Extract of a letter from an officer on board the U. $. ffigate Brandywine, dated
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 CALLAo, August I24, 1885. cannot send you any interesting news. gThese unhappy countries are constantly in a state of revolution. Demagogue succeeds demagogue continually, and the result is demoralization and impoverishment to an astonishing degree, ane the countries which have enriched the world, are, in conse- quence of bad government, fast relapsing to state of misery, which, to be estimated, must be seen. The sources of inexhaust- ible wealth, the mines, are most shameful ly neglected. The hands which should be employed in washing them, are employed in civil wars, fighting neither for principles nor liberty. but III the cause of any individ- ual who has art sufficient to create party, and who has boldness sufficient 10 seize the relns ef government, in defiance of all law or justice.

 Above seven months since, desperate fellow, Brigadier General, named Sala- very, at the head off two hundred men, (du- ring the absence of the President in the in- terlor,) left the Castles of Callao, with the command of which he was entrusted, enter ed Lima, city of some 60 or 70 thousand souls, marched to the Palace, ejected the civil officers of government, and declared himself, pro tenn. Supreme Chief and Pres ident of Peru, aud what Is more, he has still possession of the castles at this place, allth cities on the sea board, and has an army of about , thousand troops, thousand of which are encamped at Bellavista, which IS about l-2 miles from this place; and I assure you, better clad or better disciplined troops 1 have never yet seen. This man Is certainly born to make a noise in the world. A more determined looking devil I never saw. Constantly among his troops, drilling day and night, by day in an extensive plain, and at night in the halls ef az ancient ision- astery In Bella Nista.

 The President has collected an army. and h conjunction with St. Cruz, the Pre- sident of Bolivia, IS marching 10 encounter him. As matters stand, the odds are in favour of Saavery.