The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-05-16
NJ E. X I co


Wehave received files of the Vera Cruz
Locohiptor TO the 18Th of April. They
contain good deal Of Interesting news,
Of which the following items constitute a
portion:
'Fhe question of a railroad from Vera
Cruz to the Pacific, continues to occupy
the public mind in Mexico. The project
IL noble one, and the work would be
useful one, but is at present beyond the
public or private means Of that country.
If the road should be made, it will be done
with foreign capital, and under foreign
supervision. In the mean time, Mr.
To1no proposes to make a carriage road
, Macadani zed one, we suppose-from
Vera Cruz to Acapulco, to be completed
IN seven years, and at the end of forty-five
more Is TO be transferred to the State, with
all the property. Mr.. Togno saws that
two hundred thousand persons will travel
over 1t annually, and that there will be four
hundred coaches, two thousand men, and
four thousand mules and horses required
for the service; that Vera Cruz will become
another New York, and Acapulco The
great city of the Pacific. We doubts good
deal OF this. Two hundred thousand per-
sons will not travel over the road annu-
ally a. nor will Vera Cruz ever be a New
York
The war between the Yucaiecoes and
the Indians is not yet at an end, and The
and cannot be foreseen. 1t may be a long
and difficult JOB 70 pu down the insurgents
and if Pu; down, il is not likely that they
will remain down many years. They
know their own strength now, and also
the weakness of their antagonists. The
Mexicans complain, that the English a,
the Ballze furnish the Indians with arms
and annanition, and thus put il in their
power to prolong the contest; and this,
they say further, is a violation Of the treaty
with Spain Of l7s6. The English, on the
other hand, assert that the treaty IS no
longer in force, being nulli6ed By the
Mexican revolution, and that they have a
righ. to sell arms and ammunition to any.
body that will purchase. and will sell tc
the Mexieans themselves. if they will buy
And they are right about the treaty, we
think; but arms and ammunition are con
traband of war, and he who sells them &c
one bslligerent, commits an act Of hostility
against the other.
II is reported that rich gold mines have
been discovered at and neur Durango. Th.
acconet says that they are as rich as the
California mines, of which "they ask NJ
iavors-no pedinos favores. If thi
sshou be so, there will be another rush
10 that region from all parts Of the world
and Mexico will find it very difficult eth
er to keep the gold for herslf or 10 caus
her mining laws to be respected. Thes,
are precise and stringent, and do not pei
nit every body to dig when and wher,
and as much as he pieases. He must frs
ret license 10 dig. and must dig on tn.
spot assigned him, and nowhere else, an
if he does not dig. mis- right becomes for
fsited.
Mexico seems to be in a rather unsettle
condition yet, politically. Every now an
then there isa pronuncianiento. or rt
tellion, or aE 'ntrgus. or plot. or sons
thing Or ottftr to keep the public min
constantly excited and apprehensive w
never consider that country as enjoyin
tranquility fairly, or as likely to enjoy
whilst Santa Anna is out OF il. w hi
out. be Is always intriguing to get in, an
finally he Jis sure to do SO, as he Wi
agsin. If se Av.:.-Wa.hipgton Globe