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4 — SPAIN. Perflous Adventures of a Herald Correspondent During the Massacre at San Quirse. ORRIBLE ATROCITIES DESCRIBED, Mothers Murdered, Daughters Outraged in the Presence of Their Hasbands and Fathers by the Republican Troops. THE RETREAT TO VIOH. eee The Effect of Cabrinetty’s Defeat and Death in Barcelona. ; BLASPHEMY AND SOCIALISM. A Graphic Picture of the Distracted Con- dition of Spain, THE GOVERNMENT POWERLESS. PRATS DE LLUSANES, July 12, 1873. During the last fortnight we have had excitement enough to bave satisfied the most insatiable soul thirsting for adventure, Don Quixote himself would have been content, and the grumblings of his trusty squire, Sancho Panza, have attained their ‘attermost culmination, had they accompanied us on | our marches and in our battles since the 3d of July. In fact, there 1s only one race of men, not being Carlists, who would or could endure the hardships, fatigues and dangers of this campaign, and they 4 are the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE HERALD, Alter we—that is, Sabalis and Don Alfonso—had een atiacked by Cabrinetty just before Prats de ‘Liusanes and had succeeded in driving him into the town, we made a forced march the same night ito San Jaime de Frontanza—a march which was construed by the troops into a precipitate retreat. Yhe fact was, however, that our movement into the mountuins was occasioned by our knowledge that Colonel Vega was advancing in our year from Vich, while a second body of troops had lett Manresa the day before. It is mo joke having to march six leagues up | hill and down hill after having sustained a combat | for nearly four hours. Still the movement was ne- cessary, and succeeded in baMing the troops com- pletely, inasmuch as, after having gained a signal | advantage, they expected usto have been ‘dver- | confident, and that we should await the result of ‘their combinations. But aman must get up very early, indeed, to catch Saballs even winking; he allows himself no rest and none to those who are with him. It has always been a matter of surprise to me how Dojia Blanca could support the fatigues Ymposed upon her. But there she was, always dressed in her violet-colored riding habit, @ hussar- Tike jacket of the same color trimmed with fur, the White boina coquettishly placed on the side of her head, looking as bright as the rosy dawn which greeted her every morning. For tne next two days we kept entirely in the Mountains; but on the evening of the 6vh, having heard that the republican detachment im San Quirse de Desora had forsaken the place, leaving Only eighty men behind, Savalls determined to take possession of it. After having camped out in the mountains, north of San Quirse, we started at One o'clock in the morning, and surrounded the place by half-past two. The garrison, alter having been summoned to surrender, and secing that there was no chance oj escaping, capitulated at once. They were disarmed and set at liberty, alter which we procecded to a more agreeable operation, that of preparing breakfast. In the afternoon, at about three o'clock, tt appears that Saballs received in- formation that Colonel Vega had advanced from | Vich, where he had received reintorcements, and was within an hour’s distance of San Quirse. Saballs, wishing to spare the place the horrors of a bombardment and battle in the streets, withdrew his forces and took upa position north of Montes- quin, This your correspondent only heard of after~ Wards, for the first notice he had of the withdrawal ‘Was atreicudous shouting, firing and shrieking. Utterly worn out by the fatigue of the last jort- night, during which our marches averaged twelve fours each, I had laid myself down on the bed in a room at the back of a long, rambling house, irom which I had excluded all intruders by bolting and barring the door in such @ manner as to shut out aliordimary noise. Springing now to my feet I looked out of the window and saw a sight I shall not soon forget. Tne Carlists had left the town, and Vega was entering with his column and three or four companies of volunteers. San Quirse, with the exception of three or four families, is easen- tially Carlist; hence the volunteers—to whom the Carlists grant no quarters—were determined to improve the occasion, and, assisted by a consider- able number of the regular troops themseives, charged upon the inoiiensive population with bayonets fixed, MASYACRING EVERY ONE they met, with a bursting Into the houses like so many incarnate flends, As may be supp somewhat uneasy as to my own ultimate fate; but, fortunately ior myself, the house | was in belonged toone of the few iiberals in the place, and with whom Thad already had a short friendly confaba- tion, in the course of which he had confidentially informed me that he was a great adwirer of “Los Estados Unidos,” “El Petre more). Oy nada mas” (petroleum and nothing To him, therefore, al! my hopes of salva- tion turned, and it was with feelings of unmitigated | delight that! heard tim knocking at the door and crying out, “Schor Americano, come with me; the Colone! will he here directly! 1 at once opened NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. committed ; but do of my command," “But,” I replied, “can you not stop these hor- rors? “What!” he shouted, with an almost frantic laugh; “Stop them! Come and see,” So saying, he led the way down stairs, I follow- ing. Scarcely had we proceeded ten yerds when & young girl rushed shrieking out of a house—she could not have been more than fourteen—followed by aruman, bayonet in hand. ‘“Carajo!” shouted the Colonel, and, seizing the man by the beard and skin of his throat, with a mighty back-handed swing of his arm dashed his villanous skull against the stone wall. Ina trice he was surrounded by a dozen of the volunteers, their features distorted by evil passions, and shouting “Back! back!’ while some even levelled their pieces. The Colonel's guard, however, among whom were acouple of caraboniers, placed themselves between us and our assailants, and, while keeping them back, we returned to our quarters. During the night similar scenes were enacted all through the place. Four houses were burned, and it was not until Not fear that this is the last day dawn that anything like order