Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-29
SAD COMMERCIAL STRESS.

Merchants iS Chilli Loaded Up with Goods
That Are Going to Waste.
New YORK, Oct. ga letter from
Iquique, dated Sept. IS, says:
"Reports received here from the south
state large number of executions have
occurred in Santiago and Valparaiso in
the last few weeks. The victims were
parties who had been particularly active
in their opposition to the revolutionists
but none OF them were persons of any
special prominence. Vicuna, who was
elected president in the southern dis
tricts two months ago, and who was re-
garded as the representative of Balma-
ceda, is now in Callao. Commercial
affairs in Iquique and in all other ports
in the northern part of Chill are in Pc
culiar condition at the present timo
During the revolution the ports in the
south of Chill were closed against those
in the north, and no produce OF
any kind was received here from
the south. Consequently large car
goes, principally of flour and hay, We're
imported hvre from San Francisco and
other foreign ports. More of these arti-
cles were received here than could be
consumed at the time, and merchants
i'll Iquique, Antofogasta and other
northern ports now have large stocks on
hand which they are unable to dispose
of. In the last few weeks home produces
have been coming in from the southern
ports and have found ready sale,
owing to their cheapness, and the mer-
chants here will doubtless suffer heavy
losses on their imported stocks. Ameri-
can flour, which was imported at great
expense, sold few months ago for over
$50 per sack, and now it cannot be sold
here for SIS. American hay which was
imported here at an expense of $40 a ton
is now replaced by Chilian hay which
sells at from SO to $S ton. There are
some cargoes still on the way from for
eign countries, and some merchants here
have been forced to cable the consigners,
asking upon what terms they will take
back the goods now III stock here.
"Advices concerning the murder Of
Mr. Manuel Maria Aldunale and his
companion, Canpolicano Villota, have
been confirmed. The were taken pris-
oners on the 9th of this month by an
officer and three soldiers, and while on
their way to Quillota they met a bald
of Balmaceda's dispersed soldiers, who
are still marauding in that vicinity,
and who commenced blaming Aldunale
for the defeat. Several political prison
ers tried to escape by the Palmilla, but
they were overtaken and murdered
by their accusers. The next morn
ing their bodies were found stark
naked.
"The different political parties that
initiated the revolution are making II
draft Of the program that is to be OBJ
served by the new administration,
and that they will all sign compromis-
ing themselves to respect 1t no mat
ter who gains the presidential cleo
ton. This program does not pre-
tend to provide new system of
administration, it merely establishes the
general principles that, based on liberty,
are to be observed by the new political
organization, and these principles are:
the right of suffrage, the punishment Of
any government official who should in
terfere in the elections, absolute indie
pendence of the three chief authorities
of the nation, the submission of the res
olution of the chambers, the RESPONSE
bility of the presidents and their minis
ters, the reduction of the ordinary ex-
penses, the conversion of the national pa
per currency into metallic currency, the
reduction of the army, the augmentation
of the fleet, the suppression of unneces-
sary employments, the steady develop
ment of railroads, amicable relations
with all other nations, the limitation Of
the diplomatic service, and the estab-
lishment of commercial treaties with
different nations"