The New York herald., 1875-10-09
THE SWATARA'S CRUISE.

THE GOVERNMENT SENDS WAR VESSEL To
BRING HOME BRAZILIAN ooLoNIsTs.
As has been previously announced in these columns
the United States steamship Swatara leave
the Brooklyn Navy Yard and proceed to the coast oil
Brazil The exact time OF her sailing Is however,
known to her officers, the official orders from the
Navy Department at Washington have as yet been
received, though doubtless they will be in a day two.
Still the intentions of the Navy Department SUM-
cienty known to enable the officers understand just
where they sail and for what purpose their ship
has been ordered to distant
THE swATARA's MISSION.
At the conclusion of our civil conflict great many
Southerners left the country and repaired to Brazil,
where cordial welcome was extended to them and
where the conditions of soil and climate
were very similar to those they had enjoyed
when at home. They formed several little
colonies along the Brazilian coast of them
ning themselves the cultivation OF coffee, tobacco,
&c. while others devoted their attention to the raising
of cotton. Though for brief these separate
colonies managed succeed the majority of those who
formed them found out at last that the country In
its form Of government as well as in the habits and
customs of its people, was unsuted to their natural
tastes and nclnations and from this time forward to
the present the little colonies have been under steady
decline The Southerners found that there was between
themselves and the people with whom they had settled
a positive social and commercial antagonsm. while the
negroes upon whom they had depended for the man.
agemcnt OF their crops totally unlike those they
had used in the South that impossible to manage
them
Our government, hearing rumors to this effect
few years ago, sent out man-ofwar to one of the
colonies referred above and offered to bring back
the United States all parties that for any had
been led to fosake their country at the close of the
war Several hundred people accepted this official in
vtation and were subsequently landed safely at Port
Royal S. G. little while after this, upon being ad-
vsed, second man -of-war went out to Brazil and
brought back several hundred more and now the Swa
tara will proceed upon a similar mission which is
pected TO be the last one IL is presumed that she
bring back home the remainder of the Americans at
present residing there.
PROBABLE VOYAGE.
There to be every TO believe though ID
Is not positively known to be fact that the Swatara
will leave the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she is at
present anchored and proceed TO Port Prince thus
fulfilling the programme originally devised for the Pow
hatan. Then II is presumed she Will sail to Laguayra,
Venezuela whore our government has long
Para where she will the unsuccessful coloniss,
and bring them back 10 Port Royal. The scene upon
and about the Swatara at.the Brooklyn Navy Yard Is
very animated, and when the official orders
received the ship will be ready TO sail great many
officers have applied for positions upon the vessel but
every available position has already been filed The
Swatara although set down in the navy list third
class steamer is far superior TO the Ossipee Wyoming,
and other vessels OF the grade being Of hand
model and possessing fast sailing qualities The
following complete list of her others Commander,
A. p. Cooke; Lieutenant Commander ii. G. White;
Lieutenants W. NJ. 9. Little Merrell, r NJ G. Brown,
Etting; Master, Theodore Porter; Paymaster, Read;
Surgeon Kshna; Assistant Surgeon, Green First
Lieutenant of Marines, Porter Passed Assistant En-
gineer Manning; Assistant Engineer Tobin