lowiakwl (»* , <««l>» Al , TBUmS. ; ; ; otfE-OOFfc'Olfß 'i’skA', p» ADVANCE. ', ,! *ii 00 ....**» - 158 tpfcot’ififo WmiiS NlNj? MONTHS. 1 .1 n IP [j6T PAID WITMh’TWELY! S MOn4»W.l 300 of miinMliar " Oa ejwotea. : DUti 1 OP pb^.TMABTEBS. roitmaiiaW jae.Wminitd "Otift JoblUha^a.dlreotaO :3<gfeisa^^aass "'liar paper la now carried Of nraiUbrrrPahom ihc cocaly freoof DosUge. , ;■ » - > •■■ ■ • -r.. . ;;,seping,§» .. , Owing-, to ; excessive .drought: [g 9t luniiiiejf,) tWffi t is.?» ; , searcrty of hay ind 'fodder ri ?o that, it becomes, important that, not,oply : shall npthing bo wasted, hut lhat tho utmost economy shall bo practis ed in feeding out what, wo have. We therefore recommend the cutting of all :oarse fodder, (hay, straw, corn stalks and shocks,) and mixing with it a little meal tof sqtrio kind, ,corn> oat, barley or shores, and thus commence with feeding oat less hay! than would otherwise be re rmired.' Secure to tho cattle .warknth, clean and loose skiha.by. the. frequent use of the. card, and you. will be.ablo to takoeachan limal through' tho winter in good condition, with some ten ,ot Meed hundred pounds leas hay thaq thoy have been nccustomed to consume. Whero wood is cheap great advantage may be, derived from cooking moat of the food, fed; cut.. Hay steamed with tho grain, would undoubtedly answer the ’.desired < purpose with a considerable less .quantity thari fed ,111 ..on. uncooked state? ' All kinds of feed given to the store swine should bp.pobked. , . Poultry and Egos.—Fowls like the ■warm southern aspect, where they can huddle together in the sun during the mid dlo of tlvbday. Provide them such a place, and'plenty of food, such as corn, barley, ■wheat, cob-meal, mixed with scalding wa tor or hot potatoes,- with occasional feeds of flesh of young calves* plucks of sheep, and constant access to pure water, grav !■ cl, old mortar, oyster or clanv shells and 1 bones, all broken finely, and they will i yield eggs in abundance through the cold | weather. ' : .• j Shklteb for Stock.— Cold acts as a '» stimulant to a system, and that is probably f whv- wo.require animal dietin the winter .I more than in the summer; flesh supplying the waste occasioned by the cold moro ■ readily than vegetables. If, then, the an - imal is co|d, it requires more. food,, ami ot y more nutritious nature, to keep uptho list ‘i ural temperature of the, body, than when • comfortably sacltcrcd. It ; will, therefore, i bo found .cheaper to protect the. animal i from thd cold than to supply an extra *s amdunt of food. _ \ Carrots Poh Horses.— Stable keepers I are beginning to find that :theso vegeta ' bles form a cheap and nutritious food to ■ mix with grain for their horses. It is bet ’ tfer to give a working horse-a peck of car rots and four quarts of oats or corn meal a day than to give him six quarts of meal. ' . TMP’ isiAND OF; CUB.A.—As any f mation ,in refeirenpe tq Cuba is-nt this timo mtorqstjng, ! >ve subjoin a few.- geo graphical facta :-r-The Island js 624 miles hi extreme length, With an average width ) Q f about qO miles, contaimpg an area ol 37,000 aqnaro miles, arid a population ol 1,500,000. The value of jts agricultural productions in 1849 was 562,781,035. Its : exports, during the sanie period were 827,380,021, of which'3,6,oo, 224 vyere to !' the United States. Its imports during the - f aamo period , were 827,607,343, of which ' •87 2801214, were from the United, States. ’ £ The amount'of American tonnage employ \ ed in,the trade with the,lsland,' during the :} same-period, was 601,267 tons. The to “ $ tal nmount of taxes levied upon American f. commerce with the Island,-in theshapoof dudes Upon imports, tonnage. duties and . dutiesmpon oxports, oxceeds «4,-<!PO,?00 . annually. There are 359. miles of rad f way ip operation, upon tho Island. Of " the 27,000,000 of annual imports, accord - ing to official documents, 10,000,000 are . to g T »vi.iop S „ lumber, ' &C, which the one or the other .of■•the tTnited States could furnish more readily ' ' than.any'other country, ' taxes Olid restrictions imposed by Spanish ' pSicyt not more thanone-third outcomes Frpm?tl\e.|elds.oqd factories of the United i WgVoAHA.' Fius amd Lake Ebie. I iKSSCSBSSESSS* 1 <?*S5tfSS3^>K ,, S l!4:f«Sg3ertS3fsf |f§ iKtv falls, l andthus stop 1 thsTapid aes Jl&* *>f «!*' j£ Ui ,; s P m l ha^4°ESond' ■t* fiieHr tfoutd finally reach. LnKe • B,no * ““ i SfiSiert'lhaV the'Lake Vould.be completj ft Gained. Such an ovont is impossible.