The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-12-20
MISCELLANY.


JaSt,ce--Deatt Of Il Depcu3o
While Paraguay produces all the grams
fruits and vegetables common to the other
countries OF South America, in quality
superior and in quantity more abundant
for the cultivated area, she produces alsc
some material which is either not found
at all, or is afforded in insufficient guam
titles and OF inferior quality in Brazil, and
all the Spanish American republics.
Grapes have been grown successfully,
very good raisins, and excellent wine in
large quantities have been manufactured
in Paraguay for many years, These are
sold TO Brazil and Bolivia mostly, bringing
in very handsome revenue. Paraguay
produces large quantities of tobacco, pos
scssing Il flavor fully equal to the very
choicest material ever grown anywhere,
and as the tobacco of all the neighboring
countries is VIGOROUSLY inferior, all the
tobacco that Paraguay has to dispose of,
she can always find a ready market for at
considerably more than mere renumera-
tive rates And then there is her UclJc
.Udr, or Paraguayan tea, n luxury that
every body in South America will have,
and drink, or rather saci, sixteen times Il
day. The material is produced, and sold
out of the country in immense quantities.
bringing in revenue nearly double that
of Brazil from he'whole coffee trade.
Thus while Paraguay produces and
exports so abundantly these articles that
her neigh5ors must and will have, and
imports literally nothing, the balance oI
trade is always in her favor. She has
no paper currency Of her own or any body
else TO iuctuatc, no credit system, no out
standing debit no coinage, nor does she
require amy. Every thing she sells is
paid for in gold and silyer-the latter al
ways reduced to the pure metal standard
and there is no other country in the
world where hard money is 50 abundant.
Puraguayan policy does not admit for
ei9ncrs into her territory to purchase her
commodities Neither does she send them
abroad, as other countries do. The Par.
aguayan merchant or producer carrie,
his wares to the frontier, meets his pur-
chaser there, disposes of his stock and
returns home with his coin.
Paraguay produces nearly all the trop-
lcal irult-nany OF them in perfection
most delicious peaches. and is the only
country OF South America in which fine,
Large onions, and very good apples and
pears can be successfully grown. This
policy OF trade, coupled with that of the
Dictator Lopez in keeping all Paraguay
ans in, and all foreigners out of the
country, is Il wonderful nursery OF thrift,
produclivcness and prosperity. Every
thing necdiul for the comlorl of life i
abundant, everybody is rich-thcrc are
no bcggars, the priests exc"ptcd-and
Paraguay is cmphatcaliy Il land of plen-
ty.
The seasons are more varied in Para
quay than they are i'll Brazil, and all the
countries north and west of her position.
that is, the wet and dry seasons are not
SO distinctly marked. The rain is more
generally distributed throughout the year,
falling usually at reasonable intervals, and
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of lis sinullor pcrCormanrcs and nowcr
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country nbout fen learues fran A.snnn.
tion. and ont at u considerable L.,,uc,
from, thc Lonsc cr;ovin, , to,s, or Inc.
cious cranes and dcl;ciors nonchos nno
afternoon when we wcr, su,Idonly .tnr.
tied bv the tremendous bcllow;ng and
ronid tromn If Il vast borl or LnrnoJ
c,ttle and horses tbo, ~, hoJ n,,;.ol
f,,,lino on tho grassy nl,ip tn tho .nn,l,'
y,rd md lool'ior Il tLn, ,,;noa,ia, 49,,
Jaw the whole drove tealHg across thc
plain, driving down headlonr towards tho
high walled co,uH. situated about half II
mile from the mansion, and to the left oil
it as our iares were. We could discover
nothing that we thought ought TO ca,ls,
the stampede, and excite such terror in
the brutes. and stood gaping and wonder.
ing what 1t could all mean, when Don
l'aschal Bareda, the proprietor of the es'
iancia, came running towards ls, shouting
with all the might OF his lungs:
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