The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1864, Page 1

TA NE _ : } Wid W YORK H ; WHOLE’ NO. 9984. ; IMPORTANT. FROM THE PACIFIC. few m0" sents all over head was ® mass of Games. In the Tent of air Yes always circulates between ‘the upper | the only thing they Woarding ‘ad the roof, rolied through the oburch. Ing | the.sceme, = - ‘CAD’ tw the men bad succeeded in escaping; for in thie, | | “ABRIVAL OF THE STBAMSHIP ABIBL. Terrible Catastrophe in Santiago, the, Capital of Chile. : and Fifly’Wagon Loads of Unrecognized. Corpses. Letter of Condolence from the ‘United States Minister. THE PEELING “AGAINST ‘THE CLERGY, Ghe: “Fost Office of the Virgin” Condemned as a Deception. The Ruine of the Church te be Demolished, Wows fem Peru, Beuador and the United "lates of Colombia, &., ae | fel Eebebee Els | ‘By Whe arrival of the Arie! we have aie news from the ‘Went Coast, and the details of. ome of the most ( @atidapte it bas aver been our duty to (06 fatal fro in Chile. ‘Pall particulars will be found in the letter of our Pana. H Paname correspondent, writing on the 5tb of Janu ary eye ‘Im tbe market for Chilean produee, the transactions pan, naw nays two weeks have been vory limited, aud wih or three exceptions the bave a @ownward’ tendency. Woo! being in steady demand, Brion ave remained up, and coppers retain their prico THE TERRIBLE FIRE IN SANTIAGO. Our Panama Correspondence. Panama, Jan. 5, 1864. ‘The Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Cal- 4eo, Captain King, from Valparaiso and intermediate ports, @xrived m thie barbor at dark. Her dates are Valparaiso, Mtb; Coquimdo, 19th; Caldera, 20th; Coboja, 224; Iqui- 904; Anca, 234; Islay, 24th; Pisco, 26th; Chinchas, ; Callao, 29th of December, and Payta, 1st of Janu- Alese po time tn giving the Henarn’s readers the full enpvent, being indebted to the purser of the for Ge prompt <elivery of the late papers containing the ‘Tne Frightfal Catastrophe. OF THE CHURCH OF . THE JESUITS, wire YHOUSAXD WOMEN ANE CHILDREN. “‘Overvf the most horrible calamities that has ever falten ‘agin any people ecourred in the city of Santiago, the @apital of the republic of Chile, on the night of the 8th of ‘Desomber last. Bap ‘The Church ef the Jesuits, in which was being cele- (brased the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, was de- Gtroyed by fire, and with 1} wore burned and suffocated ener two thous and children. (One can hurdiy ize the terrible catastrophe that hes fallen vpon the peoplect Chile, Whole families baye been im an instant, as it were, and there is hardly a ‘that bes not been thrown into the ‘Gepids of woe, The battle field has its horrors; but they Gre thé incidents of war. Ta this case it bas been women have been festroyed, and none were * qnd obildren perish in the fames and not be adie to reu- Ger them aiaistance. Igive you the full account from dei Vapir of tho 17th ultimo, which has all ‘tag the entastrophe, all of which are of deep interest f thove awfal visitations which from time to : » the last of the feativi- fies of the month of Mary, the most popu’ar and frequent- e4 of al} our solemnitics, thousunds of fair devotees ‘Whronged to the last performance, which was to eclipse Qi) that bed preceded, Atsixin the evening the spe lous steps and part of the open place before the church fi.me and suoceoded in smothering it, but by @ rebound tHe gne, compressed by the effort, buret Oct With redoubled vigor atthe other extromify of the fale bai{-moon. Iminediately a force fame rushed up. Perrone who thronged the chancel flew towards tho @reristy crying ‘wat filled tho nave, arwee ‘ for Boip. Tho fire aproad wii wenderfal rapidity to the reredor 2 WOCd and hangings, abd thApCe, Bttracted by tbe car. » Water,’ whilat the women, who tamuitnons confarion soreaming chu sen tne sexes were separated by an iron grating, and Bsa women had fied as far a8 the middie of the charch ‘We ptate of the most terrible confusion. Bat the head- the bell- the free air only towards the open space in front aad the imal court of the west side of the church, That obstacle was the barrier of death, And now what appeared most horrible was that, seeing the salvation of lives within reach of our arms, it was impossible to asyve even one of the victime piled Hardly bad the nobie. men who devoted themecives to save lives at the peril of. own, seized by the arms oF the clothes = prostrate. form than the other women, wad wish terror, from thé nearness of the fre, clutched We victim about tobe saved, and im some cases dragged those who came to:belp hess into that fery vortex. 34 was almost impoesible to extricate even one from | that heap of despairing wretches and undo tbat ghastly and the passage into the. doomed ecburch was not cloared:- until that impenetrable phalanx of _ precious, Deautiful life was a handful of cinders. At midnight the smoking rains of the fata) temple, 20 econ a silent charne! house, was visited, and by the Jight | of @ lantern every slip showed to the appalled gaze fear- fal groups of carbonized corpses, that preserved still the supplicating or despairing attitude of tbeir frightful mar- tyrdom. Ta avother eccount from the same paper ts found more of the sickening cetaileand fuller particulars. 