The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1873, Page 3

BRICHAM’S LOST AFFINITY. The Story of Mrs. Eliza Webb Young Graphically Told by Herself, The Prophet of Utah as a Lover. PECKSNIFFIAN TACTICS. Instructive Mustration of the Trath of the Adage that “the Woman Who Hesitates Is Lost.” BRIGHAM AS A HUSBAND. ——+- The Problem as to How He Man- ages to Support So Many Wives Explained. A HINT FOR MONOGAMIC HUSBANDS, —_— Five Pounds of Sugar, a Quarter of a Pound of Tea, a Bar of Soap and a Few Candles to Last a Month, TWO CALICO DRESSES A YEAR ‘Foreed to Keep Boarders and Neglected by the Prophet, Mrs. Young Invokes the Law on Her Behalf, HER PRESENT VIEWS ON POLYGAMY. Inside View of Brigham’s House- ‘hold---His Preference for Ame- Hia and the Jealousy of His Other Wives. AMELIA NOT A BEAUTY. Bhe Grows Jealous Herself and Serves an Injuncticn on Brigham. ANOTHER SHADOW IN THE HOUSEHOLD Salt LAKE Urry, August 2, 1873, ‘This morning I went to the Walker House and went up my card to this now interesting lady, Mrs, Ann Eliza Webb Young, with an intimation ttiat I had called upon her attorneys, and, it mgreeable and convenient, Ishould be pleased to wée her. Immedtately the gargon returned with ‘te invitation to ‘Please walk up.” The room aloor of 110, on the third floor, was open whenI réached it, and with a pleasant word I was invited Bo be seated. THE APPEARANCE OF THE LADY. Mrs. Young was in health indisposed, and 1 hegged her not to deprive herself of the comfort and aid of the pillow, which I saw she had just used on the couch, as Thad come with the inten- tion of interviewing Ler and I should be sorry to qauge her any fatigue. In person Mra. Young 1s tall and slender, with a remarkably sweet face, features regular and soit, eyes dark blue, hair very dark brown and thrown Joorely behind after the fashion of the school miss @f fiiteen, It is not always safe to judge by ap- pearances, but nature never gave that countenance oa hedgehog of avirago. The first thought was ‘that the Prophet was intensely stupid to have driven that beauty from the harem, At the present time the lady is twenty-eight years of age, but her ill health imparts a languid expression to her countenance that might suggest to the mind that she was a few years older. it was in remarking upon her heaith that I saw the Teeling of her soul upon polygamy. She said that her health had been failing for the last four years. “The mental suffering that she had endured in her Polygamic life had affected her to such a degree “that she Nad become utterly indifferent to life itself, and would rather have died than lived. . BER LIFE HAD BERN BLIGHTED ‘and all her smbition had vanished. With these general observations expressed, I asked her if it ‘would be agreabie to her for me to ask such ques- ‘ions a6 would enable the world to learn a truthiul ‘wersion of a polygamic life. WANTS THE WORLD TO KNOW POLYGAMY, Mrs. Younc—1 am willing that the whole truth g@hould be known. I have nothing to conceal. RgrorTsR—How long have you been @ Mormon, Madame? Lapy—My parents were Mormons when { was orp, andI have consequently never known any- ‘Thing else but Mormonism, REPORTER—Where were you born? Lapy—In Nauvoo, on the Mississippi. REPORTER—Have you been long in Utah? Lapy—I came here when I was four years old, REPORTER—Your parents still ive, 1am told? Lapy—Yes; my father and mother live about ten ‘miles south of this city, and I have two brothers elder than myself in the Territory, Rerortsx—Are your father and brothers poly- wamists? Lapy—Father has three wives and had two more ‘who are dead; my eldest brother has two wives, ‘but the youngest has only one. REPORTER—You have, therefore, been reared in polygamy? Lapy—Yes. I have seen it all my life. RePoRTER—You have, of course, seen other Marriages—-Christian marriages ? Lapy—Oh, yes, Rerorrer—Did you prefer ‘married life to that of monogamy ? LaDY—No sir, from my earliest recollection of anything, I resolved never to “enter polygamy”— # common expression among the Mormons, REPORTER—Why, Madame ? Lapy—It looked unnatural, and I viewed it with sLhorrence, the polygamic mat i A axed UNHAPPY, RTER—Are the women in ertays? Polygamic Jamilies Lapy—Mostly. I think all are ; wome of them struggle to conceal it. ne? Pat REPORTER—Did you ever know any women say ‘that they were tm 5 in joo Telationship ? Lapy—Oh yes; I nave heard women ; I never believe them. np tage HOW SHE BECAME THE PROPHET’s wirr, REPORTER—I trust, Madame, that you will not ‘think it impertinent if I ask you how you came to enter Brigham Young’s family with your feelings so averse to the polygamic institution ? Lapy—Nothing on this subject, sir, can be im- Pertinent, as I wish the facts known to the world, TER GRAPHIC STORY, Alere the lady. without further questioning, begag NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY. AUGUST 8, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMEN herstory of the courtship, the marriage, her life with the Prophet and finally her leaving him. She said :— 1 was living on my father’s farm in Little Cotton- wood, when, in the Summer of 1867, Brigham Young informed my father that he wanted me for a wife. Brigham, with a number of the apostles and elders from this city, was visiting Cottonwood on a Sun- day and held two meetings for preaching. It was at the close of the forenoon service on that occa- sion that he walked up to me and said, “Had I tot better accompany you home.” I said, “Certainly, if you wish to.” Onthe way to my father’s house Brigham asked me if I had had any pro marriage since 1: had obtalned D avoshone ‘fret husband, I answered him, “Yes, that I had had several proposals, He then asked if there was any one of them that I wished to accept. 