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. that his face was sad. PerFand, Auch, Perpiifian, Vendée and Cholet. ‘There were 6510 pilgrims from Clermont-Ferrand, ‘20 pilgrims from Auch, 600 from Perpignan, 1,450 from La-Vendée, 1,420 from Cholet and Anjou. May 23,—Piigrimages arrived from Blaye, Oloron Ste. Marie and Ste.’Marie de Campan ; 650 pilgrims tame from Blaye, 1,500 pilgrims from Oloron Ste. Marie and an unknown number from Ste. Marie de Campan. May 29.—Pilgrimages arrived from Grenad-sor- Padour and Ville-Comtal; 700 pilgrims came from Grenade-sur-’Adour and about an equal number from -VilleComtal. JUNE 2.~Pilgrimages arrived at Lourdes from the apprentices of Bordeaux, from St. aubin at Toulouse, and from the College of Aire; 572 pil- grims came from Toulouse, 621 from the appren- tices of Bordeaux and 550 from the College of Aire. June 3.—Pilgrimages arrived at Lourdes from Ariége and Pontacq; 621 pilgrims came from Ari¢ge ‘and nearly 1,000 from Pontacq. Jone 5.—Pilgrimages arrived at Lourdes from Porte Ste.Marie and from StMacques of Pau. Among the pilgrims on this day was His Eminence Mon- gseignear Dounet, Cardinal Archbishop of Bor- deaux, the first ecclesiastical prince of the Papal Court’ that has made ibis pilgrimage, Six hun- dred and fifty pilgrims came from Porte Ste. Marie. JUNE 9.—Pilgrimages arrived from Albi, Tou- louse, Asté, Vic-Bigorre, Auterine and Cintega- belle; 1,200 pilgrims came from Albi, 1,200 from Toulouse, 700 from. Vic-Bigorre, and an unnum- bered multitude from the. other places above mentioned. JUNE 10,—Piigrimages arriyed at Lourdes from Libos, St Jerome de Toulouse, Villefranche-de- BRouergue and Monnein; 650 pilgrims came from Toulouse, conducted by the clergy of St. Jerome; 1,200 pilgrims from Villefranche-de-Rouergue, 680 from Monnein and an unknown number from Libos, JUNE 11.—Pilgrimages arrived at Lourdes from Notre Dame de Garaison and Poictiers; 700 girls, attended by their female relatives, came from Notre Dame de Garaison, and they were followed by 654 adult pilgrims, The number of pilgrims from Poictiers is not stated. JUNE 12.—Pilgrimages arrived at Lourdes from Beaumont de Lomagne and Montfort, Colomiers and Blaghac and Puylaurens; 642 pilgrims came from Beaumont, 706 pilgrims from Colomigrs and Blagnac, 642 pilgrims from Puylaurens. JUNE 14.—Pilgrimages arriyed at Lourdes from the Seminary of St. Pé and from Pau, number un- known, and among them came Monseigneur Saivet, Bishop of Mende. This is the latest published list in my possession, but Iam writing on the 80th of July, and every hour of the day and night an endless stream of PUgrims pours into the town by rail and carriage, on horseback and on foot, The railway trains which bring them are decked with fags and flow- ers, and the songs of the pilgrims rise high above the sbriek of engines and the roar‘of wheels. One man lately arrived on foot from Belgium, two | women walked hither from Geneva, and bishop and archbishop, vicar and dean, with all the mightiest princes of the Church, come to kneel and pray at the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Five bishops have been seen praying there within twenty days, and the yard of my hotel is crowded with the coronetted carriages of the old legitimist aobility of France and Spain and Italy. Both the ex-King of Naples and Don Carlos have been here, and the ribald wits of Paris say the whole thing May be summed up in this beautiful canticle :— Un, deux, trols, Vive les rois! Viveuturl Clag!® But wit is not always wisdom, neither is ribaldry ‘argument. “This is the beginning of THE NEW CRUSADE, which must end in a social war.” Well, so be it. All the great changes and gains of the world have come of wars and rumors of wars. Canon Smith, however, thinks that the miracles of Lourdes fore- bode great trouble upon earth, ana that the words “Penitence, penitence, penitence,’ which the Vir- gin spoke thrice, have a grievous meaning, yet WHAT THE VIRGIN SAID TO THE MAID herself isasecret. Perhaps she whispered words of hope, and not of sorrow. THE TORCHLIGHT PROCESSIONS to the Virgin’s grotto, at Lourdes, are very pic- turesque and impressive. Thousands of pilgrims varrying wax tapers chanting ever— God of Clemency! Go the Protector! Save, oh! save our France! Save Rome and France, In the name ot the Sacred Heart! are sights and sounds Not to be witnessed without emotion, The church above the grotto ig illumi- nated, and a red electric light is brought to bear in Mashes upon the pligrims as they mount, singing through the woods up the steep, and so on into the church, We are such poor waifs and strays upon earth, aiways so weak and often so miserable; our very lives are so mysterious and so uncertain, that we May wéll inquire with awe and reverence what is likely to become of us from one of the inhabit- ants of another sphere who has been a mortal like unto ourseives, It has been a reproach often brought against the Roman Catholic Church that its most solemn cere- monies have a theatrical air qbout them; and the torchlight procession at the grotto of our Lady of Lourdes had a strong resemblance to a scene at a grand opera. It was not without one or two funny things about it, however. Among the pil- grims, for instance, was a little old lady in spec- tacles, a wizened little old woman, ang her taper was wrapped up ina bit of old newspaper, which looked like an illuminated label on her. Upon it ‘was printed ‘Le Phare du Midi” (the beacon of the South). “The devil,” said Bishop Berkeley, ‘has all the good tunes.” But can any one tell me why good music and theatrical representations should be given over to the Evil One, and why all that charms the ear and moves the heart should not be used to impress truth upon mankind in vivid characters, rather than to glorify idle fancies ? As I watched the forming of the torchlight pro- cession came the grim Viscount of Damas, the leader of our pilgrimage. He had never once spoken to me before. His behavior had simply expressed this:— “HALLO! YOU MAN OF THE NEWSPAPERS, what do you do here? Be off, now, can’t you, from holy ground! Bless you,” (understood), “are you going to turn all this intoridicule?” His man- er was altered now, and as he bade me a brief good night I noticed that his voice was broken and The iron nature and big heart of the crusader were overwrouglit.