Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-18
FANNIE B. WARD IN BRAZIL.
She Predicts That the New Republi,
Will Die Young.

She Predicts That the New Republic
Will Die Young.
Fannie B. Ward, the talented and fear
less correspondent of the RECORD UNION,
who is travelling over South America and
furnishing cur readers with entertaining
and reliable information in regard to the
countries south of rs, in private letter to
the managers of this paper, dated Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, November 1lth, says, among
other things:
Now and then a copy of the RECORD
UNION reaches us in our wanderipgs, and
always affords US both great deal of pleas
ure. lou remember, perhaps, that one of
my daughters Fannie Jr.), accompanies
me on this journey as my stenographer.
There have been some breaks in the series
of the South American letters, but only
when we found ourselves in out-of-the-w
places, where there were absolutely no
postal facilities. For example, we have
crossed the Andes several times, you know,
each time nearly living in our saddles from
| three to five weeks, and hardly encounter
| ing house Except the Government tam
pas), much less postoffice.
! Our recent journey through Smiths
Channel and the Straits of Magellan in
| cluded fortnighl's cruise among the
| islands of the Terra del Fuego group, and
of the western coast of what used to be
| Patagonia; besides a stop at Punta Arenas,
| the most southerly town on the globe, and
a run to the Falkland Islands. Then we
had long journey up the Rio de la Plata,
the Parana and Paraguay rivers; another
into the Interior of the Argentine Repub-
lie, to visit the Ostrich and sheep farms and
cattle ranges and to AscencioD. the Capt.
4 %nl <f De- 4 l.
another, longer trip, to the far regions of
the upper Amszons. l will do nv best,
however, toward sending the MSS. as regu-
| lsrly as possible. When they are slow in
coming, or don't come at all, you
may be reasonably certain that it is be-
! cause we are "stuck"-tem porarily-in
| some benigh.ed section from which we will
| emerge in good time. l can safely promise
that the letters will increase in interest
from now On, as / have at last laboriously
| waded through the more prosy parts, not
feeling justified in emitting tk EN-, though
| conscious that the manuscripts were some
times dull and not mp to the mark.
] There is little yellow fever yet in Rio, but
the weather is excessively hot. Yesterday,
after q regular scorcher, Fannie and went
out for ride, between four and six O'Clock;
and in that less than two hours time we
saw eight funeral professions, and one
corpse being carried on curtained
stretcher.
The first Congress of the new Republic
convenes on the 15tn irst.. ani preparations
are in progress for grand celebration to
last several Gays. The Republic will die
young, like the good little boys in Sunday.
school books, but not from the same rea-
son. The people are too lazy and unstable
to govern themselves, and if good old Dom
Pedro was to return tomorrow he would
be welcome with open arms. The
Government seems 10 have gone actually
crazy, and continues to hand out
concession after concession, and eppropria
ton after appropriation to whoever asks fol
one, utterly oblivious of a limit-thougt
within the last month more than twenty
times as much money as the country is
worth has been promised in that way.
grand crash will come some day. The
Argentine Republic is even worse of, hsv
ing literally doomed to death. Its arm,
is completely demoralized. and war il
threatened with Chile; exchange is at sucf
| rate that for every one of our American
dollars we received at the Argentine bank
S3 IA of theirs. Business failures and sui
cides are pitifully numerous, and the horde
of emigrants they spent SO much money +
secure are rushing away by shiploads. Ont
year in these countries has taught us t
appreciate the United States as never be
/ ! foro