The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-28
BRAZIL AS SEE 1T.
BY COL. RICHARD A. STEWART.
D.cI.l Correspondent. ofsb. New orl..n. or..o.n.l

all the information of interest relative to Brazil
while some others fully snathemize me for want
Of interest In the welfare of my friends at home.
l am ALTO in receipt of budget of letters, cut
from nine newspapers, and my attention is spe.
cislly called by one of the writers t. tina. TAKEN
from the Mobile Advocate-and am significantly
asked II, sfter reading the editorial in the Advo.
cate, my ink will not dry in my pen?
CONFESS that the reading of these letters is
quite enough to dry up the confidence one has in
man, much more his ink" Indeed they show
Brazil so very different from the Brazil have
been writing about, that am like Rip Van Win.
kle, ready to ask, Who am and what country
is this am in?' Ia my stay in this country for
the last ten months have certainly used some
industry 10 inform myself on every subject of in.
ter est TO my oppressed Southern friends but |
find myself far in the distance when compared
with others who have taken ia hand to inform the
world and The rest of mankind" OF Brazil aud
the Brsziiians. Among the causes may venture
to state as the chief one of my failure, the fact
that expected TO find country and people very
similar to our Southern States-for after all is told
and written, the world is pretty equally balanced:
and thenl did not come To thus country to meme.
tate Ozark avenues or search for dark spots which
opine may be found to some extent ia every
land and smoEg every people, for had learned IN
my early boyh0Od that the sun had spots on its
lace. In The tWenty'seven letters have sent the
LREsCENI, Line l fear were lost at St. Thomas
My purpose has been TO wife facts relative to
the land, its location, It's products value the man
her AID mode Of cultivation. the river and sea
navigation, the arts science aud Literature of tue
country, lis political condition, ere. But sac 20
much published, puIpOTting tO be reliable inior.
nation on Brazil, 4 begin very strongly co sus.
pect that my eyes are on the verge OF failing me,
AM ~ Ia call Fhar
If st. Charles Hotel notorlety 70 remedy the evil
OF every fact have stated in the letters pub
lished in the CRESCENT that has reached me- is
cUBuoverted by that OF all others, the most dn
SBsWeIable argument, that OF bold assertion
IL rs tue that writer's, from different stand points
may zee through different mediums but in these
Instances, lske Ia hand to show that not one of
these correspondents saw from any point, and
claim 'he lhdug ence II the readers of the Cries.
CLHT who desire ruth relative 10 Btazl.
have advised no man 10 seek home in this
county. state facts they pr sent themselves.
aLo leave men b. ace ap0n their better iudg nents
through The kindness of influential friends [
ave uev n ensbled 20 iurm pretty extensive ac
qualbtances fOr the short time have been ia this
empire. la my travels and intercourse wItn gem
htmeD have gathered many tac.s of interest
The Mobile Advocate Inuurses some OF the cor.
respondents referred to. Let a. take peep at
The advocate: " here is b0 regular organized
government IN Brazil :" no sOciety;W but
htte cultivation among the people; " no way
"f making money; "tbe people scarce know the
meani u the woId ki4dne -" etc. | will infl.m
the Advocate tbal BRAZIL under a veil organized
democratic constitutional monarchy, aud, except
The executive department, h a fac sime o. the
government vi the old United States. No peoule
ever brestbed more freely than do he people of
bIazli, sId many Of my cOGntrvmen have assured
NE ihat thty only know OF the government IN acts
Of Kindness As far as am competent 70 Judge,
consider the society about eqoal 10 that Of our
southern S,ates. Ibaeed, all seem 10 be early lm.
