LATEST FROM SOUTH AMERICA.

Colonist, Issue 75, 9 July 1858, Page 3

LATEST FROM SOUTH AMERICA.

Our South American news is to the '28th of March.

LA PLATA. The. States on the river La Plata are still in an uproar. The revolution that had taken place in Montevideo against the Government of Oribe had been put down by the aid of Brazil. The excuse for this foreign intervention was.the supposition that Buenoa Ayres menaced tha independence of Montevideo. Buenos Ayres ia troubled with depredations from Indians CHILI. The coming election is contested with uncommon heat on both side 3. Each party seem 3 to be confident of/victory, but it is supposed by impartial persona that the conservative party will triumph over the administration. The crops had suffered somewhat by heavy rains, bufc not enough to create alarm, or affect the main results; a heavy harvest was expected." A quantity of shipping suffered considerable damage from a heavy, storm in the harbor of Valparaiso. A large conflagration in Valparaiso had consumed property to the amount; of 150,000 dollars. PEKU. The dates from Peru are to March lltli. The capital, Lima, remained undisturbed. The country is represented as suffering from a financial crisis, which has virtually terminated hostilities, and turned public attention to.more peaceful measures. Lima was visited with a '

strong earthquake on the 11th of March. Arequipa had been vigorously attacked l>y General Castilla, but the event was unknown.

Mazzini's Forthcoming Pamphlet.—M. Mazzini is about to publish, in the pamphlet form, a. letter addressed to Louis Napoleon. Proofs of this letter having been furnished to the London papers, its publication has been anticipated. The Italian republican thus commences :—" The folscss of time approaches; the Imperial tide is visibly rolling back. You do feel it All the measures you have been enacting since the 14th of January, in Franca •—all the- diplomatic notes and requests you have been, since the fatal day, scattering to the four winds abroad, are bespeaking the restlessness of terror. There is a Macbeth feeling of intense agony preying upon your soul, and betraying itself through all that you say or do. There is at work within a prasentiment that surnrna dies et inscrutabile fatvm are impending.' The " Thane of Glamis, Thane'of Cawdor, and King "—the Pretender, President/and Usurper —are doomed. The spell is broken. The conscience of mankind is aroused; it gazea sternly on you ;. it confronts you; it sifts your acts, and calls to account your promises. From this moment your fate is sealed.: The conscience of mankind will soon detect that you are nothing but a liying Lie; an. abortive rehearsal of a Past long and for ever gone by; a..pale' shadow* having glided, out from the grave of St. Helena, uncrowned by the. undying glory and the fatal mission of the mighty one resting there; a sham power, able to deny, dissolve, and omsh for a while, unable to assert, to organise, to edify something which the future can take shelter in." ■

Bunyan's Flute.-—The flute with which John Bunyan, the famous tinker, beguiled the tediousness of his captive hours is now in the possession of Mr. Howells, Gainsborough. In appearance it does not look unlike the leg of a stool, out of which it is : said that Bunyan, while in prison, manufactured it When the turnkey, attracted by the sound of music, entered hia cell to ascertain if possible the cause of the harmony, the flute was replaced in the stool, and by this means detection was avoided.-— Lineohishire Times.

A telegraphic message had been received at Madras of the death of Captain Peel, of small-pox, on his way down to Calcutta with the Naval Brigade. ,

A French journalist, in a letter written from Napleß states, that Orsini, on his trial made the alarming declaration (which no journal was allowed to print) that " there are one thousand Italians who have sworn to .strike Louis Napoleon ere the year 1858 shall pass,"_ and that they would follow him without cessation. These men, according, to the- writer am members of "the long-existent secret society" of which the Emperor was also a member, ~-..■ Jacob Carroll, of Texas, is the largest farmer in the United States. He owns2so,Coo acres of land. His home plantation contains about 8000 acres. Colonel Carroll has on his immense ranges of pasture lands about 1000 horses and mules, worth 50,000 dols. ; 1000 head of cattle, worth 7000 dols.; 600 hogs, worth 2000 dels.; 300 Spanish mares, worth 15,000 dols.; 50 jennies, worth 2000 dols.; 15 jacks, worth 9000 do]s.; and five stallions, worth 2500 dols. His annual income from the salo of stock amounts to 10,000 dols., and from tho sale of cotton to 20,000 dols.

' Homely Wit.—A short time ago, at a school in the north of England, during a lesson on the animal kingdom, the teacher put the following question :— "Can any boy name to me an animal of the order edentata, that is, a front tooth toothless" animal ?" A boy (whose face beamed with pleasure at the prospect of a pood mark) replied, " I can." " Well, what is the animal ?" asked the teacher. "My grandmother!" replied the boy, with great glee. '