The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-06-18

You! In his own gracious words-"go and sin
no more.''-Od bachelor the Sc o:tish VILE
lage.
MEXICO: From e'Gen. Thompson's Recoliec
tions OF Mexico" just published, we extract
the following items. They cannot but prove
interesting to our readers, at the present time.
MASSACHUSETTS AND MEXICO.
Mexico was colonided Just one hundred years
before Massachusetts. Her first settlers were
the nobles spirits OF Spain in her Augsstan age,
the epoch OF Cervantes, Cortes, Plzarro, Column
bus, Gonzalvo de CordOva, Cardinal Ximenes.
and the great ard good Isabella. Massachusetts
was settled by the poor pilgrims OF Plymouth,
who carried with them nothing but their own
hardy virtues, and indomitabie energy. Mexico,
with a rich soil, and climate adapted to the
! production of every thing which grows out OF
the earth. and possessing every metal used by
Iman-Massachus etts, with sterile soil and un-
| genial climate, and no single article Tor expor-
tation but ice and rock. How have these bles.
sings, profusely given by Providence, been I'M
| proved on the one hand, obstacles overcome on
| the other! What is now the respective condition
of the two countries? In productive industry.
wide spread diffusion OF knowledge. public IN.
situations of every kind, general happiness, and
continually increa sing prosperity in letters, arts
morals, religion; in everything which makes
people great, there is not in the world. and there
| never was in the world. such commonwealth
as Massachusetts. There she is; look at her!!!
land Mexico,
| THE sPANIARDs, AGRICULTURE AND POLITICS.
Adverting to agriculture, Gen. t. says:
The plough in universal is that used two
thousand years ago-neither more nor less than
a wooden dge, without particle OF iron at
tached TO it. The noe is wooden staff, With
an iron spike to the end. WHAT'S more remark
able, the only animal used in ploughing is the OK:
a pla inter-, with 90, 600 horses and mules (by no
f means unusual nnmbers) will only use his
oxen inlthe plough. If you ask why this is the
ii only answerI can give is, that the Spaniafd
er changes his ha6its,,nor anything else but his
J government. All the passion for change that
exists in other men, with him is concentrated in
{ political changes
/, THE CITY OF JALAPA.
: | 4 glowing desc ription oil this city Is given.
'tWhen, 'says General T., ''the atmosphere is
: clear you mag see the shipping in the harbor of
Vera Cruz with an ordinary spy glass, and the
{ white caps of the waves with the naked eve.
The elevation Of Jalapa above the sea is little
more than tour thousand feet. Ii is situated on
: a shelf of the mountain: tue summit of which
: at Perote, distance in direct line of about
, twenty miles, is still four thousand five hundred
feet higher than Jalapa. The whole horizon,
: except in the direction of Vera Cruz, is bounded
e | by mountains, amongst them the Orizaba, which
1 lis distant from Jalapa about twenty five miles.
, But from the remarkable clearness oil the atmos-
phere and the sun shining upon the snow with
: which it is always covered, it does not seem to
and are cultivated with much care and taste.
1t is exa gerating TO say that it is impossible
for who has not been on the table lands of
Mexico to conceive OF climate so elysian.
d There is not day and scarcely an your in the
/ wear when one could sBy say l wish it were a
warmer a little cooler. 1t is never warm
enough TO put off your coat, and ra:ely cold
enough to button it,
General. T., adds-ttNo spot on the earth will
l. be more desirable than this for a residence
whenever it is in the possession of our race, with
government and laws which they carry with
them wherever they go. The march of time is
e not more certain than that this Will be, and prob
: ably at no distant day.
a THE MExIcANs AND LABOR.
lr Gen. 7. gives a sorry account of the despos-
: ton Of the Mexcans for industry. He says that
during his residence in that country, ''the feel
= ngs which were excited, caused exultation in
If our happier destiny, and a superiority in every
/ thing, as well as the more generous one OF pro
l. found sympathy for the wretc he'd condition of
J. country upon which a bountlul Providence
II his show its blessings with a profuse
e hand than upon any other upon the face of the
s earth. Whilst in our cities and towns you hear
II the busy hum of incessant industry, and the shrl
whistle of the steam engine, there you hear
e nothing but the drum and fife; whilst we have
o been making railroads. they have been making
e revolutions. A more strlkeing proof OF the un.
conquerabe repugnance of the Mexican to labor
cannot be given, than the fact that short stable
cotton sells there at from forty to ory~ve cents
e per pound while they have lands and climates
as well adapted to its culture ours, and these
= Lands dirt c.eap; yet they never make enough
g Tor their owl sma consumption The importa-
e ton o. cotton is positively fotb dden by law; but
n this law is often relaxed, by selling the privil-
lr eye 10 m ercantie companies to import cartain
It number of bales. If such prices could be OBJ
n tanned at home, northern people would dis
= cover some plan of raising it profitable in hot
s. honses.. Although the whole road from the city
of Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico passes
y through a country nexpressibly picturesque
and beautiful, yet the ignorant, idle, and degra-
d ded population, the total absence of cultivation
m and improvement, and general appearance of
l. wldness and desolation producedwilh me feel
y ings OF gloom and melancholy. Neither in GO
ID ing nor returning did see one human being,
man, woman, child, engaged at work of any
; sort. The great mass of the population doze
= ont their lives with thoughts purpose than
the beasts which perish around them.'