The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-21
The Road Between Vera Cruz and Mexico
Freed Of Highwaymen.


&s. &c. &c.
Our Puebla Correspondence.
PUEBLA, Jan. g. 1866
From cordova to Orzaba. where arrived after leav
ing General Prices colony the road nearly level and the
landscape mountainous Tall palm and date trees,
shrubs of the quantest shape and color gigantic cac
huge bananas, cylindrc pneapples, lordly magey,
scented orange and lemon trees figs OF every description
pomeganates with purple helmets and a variety Of
other trees, shrubs and plants, make up the Landscape
for over hundred miles Of road which must have
been once magnificent but which has suffered much
from the Incidence neglect of the Inhabitants The
most striking feature of this landscapethat which q
to II incompatible originality and makes 1t rcseuhlc
new creation quite different from that know Of IS
the brightness of the suns light
TIE MEXICAN SUN
People Of the Northern States who think they b.
seen the sun completely mistaken. Al least the
they know is quite different from the here. u
Boston New York the looks gloomy, sad a4d
melancholy while here ii is its throne and in oil
majesty am not surprised that the ancen, Caciqles
raised temple in his honor and worshipped the
Of many wonderful works. the dispenser Of light
color of vegetation and animal life
After leaving Orizaba and entering the hiiy region
the aspect of the country begins to experience sht
modification The trees have always the strucur-
the SHRUBS the same iorm mo Dgh' inc son'e iau''
splcndor but here and there plants Of tho temperate
zone to DO seen the pine the pear the almond Tic
olive Degn 10 APPEAR Inc chanee Is more Nrep'ip' -
you advance towards Puebla wheat and nssze fields
grow more numerous you ascend until You como to
the table land, which have not yet reached and on
which am told the pine and oak found IN abundance
PROTECTION mouwArxFS.
Since the accident in which band Of liberals stopped
the and treated In a barbarous fourteen
r,..r.h r..,,,r.-s ,h -,.a hi ro., w.. NJ,
Wv" - -. 'o- '. '"'' '''" ~" '"" "'
co cry Ii paroucu ny uanos Oh Ten 70 twenty men, Wh"
YOU meet cvcrv now md then all along the rale This
co.o ,uho,rh sr.u q srea.,.n, ., ,s., a., ..,,tu.
' H ' " ~ '" nv '"' 's
IRON showing themselves ana gives al the sane time 10
the hdndados or planters the protection they reoure
The protection thoy require is very small ono indeed
FOR do believe that the number Of soldiers alone
nvc hundred mon all told This however scoms "a be
quite enough 10 maintain order and you can even travel
here with as much safety rs In any mart of the United
states The inhabitants of this county wis nrdcnt,y
of the rcstcrato on Of peace au orders but They have
thew Obtain tho Of proecor ON c ,,r, ~
tIe local nuthor,iesif for instance Won establish uoss
of 6ve French soldier each every twenty m,es his
projection ia all lint il needed 10 frirtcn he robbers
and 10 impart security 10 tract of contrv oyer twenty
miles square
Tur rprvru ropcv ~ THE corxrpv ,xsrvy,. r,.,r
have talked with several wealthy IA nd ovners an Tho
way and they ali tell me that il the French soyernnent
had sent y thousand instead of twenty tiou ,nd sol
dies thcre ond moi bavc bsen half so u,,c ne
hcro h.s he. and ~ cs,r .so,d -, d. ~ w. ;noa
The presence Of a large army would have given TO the
full Va, ' ma in ,hc'r e.m",on ,hs Seor o nu
naSs inpa'cn s,ce". AMOUNT noun o. emery 20 ne "a
Tie disturbcrs of rublic ,.ncc ona order S-'"''
mExicAS nnAcaapoc,o
Aubcugb ,b. E,,rco uox,c., car,a;c, "A M, so,
tbrce ycsrs old tho in,rc,i,s,s whom fc,
are in mmenss ,naorltv hereare roud of their vicio
ries and bor with pride Tho pacez a which tbnv b,r,
ds,ingnshcd ,banisc,,.cs ybc na,;ve Mo~is.ns ,sh
sonshi ada he sa, Vim Tho F,e,rh unser Tsrc,., rd
o,hers have mo sc,,,nc I'm ascrbing 10 ~
cessss hal, Of which no doub, beong m The rr-,el
Thus while uas n; orz.l,a n ucy,can gcniIene T,o
ing that was stranger kindly offered me his serves
The Maxicons had d",inSu,s,ed ,,en,ecs dn,n, ne
war Then turning 10 me northwest, he showed n,sa
and ,od m, no, ira lin a., ., rho scon az ra-i
battle Tor the Meyans ,ba, on Tho MIN, r The iSt S
NAV Is;2 ono hundred of rn ascenJed tho hllI an e
S,y side which IL .mos, nerncndcular and as ~
march of .,x hours half NJ witch ,v,s radc On the,r
rmacs ,hcv sacreeiea IN rcach,a he s,n, =" rh S
I'm ,nsy sms.esaee "a fenchns VIC su insy
never snspccteJ tb,t Tho hi, cnlst he sscsl"S
on tina, side seix three howi,zers and turning them
he said SAY cd Ioreniezs nrmy which was lust retreat,
ing from puebla, where had been rcpused and com.
French asc .rtained however that this exploit wa
performed by company of the Ninety ninth French 10.
fantry aud thai the Mexcans had nothing to do With ~
sun Marquee and Meta were evidently OF immense rs
sistancc to Iorenicz and Forrv and without their CO.
could have been so easily achieved. Both The French
and the Mcxicans are to day fighting side by side and
although tho latter under command Of French ON.
ces they are perfectly conented and live In complete
harmony with the other
parorArLx CONDITION or THE TOWNS TIE rrrnion.
The towns or rather villages through which passed
my way to Puebla are OF The primitive order OFT
zaba, Cordova 1ngcnio, Chchhuntc, Aculcinxo,
formerly thriving cities, since the advent ol tho
republic have fallen into stale decay Truly alar ng
You cannot any spot without being unpieassaty
affected by the presence OF some crumblng hous OF
palace whose prncely have fed, frightened BY
the threatening aspect Of affairs and BY tho danger OF
being robbed and assasnatcd by one Of the conflicting
factions striving FOR supremacy arms In hand aud all
Inscriptions a. 10 the means OF attaining power
Efforts arc being made nov 10 restore some OF TITO
crumblns houses which are being converted into mill