The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-30
EARTHQUAKEIN PERI.

The Lima correspondent of the Panama Star and
Herald sends to that journal the following dcscrp-
ton Of the effects Of earthquakes in Peru:
LIMA, April ~, lS60.-lma, tho gay and irivl-
GUS cty,now does pcuitoncc in sackcloth and aHhca
bareiooed Franciscan irars preach in tho open mir
and cxhort the people to repent of their sins and
to prepare for death; gloomy professions, headed
by the same dismal-looking monks. singing with
nasal voices, who appear as messengers OF DEATH
traverse the streets. and are followed nv multi
tudes of terrified people; the whole aspect of tho
town is changed and all this caused by the last
peated earthquakes that Lima has experienced and
which are still not quite over, some slight vi
bratiuns were felt even this morning. Tho first
movement commenced on the night of the 10Th.
and lasted half minute, but did no injury; on tho
Dist several slight oscillations occurred but the
heaviest shock felt on the 22d, at two o'clock
IN the afternoon, and lasted nearly n minute.
The movement was first horizontal, and went from
south to west; but then came very strong shock
from below, which would have laid the greatest
part of Lima in ruins il it had been repeated; Mt
last it died away with the same horizontal osca-
tons. Next morning, at O'Clock, severe shock
was felt again, nearly strong as the former, and
on all the following days slight vibrations were
telt, or subterranean noise was heard. Consider
able damage has been done in Lima and the neigh
borhood; houses and walls fell in; especially in our
watering place, Ch0rilos where several people were
killed and wounded. More than any other place
has suffered Cauete, small town about twenty
leagues south of Lima, where half the town is said
TO be destroyed. Further south the earthquake
seems to have lost its intensity ana not dCh of it
was felt north of Lima. On the 23d the panic was
general in Lima; then came a report from Callao
which afterwards proved false, that the had
retired from the sEore more than two thousand
people arrived here from Callao and Chorilos
who all feared the sea would swallow up their
towns, and that new commissions would follow
All this contributed to augment the panic the
shops were closed; many people left their houses
and went to the Alameda, to the Convent of the
W n or unru Larry IN nrop
and remain there all night; others left town alto
gether. Lima seemed very much deserted. Even
now many people have not dared yet to return to
their homes. There has not been such severe
earthquake here since the year 1928.
THE PANIC IN CALLAo.-On Monday, in Callao
an alarm was raised that the was recedng from
the shore, and presenting the same phenomenon as
IN lI49, during and preceding the sinking of old
Calla0. People were to be seen running about
greatly distracted, and general panic prevailed.
All the roads leading out of Caao were lined with
afrighted sinners, fleeing from the wrath to come.
SPECIAL trans were running all day, carrying away
hundreds to Lima whilst the most devoted ia
matte went to Bella Vista, and took from the church
the image of the Senior del Mar the same that was
used in l149; procession was formed, accompanied
by band of nd n guard of honor, and the
image that was to calm the sea and bring it back
its proper sense of duty, carried down to the
mole with all the pomp and ceremony the church
could afford. After remaining short time, it was
carried back to the church OF Santa Rosa, where
it remains to be used again in the sea should
again be refractory. The same evening prOcla-
nation was issued by the Project, calling the in
habiants back to their houses, assuring them that
the alarm false, and that if in case the be-
gan to show symptoms of overflowing the city, the
fact would be announced by the firing of three can
non, that there would be time to escape. As
yet, the greater portion of the families who left
Callao have not returned.
\ Mexican correspondent of the New York
Herald says that General Vega was not shot, as
reported, but he and five other generals, with 1000
men and all the army train, were captured.