1 said, “No,” on which he said that he would like to give me @ little advice, BRIGHAM GIVES ADVICE. He advised me not to walt to marry a person whom | loved, but to marry some good man whom I could respect and look up to and receive good counsel from, 1 thanked him for his connsel, and as my home Was RO near to the place of meeting the conversa- tion abruptly terminated. I thought nothing fur- ther of it. His brother Joseph and George Q Cannon joined us at the dinner table, and while there Brigham and the others remarked how youthful I had grown since had got out of my former troubles. As I had much improved in everyway I did not regard his observations as any intended compliment or any indication of what afterwards J learned to be passing in his mind. HE GOERS A SPARKING, At the close of the afternoon service he went up to my father, took him aside and talked for at ieast two hours to him about me, and told him how that he had watched me from my infancy, saw me grow up to womanhood, had always loved me and intended to marry me, but having taken Amelia just after the law was passed in Congress prohibit- ing polygamy, he feared to take another wife soon alter, lest it should make trouble, or he would bave taken me then. My marriage with a young man was unleoked-for to him, and when he was made acquainted with it he did not just like to stop it, he said, and so he let it go on, but always hoped that the time would come when he would have me, THE OLD SINNER SETS HIS TRAP, He wanted father and mother to use all their in- fluence with me, as it would be the best thing I could do, He asked father if @ good house, well furnished, and $1,000 a year pocket money would be enough for me, and added that if it was not enough I should have more. Father answered that he thought it would be sufficient, Brigham stood two hours or more with father and kept the whole of the carriages that conveyed the party standing waiting til) after sundown, and little did I think that I was “the object of in- terest.” HORRIFIED AT THE PROPORAI. When father came home he told mother by herself; then they told me. I cannot describe my feelings; I was frightened. The thought of it was &@ perfect horror. I thougit father had gone crazy, and I would not believe his statement for hours. When I realized that it was @ fact I COULD DO NOTHING BUT ORY, The idea of an old man, sixty-seven ycars of age, the husband of about twenty wives living, asking me, at twenty-two, to be added to the number filled me with the utmost abhorrence, and when 1 saw that my parents were under his influence and sustained his proposition, I was ready to die in despair, Oh! the horrible hours that I spent in crying and moaning no tongue can picture. When father saw that I took it so badly he told me that I would not be forced into it, but if I could bring my feelings to it and accept Brigham it would be pleasing to him, and mother favored it in the same way. THE LADY MEETS THE PROPHET. About a month after this I was in the city with an intimate lady friend, and as we were walking near to Brigham’s house he came to the gate and waited lor our arrival. When I saw him I thought that I would get up courage to tell him that I would not marry him, but I could not say it. That PECULIAR INFLUENCE that he throws over everybody when he has a pur- pose to effect completely overcame me. He did not allude to the subject at all. I shook hands and passed on, BRIGHAM IN A PECKSNIFFIAN ROLE. He became very kind to my parents, and saw father frequéntly. He sent forme to come to the city on several occasions and met me at my father’s city residence, and talked to me about marriage; told me how pure his feeling were and that his only motive was to do me good, save me in the King- dom and make mea queen, All that had no effect upon me; it only disgusted me the more, and the fear that I dared not resist him never left me. This continued for nearly a year. My eldest brother had had some business transactions with Brigham and one of his sons, which resulted in trouble and ultimately in financial injury to my brother. Brigham had been very angry with him and threatened to cut him off from the Church. I heard of those threats, and belleving at that time in Mormonism, I heard them with deep sorrow, and confess that, in hopes of turning Brigham’s anger away from my brother, I began to entertain the thought that I would Yield to his request. I argued as many inexperi- enced persons do, that as I had hada sorrowfal life my heart was crushed, my future life was nothing, and if I could sacrifice myself for my brother’s interest and vlease my parents I would atlast submit, Finally BRIGHAM NAMED THE MARRIAGE DAY and informed me, through my father, that what I required in preparation for my marriage he would furnish ; but I would accept nothing. A day before the marriage he brought tome three dress pat- terns—one silk and two merino—and handed to me @ purse with a $60 bill. On the —— April, 1868, I was married to him in the Endowment House by Heber ©. Kimball, his First Counsellor. My father and mother were pres- ent and others, Brigham’s brother Joseph also took to himself a wife at the same time. After the ceremony I walked over with him to the confer- ence, and in the evening I returned to my father’s house and remained there for a month. THE PROPHET’S LOVE OF SHORT DURATION. For the first few months I had considerable of his