Mower County transcript., 1869-12-16
BRAZIL.
Brazil and the Mississippi Valley
Direct Trade.

reader producer-is, of all others, the
most beneficial medium for eprofitable, be-
cause reciprocally profitable and beneficial
trade; it is the medium imaomparably
superior to all others for securing real
benefit to both, cutting off, as it does, in
termediate expense-inevitably q heavy
burthen-attending the roundabout way Of
the products of either in the
called money at some other
place, to be sent, directly or indirectly, as
the case may be, to the other producing
point for its products, which IN turn have
to undergo o similar circuitous route.
This. easily understood, nay, palpa bly,
apparent, where one nation, as o go-be-
tween, intervenes between two others, is
not so readily comprehended because it is
not presented so forcibly in contrast to the
mind, as between different sections of one
country; yet, in effect, it is the same in the
one case as in the other; as, for instance,
where in country SO vast in extent as the |
United States the routine of trade to some |
other nations is made to follow divergent |
course from q cheap and direct channel,
from some great producing section and
natural distributing point in its vast terri
tory, to tortuous one, it is hampered with |
increased, and therefore unwise and impo- |
Lite, cost and expense.
For example: The Mississippi Valley is
the great granary, and. otherwise, the |
great provision mart of the United States. !
Its unegualed fuvial intercommunication !
"a river system spreading its trunk and
branches into the continent as q majestic |
tree spreads into the surrounding air-affords
cheap outlet for the heaviest drain that
can be imposed, for its products to reach
the seaboard; the grand ''father of waters"
the noble Mississippi river, its main stem,
with the rivers Ohio, Missouri. Arkansas as
superior tributaries, with a host of lesser
ones, all navigable, and connectedly so,
convey the products OF the valley cheaper,
by far, to New Orleans, the seaport of the
system, then they can be in any way trans
ported to New York, and yet the latter is
that fortutious circumstances have made
the port for supplying the Mississippi VAL
ley products to Brazil.
Again the population of that valley is
the great coffee consuming portion of the
United States. and yet, instead of taking
the direct route from here without diverg-
anoe to the cheap and natural inlet to its
main customers up the Mississippi, it is
mainly forced to 60 by the longer and,
after it gets there, the greatly more ex-
pensive route to New York. We may say of
such trade, in fact, that it is unnatural,
for the products of the valley seeking first
an outlet via New Orleans, on account of
cheapness, are forced to go to New York at
an enhanced cost that overlays the previ-
GUS cheap transit, that they may thence be
partially, and owing to this but partially
supplied to Brazil. Coffee follows a like
track; leaving Brazil for New York, it
ship to New Orleans or by rail across the
country, to supply the Mississippi valley
region, that could, by direct trade, be
supplied at half the freight and charges ex-
pense.
Look at the result: The United States
export largely of the Mississippi Valley
grain and provision products to Europe.
and yet Europe competes successfully in
supplying Brazil with the same or similar
articles, while the United States actually
furnish Brazil with but small portion of
what, if it were not thus foolishly over
loaded with worse than unnecessary ex-
pense, she ought to supply the major part
| of, if not all.
Without at this time celebrating the mat
ter, we state, as susceptible of ample form
al proof, that direct trade on solid basis
once laid between Rio de Janairo and the
Mississippi Valley, -four can be laid down
here at one dollar per barrel less than from
New York, and coffee can be laid down at
St. Louis at not over dc. per pound more
than at New York and then will sell there
for full cont more.
In this connection we append para
graph in regard to the consumption of cof-
fee which probably approximates correct
ness, with the remark, however, that
whereas the average consumption Of coffee
in the United States is, for its whole popu-
| v0t1 pnl0 Of no 20
and recent investigation has shown that
in the Mississippi Valley and States sup
piled thence, it is fully II pounds per
capita, and take that consuming area holds,
say, one.half the entire population of the
Union, the supply needed there now is
about equal to !, $50, 600 cwt., and as the
population is calculated to double within
the next twenty years, it will then require
nearly 5000 600 cwt., or in the neighbor-
hood of one and three-Qsarter millions Of
bags.
Foreign Items.
More than twenty million passengers
were carried by the London General Om-
nibus Company during the first six months
Of 1869.
"A disasterous fire at Pekin has laid
waste wing of the Emperor's palace, and
destroyed a large number of valuable books
and MSS.
An iron bridge of boats. 5000 feet long
and 100 wide, to unite Stamb0ul and Gala.
tia, is being built by French company fol
the Turkish government.
The North German merchant navy
consists of 5, 10 ships. with q united tom
mage Of 1929, 984 tons, of which 146 with
102, 149 tons are steamers.
"A Pomeranian peasant held the win
ming ticket in the Prussian lottery the
other day, and sold it to schoolmaster,
who made $50, 900 by the speculation.
Mr.. j. F. Nichols, city librarian OF
Bristol, England, has written the life Of
Sebastian Cabot, whose nativity he claims
for Bristol, and asks that we call America
Cabotia.
-Australia seems possessed of the magic
of our west in the growth of its cities. Mel
bourne, which little over thirty years ago
was marked by solitary log hut, now
boasts of 15O, 600 inhabitants.
1t is said that no less person than the
Emperor of China supervises the Pekin
Gazette-of which copies appear, modified
as to spirit and contents, according to the
class of readers among whom it has circula.
ton.
"A tree still stands at Newstead, on
which Byron, at his last visit. engraved the
names Of himself and his sister Augusta
and ten years ago, Barnum, when in Eng.
land, offered 50, 500 for the tree, and was
Indignantly spurned.
"A gentleman who attended Sainte-
Benve's funeral, writes: "Among the dis.
tinguished ladies present observed Geo.
Sand, rapidly falling into the very yellow
leaf; Proudhons widow, very delicate; and
Mime. Ratazzi, who is to be met with eve.
rywhere. The terrible Raspail was arm-in.
arm with his son. venerable figure, with
flowing white locks, reminding one Of
Douglass Jerrold; Dumas, father and sou
the former promising to live 100 years,
but the son fitted to occupy the cast of
Carmelite garments of his friend Father
Hyacinthe; DR.. Ricord, fat and heavy, with
the vestige of his last laugh, ETC."
The Empress Carlotta passes great part
of her time in sending kilograms to all the
Sovereigns of Europe to complain of the
captivity in which she is detained. These
dispatches are sent off in her presence to
the Court of Brussels, and she does not
quit the Office till she has received the an
swers. One of the strangest peculiarities
of her mental state is that she will never
seat herself at table to take hor meals The
officer on duty, who generally dimes with
her, is obliged to put his plate on corner
of the chimney piece. Her fixed idea is
still that people want to poison her; and
she will never consent to eat of any dish
that has not been previously tasted. Her
nights are very agitated, and she only gets
a few hours of quiet sleep toward the morn
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