1 give it entire:— A dreadful visitation bes fallen upon us, Truly this 6 a'@ayof trouble and rebuke for bias.’ phemy. The voice of lamentation is heard all over the Janid; the bitter weeping of fathers, busbands, brothers: and lovers, for those who wore the joy and brightness of ‘their life, that refuses to be comforted because they are not. Hundreds of young girls, only yesterday radiant end Deautitul in the luxuriant bloom of the fresh, hopeful spring of life, are to-day calcined, hideous corpses, hor- Fible, loatheome to the sight, impossible to be recognized. ‘The 8th of December was a great triamph for the clergy of the’ Church of the Jesuits in Santiago. An enthusiastic eudience filled every nook. There were hardly any men there; but thrce thousamd women, comprising the flower of the beauty ond fashion of the capital, were at the fect of the ecclesiastics, very many against the wil! of fathers an@ husbands ; but that, of course, only showed forth tbe power.and migbt of the Gospel. Never had such pyro- techny been seen’ before; twenty thousand jights, mostly Camphene, in long festoons of colored globes, blazed the church into a hal of fire. But the performance bad not yet begun when thecrescent of fire at the foot of the Wigantic image of toe Virgin over the bigh altar over- flowed, and, cl:mbing up the muslin draperies and pasip. Doard devices to the wooden roof, rolled a torrent of fame. . The suddenness of the fire was awful. The dense mass of women, (righteped out of their senses, numbers faint. ing, ap4 all entangled by their long swelling dresses, Tushed, as those who kuew that death was at their heels, {othe onedoor, which soon became choked’ up, Fire ‘waseverywhere, ftreaming along the wooden ceiling, it flung the camphene lamps, hung in rows there,.among the straggling women. Ip @ moment the gorgeous church was a Bea of flame. Michae) Angelo’s fearfu) picture of hell was there, bet ex- ceeded, Help was all but impossible; a Hercules might bave strated his strength in vain to pull one from the serried mass of frenzied wretches, who, piled one above another, as they climbe. over to reach the air, wildly fastened the grip of death upon eny one escaping, in order that they might ba,@ragged out with them. Those who longed to save them were doomed to bear the most ‘harrowing sight that ever seared human ¢yoballe—to seo mothers, sisters, tender and timid women, dying that dreadful death, that appalled the ‘stoutest-beart of man, within One yard of salvation, within one yard of men who would have given their lives over and over again for them, It was.maddening—the screaming and wringing of bands fer help as the remorseless flames came on, and then, while some already dead with fright were burned in ghast!y indifference, others io their horrible agony—some in prayer—were tearing their hair and battering their faces. Women, seized in the embraces of the flames, wre seen to undsrgo a transformation as though by an optical delusion:,. first daxzingly bright, then horribly lean and shrunk up, Cen black statues, rigidly fared ina writhing itude. The fire, imprisoned by the immense thickness of the walls, had devoured everything combustible by ten o'clock; and then, defying the sickening stench, people came to look for their lost ones. Ob, whata sight the fair, placid moon looked down upon! Closely packed crowds of calcined, distorted forms, wearing the fearful expression of the last pang, whose smile was once a beaven; the ghastly phalanx of Diack statues, twisted in every variety of agony, stretching out their arms as if imploring mercy; and then, of the heap that had choked up, the door, multitudes with their lower parts entirely untouched, apd some all @ sbopeless mass, but with an arm or foot unscathed. ‘ The silence, after those piercing screams were husned in death, was horrible. It was the silence of the grave, unbroken but by the batter wait or fatnting cry—OVvER TWO THOTBAND eov18 had passed through that ordeal of fire to the judgment seat of God. Heroic acts of sublime daring have not been wanting. Enduring gratitude has been excited in every Christian heart by the galloht efforts of Mr. Netron, the Minister of the United States, his countryman, Mr, Meigge, and several other foreigners. There were generous men who defied the fury @f the flames to save lives, and some of these died martyrs to their noble hearts. An English man or an American, it iaupkaowa which, wag geen to rash through the flames, to seize in his powerful arms a lady, stride with her # little way, and then, with bis batr in a blaze, and choked with smoke, fall back into the volcano never to rise again. A young lady named Oreo, having in vain implored some bystanders to save her mother, rushed in, and shortly afterwards miraculou:!y tsuéd forth with her parent in her arms, saved. A young lady of the name ef Solar, just before the smoke suffocated her, had the presence of mind to tie ber hand¥erchicf around her leg, #0 that het body might be recognized. ‘The writer now continues to speak of the cause of the fire, and to whom the blame for the catastrophe is attri. Dutable, He handles the clergy in the most severe man. | ner, and eays:—The population of Santiago, so supitie and 80 priest-ridden, are fired with indescribable indignation A} tho monstrous conduct of the priests. The public con. science holds them guilty of the death of all these victims, and particularly the mountebaak Ugarte, thé inventor of the Virgin's Post Offlce imposture (seeextract from