The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1869, Page 8

t At Valencia, Slogo of the City and Scenes During lis Progress. a Tho Rovolutionary Uprising Journeying te the Place of C and What Was Seen at tho Termination, By mail from Wurope we have the follow ‘ ot yalua- le and usefal spectat correspondence from Spala, ‘Aevailing the progress of the revolution and the sloge “f VYalcaola. The Siege. VALENCIA DEL CID, Oct. 16, 1869, ‘The uprising of the volunteers at the cktes of Sa- Pagosa and Valonoia was coetaneous, and oceurred ‘on the sta inst, But, as | have already tuformed yon, you areaware now, after twenty-two hours of can- nonading and musketry, Saragossa surrendered to overwhelming numbers, It now becomes my duty to give you uriefy a history of the causes which led tothe Insurrection im this city, of the subsequent events, of the nine days’ siege, of the gradual invest ment—the peaceful termination to te borri pense and anxiety which weighed down the ‘of over 50,000 innocenta—anc the march of the troeps Over tne barricades for the military ocoupation ol the most important points. It is barely necessary to er goneral order vi irraptioa of mad passio: the Kingdom of Aragon, here, except that the vola Bere and 80 ably seconded by alcalde, ayunta- tamieato and clizens, that the tasurre waa more successful, and instead of the sad termimation which ended the insurrection at Saragossa the insur- gents were almost triumphant, elicited bursts of adwiration from tnilitary commanders, epigrammatic praise from their own fellows, hearty appiause from soldiers and respect from all parties for the gallant manner in which they defended their several poul- tions. @n my return from the bloody memories of Sara- gossa and having arrived at Madrid, and stadying® the progress of the insurrection as it spread from place to place, from ham'et te hamlet, over the stcr- ras aad adust plains of Spain, ike a hurricane in fall force, my thoughts adverted to Valencia dei Cid. Queer reports came from that “sultans of the Medl- ferranean” ef cannonadiag, ef fierce imsurrection, of coneentration of troops, and mnch else indicative of a protracted struggle, of obstinacy on the one hand and a cruel determination on the other; aud being a special of the HswaLp it was not in with as, ate that tne s: queed th raleat at the sucient capital of evoked the same results nteers were so strong me bai ich, nature to sit and let an important event like that transpiring at Valencia pass, with all the hideous and amorphous reports which rumor gave of if it was I de- fo go down to a city t y complete roquire audacity, by other m folded arms Wituout personal investigation, term 8, Wi the commanding geu' eonsegqnenee.’? General such a world-wide celet bodies, and who is personally stperiati tieman, kindly offered me the very person wh itnerant of my it would be eatirely owt the descriptive. introduc’ © could aid aud 2. of pl here to indulge fn The route to Boctna ten hours’ journe: is a villaze where to Valen must be Valencia is a distaave of forty “Gan I goto V who rules over the a aepot. “No,” promy responded the omtcial. “Woy not? wh. maniring minds, especially of a N “Because it ls net posstble, t possible?” Bative New Yorker would a “Pues vien,” bacanse vi lencla now; because the meu Gestroyed seven leagues of rai!roa @ long tle to repair it, he replied, br Who of ail in the man furtuer, Mont “Weil,” I commenced again, ‘‘can I tele; nother question whieh a ive Amer “Because no televramts particulares can pass ever the lines according to order trom Minlaver of War Perfectly explanatory and satisiactory was that reply also. Helgh ho! To tuence by sea to Valeatia. by Jupiter Olympas, but a Hrrann sy to Valentia, Exteudaallsuch words ag “can't” from your vocabulary and go. the conclusion I arrived at, and 4 fepast at post-diluvian Eacina, I was on my way to Alicante, which, a3 any reader can perceive by ex. a@mining achart of Spain, was a wide detour, Alicante was reached about eleven of the forenoon Of the 14th inst. port 18 decidedly Moorish in aspect. The aq tation of the t the dun-colored stone thes of t in color to the soli—and the sandstone rocks renuuded mo of Alg and € ‘There 1s noth- ing remarkable in Alicante except the rocky peaks @ud wWe castle wi ovns its sutmmit, and the city for that reason need not detain m If you will ptasa fact that the city contains some 30,000 Jmhabitants, basa castle aud @ well built mole, you have all t y present purpose. We arrly a, grades, which t aencia, ut abour #1x o'cioe! the 16th inst. 0) frigate and a French corvetse, to prot terests of the English and French reatdoats at Vi Tencia during the appalling period of a close stege. Inside the harbor were @ tew goletas, barks and Ships of different nations, among wuich were J Unguishable the tal, graceful spars uf two Ameri- can vessels. There was Lo dink boat and landing ashore, for vicinage of the sea ‘there least signs of a revolution or of @ local surrection. Yhe boatmen plied thelr craft aa u enilors were mounted in the shroud e doing odd work upon rigging, the ma peniers were busy with clusel sud he a the mole being constructed, andthe bizarce of BLGrao pursued thetr usual ayocations, Alic Clrcumnay in t is were nc Upon danding we were surrounded by persevering cab- ~men, who wisned a fare, A few questions wera asked by passengers relative to tue possivilities of reaching the city which was three miles distant, (o which cabwen replied that all who desired to reach tne city uiust start at seven o’ciock, for there was & cessation of hostitues during the early part of the morning; that after reaching the ontséiris of the city we had to proceed ad best we could, braving stray bullets; that if we persevered we might bo shot, or we might be able to reach the hotels whore we tutended staying at. Not very consoling Susse remarks, ous anxious husbands aud fathers, and energetic correspoudents may not be siopped by tuem, nor detained for the shortest me linaginabie. Consequently we bired tartanas, which are but mean improvements upon the Turkish arabas. Tartenas are Spanish cava, or, more rightly, Yalenotan cavs, springiess, bottomed with maitin covered over wiih dariian wreen baize cloth, reset bling id external appearance an American army tu these Wiih as much comfort A attord, we proceeded on 0 lo Valencla. f the port, and turn- ambiance. Seared as Valencian taitanas o our journey from hi G Leaving the nerrow vires ing miaud We tay 1 at tae Alameda af Valencia, 1) LWO Trows Of &Y¥cumore rece, Whose being 1D KtrikiINE Contras: vo the dusiy and apparentiy caicined stone with wi lings of the G29 people are the more agreespic. tt was nor unt the towers, the richiy artistic facades and domes of Valencia were «Vatinctiy viene aimong the Verdurous foliage and @xuberant vegetation wilh Wien the plains of Valetela 18 teemlog, tint signe of apiation becaine visWie. And as wo drew Bearer to whe ely those Ngos vecaue wore aud dry road, 4 the dwel. but, appeared "Tartanas were hurriedly withdraw- ing from the nelivorbood loaded wirh agitated id faced people of both sexes and of Hil ages. Nuey blocked thta one safe avedue to che city wittl Ib became a ekiTul tak to proceed withont locking Wheels. ‘Those on foot algo seemed to be possesse: with bat one sole Wea, Wich was to get fale sway from danger, from Sylag shot that whistled aooow- fortabiy neer. ‘the Women bore their littie oues in Mew arms, the husbands aad fathers carried the lares and pe! , Nee childven tod- G.od along promisoueusly carrying whatever seemed apposite to Lueir power of bearing burdens, and a coutinued stream of homogencous bumauity fowed seaward, whle ourselves perseveringly hela onward. We urtived Gt the Puente cel Mare, which crosses the broad bed of tho shallow, muddy Turia