was re- stored. Then, however, reports reached us that some of the peasants that bad es- caped had implored Saballs to come to their protection, and it was also announced that the someten had been sounded in the mountain villages, This last report seemed to have a sober- ing effect upon the men, And well it might. The someten is the Catalonian tocsin. At its dread summons the peasants rise, arm themselves with whatever weapons they can get—knives, guns, blunderbusses and pitchforks—and fall upon the common foe, Consequently, on the 8th, early in the morning, the troops left the town, Colonel Vega RETURNING TO VICH only in time to escape Saballs, who was hurrying up, and succeeded in cutting off about a dozen of his rear guard, Sabails did not, however, consider it prudent to follow him, as Cabrinetty was advanc- ing on Prats de Llusanes, and nad sent a messen- ger to Vega, telling him to take up a position at San Boz de Liusanes. San Quirse was now reoccu- pied by the Carlists, and their fury and indigna- tion at the treatment the unfortunate inhabi- tants had met with was beyond all description. The news of the someten having been sounded was no idle report; armed groups of “peasants—ten, twenty, thirty strong—poured in all dav, and were despatched by Saballs to take possession in various points along the roads. The whole country was a volcano, and in'o the midst of this volcano Cab- rinetty, # doomed man, was entering with his doomed forces. ‘ The same day we proceeded to Alpens, two jezgues to the northeast of San Quirse. Here we passed the night, and next day, at about one o'clock, we received the news that Cabrinetty had arrived at Prats de Liusanes and intended attack- ing us that day if we should give him the oppor- tunity. “I rather fancy,” said Sabalis, “we shall attack him.” Then, placing 500 men in the church and houses in various parts of the town, with strict injunctions not to fire a shot until the signal was given by the officer commanding the detach- ment in the church tower, the assembly was sounded and the men marched out of the place, apparently taking the road to San Quirse. In the meantime the Alcalde had sent an advice to Cabri- netty informing him that the Carlists, to the num- ber of 1,300 men, had left for San Quirse. Cabri- netty then advanced, and about four o'clock the vanguard, composed of three companies, entered the market piace. Scarcely had they formed, and before the body of the forces had entered the town, than a volley was poured on them from the church tower, and from all the houses round about the ambuscade the Carlists rushed forth. Cabrinetty at once divided his forces into three columns. He himself commanded the left flank, while Coionel Pastor took the right and advanced to the attack. But, with the rapidity of lightning, the Carlists returned from their feigned retreat and swarmed down the heights, sweeping down upon the troops like an avalanche. Both sides fought witn the utmost fury, especially when Sa- balls, at the head of his men, found himself face to face with Cabrinetty and his division. But almost immediately Cabrinetty was struck down by a ball piercing his neck and throat, and, seeing their leader fail, his men made no further attempt at re- sistance, but either surrendered unconditionally or tried to escape. In the meantime the rest of the troops had retreated into the houses, where they defended themselves for a short time and then fol- lowed the example of their comrades. By nine o'clock the last shot haa been fired and THE VICTORY WAS COMPLETE. ‘The Carlists had taken more than eight hundred prisoners, two cannon and all the ammunition, horses and baggage of the column. Their own losses were inconsiderable, amounting to only seventeen killed and thirty-nine wounded, while the repnblican troops had more than two hundred killed and about filty wounded—a proof that but little quarter was given. A number of those who were killed were cut down by the sometens while endeavoring to escape. Thus ended this eventful day. We passed the night at Alpens and left at noon the next day, your correspondent following Don Alfonso to Prats de Llusanes, while Saballs marched on Baga, which, as I have since heard, he took possession of the same day, the garrison surrendering them- selves and their cannon at the first summons, BARCELONA, July 16, 1873, ose, I fete | adding, however, at the same | time, that the present Spanish government was Hl The rambdla of Barcelona is the finest metropoll- ; tan promenade in the world. | muel | those who now consider themselves the créme of | society—its saviours, as they titulate themselves. ; From morning to night—nay, all night through, even to the early hours of dawn—it is crowded by | the rabble, who, by virtue of their muscle, their rags and their dirt, consider themselves better than any one else and everybody who has a decent coat on his back and washes his face and hands a traitor, a Carlist or an Alfonsist. These gentry, the dregs of the population, workmen on strike for whatever, or | INTERNATIONALISTS, Spanish, French and Italian lounge about all day and occupy the chairs, for which, in darker ages, before the tide of equality, fraternity and liberty set in, @ price of two cuartos was levied, Now, it is only the black-coated traitors that have to pay | retributory blackmail and meekly allow them- Selves to be despoiled of the copper coins a the door and descended with my host into the | these odorous pillars of the “republica democratica “vest room.” the windows of which looked ont | sederal” the more decent portion of Barcelonese upon the chief street. Alb for his repubiican opinions, my host was pale and trembiing, and on my observing that he at least had nothing to fear, he remarkea, “No, not from the officers and the men who obey them; but this column is A BAND OF ROBBERS AND INCENDIahIES. Listen!” At that moment heart-rending shrieks burst from the house opposite, the large glass doors opening out into the balcony were torn open, t a liberal and known halfa dozen soldiers appeared dragging out the | unfortunate owner of the house, a rope was fastened round his neck and the other end affixed to the iron rail of the baicony. At first I thought they were going to throw him over and hang him; but the diabolical brutes did not