attention; his visits were frequent; after that his business cares so occupied him, he said, that he could only call about once in three months, After that be came “just as it happened.” When I was married he wanted my mother to live with me in the city, and a year {rom the mar- riage he sent us to take charge of his farm, where we remained till last August, ana I removed again into the city. While I was at the farm he came very seldom to see me, and oftentimes while he would visit and look round at the farm he never came into the house, [had caused him no troubie; indeed, he had said ¥ was THE BEST WIFE HE HAD, for [had never given him a cross word or look. But for that good temper I take no credit, for my silence was all through fear. I never loved him and never said to him that Iloved him. I looked upon him as @ HEARTLESS DESroT. From the very beginning of my married associa- tion with Briggam Young his manner of providing for me was of the meanest character. I had te come up, even from the farm, four miles distant, to the commissary of his ily, and was glad when Icould get five pounds of sugar, one-quarter ofa pound of tea, a bar of soap and @ pound of candies, That I would get about once a month. About a year ago I complained to him that I nad not sugar enough and he allowed me what I required, RETURNS TO THE CITY, When I returned to the city he furnished mea house ina very ordinary way and I continued to live in the best manner I could, But it was the same stingy way. When o beef was killed I got some fresh meat; butI was frequently months without seeing it. SHE KFEP3 BOARDERS, “Tired with this manner of existence, I asked hig permission to keep boarders, with the view of aid- ing myself and procuring for one of my sens a mu- sical instrument, as he was passionately fond of music, The permiseion was granted, and 1 kept boarders from last March, My house was Si and the business was not very lucrative, Icons quentiy went to him, six weeks ago, and asked him to aid me—to give me some assistance to make life tolerable. He seemed angry, and complained that he had so many expenses and that he wanted me to keep myself—to take the money that I had saved to buy an organ for my son and keep myself and family with it. Igotastove out of him, but that was all. During the last year I only obtained from him two calico dregses, _ FELL SICK. “This interview made me sick and I was in bed fof & Week, with heart sickness, One of the boarders—who was a lawver—and his wile, asked what ailed me, and I told the story of my troubles and inquired if there was no redress. He said that he thought that there was and be would consult with other myers and gee what sould be done, During all my sickness while I was his wife he showed the utmost indifference. He would hear what Ihad to say, but make almost no answer. Last Fall I was attacked with pleurisy and I managed to get to his office to see nim to tell him how ili I was and that I needed some few things. He appeared to comprehend nothing, and finally called “John,” the commissary ior his family, and told him to get me TWO BITS WORTH OF FRESH MBAT. He has not been inside of my house for nearly a year. “About five weeks ago lI got very weak. Idon’t know what was the matter with me—probably general debility from grief and mental safering. My boarders, seeing my condition, aided me freely and were very kind to me. 1 RESOLVED TO LEAVE HIS HOUSE, packed up my clothes and instructed an auction- eer two weeks ago to take away the furniture and sell It, a8 @ part of it was my own, and I thought I was entitled to the rest, The suit commenced has been instituted by my attorneys, who have every confidence that 1 can obtain alimcny; but whether I do or not I think the world should know Brigham Young as he is, and my story is a page of his blography.”” REPORTER—Madame, Iam greatly obliged for your statement, and the New YORE HgRALD will give it @ circulation over the habitable glope, Permit me further, I beg, to ask a few questions that occur to me now. Do you still believe in Mormonism ? Lapy—I decidedly do not, and have not for years; but mever dared to say so till within a few monthe, RerorTER—Did any one induce-you to abandon the faith? Lapy—No, sir, no onc; my Own good sense and reason told me it was a falsehood. REPORTER—Have you conversed much with any one upon the jaith? Lapy—No; but while I was feeling bad I read Mrs, Stenhouse’s book—“Expos¢ of Polygamy’— and that showed me things in a clearer light than Ihad seen them before; lknew every wora was true from my own sad experience, and it encour- aged me to leave the. hateful polygamic life, and I am glad that I have done it, REPORTER—Does your father approve of your course? Lapy—He 1s “sorry that I have taken this step, but he is very kind to me and will protect me. My father is a good man and I am his child. My brothers 1 have not seen; my father sees me fre- quently. REPORTER—Brigham Young lnughs at your course, and asserts that he will allow you no alimony. Lapy—I told my lawyers that whether I was defeated or not I would do what I was doing to save other women from ialling into the same snare, ‘ REPoRTER—How does he get along with his other wives? Lapy—He keeps them so under his thumb that they dare not say anything. To their particular friends they complain, They are very much tried with his course. REPORTER—What do they complain of chiefly? Lapy—They are mortitied by HIS PARTIALITY TO AMELIA and his prodigal expenditure of money to give her everything she wants, while they live in a very plain way and are forced to