-r' ®-!AI already mentioned, - theNsurface forming a rap » . . ,i * : i.'.'Vin.!; ’. V-- * -\ ~ . vi . - , ... r , '.'.ft <i- ■ *i- ■ i -til' m i /. ' i vfo?.Y.\Vr H _ ‘ r'\ : r-oi: - : ■ 1: : •''' : ‘ ‘,- r ' :’ ' ‘ ’ j.' , CMfftt -Itpihlittttt. A WEKKI.VPAPER: DEVOTED TO LITERATURE. AGRICULTURE, MORALITY, AND FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Volume 4, FORTUNES MADE BY ADVERTISING. From a email, pamphlet entitled “ The Art of making Money,” an extract has been taken, and is going the round of the provincial press pointing out the facility ot making immense sums by tho simple pro cess of continuous ad vertising. Doubtless large sums have been, are, and will be made by such a system by certain persons of ability, who no doubt would make their i way in tho world if called upon to play j different parts on the great stage of lilej but to suppose that men in general must, as a matter of course, acquire wealth by such means,.is as absurd ns to imagine that all the penniless and shoeless ot Lon don are capablo of rising to the dignity and wealth of an alderman or. the lord mayor of London simply by reading tho ‘‘Young man’s Best Companion.” Money is not so easily.mado as tho writer or fhe article re ferred to would lead the people to suppose; if it bo so, few heed bo, poor. But to our text; fortunes made by advertising. Un doubtedly tho greatest man of; tho day as an advertiser is Holloway, who expends tho enormous sum of twenty thousand pounds annually in advertisements alone; his name is not only to be seen m near y every paper and periodical published in the British isles, but as if this country was too small forhis individual exploits, he stretch es over tho whole of India, having agents in all tho different parts of the upper, cen tral and lower provinces of that immense country, publishing his medicaments in tho Hindoo, Oordo,_Goozratec, and other native languages', so that the Indian public can take the Pills and use his Ointment according to general directions, as a cock ney would do within the sound of Bow Bells We find him again s* Hong Kong and'Canton, making his medicines known to tho Celestials by means of a Chinese translation. Wo trace him from thence to the Phillipine islands, where he is circu lating his preparations in the native lan guages. At Singapore he has a large de pot; his agents there supply all the Islands in the Indian seas. His advertisements are published in most of the papers at Syd- 1 nev, Hobart Town, Launceston, Adelaide, Port Philip, and indeed almost every town | in that vast portion of the British Empire. Returning homewards, we find his fills and Ointmeut selling at Valparaiso, Li ma, Callao, and other ports of the Pacific. Doubling the Horn, wo tack him in the Atlantic—Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Santos, Rio de Janeiro, and Pernambuco: he is advertising in those parts in Spanish and Portuguese. In all the British West Indio Islands, as also in the Upper and Lower Canadas, and the neighboring prov inces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, his medicines are as familiarly known, and sold by every druggist asthey are ut home. In tho Mediterranean we find themsel mg at Malta, Corfu, Athens and Alexandria, besides at Tunis and other portions of the Barbary States. Any one taking the trou ble to look at the ‘Journal’ and ‘Courier of Constantinople, may find in these, as well us other papers, that Holloway s med icines aro regularly advertised and selling throughout the Turkish empire; and even in Russia, where an almost insurmounta ble barrier exists, tho laws there prohibit ions the entree of patent medicines, Hol loway’s ingenuity has been at work, and obviates this difficulty by forwarding sup plies to the Agent at Odessa; a port situa ted in the Black sea, where they filter themselves surreptitiously through various channels into the very heart of the empire. Africa has not. been forgotten by this in defatigable man, whohas on Agent on the River Cambria; also at Sierra Leone, tho plague spot of tho world, the inhabitants readily avail themselves of tho Ointnaent and Pills; thus we can show our readers that Holloway has made the complete cir cuit of the globe, commencing with India, and endingas we do with the Capeof Good Hope, whore his medicines are published in the Dutch and English languages; and while speaking of Dutch, we have heard that ho has made largo-shipments to Hol