and f# the nearest of access from ihe sea. Even guid the seetuing contustea of anxious, agitated, pan- Ky fugitives It Was Imposaldie to omit cavdag a ccitical Glance at this characters relic of nted-Morisco age, With {ta s@uul-religious, semi- ures. But surrounded a8 we were by reamed exodus oi Valencianos, with ahtiesa and belug merabers of fi @ race, uniess we had been carved of adamant t renain impassive spectators, and what igmces We Cast rougd Were but momeniary. Alter crossing the bridge aud driving into a iriapguiar area, some inaiinys of the true nature of 2 even then progressing within tac to bo bad from aympatueue bystanders, Groups of moa, with swart faces and latensely black eyes, brawsy of yauscle and herculean of limb, Wlom you might recognize to be puisanos by their rustle Leariug and dress, were discussing Wilh the treodem of Spaniards tho progress of the siege and the gtate ana spirit of tho isurrectiontsts. They spoke of these tings Sec for the repuulican cause, eulopistically of their friends, but yet uot tudulging More apparent. jg any auathemas againss the goveramen eb ceusurable 1 ze, ne, we heard wer ne barb (wir barbarity! Wilat a pity |) s what barbarity it Was to cuinpel tho yov- cruing power t bombard the city, Var lencia of the Cid, ani what a pity it waa that such things should be, and directly they w advert for the purpose of matutaining the tn- of the confabtations to the valo: Valon- 10S (not Spaulards) to their love of hberty and cia to their warlike spirits, For ‘had not the insirrec- tlonisis withstood U9 soldiers for seven days? Were they g so then with no crease of courage? Were wey not going to Kecp it up for ever so long again? Que valor (whas cr ee” All of which were commendable to them ombatants, ter “had ‘ed on the veao ef ly to be as brava ’ for mmstance, de- of the happy, blessed Vi nt foreign tnvad ritmight betotbem; meither was it profitable, ow, Who shall we lave to carry our baggage to tte cliy—not into contentious, bel igorent interior, but to some fonda or ho:el close by, where we can seo tho siege well, where we can see the battle and Where we can hear the rear of artiliory aad whiz- zing ballets? “Will you?’ we ask a strapping peasant, who had very Itkely olton done the sate isi. “Ca, hombre! pshaw, nonsense, man; not I, fora dolar,” he repiied, with an expressive bum-up-all ebrag; “Ca, hombre.” Vil you?’ was asked another. ‘Ca, hombre! Not for ten dollars, What do you take me fer? A fool, eh? Ca, hombre! “Win you?” was asked another, “Cuut! Te the devil with you and your baggage. Do T look such an ass?” replied thia brave paisas rather impationtly. Judgment was to be employed here; physiornomy was to be studied; otherwise—who kaows?—we uught get a nerozia in our bread basket or wader & small rib, which would be far from pleasaat. “Ab, here is @ boy of sixieon, modest and boyish in face, coming this way. Walt unin bo comes by, Don’t be impatient. Andrew Jackson said once that boys in battle were generally braver (han men." feo (boy), will you carry this baggage to a hotel for ns i? With rleasure, senor; what hotel?” ho asked, Hote! de Parts.” “Hotel de Paris ts surrounded with soldters, and the insurrectionists are firme on it all the time; but nevertheless, and your Excellency wishes it, I shall t you there,’? said le, unconsolonab! erent circumsiances ico snd we Puente dal a Stopped by soldiers gt tho en- ‘ance to the plaza, with stecl bayonets at our breasts, glared on by dG , dunty Bl of begrimod faces, we turn sharply ft, cross over to glorious Glorieta, tura up an alley, whisk elves up a! wavel up Giorla from one ining out steel bayonets itaperionsly halt mar Ss bid us weOND, “Cour senoritas;? 0 eiserone says, patromzingly. “We etch up the young boy says, knowiugly, win’ i Froin Calle de! Gloria up a street, and thence turn np Sa , emerze into Congrecacion atreet, @ Viaza de la Congregacion, ng bat tity yords sqaare, the centre of it anted with ahont a dozen syc leit of it ran a street called Calle del Mar, which was rotic part of ¥ ls called above Sea he Hotel de Paris was at the corner of aie del Mar and Pt de In Congregacion, and about 209 yards up Calle d ar was one of the stronrest e3 In the city, defended by about 100 inst toaista, who Kept’ Aring continnatiy towards the plaza and te hotel. To get to the fonda or hotel the gaunviet was to be yun: to bo snrei was bat twenty feet of 2 width to cr: ballets hisaed ana hum that direction it was dang the citizen 19 werein ths 27 ated agains . But itis but rwenty Count threo and jaep. Anxfons parents and husbands and corre- pondent fump: ot take ene peep at the harricada g rly-colored izing osate, of bravos to our rear and welcome tn our front. Once In the hotel the hne folding doors are flung to, and In the dark we ascend to the second etory, where there are nurabera of soldiers surrounding the honse, in every brieony, behina double mat- tresses; the rooms tn the greavest disorder, vier * and simail mirrors amashed, furniture of r with ugly rents and fractures in them, objects ta tn pieces on the floor, walls dissgured by et weals, with a walter wounded tn the head; wandering with vacant eres along th Jadies snugiy barricaded withta back brave French landlord infusing heroic bun- nto new errivais, Such & wreck as this once Itttle In order to give you an {dea of what provoxed ‘this insurrection and what were the disposiuons of tue Mintster of War sor iis reduction, Valencia, Malaga, Alicante, Oadis, Cart! a and Barcelona were kuownto be republicans for thoir Goputtes were republicans and had their seats in the Cortes, ‘These cities contained large pepulations Who Were supposed to be To engage in civil war for thetr political ideas, only superlative polity, in fact, could quiet them ana preserve ute coast of Spain frou: tue horrors of the bnpending evil Bercolopa, being the first and — riches marie por, Was the first to be rendered inert and helpless at the feet of the government, too good an excuse had vera offered Lue Powers Lat to take advantage and crip- ple the ever biatant republican politicians. Bartl- cades the Barcelonese did act up, bul whey Wore new and sirange to these things, made but poor barrt- cacdes at the best, and stood but ili ander the baye- net charges of the regular troops, Tarragona bad alrcagdy preceded Berceiona, but the deience was tov coulased, a hugo bhunder, marked likewise by | Qh BSSASsINALOR Aud SHdsequent Vandalism Dot to be named with Barcelona aud Saragossa, Sympa- thy at these Mediterranean ports runs deep aud suoug, No sqouer had the golettas and xeveques, vie Bareolonese ioft than, stopping at Castellon, V and their sister maritime cities 4 Of the barricade, the cleverness of the insurgents in bullding them, and, tn setting Cata- lonia in & blaze of revolutien, Were eageriy commu- nicated Cyloved with their own ignoraat’ versions, Castellon Jermented, but the repubscan element Was too weak to revel, and the Governor was strong sad Aad soldiors in suficient numbers to put down aud july repress turbulency. Oadiz grumbied, but the blood shad oa last becember "as tuo fresh in tho mcinores of aj! boys aud men to wish to repeat it Without strong necessily, aud unless tie best repub- lieaa crawwra Gad been 1a thelr ralds! breaibe the Dawes ef War and Lo excite them Le the entunsiasiio degree, Insurrection was ot expected in this quat- ter. Kepublican orators, were there, nos the best, nor were they good, were weakest buucombe, biuster and spouting. Cadiz succumbed, did not surrender her arms, yet gave no eactse t@ the government to as- sume a e@ aiticude, wage, also, whose Strecig were dyed crimson with the blood ef her citizens Jast December, was more cautious, watted patieatly for Casievar to kindle the lasurregllouary dame. Castebar did noteome, for he was