The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1869, Page 13

SPAIN THE BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION. Iwo Days’ Fighting at Saragossa. Prim’s Order Disarming the Republicans. Its Reception by the People and Consequences. March of the Troops cn the Barricades, the Fire, the Defence and Bay- onet Storming. Defat and Surrender of the Republicans. THE FiRST DAYS BATTLE. Saragossa, Kingdom of Aragon) Oct, 89 P. BM. GBaragossa, horotc Saragossa, famous in history, poetry and romance, famous for its brawny-muscled peasants and lion hearted women, has at lust spoken, spoken in behalf of tif’ republic of Spain, with gono:ous musketry, superhuman efforts of defence anid vivas to the fedoral republic. The republicans of Spain have anxiously looked toward this; they had hoped brave things from the heroic ity, and they have not been entrely disappointed. Only three short weeks ago I sent you ®@ letter about the hearty ovations paid to Osstelar by the people of this city, for he was their tiol of Spanish poct and orator, who atone could please the warm-learied sons of Arra- gon with graphic tales of the sieges of Saragossa, of the stern war their forefathers made against Berber Tarik and Moor Almanzor, of the undying heroism of their women during the bard, not to be forgotten Gays of 1808, when they defeated 20,000 armed Gauls, under the most famous of their generals, while Sara- @0ssa was pining away with hunger; and as these peo- ple with their eager eyes aud burning blood crowded @round bim, Castelar made thea weep hot tears of pride, of love and veneration. He so appealed to their heart of hearts that they could not restrain thamselves. He gave the words “Viva la Repubitca Federal,” in bis own clear, silver tones, nd 20,000 men, Women and children caught them @nd voiumed them upward to tho sky. But ofall these things my letter of three weeks ago told you, and tt also sald that if the revoluuion came the Saragossanese would not play a wean ‘part in it. Neither have they; for they have done well, fought with the same tratitional heroism, though under disadvantages, But they could do no more, for military jaw bad already jai its iron hand upon the city before tasurrection bad appeared in Arragon. Saragossa isthe capital of the kingdom of Arra- gon, lt 13 a city coutaining 70,000 inhabitants, strongly fortified and always well garrisoned. Lt stands on an eminence in the middie of @ most fer- tile vega, brown at this time of the year with stubble, dusty, yellow looking, crispy grass and sutumna! coloring of trees. The swiling Ebro roils Past the city with a stately Nood, laving the base of tne formidable Arragonese towers and castleated mansions of noblos as well 03 remnants of Roman and Moorish walls, and sweeps under two bridges— one of Koman times—then it makes two or three short windings, when it becomes lost to sight behind tabular emimences, with which the Plain of Saragossa 1s marked. Seon from outside, the city hay an imposing appearance; its numerous slender church spires rear themselves upward above the city like the masts of a good-sized feet, and here and there among them the well bullt towers show prominent, and the eye of a stranger, after sweeping above, naturally runs on to the strong, substantial walls which surround the whole, time Bonored, weather stained, once tested by battering fams, scaled often by ladders, breached many a time by French bombs and cannon balls. But since 1806 innovation has crept into the customs of the the pround old city. Saragossa as had suburbs, outside of the walls, on the othe side of the Ebro, and though they are disdatn- fully regarded by the donizeus of tho city proper, the suburbs are remarkably picasaut to live i, healtmily open to sun, air and rain, with features bespeakiog comfort if not wealth. Within Saragossa has not a whit changed since ine days of Don Quixote de la Manchg; the houses are small castles in themselves, wth ponderous doors studded with bdolta, walls three feet thick, built mostly of granite ,and Lmostone, with superd soillts, exquisitely carved cornices, and cunningly traced machico!la- tions along the edge of the parapets. This is the City briedy described, which burst out into a mighty explosive biaze of insurrection to-day, upon half an dour’s warning, and this is how it was done, accord- ‘as it was seea by your correspondent:—- mforming with the explicit and peremptory general order promulgated by General Prim to all the captain generals of the proviuces, the Captain General, Sefior Bassols, in command of the kingdom of Arragon, having bia headquarters at Saragossa, caused an order to be issued and posted on every Qvailable place requiring every member of tho Republican Volunteers of Liberty to surrender their &rms before four o'clock of the afternoon of Fri- day. Tho enthusiasm exc'ted in the republicans Of Seragossa by the oration of Castelar had not at $ll subsided, but had, if anything, increased, not in Roige, but in depth and feeling. Castelar’s ‘Words were taking deep root in the hearts of all; for sheets containing his oration were being soid for two ouartos every day; in iact, you could hear Bothing hardly spoken of save the ‘speech of Cas- felar” and the “barricades of Barcelona.” As might be imagined, when the passion of such people 8 bpaniards, and Saragossawcse at that, were infamed—were kindled intow freazied love for the utopian liberty that had been so graphically and agonistically pictured by Castelar—the order of General Bussols was received sullenly, with frowns, ries, mueras to @ tyrannical government, which Ps broke forth finally tnto open reseutment, into a voi- 7 eanio biaze which mado Saragossa quake to hor foundations from very terroc, But the ordor @f Bassols was to be seen by light of day; there was it on the usual bilisticking places, large and faring, it demanded compitance in per- @mptory \ones, there was to be no hesitation, no d@omurring, but the arms of ali republican volunteers Were to be surrendered immediately without fail, to the last {usil, matchlock, revolver, one-barrelled Piatol; there wore to be no exceptions made in favor of any swords, or pikes, but whosoever possessed a ‘Weapon which could inflict a mortal wound that person was bound to deliver it up imstantly under penalty of being arrested, triod and certainly con- vVioted as a person having intent to do bodily harm to & servant Of constituted autuority, It had beon remarked by Madrid people that seve- Fal battalions and regiments of tie three arms had ‘been despatched toward Saragossa,-and the ques- tions naturally asked were:—''What was going on @t Saragossa’ “What did the departure of all these troops for Saragossa meant “Were tuere many republicans at Saragossa, aud did ihey intend to prociaim the republic?’ Tae said peremptory order of the Military Goveruor of Saragossa explaincd the purport of this unusual concentration Of troops at that city, and as soon as intelligence had arrived at the capitol of its issue, ‘which was about half-past seven Thurs Gay evening, 1 posted of for Sarogossa on the half-past etghg train, one hour the news had arrived. Saragossa was reached by me the following morning at six o'clock, which was the morning of the day when the repubitoans were to give up thelr arms, After washing off the dast of the journcy and making some change la my dress 1 @ailiod out into the streets to soe what waa to bo ~ _— seen, to see if I could note anything that fuatified my long journey, I fon™d the corners of tue streets Made conspicuous by lon post bills, which upon reading I found headed, “Inhabitants of Sara- goasa,” and to contain, the prder of Selor Bassols, Very many other persosw stopped to read the order, to comment and qiticize each according tothe feelings that possesemuf him. Any stranger might point out those to whom thw order partichtarly applied, by noting the emotions that passed over some faces, by tho sharp angry frown that corrugated the forehead, by the lifting of the eyelias, by tha undisguised sneer, or the closing of the lips and the spasmodic clenching of tie hand. ‘These persons thus moved might have been seca looking towards their political kin whom they recognized as sympathizers; they might then hear the morning greeting, ‘ilow does It pass with you, Amigo?’ and afterwards they might be diacovered in earnest confabulation, thea walkin, off arm in arm, or with arms fraternally intercrossed behind, with heads beat down, slow sicp, a frequent stoppage, an interchange of eager, gratified looks, and then the continuation of the march tll lost to sight. After watching these things mvolun- tarily 1 said to myself, “Something is up!” 1 made bold to stop a man and question him as to his belief of what would be the consequences of the order. My accent betrayed my foreign extraction, but still, suspicious lest the stranger migaot be an iniormer, the great, great secret he would not untold; but nev- ertheless be conirmed yy impressions that ‘“so.ue- thing was hd Aiter breakfast, which was about noon, I again left the Hotel do l’Univers and travelled up the © the spactous broadway or boulevarde of Saragossa, which sweeps round the circumference of the cit, on the land side, connecting che market place with the suburbs on the other side of the Ebro.’ Both sides of the Coso exhibit the traces of the cruel war and siege of 1808, The number of snot marks stiil visible proves that the houses were opstinately de- fended for weeks, even after the enemy had posses- sion of the city; that cannon were levelled against the houses from the streets, buc, owing to their sol- idity, the destraciton was not 80 great—not a twen- tieth part as it would be ina modern city subjected to the same awful expertenc ‘the Coso was full of people, and the character- istics of the inhabitants were at tis time of the day seen prominently. The Berber and Moorish blood coursing through thelr veins impeiied thoi onward wita long and animated strides; now that their aussi0n3 were aroused their heads were’ thrown aughtily backward, and the fierce, large, jet black eyes rolled wildiy, flashing defant fires, and lit up the swarthy faces like twin stars; their mouths were curled with an exquisite expression of scorn and their gestures were furious; their heads were covered with gay or sombre colored handkerchiefs rolled around like a turban, while whe crown was exposed to the fervor of a Spanish aun, and their thewy lower limbs were encased in knee breeches and black or gray woollen stockings; their upper vestments con- sisted of merely ioug Walstcoats aud a shirt, whose collar was flung wide open, exposing the hairy breasts, sun-burnt and weather beaten; their aruls were bare and the tough, knotty muscles would have been adinired, if not envied, by the “fancy” men of New York. Agmost of these people cairied arms on their shoulders and strode through the Cogo with such determined strides and such inde- peudent hauteur, all weltering and Mowing in one direction, I thought at first they were. about to storm the castle and so permitted myselt to follow them. We passed several streeis, narrow, cramped, covered almost by the projecting sce corbeis and bal- conies of the half Moorish, halt Arragon houses of the peasant quartier, and finally came within view of Vlaza Magdalena—a spacious square at this time full of excitable peopl talking, bustling, moving and swaying in every dire-tion, and in the centre were 000 soldiers, guarding a lot of stacked muskets and flint locks. ‘The reason of all this was apparent. ‘fuis was the Plaza where the surrender of arms was to take piece and these fierce people of the Berber race, with the Berber blocd and cyes, with arins on their shoulders, were the volunteers who were avout to deliver up their arms, and their exquisite scorn meant to say that wicnever they chose to figit against the government they couid do go even without arms. Ah! here was @ time—a crisis, of @ verity—when a Casceiar or any republi- can demagogue could have done something to a purpose. How quickly had not all this changed ? How quickly nad not all those men taken their arms and massacred—nay, eaten up whole, wf necessary—the 60 soldiers, now — almost Indistigguishadle among the surging multitudes, But there was no Castelar nor any other republican deputy present, nor any volunteer bold enough to barangue the multitude and hint to them that other things might be done with (bose arm3, The deposit of arms went oa; musket aiter musket was added to the stacks, reluctantly, it mast ba coufessed, when about vo absolutely relinquish the dear firearm, the pride of the free peagant’s hears, which be had bur- nished so often and kept clean and bright tll the great day should arrive wien the trumpet of the republic should echo over tue mountains of Aragon and be heard in the streets of Saragossa. Swill, though with evident hesitation, the musket was latd down, but who knows with what thouguts passing, lighting-like, through those rough, but sensitive bosom: ‘The plaza of Magdalena, betng the centre of grav- itation on this day, full of fiery volunteers in uni- form and out of uniform, bare armed and bare crowned, with {he peasant quartic” of San Pablo, La Leo and La Pilar im view, continually vomiting their denizens into the great square, demands our closest attention, for if thing happens 1¢ will hap- pen here, for this 1s the place whiter ail volunteers are tending, whither all who are idie, disaffected, licentious, Workmen Without empioy, honest and dis- honest and curious are flocking. tow will it all end, thia wild meeting of turbulent waters, this mael- strom of passions, eddying and conflicting of the elements? Results, what may they be oi these als- solving and evolving groups, this congregating of men swayed by such diversity of thoughts, wisafat for strife, expectant for sometiing to tura up to change this tame submission to mouarchism by an ultra republican population, by Saragossanese t Note well, reader, how mexoravle is fate, bow natu- Tal ls tae evolution and revolution of navure. Appa- reutly Lhe people submit, are willivg, though resent- fal, lo do the bidding of authority; but fate has do- clded It otnerwise. Not yet, however, though the ime is rapidly approaciing; the crisis is even now. One o'clock ring sonorously aud loud the clock hammers oi tue cathedrals of La Leo, of La Pilar, close by; o1 the Lonja, further off; of the Torre Neuva, or the Leaning Tower, seen uprearing itseif in the distauce; of distant Aijaferia, the palace of the kings of Aragon. One o'clock ring the minor churches of tid cliy, & chorus of melodious sounds, The agitation is iucreastug, the people are gathering together. Plaza Magdaieua is fail, it overiiows, the wl strects begiu to Hil With tae same restiess human ein gs. two o'clock! The living compact of humanity grows larger, the Volunteers with dificulty work their way lo the centre, A4 tiey eluow sutly and gruiily along (owards the mu ket stacks, uey are yreeted by elbowing neighbors with fraternal passwords, brother recogaitio Some advise them to retire—io hoid on a littie—not to be so willing vo surrender their property, and seo wial may come out of all this, It 18 a dificult task to give up mus- keis while th's turbulent, mimaclous mob chokes up ali avenues and wedges itself jato such an impene- Wable mass, and it becomes More aud more dificalt every minute. Stilt the volunteers eige their way slowly towards the centre, Three o'clock! Though the crowd is large, there ig.a different aspect to it, There is a cessation to the surrender and deposit of arms. No more mus- kets nor fusils are given up. Some suspicious words are uttered aud passed quickly from mouth to mouth. What may they ve? ‘Count the muskets,’ commands the colonel of the 600 imprisoned within the embrace of this grout Saragossa mob. The muskets are counted; they number 239. “Only 2891 exclaims the Colonel; “his 1g not the third part of the namber to be given up; the republican ttalions number 90. They must be given up, alferez, Sergeant, take ten men ‘with you and search the houses in San Pablo; aud you, alferez, do the same on La Leo street, and you, alferez, go to La Pillar street, &c.; search diligeatiy, aad vriag them here, togetver with the men in whose houses arms are found.” So commands the Cotouel, and it 18 about to be done, Away warch tue aiferezes witn their details, steei armed knots of men, by no means tardy to execute what duty requires of them. ey = open paths for themselves with the points of their bayonets through the human sca. Slowly the mass gives way, in reseatful mood at the sight of the levelled bayonets, angry at heart, burning with indtgoauon, with wrath long pent up seeking veut, “Wiliher are they going tor’ ask the people. “They go W search tho houses,” 13 the answer, “To search our houses !’’ exclalin the repubiicans one to another, “To search our houses ’’ 18 reiterated in astonishment, in open- mouthed, wide-cyea wonder, and the whole im- mense body, hitherto somewhat still, comparatively, slightly impassive for the last hour, is rouglily, angrily forced tuto @ backward motion, contrary to the natural tendency of such @ mob, and a succes- sion of Violent movements takes piace, Anoiier report adds flery impulse vo the already agitated mass, ‘Lhe prisoners from Cinco Villas are being brought in.” ‘rhis is eagerly caught up, and from the outermost ravellings of the who.e, with telegraviic speed it is flashed through every singi¢ uni of the 20,01 people in Plaza Magdalena. A single emotional voice 16 heard far above tle tumult and babbie, “A lag armas, republicanas, @ las armas! avajo los tiranos! (v0 arws, republicans, to arms; down With the tyranis’), An ominous, soul-deadening panic follows tt, and thea hundreds of voices simul- tancously break out, strong, hoarse and deadiy, “A 1a3 armas, @ las armas! abajo los tiranos! Viva 1a republic federal |" and the crowd is broken asun- der like brittle glass. It dissulves like tow into as many thousand 8 ing, frantic units, while the major portion breaks down irresistibly towards the centre; the Colonel and his plumed and bedizened are surged Jar Into the rear, uelplessly, Like t waves of & sea curling themselves on a@ beach, so human ea surgea forward in liv- ing waves and in winding current and toss iheisetves up as irresistibly. ‘They a carried by one common impulse to the centro, where It 18 alla Whirlpool, an @wiut macisrom, for such are the tossings, such are the rearing crests, mad- dening, flinging themselves against one another, till the whole seems to be sucked downward by some Fe pia eddying bag lag ‘This w but the rush and crush for arms, for in an instant you seo tne eddies of living, stalwart men raiso themselves up and briatie with steel, and beforo this omen away fly the timid and irresolute before the hopes} volunteers. ‘To your tents, 0 Israel !'—“To youl houses, O Saragossanese |" is the cry. Tho repub- Moans stay not to count muskets, but fing thom- selves outwardly, with bayonets levelied from the Re and, as ail gentier ns are Awatlowed up by the irruptive fury which, at least, has found yeat, a Ah ws oan NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1869.—QUADRUPLKE ‘SHEET. they becomo heedieas of what they do. Hither and thither run the timid and the weak, with thetr heartsda their guiiets choking w.th Lhe fear which fills them, Fear, over spesd, tne pauteky mob trip them, they fail and screams from women and chii- aren fii the aw. There might have been groans 80, OF prayers uttered; but who heeded them or heard then at such a moment, traucht with éad woo to the city of Saragossa and her indabitants? For where the cry of Roman and Gothic warriors, ot Visigotis ana Huus—for where the ir-raize, the bat- tle shout of Berber Tarik, was of old heard, now 1a resonant among the solid streets the modern cry whica drowns all othors—all prayers, sobs and groans—“ Via ia Republica Federal.” ‘The soldiers are slow to recover from the aston- tshinent which has paralyzed them, astonishment at @u insurrection irrupung before thetr faces—tusur~ rection of a guiesceat, comparatively submissive population—of a popuiation unarmed, of a people taktog arms from themselves. Worthy reasons for astonishinent. “But what shall we do?’ ask the captains and lieutenants one of another. They are loth to make up their minds, and while thus loth, the Tepublican volunteers have poured down the streets and siven the alarm—have shouted “The repuoiic is Prociaimed,” have knocked up barrio Sao Pablo Irom its atternoan siesta; have invited LaLéo, La Pilar to speak, and taey proceed to show them now; they with their bayonets pry up the granite blocks, cobble stones, carb and flag stones, and with the swittness of magic do erect a barricade formiuavie, wide—a granite and cobble stone fortiil- cation breast high, one, two, tires, four and five— aye, ten barricades are thrown up almost ag fast as tongue can count them, for what ts impossible to such men when life and aeath are tu tle balance? So quartier or barrie San Pablo, Leo, La Pilar cut off from iis neigabors, surcounded by these wanite barricades and stormy Arrogonese castles. ‘here is mechoa im the whole, The republicans are slut tn; late comers leap over the barricades, are embraced iraterually and are invited to work, which they do, with pickaxe and shovel, with crowbars and bayonets, while tue women are In the balconies arranging muaitresses, thick bolsters, feather and hair piliows, exparto screens and baskets, sacks of flour by the side of siiken cushions, ‘The eye of the reporter finds enough to no'o; in- i ssivio to note the whole, for there area huadred things, and a thousand scenes, doing and takin place. Carts are thrown oa the summftt of the barrl- cades; cabs caught unawares are lauached on high; sofas and bureaus and the straugest Kind of obstruc- tons are piled above all. An exvouporized chief at the barricades of San Pabio, wuich engross my attention, vethinks Limseif of something essontial which ail hau forgotten heretofore m the hurry canic ructation of this insurrection, ‘the 3 Gato,” cries he, “is ope, Volunteers to » A hundred offer themseives, jaims the chief, And they do go, with quick, long leapa. “40,” over the barricades, Fifteen minutes elapse, and the Duke's Gate Is blocked up und guarded’ by two traverses and fank- ing barricades, 60 strong that it will take cannoa to desiroy then, If one could only abstract him. self from the dim and seething coaiusion within @ne barricades of the San Pablo, from the knowledge of the portent of all this, he could compare tie enclosed area of the street into nothing so upposite as to a huge quarry, with the men wD aris handling their muskels as sentiuels over a chain gang; just so It appeared to me When a moment's abdstract'on seized me; bub the fascination to see and to note was too strong. ‘The simmertug of this tadustrious hive, the apparent coatused, disorderly knots of men, and tho maddest rage, the different clamors @nd shouts within the barricades did. not allow abstraction, There was human nature at its purest, unrestrained, Kindled with hate, possessed wiih @ love to destroy, A philosopher would havo gone into raptures at what 1 saw; for hore was a chance to see With naked eyes what phiosophors have tried in vain to picture traly, 1 saw men who for the time were transmuted into demons. How the astonished 600 soldiers, with the gallant colonel paralyzed, got away from Piaza Magdalena, or what they did afterwards, I do not know, The barricades, the republican tnsurrectionists, their heroic wives and iheir brave boys, the multiplex sights, the mulliphased passions, the transceadental determination to die visible on all faces, avsorbeu all my attention from the “coiga of vantage,’’ a bal- cony on wiich L stood, not within the barricades, but hal! a block outside, Ali wich | have reiaied took not long; the whole was done within the hour, and during all this time you must not Suppose tho troops were idle, I could hear the tones of the cavalry and