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Pountry, and giorying at the news, "Oastafion’s golumn completely 3 1,000 privoners taken; ‘Oastaton wounded mortally.” ‘This Carlist war is the seyenth which 1 have seen, ‘bur it is the strangest, most INCOMPERBHENSIBLE, A have ever undertaken to study for the New York Henauy, I had alwaye an idea, however it got into my mind, that war between Spaniards ‘was of the most sanguine and cruel kind; but after ‘what I have seen I am compelled to make the amende honorable for the wrong I did Spain and the Spaniards, even in thought, for it 18 impos, aibie that war could be more humane than as con- ducted between the Spanish generals and Carlist chiefs. On the morning of the 28th of May, the columns of Nouvilas and Castaiion entered the town of Leiza, in the province of Navarre, only to find that the rear guard of the Carlist army had left the town but half an hour previous, We were all hungry after a #ix hours’ march, and expected that many of us would have to go on without satisfying our hunger, but you may imagine our surprise when we were informed that the Carliste had informed the people that the government troops would probably arrive in the town about eleven A. M., and that it would be well if the troops found prepared food ready for them. We found our breakfasts smoking hot, consisting of five courses, fish, fowl, beans and chick peas, boiled and stewed mutton and beef, salad, with abundance of cherries, peaches, pears and walvuts for dessert, and the wine that we foand at Leiza might have satisfiea 90,000 men. Yeu may perhaps say that, as tne people of Leiza are Carlists, it was to the advantage of the Car- Usts, eventually, that we should Ond such an abun- ance of food go well cooked, and ef such a variety, because, being hungry, customers, cash in hand, would be found ready and willing to pay for it, Or, you may say, perhaps, that the Carlists were cun- ning, for knowing, as they dia, that we were preus- sing closely on their heels, it was but natural that they should wish to detain tneir pursuers a little with the tempting pleasures of such appetizing viands, You may say this, and more with reason. But supposing, for th \ke of argument, that the troops on their arrivalat Leiza—weary and hungry as they were—had found every scrap of food burnt and every drop of wine had been swallowed up by the thirsty earth, and that, closely watching their steps trom bin « ten THE FROWNING HEIGHTS Shove were the 4,000 Carlists under Ello ready to pounce upon them whenever hunger had begun to tell on their frames, would it not be wiser than that the Carlists should order tempting food to be served and cooked, for the paltry excuse of detain- ing them during the siesta, which invariably takes place when Spaniards have filled their stomachs ‘with good, strong wine? The next day we captured a priest, who, with a glass in his hand, and four or five Carlists near by, ‘with guns in their hands, was watching the move- mente of the government troops, When ordered to halt the priest fled, dodging behind rocks and trees, skipping from point to point with the agility of a goat, but, being vigorously pursued, ‘was finally caught and brought before the General-in-Chief, When questioned, he said he had been a colonel in the Carlist army auring the seven years’ war, but since then he had abstained from acts of rebellion against the government. A doctor, also of the Carlist village of Lecumberri, volunteered a statement in the priest’s defence, saying that the priest, though ec- wentric and doirg sometimes incomprehensible things, was never known to be in correspondence with the Oarlists, This statement Nouvilas re- ceived as though it was gospel and immediately ‘ordered the release of the priest. Though I have endeavored to prove to you how far advanced is the art of war among the Spanish generals, you must not take it for granted tnat the Carlist generals are any wiser. Elio, the Com- amander-in-Chief of the Carlists, people tell me, is over seventy years old, has been all his life asoldier and a guerilla chief. Ollo and Dorregaray were captaing in the Spanish army be‘ore they under- took to lead Carlists across the mountains of Na- varre, If Ihave been surprised at the lack of knowledge of the art of war in government officers, 1 am no less surprised that Carlist chiefs are so ignorant. Indeed I may say that the Carliste know less of war than the government oficers. I Gnd that, tiough the Carlists know how to run, they know not how to fightor make use of the advan- tage which they possess of compelling the troops €o fight them on ground of their own choosing. The affair with Castafion proves what I say. Is it wot surprising that 5,000 Carlists lying in ambush could not put hors de combat more than 143 soldiers ? It was splendid ground ior a fight, and if the Carlists were not satisfied with drawing the soldiers on that naked terrace above Ychaso they might have waited until the soldiers were engaged with the three battalions which were thrust from under cover for the purpose of decoy and then coolly hemmed them in, to destroy them or;compel them to surrender. But out of the thousand @nd one peaks and cones afid semicircular hills of Navarre could the Carlists have found nothing better than the horseshoe line of Udavi ? ‘What instance could be more fatal for a column than the arc of hills above Irurzun, through which the old road leads from the valley of Ollo to irur- gun? Yetat tive o’clock P. M. one afternoon the eolamn of Nouvilas marched up that awful road, as if there were no war in Spain, as if from behind every jutting rock and pinnacle rifles might not have picked every man and animal in that entire column with one volley, as if 500 men alone might wot have shot us all to death before we could have gasped our surprise. The slope up which we were marching, with the horns of the ominous looking aro of hills drawing to wituin one thousand yards of each other, was, figuratively speaking, as smooth as velvet. Not one man could have hidden from the @eath storm that might, HAD THE OARLISTS BREN WISE, have been poured upon us, As we surmounted the Bill at the centre of the arc our surprise was great. r still when we perceived that a wall breast- high had been built along the