we “Review of the fornight,’’) because by collecting together all the materia! most likely to produce a fires counties number of lights, pasteboard @cenery and mastin hang. ings—aihd admitting © vaet crowd ang covering the one door open with a screen, they took évery pains t¢ bring about « tragedy. When the fire broke out and people were eacaping by the sacristy they blocked ap this door {0 deVote themsclyes the more: undisturbediy to saving thelr 4 meek rm ‘The list of things eaved makes One's blood run cold. ‘What the priests saved, what (bey put away in seger shops and the houses in front @re—a gilt image, some wooden saints, a enored sophe or two, some Docks, chalicés, silver candlesticn9s and a great deal Of sacred matting and carpet. After saving. vheit trash, theve specimens of good shepherds, who give their tives for their sheep, fed away, in company with thd owls and Date that infested the ancient that one Priest favored the agonized victims with ble tion, and Ugarte requested them to die happy, betause they went direct to Mary. ‘They then forsook the ecene, and in that awfut night, ‘when fainting women and desperate men stréwed the atreeta, and writhing forme that a few hours before were Graceful and beautiful maidens, moaned and died in chem. inte’ hops, not @ priest was to be seen to whisper a word of Cheiet’s comfort to the dying ear or bold the prectons crucifix before the glazing eye, No, noteo; for the priess of nature was there—woman, @ ministering angel m the dork bour, tended apd eoothed as usual. One young, lady—God bless her—tore up all her under clothing to mako bandaget, And bound up the woands as only woman ao. Aj thie awfal night the Only thing that remaided of the clergy wae the incertant 10\)ing of belieeabout NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1864. of which thousands were filed with eamphene oll or Ksevesene, bursting, seatiered thelr contents over {be mul- titade Below. You will ask, where were the fire en- giues all thie time? There are none te Santiago! But to continue: Many had already escaped; some fow wore saved by the superhuman edforte of those from the out- side; Dud seom the mass of sbrieking victims before the ore had become so compact that no strength of man was able to break it, and in the efforts arms were actu- @ly torn from their sockets. ‘The struggle within must have been fearful, since those whe were saved were dragged out completely naked, and many have since died, Now followed the moss terrific goene mortal eye has ever witncesed. In a brief half jhoer from the breaking out of the fire tbe whole interior % oF thie church was » lake dt flame, rising far above the Ob! ag we write our eyes fll wittssears. Nothing gan | Read@of the shricking guiferers, while the hundreds of console us in this affiction. wanes bok a wnagge wodies massed immovably together burned like #0 many, but our 1oss of those who'never will come back to |] Blocks of wood. pear A rae por good, if the dark, dé-— ‘Through the lurid flames arms could be seen extended stading dominion of the priests bave melted away in the | !'supplication, mothers folding. their daughters to their smoke of that awfal barut ‘sacrifice which, ladea with | baraing breasts, and, while the hellish light paiated up the dying breph of two thoasand victims, rolled up to the distosted features, loud above the roar of the crack- accuse Ugarte sud his accomplices before the throne of)| lug rafters and rushing flames roso the commingled Goa. Ona% i || earigke of over two thowsand victims. Dante, in benelipaaneaapes bessene rtevien atthe ee neha rete. nee eee gach ® hell as thie, night,’ peferring te, the priest Ugarte end his Virgio’s: the roof fallen in mow what walfering bad been Post OMce:—*A priest, "named Ugarte, whose mind Ma-'|-spared!. The ire reached the doors. Etfirt after effort riolatry'bad marked for is own, headed that sisterhood | was made to break the compact bust still living mass. (the Daughters ef, Mary) from the beginning, and worked Strong, robust men were seen jing to extricate bie way,down to euch 9 depth of superstition that one of | them#elves, bat in vain; and all this: within a few feet bis least extrawagances was the invention of s Celestial } of hundreds of spectators! Trees in the plaza were cut Post Office teick, by whicd the Daughters of Mary might | down and thrust in over the burning Reade; but it was too correspomé with the Virgin in writing. At the entrance ‘late. The smaller branches were almost immediately re. ‘of the temple the letter box was constantly open; and | duced to ashes, or when the body of the tree was with. there persons of a robust faith deposited in sealed letters | drawn those branches taken hold of remained in the vic- their wishes and their prayers.”” tits hands. ‘The followitig gives an idea of {be class of persons that | It will seem ecareely crodiMe that any yet lived; and'yet eh Dy the deplorable accident:—"Aithough many |-80it was. A moment more, however, ald all was over, role men performed prodigtes of daring and strength | Afnid'the flames blackened heads might be seen swaying fm tearing some from: tho: death grasp of the pha. | to and fro, then falling fiom ‘Ne shoulders, The mass janx of bodies tbat chcked the door, im some cas-) | near the door wes cow immovable in death, ond hun. Uterally tedvingof’ Ceir arms without deing-adle to