Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-03-23

happily called the Athens of South Amer
lea. Nearly 100, 900 immigrants land yearly
on the quays of the capital. The city con-
tans over 100000 inhabitants, is now well
drained, lighted with gas, and supplied
with pure water. Its intellectual activity
may be judged from the fact that ii sup
ports twenty daily newspapers. Theatres,
clubs, hospitals aud schools abound. There
are eighty miles OF horse railroad in the
city. But ii is of the republic at large that
we would speak. Its principal river is the
Rio Plata, the silver river, navigable for
over two thousand miles, aud this, too, In
a steamboat. Opposite the city Of Buenos
| Ayres the river is twenty. eight miles in
width. There are now nearly two thousand
public schools in operation, and over -four
thousand boys are receiving university ed
ucation at the national colleges. There are
one thousand five hundred miles of rail-
way, and over six thousand miles of tele-
graph. The navy is a credit to the govern.
ment. The different provinces correspond
to our states, each having its legislature and
governor. The total population is two mil.
lion souls, and the enormous annual aces
sions by immigration, together with the
natural increase, must soon render this
republic one Of the most popuous in the
world. The river system affords cheap
means of communication TO every section
of the domain. The staple exports are
wool, hides aud tallow. The sheep farms
support no less than eighty million sheep,
and the annual export of wool exceeds two
hundred and twenty-five million pounds.
How much room there is for human habi-
talion is shown by the fact that the popula
ton per square mile is one hundred times
less than in Europe. The farming stock Of
the fourteen provinces may be roughly set
down at fifteen million horned cattle, four
million horses, and eighty million sheep.
The value of all this live stock cannot fall
short of Sl5O,0O0 900, yielding about s45,O OO,
900 annually in exportable produce. These
facts are gathered from the annual report
of the Secretary of the Interior. This off,
cial calls the Argentine Republic the poor
mans FL Dorado, and be fortiiles his as
sertion by some surprising figures. 1t APP
pears that there are some four thousand
families scattered over the thirty -four colo
MES in the two provinces OF Santa Fe and
Entire Rios. They own some 1000, 900
worth of farm and cattle property, pro-
portion of S2250 to each family, and most
OF these families landed at Buenos Ayres
ten years ago without a dollar. The i'm
migrants come from Ireland, Italy, Ger
many, France, Spain and England, very
few from the United States. There are
many thousands Of Irish people in the re-
public, generally much more prosperous
than with us. They devote themselves
mainly to sheep farming. The policy pur-
sued by the government towards immi-
grants is exceedingly liberal. Nobody is
allowed TO remain idle, there is no poverty.
The language is, of course, Spanish, and
the established religion is the Roman Cath
Ollie, but there is the utmost federation and
political liberty. The policy OF the South
American republic, in the promotion of
immigration, is worthy of consideration by
our law -makers.-BoS Herald.