The New York herald., 1873-09-09
The Manner in Which the CarliStS Levy Their
Contributions and Collect Their Revenues
THE VALUE OF THE BONDS.
No Chance of General Uprising in Oata-
lonis or Spain in Favor of Don
Carlos Unless he Obtains
Foreign Recognition.
The Sensible City of Saragossa and Its
Peaceful Inclinations.

MAMEsA, August 4, 1873.
Having heard that there was q Carlist financial
tunto at Montserrat, took train to Monistrol and
thence, engaging q guide, set out TO ascend the
Mote Serratus, whose Enthusiastically riven crest,
with Its pillars and pinnaces lay bathed In the
beautiful light OF the setting sun and rising moon
combined. After steady march Of two hours and
half we arrived at the monastery where, after
duly exhibiting my authority, l was received with
true monkish cordially and shown into the refec-
tory, Here were assembled dozen Carlistas.
dressed in plain Clothes with the white bona on
their heads With them l at once entered into
conservation, which gradually led to the subject
on which desired in information the result of which,
rs well OF other observations made in Lerida,
Aragon, LogrohO and Burgos, will now state.
The Carlist plan OF
COLLECTING THEIR REVENUES
Is very simple The financial year is divided into
three terms. and when in want of money-which,
as may be supposed, is always-they summon the
various towns to pay one or two terms Of taxes,
levied on real property, and for which they give q
receipt In this manner some villages have al
ready paid two and three years taxes on the basis
OF i've per cent on landed property, and for which,
when Don Carlos is on the throne, they are en-
titled to an exemption from ia axatien for two years
Tor every one already paid; SO that, supposng Don
Carlos succeeds they will only have paid two and
half per cent per annum. If the town summoned
to pay refuses its contribution it Is attacked as in
the case OF Igualada, and then 1t has to pay four
times the amount besides the loss and expense
Incurred in defending It, Many towns prefer pay
ing at once and saving the expense Of fortihcation
'dc as was the with Tarrasa, which, after the
capture OF lguaada at once signified its readiness
TO pay up. This we may call the direct taxation.
AS for indirect taxation duties levied on goods
in transit, very considerable sums are raised
especially in the northern provinces
on THE FRENCH FRONTIER
the duty levied Is very small Tor Two reasons.
First of ALL the Carsts want to keep their French
Trends in good temper; and secondly because
by imposing a small duty and then giving one per
cent drawback the French merchants export
quantity OF goods on which a high home duty is
levied, and relmport them as Spanish wares,
which the import duty is less But during the
transit Of the wares through the Spanish provinces
q very high tax is imposed upon them whenever
they leave one province to enter another. Thus,
duty Is levied at Osmas and another at Pancorba
on goods coming from Bilbao. merchant at Lo-
groho had to pay SIS on two cases OF glassware;
the proprietor of the Cafe Universal at vittora $4s
on $50 pounds OF coffee; merchant at Miranda
paid $240 ton GO cwt.) OF fsugar and another
at vittora $2s two bales OF paper. being thus at
the rate Of about fourteen per cent irrespective OF
contents The diligences running through the
parts infested by the Carlists pay 100 per cent on
each passenger that Tor the journey from Vito
ria to San Sebastian the Carlists levy just
s5.. Every day there are three four
coaches leaving vittoria with average Of about
forty-eight to fifty passengers, which produces q
daily revenue on this line alone OF $3.50. For the
tourney from Durango to Bilbao, five leagues in
distance, your correspondent had to pay $40, or 81
q league, one Of which went into the royal trea-
sury. Thus 1t may easily be imagined how savage
the liberals are and how tired even the Carlist
population 4 becoming OF this continued DRAIN
not to speak of the expense OF maintaining about
10000 troops and 10000 or 1900 Carlists. But
besides these ofcial methods OF filing the Carlist
exchequer. there is another indirect method which
also brings In considerable sums-to WIT: Each OF
the Carlist commanders carries with him goody
sized packet of Carlist bonds for sums from 200
reals (f2) to 1000 reals; aud on arriving at any
town the Carlst magnates are wheedled into
taking these bonds In return Tor cash or goods
and the liberal grandees gently obliged to accept
a certain number. This information interested
me greatly, wnIle there was a certain air OF semi
detection about my informant ian Old gentleman
some sixty-nve years OF age) that interested me
still more, and, under pretence OF showing HIM
a map OF the province, succeeded III getting
him into my room alone with myself. After
a long conversation ! got at his opinion
about the Carlist movement in Catalonia especially
md In Spain In general. must premise that Don
Gaudenzs is thorough Carlist and has been occu.
MED all his life in Carlist intrigues and operations
According to him, there is no chance OF general
risinQ In Catalonia, unless Don Ramon de Cabrera
comes and that, being obliged to live from hand
To mouth without any adequate means, the Carlist
chiefs are unable even In the present disJointed
state OF Affairs to undertake any operations on a
large SCALE In fact he said, ''all our hopes are
based on foreign Intervention. We hope that
one or two signal victories will induce the foreign
powers to recognize Don carlos as belligerent
and ultimately to recommend him as sovereign Of
Spain"
This opinion, the more have seen OF spain,
fully endorse. In the larger towns Oh Lerida anu
oil the southern provinces there is an
ACTUAL HATRED OF DON CARLOS,
fully equallng in intensity the enthusiasm IN MS
favor In the Bascongade provinces. The peasantry
ara equally opposed to him In Aragon. Leoh'
Bureos. Andalusia and the CASTLES; the popuiauon
IN Estremadura Is entirely inderent the Galicisns
re a little inclined to Alionsism In mild kind oi
manner but are not to be relied on Tor anything.
Hence. unless Don Carlos can raise Basque army
.trono enough to subdue the rest OF Spain py
force. and can get 1t to march into the interior,
whsch I do not believe he VIII, there really Is
,,o<bins hut forelGn inksrvonuon tnak Can pAsee