The New York Herald Newspaper, July 10, 1873, Page 3

SANTA CRUZ SOUR. Perilous Venture of a Herald Correspondent Into the Camp of the Notorious Cure, IS HATRED OF WOMEN. s¢J Will Shoot You Down Like Dogs!” “DISCIPLINE!!!” The Bastinado and the Leaden Ball. Economical Death-Putting at Four Balls a Head. A Scarcity of Ammunition, but a Plethora of Executioners. The Great Successes and Astonishing Energy of Santa Craz. HIS SPLENDID MILITARY QUALITIES. The Herald Correspondent on His Discretion. Banta Cruz Believes in Mohamme- dan Cleanliness. Gun, Cartridge and Cannon Factories. DELICATE QUESTIONS NOT DISCUSSED, What Santa Cruz Had to Say to the Herald Correspondent. ‘Vara, June 11, 1873. Probably only those who were in captivity in the Confederate States would be able to realize fully what a visit to Santa Crus’s headquarters means. I have been here now for nearly forty-eight hoars, nd there has not been an hour during whieh I could feel sure that the next would not bring upon me either an order to be shot or for some other egually cruel infiiction, On commg down from that eagle’s nest called Pefia de la Plata, where the Carlists have established their first and perfectly Umpregnable fortress, I did not find THE ORLBBRATED CURE either at Achalar, as I expected, or at Vera. He had already marched off towards Tolosa, with Some six hundred of his crack men and two can- nons. Ihad consequently to present myself to a rough-looking chap of barely twenty years, armed to the teeth, and bearing the sonorous name of Don Estevan Indart, and the important rank of the commander of the place and forces of Vera. He was asleep when, after hay- Ing been taken at the outskirt of the town by some patrols, I was brought into his room. Lying across the bed, his head hanging down ffom it and his legs up on the wall, he was snoring most formidably. But after a few calls, accompanied by a few pokes of the sergeant, the worthy warrior woke up and began to examine my papers without changing In the least his pic- turesque topsy turvy attitude. From the tone of his voice, if not from the words he uttered, I per- ceived at once that he swore at the documents, being just as unable to understand them as the patrols were. Not only were the foreign docu- ments unintelligible to him, but even the Cariiat passport, by which the Ministers of Don Carlos granted me free circulation amid “HIS MAJESTY'S" ARMIES, ‘and which was worded in Spanish, was a dead let- ter to Don Estevan Indart. Being a Basquese, as well as the majority of his soldiers, he did not know Spanish and did not seem to care for it ‘Without even looking at me or attempting to Srrive at any sort of understanding, he gave some orders to the sergeant, and I was * marched out of the room. A crowd of armed men nd of ragged children had already assembied ground my horse, and began now to examine me as ciosely as they examined my tired animal, its Baddle, and the bags strapped to it which carried my scanty luggage. To all my attempts to inquire ‘whether [could see Sefior Santa Cruz I had only ‘the short and abrupt answer of ‘‘Satida” (appar- ently the only Spanish word these men knew, and which meant ‘gone away”). And here I stood ‘without knowing what was to become of me, woen \presently the patrol sergeant appeared with A OLBANLY DRESSED GIRL, who, after addressing me a few questions in excel- Jent French and Spanish, went up to the Com- mander’s room with my papers. Within a few min- utes she was k again, handed me the papers and said that Don Estevan had ordered her to take me to her house, where I had to wait till the return of Sefior Santa Cruz. To my inquiry whether I ‘would have to wait long, she said no one knew or was able to tell me anything; while to the question whether I could proceed further phould the Curé not return soon, I got the short but explicit answer of “No.” In this way I find myself practically the prisoner of Don Estevan Inaart and of my little interpreter, without knowing ‘when I shall be released, or even by what stratagem Isnall be able to forward you this letter. Happily enough my hostess is, or rather my hostesses are, quite charming persons as far as their amiability is concerned. Thetr father, who is the only, and consequently the leading, tailor of the town seems to have saved money enough to send his two girls to Bayonne to study the art of millinery. Together with this trade the giris Jearned there French and Spanish, and have now nothing of the peculiar Basquese look about them. They don’t wear even the usual Basquese costume, and consider themselves, and are evidently con- Bidered by everybody, as very distinguished “adies,”” The eldest girl is humpbacked, and con- sequently less admired ; but the second is evidently # general attraction in the town. SANTA CRUZ, known to be fall of hate to the fair sex, and of mever having kept a female servant, or even al- towed his sisters to live at his house, seems to have made an exception for the young Vera milliners, being in frequent business intercoarse with them and having appointed them to superintend the manufacture of clothing for his soldiers. There has been, of course, for these last two years no mil- linery work of any kind to be expected, and so the girls are quite glad to become military tatiors, and peem to discharge their duties to the full satisfac- tion of the ferocious Curé. And while the two American sewing machines were going their full speed the girls talked to me all day long, and told me about the inner life of their little and unincky town more than I could ever have learned by per- Bonal observation during the forty-eight hours I \ave been captive here. THE TOWN OF VERA 1s, a8 & matter of course, throughout Carlist. The Fepublicans have taken possession of it five times @ince the Carlist war broke out, and the usseriy- NEW ‘YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Tuined population speak of these republican occu- pations as the worst moments they have endured. Besides the usual contributions the town has