artiliery bugies, the infantry’s tamvor and tho long roll; I could hear the peculiar griodiag, sonorous sound of the artillery Wheels, and I caught sight now and then of astray aid-de-caup galloping across a distant street, Nor were the citizens induferent to what was about to take piace. The merchants and traders had locked up their shops, and were busy stowing away their valuables, thelr imoney and their, Jewels. In the immediate nelghborhood outsiuie of the barricades leading from Sau Pabio into the Gogo, tuere was not a singi¢ individual to ve seen in it, but from the second to the fourth stories tag bal- conies were packed mostly with women, looxing oa with various emotions, fear prominent, curiosity uppermost, at the preparatious of war earnestly being mace fa the barricades, The Captain Gencral, Senor Basaols, knew almost intuitively that av insurrection would take place, aud had acgordingly taken mis precautions; but the passage of ‘The morning houra witnout any eveut taking place bad somewhat ailayed his suspicions, and he had begun to think is sagacity nad been at fault, and had almost come vo the conclusion to send aregiment away that night, but his ears canght the huin of the insurrection and ne prepared hiinsel! for it ikea man who knew he had a delicate and a most diiicult task before nim, Kigiteen hundred men were at once ordered to be mustered in the (oso, with sixty rounds of amumumn- tion eacn, two batiertes of mountain trata artillery, @ battery of horse artitlery and two co:panies of cAvairy Were also called out to muster.@fhe Captain General came out to the Coao and oavangued tiem upon the duty before them, wherein there was much Wrong usage of the sacred name of liberty, The order to march was when given, But though ail this occurred we who were heodicss of all save what was being done at the barricaies knew noting of it at the Wms, yot We frucssed Laas some such dispositions were being made. The first indications we had ol the approach of the military force was tho sunultaneicty of the rusa towards their respective barricades by the insurrectionists: gud the creeping to the balconies of the tue houses and the bright sparkie of sto they were laid athwart the ouiricades minuies of the first alarm there was not a man abseat from his post, and looking dowa San Vabio I counted five barricades, three of which were built across the debouchare of three large streets which depeuched inte this main artery of the peasant quartier, and one at cach end of Sau Pablo asit con- nected with the ares of the Duke’s Gate and the Coso, and beyond, guarding tae area around tie bnke's Gate, were four more. Soon attver observing these [noticed a battery of Mouniain trata artillery, mounted on muies, comfug down tue Coso, which Wasethe street over whica my “coiga of vaniage’’ looked tanto as Well as Sau Pablo, About 200 men posted themaeives behind the barricade of San Pablo and tie oso, which being the strongest was also tae most tmport- ant, being, as near as I could judge, five feet and a half bigh ani ten or tweive test broad. At the other barricades I juage there must have been about 150 at each, thus inaking altogether some- thiag Lko 1,900 mea, 1f you will include somo 49) men who'were in tho balconies, witiin the enclosed and fortified ares of San Pablo, and this ratio may be fairly given to those of La Leo and La Pliar, thus making @ force of avout 5,000 tasurrectionists against 2,500 reguiar soldiers. From La Leo a chosen baud had left the cuy iy goon ag it was dotermined to tigit, and had cut the telegraph lines, and destroyed the railway between Madrid and Saragossa, and had afterwards taxen the direciioa of the sierras of eyposa, in Aragon. The battery just meationed halted af the distance of $u0 yards trom where | stood, and watching their operations of disimounting the guus aad proparing for action, 1 observed they were procseaing about their work with a deliberation and a coolness which seemed to indicate as if they enieriained the idea that the annihilation and the capture of the barrt- cades were a work of uo moment. In thesneantine sections of batteries and the battery of horse artil- lery had been planted velore each of uhe other barri- cades, which was a wise disposition, for by this Means a convergent fire could be poured on the insurgents (rom sixteen seven and twelve pounders, against their divergent one, while the battery in the Coso Was 80 situated as to rake almost the waole length of San Pablo. ‘ow all seems ready, the battery is mounted and moved to within 300 yards, but belore they halt those 200 outwardly calm, patioat men, irregu- lariy divided into three ranks, finger thelr inuskets uneasily, and @ crack of a musket Is heard; a head ts lifted cautiously avove the barricade, as if to note the effect; the bullet speeds on its way, passes buin- mingly below my balcony and plunges itself anoug the artiilerists, creating Consteruatioa and causing @ retrogade movement, Tho artillery 18 too close, #0 they relire and take position 600 yards oi; but while they are arranging and joading a voiley is tired by the tnsurrectionisis which seems to shake the houses, but almost immediately afterwards a respon- sive roar, joud, sonorous, overwhelming. Coninod aa we are within the street, at the level of dying snelis, with powder sinoke ascending the nostrils, scared at the mysterious rush of shell-Migits, and deafened by the report, I really could not tell how many were fired at the iirst time, but I believe the whole six guna were fired simultancously. Discharged almost as I might say boneath my window, the eilect on my tympanum was siunning—is was a crash, aud It went reverberating througi my head, and then Lt heard but a confused sputtering and terrific for five minutes, when, by effort, I my confused senses enough to the repeated skocks as well as any acteran artilleriat, From this time the firin became general; every barricade and section of artillery Was mutually engaged. A rolling fre of muskeiry could be detected among the bellowing roar of horse ana mouniain artillery aud bursting and rending of shells, Musketry seemed to be ger ting wild, #0 my landiady and women ef the house urged me to shut the windows and shutters, and I was forced to comply, and, finding that the roof was easy of access, 1 made my way above, while the Whole house seemed to quiver with the vibration of the incessant cannonading. Reaching the root I sought the shelter of a friendly cornice for protec- tion against any erratic bullet from the republl- cans. It seomed to me to be woll taat I did so, for bullete fattened themselves with a dull thud Ere almost every stone. The reason of this was obvious; nothing could.be distinguisued through the ee of omen Mier ascended cloud, so the contented themselves with firing simply for the sake of firing. ‘There was @ short lull, for blinded themselves w! Ln the artilicrista had #0 own amoke that thoy could not see each othe: battering away remorse! Mas till the muaketry kopt easly. Alter the smoke bad Lifted Itaelf ayove to houses T could faintly @istiognish through my glist that havoc had beca minds through the cabs and farusuro Which Higed tho sunyuté of shell had exploded, uf not withta @cab at least Li dnmedinte proximity to it, for what remained of its body hung tottering on the tuner edge of the barri-, cade, while a sofa bad an ugly rent in 4s feck, und u bureau was ta pieces, but the barricade tiaylf was dainost intact, Durtug this lull, looking over to | Fapet im the direct @ general ontcer, ounded by a brilliant se who seemed (be giving directions, and ag he was relirhng another tremendous discharge from the battery waa heard, foilowed direetly to my leit by a serim one crackitng, crashing explosions, while the bw tremb: if au ecarthyuake had occurred. ‘tne Shells brushed swiiuy by below me with a deadiy ht and sputter, The same change took place before the other barricades; a short pause Was followet by animated cannonading, and the expiostons and arges were kept up