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BOLIVIA. 



BOYCE, JAMES P. 



agent in Valparaiso to succeed the National Bank of 

 Bolivia. Don Enrique Meiggs is authorized to ap- 

 point representatives in all the custom-houses on 

 the coast, for the collection of the whole of the ex- 

 port dues on ores and metals, in order to apply them 

 to the defraying of the expense of constructing the 

 line ; the Government admits its indebtedness of 

 $248,894.76. besides the export tax of 60,000 marks 

 of silver, giving a total of $276,894.76. The Govern- 

 ment undertakes to pay Don Enrique Meiggs this 

 sum, together with interest at the rate of seven and 

 a half per cent., from the surplus which remains of 

 the export tax on ores and metals, after the service 

 of the bonds has been attended to, and with the first 

 profits obtained from the railway. 



A tender was accepted from Sefior Marzo 

 for the construction of a narrow-gauge line to 

 the Peruvian frontier, at an estimated cost of 

 about $4,250,000, with a government guaran- 

 tee of eight per cent, on the extension of the 

 railway to La Paz. 



An important concession was granted to 

 Mr. Daniel Yoachman, formerly of Santiago, 

 for the canalization of the Eio Desaguadero 

 (connecting Lakes Titicaca and Aullagas). The 

 privilege is for fifty years ; and Oruro, if the 

 project be carried out, will thereby be placed in 

 communication, by water and rail, with the sea. 



A proposal made by Sefior Suarez Arafla to 

 open two roads from the city of Santa Cruz to 

 the lake of Caceres, on the right margin of the 

 river Paraguay, was accepted. The undertak- 

 ing does not promise to be an easy one, owing 

 to the immense deserts of Otuquis and the ob- 

 stacles presented by the plains of Izozo. 



A cart-road is to be made from La Paz to 

 Carapata, the port on Lake Titicaca. 



The commencement of 1875 found this dis- 

 tracted country still a prey to political violence. 

 On December 24, 1874, a revolution broke out, 

 headed by General Quintin Quevedo, already 

 famous for the numerous attempts to overthrow 

 the existing government, and now leagued with 

 Dr. Corral against the Frias administration. 

 Though repeatedly repressed, the rebellion was 

 not finally crushed until April. The following 

 extract of a private letter dated Cochabamba, 

 February llth, will give an idea of the state 

 of affairs at that city : 



Cochabamba has been converted into a perfect 

 desert. The forced evacuation of all the nouses 

 within eight blocks of the principal square, and the 

 abandonment of the city by all those who are not 

 friendly to the revolutionary party, have reduced the 

 city to a most miserable plight. The anxiety and 

 terror of the people on seeing the town in the hands 

 of Miguel Aguirre and his followers, can be easily 

 imagined. His first step, on taking possession of the 

 town, was to take forcibly from the National Bank 

 $20,000 belonging to the funds for public instruction, 

 and five days afterward he seized $50,000 belonging 

 to the bank itself. He has with him six hundred 

 men, only one hundred of whom are armed with 

 rifles, and these of all kinds and calibres. By to-mor- 

 row the barricades erecting on one block of the 

 square will be terminated. They run parallel to one 

 another in pairs, and are very high. Communication 

 is kept up between them by narrow passages. Those 

 most liable to capture will be mined. A great many 

 of the populace, who are Corralists, assist the move- 

 ment, although not with much decision; but the 

 majority follow Aguirre and the Prefect Galdo, be- 



cause these treat them with great liberality. Aguirre 

 is said to have told a friend of his that his only fear 

 was that the Government troops would not leave 

 Oruro at once to attack him, as, in case of delay, his 

 men would disband of themselves, their supplies 

 being rapidly consumed, and they have no means to 

 replenish them. The bank officials refused to de- 

 liver their specie and that of private persons intrust- 

 ed to them for safe-keeping, and declare they will 

 allow themselves to be killed rather than surrender 

 any money. The city was laid in ruins, and never- 

 theless many of the inhabitants, who had fled, re- 

 turned on peace being restored. 



In May the department of Cochabamba was 

 reported to be perfectly quiet, the legal author- 

 ities having been reinstated, with the exception 

 of General Carlos Villegas, commander of the 

 troops, who was accused of disloyalty during 

 the rebellion. 



Quevedo, Corral, and nine other rebels of 

 lesser note, were tried and condemned to death ; 

 but the punishment was afterward commuted 

 to ten years of penal servitude, and finally to 

 ten years' banishment from the country. 



A revolutionary movement took place at 

 Santa Cruz de la Sierra on April 26th, but was 

 promptly put down. The leader there was 

 Deputy Andres Ibafiez. 



In the second half of the year the approach- 

 ing elections for President constituted the al- 

 most exclusive preoccupation of political circles. 

 Of the four candidates proposed at the begin- 

 ning of the campaign Dr. Belisario Salinas, 

 civil candidate ; General Daza ( Minister of 

 War), military candidate ; Dr. George Oblitas, . 

 Quevedist candidate ; and Vasquez, the repre- 

 sentative of the Corral party two only were 

 regarded as truly national, Salinas and Daza. 



BOYCE, Eev. JAMES P., D. D., LL. D., 

 President of the Southern Baptist Convention, 

 was born in Charleston, S. C., in 182V. He 

 studied at the Theological Seminary at Prince- 

 ton, N. J., from 1849 till April, 1851. He was 

 ordained to the ministry in December of the 

 same year, and was settled over the Baptist 

 Church at Columbia, S. C. In 1855 he became 

 Professor of Theology in Furman University. 

 He was elected a professor in the Southern 

 Baptist Theological Seminary at Greenville, S. 

 C., in February, 1858, and entered upon the 

 duties of that office on October 1, 1859. The 

 operations of the seminary having been practi- 

 cally suspended during the war, he entered 

 the Confederate army as a chaplain, and served 

 in that capacity for six months. He was elected 

 to th.e Legislature of South Carolina in 1862, 

 and \Vas reflected in 1864. In 1863 he was 

 appointed by the Confederate Government a 

 special commissioner to.secure the adoption by 

 the States of a plan for the relief of the Con- 

 federate debt, which he had himself brought 

 forward in the South Carolina Legislature in 

 1862. Since the close of the war, he has given 

 his attention to the resuscitating and reestab- 

 lishing the Southern Baptist Theological Sem- 

 inary, lately removed to Kentucky. His labors 

 in this work are spoken of as having been very 

 successful. In 1874 he secured pledges to the 



