New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-30
CHILL.
/, MONTH IN VALPARAISO.
~,,,,.eo.Sesee Of The n. Y. Tribune ~ ,o.,
VALPARAISO, Friday, March 80, 1855.

IN mt he surprising if you should hear from
a.. "yankee in Chill" years hence.
IN climate on this part Of the coast is GER
..;,,v delightful, and probably ia unsurpassed in
America. Milder the year round than San Diego
IN California, there is abundance of fruit in al
,,o.t every month and but small quantity Of
rain. To the north insthe copper and silver
mining region the rains are still less; while 10
the south Of Conception they are nearly as album
s.rt az in the south Of France or north of Italy,
ubich Southern Chill, am informed, much re-
..mbles. All kinds Of fruits grow 10 the great
ga. abundance as TO quantity in Central and
Southern Chill but in quality they are far inferior
10 our excellent cultivated fruits Of New-York and
The Middle States generally.
Tn fact nothing is more needed in this country
than an immigration of well-trained young farmers
with their wives from the United States. do not
know whether we have any TO spare from our own
fertile lands but it strikes me that in the eyangel
of labor which the wisest reiormers now preach,
they ought to remember that we have duties be-
side what we owe to Kansas aud the teeming West.
A colony Of educated and energetic natiye-born
Americans with their families, immigrating into
this country, could do more for Chill and more
for themselves in lifetime than they could in any
other norton Of the world with which / am ac-
ouainted That agriculture here is al a low cbb
need not tell YOU when our excellent Consul, Gen.
Geo. B. Merwin, has already spread it all over the
United States that the rude pointed log Of wood,
used for thousand years past by the Arauchanians
IL the only plow yet in use in Chill that their cart
is of the rudest construction with huge wooden
wheels two-and-a-half feet in diameter and having
a body very narrow as well as very low, and is in
fact the same as has always been used by the Arau-
chauos and their ancestors in the south Of the
country, who employed the Chill camel, (rienHa,
ehi;hueqre and guanaco,) species of the alpaca
llama but destined for colder climate, as well to
draw the plow and cart as to bear burdens in
journeying over the Andes
In fact Chill has advanced in commerce, in archi-
lecture, mining and in rosd.makng also, little
within the last thirty years, as have already told
you. from the infuI Of foreigners mostly English,
American and German, who have come hither and
dey oted themselves TO these pursuits. But how
far far behind the nations is she yet in these re-
spects Like Turkey she has had everything to
learn but fortunately in the native race of the
country she possesses tractablc, industrious
race unlike the Turks, who gladly learn all they
can of foreigners and initiate them as far as they
have models to 60 upon. In schools they are also
initiating somewhat but at an immense remove
fl ,m the excellent system of our public schools at
the North Mr. Samiento, director Of the Normal
School for teachers in Santiago, seems to under
stand our system well and he is doing in his in
structons aud in his paper, The Monitor for Com
mon Schools all he can do to disseminate correct
ideas on the subject. His article on Out Yankee
ing the Yankees in Chill, in recent number, Is
the best thing have seen in the country
Most Of the newspapers here are taken up with
ariemarole about theatricals and Spanish novel
cites or extracts from inferior European journals,
or with bad correspondence from the country or
neighborng republics, or worse editorial matter
The CroRica, q New-YOrk paper which sees the
light if il ever sees any, somewhere IN Spruce-st,
helps them TO fase facts and worse logic on many
questions they discuss and sapicnt writer from
Baltimore furnishes the Merouri0, the ablest paper
In Chill, with a bimonthly meiange OF wretched
natter, which would furnish fine amusement to
some of our schoOlboys if they could read it in
their backgrounds.
The quantities of imported goods here Of which
have made previous mention, embrace large
amount of inferior stufls manufactured in Europe
expressly for this market, or else taken from the
shop.worn and cast-o stocks of the old countries;
and here as with us in the States the very inferior
and worthless character of many German
manufacturers is clearly noticeable. Indeed,
limitations of English goods imported from
the Fatberland abound, and can be met with
in all the coasts and islands of this South
Sea The fact is, we in the States get the best oJ
sreruthing in our imports from Europe, aud the
" rest of mankind" are obliged TO take what is
left This NAV be Yankee boasting but II Is the
sober truth and if you are disposed to doubt H.
reader 90 abroad through the earth as am dong
and see for yourself =
The carriages you notice here are mostly OF
Snanish manufacture and are called blrl0chas and
edy,feIas. chairs and cabs Of late Concord
stsce.coach has been started by some genuine Yam
kees on the road to Santiago, 80 miles distant, and
is making daily trips full of passengers at $40
each. The road, though the best aud IN fact the
only carriageroad Of any extent in the country Is
more Of the best but improvements are gradually
making so that il is probable these enterprIsng
fellows will clear a fortune with their hre
coaches before the railroad shall be cut through
sleepy Hollow ridges and put through the steep
"inclne" leading up to the plains of Santiago.
Great bodies move eminenUy slow in Chill but
believe they move, nevertheless Could we have
more of the cute and restless Yankees here they
would learn 10 move faster. This remark nay
seem like trash and nonsense" to some of our
English friends, but ii is as true as anything that
Can be said.
For fourteen years past the English Company
for navigating the South Pacific with steam have
had exclusive privileges and immunities and time
enough to perfect their arrangements along this
coast; and vet how will their steamships compare
for size speed convenience or any other qualities,
with those splendid structures now navigating the
North Pacific from Panama TO Oregon The very
fact that arrangements have specially been made
of late, as American merchants here alege 10
discon,mode the "Republic Of the North" is
evidence enough of the progress which things are