Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-06-13
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baggage with ease, an almost indredbs dis
lance per day. Good horses and mules in the
country can be purchased at from Is to 20 dol


lance per day. Good horses and mules in the
country can be purchased at from Is to 20 dol
lars.
Our informant speaks Of the climate of Mata-
moras most fevourably. He thinks it is quite
as healthy as Savannah, If not more so. Du-
ring HE four years residence there, yellow fe-
yer was unknown, and even chills and fevers
exceedingly rare. In the interior, in the direc-
tion Of Monterey, or even Durango the coun-
try is said to be high, dry and healthy. Duran.
GO Is an old Spanish town, Of from forty-6ve to
sixty thousand inhabitants, and would well re-
pay Uncle Sans troops Tor a visit, and be-
sides be most agreeable summer retreat--not
pom the whole, then, we think that volunteers
may dspel their apprehensions in regard TO the
unheal,hfuress of,he country on the Rio Gran.
de-thcy may meet with lew bloody-min.
ded mosquitoes, an occasional garopata, or n
wild Mexican in the chapparels, but in their
will soon strike high, dry, healthful region,
where subsistence will he easy, and opportun.
ties for fighting not unfrequent.
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1'nE Cirr OF JAsApA.--A glowing descrip.
tion Of this city is given. When says Cen
erai T., The atmosphere is clear. you may see
the shipping in the harbor of Vera Cruz with
an ordinary spy glass, and the white caps
of the waves with the naked eye. The eleva-
lion Of Jaapa above the sea is little moro
than Iour Thousand feet. II is situated on a
mountain the summit Of which at Perote,a
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 by noun.
tabs; amongst them Orizabs, which is distant
IRON Jalapa about twenty-five miles. But from
the remarkable cleame~ Of the atmosphere,
and the sun shining upon the snow with which
il is always covered, it does not seem to be Eve
miles. All the tropical fruits grow there, and
are cultivated with great care and taste. 1t
is not exaggeration to say that it is mpossi-
be for one who has not buen on the table lands
of Mexico to conceive Of climate so elysian.
There is no. day and scarcely and hour in
the year when one could say, wish it were
little warmer or little cooler. 1t never
warm enough to pull off your coat, and rarely
cold enough to button it,
Gen. T., adds NO spot on the earth will
, be more desirable than this for residence
! whenever it is In the possession of our race.
with the government and laws which they car.
ry with them wherever they 20. The march
\ oftime is no. more certain than that this will
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Gen. Waddy Thompson in his Recollections
of Mexico,' writes as follows,
There is no instance ola person born In We.
= ra Cruz having been attacked by this disease,
;. ;. tthe yellow fever,) although carried away in
early infancy, and not returning until full grown.
have heard statements made upon this subject
mach stranger than euen this. 1t is not regar.
. ded there as by any means the most dangerous
;, type Of fever. Eminent physicians have even
told me that Of all the forms Of fever, they re-
garded il as the most manag geable and least dan.
gerous, il medical aid is called for in due time.
: According to the estimates of those most enti-
:, tied to confidence, less than five per cent. OF
those attacked die. This estimate does not
reason that the general terror of being sent to
= >, the hospital 10 so gfent that many are deferred
from applying for relief until their cases are be-
" yond the reach of remedies Some facts came
: under my observation which went very far to
:. shake my confiGence-never very grcat--ir:
:, medical theories. The universal treatment o'
yellow Fever, by the Vera Cruz physicians, IL
very simple, and certainly not very Unpleasant j
y. it is nothing more than cold applications to
=, the stomach and lime juice and s"ee, OIL CIV
en- internally and this practise : 50 generally
q, successful as to give the resst which have
=. sls,ed--tye per cent ofdeshs. They say there
. that calumet 10 cer,nusy fa,sli but hsar the
= other the calomel side Of the question. The
:. prisoners Of the ssnte Re expedition were re-
" leased on the 10Th of June and arrived at Vera
Crur in August, whefe they remained more
Than ,,.,nth tor'y.fve of them were attacked
e' hv N. yellow fever. and In its most malignant
~ loan, as may be well supposed, from their ir
DO regular habits and the total destitutioh Of all
= the comforts of sick bed. They were atten-
q det by young physician who belonged to the
" expedisiuh, and whose practice was to give
lafpe doses of calomel One died Of the disease
=, Generals Arista. Ampudia, Mejia, and Ca
re males. CoIohels Cansco and Canbjsal, are pre-
ty counced by Spanards, nearly possible as ioi-
4. lows: Arrests, Am poo-dia, Ma-hees. Co ne'
a | las r. a~,s-ro (.svs hal the vova. n. in