Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-02-18
BRAZILIAN EMIGRATION.

elsewhere in our columns in refer
ence to the above subject.
A lull, has, for some time past
been observable in the interest which
was SO. lively manifested the pas
year or two among the Southern
people for emigrating to Brazil and
other tropical lands. A fresh impe.
tus seems latterly to have been given
to the subject, owing, doubtless
partly to the continued depression
in political, agricultural and financial
affairs in our country, and partly to
the increasing inducements held out
to parties desiring change of local
ity and government, by such well
organized contract arrangements for
transportation as have BEEN effected
by Mr.. Charles Nathan, the particu-
lars Of which are mentioned in the
advertisement above alluded to, of
Mr.. e. L. Hart, agent.
We have before us, the Iberville
South, of the 18th inst, containing a
letter written from Rio de Janeiro to
Dr. Ward, the editor, by Gen. Chas.
n Rowley, highly respectable we'll
known planter, formerly of Concordia
and afterwards of Iberville parish.
Gen. Rowley has become a resident
Of Rio DE- Janeiro, where he has EN-
barked in the business of real estate
agent and commission merchant. He
gives a glowing account Of his visits
to the agricultural regions near Rio
As he is close observer and man
Of rare practical judgment and ex.
perience, the following extracts which.
we make from his letter will be found
worthy the attention aud confidence
Of all who may wish for reliable infor.
nation concerning Brazil aud its re-
ources
| feel certain that right here
within easy communication Of this
great and thriving city-the poor
down trodden planters of the South,
can establish homes and soon sur
round themselves with all the com
forts and luxuries ever enjoyed by
them in their most prosperous days,
with the certainty of realizing wealth
and independence.
find upon inquiry-that in my
former letters | have undervalued
the advantages of coffee culture
There are Coffee Fazendas here that
yield enormous incomes, consider
ing the cost of such estates and
the expenses of working them. /
will give you as an example, a
small plantation that gentleman
from Alabama is about to purchase.
There are on this place, 10000
coffee trees and IA slaves, with
good improvements. This Estate
can be purchased for Sl3,OO0-three
thousand dollars cash, the balance
on time, with six per cent interest.
This place has yielded three thou
sand arobas OF coffee yearly, (of 80 E
per oroba,) which srlIs from So to
to So SO per aroba-let US say
that an average price is 50 so per
arobas, and it will give an an'ual re
turn Of $4,000 per apnum on the
above investment. This result could
be largely increased by our people
with their superior management Of
plantation affairs The above figures
and facts will hold good in any of
of the Coffee growing districts OF the
Empire. Ia sugar raising, still greater
adv antages can be realized here es-
pecialIy by planters who have had
experience in growing cane, and who
have few thousand dollars to make
a start. Here, the native planters,
do not use the plough, but dig holes
in the ground, in rows six feet apart,
with the holes three feet apart 10
the row, and in these holes they plant
"cane tops." Thus the canes grow 10
hills and are badly cultivated with
the hoe only-yet, enormous yields
are produced, even with this imper-
feet cuIture.-Wbat might not be &C.
compIished with the culture OF LOU
siaDa in former times 81 am salts
fed that with the same appliances
here as 10 the State, the soil will pro.
duce, on an average, three hogsheads
Of sugar per acre, one year with 40,
other and with far less cost Of guilty.
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