hoarse With pererating and apostrophizing the god of War, and cursiag ali tyrants av genera! aad uupiorlug Sarayossaneses to dof hais aud swear to die for the Kepublic—therefore Malaga remained gulescent. But Valeocta—Vaileucia oi the Cid, Ruy Inaz tlie Campeador, whose descendants peopled oat haughty Sultana or the Great Sea—couid would pot surrender arma or live ¢ Republic was declared, V: merea gently at drat, and Gap! culters and barcaa of their port Was prompt; be called the aicaldy populer who ‘was also Liputado to toe Cortes Conatit 8, and eonvoxed Ayuntamiento, and the cl. n: beers asked them w they intended to do, Did they propese to fight or aid im tue preservation of peave? le Guerrero, Ayuntamiento and volun- leers replied, “Yes.” Seemmgly they were all will- tng to aid authority to keep the peace. Tho City Patriurea amd faiuers withdrew each to their Ouse, The night following, after volunteers had becn assembled at the Church of Santos Juanes and Loria, or the Sik Bxchange, some of the most radical republicans by talking to each other re- ceived mutual encouragement, Thesa, streugtiened by their compairiets, conversed with the resi, and Mt was soou Tound that the republican volunteers, 1,600 strong, well armed, were all of one same mind. Qonferences were heid, or rather indignation meetings, and it was loudly agreed that delegations sheuid be sent tothe Mayor and Municipal Council to express the will of the volunteers, to Inform them that thoy in- tended to Hight ior the republic, fight until Valencia Should be jald in ruins rather than monarcaisa should triumph, A delegation arrived before the house Of Guerrero asking lim to come down to (he stveet. The alcalde replied that he was busy and could not come just tien. The delegation said he musi came, and finally Le came down, and after his arrival gwong them was 80 beset by entreaties and prayers that he went with them to the Lorija, The consequence ef his visit to the Lorija, and of bear- ing the determination of the volunteers, was that he agreed io ail they desired. All tis took place in the nigat, and what ali this resulted fn was shown by the change which appeared in Valencia next muertung, Day downed, and lo! Valencia was barricaded— thas is, tae heart of it, from Piaza de ia Ne.oado to te neiguboraeod of 158 outskiris—grantie blocks and cobblestones, fagstones, carts, rush and bs- Porto baskets, strong thece-inoh piank and scaffold Uxiures, With smail portheles leit, through which bright muskets peered irowningly, aud com- mauded ail avenues to the ceutre of the cliy. Re- pablicans who were not voitiniesrs had been mus- ; tered and asked whether they would join tue voluo- teers, tu all of which questions tere’ were but lew Tepublieans who did Hot reply in the alirwiative, 80 that in tae morning there were about 16,000 insur- ntg ia arms, Lven by Gaylight work ou the bar Jes Was hot suspended. Lhey were pushed Lor. vd most msoleutly, until tiree-fourths of tue city was surrounded, The balconies ol the houses Were girengiiened by mattresses, cashions aud various kinds of padding, and wuerever a proiai- house was (ound commanding a lengthy yi sireet or of an avenus the nouse lad ed by a strong garrison of imsurrecuu igh; San 2, 16 Saavos Jaanes, et, 137 d the ya, astro, antial gothic patiding, 109 feet ga, With All 1t3 Wings turrets, battlements, those were ali occupied by tie repuoicens, | while tio market bullding ftself, with {ts columns of free stone, Was So strongly defended by raised breastworks taal cenuon would nayo to be used beiore it could be taken. ‘The Principal, giso, tue palace of the Govern had beea ovcupied, and windows fortified wits sacks of bread, heavy sofas amd armchairs, bebia: hich were disposed tue Valeuciauos. Fancy may aid the reader in his endeavors to imugine the fury of the Captain General when no aucertained the state of the city Giat morning, and found hew groasiy he bh: been 4 |. Instant aliack must be made upon them, barricades must ¢ Gemuitahed Instautly, houses must be annihilated, all insurrectionists must be hung, fusiinded, con: dem to galleys for Hfeorsunk fa thesea. All tiese, and What not else; all modes of death and toriuve must be p: and such vituperation, such unvocabule inyectives, unpronounceadia epiticts as tie iurious, Choierio Governor lndulged a tho comfortable hotel was indoors could = hardiy be imagined, while ever and ancn a fu- silade would be directed from the house ihe msurreftionists, who had made cathedral towers, which were 142 nd were ambuslied behind ekimney tops 10ble mansions. “Reaponsive came 3, smashing Windows and shuiters, Ailing snddenly against the ashdar, or window , Solnetimes Coursing through mattress defences kipping in most erratic fashion from room to through altia partitions of lath and plaster, The obit lord furnished me witha front room on the second story overlooxing Plaza de ia ongregacton and Calle del Mar with its parricade, m the window, keeping pradently out of harm’s way, Was to be gen the baleouias of the oppo- site at of the street ililed with soldiers, who were firing away as rapty as poestble against the barricade and church towers, Tools of houses and whatever, high or low, that looked suspicious. With auch a miscellany of sights and sounds, such as might be supposed to emanate from this ani« mated play of musketry, Imagination will enabia 1@ to conceive tho vast volume of sound that dinued our ears and filled the atmosphere of tie city of Valencia. At intervals also were heard the decp roar of caunon, the stormfnl rusting screech Mag tt few on ite deadly crragd and tho inon shot as It rang is suggestive accompa. an octave lower. Now higher, Jonder, emphatic, more in harmonious unison one might without exaggeration, and nty cannon of great without intermission or a second’a deadly anninilating stone barricades ging en rtoovhel against the stove barriers of in though remarkal need BOF be recapitula.ed ere, iis Most sure commands were to attack instantly the imsurrectionists, and what ig lere velatud took place ou the morning of the 6th insi Four colunins of attack, formed out of the garrison of 3,000 men at the eliudel, Were drawn Up sioug the Jour principal streets ieading t© the marxet. sor @ ou of the position of the market look Al the compass, The centre of the compass shall be the marke placo—a spacious piezs for Valencia, umbs ruoniug to each point shall be ine radiating from tho plaza, Lbere be; uhirty xd In & compass, So ther weuty- eta lending from the plaza, This beluga tair son, therelore the four priacipal swreets may sto pared to the four cardiaal polats. Aloug these streets ard iorimed ths columma of attack, each coiling having two pieces of artilery, The arttilery sual demolish the barricades, the infantry suali thea cuarge and engage We Insurrectiontsis, and the cayairy—a squadron im each street—shali gallop up, cut off stragglers, sabre tho obstiuate, never-sur- render heroes, and short work must end the mattor, Wisely disposed, loyaily determtaed; but note with what reeuits. Atscven A. M., Sth inst., remember, grat column of atvack, under Lieutenant Colonel Alionso Zea, composed of 600 men Of the three arms, marched up Caiie Nave; second colunin, composed’ of two coin: panies of Toledo, oae of Guardia Uivil, two pieces of avullery and four squadrons of cavalry, under Major Rataci Mir, marched up Calle dei Mar, and fornied in Plaz de ja Congregacion; third column, com- posed Of @ company of the Princess’ regiment, wwo pieces of artillery, some Civil Guards, and cavalry under Caplata Nevot, marched up Calle de ta Con. gregacion; fourth column, composed of one com. ons thicknesses, and coursing through and through houses, anstvered back by incessant velleya tr - lofty mina be stone batuatrades, [could see soldiers coming down