- ‘They tell me in Paris it is all nonsense,” he said in tones ‘as humble as those of a little child. What I saw around me was in seme measure his doing, and it ‘was something great; but no flush of the cheek, no kindling of the eyes showed that he claimed it. “You can afford, sir, to be misunderstood,” I answered gravely. Then he turned away his knightly head and stretched out his hand to me silently; and he went bout his work again and I saw bim no more. ST. DOMINGO. niin ‘The Vice President Not Captured—Defeat of Revolutionary Forces—President B at m Cristobel—The Railroad at Samana. By the arrival of the steamer Tybee, with dates from St. Domingo City 20th, Samana zist and Puerto Plata 23d inst., We are placed in receipt of the fol- wwing news :— PUERTO PLATA, The alleged capture of Menu Caca President of the Republic, py the ineurpent foress of el and Cabral, Jately telegraphed to the Unite States, is mite be hie ot ton. ares 18 resi¢ at ome at Mor Valley of the Vega. siete REPORTS CONTRADICTED. The revolutionists have had no success whatever in their recent campaign against: the government troops, and all reports to the contrary are pro- nounced, on the best Authority, fitlse General Luperon has taken refuge in Hayti, and (t ia reported thathe is at Port au Prince. SAN DOMINGO CITY. President Baez is at San Cristobel for his health. SAMANA BAY. The projected ratiroad from Cabeza de Toro to Santiago, crossing the island, and about sixty miles in length, has been surveyed by the engii- eers of the Samana Bay Company. v TEMS. A great drought exists in the island. ‘The 16th of August was celebrated im a most patriotic manner4n the principal cities, being one of the celebrated days of the “Restoration,” and was kept 10 ingst cages as a public holiday, SPAIN. THE REVOLUTION IN VALENCIA. Bombardment of the During Seven Days. SMALL LOSS OF LIFE. City The Siege Relaxed at the Request of the’ Foreign Consuls. SCENES IN THE CITY. Boys Playing Mide-and-Seek with Bursting Shells and Houses Riddled by Shot. VaLencia, Spain, August 6, 1878, Resuming my narrative of events in this old city Ifind, on summing up my notes, that there is very little to say. On July 30 cannonading and mus- kewry were heard throughout the day. After breakfastI ascended to the top of La Miguelette, or the Tower of the Cathedral, and stood, pernaps, on the very spot whence, some 400 years ago, the Cid showed his daughters the glories of Valencia. Imagination could hardly sketch a picture more glowingly beautiful than the Valencian plain. The level area visible below you measures some ten mules in width by sixty in length. When the green gardens and the green corn, the green orchards and groves, the towers of Valencia, the large bull ring, the dense mass of houses the dusty-looking roads, the gleaming blue sea, have each, in their turn, arrested the attention of the stranger, what strikes him next as remark- able are the number of-villagee which rise before him, There are in the plain more than one hun- dred and fifty villages, with each a lofty church tower, or an ambitious spire, and all the houses and churches and roads, towers and spires, are of a blinding whiteness, which strikingly contrasts with the never-dying greenness of the vegetation, As TI came up from the “Gras,” or Port, I saw placards ten feet long, gay with vari-colored print, announcing that the annual fair was to be held on the 30th of July, during which all sorts of merry- making were to take place, dancing and jubilee- ing, singing and fiddling, processions, bon- fires, picnics, boating, fireworks, and what not. It was intended for a general holiday and thanksgiving time, when the harvest of wheat and barley was over and the fruits of the trees were ripening, But the 30th of July came, and it found the HERALD’s correspondent looking down from the dizzy height of La Miguelette upon a city where the melancholy silence was every now and then broken by bursting bombs and whizzing shot» and cannon responded to cannon with wrathful bluster and roar. White and yellow smoke of kindled gunpowder curled and wreathed by fig tree and orange, by peach and pear; the leaves of grape and apricot, nectarine and plum, shrunk and shrivelled before the breath of nitrous fire, while the homesteads of the plain and happy villages were perforated by resistless iron balls and orch- ards were devastated. Brother answered brother, Spaniard responded to Spaniard, the volunteers replied to the regulars, and the clamor of an artil- lery fight filed the air. “Now what is being done?’ I asked of one who stood by me on the top.of the tower. “Much, very much,” he replied; and when pressed to give me details, as I was a stranger, he said, “You see that burning village to the right, just across the river? That 1s Maniesa, The troops were in it this morning, and the guns on the top of El Cuarte (formerly a double gate, erected in the fifteenth century, of late used as a prison) shelled it and drove them away, and, I believe, set iton fire. You see those fellows on El Curate are old artillerymen, and they know how to fire. That village to the left of Maniesa,is Socos, Either the troops are there in force or they are simply amusing us while they plant their mortars elsewhere. They only reply to us with one gun, but El Curate is punishing them severely. The shells drop right in the village, as you can see by the light aust rising from it; that is the mortar and brick dust; but when the shell drops on the highway or in the gardens a great cloud of thick black dirt rises. Now look at this village, almost in front of Socos, put more to the left, half hidden by the great trees near it; that is called Campanar. The troops were in Campanar yester- day, but they have been driven away from it, and now the volunteers occupy it, Now, away behind Socos, almost in a line with the cathedral, is the village called Mislata. ‘The troops are there also, and they are firing at us lively enough, but they are bad shots—bad shots, It is only ome out of twenty that comes near El] Uuarte; but that new church, St, Sebastian, outside the city limits nearly, and much nearer to their shots, is suffering severely. Three bombs have dropped almost in the same spot, and two or,three men have been killed, One man was, killed close tothe Britisn Consul’s house.”” “Well, do you think they will take the city 2” “Indeed, [do not. Valencianos, when their blood is up, require a great shedding of it before they cool down, You ought to have seen us in '69, 1—" “I was here in '69.”” “Oh, you were! Then you know it was different with us then. We had no cannon; yes, we had one or two, I believe—clumsy things which we made ourselves. We have twenty rifled cannon now, and though we have no great generals our artillery men know how to use them. Look towards the citadel. 