crest, that three lines of Carlists might have safely hidden in the rocks ‘with which the horns of the arc bristled. I confess I thanked God when I perceived these things that, though Nouvilas was stupid in taking us up that toad the Cariista were so immeasurably stupid and cowardly, that their sole knowledge of war consisted in running away and in skilfully avoiding a combat. The Carlists possess ARTILLERY and their four or five thousand men under Elio are armed witn Chassepots. Knowing as they do that Bo column numbers more then 1,800 men, what is there easicr than to post themselves in the way of column, on some height of the Amescuas, and Challenge it to ight? For the column is bound in honor to attack the Carlists wherever seen, and if the Carlists are brave and wish to show the Spanish nation and Europe how strong their cause is four thousand Carlists posted on an advantageous height ought to be a match for even two columns ‘of soldiers, or say 3,400 men. Were the Carlists Americans or Euglishmen or Frenchmen there ta Bo doubt at all but 4,000 of them would not con- sider it a hard task to hold a Pyrenean height against 3,400 of the best men that ever encased their feet with shoe leather. I will say this much, that 1,500 Spanish soldiers will hold any height against 5,000 Cariists. La Portilla’s 1,700 men held Che bills above Ollogoyen and Ganuza, killed sixty ‘and wounded 300 of them, with @ loss on his side of four killed and sixty wounded, and drove the Carlists fying for dear life. Common sense will tell any of your readers that it is possible to do the same feat every day of the year; but why should not the Carlists, four or five thousand in number, defy two columns? The columns never travel to- gether; they seek to meet the Carlists by diferent roads, so that the Carlists, if they were really worth their Chassepots, might cut up each column an detail, Whe War in Catalonia—The Capture of m Quirbe by Don Alfonso—v: Fate—The Barbaritics Committed by the Troops. RrPou, July 8, 1873, On my way from Gerona, which city I Jeft last Friday, 1 passed through Bescano, Angiés, Amer, San Fetin de Pallarols and other towns without bavidg met s Carlst force, which much surprised, NEW. YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1873—WITH. SUPPLEMENT? | sot for there are commromy some of Saball’s men to be found in those places. From what follows you will learn that all the small parties serving un- Ger that distinguished general had been ordered to concentrate, in order to attempt the capture of San Quirbe by a coup de main, THE FORTIFICATIONS, San Quirce is distant from Ripoll not more than about three hours’ march. The late Captain Gen- eral of the Madrid Cabinet, Velarde, taking into consideration its importance as a strategic point, had determined to fortify it. He sent there a corps of engineers, whose officers made all the plansand superintended the construction of the werks, con- sisting of six strong towers, with drawbridges eighteen or twenty palms above the level of the ground, various walls and loop-holed houses, among others the splendid factory of Guixar, which was converted into a regular fortress. The en- gineers must have been very well satisfied with their work, which, since its completion, has not been altered in the slightest particular, and cost, besides, a considerable amount of woney. It was firmly believed that San Quirce was rendered per- fectly secure against any attack, and the garrison has for a long time SLEPT UPON BOTH EARS, Time, however, brings strange chances and changes, and the sleeping garrison must have had its incredulity much shaken on seeing the Carlists suddenly arrive on Sunday evening and open fire at once With artillery—probably the pieces taken at Orista, THE GARRISON consisted of about ome hundred volunteers (ct- payos) and 150 regulars. Only afew shots were fired, but being well directed they filled the volunteers with terror, When these fellows eaw the way the game was going and heard the shot crash through the fortified houses and knock the tiles from the tops of their towers, they betook themselves to a Gisgraceful fight, without offering the slightest re- sistance. Upon seeing this the soldiers of what was once ® Spanish army hung out a flag of surrender. Now the flying volunteers had but two outlets through which to escape irom tbe ter- rivle Carlista; but the latter, with their usual sa- gacity, bad stopped them up with a handful of men at lola, to the north, and another at Buf, to the south of the town. The consequence was that the volunteers had thirteen killed in endeavoring to get through, while the Carlists had not even one man scratched. The wretched cipayos escaped somehow in little groups throuzh the flelds, be- cause the Carlists did not care to follow them, WHAT THE REGULARS DID, To the 160 soldiers who surrendered without firing a shot from behind the fortifications of Ve- larde’s engineera Saballs made a speech, offering them a choice between a complete dis- charge from military service or service in the Car- list ranks. Some accepted the discharge and some became Carlists. Those who ehose to serve Don Carlos were asked if they would prefer to put on @ Carlist uniform or keep the one they then wore, and all declared they were not afraid to fight in their old uniforms. Thisindiference in the matter of uniform is a strong proof of a growing confl- dence in Carlism, since the soldiers are not afraid of being found in its ranks, WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THE CARLISTS. Yesterday (Monday) the Carlista left the town, though had they remained a few hours longer much misery and suffering would have been spared the inhabitants of San Quirce. A column which had marched that morning from Vich, having picked up some of the fying cipayos, directed ita course to Sau Quirce. On arriving at the bridge over the Ter they found some children playing, who cried “Vivan los Cartistas!” These poor children were immediately seized and thrown into the river. SAN QUIRCE SET ON PIRE. The column, which was commanded by Colonel Vega, on entering the town, at once commenced pillaging the houses of those known or supposed to be Carlists, But pillaging did not suffice to ap- pease the rage of those ruflans, who committed atrocities that cannot be