Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-06-08
Emteresiin. Sketches of Mexican Life
and Country.

OeVerdi grdpnic description ol MeAlCdIl me-
character and country, have emaualed from he
pens of American citizens in Mexico. tran
script of some of them may be interesting 10
most readers The variety of temperature
in Mexico has been compared with that in the
immense empire of Russia. On the tops of the
Mexican mountains, IL is as cold as in Siberia.
Vera Cruz is always hot. Jaapa is ever tenn
perate and bland hardly changing twenty de-
grees Fahrenheit. in whole year. Puebla
is higher, colder, and more changeable vel
never uncomlorably cold, unless when visited
by high winds from the Gulf. The city of
Mexico is still higher and in the winter the
coldest nights make ice. and after sunset The
winds are cold, though during The day here is
almost always bright warm sun. One writer
says that on the l5th of January las, the Pasco
was ,hronged with equestrans and carriages,
the ladies' dressed as al The operas, and The
gentlemen without overcoals, and the weather
as warm as fair day in October. in Philadel-
phia II was several weeks after, before
sprinkle of rain or cloudy sky visited the val
ley of Mexico. Such is winter 10 Mexico.
have been, (says wriier) long in Mexico
that il seems like home-.-almost. There are
so many English, German, French and Amer.
icsn residents here, besides the large number of
American officers and ctizeLs, tba, IN The hotels
and places Of public amusement Mexico resem-
bles n Orleans or New York. The habits Of
these are the same as IN our own c,ies, and from
force of circumstances, the city seems much as
any other great capital We have had an A.
merican theatrical company 'aud an American
circus, fborh have now left US, the first some
time sInce) aud our amusemenls- billiards,
,en-pins, &c, are the same as al home. There
is fine cricket club, composed ennrely of for
e,gners---p principally of Enghshmen-and be-
fore The cold weather sel'in, we used 10 have
a match every Sunday---Sunday being here
The holiday of The week But OF late there has
been no playing, and there will be none till
March. when the Spring will be in full bloom,
with its endless trophies Of flowers. The
Winter is uow in its wane, and buds are star
Ting from the shrubs and trees, andlbe grass be-
gins 10 start up in The meadows. am Iold that
Spring here is season OF enchanmen, and one
may well believe 1t, since the Autumn is so
rich and The Winter so mild naval officer,
writing TO The Washington Union, from Tus-
pan River, Mexico, describes lhe country as
perfect Eden. He says:
You never, in all your dream of fancies, pic
iured 10 yourself as perfect paradise as this
country. The river is never disturbed but by
gentle and cooling zephyrs, aud meanders
through country over which reigns perpetual
spring. The land is rich and fertile, yielding
Of some things two crops Of others three year.
The common productions of the soil. almost
wlihOu, cultivation, are corn, sugar cane, lobac-
nd ha ,,,iotas -,
bundance, without cultivation. are dyewoods---
such as log-wood and vanilla beans, oranges,
pineapples. bananas, and thousand other de-
llcious fruits and Iuxuries. Papeta, The hemp
plant of this country. and far superior to Man
lila. grows wild all over the country. deer,
wild turkeys. paflrldges, wild hogs and calIle,
are numefOus---ln fact, nature has done every
thing for this country, and man nothing. IL
you could induce from four 10 five hundred
families TO emigrae here, they would be more
happy and wealthy in one year than they would
be III any part of The United Slales in four or
five. The land is held here in common ; and
any person, by paying $25 TO the municipal
authorities, can take up as much land as he can
work. and hold II during his own lifetime, and
his children can do the same. You can also
enter pre-empon, and keep The land, by
purchasing from Government. al the rate of "a
bout ten cents an acre. If this country was
IN the possession, or should say par of The
United States, with i,s natural passes, the DIFF
fcully of access, aud the vas, resources which
would soon develops themselves, it would be-
come, in few years, the most wealthy and
powerful na,iou on earth. II only requires to
be inbsti'ed BY fee and enlightened COM