St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-23
Nicaragua.

cation with LnlS SeCIlOn. Inc port Oh
Bluefields, which is nominally under
the sovereignty of Nicaragua, is in the
Mosquito kingdom, and is as much
under the influence of the English Cow
eminent as the province of British
Honduras. Although situated at tho
mouth of one O the most beautiful and
important rivers of Central America,
Biuefelds has no interior ccmmunica'
ton with the Republic proper, but rs
simply the port from whence the Ems
glish Moravian missionaries and few
foreign residents ship the spontaneous
products of the soil, that are painfully
collected by the labor of submissive
but brutalized Mosquito negroes and
Ramboa, to the mother country-En-
gland.
Of late years the foreign residents
have begun to pay more atteAcion to
the agricultural possibilities of the
locality. The banks OF the Bluefelds
River are remarkably fertile, and the
banana, pine, plantain and cocoa attain
high degree OF perfection in soil and
climate in every way suited to their
greatest developments. The fact rs the
bananas of BkueDelds rank in American
markets with those produced OH the
Isthmus, and are possibly superior to
those grUwn on the route of the Costa
RIGA Kailroad, or on the fertile plains
and hillsides Of Jamaica.
When the New Orleans steamer, the
Lucy P. Miller, made regular trips t4
this port, she assembled the Bluehelds
River for distance of more than twenty
miles from its mouth. AT present the
little Heredia, which has succeeded the
Miller on this route, runs up the deep
river to the banana plantations along
its banks, and loads with the golden
fruit through the simple medium of
gang-plank thrown from the vessel to
the shore.
This steamer rs owned by Minor G
Keith, of Port Limon, Costa Riea, and
is consigned to C.. A. Fish d Co., of
New Orleans. She makes regular
monthly trips to BiueGeids and Port
Limon, and when fruit is scarce at the
former port completes her cargoes at
Corn Island. Mr. Brownell, keith's
business manager at Port Limon, in-
formed the writer that the business on
this route was increasing so rapidly
that Mr.. Keith was looking for a larger
steamer to take the Heredia's place.
Bluetields, although destined in the
near future to become a port of great
Importance, can not be said to be much
of business center yet 1t contains
probably twelve hundred inhabitants,
although il boasts of but three business
houses that carry on traffic with the
outside world. When Misunderstanding
assumes greater Importance, and when
the exclusive policy forced On the NOM
ina king by the English Moravian
missionaries is overcome by outside in
tuence, or by the assumption by Mica
ragua of the territorial sovereignty it
holds over this virtual British posses
sion, the port of Bluefelds will soon
take its natural rank as the distributing
and receiving center of the products OF
one of the most fertile stretches of trop-
ical country on this planet
Exclusive of its foreign residents, and
few Nicaraguan settlers, but little
can be said in favor of the inhabitants
OF Bluetelds. The Mosquito negroes
and Zambos are. as q general case, a
brutal, drunken race; nor can the so
called royal family be considered as an
exception to the general rule, unless,
indeed, by consequence of its greater
RIGHTEOUSNESS and bestiality. This
race was originally the miscegena5ed
progeny of the European pirates and
their woman captives. 1t possesses all
the attributes of the negro, without any
of his better qualities, and, in fact, is
fast diving out From among a popula-
ton of 10000 souls the Moravian mis-
sionaries have managed to pluck some
s., h,.nVs(c Shn hrIrnjnT
but unfortunately these ignited frag-
ments at times burst forth in full flame.
and are then only d distinguished from
their heather countrymen by their SUI
perior grade of dissoluteness.
The same Ubiquitous commercial pol
icy which forced the unfortunate Chi
nese, at the point of the bayonet, amid
scenes of blood, of flame and of reVolu-
ton, to purchase opium from British
merchants, has permitted these savages
the unrestricted use of ardent spirits
# under the ban of this policy millions
of Chinese have been ruined, body and
soul. thousands of unfortunate Zambos
and Mosquito negroes have filled, and
are filling, drunkards' graves, and to the
annual sale of few hundred hOgsheads
more of Erum-while it has served to
swell the Golfers of few white mer-
chants-must be attributed the DISCO
lute habits of the Mosquito negroes.
The Protestant missionaries of the
Mosquito kingdom, with but very few
exceptions, appear to think more OF
British commercial prosperity than they
do of the welfare Of the souls COM
mitted to their charge, and enjoy
the reputation of being far-seeing
shrewd and prosperous business men,
AS the regeneration of this people, il
such regeneration is possible in the deep