without a moment's tate: mission, between ths artillery reports, The solid granilo houses echoed the canmonade and explosions from Stregt to street antil it appeared as if every street Was the scene of simiar contention, You heard it rolling over the houses like tiwnaer over the sierras. And the smoke came up in flakey clouds, settling for a moment above the roof of the housés, aad then expanding tntoa grand etherial arch dritted away tnto space. It contiaued to ascend in sertes, in so many thicknesses; 20 sooner was one flake or inyer swept away than another" and another and yet another ascended, and go on in Tising gradations, so that 1 Was IMpossiole to see auything buc smoke aad roofs and spires and the sky. bcould hoar tho furious roar of artil- lery, the wniversal din, the commingiing thunder of small arms, shell explosions, and the successive and BWiit resonance of them as the echoes few from street to street like teu thousand bass arnms beating the warning notes of a tattoo, among which I also could determine the mysterious hum: and dreadful rush o/ stray bullets and fying bombs. For one full hour this tempest of b jing, falling metal lasted; then there came a lond, quick biare of near and distant irampets, sounding the onset. Even before the smoke lifted itself ciear | heard the rush of feet; then flerce shouttag, followed by the discharge of a thousand sinall arin, waich rent the weikin with thetr crash aud uproar. The sinoke aisappeared, aud Ue soldiers were discovered ad- vancing on the barricades, Looking towards the barricades [ saw them streaming with a dewily, withering fire, aud «discerucd through the pearly vapor the condition of the barricades. Though the firing had been incessant for an hour | could not see that much damage had been done yet. There were two or three breaches, it 18 true, Dut men were busily diling tuem up, Wille taeir comrades worked their m.skets wita & will and energy that told volumes of the quickness with which they had adapted themselves to tue work of trained soldiers. ‘The various impediments, such as cabs and chairs and sofas and bureaus, were launched into the breaches, and the dying granite blocks soon ililed them up. Bub there Was many & poor fellow lying lifeless and rigid within, and others bent in all postures with serious wounds, Now, however, we must attend to the advancing body of infantry, wbose stera tramp 1s 80 audivie amid all ihe tiriig. ‘Ine insurrectionists have coasod rebuilding their barricades and are betaking thexi- selves to their fusils, ad cries of “Viva la republica’’ break forth trom among the tlae, sturdy fellows who mau them, The fre 1 redoubled and must be ex- tremely galling to the attacking columns, and thero 43 no mercy shown thgin, for set a Spantard behind ® broastwork, a barricade or auy shelt und, whether trained or untrained, he becomes cool and dangerously brave, and he proceeds recontrapucho de! Whereas, outside of a barricade or a defence an untramed Spaniard can never siaud to givo and receive tire, The Spanish imfantry te seemed were true to their nature, for instead of marching on, as they ought to have done, they halted and retwned tae fire, Halting as they dia, while being marched to the attack, when within twenty paces of the breastworks, their fire became Wiid dnd inetfvetive, very wild, and scarcely a man of tie barricades seemed to suifer, while several of the soldiers, beg exposed at short range, Were seen to stagger, throw their armas up and jail; some doubled uy os if with a pang ia the stomach, others Jucaped as if galvadized, and the well dressed, well trained battalion, closued in pomp and apparentiy trresistivie before, having stopped, imedectually tried to advance, but the head of the column is smitten over aud over aga. Tuoy retired demoralized, breaking into a vory undignided run, followed by leaden peviets and loud joers. Upon arriving at vie artillery sud thy stopped to take counsel, While doing so a tremendous shouting was: heard at the vurd barricade from the Voso, and vol- les were there terrife and rapid, 1 saw the head of @u attackiag column at the ioot of tie barricades straggiing desperately to surmount them, bui rein forcements from the others flocked thither and fired their muskets full Loto tieir breasts, and the balco- nies opposite streained @ deadly fire, and the puss of smoke that were emiticd and the frequent loud, holiow reports told how well tho houses wore garri- soned. Alter & minute’s unsuccessiul effort the column broke and ran, and loud vivas to the republic toid how well their comrades nad defeuded thew- selves. ‘The artillery commences its thunder again with unusuai Vivacity, and again the smoke sais upward and again | am shat out from the world oeneath, ‘The crash, the roar heard yrom below is tremen- Gous, the stoue houses vibrate to tue frequent con- cussions, and the ialut giare of the cannon’s flash, even through the Mapenetrable ascending clouds, ig visible, And this jearful work goes on thus for half an‘hour witaout a second’s pause, during Which time one migat weil believe the city was agaln being visited and overthrown by another noghty earthquake, ‘he vapors rose slowly and the spidiera were discovered at the barricades, hav- Ing approached under cover of the itiroua iron tempest, With savage yells the re- puolicans sprang to thew feet and emp- tied =thetr muskets full into their breasts, ‘Yhe buicontes oa each side swarmed with them, rising recklessiy from belind their extempore breascworks, and delivering their fire full upon the heads o: the soldiers, ven women wore seen wiih arms to their hands dring away with the sivadiuess of veverana, Beiuow the scene was one of desperation agaiusi courage allied with @ certain cool entiu- siasm. AS fast as one soldier fell another aad another supplied his place, but they were mowest dowa ag Last as they rose; bayonets were socked into thoi breasus while they were about to fron their knees, and still the doubi wed fleree and = implac- ao) There were personal imstancea of fe. rocity and page of an courage which would eanobls n’s history. ‘fo me (Who was, I really Douevey the sole disliterested Witness of that terrible baiue)’ they appeared like cbaracters suddeniy called out ty periorm real tragedies for my espectal pleasure, and so fascimated was | by the stwaage that my eyebalis were almost gluod to my here was a captain of the army on te samt parricade for oue instaut with @ aword drawn and the next he was within the barricaie, A swarthy-iaced picbelan of Saragossa inct hiut with a clubbed musket. The captain made one or two fearful lunges at hia body, bat his uopuise fad not carried him far enough, while the musket was held poised above hw head. ‘The oillcer seemed desirous to teriniuate the atrange rencontre and made a leap towards his eue- my, but as be came ihe uUskel descended, crashing tarough his bra. A (ail soldier made a jmap from the top of the barricade and landed on the head of insurgent, and sent Miia stunved to the ground; y while he was gathering tis musxet for gaard a dirk from behind stavbed him a A strong Sarragos- san swept his musket around his head and beougut i full agatuse the legs of @ soldier woo had just mount the bargicado, bringing him headlong within; @ young “boy lifad a Diovk of granite over his head aad iet it fail full upon tie face of tne soldier, iracturing his skal. An army lien tenant bounded from the summit of the obstractton within the parricade, and he suddenly met a re- pudlican chiet with a heavy sword in his hand, They crossed and fenced a little while; the leuten- it’s dress sword was flesied in the left arm of the insurgent clef aad the latter's hoavy sword bit into the other's brain, There were several inatanc such combats, whica could be easily recognized even during the flerco, general, desperate whole. Though many of the svidiers succeeded in getting within the enclosed avea of San Pabio uot one suc- ceeded in getting oui, for remorseiess bullets from above singled them out and went