Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-06-18


I have not had an opportunity to test or to
wheat I have my doubts about it down here
on the more level lands about the bay and rivers.
But see no reason why it should not succeed
on the higher lands up towards Coritibe. 1t is
certainly worth the experiment, and [ learn it
will be tried by the colonists at ''Lizzieland"
as soon as possible They say it was formerly
grown to large extent in the province of Sac
Paulo, and, if so, it surely can be done again.
A few experiments will prove what kind of soil
and we have great varlety-ls best adapted
to it and what kind of seed is best suited to the
climate. And lust think of the inducements to
efforts. Two dollars and fifty cents a barrel
duty on -four and one dollar and fifty cents
eight-in other words, profit to the miller
of four dollars barrel! What do Missouri
farmers and millers think of profits like these? !?
Several families that came out about the
time, or before | did, have returned to the Uni
ted States. They made a bad selection for
settlement, too far in the interior where, altho'
the land was all they could wish they had no
roads to reach market; they were among a
people whose language they could not speak,
they had not the application and patience to
learn it, became lonely and homesick, and so re-
turned to the States. believe it generally
happens so in the settlement of all new coun-
tries The first enigrants have hardly ever the
courage to remain. Even when transported to
a new Canaan, land flowing with milk and
honey" they turn their eyes back to the flesh
pots of Egypt. But such is the force OF habit,
or long custom. have read somewhere of a
prisoner who for many years had nowhere to
sleep but on bed of spikes. At last he was
set at liberty but found that he could not sleep
on softer bed, not even on plank foor.-
What had once been torture had become by
Isn one of the neCeSSarIoS of life.
1t is thus, [ suppose, with North Americans.
Their debt, and taxes, and stamps, and armies
of office holders, and negro soldiers, &C., &c,
are bed of spikes out Of which they would
have bounced, if possible few years ago, with
the spring of circus clown. But they are get
ting used to the thing, even to the Income
tax, which like, not mere spike" but a
long pole" completely impales them and
hoists them high up, a wonder and laughing
stock to the world. Well, ''every one to his
liking" Let those who like these things stick
to them. For my part, prefer this glorious
Southern land of Brazil, where there is perfect
freedom from these annoyances where we have
true Constitutional Government that even the
Emperor dare not disobey literally what the
United States had in it's early days-"the best
Government on earth" No crushing public
debt; ne stamps; no taxes worth naming; no
military Governors; no income, whiskey and
tobacco tax where, in short, men can live as
the people did few years ago in the Southern
States, surrounded with all the comforts and
luxuries of life-in the midst ofpeace, and with
perfect security to life, liberty and the pursuits
of happiness.
I am making arrangements, which, if COM
pleted, as [ expect, will lead me to the United
States to buy machinery, &c. l expect, there
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