ex. | “eds of tbo ral-black, ptatnes retained their kneeling thak thi. ace Sn fr Patel fone of could do to increase the horrors of » showt of 1» Move Fred povsona of our rt the roof fell In with s chasb like mighty yun highest socie'y Nave portshad, Ube greater part young gira, of | ter, The gorgeous belfry stilt stood, and, wrapped ip Sifter to twenty yeas of age. Orie micther haa pertihed with | flames, made tho scene ardund bright'ss noonday, and her five daughters. Tro thirds of the vietims were cer- | ‘ben, with o dal!, soddem sound, the mammoth bells fell vants, and'there ave many houses th which not one has es | from their high places. " caped. Several houses Rave deen noted by the police as empty SCENES OUTSIDE THB CHURCH. decause all their inhabitants have perished.” ‘The scode without the chureh Bailes all! descrip- ‘The past fortnight has produced no other occurrence | tion. Every house for and mear was ‘oréwded with the ‘worth mentioning. The people'only weep, and their pub- | Gying sndthe dead. In one hour from the breaking out lic writers cen only offer tears to the nation’s mourning.’ | Of the flames all was over. Of two thousand beautiful * ERTTER OF CONDOLENCR ¥ROM THR UNITED STATES women of Santiago there remained but a hideous mass of MNOSTER a Teeking end carbonized corpses, and not a single family ‘The folowing correspondence has passed between the | in the city but was left'to mourn somie lost one. ‘Minister of the United States, Mr. Nelson, and the Chilean Very many of the corpyes were found with only Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Senor Tocornel, in re’erence | the head and arms burned; but as the clothes in most to the calamity:— cases were barned it was impossible to recognize them. I dare not tell you of the scenes | withessed that night ‘and at daylight on the following morming. No pon cin escribe the father or the mother or brother searching ve the to myself to your Excel- aoe tae tae pZaerioan ditions te. | Among the “Dlackeved thousands. for seme one single can , abd On my-own, Our profound and earnest | ga that the fearful corpse before them was all that re- tn Ate torrie wieterhane which, upon Tuesday mained to them of that cherished form which but afew awany families and mt the tains the onto sherk Sear Delory wie Unieltelak Wine sary set toed ps oy ment and people whom Trepresent wiil be | bad ok Pgeull 0 cud Bib sey oscebie . gest wil wife D Bee ite theca eet Sorrow Whee the ead. intell!- ' ing, and i vate, for them; Or tell youot the haggard A calamity 80 appalling and horrible has. no features of a widowed mother, too happy bad the flames the world’s history. Be Bayete | emows ths wena: bat spated only enough of her cherisbed cbild that she console the Dereaved abd | might know it here, aod batbe its blackened limbs in hot, acalding tears? xy this awful dispensation ir remind us of the uncertainty of life, and the ‘Yet these and other such scenes I have witnessed, and, | though days have passed, my eyes Mill with tears as I tell necessity of coustant to obey His summons. Ihave the honor to renew to you their story; and I must live tong years before, as memory reproduces the awful scene, my blood wil! cease to grow cold at its remembrance or my heart refuse its ‘LRGATION ov Tam Uniimp Starss, Santiaco, Chile. Dec. 11, 1863. oy the Secretary for Forelgn Affairs of To bis URN He of Chile:— Your Excellency the as- surances of the high estimation and respect with which I remain your Exceliency’s obedient servant. ‘THO:1A8 H. NELEON, REPLY OF JHE omen COVERS MENT, tS T1aGO, Dec. 1863, | SiR 1 have bad the honor to recel¥ve the note ‘your gad hated to unquestionably the most mt tragedy was pleased ressme tosigmfy ancient or modern history. there have been It vt ‘cated Inthe mind Of your Bx where more have perished, tt none under sich heart- ile, : Ee “4 ens residing 10 | vending circumstances. In oue of the largest and most oceurrivg in city on Tuesday, the Sth inst., which bas carried into the midst of many families, and bas covored community with mourning. Your Excellency likewise Joforms me that the govern- ment and people represented by your will the deepest sorrow upon rec the news of this catus- traphe, and your Excellency concludes by expressing to me your trust that the ‘may grant consolation to the ‘and cause us all, io view cultivated capitals of South America two thousand of its Joveliest women are burned to death, and that in presence ; Of their fathers, busbands, brothers, powerless to cave | them. . Do you require statistics? Let me give you but a single one: it will suffice, One hundrea and fifty carioads o/ entire affiicted aad upp the | unrecognised wre, onthe 9th and 10th, carried to Uuncortainty of life, to be ever prepared to obey the de- | rr, e ‘trees of Providence cometary. yy and she wealth and the proua ‘Spanish aristocracy all bad thoir represontatives in that My government has fearned the sertente SAR lively. pave pepo gratitude, and hos discovered in (CHT Lirk i8 SANTIAGO. Santiago, as | bxve often told you in conversation and in letters, is unlike any elty in the world tn this, that here all the wealthy families of the repubtic reside; and, an you may readily imagine, in a city whero there is so little immigration, these families are more or less con. nected. All jell Known to each other, and, in a word, form one targe