Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-07

| monarchy against the enemies of both. He was conversant with the history of the priests and monks, and even nuns, who reused the enthusiasm of the Spanish l people against the French invaders in the 1 war of Independence, and who led the guerillas against the foreign traitors and rebels . ho had murdered their hng;-of 1 the friars of Saragossa, whose memory Is l preserved III poetry and painting, who braved the terrors of the battlefield, and, 1 indifferent to danger and to death, with the crucifix in their hand, pointed the cannon against the enemies of mankind. There was, too, the famous Cure Merino
 who, after figuring i'll the war of giants. reappeared, after years of retirement, at the head of his free companions, and long rOamed over the plains of Old Castillo. Zumalacareguy himself had renounced the clerical profession, for which he was originally intended, to combat the French. as he many years after combated for the l legitimate king: and, more than all, was not the Bishop of Leon foremost among the most daring partisans of Charles V.? l have observed that, but for the mili- tary insurrection of 1S6S,-an insurree- tion plotted and carried ont by men noted for the blackest ingratitude that our times have witnessed, some of whom retribu- | tive justice has already oyertaken,-the name of the priest of Hernialde would 1 not have been known beyond the pre- l cints of his native province. In 1870 l first attempt was made in favor of Don Carlos and failed, owing, according to his ! friends, to the treachery of one or two of the chiefs, but also, doubtless, to the inn l perfect preparation for the campaign, and 1 the scanty armament. There were men 1 enough,-at all events, for an opening probably 6O00-but arms and ammuni- l tion were wanting; and when the combat of Orosquieta ended in the defeat of the insurgents, there were 2OOO more ready to take part in it, but they had not single l musket among them. It had been set l tied after long deliberation in Paris (Rue Chauveau Lagarde) and in Geneva, that 1 the proclamation of Don Carlos as King of Spain should be made simultaneously in the four northern provinces, Navarro, Guipuzcoa, Biscay, and Alava, in each of which depots of arms were establiehed. | It happened that a couple of hundred | stand of muskets, of the old pattern the greater part, were hid Tn the village of Hernialde: one of the chiefs informed his old seho9l:fellow and friend, Santa Cruz, l of the fact, and requested him to watch as diligenly as possible over their safe keeping. The spot where they were con- cealed and the person in charge of them were soon denounced to the Alcade of the village, the informer being, as was alleg- ed, the young woman who was not long afterwards shot by the Cure. Orders were given for his immediate arrest, and party of soldiers with an officer des- patched to execute them. How he suc- ceeded in escaping from them has just been mentioned.
 For the next twelve months and more Santa Cruz wandered among the noun tains, hiding by day in peasants hut, travelling by night knee,deep in gnow, crossing and re-orossing the frontier when ever he had occasion to do so, holding frequent interviews with Carlist chiefs near Ainhoa, Sarre, and other villages on the French side of the Pyrenees, rousing the apathetic, deciding the hesitatine, fam ming tho Aanao of tho oz.th,.siastio. aefleOt- ing money, providing resources, and oth- erwise lahouring for the triumph of the ] cause with which he was now bound up, body and soul. He was denounced by the Madrid Government as the most active and the most dangerous agent of the Pre- tender, and one whose name had even
 
 Representations of the most pressing Government. It was complained that the Prefect of the Lower Pryenees showed great apathy ip oarFYing out the orders of his superiors for the arrest of these agents, which amounted to connivance. The Prefeot and Sub- -Prefects of the de- pertinent were remonstrated with, and be- | came more vigilant. The police were | sent about in all directions: but it was by mere aocideat that he was at last eaptur- | ed, after many hair breadth escapes. He had been for few days in Socoa. little marine town situated at the entrance of the bay of St. Jean de Luz, near the group of rocks against which the waves l of the Cantabrian ocean are broken. He was waiting a favorable moment to visit | the envif0ns of hayonne, where he had l appointed to meet parsonage of some importance whith whom he had been in communication. As he was crossing the bridge of the Nivelle which connects the suburban village of Ciboure with St. Jean de Lnz, he encountered two gendarmes who evidently did not know him, and who at first seemed disposed to let him pass without asking questions. They how ever, turned back the moment he was about to clear the bridge, and called up- on him to produce his s'papers." ''My papers!'' he ssid readily; 'swith pleasure here they are," putting his hand into his pockets, one after the other. Again and again they were searched and turned inside out, but no papers were there, as Santa Cruz of course we'll knew. With a look of the deepest vexation, he had, he said, through forgetfulnes, left them be- hind at Ciboure or Socoa; and his man. ner was SO earnest that the gendarmes, though not easily deceived in such mat ters, were thrown off their guard, and had little doubt that the stranger was really in possession of the necessary documents, and was bona jide traveller. While they were parleying, the attention of one of the gendarmes was attracted to an empty canoe floating down the stream, and his comrade was exchanging few words with an acquaintance who happened to come up at the moment. Santa Cruz dashed by them, and began to run with the ut- most speed towards St. Jean de Luz. The idlers who were lounging about clapped their hands and laughed heartily on see ing Spanish priest running as if for his life, and followed hard, after few min utes surprise, by two gendarmes, whose | AC1ty IdtCh-UOOeS duA 1OQoC dCCOu6GCu4Cnbo were not favorable for this sort of exer- cise. The lower orders of the French are seldom ready or willing to lend hand to to the guardians of the peace in captur- ing an offender; he continued to give chase for half an hour, amid the cheers of men and boys; and bat for the interven. ton of two peasants who were coming in an opposite direction with cart and OK en, and who probably thought that the runaway was q thief, or it may be some thing worse, disguised in clerical habili- ments, the gendarmes would have been bafled, as was the officer at Hernialde.
 He was overtakel and lodged that night in the guard house; the next day he was conducted to the citadel of Bayonne, and thence sent on under escsrt to Nantes
 At Mates Santa Cfux was not destined
 to remain long. Scarcely had Don Carlos
 made his second appeal to the Spanish
 people in 1872-which was responded te | I,~~< II IL. -e