The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-05
EXCITING FROM RIO
Many Distinguished Citizens
Banished to the Desert.
HORRIBLE EXPECTATION SCHEME
Army Officers, Capitalists Editors and Others
ExiIed to Fever-lnfested District
Where Death is Sure


day tue steamer Pernambuco Of the Lloyd
Brazilian line-which had been seized for
the purpose and pressed into service as a
government transport-saiied away from
Rio carrying a number Of political prison
ers ana their families whom Vice-Presi-
dent Peixotto is sending into exile. Among
the captured are some Of the most cul-
tured, wealthy aud distinguished citizens
of Brazil; and their sole offense 10 having
ventured TO protest, through the newspa-
pers or by word Of mouth, against some Of
the high-handed and unconstitutional acts
OF the dictator who is just now tyrannizing
over this miscalled republic. Their desti-
nation is the desolate and deadly frontier
a Amazonia, near the eastern base Of the
Andes. between Venezuela and Ecuador
Us far from their homes rs Siberia Is from
the Russian capital-reached by an ocean
voyage Of 5000 miles and nearly as many
miles more OF river transportation. Little is
known o. that remote corner of Brazil be-
yond the feet that wild Indians possess it
who are hardly less pleasant to meet than
the enormous Amazonisu serpents that
abound whereabouts as numerousy az flies
in northern summer time; that mosquitoes
come in clouds, obscuring the sun, and
every grain Of sand is infested by poison
Gus ants and other tropical pests, making
life a perpetual torment TO civilized people
with but one single mitigating circum-
stance that il cannot last long, because the
climate of those lowlands under the equa-
tor is speedily fatal to human beings.
AMONG THE BANIsHED MEN
is Field Marshal Barretto, veteran of dis
tiuguished services IN all the wars OF Bra
I'll during the last half century--a hero
now tremulous with age who in any de-
cent country would be retired with the
honors he deserves, instead of being cruelty
e1iled 20 certain death, He is now the
senator elect from his district; but, re-
gardless of the exemptions accorded by the
constitution to lawmakers, he was aroused
from bed between midnight and dawn by
minions Of the dictator and hurried on
board the waiting Pernambuco, without
even being told the offense with which he
is charged or given time TO so much as bid
adieu to his family.
There are also the governors of several
states, each the legally elected choice of the
people of his section, and who ought now
10 be serving his term IN the gubernatoriRl
chair, but has been deposed by Peixotto
for presumed lack of sympathy with the
present administration. Prominent among
these is the late governor Of the state OF
AmazoRes, VINO so gallantly resisted the
Dictator demand for his Office few weeks
ago, and who com PEELED the naval force of
the vice-presidenl's unconstitutional ap-
pointee TO retire discounted, leaving tue
legally elected governor master Of the stu
alton, but who afterwards volun tarily re-
signed TO prevent bloooshed and TO spare
the lives and property of his friends.
There is also the doughty governor of
Ceara, about whom we have heard so much
OF late-R man who is well known and re-
spected throughout Brazil and idolized by
tho people of his state-a trusted friend OF
the late Dom Pedro. who made him presi
dent Of one Of the provinces. He was bonn
barded in his palace a snort time ago for
refusing TO surrender the Office to which he
had been legally elected TO Peixotto's ap-
pointee. Because he resisted the attempt
10 violently depose him, he was sent to Rio
and kept in prison, until now that he has
been exiled.
Three of the ablest editors OF the Rio
are also among the prisoners bound for
Amazonia whose papers were the NoUi-
dddes, the Cidade 90 Rio and the Reddctd,
whose crime was publishing the protests
of several citizens against Peixotto's
tyranny. There are also three congress-
men, several college professors, a physician,
dental surgeon, the wealthiest man in all
Brazil, banker or two, and others equally
prominent The capitalist above men
toned is
THE wELL-KNowN COUNT LEoPoLDINA,
an Englishman by birth and 8 Brazilian by
adoption, a gentleman of education and
good family, whose title is a genuine be.
stowal from the king Of Portugal, though
for value received in the shape of milreis
ia personal appearance he presents the
greatest contrast to the average BrRzieiro
7 hnfrr evrical ErCliehnon hir hlop1a
and beefy. His was The romance Of a
poor young man." Not great many years
ago he was plain Henry Lowndes, a clerk
on slender salary, sent out to
Brazil by a London haberdashery firm.
After q while he went into business on
his own account in Bsra, but soon failed
and drlfted TO Rio, poorer in purse than
ever. But there the wheel of fortune
took an unexpected turn. Though lame
from birth, like Lord Byron, and homely
enough 10 brighten infants, with i'll matched
features and members that appear to have
been inludiciously selected from miscel-
laneous lob lot" regardless of their fit-
ness 10 one another-a beautiful accom-
plished and very wealthy heiress fell in
love with him and they were married. BY
wisely investing his wife's money. the
sometime count has rolled up a colossal
fortune, which is now reckoned above the
half-dozen millions and has come TO be rec
ognlzed IS the leading financier OF Brazil.
ANOTHER INTERESTING EXILE
IS Senior Don Jose Carlos de Carvalho. a
distinguished naval officer and en- CapitdO
tencntc, who, for years. has been we'll
known as the manager Of the corporation
which controls the immense docks OF Rio
Janeiro harbor. lie is cultured aud ex-
tremely courteous man, tall, tne-looking.
one whose presence would command re-
spectful attention anywhere-a leader in
the highest social and political centers of
the capital In au interview with United
States Consul Kerby at Para, where the
prison boat stopped for few hours on its
way up the Amazon, this gentleman de-
clared that he had no idea why he was ar
rested. He said that it had been intimated
by his guards that it was because OF his
supposed influence with the hundreds Of
people employed about the dock, who will
soon be called upon 20 vote for legal sue
cessor TO the acting Vice President Peix-
otto. He declares that he has done nothing
secretly or illegally. but has published his
protest In the newspapers, a. did many
others. against the unconstitutional ousting
OF the governors of states; and that be has
also respectfully suggested that Peixotto
ought to mako provision for fair presi-
dental election by the people. He says he
was given no notice whatever of the in
tended arrest, but was hustled on board
tne transport -DetWeen Two Gays. = entirely
unacquainted with the charge against him,
and Of course with no chance OF making
any defense. To quote Senior Carvalho's
own words 20 the United States cansul, he
said: "You know that neither Deodora
Fonseca nor the present vice, Florisnna
Peixotto, were elected by the people. Our
provisional congress- appointed them 20
serve only until such time as arrangements
could be perfected for proper election BY
the people, and now that Fonseca is out.
we think that the question OF bis success