The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-05-02
MEXICO AND IT'S CITY

Inc return OF BlSnOp sim pSOn, o
the Methodist church North, to Wash.
ington from the City of Mexico, where
he has been sojourning and evangeli'
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 tC
Mexico City is somewhat longer than
the Pennsylvania railway from Phila-
delphia to Pittsburgh, and the fare is
about sixteen dollars in gold. The as
cent to the mountains is sleeper than
any grade in the United States. Al
one place there is nearly perpendic-
ular descent of TWENTY-FIVE hundred
feet. Fifty soldiers guard every train
to keep off guerllas. The cars are on
the English plan, and are of three
classes. The second-class fare is only
half the first-class, with accommoda-
tons equally as good. The train leaves
Vera Cruz about three o'clock in 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.
1t 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 lot
of bandits carried rich old man out
of the City of Mexico and held him for
a 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
We're pursued and killed.
General good order prevails in all the
central and maritime provinces, nor
are there any apprehensions of future
revolutions; indeed not 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 $40, 000, 900 to the railroad to
Very Cruz, and further subsidy to the
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 inn
ported iron. The City of Mexico, he
says, is an exquisite place, far superior
to the city of Havana, with pOpula-
ton of $500 There are ten thousand
pure whites in the city and the popu-
lace, he says, like the German mer-
chants better than any others, and
these do the principal business. Ac-
cording to the bishops statement there
are not more than two hundred Ameri-
can residents in all in that city. Our
Mr.. Foster, of Indiana, he
as a modest man, popular
with everybody.-tSan Antonio Her.
Nd. -t
BY theabove the people of this coun-
.ry will see that the sensational dis
patches so often published from Mex
co are manufactured for sensational
Religious liberty, by the
and laws of Mexico, is
ully guaranteed. Men of all religions |
'eceive protection. A general school
iystem has for years been in successful
operation. Law, order and liberty are
teadily gaining ground.
To say, however, that the railroad
las an almost perpendicular descent
# twenty-five hundred feet is piling it |
N rather steep. We have been right
here-lived there--aHd can correct
he plunging figure. The ascent or
escent at the place named, which is
rom the little valley of Maltrata to
he level of the table lands, is two
hundred and twelve feet per mile for
welve consecutive miles. 1t is truly
he greatest ascent for the distance In
be world, but nevertheless, Is a grand
lccess. This great achievement Is at
ne base of the snow-capped peak Of