Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-21
DE SANTA
CRUZ.

In y1terday's dispatches we find
the following: 81
Nadrid, September l9.-The Ours Of
Santa cruz, who figured 10 consptcu-
Ously during tho Carlist revolt. has
been sentenced to ten years. imprison
ment in confirmation on charges OF
murder and arson.
OF all the characters developed by
the Carlist war, none is more worthy
Of study, none presents q more pictuf-
esque attitude, mono better soldier
than this famous Cure, now outlawed
by an authority which is powerless to
arrest him. In Mr.. n. l.. Thieblin's
{Azamat- Batuk), very readable little
book entitled "Spain and the Span
iards'' We have quite q lengthy des
cription of the Cure, and severa; very
entertaining sketches of his peculiar
military exploits. We are informed
that Don Manuel Santa Cruz was born
in 1872 at Elduayen, an obscure noun
tain village in Guipuzcoa. Having
early lost his parents, he and his only
sister were brought up in the aims
house Of Tolosa. A good priest, dis
covering the lads intelligence sent
him to school. At the conclusion Of
his studies he was appointed parish
priest Of Hernialde, q village near To-
losa. He soon made himself q repu-
tation for great purity of life and zeal
in his profession. In 1870, a small
Carlist rising broke out in his parish.
1t was soon suppressed. The arms.
however, were given to him for safe
keeping. The government, on learn
ing the fact, sent some soldiers to take
him captive. He escaped and went to
France, Finding himself in danger OF
arrest by the French authorities, he
fed across tie frontier. In 1872 he
joined the Carlist uprising as a chap
lain. Wi ea his command was sur
prised and compelled TO surrender, he
and eleven sturdy followers took to
the mountains. \ few days later a
government force OF forty men which
had penetrated the Basque Pyrenees
to attempt his capture, was ambuscaded
hy him. He took every gun and confis-
Gated them to the Carlist cause. He was
captured one day and ordered to be shot
He was confined 10 the third story of a
house. When the shooting party went
for him they found two strips OF sheet
ing hanging from the window. He es
capped to France. He was arrested there
and &" informed" in France. He escaped
after six hours of imprisonment. Ia II
very few months be had another little
army and was once more the terror OF
the authorities. He was under sentence
Of death and while he could not afford
to be taken prisoner, he gave no quarter.
he bastinadoed them. II they turned
traitors he shot them When the Re-
publican General Liza.raga issued an
other seuts nee of death against him. he
returned the compliment, and gave Or
ders to his men 10 shoot the General.
We believe he has never been relieved Il
these death sentences. The present
edic, OF Confirmation he will laugh
at, of course. FRS; catch your hare.
General Fremont, as our readers know,
ia under a similar sentence in France
"In continuation" is way certain Eu
ropean courts have of pronouncine
judgment against people whom they
cannot get within their clutches. The
famous cure is described as a marvel Of
muscular development, though man Of
small stature. He is the hardest. most
skilled and most dreaded guerrilla chief
on the Pyrenean frontier