earn a good deal of their support, REPoRTER—How has she obtained such an in- fluence over him. It certainly cannot be ber good looks, for she is not a beauty. Lapy—It puzzles everybody. The other wives think that he 1s afraid of her because she is such @ virago. She has threatened to leave him hun- dreds of times, I suppose. It is said that she trots him about everywhere that she pleases and when she gets into one of her tantrums she smashes fur- niture and everything around. She is the only one in the family that he dreads, REPORTER—Why should he submit to her to such an extent while he humbles and neglects the others ? Lapy—He thinks, doubtless, it would be a great scandal if she leit him; besides, she is acquainted with a great many things that he would never want brought before the public, RePoRTER—Do any of the other wives threaten to leave him? Lapy—I think ifthe Court compels him to sup- port one that the young wife whom he married a few months before me would also leave, REPORTER—What does she complain of? Lapy—When this lady had a daughter to him Amelia was so enraged, as she had been childless herself, that she forbade Brigham ever to be a hus band to that young wife again, REPORTER—This wife, Mary, is very miserable She is young and beautiful, and Brigham wouw!d probably visit her, but dare not. After he had been absent several months from her house he called to bid her good-by as he was about to go South last fall, She refused to shake hands with him and told him that if he could afford to stay away s0 long from her while he was living in the same city with her she could afford to not shake hands, REProrTeR—Why does he take young wives and use them in this manner? Lapy—It flatters his vanity to let the world see that he can get young women to marry him. REPORTER—Do you not think that he takes these wives because his religion requires him to do so? Lapy—In former times he had some other pas- sion to gratify; now it is vanity. Idonot think that he believes in his own religion. Here I thought I had provably asked the lady everything that the public would care to hear, with her answers, They gives truthful reflex of the minds of many women. I thanked the lady cour- teously and bade her and her little son adieu, The Prophet Demars to the Jurisdiction of the Court, Sait Lake Ciry, Utah, August 7, 1873, Brigham Young's counsel filed a demurrer to the jurisdiction of the Court in his divorce case this morning, and the case was postponed until to* morrow afternoon, Ann Eliza Webb Young vs. Brigham Young—A Latter Day Saint View of the Application, {From the Salt Lake City Herald (Mormon), August 1.) Some months ago a 4 anti-Mormon lawyer of this city, one whose reputation as a student and well read lawyer takes @ front rank in the Terri. tory, had occasion to seek a divorce for a lady and a lew thousand dollars. He succeeded, The divorce was procured in the Probate Court of Sait Lake county. Subsequently he married the lady. The Territorial law confers this power upon the Probate Courts and upon them only; Congress has never annulled that law; hence the lawyer re- ferred to was satisfied that his course was periectly legal. But if the District Court alone has the power to grant divorces then his wile is a bigamist, and he 18 in rather a curious position as the husband of another man’s wife! This week suit has been commenced in the Third District Court, by Ann Eliza Webb Ral MA R. Maxwell) against ent for @ divorce and alimony, the vits being matters that will be ry gaged. y ttorneys, and are worth fe roducing, law makes It PI to in with; ag a starter and $1 at the close of the proceedings, lady’s Foros, Owing to the peculiar way in which Judge McKean has managed his Court for some time legal business hangs fire and fees are frequently visionary ; hence an attempt to work up @ case of this kind is accounted for, even witn the thermometer amo! the nineties, By a Grand Jury, empanelied ir the style which Judge Mc- Kean loveth so well, President Young, leas than two years ago, was indicted for “lascivious cohabi- von” with this very applicant, we believe, she being recognized as one of his plural wives. That indictment the Chief Justice reused to quasn, and said that though the case at the bar was en- “The People vs. Brigham Young,” its other and real title was ‘The Government of the United States vs. Poiygamic Theocra- cy.” This applicant, according to her motion, knowingly and deliberately became the plural fe of hy Fan who bad already more than one wife, ‘Yhat marriage, sores an eqclesiastical fair, independent of civil ceremony or legal en- forceent, entitled her to just such care, proteg- tion and attention, as the faith both parties pro- fessed demanded, which have been raliy ex- tended, ifwe may judge from all the evidences sought for in such cases. The laws of the United States recognize no such mal 3 the United States Courts cannot recogn: mar- riage withont recognizing the legality of polygamy ; and if they go that in Utah the country will be in- lined to inquire why Congress is badgered to dectare ices) that which the Courtg in Utah bave deciared leg TIT ‘Taking the case in all ita bearings, welebing all the Su qumatances published and nity ae ex- pre Opinion of one of the legal gentlemen en- gaged In the case, one would be apt to think there was more im the affair than an honorable proies- sional engagement; and if any doubt remained the Journal 01 Wednesday Would dissipate it in the fol- jeri language, which appears to show what is all al When the case is tried, if the crafty Prophet