Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-10-12
IMMIGRATION TO BRAZIL.

DraZH /" are SetblHS u DC oSaluco
more ain the breach than in the OBJ
servance. Quite number of them
seem to have failed, while others
have been only partially carried out.
The accounts which are received
from those who have gone there to
spy out the land, as we'll as from
others who have given the country a
trial during a residence of some years
in it, would indicate it to bea every
good country to move away from,
rather than to go to. q
Strangers, especially those unac-
quainted with the language of the
country and not Injured to pioneer
life, would find it an uphill business
living in Brazil, judging from the
experience of some who have tried it.
In a private letter to a friend in
this city, says the New Orleans
Times, written from London and but
recently received, he says;
Gas regards emigrating to Brazil,
| recently met at my bankers a gen
tleman who resided ten years in that
country. He recently returned to
Brazil to adjust his business rela-
tons, and dispose of his property
with the determination to quit the
country. He has but now returned
to England. He describes the sol
as less productive than that of Loui
siana, on the sea coast subject more
or less to inundation, and Astounding
in swamps. The higher lands as
you retire from the coast consist of
quicksands, very difficult of cultiva-
ton without great labor and expendi-
ture, which the meagerness OF the
crops will not justify. Further re-
mote still, on the more elevated lands,
the soil is mixture of clay and
coarse sand, retaining but little moist
ure requisite to its successful or re-
munerate cultivation, and in the sea-
| son of drought, against which no
preparation can be made, it becomes
so baked as to require great labor in
preparing it for crops of any descrip-
ton. In the mountainous districts
of the interior the soil is excellent,
but the rich mould which has gath
cred there for centuries-since, proba-
bly,, the morning stars sang to,
gether'-is so distant from market,
and the cost of transporting its valu-
able products to the sea-board SO
enormous, as to render them of but
little avail.
"He states the people are for the
most part ignorant, lazy and thrift
less, and extremely jealous of the
presence in their midst of all foreign.
ers. The educated Brazilians arr
naughty and overbearing to stran
gers, refusing to hold social inter
course with, and annoying them il
every conceivable manner when un
fortunately brought in contact will
them. The free negroes and the
whites blend without distinction, anc
serious fears are entertained tina
with the anticipated emancipation o
the negro race universal ruin vii
eventuate. --...
"Some years since an effort wa.
made to introduce a colony of wei
educated, industrious and enterpris
ing Germans. After fair trial il
was abandoned, and the colonists
gladly returned to Faderland.
Taking everything into consid
] Grafton, and more especially in view
Of the existing-almost chronic
hostilities between the several States
of that highly favored portion o.
Goods footstool," even if induce
! ments were offered to our people tt
I leave their homes, [ think that Bra.
iii is one Of the last countries theil
attention should be directed to. Use
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