Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-06-21

myself place of 1400 acres "a pre-
ernption right or squatter's claim with
40 acres cleared and in good state
of cultivation On it are ten acres OF
sugar cane, ten ofcorn, and the bal
ance in manioca, cotton, coffee,
oranges, bahamas, lemons and the
chockolate tree, and good enough
hut for me to live in until can build
a better one. pay the squatter or
re-emptionist $500 for his claim and
the President makes me a clear title
deed for the land, There are any num-
Der of7ike claims that can be bought
up in the same way or manner. A
nice ship, furnished in good order to
90 to New Orleans and bring
to this Province fifty families
of emigrants to settle here,
with all expenses of the ship paid out
and back, is offered by the President
to me, or you, or any you recommend,
with supply of provisions for one
year also furnished free of charge
The President of Bahia will do more
than any other man both in his public
las far as politic) and private capacity,
to aid the depressed people OF the
South in finding and settling in salts
factory homes in his Provice. They
will be met here with ovations and
made to feel at home General, you
saw enough of the President when
YOU were here to know the man and
Judge him. Search the world over and
YOU will find few like him. He wants
YOU to write to him and let him know
how and to what extent he can serve
you in bringing out emigrants- The
Province of Bahia is one of the wealth
lest, healthiest and most enligh-
tened Provinces in the Empire
and the President wants to make it ex-
celsior He is the right man in the
right place and will fulfill his every
promise, and is all energy and deter
mination. l would like to see good
many Southerners come to this Pro
vince 1t is rather too hot for a white
man to work here in the field. He
should be prepared to procure other
than his own labor. He can come
here with two hundred dollars and buy
two field hands, and he can make en-
ough the first year to buy four more,
and he does not want more than five
years to realize a fortune But men
who come here without capital, de
pending exclusively upon their own
labor, l would advise to go to st Paulo
or St Catharina, where it is cooler,
and where they may work in the field
without inconvenience, and get rich in
ten years In those province it is
cool and pleasant all the year round,
and one may possibly feel better sat
isfied therefrom. Let but even twenty
families resolve and arrange to come
here bringing with them say only $500
to $1,000 each family. and they can feel
assured of homestead, comfort and
fortune if they will give the matter the
commonesu attention. They shall have
a ship, and it shall not cost them a
cent to get here, locate and live for a
year"
This letter l have answered, and
have also written fully on the subject
to the President of Bahia whose re
ply expect in September
| have travelled over much of Bra
I'll, by sea and river and land, and by
all sorts of COMMUNICATIVE rev
elled in halls of wealth and luxury,
and enjoyed the Inequalities of the
poor peasantry and inferior castles in
their huts,-have eaten the tempting
fruit on the road sides, and listened to
the music of pianos, harps,
guitars, lutes, and instruments novel
to me,-have traversed the country by
day and night, in storm and in sun
shine, over valleys and campos,
through wilderness and on the mar
gins Of mountain precipices, have
quenched my thirst at almost frigid
mountain springs in that tropical eli
mate and viewed with delight the cata-
racts and falls that arrest the progress,
as special objects of Natures gran
deur y have seen Brazil in its phases
and seasons, and studied the character
of its people, and have been forced to
eXclaim with Knowles, paraphrasing
his description of Switzerland.
ut is
A land of beauty and grandeur, lady,
Where the cot looks out on a domain
The palace too, may boast of,-seas of lakes,
And hills of forests. Crystal streams that
rise
Midst mountains all verdure, eterDe and
Returning Sol his flaming beams more
thick
And radiant than he sent them Torrents
there
Are no bounding flood but the tempest
At large in all the terrors of its glory
And then, our valleys All they are the
homes
For hearts Our cottage, vineyards, or
chards-
Our pastures studded with the herd and
Our native strains that melt us as we sing
them
A free-a gentle-simple, honest people -
may be deemed, possibly, too enthu-
siastic. There may be those who will
charge me with using too much color
of rose and with exaggerating. / have
related facts, with reliable documenta-
ry evidence before me, backed by
personal experience that demands the |
record. No man, impartial or UMPIRE
JUDGED, can visit Brazil and see and |
know what is to be seen and known |
there, without being more or less en-
thusiastic in its praise, and proclaim |
ing in the fulness of his heart that |
there ..#
''Every air is heavy with the signs,
OF orange groves and music from sweet lutes
And murmurs of low fountains
That gush forth the midst of roses.''
But the mind of the Southerner ira
yelling in Brazil, or who has recently |
been there, naturally contemplates two
pictures:
We erist in the United States. We
had hoped to realize other fortunes.
A land desolated; cities in ruins
towns and villages sacked rapine and
plumber having revealed in their orgies
the domestic hearth violated and a
pail spread over each household plant
ations laid waste; people extermin
ated; heaps of smoking ruins, charred
and blackened walls and bleaching hui
man bones marking the course of van
dial armies; the social circle broken up
and scattered broadcast-the rich
made poor, the poor made mendicants
sovereign States made dependent pro
vinces under a goading and exacting
rule; the administration Of
Justice INSTRUCTED; swarms of new
officers sent to harass the people, and
eat out their substance; standing ar
mics kept among us and quartered IN
our midst in time of peace; the mill
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