The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-13
Il RI PIE S HE E 7
New York. Sunday, September Ii, 1865.
EUROPE.

The news report ny the Atlantic cable Is dated
yesterday evening, september IL.
Queen victoria reached Windsor Spain offers to
send thousands Of soldiers to the Pope, but has in
surrection. at home. Grau's opera company en-
barked at Brest for New York.
The London Change was closed Fve.twenties.
1854 in Frankfort. Cotton declined and downward,
with mddling upands at 1914. Breadstuirs quiet
Provisions firm.
BY steamship at this port we have a varied and
very interesting mail report from Europe in detail OF
our cable kilograms to the LIST of September.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Our letters from Peru and Ecuador report the most
terrible calamity that has ever visited ,nos.
countries The earthquake, which was spoken OF in
letter from Lima published on the 30th ut. as
having put forth preliminary signs, burst forth In
all Its fury on the 18th, few hours after mail
had sailed. The consequences were most fearful.
Accounts from the interior OF Peru state that the
towns Of Arequipa, Arca Iquique. Moquegua, Lo-
cumna and numerous other smaller towns were en-
tirely destroyed, three hundred lives being lost In
Arequipa fve hundred in africa, six hundred in Iqui
que and about four hundred in the other points by
the crushing Of houses and the rising OF the In
Lima the shock was severe. but no injury was sus
tanned. In Caao the tidal wave cleaned out the
houses near the shore, but no lives lost. The
Unired states storeship Fredonia was dashed 10
pieces at africa and all her were lost, and the
man-of-war wateree was carried half mile inland
and lodged high and dry by the tidal wave. The en-
tire loss on property In Peru Is estimated at
$500, 100000. In Ecuador numerous towns were
destroyed, and Guayaquil and Quito were severely
damaged The lives lost In Ecuador alone are esti-
mated at twenty thousand. The letters are dated at
quito on the 10Th and Lima on the 2sth-in one in
stance days and In the other two weeks after
the appalling calamity had occurred and yet 1t Is
still impossible to obtain certain data in regard to
the killed.
Our Panama letter Is dated September T. Correoso
during the absence OF President Ponce, had over
powered his guard and took military possession OF
Che city. ON the return Of Ponce and his principal
general Mesa, they were arrested, and Ponce imme-
diately resigned. Correoso thereupon proclaimed
himself provisional President. and formed new
Cabinet partially from among the coored popula-
tion Ponce left the city. The news from Central
America is unimportant.
We have Geographic advices from the West Indies
to September 10. An agent OF ex-President Cabral,
OF St. Domingo, was In Jamaica trying to purchase
munitions OF war. The Cacos had retired from
Port au Prince because they were short Of ammuni.
ton.
The diplomatic and consular corps paid their usual
visit Of congratulaton to the President OF Peru,
Colonel Balta, on the 18th OF August. General Hovey
assisted, having recognized the validity OF Colonel
Baltas government. In his speech on the occasion,
Btta assured the diplomats Of his intention to have
the rights Of foreigners vigorously protected.
The campaign IN Maine was closed yesterday, and
the election will come on on Monday. An immense
assemblage of republicans paraded In Lewiston last
evening. An attack was made upon them with
bricks and other missiles aud several were seriously
injured.
The Georgia Senate yesterday declared the colored
members, of whom there were only two, ineligible,
by q vote OF IS to IL. A protest from the ousted
members was entered on the journal.
In the trial Of whelan at ottawa yesterday Tho
defence was closed with the testimony OF the ex
pected witness from Cincinnati Rebutting evi
dence for the prosecution was then taken, and Tho
court adjourned until Monday. Buckley. one Of thu