1t commands all approach from the Grav, and ——” i “But you have necannon there ? said I. PREPARATIONS FOR RESISTANCE. “Ah, yes, We have. We placed them up last night and the barrica@e near it. You never saw such a barricade, I amsure. It is higher than a man's head, No body of men could come up the Grao road, and the citadel commands the sea bridge—Puento del Mar—and the other side of the river for a long distance. Then the two towers oi Serrano take up the defence. Why, they are like twin castles*and very strong. You see tiie walls are built up in arches, so that a cannon ball, though it might go through, would not do much damage. Beyond the Serrano arethe two towers of El Cuarte—also twin castles—and we have two guns mounted up there. Then further on is the Plaza de Toros—Bull Ring—the finest building of the kind in Spain, four stories high, all on arches, The Bail Ring defends all the rest until you come within range of the citadel guns again. | Besides all these we have cannons at all the prin- cipal barricades, and the houses near them are fuil of volunteers.” “But supposing,” J asked this intelligent man, “the troops made a rush, would they not be able to push their way in?” “Ca, hombre! Tat man! impossible. Don’t you see itis different, very different from '69, In that year we had no cannon when we took arms in our hands, and Alanmios pushed his way in until he had possession of half tne city; but now we have the whole city, and 12,009 men to guard it. We nave twenty caunon, and barricades all around. We command every way; every foot of ground is within range of our guns; not a man .can advance witout our seeing it. These rifled cannon carry a league and a half sometimes, and the shells prevent Martines Campos from Planting his mortars. By the way, the General has sent in’a proclamation calling on us to sur- render, in which he threatens us with all sorts of punishment if we do not. To tell you the truth, I am more afraid of his proclamations than of his bomba, and he is more afraid of his own troops the town he will find himself deserted by the soldiers.” “But he has plenty of guardia‘civil and carabi- neros, has he not?” “Yes, the General has about two thousand guardia civil, and they will fight for him; but we are not afraid of them. He can’t think of con- quering us with his guardia civil and carabineros alone. Whatl fear is the moderates among the volunteers fighting against the true republicans. There were some hot words last night among us, but rhere is a better feeling to-dag, and I only hope ‘it will last, then we can laugh at all the Generals. But I must go now to my duty below. Adios, caballero,” and the man descended, Towards night 1 strolled towards the barricaags Rear the Bull Ring, where the*people are out in strong force. While I stood looking on a captain of the patrol guard," in civilian costume, came up to me and asked :— “Are you of this country, sefior?”” “No; I am a stranger, living at the Fonda de Paris,” I answered, “Oh, @ foreigner! Of what nation?’ he then asked. “Of the United States of America." “Ah, @ republican, like ourselves, Good. But,” said he, with a smile, and extending his han “you will excuse me asking you, won’t you? We wish to guard ourselves against spics.’? “Oh, certainly; I quite understand the neces- sity.” i On the 31st of July affairs stood much the same as the day before, except that the enthusiagm of the volunteers had risen higher, owing %o various successes which they had gained during the day. Plaza’s troop of cavalry had ridden out, protecting a body of artillerymen, who had a cannon with them, when, just as they had got it in position, an am- bushed party of civil guards and carbineers opened fire on them and then made a dash for the cannon; but Plaza’s cavairy, being veterans, charged into em and dispersed them, rescuing the cannon, ut not, however, without considerable loss to both sides, Cavalotti, also a tenor singer at the opera, sallying out with four companies of volun- teers, charged into a villaze, and by their impetu- ous courage and dash captured four barricades and held the village against large odds, Galdasto, the rebel Commander-in-Chief, held the village of Cam- panar and defeated all;efforts to take it. Avausr 1.—While I was in the tower of the Cathe- dral this morning I saw a body of volunteers 3,000 strong leave the ruined village of Maniesa, who were said to be commanded by Perez Guillen, the Enguerino, a m&n from Enguera, a village, to attack the position Of General Villacampa, whom they drove away with much loss. The results were 160 killed on both sides. Otherwise affairs have not much changed. Cannonading was kept up briskly at intervals night and day. To-day, besides various bills posted on the walls which menace the assassin, the incendiary and robber with instant death in the name of “Liberty, Justice and Order,” I have seen a manifesto from Pedro Barrientos, the President of the Junta Revo- lucionario, or the Committee of Public Safety, which reads as follows:— VALENCIANS—Again the streets of our dear capi- talare about to be reddened with the blood of her generous sons. In 1869 we raised to a high degree of glory the flag of the Federal Republi 3 to- day we continue the interrupted ¢popée, and are preparing a heroic delence for the purpose of con- solidating securely and definitively the autonomy of the states within the orbit of the repuolican tederation. In 1869 we combated the monarchy, which was intended to triumph over us and de- prive us of our liberties; we now. fight the false aposties of the new idea—the false apostles of the Republic; those same people who showed us the road which they said led to the land of promise, to the accomplishment of our des.res, to the com- plete emancipation of the fourth estate, for whose eG to public life we have so long hoped and fought for, But we know now’ the actual government is More tyrannical and arbitrary than the ancient monarchy, ‘The last always sought by ail possible means to arrest useless effusion of blood; the former, the federal republicans, are determined to crush our just aspirations between the throne of abuses and the noise of their shells. The present majority of the Cortes desire to reduce us by violence under the yoke of their stupid sovereignity, and have resolved in one of their reunions that the worthy republicans of Valencia shall be treated with alb the rigor that they would use in @ war lor the reaction or @ war of conquest. We were to be subjected to a most barbarous imposition. They have refused to listen to concillation, and now, putting our