under the leaden ten thongh hidden lear ood by douple mattresy hastily head uleonies I coata foremost ino the the houses, clutching frantically panions or doorstiis in ng down into the street infintie dodging. such ehind raquirming out of reach, such gusies ot proad the features of tla marken 1¥ possible to refrain from ex: a ‘Oh, what cowards!” I observed also from my prudent retreat, with calm philoaophic tendencies within, what a thing cowardice was, and what was foclhardiness and how ow tie velorous int is, for 4 beneath the balcony of my Toor Was the }laza de ja Congregacion, and in this en see thei ngthened by tambtin: Interior com: their erfart oo were the principal officers of Don rancitco de ila Rivera, Captain General commanding; Don Ma Rosaits, ieutenant general, and Lieutenant Ge: Governor of Valencia. Th oMocers were of the rank of brigadi quartermaster and commissary generals, colonels, majors, and sides-de-camp, and many of theur were brave, no doubt, but { may be allowed to judge them as thoy exhibited themaaives, any of these exercised dodging proclivities to ad- vaulage, aad when the whistilig of heavy leaden bails flew in uncomfortable proximity to them I could got but observe how quickly tuey leaped back- ward and seemed rather loth to occupy their former’ positions, Some—tor instance, Brigadier General Palacios—said, with an oath’ which those who know Spanish may guess, What do I care for | their fring !’’ and then the orthodox Spanish awag- ger aod binater was exhibited, to rhe confust f al Alaminos, Militery inose who had inatinctively retrograded to d danger and to the admiration of tha youttfui aris toc: lo aids, who endeavored to assume stoical y, nder the heavy fire. There wore sono id novhiog, bot did thetr duty withoat comment, without remark, in an unobtrusive way which mvoiuntarily @vokes admiration for mea 40 rppily constituted. Captain Genel piveree headquarters was in 9 house nut Ofty yards from Hotel de Paris, in fail view of ft, and one would have thought from the miultitide of perreges’ Aud heleced odicors who thronged the door that newly ali tie genorai of\cers of the Penmsuia were in Attendance vpon him. Ald-de-canps dew tn all dire sons, mounted upon fino Andavuatan chargers, to carty despacchos to the bb quarters and the various brigade com. uders gtationed round the city. Now baving deacribed my Inten faction into the oentre of overatious im Valeneia. J must digrens a | ma | tance of #90 yards, | artilory deserted, | taken posvession and had drawn them fn triumph to pany from Princess’ regiment, one company of To- Jead, one company of Civ’ Guarus, artlilery and cavalry, under Captain of Sra D. Roman Alfonso, Be tieces up Calle de la Calatrava and Angosta de ja Coinpania, Thus the disposition of the attacking joroes; iet us seo whut fate awaited them. The Great column, ded by Colonel Zen, passed through Cail Plazas de Villarosa, Abadia do San Marta, acrived at Pelleria Vieja, where they opened aa imated fre Re the barri- cades, receiving In return tost withering volleys from houses, roofs aud barricades, Colonel Zea was ahot through the heart, 80 also were two other un- forianates, who were too much exposed, Rafael Mir’a column pasiod through Calle del Mar and a a at Plaza Catalina, where It also opened fire. Your streets rua from this small plaza, two of which terminaie ia the market place, The two pieces of artillery were worked ai the beginning With retmarkab'e vigor, but the insurgenta, soemng that taey Would occasion loas of life and much con- fusion to their comrades, hastened up. through a Jaae and aacended the tower of Catalina church, aud cautiously taking aim from the embrasurea sont & weil directed volley at them from & distance of Afty yards. ‘Pwo officera commanding tho artillery foll ae Instantiy, aid gimost every man of the avtillerists was elther Killed or wounded, in & perfect stupor of horror those remaining sllye jooked up to the tower, and, finding them- folves covered by the tusurrectionists, dashed down Galle dei Mar to Plaga ds la Congregacion, a dia- he fosurrectionisys, secing tho nded, and iB B Moinent had Gen the market piace. Ono of the officers kiited in Plaza Cataliaa was called Rafael Nonterde, Mir binsell Was wounded and #0 incapacitated that the com- wand devolved upon a leutenant colonel of Toledo, Seuor Gonzalez Hscaudon, Lhe third coliun, under Captain Nevot, taking poaseasion of the terminus of Calle Congrogacion upoucd Oro also, and was instantly followed by Atouzo's fourth column, which had approached irom the rigut from Caiatrava street; but unfortu- nate Alongo, IM crossing @ lane called Old Esta- Hienerit, Was Blot through the heart by a revolver bulie dhe foaril column was therefore tacorpu- rated with the third, under Captain Nebot, who, finding the open street too daugerous to occupy, ordered bis troops into the telegraph oflicea and houses, While & periect storm of bullets thinned them most unmercifully, But even fortfed in tho baiconios by all Mabner of things that imigut be thougat obstructive of icaden butls, the réwels from We cuureh towers picked them off at their Jeisare, Bo they bad to retreat and take refnge on Eatamene Mt, leaving many Of ther number dving of dgad {| procecded to catatlinh within the houses they had lately occupied, Esta- menerla proved UXewlse too hot for the soldiers, for Whenever they ahowed their forms the bullets came clattering thtck 8d fast tn guch numbers as to utterly prevent them from takin, precautionary measures bofore replying to the Insurrection isis With like intent. Brigadier General Joaquin Terrer, gent by the Captata General to replace the dead ohile! Zo» finding that Nebot was unable to assume the offensive, froma bis precarious situation, on Estaine- nerla, ordered tlm to retire to Calle Chiponers and Pieza Redonda, General ‘Terrer then ordered the sappers and min- ors in the heases fronting Plaza Redonda, ana those jormipg Chiponers street, to periorate the houses from within and make passages for the troops In the direction of the market, by which | means, when they bad Somplaraiy perforated the Walls as fur aa the terminus of Chiponers street, the soldiers could take @ barricade, which was immedt- alely below, and which kept up a@ most annoying fire | of iousketry, ‘fo support these offensive measures about to be taken three companies of a Toledo regi- ment were added to Kxcandon’s force, three other companies of the same regiment were to aid Nevo! and Luese two Lorcea united were te be tae centre o! atiack, Brigadier General Verrer himself would take Zen'’s column aod would be the right of the attack, Alonzo's ceiumn, formerly incorporated with that of Nebot’s, would be withdrawn from the levt of the attack, Another column, commanded by Colonel Cleto Angulo, composed of 190 men from the regiment of Zamora, world attack in the rear, Cieto ai8o wok two pieces of artillery aud & squadron of horse aad marcned up Calle de San Vrcente, artillery tn front. In coming ap calles de Calavazas an ‘fernando, Cloto was juade aware ef a barricade in front of him bya rattling eischarge of musketry, Hastl!ly pushing on ihe came to Plaza San Francisco he then ordered his troops to occupy Teatro Prinelpal and tae houses opposite and to raise barriers from What- ever furniture would be available. While giving those orders a bullet from a church tower hard by raked the uppor part of his head and seut him, wounded fearfully, to the ground from whence he was picked up, put on a stretcher and carried the hespitsi The command of lig column devolved upoa Senor Mor- gles de los Rios, Who pushed the arullery inte tne open street and orderod the artllcrista to commence Hring, while the infantry would occapy themselves m advancing from b to honse towards the bar- ricad@, and the cavalry would