crashing through their skulls, it was evident, also, that though tho soldiers were stimulated to rashness by ihe sight of some of tne comrades’ success in scaling and surmouuting the barricades, all their intrepidity was of no avail, for the bullets from the windows and biloonies void fearfully far and noar, The clatver of this musketry was like unto the patieriug of @ vempest of hati Against windows, except Liat it was more deadly, and that there was a wound or & death to almost every bullet. it was impossible that men whose lives are easily ri eu up could stand long t incessant fusiliades to which they were subjecte for Wiis their attention Wa) engaged by the voileys upon yoieys of inuskeury that ge ap biased along the tops of the barricades, four hundred rifes counted tier heals with lead. As uugitt be ye , afer iiiteen minutes’ swnbbora figuting the bugle -ounded the retreat. The soldiers had lost 80 Much Leart by the persistency and ovsti- hacy of the contumacious lasurgonts that the Instant the bugle was sounded they broxe and ran tamultu- ously, pelted In the backs L the again triumphant republicans wit leaden pellets, which laid many of them low, even as thoy bought themseives sale trom haria. Iy Was now seven o’clock and dark. The battle had lasted three hours, and nothing had been gained by the troops, but rather they bad suffered a serious joss, I migut say with trash, if 1 maj jadee by the quantity of the dead which lay piled at the principal barricade of San Pablo, that there must have been somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 killed aud double the number wounded, ad tested the sirength As soou 23 General Basso! of the insurgents he sent despateh to Brigadior General Mersio to bring two regimdnts with him from Pamplona, and at the time that the troo) halted irom the last attack Merelo and his brigade must have been on their way from that city, which would thus bring them to the rescue in about cigat hours, or at one o'clock in the morning. Close to my friendly cornice, in nearer proximity to the stars than many of the thou: ja of Sara- 0888, Temained for another hour, watching hrough my glass the scenes below. The artiliery continued to keep up & languid fire of shell and grape, | ag ed from the Coso againat tie main barricade, ‘om Whence they could land the shells at any quarter of San Pablo, ‘The tnsurrectionists did not socom to mind them much; they contented themselves with sending & musket slot or two or half a duzeu At in. torvals far towards the artillerists; they hugged thelr friendly barricades clows and inade @ eupper, and wine, for, eee evidently, on pughero, SU ali iS Mec makes ravenous: n of the artiilery, I peraived { een a You couid hardly count one or wink twice > | own dead was by no means taconsiderable, nine feet tok, ‘The night is wearing itself away with nothing very om. | exporienved, of the artilery, sounding the ten | towards thelr own , important cranspiriug, nothing more than the ing af interval mumte periods as the dars 1 Rave beev upon the rook, in ci liours glide by. ws also well speat—¥at I must send this o’elock to-morrow morning. ~ v SOW DAWS BATTLE. Nature fa Her Glory, but Man Revolling in Blood—What Was fee! de and Around the Barricados The Troops Called to Aras Popular DefianceDefent, Surrender, a Flight end Cavalry Pursult—Counting the Dead and Attending to the Woundod—Ree publican Bravery. Saragossa, Kingdom of Aragon, Oet, 9-2. AL. \When a man retires to bed at night deeply im pre ¥ed with some great {mportant event to happen on ti \emorrow, through some mysterious, unknown cause * t0-me, Le seldom fails to awake at the tine he hat fixed for awaking. Just so tt was with mo this m. wing. I retived fora couple of hours’ rest comple, ‘ety fatigued, yet with the determination to bo up be Sore daylight, and the Catvedrat clocks had no soone Trung the hour of Ave this morning than L Was up a tdat my post of observation on the roof. It was su.¥ dark, yot the dawn was creeping up genily in t8e cast, and the stars were biinking fainter and Vainter, Tho barricades were alive with People, and there were ilres kindied to warm and cheer those Wito kapt their pernoctations, Aronud these were now sittag groups warming themscives, for the morning wa raw andeailly, [ heard ihe tones of @ Soguidita which must have been sung by one who had taken a lease of: Bis life, or held tae day that was before him with ef tts dangers very lightly to have been able to sing as auch an hour and at Buch a place. The dawa came, and before it shed the cloude of night with all iis stam. The day camo ulso, aad after tt the sun just peering above the Aragon peal into the vega of the Kbro, and lighting. the streets of San Pablo and the Coso with lines ef gold, and tt finaily lifted trseif clear of the mountain ranges, full and luminous, unui tho whole sky was clear aud un dimmed by a single speck of cloud, I looked down into the barricades. The insurgents were drink- ing their cofeo and exhaling whitish pulls of smoke from puros and cigarettos. There were women carrying cups and serving the strong, sial- worth ohampions of the republican cause, and there were boys 8Xipping about unconcernedly enough, for they were children trained with quoor novions respecting human life aad the duty of an Arago- nese; notions which some day would produce queer fruits, There was a smell of blood—a slaughter house smell—pervading the atmosphere, and im- stinctively my eyes sought out the cause. Stretched in a row on the ground, on the pavement between the frat and second barricades, were sixty-five bodies of dead men. From my place of observation they soomes to be sleeping; but thelr forms wore too uniform; all their Mmbs wert strete oul straight and thetr arms were folded on their chests, and the glass revealed to me bloody faces and beads destroyed past recoguition, some bodies headicss and some strangely short, Thon there woro the dead within he barricades, from whom tho sickening smell emanated. Muskets were seen resting against houses and in stacks, while armed sentrios promenaded before the breastworks, ‘The barricades had been dressed up aud rebuilt and considerably strengthened by bags of sotl which were piled above them. Tho doors of cach house within tho barricades were open, and there was con- stant travelling to and fro, inand outof them, Such Was the scenes within tho barricades, Far up the spacious Coso were the soldiers, just waking up from fitful sleepand rest, with their arms by their sides. Sx cannon were planted a few steps in front of them, defended by about a company of men. Beyond all wore the mules, and [ could hear thelr whinnying as the morulng’s rations of hay were served out to them. Otherwise the Coso was deserted of every Peasy thing as far as the eye contd reach, And between the barricade and tao bateery there’ wus not a single thing. The sound of a bugle 18 heard oxactly at half-past x o’ciock of the morning, accordiag to Madrid md, and there 18 commotion among the soldiers, and mustering by companies, and tie insurgents, expectant, rush to the barricades to see what 14 being done, Other bugles are heard at duferent places, and each barricade is througed by groups of eager men and the balconies swarm wiih the sight sevrs. Battle is again brewing; strife, bioody con- tention aud murder are about to take place ou more. Could some good angel appear to whispor wores of peace among brothers it were a good thing—far, far better than for two factions to com monce murdering one another by the light of a new- born day. But, no; defeat and humiliation of mii tary power must bo wiped in bivod—in tho warm biood of the revolutionisis; order must be re-eatab- lished; constituted authority and Spanish demo- cratic conaticution must be respected, is the deter- mination of ono site, and on the other there gum- ners @ dim hope that the republic must conqui that defeat yet awaits the military, aud thers are over 1,500 slout hoarted men within the barricades who will try hard for victory, With