The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-02

horrid massacre and religious fanaticism
at Tandil. Buenos Ayres. A letter dated
January l8 gives the following partiou-
lars:
man named Solares, born in Boli-
via or Chill, forty years of age. of q
pale copper color, aud with pleasing
face, had settled near Tandil, q village
in the Argentine Confederation, in a hut
with two rooms, and given out that he
was messenger of God. Previously
he had resided in the province of Entre
Rios. giving out that he could divine the
future, foretelling deaths, and, it is said.
taxing measures to give certainty to his
prophecies. Finally, lie was driven
away by the authorities, after tying him
up and giving him fogging. He then
went to Rosario, and thence to Azul.
where he practiced his profession, as
serting that he could cure the blind
merely with his touch. There he was
arrested by the justice of the peace. on
account OF the disturbances ho was pro
noting, but was released. Still his re-
putation remained, and he received q
call to go to the estancia of Senior Ramon
Gomez, situated fourteen miles from the
village of Tandil, to cure the sterility of
the wife. Ramon Gomez was cousin
of the Justice of the peace for Tandil,
and was himself an official. Seeing him
lodged with this official, the ganchos
began to yield implicit faith in his pre-.
tensions to be the Saviour of mankind
and the envoy of God. Soon his fume
spread through the cusMtry, and the
half-savage Inhabitants made it a kind
Of pilgrimage to go und visit Solares,
who received them III iue hut which his
protector had assigned to him. Some
times upwnrds OF 500 persons were there
ut once, having come on horse and
IN wagons in search of tile services Of
the prophet. In one room he lived, in
the other were number of images, and
in the latter he received his vi.itants.
Money be refused for himself, but he
always advised them to make offerings
to the images.
The fame of the Tata Dios, or Man
God, grew nightly. The people kneeled
before him and kissed his hands, wor-
shipping him as though God himself,
listening with reverence to his occasional
preaching against foreigners, who, he
SAID, were Masons and enemies Of the
church.
At last, on New Years Eve, he called
bis disciples together, and declared rs
follows:
1.-The hour is come to kill the Masons.
to finish with the authorities and to open
the prisons, to release friends who will
help us. AS soon as you have fulfilled
your mission, the rocking stone of Tan
dill will fall of itself, and beneath it YOU
Will hnd great town. If you do it,
God will largely repay your pious zeal;
II not, the most terrible punishment will
foil upon you aud your children"
His congregation heard and applaud.
ed, and before daylight of January 1,
fifty OF the one hundred and fifty whom
he had called to him assembled behind
his white banner and set out on their
deadly mission. At day break, the beat
ing OF drum aroused the inhabitants of
'Tandil, and they were told that some
bandits had passed by, assassinating the
people. They then saw in the square
the banner of Solarcs, surrounded by
some fifty gauchos on horseback, decked
with belts and plumes, who had already
only prisoner in it.
In the square, the gauchos met an
Italian, whom they instantly killed. In
tho outskirts OF the village, they met
conveys Of carts, driven by eleven vas
coho3 oiSdc Ol HaOm Luey bhCIluCeu on
the spot and wounded three. They
passed the store of Vlnus Lauuz and
killed him and n laborer; then went to
the store Of Mr.. VIM. Thompson, where
they murdered servant and an Euglish-
man and his wife, recently married,
shouting all the time, death to the
Masons! death TO all Foreigners! kill aDd
snck!'
AT $50. they reached the store of Jean
Chappard, man greatly respected in his
neighborhood. There they murdered
eighteen persons-nnmcly the owner
and his wife, and four children, one of
these two years old, another child OF
four mon tbs; Il girl Of fourteen years.
female and IL male servant, and II number
OF workmen employed upon the place.
The deaths are too horrible to be given.
Suffice, that tho child of two years of
nge was rildletl with stabs, and u chair
leg was found thrust through The body
of girl.
Meantime the alarm had spread. The
foreigners and natives in Tandi gather
ed what weapons they could find, mount-
cd and rode after the murderers, with
the fixed determination to pursue them
to tho death. By 1 L. NJ. they over.
took them at Chapar, where they were
taking ten and chnnging horses. The
nsnrderers prepared to fight, but sent
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