The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-03-31
The California Expedition
Rio DE JANEIRo, Nov. %, 1876.
The Apedrante of RIO Janeire-Dsath-Ou De-


IL.
Rio BE JANEIRo, Nov. %, 1886.
The Appearance Of RIO Janeire-Dsath-Our De-
Tdrturs
We have been lying in this beautiful harbor,
said by those who have visited the various ports
in the world, to DO superior in point of natural
beauty and grandeur to even the Bay Of Naples.
Nature has scattered her blessings here with a
profuse hand. The magnif ent hills that are
piled up thousands of feet in height around the
city, are now, at the beginning of summer, clad
in rich verdurs The balmy scents, borne on the
gentle breezes of this tropical climate, come down
from orange groves and flower gardens to us, and
every thing which can make earth paradise is
found here IN this great empire of Brazil And
here, in country where natural facilities exceed
all others on this continent, is race Of people
indo!ent, unentsrprising, ignorant. weak and
puny In the interior, the soil is so rich that
ly all the necessaries OF life spring up sPontane-
ousy, and the lazy owner of Is content to gather
them as his need requires. The whole year round
everything is growing-crop succeeds crop in
quick succession, without the necessity of labor
Tor its production. Twas informed last evening,
by an officer in the Brazilian navy, that there
are not twelve ploughs in the whole empi 0.
La the imperial city of Rio Janeiro can be
found the most perfect specimens of lazy hui
mainly in the world. Tho population is about
200, 900, two.rhrds of whom are negroes, most
ly slaves The remainder the nobility
and merchants, who 1.-Two in magnificent stye.
Tho soldiers are negroes, who NAV be found
lying about the ENperor's palace. and through
The streets, sleeping. These soldiers receive
the enormous sum Of sxpence day pay, while
their officers receive about double. The work is
all done by negroes, one of whom can perform
about one talrd as much as stout Yankee. The
city Is built OF low, one story houses, tho material
of which is crumbled stone, covered with stucco
wash. There IS granite enough with ten miles of
Rio to build up splendid city of solid rock
tl,nfs III,
inhabited by Yankees Its rich plains and hills
would bs covered with luxuriart growth of all
the fruits and plants which can be raised in any
country Of the world, and its cities would be ro
iuvenated and beautified, land the hum of industry
and the happy song of the busy mechanic and
laborer would take tho place Of the indolent air,
and the low grunt Of the lazy negroes, rs they
unwingy perform their duties.
l.. 1t is now the last Of November, and the Their
mometer is ranging toward 100 deg. in the shade,
while you New Workers are shivering in the cold
frosty nights OF autumn. he most fragrant and
beautiful flowers are blooming from all the balco-
MES OF kio. 1t hardly seems possible that we are
IN the beginning OF winter. o, this paradise Of
Brazil!
We shall probably sail Tomorrow The frigats
Columbia and sloop of war PEBBLE sail at the
same time, the former to 60 to Mentsvidee, and
| the latter to accompany us round.
Four OF the officers OF our regiment return to
New York on sick leave. Those are Captains
.
L'eutent Jennings, Of Company X, and Liedten-
ant Brewster, of Company G. l shall write you
again atValparaiso. Bon dias. E. G. B.
ST. Lovls, Mo. Feb sth, ls47.
Nswsysper Press Of st. Lsuis-Lifs and Society at
the Wsa-BsAs and GambIins-T Trials and Pc
iitics
That the press of our city is as heightened as
any which the country may boast, is what the
writer is not at all disposed to deny In trutA its
tone is rather too high-too elevated to descend
% the vndication OF such a thing as common
riyht-too sublimatsd to attend to The vulgar oe-
currsnces of every day life, and to point out the
rots1hen Of society. You would scarcely be-
lieve it, yeti is nevertheless fact that with
population falling short probably of forty thou
sand souls, St. Louis can boast nine daily Jour.
Ave or six monthliss.
This beiag the state of affairs here, and as
distance lends enchantment to the view"
propose occasionally to drop you some inkling,
Of society as it exists in ST. Louis, alike for the
edification Of your readers generally, and the ben.
Gift of your numerous readers here. / shall con.
fine myself to facts, and hence shall fear not con
tradiction. Candor and truth shall dictate my
every jetting-down, and merit, a. well a. de-
merit meet its reward. General, as we'll as lscal
intelligence shall add interest to my communiea.
tons, and, all things anticipated, look forward
to become an enquired for correspondent! But
that's between ourselves.
The winter has thus far been unusually dull
with US. The large edifice called a theatre has
been closed, and the weather 80 excessively cold
that the very clever equestrian corps Of Messrs
Mabie Il Co, have been unable to perform with
any thing like regularity. This company by tho
way, since the death OF poor Joe Claveau, the
| universal favorte, has been rather poorly pro-
! vided with clown.
Balls have been of frequent occurrence, and
particularly masquerade balls. BY the by, a
| rather queer question, in reference to balls
| arose the other day in one of eur municipal
| courts. Some score of darkies were arragned foI
being present at masquerade ball, given by o
gentleman OF their own color 1t appeared in
| evidence that our worthy Mayor had granted
permission for the ball, but had said nothing
about the marquerade part Of it. The defence
set up, and winch prevailed, was, that as mas.
querades were now the most frequent kind oil
ball, it was not necessary, for any legal purpose
to make distinction in terms.
Arropos Of masqusrades. To a gathering OF
this kind, which recently came off at one OF The
hotels, ut which all the elite of the city were pre-
sent, two syprians gained access, and enjoyed the
festivities with so much propristy of demeanor
that not until the next day was the dreadful cir
cumstance of their presence discovered. OF course
the dcnouement was anything but pleasant, espe-
ciaOy when the reflection arose that these speci
mems OF human frailty had mimicked 80 well the
pretty little fooleries OF the upper crust" fair.
Within 4 lew days the fashionable world has
been sadly shocked by truly painful occurrence
star of no small magnitude has gone QUITO the
country-and though it may return again, it will
probably be under eclipse.
There exists here. as in all cities Of con sidera-
BILE size, a class OF nonproductive bipeds, called
"sporting gentlemen" The doiDgs OF these have
recently created quite a sensation. At one of the
'hels" Of this city, for several weeks past large
| sums have been won and lost by persons no
usually accounted gamblers One OF these, whose
wealth seemed as Inexhaustiblo as his confidence
in ultimate success, saked and lost at faro on ons
evening oflast week, no less a sum than SIT 900
The loser was partner in highly respectful biz
business firm, the senior OF which was absen
from the city. On the following day the senior
returned, and ascertained that 5000 OF thu
money lost had been special deposit with them
Exaspsrated at his partners folly, and unmind
iul of the lmpolicy of making the affair public a
such crisis, he armed himself to the teeth called
on person supposed TO be interested in the