such diane. trical opintona filing each party, peaco 1s imposs ble. Have at you! then exciaim each, and the formation and preparation of bate procseds; tho soldiers load sheir guna, and republican lowd theirs, ‘The sound of military muste is heard, and a bat- tailon of solders—no, Civil guards—iebouch trom a street Within the Coso behind the battery, aud fllag lett march upto join the force already assembied, These aro of Merclo’s brigade, arrived irom Pau- piona in answer to Bassol’s despatch of the pi vious evening. A battalion had been added to each assaulting party, and Merelo himself was to direc! the attack. Cavalry aro in position to charge, and to cut off all stragylers. Devisiva characterizes tne new moveinent, aud determination to capture the barricades tu short tme 18 visible in the well ordered dispoattious, Former fatiure is now to be avenged, to be atoned by a simulianeous attack upon all the obstructions aad breastworks and by tmmediate capture. A desire for giory, dashed wiih hatred of uke msurgeats for the troubie and danger, wounds and death of thelr comrades, animates the soldiers, and a desire for decorations heats tue officers, ‘Tyranny, and the hatred which the peasants entertam for quintas-conscriptions, suspension of individual rights, deprivation of their arms, have made the insurgents cruel and blood- thirsty; have hardened their hearts into obduri ‘rhus every fecting finds an object and an exciting cause, except that of love and pride in nationality. Unhappy jand that owns such a people! Unhappy people who canact love their land | “Forward |” the comunanding oficer shouts; ‘!or- ward” signals the bugics, and the close packed bodies of mon disentangle themselves from amoug the cannon and form before thom, then advance with their muskets at the shoulders—a movabie forest of stco! poluts, with quick, sharp strides, 80 characteristic of Spanian soldiers, who rival the chamois hunters of the Tyrol, or Swiss guides, or even Sherman's bumuers, tm pedestriauisin. A hundred yards have been traversed, a word is uttered, and the steel forest is inclined siautingly forward; auothor is given and the soldiers break on the double quick for the barricades. But tho repub- Hieans, the lursute, shaggy, canaile, sans-culottism of <Aragoa, with much common senge in its head, and tough, obdurate heart within its hirsute reas, are nos disposed to per. mit taem to come without # reception with lead and defiant shouis. They open a weill-direciod fire, which bursts out from the Coso barricade as if touched by & gaivanio batiery, wad the buileiw— mouided, many of them, during the night—plange siovmingly awong the colamn and thin it greatly; and another volley suites 1, and auother sul, aad tio firiag becomes a round and reguiar clatter of muskewy—sauuing the soldiers right aud ieft and dropping them in all directions, Bat Spanisa disci- pling is rigid aad severe, and Spanish ardor, wien really heaved, becomes cool bravery. “San ago |’ And on they go until they tind theinseives, for tho first time’ on that day. touching the burticades, where they arc greeted With @ Gemoniac chorus of shouts, @ devilish recklessness and deflant ievily, blazing muskeis and horrent bayonow. The bal cones 8Wal wit the defenders, safo belind ballet-proot dete irom whence showers of pellets are hurled upon the deienceiess crowns of tno assaulting bodies, All barricades are engaged, but the tusurrectiouists are contident; and tie assauiters are bold. Cocked hats of guardia civil appear for @ moment above the ruios of the barr cades, then disappear; glazed caps of cazwiores, feathered ornamenia and headpleces of muards com mingle promiscuousiy in the breathiess struggic to Dut they wre thrust vack py protruding ) are beaten town by clubbed muskets, are by the hundreds of deadly buiiets winch are poured on them, But with fearless audacity they climb over their own dead and woundet, throw themseives over the barricades tnto tie smoke of battle, to be hewed, stabbed, bayonetted or brained for their teueriiy. just yot, however, will they give up Lheir efforts, will they succumb, and yet not all oan icap over the barricades with eooi contempt of the death awaiting them, They tire their guns and load, those Jmotinses, though i¢ sounded strango when their | nies, fire away their pieces a oun Try ae contd. | a shor, avd th ovjocts of thei the Coso barricade, A | ertug that taey Nad voea protected by breastworks | simid (he inghulog plies oubw: so comm anion with the stars and dark azure wky, votil | am chien. vt Thave hoon «wake now thirty-nine hours—this wan | shot, and once orcon Oo! my letter, for tie train for Pamplouas leaves ai sx 13 + sf loath .o throw away nr ak one vanian a> , Another outburag | frou tue flashing muzsles ab the cTeAstworks com | ptotes the fourth defeat the gowveNuent troops and in the greatest digorcd.” they rua sition on the Cosa, Whe the Viyas to the repubite are deafening. 10 artillery for the frat ime of this day af seven o’siock reopen their fire wah sell, grape and solid more tie ed city of Sara: quivers to its foundations from the suc under roars of sixteea cannon, And tho muakeiry niinues jealousty respondimg tO the furious can- novade, Walle muske: bails, oursting shells and the storm of grape. tuo same duky clouds rise in Quick sucoesnion, ex- pand themseives into emer globes and fall and sail Away ever the chy as # sign to city and euburbs of tie concumactous mabolion, and echoes ; Feverberate far into the city and towards the Bbro, and stil che capnonade waxes briaker to 11a Goroess. You hear crasiiesor ie fallug barricades and ram bling of stones amid explosions of shells, uatit fs [aw to close lid eara to the fearfod uproar, an hour und a half ents goes on, and iot between the pauses agai is heard the tramp of armed men dashing to Lhe onseé (othe tune of ic midst diabolt- cal muste ever heard—to the mysterious” sighing sud moaning of sbeliv—to the boom ing and miscollany vf cannon Orteg and studpern misketry, and there is a lull of the tempest. Bus the smail'arms ate sul keeping up their terre up> roar and noisy clatter, and when the clouds of powder suroke disappear the suldiers are discovered for tho fifth ume at the barricades, thts thaw with a ¥! } and evergy tn Sickt efforts thas oaght to be ew! With success, Another battation has been added, aad the deep sérricd ranks of pearly 000 men are found hefore th astwork athwari the ihe tine, the imu for hous, has art whew superhuman eforivead courage, Peal Rerclam mush be rewarded, Bat not without a strggle, NOt With- out Lara to the assauiters and tie adrendana. Into the breaches, wide and yawning now, the a throw themselves, bat the resolute-tnsurrocmomats are iy front, Musket# are clubbed by the sotdters and beads are smashed with imignty strokes, Bravery e IS rational courage during urose momedt, Groups coiide in the death struggle, Maddeved jnsucgents with apliormed soidiers Dy wiso into the maddening pitob. — Baleontea biage with fire, but im their Lura do they become objects of attack, fur whick the trope ranks are spayed by the desperate men within the barricades; thevear ranks Open tire upon the balconies, riidic the Widows aod wake rack of the shuilers, Deeds are done on both sides in this strogwie that challenge tardiew adinira- Hoa; @yes sparkie like coals of dre as*they are kindled by the helii#h hatred whieh burns with ‘Loe insurgents’ Merete, miles Ups year ranks are impelled electrically forward, and heave, bodlly, over tie trot ranks quite into the barricades, Others crowd on, ® muiitude Bound over as if swept on by a Rarricane, and the first barricade 1s taken ‘The 1usurgents throw down thew arms aud fall dowa on thelr knees, crying “quarter.” Tho deienders of the obaer bur- ricadys hear tae cry of despair, turn tier beads vo discern the cause, find Sau Padio ga! some theow sulivnly thetr arns away and surreader; those in the neighborhood of the “Duke's Gate” demo lished the barr.cades they nad erected aud dash franticaily out of