The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-02-14
SOUTH AMERICA.
Commissioners PRESCOTT Delivers
His Credentials.
PEACE CONCLUDED BETWEEN CHILLI
AND BOLIVIA.
Bloody Riet at Chincha.

PANAMA. Feb ia Lima letter of Jan.
18th to the Panama Herald states that Mr.
Prescott delivered his credentials to the Presi-
dent of Chill on the 14th. In his address Mr..
Prescott said:
The Government of Chill will not fail to APP
preciate the natural and deep interest which
the United States feels for rapid and honora-
BILE termination of the war between the sister
republics on the Pacific and trust your ex-
cellency will feel convinced that no eHort
which the Government of the United States
desires to employ to bring about this happy re-
suit will involve the intention of suggesting
any condition which might compromise the
honor, endanger the true interests or wound
the susceptibilities of either of the belliger-
ents. venture to hope that when l am ena-
bled to explain to your Excellency the ideas OF
the President you will find only an ardent de-
sire that the time should arrive when the pow
ers which are at present at war shall resume
that pacific and prosperous progress which,
whilst strengthening them individually.
strengthens all for the preservation of that
system of strong, free and independent repub-
lies which, based on tradition, OF the past, is
the glory of the present and the guarantee OF
future of both Americas.
The President answered:
receive with satisfaction the credentials
you place in my hands, accrediting you as En-
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of the United States. You may be GER
tain of receiving from the Government of Chill
IGNITION of the loyalty of the intentions and
sentiments which inspire you personally and in
obedience to your instructions. i am fully
convinced that no alteration will ever take
place in those friendly relations with the Unit
ed States which have been cultivated by both
nations with that constant attention which is
the duty of honorable governments. esteem
as special proof of the sympathy OF the Gov
eminent of the United States the patural in
terest it evinces for the termination OF the war
which was not provoked by Chill, but which
has been brought to happy termination by
means of vigorous efforts. am happy to hear
that any effort made for that purpose by the
United States will never involve the intention
of suggesting any solution which might COM
promise or wound the interests, the honor or
susceptibilities of the belligerents
Mr.. Prescott was somewhat unwell on first
arriving in Chilli, but he recovered in few
MIR. Walker Blaine paid a visit of coincidence
to Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
A riot at Chincha, Peru, in which foreign
residents combined to protect their lives and
property from plundering Bolivians resulted in
the killing of some fifty or sixty foreigners and
the destruction of SIS, 900, 900 worth of proper
ty CHILEAN troops are to be sent there and the
Italian gunboat has. gone there.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-Lima dates of Janu
airy 25th state that representatives OF Chill anc
Bolivia have arrived at peace conclusions
the war at an end, and an indefinite truce il
proclaimed which can only be broken by either
of the contracting parties giving one years no
tice of such intention. Bolivia agrees to re
spect the Gillian right to occupy all territories
now in its hands which formerly belonged t.
Peru or Bolivia, and in return for this conces
sion Chilli undertakes to permit the transpor
tation of goods throughAriea at moderate rates
of import or export duty. Bolivia has now be
come an inland country, since she possesses NJ
seaboard