The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-24

irccssart'y for two hours; the two Spanish shus
expending about seven hundEed shot and she'll,
when v cir commanding officer, finding 1t rmDoss.
to sileOce the shore battery, and very prudently
not caring to venture his heavy ships into
md DANGEROUS channel way, hauled off out Of range
1ttr his vessels had been struck seventeen times in
heir hugs; the Blanca receiving one shot below the
water line which was Immediately plugged. Sn-
gular to re ate they report no casua ties.
Ihe ships inside were found to be the ApNrimac,
Union, america, and Copddongd, and the opanlards
report that when The fight ended the Covadongd was
tIely dsmasted. the america using but one gun
outot her broadsde of eight and that the Apuriupdc
was ON fire; besides, they say that all of them suf
snotawaYi but we are not as ured Of tins. Tue
Spanish vessels renamed a day or two In tee
vicinity, in the hope tnat their late opponents would
venture forth; but ae they cou d not be induced to
do 80 IT was deemed best to return to Valparaiso, be-
allied ships were anchored, under the uneing fire
OF the shore battery, which was mounteo with the
heavy guns recovered from the lost frigate ADla-
THE "NUMANoIA" SENT TO REVENGE HER DEFEATED
CoNsoRTs
Immediately uoon arrival at Valparalso. Commo-
Core Nunez determined to send the NunldpciG there
with orders the battery and destroy the feet
siue at all hazards. And If her commander is for
tuI ate enough to have good pl Ot-one who vii
keep his ship from getting ashOre-the task laId out
Tor the hu0e iron-cad IS verv easy enc. Thus you
ut one of them-the foImer-is Piven IN the Panama
or eouth Coast papers. The next mail will give us
all Ee pa1ticu ars.
THE CHLOE COAST AND IT'S ADVANTAGES.
The numerous bays and inlets of the island Of
Oh. oe, and the adjacent coast OF the land, TO-
get er with the dangerous character of the nayiga
uon tie eabous, are good Tor the allies and bad for
the ~ aniards. There excellent charts of the
whole coast OF South America, made from the most
correct hydi ographic surveys by officers OF the Eng
hsh navy yet good as they they do not as
good purpose as a native pilot who knows every
inea of locality he has been irequenting from his
PERU.
PERUVIAN NEWS REGARDING THE LATE NAVAL
BATTLE. .t..
The D1Ders of Peru contain nothing but eXulta-
tiOns over the late fight at Ancud which they
sider signal defeat of the Span sh vessels El Ma
ciondi considers that the VitG de Madrid and
Blanca are used up aud done for, and says that in
all VI obaOlhty the allied fleet wlll soon attack the
remainder OF the SpanI-h feet and use them up also
1t thinks u at the PiiiG dc Madrid is seriously
damaPed in her machinery, because one OF ner
engines goes to Europe by this mail.
BOLIVIA
ALLIANCE wITH CHILL AND PERU CAPTURE AND
DESTRUCTION OF A BARQUE
Ii is sufficient TO that the revolution in Bolivia
be ng over, that republic at once JOIN the alliance
against SPAN. thus c.Oslng the only port, CoDja,
that remained open to the Spaniards.
some time ago gave you an account Of the at
tempted capture, IN the port OF Coqumbo, OF the
barque .SdiUddOr Vide, which Was discha.gng coal
ald stores into the spanish rlgate then blockadng
that port, and which attack failed through the
ignorance of the officer commanding the attacking
party. After she was di charged she proceeded to
Cobija then neutral port; but on the night of ia
nuary Aeight ChIlinos, enthus astic in their cause
yet forgetting the neutrality OF the port, arranged
an expedition against the vessel, which was sue
They boarded her under cover of darkness and.
getting posses ion tney got underway after
fashion, none of the party being seamen aud stood
TO Callao reached time, and imme-
diately on arrival the Italian Minister demanded the
release OF the vesse and return to her owners
the grouno that she was a neutral vessel captured
in neutral waIeIs he demand was compiled with;
but tine same night she was destroyed by fire in the
harbor OF Caao, and 1t does not require much
gu ssng to determine Il 1t was the act OF an lncen.
diary or not,
THE CONGRESS OF ooLoMBIA--No ALLIANCE WITH
CHILL AND PERU.
resolution offered in Congress to join the
Republics o. South America bv dec airing war against
Spain, which was kl led the spot. War to Uolom-
bia with SPAN WITH an extensive Atlanuc sea coast
derived, would, in the opinion OF Congress, be
sulcioal in the extreme.
Peace ana quiet reien supreme throughout the
interior. Not even rumor OF revolution can be
heard from any direction.
The following extract from the message of Presi-
dent Muro, on the relations existing with the
United States, will be found Interesting and i'm.
portant:-
Although the crime committed on the l4th of APRIL
1865 in Washington snatched away from the vrtuous
Abraham Lincolna good friend and benevolent towards
our peope-the American Government has consinued to
anIee Of sovereignty and neutrality which they promised
pass troops across the Isthus has indeed offered
culues because not all the agents OF that Govern
itself possess that intelligence and morality which the
use OF this conce cesson implies Grave faults have been
We sci, and also BY military on their transit over the
IsthM which, have not the least doGbt Of it, the
American &c evernment Will give full satisfaction
adopting for the future such precautions as VIII lead to
This trea which contains the gu arantee OF neutrality
and ownership of the isthmus, and the concession Of
Tree transit in favor o. the American Government must
expire In the 1865 OF the parties sho uld notify
the other OF 1t twelve months before the stipulated time
1t would be expedent that you discuss already now the
continue together with the consequences which may
have at.some time far or less remote.-& T. Herald.