land, and is about advertising in every paper or periodical published in that kmg i dom: we might add that he has also start ed his medicine in some parts of Frapco; in somo portions of Germany; ds also in isomo of the Italian States, ~ Wo have been bt some little trouble to collect all, these facts, because wo fear that the article before alluded to, “tho. Art of ranking mo ney,” is calculated to lead people to spend ] their' means in the hone (as the author atatesYdf making a hundred thousand lbs. in six years for their pains, by holding up an easy example to follow, such men as Holloway, who is really a Napoleon m his wav. Many, may have tho means, but have they the knowledge; ability, energy* iudoment, and prudence necessary! hail ingm one of these requisites, a total loss S«i°: Ho»»w«y to undertake any enterprise requiring im mense energy of body and mind. Helms made * largo fortune by his labors, and i'e, we shoOtd, -suppose,- 'every day greatly increasing his health. ‘Ofeoareo « our interest to defer tho P nb J^.. f JT. advertising; but, DS guerd.ansofthmr.ih lerest, wothinkit our incumbent duty to a lighthouse upOp 'what wo oonstddr a: dangerous iahodlf; may. ,3 r r."! '»') a '■■■■, Clearfield, Pa„ January 31, 1853. sooner or later prevent shipwreck and ruin to the sanguine and inexperienced about to navigate in such waters. The,Editor of “The Edinburg Review,” in a number published about three years ago, 6tated, that ho considered he was ma king a desirable bequest to posterity, by handing down to them the amount of talent and ability required by the present class of large advertisers, At that period Hollo way’s mode of advertising was most prom inently set forth; and if these remarks, conjointly with his, should descend to a generation to come, it will be known to what extent tho subject of this article was able to carry out Iris views, together with the consequent expenditure in making known the merits of his preparations to nearly the whole world. —Pictorial Times, ' a London Weekly paper. BRIEF DISCOURSE. Uf THE CHAPLAIN OFTIIK N. V. DUTCHMAN, ■ Text.—vVith crimson robes oround her, Sho looked the quoen.” Mv dytr Flock : there is no better index to a woman’s character than the very man ner in which sho dresses, forj the adjust ment of a petticoat or the management of a flounced skirt, is, to a discriminating person, a test of her general character.— There’s rio mistake that women are in clined to adornment, and why should’nt they 7 for there is no piece of God’s Han diwork so worthy of decoration as thoy arc, or so lovely when appropriately attir ed. But some of you, my dear sisters, dress withbut taste, are fussy and tawdry in vour attire, without being aware of it ; stay, then, and I will tell.you the secret of captivating tho masculines; and first, se-| lect your color with some regard to yoi\r complexion. A sister with a red frousy face, never should lino her bonnet with white unless she wishes her face to resem ble a piece of raw beef stake upon a sheet of letter paper; nor should a sallow look in<r girl dress in a pea-green unless she is trying to counterfeit a diseased porgov or a wilted cabbage loaf,, but rather 60 har monize the color you select, i that likei the contrast between tho blushing rose and the emerald leaf, the purpling grapo and its volvety foliago—you may over -appoar fresh 'bright and healthful, as the violet in the morning when spangled with dew drops 1 Now then as to material, my belov ed • let it be soft as the down upon the gosling, or the fur upon an infantile pussy cat; no harsh, coarse fabric snould consti tute your attire, to grate upon th » feelings of your friends. Ye should belike thorn less roses, yielding the virtuous incense of vour smiles upon the air ol Love, and blessing all around ye ! There is an in effable charm in tastefully dressed woman, and all of you might become so if ye lis ten to my counsel, for the very plainest of ye would appear to better advantage in a well fitting dress of sixpenny calico, than in a cashmere brocade without taste in the wearer. My hearers, the waist of a lady is the prettiest thingin nature, to my mind, and when it is enclosed in a pretty boddice, close and just fitting, it makes me feel all over like a newly hatched partridge, and I’d iust about es willingly worship it, as any thing else 1 know of; but when one sees a waist with a dess all askew upon it, half fastened behind, and the boddice point looking