in the tngantime draw up In Plaza San Francisco and dismount until oppor- tanity sheuld arrive for tisir empleyment. ‘This 1ast Cispositioa of attack was made at four P, M., and fro.a this Ume until night came the fring was Invcs#ani—musketry answering mnaketry, cau- mon responsive to cannon—causing fearful lists of wounded aud dead, destruction to houses aad furnl- ture, and entailing such damage to proud Valenoia that that one day’a boubardimont and fusiiading would require months of toil aud miilious of rea!s to repair, When night came the troops, much weakened with their severe losses, were witudrawn from their ad- vauced positions and weye concenirated im the University, Patriarch College, Church of St. Thomas, Assembly College, Crown House, Cervellon and Mirando palaces, artiillery barracks, Royal Bridge, oer of the Bank of Spain and Society of Valencian Cres Pp them out singly without any danger te them- selves; but, in proportion te the numbers of soldiers engaged, the loss of officers was fearfully great, 80 much 80 that there were HO leas than fvo com- panies without a single oficer im command that hight. The reason of this was that the atmosphere of Valencia being se lucid objects are distinguish- able from long distances, i Whatever person was distinguished with military badges and lace atonce & certain target fer bullets. Further, the insurrectionists had hoisted immense bill boards, ou which were seen the words, "Death to officers, bape and friendship to soldlers,”” But 1 may not ‘oliow this day further, a8 there ore eigut more days ta aaseloey which must be done as priedy as pos- sible, On the 9th inst. the troops, so weakened from the Assauits of ihe previous day, were unable to assume the offensive, and were, therefore, obliged to pre- serve the position where they had peruectated the Ve apes night, Tue iusurreotioniats, on the other uid, had pushed thety outworks, bad constructed MABY more barricades, had repaired and strength- ened those they had previously built, Guerrero, the Alcalde, Was 1n command, and ail hts movements were skilfully made, insomuca as to draw praise from even the Captain Generai himself, Many more lowers had been occupied, aad had been strongly garrisoned, ana the insurrectionary force strengih- ened by numvers of republicans, who were but ill disposed to ight on the Hirst day. Tis day passed without apy important movement being made by either side, Towards night tle government forces Were strengthened by 200 volunteers from sorrente, 1 themselves at the disposition of the Captain General. Un tho lis igstant, in the morning, &@ convoy of soldiers bound on @ foraging expedition towards the mountains to tue north were 1ulercepted by a party Of insurgents, and compelled to return to the city. At hali-past eigat A.M. Brigadier General Koeell left Vuiencta for the Grado, where he was to embark on board astesmer for Alicante, thagce to Madrid to expiain to the Minister of War oa the part of Captain General Cid 1G Condition Of Lue oily aud the mposeiblilty of compe to surrender With the tew soldier copMAgG, aS Well ay to demand tustant reimforce- ments, Mali way to (he (irao Ge Was atiaeked by a party of lusurrectiouiste, and wimsolf aud escort captured by them, At ten A. M. Brigadier General Dermeze Was goat with tue same vbject, accem- panied by a company of iufantry and forty lancers, Who upon arriving it Ce Grao found thas General Rosell had muvaged to escape and had wiready em- barked on hia utisaioa, At nigat there arrived at Valonota 674 Guardia Civiles, and sixteen squadrons of tho Ninth and Twelfth regiments Of Rose, um command of Colvnel Villanueva aud the new tary Governor of Valencia, Sedor Rosales. During tue whole day both sides maintained (he siatuo quo, with mugh caunouading aud musketry exchanged. On the Lith inst tt was found out that the imsur- rectionisty of Valencia numbered between 12,000 wud 15,000, At nine A. M.aconvoy curiposed of 600 Guardia Civiles, a company of Cavairy and two pieces of artillery ieft the city with twe object of procuring powder trom the manufactory at Beni- Mammauiet and collecting provisions. At one in the aiternvon tie sieamer \iguanie arrived at El Grao, having on board three generais aud their slats aud 263 soldiers of the sevilie regiment. Later i the affermoon the volunteers of rim, the regi- ment called Hunters of Calatrava and 250 mea of wie Granada garrison arrived with Brigadier General Garcia Velarde, In the evening, Just as twilight was deepening into darkuess, there occurred an jacident which resulied ia sad consequences. By the sireet of Saa Francisco there advanced & party of republicans with the evi- dent Intention of capturing tue barracks which went by that name, situated in the Plaza San Francisco. Two sentinels of the Seville regiment, posted at the corner, eried out “Quive vive!) aud tmmediately & company of soldi advanced forward from tae Plaza to recounoltre the anciag body of iosur- geuis, Who Were recelved witha wihering discharge of MmUskety, Causing tke deatu of eigat soldiers and wounding hearly @ third of tie rewainder. A caa- now Was also pushed into the street toaded with canister, which was fired upou them, scattering them im all directions, but yet not causiag thom to retire. Auother discharge iron the insurrectionists and @ bayonet charge quickly succeeding 1t, Lno soldiers retired precipitateiy, leaving tae cannon in the power of the republicans, The Iuuters of Caia- trava and Volunteers de Prim, hearing the re- newed antation of the firing, advanced upon the double quick, but were received by the republicaus, who were constantly receiving 1resh. accessious to their numvers, mm gallaatl styie, and were obiiged to retire in confusion, which flualiy became @ panic, Until taey spread abroad the report that 10,000 repabiicans had le! ie barricade, striking terror into whe weak garrisi who were occupying advanced houses, ihe whoie army was becomiug rapidiy demoralized by these fugitives, ‘rhe generals rushed out at tne head of their com- panies, ord m to stop; the Captain General Rivera himself was secon wy his sword above his head ordering We flying troops to halt upon pert! of tueir lives, but ail had been Of no avatl bad not the Garrison m the barracks engaged the republicans wud checked them unt ® regimeut of lancers appeared with the bugle blowing the charge. The lancers charged, acd the republicaas retired with great loa, ‘Thia day, in the Plaza del Mencado, the insurgents bad held @ mecting, at which speeches were made by the alcade and city fathers, followed oy inuch entha- Sidatic applause, eudlug in a general eieutheromeanic scene. Barricades were erected during the night at the embouctinre of streets del Mar (commauding Hotel de Paris), where my fellow passengers and myself lodged on the loth: Caballeros, Patan aud Sa Tecia, ‘The guides of Prim garriaoned the railway station In the evrly woruing, Calle Kusuiaa aod the Bull Ring early this moruing. Higuty of Velarde's brig. ade, with eighty Saguntine horse and two pieces of arhiliery, were posted upon Serrano Briige. Another lorce, composed of 600 civil guards, ten cavalrymen and two pieces of artillery, commanded by Colonel Villanueva and Captain Nepot, was stationed at the gate of San Vicento, ‘The first of these forces attacked Murviedro street ten o'clock A. M,, after a brisk bombardment of artillery of the barricade, which effectually breached it, capturing nearly two-thirds of that varrio or dis- trict. Villanueva’s column provoked # combat be- Ween the insurrectionisia posted at Kusafa street aod the convent of St Gregory, which resuiied ia nothing save loss of men. At ten o'clock A. M. frigate Princess of Asturins le(t (ke Gra arbor for Carthageua to convey artiilerists and siege guns from the arsenal of that city to