Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-22
Miseenaaeaas grtieles.
highly Interesting Circular from
Captain M. F. Maury, late ofthe
Coafsderate States Navy,

Highfy Interesting Circular from
Captain M. F. Maury, late Of the
Confederate States NAVY.
The following circular of invitation to
emigrants from this distinguished nau ap
pears 10 the New York Herald of the lst.
Captain ftaurys' character and reputation
is worldwide, and what he says can be re.
lied on. Most of the Mexican correspon-
dence that we see published 10 the North
ern papers is but tissue of fsbshood, and
utterly unworthy of attention, but Captain
Maufy's statements are those of man of
we'll known verify and probity. BE says !:
The doors of the empire are wide open,
and his Majesty"tbe Emperor has; in most
liberal decree, invited emigration. from all
quarters, and. without distinction as to ma.
tionality.
Many people, both in the Old World and
the New, having heard Of this Invitation,
wish to change their skies and to avail them
selves of its privileges. Gentlemen repre-
senting several thousand families in Europe,
and hundreds in Tennessee, Missouri, Ar
kansas, Texas, the CaroliDas, Alabama,
Mississippi and LOUISIANA, in the United
States, are now anxiously seeking informa-
tion in regard to the country, its condition
and resources, with the view of making it
their home.
The earth here yields to the care of hus
bandry with profnsion that would seem
incredible there and fabulous in Europe.
In some places it crowns the labor of the
husbandman regularly with two and in 9th.
ers with three harvests annually; and in
each one he gathers one hundred, two hun.
hundred, some times three hundred, and
occasionally four hundred fold, and even
more, according to his own skill and the
kind of seed used.
Cotton and oorn do.well in almost all
parts of the empire But the cotton espe-
cially of Tamaulipas, Matahualo, FresDillo,
Durango, Mazatlan, and the States north,
are said to be of a better staple, save, sea
island, than any produced in the U. States.
Indeed, the cotton Of Yucatan is called sea
island.
Under these fine climates, which give
purity and transparency to the atmosphere
that make existence itself an enjoyment,
and invest the eye with the faculties of1al
most new sense, the vegetable kingdom
displays its wealth and its powers most gor
geously,' and with the most marvellous Wig
or and Concentration.
In chosen spots and upon single baci-
enda may be seen crowded together, piled
upon il sleeps one above another, in per-
fcctioD, fruits, flowers and products, which
in less favored climes requires as many la'
tudes, climates and soils as can be found in
the eutire breadth of plain that lies between
the sources of the Mississippi and the moush
of the Auszen.
Here, besides cotton and corn, the olive
branch and vine, we have the finest OF
wheat, with pulse and all the cerals in great
PERFECTION; also tobacco, coffee, sugar cane,
the cocoa plant, rice, indigo, cochineal, pi
mento, india rubber and heouquiu-a pc
cuiar and valuable fibre that answers many
of the purposes of both fax and hemp
and, last of all, and what, moreover, no
other country in the world can produce
FIura's feast and Bacchus' boast-the lord
ly maguey, of polque plant of Anahuac.
l have seen some of the very best plant
ers from Missouri, Tennesse and the South,
and have conversed with learned men
from France and other parts of Europe, all
of whom happen to have travelled through
the northern and most healthy parts OF
Mexico. The Europeans report, on one
band, an agricultural country superior to
the best parts of France and Italy, and, al.
so, of surprising mineral wealth, while the
on the other pronounces 1t
grazing and cattle country, to which even
tho blue grass regions of Kentucky and
Tennessee are not to be compared.
The mountains abound with minerals,
the woods with game, and the forests with
the finest of timber-with the most exquis.
ite dye and ornamental woods, gums and
spices, drugs and medicinal plants of rare
virtues.
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The Mississippi Valley, even in its palmi-
est days could not boast any plantation that
could compare in baronial splendor, lordly
and princely hospitality with
your Mexican hacienda that has escaped tie
ravages of the war. The halls of some of
them are large enough to entertain, and
have entertained, several hundred guests
for weeks at time.
On some of these you will find well ap.
pointed schools for the education of the
children of the dependents at the expense
of the proprietor; churches built and chap
els maintained by the same muni6cent
bounty; hospitals erected for the sick, the
old servants pensioned, and all the opera