The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-29
SMUGGLED A CREW.
The Chilean War-Ship Preparing
to Sail.
Spanish and Portuguese Sailors Taken
Aboard the ErraZuriz at LiSbon.
Charges Of Cruelty Made Against BalmaGeda.
Dungeons Filled With Citizens.
New President Approved.
EIeciai TO THE MORNING Calf

LISBON, July 2S.-The Chilean cruiser
Errazuriz will sail tomorrow for the Cana
ries. Her captain will not engage crew to
go beyond Buenos Ayres.
LONDON, July 2S.-The Times Lisbon
correspondent says the Spanish Consul
here has been informed that there are
Spaniards imprisoned on board the cruiser
Errazuriz. 1t is also known that several
Portuguese were smuggled aboard the
cruiser during the night. 1t is believed the
Government will order the cruiser to be
searched before she departs.
A dispatch received here from San
tiago. Chile. dated Saturday last, says:
Claudio Vicuna has been elected
President of Chile. He will assume the
duties of his Office on the 18th of next
September The election is regarded as a
pledge that honor, energy and patriotism
will mark the future conduct of the Govern
ment. The Government has $4,000 troops
between here and Valparaiso and Concep-
cion. 1t can effect junction between its
troops in a single day and give battle to the
rebels. Numbers of deserters are arriving
here. They say the rebels are enlistng
men by force"
NEW YORK, July 2S-The confidential
agent of the insurgents at Panama makes
public the following bulletin received from
the Minister Of Foreign Affairs for the Con-
gresSional party, dated IquiQue, July Sd:
The ship Maipo has foundered, having
aboard complete equipments for infantry.
cavalry and artillery for %, 900 men.
Copies Of Ell Nacional. published at Lima,
Peru, contains an interview with Senior ia
vier Vial Solar, Envoy of the Chilean Con-
stitutional Government to Peru, in which
charges OF the grossest cruelty are made
against Balmaceda. The dungeons of San
tiago, Valparaiso, Talca, Conception and
many other cities, he said, are filed with
most worthy and respectable citizens In
these Jalls the torture is daily applied to
youths and old men to force them to avowals
which would compromise their friends.
The lash, the gallowS. the. fusilade and
other most cruel eXpedientS of the eXecu-
TONER are daily spectacleS in these somber
abodes. The distinguished senOritas. Emilia
Carrera Pinto and Isabel Dayila Larrain,
were thrown into vile Jail for the crime of
being seen in the streets reading small op-
position journal.
Great establishments, costing their pro-
prietors millions of dollars-for instance.
those at the coal mines at Leba of Senior Err
raZurZ-have been raZed to the ground by
Balmaceda. Works of public necessity
like the wharf of the Pichilemuz port, be-
longing to Senor OrtiZar, have been ruth
lessly destroyed. But the destruction and
iucendiarism are nothing compared with the
means employed upon the banks and credit
Institutions, causing the ruin not only of the
rich and powerful, but the middle class and
tue poorer people.
A letter from Santiago, published in Ell
Herald at La Paz, Bolivia, says: The spies
and minions Of Balmaceda not only violate
the homes, but also the converts and the
monasteries. The homes they rob and pill.
lage under preteXt of looking for revolution
lists. Fields are deserted because the un-
fortunate feld-hands have fed to the noun
talns 10 escape enforced enlistment in the
ranks of Balmaceda's army. Executions
and tiogslngs are almost of daily occurrence
VALPARAISO, July 2S.-That a decisive
land acilon Is pending near Coquimbo is
Confirmed from all sources of information
The insurgents are most anxious to secure
Coquimbo, as il is one of the finest harbors
in all Chile. 1t is reported here that the
lnsnrgent army has recently been supplied
with arms and ammunition, and it Is be-
ieved that some have been smuggled out
from San Francisco, Peru, Bolivia and
Europe.