The New York herald., 1873-07-10

pline, properly called. HIS organizing faculties
seem 70 be just considerable his despotism is
violent He has never yet received Q single penny
or single cartridge from Don Carlos Ministers.
all OF whom are most inimical to him, Illustrate his
plans in every possible way and have condemned
him to be shot for insubordtnation. Notwithstand-
ing all that, however, he has 49,
ALREADY ARMED ONE THOUSAND MEN,
makes all his cartridges himself. and is now
establishing In the neighborhood Of San Sebas-
tan, In q secure spot OF the mountains called
'The Three Crowns" gun and cannon manufac-
tory One becomes almost puzzled when one sees
all that this man has done without any means
Whatever, and certainly without anything like
scientific notions as to how such things should be
DONE The guns he has already made are breech-
leaders, exactly similar to those which the Spanish
government has lately adopted for Introduction In
lieu Of the Berdans and the Remingtons. He has
not yet managed to get cannon ready at his i'm
prOvised factory, but his ammunition agent at St.
Jean de Luz told me he saw the preparatives
for three pieces OF artillery which were
about to be cast at once, and which
would undoubtedly be not well finished or
polished cannons, but perfectly efficient weapons
for mountain warfare To my inquiry whether 1
could 60 and see the interesting establishment ut
which such big things were made out OF nothing
got most emphatic "NO," accompanied Win q
suggestion that 1t was quite enough that ! knew
where the improvised mandatory was ana that
would do well, when see Santa Cruz, not even to
allude to the fact OF my knowing anything about
the matter.
The drill OF Santa Cruz's band Is just as peculiar
as all the rest OF his arrangements There Is some
thing quite strange and perfectly original in the
movements Of his men; but still they march well,
uniformly, with marvellous speed and for no end
Of miles in single journey. None OF the men
having boots, but wearing the usual soft Basquese
sandals one scarcely hears when they pass by and
up till lately both Santa Cruz and all his officers
went
ALWAYS ON FOOT WITH THE MEN.
1t Is only few days since he took to riding and
gave horse to every commander Of a company.
Still more primitive is, perhaps, the care the
famous Cure takes Of the bodily cleanliness OF his
men. Whenever he gets to astream with a surncient
quantity of water in it-whoh is not often the
| in Spain-he orders all his men to take bath
and regularly three times week they have all to
| change their shirts. As they are not allowed to
carry any luggage and hardly have shirt beyond
that which they wear, Santa Cruz invented the
simple mode OF requsitiOning clean shirts against
the dirty ones which he leaves to the Inhabitants.
As the practice has been continued now for several
months, quite regular stock Of this kind of gar
ment Ia ready in every village OF the province Of
The men arrive receive she clean shirts from
the a1ca,de Of the village, return him the dirty
| ones, and the next day half OF the village women
| are engaged in washing Tor the next arrival OF the
band. Santa Cruz seems to he quite proud OF this
arrangement. At all events, he wrote the other
| day to his friend and ammunition agent in France
| that he had brought his men to such q state Of
cleanliness that he was prepared 70 pay real (5c)
FOR EVERY LOUISE
! that would be found on any Of hts men.
| But II the Cure thus shows great ability and
energy in orgdhizing his own force, he is far from
showing the same care about the general progress
| Of the Carlst affairs. l wrote you already what
was his answer to demand for assistance sent to
| him by the Marquis Of valde- -Espinas when he had
to fly to the fort Of Peha de Ia Plata mentioned
| also the conditions which Santa Cruz put to his
"LOrd and Kings" request to submit to the mill
tary authorities He said he would do so when his
sentence Of death Is removed, his enemy and i'm
mediate superior General, Lissaraga, removed,
and full liberty left to him to operate with the
| bands he had organized. None Of these conditions
| have been yet fulfilled and Santa Cruz does not
yield an iota accordingly. The other day
| DON CARLOS
wrote, through his secretary, ordering the Cure to
| come at once 10 France to see MIN, Santa Cruz
| answered in most respectful terms that he would
not do So II the King chose to come himself to the
| frontier or to send any one, Santa Cruz said he
| would ind secure spot where he would give
| bally every explanation that may be wanted; but
he thought It most injurious to the Kings cause
that he should leave his command for he was sure
he would never be able to return to his post, the
| French gendarmes knowing him now too well from
| the portraits published everywhere, and would
| arrest him soon as he had put his foot on
| French soil. Something similar, though much
more rude, was his answer to she opening Of the
| railway traffic on the Northern line. saw myself
the project Of the treaty the company was to
conclude with Don Carlos. Every point
was approved by both parties. The CON-
pany had to pay 1900 francs q day to
| the Carlists and undertook not to carry
| either troops ammunition. For these consider.
| ations the Carlsts bound themselves to protect
the trains the telegraphs, the travellers and the
goods transported between Irun and vittors.
| The only thing to be done was to sign the agree
ment, when 1t became known that Santa Cruz on
learning OF the arrangement said 1.-THE line goes
| partly through the province Of Gupuzcoa, occu-
| pied by my forces As have never been consulted
with reference to this arrangement shall never
submit to 1t, and shall upset the first train that
| comes.r On hearing this
THE OLD cARLIsr GENERALIssIMo, RLIo,
| who, whatever may be said Of his political opin-
ions, Is before all thorough gentleman, wrote to
| Don Carlos that he would never sign an agree
ment which he was not quite sure he could carry
out and requested the King first to settle the
| matter with Santa Cruz and then to send him the
| document for signature Mean while the dificu-
| ties OF the traffic with Europe increase every
| day. More than . dozen new steamers have
| been started between Bayonne and the northern
parts OF Spain, but the Bay Of Biscay being very
stormy, and the entrance Of the ports OF Bayonne,
San Sebastian, Bilbao and Santander extremely
dangerous, no end OF goods and passengers are
prevented, Tor weeks and weeks, from reaching
their destinations; and when they reach the Span
ish coast, they are still often unable to proceed
further the Carist bands having penetrated TO the
very walls OF vittoria and Burgos.
JUNE H. 1873.
Twas quietly writing these lines yesterday after