think of such an | actofmercy. No. Leaving the rope about three fect play, they seized his two daughters and vio- Jated them then and there, one after the other, be- fore his very eyes, leaving their unfortunate vic- tims worse than lifeless. An old woman rushing from the house—most probably the mother, and crying for sssistance—was followed by one of the | brave volunteers, who felled ber to the ground with the butt end of bis musket and literally Bmashed her skull with repeated blows. Sicken- ‘ing at the sight 1 turned away. Almost at the fame moment @ clattering of troops resounded through the street and Colouel de le Vega dis- hiounted at the door. Within @ few seconds he eutered the room, ushered in by my host, who at once introduced me to him. Without any pream- ble he said to me, “I see you are disgusted, “It is Not to be compared to mine, You are a stranger. You cannot tee! what I do at seeing my own coun- trymen transformed into INHUMAN BRUTES. 1 “1 almost feel inclined to denounce yoa as having been with the Cariists, #o that you should not be lake to revouns the wizocitles that LEV BOW pews society has to run the gauntiet of thre | ening glances and no less threat- | ening remarks. Besides the “patriots” this | Same Rambla is garnished with a fringe of beggars in every staxe of physical and moral decomposi- tion, Cripples, with their limbs distorted in a | Manner highly suggestive of Spanish affairs in gen- | eral; with no limbs at all; women, with wretched | infants, suffering from an accumulation of ills, are | Seen at every step. Others thrust their loathsome sores Within an loch of your face. If you sit down | you are treated to a panorama of | THE MOST HORRIBLE OBJECTS. | Some, with a little bell, which they tintinabulate to direct your attention to their foulness; others, accompanied by their friends, who act a8 cicerones an@ point out and | expiain the nature of their sores and | issues with a volubility that savors of much prac- tice. These entertainments cost no end of cuartos, | and a walk through Barcelona may be said to cost at least one pesata, In addition, there is the heat and the smell of the drains, which pour forth their | filth and eMuvium right into the port at the bottom | here at present. But when such news arrives as that of the defeat and death of Cabrinctty, the Rambla becomes a pandemonium. Fierce groups | collect at all the corners; as far asthe eye reaches | it sees nothing but a seething mass of PRENZIED HUMANITY. The slightest thing is suMcient to cause a stam- pede. Last night we had two such. Three or jour obreros, taking a chair in each hand, clashed them together, the noise faintly resembling the clinking and clash of sabres. Instantaneously an electrical panic seized the crowd; two flank movements cleared the proménade of the loungers, who all rushed to seek refuge im the shops and ca:és, the owners incMectually cadcavoring to close thy doors. I wish I could say as | ‘h for its present habitués as, at any rate, for | jatriot'’ despises to pay. Between the files of | | ofthe Rambla. Such is the normal state of things | ‘On the second occasion, two hours later, there was Greater reason for the panic. A pickpocket had endeavored to rob a gentieman of his watch, and on the Ilstter frustrating the attempt and collaring the thief, the pickpocket raised the cry of ‘Carlista”—equivalent to “Pruasian” during the days of the Commune—whereupon, without anymore ado, the unfortunate man was shot down. Yesterday evening a man—a fishmonger— ‘was visited in his own house by @ party of volun- teers, who asked him where nis son was. On his pro- fessing ignorance as to his whereabouts the leader said he would give him half an hour to Gna out. The unfortunate man then assured them that he really did not know, but that, even if he did, he would not tell tnem. “Oh, you wouldn’t, wouldn't you?” said one of the miscreants, raising his gun as he spoke and SHOOTING HIM DEAD, brought ina This morning a body of Meg man accused of being a Carligfand a spy. As soon as he arrived before the church at the bottom of the Rambla, where the “Gmiasde la Republica’ have taken up: their quar! ‘shouts arose from the infuriated mob of “Matarle! (“Kill him!”) and it was witn the greatest diMeuity that his captors preserved his life for a while, But only for a while. Just as they Were handing him overto the guard to beled to the citadel three or four shots were fired, and he fell lifeless to the ground. The mob then endeavored to seize his body and drag it through the streets, but were, happily, prevented, Not a day passes without some unfortunate man being murdered sans fagon. These few facts auMciently prove the terribly ex- cited state of all classes of society here. Yestcr- day, at the French Consulate, no less than one thousand france were received for the ‘VISAS OF PASSPORTS alone. One steamer left with 600 passengers, an- other with 400, and this evening @ third is an- nounced in which every place was taken three days ago. The steam companies gre making hay while the sun shines. For the voyage from here to Port Vendres the fare at present, is £2 103. it is usually 10s, THE EFFROT OF CABRIN&TTY'’S DEFEAT. The day after Cabrinetty’s death and defeat had become known there wasa general strike in ull the workshops and factories in ana round about Barcelona, A great meeting was convened in the Plaza de Cataluiia, «where, at hall-past four, more than six thousand of the intransigentes were assem- bled, The orators addressed the multitude from the balcony of Seiior Gibert’s house, the said bal- cony being adorned with flags bearing the inscrip- tions—“‘Emancipacion Social!” “Exterminacion a los Carlistes!” “Viva la Repubdliga Social!” The Speeches were to the effect that the government, instead of sending troops to fight the Varlists, em- ployed their forces in attacking the children of the people, alluding to the internationalist movement in Alcoy and its excesses; thgt the authorities were grossly neglecting their duties in not arrest- ing and incarcerating—“in mot fusilading the whole piggery (porqueria) of Carlists, Alfonists, and reactionists’—and finally proposing a twelve hours’ grace to the authorities in order to take effectual measures against them. This proposition was received with a howl of acclamation, and