The New York Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1873, Page 13

> THE | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Il, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. 13 WAR IN SPAIN, Practical Results of the Carlist Suc- cesses, and How the Followers of Don Carlos Take Ad- vantage of Them. Spanish Newspaper Enterprise Surprising a Herald Cor- respondent. SANCHEZ BREGUA CHOLERIC. ‘Bold Movement of a Republican Chief of Volunteers at Berga and His Consequent Successes, ‘The Cry of the Spanish General, “Send Me Men and Money!” ‘THE SIEGE OF CARTAGENA. ‘Life in the Besieged City and the Impera- tive Decrees of the Junta. ‘THE GOVERNMENT OF SALMERON. ‘The Hopeless Condition of the Republic as Seen by the Herald Correspondent, ‘THE CONSPIRATORS OF BIARRITZ CASTELAR. MADRID, August 20, 1878, A singular phenomenon for Spain occurred when ‘General Bregua took his departure for the Northern army. La Correspondencia de Espaha—whose cir- culation is about 120,000 daily, or nightly, rather, for it is THE NIGHTOAP OF THE PENINSULA— sent @ writer of some note in Madrid to accom- pany Bregua, to record with all the power of his tertile pen, with all the brilllancy of choicest Cer- ‘vantean Castilian, all the sayings and doings of the said Bregua. {[t was such an unprecedented thing for La Correspondencia dé Espafta that for the moment I thought it intended to rival the New York HERALD, and I really thought I was bbout tolose my golden spurs; but on going to people who knew all about Bregua and the Corre- ‘spondencia's correspondeat I was advised, ifI did ‘not wish to spend the HeRap’s money for nothing, ‘toremain, “at least until Bregua shall show you ‘something of what he can do." T remained behind, and while he has been to the North I have watched with interest the struggles in the Cortes; have seen a revolution born and ‘strangled; have seen Valencia in throes of agony— reat mortar shelis destroying houses—a ten days’ bombardment; have noted the progress of the issue at Cartagena and reported the bombardment of Cadiz; and all this time 1 have been congratu- lating myself that I did not accompany Sanchez ‘Bregua to the North, Having seen all this, let your readers bear with me while I give them a rapid resumé of this model General’s MARCHINGS AND COUNTERMARCHINGS, ais effective strategies and non-effective and frult- jess plans. Arriving at Vittoria, in Alava, he sent orders around for all troops and garrisons in the neigh- borhood to hasten to the general ren- dezvous, where he was, and soldiers irom Valladolid, Burgos, Mirando on the Ebro, ilu, Logroiio, and even from Pampeluna, ‘came to him. The columns of Marti, Elias y Rey, Portilla and Castaiion hurried also to the scene of general and energetic preparation until Madrid and all interested in the promising aspect became ail aglow with expectation to hear, through Za Correspondencta, that the hosts of Carlists at the North were ground to bone bits and bloody pulp. The General telegrapned to Madrid daily, “Send me men and money to Pampeluna to meet me there; but after five days the telegrams ceased, ‘and we all knew that Bregua was en route. Despite my affected calmness 1 was ina fever of anxiety Jest La Correspondencia should beat the NEW YORK HeERatLp—there had been such deafening noise about bim, sucn lively anticipations of a grand Carlist massacre, Sanchez Bregua travelled towards Salvatierra and Aisasua, then marched through the Barranca, past Irurzum, to Pampeluna. Presently we had another batch of plaintive telegrams—“Send me ‘mem and money ;” and finally he received 2,000,000 sreals and a regiment of Cazadores, Ever since the arrival of men and reinforcements we has been marching round a circle from Pam- peluna to Vittoria, Vittoria to Alsasua, Alsasua to Estetla, Estella to Pampeluna, and so on along the same eternal road, round and round, without ever meeting @ single Carlist with a gun in bis hand, though the Pretender, Don Carlos VIL, has an army of 5,000 men with him to-day near Estella; ands0 Sanchez Bregua has been gradually coming to the conclusion that though a war office fur- snishes ample materials to make out plans, to formulate systems and make ruies of methods, it becomes quite a task to perfect and realize one of thei before a body 0! 5,000 Carlists, who are con- stantly. escaping, whose only knowledge of war consists in TIRING THE EXEMY’S LEGS. While the repuSiican troops have been daily los- ing ground, the Carlists have been gaining little by lttlé, and this is totally owing to Carlist legs, and ‘the masterly ineficiency of Lieutenant General Sanchez Bregua, the pet and darling of the Minis- terial newspapers. Bregua has had at his disposition almost double ‘the number of troops General Nouvilas had. He thas had sixty battalions of infantry, twenty-four ‘squadrons of cavairy, forty pieces of artillery, be- sides the irregilar corps of Migueletes, the Guardia Foral, the francos of Navarre, carabineers, 12,000 volunteers and about 1,500 civil guards, alto- getter between 38,000 and 40,000 troops atid 1,500 horses. With this enormous force for Spain Sanchez Bregua bas not beem able to have one little He has taken away rom their’posts the garri- Sons of Spiinas, Escorifiza,” Atcchavaleta, Mon- dragon, Onate, Vergara, Placencia de las Armas, Eiver, Taranz, to strengthen the garrisons of Tolosa, Ay: teria, San Sebas- *tian‘and fru, ‘These five poats are the only places, wath the exception of d, that the Republic -of Spain Noid in ali that Nor Hiatrict embraced tan, Vittoria as heard of the withdrawal of the garri- son from dragon he came to that town and sent emissaries to Placencia de las Armas, where there is. first class. of Remington rifles, to offer to the mechanics $60 for each Remi. ington furnished ‘with each voluntecr, ‘There were 1,100 rides stored there. - UNITED, WE