New-York tribune., 1872-05-07
THE C4RLIST FIASCO.

THE CARLIST FIASCO.
Whether the young scion of the BOurbons
IA himself taken or not. it is clear that his
crazy movement in Navarro has come to an
untimely end. At the first serious encounter
with the regular troops his undiscipllned lol-
lowers seem to have given way. Although
the dispatches inform us that they supported
a combat of nine hours, the fact that the cas-
ualties are variously estimated at from ten 10
fifty proves that the engagement was gentle
and courteous one. 1t gives us reason to be-
lieye also that the numbers of his followers
were grossly exaggerated. For long time there
has been a gradually growing Discrimination
on the part of the hardy mountaineers OF the
North to throw away their lives for the Den
eft of any advcnturers. When, TWO years
ago, this same youth sent his emissarles
among the hills of Navarro and OF Biscaya to
enlist the active political and military
assistance of the faithful in favor OF his
antIcipated movement, the middle-aged Car
lists who had fought under Cabrera and the
Count of Montemoin. while renewing their
promises of political adhesion, positively re-
fused to aid in recruiting an army for Don
Carlos. Yotos 81, hJos no! was ther reply.
"You may have our votes, but not our sons."
DISPATCHES from Paris this morning report
that 300 of the inhabitants of Navarro, living
near tho border, have fed into Franco to
avoid being impressed into the liberia
ting army of tho Bourbon Pretender'
That diffusion of superficial knowledge
Of current events which is 30 striking
Characteristic of the present day has not en-
tirely neglected the hills of Northern Spain,
and the pcasantry are growing less and less
willing to risk their lives in enterprises which
not only seem foredoOmed to defeat, but which
if successful would only restrict the hberties
gained in 1868. Although these liberties are
not very highly priced by their pOssessors;
there is general objection to giving them up
and growing jealousy of pr!estly authority
even among devout Catholics.
In every proclamation of Don Carlos, he has
endeayored to make prominent two ideas
that he was coming to Spain, first, for the
good of society and the viDdicatiOn of his
rights, and secondly, for the object which
formed the guiding principle of the friends of
Ignatius Ioyola, "the greater glory of
"God" In his latest Illumination, which
he launched at the border upon the
people of Spain there is more than
usual attention paid to the question of
legality. He insists that the Government of
King Amadeus, by their conduct at the polls,
have left to the Carlists, who, he coOlly says,
represent the great majority of Spaniards, no
alternative but that of armed insurrection.
Of course it was impossible for such proc
lamation to avoid a reference to petroleum
"and social dissolution" Even when adyanc-
ing to light up in Spain the fires of q devas-
tatng civil war, this ignorant and stold
representative of family whose only reason
for existence is founded upon the plunder and
corruption Of the past, evidently imagines
that his name is the symbol Of law and re-
ligion and order. While pursuing nothing but
his own sordd interests, he has the effrontery
to say, and possibly the stupidity to think,
that he Is commanding the great Catholic
"army, which is that of God, of the throne,
of property, and of family life" He con-
cludes with this burst of unconscious bathOs !:
The Duke of Madrid, and with him the ma
"jOrity of Spaniards raising their hearts to-
"ward God, fixing their eyes upon the mis-
" fortunes of the country and upon the
anguish of Europe, call their fellow country
"men to the standard on which shine forth these
words, God. the country, the King They
"appeal to the public opinion of the whole
world, and will obtain its powerful assistance"
They will do nothing of the kind The world
has no use for the Duke of Madrid, and if
the troops of Amadeus of Savoy catch him
and deal with him after their kind, the world
may not approve of the dealing, but it knows
the value of the peace and quietness which
would be thus attained for a while