SURRENDER OF BRIGANDS.

Evening Post, Issue 104, 9 June 1865, Page 3

SURRENDER OF BRIG AN DS.

A letter from Venosa, in tne Basilicata, mentions the so. rtndsr, to General Paliavh iui, of the formidable brigand chief Totaro, accompanied by ten men of his band. Totaro is one of those leaders who have given trouble to the troops employed in the arduous and inglorious service of brigand-hunting, and his surrender is said to be almost tantamount to the extinction of brigandage in the BasUieata. Unfortunately such prognostications have been too frequent to inspire implicit faith. The merit of thesurenderis attributed to a detachment of Bersaglieri who, after exhausting the outlaws by continuous pursuit, contrlv^tgt^.circumvent them that they had «ft^d>»» choice save between a hopeless com. bftt tfMßtgfrliig themselves up. Totaro is defClflJßPiw a toll man, stem and gloomy-

looking, jather than of ferocious aspect-, thirty-seven years old, and of great cunning and resource. For twelve years, he served the Bourbons as a gendarme, and has since served them as ft brigand, cooromitling mpnr crimes and accumulating much plunder, IJis second inr.omm.ind, a certain Castellan e*e, is described as young and handsome, of the melodramatic class of ruffian. The others are all repulsive and hideous wretches, with the exception of a youth of eighteen, who has the look of a woman, but has already been three years a member of the iniquitous band. The eleven brigands brought in their horses fully equipped for service, and a quantity of arms. Money they had none, having, it is supposed, either hidden it or given it to their families before surrendering. It is mentioned as a curious incident that when the whole baud was marching to give itself upflbree brigands, who usually formed part of tTnTbanns infesting the coast, galloped off with the intention of escaping, and that thereupon their comrades fired upon them, and would doubtless have ki'led them, had they not left their horses and plunged into the surrounding thickets. Without horses, they will tilt probahly have to follow their companions' example. It is added that only five regular brigands still keep the field in that district.