Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-07

tnza1A Douy OI the paftlSanS dispersed Tn all directions; many of them hid their
 arms in places only known to themselves. and returned to their homes, sad and sor- .sowfnl enough, but by no means despair sa4sss. AsQf tie chiefs, several who refused to submit made their way to France, and were at once removed to the interior; oth- CTS remained in concealment close to the frontier, but still on Spanish soil; and as for Don Carlos, none except a very few ot his lntimates could tell what had be- come of him. For some time 1t was ru- mored that he had died of his wounds, aggravated by fall from horse. Others reported that he had left Spain, and that the danger he had gone through in that combat disgusted him with the part of Pretender ; and, in fact, that he had re- signed Tn favor of his younger and more energetic brother, Don Alfonso. Persons
 who had been or who professed to be de- voted to his cause. seemed now disposed to abandon it. and spoke in bitter terms of the Prince whose pusillanimlty had ruined and disgraced it. There was per- haps, great exaggeration in what was said about him; probably they who censured him most severely after that defeat did so to justify their own too ready assent to the Convention of Amorovieta; and we all know how rarely people are just or tole- rant towards the unfortunate.
 The main body of the Cariists of Gui- puzcoa was indeed driven from it's posi- tion and broken up, but parties of a hun dred, or half that number, persisted in carrying on the guerilla were in the fastness of Navarro. Santa Cruz was one of those who escaped after the defeat of Orosaui- tia, and we soon find him again in France. In France he remained but short time; for knowing that the struggle was still earned on in spite of all difficulties, he returned to Spain, and, as before, proffer- ed his services as chaplain. This time the cause of the Pretender was manifest ly gaining ground; the bands were increas- 'Iilg m number, and spreading throughout Biscay, and had actually hemmed in a column of troops, among whom the disaf- lection which was rapidly dissolviEg the Spanish army had not yet reached, in the Amescoas. It happened that in one of the forays Santa Cruz was cut off from the party to which he was attached, and taken prisoner. On being brought into the presence of the commanding officer he made no attempt at concealment. sI am, he said. ''Santa Cruz, Cure of Her nialde. I am in your power through my own rashness-do with me as you please; my life is in your hands," ''Then, my good friend," answered the other, "there IS nothing more to be said but to recon mend you to make your peace with heav- en, for in few hours you shall be shot. 7 ''So be it: it is a consolation to know that I die in a righteous cause" His arms were bound with cords, he was thrown upon mule, conducted under a strong escort to neighbouring village, and locked up in room in the upper story of a house, next to loft where maize was stored, and then his bonds were loosened. From this room which was to serve as Q capilo or chapel, where the condemned criminal spends his last night, he has to be taken next morning for execution, The house was i'll guarded, for the detachment, tired and worn out by marching and coun termarching in pursuit of an enemy they could never come up with, had moreover to guard against surIrise in the village oiIuIca, anu cuttIu SpiTe but few Iuor. for the prisoner. It was rumored, too, that some of the soldiers were not over solici- tous as to his safe custody. It spread like wiidfre through the village and the country round that the priest of Herni- aide was in the hands of their enemies, and already in capiHa All the inhabitants, women as well as men, were Carlists, and of course friends to the prisoner, whom they had known from childhood. He saw group of them as he was led to his prison, and thtew out signal which they well understood, and which escaped the notice of his guards. He entered his room and after partaking of refreshment for it is considered sacred duty to give a prisoner under such circumstances what ever he may have fancy for-he desired to be left alone. to prepare for death. On inspecting the bed on which he was to sleep his last, he saw it was furnished with the usual allowance of sheets of strong, coarse linen. No time was to be lost, as the officer of the guard would soon make his visit. He set to work, and made rope of the sheets, which he c9t into proper lengths. While his guards were eating their ratiols at the door below, Snta Cruz quietly opened the'small win dow, the only one in the room, which was at the back, looking into garden plant cd with fruit-trees, made fast the rope to sn iron bar which ran across over the win dOw-frame, slid down, and, when within three or four feeet of the ground, found himself in the arms of his friends, who had understood his signal, and were wait ing for him. In half an hour the sergeant
 of the guard made his visit, and, to his eonsteraation tat least apparently, found that his prisoner was gone. The open
 window and the improvised rope told which way he had passed. The officer
 Rnt out as many men as he could spare
 m pursuit of the fugitive, and spent the great part of the night searching every
 house in the village-but in vain. Santa
 eruz's hiding place was indeed not far off:
 i was a marsh or swamp covered over with
 peds and bulEushes, and in this he re-
 nained for eight or ten hours, up to the
 mck in water. When he saw that the
 oast was clear he emerged from his un-
 pleasant bath, and made his way to the
 hut of woodcutter which had already teen more than once searched by the sol
 gain be visited. The woodcutter who Carlos himself, gave him few dollars.
 The next people heard of him was that
 'ewas again across the frontier living
 !uietly in some obscure village not far
 rom Cambo, in the Basque country.
 :HOS0 uaffOWs seScdpoSsIfOm ceEtaIH ucatn,
 lis indomitable courage, pushed to rash
 ,ess, and the ingenuity of his plans, soon
 ave him certain celebrity among the Royalists.
 The moment soon came for him to exer- else weighty influence among the cham pions of the cause which he had from con- vction embraced, and to which he was devotlng his whole energies. In spite of the occasional dispersion of petty bands m divers parts, the Convention of Amor ovieta, which in truth chiefly concerned Biscay, the Encouragement of many friends of the cause, and the equivocal conduct of the Prince himself, for whom they had taken the field, or more than half ruined themselves and their families by large gifts of money@Saballs, with the desperate tenacity characteristic of the Catalan, would not admit, however ap- pearances might be, that the cause was hopeless. It is true that in Biscay and 8 portion of Guipuzcoa and Alava order seemed to be restored; but SabalIs contin- ued to hold his ground against all the force the Madrid Government could send