family. The blow bes thus struck home to the heart of every one. *RELING AGAINST THR CLERGY. Areaction bas takea piace here against the clergy. Public opinion demanded at once the conversion of tne chorch site into ® public square, This has been and ts violently opposed by tae clergy and their formidable party, The famaticiem of these and its manifo'd abuses among which is considered . foremost the late disastor, is the subject of conversation im every circle. The papers are fall of the bitterest. invectives on both sides of this question. Of dollars are offered to rebuild the temple, and force is threatened if it be attempted. Ac: cusations of the vilest conduct are brought against tbe clergy. In my next I will give you the continuation of this awful drama. Terrible as has been the \esson, Chile will profit by it. Wemay hope for more liberality and less favaticism, From ous the still smoking ruins of the Compania may yet rise the bright light of religious liberty. But I must close, This recital has cost me more than T can tell you. I have not yet sufficiently recovered from the stunning blow to look calmiy back upon the frightful ip favor of our republic. The generous and active efforts which your Excellency and they displayed on Tuesday last to save the interesting victims from the frightful fire hud already won the gratitude of my government, which has been revived by the present manifestation. Ia communicating the foregoing to your Excellency | comply with a special charge of his Fxeellency the Pre:| dent of the republic, to assure the hovorabie representa- tive and the citizens of the United States’ who have taken part in our public mourning that the noble conduet ob, served by them on this sad occasion will be ever grate- fully remembered by the Chilean people and governmant. ‘iil your Excellency be pleased to accept the senti- ments of my most distinguished consideration aud regard, with which T am your Exceliency’s most obed! } vant, MANUEL A, TOCORNEL. To the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleospoten- | tlary of the United States, THE RUINS TO BE DEMO! NED A decree has been issued ordering the entire demolition | of the remains of the Church of the Comps io which the accident occurred. THY LATEST NEWS, ‘The latest information | have seen says Lbat seventeen hundred bodies bave been recognized: between four and five buudred were beyood recognition, and many were Rothing but a shapeless mase. Three thausand at least swore in the building, and it is not yet koown how many have escaped. NO names are given. SPECIAL ACCOUNT FROM SANTIAGO. CROWDS OF DEVOTED WORSMIPPERS—THE FIRE— THE ALARM—THE STRUGGLE AND THE FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS. Santiaco De Carte, Deo, 17, 1863, TRave told you strange tales from abroad during the many years bave Deen your correspondent, but seldom one that has made your beart strings tingle as will this. On Tuesday last, at seven o'clock tm the evening, one of the most splendid churches of the capital was reduced tq ashes, and in its ruins were burned to death over two | ‘thousand femaies. Santiago is im mourning for huadreds of ber brightest ornaments, aud there is scarcely « family which ia not more or less bereaved by theterritic tragely Of the night of the Sth inst. On shit day was celebrated this year throughout the Catholic world the Feast of the Conception of the Virgin. In Chile the “month of Mary’’ (celebrated elsewhere in May) ends with that evening. ‘There are no feasts in Spanish America so popular, par- ticularly with the ladios, as those dedicated to the Virgin. Sonie one of the gorgeous churches of the capital is an- nually selected for the ceremonies, aud this year the magnificent temple of the Compania (called so from Y' 0 belonged to the Jesuits) was chosen, Thisin pee at ge thé city, For thirty evenings it has | peon crowded U0 excess, and almost éxclagively by fe maior. Every effort had been made to make this bvening The church wal Gorfbously and illuminated by more than ten Uoweand lights, Of these the mést re- markadle was @ Crescent of gas jets at the foot of a co- loasal statue of the Virgia, on the tiigh altar. It bad just Been lighted, and, whether from carelesaness tn lighting of from too much pressure in the metre, the blaze flew up toan fMordinate height, end ins moment the thousand tinsel sitar ornaments wore on fire, The cry of * fite” te-echoed through the temple, Tihagioe, if you can, the cometernation of those kuéeting thousands of tender women and children. I say knceting. for kneel they must, ae thereare no pews 1h the churches hore, as With you. There’ were at this time, as near as cat How be calculated, three thousand five hundred in the church. Only twoof thé doors were open, and to these & rush wag \nstamtiy made, Hundreds fel! m their efforts to nai and, becoming entangle1 in their crinolines OF falntthg through fright, were unable to rise again. Over: these fell others; and gion & pilo of hodiés wan formes in front of the dodre, preventing al further: Onrete.