does mot compromise in a handsome sum to Drevent, an of Pecsmenezien £4 Wie Roauticn of bie hei veu-gived, sate 7 d re such ve ment will adtound and disgust the world! basin There is one word which covers this admission— blackmail; but, though everybody underatood it before, it was poor policy to blurt it out thus pee. This simply says, certain legal gentlemen, aving little to do, and imagining that’ @ willing Court would not hesitate to stretch @ little to in- convenience and annoy Brigham Young, conclude to work up @ sensational case of biackmall on threat of certain disclosures which ear a cannot be le, there being no foundation for them, In New York, lax as it often is in enforcing justice, this kind of business {s generally visited with un- pleasant consequences, Here things are managed somewnst: aimereny. an °% ‘e shall watch and report the progress of the ct which we have not the shadow of a aoubt wiil have a very different termination to that ite projectors anticipated. FROM MADRID On the Eve of the Election of Salmeron, THE EXCITED CORTES A Republic without Repub- lican Ideas. —_——— INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL NOUVILAS. The Reason Why the Republican Troops Have Suffered Demoraliza- tion and Defeat. THE SCENES AT ALCOY A Man Who Didn’t Want Office. ane SERBS SANCHEZ BREGUA Effect on the Deputies of the An- nouncement that Don Carlos Had Entered Spain. Pee ey AL ty ADDLED REPUBLICAN BRAINS pe NII ERASE A Critical View of the Carlist Army, Its Gen- eralship and Prospects. Should the Carlists Descend Into the Plains? DON NICOLAS SALMERON. MapzEID, July 19, 1873. Spaniards talked of making the Spanish Republic &@ model to all the world, They have been as good ag their word if, according to their mode of think- ing, @ Republic should be chaos and its legisla- tive and deliberative body a set of parrot-tongued, brainless boobies, without @ particle of common sense, without knowledge to govern, without ideas and without patriotism, I presume THE TENOR OF ALL LETTERS FROM SPAIN at the present moment is somewhat similar to the above. You need not wonder at it at all, for the conduct of the Cortes in this hour of extreme dan- ger tothe Republic inspires nothing but disgust, The galleries are full each day of impatient patriots, who seem to exist only upon the hope that every approaching minute will produce a@ change for the better; their heads hang over the crimson cloth-covered railing, With tongues out, breathing hard, some- times gasping out their prayer for “order,” which to the country, in its present state, is like bread to @ hungry man or water to one who is athirst. But still the never failing, grind, grind, monotonous, fatiguing, ear-deadening mill of oratory is heard, and men go away out of the galleries into the streets, to hang about the door of the Cortes, with furious hate in their hearts, to insult and taunt the witiess fools who can do nothing but talk and gabble when the fate of their Republic hangs on such a slender thread. Yesterday, having had enough of this in the gal. lery of the press, I descended to the Jalas of the conferencias, or, in other words, to the lobby, to hunt up some friends. The first man whom I saw was GENERAL NOUVILAS, who has returned from the Carlist war and re- signed his command. As our conversation was friendly and intimate, and as I transgress no rules of propriety by divulging it, I give it you for what it 18 worth, “Well, General,” said I, “you have also returned from the war as sunburnt as lam myself, Going to be a Minister of War, eh?” “No, Sefior, I will not be a Minister of War.” «why not? Is it not a good berth, General ?”” “1 do not wish it or anything else.” “§ndeed! You surprise me. I thought you came here at the advice of your friends to take the Min- istry,” said I. “No, Sefior, I did not, It is true, I have been urged by Pi y Margall to take the portfolio, but it is simply impossible for me to take it or anything else before my honor is redeemed,” said Nouvilas emphatically. “Why, what’s the matter?” “Come here and sit down,” said he, leading me by the arm to @ comfortably cushioned seat, “What Iam about to tell you now will be uttered in the Cortes to-morrow.” He continued, ag nearly as I can recollect, thus:— “You know the day I left Pampelnna; that wasthe 8d of this month. The night before I was in tele- graphic communication from nine o’clock at night to two o'clock in the morning with the President of the government. He was asking me to resign my cemmand in the North thatl might take the Portfolio of Minister of War. I refused in a most decided way, Itold him that if he would send mg 3 4,000 soldiers to reinforce the columns of Operation and 14,000,009 reals due the Army of the North to Vittorid, 1 would proceed with them, and while on the road there I would biock all outlets from Pampeiuna to Vittoria; then, on ar- riving at Victoria, I could return with flve mov- ab'e columns, driving the Carlists before me until they came to Lizarraga, or near Irurzun, where they would have to surrender or fight, He prom- ised (9 have the money and reinforcement: de- spatched, “The same day you left Pampeluna I marched the column to Irurzun, and left three companies of soldiers, with three éannon, to guard San Miguel Mountain. On the next day, while halting during noon at Eoharri-Arranaz, I despatched three more companies, with three pieces of artil- lery, to defend the tunel: near Lizarraga, by which means Sierra Aldea was virtually blocked, since the old road was already strongly guarded. On the next day I despatched two