described. They set fire to twenty-two houses, and the unhappy fugitives, upon arriving here (Ripoll), could see the smoke of their dwellings, THE COWARDS AGAIN DRIVEN OUT. Much harm was done before news of what was occurring reached us here, The Carlist force im- mediately started back to San Quirce, but tne “‘re- publicans,” discovering their approach, did not await them, but fled, although the “hero,” Vega, could have occupied the fortifications of his friend Velarde, and made a stand. On arriving, the Car- lists, although much fatigued, immediately startea in pursuit, which they kept up for at least an hour and a half without being able to overtake the enemy. CABRINETTY COMING. The Carlists returned here this morning and have remained all day. It is now seven o'clock P. M., and the town is much alarmed at the news just received that Cabrinetty is approaching. Many persons and wholeamilies are leaving, fear- ful that if he should enter the town there will bea repetition of the horrors perpetrated at San Quirce and elsewhere; for pillage, fire and mur- der—the murder of defenceless old men, women ana children—have now become the favorite tac- tics of the cipayos and lawless soldiery, who rival each other in cruelty. I must mention that the Vega who behaved so infamously at San Quirce is the same who was recently so highly eulogized by General Martinez Campos. * Cabrinetty’s Death Struggle. RIPout, July 10, 1873, In my letter of the day before yesterday I spoke of the apprehension, the panic almost, that was then reigning here in consequence of the report that Cabrinetty was approaching. Fortunately for the people of this place that commander’s march and his whole career were cut short some three hours’ distance from us in a combat with the Carlist forces that seems the most important vic- tory yet gained for their cause in this province. Belore giving what we know of this battle I will explain the previous position of tne forces near here, in the hope of making the story elearer. Two or three days ago Cabrinetty was at Berga, with about twelve hundred mes. His command was certain'y the best the Madrid government had in Catalonia, It was made up entirely of good, regular soldiers—infantry, cavalry and artillery well armed and equipped, well supplied and weil disciplined, containing neither recruits nor volun- teers—and was much depended upon to control Carlist operations in this neighborhood. Now Cab- rinetty’s communications were through this place to. Gerona, and if the Carlists could concentrate a superior force on this line, in or near this town, Cabrinetty would be obliged to dislodge it bya battle fought under seme disadvantage, or he would be compelled to retreat rapidly southward to get new iines of supply, and would thus abandon the district in which he was expected to keep the Carliats down. Therefore the Carlist forces were moved with a view to such concentration. Sabails, with BLEVEN HUNDRED MEN, came to Ripoll, about fifteen hours’ march from Berga, to the eastward or @ little northeast from that place, Augnet, with his flue battalion of 400 men, was five hours’ march to the south of Ripoll, at Alpens. Don Alfonso and Miret, with 600 men, marched to San Jaime de Froutinya, six hours directly west of Ripoll, and Camps, w.th 300 men, was at Gombreny, to the north of the line between Ripoll and San Jaime, and about three hours’ March distant from either place, By the sth the OONCENTRATION of these bodies had not yet been effected, ifan actual concentration was even intended, which 1 doubt, inasmuch as complete concentration would enormously increase our commissariat diMcuitios; but at least the bodies were within supporting dis- tance, and all nearer to one another and to any given body ofthe number than Cabrinetty’s force ‘was to that which was nearest him, which was Don Alfonso'’s command, at San Jaime de Frontinya. But Cabrinetty, who was apparently not wanting in military perceptions, was not indifferent to what was in progress, and, readily surmising the intention, saw the advantage of surprising the half effected purpose. He decided to STRIKE PROMPTLY and with his whole force, as, though all the Carlist bodies named far outnumbered him, yet any one cut to pieces it was tolerably certain the others would retire, He marched on the 8th inst., there- fore, toward Alpens, where Augnet was posted with his battalion. Don Alfonso’s force was much nearer to Berga; but the road was more diMcult, and Oabrinetty doubtless divined that an attempt against the position of Don Alfonso was more likely to be expected, and that the other, consequently, was more likely to succeed as @ surprise. He moved rapidly, therefore, and was in a posi- tion to fallon Augnet’s command by the evening ofthe 9th, but Augnet by that time was no longer alone. Cabrinetty, of course, was no sooner iD motion from Berga than men were on the way to communicate to the Carlist forces that he was marching toward Alpens. All consequently pushed forward to support Augnet. Sabalis, with his 1,100 men, left Ripoll at four in the morning on the 9th, and DON ALFONSO MOVED from San Jaime at about the same hour, while Augnet had the whole day to make ready. Cabrinetty, arriving in front of Alpens at even in the evening, might, perhaps, have discovered, for he was shrewd, that there was more in his way than the battalicn of Augnet; but little time was given him for observation or the exercise of any cool discretion, for Augnet, sure of the men behind him, attacked the hard-marched men of Cabrinetty’s command with great impetuosity from a position chosen during the day, with a view to the necessary line of mareh of the republi- can column, Osbrinetty, somewhat discon- certed by this certainly unexpected recep- tion, nevertheless faced it like a gal- lant soldter, and endeavored to seize the village. Here, however, preparation had been before him, for the town was occupied by the men who had arrived in good season during the day, and his efforts in this direction were received by a fire Gelivered from the cover of the houses and the gar- den walls. At the same time Augnet’s attack was supplemented by @ strong advance of Saballs’ men, which drove Cabrinetty into a wooded ravine at one side of the town, where the dramaof the day was closed; for