- In the: meantime tbe flames had rénctitd tho dome and communicated quick!y to the roof, The Jampe, tes ices are sald to'be engaged in the movement, ‘The fen: ied eon. bee servatives of Bogota are much vexed at the movement, matrone and maidens, their servante apd obildren, | declaring {t to be premature, and that the consequences bad perisbed in @ common ru! will fall upon themselves. These revolutionary demon- ‘TO some houses not a retarned. Mothers, with | strations are said to be at the instigation of the Y farailies of daughters, had disappeared. Husbands Dus, let them come frum whatever source they may, Sought from street to street and house to house clearly Indicate a very strong feeling to exlat against tbe wives, brothers thoir sisters and parents thelr children, | government of Mosquera, The frat intelligence was brought here by telegraph | rom what wo from the » through outside that five hundred periahed. It was ‘this would | S0urces, things appear to be in a very mixed form, 90 faa Prove to be an exngxeration; but the nex day the num. | 98 the ment 1s concerned. » it to enid it yr was six and then cight hundred, then a thousand. It | absent the seat of foversment in ntion to the, Farther, aed se ines, Gath nore eee not prbated | Sho can Or wil be allowed to take’ the reine ot goverat 4 . Until now sev or ) rene eee pore ie toe ae ins oe eee ‘American paper of New York fede fault more wo thousand have been borne. : jew York the oaaey. 4 pb 29s Sorréapecagat tor having. as it thinke, been cause of against tbe United States been Colombia, and says that it is for the reason of the sul crowd of not being erly understood, It is very natural, I wil) remains ; acknow! , for a Colombian to think tbat what Colom- have been dia does ia all right, that whoever opposes hee ie aif there Ka wrong; but I camnot having a wrong ceive a opinion or expresséd an incorrect idea, et tbe fren: tra anny eappeaed tb sm ing; was Inctly ex, not been ful tonio Flores a ‘General st Pasta, Perhaps never in any land bas a calamity so dire and |, 80 suddéd and awful, so heartrending and horrifying, been recorded. with the fire already there are in- cidente narrated that-give rise to the bitterest reflections. For instance, through the vestry of the church there was an opportunity for some to escape. By this Mies Armstroug did escape, besides another lady; but then the door was closed Jn order to have more room and freedom for removing articles of furniture, even to ‘enches, candlesticks, crucifixes, &c. We give an ex- tract from the pen of our special correspondent, dated December 11:— Yesterday we stated that the priests and servants of the church, while that multitude of females was burning, were busy ja saving the miserable furniture of the vestry. To-day we bheve seen images of saints, silver ornaments and paintings, in the adjoining houses, that bad beeu sevi@l to, the imidst of the confusion, We have sean a jarge image, with its gilt framework, in the segar shop on the corner of the square; we have seen thousands of trifling objects that were got out instead of the perishing victims—inanimate stocks instead of human beinge, As at a distance some may doubt whether this be exact, we have taken’ the pains to form a basty invento- ", Ihe the following:— 0 ‘Two old A 2 tto wooden. The bureaus of the vestry, with decoratiovs. Two whoe stands. ‘Three round tables. Segaperne ings and carpets vestry. Benches of do. in the decorat — e which bg ne — DO question —n were u radent In, aro charged tora of beartiocsness =f er nee 10 that one would prefer not to ‘delleve if the’ assertions were not so openly made by the grousd. those who are on A it writes:— ‘Who saw a priest at the fre that was net busy in get- ting out old mattiogs and leatbern chairs, while two thousand souls were in the of death? ‘Who bas seen a spiritual or material aid PS ie ie teerteenpties oe the day subsequent to circulars of the metropolitan, his visits committees appointed to aid the waiting for be hidden out pehe burial of a came down like rain to the need no ers, having flown to fn the mantle of Mary? Do they need ‘Bo sepulture, nor aught to cover their remains, who beir eyes in & temple, and im sight of ap incident that betrays baretnced an: inal hypocriey'on. the part of the priests of the church that has been burned, . It is that they Peewee @ letter box in which letters could be Jett for the Virgin and answers received. It was called the ‘‘letter box of Mary.’ Hesays:—We have seen letters from this box (which the Governor has in his keeping now) tn which simple-minded girls asked from the clergy their photographs as mementos of their del- fled ‘eatures. We have seen letiersincypher, * * * The people of Santiago did respect their pretended teach. gra. To day wo do not say they despise them, Lor that they curse 1» but i bave undeceived, Under the mask charity these havo been concealin, the most refined selfishness, the most atrocious bardi- hod. The door of the vessry was closed that they m cht out rotten mattings and moth eaten carpets. This fact alone might be Wufficient to carry conviction to those who unbappily are not yet convinced. POPULAR BXCTTEMENT. In addition to the \nexpressible grief that has filled al! bearts in the capital, there has been awakened au inteuse excitement against the reoccupation of the site, where the late conflagration occurred, for the rebuilding of the church. This sentiment has so taken hold of the minds of the majority of the people in Santiago that a committec, on which the names of Antonio Vares and Guillermo Matta stood side by side, was appoibted to solicit from the President the demolition of the present walls and foundatiou®, and tte appropriation