Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-12-27
UNITED STATES SHIP "DALE"
Bay of Panama, 23.d September, 1912.

UNITED STATES SHIP "DALE"
Bay of Panama. 23;d September, 1912.
Editors Telegraph" Southport:
Most of the South American States still continue
the victims of desolating archy,-destined, as
1t were, to utter destruction, and by each others
hands, tool PERU is again in the midst of "a CT
ri car; and, although at the date of our departure
thence 9th Sept it was bloc dlcss as yet lea-
ven alone knows how soon her soil will be moisten-
ed by the blood of the victims slain in this unnatur-
al, tiger-Hke strife,
You viii doubtless have learned, ere this, that
President GAMARRA was killed in battle, in Bolivia,
the 18th Oct. last. He had invaded that Republic;
had pentrated to, and taken possession Of the city
of LA Paz; and advancing still further interior,
when, the Bolivians having concentrated their
forces in the plains of Ingaci pitched battle took
place between the contending armies in which the
Bolivians were victorious, the Peruvian army being
totally routed, three fourths of their number killed
and captured, their commander, Augustine Gam
ARA, President of Peru, Icing among those slain
on the field of battle
Since that event, the President of the Council of
State in Lima, MANUEL MENENDEz, has acted as
Jele Sepremo of Peru. A new army was levied,
and the former Vice President of the Republic,
antonio Gutierrez dc Ia Foento, was appointed Ge-
neral in Chief, and despatched to the frontiers to
sustain the war (now become dcfensirc onc)
against Bolivia After La Fuente's departure for
the interior, Gen. Juan Crisostomo Torrico reciev-
ed the appointment of military commandant of this
Department From the moment of his appointment
he has been engaged in recruiting troops by con-
scription and otherwise, ostensby for the purpose
of reinforcing the army on the frontiers, but in rea-
lily, as the sequel abundany proves, with the pre-
concerted design of subverting the established Go
vernment, and of usurpng the control of it himself!
Prior to this military rebellion, convention of
peace had been negotiated, by La Fuente and other
commissioners, with Bolivia and the Electoral Col
leges of Peru were convoked by the President and
Council, to make choice of President of the Re.
public La Fuente, Menendez Torrico Bermu-
dez, and Others were candidates: The voting in
primary assemblies (similar to our plan) for Elec-
tors, took place at different periods in the several
Departments. 1t soon became apparent that La
Fuente would receive a larger portion of the popu-
lar suffrage than either of the other candidates.
Torrco thus finding that his road to the Presidency
did not lay through the ballot box promptly deter
mined to try and what could be done by means II
the cartridge-box! He accordingly concentrated his
troops in the city of Lima on the 18th Aug, and
during that night caused the President and several
members of the Council to be seized, and placed in
confinement. Having thus elected the regular in
cumbents, he next morning took possession of the
Government Palace, and issued "proclama,"
setting forth the ,sons which impelled him to the
extraordinary movement. l have translated this
document, and append it hereto:
TRANSLATION.
Juan Crisostomo Torrico chief Of the Nation, &c.
Yielding to what has become requisite, by the
lmperlous necessity of circumstances and by the
urgent wants of the country, depose from the Su-
preme Command of the Republic, Don Manuel
Menehdez, who has exercised that trust: And
in order to preserve due administration
of affairs in the Nation, it is necessary to re-organ-
ize Government, as a Substitute for that deposed;
| DECREE,
article LIST: charge myself with the Executive
Power of the nation, during the civil war fomented
by Gen. Don Antonio Gutierrez de da Fuente, and
until the National Representation shall be con-
voked.
d,7icLe 2nd This decree will be put in execu-
ZION by, and bear the test of the Judge of the Supe-
rior Court of Cuzco, DR.. Don Miguel del Carpo,
whom | name Minister General, until the respec-
tive Departments may be org anized.
Given in the Government House at Lima, the
10th of August, 1912
JUAN CRlSOSTOMO TORRICO.
By order of his ExcelIency:
MIGUEL DEL CARPIo.
AT l o'clock of the same day, /" all the tribunals,
corporations, civil and military officers, and depu-
tations from the different bodies assembled in the
Hall of the Palace, together with large concJurse
of people, when his Erccltcncy addressed them as
follows:
"Genttcman: The country has called me, in its
last agonies, to the post this day occupy and my
heart, alw patriotic, has not hestated in conse-
Grating itself to this last sacrifice do not present
myself clothed in the legal forms; but you well
know that nothing is more legal than to save the
country from the abyss to which it has been preci-
plated by the stupid ambition, the weakness. and
the deporable influence, of demagogueism In
deed, | ,ciU save it, or find glorous tomb, But TO
this glorious work, it is necessary YOU
should pursue that path which honor and the most
sacred obligations have traced out for the industr
ous citizen and the providen ma gistrate; and that
you should reeesect, that society is essentially based
On morality, and on obedience to Government"
Now it must be admitted, that the laconic STYLE
and dircctnsss of the official papers of this selfcon
stituted Chief of the Nation are admirable. and
n perfect keeping with the summary means by
which he accomplishes his purposes Since his