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Seka ates the multitude changed their prayers, and called upon 
w saint rhelp. But w hether the saints did not hear, whether 
they co od not or haven not help, the earth continued to tremble, the 
subterranean artillery to roar. A few hours more, and the more reso- 
lute had become accustomed to the roar, and began to take measures 
for the he safety, the ravages of the Indians being feared. 
About 1 o’clock in the morning, a gentleman of my acquaintance 
climbed over the ruins of my house into the yard to look after me. 
wn 
dra! was sites oe but the town, now was involved in one’ 
belfry had been thrown down, its Alege was in ruins, its walls were 
cracked and full of fissures. All the other sional save that of the 
old Franciscan convent, had suffered far more severely, and their inte- 
riors presented sad pictures of solitude and ruin, being covered am 
dust and rubbish from the fall of tiles and stones from the heavy roo 
Colossal statues had tumbled from their pedestals, and their lawiel 
and gorgeous robes were dragged in the dirt. There they lay, essa 
triumphant procession. Life and property were at this moment of 
ore importance than images, the worship * which had done so little 
to arrest the footsteps of the calamity. ing and a newly finished 
tower of the university still stood, and single enough, the clock was 
still striking the hours with all due regularity. Inthe Episcopal palace 
the ceiling had given way, and the bishop, Don Tomaso Saldana, a man 
justly admired for his piety and virtues, had fared no better with his 
Pepublicea head than we oer Sefior Duenas, ex-President of the 
injured. 
The streets were now deserted, save by military guards posted here 
and there, and we found our progress much impe eded 2 the 46 of 
ruin and rubbish.. Inside the houses was the quiet of dea ie -peo- 
ple, fearing to remain even in the widest streets, had gar tae high 
and low, rich and poor, and were seated upon the ground in the centers 
of the public hea The stiff Spanish etiquette which generally so 
completely divides the several ranks of the population, was completely 
na in this night of terror. Rich men and beggars joined their 
ears, their cries, their prayers, supplications and hymns, at each new 
shock of more than common severit 
Don José Maria San Martin, the recently —<— President of the 
Republic, exhibited great presence of mind and r solution, and gave 
wise and energetic directions for the ioe of property. At the 
iscan monk, Don Es 
Castillo, a —— se of ours, a member of one of the first 
oe in — untry. He is the most ingenuous and remarkable - 
van aes met in Central America, extremely inquisitive, muc 
given to philosophies! speculation, and the possessor of one peculiarly 