off the vast multitude surged down the Rambla and the Calles de la Boqueria and La Libertad to the Plaza de San Jaime, where some more specchily- ing took place and the volunteers were exhorted to take possession of all the stations, the port and other points of departure from Barcelona, so as to prevent any of the ‘Uarlist miscreants and clerical vermin” from escaping. This was done. At the same time the tram cars were ordered to stop run- ning, because ‘da porqueria Inglesa” (the tram car company is an English one) was taking the bread out of their rival’s mouths. One of the San Jaime orators especially tickled the fancy of the multitude—at least a portion of it; I must in jus- tice say there were some dissentients—by the {ol- lowing choice bit of general denunciation:— “Finally, death to the Carlists, Alfonsists and clergy! Extermination to those who distil their gold from the blood and sweat of the workmen! All those who have money are against us! Death to the black-robed charlatans who poison the minds of our wives and children with their perni- cious doctrines! ‘ BLASPHEMY and death to the God who has chosen thom for his ministers!" (Asimismo muere el Dios que se serve de Ellos!) Then, breaking up in the Plaza San Jaime, they proceeded to the Governor's place, where they in- formed him of their resolution, and called upon him to compiy with it. Sefior Salayera then made a short, pithy speech, saying that their reso- lution to combat the Carlists was most excellent, but that they ought to go to the mountains and fight them, and that for this praiseworthy object they should receive every possible assistance, but that they must support the government in its legal action, concluding by assuring them that he was taking every measure to suppress Carlism im the city. ‘The same night a number of arrests were made by the authorities and three persons shot by straggling partics of volunteers. The next day similar meetings were held, attended py similar | consequences, and so threatening did affairs look that the varions Consuls held a conference regard- ing the protection of their subjects and their re- ception on the men-of-war stationed here in case of a sudden rising. The anarchy is complete and THE GOVERNMENT POWERLESS. In Alcoy, a flourishing town in Valencia, fifty kilo- metres north of Alicante, the working classes, in- stigated by a number of French Communists, pre- sented themselves to the Alcalde, Don Augustin Albors, and bade him assemble the manufacturers and acquaint them with their ultimatum—an im- mediate rise of twenty per cent in their wages. Giving him twenty-four hours to comply, they with- drew and took possession of all the roads leading from the place. In the meantime, the Alcalde’ having sent jor troops, advised the manufacturers tower of San Augustin and garrisoning it with eight guardia civile and twenty-four of the muni ci- pai guards, At ten o’clock the next morning, the five thousand, assembled before the town hall, them that the decision of five or six of the masters had not yet been received. Thereupon the crowd— the Communist portion—clamored for another and More sympathetic alcalde and municipal board. On hearing this the Aicaide, with more determina- | tion than wisdom, fired his revolver at one of the ringleaders and wounded him severely, This was the sign for @general attack, Houses were broken | open, hostages seized and the various buildings for- tifled and garrisoned by private individuals and the | authorities, set on fire or besieged. THE COMMUNE Was at its height in Alcoy. For three days and nights the bloody warfare, continued, until the be- sieged had no more ammunition left. At last the Alcade and his brave garrison in the church of San Angustin also discharged their last cartridge, and with the fury of incarnate fiends the Communists burst open the doors and massacred every soul within, killing the Alcaide and his assistant, Don | Antonio Cabrera, at the very foot of the altar, and } then horribly mutilating the bodies. The town was now completely in the hands of the Communists, who at once formed a govern- ment, imprisoned, executed and levied contribu. tions alter the most approved Dantonesque princi- pics. This state of things lasted about a week, | when the government at Alicante and Madrid be- gan to think that, perhaps, the commotion had covled down suficiently to allow of some | intervention. Accordingly, @ ‘“pacifying com- mission’? was entrusted to Sefior Cer- vera, who proceeded to Alcoy with three other gentiemen. The only result obtained by this committee was their report to the Governor “that even at @ distance it was horribie to see the place” (“que causa horror ver la poblacion 4 cierta distancia”), Finally, atter much palaver, the In- surrectionists promised tobe good boys and be | have themselves in future, the only condition | attaching to their general nesty being an en- gagement that the losses sustained by the propric” tors should be raade good out of the funds pro. duced by the direct municipal duties. This was ! agreed to, and thereupon General Velarde entered the town with bis column and restored order. With such sarcial government aq thia what can to resist, he himself fortitying the church and | workmen and the rabbie, numbering some four or | where the Alcalde, in order to gain time, told them | be expected ? No constraint is exercised. Al tn- surrectionary movements are allowed to come to @ head, run their course, and no one is punished. The rabble is patted on the back, told to be a good boy and not doit again. There are scarcely any troops left and no one to lead them. Colonel de la Vega, who was able to maintain himself at the head of his column by allowing hia men every possible license, has had such a fright of the somaten that he resigned the day after his exploits at San Quirse de Besora, of which another correspondent of the HELALD has given a graphic account. In his letter announcing his resignation he.says:—“I am forced to tender my resignation in ‘order, in com- mon with many of my soldiers who have taken no part in these excesses, that I may not be con- founded with thieves and robbers, and still less with assassins and incendiaries," ‘Thus there are scarcely any regular troops at aly in the fleld IN CATALONIA, The only forces are the volunteers of the Repub- lica Federal, of whom about four thousand have left Barcelona—1,000 are now passing my window— en route for the mountains, where tliey have sworn to burn every Carlist villaze they come vo, doom- ing Alpens, where Cabrinetty was killed, to especial | destruction. 