The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-05-13


PERUVIAN ITEMs--A SECOND CALIFORNIA
Iron, the Concrete of ina to the a,st Mach
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we n"o INC ioio"i"g curious account OK a vast de-
post If gold which is said to exist In the interior of
Peru n Is nnblisbed In FL frou.e;, ~ rioo Ia ,h
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paper of the 3it March last, in the shape letter
from Of the passengers from Valparaiso to Callao
on boa I'd the English steamer on her Inst vim Naorb
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and Is as follows
take the opportunity of communicating to you the
Substance of n versotion which assea batweor CAN
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ohen ana several OF MS countrye on board the last
English packet her voyage from Valparaiso to Cal
veral months of the year 1929 residing the principal
mines of Contogo Soco, where he learnt from an old
miner Don Marcos isbOa. that in the vicinity
carambo there hills that were perfect
Of gold and within twenty leagues of the river Niuto
Abajo there immense plains and washings of gold,
without end-that in the year 1854. the Portuguese
arrived there with hundred laborers, but
that in a short time upwards of one thousand Indians
assembled, and massacred every of them in one
night. Not one soul escaped. General O'Brien did
solved this territory by the way of the valley
of Paurcartambo in preference going through Bra
ills the distance by the latter route being great.
In the wears 1891 . General OiB made two JOURNEYS
TO the valleys and in prepared expedition well
provided with all those kinds goods which are best
| calculated TO please savage Indians.
He started from Cuzco companied by one servant
mulct,cr ana a miner, he performed the journey and
returned to Cuzco in five months aud only brought
back handkerchief full of sand which was washed at
| the mint of Cuzco. 1t proved very rich.
The result OF his Journey published at that time
in the Cuzco papeTs and he had private interviews
with General Gamarra ut which he offered to pay off
the national debt of Peru within three wears The
country was at this juncture plunged into civil war
and on this account the enterprise was abandoned
and General O'Bricn returned to Europe
As friend Of my country it has appeared to me but
right that should communicate this information to
you for publications without wishing at all to offend
the a,ao, uroD,fa of General OBJ or prejudice his in.
tcrcsts in the slightest degree
r. S--s;cncrai OBIien stated he could find enough
gold there in one week to load one hundred men of
war
rive hone the General did not mean " Porturuesc,
men-of war Ii certainly Is singular that he has not
returned there on his account since Is35-Ep
IIrR.Ip1
Siyori was concortizinr at Lima assisted by Senior
Haiti n native of that citv
The exnress couriers who were dcsnatcbcd to Arc
auipa at The end of the month of February to an
nonnce the of the extra session of
and other occurrences (he attempted revolution and
projected assassination of the Presient to
/ ina ON The oSth March They hrourht accounts
from Tacnas and Arcouna to the 18th and 10Th March
In both these dcpartmonts perfect ranouilljty reivped
we find the following remarks on General Smiths