STAND; DIVIDED, WE FALL. 100 cartridges, oF $60 for. to that place while the factory people were divided im their sympathies, and while one had of them made rifies for the Carlists and the other half for the republican government, Whee he came the volunteers of Piacencia offered to resist all the towards garrisoning the town. It was inconvenient, the General said, to give 400 men. and it was im- possible to part with a single cannon; and those volunteers who did not et once enlist to go with hini he proceeded at once to disarm. after col- lecting all the arms Bregua fonnd in Placencia and Efbar, he marched forSan Sebastian, but not betore he had thoroughly destroyed all the macainery in the gun manufactory. Seeing themselves thus given up needlessly to Carlist impositions, the inhabitants emigrated to safer parts, and the volunteers who had joined him had increased Bregua’s army to 14,000, men who protected another host of frightened emigrants, bound for the town of San Sebastian, capital of Guipascoa. When Bregua crossed. the Raver Eorla he destroyed the fine bridge which spanned it. THE COLUMN OF GENERAL PORTILLA hurried after Bregua towards San Sebastian, and close on his rear was Lissaraga with 2,000 Carlists who, when he came to Vergara, went to church to hear mass, then made an auto da sé with the civil registry books, and laid a ‘contribution of $5,500 upon the town, The Justices of the Peace and the municipal authorities had already emigrated en masse, The Carlists are therefore masters of the country, with numbers of arm manufactories in their pos- session. They can now proceed to manufacture cannon and small arms, as they did during the Seven Years’ war for a crown; they may now elect their own ground and ambush, by each road the troops may pass, to decimate them from their coverts. ‘The Cariists have also established among all the villages of the North Chiefs of cantons, who are charged with advising them of the movements of columns. They are also arming a militia, as in the past war, who are to harass the troops by a species of inaependent guerilla warlare—every man for himself; and they have organized lines of customs Ofticers, who are charged with collecting TAXES AND IMPOSTS. Such, in brief, has been the result of appointing the man of method, system, rule and plan, Lieu- tenant General Bregua, who was trumpeted throughout the Peninsula by the Madrid news- papers as the “‘coming man’’—the one man who ‘was to reduce the Carlists to bone bits and pulpy matter, but, thanks to their legs and their tireless bodies, the Carlists are stronger than ever, while Sanchez Bregua is @ DISGRACED MAN, has sent in his resignation. and ts to be succeeded by General Pavia, the conqueror of Andalusia. While the present position of the Carlists of Spain have been thus accurately defined up to the very latest hour, there is another por- tion of the country troubled by them which de- serves a8 careful a notice from your correspond- ent—that is, Northeastern Spain and the Mediter- ranean littoral. The latest news is that Cucala has attacked Am- posta; that Tortosa is shouting frantically for “Don Carlos VII. ; that the railroad between Bar- celona and Gerona has been cut, &c. Cucala is AN ABLE AND DETERMINED LEADER in the Carlist ranks, Uniting his men with those of Valles, Segarra and Lisco, he crossed the Ebro above Tortosa, which is west of Barcelona, with a force of 2,000 men, and carried dismay and fear as far as Saguntum, forty miles from Valencia, burn- ing every railway station along the line of the Va- Jencia and Tarragona Railroad. The station of Vinaroz was burned then. Cucala desired to attack the village, but Valdes, who pre- tends to have a disciplined force, reiused his con- sent, on the grounds of humanity, Alcald, where Valdes lived some time, was next visited, and here Valdes again interfered with Cucala’s designs, From Alcala they proceeded to Cuevas and San Mateo, and raged round Castellon, an important town on the Mediterranean, laying taxes and heavy imposts on every village and town they came to, until there was nothing more left them todo, Having gained a rich treasury from the wealthy in the plains, they have retired tothe mountains, whence they have opened their com- munications with Prince Alfonso, in Catalonia, IN CATALONIA Alfonso has been content to rest on his Idurels until some new move is made at the North, and the Carlists of Aragon have felt tneir way towards pronouncing in favor of Don Carlos, which at pres- ent they seem very much disposed to do, Laat week, however, Xich de las Baraquetas, a republi- can chief of volunteers, gained a decided advantage at Berga. When a force of Carlists, under the Prince, was besieging that town to the number of 5,000 he made a bold sally, and so audacious was it that the Carlists were so astonished that he was enabled to shut up 700 of them in a small suburb of Berga—300 of whom surrendered at discretion, 100 were killed and the others, except the wounded, managed to slip out somehow on the recovery of their wits and usual audacity. tt Passing from the Carlists the Republic finds itself dealing'with, the remnant of the intransi- gentes, who are closed up at Cartagena, the last of all Andalusia, Valencia and Murcia, The Carta- genians declare they will resist to the iast. As they have plenty of guns, powder, balis, cannon, men and money it (s very likely that tiey will. Several military officers are with them, who would, of course, be subject to court martial if they were caught; so that it is probable that THE SIEGE OF CARTAGENA, since the old woman Martinez Campos has charge Of it, will last some. time, The Supreme Junta of War within the besieged town have published a dando, which says that those. who are not disposed to take an active part in the defence must leave the town, especially the women; children and old