The Nevada journal., 1853-12-09

Drougham there IS no defence; its course
Is so frm that you cannot dash it aside.
/ From the S. F. Herald.
The Colonization Policy Of the South Amer
ican Republics.
/ A striking feature in the present history
of the South American States, is the effort
they are making to induce foreign immi-
grafton. The Government of Peru has
promulgated decree inviting colonization
by the Offer to settlers of grants of land,
varying in amount according to the means
OF the parties ard the numbers of their
families. Agricultural implements and
seeds will be supplied gratuitously. The
granted lands will be exempt from contri-
button. Settlers will be permitted to frame
their own municipal laws and elect their
own judges. They will be exempted from
taxation for the support of the clergy, and
from the necessity of using stamped paper.
Certain ports are declared open, free from
duties on exports and imports. Roads for
communication with the interior are to be
made at the expense of the Government.
A reward has been offered to the first steam.
er that shall ascend the Amazon as far as
the Peruvian frontier, and moreover two
steamers have been ordered for this pur-
pose. simultaneously with these lib
eral offers, publications are made contain
ing the most glowing accounts of the rich.
ness Of its gold mines. And though they
appear in the form of private letters, the
time at which they are made public, and
the extent to which they are disseminated,
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have been dictated or instigated to aid and
hasten the desired colonization. Brazil,
too, has manifested disposition to recede
from that restrictive policy which has here
tofore made her territory an almost forbid
den ground for foreign commerce. The
formation of company for the navigation
of the Amazon, has been induced and en-
couraged by grants of money and of land,
two steamers are already plying upon its
waters, An extensive immigration ard
trade will necessarily follow in their wake.
New Grenada has awakened to the inpor-
tance of a similar policy. The proposition
to pay off her foreign debt by lottery of
over two millions of her waste lands is urged
upon Congress, not onl y as a means of liq-
udating her debt, but of peopling her terri
tory with population that would increase
her wealth and national importance.
Gen. Flores, whose intelligence and en-
terprise are far above that of many of the
South American leaders, sought the aid of
Americans in his last attempt to depose the
present President of Ecuador. He mani
tested his great reliance upon their ef1icien-
cy, by entrusting to them the most respon-
sible posts, and doubtless will look to the
same source for support should he renew
his efforts. Even in Chile, the best regula-
ted and most prosperous Republic of South
America, the advantages of American en-
terprlse and inventions are being acknewl-
edged, and their introduction courted.-
Among other instances are enumerated the
construction of a breakwater at Valparaiso,
magnificent bonded warehouses, and the
procurement of ice for the citizens under an
exclusive contract with the government
These improvements and advantages are at
tributed to American residents, whilst small
ler and simpler inventions of Yankee inge-
nuty are working quite revolution in
some of the industrial arts.
The foundation and sudden growth of so
great and powerful state as California, on
the Pacific, seem to have startled our South
American neighbors from their Rip Van
Winke slumbers. The tide of emigration
which flowed across the Isthmus and around
the Horn, appears to have left the seeds of
regeneration wherever it touched these un-
fortunate countries And their rulers seem
to have discovered that they cannot find in
their native population the enterprise and
the knowledge that are essential to ma
TONS prosperity. 1t is left to the energy
and the intelligence of the North Ameri-
cans and European races to develop the Ia
tent resources which nature has bestowed
with such profusion upon them. GA little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump and we
are already beginning to see its workings.
The slothfulness and unskillfulness of the
native will give place to the industry and
progressiveness of the immigrant The
teasures of the soil will replenish the treas
uries of the country. Revolution and an
prchy will be succeeded by harmony and
stability. The spirit of those accomplishing
so great change, will impress itself upon
the laws and form of government of the re-
deemed country. And it will be permitted
to our own generation to witness the reali-
zation of one of those great results of the
acquisition of California by the United
States, which ar-seeing statesmen, prior to
the discovery Of its gold placcres, only con-
templated in the vista of distant futurity,
and which even on the occurrence of that
event, was lost sight of for a time in the ex-
citement produced by its wondrous develop
ments.
The Raleigh, N. c. Register commenced
the fifty-ffth year OF its publication on the
10Th ult. Its founder was Joseph Gales,
Esq, grandfather of its present editor, and
father of Joseph Gales, Esq, of the Ma
tional Lntelhgeneer. 1t was his wish that