Litchfield enquirer., 1869-01-14
THE SPANISH REVOLUTION.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF AN EYE
 .tsat,1,.s WITNESS. .3si@aua tso.H 4

| Most of our readers are aware that our distinguished townsmen, Professor Stowe, had the great good fortune to reach Spain just in time to see the revolution which has made such a bother in the newspapers. l Since his return, we have had tic pleasure 1 of hearing him tell his ovei and; enyiable experience. We venture to share this pleasure with our readers, begging the 1 Pi ofessor to forgive the liberty which We take in thus eniarginS his audience.
 It was on the first of September that he first set foot, in and eyes on, Barcelona. He was little surprised to find 1t q modern city, full of the stir and hubbub of growing ssbusiness center. "~e Therc IS still left old <a,.npto.T ir ~-Aisi. t--.-;rt~ can recognize the Spain of their reading and imagination, but the greater part of the town has been rebuilt q la H;,ussmann, and has an unmistakable nineteenth centu- " look. The only habitable hotels, as is the case throughout Spain, are kept by foreigners. (From the Professors account of the Spanish yfbmda it is pretty evident that the tender mercies of the native inn keeper are crueD. Here he first heard of the impending revolution. The conserva- tives professed an entire scepticism. 'sWe have heard all that before,'' was their lau- guage; Show many revolutions have. you 1 threatened us with during the last dozen years, and what did they come to?" But the common people believed implicitly that the revolution Was at last coming, and so did all the men of education and liberal views with whom tho Professor talked. One of this class said to him :-'I am ashamed to be known as Spaniard We have no later news here than the ninth chapter of tho first book of Maccabees. But this gentlemen, like the rest, was confident that great change was approaching. '2 T
 On the seventh, the Professor reached Malaga, taking rooms in the Hotel de Ala meda, very large and comfortable house kept by Swiss landlord. $ Here too he found abundant evidences of revival ot trade and increased enterprise He also found that the report of an impending commotion had gained ground, and that all classes of citizens were talking abont it. many of them looking fairly haggard with anxiety. On the tenth day after his arri- val the news came that the fleet at Cadiz had revolted. A day or two afterwards the landlord told him that Serrano, Prim, and some eighty or ninety officers of lower rank, were coming to the hotel for break fast and consultation. This piece oi news, coming on the heels of that from Ga dig, was too much for the equanimity of the CaptainG General With one third of his troops, (the rest having deserted, those civil functionaries who had made them selves peculiarly odious, and q few ''con- servative" citizens, he took refuge in the citadel; an old Moorish castle, crownipsy, steep hiii aoous ntii II Iniio from -t',sWalIs
 and connected with it by two broa1t 1troans
 and the citizens went to wnstlon, put SD
 to destroy this comg that great deal
 massive was the mafas expended before
 of toll and powaown up (or down,) and
 the towers vaeneral securely immured. ;; ; the Cans had been accomplished the IWheyeople of Malaga were at leisure to Igeive the revolutionary generals, ana they did it with at least equal gusto. The Professor says the sceno when Serrano,
 Prim, and the rest, rode in, beggars de- scription. Such enthusiasm he never saw,
 such shouting he never heard unless 1t was in Ohio in the days of the Harrison-Van
 Buren campaign. And we shrewdly sus- pect that the little party of Americans were about as demonstratively happy as the Spaniards themselves. .r,... .a The generals and their suites spent four days at the hotel, and the Professor had abundant opportunity to examine them at his leisure He describes Prim as short, wiry man, with singularly handsome face and small, white hand, strikingly recalling g those early portraits of the first Napoleon, taken before he became Emperor and fat. It was plainly to be seen that Prim was the popular idol, he, and not Serrano, recelv- ing the lions share of the ovation. Serra' no, is q taller man, more strongly bnlit and with heavy, almost dull, face, bu' impressing every one who comes near nm
 with the conviction that he IS thoroughly honest and trustworthy. It seemed to tht l Professor that each of these great mel modestly tried to put the other forward Serrano is of higher rank than Prlm, be ling duke while Prim is only count, ant |the Professor thinks that if Prim coult
 have had his way, he would have made hi
 friend the representative man, OF figure t head, of the revolution, while he himsel
 would have done the hard work. The oth 't CT officers as rule, had handsome and II '' telligent faces and stalwart bodies. Thel dress was distinctively national and pictr
 resque. It consisted of bree ches, tigh o fitting jacket, a broad, gayly-colored sas
 through which was thrust the inevltab : knife, and over all an ample cloak. s..oy] if The soldiers whom they brought wit
 them were also ine-looking men, we
 drilled, and, as rule, we'll armed. On
 the officers had horses, that noble anim
 being but poorly represented in Spai " (His place is supplied by asses. mules, al
 the magnificent" Andalusian oxen whi
 still drag about the ponderous carts of D'
 Quixote's day.) The volunteer regimen
 recruited from the peasantry of the sr
 rounding district, were generally arm V with the little Moorish guns, which are v flight that they may be held and fired
 pistols are, but are said to be most eft
 tive and formidable weapon. One day V. squad of these citizen soldiers were al
 ling under the windows of the hotel; a Captain Stowe noticed that they had
 Enfield percussion locks instead of t s common flint lock, of the country I, 3.
 called the attention of two English offic r to the fact, but they were contemptuou
 Iincredulous Without discussing ies. point with them whether such locks e
 did leave England, the captain, ran doy iva borrowed couple of muskets, and show them the crown stamp on the locks. 's x.- | From all that the Professor saw or he
 of the revolution, he thinks it one of e'o most orderly and dignifed on .reco ced There was a regular battle ill the street: