaldt at
CUmo. The intelligence could hardly be more
portentous. Garibaldi at Como Is on the very
theatre of his most brilliant exploits OF former
days. Whenever the Italians took the field
against Austria as in l648 and 1859, the first aim
OF their guerilla leaders was the occupation OF
that Southern Italian Tyro, which constitutes
geographically, but not politically, part of
the Lombardo Venetian kingdom. Thrown
out like vast wedge from the main
chain OF the Alps at the Brenner, the ter
ritory of the Trento and Roveredo, called by
the Germans the Walsch or Sud-Tyrol, consists
mainly OF the valley of the Adige closed in on
both sides by enormous mountain ridges, border
ing on the west with the Valtellina and the
Lombard valleys of Bergamo and Brescia, and
on the east with the Venetian provinces of Bel
luno, Vicenza, aud Verona. This narrow gorge
of the Adige, with all its surrounding mountain
masses, was known IN old Roman times, and
still better in the pa'my days OF the German
empire, as Me main gate of HdLy (le Chiuse d.
Hotid), the Upper March of Verono; and il con-
st tutes even at the present day Hbe principal
head of that formidable system of tortresses
which bears the name of the Quadrilateral.
Were Garibaldi and the Italians ever to post
themselves strongly on those mountains, the
liberation of Venetia would be more than half
achieved.
The plan OF Garl0aldlS campaign, IL mas Deen
said, is stwo.told-a mountain warfare in Southern
Tyrol, and a maritime expedition up the Adriatic.
There are some who suppose that a landing is
contemplated on the coasts OF Istria or Dalmatia.
or even lower down in Montenegro, or in the
Turkish provinces. What sympathy or support
the Italians might meet with among those half
civilized and hardly known tribes we deem it
Idle to inquire. AT all events, It is difficult TO
conceive how any movement in those parts,
unless it led TO a general insurrection, could be
made subservient to the success of the main
undertaking in the Venetian mainland. 1t would
seem far more probable that coup de main is
intended on some point or points of the coast
between Trieste and Venice.
Along all that Venetian shore, up to the
mouths of the many streams that flow down
upon il from the Alps, the Piave, the Tag liza
mento, the IsonZo, etc, ample field is open tor
the daring feats OF irregular warfare. By land
ing now at one spot, now at another, aud cut
ting up the roads and railroad that run along
the shore. all Intercourse between Venice and
Trieste, and consequently Vienna, might be in
terrupted and by reaching the mountains from
which spring the Piave and others of those
rivers, the mariume volunteers could easily
place themselves in concert with those of the
CacCiatori dello Apolvio and Cacciatorl del
Tonale who might succeed in forcing their way
from the Treutine valleys into those of Bassano
and Belluno. In the present frame of mind of
the Venetian population, especially in the
Friuli, they would be sure of as warm and cor,
dial welcome as they met with on the same
battle-feids in the short but unfortunate, but
not inglorious campaign OF l64S.