The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-04 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA

The advices brought by the Royal Mail steam-
ship Magdalena states, that Miss Catherine Hayes
gave her parting concert at Valparaiso on the 12th
September. At Santiago she gave several concerts,
which netted her 10,000 dols. A fire occurred at
Valparaiso on the Ist of September, which de-
stroyed 12 houses, and property to the value of
200,000 dols.

Two fires have taken place in the province of
Copiapo,--one at the mines of Trespuntas, which
destroyed one-third of the small town which has
so rapidly sprung into existence in that remark-
ably rich mining district.
In an article upon the railways of Chili, the
Valparaiso Herald gives a statement of the busi-
ness done on the Copiapo line, and says :
" The actual receipts for the first six months of the
present year have amounted to $167,676; without counting
upon any increase the receipts for the whole year will reach
the sum of $335,000. Although the running expenses are
larger in this country than in others, yet considering the
higher tariff of charges, it is probable that one-third of the
gross receipts will be ample to cover the expenses after the
present year, which could have a net profit of $223,000, or
about 12 per cent, upon the capital, $1,875,000,. But the
receipts of this road are not to be limited to those of the
second year of its operation, and the stockholders may
confidently look forward to still greater returns upon their
investment."

The Valparaiso Echo gives the subjoined naval
news :

Don Domingo Elias, recently imprisoned by
the Peruvian Goverrunent, had made his escape
from Callao to Ecuador, where it was said he was
likely to take part with Flores in raising another
revolution.

Dates to the 2nd of August, from Melbourne,
had been received at Panama, via Callao, having
been taken up to the former port by the sailing
ship Volga. A second remittance of Australian
gold to the value of 45,000 dollars, intended for
by Adams and Co.'s express. Melbourne papers
sold in Panama at 50 cents (about 25.) each.

Bolivia presented a melancholy spectacle. Belzu,
abandoned by all the respectable portion of the
inhabitants, had thrown himself into the arms of
the Indians, remitting to them half their tribute

and arming them with kniveS, in order to enable
them to coerce the white people whenever they
attempted to rise against him.

Front Panama we learn of an accident on the
Panama Railway, which occurred from an ox ly-
ing across thu track, which threw the tender off the
rails, and, before the engine could be stopped, it
was forced over a bridge into a ravine of some
30 feet in depth, the baggage van and two passen-
ger cars being carried over with the engine. One

Of the firemen was killed and the engineer dan-
gerously wounded. A few of the passengers were
injured, and one died from the effect of his
wounds.

MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCE.
• VALPAILUSO, Sep. 14
Bread.---No sales of importance.

Coals.—No arrivals

Copper.—No transactions of importance, and little in
market ; small quantities have been taken at quotations
equal to about 18 dollars on shore.
Flour.—Since the heavy sales quoted in our last, little
has been done ; probably not more than 400 sacks have
changed hands, and this merely to complete shipments.
There is literally none in first bands. All that is known
of to arrive, is taken up at $8 50c. per sack. The news
brought by the steamer, of the rise in California to $l9,
has stimulated inquiry since, but nothing has been de-
termined as yet, nor can be, until supplies are received.
A very large quantity will be brought in between this
and the next harvest; the knowledge of this fact,
together with the generally prevalent belief here
that the rise in St. Francisco is not founded upon
demand, warrants the opinion that the market will not
be much, if at all, affected by this news.
No American flour in the market.

Freights continue high, with no prospect of a decline ;
the certainty that .many more charters will be closed
before the departure of the mail renders a list of dispo-
sable tonnage impracticable for this number, as it would
certainly conflict with private advices.
Exchange.—On London, 60 days, 451 to 46d. per
Chili dollar; on Paris, 90 days, 5.05 f.; on Hambnrg,
404 to 415.; on the United States, at par ; gold, 15c. to
17c. above ley; silver bars pure, 10.121 per mare.

THE FAST MEN OF EDINBURGH.—Lord Palmerston—
through his secretary—has administered a very wholesome
rebuke to certain of the Presbytery of Edinburgh yearning,
hungering for a fast, to stay the scourge of the Cholera.
His lordship suggests instead of fasting, washing. Eat your
daily bread, says his lordship, only take plenty of soap with
it. Attend to your own dinner-table, as usual, only see that
these places—
" Which are inhabited by the poorer classes, and which,
from the nature of things, must most need purification and
improvement, may be freed from those causes and sources of
contagion which, if allowed to remain, will infallibly' breed
pestilence, and be fruitful in death, in spite of all the prayers
and fastings of a united but inactive nation. When man has
done his utmost for his own safety, then is the time to invoke
the blessing of Heaven to give effect to his exertions."
Surely, this is very true. Prayers, however earnest, will
not sweeten a common sewer. Folks who fast for a long day
will hardly do as much to remove the causes of Cholera, as
even folks with brooms. An empty belly is scarcely so effi-
cacious for the removal of disease as a clean Wynd. White-
washed walls are surely quite as good, if not better, than
lank jaws, pale with mortification. All Edinburgh wants a
sweet clean shirt, next a clean skin—not a shirt of peniten-
tial bristles, clothing (with hairy piety) a dirty hide. First
do your best—sayi Palmerston—and then ask a blessing on
it. For the days of miracles are over. The deadly reek of
sewers is not to be turned into airs from Heaven, though the
most pious Malachi Malagrowther shall, for a long day and
night, go without his porridge for it ! When you have
worked, then it is good to ask a blessing on the labour. But
hands first—and then knees.—Punch.
THE DYE OF GIIILT.—The Kentucky Legislature
have resoved--•" That the keeper of the Penitentiary shall
procure a suitable chemical dye, such as will stain the skin
perfectly black, so that it cannot be removed, until time shall
wear it away, and nature furnish a new cuticle or surface,"
When the dye is obtained, the nose of each male convict is to
be painted thoroughly black; the paint to be renewed until
about to be restored to the world, when the convict shall be
restored to society with a clean nose. We hardly perceive the
moral and social use of this nose-dyeing ; it may also be
difficult to obtain the dye of sufficient blackness. In which
case Punch advises Kentucky to apply to Mrs. STOWE for the
use of her ink-bottle : for that lady has dyed not only the
noses, but the whole faces of the LEFREES with such well-
merited blackness, that nature must find them not only new
skins, but new hearts, ere they can show even tolerably white
sgain.—.Ptatch,