The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-12
eoIToR,s CORRESPONDENTS.
From our regular correspondent
NEw YohK, September 10, 1916.

,ysd last evening IN seventeen days rom Liver
81 You will, Of course, be able To make out
,,er summary Of foreign news than ! am able to
'a" YOU II will be seen that the weather in Eng
gJ continued more or less favorable for the har
Hulu ,his of course will have a tendency TO keeT
,o,yn the prices of wheat and flour in this country
Aoong The most prominent items of news, is the
,oigous outbreak in Germany.
The cholera, it seems, has been prevailing to
great and fatal extent IN India.
s0,;ts corps Of our foreign representatives. have
-,,'rned TO the United States in the Great Western
FL Convention of the board of commissioners for
rteign missions, as you will perceive, was duly
a,sned In BROOKLYN Yesterday afternoon, at four
oo"iock-Nlr. Frelnghuysen presiding,
The receipts Of the board during the past year
have exceeded s255, 900, being about SlS,0O0 over
,ia receipts of the preceding year; leaving over
so OOO in the hands of the treasurer, after canceng
Inns dine at the beginning Of the year.
Two members of the board have died since last
Nine missionaries and assistant, missionaries have
died since the last report.
Eiyht missionaries and assistant missionaries have
bsen released. Fifteen have entered the work--ior
Amena the Choclaw Indian country, and for Afrl-
~ Tbirty.three have been appointed, five whom
had been released Twenty-four now remain under
appointment =,
..o,d collect and send home much valuable infor-
n,,on concerning the countries they visit. A Rev,
Mr.. Daniel kidder of the Methodist church, who
,vos semi out as missionary to the empire of Bra
III has recently published "Sketches Of his Resi-
d.n,e and Travels in Brazil embracing historical
and geographical notices of the Empire and its sew
,I ntotinces" in ? volumes, which embrace a
rrest deal Of highly interesting information.
Mr.. Kidder shows very clearly that gross geo.
onphical bunders exist, with regard to Brazil, IN
McCuIIoch's Universal Geography, and also in the
In he
work three provinces are enumerated which have
M existence in the empire, and two arc omitted
yb;ch actually exist. These, with many other
gross errors, are pointed OUT.
McCulloch sets down the independent Indians at
$4,000, while Mr.. Kidder says there is this num-
Der within the single province of Para. He,aso
remarks that the United States exploring expedition
savs. "San Salvador is better known Rio de Ja-
nero " when San Salvador is known to he six hum
dred miles from it, constituting, as 1t does, the old
name of Bahia" In the same work, he says, the or
biography of not less than six names OF provinces
ia incorrect These errors relate TO a country with
which we have extensive commercial ana political
relations. ''Durns twenty years. the inPorlats !
from Brazil have increased from the value of $685.
Ia6 to 81, 94s,sl4 per annum and our exports from
sl3Sl, 100 to s2,60l 502."
1.-THE empire embraces the whole OF the torrid
zone south of the equator, and ten degrees of the
southern temperate zone. Stretching ITS longitude
from Cape ST. Augustine, on the coast, across the
mountains Of the interior, to the very foot OF the
Andes its soil and its climate offer an asylum to al
most every valuable plant" Its scenery is magnif-
cent, its climate salubrlous, and 1t Is exempt from
the earthquakes of Chill and Peru.
Mr. Kldtler, after abiding to the fine opening
which exists in Brazil for missionary labor, with
general remarks on the religious condition OF the
country, &c, projected a journey from RIO TO the
north OF the empire which he finally accomplished.
d. al, tha iptar ara rem
more or less difficult to travel He proceeded in one
n the English steamers--one of three recently m
Wduced on the coast between Rio and Para-touch-
Ing also at Bahia Pernambuco, &c.
HIS first point Of debarkation was Bahia, the an
cent San Salvador which he describes in very IN
terestIng manner, both historically ana commercia-
w. From thence he proceeded TO Pernamhuco,
from which point he made interesting incursons
into the country, the details OF which are very Gu
Tious.
From Pernambuco he proceeded northward by
steam. Leaving the province of Parahiba behind,
he skred along that Of Rio Grande do Nore. The
next port was Ceava, south latitude 80 AZ So, and
west longitude $50 34
The heights near the city mark the terminus Of
the great mountain chain of Sierra do Mar, described
by S Paulo, stretching irreguary along the coast
through 20 degrees of latitude He describes the
province of Ceava to be large and fruitful the great
mass Of the people living as they list. Thousands
IN tie interior nave never seen Dreau, uut water
melons of great size and excellent quality may be
bought for twenty cents hundred.
There are multitudes Of Indians in a state of bar
barisn. Passing the province of Paranha, which is
between Ceayd and Maranham, MIR. Kidder ap-
preached the capital of the latter, ST. Luis dc Mar
anham. Ii is said to be better bull, Than any city in
Brazil. This river and bay said to be discov-
cred by Pinzon, one Of the companions Of Colum-
bus, in 1900 Mr.. historical sketch of the prov
lnce il full and interesting
The river Amazon aWakens interesting recollec-
tons 10y its name In former days, the voyage
from Maanham to Para, distance Of four hundred
miles, used to be effected by canoes, passing through
the continent, and coasting round not less than
thiry-two bays many of them so large that sight
cannot span them, and connected by labyrinth OF
waters, so that the voyage was shortened by as
cending river with the flow, crossing another
and descending it with the ebb This circuit Of abou
800 leagues could be accomplished in thirty days.
at was" (says Mr.. Kdder) sat that golden era
when Indian labor plenty, and could be secured
at four cents day. Nature was amidst those wilds
IN pristine loneliness. Nothing interrupted the Sc
cnny of the traveller, and nothing disturbed the
silence of those sylvan retreats save the chatterins
OF monkeys and the carolling of birds. The silvc
expanse of waters, and the magnificent foliage o.
tropical forests, taller than the world elsewhere con
Ialns, and so dense as almost to exclude the ligh
OF the sun, combined to impress the mind with IN
expressble grandeur"
After very full and remarkably pcrspicuous ac
counts of the region of the coast, Mr.. Kdder de
votes some space the survey Of three inland prov
inces-Mao Grossa, Goyaz, and Minas Geraes
villa Bella, chief town of the first mentioned, IL
mi right line one thousand miles distant from Para
and by sea twenty-five hundred 1t is nearer thu
centre of South America than any province, being
bounded on the west by Peru and Bolivia, and OF
the south by Paraguay and San Paulo. Sixty-si,
tribes OF Indians still exist in Matte Grossa. j
aOounds also in gold and diamonds, Goyaz is thu
province lying east of Matte Grossa. Both o
,hese were originally settled by gold-hunters, ant
'he most eager avarice was satiatcd. For the hrs
year. every slave commonly returned three or fou
ounces day. 1t lay upon the very surface of th'
ground; yet the time came when pound of golC
Could scarcely buy bushel of corn; and when, il
one instance, salt was purchased for its weight u
god, and drove Of cattle was sold together, at thu
rate OF an ounce and half of gold for pound o
flesh and bone,
MInas Geraes is the third Of those provinces LYNN
east OF Goyaz. Its name signifies universe
mines" 1t contains gold, silver, copper, and iron
gstn nna rtter hoa ran rkpd