Valencta, In the evening the steamer Vulcan there disembarked the firat battalion of the regiment of Gailicia, On tie isth fostant a drigade commanded by Brigadier General Don Romuaido Palacios, he who was wounded at Esperaguerra threo week! embarked at Kl Grao. This fe fantry from Arapiies, Alcanta Jancers from Saguntum, and were instantly ordered to procure quarters for themseives in Marchaleree’s diatrict, Which they did, with the loss of about forty men, among whom was a colonel of Araplies in- fantry. During the night the steamer Pelayo arrived from Barcelona with tho first battalion of Arragon regiment and Captain of Staff, Selior Caivo, Tuere Was much firing during the day, On the 14th instant irom eight A. M. to four P.M, thero was a general en, quent, Much cannonad- Ing, & plenitude Of fusiiiading, Waste of powder and shot, Many deaths and wounds on both sidea—prin- ¢tpally on the government side. At four P, M. tue force of Lieutenant General Ala minos arrived at Valencia froin Madrid. After leay- ing & force in Masanagsa and anotner in Alfafar, he hia }inou ontaide the diatwicts ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET, of fan Vicente secording to orders from Generat | % vera, At six P. M, the second battalion of a ent the brigade of wih the first ol conies superjacent, In the evening, about haltpazt five, a commisaion, composed of the Archbighop uf the diccoses, the Mar- quis ‘of Cacel several ecclesiasiics aud well nown persons of the city, left the barricades after the truce signal had been blown, bearing & white flag, and proceeded to the General, for tbe purpose of mediating between the contending armies, and requesting that Rostilitics shouid be stopped, that further effusion of blood might be avoided and that several thousand iuno- cents might mot be made to suffer for thoae who thougiit it thelr duty to bn for their iacal republic. ‘The prelate was reverentialiy saluted by the soldiers: and chiefs in his transit towards headquarters, and applause, and lively expressions of approbation followed him wherever he went. The Captain General replied that 1t was not to him the prelate should have come, however he thought of the matter; that he was charged by the Cortes and government to repress an insurreotion; that however appalling the coudnuation of @ close stege, with ull its horrors, wouid bo his duty was to con- tinue it, even if all Valencia was lald In ruing; and, farther, that nia terma were surrender at discretion. On the 15tu inst, the terrible Grama continues; Is being enacted vigorously while [enter the city; is continued througbout all the day with tmuumerablo horrible incidents, with shells unreeing houses, ereating visible eonsternation among tho besieged, destroying venerated Gotnlc aud Moorish relics, lay- ing baleonies low, searring tinely carved pilastera and delicate tracery of stone work and other moral orpature, anaibilating fillgree work ohurches, decapitating stone statues of gods and saints, sir king ou glorious pinnacies whose carvings and Manifold volutea once tasked the — sculptors chisel, defacing movie arms seulptured in miarbie and granite; and, farthermore, the tho loud thunder of olustering cannen and the continual, incessant volleys of muexetry, with tho hurtling, deadly swish of bombs aud the more dead, og as and crowning moan of thousands of bullets, invading ol] minds ‘with terrer, all heartas with bitterest woe, desolation and woftliest rain; and thus tho doloroas history of Valencia's dread- ful siege is—continued, from the rising of fhe san to thesetting of it, continued whic] gaaetpen it, fascinated at the interminable series ef tnoidouts which transpire below, evea in tals one Biugle street of Calle dol Mar, At five P. M. of this day Brigadier Velarte mace Qn assault upon the barricare of Calle del Mar, with 600 cavil guards, While he was protected by 69 Bol- diers stationed It the balconies, But this barricu le Was & poculiar ou; not only was It strong and high, but it wags delended by two traverses breast high, formed of scattold fixtures across two barrow turnings, which asiightiy deteriorated from tie beauty and straight reach of this street, but which would detain troops for several minutes te demolish them, while whatever stood there waa exposoi to the fire from 800 to 1.000 muskets, The civil guards iwarched readily enough to what one migat cail their doom, to the sound of a very tremulons bugle, ‘the firing was tremendous. Kacn soidier in the baico- nies pled his plece as if for dear life, while many gotso excited ag to render sizht-seelng from the windows of the Hotel de Paris 8 most dangerous proceeding. Finally, anxiously awaiting the result of the mnarch up the street, @ simultancous explosion of hundreds ef muskets was heard, and the insur- Tectionists amd civil guards were eu, Md at the short range of forty yards, But Spanirds are not framed of that spirit which can look with coel con- tempt upon death, ner can they siaud for ave min. utes under fire at forty yards; for vefore they could have time to deliver the second discharge the whole body of civil guards were dig- ing their way into the granite pavement, rom whence they fred upwards carelessly, asif the very air they breathed contained mortal enemios, nor could they easily bo coaxed to rise; but aiterten minutes’ efforts at self-murder with imag. inary fears, the eivil guards roge on their feet, put ducked their heads suddenly arain as a very wave Of bullets had swept them to death. In this ignovle manner with rearward at higher thau those which bestow royalty and dominion to men, they evanished swwifter than an erodus of bees down by streets which intersected Calle del Mar, leaving many a dark form low and buf’ face upturned, ‘There were other efforts made in Giteront parts of the city with no success whatever, but with ag unfor- tunato fate. What with boiling of1 poured down from balconies and melted jead upon soldiers’ heads; what with the shooting of two unferiuuate officers whe had fallen into the hands of the tusurrectioutats, the gutting of venerable churclies, the demolition of socred shrmes, darker and darker grew the juve oi this wuly uniortunate city. of the Captain Last Day of the Sierr, VALENCIA DEF. Crp, Oct, 16, 1850, Up betimes in the morning watching day graying it iu the Hast, beholding the sun rise as forever over the once bappy plain and city of Valencia, with all tis unimaginable glories and radiance; eeeing the act azure of the most transparent of skles grow dceper and deeper in its calm placidity, and fecling the sun heating the atmosphere into traditional Val- encian fervor, tho early mora passed off trangquilly enough. Towards eight ofclock, after the soldiers had breakfasted and the obstinate msurrectionists were supposed to have coucinded theirs, the thunder of the cannon began to wake up the echoes and to teil the minute strokes with sonorous rumble; tho inns- ketry also woke up first with sharp rattle, then sin- gio clattering cracks, tuen bursiing inte fury and joud, crashing rolls, which ran round the elreumfer- ence of the city—all these warned us that the day of battle had begun, Opening my window I began to question a talka- tive soldier as te the expectations of the day. The soldier 1s ensconced behind one of the stone batus- trades of the Valencia Credit Bank, which is just twenty feet on the opposite side of the street. The soldier answers during the intervals of loading bis musket that an order has boon issued for a general bombardment of the city, to commence at ten A. M.; that @ general attack will take piace simultaneously under the bombardment; tat Generals Alaminos, Rosales, Palacios, Torrer will lead the attack; that even General Rivéra will be im it; that 6,000 troops have come tn from Barcelona, Malaga and Cadiz during