The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-12-13
SOUTH AMERICA.
Peru Impecunious,

NEW YORK, Dec 11.-Panama dates from
Lima of Nov. 2lst. state that the government
having failed to effect loan based upon the
guanO product, is almost bankrupt, and silver
and gold are at 10 per cent premium.
A CHASTITY Revelation.
The tearing down of wall of San Andreas
hospital in Lima has disclosed some five thous.
and skeletons of people who had been thrown
in there, probably during the Inquisition,
A Priest Properly Punished.
Padre Palacons, the priest who headed the
riots, murders, and other crimes at San Miguel,
in Salvador, has been condemned to death by a
military tribunal.
Pestilencesin Peru,
Small pox is spreading throughout Peru and
causes much uneasness in Lima.
The Panama Revolution Over.
PANAMA, Dec. 2.-The political tempest in
the United States of Colombia has in measure
ceased. President Persez at Bogota issued a
decree on the 18th ult., declaring the state of
siege to be suspended, and order established in
the federal republic
News has been received by way of Canca
that the President and legislature of that state
have interested themselves In behalf of Pana-
ma. Commissioners were sent out from Canca
to confer with the president of the Union, who
on being informed of the acts of Gen. Camasgo
at Panama as commander-in-chief in the army
Colombia, expressly said that his conduct was
disapproved and his views would not be carried
out
The people in Panama are glad to have the
state of siege abolished. though doubling very
much the good faith of President Persez. Gen,
of this state must be got for the government
candidate, Senior Pana, at all hazards.
The Cuban Press ON The Message.
HAVANA, Dec, 1.-The Vose de Cuba, COM
menting on that part of the Presidents mes
sage which relates to Cuba says: General
Grants language seems to have been chosen to
wound the susceptibility of the Spaniards. He
seems to like playing with fire. He does not
know the temperament of the Spaniards any
more than Napoleon did"
The Diario censures the tone of the message,
which was published while the negotiations
were pending between the United States and
Spain. 1t praises family the Presidents re-
fusal to acknowledge the Cuban insurgents as
belligerents, and says that the part of the mes
sage relating to Spain is studiously obscure.
Finally, the Diario, at the conclusion of two
columns and half of criticism, says: "We be-
lleve Gen. Grant has disguised the insurgents;
that he has wounded the Spanish pride in an
unfounded assertion. His entire message is
contrary to the spirit of the American people,
who emineHtly desire peace, and has satisfied
no one."
Good Effect of the Presidenfs Message in
London.
LONDON, Dec. 1.-THE message of President
Grant has been chiefly influential in determin-
ing the purposes CT the government concerning
the complications ia Cuba. 1t has outward ly
removed the existing suspicion that trouble
was impending 1t has also relieved American
bonds from pressure aud heaviness that was
felt by those who are engaged in their manipu.
lation. 1t may be added, however, that these
securities are still feverishy held because of
the suggestion of the President concerning the
school question, and the opening of new polti-
cal issues On the whole, the message has
been well received, especially that portion of it
which treats of the finances of the government.
and the possibility that at not distant day
the currency of the country will be redeemed
on basis that will correspond with that of
other specie paying countries.
Carlist War.
HENDAYE Dec. 11.-Gen. Moegaoveyo has
been appointed commander-in-chef of the
Carlst forces, in place of Gen. Perula. The
disseDsions among the CarlistS continue. The
report that Gen. SabaIls had been convicte by
Carlist court martial and sentenced to i'm
prisonment is denied.
Foreign Notes.
John Bell, the emf Lent Queens Counsel, is
dead.
An editorial in the Times expresses severe
Indignation at the people of Harwich. Their
hardness in going to the wrecked steamer it
says, is disgrace upon the English name The
British press ridicules the corOner's iavestiea-
tons, and asks for explanations why the Har-
wichers treated the drowning men to pyro-
technic display and then slept,-why they gave
the shipwrecked people rockets when they ask
ed for boats?
Thanksgiving was duly celebrated at Aspin-
wall by Americans.
A private letter from Guayaquil speaks of
the expulsion of JesuIts from the country by a
popular demonstration against them
Sir Houston Stewart, Vice Admiral of the
British navy, is dead.
Ministers Buffet apd De Meaux, who both
failed twice of an election in the Senate, have
withdrawn their names.
The London Post announces that M. CAFE
and other members and attaches of the mission
to Egypt have started for Alexandria.
Gen. Marones with $4,000 men will conduct
the operations against the Carlists in Guipuz-
Goa.
The Budget committee of the Reicbstag has
Fl finally rejected the new taxes proposed by the
government.