pressed with The great similarity bet aeen thus and
our people. never knew IA people who dressed
mOle elegantly or who have liner manners-or
more given to Hospitality, or more tenpera than
lie azblans. IL Is true, II an emigrant upon ar
flvlbg al no spends his time at the cOtfeehpuse
Americana, boring every gentleman who whl SUB
NIT 10 hear bis OFT repeated tale # The loss of
TWO hubdtee and twenty thousand dollars lost nv
the revolution IN the States, he will not vers
likely increase bis capital. Bat Il ne mas a years
supp OFT and VIII pIch INTO work with free good
Will, determined "a succeed, do not know of any
country where he can do so well. The gentlemen
whom the Advocate indOrses arrived here where
tbey remained some weeks took passage on A sea
vessel for 1T. Panic. where they remained short
'We, returned to Ric by the same line of steam
ers and took sailing vessel for the United States
Their stay beng httle over three months IN Brazil
lbey belther spoke the Language of the cOaatry
bor entered private circles OF society. Now. I !
ask, are these gentlemen competent 20 give the |
history OF Brazil and he Brdzllians? As for Col
EDWARDS, sdnilt all he states TO be true: he |
slslied The heberla; the people asked six dollars
iu acre Tor lhtiT land the houses had no chin
Deys never saw one in Btszi) negroes seemed |
% ne al equal footing with the whites u wish |
me same could he SAID OF the whites IN the South
m o'atesD He then. as 1 understood, took a |
mule, travelled two hundred miles on a road over |
mountains 10 collect Mississippi debt from a |
rend who had settled in that far OF region know
ng that 10 foreign debt could be collected in |
olSzdi snd, therefore, cOlsoled himself with the |
4appy thought thai no Judgment but shat of the
ast DAY would disturb his quiet He then r..
drned 70 Rio and eftfOr the United States, doubt
sss hoping that be might find bis Oash ct aile.
'iance that he let slip out OF mis- fingers on his vow
se OUT here. Dir. Crawford sent MS drife back
o New York. followed herIn the next steamer, aud
ever vas cut OF RIO; was Mr.. Bovan onu
e eIt II disguise, The foot of the policeman clos
rs utOn the track Of the swindler, Lastly 4 will
lOuce a Missouri transplant rom down east:
" l an, be says, fully convinced that there
: DO sucb Ting as honesty on the part of the |
hen or virtue OF the part OF the womel.n
All well eduOa ed men acknowledge that the
women are the glory OF the land and pride OF toe
country. Nothing can be more revolving 10 QOoi |
aste man 20 hear Of such sweeping denuuci4.
ions against female character. We could VIA
= much iroDrety caiumGiate the sua, when
yves lie 10 ratUTo, because OF tie clouds tnat
zoe over its ehugeEt face. at the close of one
! Miss Fanny Aright's ir5e love lectures IN New
olS, kinsnlan Of our hero approached her and
confessed hiuteh convert to hec doctrines aad
i"poeSu union WIN her UDcI her principles,
Is D.. said she, " you mistake me. ! had refer.
nee 10 ren aud women, and DOT 20 monkeys and
Women can hardly think it possible that g
an capable OF such calumny could fnd even
% use Tor suspicion Of general female unchss-ify
The chaflbers (oOng essl assembled three DAYS
&c. he emperor 10 his speech stated thag ar al
EportuDe day he Iii.pr0pose plan 70 regulate
lsyery. TINS subject Was brOughs before tue
bsmbers year ago, but fell Stubborn, without
wing evidence of healthy breath. When we
eueet thar the government owes a debt of over |
.ur hundred millions of dollars that the war
nth Paraguay is still in progress and being so
- on the part Of Brazil that nothing but an |
cnorsble victory can sustain her national char
etef, 1t is Lot probable that anything short OF |
gradual emancipation, terminating with the |
resent century, viii be entertained even by |
ie leaders of The abolition party. Indeed, they
ave seen the islands Of gland and France
sde desert wastes, and the more recent acts
the United States which have proved so mis-
llevOus. IA that country, that they would he
ost stupid, indeed, if they did not learn wis
ON rom their neighbOrs.
he news that au emigrant steamer in the Ma.
ian line was to leave New Orleans on the lItb
April and consequently expected here to !
GROW, has excited the deepest Interest with