Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-09


shores of Matamoras.
Mr.. Lloyd, of England, equally vel
supported, has engaged to establish
; number Of colonists between Vera CRU
and the capital, snd q ship load of Euro
pean immigrants have Just arrived il
Nucatan to form the nucleus Of a settle
! ment in that fine peninsula. They hav,
been received with ovatiOns by the gooC
people there.
AdlsPosition equally favorable toward:
immigration is manifested in various
other parts Of the country.
Patriotic citizens have stepped forth al
the call Of his Males y, and offered their
own private lands, many Of them upon
the most favorable terms for colonial
ton.
Mr.. Jfmras invites five hundred Euro
pean families 20 his estates in Durango,
offering them each house and lot, rent
free, q weekly allowance Of provisions
4 without charge, and q guarantee Of work
az fair wages for five years. At the end
I Of that time he further promises eratu-
/ ity Of fifteen thousand dollars to the COM
( mmity. and present TO each family of
a yoke Of oxen.
Mir. Gil. of Guadalajara, invites twenty
/ Belgian families to his highly improved
and well stocked hacienda, Offering them
oue-hslf of il for cultivation on shares,
/ he finding the stock, seed and cattle, and
I the celonists the labor. He offers also
/ i7cls and herds, from which TO breed on
halves.
Other enlightened and liberal minded
I landowners Of the empire have offered
q cir estates for colonization on terms
equally liberal
n Misrepresentation Abroad Concerning
Mexico.
Many false impressions have taken root
abroad about Mexico and the NeNicans.
They operate greatly to our disadvantage,
inssmuch a. they sre stumbling blocksin
the mind Of the stranger, and tend to
discourage immigration.
The world knows Mexico as country
that for the last half a century has been
tossed by revolution. Many, listening
10 the stories Of her troubles aud the
tales of her calamities as told by her
enemies, have come to regard the whole
land as g God tOr-aken country in
habited by big0ted, illiberal and inhOs-
Ritable people, while, in fact, no part Of
the world can boast Of more refined So
ciety or more elegant hospitality than |
that which is to be found in certain parts I
Of the Empire.
The Mississippi valley, even in its pal /
miest days, could not boast any planta- /
ton that could compare in haronial /
splendOr, i0udly magnificence and 4
princely hospitality with your Mexican .
hacienda that has escaped the r8yages Of I
war. Tie halls of some of them are /
large enough TO entertain, and have en-
tertained, several hundred guests for
weeks At a time.
On some Of these you win find well
appointed schools for the education Of
=
pense Of the proprietor churches built
and chapeIs maintained by the same
bounty; hospitals erected for
the sick, the old servants pensiCued, and
all the operations OF the estate carried on
upon a scale and with expenditures fol-
lowed by remUneratfve revenues such as
but few farmers in Virginia or France
can boast Of
But all parts CT the country are not so.
For more than fifty years Mexico has
leCn constantly torn by faction or
ic0urged by way, and she has reaped
Of the haryests which always
.pring from such seeds-furceG loans and
Contributions upon the rich, griev0us
burdens upon the poor, the spirit of en-
erprise in many departments of the en-
IRE well nigh crushed cut Of the people,
he industrial energies of entire regions
.arslyzed, and capital itself frightened
Il into its hiding places.
Absea feelsnl
such a state Of things long continued, !
o any country, Is sure to beifOllowed by !
general absenteeisD from their estates Z
{ the large land owners. This is emf 7
entity the case in Mexico. I
The effect Of this abzenreeisl is -ez- {
.ressed upon the landscape, and pro-
iaimed nv deserted mansions, neglected s
lantatj0ns, and other signs Of ruin and {
ecay, IL tones that fall sadly upon many G
heart Many OF these fine old estates, g
With the walls Of their noble Old man
ions still standing, are now offered for s
sle and settlement at prices varying {
rom a few cents 10 a few dollars per q
ere. They are in the most choice parts j
Z the country, and would, If restored 10 c
einbellish the land with a g
eauufUl mosaic Of the most lovely gar I
en- spots that the world ever saw.
With the Immigrant coming 10 Mexico g
is not Is with the emigTant bound to Il
he "far West in the United States. C
here he goes TO reclaim from the wilder /
es~. Here he comes for the most part, c
D reclaim from ruin and the ravaEes Of c
var. Plantations that were Once garden
pots invite his coming. He may pitch Y
Is tent oD the verge Of highly cultivated I
istTicts from which he cas1 draw his q
applies until the bountiful earth, yield c
lg 20 his own good husbandry, shall j
.ieid him Of her increase. And this, the 4
oil of Mexico, under climates that have y
10 winter viii DO in two or three v
months. O
One Of the finest HaciepGas of the Z
-asted districts is now on sale. Ii was &
hand0Eed some six or eight years ago n ]
of a revo.Uti0D the pr0pTi- p
tor died, and it has not since been re- I
.0red 10 cultivation. It yieidei q Tegu- c
II annual profit of not less than one @
undred and twenty thousand dollars. T
he dwelling house alone cost two hum q
red thousand dollars. This hacienda is $
lrge enough 70 accommodate forty or q
fly families with farms Of one thousand q
cres each. Tt can now be had for less ,
Ian live dollars the acre, and after the J.
Fst payment, on long time 70 suit pur- y
hssers.
Other hacieHdas that are open to the s
h0ice and selection or the immigrants /
re much larger.
Two, containing each more than three L
housahd square miles, have been offered y
" the pr0prietors for colonization.
1 know OF no country in which the S
and is held by so few and in such large {
racts.
This also has produced marked effects ]
pom the nation il appears 10 have de- q
rived Mexico entirely OF what other 2
ountrics consider their bone aud (
inew''-their noble, enterpTising, ener- {
etic, hard working middle classes.
Some political economists divide soci- {
ty In Mexico into but two lasses-tbe I
Dper and lower-aud out Of g population :
I eight million Of people, more than {
even million are said to belong 70 the 2
after. (
offered 10 Foreign Capital
and gisor. {
The statesmen Of the country, with the
Emperor in the lead, desire 70 heal the +
reach rapidly. For this purpose, for +
ign labor, capital and skin have been /;
invited TO our shores. Many good men 4
f the country look upon immigration, :
n a large scale, as the readiest means of I
estoring the equilibrium OF the classes,
nd Of giving to this country and its in +
titutiOns the stability and force which }
re so essential TO the fuIl development i
{ its vast powers, capabilities and re- J
0urces. 2
Hence the announcement That Is now Z a.,