both wavs for Sunday, he’d about as lief look at a petticoat hung on a sassa fras bush, or a pillow case with a joint of stove pipe in it. Then the wr.sis my dar ling sisters look to them. Even if your hand is not beautiful, let your sleeve fit neatly and smoothly around it, and you will possess a great advantage even over the loveliest, who isnot neat in that portion of her attire. Now look at your pretty feet, my sistors : are they trim and tidy, your little boots prettily laced, your stock-1 incs immaculate and pure? And yourj tee'h, my dear ones; are they well kept, | your breath like migniopetto 7 Your hair— is it smoothly parted, and:does_it proclaim your neatness and your taste, dm smile, of go»d nature upon your life! Then you are lovely, though you may not be what critics deem beautiful, you are fascina.ing though plain, you are u queen, though you think it not, and you will draw the heart to you as naturally and ns suroly, as a hoy glides down n snowbank on a hand sled. Man may bo the noblest primitive work of God, but woman is the master piece. And to her l?e out I6ve, our protection and our devotion. Amen! v ■ / Q3“lt is estimated by tin article in, Do Bow’s Review that the trade of Japan with this country, if she opens, her ports, will bo worth more than $200,000,000 annu ally. This is wore than, the entire value of the annual exports of tho ,United States to Great Britain. The population is put at §0,000,000. ■ The Empire consists ot three thousand eight hundred and fifty islands lying off the coast of China, hav ing, An prea ofaboutcqual that of (Senna-- ny * .including Prussia'and "Austria or about six times that of the State of New Yolk. 03” A wemhor, in altuding to the bill lor the benefit of mhrried;women, I .before the Missouri Legislature; asked if it would not be better' for the 'hiewbers to do something iTor the benefit themselves with aWV/s. TnE French Empire. —A Paris letter says: Many people supposo that the Em peror wears his Imperial robes upon all occasions. These bolong, of courso, to the rising generation, who do not remem ber so far back as the other Empire. Thoy would be undeceived, did they go, |on a fine afternoon, to the Champs Ely | sees or the Bois deJßoulogne. For thero the Emporor may often bo sccmdrivipg himself a two horse phaeton. He is dress ed in a heavy, shaggy, blue pilot doth coat, with the ribbon of the Legion of Hon or peeping from his button hole. When ho rides upon horseback, there is nothing to distinguish him from a citizen or n sub ject. He bows to all who bow to him,and 1 never have seen any ono so apparently anxious to salute and be saluted. He catches at every thing that can be con strued into a recognition ; but with all his zeal he does not touch his hat oflener than once in ten nods. Gentlemen on horse back pass him without looking at him ; and, as this is an act of downright impo liteness, you must suppose thutt the riders have serious reasons for tho commission of such rudeness. A Distressing Case. —A case of pov erty, distress and suffering has come un der our notice within a few days, of truly a heart-rending character. A woman nam ed McCann, residing in Pink street, north of Master,, between Germantown Hoad and Fodrth street, has been afflicted for the past twelve years with a scrofulous affection, which has deprived her or the use of her limbs during that period. She has existed entirely during this time, from the charitable contributions ofa few of her neighbors who are cognizant of her suf ferings, and upon the earnings of a girl, an only child, who had been her compan ion—her only support in affliction. A few dnvs ago this child was taken sick and died in the midst of the most abject poverty— and in bed beside her unfortunate and help less mother. A few young ladies in tho vicinity hearing of the case immediately assembled together, collected sufficient funds and had tho remains .decently interr ed. Tho poor woman is now left entirely alone, friendless, penniless, homeless, con fined to her bed with the repulsive disease, with none around to console her, and with starvation staring her in the face. The case is certainly worthy of the attention of the benevolent. —Daily News. A Fearful Leai*.— An Irishman nam ed John Murphy, aged thirty-four years, while laboring under the effects of manta a potu, made an attempt to leap from tho window of his chamber, at about five o’clock on Saturday morning, but was pre vented by his wife. He then broke awav from her, ran to the roof of the house, and leaped into the street below. The house being four stories in height, it is wonder ful that.