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Show The Rebels in Peru. Lima, September 25. General Caceres, at last advices, was quietly sojourning at Tar-ona. Tar-ona. . His forces, now computed at 2,500 men, with ten field pieces, are scattered over the country in that neighborhood, but make no demonstration toward Lima, where the government has a garrison of 5,000 soldiers. sol-diers. Further south, at Prisco, lea and Chincha, Cacerists are more active. Those three places have fallen into -their hands, and in consequence an order has been issued i by the Treasury Department closing Prisco to commerce. The government forces hold I Salverry, Trujillo . and Cajarnaca. It is reported that Colonel Romero Flores, who commands the revolutionist troops iu the northwest, made' an attack on Avarez a few days ago and was driven off with considerable consider-able loss. . The Indians in the department of Hnaraz I are Bomewhat '..i Ik lent, a thousand of them i h tacked the t wn of Caraz last week, but were driven o t with great loss by the Urban guard. |