The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1855-03-24
The Peruvian "Liberator..

ten. CdStlila, the culeI WuO EeCeHtly
overthrew the Peruvian government, and
forced President Echinique to quit the coun-
try, and has himself assumed the reins of.
state, seems likely to create a revolution in
the manners, customs and condition of the
the people, as we'll as in the administration
of its laws. A correspondent Of the Jour
nal Of Commerce says that one of his first
DEGREES released the native Indians from con.
tributing to the support Of the government;
another struck off from the army and navy
lists about six hundred officers and the last
and most important of all, emancipated all
the slavcs-providing that the owners should
receive payment therefor in script. The
payment clause, however, was practically
imperative, for as late as the 25th of JAM
no documents of the kind had been given
the blacks were abandoning the plantations
and pouring into Lima; domestic servants
left the houses Of their masters and paraded
the streets, insulting the whites, and all was
disorder. The correspondent Of the Journal
of Commerce, speaking Of the effects Of this
decree, says:
All The planters are ruined. The losses of
some approach S500,000, besides the future
products Of their plantations. Many fami-
lies in Lima that were impoverished BIZ for
mer wars, and that were living by The labor
Of d few slaves that they retained, whom
they permitted to work on their own ac-
count, BY paying their masters a small
monthly stipend, are now reduced to abso-
Iute poverty At the same time eatables
have risen 80 per cent, and some still more
white sugar, lump, is selling by retail at l6
cents, and other products of the country in
proportion.
Had the manumission of the slaves been
tl,, nj dc
ready to pay for them, it is not probable that
manumisslon, as they could have pro-
ivided the plantations with other laborers
in the mean time, and the prices of products
would not have risen. AS it is, two or
three millions more will be expended by the
population Of Lima alone, yearly, for the
ineccssarics of life. If the government does
not take some measures to ameliorate the
condition of planters and consumers, it is
much to be feared that we shall not enjoy
peace for great length of time.
! The ARcrIC REGIoNs.--'Hhe mosquitoes
are more troublesome in the regions of per-
! petual ice, than they are in hot latitudes.-
Some Of the officers of the British sloop of
war Trincomaee, from port Clarence, in
Behring's Straits, say that the mosquitoes
were more numerous than In central Amer
ica They inhaled them by the mouthful, and
could not walk OUT without handkerchief
or veil over their faces.
The natives are exceedingly docile, and
very intelligent; but as are the Esquimaux
generally, very lazy. The only wood they
can procure is that drifted from-no one
knows where-out of which By management
of warus tusks and whalebone, they con
trive admirable spears and bows and arrows
for killing seal and bear, which animals
! form their winter stock of food. During thl
latter part of the winter, they are reduced
Ito state of emi-starvation, and then are
even contentto eat the hides of animals, ii
. which fare their dogs-a noble looking breet
Have share. One mode they have o
: catching the bear is By. piece of frozer
blubber in which is doubled a piece o
Y whalebona The animal greedily swallow
| 1.-THE blubber thaws, the whalebone stretch
d les, and the brute dies in agony.
Y Some persons are fond Of opening thei
!. minds to you, as if they were dirty linen
i Just to let you see what foul things can drol