hands on our hearts in the name ofthe honor of an entire people, we have placed ourselves face to face with the government and the Cortes, that they may shed our blood, They have cherished the last three days the sweet hope that we and they may agree to an hon- orable truce, and they have done all in their power to induce us to listen to their terms, because they are aware that they are too feeble to attack us, and because they*know that the soldiers are tired of serving an automaton, and that they will return to the ranks of the people and fight with those Phone panes are inscribed the words ‘Liberty or at But, people of Valencia, besides the powerfl means of defence and attack which you have, re- member that in our veing runs the blood of Peris, of Sorolla and of Juan Lorenzo, and are deter- mined to show the world the grandeur of our cour- age and the height of our enthusiasm. ‘hen Jet the invader come at any Mour—for here we remain firm in our traditions, in our principles and in our right. On our panniers are inscribed our demands :— “Autonomy o/ the Canton within the Spanish Con- federation and our duty, respect for the unal- terable ioundations of ail human seciety, and de- fence at ali cost of all property and rights.” Valencians, laboring men, honored men and all men, hear our authorized words in these solemn moments, It is not we who disturb your peace and your comfort, It is not we who desire to deatro your property and to paralyze your industry. It is the government of the nation. We tell you, upon our most sacred conscience, that we will protect your interests with our lives. We labor for the prosperity and well-being of you ail. Our cause is yours; we fight jor the liberties of Valencia. This is the last word that we may direct to you before the thunder of the fratricidal cannon shall Bpeak its defiance to our enemies. We, therefore, desire the blessings and good wishes of our fellow citizens before the battle Live the Valencian people Live the honor of the Vaiencian Canton! For the Junta, the President . PEDRO BARRIENTOS, AvausT 2.—Here follows a manifesto which, atter the battle of the last two days, gives an insight into the cause of the enthusiasm, which 1s evi- dently growing each hour: ‘ Federal volunteers! Hear the voice of the Jutta in this supreme moment, The enemy, aware, of his impotence to conquer by ordinary means, fp- peals to the barbarous force of bombs, So the consular corps informs us. Nobody has conveyed such an imtimation direct. The laws of war sanction no such proceeding. But those who are evil seldom attend to the voice of honor and conscience, However, the enemy’s artillery will not be per- mitted to occupy positions for the purpose of bom- bardment. Our cannon have already destroyed their trenches which the soldiers raised, and havg destroyed their best mortars, For the first time in the history of the worlda government is found prepared to bombard a popu- lation in the name of the same principles the in- surrectionists profess. This is a proot that the conduct of the government is that of refined hy- pocrisy and cruelty. triumph. Our cowardly enemies are already short of projectiles to bombard us; our fortitications are extremely formidable; our resources of war are extraordinary; the valor and enthusiasm of opr forces deserve epic praise. Apart irom this the brave and celebrated Perez Guillen, the no who yesterday defeated the colamn of General Villacampa, has brought to reinforce us 3,000 citizens, who are disposed to compete with yourselves for the laurels of triumpn.. From the Segorbe River a multitude of volunteers, perfectly armed and’equipped, will arrive shortly to shed their blood at our side in defence of liberty and the sacred ideas we defend, The battle is for freedom, but the trinmph shall beours. We have in our favor every quality, force, courage and good leadership. Forward, federal volunteers, forward! If the enemy attacks us, forward! Ifthey cannonade us, forward! If they Gre their bombs into our city, Jorward! Forward all, and long life to the Valencian Can- ton! THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE, What the Junta says in their manifesto I believe to be true, I believe unless better generals be brought to, the front, who will exhibit more energy than Martinez Campos, the government had best confess itself beaten, and retire to deliberate upon the best. means of concillation, The thing ought to have been done before, and if you will recollect I informed you in one of my late letters that if they intended to proclaim the autonomy of the Cantons the duty of the Cortes should be to at once consider the constitution, and accept, what appears to me to be inevitable, a feal, trae and proper republic, for which ail these cantonists are contending. It 19 ail nonsense to call these people’of the south of Spain pe- trolists, socialists and mcendiaries—they are sin- than he is of our people, 1 think, if ofr people are firm, that all the troops of Spain cannot take Valencia. and 1 think also that if he approaches cere and ardent republicaus, who desire to model their Republic upon just and sound republican Principles, those unon which the American Re- | ‘active, earnest work has begun, However, and whatever-they may do, we shall® public is established. To call these men of ad- vanced ideas, intelligent land and property own- ers, by hard names exposes the weakness of the cause against them. The American States are |. sovereign and»all confederated together for the purpose ef preserving a common right, common laws and @common government, and why should not the Cantons or States of Spain be sovereign towards the conservation and maintenance of the same ends? si THE CITY BESIEGED. AUGUST 3.