The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-29
REVOLT IN SPAIN.

II Is Of a Formidable Character-Narratiye Of General
prim's Observation-Disclosures of UDonnell anu the
I~nsurgent General.
kilograms from Madrid, which we
have printed, report that General Prim,
the insurgent general, repulsed the
Government troops commanded by Gen.
Concha. The correspondent of The
London Times, writing on the 9TH from
Madrid, thus narrates the movements of
the insurgents /:
When O'Donnell in the Senate, the
other day, expressed his confidence
that he would be able to raise the state
of siege within AS hours, he seems to
have calculated the chances of conflict
with tolerable correctness. One of the
insurgent columns under the orders of
Major Campos and Consoles, after
moving as far north as Benevente, and
then as far west as Puebla de Sanabria.
is positively stated to have crossed the
Portuguese frontier at Braganza. Prim,
who from Terranc0n had marched to
Santa Cruz de la Zarza and Villatobas to
the neighborhood of the Tembliuue
station on the Great Southern Railway,
i~nterrupting the communication on that
line, seems now to have moved further
westward (as the traffic with the south
is said to have been re-established), and
taken the direction of the Toledo Noun
tains, with the intention, as his adver-
saries suppose, of following that long
sierra all the way to the frontier of Por-
tugal. Two companies of infantry are
said to have joined him from Cuenca.
Agreeably to the latest bulletins of
this morning, Prim slept last night at
Vallarabria de los Ojos, and proceeded
J tkto tnoruirr tou,orI Jlo;ro:I~I G:.
| dad Real, where he found himself be-
tween the pursuing column under lava
Ia, which had reached Madridejos and
that of Gen. Concha, Marques del Duero,
who was advancing to meet him from
ManZanares. Prim's only line of re.
treat is along the chain of the Toledo
Mountains. Private information, on
which l feel inclined to rely, assures me
that he has no less than one hundred
and fifty volunteers or guerilleros, under
the guidance of NOy de las Varrequetas,
upon whom he has conferred the rank OF
| Lieutenant General. These active and
daring pdysanOs, or cOuutrymen, as they
are called, are of infinite use to the re-
gular soldiers in whose front and rear
they hover, catering for food and forage,
securing the land far and wide, and ac-
guainting the commanding officers with
the movements of the enemy. An aid
de-camp of Zavala, who was in Madrid
the other day, reported that he was to
! start with the forces from Arapjuez on
the morning of yesterday, but, strange
to say, was not aware of the line being
interrupted at Tebmle-que.
/ told you in a former letter that this
Zavala, who is Minister of the Marine,
and Marquis Of Sierra Bullones, is not
| popular with the troops, who at first re-
fused to march under his orders. He
took with him a large body of%engineers,
on account of the particular confidence
being stopped on the right bank of the
| Tagus at Villarejos by the sinking of the
suspension bridge, he summoned the
commanding officer ofthe engineers, and
babe him throw q bridge across without
delay. The officer pleaded the want OF
materials, which he would have to send
for from Madrid, and which would not
be forthcoming for 48 hours, whereupon
Zavala flew into a towering passion, up
braided the man for i~ncapacity and
sloth, and, upon his demonstrating rath.
er tartly, sent him to the rear disgraced
AS the engineer officer happens to be
highly esteemed and beloved by the men
of his corps, it is not likely that Zavala
will have won the hearts of his column
by this ~unprovoked and irrational act OF
severity.
Abiding to the shutting up of the
clubs the correspondent mentions the
case of the Carrevade San Geronimo, a
most aristocratic club, the only home in
the world Of many hdbitues, and con-
tanning men of every political party.
The reason why the Government
| chose to be so memorable against this
HARMLESS nest of night-crows was that
SO ue wag bethought himself. of sticking
IN on the walls of the drawing room
| OfD,pnnell's proclamation to his troops
at the time of the military insurreclion
at Victl!varo in June, 1854, simply sub
| shutting Prim's name instead of O'Don'
nell's-a piece of cutting satire, nc
doubt. as Prim's movement at the pre-.
sent iunctnre is neither more nor less
than q parody on the cavalry exploit
which removed the Sartorious Ministry
from the Queens Council. The deeds
are alike, almost Identical. The Queen
it is said, seems to have been struck
with the analogy between the Aranjue7
mutiny and the Vicalvaro rebellion, a:
upon the Minister laying before her the
decree by which Prim Is declared q trail
tor. and as such deprived of all ranks, I'll
ties and honors with which he had been
loaded, she positively refused to put to il
her signature, or ''rubric." observing Il
the Minister that "she had been made
to sign precisely such a document
against one who was called the traitoI
ODonnell eleven yearsago-an act which
did not prevent the same ODonnel
exercising supreme power over the coun
try and over herself for years and year
afterward.a, 1t is not impossible tina
Her Majesty's reluctance may havebee
overcome, as it is said this decree il
question is now in the press.
The correspondent proceeds to depic
the CONSERVATION and confusion of al
men in Madrid, and states that the eli
fects on Change, on public enterpris
and confidence, are incalculable. Th
Government are also in a state of fea
totally incommensurate with the apps
rent scale of the rising.
MADRID, Jan. 8, 1866.
The only important fact is that Prin
who had moved from Villarabia