addi- tonal burdens to bear for being # Cariist centre. At the present moment there is ne man to be seen im the town except those armed, the civil portion of the population apparently conaisting of women and childrenonly. Half of the houses are deserted or shut up, and,except in the evening, scarcely any one isto be seen in the street, the women being anxtous to Keep up such little fleld work as they possibly can. They toil hard all day long, and the Carlists eagerly assist them whenever they have a day of rest from perpetual marching. The soldiers of Don Estevan Indart, who were in possession of the place when I reached it, were, to the last man, at work im the flelds, except the men on duty a8 sentinels. The misery and wretched- nese of the place 18, nevertheless, quite shocking. Of cows, oxen, horses or pigs there is no longer any trace. A few sheep, a few fowls and a couple of donkeys seem to be all the mhabitants Vera atill possess in the way of beasts. Their own num- ber has also decreased tu barely 2,000, aud this small community, consisting almost exclusively of women and children, has to pay every mouth about four thousand five hundred dollars in ra- tiona of bread, wine and meat only, without reck- oning either lodgings er such extras as are always likely to occur, especially when the revenge(ul Tepubhicans come in. My two hostesses and their father had over thirty francs for a month to pay for nearly two years past, and they said they could not make out where families with lesa resources gotjthe money wanted. Seeing that the dock of the place was quite exhausted, Seflor Santa Cruz invented a rather ingenious mode of supplymmg the wants of his bands. He requisitions cows and oxen in some other places, or taxes themon the high road, or captures them from the republicans and sells them to the civil authorities of Vera for ready cash, which he invests in arms and ammunition, while the town, after having bought from him the beasts, delivers them back again inthe {orm of rations. Notwithstanding all this misery, however, the inhabitants seem to be on the best: possible terms with the Carliete. They are evidently tired of the war, but not a word of reproach is to be heard against the Carlists or their chiefs, and Santa Cruz is A GENERAL OBJECT OF WORSHIP among this population. Now and then only they would whisper that he is too severe, but this is meant with reference to his own men only, not to what he ts doing to the republicans. And it must be said that the discipline of Santa Cruz’s bands is kept up with a stern hand. Within the week he spentat Vera previous to tne Enderiaza fight he shet two of his men for attempting to robsome travellers who turned out to be Carlists, and gave the bas- tinado to three more men who failed in performance ef their duties, What terrifies his men above ‘all is that he never speaks of what he mtends doing or makes any reproach. He is a man of really a few words, and one of the best characteristics of the nature of the man is perhaps offered by the manner in which he treaved, a few days ago, one of his former friends—an old man, sixty-five years of age and of the name of Amilibia. Two brothers Amilibia, and a man of the name of Recondo were commanding some troops last year, when Don Carlos was defeated and Serrano in- duced some of the Carlist. chiefs to lay down their arms and to sign aconvention. Santa Crug was then chaplain of Recondo's battalion, which operated in conjunction with that of the brothers Amilibia, and seems to have urged the three om- cers not to lay down arms er to sign a convention. ‘They did not listen to his advice, and Santa Cruz has felt since that time an invincible hatred to these men and has never called them since other- wise than traitors, About a week since he came one morning to Achalar, where one of the brot‘ers Amilibia had also arrived on his way towards the headquarters, where he intended resuming tervice, . “What are you doing here, traitor?’ exclaimed Santa Craz, on seeing Amilibia looking out of the inn window as he was passing by with his troops. “You had better leave Spain at once if you care for your life.”” But as the troops remained for dinner in the vil- lage, Amulibia, probably anxious to whitewash himself in their eyes, if not in those of their chief, ‘asked some Of the men fe knew to the inn, gave them some wine and began te talk over last year's business. It would seem that his language with reference to Santa Crug was not particularly re- spectful, and that he made some allusions to his being a despot, not obeying either his superiors nor his lord, the King. The conversation was soon reported to Santa Cruz, and Sefior Amilibia had not finished his arguing when several armed men appeared, commanding all te follow them at once. ‘The invitation was addressed to the man who spoke as to those who listened. All were carried to Santa Cruz’s house, in front of which a company of his crack men was ranged and a heap of bastones prepared. “I gave you advice which you did not consider it worth your while listening to,” said Santa Cruz to bis ola friend. ‘You even considered yourself jus- tified im trying to excite my men against me. I will therefore give you @ lesson in another way; and the first time I meet you or your brother or Recondo again on Spanish soil I WILL SHOOT YOU LIKE Dogs." After this the very same men whom Amilibta had been treating were ordered to take the pre- pared sticks and to give a bastinado to the old man. AS much ag 110 strokes were reckoned, and the poor man was carried senseless to his ium. A few days later when I had to pasa through Achalar alighted at the same inn, saw an old man lying, a8 I thought, hopelessly ill, but no one told me the sad story of his tliness. It was only yesterday at Vera that I learned it, when I saw the poor man carried on a stretcher toward the French frontier, on the other side of which he hoped to recover. Santa Cruz left Achalar the same after- noon, and from the whispering tone in which the adair was spoken of I must