—1 lancy we have seen the last of the proclamations of the Junta Revolucionario and that But for all the noise and bluster that bombs and shobmake one is not permitted to forget that there exists dissen- sions evenin the city, in the council crypts as well as in the temporary barracks. Reconcileables, or moderates, express their strong dislike against a republican government; trreconcileables, or Com- munists, are never laggard in expressing the dead- Mest hate against the government of Salmeron and company. Martinez Campos has evidently received nis sandbags and mortars, for he has begun to reply to oursaucy efforts to disturb his repose and annoy his Meditations upon the sublimity of military glory under the fig trees of rustic Mislata. Poor fellow! the philosophy of Plato and Socrates be with him; ‘but it is bad generalship to philosophize too much, His government expects him to capture Valencia; the lovers ofthe Republic, of Salmeron and Castelar hope he will; but if Valencta falis it will not be through any military effort he has made, but through the love of the volunteers for their city and the lukewarmness of the moderates to the cause of the cantons, Itis two days since he declared his intention to bombard us, and during the two days about fifty shells have fallen fin the city, the greatest number in the vicinity of San Sebastian church. This was not the bombardment we were led to expect. The troops under Campos’ com- mand have occupied Chichivilla, Campo Rasso and the oft-battered villages of Mislata and Tor- rento, where they stubb ornly remain, despite the sharp artillery practice from the double-towered Cuarte and the twin-towerea Serranos, 1am ine clined to think, from the good shots which have been made at their positions, that a good deal of damage has been inflicted on the troops; how much no one in the city can say with certainty, About six o’clock P. M., while I was dining with a companion, an alarming report was communi- cated to me by one of the waiters, af rank red, as was evident by the excessive gratification the delivery of the report seemed to give him, He said, “El Enguerino had a battle to-day with Villa Campa, and 300 civil guards have been cap- tured, and 600 soldiers have entered the city to join us, but we shall hear more of it by and by. In an hour the truth of it will be known, and if it is true I will sit on the balcony of my house to smoke the best cigar and drink a bottle of the best champagne that can be got.” After dinner we sallied out, and on asking a volunteer if it were true, he said :— “No, I have not heard anything of ghat, but I have heard that a whole squadron of cavalry from Villa Padierna’s cavairy has joined us,” T returned him my thanks, but, reflecting on such Wonderini reports, thought it would, perhaps, be strange in the circumstances if the city were not full of suoh rumors of defeats and victories, The feeling of the majority of the people here is de- cldedly in favor of the volunteers, but then, of course, the people who remain here are the fami- lies and friends of the volunteers. Those who are friendly to the government have probably left Va- Jencia, or the greatest number of them; and with those have gone the timid men, women and chil- aren, the aristocracy, the rich and those who live on a competence, I conversed with an English merchant, who said hé was about to depart for the Grao, and endeav- ored to dissuade him from going; but he replied, “No, sir, I have lived in besieged cities before now, and I know what it is. You will never catch me enduring such a life again.” The consuls have departed for the port, after having kindly assisted atl who came to them for protection; but their flags still hang from the balconies of their houses. The heat is excessive. Our clothes hang about our bodies limp and wet, and shirts and coftars stiffened with starch are an abomination and an annoyance. The drains emit a wholesale stench, horrible and suffocating, and if the siege lasts any time I fear we shall feel the presence of a greater enemy than Martinez Campos in our midst, A FATAL DESPATCH. Avaust 4.—I see by @ correspondencia smuggled in that the Bank of Spain’s agency at Valencia is robbed by the Communists here, and I presume you have published the report assent by the agents of Reuter at Madrid, Of this alleged robbery 1 must give an unqualified denial. ‘here is not a word of truth in the statement. The agency of the Bank of Spain is situated in the Plaza of the Congregation, and the Fenda dejParis, where I live, looks down upon the same square in full view of it, Ican see even now the volunteers on guard around the portals, and tnose off daty come to sit inthe shade close by. These volunteers have been questioned about the report and the cnarac- teristic answer was:— “Ca, hombre! The Correspondencia never uttered @ word of truth in its life, and Having been estab- lished so long on lies it is not going to begin to speak the truth now.” The intense heat tells upon the Valencianos in the same way it tells upon strangers. Their clothes consist of & pair of pantaloons and a shirt, with the usual waist cloth, while a handkerchief, loosely tied around their heads, serves in place of a hat. * A DESERTER SHOT. Last night @ captain in the service of the volun- teers, a very influential man on the Revolutionary Committee, attempted to fy, with his son, from the dangerous post his influence had brought him, Just outside, close to the citadel, he was halted by ® volunteer, who would listen to no entreaty whatever, but called for his fellows to arrest the deserter, who finding it of no availto use mild persuasion took out his revolver and shot the volunteer. Immédiately afterwards the guard the dying man had called for arrived, shot the would-be runaway dead and wounded his son, The latter was taken to the hospital, but the former was permitted to lie in the road all this day. There was no revolutionary Junta this morning to superintend affairs, as those who composed it managed to evade the vigilance of the volunteers and decamped in the middle of the night, having first turned off the gas to assist their fight; but the news becoming known the most radical ‘reds elected aJunta of their own, and you might have told by their steadily repeated firing that the new jJeaders meant busine: Martinez Campos, who stops outside requesting admission, seemed to have become aware that the force of the rebels was very much weakened and that if ne tried hard he might enter, tor a vigorous bombardment was commenced—that is, such a bombardment as @ Spanish genera! understands, Asingle eight-inch mortar bomb came dropping, as it were, from the clouds, with a moaning strain which was quite affecting to hear, every five min- utes, At this feature of the game of war the pro- prietor of the Cai¢ Micos Mundo, under our hotel, closed shop, and we have been deprived of the only amusement we had, which was to go to this cayé and hear the natives tell of the incidents of the siege. The Hotel de Paris has also its windows barred and closed, but the great door Is still open, and the old ‘porter still stands by, ag he did in 1869, to receive all forlorn travellers. To hear the bursting of the bombs and hear their music @s they swept through the air with their trail of fire and their smoke was very interesting; but when they searched each little square, each little street and alley, m terrible proximity, and burst in clouds of dust