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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 425, 3 October 1868, Page 3

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' An outrage has taken place near Tipperary. Mr Scully, a landlord, while serving notice upon his tenants, was shot dead. He was accompanied by a guard of policemen. Two of the Latter were shot dead and four badly wounded, The Paris Moniteur says, in relation to the new French loan, that thirty-four times the amount asked for has already been subscribed. A frightful earthquake occurred on 13fch August and following days, in Peru and Equador. Thousands of lives were lost. The cities, villages, and towns in the interior and on the coast arc in ruins. The men-of-war and numerous mercantile ships have been lost. The destruction of property has been enormous, and the earthquake the most fearful ever recorded. At Iquique, the town was completely swept away, leaving nothing but a mass of ruins. The loss of life is very great, but at present no estimate can be formed. The ports of Mejidones, Pisagua, Arica, Flo, and Chala, have shared the fate of Iquique. Arequipa, the second city of the Republic, is levelled to the ground. Not one house is left standing, unless a few wooden erections on the oxitskirts of the city. Moquequor, in the neighborhood of Arequipa, is likewise overthrown. Tacua has escaped with only the loss of sixty houses. Tambovalley, just beyond the new port of Mejia, near to Isaly, a small town, was swept away. Out of 500 inhabitants, only twenty managed to escape.

The correspondent of the Panama Star and Herald writes : — Arica no longer exists. The walls of my house fell — fell is hardly the word, as they were blown out as if they were spit at me ; at the same time, the earth opened, probably two or three inches, and belched out dust, accompanied with a terrific stench, as of powder. The air was darkened, and I could not see my wife, who was within two feet of me with the children. If this had lasted any time, we must have been suffocated ; but in about a couple of minutes it cleared, and collecting my household goods together, I then started for the hills. How we passed through the falling houses, where we saw men struck down, some stone dead, others maimed, is to me a mystery ; but merciful providence was over us. We wended our sad way as well as we could towards the hills, with the earth shaking, making us stagger as drunken people, when a great cry went up to heaven, ' ' The sea has retired. " I hurried on, and I had barely got to the outposts of the town, when I looked back and saw all the vessels in. the bay carried out irresistably to sea, probably with a speed of ten miles an ho\ir. In a few minutes, the great outward current stopped, then rose a mighty wave — I should judge about fifty feet high — and came in with a fearful rush, Carrying everything before it in its awful majesty. The whole of the shipping came back with it, sometimes turning in circles, but all speeding on to. an inevitable doom. Meanwhile the wave had passed in, struck the mole into atoms, swallowed up my office. as a giant's mouthful, and, roaring on, swallowed up the eastern house, and, rushing down the same street, carried everything before it in its irresistable course. The remains of my dwellinghouse disappeared faster than a change of scene in a Christmas pantomime. My launches had long since disappeared, and my ruin was thus completed. I stood breathless looking at the awful sight, but thanking God life had been preserved to me and my loved ones, but each second was a life time. Looking seawards, I saw the ships still hurrying on to their doom, and in a few minutes all was completed. Every vessel was either. ashore or bottom upwards. The Peruvian war steamer America lost about 85 hands. The United States steamer Waterer escaped with the loss of one life. With a small draft of water, she was carried bodily on the top of the sea, and landed about a quarter of a mile in shore of the railway track. The Fredouoarr, United States steamship, was bottom upwards. Every soul on board perished, excepting the captain, surgeon, and paymaster who were on shore and were saved. The steamship Santiago reports the almost total destruction of the Port of Chala by an earthquake, which occurred on the 13th instant, at 4 p.m., the havoc continuing about 45 minutes At Monment, a steamer was about to anchor after the shock, which was felt very sensibly on board. The sea receded, parting the chain of the vessel, and of the company's hulk at anchor in the roadstead, and then returned at a height of about thirty feet, covering the rocks about the anchorage and in the harbor ; and sweeping up the town for the distance of ,over 1000 feet. The custom-house, steamBhip agency, mole, and everything within range was swept away by three successive seas, preceded and followed by as many as twelve shocks of earthquakes, each lasting

from three seconds to two minutes in duration. The Arrieros report tlie shock as having been felt very severely on the Pampa. The Carralou of the Tambo de la Jo3 r e, in the midst of the desert, was demolished. The course of the earthquake was from south to north, varied with repeated shocks from west to east, The difference in time of the occurrence between Islay and Chala, a distance of 145 miles, was about ten minutes. The destruction was caused similarly at Chala by three successive seas. Mollendo, the depot of supplies for the Arequilla railway, provisions, house, and property of every description, were completely swept away. At 110 there is not a vestige of habitations of any kind left either at the port or in the town, which contained a pojmlation of 500 or more inhabitants. What was not knocked down by the shock was ' parried away by the flood, attended with a loss of twelve lives. The Ninitia, an English ship belonging to Mr A. Wellington, of Valparaiso, is a total wreck. The Gumbeta, bij mging to Messrs Gumbeta Brothers, is also a total wreck, as well as a schooner owned in Pistagua, and the entire crews perished. From Minange, in the. province of Juan Cavelion, we learn that all the cities in i that Department have been destroyed. Cro de Pasco is in ruins. The loss of life and property in the mining regions is reported as very large. The loss of property by the earthquake is estimated at tliree hundred millions of dollars. The house of Gibbs alone- is said to have lost one million. The U.S. flagship Powahata, with Admiral Turner on board, has sailed from Callao for Arica, with supplies, and to render all assistance possible %o the sufferers. Mr Charles L. Worm, manager of the Arica and Tacua railroad, and at Iquique that of Mr William E. Billinghurst, with half of his family, perished in the ruins. Some members of Mr Billinghurst's family made their escape in a boat which was carried through the ruins of his dwelling by the sea. Dr Bokenham also lost his wife at Iquique. At Pisagua, the captain of the British ship Kamatra was drowned whilst trying to board his vessel during the eruption. The British barque Dona Henrietta was wrecked on the rocks at Juni. All hands were saved ; and the American barque Condor was lost at Mejillones, all the crew saved.

A most extensive fire has occurred in Callao, originating, it is believed, in the Hotel Confianza, situated in the Calle de Construction. The' fire extended along to the house of the Prefect, and every house was burnt up to the Roma Hotel. In other directions every house was destroyed to the first opening in the street, and three or four houses beyond the building formerly known as the "Club Mercantile ;" again, on the other side of the street the houses running from Calle de Pelligro, were also burnt to the ground. Altogether some 30 houses are already destroyed, and 27 others seriously damaged. Property amounting to one million dollars has been lost, and only some 80,000 dollars were insured. The funeral rites of Thaddeus Stevens took place at Lancaster, Pa, on the 15th. 15,000 persons were in attendance. The Hon. C. L. Vallandighani has been nominated to Congress. The Virginia University at Lexington, of which General Lee is president, was damaged by fire. An iron railroad bridge across the Mississippi has been completed at Burlington, lowa. At a meeting of the Tory party, in the Crystal Palace, resolutions were adopted expressing their determination to support the Church, the Throne, and the Constitution. The Hon. Reverdy Johnston has arrived in London. The representatives of France, England, Prussia, Belgium, and Holland are now assembled at the Hague, to consider the realization of duty on sugar.