The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-09

were mado chiefly OH lands lying % and rs ucgrces
soutn @ tatitnne, about tho frost line" where thort
Wrathcr, and tho climate is on the whole delight
full, being little to the south of Rio Janoiro.
Tho committee stopped at Prrnambucu, eigh
degrees south latitude OH the coast, wncre cutton,
they say, is raised which rates from ED. to 14d.
higher than any other in tho great cotton mart Of
tho world" Tho sugar and tobacco also were
perfect but sthe climate would not suit =.
Everlasting heat must enervato the system and
break the constitution" Yet strange to say,
Professor Agassiz says "no country in the world
is richer, moro attractive more fortile, more saiu
brious, moro fit to be tho focus of n numerous
population than this magnificent valley of the
Amazonas. The committee also found plenty of
land noar the river Ticto called sterra ruccia, -
which means land of ineNpr, ssible richness and
fertility" and varying in price from S. to $50,
and oven Sth0 per acre, when planted with coffee
fifty bushels of corn to the acre, and two to three
thousand pounds "f cotton can be raised; sugar
and coffee IN perfection.
But thon tho committee ''dcem it their duty to
stutc that tho price uf negroes declined one-h ilf
during their stay in tho empire. 1t is said that
ontsldo sentiment IL the cause. At aby late, all
clisscs agree that tho day Is not distant when
emancipation must come. We have heard of
some gangs of negroes being offered by the year
Sl2O"
Prof. Agassz says that "while the opening of
tho Amazon will no doubt brng to its borders Il
number OF industrious, enterprisiug men, great
emigration, such as rapidly auyments a Dopula-
tiop, will never gather there long as the order
OF things which have observed in tho provincco
or Iara ana Amazonas exists" This il plain
language TO DO written under tho eye and while
enjoying patronage of the Emperor of Brazil
but the Emperor is most improving man, and
the ''serious obstacles to which the Pr PrIfessor al
ludes are certain administrative customs, con-
nectcd especially with the transfer OF land titles
delays and formalities, and other forms of petty
tyranny.
And yet the Edgefield committee, after convors-
ing with the immigration committee Of tho Brazil
ian empire, declares that 'the foreigner, ON Oh
terlng Brazil, finds no prejudices to combat, no
to welcome, and population to greet him, and q
sovereign to offer him tho powerful protection OF
his government" The constitution is nodeled
after tho British, abatng some of the most objec-
iture and hereditary nobility. The working oi
the government is harmonious, steady, just and
powerful. There is land tax of six per cent
when land changes hands; afterwards none, they
which is Portuguese the mixed class of its popula
tion, and tho want of proper facilities for cduca-
tion and transportation The State religion is Ro-
man Catholic, though oil other religions are toler.
higher Offices OF tho State, yot the Emperor is en-
i1ghtened and the administration liberal. When
1t comes to the question of Southerners omi.
grating, the editor Of the Review ''thinks there is
room room enough and enterprise enough for the
Southern. people at homo, and prospect enough OF
success i'll their struggle with radicasm and
bureauism." Mr.. Do Bow advises them to ''make
tho effort and wait the result" Let then, oil
who want peace and it's prosperity, remain and go
to work heartily, and in time We have faith that
good government will be attained But the truth
~, 30 many aro Of this mind in the South now
that the Brazil fever has cooled down very con.
slderaDly. There can, however, be no doubt that
tho liberal and enlightened counsels of tho EN-
peror, and the immense fertility of the soil will
rapidly build up an important and most friendly
nation in S"uth America.-Bdhinlore Sun.