there his men, finding them- selves helplessly exposed to THE FIRE OF THB CARLISTS, who seemed to swarm forward on all sides, were either killed or fled or surrendered, #o that the ac- vue) apnibilation of his column as a republican force was the result of the day, or rather the night, for the fighting continued nearly till morning. Thave witnessed this afternoon the entry of the victors into this place, and have myself counted 767 prisoners; about two hundred scattered fugi- tives are thought to have got away, and upwards of two hundred are therefore and wounded, All the prisoners are regular soldiers, the infantry being mostly of the corps of chasseurs, Thore are artillerymen and cavalry, and many officers of va- rious grades, CABRINETTY’S BODY ‘was found on the field after the battle. The shot that killed him was received under nis jaw and passed from below upwards. It is scarcely possi- ble that it could have been received during the ac- tion unless he were lying flat on hisback. Toere is a report that his men killed him; but the nature of the wound gives probability to the supposition that he fell by his own hand, finding himself unable to face a disaster 20 overwhelming. Wiping Out a Community. P&RPIGNAN, July 12, 1873, Since forwarding the account of the battle at Al- pens we have received authentic intelligence that the day after the battle, and when the Carlist forces had marched away, @ column of republicans, num- bering 800 men, came up, burned the town and killed every person they found in 1t, Dios. Patria, Rey.—For God, Country and King—Footing it Acress the Pyrenees— Don Alfonso and Dona Maria of Mieves—Interview with the Prince— The Chieftains and Their Men—Their Strength, Discipline and Enthusiasm. HEADQUARTERS ROYAL ARMY OF CATALONIA, OL6, NEAR MANRESA, May 30, 1873. Thanks to the well blessed St. Ferdinand, the some time King of Spain, whose festival occurs this day, lam enabled to sit at @ table for a few heurs and put pen to paper for the first time since I crossed the frontier. Crossed the frontier! How easy to write the words! And yet, when I think of it all, I hardly know whether or not I am in my sober senses, It cannot beayear ago—no, it cannot be six months—since I crossed for the last time that shadowy line, or whatever else it is, that they call “the frontier.” I remember having seen square stone, about as big a8 & hand-basket, set in the solid earth, speckled with yellow mould and having &@ Greek cross and the figures 637 cut into its patient face, I wastold that was ‘the frontier,” and I believe it. I also remember, in regard to time, that all the Sowers spoke of the month of May, and the bees kept repeating it and the rumor was confirmed by ever so many little birds, and so I believe it must have been the month of May er thereabouts, At first we were nine, then eleven and finally thirteen persons, staunch Carlists every one, be- fore we could persuade our guide to move irom a point on the frontier called La Muga, probably un- known to geographers, and lead us to where our good genii were naving wreaths of laurel made to order for us in Spain, OUR GUIDE, known throughout that dismal frontier region as “The Fox,” could not be induced to move till it suited him—in which respect, by the way, ne is not very different from nearly everybody else. Ac- cording to him, it was impossible to venture into Spain without being captured and immediately shot. He knew positively and of his own personal knowledge that there were fully 14,000 men stuck along the frontier from Figueras to Puycerda, like a row of sharp new pins ona paper. The parties who commanded that army, and all the other armies in Spain, would give any amount of money and go without board and lodging fora week if they could catch him. It was perfectly clear, from hia own showing, that he was the most dangerous enemy the uppermost party in Spain had to deal with, At early dawn it would suit him to order us to certain filthy old houses oneither side of the line, ander pretence that the French gensdarmes or Spanish volunteers were on our track. At night we had to sleep in the woods, upon dirty and very lively straw, with no shelter above us but the hana of Providence, which sometimes seems too small to keep away the rain. It was too muon. I thought I could discover a little game. I therefore told bimin confidence that I was an American prince of vast wealth; that my royal father aliowed me to spend countless sums, if I 80 pleased, and, in short, that 1 would willingty give him, the guide, a few millions, if he would start at once into Spain; but it must ve at once, and no pay till our party were all safe with some Carlist force. From that moment he was a changed man, He got what he was fishing for—in promises—and im- Mediate preparations were made for our de- parture. THE MARCH. Next morning, before daybreak, we were up and on the march—thirteen of us, with three Chasse- pots, three bayonets, one pistol, one sword cane, plenty of ammunition and a considerable share of heroic resolution. We were:—Five Navarrese, cap- tured on the field of battle and escaped from prison in @ most daring manner; two Catalans, two Va. lencians, father and son; @ young Frenchman, & gallant Irishman, all the way from the county Wicklow; & poor, half-blind, but devoted Spanish priest; and, lastly, your special correspondent. We had not been marching an hour before our guide decided that it would be dangerous to carry the Chassepots and ammenition. Protest was ut- terly useless, and, to our regret, the arms were abandoned. The morning was dreary enough, and, at that tly hour, as cold as February. Besides, we started without breakfast, had lost our arms, slept badly and felt unhappy. For six or seven mortal hours we crossed mountain after mountain, climb- ing to the uppermost top of each and always going | rather, lest any field glass im the hands of any down to the narrow jagged bed of the complatning | stream that writhed along in the vailey, Well, it seems scarcely credible; but at the end of six or seven hours of the most harassing fatigue mertal ‘Was iniorjor, aud apy oue coWld be Burpyegg pud_| ever cudurgd WO found gurecives pa France! During the march we observed that our gute teft us frequently to hold long and earnest conversa tions with cowled and blanketed personages, who endeavored to look innocent and shepherd-like, and returned from those interviews witn stories confirmatory of the terrible attitude of the 14,000 bloodthirsty cipayos wao were anxiously awaiting us “immediately bebind that second mountain over yonder.” At first ali we could do was to beg him to take us to some house, on either side of the line, where we might recruit exhausted nature. To this he consented, and nature was recruited, the recruits being chiefly eggs. DESERTION. For my part I made up my mind, most unkindly, that our guide was simply an arrant coward, a grand rascal and by profession a smuggler. 