New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-09
South America.

We take the following from the Valparaiso correspond
of the Network Commercial Advertiser 1t dated
February Is:
This month has brought shocking intelligence from the
Straits of Magellan
First from the CHILEAN colony planted at Fort Bunes
This is used for penal purposes and including the garr
son with the prisoners the last accounts gave tne enfe
population 6SS persons Near the close of December
| mutny occurred there. headed by lieutenant me
Governor superior named Munoz aamero' escaped
with his life in company with the priest and few more
to the other side of the Straits There they wandered
about for many days. living shel-fsh and suffering
every hardship At length they were compelled ~ want
compassion they met the most merciless cruelty fire
| was kndlel 70 burn the Governor alive He begged to
be spared suc horrible DEATH asking that he might be
shot instead This request granted but after shoot
ing him they burned his remains, dancing and singing
| the national hymn around the fire.
An American vessel under charter this place sent
by this Government bark Foridaarrived while the
Governor was wandering in such distress immediately
she seized. The Mr.. Shaw, of New 0rcaus,
who on board shot without any provocaton and
the captain was spared only that he might navigate the
vessel Also British vessel the Eliza Cornish anchored
there on her way from this port for England having
and nearly hundred thousand dollars in treasure She too
was seized and plaged and the captain. named Talbot
the mate the owners shot having first been
put in irons After the Governor returned and had been
murdered, these mscreants set sail Some of their
company however against the leaders, bound
them. and directed their course for CHILEAN port X
When the reached this place the British Admiral
dispatched steamer the Vrago Captain Hayes and
the frigate Thetis Captain Kuper capture the mutt
neers. They all in the hands of the British
CHILEAN authorities.
The they have pursued shocks every sentiment
the Governor. they killed calf and roasted it the
embers, and ate the flesh
They have put to death quite number of persons;
far as learn between twelve and twenty have fallen
victims to their criminal schemes One of these vessels
shaped her course for Montevdeo but overriding
Providence frustrated whatever of wckedness they
designed.
The Raritan frigate is at Talcahuano She from
Calao at once receiving intelligence of what had
hat hpr with In T mott
aware; but suppose shall her here The
steam propeller Massachusetts, is expected to come soon
from California; Lieut. Carter. U. s. Navy having been
ordered thther to command her.
The other item of intelligence from the Straits in
reference to English missionaries sent out under the
support of the Patagonian Missionary Society Their
director wis named Capt Gardiner r. N. He had with
him two caechiss carpenter and three Cornish fisher
men. Their plan reach the natives of the shores
and islands Of the Straits with the humanizng influences
of the Gospel At landing in the close of 1850 the
ages were inhospitabe and they felt compelled live in
two launches which they brought with them, that
decked over. However, the scurvy broke out among
them. BY April. they reduced great want for
where they all persisted from starvation short time
ago British corvette the Dido called at the Falkland
Islands and finding there thrysix barrels of stores
tor these missionaries the captain sailed in search Of them
1t was his painful task to find only signals of the hard
suferngs they had borne Fragments of papers and
dead bodies told the melancholy finale The last notes of
Capt Gardiner of the 4h and 9th of September last
He had been then four days without food He
tanned by the most delightful Christian hopes and
relief deep and unmerted favor at the hands of God
noble monument to their memory would be well sus
tiined mission to those neglected shores which
hope may be formed If their death shall thus call
ton and efforts thherward then they will not have lost
their lives in vain Some will think that these rashly
threw their lives away but if compared with the hun
dred that crowd to death the battle field the advan
ages will certainly lie with these soldiers Christ whose
noble aim was not to destroy mems lives but to them
The political condition of this country tranquil The
President Of the Republic is expected to visit the city
soon by invitation from the citizens The hope is enter
tanned that upon that occasion progress may be made in
regard to railroad between this city and Santiago The
President is decidedly favorable to the project and the
great question now is about raising the funds. The
port of Mr. Allan Campbell the engineer. of Albany
Y, has been given in, and printed in English Its fair
document 1t makes out that the scheme is practicable
by means of road 10 miles in length and with out
lay of S7lo000O If it be effected it will be i'm
provement Of incalculable value for the country.
cline of steamers running this coast VAL
paraiso to Pnama has been strengthened lately by the
acquisition of two boats called the Lima and San
tago Two more looked for shortly the Quito and the
Bogoa. In the month Of April, these steamers
commence sem-monthly voyages to Panama, bringing
passengers and mails Consequently, the days of depart
re will be changed Instead of leaving Panama the
23d of each mouth they will in April leave the 18th
and 30th, at 6 A. NJ,