Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-20
THEREBELE MIGRANFST TO brazil
A settlement of INSTRUMENTATION
They got 10 Brazil, and how They
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DIR. John II. Blue, of Missouri, is writing
to the st, Louis Republican a series of let
tiers from Rio Janeiro, descriptive of the
adventures of the emigrants from the
South who have settled in Brazil. He
says:
aJudge John Outlet, an old and highly
esteemed citizen of Carroll county, Mis-
souri,, with his interesting family, are now
here fAugust6 making about forty North
| Americans in all, the nucleus OF a good
| settlement around Colonel M. L.Swain, of
| Louisiana, who has located and paid for a
| body of land on the Assunguy-a branch
| of the Sierra Negro river, which empties
into the bay from the Northwest, and
which is on the only practicable route to
| the mines and the rich open country be-
yond. We have already houses and a lit
tie store, and will soon have a blacksmith
shop and a school house, the government
giving us five hundred milreis a year to
! support a school. We have small crops
of corn, beans and potatoes growing finely,
and expect to keep ahead of the want of
new corners, in the way of food. All of
this dates from about the time l came into
the bay, a period of less than three months.
"Judge Outlet, and others, say all the
expense, which they had. with their per-
sonal effects, was to New York, whence
vessels have room enough, and charge
nothing extra for bringing them to Paran-
aqua, from which we are distanced across
the bay, northwsrd, forty miles. They
advise the shipment of all clothes, tools,
and everything portable, which NAV be on
hand and canno be sold for a fair price
as farmers and others will find everything
useful here to which they have been accus-
toned, and perhaps find it dearer and
inferior. Clothing is cheap enough here,
coming from England France, but blank
cts and bedclothes are always wanted il
a new settlement. Game is plenty, and
a shot gun would not be amiss.
express companies ought to send NOV
ables through to New York with despatch,
but they charge much more than commits
sion merchants. III either case bind the
parties to deliver them at specified time,
and examine tho packages before paving
the charges in New York, to see that they
are not broken open or injured. ANY
respectable commission merchsnt in st.
Louis or elsewhere ought to arrange all
these matters better than I can.
"YOu ought to have some friend or
agent in New York to find you board and
lodgings, or you may suffer from it. So,
also, you ought to engage passage to Rio
from some responsible ship owner or agent,
who will stipulate demurrage, if you are
detained on expenses.
When emigrants arrived in Rio they
can go the emigrant house in Praia For
mOsia, where the government has furnish
ed comfortable quarters, except bedding
and cooking utensils, at forty cents a day
each, till they are sent forward gratis, on
the first steamer, to their destination. The
vexation of two dollars, gold, apiece for
Brazilian passports from the eonsuls in the
ports of the United States is not vet done
away with, as it should be, in the case of
bona fde emigrants; but a man and his
whole family pass together, so that the
expense is inconsiderable. l have written
to have the wholefee RENTED.
al opened a correspondence with Senior
Marcondes, the Minister Of Agriculture,
and obtained the favorable concessions.
And l have taken pains to impress upon
the Brazilians the fact that this is no colo
nlzstion scheme, to empty poor-houses
and pe%nitentiaries on their shores, and to
tell our countrymen at Rio that is is no
speculation of myself nor any other indi-
but an emigration of independent
families, like the pioneers of Kentucky
and Tennessee, whom the fortunes of a
deplorable war have made refugees, and
who seek here an asylum. We believe in
the future greatness of Brazil, and are
to brave the ocean and the wilder
ness tosbegin a new and prosperous career
under the patronage eff the good Emperor,
whose character, in the estimation of ali
is most sanity"