The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1874-01-14
BRAZILIAN COMMERCE..

In connection with the proposed survey
of the American river and its tributaries
our present commerce with Brazil assumes
unusual importance. 1t is we'll known
that the BRAZILIAN Government has terri
torial possession Of and Jurisdiction over
the country bordering upon that stream
fromits mouth to the Peruyisn boundary.
Wi,h.a view Of placing before the readers
lof The REPUBLICAN,, in a succincs form.
lall accessible information upon this SUBJ
ject, the following tables have been COM
piled from authentic sources, and now first
published in this form. showing the rapid
Increase uf our commerce with Brazil du-
ring period Of twenty-six years and its
present magnitude. This period enlbra-
ces the year 1913, the last Of the Mexican
war, and the last one prior to The discovery
Of gold Ii should be remembered that
since that epoch the United States has
been u gold-producing country, and that
much Of the labor that would otherwise
have sought employment in manufacturing
and agricultural pursuits has been divert
ed to the production Of gold. Consequent
y this product Of their labor has been large.
y drawn upon in payment for those i'm
portations Of raw material aud sugar and
coffee which we have received from Amer
lean countries south of us, which would
have been paid for in other products and
manufactures if all our labor had been ex.
pended 10 tlose directions.
Brazil borders upon all the Sonth Amer
lean States except Chill and Patagonia.
and occupies more than two-ffths OF the
continent Of South America. After Rus
sia, it has the most extensive contiguous
territory Of any government on the globe !.
II is divided Into twenty provinces contain
ing 5000. 900 square miles. and. in 1871.
had a population of 9.9l3.O .On9. There
are. besides. about 200. 900 nomadic In
dians. Tie enumerated population con-
sists Of white aborigines aud Africans. Tie
people Of mixed blood probably compose
two-thirdsof tile whole population. the re-
mainder being whites. The government Is
i constitutional aud hereditary monarchy.
Don Pedro ii being the present Emperor.
The army has total strength of Gll.2-
II men. and the navy Of S.423. OF ma
sal vessels, Brazil has eighteen iron-clads,
twenty-seyen corvettes, two gum boats aud
seven transports. with thirty-three sails Of
the line. having nm armament Of SIG guns.
The chief article Of export from Brazil
i coffee. She supplies four-fiths Of the
consumption Of the United States. and
more than half OF that ofth world. Cotton.
sugar, cacao. hides. horns. tobacco. India
rubber and diamonds are also produced aud
exported in large quantities, = y
In 1887 her expectations Of cnffee were
,. .099. $50 sacks. and in 1870. 2.209, I5G
sacks. Her highest recorded exports of
coffee we're 2 5Gl. 975 sacks in 1869. She
also exported in 1870. 6sI0 boxes Of m-
gar. 1912 bales of cotton. hides, and /.
GJ. 900 horns. !.
The United States took 1873. .G5l sacks
of the 2.2D9.i i56 exported III 1870. and
fully the same pro.1riion Of the whole
quantity exported since that date. Du-
ring the year ending September go, 1872.
Brazil furnished $50, 900 Of the 4.I73. 900
bales Of cotton consumed hy Europe. The
value of exports to'Great Briiain--in 1870
was $50. .G37.2 .240. and that ofimports SIC.
s3i.l70. The value Of British cotton
manufactures imported in 1868 was al
most exactly covered BY that cf the raw
Gotten exported 10 the United Kingdom
In the same year = =
Commercial enierpriseof all sorts arc
rapidly increasing ia Brazil. the Govern
ment showing sagaeious encouragement
Of them By granting liberal concessions 10
British aud American capitalists for rail-
ways and steamer lines. Slrcct-milways
arc common in Rio de Janeirc. and arc
well patranizcd by the population, male
and female. They arc considered ~ i'm.
portant aid to the development Of local
traffic. -Nttionm RraIiicda
A MODERN AxASiAs.--A Denver
journalist. whose name. had he lived in
Jerusalem in the FIRST century. would pro-
badly have appeared in the fifth chapter of
Acts instead Of that Of Ananias. has erected
modern sensation. While mother Is