Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-15
SOUTH AMERICA.

a War of Extermfnatio Chilli
 ans and Peruvians Strengthening Each
 Other.
 LIMA, Peru, July 26.-The Peruvian forces in the interior have continued active opera tions against the Chilian troops. While 8 small body of Peruvians operated against the lines of communication between Lima and the garrisons in the hill country, large detach-
 msnts have directly assailed the garrisons. A company of the Santiago regiment holding the little town of Marcaboys were attacked
 by three hundred Peruvians aided by large
 force of Indians who were only repulsed by
 the opportune arrival of endorsements from
 Huancayo. The Chilians lost nineteen killed
 out of sixty. The Peruvian loss was much
 heavier. On the 9th inst. the Chilian garri-
 son of Conception, numbering seventy seven
 men, were attacked by Peruvian force four
 times their number and after desperate
 fight of twenty hours were compelled to
 make sortie from the barracks which had been set on fire by shells and were almost annihilated by their assailants, but two escap- ing. The loss of Peruvians and Indian allies was severe. When the Chilian division under Colonel Carto arrived the bodies of the brave defenders were found heaped up in the plaza In retaliation for assistance rendered to the Persvians by the townspeople Colonel Carto set fire to the place and Conception is now c heap of ruins. The Chilians refuse to regard the enemy regularly organized troops and shoot all who fall prisoners as bandits and murderers. The Peruvians retaliated and the conflict bids fair to become a war of ex- termination. Nothing further is heard re- garding foreign intervention. The United States steamers Alaska and Lackawanna and | the storeship Onward are at this date in Callao Bay.
 Advicss from Ecuador state that skirmish l had taken place between the revolutionary forces headed by Elfoy Alfaro and the gov ernmsnt troops defending Esmeraldas, | resulting in the defeat of the latter with some | loss. Had Alfaro followed up the advantage he gained he would have occupied the | town which is the center of Vientmelas power in the north. A number of the dicta | tors troops said to be deserting and have evinced desire to join the revolutionists. ! Numbers of the political suspects are being 1 incarcerated all over the republic and scarcely I a steamer reaches Guayaquil from up the ! river which does not bring half a dozen or more to add to the numbers who already ! crowd the jails in Guayaquil Numbers are being executed, Recently forty one persons 1 sought refuge in the French consulate in GuayaquiI and owing to the energetic de-
 fense of MT. Weiner of the rights of his con- su1ate General Veintmela did not attempt to
 arrest them, but allowed them to leave the country.
 ! PANAMA, Aug. 6.-Several Chilian papers l advocate the withdrawal of their forces from
 the north of Peru and their concentration in Africa, Tacna and Tarapaca. The plan pos sesses many advantages, but the loss of GUS tom house receipts would be severely felt l while the money would enter the Peruvian treasury. The war is becoming one of exter.
 imitation and it is not to the interest of Chilj
 to engage in conflict of this nature. It is 1 probable that greater number of Chilian l garrisons will soon be withdrawn.
 I Durinp the month ep1ipo ,Tuna 3O 223 300 pounds of nitrate were shipped from Tat
 tai and Port Olivar. The shipments from
 the two ports during the six months ending
 June 30 amounted to A ,404, POO pounds. l Valuable gold fields have been discovered
 in the province of Lobu, Chili.