The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-27
THE SPANISH REVOLUTION.
ting Dctasfs y he Progress and Position Of he IN



and cries OF Long live liberty n Viva thp constitution OF
1887 y Death Christina Death to the Chicken y
as the iayorite led) resounded in every part But
at frs was rather demonstration of joy than anything
more serious The people embraced each other Thou
sands weeping Groups of sturdy and brave men
shouting and tossing their hats in the air whilst the
tears down their cheeks. There were no arms not
muske-no organization, nothing prepared beforehand
not leader who could command the movements of ten
men The demonstration was pure, spontaneous rising
OF the people with no more plan purpose, method
than we may suppose for the who has Unexpectedly
shaken the milestone from his neck and rises the
face TO breathe the free air again he be quite dead
AS became dark little lanterns and torches be-
gan 10 appear in the balconies of the Gale Mayor and
less than half hour all Madrid was in blaze of light
AT this moment the crowd began to cry for II
was known that Cordoya had been named Prime Minis
terthat Christina was guiding the government death
to Christnar Down with Cordoya r "Armsp "Arms =
more excited group burst into the government house
the province and disarmed the municipal guard du-
~. About forty or fifty excellent muskets thus OBJ
tanned The bayonets and sabres Of the guard also
distributed few old burderbusses and here and there
fowling piece out from their concealment Two
ances with their little flags picked up the field of vi
cavaro and concealed till now, above the crowd for
banners. went among them There not 100 SER
viceable firearms in the hands Of the people o'clock
not a shot had been fired.
At the main guard in the great edfce of the Department
OF the Interior in Puerto del Sol the crowd also entered
and commenced wrestling with the soldiers for their
some obtained but the soldiers put the people out
into the street and closed the great doors They ther ran
house being demolished according the recent orders
Of San Luis for widening the Puerta del So seized the
loose timber piled it against the doors and it fire
The soldiers made sally extngushed the fire. and freed
the entrance of the eddce Not shot had been fired
Cordova had given the order not 10 fire upon the people
He afterwards fired upon them for two whole days.
single discharge from battalion at this time would
have emptied the street. one soldier after another was
disarmcd and his musket went to swell the of
sstance of the people, which the weakness of the general
was now rapidly preparing The idea of the fire applied to
the doors of the main guard long in springng up
into tree of many branches.
The people to the house OF San Luis burst in,
darmed the guard and commenced carrying his rich
furniture into the street piled up aud fred his splendid
library his pictures his patecyeryhng went into the
flames From the house Of San Luis, they to the
house of Salamanca" The riches which il contained
were immense. pictures by the old masters whose
value cannot be estimated thirty thousand dollars
worth of silver pael gold and embroidery and da-
monds, all thrown into the aeswhch were fed by the
doors windows, furnlueevery movable thing combus-
tble and not combustibe contained in the Palace-t
when all finished the very dust swept from the
floors carried out and thrown, with the last broom, into
the fire. The attitude of the people was noble One
or two kept guard around the pile that nothing should be
rescued from the flames
Death proclaimed to the thief; and solemnly i'm
posngly they brought Jewell every shred of lux
ury and after holding them up the view of all cast
them in The first blood of the instruction of Madrid was
split at this house One discovered conceang
silver dinner-pate under his coat Ii taken from him.
He led aside put to DEATH and his death proclaim
ed There piliering At the houses of Dome
mech, exMnister of the Treasury of the Count of Vista
Hermosa, general of the forces next in command under
Blazer of Eseban ColIantes Minister of Public Works
Golfers of gold coin packages of bank bills caskets Of
gems all rcgiouy cast into the great funeral piles
of robbery and corruption Upon the question Of the pic
lures and books there were pauses and debates Many
said We cannot destroy the works of the museum
to the museum la present from the people of Madrid to
the museum But Others replied No they will be re-
turned again to their masters" "Wel what shall we
do? To whom shall they be given y "We cannot
them Let the lesson to the robbers be completecast
them in Five hundred paintings by the first masters
forming the gallery of the Count of Qunto late governor
Of New Castle-colected by fraud, and robbery, and
wrong, from converts and churches-irom poor families
Persecuted-from every corner where power and the
peoples embezzed wealth could wres them-the fees and
reward of maeasance in ofce-thc wages of sin-there
they were, of the beautiful and most valuable
private collections the continent of Europe All went
INTO the flames because the people afraid that they
should not be able to keep them otherwise from falling
again into the hands of the Count of QuiEto A chef
douere OF Albert Durer worth $4,000 persisted. mag
nifcent "Crueixion by Murillo the occasion of
curious scene The people paused-"Oh, God we cannot
burn thy image but it is the property Of Quino God
we cannot save 1t! Oh Lord pardon if we do wrong
is not thy holy image which burn, is the proper
y OF the robber Quino and they fell on their knees whilst
was cast into the fire No building on fire out
OF consideration for the neghbo but the houses of all
exmnisters thus gutted except only those of the
Marquis of Moins and ST. Caderon de la Barca gen
teman asked the nextday by the King why the houses
of Mons and Calderon had been saved and the truth
having become ut,erabe by that time the palace he
Piled 81 don't know, your Majesty unless it be because
Molns and Caderon have never had the reputation of
being thievesl'
Other groups of people, meantime had been surrounding
the palaces of Queen Christina and Queen Isabel crying
death to Christina HViya Isabeln nViva the ConsI-
tion," SYLVIA Liberty
After the destruction of the other houses they were rein
forced 1t between two and three O'Clock at night
Not shot had been fired
The palace of Christina stands comparatively isolated
forming block by itself
strong guard of artillery men, armed with muskes
had been thrown into it, She herself had escaped with
family to the great palace scant hour before the arrival
of the people That she would have been instantly killed
had she fallen into their power is certain
Ilarr TO h,u
the soldiersno however, until they had seized a good
deal OF furniture and set fire to the palace places
reinforcement of troops up and the flames
tngushed Then the firing began both sdes-the peo-
pie were resolved to burn the buildings and all their
tensgotten wealth wrung from the very heart of the
Spanish people, the ar,illery-he most arstocrac and
anpopular corps in the armywere determined defend
their post
person who retired from the scene at about daylight
told me that he counted twenty three bodies of citizens
stretched the pavement of the before the palace
and five artierymen dead in the court
The firing from this time till o'clock in the afternoon
of the 10th instant constant day and night The peo
pie repused from the Palace of Christina retired to the
Plaza OF ST. Domingo slowly fighting the troops who adj
Jacometrezo" aud Judescos they threw up barricade
took possession of the houses behind it, and from the bal
comics kept up uninterrupted fire the soldery the
Plaza That barricade was taken. have been told
of marksman who shot fourteen soldiers as he took
aim for the fifteenth he himself fell dead.
The main guard at the Puerto del Sol fred by plaoops
the people in the streets about the same time that
the struggle commenced the Palace of Christina Gara
the renegade the prime mover and instigaor of
the soldery in this quarter. The people by taking the
houses and throwing up barricades soon forced the sol
ders again into the edce of the Department of the Int
rior.
On the morning Of the 18TH body of the civil guard
had been posted in the Plaza Mayor The people