and morter, havoc and con- fusion, and gave vent to their angry roar, they be- came 4 little alarming*for a time. Of course it is impossible for & correspondent to be everywhere, I will not therefore vouch for anything save what I have seen, as I found it impossible to be every- where; for, if I went to @ church tower, I found my presence drew. the attention of the mortars, and disturbed the inhabi- tants around it; and if I went to the top of the hotel, 1 could only hear the bombs and see the towers Cuarte and Serrano now and then valiantly puffing their defiance at the enemy. The effect Of bomb abd ball enujd not be seen, bat waa NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET, Teported to you by people whom you met, which We have either to believe or disbelieve as we may. RFFECTS OF suoT, T strolled to a district this moroing half way be- tween Cuarte and Ferranos, which is unusually silent and deserted, and came upon a litle narrow street called Calle del Angel—Street of the Angel— just around the corner at the Cuarte end of the street. A bomb had entered the roof and cuta sloping path out into @ narrow alley, and bursting in the alley, it shot its fragments back- ward and upward, and made the house a wreck. Beyona the market place, and north of it, there Mes @ Httle street, called de la Veronica, where a couple of shells fell on the roof, almost in the same Place, and descending almost perpendicularly, burst, and completely gutted it, and the waits tumbling in, the house became a heap. I heard of @ shell having burst in a street near the* Bull Ring, near a house in which four men were at breakfast, all of whom escaped, but their little table and the servant gjrl were blown to pieces. AN ATTACK REPULSED, About sundown I was standing on the tower of Santa Catalina, when the city became electrified with the news that the troops were about to enter. ‘The mortars eutside began to be plied in a terrific fashion, and bomb after bomb plunged into houses Tight and left of us, making th city quake and smoke with the awful din and dust. Under cover of this lively fring, which showed what Martinez Campos could do if he tried, the troops were seen debouching among the fruit trees on the other side of the river, taking advantagé of every little rustic house and cot, when presently they were met by the volunteers, who were hidden in the suburb just beyond the Bridge Serranos, with crackling volleys of mus- ketry, and the Serranos Tower crossed its fre with that from El Cuarte and ploughed up dust and soil in quite @ vengeful way for a time, quite appalling to the attacking party, who, after a weakly effort, gave way step by step and then ran ignominiously from the fleld as darkness set over Valencia. AvGusT 5.—This has been the livellest day’s work yet. e8ombs and balls have searched out every street almost, and each knot ef men have their story to tell of experiences. I'was waked up at five A. M. by the jabber of tongues of market women just below my window, for, the market [tern being closed, they hold temporary quar- ters in the Plaza del Mar, But even the near neighborhood of the Hotel de Paris was not safe tor them, and it was quite an anrusing sight to watch the nervous excitement of the women as they sat there disposing of thelr few baskets of tomatoes, vegetables and fruit to such customers as found courage $0 leave their houses, About seven A.M. @ bomb visited Plaza de la Pelota, which is a triangular plaza, surrounded ‘by fine old houses, except on one sider where a pre- tentious French-looking house has been erected. In this piaza is found the telegraph and post offices. The bomb tore its way through the eaves of a house and dropped alongside of the great doors of this new house, then exploded, breaking open the doors, knocking a hole through a balcony above, destroying Venetian blinds, scarring the wall with great ugly holes in this one house, while every other house in the plaza was more or less injured. The wreck this one bomb made was soon noised about and attracted a crowd of young men and boys, who endeavored to pick up pieces of it as trophies of the siege. While they were thus occupied a shell burst on the other side of the telegraph office, which sent every man and boy flat on his face to the ground, On the subsidence of the noise the little boys, not more than seven or eight years old, sat up and winked and laughed at one another, as if it was all the most amusing play in the world, Even the women are getting accustomed to the bombs, and now begin to be employed as usual about the streets in the cool of the day, and little girls are risking their little bodies out doors, Wher little boys can play hide and seek with bombs and little girla can nave courage to walk the streets, while overhead screams the demon of war and destruction, and market women can sit still within reach of iren hail for over two days, what kind of a city, think you, will Valencia be tem or twelve years from now? What kind ofa population, think you, will these children make, who at this early age become intimately acquainted with war and violent death? Atevening, while I write these notes, the artillery and lightning of heaven have begun, and the clouds, irritated by the constant cannonading, are shedding rain in torrents; but through the rumble of the thunder and the noise of the big rain, the screaming, burst- ing shells ave distinguishable. There is no gas lit, and we are all shrouded in thick darkness, but Martinez Campos thundering at the gates of Valen- cia lights the darkness with his bombs. AUGUST 6.—From ten o’clock last night until noon there was NOT A SHOT FIRED. Even the silence of the night was something to a besieged city, and gave us a suggestive and prom- 1sing topic to talk about. “Que hay? “Que tal?” “Que son las nove- dades ?”” were the questions asked by almost everybody, and everybody tried to answer them if possible. : Only very few people were in the secret, not even the Junta knew it; but the Junta took advan- tage ef the people’s ignorance, and out came a proclamation, fresh and encouraging to all who could read, and though I do not give it verbatim, gtill 1 cam give the pith of it:— fo rus BRave, HEROIC VALENCIANOS:— We have conquered, and the enemy is humbled and siient. The valor of our fellow citizens is tra- ditional, but the months of July and August, 1873, have witnessed the Valencianos excelling ‘them- selves. At no period in history wasever seen such stubborn resistance as that we have made, amid burning houses and a hail of flery bombs. ‘Volunteers, keep your guns loaded in