Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-03-08
The valley ofthc Amazon.

SION 10 accomplish IN inc Nshoica''oH VI
State Rights IS even more absurd.
The Valley ofrhc A.,laxon.
Thereguar readers Of the Nir ,inian Will
remember. that, some two months ago.
there appeared, in its editorial columns. an
extended synopsis of a pamphlet. treating
of direct trade betw cen the port of Nor
folk and tile mouth of the river Amazon.
The geographical and commercial facts
stated in that pamphlet, and embraced IN
our review Of it, were TO us, and. we dare
saw, to most Of our readers, as new as they
were interesting. Subsequent occurrences
have disclosed the correctness OF our sur
mise, that the author was the distinguished
American saran, Lieut.. Maury of the Ma
tional Observatory. During the present
session of the Legislature. memorial ht S
been presented by him to that body pray
ing The incorpo' alton Of a company, with
mower TO establish line of steamers be
tween the points indicated-and the matter
will. we suppose, in due time, come before
that body for its action.
We have before US letter on the sub
icct, from Lieut.. Maury.to Col. Thomas J.
Boyd, Of the House OF Delegates 1t adds
some facts TO those made pubic through
his pamphlet. He repeats and endorses
the remark of Col. g., that nothing could
tend more, than the establishment OF ihls
Inc, TO build up Virgiia's fortunes and
make her again the first State of the Union
1t is. in his Judgment, clue which leads
to the prosperity of The whole South.
There is, at this time, commerce enough
from Para (a' the moulli Of the Amazon
to New York and Boston, TO sustain line
Of steamers. Last Jcar, were uinnnlac-
ruieI in the United Suites. bceiGes great
variety of other ticlcs, ifom The same ma
terial, four million pairs Of India rubber
shoes The gum from which they " ere
mndc, nearly, if not every bit. came from
Para. House in New York, Boston and
Salem, have lines Of sailing vessels, regu-
larry engaged in this trade. Why should
not these four millit rs Of shoes have been
made in Virginia instead of Massachusetts!
Tic raw malerial,of which they are man
uioctured, pays now duty of five per
cent The remission Of Ibis sum. together
with all the dury upondS estuifs, imported
from the Amazon valley for manufacturing
purposes, would go far towards s'imulat-
ing Virsi,i and Southern workshops.
The climate of Amazonia is warm
therefore none of the -Four, beef, pork, &c,
TO be used there, Can be made, and cured
there For them to come out of the Mis-
.issirpi valley. over the Virginia improve,
mcnts, to take shipping at Norfolk, would
be some four or five hundred miles nearer,
than for them to go dowrby New Orleans.
suppose. says Lieut.. NJ, that by the touch
otihc Magician's wand India, as it is .could
be taken up and set down in the Atlantic,
within Zen days sail of Europe. what in
tsrcoursc-wlat exchange Of produce
" hat amount of commerce would not in
s,anily spring up? Yet. as great as our
fancy tells us that would be, it is nothing
to that which Ammonia will afford TO us.
when it shall be peop,ed up by the emigra-
ton. that would follow the opening Of a d.
rect trade.
But all. lie says, is in the womb oftime
and the object of the proposed line, is the
more speedy and certain development OF
that future to our commercial advantage,
on the one hand, and our social benefit,
(Amazonia being slave country. and the
only outlet left to The surplus increase Of
slaves in the Suuth.) on the other: and it is
because the immense consequences thai
would result are so entirely in Tie future,
that the enterprise ought at first to be sup
ported hy States, rather than hv indi,id-
uals. Ten hundred thousand dollars viii
furnish the vessels, and support the line
until 1t can snppoIi Itself
New Orleans or Mobile would not make
a suitable American terminus for the line,
because of their distance, ard the winds
Key West is the nearest point IN the Uni
ted States, but it is without proper re-
sources: while the bars before Charleston
an Savannah arc olst lclcs to making
them the ports oftlis trade. Norfolk, meas
uring distance by the only true standard,
tlme,in consequence Of her fine harbor and
her ability to trade in clipper sl,rs-ne-
cessary TO build up and support the steam
ers. will be found practically 10 be the
nearest port in the United States. to the
mouth of the Amazon. For these reasons
and others that lie assigns. Lieut.. NJ
thinks Norfolk the point, on which the
South should uritc for commencing this
\ contract lur carrying the
Brazilian and South Americas mails would
assist in building up and sus-
'aining the hnc.-
Bat we have not space to pursue Ills
subject further We sdvisc all who can
r5cure copy Of Lieut.. Maurs's pampl-
let, by all meats TO do so-afii if they do
rot rise from It's pcrusal. with grander
ideas than They have ever had yet, Of tie
commercial and political future Of the
South. i she will but put herself in the line
Of the great impulses that wou,d drive her
ioru ard. then we know nothing Of The in
ilnences that may act upon the human
mind. a
u The Woodstock (va) Tenth Lc-
eion says that Mr.. Lorenzo Sibert, Of that
place. has invented a machine that
will turn ont from, IN non 1an aoot,