The daily union., 1854-10-21
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.

EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.
PARA, Brazil, Sept l6, 1854.
The provincial assembly, composed of twenty delegates
session They seriously endeavoring to amei
general condition of the province They have al
ready abolished the duty several articles OF provincial
trade which has hitherto acted drawback to enterprise
You may be that thing whatsoever that
comes into Para subject dutyevery basket of poa
oranges every pint of oil made by the Indians
every pound of inha for the subsistence of the people
thing that is the result of industry They have
their best the people in various for State
church, prevent them producing anything The
this that they could otherwise collect
from these people Yet the provincial treasury full
They nearly $500 000a large OF these
inces The assembly also encouraging the opening of
roads endeavorng establish lines of naviga
various points. Yet all of these enterprises have
painful incubation The Portuguese naturally slow peo
pie The country s however, well governed and rapidly
improving This not field for republcanism and certain
y not the people. The body polite grand compound of
Portuguese Spanish Indian and African the latter largely
predomnag and rapidly nusing the sable into the texture
of community. Amagamaton is common as existence
Many of the funconares of the mulaoes
and blacks while the army excepting few of its officers
composed almost exclusively of blacks 1t quite true
here as in that white considered good
negro he behaves himself Ii cannot be supposed
that all this mass half OF it ilegtmate be educated
while great part of the education given to the last but
superstition submission to taxes the church, and to an
eternal rou nd of estas eass of saints Consequently
they prepared for repubicansm, If, indeed,
any country had the disposition the TO force it on
them,
Mr. segmund Feigelstock Hungarian arrived from
California and Peru few weeks SINCE and in few days
died of yellow fever He of party of thirty who
California about since for the FL Dorado of Peru
which has hundred years deceived the hopes and
received the bones thousands the creduous The whole
company suffered innumerabe hardshps the whole
age from Caao this point They found subsistence
aids and but little gold. The gold found was in the riv-
ers on the borders of Ecuador and Peru taken by washing
the sands. He said that it fine, and mixed with
black sand heavy that it impossible to separate and
collect by suicng any of the used in Cali
fornia They took differing from Herndons and
through country before explored down the river
Maranon Santiago, which is point bearing far to the
north situated above the PoDgo great rapids of
the river and above the mouth of the Huaaga. They
found less goq all that country. Mr. Feigeock
told that OF the party preparing full account OF
the expedition, and that it their purpose TO set
republic if they had found anything to make it of The
whole company broken up. Mr. F. said that it had cost
him handsome fortune, it had many others He proposed
going Buenos Ayre saying that he would reconstruct his
before he again entered the United States
which the home of his heart and he sad he only
place a white man" had to get inorma-
ton of him relative his voyage when found him dead.
Thus ended the hopes of large number of those who
have been too sangpine,
Last week two other Americans, Mr. Green and Mr..
Brownone from Eason Pennsvvania and the other Sa-
yannah Georgia-arrived, having left Lima with large
band after the party noticed above Mr. Clay gave them
great assistance Lima They took different route suf-
ered the hardhps and home the Chatts
worth" afew days satisfied They tell me that another
of five hundred are on the way, many oi whom VIII
certainly be lost.
Several German engineers ther say the
do Rio Negro to construct the public works there
that place being the capital of the frontier province and the
region it supposed that the '6busers much
dreaded are to make their first attack They intend ortif
ing WELL Offering by various public works nducement
labor and population well with reference to security
to the development of that beautiful portion OF the empire
Polish count also here among them, being engineer,
and having with him two countesses They truly
compished ladies' and viii there fully opt of the world"
But counts and countesses poor in his worlds goods
sometimes as other good honest people, and sometimes
have TO work to replcnish their fortunes He has with him
twenty nelooking Germans who coonze under his
mana cement.
We have Just had very disgracefu affair with the Eng
lsh consul and the English cemetery. young German
merchan died. and when his friends wished to bury him. the
British consul Mr. Samuel Yres demanded two hundred
miIa or sixty dollars before he could be inferred This
was pad into the hands of the American consul Mr. Dewey
under protest The consul had possible right to make the
demand has incurred the hatred of nearly all the Eng
lish and Americans, well the whole population. Mr.
Dewey at once wrote him TO know whether the demand
would be of American citizens iie returned verbal
replv and when that ropy made, told Mr., Dewey that
he should first have written him. not for his
nroposed question: but know whether he would correspond
him, the lnlted states CONSUL on SUBJECT lhs
was rather too strong the line OF diplomatic arrogance
The tastes or the United States consul whose next ntmaton
was that Mr. Vines could have opportunity of meeting
him sin the bushes for the conference. The English
consul advertised mutny days since, but closed his
doors of the twenty British subjects Of
Para. He has endeavored to get Mr. Moran American
merchant he born Irishman, TO act British
subject and take once ia ice SoEntry commission To
his own credit and for the honbr Of his adopted country be
declined This old trick of Great Britain She claims
that once csen always citizen, osths Of allegiance
other countries the contrary notwithstanding IL reminds
Of the ohancery suit and decision in the Of the English
man who some years since married Pennsylvania heress
It's shame and disgrace that nation has cemetery
here The English much in advance of in these things
Tle7 provide for church and cemetery at every
late. aNbSS,
LAST HOME ron TIM PRISrEE-rhc savannah News SAYS
that previous 70 the death Of the late Samuel Chapman,
editor Of the sayansah Journal and Courier few weeks
since that gentleman purchased lot in Laurel Grove
cemetery be appropriated especially place OF burial
for printers The purchase hardly completed when he
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