New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-24
terprsc, aud since they have bagccd all the sroils
and poor Chaay has nothing but his wind mill TO
present the public, they content.
THIITS OLE OIuER MEMS IARORe

teprisc, aud since they have bagccd all the sroils
and poor Charnay has nothing bnt his Windmill to
present the public, they are content.
FRUITS OF OTHER MEMS LABORs.
This is a benevolent Government and encourages
the learned and scientific men of all countries to
come here aud study. 1t opens to them its vast
fields of archaeological treasures, and says Come
and investigate y; it points out pyramids and
mounds, and says to thosc wise men from other
lands, " Come and dig; and then it swOops down
upon the findings of those wise and carries
them to the museum. Yet who can blame it An
antiquarian is not like the wise man who found
treasure and went straghtway and hid it 4; but he,
Immediately he discovers anythn of value, sets up
such howl of Standardization that the attention
of the whole world is directed thereto. Then, while
the cXcavator is absent, looking for of
conveying his treasure out of he country the Govern
mcnt steps in and quietly carries il off. Thus
Mexico is enriched. 4 moral hangs here, but Amcri
cans are not now in mood to accept it So will let
it hang.
Near the recollection Charnay" is one Of the most
| attractive iclcS III the museum, Montezuma's
shield, and below 1t of carved stone i'll
every shape the fertile Indian imagination could
suggest to describe them would require catalogue.
The Gov ernmcnt is apathcic in regard to ruins and
antiquitcS-til somebody finds ncthing hen 1t
is widcawakc at once. They do not even gather III
the monum"HtS. MINOR and greater, that ne s'at-
cured. Tie Chicago Times sent our an 'cNpcdtion
to Mexico for the purpose OF uncarthng buried
monuments. Cartan Evans who comprised the
cXpcdtion." was here two months and during
( that time not Idle. He found III TcXcoco, the
ancient capi!ai OF art ana @ly19aon 2"G 30 inc
some five six feet long and three -FOUR wide.
This stone had been discovered SIX months pre-
ViOuSly by the poor man who owned the mound. vet
no one III Mexico knew of ii til Captain Evans re-
discovered it. It is valuable sculpture. but the
Mexican Government Will make no attempt 10 house
It. 1t will wait till some more nsophisticatcd
than Captain Evans comes along, purchases of the
railroad leauing to Mexico, they will quietly draw
il into the museum and let the purchaser 60 and
WHISTLE
BAD WEATHER AND ITS EFFECTS.
The rainy season has come in all its strength.
People thought they had got il IA month ago when
gentle shower came down that filled the streets of
Mexico two feet deep in half IN hour but that was
not it. Real enthusiasts had been eXpatiating upon
the delights of the rainy season upon its cool,
bright mornings and clear nights They said it only
raincd i'll the afternoon commencing ut o'clock
and leaving off punctually at o'cloc,, and that it
was joy to live here then. That was because most
of the visitors were going of and the hotels were
getting empty. There has now been about month
of the rainy season. and if ii holds 0ut as il has
begun, l. for one want more of it. From morn
ing till night il has drizzlcd and Showcrcd without
any regularity at ALL and people have caught colds
and are generally miScr bile. Further down me
country, he coast, the rains are more regular
but not strictly confined to afternoons The
mornings are almost invariably bright, but thc rain
may come at noon night, and IT is always ushcred
in by thunder, though of harmless variety, unac-
colapanied by very dangerous lightning
Forty deaths day are reported from yellow fever
and smallpox in Vera Cruz. 1t would seem as
though no one would he left to carry on business in
that ancient city. Yct It the same spite of
the dead and diving. friend Just mp from the
coast tells me that he saw eight bodies carried ont
the morning he arrived. Yet the resident, there
sui. Dr. Trowhrdec, who has had a successor ap-
pointed after twelve wears of service rctircs in
health. and laughing at the reports Of fever He is
waiting for his successor. Ii were that man
came. DIR. Trowhri,lgc and his family had Yellow
fever the first week they came TO Vera Cruz. while
his predecessor who had held the office many vrnrs
and had resigned, died before he could leave the
city. II Is strange Vet hear there were hundreds
OF applicants for that procr ous consulsnip ~ Vera
cruz where an escape from the clutches of Yellow
Jack Is an exception. Are Offices then, scarce
up North and wont The home offices round7
THE MOHELOs DISASTER.
Doubtless the news has been tclcgraphcd Of that
horrible accident on the Morclos Railroad the new
Mexican road leading southwark from the cltv
Nearly two hundred persons principally soldiers.
We're killed by being prccipitatcd down a rayinc.
The cars wore loaded also with aquadicaie-rum--
and lime which, catching fire, cnvcloped tn, Door
victims i'll flames. 1t has created a great sensation
i'll Mexico, as the first accident OF any consequence
on the new road.
The Morelos Road gave promise of being n very
good and useful one. II u a narrow gauge built Nv
Mexican capital and native cnginccrs 1t runs at
the base of the great volcano PopOcatapct and has
only been opened a little beyond it quite rcccntlv
1t was only the 18th of June that attended the cell
ebratlon of the acceptance and formal opening of
the road 10 Culntla. about hundred miles from
Mexico. II WAS AT the harr;nca OF Malpais i'm the
last portion Of the road that the accident happcncd
caused by the washing away of the founda-
ton of bridge There are many bridges
on The descent toward Cuantla from the Mexican
plateau not very long but spanning very deep ra-
vines, and the curves sharp and seemingly I'M
necessary. The whole work seemed 10 Justify the
boast of the people that the engineer was a Ncxi-
can and had never built road before Had the
President Gonzalez, Diaz. Romero, and most Of I'm.
would have been most disastrous That dav Visitors
were received with music, flowers and a hanutiet
and by the Saucs of sodcrs-loubtl less some of the
poor fellows killed last week. The road il il
Intended, will be carried from Cuantla to Cnor-
naVaca, and thence, possibly. to Acapulco on the
Paclhc Coast. This disaster will greatly imprd,
operations and weaken public confidence in rail
roads, Inc papers, most strangely, have been call
ing attention to the insecurity of these bridges
Engineers must live here through a rainy season or
two before they can fully understood the pcris from
floods. ~
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