The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-05-01
-
MEXICO AND IT'S CITY.

| LIZ ictuiH VI DisnOp DIN pSOn, 0
the Methodist church North, to WASH
ington from the City of Mexico, whore
he has been sojourning and evangei-
zing for some time past, has given
some items to the press in relation To
our neighbors in Mexico that may
prove interesting.
The new railroad from Vera Cruz 10
Mexico City is somewhat longer than
the Pennsylvania railway from Phila-
delphia to Pittsburgh, and the fare il
about sixteen dollars in gold. The as
cent TO the mountains is sleeper than
any grade in the United States. At
one place there is nearly perpendic-
uiar descent of TWENTY-FIVE hundred
feet. Fifty soldiers guard every train
to keep oil guerillas. The cars are on
the English plan, and are of three
classes. The second-elass fare is only
half the first-class, with accommodate
tons equally rs good The train leaves
Vera Cruz about three o'clock i'm the
morning and arrives at the CITY of
Mexico at about nine O'clock the same
night.
Bishop Simpson reports that he was
received by President Lerdo de Tejada,
the chief justice, chief minister of state
and all the authorities of the republic
with hearty welcome.
Ii is the policy of the republic of
Mexico, says the bishop, without active
participation to encourage the rights of
other christian sects in Mexico, with
the end Of neutralizing the power
which the old state church has hereto
fore brought to bear against the popular
course. While the bishops party was
IN the City of Mexico, occurred the
massacre, of the Baptist missionary,
Mr. stephens. At the same time lol
OF bandits carried q rich old man out
of the City of Mexico and held him for
q ransom until pursued by the troops.
and then left him for dead. He died
soon afterwards. The efficiency of the
government is shown, however, by the
fact that five of the seven desperadoes
Were pursued and killed.
General good order prevails in all the
central and maritime provinces, nor
are there any apprehensions of future
revolutions; indeed mot only is the
highest respect entertained for Presi- |
dent Tejada, but the memory of ,Jaurez
Is revered like that of Washington.
The bishop says the Mexican govern
ment gave SO, 900, 900 to the railroad TO |
Very Cruz, and n further subsidy to the |
Alexander American steamship COM |
pany, and says that their railroad is
much better built than the Kansas
Pacific; the bridges are based on hewn |
stone. and the superstructure of i'm
ported iron. The City of Mexico, he
says, Is an exquisite place, far superior
70 The city Of Havana, with popula-
n0h OF 250,O00. There areten thousand
pure whites in the city and the popu-
lace, he says, like the German mer-
,hants better than any others, and
.hese do the principal business. Ac.
'ording to the bishops statement there
ire not more than two hundred Ameri-
IAN residents in all in that city. Our
minister, Mr. Foster, of Indiana. he
'epresents as a modest man, popular
With cverybody.-[San Antonio Her
BY the above the people Of this coun-
ny will see that the sensational dis
patches so often published from Mex
co are manufactured for sensational
purposes. Religious liberty, by the
constitution and laws of Mexico. is
ully guaranteed. Men of all religions
eceive protection. A general school {
ystem has for years been in successful
peration. Law, order and liberty ara
teadily gaining ground.
To say, however, that the railroad ,
as an almost perpendicular descent !
twenty-five hundred feet is piling it I
A rather steep. We have been right
lere-lived there--and can correct
Re plunging figure. The ascent or {
scent at the place named, which is 9
ON the little valley of Maltrata to .
he level of the table lands, is two =
nndred and twelve feet per mile for 2
we've consecutive miles. 1t is truly G
lie greatest ascent for the distance in e
lie world, but nevertheless, is u grand "
ccess. This great achievement is at
e base of the snow-capped peak of .,
'izabee. OF