conciade that its effect was all the wild Curé could have desired. No one, either at Achalar or at Vera, will now attempt to betray the Carlist cause er to speak against THEBR UTAL AUTHORITY OF THE CRLEBRATED CURE. Another fact characteristic of the nature of this man 18 his dealing with the only prisoner he had taken AT ENDERLAZA. The result of this fight was greatly exaggerated. The whole number of caribineros which took part in it amounted to forty-one men. Five of them escaped, two were drowned in attempting to escape by swimming across the Bidassoa, nine were killed during the action, twenty-tnree were massacred for having fired aiter they had hoisted the white fag and one was taken prisoner. Santa Cruz carried that man for several days with him, but when he learned that, notwithstanding the letters he sent to the Bayonne papers giving the particulars of the affairs, public opinion in Spain and France still persisted in accusing him of having shot prisoners, he sent word to his captive saying he thought it his duty to justify the accusations of the liberals, and thereiore to shoot him. TEN MINUTES POR PRAYERS. Ten minutes were allowed the poor man for con- feasion, and four balla put an end to his life. It may be mentioned here, by the by, that this economical shooting with four balis instead of tne customary twelve is an established rule in the Car- list army. They say they cannot afford the luxury of twelve cartridges being used for a single man. And the fact that the twenty-three carabineers who were found lying in one heap near the En- dertaza Bridge were ALL SHOT WITH ONE BALL, and mostly through the head, is addaced by Santa Cruz and his mem as additional proof that they were not shot after being taken prisoners, but killed in a hand-to-hand fight by the Carlists, justly enraged by the treachery to which they had been exposed through the firing after the white flag had been hoisted. Yet it must be said that, however savage the fighting must have been, it could not have lasted long, for of the two dead bodies I saw picked up from the Bidassos the one had twenty- two cartridges in his box, the other fifty, Keeping in view that a cartridge box contains sixty car- tridges only, and that it is seldom qaite full, it becomes evident that the two men who threw themsetves into the Bidassoa had scarcely fought more than half an hour. The famous Puré is right with segard to disci- pline, property so called. His organizing faculties seem to be just as conatderable as his despotism is violent. He has never yet received @ single penny or a single cartridge from Don Carlos’ Ministers, all of whom are most inimical to him, frustrate his ptans in every possible way and have condemned him to be shot for insubordination. Notwithssand- ing all that, however, he has See ALREADY ARMED ONE THOUSAND MEN, makes all his cartridges bimself, and is now establishing in the neighborhood of San Sebas- tian, in @ secure spot of the mountains, callea “The Three Crowns,” a gan and cannon manufac- tory. Qne becomes almost puzzled when one sees all that this man has done without any means whatever, and certainly without anything like scientific notions as to how such things should be done. The guns he has already made are breech- loaders, exactly similar to those which the Spanish government has lately adopted for introduction in lien of the Berdans and the Remingtons, He has not yet managed to get a cannon ready at his im- provised factory, but his ammunition agent at St. Jean de Luz told me he saw the preparatives for three pieces of artillery which were about to be cast at once, and which would undoubtedly be not well finished or polished cannons, but perfectly efficient weapons for mountain warfare. To my inquiry whether I could go and see the interesting establishment at which such big things were made out of nothing I gota most emphatic “No,” accompanied with & suggestion that it was quite enough that I knew where the improvised manufactory was and that I would do weil, when I see Santa Cruz, not even te allude to the fact of my knowing anything about the matter. ‘The drill of Santa Cruz’s band ts just as peculiar as all the rest of his arrangements, There is some- thing quite strange and periectly original in the movements of his men; but still they march well, Uniformly, with a marvellous speed and for no end of miles in a single journey. None of the men having boots, but wearing the usual soft Basquese sandals one scarcely hears when they pass by, and up till lately both Santa Cruz and all his officers went ALWAYS ON FOOT WITR THE MEN. It is only a few days since he took to riding and gave a horse to every commander of a company. Still more primitive is, perhaps, the care the famous Curé takes of the bodily cleanliness of his men. Whenever he geta to astream with a suMcient quantity of water in it—which is not oiten the case in Spain—he orders all his men to take a bath; and regularly three times a week they have all to change their shirts. As they are not allowed to carry any luggage, and hardly have a shirt beyond that which they wear, Santa Cruz invented the simple mode of requisitioning clean shirts against the dirty ones which he leaves to the inhabitants. As the practice has been continued now for several months, quite a regular stock of this kind of gar- ment ia ready in every village of the province of Guipuzcoa, which is his great centre of operations, The men arrive, receive ghe clean shirts from the aloalde of the village, return him the dirty ones, and the next day half of the village women are engaged in washing for the next arrival of the band. Santa Cruz seems to be quite proud of this arrangement. At allevents, he wrote the other day to his friend and ammunitien agent in France that he had brought his men to such a state of cleanliness that he was prepared to pay a real (5c.) POR RVERY LOUSE that would be found on any of his men. But if the Curé thus shows great ability and energy in org@nising his own force, he is far from showing the same care about the general progress ofthe Carliat affairs, 1 wrote you already what ‘was his answer to a demand for assistance sent to him by the Marquis of Valde-Espinas when he had to fly to the fort of Pefia de la Piata. 