The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-11

to that place while the factory people were divided
IN their sympathies, and while one haf Of them
made rifles for the Carlists and tho other half for
the republican government When he came the
volunteers OF Piacencis ofJered TO resist al the
Carists In body, should they attack the place. II
the General would give 200 soldiers and one cannon
towards garrisoning the town. twas inconvenient
the General said, to give 400 men. and 1t was i'm
possible to part with single cannon; and those
volunteers who did not ct once enlist to 90 with
him he proceeded at once to disarm. After COL
lecting all the arms Bregua found In Pacencia and
Etbar he marched for San Sebastian but not before
he had thoroughly destroyed all the machinery in
the gun mandatory. Seeing themselves thus given
up needlessy to Carlist impostons the inhabitants
emigrated to safer parts and the volunteers who
had joined him had increased Bregua's army to
l40o0 men who protected another host of frightened
emigrants, bound for the town OF San Sebastian,
capital OF Guipascoa. When Bregua crossed the
River Eoria he destroyed the fine bridge which
spanned it.
THE COLUMN OF GENERAL PoRrILLA na
hurried after Bregus towards San Sebastian, and
close on his rear was Lssaraga with 1000 Carlists
who, when he came to Vergara, went to church to
hear mass then made an auto da ~ with the civil
registry books, and laid a contribution OF $500
municipal authorities had already emigrated en-
nldsSe. .o-r u O-
The Carlists therefore masters OF the country,
with numbers OF arm manufactures in their pos
session. They can now proceed to manufacture
cannon and small arms, a. they did during the
Seven Years. war for crown; they may now elect
their own ground and ambush, bv each road the
troops may pass, to decimate them from their
coverts.
The Carlists have also established am ong all the
villages OF the North Chiefs Of cantons, who are
charged with advising them OF the movements Of
columns. They are also arming q militia, as In the
past war, who to harass the troops by species
OF independent guerilla warIare-every man for
himself; ana they have organized lines Of customs
officers, who are charged with collecting
TAXES AND MPosrs.
Such in BRIEF has been the result OF appointing
the man OF method system. rule and plan, Lieu
tenant General Bregua, who was trumpeted
throughout the Peninsula by the Madrid news
papers as the ''coming man"-the one man who
was to reduce the Carlists to bone bits and PUPPY
matter, but, thanks to their legs and their
tireless bodies the Carlsts stronger than ever,
while Sanchez Bregua is q
DIsGRACED MAN,
has sent In his resignation and to be succeeded
by General Pavia the conqueror OF Andalusia.
While the present position OF the Carlists Of
Spain have been thus accurately defined up
to the very latest hour, there is another por-
ton Of the country troubled by them which de-
serves as careful notice from your correspond
ent-that is, Northeastern Spain and the Medter-
ranean nttoral.
The latest news is that Cucala has attacked Am
posta; that TortOsa is shouting frantically for
'Don Carlos VII :" that the railroad between Bar
celona and Corona has been cut, &c.
Cucaa is
AN ABLE AND DETERMINED LEADER
in the Carlist ranks. Uniting his men with those
ofValles, Segarra and LiscO, he crossed the Ebro
above Tortosa, which is west Of Barcelona, with .
force OF 1000 men, and carried dismay and fear
far as Saguntum forty miles from Valencia, burn
ing every railway station along the Line Of the Va
lencia and Tarragona Railroad.
The station of vinaroz was burned then. Cucala
desired to attack the village, but valdes who pre-
tends to have disciplined force. refused his con-
sent, on the grounds Of humanity. Alcala, where
vades lived some time, was next visited, and here
valdes again interfered with Cucalas designs.
From Alcala they proceeded to Cuevas and San
Mate0, and ragged round Castellon, an important
town on the Mediterranean, laying taxes and
heavy imposts on every village and town they
came to, until there was nothing more left them
to do. Having gained q rich treasury from the
wealthy in the plains, they have retired to the
mountains, whence they have opened their COM
munications with Prince Alfonso. In Catalonia.
IN CATALONIA
Alfonso has been content to rest on his laurels
until some new move is made at the North, and
the Carlsts OF Aragon have felt their way towards
pronouncing in favor OF Don Carlos, which at pres
ent they seem very much disposed to do. Last
week. however, Xich de las Baraquetas, q republi-
can chief OF volunteers gained decided advantage
at Berga When force OF Carlists, under the
Prince, was beseging that town to the number Of
5000 he made bold sally and so audacious was
1t that the Carsts were 80 ast0nished that he was
enabled to shut up 700 Of them in small suburb Of
Berga-3e0 OF whom surrendered at discretion, 100
were killed and the Others, except the wounded,
managed to slip out somehow on the recovery Of
their wits and usual audacity. al1cg r. o. r'
Passing from the Carlists the Republic finds
itself dealing with the remnant OF the intransi-
gentes who are closed up at Cartagena the last Of
all Andalusia, valencia and Murcla. The Carta-
genians declare they will resist to the last As they
have plenty Of guns, powder balls cannon, men
and money it Is very likely that they will. Several
military offcers are with them, who would, of
course, be subject to court martial u they were
caught; 80 that it is probable that
THE SIEGE OF CARTAGENA,
since the old woman Martinez Campos has charge
OF IL, will last some time.
The Supreme Junta Of War within the besieged
town have published o0ndO, which says that
those who are not disposed to take an active part
in the defence must leave the town, especially the
women, children and old men. AL physicians,
chemists and surgeons are summoned to appear at
once before the Junta and leave their addresses
and iorbtdding them to quit Cartagena The
bakers are also embargoed, as well as stores Of
food and hour, horses, cattle, arms and ammunl-
tion. The owners OF grocery stores may neither
close their stores nor sell their provisions. It
further says, Considering that all those who have
not left the town arter our previous proclamatlons
are partisans OF the we defend, all males from
sixteen years upward TO sixty are called upon to
appear before this Junta, to be formed into four
battalions, which shall be designated the Artillery