men. All physicians, chemists and surgeons are summoned to appear at once before, the Junta and leave their addresses and forbidding them to quit Cartagena. The bakers’ afe aiso em! ‘48 well RB stores of food and four, horses, cattle, arms and ammuni- tion, The owners of grocery stores may neither close thett’ stores’ nor“ sell’ ‘heir provisions. It farther says, “Considering that all those who have not left the town after our previous proclamations re partisang of the cause we defend, all males {rom sixteen years upward to sixty are called upon to appear before this Junta, to be formed into four battalions, which shaii be designated the ‘Artillery of Cartagena,’ ‘Infantry of Fraternity’ and ‘Caza- dores of the Keyolation.’” Before five P.M. all men were to be formed and each member of the force was to carry on bis cap, bat or jacket the Name of the battalion he belonged to, and every man found afterwards without such insignia was to be expelled the town atonce. The payments were to be effected with paper money—spectally created—tedeemabdie in cash as soon as the gov- ernment can possess funds, The fortress of Las Galeras has opened its thunder on three Spanish gaunbofste, who at sight of the preparations made to attack them by the Mendez~ Nunez, the Tetuan and Fernando el Catalico in- continently departed until Admiral Lobo will be reinforced by the Oarmen, Navas de Tolosa and Zaragossa, now on the way from Ouba. By land the town ts besieged by the army of Martinez Campos, whose cavalry advances as close as they may to the walls, Martinez Campos declares that owing to his in- ferior force in numbers and artillery ft wiil not be possible to begin the bombarment of Cartagena before the end of this week. Quite A PORRIGN FLEST is collected behind the Island of Escombrera. Among the vessels of war there are the American Wabdash, flagsnip of Admiral Case, from Corfa; the fron-clad frigate Lord Warden, Admiral Yelverton ; the British vessels Swiftsure, Triamph,. Lynx, Halcyon and’ Torch; the Italian iron-clad sap Martino, Admirai Broketti; the Roma gna another frunboat; besides there is the. French’ iron-ciad Reine Blanche, from Oran. 80 ‘far the government of Salmeron “marches” ‘Well, as the Spaniards say. Tne Ministers are all of ‘one adcordy bet accord with what in the end I Accident brought Sanches Bregus with 6000 men | candidiy confess Ido not know. My suspicions are strong, however, though I admire tts conduct in this tate intransigente revolution for its vigorous, Sledge-hammer strokes right and ‘eft, done in a style worthy of Von Moltke. Nothing so wonder- fully eMcient, so magnificently thorough bas Spain seen since the downfall of Isabella. This was done, too, when all were inelined to hold up their hands in horror at the ruin of the Spanish Peninsula, and all sorts of sympathetic cries were heard. They found a man of mettle, dash and skill in Pavia, who swept through Cordova, thundered through Seville, struck fierce, quick blows et Cadiz and sheered off to Granada to find bimself conqueror of Andalusia while Martinez Campos was still aim- lessly pottéring away at Valencia. Pavia, restless, eager as a hound, scents turbulence at Malaga, and requests to be permitted to go there and disarm, the volunteers; but Solier is already there, and he 1s emphatic against Pavia’s presence ; whereupon Pavia gets into a rage, and sends his resignation, thus marring his splendid recora by such pusillanimity. But it is hopea that the Sal- meron Ministry will send Pavia after the Carlists. Itis talked of now, and if Pavia only exerts his strength and energy as General-in-Chief at the North the Republic of Spain may yet hope from the bright horizon that it has a future before it. THE REPUBLIC CANNOT LIVE. And still I think it impossibie that the Republic can: live long, and Iam not a pessimist by any Means. The danger to the Republic lies not in the Carlists or in the purblind intransigentes of Car- tagena, but in the monarchic-conservative-liveral- radical-Sagastine-Zorrillist coalition party. The death which will killthe young Republic event- ually lies in this tree, which, like the ponderous lanes of the A.rican swamps, takes root near the base of a tall, vigorous, healthful tree, and, grow- ing up under the shade of its grateiul umbrage, springs up quickly to a Briarean giant, and Btrangles every other tree in tne neighborhood, and thrives on their dead, spectral-like stems. One by one THE CONSPIRATORS OF BIARRITZ and Bayonne are coming back to Madrid. Becerra is already here. The Marquis de Sardoal, of “Per- manent Commission” fame, came yesterday. Gen- eral Lopez Dominguez, the nephew of Serrano, has already come. Sagasta, whose devilish, sneer- ing face can never be forgotten, is en route, and Ruiz Zorrilla speaks of coming when it will be cooler, aud probably we shall have Martos, and, finally, Serrano himself. All this time, prominent above all these coal- escing factions of unforgotten times, a head and shoulders higher than any, stands Castelar, storm- ing with superhuman eloquence against the tn- transigentes, and, like thehealth{ul, tall, graceful, vigorous tree of the African swamps, he sees not the liane twining its folds about him, fourishing wonderfully under his eloquence, to by and by strangle him and his ideas to—well, we shall see. MAKING BELIEVE FIGHT. A Naval Sham Battle in British Waters. ig (From the London Times, August 30.) HER MAJESTY’S SHIP ACHILLES, BANTRY Bay, August 25, 1873. The picturesque shores of Bantry Bay qere to- day startled into reverberating echoes by the thunder of broadsides and the quick rattle of rifes, for mside that beautiful bay was fought a sham battle between the two divisions of the First Reserve squadron, now completing their summer cruise off the south coast of Ireland. These ships leit Portland on the 11th of August, and until the 