The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-27
B n A z I l..
The Funeral Of the Marquis De 0linAs Honors
to tho Dead-Nail Contracts Brazilian Con.
cessions-Prsssing Into the Army
How, When, Where and by Whom
Was Lopez Killed1

RIO JANHrRO, June 10, 1870.
The date of my last sent via England was the sth,
but the English steamer saladin having been adver-
USED today to leave early to.morr w morning an
extra opportunity is afforded.
The FUNERAL OF Senator, the Marquis de Olnda was
grand one, and the following was very great, for
the deceased senator was greatly respected. br.
gade OF National Guards paid the military nonors
due TO his rank as noble and to him as Senator aud
knight OF imperial orders. Twenty grooms OF the
imperial stables rode behind the hearsc, bearing
torches, and after them came carriage of the EN-
peror carrying the parish priest, another imperial
coach empty, the coffin not being able to go in, a
''coach oil respect of The Emperor's, a carriage
with the Condo de Ignassee representative Of his
Majesty, the best cavalry corps or regulars
and then an apparently never ending stream or
carriages, carrying the Ministers OF State.
the Presidents OF both chambers Senator'S, deputies,
functionares and the world in general. At the
cemetery there was also another brigade OF the Ma
tionh Guard and battalion of National Guard al
tilery to ire salutes over ,he grave.
There has been warm discussion in the Chamber
OF Deputies over the granting of the coasting mail
contracts from Para to Rio Janeiro ana from Rio
Janeir0 to Montevldeo to the United States ana
Brazil Steam Navigation Company. NJ. Carrere
line Of Liverpool, respectively. Some patriotic
deputies have anlmadverted strongly against the
Minister OF Agriculture for giving the contracts for
the most important mail lines to foreigners instead
OF TO the Brazilian Packet Company, which had pre-
viously had the grant. But al commercial are
well pleased, for the old company about one
hundred years behind the times in It's vessels and
mode OF management and the public had TO endure
incvility in addition to bad accommodation and
poor food In equence of the call for documents
regarding the contract the agreements and the
reports or the post oice authorities have been pub
llshed.
Messrs Carr6rc & Garrison contract to carry the
mails twice month between Para and RIO
Janero, calling at Maranhanl, Gears, RIO Grande do
N0rte, Parahyba, Pernambuco, Macelo and Bahia
for $4,000 2G COY each round trip equal 10 S3l2 600
year In current money, In new vessels Of 1900
tons burden, with speed OF eleven miles an hour.
rue vessels are to be naturaled BRAZILIAN free OF
taxation thereon ana the seat or the company Will
be in Flo JaneirO.
The Liverpool, Brazil and River Plate Steam NavI-
CATION Company CONT acts to carry the mails twice
month between RIO and MontevideO calling at Par
anagua Desterro fSt. Cathar,ne) and Rio Grande 90
Sui for So round 1D or 500 600 year (l 0OO
Ill current money IN new vessels OF 600 10 800 tons
BURDEN making ten miles an hour, and not drawing
more than nine feet These vessels are also TO carry
the BRAZILIAN 1ag.and the company is TO have It's
seat III Rio JaneiO.
The line from Montevldeo to Cuyaba in Matte Gros-
so, Is contracted with Conceisain IL CO., Brazians
In Montevi1cO, at $1,000 for each monthly round
trip, paid in currency.
months ana The last In next month. The contracts
are for five years.
Thus the government viii pay $40 900 n year for
the three services, which Is reduction OF $4,000
a. regards the lines from Para 10 Montevideo. The
old company asked $3.50. 600 for the lines from Para
10 RIO and from RIO TO MontevdcO against Ss32 600
asked by the foreign conn anies, IN addition to
which II would net accept several conditions,
Old steamers on tue south line.
Tie question OF pressing for the ARMY and navy
has been freely debated and has caused some oppo-
Ia In mr.
tcuiar, have warmly protested against maintaining
such veXaiory proceeding IN peace times but the
Minister oil war declares Tie army cannot be kent
al 5000 men without pressing, and he also asserts
that the annual approva! OF the authorization To-
press IL not necessary, as the Executive possesses
the power independently OF the Legislature. If this
be the doctrine of the present Ministry it does not
augur well Tor reforms promised To amellorate the
| oppressed CONDITION OF the working classes, en-
slaved they are, by the National Guard law The
power OF pressing and the virtual irresponsbty OF
| The police.
The death Of Lopez is exemplifying the uncertainty
OF history First, The Brazilian General reported
that Lopez received his death wound the head OF
his troops, from the lance of Frank the Devil the
cavalry corporal Second. his official report says
nothing Of Frank the Devil and his lance but tells
that Lopez received two mortal wounds while gal
loplng to the wood when attempting to 1ee and
lhat on the bank OF the Aquiiaianlgui solder
rushed up and shot him through the beart While n
Brazilian soldier, at the Generals command, was
wrestling with Lopez to get his sword rom him.
Third, General Camara writes In his letter to the
editor OF the NdctOn in Buenos Ayres that Lopez
was snot on the bank OF the Aqudabaniqui by SOL
uiers Oh tle Quiet siue WHO Hrcu 10 protect Camaia
| when wading over the stream, ard that Lopez re-
ceiyed no wound Afterwards during the wrestling.
Thus General Camara has three distinct accounts OF
an affair az which he active agent as
| wei as spectator. And now q Rio Grandesubal.
tern claims to ha c given the death wound 10 iopez
during the pursuit, and denies that any other took
share IN the killing. Undoubtedly Sir Walter Raleigh
Was right when he destroyed his history OF the world
in despair of rec0ncilIDg the dlscrepant accounts Of
| spectators OF q recent scene
The official reIOcings seem postponed sine dte az
| no time has YET been fixed for he IL DENIM The,
\ ANN of Az
camation Is yet unfinished, and something on top of
II Is going up which at present. looks like monster
lady's "skeetoH" but which may hereafter take on
subsistence and become a tower dome. In another
part Of the square is tail erection OF spars about
whose top or crows nest sheet liz wrapped to the
admiration and wonder OF the passer by but what it
IL no one knows.
No steamer has been in from the River Plate since
the Sth, whose news, already given in my letter OF
That date, was merely OF the de ectiou or TWO chiefs
Of Entire Rlos rom Jordan, at tie head OF 900 men,