companies to Cirapqui, and two more to Puente La Reina with euMicient artillery, then leaving the column at Alsasna to follow me leisurely, 1 arrived with an escort of cavalry at Vittoria, NO MONEY! “Would you believe 1t, there was not one peseta (franc) at Vittoria, I instantly put myself in com- munication with the President and informed him that it was absolutcly necessary that money should be sent at once to satisfy the arrears due the army, and I gave him my sacred word of honor that if he despatched the money and men! required 1 would terminate the were they is skilfal as they are sanguiae, commen that republicanism, with all its Strength, might be drowned tn seas of human blood, at present, how- ever, THE CARLISTS HAVE NO GENERAL who understands anything more than buah-whacke ing and mountain climbing. Cabrera 1s old ana not tie andacions, tireless chieftain of the Seven Years’ War, and the Carlist battalions, though indefatigable travellers, are po match for the dis- ciplined troops of the Republic under Nouvilas, Gonsalez, Acosta or Alaminas, Suppose that Don Carlos and Cabrera collected together thetr forces, which number 10,000 in Navarre, 4,000 in Biseay, 1,000 in Alava, 10,000 in Catalonia and 5,000 in other provinces, making @ total of 30,000, and descended into the plains, what becomes of the regular army, the columns, the battalions and companies which are scattered everywhere chasing the Carliste? There are 7,000 regular troops at Vittoria, under Bregur, at this present moment. Gardin and La Portilla together have 3,000. At Tafalla, Tudela, Logrono and Pampeluna are 2,500; Miranda 500; San Sebastian, Irun and Bilbao 2,500, At Burgos, Val- ladolid, Santander, Segovia, 1,500, and at Madrid are 4,000, all regular troops, making a total of2:,000. Add to this iarge force—iarge enough to cope with 60,000 Carlists in the open fleld—all the volunteers of the two Castiles, numbering nearly 25,000, and THR CARLISTS ARE OUTNUMSERED, without reckoning those of Arragon, Catalonia, Valentia, Andalusia, Murcia and Estramadura, where almost every able bodied man isa republican. Don | War within two weexs, jor you must recollect that ‘with two or three columna driving them toward the blocked passages leading to the Barranca the columns at Irurzun and Echarri-Arranaz could be signatied to hurry up, and nothing on earth could then have saved the Cariiata. ‘The President of the government replied by tel- egraph to wait at Vittoria for two daye#, in which time he said the men and money would be forth- coming. I waited two days; no money nor men came. I telegraph:d again t> the President that the troops would get demoralized, collected at Vittoria, exposed to the fractious and querulous complaints of THE MADRID PRESS, which, God knows, are enough to ruin any army. I spoke to him in strong terms, and 1 got for answer an invitation to come to Miranda, whither the money would be sent, Arriving at Miranda I found @ chest with $14,000—a mere bagatelle for an army of 11,000 men. I telegraphed again, in stronger terms, that the money was not sufMicient to pay three days’ arrears, I received no answer. I telegraphed once more, but obtained no reply. I then telegraphed my resignation and the Presi- dent accepted it. Since coming to Madrid I have been urged over and over again by the President and others to take command of thg War OMce; but I will listen to no _ politi- cal topic whatever until I have re- deemed my honor and explained my position and conduct to the Cortes, They talk tame about the gravity of the situation and the extreme danger the Republic is in, I know tt all—none knows it better; but who brought the Republic to this dangerous strait? Was it 1? It was these pettifogging lawyers from the country, who have no higher idea or ambition than to be permitted to TALK, TALK, TALK, and to have their names put in the newspapers. But mark my words, I tell you that the Republic is not in danger from the Carlists. If the Carlists descend into tne plains of Castile I can raise an army of 10,000 men, which would destroy them utterly; but to-morrow, if I get an opportunity, I will speak my mind to the Cortes, and these silly Jawyers shall know the truth,” General Locias, ailvancing to speak to Nouvilas, put an end to our conversation, ¥ Perhaps rt would: be well to explain here what occurred in the army after Nouvilas leit it, so that you may have a complete history of the war. While Nouvilas was waiting at Miranda the news- papers and journalistic goslings were exercised over suppositions a8 to who would succeed Nou- vilas, President Pi offered the title of General-in- Chief of the Northern Army to Gencral Cordova, who for dignity’s sake, I presume, kept everybody in suspense as to his ultimate intentions. The ardent republicans were finally satisfied with a courteous refusal. It was then offered to SANCHEZ BREGUA, A gentleman noted for sketching out plans of campaigns, editing books on tactics and ainvitious brochures on army organization and discipline, who after slowjy uncoiling himself from his ac- customed seat in the War Office and disencumbering himself of much red tapism, graciously consentea to fill the position temporarily. This nomination did not please every politician, as was evident from next day’s paper issues, but gencrally journalists were reticent on the subject, as the Carlists were said to be advancing upon Estella, a place which, if you published half of my letters from the war, you must very well know by this time. Sanchez Bregua arrived at Vittoria, and about the same time ELIO’S ARMY