of the site to some public orvamental use. The Municipal Council of Sautiago petitioned the President to the same effect, government hesitated The voice of the people grew louder and more. devermined A ibiic meeting was called for Monday, the ith instant, to be held on the spot, for which a large mass of persons assembied. but at Looe Peg id were informed that the President had decreed demolitivn, teu days deing allowed (or the extraction of the remains of persons bu underneath thechurey. William Matta read this tothe multitude, whe thereupon dispersea quietly to ir homes It has since been whispered that there is an under standing with the Archbishop of Santiago to the effect that the site shall not be pat to avy profane use or uses, and that the — will aid in the rebuilding of the ehurch. this ram@ be true it will cause a profound discontent among the people. Nothing bot the yielding of the government prevented a popular commotion; for the people of Santiago intended to demolish those walis and raze those foundations with their own hands, if it were necessary. the names of who hastened to the burn. ing edifice and strove save the victims, mention is voy, ited States Consul, Mr. Rang, Secretary or Lege ‘mn! is je , a Tie, and Heory Me Nes. It ig thought, however, that at the end of fifteen min. ‘all who were not near the doors were suffocated. BLOW 10 THE CLERGY. may 2 i a 53 a safely stated that no event has ever occurred has it so heavy a blow to the priests as anatterabie A Never ry Les ‘Ag now. Their imprudence in gotting up which are freely styled fdolateeus—thele rescuing the victims—their deception of toes with the letter box of Mary and its pre- ers—bave all placed them in a most unen- lation of the site to (44 Hh i i a i i tl fd il egé iH 2 3s it ci ge MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Rews from Colombia. OUR PANAMA CORRESPONDENCE. Panama, Jan. 5, 1964, In my letter per steamer Alantio, in which I announced the capture and occupation of the port of Tumaco by ao expedition from Gueyaquil, it was stated that a battalion of troops sent from here to that port for the purpose of rempevanpeocg.: 123. Tel peel mated enemy. ed'them, however. een Ge eee eine a this since, to take, 1 Int of December, but on accoumit of bad weather were un- able to reach Tamaco, and after knocking sbout for some aye they succeeded in reaching the ancborage at Ama. rales, former, that annexation with tbe of Dia was not desired by Ecuador; then replied that peaceful annexation: be de: sired, but if declined he would never to. ikby # war, Yot, in the faceof this , be massed forces on the frontier, and menaced Bousdor ims, & mannor that hostilities could not be prevented, latter goveroment was compelled to assume the in self-preservation. This is the whole aii@r in an On the Ist inst. the opposition steamer America, tain Morton, sixty-one days from New York, via Janeiro, Valdivia and Lota, arrived in thie barbor. The America reports very bad weather in and cear the Strajts of Magellan. She coaled at Lota, and brings infor: mation of the discovery of a coal miné near there of very argo extent and of a quality considered superior to tha best Welsh or American bituminous coal. Ste made the fon, from off Valparaiso to this port in nine days and five jours, The opposition steamship [ilinois, Captain Babcock, from New York, with dates to the 23d ult. and eight bun- dred and thirty passengers, arrived at Aspinwall on tha Ist lost. at noou, The steamsbip Ariel, Captain Wileon, from New York on the 24th ult., arrived at Aspinwall at daylight op the ‘2d inst, with ix bundred and <2 passengers, who crossed the game day and embarked on board the etearn- ship Golden City, and sailed for San Francisco yesterday. The passengers by the Illivois bo i. ‘The holidays have passed off very quietly. Quiles pum- ber of stores closed on the let of January, owing 10 tbe excessive commercial tax imposed upon them, Among the eetablishments that have sbut their doors is the ice house, and now all of thatarticle to be obtained is broughy daily from Aspinwall. For several days past we have had showers abont poen; Dut the weather generally bas been delightful, especially mornings and evenings, which are remarkably cool fea this low latitude, News from Peru. Solemn services for the dead of Santiago were to b« held in the church of Santo Domingo, in Lima, on Wed. nesday, the 30th ult. I quote from the Comercio of the 28th ult. tbe following ip regard to the navigation of the Amazon river and the metallic currency of the republic:— The steamer Morona, that was stranded and making several feet of water per hour, bas at Jaat ascended as fur as Yurimaguas when the waters of the Huallaga rivor were low, this having been considered bitherto imporsi- ble even at high water. Jt was @ current opipicn that asteamer of the size of the Bosco, oa, Dot pes tho bends and narrow turns of the A: Tiver, especial!: from Urarinas upwards, and much Jena evter the movi! of the Huallaga,as the smaller steamers of tho Brazilian Company never attempted it. But Mr. Ferreyros, com mander of the’ Morona, determined to overcome al! iM ler culttes, without. such prudent precautions an clreumstan cen vy d 1 andy uc of tbe river ae , thus demonstrating. das age river ie at all seasons as far as Yuriwoguas—a fact of the bi nny ce ra, The Counc! in! has discussed