American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-05-01
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fruit worth, it may be, a cou lie oE nllIed
they are usually decorated with snowy brace.
lets, gaudy necklace, flaring eardIops, etc
Those who have infants carry them on the
backs, somewhat after the manner of our In
dams, envelopng them in the folds OF thei
long striped cotton NANTES.
At the hospitable boards of those CONNER
cial houses engaged more Immediately III the
American trade, and the custom presume Is
general, one invariably meets with cordla
welcome; it is expected indeed that masters a
ships consigned to their address, should becom,
an inmate of their households and as their
transactions are very extended and varied, it Is
not at all uncommon to sit at table with % OF
so persons, and hear half dozen languages
spoken. Most kind and courteous to all, they
are particularly social and urhane towards
those of their native soil; and know Of no
thing more cheering to the spirits and grateful
to the feelings than the frank and warm vel
come one meets WITH douby dear in a foreign
land. Among the pcculiarites of their COM
meTcial transactions, may be mentioned their
system Of credit. Interest is never allowed on
sales on time, nor even upon funds remaining
in hand where every one is his own banker, the
latter is something of an objection indeed
Brazil is one Uf the blessed hard money coun-
tries (another term for land of blind bigotry
and ignorance where each individual ls ms
own cashier, there are consequently many RISKS
public institutions are exempt from, 1t Is
singular fact, 10y the way, that in this tecming
land, protesting to use a metallic currency en-
clusivoly, that you rarely have glimpse Of "a
single piece of gold or silver coin. Durng
my stay did not see solitary piece OF either
iption-paper and filthy copper are the
common mediums of value.
| have said nothing of churches, nor shall
attempt it. They are numerous, some of them
fine specimens of architecture, and all finished
and decorated with richness and proiuson-
an absolute blaze of gttering gold, and with
all the adjuncts to magnihcence shat sculpture,
painting and the arts can supply;-if King
SOLOMON could revisit the earth hewould ac-
knowledge himself vanquished. 1t is scarcely
fair for me, native Of that place whose citi-
zeus have mortal aversion to growing shade
or ornamental trees, to remark upon it, but
these good people even exceed US in this same
species of barbaric taste and vandal ignorance.
They are utterly neglected here, there is not
tree in any avenue or street of Rio de Janeiro.
There ale different modes and ways of en-
joyment and divers manners ofPassng through
this vale of tears, certainly; some prefer one
thing, some another. An Englishman is said
ease;-a Yankee is stoutly accused ofwaim ad-
mration for the almighty dollar;-a Brazilian,
should say, crceIs in doing nothing in the NOR
ming, in comforting the inward man Of an after
noon, and doing away his hours thereafter as
long as possible. They are excessively fond Of
fireworks, and of burning their powder in sa-
lutes; the most trivial occasion sufficing to get
up a row in this line on board their vessels of
war, and in their forts. There is scarcely
day passes but that either her ladyship the Vir-
gin, some one of the thousand saints in the cal
ender, or doings of II. l. NJ Senior Don Pc
dro, gives occasion for the indulgence Of this
puerile and childish trash-not that when pro-
per occasion serves, salute is not both courteous
and honorable to both the tender and recipient,
but that it stales by frequency, and becoming
vulgar and hacknied, loses its gloss and value.
So common is this habit, that am not certain
they do not initiate him Of Denmark, who,
when draining his draughts of Rhenish down.
babe the cannon to the Heavens speak: and
following in his footsteps, each time Senior
Pedro takes his rouse, quaffing the 'ato-Dou-
ro," of Oporto, gives his liege men notice there
Of 1t ia a custom that would be ''more honor
ed in the breach than the observance
A. r. R.