22d of August have been at sea, going through their various drills, mancuvres and steam tactics, ‘The weather generally has been rainy and uncom- fortable, and @ suMiciently strong wind has been experienced to give one more proof of the already well-tested qualities of the ships composing tnis squadron... On Friday, August 22, they sailed ya Bantry Bay tn single line, and anchored about two miles from the cown of Bantry, lain at anchor. where they have since This morning the weather was tolerably fine, though now and then a rain cloud passed over. At half-past ten A. M. the Hector, eighteen guns, the Achilles, twenty-six, the Vanguard, fourteen, ana the Audacious, composing the second division, were ordered to f° and anchor in Glengarif Bay, ‘about four miles distant from the remaining ships of the squadron, and to form the attacking force. Between one and two P. M. THE FIRST DIVISION began to move from their moorings, at the same time clearing away fer action. The fine wooden line-of-battle ship Revenge, thirty-two guns, carry- ing the fag of Kear Admiral kdmund Heathcote, bore down first, and was followed by the Black Prince, pena fs Penelope, eleven, and Vai- jant, eighteen. ‘he Seamew and the gunboat Goshawk acted as tenders, the former being at- tached to the second division, The attacked ships were not backward in preparing to receive the enemy. They got in their jibbooms and sent down topmasts an ars in a very short space of time, and then, crossing the enemy's bows, received and returned a few rounds trom the Revenge and the other ships of her line. The tactics, however, of the second division were to retreat for a time, Keeping up 4 mischievous fire with their stern guns in answer to the enemy’s bow guns, At length the Revenge overtook the Valiant, and ‘4 BROADSIDE ENGAGEMENT commenced. The second division stopped steam- ing and allowed the other ships to range op along- side, and then the battie became general. The two divisions were in single line ahead, opposed to one another, ship to ship. They were now, however, to come to closer quarters, and, forming line abreast, they bore down on one another. In an actual engagement there would, no doubt, at this time have been some ramming, and the short and long ships*would have proved their relative merits. As it was, the perfection of their broadsiae fring Was most satisfactorily shown, all the guns of a broadside sounding almost like one, as they were fired by galvanic batteries. All this time @ mur- derous fire was kept up from the rifles of the men in the tops. For a short space there was a lull aud the lines recrossed, firing as before, FEW SORBNES CAN BE IMAGINED PINER than that presented by the sqnadron at this time. Heavy ciouds had been rolling up behind the deso- late Savi rr of bills which run from behind Glengarif! to Castietown, where they terminate with the most desolate and barren of all, the loity Hungry Hill, well named if we may judge from @ distance. ‘The white smoke irom the 8 was driven over the water until It seemed 0 form @ wall at the foot of these hills and curled up the sides in fantastic shapes. It is to be regretted that this very thinly-inhabited part of the country could not furnish an admiring crowd, who, irom the adjacent hills, woald have had @ very fine view of these interesting ma- neeuvres. However, it is most satisfactory to know that such very useiul exercises are carried on dur- ing their month’s cruise by those ships which, dur- ing the rest of the year, lie so quietiy in their re- spective ports. From THIS MIMIC BATTLE various usefal hints could be picked up by those who studied it with @ professional eye, and the de- tection of the many mistakes which were un- doubtedly made by individual ships shows where would be the weak points in our naval warfare, of which we must necessarily remain entirely ignor- ant uniess such exercises were carried out. Another advantage of such @ sham fight is that the drilis for the men, both in shilting the spars, fight- ‘ng the guns, and the other muititudinous employ- ments Wh.ch such an occasion produces, are ren- dered more interesting than the ordinary drills by the extra excitement which is created and the emulation between ship and ship. SHIVERING WITNESSES. A British Oritic of “The Temple” Sug- gests an Idea Not To Be Ignored by the Ameriean Bar, {From the London Dally Standard, August 30.) To THE EDITOR OF THR STaNDAnD: Str—The Lord Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench corenn Sheceree, “I deeply deplore that members of the bar so frequently put, unnecessarily, ques- tions affecting the private life of witnesses, which are justifiable when they go to the credibility of 9 witness"? I bave watched closely the administration of jus- tice in France, Germany, Hoiland, Belgium, Italy and @ little in Spain, as well as in the United States, in Canada and tn Ireland, and tn no piace have [seen witnesses so badgered, brow beaten, and in every way so brutally maltreated as in Eng- land. The way in which we treat our witnesses is @ National disgrace, and seriously obstructs tu- stead Of siding the ends of justice. In England the mest honorable and conscientious men loathe the witness box. Men and women of all ranks shrink with terror from subjecting themselves to the wanton Insult and bullying, misnamed cross- examination, in our English Courts. aay paras hey Baer aan Sat of many persons as they . Femember to have seen #0. disti jhe late Sir > Brod he witness amounted to tion of justice aa ndges or Jurymen. and are en- ius one percents 5 Lv el je adairs and private liv ty id & sacred ae oat nee Tven! fio think that it Is the duty of @ judge unless Tan TRMrus. Anqust 07. MIRACULOUS. The Creat Religious Revival in France. Close of the Month of Pilgrimages on the Holy Mountain. First Appearance of the Virgin Mary in the Nineteenth