Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-19
South American News.

New York, Aug. 1S,-The steamship Rising
Star brings Panama dates of the 18th and Kings
ton, Jamaica, of the i1th
Consul Perry had arrived at Panama.
The supreme court Of Colombia had decided
that the filming Of the Boston ice company 1920
tor being short Office was Illegal.
Consul Perry has handed over the steamer
Edgar Stuart to the agent Of the New Yorll
owner. A new crew will be sent her from New
| York
In boat race between the crews Of the
irigates California and Sarauac at Panama the
crew OF the former won
Kingston adyres note a slight earthquake
there about the first of August
Gen. Caldwell, United States consul at Val
paraiso, IS passenger by the Rising Star.
An attempt ut revolution by Jesuits and In
dams in Guatemala had been suppressed
United States Minister Root is sick with
small pOX at Santiago Peru
Steamer HaSser, with Prof Agassiz and
! party, sailed from Panama July 9th
An epidemic similar to yellow fever is raging
| in Carthagena, over five thousand people being
attacked, but there were only two hundred
| deaths during June.
Fifteen hundred deaths occurred in Valpa-
raise, more than half from small pox which is
| raging throughout Chill and Peru
South Pacific dates are 10 the 2Sth ult.
On the I'D, revolution broke out in Lima,
| headed by Tomas Gutierrez, minister of war,
| and Gutierrez d ,larCd himself dictator He
was supported only by the army. reign of
| terror followed the Imprisonment of Balta.
| Pardo, the president elect, escaped to the fleet
Suddenly the troops deserted Gutierrez, COM
| pany after company, with "VyaS" for PardO.
| Callao up to the morning of the 9th was
| scene OF anarchy, firing went on indiScriminate-
ly in the Streets and it is impossible to estimate
| the number killed. Some bodies still lie in the
| streets. Sylvestre Gutierrez, brother of the
| dictator, was shot at Lima railway station ON
the 9Th. In the evening, in order to avcnge his
DEATH Marcehang Gutierrez, another brother,
deliberately shot aud killed President Rata in
| his bed in prison. The ex-president re-
| ceivei ten wounds. Soon AFTER Thomas Cutter
| req himself and another brother were killed,
| and the dead bodies Of the three Gutierrez were
| hung in the plaza at Lima Immediately on the
| receipt OF the news of the murder of Balta The
| steamer Lmena left at midnight to look for the
| tieet, which had sailed for CallaO on the decara-
| ton of dictatorship. The Lmena returned
about O'Clock Pm. on the 9th, followed by the
Peruvian iron clad lndcpendencia, with Pardo
on board. He was received with rapturous
cheers by the people The bloody dictatorship
lasted about four days, and the dictator now
hangs on the plaza between his two brothers. A
fourth brother lies with seven wounds, and not
likely to recover. For some days rails on the
track to Lima were torn up and telegraph wires
| cut. Gutierrez made forced loan ON Dreyiuss
Melggs, and each of the four banks, for $4,000
Soles each, in all 100000 solcs Mr. Dawson
manager Of the London bank, was imprisoned
until he made the loan stated. Ii is said that
Dreyiuss guarantees the money back to the par
ties.
LdtesL-CALLAo, July 2S.-Pardo proceeded
to Lima yesterday and was enthusiastically re-
ceived. He made an eloquent address to thou
sands of SPECTATORS from the balcony of his own
house. The fury of the people against the
Gutierrez party can be judged by their yestcr-
day taking the naked bodies of the three Cutter
rez brothers from the lamp posts to which they
have been hung, and hosting them, by means
of pullies, 10 the tower of the cathedral. At the
height of 100 feet they were let 20, They were
then saturated with kerosene and burned, on
| the plaza in front of the cathedral. The house
and furniture of Gutierrez has been entirely de-
molished, and proclamation has been issued by
the first vice-president of Bata, who has tenn
porarily assumed the government To-day, the
18th, is the date for declaring formally the cleo
ton OF PardO as president. Balta'S term would
| have expired August ID. Its supposed that the
yice-prcsidents term, therefore, will end at the
same date, and PardO will assume the govern
ment Juan Francisco Bata, brother of the
murdered president, has recently arrived from
the south. He took refuge on the English war
| steamer Reindeer. The eX-directOr Gutierrez was
trying to escape in disguise, He rushed into a
drug store in Lima after the murder Of Halta,
followed by the people, and was AT once killed,
A young mau addressed the crowd, Look at
this CHASTITY form, the body of one who has re-
| ceived the fate which awaits all who will put
themselves above the law and defy public opin-
ion The corpse Of one of the Gutierrez was
coiled through the streets of Callao before being
sent to Lima to be hung and burned The
Concrete, which had been suppressed reap
pcared on the 9th in Lima The "South Paci-
fc Times" suspended publication for day or
two. The Office in Callao was fired into, and a
nine pound shot fell into the sitting room of
Mr.. Lawton, the proprietor, The foreman of
the paper was shot dead, and Lawtou conducted
under escort 10 theAmerican flagship Pensacola.
The Times expects to resume on the Both of
July. The principal fighting was in Calao, and
between CallaO and Lima; over 200 must have
been killed. The forts Santa Rosa and Castella
were firing at each other during the night of the
26th TheAGutierrez party held one, but were
ultimately displaced