TERRIBLE TRAGECY AT BOLIVIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 117, 1 April 1862, Page 6

TERRIBLE TRAGECY AT BOLIVIA.

"A letter" from Bolivia thus describes a .tragedy, :-r--: :.•;";• :■ - I"/"/-' ..'....'.'. Anotherblooidy drama has-been, enacted! at: La. Paz. I wrote you in my -last that General Fernandez one of tlie President"Acha's Ministers, was generally: charged b'ythe people with "being responsible !for the massacre,.ordered by general Yanez, of the 28rd,of October, in which 40 persons of note, including exPresident Cordova, ifelUi-besides a large number of Cholos; that Fernandez's motive in this massacre wsiSi Brstj.to'clearthe coast ofia good many influential men, who might stand in his way, then to overthrow; the'.Gfpyernor.bf ;Achaandst6p iiltohis shoes.; Per-' nandezlwas not long-in verifying this estimate of-his plans.:' In conjunction with Morales'he:^pronounced' againstl Acha in the South, ' while Colonel- Babza, who commanded in La Paz, was to pronounce against him in that city, Acha being absent at Osuru. jJßabza and several other officers; on demand of thejpeople,. had previously been dismissed, by President Acha.pn. account of their complicity in?the:Yahez massacre;, and"Yariez himself had been ordered to be tried.'- So,•the disaffectedrofficers having; joined—Babzaf at -half-.. past' four l o'clock,,' on - the. mottling of the j23rd of Novembeiy'b'attalioh No.- '3, commanded byjßabza,: attacked .battalion No. 2 , in the., streets. Thefigbt:, was''furious'•and/lasted four hours/when Babza was wounded anil defeated/ with the loss of a great many m.en,.and spught'fefuge in .the house.of Mr. jCarteiy ■the'UnitedStates^MiTiiste^ .Yatiez; 4nHhe! meantime, ■ihad'"barricaded- himself■ in the palace' and;at j the head of 4p,men"resolved,to defend himself against the'pojpula'ce who were shouting for^his head. ."The palace wai assaulted withfury.* ;Manyshots lyerefexchanged/'until cannon "were.■'dnJgged' and; jpointed againstthe gates; ' Despair having seized uponj Yanez," he .seated, ijimself in the "corridor and. ordered his sdldiers to remain" tranquil;" Then bars bf iron were brought against'the doors by some, while others from neig'hbounrigToofs fired at intervals through'tlie.window, whence it was thought he; might' try to! escape. At last the dbpfs'were forced; and'Yanez, armed, escaped from the palace to'the roof of the continguous police :building: ' A 'shout of 'Yanez !' announced' that he was seen'by the populace,: when two shots were fired at him, and he fell frbma'height of, neawy twenty yardsV >to' the rpof 'of ; t l_the printing-office' Thence he wasdraggedto-the'Plajza in. the midst o thousands Of'pebple. ' Placing him1 before the door ofthe Loretto, in wliich he hatl ordered the massacre bf exiPresident",Cordbya, the .crowd ■'forced1 himj to kiss the'st6ne'stepSVyefredSvith:bloodbf Cordova. Then he was struck at by all Who could'£et' near him, even wpmen'taking' part.in. theyene:eance: ~After iihebody. Madlairi a'time exgosed in the streets, it was, placed; in a cart,.aiidfollowed by.a,vast crowd to the cetne-. tery, • amid the_laugh, the jeers, and the curses of .thousands. r Then.Leopoldo^ Davila, his lieutenant.wh'6" cursed ; the,;mourning women who camfe to the | Loretto to seekifor jnurciered husbands and fathers a month before was seized, broughttothe.publipPlaza^nd, torn to pieces, a young Indian woman concluding the shocking performance Tjy.punching out his'eyes with al pointfed.stick."-' Lieutenant •Colonel Shanchez' Was killed ;iirtlie coach house of the palace. - Many others fell during the moring, includipg -50 Cholos killed and 150' wounded. • ■■"■ln the midst of the excitement one of the prisons was broken openj and 150 criminals increased the terror of the people by the clanking of their'chains'threugh the streets. '; Butj-wonderful'to-relate; no robberies'or. Outrages iwere committed by the people after they had sated.their vengeance on the? assassins of October, tut the 10,000 Cholos quietly, retired.td their houses,-and the city was as still as before the outbreak., At the last-accounts President" Achahsd returned to LaPaz and resumed his authority. The military command was in the bands" of General Perez, who had the entire confidence : of- the people. A force had been sent against Fernandez and - Morales, who. were .in the. .neighborhood of Potosi or Sucre."—^3ri7nes,'2lst'January,;