1 mentioned also the conditions which Santa Craz put to his “Lord and King’s’? request to submit to the mill- tary authorities. He said he would do so when his sentence of death is removed, his enemy and im- mediate superior General, Lissaraga, removed, and full liberty left to him to operate with tlie bands he had organized. None of these conditions have been yet fulfilled and Santa Cruz does not yield an iota accordingly. The other day DON CARLOS wrote, through his secretary, ordering the Curé to come at once to France to see nim, Santa Cruz answered in most respectful terms that he would not do so. If the King chose to come himself to the frontier, or to send any one, Santa Cruz said he would fip@ a secure spot where he would give ver- bally evety explanation that may be wanted; but he thought it most injurious to the King’s cause that he should leave his command, for he was sure he would never be able to return to his post, the French gendurmes knowing him now too well from the portraits published everywhere, and would arrest him as soon as he had put his foot on French soil. Something similar, though much more rude, was his answer to the opening of the railway trafic on the Northern line. I saw myself the projectof the treaty the company was to conclude with Don Carlos. Every point was approved by both parties, The com- pany had to pay 2,000 franca a day to the Carlists and undertook not to carry either troops or ammunition. For these consider- ations the Carlists bound themselves to protect the trains, the telegraphs, the travellers and the goods transported between Irun and Vittoria. The only thing to be done was to sign the agree- ment, when it became known that Santa Cruz on learning of the arrangement sat “The line goes partly through the province of Guipuzcoa, occu- Pied by my forces. As I have never been consulted with reference to this arrangement I shall never submit to it, and shall upset the first train that comes.” On hearing this THE OLD CARLIST GENERALISSIMO, RLIO, who, whatever may be said of his political opin- ions, is before all a thorough gentleman, wrote to Don Carlos that he would never sign an agree- ment which he was not quite sure he could carry out, and requested the King first to settle the matter with Santa Cruz and then to send him the document for signature. Meanwhile the difiicul- ties of the trafic with Europe increase every day. More than dozen new steamers have been started between Bayonne and the northern parts of Spain, but the Bay of Biscay being very stormy, and the entrance of the ports of Bayonne, Sam Sebastian, Bilbao and Santander extremely dangerous, no end o: goods and passengers are prevented, tor weeks and weeks, from reaching their destinations; and, when they reach the Span- ish coast, they are still often unable to proceed farther, the Carlist bands having penetrated to the very walls of Vittoria and Burgos, JUNE 12, 1873. I was quietly writing these lines yesterday after- noon, and wondering how I should be able to let you have them, when the little hump-backed mil- liner entered my room and announced that Sefior Santa Cruz was coming. ‘Here, here,” lisped she, hurriedly, and pushed me to the iront roem, which served the family as a workshop. Within a few yards from the house I saw, out of the window, THE CKLEBRATED CURE MARCHING IN with a company of his best and tallest men. His orderly wae walking close to him, leading his bay mountain hack. Senta Cruz hed no arms about him, except a long stick, similar to those used in the Alps by Englishmen of climbing dispositions. He was dressed ina rough biack coat, one very similar to those worn by Methodist parsons. It looked even just as shabby, though much coarser. Soft Basque sandals, with thick gaitera and a dark blue Basquese beret, completed the costume. There ‘was not @ brass button or anything military-like about bim. He marched with great steps, now and then muttering the usual “adios to people bowing to him, and went straight to his house, some twenty doors higher than mine. My hostesses advised me not to goto him until called, as Don Estevan was sure to report to him about my arrival and presence in the place. More than an hour passed, however, without my hearing any news from the man in whose power I was. Presently I noticed, however, some movement round his residence, and byand by the Guré ap- peared at the door. He walked down the street toward my heuse with eight men of his body guard, armed a la Don Estevan, to their very teeth. “4a it to me that he is coming? Is it to shoot me that those men are with him? Thank heaven they do not seem to have any sticks with them, so that there is at all events little chance of my getting & Dastinado.”” These and similar thoughts crossed my mind with the rapidity of lightning. But the master of my destiny passed my door and turned round the corner. “There must be something going on in the town squarc, said the old tailor; and all four of us,as by common accord, went down stairs witu the intention to follow the Curé, but a sentry posted at the corner stopped us, say- ing that we had better watt a bit if we had any business that way. Soon some vague noise reached our ears, and by and by very dtstinct cries of a suf- fering man. “Some one is being punished again,” whispered my humpbacked friend, and made a sige to all of us toreturnhome. A few moments later we learned that the gunsmith of ,the band, whom Santa Cruz had given some work to do, did not full his task, went away during the Care's absence for a couple of days to @ nelghbor- ing village and GOT DRUNK. His reward was fifty bastanes, and very hard must they have been; for, passing by his house, I heard the poor man still groaning even to-day, after more than twenty-four hours had passed, It did not take, however, much time for