New-York tribune., 1875-10-19
C1RLfST UISSENSION>.

The CaIlist insurrectiOn is i'll the habit OF
proving its Immortality by frequent visits TO
the very :,atcs of death. and by sudden and
unexpected returns from that nfighboih0oi.
If we had not grown accustomed to thee
" final crises" we would be inclined to think
that the cause of Don Carlos was ut present
in IA condition to require at least Il year or Two
Of repose and Quicscrnce Ia enable 1t to make
any further figure in the world. The Pre-
tender for some time past has had no army
to speak Of apa has been unable either to
annoy the AltOnsSt forces or to protect HIM.
self against them. He has been compelled
ever since the fall of SEQ de Crgel, to aban-
don every poirt which has been Sc
rioasly mcnaced BY the National troops,
and his Irregular army, 10 longer
kent together by the hope OF definite success,
has been melting away to shadow under his
hands. The mountaineers of Navarro and Bis
cay arc rs independent and unmanagcable in
face of their chosen King aS they are toward
the sovereign whom military intrigue has placed
ON the throne in Madrid and when they think
they have done rs much as is right, OF expo
dirnt. or agreeable for The time being, FOR
God and the King" they 20 quietly home to
their native valleys, and leave Church and
Crown to shift for themselves, until a love of
adventure or scusc of sin drives them iorih
again TO tight again under the flag which
promises them glory and abSolntion
This however, would not have seemed so
serious, if it had not been accompanied with
the most dangerous disScns0ns among the
chieftains who have heretofore sustained the
cause of Don Carlos with extraordinary deyo-
lion and cOnstancy. 1t il reported that these
di>scnsions have reached such Il point tliat he
has found il necessary To dismS- from his scI-
vice half dozen of his most popular and able
generals. This is not only the loss OF a number
of seasoned and brave commanders; il III
wolves also the loss OF hundreds of fol-
lowers Men like Dorrcgaray and Saballa
are not like generals III other armies,
portions of a perfect machinery whose only
function Is to receive and execute the orders
of their supcrors, bnt they are themselves
petty princes, each haying his strong follow
ing in the country, and able as we'll To take
men out of the ranks hy battaions rs to
bring them in. If il pr true that Don Carlos
has auarreled with 80 large a number of his
cabecillas, il would seem 10 prcsage at least
Temporary brraking up of his enterprise.
1t is probable that the Car,ists have been
greatly di,heArtcncd by the quiet and lothar-
gic manner in which the Spaniaris generally
have submitted to the rule of Alfonso and by
the failure of Cardinal Simeoni to involve the
Government of Spain and the Vatican i'll open
hostilites. The demands put forth by the
Nuncio were of such Il nature that less san
guine people than Don Carlos might nave been
pardoned for hoping that they were in
tended to pave the way TO the dl-
rect espousal of the Legitimist cause
by the Pope. But this hope fantastic
as many Others which had preceded it. Ii is
not likely that the young Pretcnder will soon
relinqush his brilliant vision Of royalty, or
that he will ever give up the conviction that
the happiness Of Spain depends upon her ac-
ceptance of him as her sovereign, and upon
the reestabshment OF Catholic unity in her
borders. But it will be difficult to find any
Spanish Ministry composed of men of the
present day who will share these views, and