1m the meantime THE CARLISTS are having it all their own way, and a childish, babyish way it seems to be. In tact, the whole of Spain reminds one of a parcel of mischievous school boys—or monkeys—run riot. The Carlists, full of petty bickeriugs and squabbles among the leaders, still keep picnicking among the mountains, entrap- ping column now and then in some ambuscade, or surprising some pettifogging little town, with its garrison of a dozen men, but never making any real advance. This cither argues thorough impo- tence on the part of their leaders—for really there. is nothing at all to oppose their advance—or else it proves that Carlism has only a home in the altura—in the mountains. I believe itis both combined. Of their military operations in Navarre, which I followed for three months, I can certainly affirm that they are no more able to risk a pitched battle against equal numbers in the plains than they are to fly to the Milky Way, and from the observations made by the HERALD corre- spondents in Cataionia it seems that they are still worse off there and have stil smaller chances of success. ‘The fact is, that beyond the rustica in the mountains of Navarre, in the Basque provinces and in Catalonia, and the aristocratic families in these provinces and some few in the south o! Spain, Don Carlos has no party except the clergy, and repre- sents an obsolete dynasty. The great bulk of the population is Alfonsist, The middle classes throughout Spain adhere to the Prince of Asturias; the of_icers are all Alfonsist. Were they not, or had they the slightest affection for Don Carlos, would they not long since have joined his arms ?: But no. ‘They know that Carlism is A SNARE AND A DELUSION; they know that amiable, courteous and gentle- manlylixe as are the Carlist officers and aristocracy, they know that they are an utterly impracticable Trace, strange to tiie ways of government and ad- ministration, while the Alfonsists have been forty years in office. ‘The fate of Spain will be decided by the issue of the combat betwech the Republic, which is arti- ficial, and Alfonsism, which has taken deep roots, the Carlist movement being merely an interlude— the yeast that is making the dough rise, tne fer- mentation that is clearing off the dregs. How long this ferment will last it is impossible to say. But one thing is certain—the opinion is expressed on all sides—and that is that there will have to be a grand clearing out of the internationalist ele- ments. Nothing less than the cannon and the fusillade will be able to sweep Spain of these tur- bulent Communists. Pandering to their demands, which Pi y Margall and consorts are doing, is worse than useless. They are merely putting of the evil day, which is bound to come, and will in- crease in horror the longer it is delayed. oe Just now there is another stampede on the Rambla. But itis of no consequence. They have only shot a man in the Calle de la Reunion. “Viva la Repudlica Federal! Viva ia Emanotpacion Social!” SERRANO’S PLOT. Meeting of the Conspirators in Lisbon— French Communists on the War Path. MataGa, July 17, 1873. Since my letter of the 5th inst. this city has been in a state of revolution. Contending aspirants for local honors who command the different militia companies employ themselves in intriguing against Mayor of the town or Governor of the province before he is ousted and some one else takes his Dlace for an equally limited period. We have had one or two conflicts in the streets, resulting in loss of life and keeping the city in a continual state of terror. For several days thousands of the people fled from the city and took refuge in the villages of the Vega and the mountains. Since the Com- munistic doings at Alcoy, the sickening details of which you have doubtless published, there is much | mitted here. There are three or four French Com- munists here at work, but I am unabie to learn What progress they are making. There is a grand military conspiracy on foot that will no doubt carry or miscarry before you receive this letter, For several weeks a number of leading Spanish Generals, who are in exile, have neen con- gregating in Lisbon. Principal among them are Generals Serrano and Caballero de Rodas. They have been secretly working with the troops still left in the employ of the government and have succeeded in getting control of them. Iam unable to tell you in whose interest this conspiracy is, but I know tt is against both the Carlists and the pres- ent government. The pian of operations is this:— | Serrano is to go into the Basque provinces and | Rodas to Estremadnra (Serrano has already made | his entry into his field), and, after getting control | Of the forces, Serrano is to march on Madrid, and | de Rodas to cover his rear. General Ripoil, with the troops he now has and may congregate at Cordova, is to fall on | Malaga, Granada and Jaen. General Laserna, witb such troops as he can muster, is to take care of Seville and Cadiz, Catalonia is to be left un- cared for until they get control of the balance of the country. large towns of the northern provinces to keep plot, and wili co-operate with the land forces at | Malaga and Seville, The artillery refuse to join in it. There ts some reason to belicve that some companies of the more conservative volunteers will co-operate with the troops; and, no doubt, many who are now co-oper- ating with the republicans will discover themselves as traitors by joining the movement and plotting treason in the camp where they are now trusted, Ali this may miscarry, but you may rest assured that it now gives some promise of success. The United States steamer Shenandoah, Captain Wells, still hes of this port, All weil. COMPTROLLER'S RECEIPTS. Comptroller Green reports the following amounts paid yesterday into the city treasury, from— RNCKIVER OF TAXES. Arrears of personal taxes and interest, Paci Mail Steamstip Compan, RECEIPTS FOR WATER RENTS Commissioner Van Nort, of the Department of Public Works, reports the receipts for water rents for the