Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-05-02
ColOnizing in Foreign Lands.


and anon to take fresh hold upon
the Southern mind, Recently very
large number Of the better classes
from the Southern States, left New
Orleans, en- route for Brazil, and
the talk is, that many more will
follow in another expedition now
in course Of preparation, to leave
on the 10th of this month. A
steady stream Of emigration has also
apparently set in towards the direction
of British Honduras. The steamship
Gen. Sherman was advertised to leave
New Orleans on yesterday for Belize,
St. Thomas, lin Guatemala), Omoa,
Utilla and the island of Ruatan, and
another steamship-the Trade Wind,
is advertised to leave for the same
points, on to-day. From all we can
learn these vessels will carry out
great many passengers who 60 to set
tie themselves abroad as colonists.
While deprecating the loss to our
country of so many good citizens
and families, we trust they may be
the means of opening up the coun.
tries whittier they tend, as to make
for themselves enjoyable habitations,
and work out such schemes and
projects in the useful arts as will add
to their own prosperity and conduce
to prosperous REORGANIZATION,
commercially, socially and otherwise,
with the land they have left behind
them.
With an adventurous and enter
prising spirit and power of epdur-
ance nurtured by trials and hard
ships during the late war and since,
there will be found among those
bands of colohists, no lack of those
innate resources so all important
and requisite to enable them to
"blaze the way" through any will
derness and to work the mines Of
wealth which lie hidden beneath the
soil Of the countries they have gone
to explore.
Apropos of this subject of emf
grafton, the New Orleans Bulletin of
the 5th ult, contains the following
which will be read with interest by
many
EMlGRANTs FOR HoNDURAs.-We
received call from two young men
from Virginia by way OF Georgia,
who go with company Of fittytour
to settle in Honduras. They are
sober and respectable men, pretty
well enured by life of risk and pri-
vations for four or five years past,
for any trials that await them in a
new country. This expedition forms
a practical comment upon the error
of those who think the Southern fu-
ture lies in the balance of political
parties, or in the words glazed and
framed in platforms and constitu-
tons. While this paper reconstruc-
ton is going on, the women and chill
dren of the South are starving for
want Of employment and such men as
these enigrants are compelled to quit
their native country, because, there
is no honest calling which they can
follow that will give them bread. If
there were factories to direct, mines
to work, or foreign commerce to EN-.
ploy their enterprise, they would
gladly remain. 1t is in despair Of
such occupations that they 60 abroad,
Though opposed to any draft from
our population to settle the wilds of
the Amazon, We regard these emf
grants to Honduras as pioneers Of a
commerce which may be developed
with the Southern ports. Familiar
with the demand of the Southern
States for the products of Honduras
and the Gulf islands, they will make
known the means required to organ
ize trade reciprocally profitable.
From the specimens Of fruits, dye
and furniture woods, cane and coffee
exhibited some weeks since at the
Merchants Exchange, we have nc
doubt that direct trade in these
products might be established with
all the cities Of the Mississippi valley,
and that the merchants of New Or,
leans would furnish all the good.
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