The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-26
The War Of Revolutioa In spain-Den
Carries Invasisn and lfs consequences.

The War Of Revolution In epaln-Don
Car'es' Invssisn and lfs consequences.
The soil Of Spain is again crimsoned with
the blood Of her children engaged In battling
against each other In the name Of revolution
headed by legitimacy, against revolution which
claims to be founded on the popular will and
sanctioned by a citizen vote. Don Carlos in
vasion, as 1t has been termed, of the soil in
duced 'risings" in support Of his claim; the
newly appointed executive met the movement
by military efforts for its repression; blood was
shed Eve days since, and this morning we have
to record by special telegram from London
and through the Atlantic cable the facts Of the
occurrence of other and more severe engage
ments, the killing of number Of government
officers, the cutting of railroads and tele-
graphs, the marching and countermarch-
ing Of armed men, with the exist
ence of home contest 80 general,
apparently, in its character that 1t must
eventuate either In the readjustment of the
present form Of government on q new basis
and with new men at the helm; another and
more radical change; foreign invasion at the
instance, it may be, of party invitation and the
promptings of the exiled Queen, or anarchy.
On Sunday, the 18th of the present month,
Don Carlos was announced as having dsap-
peared from France and crossed the border
into the province Of Navarro. From Paris we
were told that he was ''hotly pursued" by
French police on nearing the frontier. These
officials, in general so active in the discharge
of their duties and 80 unerring in their identi-
fication of individuals, failed to interrupt his
Journey fact which may be interpreted as
significant or the reverse by the public in
estimating the chances and consequences
of the issue. The Carlist party in Spain
assumed threatening attitude" the
very next day. Queen Isabellas partisans
commenced to agitate for war on the Goth inst.
They rendered the military command to General
Lersundi, formerly Captain General of Cuba,
which that gentleman, for reasons best known
to himself, judged it prudent to decline. The
excitement extended from Madrid. It per-
vaded the country during the night, so that
Barcelona, Cordova and Valladolid, with other
important points, were in insurrectionary atti-
tude the morning of the 21st inst. Numerous
arrests were made, and generals, colonies,
sub officers, private soldiers and peasants were
classed by the Cabinet as malcontent, traitor
ous or in actual counter-revolution, on all
sides. Napoleon employed himself as a nell
trail and pacifcator, ordering that all "Span-
ish conspirators" should depart from the from
tier-a measure which proclaimed to the sur
rounding peoples that Spain, even in her days
of infantle democracy, could produce "con-
sprators," just as did France in her era of
reasserted Imperialism.
Moved and Influenced in such manner and
by such causes, the Spaniards met in arms.
A battle was fought at Ciudad Real, one hun
dred miles distant from Madrid, on the Goth
inst, between the civil authorities and the
advancing partisans of Don Carlos. Several
Carlists were driven off or retired, their lead
| ers either escaping or being unknown. Action
| in the field was followed by secret caucus in
the cities. The musket and sabre were, it
was rumored, to be exchanged for poison,
the knife and the stiletto, the government
announcing the discovery of rI"4 having
FIR II. ~l;--. removal Of the lead
ing OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Prm and Ri
| vero-by assassination. Fevered uncertain,
aimless to some extent, and vastly democrat
lied in national spirit, the Spaniards
initiated the Carlist toutbreak" which we
chronicle to-day. His adherents, the Basquinos
particularly, are in arms in many hundreds,
Ciudad Real being still their chief point of
concentration. A battle was fought yesterday
between his men and the troops of the exist
ing government, which resulted as stated
above, and other engagements are expected
momentarily. The Carlists, to the number of
four thousand, were at La Mancha last night,
government forces being on their march towards
that place with the purpose of attacking them.
The Spanish question at home presents an
eventful point in the European history of the
day, point which develops the truth of the
embarrassing fact that 'Not all the blood at
Talavera shed, not all the laurels of Barrosa's
height" have ''won for Spain her well asserted
| right" When, and by what agency, and in
what form, will she obtain it?
BOUTWELL, FOR STOKES. Bout
well is getting on very well with the money
question, but very badly on reconstruction.