first three months of the present fiscal year (May, June and July) at $886,927, being an increase of $71,422 over the receipts for the same period in | 1872, and an increase of $115,181 over the receipts for the same pertod in 1871. Im 1871 the cost of c lecting water rents, including the salaries and pay of all the employés in the Bureau of Water ig ter, was at the rate of $18,204 per month; in 1872 it was at the rate of $7,207 per month and now it is at the rate of $3,624 per month. This is a reduction in the cost of collecting water rents of $114,066 per annum, as compared with 1971, aud a redyction of 442.077, 08 COMparGd With 1672, RELICS OF ROYALTY. The Home of Joseph Bonaparte in New Jersey. ANCIENT COURT OF THE EXILED KING, Modern Improvements in a Bonaparte Palace. A Female Claimant to the Jersey Throne. How a Virginia Descendant of the Bonapartes Takes Possession of the Bordentown Property. A CASE OF EMOTIONAL INSANITY. BorpEntown, N. J., August 3, 1873, When Joseph Bonaparte fled, at his greater brother's disaster, from his grand court in Madrid, he established himself in Bordentown, New Jersey. On a heavily-wooded hillside, just touching the outskirts of this lovely little country retreat, he built himself a new palace, laid out a park around it in the style of the Escurial grounds, planted “statuary on every knoll, levelled winding Crives through clustering oaks, embellished a little Jersey lake to look like his loved Lake of Geneva, built a little navy of pleasure boats for it, and here, in the midst of the most intensely free, liberty-loving State of the Unton, reigned over iS LITTLE ARISTOORATIC COURT as grandly as if exile were but a word that had no meaning, and courts and courtiers were indigenous to Jersey soil. With him were his wife, Prince Mu- rat, his brother-in-law; Monsieur Maillard, his sec- retary; one or two other gentlemen who remained faithful to his fortunes, and a large retinue of ser- vants. This was as long ago as 1818, and, however stormy may have been the fate of the Bonapartesin Europe, one would think that in this far Western wild, right among acenes that were still iragrant of the great struggle of '76 for human liberty, Joseph Bonaparte need have had no apprehension of Bourdon machinations or schemes of the allies, Nevertheless, such fears seemed to have compassed him about in his waking and sleeping hours. He seems, indeed, to have brooded despondingly over the possibilities of his abduction or assassination, and not even the cheering counsel of his American wife could relieve him from HIS APPREHENSIONS. On the highest point of his ‘palatial’ estate he built an observatory—a tall tower, hidden among the huge oaks of his park, whence he could scan the Delaware River, up and down, for many miles, for the French frigates or Spanish men-of-war that might be despatched to secure him. He also dug subterranean passages all through his grounds, the doors of which were of tron, and could be closed and bolted on the inside, and which led, seem- ingly, into the bowels of the earth and had no egress. Signs of these caverns still remain. The entrances are mostly bricked up; bat in one or two cases the roofing has been broken through, and the narrow roadway, walled all round with brick, high enough for a tall man and wide enough for three to go abreast, are still plainly visible to the curious. It seems strange to us that such precautions coula ever have been deemed necessary, but we must remember that in those days news travelled slowly. There were no railways, no telegraphs and no New York eaci other, and one is hardly located in his seat as | fear and anxiety of similar atrocities being com- | Troops suficient are to be leit in the | them from failing into the hands of the Carlists. | More than half of tne navy have entered into the ane $121,068, ROREA RRKARS. Arrears of taxes, assessments, Water rents ana in- terest. see Viostecye® 12,186 BUKRAY 01 KOTION OF Asses! . Assessments for street openings and improvements wand Interest... ivdy es bove ve 6874 a Croton water re 102,131 House rent, ma: irket rents and fees... 3,682 | Total «$244,842 HERALDS, The first intimation Joseph Bonaparte might ever have of a demand for him by his allied enemies was quite likely to have been the sailing of a hostile frigate up the Delaware. @HE PALACE OF THE EXILED KING (and old men about Bordentown still call it the Palace) was a brick mansion covered with white plaster. It had its grand hall and staircases, its great dining rooms, its marble mantels, with sculp- ture of marvellous workmanship covering every inch of their fronts; its hangings and tapestry, and, indeed, all the regal appointments of a king’s court except men-at-arms. The loyalty of New Jersey was not to be shocked by any such imperial display, The place in sorrow! remembrance of the exiled home of the greater brother, was called “St. Helena.” It covered 1,100 acres, and is now said to be worth $200,000, Prince Murat owned @ number of smaller houses on a small plot of land adjoining it, and Mon- sieur Maillard built himself a mansion quite stately for those times on a plot just across the main road from Murat’s. ¢ Bonapartes have long since ceased to own the property. The “ Pal- ace” has been pulled down and a modern resi- dence, “with gas, and hot and cold water,” has taken its place; the statuary on the grounds have been removed and sold, most of them under a modern auctioneer’s hammer ; the beautiful drives are half overgrown with wild grass, the lake is a shabby weed-covered frog pond, and the “ Park ” 1s the RY, of “vulgar little bore ” from Borden- town. The old garden house of His Majesty remains mmtact, with its plastered brick walls, its antique | cornices, its wide doorway, and its narrow, heavy. shuttered windows. The Very cupboard of the old | Bonaparte remains in it and now serve to hold the homely dinucr service of the gardener and his wife; and an old painting cracked and flawed with age, which the royal oxile prized as a rare speci- men of the old masters, now hangs in the gar- dener’s hall and accumulates on its aged surface the dust and smoke that happen to escape from the cleanly kitchen of the gardener’s wile. The Marble mantels serve to adorn the new owner's residence, and the lake house which the King of Spain built