EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1081, 15 January 1872, Page 3

EARTHQUAKES IN SOUTH AMERICA.

A heavy earthquake occurred at Iquique and the interior of Peru on the sth of October. Considerable damage was done to buildings in Iquiquo. and among the people the effects were most disastrous. In the interior the towns of Pica and Matilla were destroyed, and scarcely a house left standing. A fire succeeded the earthquake in Pica. At Arequipa they had shocks on the 4th and 10th } but no buildings were V damaged. A shock has occurred at Bajo, Chilis It was not a serious one. *»., THE NEW YORK CITY FRAUDS. The Joint Committee of aldermen, supervisors, and citizens, appointed to investigate the doings of "the Ring" in New York, have finished their reports. These reports are voluminous, and they will be found on examination to be comprehensive and conclusive. They establish beyond any reasonable doubt of any impartial mind several most damning facts. They show— 1. That the city debt is practically 120,000,000d01. 2. That not merely extravagance but "fraud and peculations of the grossest character have been practised in several departments" with the knowledge of their heads. 3. That the debt has been doubled every two years since 1869. 4. That the mayor is responsible for the continuation of the wholesale robbery of the city. 6. That it costs nearly as much (30,000,000dol) a year to run the Government of this city as to administer that of the whole nation. 6. That while 3,221,865d0l 62c were paid for Armory repairs, &c.,the actual expenditure was not more than 202, 463d 0). In other words the Ring stole on Armory accounts alone 3,029,402 62c. 7. That immense sums have been paid for services unperformed to men unknown in the offices from which they drew their salaries. 8. That the Schuyler frauds, by which the bills of one contractor were raised from 48,000d0l to 463,000d0l were committed through the connivance of William M. Tweed. The Tribune says :— "More damning facts relating to the great thefts of Tammany are coming out. An examination of practical workmen discloses more fully the shameful frauds which everybody knew had been perpetrated is furnishing the New Court House. The famous carpets, which were reputed to have cost over 360,000d01, are found to be worth, when new, only 12,000d01. There ia only 100,000dol worth of furniture where the insatiate Ingersoll claims to have put in about one million and a half dollars worth ; and a beggarly WOjOQGdol would liberally pay for the cabinet and carpenter work which Miller, Ingersoll, and the rest got over a million for doing, This is swindling on the largest / sjale. Where the millions on millions of City funds have gone to, we may never clearly k ascertain. The cash has been divided among many men, but it was raked out of the Treasury by the connivance of Mr A. Oakey Hall, Richard B. Conolly, Wm. M. Tweed, James Watson, and Peter "B. Sweeny. In some form or another, one or all of these men certified to the genuineness of the so-called claims against the City on which the stupendous frauds were committed. On their responsibility the money was disbursed ; who had shares in the stolen cash we can only guess,"