Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1857-01-10
OF Mexico.

OK meGICO.
Under the head Of Fugitive Memoirs" we
find the following sketch from the pen of D..
Wooster, NJ. D., in the San Francisco Golden
Era:
lie PuebIa de los Angeles, in the Republic
Of Mexico, and in the State of Puebla, is situa~
ted two hundred miles west Of Vera Cruz, and
one hundred east of The city of Mexico. On
he west of the city is the Cordillera of Ana>
huac, in whose crest turn up beyond the clouds
the djgniied SUBMITS Of lztac -ci>huatie and
PopotcAtjpetl always covered with snow, and
the latter always smoking like the stack-pipe
of an ocean steamer. But its smoke rises per-
pendicularlY TO the apparent height of forty or
fifty feet above the apex of the crater, and then
floats away in dark clouds. Ages ago IZtach-
uatle was also a burning mountain, but now
its fires are covered with eternal ice. These
SUBMITS are thirty miles west Of The city, but
one who should stand on a tower Of the cathe-
draf, Or on a dome OF the convent of ST. Au-
CUISINE. or on the Reef Of Lorettn, early in the
morning, and look ut these heights for the first
time, would not imagine them more than five
miles off. lie would almost believe he could
see a hare skipping over the sparkling snow, If
one should run out Of the Tow shrubbery that
skirts the immense cone, where no green thing
ever appears, except COW and then a 6taSe
traveller, who, having seen all the world, wishes
to ascend farther than Hnmbold did on the
sides Of some Of the highest submits of the
western hemisphere. About eighty miles to
the east, rises into the blue dome The great peak
of Orizaba, far. far above the limits Of vegeta-
ton or Of organic life This is the beacon
Of The mariner, Of the gulf. II is worth a pill
grimare on foot round the world TO stand upon
a vessels deck at midnight, in The light of the
full moon, away down between the tropics
where one j. melting with ice in his bosom,
and lock At the gItstening shows Of the great
cone of OriZaba. All night and all day shall
YOU sail towards it, and yet it will appear no
larger. Ever the same, like a fixed star seen
through a telescope in the different soistlces OF
the sun; the astronomer looks but obtains no
parallpx, though he has changed his point of
view bystwo hundred millions of miles. Thus
is Orizaba to the land-longing voyager Of the
tropical seas.
But we are not looking or its sea but land>
ward aspect. The sea is east but we are west
of this volcano. Several times it smoked like
a furnace during the year. | gazed i%nvolun-
tarily, a hundred time a day, on its cold, silent,
hoary grandeur. 10 The north Of Puebla is the
Mountain Of Storms" covered with snow one
third Of the year, and the rest bowling with
tempests, which delight to sport with its giant
pines, and echo through its awful caverns and
dark gorges. Here the eoal-burners toll, year
after wear, to supply the great city of ninety
thousand souls, which lies at its feet, with fuel.
Every morning, while the air is yet COOL you
shall see donkeys without number. and Indian
women and children laden with charcoal, COM
- 49, ara. nfi+ frnp, the u-aat aud the NnPtb-
and the Drawing of the patient animals shall
disturb your matin prayers, if you rise at the
r~eyeilIe. This city stands upon a lofty table or
plain, nine thousand feet above the level of the
sea. The plain and all the cities Of the plain
for there are several besides Puebla-are wa
tered by the Humorous streams that flow all the
year from the fields Of snow on the crest of
Anahnac. The plain is covered with gardens
Of magnev (dgGfe Americana from which the
diiicious pulQue is made, and furnished at three
cents a quart When will some phlIanthTopist
place lager in the resch of the poor, so that all
the world may appreciate the e~cstacics OF this
Teutonic nectar? The Indians Of North
America furnished corn and tobacco for Europe
but the Aztecs taught the subjects of Cas-
tile and Leon to make pulque from the juice OF
the magney. Give me tortillas and pulque,
and a teaspo0nful Of salt, and you may have
YOUR tobacco and beefsteak. Many a time,
covered, with the sweat aud dust of travel, have
my comrades and I rode up to a trimming tank,
ten feet in diameter, of stone, filled with the
sparkling, milk -white juice, and drank till there
were more stars at MONDAY than an astronomer
can count at midnight, and then filed our can~
teens and gsIloped onward to the head OF the
column. Think Of a dark.eyed beauty, in
whose veins dances the rich blood Of the cas-
Iipns Of Bagdad and the pro~consuls Of Rome,
giving gourd after gonrdful of pulque to the
Tank and rawboned descendants the short"
painted and high coat-collared, STRENGTHENING
pilgrim fathers! Our money she scorned; we
were thirsty and tired, and to see Us drink was
her reward. Poor Mexico! Thou art fuil OF
HEARTS with the generosity of the Arab and the
pride of the Hidalgo! More anon.
Touching a RGw PlGce.-A Justice OF the
Peace, meeting q minister mounted on a fine
looking horse. peevishly asked him why ne dld
I~~Eo,y nR a in imitation of