Century. Personal Statement of Maximin Giraud, Who Saw and Conversed with the Virgin Mary, to the Special Correspondent of the New York Herald. Grand National Pilgrimage to Our Lady of La Salette. SIX THOUSAND PILGRIMS. Paris, August 16, 1873, The statement made to a special correspondent ofthe New York Hegatp by Maxtmin Giraud, the first man who saw and conversed with the Virgin Mary during the present century, is word for word as follows :— The beginning of the miracle was in this wise :— “It was towards noon (vers midt) on the loth of October, 1846, and not a time of day favorable to ocular illusions. The sky was serene, No clouds cast their shadows on the mountain, The sun shone in ita full splendor. “I was on the summit of the holy mountain with Mélanie Mathieu, THE LITTLE SHEPHERDESS WHO SAW THE VIRGIN with me. I was eleven years old and she fourteen. We were seated together on a heap of stones placea one on the top of the other, aud which formed a sort of bench, near a fountain which had dried up, but which began to fow again from that day for- ward, and ts now callea THE MIRACULOUS FOUNTAIN. Mélanie and I were making our frugal meal of black bread. Our cows and sheep were browsing near us, on the mountain side. 1 had only been employed for a short time as a cowherd, my family being unwilling to let me go out so young, and I ‘was very tired; so, when [I had done cating, [ stretched myself on the grass and was just drop- ping off to sleep when I heard the voice of Mélanie calling:—‘Mémin (which is the diminutive of Maxi- min), Mémin, come along and let us look after our cows.’ Being older than I, she exercised authority over me. as girls will, and was fond of teazing me. I started qm from my dose when she called, took my stick in my hand and followed Mélanie, who knew the mountain better than did, and acted as my guide. We crossed the Sezia and rapidly mounted a hillock near it. On the other side of this hillock (monticule), we found our beasts, which had strayed away while we dosed in search of sweeter pasture. “We were going back towards the stone bench where we had left the remains of our breakfast a Must say your prayers in the evening and in the morning. When you have not time to say them all say simply a “Pater” and an “Ave Maris,” and when you have time say more. Only afew aged women goto mass. Other people labor all the summer, ‘and them they go to church in winterf when they have nothing else to do, and make a mockery of religion, Even in Lent they haunt the shambies like dogs." “Tnen," said Maximin Giraud, “she asked us, ‘Have you never seen spoiled wheat, my chil- arent” “4 answered, ‘No, my lady, [ have never seen any,’ And the beautiful lady replied, ‘Yes, my child, You Once saw some near the Coin, with your father, and the man on whose land it was said to your father, ‘Come and look at my wheat, it is blighted!’ You both went and saw it, Your father took two or three ears in his hands, rubbed them together and they fell allto dust. Then, as you were return- ing home, and while you were about half an hour's walk from Corps, your father gave you a piece of bread and said to you, ‘Here, my boy, eat this year, for I do not know who will eat next if the wheat is all blighted,’ “and I answerea (said Maximin Giraud), ‘That is quite true, my lady, but I nad forgotten it!” ‘Then the beautiful lady Gnished her discourse by these words, spoken in French :— “Well, my children, you sball make this known to all my people.” (Eh bien! mes enfants, vous le Serex passer a tout mon peuple.) She them passed the Sézia on the right of us, tonching us gently, and went upon her way with- out turning again towards us; but as a last ‘are- well she repeated the words, “Eh blen/ mes én- nts, vous le Jerez passer 0 tout mon peuple." “Immovable a3 statues,’ said Maximin Geraud, “our eyes fixed on the beautiful lady, we saw her feet joined like those of a skater, and she glided over the grass without bending its blades. Recov- ering from our ecstasy, we ran after her and over- took her soon, Mélaine stood up in front of her and! behind and to the right, and there, in our presence, the beautiml lady rose up higher and higher. She remained for some minutes at a height of about two yards from the ground, then aer head, her body, the legs and feet, one after the other, Passed into the light which had before surrounded her asa frame. We saw only a giobe of fire, which rose and penetrated into the firmament. We called this globe of fire A SECOND SUN, and our eyes were long fastened to the spot where the luminous body had disappeared. I cannot describe the ecstasy in which we were. I can only speak for myself; put I know that my whole being ‘was annihilated and ali the organs of my Ife stopped their movement. When we had in some degree recovered our self-possession Mélanie and I gazed at each other in silent wonder, and now we lifted our eyes to heaven, now we bent them on the ground beneath our tect, interrogating all aur- rounding objects by our looks. We seemed to be seeking for the resplendent person whom I have never seen again. “Whenever I have to speak of the beautiful lady who appeared to me on the Holy Mountain,” con- tinued Maximin Geraud, “I feel some embarrass- ment as to the proper choice of words in which to describe whatI saw. She resembled nothing ter- restrial, 1 have been obliged to use the words ‘robe, crown, roses,’ for things whieh had hardly any resembiance to them. The radiant dress she wore was not of carthly make or texture, Different rays and colors blended and harmonized, producing &@ magnificent appearance, which words can only lessen and materialize, “The aun was deciining when the lady left us, Mélaine and I collected our cattle, which had hardly moved while we received the divine mes- Sage, and we drove them home, pensive and few moments before, when Mélanie stopped sud- { #reaming, to the village of the Ablandins. It was denly. Her stick fell from her hand, and she turned to me with a frightened face, saying, ‘Do you see tha: great light yonder?’ ‘Yes, [see it,’ said I to her, ‘but come, pick up your 7 and brandishing my own in a threatening manner, ‘If it touches us,’ I added, ‘I will strike hard at it.’ (Je tut en donnerai un bon coup). ‘This light, before which the sunshine seemed to pale, appeared to open in the midst, and we could diatinguish in the interior of it the form of a lady more brilliant still, She wasin the attitude of a person profoundly afflicted. She was seated on one of the stones of our little bench, her elbows resting on her knees and her face conceaied in I who spoke first of the beautiful lady to the mis- tress of Mélaine. My words, ‘THE LADY ON FIRE,’ ‘the second sun,’ made her believe that I had lost my head. She ordered me.to tell her what 1 had really seen and heard on the mountain. She was greatly surprised at my narrative, and I was equally astounded to hear that she had not seen so bright alight shining on the mountain top, as I had done. I could not imagine that a special grace had been vouchsafed te me. “Tne next day I returned home to my father at Corps. Mélanie continued to keep her flock. We were thus separated Jor about three months, and her hands, Although we were about twenty yards distant from her we heard a soft volce as thongh it came from a mouth close to our ears, saying :— CONVERSATION OF THR VIRGIN MARY. “Draw near (avancez), my children. Do not be airaid, Lam here to bring you great tidings” (une grande nouvelle), The awe which had seized on us and stayed our steps vanished as she spoke, and we ran up to her with as much confidence as though she had been a kind and most excellent mother. The beautiful lady also advanced towards us, apd foating in the air a few inches from the ground in front of us, she began her, discourse thus:— “If my people will not submit themselves to me I shall be forced to let go the arm of my Son, It is 80 heavy and weighty (si lourd et si pesant) that I can no longer restrain it.” “It is a long time that I suffer for mankind, and if I desire that my Son shall not abandon you I must pray without ceasing; but, as for ye, this seems but @ small thing to you. “Lhave given six days for labor. I have re- served the seventh for myself and ye will not give it upto me, Itis that which weighs down the arm of my Son and makes tt so heavy. “If your harvests are spoiled tt ts because of your sins. I showed this to you last year by the roots of the earth (the potato famine), and ye would not see. Far otherwise. When ye found that your roots were diseased ye began to curse and to swear, and ye took the name of my Son in vain, Tnose which ve now have shall last till Christmas, the day of His nativity, and then there will be no more.” Mélanie not understanding what was said to her, the beautiful lady, divining her thoughts, resumed in these words :— “Ah, you do not understand French, my children; wait a while,”’ She then continued her ulscourse in the patois (dialect) of our mountains (which your correspondent will translate for the benefit of the American reader, giving merely a specimen of THE VIRGIN’S PRECISE LANGUAGE | in a foot note,* and premising that the apparition | which was seen by Bernadette in the grotto of Lourdes also spoke to her in the dialect or patois of the Pyrenees). The rest of the Virgin's speech may be thus done into English :— “Let him who has wheat forbear to sow it, for it will be eaten by the beasts of the fleld, and if some ears of corn should spring nevertheless they will fall to dust in the threshing, “There will come @ great famine; before the famine there will be @ pestilence, and little chil- dren under seven years old will die of convulsions tn their nurses’ arms, Adults will do their pent tence in want and hunger, “Your grapes shal! spoil in your vineyards, and your nuts shall turn bitter betore they are gath- ered.” (This {8 @ great country for nuts and \ grapes.) I must here remark, said Maximin Giraud, that when the beautiful lady spoke to me Mélanie heard nothing, and that when she spoke to Mélanie no sound was perceptible to my ears, “If,” continued the Virgin, “ye will turn and re- pent the stones and the rocks shall become wheat, and the roots of the earth will grow in abundance without your labor, Ye shall reap that which ye have not sown and gather that which ye have not planted.” “Then,” said Maximin Giraud, who saw the ‘Virgin Mary, to your correspondent, ‘the beautiful lady asked of Mélanie and me, ‘Do you say your prayers correctly (bien) my children?” “No, my lady,” we both answered. ‘We donot Know them well, or say them often.” “sbi my children,’ parsued the lady gently, “you * “St Ia récolta s¢ ita, 6176 qué per vous soatrés; vous Val ou véizé Van passa per las trufas n'ala pas ia cas, eza oou countrairé: quant Wen troubava dé gasta, Jurava ¢ l’y bitava lou nong dé moun chalandas, b'y eoueré ius," each of us narrated in our own way what we had heard and seen, replying tu ail the questions ad- dressed to usin French, @ language of which we had been utterly ignorant on the morning of the 19th. September, 1846, but which we could speak fluently that night. This is my story. I have nothing to add or to retract. Ihereby confirm my profession of faith upon oath in your presence, and I sign 1t with my own hand. I[’am ready to reply to any questions addressed to me, either verbally or by letter, and to confirm the statement which [ have made to you in every particular.”” THE BROOKLYN CONSOLIDATION COMMISSION It was decided at the meeting of the Consolidation Commission, held in the Supervisors’ Hall, Kings county, yesterday afternoon, that the legislative power of the new city should be vested in the Common Council. It was further