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to perform the last merciful services
without ceremony or any following other
than yourself. May you and your wife
and children be ever happy. Yours,
J. M. BALMACEDA."
Attached to the letter there was
another brief postscript, calling attention
to the fact that other letters would be
found addressed to his wife and mother,
and requesting that they be delivered.
The letters simply contain the unfortu-
nate mans farewell.
Minister Egan assures your the n. I.
Herald'sl correspondent that in neither
letter is there the least reference to the
motives that drove Balmaceda to suicide.
LONDON, September 22.-The English
Government has officially recognized the
provisional government Of Chile.
The whole letter is manly and moder-
ate in tone, with no reproach or incrim-
nation levelled at personal enemies. It
is the letter of brave man overwhelmed
by the arbitration of war.
THE CASE OF THE TTATA.
Los ANGELES, September 22.-United
States Attorney Cole, acting under in
structions from Washington, to-day dis
missed the second libel against the ltata.
Mr.. Cole states that the action taken by
him was in entire accord with the Gov
ernment's handling of the case. The
District Attorney has right to institute
proceedings for violation of the laws of
| the United States, especially in cases OF
emergency, subject to the control of the
Law Department at Washington.
WAR PREPARATIONS IN EUROPE.
PARIS. September 22.-The Steele pub
fishes dispatch from its correspondent
in Baden, giving the substance of a
speech said to have been made by the
Grand Duke at the close of the recent
maneuvers of the Southwest Army.
According to the dispatch he said in part
owe must meet the future with energy
and resolution.
"The time is near when Germany
must again unsheath her sword in de-
tense of her independence against an
enemy who has not learned prudence by
bloody defeat. It will be the duty of the
valiant corps of Baden to support the
first onset, to fire the first shot and carry
the palm of victory" He referred to the
"culpable proceedings of our neighbors,
who are only awaiting propitious &C.
casion to again open an era OF bloody
1
LONDON, September 22-The Stan
dard's correspondent at Sebastopol says
A party of officers has been sent from ST.
Petersburg to survey the Crimea and pre-
pare Typographical plans for the War
Department. This fact is much COM
mented upon in military circles.
THE CHARLESTON AT YOKOHAMA.
WASHINGTON, September pa cable
gram received at the Navy Department
from Admiral Belknap to-day announces
the arrival of the Charleston at Yoke
hama, Japan, yesterday.
SHANGHAI, September 22.-The situa-
ton here is much worse. Disorders are
increasing at Ichang, and this is the pre-.
lude to other disorders. The Valley Of
the Yang-tse-Kiang is in rebellion. WI
chang, the central seat of the Viceroy, is
ready to revolt, and Hankow and Chan.
king are likely to follow. The latter
town is difficult to defend by war-ships,
owing to the shallowness of the river
Great excitement prevails. Strangers
are fleeing from Shanghai, which is
among the threatened towns, but mea-
sures of defense are being taken. Three
ships of war are at Wuchang, and fleets
are concentrating at Shanghai. Minister
Lemaire, of France, has left here fol
| Pekin.