The weekly Arizonian., 1859-05-12

~ONS makes this one of the finest views we ever be- held. Nothing is needed but noble stream to make it sublime. The outlines of nature and art are just seen, while the detail SO barren, dreary and desolate, is concealed in a mysteri- ous distance
 few miles above the town, the Sonora is joined by the stream called San Miguel River, rising within days journey of the Presidio of Santa Cruz, near the American line. Like most streams (called rivers ) in Sonora it is an interm.ttant, only it's waters rising to the surface at times but for the most part they are engulfed in the deep loose sands that fill the beds of the streams. Along it's margin above are some of the finest haciendas in Sonora, and the lands on the upper part are cultivated by the brave and industrious Opata indians.
 Having made at attempt at giving general view of the city we can only add that Hermo- silloi the great centre of the commerce of the State Its position as a distributing point for all parts of the interior, especially to the mining sections, is excellent, and in consequence it has within a comparatively short space of time, and without government support, become the principal commercial depot We find here some very elegantly fitted up stores, and large stocks of French and English goods. Still, as in Guaymas an1 other Spanish towns, these establishments do not give fair illustration of the whole commercial transactions of the place With lew exceptions the commerce is carried on by Mexcans. Among the foreign houses those of Messrs. Ortiz, Clm,u Btothers, Andrade, sPerez and Cortez arc the principal ones.
 There are perhaps l5 Americans Germans, q few English, some Spanish, and some 50 French residents which number however, is continually changing. Quite a number of the latter arc mlrriel to black. eyed senoritas, and live contentei, if not luxurious, life
 Those of the foreigners who are not mechants, are mechanics, of peculiar disposition gener- ally. They live easy, work light, take the world as it is; are generally in hope of making pile, but do not stake their temporal and eternal happiness to procure it, as we do. Who is the wisest, leave others to decide. There is one thing certain, however: if they do not sacrifice every thing to procure pile there is hardly an instance known where one has been made. The oldest inhabitant cannot recollect such thing; but they still go on as we'll as we do, with per haps this difference, which is, that they eat more beans; that they use red pepper to our black, and dried beef to our salt horse, as Jack gener- ally calls it. He who don't like such fare and prospects ought to go to another hotel
 The Mexican residents of Hermosillo are courteous and polite, no matter of what class or color they may be- It is difficult to say what blood predominates, as far as numbers are con cerned, but there is more of the white in it, as is generally believed Many are highly educa- ted: some at home, others in Mexico, the U. States and Europe, but great number of the lower class are principally in California. The people in general are of far better disposition than those of southern Mexico At the fan dangos and festas of the lower classes, they may get drunk at times, but they will hardly ever have a riot or fight. If knives are dis played, they are generally yielded by runaway convict soldiers, imported in the country by the supreme government from Guadalaxara. Re- volvers are never seen in tho streets, nor is it custom to go armed. For the last five years l