The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-07-03

Spanish General into whose hands he had
allen, sent for his mother and said 10 her,
eff you will induce your other son to sur
render his nrmy to me, will spare tho HE
Of the one who is nv prisoner" Her instant
reply was, i" No! Vii not purchase the
life Of one son With the dishnnor Of another
md the run oi my country" This fact is
historic, and is more true thun history gen.
erRlly IS.
The ladies' Of Mexico dress with grea,
eStravagancc, aud suppose a greater pro.
fusion OF pearl aud guld"--i viii not say
more barbarlc-lhan IN any other country.
remember that al ball al he Presidents,
Mr.. Bocanegra asked ne what though, Of
the Mexican ladies' were they as handsome
as my own country xemen I Of course q.
yoded answering The question; told him.
however that they were very graceful, and
dressed much finer Than our ladies'. lie said
he supposed go, and then asked me what
though. the material Of The dresses OF 1870
ladies' which he pointed out had cost and
then told me that he had happened to bear
his wife aud daughters speaking OF them,
and that the materal Of the dresses, blonde,
think, had cost one Thousand dollars each.
asked on tho same occasion, friend OF
mlno who was q merchant, what he suppoS
ed was tbs cost Ul an ornament for the head
lhlckly sci with diamonds oil the Sonora A.
e.. tie told me that he knew very we'll, for
he had imported II for her, and ,ha! the
price was twenty five thousand dollars; she
wore other diamonds and pearls 10 doubt of
equal value.
| have sad that there are very rarely any
hing like evening parties, or IerIulllas so
clal meetings, or culls 10 spend an evening,
are quite rs unusual, escep, among very
uoar relations, and even then The fes!fniat
and espionage are not at all relased. Per
sons who have seen each other, md been
attached for years, often meet at the altar
without ever having spent half an hour IN
each Others company. Ladies oi the bet
ter classes never walk the streets except on
one day in the year, the day before Good
Friday, believe IL. Bot they make the
most OF this their sa,urnalIa on that day
all the fashionable streets are cros Ged With
them, 10 their best " b bs and fuckers" add
glateriug IN diamonds.
The streets are always, however,, swat.
no2 with women Of the mlddling and low.
er classes. The only article Of dress worn
az these are chemlse and Pc,ttcoa', satin
slippers, but not stockings, and reb, o. Il
long shlal improperly cued by our ladies'
a mantllla. THIS they wear over the head
md 81.
thrown over the left shoulder. Wha,cvc.
Ihcy may be IN private, no people can be
more obseryan, Of ptopricty in public /; one
may walk the streets Of Mexico for u ye1r,
and he vii not see wanon gesture or
look on the par, Of n female OF any descrp.
ton, With the single exception, that If you
meet woman wrth fine bust, which they
are very mp, 10 have, she finds some occs.
sion TO atJls, her rebozo. and throws 1t
open Tor second. The rcboho answers al
the purposes Of Tue shaw, tctncs and Ifock
body.
The women Of Mexico | think, general.
y smoke; It ia getting TO be regarded as
not exactly coRmo !! fibt, md therefore
they do 1t privately. As the mcn general.
" smoke, they have the advantage which
Dean Swift recommends 10 all who en-, on
IONS, to make their sseelheafts do 80 too.
O,e OF the favoTl,e and most pleasant re.
creations OF the MeNlcans Is What they call
IN do de campo, a day 10 the country. A
party Is made up to spend the day at Ia
cubnya, or some other OF the neshborn4
villages, or at some house in the suburbs Of
the city, where dinner is prepared and u
band OF music sent out and the day aud q
large portion Of the night spent IN dancing.
Never have seen mare Joyous and hi
Inrious people than they are on these coca,
sIous.
shall never forge, one of these parties
which was given to General AImonto, JIst
before be lett Mexico on his mission to thus
country. 1t was a genuine, registering
country ifolic. We got into boats, and
with the music playing, were rowed for
somc distance by moonlight, in the canal
which terminates in the Lake Of Chulcc,
and then amongst tho Chnampas or floating
gardens, which are now nothing more than
shaking boys. The very thin stratum Of
sol! Which had formed on the water Of the
Lake 10 msde moro unsteady, when small
space Of an acre o. two is surrounded by n
canal. There arc now none OF the floating
gardens described by the couquerors, which
vero formed by artificial means, and NOV.
ed about from one part Of the lake to nn'
other.
The men who arc met in the streets, are
almos, exclusively officers and soldiers oil
the army, priests aud leperos, the latter
quite as useful, and much the least burden
some and pernlc,ous Of the three classes
The Me.lcons of the better classes gener'
aIIv wear cloth coaks AT all seasons Of the
vear. and tho Indaos blankets for orna-
mepr, | suppose, for the weather is never
cold enough to make either necessary. Ono
thing, however, could mover accoun, for.
[ did not feel uncomiortabIy cold in linen
coat, nor uncomIOttably warm with my
cloak on. All the phys peculiartles of
tho Indians of Mexico ara precisely tho
same as those of our Indians; they are,
however, much smaller. Their appearance
is very much the same IN all respects as
those of tho struggling Indians who nre
seen about our cities nothing Of the eas'