New-York tribune., 1868-11-11

have given birth tohs thoughts on tho vicissudes d
human life n few of which will interest YOU mere
The dream OF empire ends but in decay
The monarch prosperous ard fcliCtous,
Whose power the pomp OF warriors uia auo'h'
Flonrished in sway like 10 spreading tree
Which dominates the forest and the fied'
Aud is the green repose OF All the DIins , ,oyers.
Heaven sent him down its fayoring sun ana snoWers'
Its waters gave TO him the crystal stream,
And Spring strewed at bis feet IT'S JOYOUS % mo"e'''
When 10! how quickly to the earth he came
Jrprooted by the fury OF his fate.
Borne III u black and dusty hurricane.
And II to-day funeral memory
Offer my doeful cithern and weak voice.
My voice and song are also tlaisitory 80, ,.o,
who graves not on his soul. who docs not ieo'
In this incertiiudc OF rOublons life
How all resstless is the tide OF time.
How frail is power and how fugitive!
The idol found on TeZcosingO could not have been
related to Nezahualcoyott. The royal Chchimec
taught the worship of the one supreme God, ana IN
some of his psalms of tribuat0n he appears TO he
almost as sincere as David. Perhaps the IDOL was
ycnerated by lxthochitl his father, tolerated In
Difference to superstition. 1t is singular that so
seldom strikes the traveller that the true use OF the
ancient for burial the old annals attestng
how kings and princesses thus sepultured. NO
relic remains of whatever royal bones may have gone
into the caves of the kingdom of Iezcoco their un-
dstinguishabe dust rolling irOund " III earths dur
nal course with rocks and stones and trees
CITY or MEXICO. Sept 10.-lesteTday morning we
started for the capital i'll one of the Indian cdn0ds
across the famous salt lake of TeXcoco. lhe cahoa,
rude Hat barge capable of holding fifty persons in
its low cabin was cargoed with crockery; pulqne,
sheep. chickens and pig: The system OF Po'elhg
DraCtCed by CanOa SallOS III tllcSc
waters makes lively event upon the lake. What
with the regular push of the haf-dozen men who put
their poles in the water, and the steady, everino'g
level Of the halfdoZcn poles passed over ther hes
and set with merica rhythm and exactness down IN
the water the race between two canoas ON the lake
is fine scene, As the cross IN the iake is
passed the Indians have fashion OF walng OUT III
chorus brief PRAYER TO the HOLY Virgin, the sudden
picty of which dimnshcs none whatever their work
man like pulls at the pulquc jugs
The little cabin contains most of the NailctleS Oh
Mexican hfe-mdians Spanish -Mcxicans. foreigners,
the ranchcro and the peon class In the best part oi
the cabin pretty little girl Is undergoing mothers
attention preparatory to her appearance III hoiday
dress among her city cousins. In the steeiage' OF
unite out of the cabin not Ill-feaured indian wo-
man enriched with the Jewels of expressive eyes, IL
searching with mothers smile in the head OF her
babbing infant, an act which If IT seemed cleaner,
could not be more tender. have failed 10 convince
a MaXimanlst next 10 me that the United States
do not wish to take Mexican territory or that ihe
people in power mean well lie VIII have 1t that
with Mexico it will ever be the old song, " CdnGqos
al coppas m0rchcuOs p0rH'rds crabs rally TO the
rear which. by the way. H. an old Liberal nng at
the Church party. Now. after six OF seven leagues
of polling and a long sight of the wonderful noun
shadows surrounding the extensive lake-ieyel.
giant neighbor we are IN MOctczumas city again.
after having made a circuit IN our recent travel ol
about sixty miles. NOD