the night; that two pieces of artillery posted before each street barricaded wiil begin the attack, aud much more to the same effect, and he continues his firing with sang/roid born ont of the dismal experience of the last elgit days and nights, while hia buileta plpe thelr thrilling notes, and the smoke from hia musket wreathes itso}f into fantastic shapes as it slowly sails up, and then becomes formless as tt mixes with tho atmosphere, Shells once more ring their stormy chailenges, cold shot again hurtles through the transparent air, iron answers iron, rolling musketry becomes biended with the sonorous cannonade, and, with the ever continuing, steadliy repeating echoes, resonant from stroot to atrect, from point to point, the whole becomes but nolsy din, Miling all space, until one could fancy that the end of tae world had surely arrived, Towards nine A. M. there isa Inilin the tempest and @ commingling roar of siege guns and musket firing, especially on Calie del Mar, but from the dis- tance comes the sound of heavy reports and occa- slonal ripping, cracitiing rojlings. A new phases ts evident, new tactics are about to be adopted, tho preceding calm 1s soothing to flurried nerves, Cap- tain General Das recerved a telogram from Prim at Mudrid, worded laconteally thus:—‘You are certain of victory. Bethink yourself of clemency.” Not in any way to tranagress the happy advice tho Captain General 1 about to send his ultimatnw to the insurgents, while discernible ia back strecis are strategic movements, skilful manwuvrings. marches and countermarches of bronzed and bearded troops, regiments after regiments pass aud are za Congregacton. A gaily dressed crow‘! of oMeers are discussing the pos and cons of What may happen this day. For it ts a crisis this day is, upon which souls by hundreds wili be aont to judy. ment, or @ whole city will dance with joy, upon Which enemies will slay their enemies, or prothers ere by hostile polity will meet again in true pauish mode witi frenetic embraces and fervid soul-stirring kisses! This is agreatday! It canuot ‘de loat trouble if I note it well. An officer, braided ail over hig breast with gold lace, befrogged, betasseled until ne glitters in gold, accompanies @ sombre dressed, ancient miliary ntieman, With @ peaky beard and lengiuy ‘oxtatied = mustaches, taciturn of look and fh betas | with hauteur, begotten of con- colt and his long honored ancestry, who is his Exeeilency the Captain General Sefior Don Fraucisco de Rivera, descendant, it 1s sald, of Aragon princes, Indeed, as he draws nearer under the soft umbrage of the sycamore trees in Plaza Congrogacton, his Excelleacy seems of a hard nature, too hard to be worked into the firebrand og or coaxed into the melting degree, However ia nature, be puts @ note into the handa of the rather over budizened oMcer aud bids him convey it the shelter of that embiewn ‘The aid-de-camp toucues in_his company, mar. towards tho barricades waving his white hag. ‘The bugle rings out clear and loud the warning of ita ap- thachtol tis caught up by another nearer tho arricades, which sends it pealing iote the heart of the city and centre of insurrection. There area fow moments’ pause and thore rill espouse, dark forma leap over tho barri: likewise bearing a flag of truco. They even come up over the outermost traverse confidently, for under the regis of that snowy banner In civilized if 1 are sacred ‘Tho note is taken to the thew t chiefs and read {acouncil, The peremptory demand to surrender unconditionally is met with stormy, vehement di: Ps proval, and toe deflatory response is returned, ‘We Will not surrender except upon the condition that all shall depart froe; that uo person shall be held reapousible for mything that lias taken place since the commencement of our rising in defence of our Dbertles, We have 14,000 men; we have arms, and With their naa we are accounted: we Rave food in and as we have done already so Co ‘uc Captain Geners! Rivera, Lieutenant © Rassies and Abamuios sre seated tu the plata eou-, Versing with wonderful equaiumity, out yet wi Visible seriousness of tone aud gesture, All oyes ou thy returning flag of truce. Kivera selzea letter containing the reply of the insurrectionigts, reads {8 aloud to uls brotier gexerais, and la not slow to pronounce sternly, “Well, they hove pi their own doom.” Cousuiiation, however, i between them, Prim's order js not to be nor his counsel conternaed; for his counsel, humane though i+ Was, sprang but from abtudied deaicusy lurks in high places as well as in !ow, any over cruelty and uapscessary harshness redound to the doers karma, diinutes elapse in cons ferriag; otivers of lesser dignity cry out “A on a bye Casas, & sus Casas!’’—to your houses, to x houses! the fring 1s going to commence |—to sianders, who, m their anxiety, crowded in wy the war council, Soldiers a. these words down behind, and the dreadful sword of war if Aguin in the perspective, bet again tie bugie’s chal Jenge is heard and the fue ef truee returns once more to the insurgents with tao snewer that all ine surrecttonista may go ires aiter delivering up thelr. aris, Out the chiefs tauat be given up. ‘The fag truce 18 returned to the Captain General with the words of the insurgents framed in exploit terms, “None muat be held ‘answerable for the insurrees tion, We will give up our arma, but not our per- sons.” The Captain General ls puzzled what to a. seeks counsel iron Ble peers again, and an ulcer ts requested to carry back tho reply shat is 1# 1mposstble to come to terus ypen such recess sual the army of 16,000 mex sarenadlaa ae cu must not be held so slightly as to imagine that they could comply with suck ideas. The oMicer conveys the message, and at the chal- lenge of the bugle ne is met by an Insargeut officer WILD A great white banner, ‘foo ramantic almost romance would be wal followed; but never ip ite, im real war. Tae oiiteor recognizes a brother Whom he had not seen for years i tne lusurgent chiel; the chief responds to the brotherly recogoh tlou, and they are botm locked im each otier’s arms, lips are giued to lips, arms euciose each others bodies, heart beats responsive to heart, and there {se such am interchange oi love, such a How of ques. tions, such foods of endearment, and then embraces, more kisses, Wal tae eple of the siege of Valencia would ind it kard nos to be sliniarly affected while rehears ng tac episode, but this recognition of two brutlic:s tergunases im excecd- ingly Rappy results, ad we shad » uring these reiurns backward and forward, which appear to us GonaitiM aud wadignified tao» ues, provocative of censure from eritics such as We, shut up, imprisoned as we were, witnia the precincts of siotel de Parig, with no power to leave or wander Bdout In thé city daring (hese iuterims ia which jiaga of truce go waitt g bither and Chither, the Joreign Consais Te hoi avi, especially tho Ameri- can, brenci und Boglish, Wuo were domy tacir duty nobly in maintaimiag the eauas of civiizacton, im wviling all non-combatants whe wished to leave te lake advantage oF the truve agreed upon until tea A.M. and yithdraw while loere was yet ime to escape from the horrors of the siege, Bome huny dreds of all sexes did so, and % Was & most aitecti sight to witness the departure of these poor peopl under such circumstances, leaving their all belt them, and Jeeliag but Wo lorsumale to escape Wil their lives, ‘fhe fraternal congratulations over between the two strangely mot brotiers, she omticer, accompanied by the insurgent chici, advaaced to the plaza de la Congregacion and presented tuemselves to General Rivera. The ohief told iis story, and infermed the peuaia General of the determination the insurgenta had arrived at, which would remain unshaken by ever 80 mi: menaces, The osner generals, in the melting