Santa Cruz to give this new “iesson,” as he calls it. In less than @ quarter of an hour he was walking back again from the town square with the same body guards, and as he reached my house I saw Don Estevan re- ceiving some order and rushing up our staircase, There was no longer any mistake that my turn had come to be attended to. “Come along” would be the literal translation of the short but expressive speech Don Estevan delivered to me on entering the room. Down we went at once and found the Curé waiting with his staff at the door and talking toa short and stoutish man, in the costume of a private. I learned subsequently that the man was Don Cruz Ochoa, late Carlist Deputy in the Cortes, and now a private soldier in Santa Cruz’s bands, and a secretary to his leader. Don Cruz Ochoa is a well educated man, speaking very tair French, which he was anxious to make @ show of each time there was some little hesitation either in my Spanish speech or in Santa Cruz’s Spanish understanding. But he had not much occasion to help us, for the interview, besides being a very short one. was by no means a verbose one. THE INTERVIEW. In fact, I do not remember of having had so busi- ness like an interview tora long time past with any man, big or little. The greater portion of it was occupied by the Curé examining my papers. Of the Carlist passport delivered to me by com- mand of Don Carlos himself he did not seem to take any notice at all. But he examined very closely the paper embodying the HERALD’s cre- dentials and bearing a visa of the American Em- bassy in Madrid. The credential being worded in French gave him, it seemed, a good deal of trouble, but he went through the paper without the assistance of his French speaking secre- tary. The eagle on the Embassy’s seal he examined as if it were a miniature painting. And when he had gone through all that, apparently calculated to persuade nim that I was not some agent of the republicans or of his enemies at the headquarters, he put me the simple and short question :— “What is it that you want?’ + Itold him that a good deal having been written and told of hig and his troop’s activity in the pres- ent war the HERALD wished to ascertain what was really true in the reports circulated and what was tne exact position of the various Carlist corps; that I had been sent not to nim alone, but to the whole of the Carliat army, as’ my Carlist passport showed, and that my account would not have been complete if I had not visited his corps and wit- nessed its operations, “Of my men you can see but a small portion now,” answered the Curé; “they are all gone in different directions, and 1 myself am starting at once for a place where I cannot take youto. But on some future occasion I would not mind your being present at any,of our fights, provided you can stand fire and great fatigue. Of my future plans I can, of course, say nothing, and to no cne. Besides, before allowing you to join us I must Make some inquiries about you and the paper you represent. If we are treated by the H#RALD DE Nugva Yor« a# the miserable French and Spanish papers treat us I shall no} allow any man to be present; and if you are not prepared to defend the Catholic cause you had better not come here at all.” I don’t know why the dark, bearded head of the Curé, deeply sunken in his shoulders, appeared to me at this moment as the head of a black bull about to charge me. “With whom are you acquainted of our Carlist people ?” continued Santa Cruz, walking at a slow pace abreast with-me towards his house, the guards fohtowing us. Inamed several persons i knew to be on iriendly terms with bim. “Very well; I wili make inquiries and will let you know when you may come here again, if you wish it. [am sorry | have no time now. Butl hope L shall be soon back to Vera, If you live, you can wait here.’” Being of course by no means anxious to lose any time at the miserable place and to run the risk of his receiving information that New York was under republican government and the HERALD a liberal paper, for both of which circumstances he might prescribe me @ more or less strong dose of basti- nado, I answered, with many thanks for the propo- sal, that @ previous invitation from General Elto did not allow me to postpone my journey to the headquarters; but that I hoped to receive soon a permission from him and to come then at once to Vera. “Very well; go to the headquarters, But do you know where they are? 1 don’t.’’ I said that I knew them to have been a few days since in the neighborhood of Pehacerada, a short distance from Vittoria, and that I hoped to find them if I could get a guide knowing well the mountain passes. “I don’t think you can get one here; at all events not before to-morrow, for we have but very few men disengaged. I will give you a man who must return to town to-morrow. He will take you to the first Carlist post which he will be able to find, and you must there ask the officer in command to tor- ward you further. This is ali I can do for you at Present,” and, stretching out to me his hand, the fierce Curé added the usual Spanish “Vaya Vd, con Dios’ (God help you on your journey) and entered his house, to the door of which we had by that time walked down. Don Cruz Ochos, probably anxious to putin @ few French words more and to justify at least a little the dry and not very urbane recep- tion his leader gave me, remained a little behind the Curé and began t assure me.tnat Sefior santa Cruz had really not @ moment to spare just then. I assured him I quite believed it and was very much obliged for the tavor shown to me, notwitpstandiug the pressing occu- pations, and that the only thing I regretted was that I had no opportunity to inquire of Sefor Santa Cruz himself whether the report of his in. tention of establishing in Spain A CATHOLIC REPUBLIC, with Cabrera at its head, was correct. “Oh, I am very glad you did not ask him such a question,” answered Don Cruz Ochoa, “He would at once have suspected the sincerity of both your religious and legitimist