The New York herald., 1873-09-24


imaginable positions. They were placed on tn
surrounding hills, on the roofs OF houses inside
the houses, on all the floors alternately, with tn
same effect, which was that OF their not being ab
| TO open breach. The petroleum machine wa
loudly asked for, but could not be got into working
| order, thanks to the gutta percha tubs havini
been shot through by the republican rides durlni
Dorregaray's last attempt to capture the place
| Finally major Of one OF the battalions was com
missoned 70 show his skill in
MINING THE CITADEL.
The cellar OF one OF the adjoining houses haS
been found to he suitable starting point for {
work OF that sort, and after q couple OF days
efforts, everybody having been warned TO be OF
his guard on went the affair right in front OF the
walls OF the citadel, without hurting any one ol
anything, except the house 1t was worked from
But IL the material eject OF the mine was MOI
great its moral effect seems to have been con
siderable, for the besieged began to think tina,
though one mine went wrong another one might
go right, aud within six hours alter that unfor
tunate attempt to make engineers out OF ignsranl
SAM was compelled by his men 10 send
out nag OF truce and TO surrender
the place. After some considerable parley-
ing as TO the conditions OF capitalization
some GOO men, 1900 rides lOO. 600 cartridges mot
1000 as has been telegraphed by some gentlemen
4h shots LEFT to each ride OF the garrson, 60 sad
dies and lot OF other ma terlal fell into the hands
of the Carlists. The men were disarmed and de.
spatcbed, under small escort, to Pampeluna, the
officers only retaining their side arms, while the
1900 rines were used on the next day for arming
battalion OF Navarro, until then armed only with
pixies; and DO not remember having heard more
hearty applause than that with which the popula
tion OF Estella and the volunteers assembled on
the town square greeted the clarion who came to
.tooar Ia ltanmoa' Sound the calD to
the men about to receive arms. At first
sight the conditions of surrender of the tort
ns IS n 40 a.
are not disposed to shoot them, as was often done
In the last Carlist war They are AFRAID OF foreign
intervention and wild retaliation II they follow the
Old practice upon the efficiency OF which, 1t must
be said, many old Carists still insist Besides this
General ST tns 6S VIZ mSrs aas
was marching to the rescue Of the fort, and he told
me himself that had the garrison held out a few
raise the siege and retire from Estela AS mat.
ters turned out, however, the Carlists not only
captured the fort but beat, on the next DAY, the
day evening, August 20, the citadel surrendered,
@ Whole Of tie a bsaa6ns Ho Of N Savfe Mfen an Ss as
village two hours south Of Estcla. The Madrid
government anxious to stay, at least in some de-
gree the progress OF the Carists ordered the Cap
tain General OF Aragon, Senor Santa-Pau, to take
oil available troops and to join Brigader Niapo.
dierna and Colonel rejada, commspding ln the
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cue at any cost the garrison and fort OF Estella.
Santa-Pau had the railway from Saragossa at his
ana exposed his own and his fellow comnander's
troops to disgracelu retreat, If not to COM
plete rout. 1t would be useless to describe here
how santa.Pau, vllapodicrna and Tejada, with
$500 regular infantry 600 cavalry and SIX guns (of
which tour We're steel Krupp) were repulsed by
four battalions or
NAvARRA VOLUNTEERS, 49,
who but few mOn tbs ago did not Know what
byeeeh.lQsder was; 1t is enough to say that they
aes M G snefs1 we're N ts on pan e
that their artillery was firing up h and that their
cavalry was ordered to to charge as vineyards and
noon the republicans were nying almost on the
whole line from THO bayonets with which tie
IRE pussea them and be It
cause It was thought proper moment had come
to DO SO, but simply because they had no more
more dsgracea asir lor regular sr'r troops COM
Inanded 6y BOND ras generals And pi it is only only
nSer as Success ss THIS sort ali tie fuss
as It was the first action at which their King was
Six weeks tiiesome, marching. But, as far as
general progress OF the war is concerned, the bat
tie OF o5 ap san iaye TO he hoS e nb o the
republican side, aud that Is all. No advance has
been made in position, nor substantial advantage
moral success due more to the stupidity Of the
republican generals and to the dis0rganzation OF
the republican army than to any other circum-
men to have made the experience that they can
beat the enemy, even when he Is more numerous
and when they are short OF cartridges. The
NATURAL yALOR
OF these men can only be increased by such an ex-
pcrience. In addition, they have seen their King
under fire, and can testify that all stories about
Don Carlos being a coward have no foundation.
saw him standing Tor more than half an hour In
the churchyard OF the village, where good many
balls FELL without bis taking the slightest notice OF
them lie retired only when advised by Eio to do
so. after a man OF the company forming his escort
fell dead behi nd him and two others were wounded.
AS a matter OF course we greatly rejoiced at these
easy victories, took couple Of days. rest on our
laurels, and moved onward only when every eat.
able was consumed, both At Esteua and Dicastilio
The route we took was towards the E6ro, aud
sangulne people began TO believe we would cross
1t. But as have already said, without few batta
ions OF Castians, without more cavalry and with
are mountain 0ur-pounders), II would be madness
to cross into CASTLE, and know rom Elios own
mouth that he would be the last to allow any at
tempt OF that sort, even il Don Carlos wished Il.
All we were going for was
10 CAPTURE ANOTHER FORT
close to the Ebro, almost opposite Logroho and but
IN hour distant from the river. Viana was the
name OF the place we had now an eye upon. A
middlesized village, without any other Importance
than that OF being situated about three miles north
from the bridges across the Ehro to LogronO, had
its Two churches and an old tower fortified and
garrisoned by some 80 dismounted hussars OF
Pavia and some 100 national guards IN this case
in the case OF Estella the forts had no artillery,
easy, and fire began in the immediate vicinity OF
the improvised citadel Yesterday morning
august 3Q), at SIX O'CLOCK, TWO DattaUCnS, Wltl
four guns under the command OF Brgadier Oo,
entered the village and summons to surrender
was sent In. But fire opened on the
white flag was oil the answer that could
be obtained, and at haf-past six fire was opened
from the four cannons, placed, as in Estela, inside
adjoining houses on roofs, and generally wherever
it pleased the seli-made artillerymen, except
where common sense would have suggested
placing them. Here also, as at Estela, were
masses OF ride balls sent against walls Which even
cannon shot would not have hurt For thirty six
hours this sort Of business went on, the besieged
losing two dead and nine wounded and the be-
sicgcrs four wounded. out OF which three were not
volunteers but SIMPLY inhabitants OF the village
stupid enough 10 show themselves TOO freely In
streets opened TO the rifle fire Of the fort II must
be said however. that the churches commanded
pretty nearly the whole OF the thoroughisres OF the
village, and 1t was probably consequent on this
that neither Don Carlos nor any member OF his
stan showed any inclination to enter the place be-
fore IL mad been captured.
FOUR NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS
were the only persons attached TO the royal head
quarters who were TO be seen In the streets Of
Fiana, all animated apparently by the same zeal,
and equally unnecessarily exposing their lives,
generally speaking, II NOT very dear, at all events