agreed that the Board of Aldermen should consist of one mem- ber from each ward and one extra from the follow- ing wards :—Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Six- teenth and Twentieth. This will give forty-one members to the Common Connect! of the new city of Brooklyn, Commissioners Fox and Bergen urged that the Aldermen be elected for two years and give their services without compensation. The wishes of these gentlemen were not complied with by the meeting. Several sections of an un- important character were stricken out from the “plan” of Judge Lott, which was adopted on the day previous. A provision was adopted giving two assessors to the five county-town wards of the new city, There was considerable discussion over the Fire Department clause, several of the town people being of opiniou that that department would be of little service to them. Future legisia- tion will be allowed on that subject, The aldermen are to be constituted supervisors of the newcity, A motion was made to reconsider that portion of the plan which made the county towns responsible for the Prospect Park bonds, After a lengthy dis- cussion the question was referred to the President and clerk to draw up a plan for consideration. Yne Commission then adjourned, to meet ou Sat- urday aiternoon. The subjoined estimate of the value of the pro- perty owned by the city has been made by Comimis- siouer Lowber :— Schoolhouses, &c. ‘Assessment for Par 1,800, Sinking tund... 2600. Total... vob $940, 200,000 This does not include wharves and docks and some other minor items of property owned by the city. ‘The bonded lability of the city 1s 000,000, of 000 are for special local tmprove- which $10,000, be paid by special assessment ments, and wi BROOKLYN PARK COMMISSION. The receipts of the Brooklyn Board of Park Com- missioners for the month of August amounted to $79,362 65, and the expenditures were $71,041 17, being @ balance of $8,821 43. The bust of John How- ard Payne, purchased by the Faust Club for the sum of $3,500, is now completed and will be erected With becoming ceremony im the vicinity of the “Farm House,” in Prospect Park, about October 10, William Cullen Bryant will deliver the oration, = John G. Saxe will recite a poem upon the occa- sion. . COMPTROLLER’S RECEIPTS. Comptroller Green reports the following amounts Teceived yesterday into the city treasury :—From Bureau of Arrears—Arrears of assessments, taxes, water rents and interest, $7,730, Bureau of Col- lection of Assessmente—Assessments for street van countinua qué eo earaee Becand Ahh $17,251, c openings and improvements and interest, $4,134. Boreau of City Revenue-—Market rents ‘and Toes market cellar rents, $4,174, Bureau of Water 4 istrar—Croton water rents and pene oe al Marshal—Liceuses, 3 COUBA. Dark Clouds Lowering in the Political Horizon, with Many Points for Party Explosion. Monopolies and the Interests of Monopolists< Public Alarms and Sudden Excitements in the Streets—Capital Affrighted and Industry Deeply Alarmed. HAVANA, Sept. 4, 1873. The political horizon is overcast with thick clouds ofrumors, rife and dire, and rapidiydark- ening with the advance of events, which threatem to Uring Worse scenes upop Havana than the ate tack on the Villanueva Theatre, the murdering of Innocent frequenters of the Louvre, fhe assassina- tion of Griinwalt and others, or the execution ot the boy students, THR SITUATION AS IT PRESENTS. So many different and widely diversal interests are at stakein this country, and the division of Parties so marked, that a confict cannot be muck longer kept off. Comparatively more liberty tham that enjoyed a year ago, in the expression of poite tical sentiment ts apparent, the social question, that of slavery and its iniquities, ia freely treated by the republican press, and the consequences arising therefrom are impending. The Spanistr Republic is pledged to give reforms to Cuba, and reforms and the social question are delicate terms given’to the abolition of'siavery, which must event. ually come. The republicans, now that Spain is a republic, finding it no treason to express their democratia principles, desire the promised reforms, and, above all, their individual rights, and are clamoring for them; while the oligarchy, whose most precious interests are at stake, are making the most stren- uous efforts to repel all innovations, commonly alleging the circumstances of the island as an ex- cuse‘ior postponing all reform and progress. These’ men, 80 accustomed to wield their influence and bridge their wishes with money, have become arrogant with their power. Their political ideas have no basis but that of money, wealth, monope lies, speculation and greed. THESR MONOPOLISTS, The former directors of affairs in this island wield tmmense influence by their connection wit the volunteers, thousands of whom are their de- pendents. Among the straws which indicate this is the recent, formation of societies, more or leas Sccret in character, where the member 18 from the frst sworn by solemn oath to resent the preseges of a liberal government and to abjure and forsweas. all liberal principles. THE REPUBLICANS are not backward in their meetings to discuss the present situation and advocate measures for ite Teliet. Consequently the reactionists, or conserve tists, as they er themselves—who in common ar¢ united against the pretensions of the republicana, while pernaee divided among themselves as Can lists and Alfonsists—seek every occasion to mam lest their displeasure against them and even to dé them harm. PACTS AND PROOFS FROM PASSING EVENTS. The following events, which have recently oo curred, prove this:— On the evening of tho 30th of last month the Seconé Comite Repuhlicano (republican committey), while holdii & meeting at their roomain Teniente-Rey street, notic eight persons, outside in the annoying manner. It