gour hands, retain the idea of resistance in oo minds, then we may Ley to see the proud government of Madrid concillatory. Volunteers, know you the true situation of Spain. Cartagena 18 still mistress of her fortunes. Pavia knocks at the gates of Cadiz for admission, Seville has ‘ain risen as soon as the military retired. The Cariusts are increasing tn power and numbe: in the North, and Valencia is deflant and men- acing. Volunteers, know you the cause of the enemy's silence ; our grenades have destroyed his batteries, and, disheartened by the courage with which they have been met, the troops refuse to fight any more under the banner which menaces their brotuers. ‘Volunteers, be still brave, be still heroic, still re- sist aud conquer, THE JUNTA REVOLUCIONANO. It is excellently well done. They have availed themselves of the ignorance of the people to spread abroad the idea that it was all over, that Martinez Campo had confessed his weakness and inability to conquer Valencia. The reat explamation of the silence is found ina letter toa friend of mine, which he kindly read to me and which he received from the British Vonsul. Itsays that he, the British Consul, Italian and Austrian, an editor, two lawyers and two mer- chants, left the Cuarte Gate ats night, without the cognizance of the Junta, and proceeded to the camp of Martinez Campos to beg him to desist from bombarding ; that the General, after receiving them kindly, gave orders to cease firing until noon to-day, for the sake of the commission, which repre- sented the true interests of Valencia, and that the commisston may have an opportunity to entreat the Junta tosurrender, 1 shall know later what has happened, and what is the result of the inter- view with the Junta. The streets are a little more animated this morning, because the people really believe that the tr have retired. Two houses were set on fire in le Pilar yesterday afternoon, but the energy of the firemen and the really noble efforts of the volunteers soon extinguished the flames. Spanish houses are so strongly built that it is almost impossible to set them on fire by a shell. Tue projectile that was the cause of this fire burst im @ room on _ the third story, and stripping the plaster from the ceiling completely, set the palm leaves and its on fire, About one hundred houses have suffered within the city alone, but in the majorit; of cases a.few brick, a little plaster and new wood- work will soon repair the loss, and aboot thirty houses will have to Bave new roois, balconies, floors, windows and doors; so that, calculating closely, $150,000 may be set down as the extent of the loss Valencia has suflered through the bom- bardment. The suburbs of the city have suffered much, but I have not seen these yet, a8 no one is rmitted to leave the city. The loss of human ie has been very small, thanks to the timidity of the peace loving portion of the population, but the loss to cat-llig has been Xcessive. The number of these animals..which ave perished trom starvation 18 very great. There is hardly a street in the deserted quarters but 1s rendered unbearable with the stench whicu the carcasses emit. Dogs have fared better, for they accompanied their owners in their fight; but poor pussy, anabdle to comprehend the situajion and this hegiect of her tribe, mews disconsoMtely oe- fore the door of her mistress’ house, and is not comborted. and dies of hunger. 5 CAMPBELL’S EXECUTION. Hanging of the Murderer of Thomas Doyle at Cairo, Ill. THE CRIME, ARREST AND TRIAL. How He Killed the Mate of a Missouri Steamer with a Club. £ { Ignominious End of the Colored Roustabout. Cairo, II, August 29, 1873, The law has had another victim in Illinots, an& the injunction of the Mosaic precept, blood for bleod, life for life, fully carried out in the case of Wiliam Clarke Campbell, a colored murderer, Justice has not been tardy either, four months only having elapsed betwoen the date of the crime and the day of explation. There is little that can be said favorable to the cuprit who has now paid the utmost penalty for his offence against law and society, Extenuation was impossible. He had deliberately sought the life of his victim, and having accomplished his end without any eye but that of the Creator upon him, endeav- ored to move about amidst his kinsmen with that_ devilish sang/roid, originating in crime and fear, usually discovered in the African race. According to the most reltable evidence, however, Campbell's victim was not a man of an elevated character, and had treated the colore’ man in the most brutal manner. I will simply give a brief review of the murder and trial, which will, im a measure, explain these remarks. THE FATAL BLOWN On the night of Thursday, April 24, 1873, while the steamer Grand fower, of the Memphis and St. Louis Packet line, was lying at Phifips’ wharf- boat, in the city of Cairo. a negro came on board and inquired for Mr. Thomas Doyle, first mate of the boat, remarkiag that he had a settlement to make with him, and intended to mage it that night, He was informed that Mr, Doyle was: out front. Me turned and left the boat, paving a club or bludgeon in his hand. Ina very short tl @ noise was heard on the wharfbost aud an ex- cited number of the crew gathered around the mate, who had apparently been knocked down. Doyle was unconecious, and was taken on the boat and received medical attention, while the man who struck him escaped. No one had seen fhe stroke, and it was clear that it had been done without the mate knowing who did it, Tne boat left that night. for Memphis, but the crew began* to suspect the man who had inquired for Doyle, This man’s name was Campbell, who had some weeks betore been a@ roustabout on the boat, but hav- img had a diticulty with the mate he left. The police of the city were on the alert,, but having no particular information, worked some- what in the dark to find the rhurderer. Doyle died on board the Grand Tower, and on Saturday, the 26th of April, Chief of Police McHall, of this ‘city, received @ telegram giving him such information as enabled him in thirty minutes to capture Camp- bell, When arrested Campbell asked what @ was for, and he was iniormed that it was for striking Thomas Doyle, the mate of the Grand Tower. He admitted the striking, and, according to the testi- mony of Mr. McHall, said he wished he had killed him. He was then informed that he was dead. He replied he was glad of it; that he was a bad man and ought to die. CAMPBELL'S ARREST AND TRIAL. Campbell was committed to jail, and the Grand Tower returning to Cairo on Saturday nigh>, Dr. Warden, of