OF CARLISTS entered Estella, @ very easy thing to do with a body of about four thousand five hundred men. If you have heard of any one making any great pother about it be sure that they have u sneaking sympathy with Carlism. Estella, a town of some five thousand inhabitants, was defended by a hill, blunt cone, whereon were posted 170 soldiers, with three cannon. In ancient days this little hill was considered sufficient with a cannonor two mounted on it, but nowadays, with improvement in gunnery, this'little hill does not begin to answer the purpose of defence, inasmuch as it is itself overtopped by loitier hills or bluffs at the distance of less than a mile from the town. But this little hill, defended by 170 brave soldiers (whereon six Carlist Generals were one morning shot by Maroto, their old comrade in the sevon years’ war), with its ominous memories, proved too much for the Carlists. The enemy took the town, but they could not take the fort. Tnrough- out the 13th, 14th and 15th days of this month that brave little band on the hill of San Francisco were cannonaded by the Carlists. On the morning of the 16th the Carlists retired, and a few hours alter- wards Estella was entered by the column under General Gardin, sent by Bregua, the General-in- Chief, to the rescue. Leaving four companies of the regiment of Malaga as a reinforcement to the garrison, Gardin departed from Estella on the 16th for the relief of Ciraqui and Mafieru, where they arrived in time for their defence. Excepting the taking of Puente la Reina and the massacre of thirty-eight of the little garrison which surrendered to the Carlist Dorregaray, by hia troops, and the entrance of Don Carlos on Spanish soil we have no news of importance from Navarre and the North. DON CARLOS IN SPAIN. You are all satisfied that tuere never was a more excitable Cortes in Spain than the present one, yet nothing could have been more dignified than the manner in which the Deputies listened to the de- claration of the Minister of State that the pretender, Don Carlos de Bourbon, had entered Spain and was marching upon Vera, where he was expected to be joined by the major part of the Carilst forces, Don Carlos’ arrival in Spain increases somewhat the prestige of Carlism, and the Carlist forces will be considerably augmented by it; and if Cabrera comes with the vast treasure, which it is said he may bring, Carlism will prosper still more. But that is all, .or CARLISM, represented by Catalonia and Navarre and say one-half of the Basque population, cannot triumph over republicanism represented by the rest of the peninsula, Say what you will of the demoralized state of the country—I never mince matters for either party—say what you will that is bad about the republicans, their incapacity to govern them. selves, about their lack of order, discipline, fands: irregularity, fractions and incohesion, but their hearts are all right, though their brains are some- what addled at the excessive liberty or license they have obtained, Should Carlos, escorted by Cabrera and Elio, de- scend into the plains of Castille with the intent to march apon Madrid, the man and the cause are lost, Even Don Al/onso has a better char: of suc- cess than Carlos, though his party are so quict and as yet ambushed bebind the bolder and more pretentious aspect of Carlism. Yet had the Car- ligts ag much audacity as they have perseverance— Carlos will probably make for the sea coast and en- deavor to capture some port, perhaps Bilbao, but there is food tn what I have told you above for re- flection, and with you I leave the subject until Don Carlos ahall be pleased to make another step and declare his intentions, CARTAGENA is blockaded so closely that our correspondent whoentered the citythe day following the pro- nunciamento has been unable to communicate more than what I have already conveyed to you by telegraph, THE SCENES OF ALCOY during the short reign of rampant internation- alism still find their chroniclers, and from the journal of one of the eye-witnesses the following is translated :— ‘Two days have passed. I find myself in complete security, and yet Ltremble when I remember the scenes of Alcoy, and my hand shakes as 1 write this letter. By a miracie [live Never shall I find courage to tread the streets of that town. But @ little while rich and industrious, and now, per- haps, condemned to a miserable future. ey were not men who, blunderbuss in band, ran through the streets shouting horrible threats; the wero not Europeans who carried in triump! human members, like cannibals dragging to the flames the remains of quar enemies. I had concealed myself’ in & garret, hoping that those furies would be- come calm. From my hiding place I could hear the discharges and a deafening shout and other infernal noises that I could not comprehend, Two hours I remained in that anguish without any one coming to give me wray of hope, witnout the firing ceasing or diminisning oftne clamor, The garret in which I was concealed only had above a Single skylight, close to waich, from time to time, a bullet struck. You know A—; he chose my place of refuge and had undertaken to find me a disguise and the means of run- ning away. A— did not put in an _ ap- earance, and the shouts drew nearer and grew louder. Although my ear was posted against the door I could comprehend nothing of what was oc- curring, but my heart told me tiat the danger had increased a hundred fold for me; a noise close by told me that the house had been invaded; I heard the doors burst open and the furniture thrown about in the lower