was Peal ahd rts. He foresaw the difficulties which would ari ‘om any disturbance of that nature and the discred! which would be thrown on the republican circles, On the evening of the first of this mouth the same game attem| Cubs, Street where the committee of the Fifth was holding a meeting, and, encouraged by their larger number and the possession of arms, broke out im riotous eri ad in the most scandalous manner insul 16 by howling against them the epithets “so ering ” “Petrolistas,” “thieves, &c., accompanicd with ih of hismes, the Commitice meantime quictly em had commenced, bringing more ai more excited groups—citizens, halt’ armed volunteers sh “to arms!” until the street for several squaret blocked up, and it needed & spark to inflame the whole mass into @ blaze of riot and bloodshed. niet of Police and his e which we d nst the wu republicans, but yielding to the cries ot the mob, composed of vol teers, ordered all of the meeting into arrest, and, ti together tn Couples, they were marched out of the Hause ‘And to the jail. followed by the hootings and execrationt of their enemies: but they were released the tollowt day. That is to say, that those who quivtly and caim! were discussing the interests of the Spanish government and are its firm adherents, slept—if sleep, Indeed, the could—that night within the walls of a common jail while the provokers of the disturbance, suspected to been Carlists, quietly walked off to take a drink, an qj to the present moment have remained unmolested, witty out being called to account for an act which every honorable man, of whatever political opinion he may indignantly disaliows. It is also notorious that parties oung Peningulars roam the streeieat night armed wit Inick*sticks, seeking opportunities for a disturbance wi members. Fore bi Tying of revolvers is becoming ge: IM PRISON AND FOR WHAT. Citizen Carreras still continues in prison at Clem fuegos, and Puertas at the Cinco Villas, both for the unheard-of crime of being agents and distributorr Ol republican journals. in the common jail of this city (Havana) Citizen Hompanero, an editor of the late Tribuno, languishes for an offence against § corporation of the State, Oe the expres sion of the Supreme Court, while Ruigano, whos short time since was denounced and arrested as the Carlist agent in Cuba, passes the slow hours w his comparatively comfortable quarters in the Cas tilla de la Punta. Such 1s the 4 PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS, and it is not dimicult to foresee, that the day leasy expected will bring upon this city a repetition @ the Sicilian Vespers, as the minds of all are ex cited, and has tended to hasten the determination of the manulacturers Of cigars, some to close thelt factories, aud others to leave only one-fourth oF their workmen employed, discharging the re mainder. Such a proceeding will result most la mentably, as this large number of Sgt pe thrown out of gaplorment and unable to fin bread for their families, will cause much troubli and it is more to be noted that the tobacco deale! should discharge their men, at the only time of the year when the tobacco crop is gathered, of which the greater part comes to this city. " SUDDEN DEATH OP A WOMAN, Her Husband Arrested on Suspicion. Sergeant Warts, of the Eighteenth precinct, yes terday informed Coroner Keenan that Bridge Cosgrove, an Irish woman, fifty years of age, has died suddenly at five o’clock this morning at her residence, No. 616 East Sixteenth street, withow Medical attendance, Her husband, Patrick grove, is held at the station house on suspicion a@ having caused her death by violence, as she has ¢ black eye. Bridget Barrett and Patrick Maguire living in the same house, are witnesses in the case The Mame of gm ag ap ar @ subsequent inv ¥ hot of Fecent date, and bad nol been known to quarrel seriously for twé or three weeks past. There seemed to be little of ho evidence to Warrant the arrest and detent of the husband, who doubtless will be dischar, by Coroner Keenan on an investigation of the maa ter. Deceased had been & woman of intemperate habits, and doubtless indulging to excess in the use Of aicoholic stimulants hastened her death, THE WASHINGTON MAILS, Navy DeraRtMenr, WASHINGTON, Sept, 9, 1373, To THe EpiToR oF THR HERALD:— Iam glad your correspondents are writing the ‘Washington Malis from New York,” and Hope your editors will help them. The arrange meat bas always been bad, but with the presem irregular running of trains it has become unem durable. The day express from your city is due here at 545 P.M., and the mail, too late for de livery by carrier, ia handed to us the next morning at9-10 or 11 o’ciock, with the mail that leavet New York at9 P.M. When the wail arrives early enough we can call and get it atthe Post Ofice, between 6 and 7 P. M., but such has been the casé bat few times since the troubvies began betwees ingers, New York pape! of news dealers at the rate ‘of about $18 or $20 pet annom, without Sunday edition; that can scarce! be obtained of them at any yee Bus that woul not help matters much. at ought to ve is just ‘is:—A train from New York to arrive here about lo’clock P. M. At that hour in the day deliveri by carriers would be promptly made and we wou il be satisfied. Now there is nearly time enougt after the publication of the New York datlies before the departure of the mali for Washington from your city to make the trip with decent railroad ao commodations. reniation of New Yor® papers in this direction is immense; and it seems es ° road compan eS ores KILLED BY A FALL About twelve o'clock on Tuesday night Jame Dagen, aman thirty years of age, fell from tne rod of house No, 816 East Twenty-fourth street to the ground and was almost instantly killed. The polia give the names of five persons who can be calles 05 Witnesses, Corgner ‘Was notified, 3 e