Weekly Delaware State journal and statesman. (Wilmington, Del.) 18??-18??, 1869-02-05
Disorders in Spain.


BLOODY SCENES AT MALAeA-PRIEsTs AND
WOMEN ON TIRE MISUNDERSTANDING
FIeHTINa-No QUARTER GIVEN EVEN TO
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
We breakfast, dine and sup full OF the
horrors of Malaga. The tragedy there has
been altogether Spanish; it has exhibited
all the best and worst features OF the ma
tional character, and has been remarkable
for that headlong and ieroclous contempt
for lile-for his own as well as other peoples
life--oi which the Spaniard lie more capable
than any other race in Europe when his
blood is up. The hopelessness of the con-
test seems to have struck some of the popu-
lar leaders from the beginning. The volun-
teer battalions were forsaken by their eff
GERS, and the consequence was that deser-
lion from the barbados, almost en- n1dsse, OF
which we had been tod in the earliest ac-
counts. 1t seems that a priest, by name
Don Enrique Romero, went among the peo
pie, and by his words, spoken and written,
prevailed On the popular combatants TO go
forth again. His eXhortations were In the
highest.fown Spartan, Roman, or Saguntine
style. He said
What matters 1t If treacherous or seward
ly chiefs had forsaken themf 1t was never
difficult for man 10 choose the place where
TO die. 1t was to die with honor he called
upon them, not to live IN disgrace. What
should it be said that they had committed
10 this conflict city which had always been
foremost in the battles of liberty, and that
they We uld now withdraw without at least
showing that there were men among themY
Where was their greatness of soulf Back,
let them 60 back TO their posts. What they
had engaged was not 10 conquer, but to die.
Let promise be redeemed. To die would
only be 10 live that endless life TO which
the Cadiz martyrs have been promoted,
Let there be vengeance for the Cadiz heroesl
Vengeance Tor the deadl Vengeance fof
those who endure worse than death in the
dungeons or In the land of exile. Back to
the barricadesl To arms Long live the
Republicl
! cannot make out yet whether this priest,
as good as his word, was found among the
slain. No less than three of these linen OF
God were conspicuous at the barbados.
We hear of one firing upon the troops from
window in the Church Of the Carmen; OF
another whose weapon was an air-gun, with
which he was enabled TO do great execution
before the attention oil the soldiers were
directed against him; we hear OF children
Ten years old being raised by their fathers
above the barricades, holding mere toy
pieces, which, however, they managed 10
discharge at the assailants; we hear OF young
dansels with cartridge-boxes at their waists,
and pistols in their hands. We hear Of
soldiers advancing under the shelter of the
prisoners they had taken, and the bullets of
the volunteers finding their way 10 the sol
diers' bodies through the bodies of their
sacrificed companions. We hear of girls
rushing forward TO clasp the soldiers in their
arms, that their lovers might despatch them
by stabbing them in their backs. We are
told of the fight at the barricades, but the
real contest was waged rather on the TIRES
hold, in the passages, and up TO the very
roofs Of the houses. The central part of
the city, chosen as the scene OF the bloody
drama, dates from the Moors, people ac-
eustomed TO popular ieuds, and whose build
ings are so contrived as in any emergency
10 do duty as q fortress. II you take plan
oil Malaga, even the little one published for
O'Shea's gude-book, you will see that the
Plaza de la Constitution is the centre, as 1t
were, of a star, with number of narrow
and crooked streets radiating forth In every
direction, and opening endless outlets,
winding out upon the river, upon the Ala
media, or marine promenade, upon the port,
upon the quarter OF the Cathedral and the
Custom House, upon the Plaza de Riego,
and the other more modern and more spaci-
Gus districts on the northern side All this
internal labyrinth was bristling with double
and triple lines Of barbados, and the
houses were so provided with doors on every
side that the popular combaiants had 1t in
Au6lI pOWtl ~ ClOMu lOktlhoA az M
threatened point, or TO make their escape
from any position which might become un-
tenable. The troops made their onset from
three different parts. On the right came
Brigadier Rignelme; on the left the Com
mander-iR- Chief, Caballero de Rodas; but
the streets adjoining Constitution Square
were attacked by the Military Governor,
BrigRdier Bayia, with Colonel Burgos. The
CazadoIes de Barbsstro marched in his van
The fire from the men of-war and from the
castle of Gibralaro had already swept the
open spaces and thinned the ranks of thu
defenders OF the barricades, so that the pro
gress Of the troops was not seriously i'm
peded they advanced along the silent ane
lonely streets, the streets darkened by TIT
projecting balconies and heavy caves OF the
flat roofs. They stood now before this, nov
before that house, striving TO force an en-
trance by baitering the doors with the but
ends oil their muskets. All ut once on
door would fly omen, the brayest men woul'
rush in, when murdeTous yolley woull
stretch every one OF them on the ground
As their followers hesilated before tn
hindrance made by the heap of their iallei
comrades and the smoke that filled the pass
age, the massive doors would fall to again
and a shower of balls would pour upo
them from the windows. Sometimes th
house would be carried by storm, but th
victorious troops found il ienanted, the de
tenders vanishing as If by magic TO music
IN some Of the adjoining premises. Th
naIiow district had thus to be conquere
iLch by inch, and when the insurgents weI