Cairo, was called to make # post- mortem examination of the body of Doyle. This was done, and the discovery was made that tho skull was cracked and that small pieces had pressed on the brain, Lg tery deat! Campbell was examined before Judge Bross, on Monday morn- ing, the 28th of Apri}, and committed to jail to awatt his trial before the Circuit Court, and. the witnesses were recognized in the sum of $500. Tne grand jury of Alexander county found a true fit against Campbell for murder, and hig trial commenced in the Circuit Court on the 29th of July, W.J. Alien, H. W. Webb and County Attor- ney P. H. Pope appeared for the people; D. T. Linegar and Judge J. H. Mulkey fof the prisoner, by direction of Judge D. J. Baker, presiding. The first witness examined was Mitchell Alex- ander, of St. Louis, who stated that'he had been running on the Grand Tower ever since she was built; that he knew the prisoner; that on the night of the murder prisoner came on board and in- quired for Doyle; said he bad a,btll to settle witn him; that in about ten minutes he heard that Doyle was hurt; prisoner had @ stick $in his hand when he made inquiry; did not hear any blow; could not swear that the stick in court was the one with which the prisoner struck Doyle, but can swear that it» was the one that 1 marked when told that it was the one with which he had been struck. George Young, who lives in St. Lous, testified that he was a fireman on the Grand Tower; knew Campbell, the prisoner; on the night referred to, risoner came on board the boat while lying at Jairo, and inquired for Doyle; had a@ stick in his hands goon after I heard that Doyle was hart, ENTENCED TO DEATH. After able speeches from counsel on both sides, the case was given to the jury on the evening of the 30th of July,and the next morning, after bein; out sixteen hours, they brought in @ verdict o! guilty as charged in the indictment, fixing the Panishment of the prisoner at death by hanging. ‘rhe prisoner received the verdict with much cook ness and was remanded to jail, bi counsel moving for @ new trial, which advisement. On motion was taken under the evening of the 5th of August Judge Baker an- nounced his decision, overruling the motion for @ new trial, and appointing the morning of the 6th for the delivery of the sentence, The court room was pretty well filled next morning, but as soon as court was opened the counsel for the prisoner entered a motion for the arrest of Judgment. This, however, was overruled, and at eleven o'clock Campbell was asked ff he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be pro- nounced inst him.. He made no reply, but gtood and listened to the sentence with more in- difference than any other man in the room. The sentence was brief, but very impressive, bein; @ review of the evidence and an expression o| opinion as to the justness of the verdict, He in- formed the prisoner that he had as able counsel as could be found in Southern lilinois; that they had labored faithfully for him without any hope of re- ward, and that he must now prepare forthe death that awaited him, closing by fixing the time of ex- ecution between the hours of twelve M. and one o’clock P. M., on the 29th of August. For a few days alter sentence was passed Camp- bell appeared reckless; but for two weeks past he had become much softened. He was now willing and anxious to listen to advice and instruction, and said he was endeavoring to prepare for death. He had given up all es of help and expected to suffer for his crime. He acknowledged that he struck Doyle, but denied that he ever said what is attributed to him bs ec McHall, and, of course, is severe upon him. . F. L. Thomson, itor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Cairo, his spirit- ual adviser, informs me-he was disposed to be ae ‘and that he tried to become resigned to late, * THE CULPRIT’S ANTECEDENTS. Campbell stated yesterday that he was born in Louisiana, but was taken from there to Boone county, Missouri, when he wis only two years old. Here he was raised by his master, a Mr. Herndon, and rematned @ slave until the call of the Sored nate for colored troops, when he joined the Ninth lowa cavalry as they were ponte through Missouri to the seat of war in 1861, after which he followed the Missouri River on various boats until last winter, when he went on the Grand Tower. After several trips he had a dificulty with the mate, Mr. Doyle, who struck him with a coal shovel, when he leit the boat. He Lo his father is in Canada; that his mother, several prothers sisters, live in Omaha, Neb. His mother has been with him for two or three days. He is about twenty-five years of age, nearly black, well batt, has a high fore- head and an intelligent face, but a wicked looking eye, THE LAST HOURS. Last night the prisoner was attended by the Rev. Mr. Thomson until @ late hour, and the time was spent in devotion and conversation of @ conf- ential nature, after which he retired, and slept soundly until early this morning. He was visited gery by the Sheriff, and @ few persons called to bid him adieu. Shortly aiter ten o’ciock a despatch arrived at the jail, purporting to convey the in- formation that the Governor had granted a a for thirty days. This was from Mr. J. J. Burd, Dwight, Illinois, who had gone to see the Governor with thé object of securing Executive interference. ‘The intelligence was communicated to the prisoner and his friends and created quite @ ripple of excitement. The Sherif did not credit the news, however, and assured the condemoed man that unless it was confirmed offictally before the appointed time the law would have to be car- ried out, All hope for the Cyd disappeared an hour later, when a despatch arrived [rom Governor Beveridge instructing the Sheriff to proceedrwith the execution. THE EXRCCTION, Shortly before twelve o'clock th finally separated from his frignds, and was formed and proceeded to the hich had been erected in the court yard. Here the death warrapt was read in the presence of the little throng who had attended by poten oy of the Sheriff, and the condemned man ascended the fatal platform. Religious exercises were repeated by the attending ministers, Campbell joining in the singing. He was asked ifhe had anything to say, but he merely piowene his innocence in re: evincing all the while the utmost fear and im- penitence, The black cap was then drawn over his eyes, and the Sherif, at twenty minutes 0 twelve, let the drop fall. The sufferings of tne victim were short, as his neck Was broken by the fall, and in Alten minutes his body Wad Ut GOW, « @ 4 Hawa