The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-31
American Trade with Brazil.


There has been highly Interesting debate
in the Chamber Of Deputies of Brazil on the
proposed steam line between New York and
Para. Senior Franco DE ALMEIDE advocated
with marked ability bill 10 assist the pro-
posed company By granting subsidy. The en-
1erprlse proposes 10 place between New York
and the capital of Para frst-ciass steamers,
with excellent accommodations, making the
tlip to and from within a month, and, start
ing from New York, touch first at the Spanish
possession of Porto Rice, and then at the
Danish island of ST. Thomas, at which point
it meets ten different steam lines, already es-
tabushed and running, every fifteen days, TO
Southampton, Havre, Aspinwall, ST. Juan,
Mexico, Jamaica, all the English aud French
islands Demerara, French Guinea, Spain ana
Venezuela From ST. Thomas the new steam
line Will proceed to Barbados, then 10 the
English aud French Guineas, and thence 10
Para. Arriving at Para, it will be connected
with the interior of the vast valley OF The AM
azon and the enormous wealth. OF mat vast
garden spot of the Western hemisphere. mat
the uublic may appreciate the Immensely val
uable interests which this communication
must create and increase, Senior ALMEIDE
eLumerates the following products OF Brazil:
Sugar. honey, whiskey, fruits, coffee, cotton,
tobacco, rice, leather, cocoa, sarsaparilla, pre-
cious woods, dyestutis, chestnuts, tapioco,
cloves, isinglass, saffron, gum ccpal, va
uiila copaiva, broom reed, crude metals, &c.
North America in fifteen days voyage, could
not find q nearer market than Para, and, en-
the other hand, by the proposed line, Brazil
could supply herself with the productions OF
the United States with greater advantage and
at a much cheaper rate than from any other
country. She could import wheat, flour, meats,
butter, lard horses, machinery, hardware i'm
plements of trade and agricultu woollen and
cotton cloths sailing vessels, steamers, and all
the imi alive works OF art, which hn the
United States are OF extraordinary cheapness
compared with prices in Europe Senior Al
MEIDE stated some Ia eresting facts connected
with the increase OF English commerce and
the revenue. From l640 TO 1850, the commerce
OF England with Brazil was nearly always
stationary, averaging ten millions Of dollars
not as much as the commerce with the United
States during the same period. The reason of
this was hat there Was no steam connection
between Brazil and England, and the Ameri.
can clippers were faster than English barks
But In 1858, in three years after the Inaugural
ton of a line Of English steamers the i'm DOR
tation from Brazil into England increased a
hundred ana nIty per cent. on that of ISIS
In 1855, IL had increased three hundred per
cent. England which, in 1852, imported three
millions Of pounds Of coffee, imported in 1853,
ffty-two millions Of pounds; in 1854, flfty-
nine millions Of pounds, and in 1855, one hun
dIed and twelve millions pounds! To a re-
mark OF Senior MADUkEIRA that the coffee
was III sailing vessels, Senior ALMEIpE re-
piled that the principal al imating cause was 10
be found in the establishment OF the team limo
Tor It is not simply sufficient TO transport mer.
chandizej the regularity Of communication ia
regard 10 the orders which are transmitted mr.
which may follow, must be attended to. and .
ls Though such means that all commsrcis,
transactions are established. The result ~
tue debate Ii not yet known but, whether the
proposed subsidy be granted or not, il is DOS.
.i'se the line will be established, fact which
"aou'o De observed by those who have int.
A IN ms Richmond and Rio trade