for his boatman, remains intact, unten- anted and useless. The Maillard residence has become a beautiful home of modern conveniences. Astor the mansions of Prince Murat, alas! they are diminutive tenement houses. The prints of greasy hands are on their door posts and garbage rreis stand in their fronts. HISTORY OF THE ROYAL RESIDENCE. For about fifteen years Joseph Bonaparte and his friends held their court on this beautiful spot. About 1832 he and his wife went to Florence, Italy, aud there he died. In his will the propery here was bea Lda to ms secretary, Monsieur Mail- lard, who was also his nephew, Many years later the son of Monsteur Maillard, falling heir to the | Property, sold it to a Mr. Becket, a Philadelphia | broker, and departed for California, where he is supposed to be still living. Mr. Becket died about two years ago, leaving a son, who is in Ergiand, and a widow who lives in Philadelphia. The prop- erty, which had meantime been divided up some- What by sales, was leit in charge of a servant, who, with his wife and children, occupy the main resi- dence, and a gardener, a Scotchman named Mc- Lean, who occupies the oid den house, cultt- vates potatoes and corn, and quietly weeds his way. A BONAPARTIST CLAIMANT. Last Friday week @ little woman, dressed in black, debarked from the Philadelphia train at this station, gave her trunk check to an express- man and asked him to take it and her with it to “St. Helena.” The expressman did net know What place was meant, that designation of the place having passed out of the memory of almost the oldest inhabitant. When she said the Bona- parte place, however, the expressman knew what she meant, and very promptly carried her and her trunk to the Beckett mansion. Before the servant and his wife could recover from their astonish- ment at this apparition the little woman and her trunk were landed in the hallway, and the servant was informed, as Madame took-her seat on one of the settees in the rotunda, that she owned all the property and had come to take possession. Here was a situation, “You own ail the property ?”’ said the servant in | charge, terror stricken, “Yes,” said the little woman, with an almost im- | Noticeable air of French dignity and grace. | “I am | heir of the Bonapartes and own this property.” “But Mrs. Beckett now owns it,” said the man in charge. “The re pling sold it long ago."’ “The false heira sold it,” repiled the little woman, ‘and they had no vient todo so. Pray, understand me, “1 have nothing to say against your occupancy of the house, a9 you labored under amistake. But lam here to take ession, and I will bring on my proots at once, | want you to remain—you and your wife and children. Be sure I feel no hostility to you. Now, please bring in my tronk,”’ THIS WINNING SPEECH was accompanied by such an air of dignity and of self-confidence, and, indeed, with such a gracetul scension, that the man in charge was be- ed aud mechanically hauled in her trunk, a rude, brass nailed old fashioned affair, and put bimseil, appa ys ego under the orders of the new proprietor, Me made her comfortable in the rotunda, there being no bedrooms in a condi- tion ior the reception oi guests in the house, and actually had his wife tender the stranger food and reireshment, which the latter courteously ac- cepted, jhon his bewilderment subsided, however, the Sepvany Ig charge ggBt lor McLean, tye gardgact, perceptible French accent, and with quite a; That astute individual assailed the new her rights to the property and questioned 4 he gran r ” said she, and daughter ej Lady Bonaparte, Prince Bonaparte, who fought in federal ar here during the war of Southern independence, is my son.’ The Scotchman thought he was pretty weil posted on the genealogy of the Bonapartes, but he confessed this punsiet tim. He did not know thas Maria Louisa had a daughter calied Lady Bona parte, and he doubted the existence of any Prince jonaparte in the federal army. As to being of French descent there could be no dot In addition to her French accent, her manners were of the decided French character, and her face, thin and nervous, with its black, searching eyes deep set in their sockets, and her raven hair, alt indicated her French descent, A LAWYER TO THR FRONT. The Scotchman being nonplussed it was agreed to report the case to the attorney ol the estate, ‘This is Mr. Garrit C, Cannon; but, he being away a& Saratoga, his partner, Mr. English, was led upon. He waited upon the lady and informed her as politely as possible that her claims were not tenable and he must ask her to leave the prem- ises, She said that she would readily give him the genealogical table by which she claimed her descent from Joseph Bonaparte, and he could not refuse to listen. “My name,’ said she, ‘4s Mra John Lewis, and I live ie peehmand, var Bd Revers was Lady Bona- Parte, the daugther of Maria Louisa, and father Was Joseph Maciean of Scotland” ki It was suggested that éhe might he related to the gardener, but neither parcp would hear to that. “T fall heir to this property by the will of Mary Whiltock, who perished before I was born in the burning of the theatre at Richmond many years ago. Iown property to the amount of $80,000 im South Carolina. A Mr, Manning has charge of it. FAILING PROOF. Here the poor lady's language began to be in- cont plate ” said st ‘ingly, hi ‘I claim,” said she, musingly, “all t 6 Bonaparte Property—the gardener, Mr. Maclean, is keeping it for me—I own it all, I ure descendant of the Bonaparte family, 1 have Cherokee blood in my veins, and that is why they cali me the Key of the United States of America, She said this with the grace and sweetness of the mad Ophelia, Sne looked as if she was talkin, the plainest common sense, and even at the mos incoherent portions would embellish her language with the bewitching vivacity and grace so peculiar to her nation, “You claim to be the daughter of one of the Bonapartes, then ?”’ asked Mr. English, “The adopted daughter,” said she, Mr. English thereupon informed her that she would be cared for by the inmates of the house until she could arrange for some other stopping place; hut that there were no suitable rooms ft the mansion and she Ought to go away. A CHANGE OF VENUE, She said she would goto West Point and see General Sherman and the officers of the govern- ment, who iad to see her claim established, and so, alter remaining one niglt under the root, or rather the substitute for the roof of her royal ancester, the unfortnnate little woman departed, taking her trunk along in the express wagon, and to the last wearing the old air of courteous condescension aa Retire | and graceful as ifshe were being escorted by handsome galiants amid all the regat regalia of a court to take her seat upon her roval ancestor's throne. Nothing has been heard of her since. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Dr. J. C. HEPBURN’S Japanese-English Dictionary isto be abridged by the author and will soon be issued by A. D. F. Randolph & Co. MR. JOHN WISE, before he bids good-by to America on his adventurous trans-Atlantic balloon voyage, will issue, through the Philadelphia “To Day Publishing Compary,” a new edition of his book on ballooning, under the title of “Through the Airs A Narrative of Forty Years’ Experience as an Acronaut.” Mr. VAN NosTRa™p will publish a translation by Commander R. W. Meade, U, S. N., of De Crisenoy’s recent work entitled “Our Naval School and Naval Officers; a Glance at the Condition of the French Navy Prior to the Franco-German War.” THE “Memoir of Sara Coleridge,” by her daugh- comer se j ter, just out in London, is the biography of the season, amd has more intellectual interest than any book recently issued. Samuel Taylor Cole- Tidge was the father of many notable modern Christian thinkers, eg., Robertson, Arnold, Maurice, &c., and his daughter Sara was a keen observer and a writer of fine powers of thought. In THE “Bath Archives,” just published in Lon- don, are several highly curious letters of Francis Jackson's (British Minister to the United States sixty years ago), in which he gives an interesting Picture of the newly fedged Republic. There are many details of the roughness of manners at the President’s house, and in Washington generally, of the feminine bickering between Mrs. Merry and Mrs. Madison, aud of the love affair between Mr. Oakley and Mme. Patterson Bonaparte. THe Spectator praises “Alcestis,” a new two volume story, as “all about music, yet not onlya@ very readable novel, but a charmingly gracefal. fresh and modest little book.” A New Guive Boox for Portland, Me., has been issued by Loring, Short & Harmon. PROFESSOR WILLIAM SWINTON’s “Outlines of General History,” on which he has spent much labor, will soon appear from the press of Ivison & Co., New York. Tue Late JoHN A. KENNEDY was understood to have been engaged up to the time of his death im writing a history of Odd Fellowship. “Books,” wrote Oliver Goldsmith, who, having worked for “one GriMiths,’’ and for the ingenious Mr. Newbery, of St. Paul’s Churchyard, knew well what he was writing about, “have their time as well as cucumbers. I would no more bring outs new work in the Summer than I would sell pork im the dog-days. Nothing in my way goes off in Sum- mer except very light goods indeed.” Times have not much altered. July, Augnst and September are still, perhaps, the dullest montnsin the year in the book market. LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE’s new defence of Christianity, entitled, “Why Am I a Christian?” is an inadequate littie book of seventy-two pages, and, as the London Publishers’ Circular remafka, “These reasons would be manifestly insuMcient for some, and the very pleading, the apologetic tone, and the limp manner of his lordship would cast ridicule on the cause he adopts.” THe SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLe EDGE will soon issue @ short history of tithes and endowments as possessed by the Church of England, by Mr. J. S. Brewer. Tos AUTOPIOGRAPHY of the English musical critic, the late H. F. Choriey, continued by his literary executor, will be pubiistea in Engiand in the Autumn. ANOTHER VOLUME of what may be not inappro- priately called “‘Sky-Rocket Sermons,” is promised by the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. THE ENGLISH JOURNALS are wondering why the books of Macready’s library, sold at auction in July, did not bring higher prices, compared with those dispersed at the Perkins sale. [here are two obvious reasons :--First, there were no rartties or early printed books in the Macready sale; and as to the keepsakes or presentation copies of Dickens and other authors modern autographs are too common and Mr. Macready was too un. popular among the members of his profession to cause any keen competition for his books as me- morials, AFRICA, British OMicial Report of the Origin and Progress of the Ashantee War. Parliamentary papers have been issued with re- gard to the invasion of the Ashantees and the attack on Elmina. The more important of the documents are despatches from Colone! Harley, the Administrator-in-Chief at Cape Coasi Castie, to the Colonial OMce. On April 14 Colonel Harley wrote that the reason given in a letter of the King of Ashantee for the invasion was transier of Elmina; but that provably it Was not a little due to the singuiar selection made by Mr. Hennessy of Mr. Plange (an Eimina man and a Dutch agent) as the first English Commis- sioner to Coomassie, aiter the transfer. There were re there who could nave told Mr. Hen- nessy, had it suited him to learn, that Mr. ag loyaity to the flag was more than suspected. King of Ashantee distinctiy claims the fort of Elmina as his by descent, I am well aware how absurd this plea is put; nevertheless, it is a plem sufMiciens for the savage monarch to act upon, taken together with ‘ihe threat which he States was made to him by the messenger sent by Mr. Hennessy,” namely, “that in iour Months the administrator would come to Ashantee: to take away power from him.” “How can we now tell,” adds Colonel Harley, “but that this man, to favor the policy of the King of Elmina, may hot have made some such statement as alleged: In a despatch dated June 10 Cclonel Harley de- scribes the condition of affairs immediately pre- ceding the arrival of the Barracouta, which he states was hailed with the greatest satisfaction by the masses of natives then in Cape Coast. In 5 lengthy communication addressed to the Colot Secretary, and dated Nassau, June 19, Governor Hennessy complains of a statement made eB Koatchbull-Hugessqn to the House of Commons om