- cverv bone in his body was not broken. He\vas, however, seriously, if not fatally injured. One of bis legs, an arm and skull were! fractured. He was taken <o tho Hospital in the course of Sat urday. —Daily News. New Hampshire Patriot, the leading democratic paper at Concord, says the printing offico of that paper has been i the graduating school of a Governor,- a | Senator in Congress, several representa tives to Congress, many editors, some ministers, and many other young men, who have filled at various times numer ous responsible stations in the community. reason that men become luna- ( tics, is because they allow themselves too , little rest and merriment. School boys never lose their brains. And why 1 Bo cause they devote ten hours of each day to sleep, and the other fourteen to devilry. Follow their example and you will have the same quality of health. Q3rA lecturer, in addressing an audi ence, contended with tiresome, perplexity, that art could not improve nature, when one of his hearors, losing all patience, set the room in a roar by exclaiming, “How woyld you look without a wig!” , (KrA western Editor requests those of his subscribers who owe him more than 6 years subscription, to send him a lock of ; their hair, so that ho may know that they nro still living. 03-Do not the D. States laws against bigamy extend to Salt Lako City ? Gov. Brigham Young has, in his splendid man sion in. that city, sixteen wives and thirty children. OirThey are circulating at, Chicago, California, gold half dollars. On 6ne side is a head surrpunded by thirteen stars; oh the other a wreath, with the words, “Half Dollar—Califoraia Gold.” may slumber in the mem ory, but it never dies. It is like the dor mousoin the ivied tower, that sleeps while winter lasts, but wakes with the warm breath of spring. Oi?"He who jumpers the selfishness of another does the other mortal injury which cahnof be compensated by any amount of gratification imparted to him. Qs”Several pork, jieusos in Cincinnati have clbsed on account of the high price of hogs. From, the Washington Union. the amazon and tiie Atlantic slopes of SOUTH AMERICA'. —No. 7. We come now to consider the means and modes by which the resources of this greut Amazonian water-shed are to be de veloped, and the measures and steps which the policy of commorco suggests for secu ring to the world the free navigation of the Amazon. Tho triumphs of commerce are peace ful ; its achievements are scon in the spreading of civilization, in the march of civil and religious freedom, and in the dis pensation of thrift, prosperity, and wealth among nations, ns well as to individuals. From tho statements, which I have al ready made, all must admit that the valley of tho Amazon is not only a great country, hut it is a glorious wilderness and wasje, which, under the improvement and pro gress of the ago, would soon bo made to “blossom as tho rose.” We have, there fore, but to let loose upon it the engines of commerce —the stenmer, tho emigrant, the printing press,and the plough, and it will team with life. There is a line of steamers from Eng land to Rio. The French are getting up a line, and the stock has been taken in it, from Marseilles to Rio. Brazil has a line from the mouth of the Rio do la Plata, via Rio, to the mouth of the Amazon. Tho mouth ofthe Amazon is half way between Norfolk and Rio. I petitioned Congress at its lost session, for the establishment of a line of mail steamers from some ono of our southern ports to connect with the Brazilian lino at Para, nnd thus put our merchants in direct steamship commum cation with Rio, Buenos Ayres, and Mon tevido, and so draw us closer to the Ama zon. The committeo to whom the subject was referred reported in favor of if, and brought in a bill for its accomplishment. It was, however, not acted upon. But since that, events have occurred which make this lino from'the South still more importaht nnd necessary. The ty rant Rosas has been expelled from tho con-, tinent, the navigation of the Rio de la Plata nnd somo of its noblest tributaries have been opened and made free to the world. This government, with a most praiseworthy zeal, is fitting out a naval expedition to explore those streams, and make known their navigability and the commercial resources of tho countries drained