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freoof DosUge. ,
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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.
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■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
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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.
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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 ,
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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