dispositions. Any one that knows Sefior Santa Cruz knows that no idea of this sort could ever have crossed his mind, and, if Imay venture to give you any advice, it would be that of never mentioning to him this matter.” Don Cruz Ochoa was very friendly, and he prom- ised me to do his best to get me a prompt admis- sion into the confidence of his master. In less than half an hour after we had spoken they were all off in the direction of Tolosa, and {am now about to pack my things and saddle my horse and send of this letter, with tne assistance of my amiable hostesses, BAOE ON THE MERRIMACK. A Single Seull Match for a Purse of $100—Evans Morris, of Pittsburg, the Winner. Lowsgut, Mass., July 9, 1873. Asingle scull race on the Merrimack River, in ‘thts city, was held to-day. The race was continued from the Fourth of July, and was between Evans Morris, of Pittsburg; 7.0. Butler, of Boston, and Lawrence Rourke, of Lowell. The distance was two miles, The & purse of $100, was won by Morris mo. ler ind, and "Rourke wan six lengits be. and considerable money” oh H 4 han tet! A CLUSTER OF CONVICTS Departure Yesterday of Frank Walworth, Gillen, “Wes” Allen, “General” Grenthal and Other Distinguished Crimi- nals for Sing Sing Prison. AN INTERVIEW WITH WALWORTH AND GILLEN Frank Walworth’s Theory of How the Jury Came to Their Verdict. eeeacireeiilionseeesttee HOW HE REGARDS HIS SENTENCE Mrs. Walworth’s Impressions of the Trial and Its Result. ae Se SCENES WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE TOMBS, Walworth’s Jokes by the Way and How He Likes His New Suit. Outside and inside the Tombs yesterday morn- ing it was manifest to even the casual ob- server that the day was to be signalized by a great event. Deputy Sherif Shields, Cahil and Ridgway passed the entrance gate about half-past nine o’clock, and were shortly followed by Sheriif Brennan and Judson Jarvis, In the lobby, outside the inner gate, were groups of ladies, who had evidently expected to find a ready admission within the walls. This little excite. ment was caused by the circumstance thata cluster of convicts were to leave the Tombs yesterday for the Sing Sing Prison, and farewell words and looks were to be given, On the floor of the Tombs, and im- mediately opposite the cells appropriated Jor mur- derers, was a file of men and youths, all arranging their departure for Sing Sing. The names of these of age, convicted of burglary and sentenced to four years and six months’ imprison- ment; William Jones, 15 years of age, burglary and escape from prison, four years and six months’ imprisonment; Patrick Helleck, burglary and assault on Mr. Phelps in Grand street, and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, Charles Allen, alias “Wes Allen,” for burglary, five years’ imprisonment, Abraham Grenthal, for grand larceny, one and a half years’ imprisonment. Joseph Muller, burglary, two years and five months’ imprisonment. Francis Gillen, for murder; sentenced to im, prisonment for life, Frank Walworth, for murder, imprisonment tor lite. WALWORTH LEAVING THE TOMBS. The interest, of course, was centred upon Wal- worth. All the other men and boys were more or less distinguished criminals, but their distinction was lost by the public prominence of Walwortt’s crime. The widow of Chancellor Walworth and Mrs. Walworth, the mother of Frank, arrived at the Tombs a few minutes before Walworth left his cell at the ‘Tombs lorever, and had a short, private conversa- tion with him. That which was particularly no- ticeable was that there were no indications of a scene on the part of Frank Walworth, his mother ana grandmother. If there was any feeling it was suppressed; the tears and the grief-marked countenance were wanting, and the parting showed no more signs of sorrow than if it was of a pleasant description and only for a time. Frank Walworth steppeu lightly from his cell, with a jaunty air; he placed himself by the side of Gillen, wifh a jocuiar re- mark; the ‘bracelets’? were put on his hands, bis mother standing in front of him to watch the op- eration, and Deputy Sheriff Shields passed his hanas around his clothing to see that he carried nothing away with him that was forbidden by the law. Ashe stood there in the line of con- yjcts it was at once noticed that the gentlemanly and refined appearance that had distinguished him on his trial had left him by some mysterious means. Amore extended observation showed how this was. For his elegant broadcloth coat he had substituted a light gray tweed short coat, his hair had been cut shorter, and he wore a narrow brim white leit hat; the smile upon his face and hts apparent indif- ference to his fate was the same kind of defiant bravado of law that characterized the unquestion- ably more hardened criminais, whose way of lile hi been from their childhood, almost, in the paths of crime. In a few minutes atter Wal- worth left his cell the chained cul prits left in a connected line, and were pat into the prison van, to be driven off to the Forty- second street depot, Just as the convicts were leaving for the van a beautiful basket of flowers was@brought by one of the keep- ers and presented to Walworth. With tus manacied ands he just managed to grasp the handle and removed the card upon it and then gave the basket back again to his mother. The card did not indicate the name of the donor. It simply bore the iscription, ‘To Frank Walworth, with the kind regards and respects of a trend, July 9, 1873,"? All the ladies and officials immediately left the Tombs, taking their last fareweil look as Walworth stepped into the van. Mrs. Walworth, however, took a Fourth avenue car, carrying the basket of flowers with her, and went to the depot. It was suid that She intended to go to Sing Sing, encountering the annoyance of the smokin car, and would sit as near her son as she coul get. This, however, proved not to be the case. To a reporter of the HERALD, Who accompanied her from the prison, she said that she never had @ny such intention, She should be on board the