The Republican journal., 1892-03-17
Uruguay.

nr- ARrEs' AND OTHER NOVEL IN
-.rCroNs.
1 correspondence of the journal.
u.<tAYInEo. Uruguay, January. The
,anlc of Uruguays capital is San Fe-
,,.ar Montevideo-''l see the Hill OF
an, Philip;' queer title indeed, but
rAy those pious old Spaniards who per
.-ri-ed their atrocities in the most de
,IN religious manner. Years ago the
g.. of the Saint was dropped in general
presumably for sake of
H4. and thus it now stands as II see
IiII The hill which the discov-
z5N is days spoken of as
Fl Cerro. (the hilD, with no refer
the forgotten Apostle. 1t rises
.. a5siance back of the town, to the
about l40 metres, and is topped
-athouse, a signal station and a pic
-.n. pld fortress, which was built for
zion OF the harhor immcdiatelN
apitulation of the English, in
is now used only as prison.
. way. we ought to know some
ne history of this little sister of
specially a~ it Is Uruguay : boast
revolutionary war first put her
4 l,,1
.e. that hen Republic owes ex-
Inc successful issue of that ear
a.-'. 1nd her Constitution was close
med from that of the United
aAan history is older than ours.
t> back almost four centuries.
eN when Don Juan de Soils sailed
estuary of the majestic river that
wards named La Plata, but which
.pl I'arana- Guazia the latter word
iug sea like and landed about
miles east of the present capital.
ime the country was densely pop
Nith Indians, among whom the
uaAJ tribe were the Chirruas. a peo-
pA almost extinct. described as eX-
Mltly strong, well-formcd. dienified,
ntowed with natural nobility of
Ter. Doubtless they belonged to
a family OF Pampas Indians, that
Ihit vast tracts to the north and
Like them. they We're a yellow
race, tanned black by sun and
having no boards nor eve brows.
Hlemarkably heavy. lustrouS black
never turned gray. These saw
Seem to have been singularly devoid
>tition, as they had no form Of
4 l. nor any idea of an Invisible Pow
.cat for good or evil They subsis-
tely upon fish, venison and Wild
and their only weapons were
It's BOWS and arrows
4 p oiuarani language Charrua means
\ H>. unconquerable: and the name
10 have been well applied To the
| 'ruguayans. Don Soils was xii
Them on the occasion Of has second
4 lhe year l3l5. Eleven years later
t to flight an army led 10y one of
'iau Cabot licutenant>- and in 1903
c'I a larger force of spanish veter-
YQrl the celebrated General laaNedia
he next bali ccntury the Span
made several desperate attempts to
Them. but adv avs without success.
al conquest OF the country was not
llNicd by force of AIMS. but by the
PuSuasions of religion. and WAS
] ll about by the ,IesuitS. whose tilst
2- we've established here during the
GJrs was gradually eonsummated ley
! mmercial and military settlements of
mugese, who made their capital at
Al The Spaniards subsequently, re-
tn the fray. established themselves
\ a'oyideo in 1929. and fifty years lat
I'VE out the Portuguese and destroyed
\ v1l capital. Early as 1850, though
4 spanish colony, Montevideo enioy-
I royincial government independent
tuos Ayres.
1 -uay's struggle for freedom was
ind Irduous, and in the midst of it
/ oN Ayres captured Montevideo by
1 ol force and annexed the territory
1 own. Then Brazil concluded that
Il Itile corner between the rivers ought
long to her; thereupon another fierce
lest cnsued, during which the poor lit
onc of contention Uruguay was
II destroyed. AT last Great Britain
I1 the difficulty between Brazil and
h Ayres by mediation, and in 1870
Il lay was formally proclaimed a free
II Independent State. But then her
4eN were only begun, Tor every patri-
4 the new Republic wanted to be
dent and during more than half a
f4y, revolution followed revolution in
succession. These intestine quar-
were at their height when Juan Man
SoSas the Dictator of Buenos Avres
4 Iom every body has heard, not salts
n nth the enormous Argentine terrific
n at he ruled like another Alexander,
ching for new worlds to conquer,
1.fd Montevidco for nine long years.
%gc continued from 1872 to 81, and
A that time new town sprang up
" distance from the old one (Which
4Hl close to the foot of the Cerro \