The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-07-14
WAsAINsros, July 8. lS49.
VI z XICO.
2. TAYLOR.

MEXICO.
monte 10 CsiifoEnia-G Gold Placer, Of Sonar.
we have compiled, for the information of IN,
variety Oh facts, connected with the
Cahiornia- They are taken from communication
,.'hished us by our correspondents at the CITY M
Mefieo, irom the journals of that metropolis. and
rom private sources 10 which we have had priyil
esea access. We will not add word of comment
on them, feeling assured that thew will comma M
| Ine utmost attention, from their intrinsic worth
tue iacts themselves are of undoubted authentici-
y; tne deductions, speeulations, remarks. &c.
WIN winch they are accompanied are those ofmen
OF the world.-M O. Pic ''''
IN. city Of MEXICO has become point of grsst
dtfaction 10 Americans and other foreirns,. ;nc.
10 - OF me gold Placers Of California. II
"a tnet cry all correct Information h eoIl.cteo
and from that point speculations are sent forth IT.
| every direction. ~
An unusual impulse has been given to business
On the Pacific since So 600 900 the gold dust has
been brought TO Mexico, and it is supposed thai
nearly an equal amount Of silver has been seni
nom thence TO San Francisco
Inc merchants have petitioned Congress- 10 per.
nut me transit of gold and silver through the Re.
public free Of the export duty, which Il now i'm.
posed on the precious metals.
SosoRA--Ihe greater part of the Mexican pop-
uiauon OF this State have abandoned their homes
SCOUT 10 IN NUMBER, and gone by land 10 Cali
tofnis. Since their arrival at their destination.
ney nave SAID that they emigrsted to be protected
rom the savages, and not in search Of GOLD. for
me Pacers OF Sonora are richer than those of the
Sacramento. $40
In addition to this all the reports and traditons
OF Mexico are that Sonora is the richest placer in
The world. But the diggings cannot be work I'd in
consequence Of the annual irruptioas of The A.
ches, who defeat the Mexican troops and plnn8er
and murder the Inhabitants,
Several companies are now forming under mill.
taIy organization TO fight these sivages, and 10
WORK The Placers. One of these is headed by the /
house of Manning & Macintosh. Rnbio' Sc
another Is Scotch company; and third is said
70 De an American speculation. They pronose
eqalppns parties throughout and supplying them
w'ih arms, ammunition, provisions, &c, until
they can be reimbursed from the placers
The productions OF Sonora are represented 10 he
gold, silver, cinnabar, pearls, diamonds emeralds
ana other precious stones. In confirmation the
specimens deposited in the Miarea or Mineralo-
gical Museum are daily examined; they seem 10 be
OF the richest character. Formerly this country
was called New Andalusia, from the Circumstance
OF The climate resembling that pioyince in old
Spain. VIZ
The AMERICANS IN MEYIco.-It is calculated
tnat about ZAU Americans have passed through
the city OF Mexico within the last sir months On +,
route for California Many OF these went 10 San
BIAS and Mazatlan, and others preferred the road
10 Acapulco. Those who proceeded TO San Bias
were at first enabled TO obtain shipping at heavy
prices. But at least one thousand who arrive ct
tempted by the superior attractions Of Sonora took
he direction by land 10 its placers. Al present !
here are large numbers at both these points wait
ng for transportation 10 California.
The Government is well disposed towards Amer. ,
cans. At the custom houses baggage is passed
without examination. No objection is made 10 ,
either large or small parties, with or without
arms.
MOVEMENTS OF lSDUIDUALs.-Gen. Green, Of
TEXAS, has been for two or three weeks in the city
1f MPxien His ~ |
ona; but on leaving he minated that in all prob
ability, from the difficulty in obtaining passage
At San Bias, he >~esid 9. -~sA Li- r--ss
10 make some explorations.
Mr.. Skinner, of Rhode Island, has examined the
route between Vera Cruz and the city, with the
view towards establishing line of magnetic tele-
graph. On reflection he deemed the undertaking
hazardous, as the amount Of business would not
pay, and unsafe. unless the Government would
guarantee the line from molestation. This was
not done, and the privilege was taken by Senator
la Granja; without the guarantee Mr.. Skinner re-
fused 10 touch the work, and returns home.
Col. Ramsey has been engaged in explorations
IN the interior aud on the cost of the pacific. His
discoveries have attrated considerable attention
in Mexico, as his encounters with the robbers
were published in all the papers before his ARR
val 80 far as his geographical and geologi-
cal researches have extended he has made no Sc ,
cret ofthem; but his projects, in which il is
known that The Government feels some interest.
have not been discovered. With the present fe.
for speculation in this city, his descriptions
have afforded food for conversation and his charts
specimens and statistics have been examined
with mnch interest. Some of his assertions are
remarkable, and will cause little surprise in the
nited States. His charts of portions of the
country are unlike, in several important particu-
lars, the European and American maps of Mexico.
For instance, he declares that in the State of Pu-
ebla, the river Nasca, as il Is called in the Amer.
lean, and YoPer in the European maps, does not
exist. But that the streams which are en-
countered at the city of Pueels and Cholula run
south and parallel 10 near the meridian of Mescu.
Ia, in the State of Mexico, when the Puebla stream
turns TO the west and receives the other which
has passed Cholula, Atalisco and Matamoros. AZ
ter these streams JON. they form the Polbano nv.
er still continues its course 10 the west through
the State of Mexico and near TO the city of Mesca-
la. Il has now been joined from other tributaries
pouring in from the north and south, and changes /
its name TO the Balzas. After meeting the Zacatn.
la IL pursues lis under that name into Mich
oacan, and receives the waters of the Flo 1rande
of the south, and bending to the south enters the
Pacific at the point of Zscatuli. As the boundary
line is not correctly laid down on the last maps
publishes in the United States more careful des-
crplon cannot be given.
As this statement is at variance with both the an
cient and modern maps of Mexico, his chair lie a
curiosity. Here Is river almost az long as the
Ohio not laid down, and unknown in Europe and
America.