, 1898-08-22
DONCARLOsOND DECK.
ANNOUNCES AN UPRISING AS
SOO.l AS PEACE Is CON-
CLUDED.
His Followers Consist of Fifty Thou-
sand Armed Men, and Mere Re-
crufts are Expected From the Reg
uhar Army-October 18th Fixed as
Date of the Overthrow of Alfonso.

New York, Aug. 21.-.Cable accounts
from Madrid agreesthat the situation
in Spain is more critical than it has
been at any time tSnce the wan broke
out or the protocol was signed. The
Times Madrid cab.e today says that
small instructions are cropping up
here and there all oven Spain and bode
ill for the queen regent. Anxious as
all the statesmen are that stable terms
of definite peace should be arranged
between the United States and Spain,
they view with keen alarm the posi-
bility, which is only o real, that the
American government may awaken one
day to find there's no definite Spanish
administration left to treat with.
What is wanted Is some strong patri-
lot whom the people believe. bold
enough to risk his own skin in clearing
the country Of the mass of corrupt Of
fcials misnamed 'the governing
classes" The importation of a disap-
pointed crew Of these minor harpies
from Cuba and the Philippines will not
improve the situation, but the crisis
may have come and gone before their
return.
There is n rumor, though it is moth
ing but a m as yet, that the con-
sentative forces Of Spain would will
ingly accept the immediate help Of
France to keep order in the Peninsula
with the reversion of a coveted portion
of Morocco as her reward.
A Tribune cable from Madrid says:
The strength Of the Carlists is assum-
ing proportions which. in spite Of the
enforced silence of the press, causes
the government considerable anxiety.
Silvela, leader of the conservative
party, says Carlism has now become
the symbol of Caesarism, and is well
coined by The landed aristocracy and
Others whom tbs disasters of the Amer
lean war have iri, en- into the ranks OF
~dynasttc cppcsit-ot bu who had hith>
erto held aloof from the pretender.
The writer has just made a journey in
the Basque provinces and has talked
with several of the most prominent
Carlist leaders, who are all positive in
their belief that in case Of need they
can count upon several of the most
prominent generals and upon certain
regiments of the army.
The most casual observer could not
fail to notice that throughout Navarro
and Guipuzcoa the peasants are under
the influence of the rural clergy and
are discontented with the increased war
taxation. They are impatient to come
out and fight for their ancient fueros
or local homestead laws. Thirty thou
sand rifles and ample supplies of cart
ridges, purchased in France. have been
safely transported across the frontier
to Elizundi and are being distributed
in villages. Marquis de Tamarit, aide
de-camp to Don Carlos and Carlist dep
uty in the cortes. who has returned to
Madrid from a visit to his chief at Lu-
cerne, declares the Carlist forces arc
fully organized and at the lowest esti-
mate consist of $4,000 men. Money is
actually in hand sufficient to keep this
army together for six months, and large
sums have been received from con-
vents in Mexico and additional sums
promised by English spectators The
marquis considers a general Carlist up
rising inevitable, but is most positive
in the declaration that no official Car
list movement will be made before Oc-
tober IS. All who know Don Carlos
well are unanimous in saying he is not
at all anxious to repeat in his fiftieth
year. adventures similar to those he
undertook when a youth of 81
Most explicit instructions from the
%pretender have been received by his
representative in Spain, Marquis de
Ceralbo The exact words OF these or
ders are: Continue actively and by