National Republican., 1883-11-05

Expeditions TO wipe Cut the Last vcstigO
OF the old Govcrnment-Probnbl Terms
| OF Peace.
Specini letter.
CALLAo PERU, Oct 1O-Early on tho
morning of the third instant several trains of
cars came down from Lima filled with sol
| diers, cannon, and horses. As soon rs they ar
rived in Callao the bands began to play, and,
! forming into line, they all marched down to
| the mole, where the transports Lii and Anna
| zonos were waiting for them. They began
moving at daybreaK, and by noon several
| thousand men with their arms were safely
embarked tho cmbarkatou having been per-
sonaly supcrintended by Vice Admiral Lynch,
! Senior Aldunate, minister Of foreign affairs of
! Chill, and Senior Navoa, AS soon as loaded
! the transports stood out into the bay and an
! chorcd and how did long for some one with
power who should forbid them TO move unless
they went straight to Chilli for they vert
| bound for Arequipa to crush out the last pre-
| tense of a Peruvian government and make
the whole country seemingly solid for
lgesias. They sailed in the afternoon.
! Arequipa is quite q large city, situated on
the railway about midway between the sea-
port of Mollicndo and Lake Titicaca. Lizardo
! Montero tho last elected vice president of
| Peru is there, and few members of the last
elected congress, and they refuse to accept
Iglcsias. Gen. Caceres, with n handful of
mountaineers is also there, but his men are
| i'll armed and undiscplined, and cannot, of
course, mako moro than tho slightest show of
resistance against the Chilians, whom, have
! heard some parties aver, are 5000 strong alto
gether. Ycy slight resistance will insure
the destruction of the city, all appr0acha-
| Bile towns, and the scattering of the people
who survive. 1t seems as IL this handful of
dscontents might be ignored, for Igesias
does not seem anxious to take command here,
although some say that his party is gaining
strength every day and that as soon as peace
is declared he will resign and order an
election; yet his apparent reluctance to leave
his native province of Cajamarca, and the
varying accounts as to his whereabouts, lead
ono to lend credence to the tales of those who
say that they have seen his army, and that it
consists Of about 500 bootless and hatless men,
who are armed with ramrods, and desert
as fast as they enlist. On the fourth of
this month the civil government of the
city of Lima was handed over to tho Peru
vians, but the Chilians have not yet with
drawn to Chorillos, q town about nine miles
south of Lima, and they were re-enforced by
fresh troops brought here on the transport
Chill the same day that tho others left.
Senor Osma has been named prefect of Lima
and Senor Torrico of Alcaldc. They have ad-
vertised for 600 policemen, who must all be
native Peruvians. They have secured sew
eral hundred, yet to show the reliance that is
placed upon them, the Alcalde wishes the
Guardia Urbana to promise to turn out when
| he calls them.
| The Guardia Urbana is formed of between
| 5000 and 1000 foreigners mostly merchants,
who formed themselves into u guard to pro-
tect their property in the city. They were
armed with rifles, but Pierola took them for
his troops, 80 they only had their private
arms, when, after the battle of Mirafores, the
defeated and desperate Peruvian soldiers
| pouring into Lima began looting the shops
| The Guardia turned out to find that the
} Italians who are largely in the majority, had
no private arms, so tho Americans, French, and
! English had to fight until enough soldiers
were killed to arm their Italian friends. For
eighteen hours they wcre under arms, fight
ing every now and then. Finally the Chill
ians came in, and the Peruvians left, and
peace has reigncd over since. Trade has been
almost killed by the import duties, which are
so per cent ad valorem, tho value estimated
by the Chilians according to fancy. l was
told the other day by an English merchant
that an amount of rice which cost him $2.40,
delivered on the wharf at Calao, cost him
$500 delivered at his store in Lima.
The twentieth seems about the day fixed
upon for Iglesias to come, and all the Limani-
ans and foreigners | have heard talk predict
his speedy dcmisesyet doubt if the Peruvi-
ans have the spunk to kill him until the
Chilians arc safe home again. hear that the
final terms of peace are to be the cesson of
the province Of Tarapaca, where tho nitrate
is, and the guano islands to Chilli Chilli
valves money indemnity, and agrees to as
sumo the debt of Peru, she having made ar
rangemonts to settle with part of the bond
holders at so cents on the dollar. She will
allow the owners of tho nitrate beds to retain
possession of them, as they are private prop
erty, and will satisfy herself with possession
of the territory and collecting the export
duties The Pcruvians are to keep their
army down to about 5000 men and their
navy down to two gunboats and q few trans
ports. MARGUERITE DIcKINs.