Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-04
WHICH IS WHICH?
An Interesting Letter from Brazil On
the Other Side.

the Other Side.
To the Editors Of the Union and Dispatch.
! NASHVILLE, July /, 1s6S.-In your issue
Comstock, who has Just returned from
Brazil. will state few facts about Brazil,
as | was there last year in September and
Oetober-the driest months in the year
As for those families that we're in Para
they would not work in the colony at San
tarem. / know that they were furnished
with GAO acres of land and six months pro-
visions. Since / returned | have heard
that they left their places and would not
| work nor cultivate the land. As for the
Pitts family, l herewith enclose a letter
from Mr.. Pitts, which Ireceiyed last week.
You can extract from it il will show you
what they are doing As for the markets
at Para, found In the market as fine cab
bages as We have In our market at this time
OF the year; as fine peas as We ever have !;
beans IS fine green corn twelve inches to
the ear, and that every day in the year !;
eggs were plentiful at fifteen and eighteen
cents per dozen beef as good as any grass
fed beef We have ever had in this country
Irish potatoes as good size as any family
SSNAN WISH iOA bINbSA anu HIN dlc SCdtECj
because the people wM not milk the COWS
chickens abundant, as every person raises
them; as for fruit the world cannot beat
It--hne sweet oranges, pineapples, BAN
nanas and all the other tropical fruits /; to-
matoes larger than have ever seen in the
United States. Speaking of the sun being
80 hot, why never saw it during my whole
stay higher than ninety degrees in the
shade, and that you know compares very
faVorably will our climate. Very true
there are a great many snakes, reptiles,
etc. But see Mr.. Pitts letter.
Respectfully yours,
VIM. REAR. .
VALLEY HOME, BRAZIL, May "a, 1868 .
DEAR WILL.-Yours of April 18th by the
hands of Mr. Comstock was handed to me
yesterday, by gentleman from Mississippi.
| have received your first letter also. We
are all well and fat. Uncle JOS family
are in the same glorious condition. Aunt
Bette has another little bit of girl. Old
man, Wills is dead. Judge Mendenhal is
still at the barracks farming on a large
scale and doing well all of his family are
well. Mr.. Riker, who came after You left,
is down next to Uncle JOS, he has lots Of
money he is preparing to build grist,
saw and sugar mill on Dear Mountain
creek his haf-brother, DIR. Wethenley, a
dentist, joins him soon. John Emmett
and his mother, Mrs. Steel, are upon the
Ezariposue they have not made enough to
live on, as they did not have enough land |
opened, but they have money. The balance
of the crowd, except the Pagan boys, gave |
up as soon as the six months supplies ran |
out, and petitioned the President to send |
them to Para, which he did, telling them |
that he did not want them to give him any |
more trouble, nor did he want to hear of |
their stealing. They are now in Para |
some at work, others begging being too /
lazy to work. So much for the Mobilites. |
attempted to rob and kill a woman
in Para, so he went to prison for twenty |
years. Simpson has gone to Para also he |
will return to the States, 1 think, for his
family. BE bought the place you wanted,
but has sold it back. 1t only cost him
Beventy-6ye dollars. There are some gen.
tlsmen here from Mississippi who will set
lie between Judge Mendenhal and myself |
they bring with them considerable money, |
So you see we are filling up, and an
safely say with good men,. l-----
Capt. White is up the Amazon on a
cocoa farm, farming with negroes for half
The crop. Ada and DIR. Jones are married.
DR. Carter and family are doing well and
are living twenty miles up the Topojos
river. Menifee is at the falls of the same
river. ~
j planted Brazilian corn in January and
raised a fine crop, and have planted three
lines since-Wiil have an abundance to do |
me. have sugar cane, cotton, pumpkins,
squash, i've kinds Of sweet potatoes, Irish
potatoes, cornfeld peas, snap beans, butter
cans, Ochre, tomatoes and a fine chance Of
obacco. l have made enough to live well
IN and am better pleased than ever.
have a great variety Of fruits on my place.
We will soon have a good neighborhood.
The government is at work on the road
md will soon complete it. McGee is SUI 1
it. You had better pick up
Jag and baggage and come ont, and so get
id OF BrownlOw, negroes, Yankees and
axation.
have been offered sixty cents per pound
or my tobacco but haven't sold yet; shall
lear more land in July. There is line
# steamers running from New Orleans to
Rio Via Para. Should any of your friends
ONE by that route, let them be cautious
low they ship; let them buy their tickets
D Para, or they will be carried all of the
ray to RiS. The colony is in fine condi-
ion and doing well. There is no truth in
he reports that the enterprise is a failure J;
was manufactured by that Mobile crOlrd,
HON you know. ..s .|... ..
Col. Pirto has recently paid us visit
nd seemed highly pleased al our advance
lent and improvements.
o bundle up and come out.
Your friend,
JOSIAH III. PITTs.