Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-03

and falr hearing before the proper civil
authorities when order is fully restored.
WILL WAIT FOR THE JuNTA.
saw Senior Mont and General Canto
IN company with United States Consul
McCreery this afternoon. Mont and
Canto say that there will be no election,
nor will any measures be taken relative
to the formation of new government
until the arrival here from Iquique of
all the members of the Junta.
Senior Montt received word to-day
that they had started for Valparaiso,
and some definite action in the line of
reorganization may be taken in a few
days.
PRESIDENTIAL Possibilities.
There is good deal of talk here as
to who will be elected president under
the new order of things. In addition to
Seniors Bellisario Prato and Manual
Jose Irarrazaval, whom have already
mentioned, the list of available candi-
dates has been swelled by the addition
of the names of Seniors Echauren, Ezra
zuriz and Carlos Walker Martinez.
General Baquedano, who is strong
with both parties, is also frequently
mentioned as man who may get the
prize. 1t is hardly probable, however,
that an election will be held for some
time, and in the meantime tho Junta
will be In control.
ONLY ONE HARD FIGHT.
In all the campaign from the landing
OF the Congressional forces at Quintero
Bay on August goth, until the capture
of Valparaiso on August 2Sth, there was
only one battle worthy of the name, and
that was at Curcon, when the Congress
sionalists forced the passage of the
Aconcagua River. At Vina del Mar
the fighting was more in the nature Of
heavy diminishing, while that on the
Valparaiso Heights on Friday was prac-
tically walk-over for the insurgents.
The ambulance service here has been
simply disgraceful. Hundreds of
wounded men were left on the battle
field to die who might have been saved
If prompt measures of relief had been
taken.
The surgeons of the foreign war ships
have done most valuable service in car
ing for the wounded, and had il not
been for their hard, effective work, the
suiferings of the wounded soldiers would
have been much greater
Especial credit is due to the medical
statfs Of the United States ships San
Francisco and Baltimore.
AFTER THAT SILVER.
1t has been ascertained that 100000
pesos in silver was shipped on the British
sloop of war Espiegle. 1t was sent by
rail from Santiago to Talcahuano and
was taken aboard the Espiegle at that
| port.
The senior British naval officer here is
making every effort to communicate
with the captain Of the Espiegle, with a
view to OBTAINING the bullion ifpossible.
| II is supposed that Balmaceda in
tended to use this money TO make pay
ments on account of the new cruisers
Presidente Errazuriz and Presidente
| Pinto.
VALPARAISO, Aug. 31.-The city Is
quiet The merciless slaughter of rioters
| and incendianes has effectually sup
| pressed all disturbances.
Although the Congressionalist forces
are weakened by the departure of the
troops sent to Santiago to restore order
there, and under Colonel Canto TO take
formal possession of the capital, the cti-
| zen's guard and the American, British,
| German and French marines remain on
duty, and there is little likelihood that
the peace of Valparaiso will be again
| broken.
No foreigners were hurt or killed in
the riots.
The Congressionalists are determined
TO repress all reasonable utterances by
word and in writing. They have made
an example of Leon LAWN, the editor of
the Balmacedan newspaper, the journal
40 Concerto. He was shot yesterday for
issuing seditious pamphlets, and his fate
will be that of any partisans Of the lost
cause who seek to inhame the popular
mind against the victors.
| II is feared that many of the wounded
of both armies at the battle of Curcon
have not received surgical aid. If il had
| not been for the noble exertions of the
volunteer foreign ambulance corps and
| of the surgeons of the American and
European warships many more would
have been left TO perish miserably.
| The Congressional officers state that
the wounded were attended to with i'm
Partially and that all of them, I}alma-
cedists and Congressionalists, were car
ried TO Placilla md placed on board of
the ambulance steamers. The foreign
volunteer ambulance corps and the for
eign naval surgeons have endeared
themselves to the people by their heroic
labors on the battlefield
The whereabouts of Balmaceda is
still unknown. The large, swift cruiser
| Esmeralda and the Aconcagua have
| gone out TO try to intercept the Balma-
cedan torpedo gunboat Almirante Con
dell and the Balmacedan transport Im-
periale.
1t is supposed that Balmaceda's in
tention is to meet the Imperiale at Tai
cuhuano, and that he and Capt. Morago
of the Codell, will escape on the I'M
periale to Monteyideo.
The lmperiale, which is n converted
merchant steamer, would have no chance
with the Esmeralda. She is not in fight
ing trim, and is too slow to show a clean
pair Of heels to the cruise should she
attempt flight. 1t is possible that the
Condell may, if overtnken, attempt re-
sistance.
The explanation of the riots at san
tiago Is that when Balmaceda delivered
the capital to Baquedano, who was
charged with handing il over to tho
Gongrcssionalists, there We're not sui.
tlclent troops in it to maintain order.
The populace, enraged by the severity
of Balmaceda's rule, under which they
had chafcd, abused the liberty which
came 10 them with the change Of power
The mob let loose all its pent-up fury
1t would have gone hard with Balma.
ceda if he had fallen into the hands OF
the rioters. Ills house was burned and
sacked as also were the houses of his
partisans, and the railroad station was
wrecked.