Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-04-07
From tho Dayton Transcript.
NoTInErn Mexico.

The accounts Of recent travellers ia the country The
Rio Gel Norte Of the habits and customs that region
bear with them small degree of interest. We
been particularly entertained by WORK pen
Josiah Grigg Santa Re trader FROM shall make
few extracts several interesting subjects Speaking
I of architecture this author remarks
The materials generally used for building Of the
erudest possible description; consisting OF unpurn
bricks. about eighteen inches long by nine wide and
tour thick ud IN mortar OF clay sand These
bricks called adobes, and every es.ice from tn
church paiqcio is constructed of the same tnr
The general plan of constructing houses much after
the plan OF Moorish Castles, though rough are com
Portable a tier OF each side of a square
comprising as many the convenience OF the occupant
may require encompass an oen potto or court with but
one door opening INTO the streea huge gatcusualiy
large enough to admit the family coach The bac. tier
Is occupied by hI'chen PROVISION store, grain
cry and other apartments Most the apartments
ceP the winter rooms into the pafito but the
are most frequently entered through the saIn hail.
which, aadcd to the thickness of ter walls roofs
renders them delightfully."- warm curing The cold
whist they perfectly cool and agreeable summer
he roofs are all hIt azoeas beng
of layer of earth three feet thick and SIM
Por,ed hs horiAoh'll beams these roofs, when well
packed turn the rain and render the house
proof ne azotea also forms Pheasant promenade. the
surrounding walls rising usually high serve for
earth sl.cked over with soft covered gene
rally with carpet o domestic manufacture A
plank floor would be quite a curiosity n New Mexico
The interior OF every apartment roughly plasered
with clay mortar unniAcd with lime bx cntcs vgho
supply the place OF trowcils with their hands. II then
whtewashed with calcined yeso psun The parors
and family usually lined Wallpaper or
house commonly plastered similar though,
not always witewashed In the suburbs OF towns and
particularly III the villages and ranches
prevails of painting the fronts OF the houses stries
which gives them picturesque appearance The general
aspect Of towns presents asscnlap.
OF brck-kttus than of human aboGes-'
Nothing Is calculated the Curiosity of
strangers than the unweIldy carreas domestic
construction the massive wheels OF which gene rally
hewed out OF large cotton wood This, however enr
rarely of sufficient form the diameter which
about five feet additional segment or Teller i pinn-
ed upon each edge. when the whole fashioned into an
irregular circle crude pine
tor the aAlefree, upon which tied frame Of the
same material tor bodytlc Of iron the
part dispensed with; IN fact nothing is common
than a cart, plough and d mill. without par
tce Of IRON other mettIe about To this huge trucke
necessary hitch least three four vokes of
oxen; for even team of would find it difficult to
draw the load Of a single yoke in ordinary cart.
Rough and uncouth these always are they
constitute nevertheless the pleasure carriages the
raneheros, whose families in to the
towns. whether to market estas loyfal
occasions 1t truly amusing these vehicles
bouncing along upon their irregary round wheels ike
ping bullock and making the hills and valleys
vocal with the echo Of their creaking and frghtful
sounds