New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-29

Crnoline did good service on that occasion at least
the generous columned fRrBUSE to describe the
changing scenery along the road from the foothills OF the
Mexican Cordera the capital In three days many
climates will have been passed through, with the attend
ant variations in foliage. From Vera Cruz TO Paso Gel
Macho the climate, scenery, and yedure are all tropical
The landscape 20 scehe and glow under the heat OF
a tord sun whose rays, gtering in thousand curious
forms Of dense foliage and strange plants and flowers,
render the country vast hot-bed bursting continually
into new forms IL life and beauty. Fastening through
this enchanting but unhealthy region the cars soon bear
us to the commencement OF the stage-trave whee IN
verabe Concord COACH and'drawn By nine horses har-
messed as only Mexican knows how We enter the foot
hills of the Cordera, and by night have reached the
temperate region where peaches grapes and the northern
cereals flourish side by side with the tropical us sna
cotton cocoa coffee rice and tobacco At Orizaoa ana
Cordoya we are almost under the shadow OF the vast
volcanic cone of 0rzaba snowcrowned To It's peak and
green with dense foliage up to the snow-line' ,.,
Ater passing Puebla have mounted TO an elevation
of 600 feet and are in cold mountainous region whose
natural features of sterile wastes rocky passes and solemn
pnea sighting mourny In the blast contrast sadly with
tho fairy land we were in but yesterday You leave
Puebla before daylight and can thus enjoy the majestic
SIGHT Of the sunrise ns upon the submits Of the great
~ o1 and the last 900 feet above the Popocatape
with us was IN sight all dayn fact the road leads almost
around its very base along which the diligence whr
ing off the leagues giving ample opportunity to feast
or ewes on the dizzy peak reaching apparently into the
uncouded heavens and crowned with O feet Of snow
cap, dazzling to behold
OF Mexico into the plains beneath is made at full tot
From these highs Cortez and his mailed cavaliers first
saw the Aztec capital said by the Spanish chroncle to
have contained its millions of people, However that may
have been the stranger who visits the Mexican capt.
tai will ind far popuous and beautiful city than
BIO would have imagined nom any previous acquaintance
he may have had with places OF Spanish origin. The
streets generally wide welpaved and Clean and in all
respects superior t9 the gid part Of havana. which was
laid Out at.peary the same time : 80
The city Of Mexico Is full of interest TO the stranger
and offers innumerable historical "reminiscences The
localities commemoratng the great Indian Empire OF the
Monezunas which, under Prescots wordpainting have
become classical ground visited with renewed pleasure
after reading those vivid descriptions remarkable fact
connected with the advent of the Europeans here is the
great increase in the population OF the capital In 1861
about tho time OF the French intervention, the city
commonly estimated about 10000. These had been
the figures, with some few fluctuations for 20 years The
population at present is variousy estimated at from $780,
900 to 10000 aud it is possible that correct census
would reach beyond the lastnamed estimate This
at first glance appears strange considering tho fact that
it applies to the capital of country torn by internal
disselsons and subject to the miseres Of condition OF
war But the fact is that from the occupation of the city
by the Fr~jhore has been general feeling OF security
among sksIsasses, and certainty OF protection
against the% ouragcs OF former governments, when
has gradually attracted the city thousands OF lam
lies who Knew by sad experience the meaning
of the word government" under tho time honored
system of forced loans, seizures and public robberes
The cities Of Guanauato. 0ueretaro. Leon Gusdsla'ara