The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-08
Our Ke1ican Correspondence.
HOrEI. DIX PARIS, City Of Mexico,
March I, lSt9

HOTEL DIX PARIs, Clty OIL Mexl00,
March l, 1919.
The Overland Route ria Vera Cruz Thixgs to be
Arotded--Inctdemts, &c.
did not write to you at Vera Cruz, in conse-
quence of not having any thing very satisfactory to
appr,se you Of, with reference either to your own
affairs or NINE
here last Tuesday with about sixty Of our
company; forty had seeded from us, 10 parties OF
ten or twelve at the city of Jalapa about sixty mules
from Vera Cruz. stayed with the company until
our arrival here, and then decln ed to proceed any
further with them They LETT here the day before
yesterday, tor Guadalaxara. The fact is, 1t is per-
fectly preposterous to attempt to travel IN this
country with such a number together; parties of
five, ten, or fifteen, and not more, are proper; If
there are more, you can get no accommodations,
and you have to pay extortonate prices for every.
thing, that being the necessary result of the sudden
demand Tor so large q number We elected
committee OF i've to transact the business of the
association at Vera Cruz; aud our committee,
States, turned out In the republic Of Mexico to be
set OF asses; they bought wagons Ito be drawn by
mules) tor the transportation OF our baggage, the
result beng that the roads were not suitable for
wagons, and after arriving at Jaapa after incredl-
BILE exertlons on the part Of the men, tho mules,
the wagons, the jackasses and the horses, the
wagons &c had to be sold, involving a loss, alto
sether Of upwards Of $1,000, besides losing great
Our baggage, from Jalapa to Mexico, was trans
ported by contract with mule drivers (arrieros)-
have arrived at the conclusion that from this city
can get to San Francisco much quicker, better
and cheaper, than by travelling with the company.
have already spent upwards of S2O0, though the
original estimate in New York was $l27 to Ma
zatlan, and Mazatan Is 800 miles from here YET
There Is no Disgusting this business; this is not the
proper route to San Francisco, (unless every other
route Is as bad or worse at present There is no
certainty OF vessel at either Acapulco, San Bias
or Mazatlan and the reports in this city are that
there are hundreds OF persons congregated at the
various points on the Pacific, all waiting for YES
sels, and that there are none to be had, and yet
everybody Is driving on towards San Bias and Ma
xatan, and the news has arrived here this morning
that Z fresh cargo Of several hundred passengers
have Just landed at Vera Cruz. The cost from here
tainty OF being robbed on the road, because the
diligence passengers are taken at disadvantage;
not like men ON horseback, who are always pre-
pared to fight. There are no dlgences after leaving
horse and your good luck. and some five Of six
Frenchmen originally In the company, are waiting
here for certain intelligence from the Pacific be.
fore we starts and il NO other means offer, we will
n.y.; the chief risk is being (perhaps) tomahawked
and scalped by the Camanches. However, lay
the p" fiattering JUNCTION to my soul, - that man
born to be hanged will never be scalped, &c. &C.
This Is great city. 1t is something like Paris,
but the houses not 80 high the streets at right
angles; every house castle Of itself. have been
in the halls OF the Montezumas. and was duly pre-
scented to the American ambassador, gracisusly
received, &c. &c.
In the company, two gents have been left be-
hind, sick, and two gentlemen have been shot, by
accident, neither Of them dangerously. On the
read, we fell in with company of SIX men and
five women, bound for California, all Americans,
frem New Orleans. One gent had Mexican
wife, who rode her horse astrde, with breeches,
snuff candle at thirty PAGES Another of the
gents was counting widow, one OF their company,
who had started for the gold regions and evinced,
as thought, considerable pluck. They got mar
ried here In Mexico, two or three evenings since,
and have proceeded with our company.