The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-02
A Herald Correspondent Inter-
views Don Alfonso.
e ER0IC DONA MARIA.
The Hardships and Dangers Endured by
Spartan Princess.
. MADRID, July IS. 1873.

MADRID, July IS. 1873.
"Alasi poor Spain poor country poor Republci
These sympathetic expressions are uttered by
everybody. One nowadays cannot make q re-
mark upon the state OF the country without closing
1t with poor Spainp poor country poor Re-
publicl"
"And has the end GOMEZ" you ask yourself, pity
Ing her lamenrable state, her decadence the death
of 80 many noble aspirations.
Indeed, l fear that
THE END Is APPROACHING.
Wherever turn my eyes find nothing to cheer
me. kind OF gaoping consumption seems to
have laid hold OF the very vitals Of the country
Let all kind hearted Americans be prepared give
their last arewells for even this letter reaches
you the end may have come, and the Republic of
Spain be numbered with things OF the past.
Listen to what the government organ, the
IgIaldad, said this morning, while remarking upon
the events of Toro and Alcoy:-
The blood OF our brothers Is shed in abundance
in the defence OF the peoples cause OF liberty and Of
Justice by our implacable enemies. If this blood Is
not avenged, If these crimes BIO permitted, the
Republic must die sudden and dishonored death,
and those illustrous victims lately fallen under the
fury OF our enemies will curse us from their tOmbs
for not having the honor or the courage to avenge
their cruel deaths.
Events happen quickly in Spain, and they never
come singly. While Madrid is horrined with the
tale OF the death OF General Cabrnetty half dozen
stories just as bad come to us from different points.
The news regarding Cabrinetty was brought
by fugitive officer, accompanied by two or
three soldiers. Of the Volunteer Guides. He
says that when Cabrinetty, having traced Saballs'
band, was about to attack his soldiers refused to
advance, and when the officers urged them per-
emptOriy forward they gave loose to their pas
sions and began to fire on the General and his
stan. Cabrinetty was killed, and several OF the
stan seriously wounded. In the confusion conse-
quent upon the INSTRUMENTATION Saballs the Carlist
Chief disposed his band, consisting Of 1000 men,
completely surrounding them and then ordered
them to surrender. The troops laid down their
arms, and 1t Is believed that about twelve hundred
men have thus been made prisoners. II the story
Is true It Is the event of the war.
From Acoy, o town on the Alicante and Valencia
Railroad, having population OF over 600, we
have also very grave news On the Sth
THR INTERNArIONALISTs
OF Alcoy called meeting OF laborers and factory
people; they also invited all the servant girls and
nurses to attend. The municipal authority at once
took measures to prevent q disturbance Of the
peace, and to prevent those who attended the
meeting from mOlesting those aborers who did not
entertain socialistic IDEAS 1t seems that at this
meeting the Internationaists INDUCED in some
violent language, and made use OF threats, but
pie, and all work suspended, no overt act of vio-
lence was committed. On tie afternoon OF the 10th,
the day before yesterday, some four or lve thou-
sand laborers and others were assembled In the
square Of the municipal buildings, or Town Hall,
where they found Senior Abors, an ex-Con-
gresham, but at present Alcalde, or Mayor,
with O few police. AS soon as they saw
him the mob demanded that the Municipal Council
should resign, and that the Town Hall should be
given up to them within three hours. The Aicalde
and the Council were disposed to resist, and one
imprudent policeman, excited by the violence Of
the MOB, fired, which was answered at once from
the fierce crowd. The Municipal Council tele-
qraphed TO Alicante for soldiers, but tho
curse Of Spanish ofncials Ia their datoriness and,
though Aicoy was only thirty miles from a large
city like Alicante and but nfty miles from vslcn-
cia, yet Aid camo not that evening, and before
morning IL was too iate for Alcoy was In the hands
of some six or seven thousand
MAD SOCIALISTS;
the Alcalde and the principal men Of the Municipal
Council and the great manufacturers were dead
the Town Hall and eighteen other houses factories
and stores were In flames.
The sights which Acoy saw that night OF the
10th inst rival those OF Paris during the last days
OF the Commune. Two Of the Town Council-one
named Camille Garcia, the other Pascual-wcre
drowned In baths filled with petroleum and then
burned. The Alcalde's body was dragged naked
through the streets and subjected to gross indgni
ties or the twelve guarda civil and their CHIEF
who defended the Town Hall not one was left
alive. The body OF the captain Of the civil guards
was behcaded, and the head, elevated on pike
was carried around the town. The female portion
of the family Of Lieutenant Gisbert. who was muir
dered--wife, daughters and servants-were chased
for an hour and q half outside the city. al the
clergy OF tho town were made prisoners, and tn,