The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-22

General Mire's Mission to BIO and the Embroil-
xsuts Of Racs-The Difficulties Of Brasil at
an vnlueiy. Monent-Hsr Power for
81 ultimate Triumph Church Festivals
and the Monsstic Orders-Re-
es ports From the La Plata.
RIO yANErno, June a, 1872.

ome COnIedcrat10n, produced by the publication In
Duenos Ayres OF the provocative note OF the Argen
vine Secretary OF the Exterior to the Brazilian gov
eminent Although received early in May, the
government OF Brazil did not reply to 1t until the
18th Of June, but caused the Brazilian Minister In
Baenos Ayres to make personally to President
Sarmiento strong remonstrances upon the nature
and language Of the long and irritating note OF his
Secretary for Foreign Affairs. 1t would seem that
General Mitres mission to Rio was In part In
tended to mitigate the effect OF the note, but
General Mitre would not accept OF the carte
1sancne the President desired to give him, requir
ing strict and explicit instructions, and under
those circumstances publication Of the note was
given to hook the sympathies OF the Brazil-hating
Argentine public and to obtain the public support
70 the position the Argentine government had been
brought into by the note. Since then, on the mo-
tion Of hot-headed young Western deputy, the
Congress has unanimously passed minute APP
proving Of what the Argentine government had
done; ana thus, while strengthening the govern
ment with the authoritative Specification Of
national approval, rendered peaceful solution OF
the bellicose position more difficult to arrive at.
wAR,
m fact appears the only possible solution, for the
disputatants are not of the cooler Anglo Saxon
race, which can make large allowance for buncombe
and whose habits OF vud controversial discus
and to perceive the force OF augmentation even
on the adverse side. On the contrary we have
here two peoples standing up In front Of each
other with furious gestculations, peoples to whom
the idea OF an adversary being in the right ncon
ceivable, who accustomed to settle their inter.
nal disputes, personal or political, with
THE BLUNDERBUs AND THE KNIFE,
and whose passions the fiery, brieness young
lawyers who control the press, and use it as means
80 blow themselves into notoriety and place, are
busily flaming with reeatng and abusive articles,
calculated to act upon the ignorant, unreasoning
and blgoted masses which form almost the whole
sum total Of both nations. But whatever the Ar
gentine government may wish, there is no mistake
but that the government OF Brazil
WANTS PEACE,
and not war; with It's neighbour and that the publ
cation Of the abusive note was like bombshell In
Ats midst, and has forced 1t to assume belc0se
position which 1t was hoping to avoid by negotia-
lions and pacific remOnstrances. In fact, nothing
could be more unwelcome than breach of the
peace, when after i've years waste, to the tune
Of $2l4 00O the Brazilian finances had Just OBJ
tanned an equilibrium between receipts and expendi-
lures; when enterprise was expanding It's arms all
over the country; when the bonds of slavery
lad been cut; when reforms OF all kinds were
being seriously taken to heart by the govern
material progress was opening TO the nation; that
the vanity Of young lawyer should thus thrust
war upon q country busied in the promotion Of the
arts OF peace was very unpleasant.
are nearly nulliHed by che knowledge that the Ar.
gentine government three months ago sent agents
to Europe, and TO the United States also, so it's
said, to purchase cannon, ri1ed breech leaders and
irOn-clsds, for the purchase OF three of which last
the Argentine Congress, six weeks ago, voted
- 100000 Now, 40 things are, Brazil Is In posi-
tlOn to become tf '
s5 Id. MASTER OF THE SITUATION
governments purchases be stopped by the Neutral
governments nom whose countries they are to
come. Brazil with her numerous Meet Of light
against Q Power without navy. without manufac-
lures with commerce which would DO annihl-
without the means OF assailing Power whose
coast and foreign commerce carried on In foreign
BY neutral territory or by deep rivers commanded
by the adversarys gunboats. But all this would be
chansed were ONE noxun Lo-l.
TO appear upon the scene, haunting the gaudy silk
OF the Argentine banner. Then the Brazilian neet
strOyed or driven from the Plata to take shelter in
the shallow creeks from It's formidable antagonist
ana the Argentine nag might be displayed at every
port even koitseI despite its forts Of masonry and
hghtcarbred rined cannon, levying war contrlbu-
% Us IS
blind; It knows that It has not vessel capable OF
contending for . second with even tenth rate
armored corvette armed with 300pounder rifles
and II Is thus involved in the serious dilemma OF
sending an SD
demanding immediate satisfaction for the insult
and prompt settlement OF the Irritating Paraguayan
questions and thus provoking the war it is DESTROYS
20 avoid, or Of by trusting to negotiations leading
70 delays giving The sst ~ are as
himsef-the means they have been calculating on
for proonging the discussions until the arrival OF
their monitors enable them to throw on the mask
OF pacific palaver, and In the loud roar OF their
DEFY Brazil.
ana command her percmptorily to withdraw her
cocklesheil squadron instanter from the Plata and
its tributaries. This is the present position OF the
Notwithstanding difficulty.
CHURCH FESTIVALS.
Last week was the festival OF st. Anthony, and
Ills honor by his numerous namesakes and by
those as numerous devotees who delight In the
noise 1d e ss Ser John
his name to countless Johns, and whose day is
looked forward to by old and young to make their
pctre In all Its shapes, forms and appliances for
creating diabolica stinks and ear-racking sounds.
drafts and war taxes have drawn tight in many
cases the once freely slaokened purse-strings OF
paseI,mmrias erst profoundest devotee to the ire
worshp OF the good ST. John, and the devotion OF
the Saint today Is but shadow OF past
years still last evening the discharging Of crack
ers, I0otrnkere, rockets and Catherine wheels and
the waiting OF nre balloons to the Winds wonld
have driven Sunday Puritan "mad as hatter;'
nv vnA' in"Sn "uchuy tie sulphur CLOUD can
be seen rom every height pierced by rushing flights
Of rockets, aud more lofily ambitious re balloons
while Roman candies, p0rtfires Wheels and hon.
1res, intermfngled with capering forms Hash out.
THE JEsUTTs
continue TO occupy the public attention but what
can the good fathers expect, when standing stll In
che midst OF an onward rushing crowd than to have
their corDs trampied on, their RIBS hard squeezed
aud their nuttertng garments torn piecemeal from
their backsf In Rio Grande DO Sui the Bishop there
has again excited the people against him by refusing
suspended for preaching against the Jesuits, and
has added TO the anger BY evadipg the giving OF an
audience to deputauon of the city fathers Of
Pelotas. No =
~ Fatal FBvERs
From the city OF Para we learn that the fevers In
sne settlements on the Lower Tocantins had broken
out aesh and With greater viruence 30 that In the
CITY o. Oameta place OF about IL, 900 inhabitants,