Year: 1873



 blood, is irretrievably gone: it is certain that the people have now received that education in self government which will enabla Elnen easily to solve the adninis- trative problems of the future. Above all, there now remains no great question of the future as standing menace against the perpetuity of her institutions. Strong in her costly acquisitions of liberty and Independence, strong in the assured friend ship of her powerful neighbor, rich in the countless treasures of her soil and climate, fortunate beyond calculation in her geo. graphical position with reference to the commerce of the world, resolute in the adoption and naturalization of the great inventions of age, Mexico is now just en- terlng upon an era of internal improve ments which may be considered to date from the completion of the railway be- tween the City of Mexico and the port of Vera Cruz at the end of the present year.

 PROPOSED RAILWAY ENTERPRISES.

 ':The competition of American and Eu- ropean capital for the privilege of. provid- ing Mexico with means of communication has fairly begun, and the Americans are likely to gain the preference. Two great railroad enterprises, either of which, if fully carried out, Is certain to revolution ize the commerce of Mexico, are now knocking at the doors of the Mexican Congress for permission to confer upon that country the greatest of all blessings 1 refer to the International Railway of Texas, which proposes to construct line from the City of Mexico to the Rio Grande, and to the scheme of General Roseerans for a system of railways to con- meet most of the important cities of the republic with the capital. It is probable that both undertakings will be successful in great part, and that five years hence it will be possible not only to leave New York in palace car and arrive within & week Tn the City of Mexico, but also to visit in the same manner the eight or ten principal cities of this republic. Within the same period of time the Texas Pacific Railroad will undoubtedly be completed, skirting one half of the northern frontier of Mexico and intersecting at Paso del Norte with the narrow gauge Denver and Ell Paso road, which will probably extend far beyond Chihuahua towards the inte- rior Mexico. The port of Guaymas will then be connected with the capital of Ar lzona by means of railroad running due north and intersecting the Texas Pacific at another point.

 THE TIE BETWEEN TWO REPUBLICS.

 ''When once these links of union shall have been established, the commercial re- lations between the United States and Mexico will rapidly assume enormous proportions. Each country seems to have been created expressly to become the n0tnrG! fnnHar ho r11ok Ne the other. Each abounds, by reason of it's differences of soil and climate, in pre- cisely the productions which are mosi needed in the other. While in the Unit ed States the area which can be success fully devoted to the cultsvation of cot ton, rice and tobacco Is necessarily limit ed, and for the three latter is sufficient to supply but small proportion of the de- mand, the capacity of Mexico for the pro- duction of these four great staples is prao- tically unlimited.

 ''To attain this result the adoption of the policy have indicated would un- doubtedly tend in no ordinary degree The completion of the projected lines of railways between the two countries will certainly have great influence in the same direction with or without the stinIa- Jus of such policy. But for the inaugu- ration of vast and profitable commerce between Mexico and the southwestern states 1t Is not necessary to await the tar dy apparition of the iron horse in the central states of Mexico, nor to follow the uncertain course of legislation. The road to the treasures of Mexico lies open to the merchants of New Orleans and oth- CT commercial centres, and it is a cause of unceasing wonder to me that that road has been completely abandoned. Mexico has done her part. In the years since the fall of the. short-lived empire she has in- creased the production of her Gulf states. she has reformed her vexatious fiscal leg islation, by means of comparatively lib eral tariff which went into force the 1st day of July last; and above all she has completed the most important railway for the interests of her maritime commerce, Before the first of January next trains will have passed from the capital of Mex leo to her most important seaport. Above all, she IS ready to give liberal subsidy to line of steamers from New Orleans to Vera Cruz. She has already aided the establishment of line of coasting steam CTS, owned in New York, and which should begin it's trips to all the Mexican ports of the Gulf in November or December of the present year. The importance of this line, as feeder to New Orleans line, cannot be overlooked, and I have no doubt that in the case of the adoption of a friendly American policy Mexico would be sufficiently grateful to her nearest -neighbor and her best friend to make cor responding discriminations in our favor, constituting, in fact, if not in name, some thing very like reciprocity treaty, which will redound to the benefit of both conn., tries.