, 1873-11-23
Remarkable Shifts Of People Who
Have Become "Hard-Up,"
Tho Guanape Islauls-'-now Guano IL
Loadod-- --Grand Breakfasts on
Shipboard.
The Celebration Of CarniYal-.-La,lfcs
Pclted with Perfnmcd Egg Shells,
md Men Drenohcd with
Water.

"Noctes Buenos" and Thoir Charao-
teristics.
Speofas Correspondence af The Chicago Tribune.
LIMA, Peru, October 1873.
While you aro preparing for your wintor, and
putting in!your supply Of coal, wo In Peru arc in
our spring, aud getting all roady for our oon-
ing summer, which eota in in another month.
Ladies' aro out In our streets attired In lacea and
white mualins, carrying parasols and fms (moro,
howoger, for ornament than for use); aud in our
shop-windows nre displayed our gayost ombroid-
erod robes, md tho thinnost Of laoos, gauzes,
'aud grenadines.
TIE PANIC
In New York, which mado itself 60 universally
felt all ovor tho EnBt and Wost, has reached
here, and there never has boon 10 dull time in
huslncss, all over peru, as st present. Tho ship
brokers and chambers aro groaning because
there arc 30 few BhipH In tho harbor, and 40 fev
arc expected; tho ship-oaptains aro growling
because tho freights on guano and on all kinda
Of cargo aro 80 low that IT does not pay thom to
carry load away merchants and businessmen
gonoray complain Tint they cannotbuy exchange
for any kind Of ofrer they can mako; the prcsi-
dent has Issued mn order forbidding any gold or
silver coin to be sent out Of the country, undcr
pain of imprisonment aud all tho lending
buanosa.houaes are at their wits' end to know
how to raiso money to meot their liabilities, or
to pay for goods ordered. And 60 tho tidal
wave OF panic. that began in Wall atroot and
has spread over the United stateB has obbed
md flowed into Poru, ,.and tho buslnoss-lntoreBts
Of this country arc cramped and troubled aB
never. knew them before, It Ia rumorol that
even Horny Moiggs. the great American Rail-
road-Kiug, has lost eovornl millions, OWING to
tho failure OF the Por,lyian Government to pay
up It's bonds; and many Of our leading firms,
guano and banking houses especially, haso gone
under in that subnaerging wayo that has swept
over two continents.
Tho poorer claasos, and especially tho Pcru-
vians,. havc foit this sudden check to business
very severely, and. boing TOO improvldont and
shiftloe6 to work very hard, thoy hayo rcsortcd
to tho
MOST REMARKABLE BHIrTB
to mako both ends meet. Daily, and almost
hourly, there knocks nt tho door OF our house in
tho callo-hone, OF side entrance to our bnok-
courtyard, q little Chinese Or Cholo boy, with
mysterious bundle under his urn. This boy il
tho " small servant Of some (hithorto) weIl-to-
do native family. Asking to 500 the mistross,
or the young ladies, or oven addressing himsolf
to tho load Of tho house (Which, claim. is, or
should bo, a MANI, ho opens his bundo. tod up
In shawl or tablo-cloth, md exposes dress,
vol worn and aolod; wbito akirt, bofriltcd
and bo1ounced, md having beon worn since it
last SAW the laundreBH; pair Of childo shoes !;
It nay bo diamond ring or pin underclothoa
Of oil kinds manta, Or veil for tho head !;
avery conceivable article Of wearing-apparcl,
even to sot OF falao teeth, and false ourls, and
liquid. cosmetics and, in o solemn, gontool
manner, ho relates that Signora or Signoretta
Somebody Fictitious namol Ills mistress, has
beon very i'll, and has become entirely cut OF
money for preHant neoossftiog, and doslros you
to purchase this little article, that she can oasly
dispense WITH for tho triding aum Of 30 many
aolos. He will generally take anything you may
offer him In cash. This aatno programme is cit
acted over and over again daily and mover,
ginco long residence in Peru, havo
I seen such dostitution, such o lack
of 1noanB, such extremity and suffering, and
such ioa as arc told. Tho Oho1o boy, maybe q
woman, an old Cholo nurse. or servant grown
gray and wrinkled III tho service of her mistress
but thero is always told tue io rs to illuesa
namo is always Suppressed or made up. I have
often said to those family y-scryants, Why doyou
always say your mistress is sick7 Why not
toll the truth, and say that thoy need money to
servants hare boon taught tho tricks Of Tho
trado we'll, and will always cling to tho sa1no old
story, " "Bickness and sudden necessity" There
Is nothing ,undcr, heaven that thoso Peruvian
women will not soil to keep up the peculiar
style in which they hayo been living. They will
have but ono tress and ono manta In all the
world, and not bod or chair in tho house; bui
that nanta must bo of aa fno quality, and tho
embroidery and lace on it as perfect, as II they
and liea to keep up appearances. In this re-
spect they offer great contrast to our Alneri.
can ladies. who can appear as true ladies' IN
md independence nnder al circumstances.
Since my last letter haye boon dowu to
THE uUANApE 1sLANDa,
where the HhipB load with guano. Thoao ships
generally come out to Callao With cargo. and.
after unloading, 80 to these islands and loat
with guano. Tlis guauo-londing koepH tho ships
ut tho islands about four months, md then. got
ting clearing papers at payta, they arc OF and
nway for different porta all ovor tho void. The
Cinnamon aro the workers among tho guano
as they can bettor stand tho strong smell oi
ammonia, that almost oyorpowers ono in digging
nmougit and loading it into the hold Of tht
ship. For several nights tho amoll OF thiH guanc
was 20 overpowering and strong that I xat
obliged to sleep on board another ship, and the
family Of tho Captain could not sit 10 the cabin
ut all. When we alto our meals In tho forward
cabin tho tears ran from our eyes In streams
and tlo efroot was oxaotly aa ii NO woro enui1int
tho strongest hartshorn. In somo ships tho odol
ia mitch more apparent than in others and 1t /!
especially strong in those nhips whose cabius art
all below. Nearly every Captain, whom making
Callao and tho gunno islands, takes his famil,
with him, and wife and little onos arc closely
shut up in q small cabin, and become en-
tl treiy . accustomed .,!. u to tho aoa.lifo.
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