by them, that our merchants may ] know how to send, what to sell, and what to buy there. Brazil has contracted for two lines or steamers on the Amazon, from its mouth almost up to its sources. These Amazo nian lines are to run—one monthly between Para and Barra, at tho mouth of the Rio Negro, a distance ol 900 miles ; the other, connecting with this nt Barra,. is to ply between that city and Nauta, in Pciu, a distance cf near 3,000 miles from the sea. “Poling up the Mississippi,” would in com- j parison to the means at present employed | for navigating the' waters of the Amazon nnd La Plata, be considered rapid travel- 1 ling. Here, therefore, is the commence ment of a new era in the business nnd tho commerce of those two river-basins; nnd the first merchant steamer as she plows up up those majestic streams with her rich cargo of foreign merchandise, will bo the signnl for a revolution in tho trade and traffic as. has been carried on there. Three millions 6f dollars’ woith of pro duce how comes down the Amazon to Para. The Peruvian portion of the upper Am azon “wherethis lineof steamers is to go,” “is,” said Cnstelnau, who was then on his way homo after travelling through tho fair cst parts of South America—“the Peruvi an portion ofthe Amazon is the most beau tiful country in tho world; its fortility is proverbial.” There is found tho famous silk-tree, which produces a staple like cot ton to the eye, but silk to the touch.— There the labor of one man is worth but two and a half yards of coarse cotton stuff the month—so abundant are the fruits of tlic earth, so scarce the fabrics of tho shop and loom, and so far has that country been removed from the influences of com merce. It is now just about to be brought within them. .. 1 But what are the opportunities which Americans will have for getting a fair share of this now business to which the free navigation of tho La Plata nnd the in troduction of steam upon the Amazon will give rise? I reply, very small, unless this southern line of steiyners.to the Amazon bo established; otherwise all the intelli gence from Brazil and the La Plata, all tho advices concerning'the markets, will go direct to Bngland and to France by their steamers; nnd then, after the tnerch ants there shall have had some ten day s or two weeks tho start of their American competitors in taking the advantage of thnt intelligence, it will arrive here in the Uni ted Staf&r by the Cunard or Collins line of steamers from Liverpool. .. Now and then an American clipper, happening at the mouth of tho river, or in the offing at Rio, at the nighttime, may chance to bring intelligence to the United States sooner than it can go to Europe and then eomo over by steamer. But,that I is uncertain. 'WW'S®;; T&. i g t boft°coloraß?Sni'n'ki, 1 # £ do .l( month!, , 400 I do -do ffi 1 do 13 tnofiihi, r l Ob I -do do tf»mootM,W w : 0 da 3 month*, ' i 0C» 1 oolamn 8 nionthc. ovv do « monthi, *65 Ido A ‘1° * .IJIfJX./ do la monthly 800 1 do 13 do 'WOO A liberal redaction wiltbe made to Merobaoti attd otheta whoftdrertiio bj.theyear.. Oar paper circulate In erety neighborhood* ana h lead • * nearly every family in the ooonty—and therefore auoidiJ»> convenient and cheep meant for the bntinm men of on* county—the merchant. mechßtuo.aaa aHotbon—to extenfl (he knowleden of tbef f leoatldn and buiinttr ‘ Wo enonldr like to iniort "A Card*’ for every Meehanio, Merchant, ead , Profetiional man in the ooncty. .We have plenty er rtom for,aioceneralrnie,the moreeitOniively • Btnidvamiai . tbegrenter willbehiiprotiti, , OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. PEINTBDjINTHE VERt REST STYLE, AND JON TOE SHORTEST NOTlOfc. AT TOE OFFICE OF THE '•CLEARFIELD REPUBLICAN." Number 4. Tho freo navigation of the Rio do ts Plata is an achievement* and commerce Is chiefly indebted to Brazil for it. Honor to Brazil, therefore. It is a gem in the i crown of tho Emperor, which, if it be tar nished not, will make his reign illustri-' ous. ' . Rosas held tho mouth of the river La Plata; Brazil,Banda-Oriental, Paraguay, andßolivia, (all independent sovereignties) owned navigable water-courses which emptied into it; but Rosas would not allow any of these powersto those \yutors through his part of tho river to the sea. Brazil made war with him, drove him out of the country, and tho first fruits of tho victory the commercial World is about to receive is Books, Jobs and Blanks, the free navigation of those noble