meod likewise at seeing this chicf, co lately truculent, bowed down with the glowing love thas filed his heart from his kaight of msurgeut inso- lence, added their prayers that pardon might be arene ce all. General Rivera was still stubborn, wad refused all ideas of giviag them such easy terms; but verbum Det mane in erernun, Peace and good will to all men sang the angeis on the plains of Bethlehem, and wWhick Jesus preached te the Jews, and what mortal may galnsay them. kivera dnally yielaed at four the afternoon, witle yet, even as We said it, the hoarse boom of the caunon was painfu'ly alatinct, Tho batue smoke was yot visible, muscetry ciattered i the distance, and fire fashes were yet phosphorescent, rhe nameless drama was therefore atau end, Most Judictous, it appears to me, was it for me to be thus magnanimous to tae brave cid-hearted Valenclanos ; for nations of eivilized nove do aot understand the beehyty é massacres Which so often have charace terized Spanish generals, Ocercion likewise is an- Latural, and conciliation ts better with fractuose Valeucian insurgents, aud had it been otuerwise 0 Knows but Spain had not been the loser t Good news travels fast. Like jightning had thig flashed through the city, laking it initiatory tight from barricade of Caile dsl Mar. Even as we looked and waited for the decisioa we had but to castour eves at the barricade, and jo! the Bappers and niinera, aided by the insurgents, were demolishing it with an energy Which void well for the good under. ene both parties bud arrived at, But sach is peace ‘The strects, so lately deserted, 80 gloomy with the march of warhovertng above them, from the digse coatinuity of trade and total swspension of com- merce, ROW presented a very diferent aspect. The tide of life ebbed and towed swiftly and strongly, A streain of citizens surged towards the centre of tue city, carious to mote the destruction and the horriple Within, Anotifer stream surged outwardly, to breathe the fresh air and t purchase food—for had chey nos been eigit days aud gine olghts impri- soned willin the foids Of maurrection and a close aicuee Who caa tell how taey lived during thas time For the benefit of reap realers your correg- poudent was im the market pitce within short time, Faugh! but what a Miagusting smell? what a sickening taint! whas the blood is in aimall riiis, im putrid lets, exBaling doadiy miasma. And as for signs of war work but Just over look at the riddled booths tn the market place! Sea ti battered balconies, the splintered vaiuatrades, the shattered, corbels, Behold the walis, how they are scarred; how strangely the mediwval mythologies look with their gilt crowns and heads sheared ov, The bypo-~ grifts above the church coors are in atoms; nay, the very Virgin has been saccticgiousty mutilated past redemption, and the Saato3 Juaries appear ds if they hg beon fusiiiaded for high treason. The machicoiatious, So justly admired by strangers, are but so many ugiy ‘features ef the Lonja—cannon Slot holea—seem strangeiy solemn, for they inclme one to Suppose mortality in the interiors; they are Suggestive of sudden deaths of innocents; bat these stalus Of traces of rough loge are too numerous to be enumerated. ‘They are everywhere; they are visibie in the wreck and ruta of the Plaza, in the felled trees which once shaded the market square, to We fearfai ruin ar And when you are tired of gazing, smell blood, blood, postiience, poteon in the air! dark horrors in tue perspeetive of fancy! So many barricades surprise the signtseer. Every advantageous place made an amvuah of, One glance atthe whole would teach lessons im the art of civil war. Bread sacks and bags of hay inthe church steeples! Think of it. Featver beds aud heir mat tresses bebind Catholic mythologies! Imagine the scene, On the is In scrawiing letters are “Veata to the Thief! and War to the Generals; and Peace to the Soidters.” Look down again—your feet are stevping tn a pile of human exere.aont and crushed watermelons, piles of Mit exialing modorons va- or heaps of dung euiitting doudly stench, Faugnt What @ janglipg, iniarmeuious, imesthetic ides these nolsome things provoke. What a gloomy pia- ture is presented to the aiready barrowed minaj to ‘us guit them. I¢is darkness, What insurgents have given up their arms are already commingling with the popu- lation, or are eagaged in demolishing the 200 barri- caues, Whatinsucgeats have not surrendered up their arms haye gone to the mountains with the fagitive Ayantamicnto, Alcaide Popular and a few of the volunteer chiefs; these In the aggregate are supposed to number 600, What fasurgeuts ined to escape and could not, but fell into the hands of lard by the indefatigads this letter 1s Written too early to give you an eati- mate of the number, Stil, asl have explained bow many of the contuiracious imsurgents ibere wi and seeing there were 14,000 of them before sur- rendering, the arms takea must number over 13,000, besides stx cannon recaptured. We have now watcued this terrible drama unfold itseif with the closest, ali-absorbing enuion, and sloce It terminated in peaceful surveader, in pardon to all, whorein hatos are to be forgotten and Juries forgiven, the last scene of the last act has ap- peared, and though there are neither olive nor palin branches, Ati] what We do see and hear are on this nigut naturally incidental to Spauiards. The Arch bishop of the diovese, good Old soul, glad to see the drama over, with its deadly accompaniments, hag sot his ponderous cathedrai bells agoing, and pulied by lusty, strong arms, @ deafening peal is heard all over the city, and the other church bells chime tn, and such & deafening, exuberant, tintinnabulation Was never heard in Vaiencia, The shops have thrown Wide open, aud wherever there is found a necessary of life it i# eagerly bargained for by a score of esurient, famine-eyed 1n- surgents’ wives, bakeries are besieged by soldiers with — hoalin; appetites alter the great events of the day, aud somehow thea rough fellows ard not a whit demoralized, for wey offer thelr bread to men who but Wo Lours previous were iusurrectionists, whereupon there follows an exbipition of transcendental embracing, of friend. sip having grown toto cathusiastic love, of all-pers vading excitement pallug their features; but this te truly Spanish, But whatever Happened in seoret on ‘Uus eventiul night within the homes of the otty after the reassembling of famiiles and the reckoning of tue lost—whatever may have occurred in the secret assemblies of obstinate iusurrecuiovary leaders—in neither of these was st tue lot of your correspondent. to go; but it was tothe briiliantiy lighted cafés, to public assemblies, where tho general expression of yaen might be observed while their features were lit up by refulgent cressete, and tno quickest, fighti~ Lg ost transitions from grave to ga} to hye teria on each face could be seen. Under the uuiversal thought that the nine days’ sicgo was over, undor the flush of joytul exultancy thatep therefrom, under the exuberant gladness that oi Ali hearis after the fatigues, tue fearful strain from protracted doubts aud fears, and the horrible sua. ponse, soul-harrowing anxiety, why need we wonder ifthe people wept torrents of veara, and generous wine of Xeres, Valdepenas and Champagne w taken and drapk in flowing caps vo kindle th = citement; 1f Captain Goneral Kivera, after despatch- ing his felicitous bulletins to the Minister of War, gat down to table, surrouuded by scores of officers, and that he and they also indulged In copious liba- tions and eiTuigent carousals, and Kept tt up until morning hours—why need we wonaor at ail this, or Oxpress surprise ai such & termination Lo gach @ day, when scarcely in the cycie of mx sonturies suck Quvther sloge ag that of Vaveucia is witnessed?