The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-04-19
Off, 5niIg Arens.
Wednesday. April 10, 1875.
An American Emperor.

country by his Democratic ways. He
wouldn't permit any fuss to be made over
him, any way. At a very late hour several
distinguished representatives of our gov
eminent went down the bay Of New York
to welcome him; he said thank you, but
no nonsense for mel came to see your
country, not to be made show of myself
That's the amount Of what he said. The
New York Tribune says:
1--WE have no doubt the government did
its best. The secretary of state, the sec.
rotary OF war, and the secretary of the
navy were sent here to receive the dis
tinguished strangers. The Alert came
from Port Royal to fetch them ashore. A
general from the army aud an admiral of
the navy appeared in full uniform, and
every precautioh was taken to exclude
common persons from the imperial pres
ence. Anu yet somehow the ceremony
does not seem to have passed off with the
expected eclat All the guns of all the
forts we're loaded up to the muzzles, and
the eunners stood waiting with lanyards in
hand for day and night, but the
salutes-no one knows why-were not in
time; some we're fired at the wrong ship;
and some have not gone off yet. The
Alert lay with steam up and springs, no
doubt, on her cables, and the most elabo-
rate precautions were taken to telegraph
the approach Of the Hevelius from some
point far down the Jersey coast but when
the Alert had voyaged as far as the north
shore Of Staten Island, four or five hours
behind time, there was the Hevelius, tired
of waiting and just ready to come up with
out her. Then the Emperor refused to
leave his ship, and the secretaries bowed
themselves over the side; and while Dom
Pedro was crossing the Fulton Ferry in a
hack, the Alert pulled up the North river,
hoaxing everybody by displaying the Bra
lillian flag, and getting royal salutes to
which she was not entitled. Upon the
whole il may be said that there was tre-
mendous expenditure Of gunpowder in the
wrong place, and none at all where it was
needed, good deal Of manning of the
yards and so forth which excited the de.
rision Of the foreign sailors, and huge
preparation generally for a rather mean
performance, the whole concluding with
an ungrammatical dispatch from the presi.
dent,w begged to express" his welcome
the language of shopkeeper.
The World says:
"One such clumsy experience as that
on board Of the Hevelius yesterday is
enough even for centennial year; and as
neither Brazil nor the Uuited States can
be said to have come with flying colors out
OF this first attempt at exchanging cards
between the great Northern Republic and
the great Southern Empire of America, it
is well TO make clean breast of the thing
at once, and start fair for the future"
The Emperor of Brazil is an experience
ed ruler and sovereign. Indeed, though
not the Oldest man by any means, he is
the most experienced sovereign among all
the living occupants Of thrones. lie is the
dean Of the sovereign order, having come
to the crown lat tho early age of six, in
deed , in April, 1881, six years and more
before the accession of Victoria. And he
sustains his reputation as a monarch of
energy and resolution by the manner he
commences to see the United States -
Most people have heard of his visits to
Europe, and how he startled London by
going everywhere at the earliest morning
hours, driving about in common hackney
coach, and seeing the great metropolis
at time when his hosts were in bed
The Herald says:
"He takes hold of New York in the true
American fashion, for we must never for
get that our guest is an American in the
fullest sense, by birth and rank, and not
one OF your worneut, useless moDarchs
about whom the writer's Of memories like
Greville and Pepys tel US. He means to
lose no time in seeing our continent. When
the secretary OF state, as was proper, met
him with IA tender Of the nation hospi-
tally, he pushed him to one side aud
insisted upon being let alone. When the
guns were laundering forth salute to q
vessel on which he did not happen to be he
was quietly driving UP Broadway in 8
common coach, whose driver We have nc
doubt was bothering in his mind as t.
whether he should not add an extra dollar
to the fare for crossing the ferry
The emperor and the empress wear COM
mon plain democratic clothes The en-
press carries her own satchel, like any
other democratic lady. Instead Of resting
latter the fatiCues of trayel" this Ameri
can potentate, as soon as he finished a que
dinner, hurried off to the theatre, paying
for his box, like true American, and de-
cIining to be posted on the bill as an at
traction" by the judicious Tooker.
Sunday morning, like good pious Catho
lies as they are, he and the empress at
tended mass, and were given seats on thu
altar. In the evening the emperor wen
to the Hippodrome and heard Moody anC
Sankey, sat within the railing and Joined
heartily in singing Nearer, My God, t.
Thee" Before daylight he was diving
into the great newspaper Offices to see tn,
presses work and how busy men and boy
were sending out newspapers. And nov
he leaves the empress in New York ant
will hurry over the cotincnt to California
return and remain long enough to SEA
Sherman and Longfellow whom he ha
expressed wish to know, and then hurr,
to the Centennial, to Boston, and home b.
the way of Europe and the east. We mus
confess we are proud of our American EN-
peror as far as he goes. He is just tn,
kind OF an emperor we should expect from
great American country like Brazil. u,
travels without noise or ceremony; he goe
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