Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-01-22

foreigners. mere were generous men VINO
defed the fury OF the flames to save lives, and
some of these died martyrs TO their noble
hearts. An Englishman OF an American, it Is
unknown which, was seen to rush through the
flames, to seize in his powerful arms lady,
stride with her a little way, and then, with
his hair in a blaze, and ohoked with smoke,
fell back into the volcano never to rise again.
/ A young lady named Oueiio. hoving IN vain
imploied some bys,anders TO save hw mother,
rushed IN, and shortly afterwards n,iracuiousiy
issued forth NTH her parent IN her arms, saved.
| A young lady of the name Of Solar just before
the smoke suifocated her. had the presence Of
mind to tie her handkerchief around her leg,
80 that her body nigh: be recognized.
| The population Of Santiago, so SUI inc and
so priest-ridden, are fred with Undesirable
indignation at the monstrous conduct Of the
priests. The public conscience holds them
guilty Of the death Of all these victims, and
/ particularly the mountebsnk Ugarte, the in
yentor OF the Virgins Post Office imposture
(see extract from the "Review Of the fort
mighty because by collecting together all
the material most likely to produce 6re-a
countless number Of lights, pasteboard scene
~ and muslin hangings-snd admitting vast
crowd and covering the one door open with a
screen, they took every pains to bring about
tragedy. When the FIRE broke out and
people we're escaping by the sacristy they
blocked up this door TO devote themselves
the more undisturbedy to saving their GIN
cracks.
The list Of things saved makes ones blood
run cold. What the priests saved, what they
put away in segar shops and the houses In
front area gilt image, some wooden saints.
a sacred sophie or two, some books, cualices.
silver csudestioks and great deal Of sacred
mating and carpet. After saving their trash.
these specimens Of good shepherds, who give
their lives for their shlep, fed sway,
with the owls and bats that infested the an
cient walls Except that one priest favored
the agoniEed victims witt his absoluton, and
Ugarte requested them to die happy, because
they went direct TO Mary
They then forsook the scene, and in that
awful night, when fainting women and des-
perate men strewed the streets, and writing
forms that few hours before we're graceful
and beautiful maidens, moaned and died in
chemists shops, not priest was to be seen
to whisper word Of Christ's comfort to the
dying ear or bold the precious cruoidx before
the glazing eye. No. not 80 for the priest
Of nature was there-wOman. a ministering
angel in the dark hour, tended and soothed
as usual. One young lady--God bless her
tore up all her under clothing to make band
ages, and bound up the wounds az only
man can. All this awful night the only thing
that remained of the clergy was the incessant
tollng of bells-about the only thing they
could do to increase the horrors Of the scene.
This being the third time this church has
filed our homes with weeping, all with one
voice demand that il shall never be rebuilt
bat the priests, foolshy defiant ana despotie
as ever, threaten TO let off their miserable
medieval popguns at those they term the sac
religious alienators Of holy ground. Their
audacity has even led them to attempt an APP
peal to violence. They preach that the ire
parable loss Of 50 many Of the iarest and
most virtuous OF Chile's virgins and matrons
is special mercy and miracle of Mary. who
wished to take them at once, without delay,
TO her bosom. One monster exults openly at
that which has stamped eternal grief and hor-
ror on our hearts. because Chile wanted a
supply OF saints and martyrs"
Oh as we write our eyes Gil with tears.
Nothing can console Us in this sffliction.-
We think of nothing else but our loss Of
those who never will come back to us but
still there will have ensued some good. if the
dark, degrading dominion of the priests has
sacrifice which, laden with the dying breath
|, Of two thousand victims, rolled up TO accuse
Ugarte and his aecomplices before the throne
Of God
The ''Review Of the fortnight" referring to
the priest Ugarte and his Virgins Post Office.
says "A priest named Ugarte, whose mind
> Mariolatry had marked for its own, headed
that sisterhood (the Daughters Of Mary
from the beginning, and worked bis way down
to such a depth OF superstition shat one Of
his least extravagances was the invention Of h
Celestial Post Office trick, by which the
Daughters OF Mary might correspond with
the Virgin in writing. At tho entrance Of
the temple the letter box was constantly open
and there persons of robust faith deposited
in sealed letters their wishes and their pray
ere"
The following gives an idea Of the class Of
persons that persisted by the deporabIe ac-
cident - although many heroic men
performed prodigies Of daring and strength
in tearing some from the death grasp Of the
phalsnx Of bodies that choked the door, IN
some cases literally tearing Of their arms NTH
out being able TO tniricate them, the number of
saved BY this means falls short OF fifty. More
than fye hundred persons Of our highest society
haze persisted, he greater part young yiris Of
fifteen 10 toeniy gears Of age One mother has
persisted rith her fee daughters. Two thirds
OF the victims we're servants, and there are
many houses IN ,ohich not one has escaped =
Several houses haze been noted BY the police as
empty because all their inhabidhts haze perish
ed"
The names of 2O74 of the victims have
been recorded, and it Is supposed there were
three OF four hundred more.
Ex-Gov. Hicks of Maryland, was on Friday
elected United States Senator to fill the I'M