1 opened my mind to the gentleman from Wicklow, the chaplain of our party and another. We agreed, unanimously, that we had been badly svld, and that If possible we should get ri@ of our guide at once. We werein @ house on the Spanish side, distant quarter of an hour from the frontier, and while there hatching our Itte plans our guide was making his own arrangements to get rid of us, 88 Wwe presently discovered. It was clear he had come upon 4 little smuggling expedition of more importance to him than our own comfort. We passed ten or twelve miserable hours in that wretched cabin, and at two o'clock in the miorn- ing were called up to run of at once into France, the entire force of 14,000 ctpayos being then upon a forced march to capture and immolate us upon the altars of the Spanish Republic, This wretched invention was our guide's plan to get rid of us, and he succeeded; for we had to go when and where he told us, not knowing what else todo. So we bundied ont among the wild winds and shadows of the night as quickly as we could and climbed a mountain, On the way our guide divided us into two groups, one being destined, poor fellows, to return to the limbo of La Muga, the other to go to a cer- tain country house a couple of hours’ march on the French side. I had the good fortune to accompany | the latter. Our guide then took leave of us, firat presenting us a emall youth of nine or ten springs, ‘who was to conduct us to our place of refuge. At Parting he affectionately gave his hand tothe “American prince,” possibly in the belief that that exalted person was a fool and would leave a rich nd valuable souvenir in the clutch of those tron | fingers. That time he did not calculate correctly. He promised to call for us in ‘three, four, five or six days” and carry us through all dangers and | difficulties right straight to the headquarters of | Don Alfonso, We smiled at his unflattering eati- gf 4s, while inwardly and sincerely hoping o age hii Again. ONCE MORE CN THE ROAD. A succession of violent rain storms detained our party ef four nearly three days at the country house to which we bad gone, and then, having pro- cured a guide, we started in geod earnest for the Carlist headquarters, We reached Camprodon— campus rotundus of the Romans—before sun- set, and, making ® 4détour of some miles to avoid the town, lest there might be republican troops there, continued our march through those terrible mountains till about ten o'clock that night, when we reached a house, where we were allowed to stay a few hours. About four o'clock next morn- ing we were aroused and conducted, two st a time, toa wood on the top of a steep hill There we found @ couple of moth-eaten cloaks, @ rock under a tree and scraps of a letter from Saballs to some one who had previously occupied the same hiding place. Those little bits of paper looked to me like the bones of some poor traveller who had perished on that lonely hill, devoured, of eourse, by wild cipayos. We were told to keep perfectly still; that a column of those terrible fellows was now on the road, within less than aa hour’s march of us, and that ifthe enemy only suspected our presence they would begin by burning the house of our host, and so forth. I think a portion of our party was somewhat scared, but the hope of break- fast cheered us all, and 60 we lay low and waited. In about an hour, true enough, & col umn of some four or five hundred of “the enemy passed us, going from’ the the neighboring village of San Pau to Camprodon. When the foe had disappeared in the distance a youth of the country, inured to the situation, con- veyed to us the intelligence that the straggiers were more to be feared than the column. In short we stayed there, lying upon the rock, in that frightiul wood, till eight o’clock that night, when we were mercifully permitted to return to the house. We now resolved to secure two guides—one to act asa scout, the other to remain with us—and push on with all our strength to acertatn house near the town of San Quirce, the owners of which were known to our chaplain. We rose at three o'clock and in half an hour more were on the road. Passing San Pau, we were joined by one of Saballs’ “guides,” returning to join his battalion, and by him informed that we were inthe very midst of hostile columns. For our security, therefore, we were obliged to take the most dificult, ont-ot- the-way paths through the woods upon the moun- tain sides, THE MARCH TO SAN QUIRCE ‘was destined to be our hardest and most trying. To ua, Unused to those mountain paths and un- | accustomed to wear the peculiar sandals deemed so necessary in Catalonia, the march was painful enough. Yet we kept up boldly and resolutely. Our scout constantly brought information of danger in this, that or the other direction, I shall never forget the town of Val Fozona, around which we marched during seven weary hours, following no paths through the mountains, avoiding them officer of the troops in the town should discover us as we tolled along. Yet in the midst ef onr fatigue, dangers and alarms it was impossible not to admire the GRANDEUR AND BEAUTY OF THE COUNTRY through whieh we were passing. Throw in s couple of lakes, ifyou are fond of water, and it beats Switzerland. The farther South we went the more enchanting we found the scenery. Range after range of woeded, green-clad mountains rose hefore us, regaling us when we plunged into their umbrazeous depths with the incense of their wild thyme and rosemary. In those glorious woods we felt safe, for no human eye could dis. cover US Moving beneath their grateful shelter. Early in the afternoom the tewn of Maulien and others in what is