Show THE ARGENTINE confederation this beautiful country is at press ent seriously disturbed by political convulsions which might well lead to ft disruption of the whole confederation As tha united states do a not inconsiderable bus inee with the la plata states we will direct our attention for once to the far off land of the gauchas gauchos Gau chos discovered Discor ered in be year 1515 by the spaniards and settled partly directly from spain partly from chili and peru the la plata states were a spanish viceroyalty despotically governed until 1810 when the iberian mother country was hard pushed by napoleon I and the tion of the south american colonies fought for its independence on both sides of aie cordilleran cordilleras Cordi lleras they suet ceedee under the guidance of the south american washington gen sn martin and on the east slope of the andes there were farmed the re publics of uruguay with the montevideo paraguay with the capital of asuncion and tho argentine confederation of patagonia tho argentine republic with its fourteen provinces and possessing a constitution ution framed in imitation of that ot abo united states with the one exception that the president is elected ayery six epars is in reality o be dated only from 1862 when mitre with the troops of the city and province ot buenos ayres conquered the army of the other provinces at nevertheless there still smolders between the Par tenos the citizens of the capital buenos aaros and the other provinces an antagonism which comes to specially pronounced expression at presidential elections thus in 1874 it plunged tho country into the throes and boes woes of a dimass arous trous civil war and is about bringing on the same sanguinary convulsions again the Par tenos among those number of there lawyers who play the first role insist on haying tho president elected from midst so that more be done in the building of roads schools colonies etc for the city than for the country the man selected this time as presidential candidate by the buenos abrites is dr tejedor the natives and the citizens have more desire for military adventures than for peaceful useful labor they are teeming of pride and vanity in dulip in all and pleasure garni blin and extravagant dress to ft degier rarely found elsewhere the real is a notoriously lazy degenerated spaniard with much indian blood in his veins under bis exclusive control the country would become ruined if there were not the influx of an en industrious and thrifty element from abroad it is the foreigners who do most of the work in town and country and in order to escape the compulsory military tor vice they mostly abstain from being naturalized according to the latest average census the population of buenos ayres is distributed among many nationalities italians spaniards french suits englishmen and americans german and the balance is made up of various other nations of the inhabitants of the whole republic tho foreign element constitutes fully one fifth it is evident that there are native Argentin ians who have distinguished themselves by education enterprise and character miny of them art not noly physicians teachers yer judges ac but are abo engaged in banking and wholesale trade offering a lively competition to be foreign merchants among whom the germans occupy the foremost rank but most natives are addicted to alo dolce far sweet idleness and are living in the city of the rent of the houses which are almost exclusively clu in native hands or in be country of the yieh of their large plantations attended by beaw latter lead a more or less romantic life tending the innumerable herds on a thousand hilla while real agriculture is carried on mostly by swiss and italians in this country so richly by kind nature there have been three presidents sinco the middle of june first there is old ja the late occupant of the chief executive who beleaguered ed the city of aenos ayrea with the aid of the provincial militia the second is general joca in Roda iio whom the electors of the twelve provinces provin cea elected president and the third pr tejedor the choice of the city and province of buenos ayris bach of these has his follower who expect to assist in the division of the spoils in case of the success of their candidate avellaneda laef inca retreated from the contest and the struggle is between the city candidate Te jetor and the country choice boci one point wants to ho set clear aft avoid an conception of iba dimensions of the present civil war A company in the army con ih of 30 toen commanded by a captain two lieutenant a battalion contains men and is commanded by a general in glittering uniforms and a regiment iq under lie command of a general yo all delongi le longi a battory of tta gung atie whole enlisted national ia taid to number for o least the ta lod but ip reality there arc no moro than men with 37 whose gaudy uniforms aroun throw into the shadow the glittering trappings trap pinga of a french marshal of the efficiency of the foldier cn b by the ht of infantry troops no leu can hit the bargel at distance aud in a b whre oyer visa fired nit br alo had any killed or the boston wool i aud trade dull |