Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-05-09

ut IOIlO WlHG iNteNi AS from the pen of Gen. A. T. Hawthorn, formerly of Alabama, and was first published in the Greenville (Ala.) Ad- yocate. The letter was a private one, written to friend in Greenville:
 CrrY OF BAHIA January p 1868.
 Since 1 left Rio de Janerio have travelled over five thousnad miles in search of a home. On the Corrientes, one of the tributaries of the San Francisco, l found country that is an earthly Paradise, but 1t has
 as well be in the centre of Africa as where it is. It is thousand miles from the sea; with T great river like tisr-sa aississippi, Il is true, running past it. but thenaatbat river has near its moulh sc16nsl edition of Niagara Falls. over wlicf aotliiins can pass and live. The country suited me exactly, but it's remotencss from the sea, the difficulty pf getting there, and the impossibilfty of getting anything away from there, determined me to look farther. And I am glad did, for l have at last found a country where l sincerely believe our people may pros- per and be happy. I have found a home for myself and as many more as may choose to come.--ff yon will take the map of Brazil, and look in the southern portion of the Province of Bahia, you will see two riyers-the Je- quitinhonba or Belmont, and the Pardo, that empty into the Atlantic, at no great distance from each other. l have spent the last four weeks in examining the lands upon those two rivers. both of which are fine navigable streams. I have selected lands upon the Bel mont river, about eighty miles from it's mouth, aud am perfectly delighted with my choice. l shall buy about 5000 acres for the benefit of myself and my immediate friends who may see proper to come.--The Government proposes to build q comfortable house and clear six acres of land for every family that will come anl occupy it, giving them five or six years credit in which to pay for the improvements and it proposes to commence this work immediately, provided some one will become responsible to the Govern ment that families will come and occu- py these places when prepared. This, I propose to do, to the number of ten or fifteen families, and the Govern mont is very willing to trust me- The great difficulty with our people com ing to this country is, that unless they have money to buy Improved places, they have to go into the woods and withoye houses or farms, begin dc novo, and the consequence is that great numbers are discouraged. This difficulty l propose to obviate by building houses, clearing and planting some land, before the emigrant arrives, so that when he lands, he will find a comfortable house to shelter him, and growing crop that will feed him
 And in order that this may be certain ly done and we'll done, shall remain here myself and superintend the whole matter. l am going to Rio de Jsneiro tomorrow. where 1 shall make final and complete arrangements with the Government. I shall ask the Govern, ment to set aside and reserve all the public lands lying between the Bel mont and tho Pardo, from the sea shore to the boundary line of Minas Geraes, for the exclusive benefit of our people. Nearly every acre of it now belongs to the Government and if this course is adopted, here is magnificent tract of country, forty miles wide and more than one hundred in length, up on which our people may settle with out molestation from any one, and without being the victims of specula- tors and sharpers. In some of the American Colonies of this country, lands have already gone up 10 fifteeu