called the Plain of Vich could be descried in the distance, and, though we could now have descended to # more level ceuntry, we pre- ferred sticking to the friendly mountains in order to escape Observation. We dined under a rock by the side of @ roaring torrent,and while so doing were informed by @ kind old gentleman, whe was possibly looking after a few goats, that the ene- my’s sentinels were upon the crest of the mountain where we were reposing. The way we travelled from our banquet hall beneath that rock to a more distant shelter was an example. The same worthy old personage likewise informed us that a certain honse, the owners whereof were red-hot Carlists, and where we Bad proposed to apply for refresh- ments, was occupied by @ company of the enemy's soldiers or the more-to-be- dreaded volunteers, We had been within @ hundred yards of the bouse, in full view of those within, if they had chosen to look, when a sodden inspiration had led us to abandon the idea of going to the house, and we had passed on, ignorant of our danger. This was the ereatest peril we had yet run. At about five in the after- noon we reached the town of Vidrd, where, a few months ago, Sabalis cut te pieces a column of the enemy, and, finally, after an exhausting march of fifteen hours, we came upon the town of San Quirce, which we found occupied by the enemy, who were busily engaged in fortifying themselves by means of @ couple of street barricades and a couple of ridiculous towers, Not being quite pre- pared to take the town by assault, we did not dare show ourselves, but went in search of a certain country house, Either through terror or ignorance of the country, Or some other cause, our guides were now quite useless aad helpless, and in it of desperation we dispersed to look for the house where we hoped to pass the aight. I had the good fortune to fad it; but judge of my horror at @ Dit of cheese. The dogs said nothing, Not one of them barked even once on seeing a stranger—a most remarkable instance of dogged stoicism and resignatio} For my part I seated myseif upon @ stone, like Marius among the ruins of Carthage, not knewing what to do and seeking inspiration from surrounding objects. After some time I was joined by one of my wandering companions and one of the guides coming from opposite directions, The latter was immediately despatched in search of information and in a few minutes returned with the joyful intelligence that the owners of the house were coming to offer us hospitality. They came, father and son, and I thought a pair of icebergs could not have welcomed us with less warmth, They were not at all glad to see us, but, neverthe- less, opened a back door in their deserted man- sion—for ® Mansion it was, Of vast propertions— id admitted us to empty, echoing, cheerless halls and corridors, In the course of an hour our party were once more together, and in the course of another hour we sat down to a supper ofa little boiled rice and some eggs. it was eleven o'clock that night before we closed our eyes. From three in the morning to eleven at night there are just twenty hours; and now we had but four hours’ rest in prospective, for at three in the morning, at latest, we were to leave the roof our presence might compromise. FROM BAN QUIRCE TO ALPENS, In the early twilight of a gray and misty morn- ing we were again aloot, not knowing precisely where to go, but with a general idea that we should continue in @ southerly direction, hoping that before we reached Suria we sheuld fall in with some Oarlist force. In the frst Place we dismissed our useless guides, and then Providence came to our aid. We heard—I do not remember where or from whom—that one of | Sabalis’ confidante was in the neighborhood and might be found in the cabin of a certain poor old woman. Thither we went and there we found the Person in question, who was going south, and agreed to accompany us as guide, The poor old woman was delighted to receive us, insisted on giving us breakfast, and went to no end of trouble to show her pleasure and make us comfortable. A march of about six hours bronght us to the town of San Boy, where we hoped to dine; put a cok umn of the enemy was expected from Prats de Llusanés, lessening considerably our prospects of dinner. In a little while news came, or rather Tumor insisted, that the column was within half ap bour’s walk of us, and 80, im obe dience to our guide, we made for the woods in all haste. There we lay for hours, hungry and disgusted; for no column came, netther did any dinner. We finally mutinied and then our guide, who probably had his mental eye upon a ten-franc piece, led us to @ certain “hermitage” on the top of a high mountain, Here WO may be said to have at last “STRUCK ILE.” We found at the hermitage, a modest chapel, plenty of provisions and a scouting party of eight or ten Carlists, the first we had seen. It was a great relief to find a party of armed friends, but it would appear that civil war develops caution, for we got no information from them that could serve us, and when they marched away at the end of a couple of hours we felt as lonesome and helpless as ever. Our guide, of course, knew all avout them, but re- mained as dumb as an eyster. When night com- menced to spread her blanket upon the earth, shutting out the light of day, and warning us that it was time to imitate her prudent example, we descended from the hermitage and made eur way to a country house, where we were most hospitably received, Next day, our sixth upon the road, was Sunday, but we had to march notwithstanding. Our gnide proposed to take us, ifmy memory eserves me right, to the town of Viladreu, but on the way we fell in with @ party of about fifty Carlists, under the com- mand of a very fine, intelligent and polished old gentleman, mounted upon a beautiful little moun- tain horse, and pursuant to the advice of this enlef We retraced our steps, The town of Alpens lay in an opposite direction to that we had been pursu- ing, and our guide determined to take us there, the distance being only five or six miles, We reached the town about nightfall, and learned that General Miret had le(t only an hour or two be(ore our arrival. The Carlist commandante de armas, or district commander, advised us to leave the town at ence and push on, the Lord knows where; but we determined to follow our own coun- sel and remain for the night. It was clear enough that we ran a risk of being disturbed by the enemy, whe might be in pursuit of Miret; but with an unshaken confidence tn the protection of Divine Providence we remained and proved thatim the end we were right in so resolving. GENERAL MIRET. We ordered @ gorgeous supper of boiled beans and other ‘‘fixins,” and then retired to rest our weary limbs, At about one o’cleck in the morning we were awakened by the clatter of herses’ hoofs andahammering at sundry doors, One thought flashed through the minds of all our of our party— “The enemy have got us!’ A slight panic ensued, one of usin his fight jumping up and falling fat onthe floor, Another ventured to peep through the window and annduanced that one of the ‘‘ene- my” wore’ a white cap. In anether minute some twenty or twenty-five horsemen galloped up tothe door of our hotel, lights appeared in the street and in various windows, and then we could see plainly enough that the white caps worn by our eaptora were simply the white Carlist ddina. Presently a | large body ef infantry marched into the Plaza de Armas, where our hotel was situated, appearing to our bewildered and delighted eyes to amount to many thousands. But fatigue was stronger than curiosity, and we were soon once more sound asleep. It may have been an hoor afterwards when we were again aroused by the voice of the Comandante, who told us get up at once and pre- went ourselves to the General. In another quarter of an hour we were in the presence of that person- age. We found a young man of about twenty- eight, smoking a cigarette and surrounded by an armed guard. Upon me this young general made an unpleasant impression. In the Grat place, I could see no necessity for being taken out of bed at two in the morning to be in- terrogated as if we were prisoners of a dangerous character, and I therefore felt very indignant. Each of us was asked a couple of questions, a few minutes’ silence ensued, then the guard was dis- | missed and the General, inviting as into hia pri- vate room, entered into conversstion—without however, putting off anything—in @ manner that I felt to be cold and ungentile. He was not io uni- form, the only military insignia about him being a scarlet doina and asabre, He is near-sighted and sharp-featured, qualities which increase to some extent the unpleasant impression produced by the bdrusquerte of his manner. His bravery is unques- tioned. In action he has never failed to expose himself in the most gallant manner, and has thus won for himself very considerable distincfon and reputation. He promised us we should seé the Prince, Don Alfonso, in the course of two or three days, and then, shaking each by the hand, dis- missed us. COLONEL CAMPS, @ frank man of pleasant manners, a couple of older than Miret, accompanied te latter. He wears @ distinctly Carlist uniform, and looks what he is— & brave and dashing officer. Attached to the stat of Miret is another personage of note—the Infante DON FRANCISCO DE BOURBON, son of the unlucky Don Enrique, who lost his life in a duel with the Duke de Montpensier. This young gentleman is some seventeen or eighteen years old, has the rank of commandant and wears the Spanish army uniform. He has given proof on several occasions Bf considerable courage and gal- lantry in the field, and once had the good fortune when surrounded to cut his way through the enemy with the aid of his sabre, which he knows how to use, THE CARLIST FORCE under Miret and Camps was about six hundred men, well, though not uniformly nor very cem- pletely, armed, Some few had no bayonets, and a few others bad only shet guns. There was a fair sprinkling of oid had served in the first Carlist war, finding it walled up! A few half-starved cats and |, years ago; but a company of boys, sixty or sevouty dogs roamed around the deserted building. At sight of me the cataset up a most dismal chant, wherein, of course, they sung of their suiterings, strong, from fourteen to sixteen years of age, in- terested me possibly more. These young braves are armed with cavalry carbines, and make just as - : the cruelty or thelr masters and their longing for [ good soldiers as any. I marched with them many ays and found them very good boys, very obliging} very patient and most enthusiastic, DISCIPLINE among all the Carlist parties I have seen is excel lent, They invariably pay tor what they take. & saw 8 volunteer severely rebuked by his captain for having pulled a few handiuls of clover to give toone of the horses of the party. The forces of the Madrid government, on the contrary, seldom pay—e the reguiar soldiers sometimes, the volunteers never. Wherever I have been I have invariably heard the latter denounced for their excesses and outrageous conduct, DON ALFONSO, From Alpens we marched with Miret in search of the Prince, nothing of note oceurring beyond the fact that one night @ violent rainstorm evertook us and pelted us for a geod long hour. It was too dark to see the road, and we were obliged to light matches to enable us to find our way. We crossed a river some forty feet wide on a single plank, the flashing of the matches {adding much to the pic- turesqueness of the scene. Ifthe enemy had beem abroad and-crept upon us that night he could have done us an immense amount of damage. Before midnight we reached @ house whieh could shelter about half our force, the rest being compelled to march a couple of miles further, to another house. I chose to remain with the first party, luckily finding a pile of peans under @ sned, upon which I threw myself im my wet clothes and slept till daybreak. In the forenoon of the following day we reached the tow of Gironella, near the Province of Lerida. We made but a short stay, passing on to the town of Casserras, where we hajted for dinner. At about two o'clock word was sent to Miret that the Prince was within an hour’s march of us, and, tru@ enough, in an hour’s time or so we-had the pl ure of seeing Don Alfonso and his heroic youn; ; Wife, the Princess Dofia Maria de las Nieves. They! were accompanied by General Tristany, at the head of some four or five hundred men—possibly six hundred—of whom forty or fifty were cavalry, splendidly mounted and armed. The