The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-01
The Southern Emsirants to Brazil.

The Southern EmSirants to Brazil.
A SETTLEMENT OF MIssouK1ANS-How
THEY GOT TO BRAZIL. AND HOW THEY
FARE.
DR.. John H. Blue, Of Missouri, is
writing to the ST. Louis Republican u
series Of letters from Rio Janeiro, de-
scriptive of the adventures of the emi-
grants from the South who have
settled in Brazil He says:
Judge John Guillett, an old and
highly esteemed citizen Of Carroll
County, with several families, and
Mr.. Reavia, Of Cooper County, Nc,
with his interesting family, are now
here, (August,) making about forty
North Americans il all, the nuclues
Of q good settlement around Col. NJ.
L. Swain, Of Louisiana, who has To-
Gated and paid for body of land on the
Assuncuy-a branch of the Sierra
Negro River, which empties into this
bay from the North west, and which is
the only practicable route to the
mines and to the rich and open coun-
try beyond We have already houses
and little store, and will soon have
a blacksmith shop and school house,
the Government giving us five hun
dred nlllrles year to support school
We have small crops Of corn, beans
and potatoes growing finely, and ex-
pect to keep ahead of the wants of
new comers i'll the way of food. All
of this dates from about the time I
came into the bay, q period of less
than three months.
''Judge Gaillett and the others say
all the expense which they had with
their effects, waste New York, whence
vessels have room enough, and charge
nothing extra for bringing them to
Paranagua, from which we are dis
tance across the bay. Northward, forty
miles. They advise the shipment
Of all clothes, tools and every thing
portable, which may be on hand and
cannot be sold for & fair price; as
farmers and Others will find every
thing useful here to which they had
been accustomed: aud perhaps find it
dc2rer and inferior. Cloth ing is cheap
enough here, coming from England
and France. but blankets and bed
clothes are always wanted il q new
settlement. Game is plenty, and a
shot gun would not be aniss.
express companies ought to send
movables through to New York with
despatch, but they charge much more
than commissioner In either
case, bind the parties to deliver them
by Q specified time, and examine the
packages before paying the charges
20 New York. to see that they are not
broken or injured Any respectable
commission merchant n st. Louis OF
elsewhere ought 20 arrange all the
matters better thai, I can.
You ought to have some friend OF
agent i, New York, to find YOU board
and lodgings: OF ryou may suffer from
it. So, also: you ought to engage
passage TO Rio nom some respon sible
ship agent Or owner. who Will stipu-
late Gemurrage, if YOU are detained,
Oh expenses
'Wken claigants arrive in Rio,
they can go to the emigrant house in
Praia ForInesa, where the Govern
ment has furnished comfortable quar-
ters for them, excepting bedding and
cooking utensils, at forty cents day
each, till they arc sent forward gratis,
on the first steamer to their destina-
ton. The veNation of two dollars,
gold, apiece tor Brazilian passports
from the cons,lls in the ports Of the
United States is not yet done away
with, as it should be. in the case Of
bona .fde enligrants but man and
his whole familypass together, SO that
the expense is lnconside,.able I have
written tc have the whole fare re-
mitted.
II opened 4 correspondence with
Senor Marcondes, the Minister of
Agriculture, and obtained the favor
able concessions. And / have taken
the pains to impress the Brazilians