she: peonsag defect! Bolivia, and for supplying this eat 3 with standard. A decree, dated the 18th instant, a we this tendency, baviog ordered the circulation of small silver and copper money, which govérement, ia conformity with the law of November 14, 186%, hae or- dered to be coined in the mint of thie. city and ip the United States, Be this or be it not the true purport of said decree, at any rate we owe to it the circulation of the first money coined according to the decima) system, aud the disappearance of the diminutive chips cf ailyer which replaced the smal! change when the latter bad ¢ieop- peared entirely from circulation. Ecuador. ‘There has been no movement (f avy hind of the arm <8 of Mosquera and Flores since the late battle; both eccupy the positions assumed after the encounter was over. Wo have dates from Guayaquil to the 2&b ult. by way of Payta, avd the information therein cuntained is the rame asIbave given above, Mosquera does vot like to ad- vance for some reason or another,“wnd Flores js oct strong enough to assume the offensive so soon. It mez be eaid bat ail is re on the frontier of Eccador. the case when hearing of the defess |, apd tbe expedition eturned te.Guayaquil. Thue both sides cceupy the jons they did two months sinée, and it may be rome time before a collision, again ccqurs, or before another advance is made by either party. 1€ would’ bé a fortu- nate circumstance if, during this ceseation of bostilitice, some arrangement could be made whereby peace would be restored aud the ridiculous war ended, At the latest moment I bave been permitted to obtcin @sicht of sevoral private letters from Gr jai), and bave gainea thereby important additional mation, An armistice of ten days was agreed upon between Mos- quera and Flores on the 1Stn lt,, and it was thought that during the time a peace might be arranged between tbe two. Garcia Mo , President of Ecuador, hus becor anonentity; he has gone or is going to Guayaquil to en- endeavor to'organize® party to resiat Mosquera in that province. He wail hardly be successful, bowever, m tbo Present condition of affairs. Mosquera has released all the prisonore taken io the fecent battle, which ip itself looks like @ better apd more sensible state of mind on the part of botb geuerais. Bu- sinese, as a matter Of course, was at.a deadlock ip Guaya- quil, and must remain so nti} hoatilities cage and there is a prospect of peace that wilh be lasting for af jeaet a few months. ‘The Park Barracks. Here they learned for the first time of the occupation of Tumaco by tha Ecuadoriang, and that the neighboring place (Iecuand!) bad pronounced against Mosquera. Tt was then dotérmined to réach Buenaventura if possible; and after replenishing the commissariat with two oxen and come hundred plantains they started for tbat Lg Ds winds and stroog carrents eu ae op pro. of and after trying several Py Ota becoming short of Pravticey the lage was give up, end they determ od to return Tevet ‘whore they served oe Blast alt, hes ‘man died nl J sBb one sar te EIR nil etosiner. Solent, from C4rtHagedA, wall, yostorday morning, bringing us late We ar of @ revolution of some lo,the proviace of Antioqdia four thon conser vaHves Lies at boggia aa arrived at 2 magvitade hay ing ocourred wera. Aboub Sirer spat ike; ‘but tbe THE NUISANCE ABATED—TH® PREMISRS TBOROUGH LY CLRANSBD AND SWEKTENED BY ORPBR OP GENERAL DIX, BTC, * The Park Barracks have at last been placed in proper order (or the reception of troops, and thenuirance tbat formerly existed has been removed. Genera) Dix, the commander of this department, took the matter io hand, and on Saturday !ast issued the following order:— Haapqe artsrs, DaraRTMxNT OF Tem Ever, New York Crrv, Jan. 16, 1664 Captain Howe, Assistant Quarts — foo Major General commanding the de jent directa that you take posscesion of the Park cks and pot them in ® proper condition to receive troope without delay. It will not be necessary to interfere wit the city keeper of the barracks in execating ad order. I am, ctlully, your obedient servan' Maishineaai tial D. VAN BUREN, Colonel and Assistant Adjatant Genera). In obedience to the above order, Colonel Howe at once sent a force of sixty men, who commenced their labors on Saturday night, working might and day ip fixing op ine place. The floors wore cleansed, the walle whitewashed, the windows put in, the roof repaired, and al) necessary carpentry work done, so as to put the barracks io {ho- rongh order for the reception of troops. Tbe sleepin; forthe, comstort 0 with mattresses and biao! TUR PARK CROWDED—NBABLY ONE SAND PERSONS ON THS [C8—THB CARS CRAMMED. The lovely temperature of the weather yesterday ood the splendid condition of the ice, induced the people to pay,@ visit to the Park in unusual numbers, The er'i- mate of the Park authorities is, that between picety and ® hundred thousand persons were on and arcand tbe ponds during the day, and had moonlight skaung beeg allowed , it was supposed that even Chrismas Day might Dave been outdone, a8 far as the nombers of the vieiters were concerned. Tho ico #25 in ret rate order, delbg perfeotig hard in the centre of each of the ponds, and ouly becoming softened about the edges, WEF the people _ of there ———— Persapat Intenigencé on Bartholomew nore Ay ‘Twooty-seventh. Massachusetts Vv toors; Genoral F, Fae eiogion of ae a. Riobaree, of valifOrRI®,