streams. With a quarrel more just than -that wicked one about opium, Brazil, in her triumph, followed the generous example of England in opening the ports of China, I without any claim to exclusive privileges. Brazil has not opened the ports of so populous a country as Chinn, but she has I opefied tho water-courses of one with I which commerce will in 1, a fow years be I more valuablo than it is with China, These arrangements about tho La Plata navigation are not completed. They are thought to be in a fair way of adjust meat; and therefore, in giving honor to whom honor is due, I give it to the Em peror of Brazil, upon the supposition that I I no untoward thing will occur to thwart tho 1 measure. But the commercial world haa been sparing of its commendations of Brazil for her seeming liberality with regard to the free navigation of the La Plata. They say—and have, alas! but too much reason for saying—that there was no generosity, no liberality, no sign of any fairness what ever, in the course of Brazil with regard to the navigation of the La Plata. Bolivia, Paraguay, and Banda-Oriental, they say, had each as much right nS Brazil to claim the free use of the La Plata for getting to sea with their merchandise; and if, upon the fall of Rosas, Brazil had then attempt ed to extort from Buenos Ayres any ex clusive privilege in the nge of those wa ters, shoknew that not only would these re publics—her next- door neighbors—all have turned against her, but that the three great commercial nations of tho north would have stepped in to prevent any such exclusive and selfish appropriation of Na ture’s highways. As a proof that Brazil was not actuated by any of those really enlarged and liber al views which it is the policy of commerce to carry out, I point to tho Anazon*— * Inhere Don Pedro is the Rosas. He holds tho mouth of the Amazon —ho shuts it up. Five sovereign and independent nations own its headwaters, and all of them have provinces and people upon the banks of its navigable tributaries ; but not one of them is allowed to-fallow thecourseof thesena | vigable streams through Brazilian waters to tho sea. Justice, the policy of commerce, the sen timent of the age, all the principles of na tional law, and the rights of people, are in favor of tho free use of that river by those five Spanish republics; and it canno' be said that Brazil ucted from principal in the case of the La Plata until she makqs, of her own accord, the navigation of the Amazon free. Formerly there was a Rosas who threat ened to stand at ihe mouth of our Missis sippi, and wo, who then owned tho head waters only, claimed, and were ready to assert with tho sword, our right to follow thorn, and to use thorn for commerce and navigation, until they mingled with and were lost, in tho sen. It has now not been quito four years ago since this subject of the free navigation of the La Plata and the Amazon was brought to tho. attgntion of this govern: ment. The proposition was, that we should, of fer to Brazil our friendly mediation with Rosas, and use our kind offices to induco him to make free the navigation oftheLor ’Plata, and so end the war. It was proposed, also, that we should treat with Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Npw Grenada, and Venezuela for ports of to foreign vessels and commerce up their navigable tributaries of the Amazon, and thus turn upon Brazil with the same argu ments for the free navigation of the Am?- zon that Brazil stood ready to urge in fa-, vor of her right to navigate the La Plpita. Brazil got wind of this. She found put that such a thing as the free navigation of the Amazon began to form the subjecujf conversation in commercial und politico,! circles heic, and she immediately took the most active steps to render of uo avail, any attempt on our part having for its object tho • free navigation, oif tbo Amazon, • Shb redoubled, her elegies in the war against Rosas,' and she despatched injiot haste ministers extraordinary and pleni . potentiaryto JPSru, to Bolivia, to Epwido**'. and Now Grenada, and Venezuera, treat with'each "of : .thbso : five, Spapisfi-i 1 American republics for the ezclikivejitfit 1 to hovigato their Amazonian tributojries, ' For the Portuguese, who had owned the l Amazon for ages, who had not had tho > power to make an impression upon itsjfor -1 cats, nor to launch a steamer upon its bo som, to go and talk to the Bolivian* and
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