The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-26
Want of Discipline i'm the
Army.
Spanish Antipathy to America
and Its Causes.
GRANTS DIPLOMACY IN MADRID.
The Republic or Revolution More Terrible
than the Revolution in France.
MADRID, March 20, 1S7

MADRID, March ~, 1873.
The young republic still lives; but will it live
That is now the question asked by its most
guine friends l confess there IS not a cheerful
outlook, and yet what better could beS 1t is
some thing to overturn a system that is as old as
the Romans, and which has been sustained by a
people loyal, as resolute and as difficult TO
cite as the people OF Spain.
THE SITUATION MADRID
In Madrid the situation is this We live from
hour TO hour. In the morning we marvel how we
passed the day preceding, and speculate on what
night may bring. The North is full OF care and
strife. The railway to France is the main artery Of
land communication with Europe. From Madrid to
the frontier is distance ofperhaps $50 miles. To
reach this frontier 1t is necessary to go through
the Basque country. Scarcely day passes but we
are told that the railway has been cut, that sta
tons have been burned and. the mails captured.
The other day conductor and brakeman were
taken IRON the train and shot, The passengers
AM guard Of thirty soldiers entered a house and
defended themselves until achievements came.
For TOUR days last week we had no mail. This week
we had one mail coming on time, but only one.
] sent despatch TO one of your correspondents in
Barcelona on sunday evening. He received 1t We'd
nesday morning-two days later than mail time.
To reach London We have to telegraph to Lisbon
and thence by cable to New York. This is the
Madrid, the capital OF spain, is the most isolated
city in Spain. The line to Lisbon is uncertain
as the Others The line to Barcelona is permitted
to run by paying the Carlists few hundred dollars
q day, and with this payment 1t does not always
receive permission. Now come stories OF Carst
bands in Andausia, the southern province, and
the destruction OF o bridge on the way to Cadiz.
Carlism in the South is new and suspicious fea-
ture-something unusual in Spain. Then we have
bad news IRON Estramadura. Estremadura is
province adjoining Portugal, containing Bada-
ioz, which Wellington captured by storm
. province famous in the Roman times
and under the Moors for its grain-now a
pastoral country, with large Jocks OF merino sheep
owned by landlords who live in Madrid and Paris.
The peasants simple, indolent, kindly sour-
teous. and yet the race that gave Pizarro and
Cortez. They have looked upon the rents they pay
TO absent landlords evil They feel that in
some time or way they should have an ownership
OF the land which they till, and upon which they
and their ancestors have lived since the time OF
the Alonzos. Now that the Republic has come,
they understand 1t TO mean that they Will pay
no more OF these heavy rents. SO we have
demonstrations at Badajoz and elsewhere,
which excite all wellbred people In Madrid
and make infinite clamor among the monarchists.
"Have you not heard, said dpomatist the other
they have begun division OF property "If
thought was the reply lit was the restoration
property
EMIGRATION OF THE NOBILITY.
While these evil tokens come from the North and
the South there is OF unrest in Madrid.
The nobility have nearly all emigrated. When they
have not they have sent away their wives and
daughters and portable possessions. BY the kind
ofrices OF friend had appointment TO visit the
palace of q celebrated nobleman. When called
the person in charge said he was sorry he could
show none OF the treasures OF His Lordships house
was welcome to enter, but there were none Of the
pictures, ner the gems nor the statuary. All had
been quietly sent to Portugal The ladies Of the
household were in France "You see, y he said, 1--WE
are In time of revolution, and these scoundres
may at any time destroy the palaces. Somehow,
as you know, Senior, they have that habit, and so
we have taken precautions. So 1t is at the palaces
OF Duke A, and b, and CO. and so Obtaining the
principal dukes In Madrid "Serrano Is nere but he
sent his family to Bayonne in ostentatious man.
ner, The Duchess Of Prim remains, busy with the