New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-02

and for the purpose Of providing for the numerous
s,p,n,,s Of the war Of indt pendence, New Gran.
.as had 10 contract numerous debts aud it ia
mot less tue that her revenues are at present
small. But there is mu 81 to be expected from q
free people that begin to undertake with avidity
divers great and useful enterprises, which cannot
fail to vastly Increase the resources Of the Re.
public. Ii must be recoilected that the United
States, for the purpose of unfolding their industry
and developing thtir riches, were obliged to con-
tract debts Of great amount, which they have
easily satisfied. Moreover, it must be remarked
that the revenues Of New. Granada are not great
at present, because the monopoly Of tobacco has
been repealed, and not loog before that the excise
was also abolished Besides which, she has d.
minished the hostages bv one half, and has low
cred the price Of salt and Of stamped paper-she
has abolished, as we have said before, the duties
Of expectation, and has greatly reduced those oil
importation-also abrosated the duties which
were imposed upon gold, &c. The substitution
OF other revenues for there receipts cannot be
suddenly effected, neither can the benefits result
ing from those wise &C 3 be realized before the
lapse Of one or two years. On the other hand,
the present receipts from taxes appear more re-
duced than they are in reality, because those
which were formerly national revenues now
provincial ones IL should be observed also that
the provinces now defay their own expenses and
establish and organize the means of raining their
own resources. Contemplating. then, the matter
in proper light, the present incomes ofthe prov
inces, united TO those of the General Govern
ment, are a hundred per cent. greater than they
were five years since. The estimates, then, for
the future, looking to the rapid increase Of popu-
lation and Of industry, are not only consoatOy,
but are even highly 6atteiiDg.
The actual population OF New Granada amounts
to about two millions and a half Her immense
auriftrous lands will attract there a considerable
in migration, some explorations which have
taken place, give very satisfactory results, partc
ularly in the province Of Choco, whose mines are
perhaps as rich az those of California. In the sim
gle province Of Antioquia, which scarcely can be
called auriferous compared with that Of Choco,
the annual produce Uf gold mines is calculated to
be worth more than four millions Of dollars. The
production Of tobacco. free its cultivation and
expectation is, will be an immense source of rich
es, because the quality of this article is there
generally superior to the common tobacco Of
Cuba, and is in great demsr in Europe. Although
it i, only within the two last years that exporta.
tons Of tobacco procee diDg from free cultivation
have begun yet 10000 to 80 600 quintals are cal
culatsd on as the expectations to be made in the
present year AMI it is expected that before three
or four years the produce will have increased to
over two hundred thousand quintals. The hats
known by the name Of Panama all come from
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the Antilles and in other markets produce yearly
TO the exporters upward Of one million of dollars.
The coffee, cocoa, sugar, indigo, Peruvian bark,
hides, silver, platina emeralds and other valuable
productions are those from which the commerce
Of that country may reap great advantages.
The lack Of population and of practicable roads
is what has bindert d, till now, in New. Granada,
the development OF her commercial industry, and
is what has kept productive interests ia q state Of
paray cation. But as the country improves in all
respects, the ways of communication cannot be
neglected, and very important works have been
art ady undertaken to adopt the most necessary
routes to the travel of horses and carriages. The
Msgdalena River, which is the chief of all OF them,
is now navgated by i've or SIN steamers, and it is
e1pecte ed that during the present year there will
the sbp-car ais which projected in the Isth-
mus Of Darien and the Province Of ChOco to
pass fOm ocean to Ocean-that which they are
opening from Carthagena 10 the Magdaena River
that which they arr constructing IN Sa6sn'lla,
called La PIMA &c.-are works winch will speed
lily give g,eat impulse to commerce and Industry.
The want Of expeditions means Of cOmmunica-
lien has hindtred ill now the establishment of
that current of immigr alton, in favor OF which the
Government makes 80 many eNertiOns, by offering
gratuitously to strangers good lands, and cOnsid
enable immunties end exemptions which the ma
tives do not enjoy but it is sure that having be-
gun TO remove all obstacles that current will soon
set in, on which subject several proposals have
been presenttd by various private persons.
1t is in this condition that the progressive and
regenerating administration OF General Lopez will
transmit the GoveInmt Mt to its successors and
happily there is no reason to fear that the pro-
eress which the Republic is making will be check
cd, but on the contrary, it must rapidly advance,
since, according 10 letters received from Santa
marta, written at the end of August, talthough
the third of the provinces were not then heard
fiom), it is almost certain that General JIG Maria
Obsnco has been nominated President o. the Re-
public by popular election. THIS General has
made great sacrifices in favor Of liberty in that
country, and has already been acting as President
of it. He has been cruelty prosecuted by his polt
cal enc ME g. and on that account especially be
has become the idol Of almost all the Granadians
and has been proclaimed President with an enihus-
iasm Of which there have been but few such in
stances known. lie will undoubtedly concluds
the work so ably commenced and so far advanced
by General Lopez Obando is man OF fine per-
sonal endowments, generous, kind-hearted, with
great viyacity, brave and energetic, great lover