San Babio, out of tue city and lato tho country, Some Gov of them ace in awilt Night across the bridge, plunge uiio the aubuybs ta alk direcuions, and, dipping tato tae hollows. and sina sities of the vega, are ioat to visiom ‘The cavaleyy give chase; but an Aragon peasant, wii hts fuset sul loaded, Wita tis pockels Med with cartridges and percussion capa, i still dangerouy, and, aa- might ve expected, tho cavalry did not capture a part of the fugitives, waite many of thelr Bulls er losk heir seals aud Gndled la deach agonies. Nine hundred prisoners, 900 maskers, tusels pistols, ten barricades were tho orizea'af the oaset of Lhe military. ‘I'he barr; H i La Pilar were given up without could not be defended so long at readered, So tuere were fourte prisoners. ‘Phe balconies of 8 emptied of thelr defenders aa Within the barricades was sucee tory hac deciared for the overt minutes before nine A. M, of tat Captatu General Bassois rod¢ orilliant bus an empty-headed tassels and tiaery, coumrasiing isned barricades, broxen cabs ut len discomfture of tae prisoners, Aug (UA Uh ibuae sols wee stern and lowermg, ani be appeared aa wt he would like to order the execu tion of the entire body captured = in- surgents. = He from. strtktn: could not vent — himself an atti “Look there, wrotches, murderers! V Pi meet for such scum as your” What, indeed? But the Insurgents night have pointed ous their own dead und Moaning Wounded snd might have read severest. lessous upon the results of fooitel, gov. ernment of people such ag Aragousae, What remuiued now to do, uftor the last trace of battic had evanished,-was to count tho dead on beth sides, and succor pitiable wretches who screamed eatreaty for water to ailay the buraing thirst; to convey the dead to their last home aud the wounded to hospital; to demolish tho barricades and repave the streets, and restore wolul San Pablo as nearly aa possible w its former state, ‘The prisguers wero marched of by @ regiment of troops with loaded muskets 1mto tho barack yard. Guards were do- tailed over all the city, and im strong force ab San Pavlo, Surgeons were summoned to the wounded, and ambulances and stretchers extemporizod from sofas and settees were omployed. to carry the wounded soldiers and republicans to the hospitals, A hundred men were detailed to bring carts to carry the dead sway, and before noon tue saddest sights taat can afilict humanity had disa) peared. Workmen were also despatched to level the arricades and comimence the work of repavoment, Gamins of Saragossa of the most loyal type made boid to advance to gather memenioes of the horrible baitie, to repicuure L its conduct, Lo del were copionsly ¢ boyish fashion the manner of "4 ay the horrid incidents whieh: hed Doors were vpeaed in all streets, shutters wel vi down and the full tide aud flow of Ife again ran strong in the anctent city whose streets have so often, from earliest umes, been deluged with bivod, The severe cannonade had left sevore traces tn San Pavio, which may be seen for many a day yot to come. Two houses had been what you may eal auninilated, and others showed ugly fissured and gaps and dents io their walla, Balconies had been shot away, carved cornices Gad been shot away, and many Q corbel and soit had been irreirievably de- stroyed. Almost every house had its windows and siiuttera broken, and the Gamage dove indoors must have been excessive, 1 doubt her tho ex: truth relating to the losses experienced at this battle will evor be KNOW, bul, $0 near as coo! judgment will allow me vo decide, 1 think wat, as LT counted sixty-ive dead thu Morning within the barricades before the bathe recomuenced, there must havo been somewhore about 200 killed to-day of the insurgents, exclusive of those kilied outside the city by the cavalry and of those who inside the houses and balconies must have suffered frou bursting sheils and stray grape. So altugether the number of tisurgent deod may bo sately pub as about 600, whereas the number of wounded was very considerable, for few of the 1,000 prisoners takea were scatheless, One hundred and twenty-iive were taken to tie hospital as severely and daugerously wounded, 180 that my statem I am inclined to think rd about the government losses will never coincide with the report whict may be furnished by Captain General Bassols, 1 have heard but few auppositions made upon the loss suifered by the soidiers; bus those I have heard are wild and far exceed those [ give based upon personal observation and carefal comparison of statements, I can conscientiously gay that the troops must have lost 200 men killed and about 400 wounded, | should have, by a.ual righ ood cause to put the figures highet I think they lost about 200 men during the two actions—100 the firat day and 100 this morning, I were unjust and unreitable should | place the num- ber a score below or a score above, What l give isa mean which will bear any criticism, When | come to speak of the incidenta of the foar- fal evening and morning I feel my ulcer inability to if one word more to what I have already written, he valor and heroism of the insurgents, [ fear, wilt have been chronicied solely by me for the columos of the New Youk HeRaLp, whence I have no doubt futuro historians of the coming Spanish repub- Ke wiil be es to compile their notes. Until thas time | fear that all otners will consign the doubts, tho fears, the thoughts, the heroisin and cruelies that haunted the minds of the insurrectioniats, of that were manifested repeatedly during tao siuo- bora batue, into oblivion, Yet there occurred, 4 thousand glorious actions that might claim Triwinphant inurels sud immortal fare at the barricades, and ‘“bivod bougit blood, blows Quswered biOWs, ‘and strength was matched with strengtn,’? in manly war. And for all and each of the lisurrectionists might truly be satd wit Millom , ways, in “Paradias Losi—" : of Might, in ‘ ‘The goveramont won the day, and the battie ts, Lov tho government boast of ita truamph LOW it yandcan; we follow the fortunes of this day no jurther, bab rest content moapwhie tm the Tuipliest beltor Chat, however the eiforts Of the reEpUd~ licans nay be decelyed by sywpathwers With tradls tonal miseuic and tyraody no mere desperate, bravery ond siurdy, courageous peukeverance were ever shown agalast 6ucd large Odds blawh Were exhiled and lanifosiod by these gous Of UbOrty as the barct- cades of Saragossa, And that no deter place for tho viazoumnent of sugk deed’ Can be found than 10 tie Ce ere columgs of 8UCR w journal as tle New YORK HBQALD ixooutlone—What is Sag of Genoral Prim—Newspuper Suppression. Our Kuropean @ies at this por, contam tro fol owing Hngiteh correspondence from Madrid, datod on the 16ta Of Octaber— ‘The Momodtate cause of tha suspension of tl Handera Koja was tho followin artisle ig its nuD ber of Wedn@atay on the execution of ono of Ue republican teaders, Sofor Friglan Uaroajal, who bid beew Caprared oF Catulla and shot, uador the revived Military tw it t ontending for mastery, but | SULDMAATY Taartial law of Apri iJ, inci. Many ollors the republioens are their own masters, thoy are not | have mat Frioian Caroajays fate this wok. Lunia within to coolly exchange musket shots, so they diately on the appearance of tus article the andra walt and watch, bending low tueir heads, and tue | Kot Waa suppressed :— first man that appears tumbles back ward or forward | Tum Gaine oy CATU Lua. When wo road in some of the @ corpae, ‘The oud ra must fira, for such t# diacl- apera the sad that our uad@rtunate friend Priolag pling, must make gue eliort more for poassgasion, ‘anja wo coud only oxclaius with deop and up they surgo themscives the saminity of | pean," ain Gus reasoa resiels srqsonse the preuttworks, only, however, to tail backward, | 4,8 doo" so barbarous and ore ntan oubel Notihe wast dead, Wounded or pore al for the unorring ole hope eousnles i an Gavan len Saeed taArEaDiey, ouswonoed boi wadtyoaaas Uy te vaican, | Gran, inad givon e prolen, ad Waa gain ie ee ore ave oblivious of i ad