The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-05

ntrio. published at Lima, is to the llth ult
Among the passengers by the United States, is
Arthur Terry, Esq bearer of dispatches iron ths
U 5. Legation at Lima, Peru.
There Is nothing important in our letters o.
papers, from any part of the coast
Ihe.ltaiian Opera company, at Lima was ysu
successful "Ernani" and ssNebuchodonosor y bv
the celebrated Verdi, were performed at the nag
nifcont theatre Of that city, with the greatest sus-
cess The hall was crowded with n f.shionsbls
audience, and the principal parts were sung and
played by Mrs Lorini, Gate Miss Whiting, Of New
York; who sang Nebuchodonosor with grea. skA
and talent Lorini rendered admirably we'll his
part Of tenor; the barytone, whose namo Ia not
given, was also greatly applauded in his part.
Madame Caylli a celebrated chanteuse, arrived
recently from Chilli had been engaged at Lima
fer several performances.
The ship news will be found under the proper
head,
OUR Chill CORRESPONDENCE
CHALl IRA, Chile, Sept. s, 1852.
The Enterprise OF tie Yanktes-Improuemss IN
Chadoa-1 New 7own-RaaIodds, Mines, &c.
IA you much to like giving our glsriess
Yankee nation credit for their spirit of enterprise,
and publish letters from far aud near permit no 70
address you few lines from this new Yankee town
on tho Sou Pacific. In the first place, you must
know that some two years ago Mr VIM Wheei-
wright, who halls from the little town of Newoury-
port, but who has identified hia name with eyssy
great Improvement on tho South Pacific, proposed
to the rich miners of Copiapo to build, in connection
with then, a railroad from n new point Of the
osst called Caldera, where the terrible northern
Of the Pacific have no effect and having ono Ut tho
most cummOdious, and at the same time secure
haI bors III the world
At first the plan was thought impracticablo; but,
having The greatest confidence in whatever Mr..
William Wheelsright proposed, they agreed TO
build the road
Immediately Mr. wheelwright sent to the Uaited
States for engineers and materials to be forwarded
at once; the return packet brought the engineers,
carpenters, tIachlayers, and their various assist
ants; and the,agent, Edwin Bartlett, Esq of your
city, with his usual energy, put the contrast for
the machinery ut once in the most skifu hands
ia the United States, with orders to push the work
to completion. On the 18th Of May, 1880. the on
gineers and others arrived at this place, a per.
ieotly barren sandbank, without drop of water
within twenty miles, and Provisions. sad
every article of life, rs we'll as workmeu.
to be brought six hundred miles; and yet, with an
these disc0uragements the road finished 6fsy.two
miles in length, and cars ran over it to Copispo in
just eighteen months. Now, within two years, the
buildings are finished, car houses and depsss
erected, and mole eleven hundred feet in length
(seven hundred and fifty feet of stone, and three
hundred and fifty feet Of woody in the most sub
NHOtlhl MANNER TIRnt OUT lnLO Inc OrOlU RACINE.
with thrty.two feet Of water at low tide, three
railway tracks the entire length and shi.s; Gan d.
charge into the cars ME ged ..ion gside maohinS
shop. with suo most perfect machinery. driven By
STEAM tngine Of the best construction, and surPas-
sing all the Chileans dreamt Of much less saw,
has been erected. Notwithstanding this work was
done in such short space Of time, We had to order
our machinery the United States, and our iron
from England; We had also to arrange machinery 10
dstil salt water for the Of ourselves and engines
The men who have accomplished all this, are Allan
Campbell, Esq, of New York, chief engineer. whs
surveyed the road; w W Evans, Esq of New
Role, Esq, of Brooklyn; W. Winning. John A.
Shaw and /. N. Cobb, assistants, Of New York; w
q. Buttons, Esq superintendent; VIM Taggsrt,
maohinist, Phisdelpeia; } Manson locomotive bull
the wOrkmen wero Yankee runaway Sailors bat
men who can turn their hand to any thing The
receipts of the road in the month of December
when first finished were $3.50; for the month Of
August amounted to $4,000 a month"; with I've
trains Lilly, and then unable to do the business
We have low q handsome custom house, some
fine private buildings, and some three hundIcd Ut
tho one story frame houses of this country. Our
population increases by every steamer from one
hundred to hundred and fifty Chileans, and
some five or Blk Foreigners +; from five to eight
sailing vessels arrive every week, each bringing On
an average some ten or fifteen passengers
Ships are coming with coal, iron, and all the
Injuries OF Europe, which before have been brought
to Valparaiso alone. Two Yankee ships have been
here with full cargccs Of lumber one going up the
coast to load, ana the other clearing Tor China di
rect with bar silver for purchase OF cargo The ship
Isaac Newton. from Boston. ia now lying here, dis
charging cargo of notions, and 900 tons Of Zoe,
with ice houses refrgeratoIs, and oil the other FIX
ings; and her owner, George Lombard, Esq Of
Boston, has been shrewd enough to obtain the ex-
elusive privilege Of that now Indispensable article
Some twenty ships have already loaded within eight
months with copper and silver ores, direct for Flu.
rope and on tho 10Th of last month, the CONNER
cial house of Wheewright and Conf cleared At che
etov bnu fbraa nj ina fur Eur hsnn
and silver ores, and the steamer with bar silvers
whose total curgoes amounted to one million one
hundred thousand dollars This, l believe, is the
largest amount cleared by one house in one day ON
the Pacific, either North or South-Adams and Co,
being the next largest, who cleared 100000 from
California. feel proud to cay this house, we'll M
Adams and Co.. are both Yankee boys.Mr John
Wbeelwright Of New York, Mr.. W. Bartlett OF Dos
ton, and Y r Conf of Valparaiso
A now railroad, to continue from C0piap0 to the
rich mines of Tres Puntas and Charnacilio, is to DO
some thirty miles, and beyond, tram
road &c mules. This will still moro increase the
business, and open mines which have long lain idle
account Of the expense OF getting the ores to the
stantly increasing in richness, aud the mines Of
Don Tomas Gallo rich that the pillars
which have been left to support the mine are OF
nearly pure yer' anu p.s sio .ae wsup
hours under ground. The miners who work in the
mines are queer race, distinct by themselves, the
greatest adopts ut stealing and when stripped per
fectly naked, with their pahron over them, they
have stolen rich pieces of silver Ii is estimated
that $50 600 per month of bar silver shipped from
Huasco and yet there is no silver mine there-it Is
all stolen in the ore, and carried by the outsiders
over the mountains and sold to the smelling works
Men who own the mines frequently buy their own
mineral which has been stolen, saying, If tnsy did
not, SEINE one else would, and actually encourage
crime.
On the 18th of September, the grand national
holiday-like our Fourth of July--the city is Quo
scene Of drunkenness and imbliDg The miners are
paid off and are bound to spend their money before
they 90 back to the mines; and for tumbter
Of punch, OF about quart, they pay ~. and 50
continue throwing away their money till 1t 10 su
gone.
There are many things to reform In tbs county
the custom. bouse regulations the same as they
were in old Spain one hundred years ago. and there
ia more trouble to discharge and clear vessel than