train, but should be satisfled with seeing Frank at the prison and bidding him ‘“goodby”’ there. She expressed her satistaction with the- verdict; of course she would have much preferred @n acquittal, and endorsed the views of Mr. Charles: O’Conor, a8 expressed in the published interview in the HERALD. ARRIVAL AT THE DEPOT. At the depot it was evident that the convicts had been expected. Outside the entrance was a large number of well dressed per sons, principally ladies, who had evi- dently been iyi to catch 8 glimpse ot the distinguished _ privoners, Un their arrival the convicts were hurried through the depot and put on board the smoking car, Frank Walworth got @ seat by the side of the window and there was a rush from the other cars and on the platform to see bun. The crowding in the car was quite op- ressive, and needed all the vigilance of he Deputy Sheriff to keep it from pres» ing unduly on the convicts. To a reporter of the HERALD, who sat immediately behind Walworth, he said that it was amusing to see the anxiety on the part of the crowd to see 4 man who had been victimized. THE INTERVIEW WITH WALWORTH. “It don’t seem to annoy you much, Mr, Wal- worth,” said the reporter, “No,” he replied, “Lhope we shall get the car cleared of the crowd soon, and we shail get some fresu air, It is the want of that I have feit the most”? “The Tombs is a long way from being healthy; and I thought tius morning, as | went in from the fresh air oi the street, | could snuff the mouldy dampness of those walis,”” “don't suppose,” replied Walworth, “that it is the unhealthiness of the Tombs, though it is not a very healthy piace, I believe; but | have lost four- teen pounds in weight since 1 went inthere. [ had been accustomed to a good deal of outdoor ex- ercise, boating and similar occupations, and I was in excellent health,” “You were well treated in the Tombs; had not much to complain of, had you 1 “No, I was well treated. I found the Warden very fair and considerate. Of course, it was not like being outside. You area prisoner, and tt is just as well to remember that und make up your mind to it.’ “Did you mix with the other prisoners mach, so = 1A de anything of them or their character- tes ashort experience, Of course, a fe makes us kind: but, even allowing ter tht, fe there is @ love of jair Me gy &@ general desire be sociable on the of the men that can’t to make one feel very mf towards them.” had been By this time the train and hed left the depot some short distance id, were signs of greenery, there was a of the rivers and then the it of on banks them with evident aelignt, ” “tt is “y 7. an & long ume since Ihave seen tivers and green trees, convicts were as follows:—Robert Freary, 20 years | y What {18 to look at them! We shall soon’ be at the Hudson, shall we not r; ‘bat it will not be 2 “Yes,” answered the repoi te your last gimpee of the Hudson. You will have plenty of before you get tl guess, at Sing Sing. How ao you expect to your imprisonment there 1” “{ think I shall get used to it,” he answered. “1 have been accustomed to roughing it, in an ama- teur kind of way. I think I can make up my mind toall that I have got to f°, through; though, of course, 1aon’t know what 16 is.” “You have never been at amy regular, steady work, as work is generally unders' during any part of your life, have you f? “No, perhaps not, was in the Canal Commis. sioner’sgoMce at set and served under two political parties, so that 1 am posted in politica somewhat.” WALWORTH’S STARCHED CUFFS. Just after this was said the handcuifs somewhat chafed him, and he said, looking at his bands, “These are the first cuff’ I ever had en that the perspiration did not affect the stareh tn thom.” Ths was overheard and @ general laugh follows with an exclamation that “Frank was keeping The laugh had scarcely subsided when the boy came into the car with the packages of prize candy. He left one in every seat except the seats of the convicts, and as he jalworth and Gi who were sitting together, the former said :—*T is a new sensation; however, | have often won- dered if I couid get through a train without having a packet of candy put in my lap. Now I’ve done it, and that is worth something, anyhow.” WHAT WALWORTH THOUGHT OF HIS TRIAL. Subseqnently the conversation was led in the di- rection of his crime and his sentence. Of the for- mer he would not speak, but of the latter he said, “T think that the Fourth of July bad something to do with my jury coming to an agreement. [ don’t think they cared about being locked up on the Fourth; so they were disposed to meet the matter by a compromise. That is just what | think about it.” “Don’t you think you had a good jury and thac the case was tried ob high toned principles, with- out taking any advantage of techyical points and tricks of law?” ‘Yes, I suppose it was, but stl 1 think the jury would nave disagreed except for the Fourth of July.” From. this point Walworth smoked, chatted, joked and indulged in badinage to the end of the jour- ney, keeping up a good, manly pluck all the way; but it was manticst to those versed in the study o| character that he was much more likely to sink to the level of the rest of those with whom he was about to associate than rise ¢bove them. AN INTBRVIEW WITH GILLEN, In an interview with Gillen, as he went up, he said to a reporter of the HRRALD that he never in- tended to kill his wife; that on the morning after the murder he realized what he had done. He had been drinking for some days before, induced: there- to by nis wife's infidelities. He attribyted his going astray irom the paths of virtue to the miser- able sulary she received as @ milliner in a dry goods store, and he said that there were thou- sauds of work girls who did the same. He, mantuliy acknowledged his guilt; said thet he had made the suggestion to hus | counsel that he should plead guilty to the murs der oi second degree, and he was quite prepared and willing to take the consequences of that plea. In bis straighttorwardness, his lack of flippancy