New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-14
BOLIVIA.
Inducements TO ImKigration-weaitho Of the Amazon
valley.

Correspondence Of The n Y Tribune.
QUITO (Rspubic OF BOivis) Saturday, April loSs
Our Congress this Session is waking up In Offering
your countrymen facilities to aud settle IN our
country, by giving them grants Of land, seed, cattle, &c,
and where they grow rich by little energy and III
dusry-a country where nature does 50 much and man
nOtb but gather the increase. saw yesterday, at the
Presidents house Lieut.. Maurys work on the great
Water Shed las he Calls it) of South Americaa work
that truly describes fine country but does not give
half the information it ought of the great wealth and
resources OF the Amazon River Our Government in
junction with Brazil lave made most noble grant, with
great privileges, TO Captain ID. Williamson, En-
gneer of your City believe he was the first success
iu navigator of steam the Magdalena River in New
Grenada, and was connected or engaged III the building
Of the tunnel for railroad on Long Island, near New
York. We had quite gala day among his friends here
when the bill was passed. few days SINCE such Is the es
timauOn that We hold your enerprsng cOuntryman in
and have doubt that he and his colleagues will be
somewhat astOnshed 10 that after long time
country is willing to help repay him back for the trouble
ard expense be has been IN endeayOrng 10 show the
vast resources Of our country His weLknOYn charac-
ter here for energy aud IN pushing through
every thing that he undertakes is sure guarantee
that We shall have steam on the Amazon River,
see some Yankee towns springing up the banks of
that noble and its tributaries hear the iron horse
snoTtIg through the towns AID valleys and the pull of
the saw-ns vast forests, where the finest wood
III the world grows. These things his friends say have
been his hobby for years past the amount OF labor and
before the different Governments for the last years,
when others would have given it up in despair warrant
what and do expect of him. now that he has the
grant Of his terms, which sperpetual aud without
restrictions, understand the petition has been under
H. .f the Government for years aud be-
came a law with Brazil as long ago : Do Congress
ast year sent eguor La Rosas the United States Tor
information when Capt. Williamson laid before him.
and furnished him with statistical tables to present TO
Congress the benefits that would accrue TO Brazil,
Peru Bolivia, and other republics. At the opening
Of Congress was laid before them by the President in
lis me ssage and referred to Committee, who reported
fvoraby and the grant passed by almost unanimous
vote of both houses 1t only requires the procama
ton of the President To become a law The grant
also binds Brazil till lc55, which if not passed by
Bolivia BY that time, would be hull and void Now ii
your merchants and manufacturers will only give the
encouragement necessary to carry il into effect they will
open held that will, in less than years take
twenty millions Of dollars Of their fabrics and pay for
them in gold and silver, woods dye coffee, cocoa,
tobacco and drive out English goods from the market
entirely. In n,y next letter l shall dwell on the
different goods suitable for market, and the different
prices they cost to bring TO the place, together with
the cost OF all kinds Of transportation a e,cripOn Of
all kinds OF woods for transportation the quantities and
kinds of metals, &c, that found at the different
provinces Of this country, and such other information as
will make it interesting and profitable to your country
men who may wish TO trade with south America. IN.