The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-23
Congress met in March, and we shall soon

learn its decision.
This immense grant confcrs upon the
company all the vacant lands in the State Of
Guayana and the District of Amazonas. The
boundaries are the eighth degree Of north
latitude as far rs the town of Santa Cruz !;
thence following the right bank of the
famed river Oronoco as far rs the river
Meta; thence along that river to the line
of New Grenada; thence this line on the
west to the boundary line Of the empire
and Brazil; thence along that line to tue
boundary of British Guayana; thence
along that line to the ocean, ana along
the coas, to the eighth degree. II EN-
braces an empire of great variety OF sou
opd climate and is said, in the elevated
and mountain regions, to abound IN NINE
/ raj riches.
This extensive grant is offered as an in
duccmcnt to the people of this country to
emicratc to Venezuela and, as n further
invitation, equality of all political and civil
rights are accorded in the grant to all emf
grants after twelve months residence. The
company, in their organization, adopted by
laws, one clause of which declares that the
capital stock shall consist of eighty thou
sand shares for twelve hundred and eighty
acres cach-one- half of which shall be Of
fcrcd for sale at one thousand dollars each,
and thirty thousand shares are to he dis
tributcd to late Confederate soldiers or
other southern citizens on condition of
their becoming citizens.
We suppose the company will make no
further move until the grant is ratified,
which they will soon ascertain. The coun-
try which will be at their control embraces
a variety of climate. The table land is
Salubrious and healthy; the Llanos, or
level plains, adjacent to the sea, are inun-
dated nearly half the year, and when the
flood rctircs they are covered for time
with the most luxuriant verdure and filled
with vast droycS of cattle. Next comes
period of drought, when they present the
appearance of a burnt and parchcd desert.
The table land and mountains are, however,
the points of interest to emigrants. There
it is said to be healthy, the thermometer
ranging from 20 to IS. The crops are cot
ton, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, indigo, yam,
potato, and every variety OF tropical
fruits. HUMBOLDT speaks of Venezuela as
the richest and most fruitful of the then new
Republic of Colombia. Speaking in part
| in reference to this very district, he said :
" 1t might he said that the earth, overloaded
"with plants, does not allow them space
"cnough To unfold themselves. The trunks
s.of the trees are everywhere concealed un-
- der thick carpet Of vcrdurc; and if we
tranSplautcd the orchidI, the pipcrs, and
the pothos, which single curharil OF
" American fig tree nouriShcS, we should
"covcr vast extent Of ground
From two to three crops of corn per an
mum can he made. Coffee and cotton is
produced in great abundance, and the
tobacco is said to hc as fine as any in the
world The gold mines, however, will
attract many. Signor RIBAs, secretary OF
the Venezuelan legation, states that gold
is often found in Jumps, and that some
Jumps weighing three pounds have been
picked up. To pick up such frequently,
and for some time, would he agreeable to
the most unworldly and unacquiSitivc
amongst us and il must he confessed that
man returning to his native land well
laden with these Jumps would be hailed
with infinitely more delight and gratifica-
ton by his friends and relatives than If he
came like the prodigal-pcnnilcSs.
But all'S not gold that glittcrS. This
Venezuela is fascinating, and may be all
that we have heard of it; but the company
themselves, in their frank address, advise
every one to investigate and decide for
himself. The company will probably send
an agent To examine things before they
move; and the settlers would do well to
send another.
Should the colony GO out, and become
established, we have the prospect of open
/ ing a rich trade with them. In few years
lines of vessels will be established, taking
ont our flour, &C., and bringing back the
coffee and other products Of that country.