good | condition of the cavalry is explained by th¢ fact that Tristany was retnrning from Sanauja, town near Solsona, where he had captured force of fifty-three cavairy—men, horses and arms, ‘The men volunteered to serve Don Cartos, and, s@ far as J could discover, they made as good Carlistd asany. Tristany carried a fine fleld glass, which the leutenant colonel commanding the force Sanauja presented to him and insisted on his cepting. The fraternizing went even further, fos the Prince and Princess visited that officer in thé house te which he was carried when he fell, rather: badly wounded, and mutual expressions of esteout and so forth were exchanged. These details we! given me by the aide who accompanied their Roy: Highnesses upon that occasion. AN INTERVIEW with the Prince was obtained by me so soon after his arrival as it was convenient. Nothing coulé exceed the politeness of his manner and the easy’ affability with which he entered tuto conversation, Knowing that I represented the New Yore HERALD, he was anxious to know how that journal was Oisposed, remarking that the respectable press of the civilized world was bound to support the cause of order against disordor, and of reltgiow against impiety. Having ventured to ask him If he felt satisfied with tho situation tn Catalonia, he re- plied, smilingly, ‘Not altogether. In some respects. shere ja a great improvement, but there are still many difficulties to contend against, Tere are numerous columns of the enemy in the field and our army is rather small and scattered. The tem- per of the people of the province is peculiar and a source of diMculty. It needs much tact and pati. ence to manage a people so proud and independents but, with tne Divine assistance, our diMoulties wilt disappear, Another great cause of trouble and anxiety is the hostility of M. Thiers, who uses thé entire machinery of a powerful nation to make am unjust and unprovoked war upon our cause. H@ cuts us off ina great measure from all communi. cation with the rest of Europe, hinders our friends from sending us necessary supplies and encoury ages the press and telegraph to calumniate us.’” Iremarked that things appeared to go well im Navarre; so well that it was rumored Don Carlo had entered that province. The Prince interrupted me eagerly, saying:—"“Da | you believe my brother has entered Navarre P I have heard tt spoken of, but am not at all sure. The last communication I have had from my brother was received on the 19th of last month, and reliable mews reaches us very seldom; we aré 80 tsolated.”” I spoke of the current rumor in regard to the disbanding of # large number of the regular troops in the coming month of June, observing that the circumstance, if true, must prove both emcourags ing and consoling to His Royal Highness. He replied, with a doubtful shake of the head :— “Well, 1 don’t know; twenty-five thousand, of even eighteen thousand, is a very large number td dismiss under present circumstances. Do you be- eve the rumor? 1 hope it may prove true, or even partially so; but I am afraid it is an exag- geration, The Madrid authorities will strain everg nerve to retain the present army; for now, that the draft has been abolished by them, they know they cannot raise another if the present should be dig- solved.”” After @ few commonplace onsefvations and exe pressions of regret on the part of the Prince that he could not furnish me a horse, he thanked m@ warmly for my sympathy with the cause, and the interview closed. I had other occasions of con- versing with him, and always found him the same— amiaple, intelligent, thoughtful! and thoroughly unaffected. During the interview above recorded THE PRINCKSS DONA MARIA stood by, chatting with several persons, and, lika the queen who was in the garden, Eating bread and honey, was doing ample justice to a goed sample of sausage and @ piece of black bread, beth hands being occupied. She 1s quite young, not more than eighteen or nineteen, a very fair bidude, small im person and perfectly charming in manner. She wears a long, dark blue riding habit, 4 black embroidered jacket and a white béma, with @ long golden tassel, procisely similar ta | that worn by her husband, Upon the sleeves of her jacket, as well as upon those of the Prince, are three fleura-de-lys in gold | embroidery. The béma becomes her amazingly; but, since she scorns veil, the hot sun of Spaia has done some damage to her deticate complexion. Though speaking four or five languages with ad- mirable correctness, she prefers, through a senti- ment of patriotism which does her honor, to con- verse in Castilian. She is idolized by the army, but the men would rather have her retire from the dangers and fatigues which she shares with trae heroism, Her place is not in the field, and she must be unaware of the opinion that pre- vais in the Carlist ranks and elsewhere that her presence is often @ serious embarrass- ment and a@ hindrance to military operations; otherwise her very devotion to the cause would counsel her to retire. Before and after the failure at Puycerda the men saw her, with pain, obliged to march through the mountains on foot, with snow to her waist and suffering untold privations. They would not like to see her do it again. sne thought less of it than any, and cheered every one by voice and example. Then she is ach @ little rebel. Often om the march, when ‘ne word “silence” had passed down through the ranks, I have heard het merry laugh ring out as if defying the enemy, WR probably ho vered near. BUDDEN DEATH OF A GERMAN WOMAN, Captain Whitcomb, of the Nineteentd precinety yesterday afterdoon reported 30 Coroner Herrmaay that Mra, Sarah Sanga, & German, widow, sixty eight years of died suddenly at yy ae eers nty-sixth str without med cal 8 st ance. Deceased left bank books showing og a considerable amount in overs = 'y titde tions of this city, Captain ‘pitcomb placed an officer in charge of the premises till the Coroner, arrives. ———— KILLED BY A FALL, Coroner Herrman was yesterday called to 1,63§ Second avenue to hold an inquest in the case of Janes McNif, Ofty-three years of age, and born r who died trom fracture of the leg ihe injuries caused by falling from @ ladder at 7 Cuerry street on the 28th ultimo,

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