and his respect for law he certainly contrasted very favorably with Walworth, THE ARRIVAL AT SING SING. At the depot at Sing Sing there was not a little excitemient on the arrival of tbe train, There waa a@ crowd at the station, and it gathered in numbers as the men, handcuffed together, were taken te Daly’s Phenix Hotel, where they were allowed by Deputy Sheriff Shiclds te nave their last drink, previous to — entering upon — their waery and long imprisonment. This got through, deputy sheriffs, prisoners an a iew iriends walked down the raliroad track to the prison. In tue private ofice of the Warden was Mrs. Waiworth, waitung for her son. Frank was allowed to leave tne rest of the convicts ta greet her, and he spent @ few moments in conver- sation with her while the other prisoners were giving the usual particulars respecting themselves at tue desk. Finally bis turn came, and he lest bi mother to answer the clerk's questions, which he did, somewhat in a fippant and joking manner, The parting of both mother and son was Characteristic, there were no signs of gries; there was no long, tender farewell. There was the gentlest and mos! well-bred kiss, @ single shake of the hand, and Frank joined the convict group. INSIDE THE PRISON. Accompanied by the Doctor, the eight convicts were taken to the dressing room. ‘There they threw every article of dress they had oninto @ basket,. which was piaced in the centre of the | group, and they put on the ‘striped suit” which is the pecullar wear o1 convicted prisoners. While this was going on Walworth was as gay as any of the crowd, and seemed rather to enjoy the fad | of the thing. When he was dressed in this stripe attire he turned round to the HERALD reporter and said, “I look as if 1 had got a base ball suit.on.”? by and by he left the dressing room with the rest, each of them having a towel and comb in his hand, and each of them went to their allotted celis, His cell is No. 57, on the sec- ond tier, Yesterday he was not put to any em- ployment, but to-morrow he enters upon duties Which were assigned to him aiter his trial. Ee to go iuto the shoe shop, there to learn enough o! | the trade to fit him to become chiei clerk in the stock department, where it 1s supposed that his education and bringing up, which ts entirely away’ froin the practices O1 dishouerty, Will admirably qualify him for so important a trust. After an inspection of the great improvements how going on at Sing Sing Prison, the deputy sheriffs aud their friends adjourned to Daly's Hotel, Where a cold dinner, admirably suited for the day, had been provided. THE HERALD AND ITS MARITIME DE- PARTMENT. Nici Spi (From the Norwich (Conn.) Advertiser, July 8.] The NEw York HEKALD has achievements to boast about, and the public knows what they are; but the writer will only refer now to its full and early sbip news. In a commercial community this ts enough to gtve the stamp of superiority; hence the HERALD is omnipresent—in every counting house at home and every commercial reading room | abroad. It is the only American paper that you will be sure of finding iu any foreign port you may visit. The writer found it so when he visited, three years ago, several pots in the West Indies. All have heard of the HERALD’s steam yachts. Returning to New York, we anchored in a piacid sea several miles off Sandy Hook, at nine o'clock in the evening. Directly one of these yachts bore down upon us, pufling and’ biowing, and in @ sharp, business-like manner asked and obtained information as to our name,. port of departure, length of voyage, incidents, &c., and then, with @ ting-a-ling of its pilot bell, started off to visit some other crait. Next morning—it was @ beautiful morning in Aprii—we were towed by & steamtug up the bay, past scores of vessels of all kinds outward bound, past scores of fishing boats, past the forts with their tender-green espianades, past the Narrews to our wharf onthe Brooklyn side. That same afternoon we: wok the steamer for New London. At two o'cloc®> we arrived home per railroad, and as we ap- Froached the house there was a window biind half. open. Direct!¥a tront door opened and soon a form was observed gliding to the gate. A greeting followed, To explain:—That bit of ship news in the HERALD of that morning had been read in Nor- wich the same afternoon. Of course the rest wag naturally jnferred and the arrival of the steamboat train watched for. The commercial paper par ex cellence of New York did not contain the news of that vessel's arrival until twenty-iour hours alter its appearance in the HERALD. STANLEY'S EXPEDITION. Progress of the Troops and Engineers on the sjNellowstone Marech—A Terrific Hail Storm and Serious Results. BISMARCK, D, T., July 9, 1873. The main command of General Stanley, of the Yellowstone expedition, joined General Rosser’s corps of engineers, with an escort under Colonel Townsend, June 27, forty-five miles northwest of Fort Abraham Lincoln, and found all well. The engineers experienéed a terrific hail storm on the wth ultimo, which stampeded their horses and stock, overturned wagons, bruised and injured men, and did such damage that they were obliged to wait until the command came up before proceed- ing. General Stanley’s command crossed the Big Muddy, June 27, on pontoons composed of wagon boxes and water kegs. General Rosser expects to Teach Yellowstone River August 1. Lieutenant Coloné! Bradley will leave the main command of the expedition atthe Little Missouri and proceed, with twelve companies of cavalry and infantry, to the Yellowstone River to relieve the companies already there and build stockades around the stores, Colonei Baker, chief quartermaster, came in to- day with a train and an escort of troops, composed of Troops F and L, Seventh cavalry, to procure forage, and will return immediately. BITTEN BY A MAD DOG, As John Tormey, of 65 Mott street, was passing through Nassau street yeaterday afternoon, he wag bitte mad J. Brought by the otlocra ot the Secomt_precined to Park wound waa Hospital, where his