The Drought In Brazil

New Yokk, Feb. 17.- A Rio Janiero dispatch says: Tlie drought in the Northwest continúes to increase in Ceara and to spread out in the rear of the adjoining provinces, bo that the number of utterly destitute can not be lesa than 500,000. The Government, unwilling to undertake again the costly task of feeding hosts in demoralizingidleness, offers free passages to other provinces, but, although thousands avail of the offer, there are multitudes that crowd like locusts over all the interior towns, exhausfring the local resources, and who, having neither the energy nor the means of seeking the seaports, clamor for the impracticable supply of local relief works. Unfortnnately, also, there is no present prospect of escape trom still vaster disaster. In this city and the neighboring provincial capital yellow fever is making rapid marches, the deaths now numbering about 20 a day. Over 100 patieuts are already in the Maritime Hospital at Jurujuba, and the number is fa-st increasing.