The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-06-08
room PETER PILCARL1cK.


POOR PETER PILGARLIcK.
SoUTH AMERIcA.
As the Spirit of Revolution has begun {" to
move on the waters" of South America. and its
workings may arrest the gaze oftle world, it be-
comes important to give general sketch of the
scenes ofaction. ,tt
The Spanish posses 5ions in America (Which
are Inore Immediately concerned) are divided
into four vice royalties, Mexico, Peru, Buenos
Ayres, and Santa-Fe; and five capitanerias,
Porto Rico, HAVANA, Caracas, Guatimala, Chi
II, besides the philippine Islands in Asia.
The Police is entrusted, as in Spain, to the vi
giiance of Cobildos For the administration of
justice, there are audiences appointed, which in
1904 were 10 IN number They held their sit
tings at Mexico, Guadalaxara, Cuatmala, the
isle OF Cuba, Lima, Charcas, Chill, Santa Fe
Qhto,- Buenos Ayres, Caracas, Cusco, and the
Philippines The catholic Religion has obtained
bishops, chapters and converts, There are Sc
ven arcitb ishOps. who have 81 suffragans.
iIhe Captain Generaishib of Caracas, in which
! the spirit OF Independence has already broken
forth, is on the south side of the Gulph of Mexi-
CO, or as it has been called, the caribbean Sea 1t
stretches from 18th degree of w. Longitude,
from the meridian OF Paris. 20 the cd from the
Cape de la Vela, to the point of Megilones or
Paria and from the 10Th to the 9Th degree of
North Latitude 1t is bounded on the south by
Dutch Guiana and by Peru, and on the west by
the kingdom of ST. FEN. Depons- styles il
the Eastern part of Terra Frnaa, to Distinguish
1t from tia part Of Terra Firma which is situa-
| ted further to the westward and is dependant on
the vice royalty OF Santa Fe.
Ihis Captain Gener0iship is subdiyided into six
provinces that of Venczuela in the centre, the.
! government of Msrac aibo on the west, Yarinas
to the south of and partly between these, Cuia-
ma on the south, the government Of Cumana on
act and ycla I.NfA
East.
| Caracas has not been cursed by the gold and
silver mines Of Mexico and Peru, and it has there
lore happened that the tide of emigration has moi
set in so rapidly towards that region. 1t is bless
ed, however, with the best vegetable product ions
OF nature. Every species OF colonial produce, may
be raised IN greater eXuberance and of better
| quality, than in any of the Antilles HIS cocoa is
pronounced by Depons, 10 be better than i'm any
| OF the Mexican isles. Its indigo is inferior to
none butthat OF Cuatimala. The tobacco expor-
ted Is declared TO be of finer quality than what
Is usually cultivated and prepared in the United
States, and netts yearly to tie roysI treasury a.
bout four millions. The sugar and coffee are finer
than III the rest of the Torrd Zone, although the
processes of art are defective BESIDES these.
they have vanilla; the wild cochneaI, dye woods.
gums, resins and medicinal oils fine tracts of
| most exquisite timber, and large herds of prof
table ANIMALS" This branch alone of the exports
VI
The expectations of its two principal articles,
Cacao and Indigo, from the year 1898 to 1896, a
mounted to S IL, 703, 679---though from 1896 20
1900, they had decreased to S 5,691O33
NO census has yet been taken by the govern
ment-but a sort of approximation is made, by
counting the number Of confession. tickets, winch
are signed by the confessors and afterwards han
ded IN to the curates. From these the following
c0nJectural list has been sketched
The province of Venez uelas, incuding7 SonEs.
Varinas, population Of 500, 600
The government OF Maracaibo, 100000
Ihat u CuI'aha, $4,000
SPaH'Sh Guiana, 81 900
Isle OF Margaretta, JAO0O
Total, 728 000
In this population. ;IIe whites are computed at
two tenths, the slaves at three, the descendants
of freed men at four, and the Indians one
rms IS very moderate population, it is true
for soil, which might most abundauty subsist
100 times that number But that country pre-: eTts
few attractions to Spahiard, which has neither
mines OF gold or silver Besides, the Spanish
possessions are TOO extensive a reservoir to be fiji.
led by the tide Of emigration. The country is bad
iy governed, and the progress of civilization a,d
numbers is retarded. The religious institutions
close up the doors of population as well as of
mind. Men become Monks and Frars instead of
Fathers. And moreover, the tide Of emirration
the mother county. The most extraordinary OBJ
position is male 10 the removal of Spansreis,
much more OF strangers. Formerly no one could
obtain passport, but proving his Spanish orr
gin. But by royal order OF 81 August, 1901,
eniituled the rarH Of Graces, The Council If
Indies (n Spain) was to FIX the tax for the per-
missions which arc granted TO foreigners, to pass
into the Understand in the next article, the tax
Is estimated at 400 miIled dollars and one of the
qualifications even then is TO be Catholic
Such is view of the resources &c. ola region, !
which has declared its Independence aud has
sent on dispatches TO Washington.
a view Of its government, military force and |
other circumstances, connected with its leyoIu-
ton III our next
Depons TraveI0, &c. from which the subsc- |
quent details are taken
~ We ntosf sincerely Congratulate The Remit. |
Hedns, or the riaa16h Of cause in The LegisLa. !
fwe ~ MassGehaseus. = They met on he SOth ult
and eleeied in the IT. Of X. a Republican Speaker |
and Cfe,S Things Sgere so nicely boised in the |