stories; footsteps drew near, and terrified | hid myself under » heap of straw without breathing, suffocating with heat and ter- ror, The suffocation was insulferavie, the torment too great; without strength and half dead, I re- solved to sally out of my hiding place. The noiso appeared to me then more frightful and more near, and to compiete the horror, the garret was full of smoke that was Jorcing its way through the chinks in the door. The building in which I thought myselt safe must have been burning. first impulse was to unlock the door and rush out by the stairs, but the consideration that I would find myself in the middie of the flames de- tained me. Only one egress remained, the sky- light, which was too high, The smoke increased, aud in my desperation I resolved to scale the roof, without result, There was no remedy: I was forced to open the door; a column of smoke en- veloped me, and [saw a reflection that announced the proximity of the fire. On the lobby there was a large piece of wood, and to it [trusted my sal- vation. Icarried it into the garret, locked the door to keep out the smoke, and, with the ald of the piece of wood, I reached the roof, There 1 breathed and_ recovered my senses, but there also I understood my precarious condition. Some men fired on me, and [felt a horrible pain in the right arm; then bending my body I threw myscit on @ low roof, Afterwards I felt as if I had been struck on the head, and saw a kind of fireworks and nothing more. When I came to myself I was laid across a mule, and there reigned all round me complete silenc A—— was at my side and re- assured me Afterwards I recalled all the horrors of Alcoy, and he told me that, thanks to the generosity of one of the most aed demagogues, my body when I fe was dragged away without more damage than @ severe contusion and @ bieoding in the head. They thought I was dead, and in truth Thave no remembrance of what happened, only I heard near and far discharges, savage cries, sinister exclamations, sometimes distant and at other times too near by.” ‘This is not a bad example of how horrible stories are manuiactured. This cowardly liar was hid all the time, and only showed himself when burned out, the true story of Alcoy being that the reac- tionists fired on the unarmed workmen from some houses which were arterwards stormed by the en- raged workmen, who, spronge mistaken generosity, allowed the aggressors to live and lie. Our reprieve from certain and immediate disso- lution has just been made out by THE ELECTION OF SENOR DON NICOLAS SALMERON Y ALFONSO to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, who has chosen his Cabinet thus:— Minister of State—Seiior Soler y Pia. Minister of Grace and Justice—sefior Moreno Rodriguez. Minister of Finance—Sefor Carvajal. Minister of War—Sefier Eulogio Gonsalez y Iscar. Minister of the Navy—Setior Oreiro. Minister of the Intertor—Seiior Malsonave. Minister of Public Works—Seilor José Fernando Gonsalez, Minister af Colonies—Seiior Palanca, i The crisis has iasted nearly @ week, but the city of Madrid is indebted for saving it trom the scenes of Alcoy to General Gonsalez, the only man who, it is reported, can not only speak, but act, with en- ergy. Iihe is but taithtul to the Republic we are in @ fair way of being quiet here. Ail the prognos- tications about the imperturbable Pi y Margall, just resigned, have ended in bitter disappoint- ment. He was too good for this earth; so, now that he is politically dead, let us forgive him hia goodness, which brought insurrection to the coun- try, and say, “Sleep, Pi; sleep on, sleep ever.” “THE BERRY OROP. One Million Baskets of Antwerp Berries Gathered on the Banks of the Hudson— The Profits of the Growers. POUGHKEEPSIg, August 7, 1873, The season for picking and shipping Antwerp berries on the Hudson ts drawing to a close. Although, in consequence of the serious drought through which we have recently passed, the crop 1s much smaller than last year, the statistics irom two points alone, Millon and Mariborough, are hardly credible, From the 1st of July to the 3d of August the steamer Thomas Cor- nell took 322,431 baskets of Antweips from Marl- borough; the steamer James W. Balawin, 140,100 baskets; the steamer Daniel 8. Miller, 49,263 bas- kets, and the steamer John L. Hasbrouck, 144,480 baskets, or @ grand total Of 556,634 baskets in one month. Not having any accurate report from Milton Landing about the number of berries shipped from that point a full account of what las been shipped from the whole town of Marlborough cannot be forwarded; but allowing Milton to have shipped 362,531 baskets, which {s a small estimate, it wonld make the number of baskets shipped from Marlborough town in one month 919,165, Also allowing what will be picked in the mountains Ko ing this week the shipment will not fall short on 1,000,000 baskets. If it smounts to but 90, the growers will realize a good pres. an the fruit, which will amply compensare sket is shortness of the crop. The profit on each ba ten cents, alter freight, commissions — ae it the reve- deducted; therefore, estima: Dieked at 9.0, re bat eg Wi ¢ is to the fra — Cost of picking (1%; cents per basket) . Freight on boa Datch Sent it on every ni! old a million you 108 The bast siness of making boxes and ccomes a heavy and umportant one. _——— PALLEN FROM A FIRB BSOAPE. ‘At ten minutes past eight last evening Willian$ McNamee, of Fifty-fourth street, between First an@ Second avennes, sng. fell from f fre encape and a fracture of several d concussion of ane trae wos removed t0 Bellevue. Hespitay