The daily union., 1854-12-21
For the Union.
LETTER NO. o.

the Union.
LETTER NO. o.
PARA (South America,) Oct 10, 1854
Relying on my predictions during the few months past
you will not be surprised the unusually interesting in
tehgence Of the opening Of The Anazon We have just
ceved the most reliable intelligence from Ro by the three
deputies from this province and Rio Negro to the imprd
Gnaara that the "Amazon Trading and Navigation Cor
panyn of which Ireneo Evangesa de Souza is president
and head, has, by positive contract with the governs
men relnqnsed all right to the exclusive navigation Of
the Amazon river and its tributaries by steam, based
the contract Of 1884, which ceded them this privilege
for thirty gears In lieu of this MONOPOLY the government
gives them annually ten years $2200oO bonus and de-
mands that they steamer semism0ptAy betweca
Para and Nauta in Peru, and between Para and Baao,
pyo 6 yon) three hundred miles from this city on the
Tocanns river Of the disposition Of their colonixng
system am not yet informed, the arrangement,
which goes into operation the lst OF january 1855
not yet made public
Although the company receive apparently large
sum- yet doubt whether by the arrangement they
will make much money as by the old, which required
not more than one-thrd the service now required il be-
ing very probable too that they lost money by the
ton of the old contract 1t is true that the stock has APP
peared clean in the Rio market but it must not be for
gotten that owned largely by the members Of the mpe
rial government who, matter of course having the
ability would sustain its reputation. The profits Of steam
on the Amazon have thus far and by tho companys Eu.
ropean SYSTEM been wholly imaginary. The river has
not in any form the business to pay ii while practical
men know that whether running standing still steamer
| needs pretty good bank on board to support hsr
had been assured by the Hon. Dr. Morcira Brazilian
minister at Washington that this result would be
pshed within the year. It seems that the imperial gov
ernmen have determined to give hereafter excu
sve privileges but support all enterprises by the necs
sary bonuses and leave them open to individual comeh
ton This is the correct doctrine The Amazon now
be considered effect open any person desiring to
steamer these rivers easily do SO by having Bra
lillian satisfy purposes Of nationality Now that
the principal distractions removed shall see whether
everybody is really anxious to organize mighty ANA
expedition pretended when the river was closed
The river is in just the condition that was
for rsx years aneriorto 1852 and since the seapors
of Brazil were opened foreign commerce by Don Joac
the King of Portugal My advice to my enerprsng con
trymen is remain at home where you make money Er
more easily than the Amazon, rather than come here
the pioneers of wholly undeveloped trade, with the cy
dent prospect fosing both capital and anticipated profits
The country make money where there plenty Of cash
and abundant population. The Amazon, people may
be we'll assured has neither capital nor population.
All of the foreigners in Para have been unusually in
terested during the few months past attempt at the
boOdIes conquest of the Andes and Cordieras by
era parties of Americans who organized in California Mel
bourne Sidney and Callao for gold inng this side
the continent The spirit and energies Of our people were
probably tested until discovery of the gold mines
of California which aroused their latent energies
and forced them take the helm Of the western world
The prolific yield of the precious metals the Pacific the
consequent rapid influx of vigorous daring, and deter
mined population with the paths opened to the buoy
ant commerce of onr country have all conspired to
tera and rapid change in the domestic relations Of the
United States paraeled only by the change in the relations
people to those of foreign countries While hi5 ha
enabled hold powerful rein over the money market
of the world it has enkinded continental spirit in
national influence, which, though it may not be yet
very powerfully felt in diplomacy is yet with undeni
able certainty spreading itself in every quarter Of the
nen through the nsppressble and superior enterprise
of people While have contended for few fish at
the North Cua in the Gulf and free transit through tho
Isthmus to the great American Pacific the west Ualior
MIA to have been filling up only depot at the end
of the continent to enable the etecuay to
mand and direct the great trade Of the East Indies Japan
and Western South America. We have thus taken such
possession of the northern half of the continent will not
only result in the undivided property of its soil and
people, but such will enable to control the
and enterprise all sFqpsl South serie, and raap th
profits of her existence without being troubled with her
government the possession Of her territory which would
] be, under present conditions, inmica to our
| tional integrity aee
1t following thus but the natural course of events
when two years since the eloquent pamphlet of lieutenant
Maury created so vivid and lasting impression the
minds of our countrymcn of all classes. We seemed TO
awaken them simultaneously with the closing of the Ana
the trade and navigation of the North full sense
of position this continent aud TO the prosperity
want Of new fields of enterprise in the future however little
desire any country for colonization The thirstO
gold had whetted the California appetite with sharp
ness. The halfabulous stories of boyhood of ~
Doyad of surprising pendor hid among the gided
tans of the South the adventures of Pizarro the marvel
lous history of the ncas and the Amazonans this
world, had not been efnced from minds, by any
means whatever entirely dsproved Although were
ready to reinquish the wilder parts of these store ye
were not prepared to admit that so vast and varied
tain ranges could exist without the greatest abundance of
all the precious and valuable metals Nor are we yet a
ter failure upon failure from the fifteenth century the
landing of the last party from Peru three weeks since pre-
pared to admit that vast scope of country the Andes
and the Cordilleras geological fact exist without
all the precious metals that its ultimate trade and
merce would naturally demand.
Peru, in obedience to the demands Of improvement
sutng from her republican SYSTEM had invited foreign
immigration, and several parties composed of Americans
French and Germans had already during the early part
1862 arrived in the republic and proceeded by the assist
ance of the government to public lands allotted to them
on the Marahon and tributary rivers Yet from variety
of causes these settlements frustrated and the imm'
grants disappointed detected and forsaken had returned
to the Pacific shore, or left the country by the East