Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-05-11
FROM BRAZIL.
The Climate, Soil. Products,
Etc.-An Interesting Let
ter from a Southern
Emigranf.

WE arc per- W ~
the following extracts from private
letter, dated Para, Brazil, February 18th
last, which will be read with lively inte-
rest by those contemplating emigration
to that region, as well as by the public
generally: ~ 1s
81 have not received any letter from
you fer three or four months / suppose
all your leisure moments are passed
pleasantly with your wife, but you must
not be so selfish as to forget that you are
my only correspondent in the, States.
An are well, and all alive, with las yeti
plenty to eat and shelter for our heads.
/ have bought a plantation, three
hours by canoe from here, with large
and fac dwelling, sugar houle, and good
machinery for making sugsr-bought no
slaves Have free blacks hired at fifty
cents a day and they feed themselves.
/ have written to Wash. Spotswell that
/ would 20 after him and ten other men
with their families, and bring them here
at my own expense, pay them IS per
month, cash, they agreeing to work for
me for Eve yesrs-give them houses and
food and privilege to raise all sorts of
fowls. At the end of the FIVE years l
bind myself to give them each four acres
front and twenty FIVE deep adjoining my
own land, fronting on beautiful bay,
navigable for the largest vessels in the
world. The bay is three miles wide and
thirty or forty long. also build them
houses on the land, or I'll pay their ex-
penses here. advance it, and they work
for me until it is paid, at $40 per month
or, Ill do anything else that is or will
be fair and liberal Five dollars month
here is better than twelve dollars month
there. Here you can live on fruits, nuts,
game and fish. The children ofall colors
here 90 naked until twelve years old.
There is plenty of fish, and they are
easily obtained. The great staple article
of food here is 'Piraracee, a large
fish, the same precisely as our red hsh
at New Orleans, with the black spot on
the tail, and all other marks the
same. They are caught, cleaned, cut up
and sailed and dried in the sun. This
climate admits of the curing Of any
kind Of meat. Beef is torn in strips and
dried in the sun any time of the year. l
love the fruits Of this country very much.
1t ripens all the year round on the same
tree. We have fig tree in the yard that
has given about half dozen ripe figs
every day for the last nine months. On
the plantation one can make a pair OF
India rubber shoes or hat in three min
utes BIZ the watch-there are a great
many trees, and the gum that runs from
the trees when tapped, is worth SOC. per
mound. | have more than 5000 trees
and each tree will give about one pound
a month. Watermelous, pumpk ms, cat
bages, potatoes, and in fact everything
grows here that grows there, and is tbs
same in taste and looks. Besides, there
are hundreds Of things here that don
grow there. Many things grow wild thai
are just as good and very like the swee'
potato. This is much better country
than that to plant in, and ] can go from
here to New Orleans in sixteen or ever
fifteen days. II can get those people
10 come out here. win 20 TO New Or
leans for them in December next-wil
take a vessel there for them. / wisl
You could see them aAd try to induc'
chem 10 come. Il IL FAR better for then
here than there ..-
at will be long while before the pc
Htical Affairs Of the country there becOn'
settled, ssd many wise men predict thA
!, will only be sftsr the " colored people
are colouizsd abroad, or become e1tine
1 bya var Of races In 1861 u thinA) ID
T.
sTornsr slave Of writer,