National Republican., 1883-12-26
AvoLcANrc NATION.
Terrible Condition of Affairs In War
RIven south American Country.
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CALLAo., PERU, Nov. 25.-Everything is
upset here while seemingly all is quiet and
the wheels Of government running smoothly
On the seventh instant about 300 Of Iglesiass
uniforms-I cannot call such forlorn looking
men soldiers-were suddenly sent to the
northward. Diligent inquiry ELECTED the
fact that they were bound for Cajamarca,
which is the city from which Gen. Miguel
Iglesias comes. 1t appears that a band Of
about forty mountaineers invaded that city,
and made short work Of some 300 mon that
Iglesas had there-these latter running
away. As soon as the mountaineers had the
city in their hands they declared for
Montero, and the Arequipa government, not
der of Arequipa to the Chilians. Tho 300
men who left here. on the seventh expected
TO have no difficulty In persuading the noun
taineers to declare for Iglesias as soon ~ they
should have explained to thom that tho Are
quipa government was no more but they
seem to have had some trouble, for loo more
men left her on the steamer of the fourteenth,
also bound for Cajamarca, and a rumor comes
that the 300 that left on the seventh had
Joined the mountaineers.
Meanwhile the officer in command Of the
original guard of the city, which ran away,
succeeded in getting to Il. "a, and went to
headquarters to report his defeat; he was i'm
mediatey arrested, tried by court martial,
and sentenced to bo shot, but is still alive, in
prison.
The Chilian troops, eucamped at Chorrillos.
are getting very tired Of IT, not even the Off
GERS being allowed TO go TO Lima, although 1t
was expected that they would be permitted
to do SO in plain clothes. One of the lieuten-
ant colonels tried it, and Admiral Lynch,
finding it out, broke him, giving him in
addition, twenty-one days confinement.
Three soldiers left the camp one day and
only two returned the other one was found
murdered. The next morning his two COM
panions were ordered shot by Lynch. That
same day soldier lassooed Peruvian, and,
riding off with him attached to his saddle,
soon killed him. Lynch heard of it and had
him shot. The soldiers growled and muir
INJURED, and said they wanted to go back
to Lima to sack 1t. The chief GROWERS
were selected and shot. In short,
all things considered it is getting rather
uncomfortable at Chorrillos aud even q man
like Lynch, who metes out justice with the
rapidity of lightning and maintains discip-
line. where he is responsible for 1t, at any
coss, would probably have found his hands
full with 1000 discontented troops, but, for
tunately, war clouds are thickening in the
SOUTH SO Lynch has gone there, having left
on the eighteenth instant in the transport
Amazonas, and, soon, it is said, all the troops
here are to follow him.
Gradually some more Of the contents OF
the peace document signed by Novoa, Savalle,
and Zaldivar are leaking out, II being now
asserted that the following is included in it:
Chill has always been bent upon getting
Tacua and africa, but the last known terms
she proposed were, that she should take these
cities for ten years. after which vote should
be taken in them as to which country they
should belong to, the losing country to receive
from the other 100000 Now, Chilli said
to Sglesas, your country is bankrupt. If in
ten years from now these cities decide to be-
long to you, you will not be able to pay us the
money. These cities ore conceded to be worth
$4,000, 900. Very well, we will take them
now, keep them forever, and pay you the
$10,000,00; that is to say, you owe our citi-
zens indemnity for the injury their property
in your territory has sustained during the
war. We will call that $5,OOO,OOO We must
keep our army in your country about ten
months longer. For their maintenance we
will charge you 100000 q month. Add
that to the five for indemnity and you have
eight, so we still owe you for Tscna and
africa s., 100000, which we will pay you when
the peace is ratified. Does not that speak
we'll for Chilisn fnanciering?
Now for the south. Arequipa fell, and the
Chilian troops were pushed forward at once
to Puno, where the railroad ends and Lake
Titicaca begins. The next step for Chilli, Of
course, was to push forward to La Paz, obtain
possession of it, and dictate terms of peace to
Bolivia, as she had to Peru. This whole wal
being originally between Bolivia and Chill
although Bolivia has done 80 little, having
thrust all the burden onto her ally, Peru
There was some trouble about getting troops
across the lake, and the Bolivians, making
the most of the delay, offered to
treat for peace at Puno. The Chi
lians accepted, and the delegates met
Now news comes that Bolivia refuses to ac-
cept the terms offered by Chill, as she thereby
loses all her sea coast, and she has decided to
fight and has asked the Argentine confedera-
tion to help her, which every one knows they
would like only too we'll to do, for they want
to gobble her, and so does Chilli, and so does
Brazil, and she wants to belong to Peru. You
can fancy the possible complications. Left Ia
themselves the Bolivians would undoubtedly
stand no show at all. But the Argentines can
tght-they have arms and guns and they re-
gard Chilli as an old enemy.
On the nineteenth lglesias's cabinet began
to resign on account, it seems. of minister
of the interior being appointed who was
PieIolaist. Zaldivar has been recalled, and
given tho portfolio of minister of foreign af.
Jairs; Osman, minister of war, has been in.
duced TO remain, and the other places have
been filled by rich nobodies, for politicians
just now are chary OF openly joining him
fearing he may not be elected by the March
congress, and preferring to keep clear to join
the cV;ning In, rather than the going out man
iglesiah, of course, is weakened by the tur-
bulenee OF the Chilians at Chorrillos, the
people of Lima beginning to feel unsafe, fear
ipg an attempt to sack the city. On the nine
teenth the Chiians got into fight among
themselves, in which eventually l,5O0 of the
garrison Joined. Three men were killed and
seven badly wounded, among the latter Jwo
officers, one a colonel. The cause of the
trouble is kept quiet, but the Limaneans feal
1t had something to do with their city, and
are anxious to see the troops move away.
MARGUERITE DICKINs.