Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-26

Health, Etc.
Passing over the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway, few days ago, my atten-
ton was drawn to the distinctness of q stem
torian pair of lungs, discoursing above the
noisy rattle of the cars most familiarly
about affairs in Brazil, and, apparently,
equally well acquainted with matters per-
tanning to 'fthe late unplessantness'' in this
country. Though addressing an individual
passenger, who seemed to be drawing him
out, the speaker appeared to be conscious
that he had attracted the attention,
if he was not really entertaining
the audience, Of q well packed
car. His close cut hair and beard were gray,
his figure tall, rugged and sinewY, showing
considerable remains of a stalwart early
manhood, Notwithstanding the wear and
tear OF more than three-score years, and the
stirring events and changes of his time.
This was Mr.. John A. Cole, q native of Ala
bama, who resided for many years near
Memphis, Tenn, and afSerWard moved to
Mississippi, where the war found him q
thrifty, slave-owning farmer, industriOusly
growing cotton. Toward the close OF the
war he emigrated to Brazil with many other
Confederates, who felt that defeat was total
ruin to the South, snd remained
there seventeen years, returning to his ma
tive country during the last summer and
settling near Ocala, Fla, in the hope of re-
covering the health of his only daughter and
recruiting his own somewhat shattered con-
stitution. He thinks Florida Is the best
place in the world for consumptives, and,
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he is quite sure the genial climate OF
that State, with the quietude and thrift of a
good fruit and stock farm, will soothe his
declining years and perhaps spare him long
er to the afflicted child of his devotion.
He was much struck with the visible NOR
tality among his old friends and acquaint-
ances about Memphis, which city he had
visited since his return and found only four
living Of about one hundred of those he es-
teemed as his old friends in that city. He
was confident that he, too, would have been
dead had he not left the country.
IN BRAZIL.
Arriving in Brazil, Mr.. Cole landed at
Rio Janeiro and travelled all over the empire,
determined to see the country before he
settled in it, and at last chose his future
home in the Province of San Paulo (St.
Paul), near the village Of Campins, where |
also others of his countrymen from the |
Southern States were settling at the same |
time. Mr.. Cole says, "God has done more |
for Brazil than for any other country" that |
1t is the grandest country on the globe, |
whether judged by the giant scale upon |
which nature has cast It's noun tains, rivers, |
minerals and vegetation, or by the |
wealth of climate, productions and |
possible industries for she sustenance Of
population, aud that San Paulo is the gar
den spot of the continent, picturesque and
hna FrTl fntr 10,
ability of soil and climate wonderfully pro-
life Of the luxuries as well as the necessaries
Of life. Here he would have been content
to spend the remainder of his life, but for
the affilction Of his daughter-his only child
for whom he would journey to the ends
of the earth, and knowing the reputation Of
Florida for the cure Of pulmonary diseases,
he determined to abandon Brazil and return
to his own country. AS a farmer he had
been prosperous-chiefy raising cotton
bought the principal labor employed on the
farm, and accumulated considerable prop
erty, in spite of bad government and op-
pressive taxation, the latter being imposed
upon all articles Of export as well as import,
and often so burdensome as to amount to
prohibition. The tax of five cents per
pound on cotton grown In the
country, that for the support Of the Roman
Catholic Church, the protectiUe tariff on for
eign manufactured machinery, wheeled
vehicles, farming and other tools-the lat
ter so much needed in the country-Mr.
Cole thought the blindest of blind policies,
and well calculated to retard the progress of
an Empire possessing resources unequaed
even by the world-renowned United States
of America.
He ordered buggy from New York upon
which the government collected a revenue
tax OF 500 to protect the poor establish
ments OF that country, and he found nearly
all other manufacturing establishments on
a similar footing, inferior workmen, rude
machinery and slow progress. Even farm
ing tools were SO heavily taxed that the ru-
raj population seldom exchanged the rude,
inefficient implements of by gone ages of
barbarism for the improved, efficient, la
Dor saving tmE ortations from civilized ma
tions. To Immigrants from the South,
no Wever, the Brszllians are now indebted
for the repeal Of the tax on farming imple-
ments and mechanics tools, and as several
years have elapsed since these taxes were
repealed, a brisk trade has spruHg up In
this line. and. improvement begins to make |
Its appearance throughouE the rural dis
tricts. Skilled workmen OF all kinds are in
demand, and the profits Of manufacting
very liberal.
FARM LABOR.
Though he arrived in the country without
means, Mr.. Cole soon acquired sufficient to !
begin operations, and bought slaves as he |
Increased his substance, after the fashion OF
The cotton planters OF the old South; and Of !
these slaves he stated that when he left Bra
I'll he sold some, freed others, and brought
With him to Florida family OF three, who {
decided to risk their fortune in new coun-
sry-with their old master. The freedmen of l
Brazil, like those Of the South, are
generally impecunious, bad fnsnciers, !
disposed to run their credit as far as prsc- :
fca OH ha
aw OF that country, rendering the employe s
responsible for debt to his employer, even to
he sale of the former for the payment of
he debt, enables the farmers, by agreement, =
% purchase large proportion OF their labor :
rom that source. r
STOCK.
In the province of San Paulo, said Mr.. I
Iole, they never think Of turning cattle out '
nto the woods-they are all pastured. The
country abounds with fine grasses, incIud- II
ng the well known Bermuda, which
eems to be at home there. and hogs are 2
rTaZed as well as COWS and horses, and are o
'ften made to weigh three hundred pounds
IN pasturage, with one ear Of corn per day. = :
t is great stock country as well as farm
ng country, and nothing is lacking for the
,reatest prosperity but good government
dapted to the development Of it's resources.
The want Of this keeps the country poor,
,eeps out immigrants from advancing ma
ions, and even the refugee Confederates
rom the South, who went there to stay,
ave nearly all returned to their own c)un. 6
rY.
NO JEWS IN BRAZIL.
Speaking Of the capacity of the BrazIlians o
or trade, commerce and general Industry, u
DR.. Cole said they were shrewd, cunning f
eople-more so than the Jews-which he Il
hought accounted .or the fact that the de- d
cendsnts Of Jacob did not mingle with the d
Ientile population of Brazil. That whoever a
oes there with the expectation of profting q
y bis superior shrewdness over the natives, a
1ill be apt to come away cured of his con- q
cit. L. G. B. ii
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