New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-28

and by its gigantic aff1uents; its extreme
length is 1900 miles, and breadth $50 miles;
the Amaz IN trade will secure to New Or.
leans the trade of Peru end the States of
the South Pacific. The city of Para, from its
position, something akin to the position of
New Orleans on the Mississippi, on the
Amazon Tor Para and near its mouth. pos
sesse great commercial importance in our
future trade with Brazil-the Amazon, a
river whose length Ut course and depth of
water has no equal on the globes surface,
and its tributaries. The port of Para has
advantages which, ere long, will cause 1t to
rank first among Brs z'lian ports; it has a
fine harbOr and will 10 It ships of any size;
1t is the port of steam departure for those
visiting and trading to aud from and with
the Am szOnian region, and also the export
and import port of and for all that valley
and States connected with it, by the way
of the Amazon and its gigatic tributaries.
The Mississippi valley, via New Orleans,
IS the natural purchaser OF all the products
of Brazil found on the market at Para. and
trade can not be ought but mutually bene-
tclal to each country.
Its principal exports are, caoutchouc or
Indian rubber. the chief staple of the
province: in 1851. to all nations, Para, ex-
ported only 92,l75 arrobas (thirty-two
pounds EACH; in 1869, the United States
and France alone imported from Para
creasing, especially with the United States;
cacao tl5S,975 arrobas in 1862, vanilla, an.
natto, nuts, deerekins, copalba, cedar,
hides, castor oil, anseed oil, cinnamon,
horn', cloves, isinglass, ship timber, cabinet
woods, iron (Dalm) wood, dye woods, tapio-
ca, sarsaparilla, nutmegs. balsams, indigo,
tan woods, silver, emeralds, tonqua beans,
cassia, jalap. pepper, tobacco, rum, gold,
Brazil and Campeachy woods, urucu, lin
tel madIpin0 4Ilanfa nillnt pana1 nrah,l /.
la, etc.
Its principal imports are: Lard, kerO
sene. lumber, cOrnmeal. hams, -four lover
1000 barrels per month, pork. pitch, rOsin,
turpentine, candles. tar, cheese, grease,
butter, corn, agricultu al imple ments, fur
niture, tallow, machinery, rye flour, bacon,
cotton. sugar and coffee bagging, onions,
pota 'oes, -cordage, glassware hops, pilot
bread and crack ers. coal, salt, wheat, ice,
etc
MARKHAM, the fourth port ont from New
Orleans, is about 1910 miles from it, and
1862 miles from Rio Janeiro. This city is
the capital of MaranhaO or Maranham, one
of the twenty provinces of Brazil; the city
is situated on an island of the same name,
is twenty miles long by twelve wide, and lies
in . 81 south latitude, and Al Is west longi-
tude. The isl and lies on the north side of
the province. between the Bay of San Mar
IL,
and is separated from the main land on the
south by the Rio da Mosquito. Maranham
is the entrepot and shipping port of six
provinces, and has an Increasing and i'm
portant trade with foreign countries
With this direct sem:-monthly steam
ship communication opened with Maran-
ham, her natural produce resources will, in
twelve months, more than double the pres
ent trade OF this port with the United
States, and via New Orleans, it will ever be
increasing its demands for our Southern
and Western products brought to the Cres-
cent City by every tributary of the father
of waters, and by every railroad terminus
or starting point emanating to or from the
capital of Louisiana. The Brazil coast
passage trade is very large, in connection
with Maranham, and also to and from the
West India Islands, and would soon de-
velop into significant importance with
steamship accommodations at moderate
rates, while to New Orleans land thence
north and from New York to Europe) by
this proposed direct steamship route the
travel, and especially during our winter
season, would soon swell to consider able
propo' lions. The New York Mail Steam.
ship line does not touch at this port 1t
ranks as the fourth commercial city of the
empire. Its principal exports are: White
and brown sugar, dye wOods, capsicum,
cacao. pmeDto, ginger jalap. hides deer
and other skins, ipecacuanha, rum, isin.
glass, copaiba, molasses, vanilla, gold in
dust and bars, Brazil nuts, pepper, tobacco,
arrow root, castor oil beans, urucu, caout
ehouc or India rubber, sarsaparilla, salt
petre, tatagiba, etc. l.s principal imports
are: Butter, coal, white and yellow pine
lumber, machinery, lead, starch, furniture,
rOsin, agricultural implements, glassware
hops, -four la portion of its demand is sup
piled by American flour per steamships via
Liverpool, corn meal, PORK, lard, hams,
cotton, sugar, and coffee baggiug. cordage,
beef, navy and pilot bread and crackers,
cheese. tallow, grease, candles, petroleum,
slaves and hoops, pitch, tar, turpentine,
shingles, soap, rye flour, tobacco in boxes,
etc.
Pernambuc0 the fifth port out from New
Orleans, is about 40l7 miles from it, and
1855 miles from Rio Janelro. This city is
the capital of province of the same name;
it is situated at the confluence of the rivers
Capabaribe and Beberibe, which coz 5, flutes
the harbor of the port. The city is in s. 4
south latitude and $40 50 west longitude: it
is the third city of rank and twelfth in com.
mercial Importance Of the empire, with
portin 1871 was l62, $40 barrels, the pr,nci.
pal part of which came from New York
and Baltimore; from New Orleans, none.
OF the los vessels in port January Z, 1873,
not single one was registered as from New
Orleans. Its imports and exports are rapidly
on the increase. Steam marine and enter
prise of foreign nations the cause, and thu
trade of BrszL the incentive. Its principal
exports are: Gold in dust and bars, white
and brown sugar dry and salt hides, rum,
molasses, medicines, dye wOods, bones,
deer and other skins. diamonds, gums, car
naubo, cs' 40, Brazil wood, cochineal, to-
bacco in boxes, etc. Its principal imports
are: Flour, petroleum, slaves and hoops,
candles, VIII a., lard, pork, hams, furniture,
lumber, agricultural implements, chairs,
vermicelli coal, machinery, tallow, grease,
hops, glass ware, beef, tar, turpentine, pitch,
rOsin, naval and pilot bread and crackers,
corn meal, rye flour, tobacco in boxes, etc.
Bahia, the sixth port out from New Or
leans. is about 1877 miles from New Orleans
and SOS mil g fiom Rio JAneiro. 1t is the
capital of province of Brazil of the same
name, and ID situated on a strip of land
which forms the east side of the entrance
to the Bahia de lod0s o Santos, or "All
SOULS bay" in 1872 south latitude and 3So
81 west longitude. The bay extends twenty
eight miles from north to south, and twenty
miles from east to west; the barbor is one
of the best and safest in the two Americas;
it is the second city and port of the empire
and ranks twelfth in the commercial marts
OF Brazil; its population is about 200, 900,
all waiting to reciprocate trade with the
Mississippi valley, via New Orleans; in 1872
over 800 steamers coaled here.
Its principal exports are: Coffee, white
and brown sugar, salt and dry hides, to.
bacco, rose wood, Brazil wood, tulip wood,
cacao, horns, hair, zebra wood, piassava,
tapioca, rough diamonds, deer and other
skins, iacarauga logs, bones, ship timber,
rum, rapaduras Ia species of raw sugar in
cakes], m0lasses, etc.
Ifa nrinnipal i'm Elonr