Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-09-05
The DEATH OF CosCHA.
How His Body Was Carried from the
Field Of Battle.

You have already heard in detail
how the General met his death in ami
mating his army to the attack on the
Carlist intrenehments at Monte Muro.
Shortly before he climbed the spire
OF Abarzuza to take a coup d d9ail
of the line of battle. He was accom-
panied by member of his staff, to
whom he spoke seriously and eonfiden-
tally. 1t seemed as if he had pre-
sentiment of what was to happen, for
he remarked that if any untoward
event occurred in the action about to
be commenced, he wished it to be
borne in mind that, though he had in
trusted his plans to nobody, the re-
naming in Estella, when taken, formed
no part of them. He intended merely
to garrison it against future attack, and
then to pass on with the army into all
the Carlist lairs one after the other.
Descending from the tower, he walked
along the high road till close to the IA
tai Monte Muro, where he observed
the final repulse of his divisions be-
fore the impetuosity of the Carlist de-
tense. The road at this point becom-
ing very bad, an aid-de-camp said to
him, General. had you not better
mountp His horse being close by, he
seized the name and had one foot In
the stirrup, when the fatal ball struck
him and he fell senseless to the
ground, all that he could articulate be-
ing Muerto en- las GueyriltdsP Quick
as lightning the young lieutenant of
hussars, Montero, lifted the inanimate
body across his own horse, and putting
spurs to the animal, literally fed with
it in the direction of Abarzuza, fol-
lowed by one or two chosen compan-
ions, the Carlist cavalry in full pursuit
the moment they perceived what was
going on. On went Montero with his
precious burden. Once or twice his
horse slipped over the rugged high
way; but, true to the hand aud
the spur of his gallant rider, he was
up again In moment. 'Ddtel DdteP
(Give it usl Give it us y cried Car
list in pursuit, and hand to hand strug-
gle ensued between the Carlists and
the republican soldiers who rode after
Montero. Just as the latter reached
the army lines the body slipped of the
saddle, but was instantly replaced and
carried into the little inn. All that l
have narrated passed within five or six
minutes. In FIVE more the Marshal
had ceased to breathe. A silly dis
pute is now going as to whether he re-
ceived extreme JUNCTION or not. Some
say yes, some say no. l believe
the fact is, one of the army chaplains
was in time to administer the church's !
rites. In private life he quietly at
tended to his religious duties, but he |
was great hater of clerical preten-
sions. A proof of this was found af- |
ter his death in his will.
'Uusually, the moment the breath is |
out of the body of any distinguished |
person in this Catholic Spain the
church seems to take the remains to
herself. The lying-in state is in some |
of the Iglesias of the capital, where a
gorgeous funeral bier, with its hun
dreds of burning tapers, walls covered |
with cloths of black velvet and gold, !
and solemn masses constantly repeat
ed, attest the fact that if not in the life |
of the departed at least ir his death |
the church holds sovereign sway. Con-
cha, however, would have none of this,
and he so directed in hiswill. He or
dered that his body was to be placed |
upon the ground, and to have but four
6Landoaes or large candles. Cor. |
London Times.