The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-27
THE AMAZON.

The President of the Republic of Peru has
issued a very important decree relative to the
| navigation of the river Amazon and to the pri-
vileges granted TO foreign settlers. The de-.
cree declares, that in conformity with certain
treaty stipulations made with Brazil, the nsyi-
CATION of the Amazon, as far as the port of
Nauta, at the mouth of the Ucayali, is open to
the commerce of her subjects, and that all 9TH
er nations having like treaties are placed on the
same footing with Brazil. 1t states that the
exploration of the rivers which ran into the
Amazon, will be made by the government,
with steamers to be constructed for the pur
pose. No duties for exports or imports from
| the said port of Nauta and from Lorete, ex-
cept municipal dues, will be required on mer.
chandise or native producets.
The portion of this decree relating to colo
nizaton is by far the most important part of
ii, and if it bears not within the germ of Sc
cond Texas revolution, we were never more
mistaken in all our lives. Ii empowers the
Governor General to gran, 10 all colonists
from two to four fanegadas of land, reserving
itself. All small grants must be settled within
eighteen months, or are void. Longer time is
given on the larger or government grants. The
Peruvian Government gives to all persons ar.
irving at the ports of Nauta or Loreto, for the
purpose Of settling the valley of the Amazon
| and lis tributaries, not only free conduct to
their destination, but also the necessary seeds
and implements of husbandry. 1t provides a
national ship to convey foreigners and settlers
to their destination, and exempts them, for 90
years, from taxes. contributions, clergy dues,
and the use of stamped paper, permitting
them, in the latter case, to use common paper
Jas they may think proper. The new settlers
are to establish their own municipal regula
tons, and. until Congress can legislate on the
subject, their own judges and courts of justice
also. 1t is difficult to conceive more favora'
BILE colonization law.
That the country will be filled up by Van
KEGS in very short space of time, we presume
will be doubted by none who know the rowing
propensities and transcendent energy of thai
people: Ia these days it is hard for the lima
glnatIon to conceive any scheme so brilliant
that realization does not follow hard upon the
Heels of conception. When Lieut.. Maury frs
untolded the gorgeous promises held Out by
the great valley of The Amazon, there were
few who did not think he had imported his
ideas from the land of dreams. This decree
marks the commencement of an era which
will as certainly witness their fulflment as the
next age shall see the Pacific united to the Mis-
sissippi by bands of iron. Ii was the dream
some of the wise statesmen of our heroic age
that all North America would some day be un
der the rule of the Anglo Saxon race
Wretched, decrepid, dying Mexico, on th'
South, and the British Provinces on the North
stand now between us and this mighty destiny
But the wave will not stop al the lsthmus o.
Darien; il will roll on until il shall have sweep
the entire Western Hemisphere, from the frozen
ocean 10 Cape Horn. The President of Peru
has given an opening, and all that the Yankee
wants is TO get his hand in. Time, perseyer.
ance, resolution. will most assuredly, in all
cases, enable him to INTRODUCES his whole BODY
afterwards. Whether all this is TO be for the
good OF this Republic or the world, admits o.
doubt too serious for US to discuss. All
we wish is to call attention to the facts.
The London Chronicle states, that the chaplain
OF country prison, not long since was very pro
| perry olsmlssed from mis- situation by the magis
wao under the sentence ~ dss,h n ~ AZ,
u Oh candle, until 1t was Ia a blister In oraer "a