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le rc-ilet*. jjctur- j ;9 tlo noon.Dis-rying j uy of ; secra-men!ge intheinong►dists.Largeid, we velv awitty ; of a 2 lie.Mad-n on-York ig the jmer- 1Rich-sbyte-s; 46 rs; 851UIUU-{Correspondence of the New York Tlerald.The Confederate Colony at Cordova.Cordova, Mexico, Marcli 30,1866.It is somewhat remarkable that with such constant and regular communication as exists between New York and the City of Mexico, and so many Americans making the journey to and from the two cities, such ignorance of the route traveled should exist in the United States. Steamship lines ply from Vera Cruz to New York, England, France andjfSpain, all the lines touching at Havana. Pe West and South can take a stea leans for Havana, at which por tained but a few days at most, a er for Vera Cruz. Upon arri Cruz, if bound for Cordova, Or, the City of Mexico, the travel ^ avoid delays upon the route, should procure a through ticket to his place of destination, otherwise he may be delayed days,' or even weeks, awaiting a chance seat in the dilligencc. The railroad is completed only to Passo del Maeho, a miserable collection of hutsMand at this point a traveler’s trials, unless his passage in the dilligencc, blt;The valley of Cordova, situa_ tains, sixtv-tive miles from Vera[1A Vivid and notA wis from the at New Or-e will be doing a steam-g at V c ra a, Puebla or in order toPeople of the your demagogue heritages of libci In the awful na they sell you in and under the in men, pervert the procurement of baric feet ot neg of a constituency enfranchise an ii* by controlling tl long power to glt; you. Others whas securedin the moun-ruz, is 2,800feet above the level of the sea, and for salubrityH*kcrs freely ation. crted, • may licingfertility, is The same from the hieh is the ec. Cordova, these lands,ly. The alti-j of the snow iniformitv of sewhere, the meter beingIv, in itak- ;t hus-ny. in 1 Greation to n the •at ap- 1■ from ; lea of !•w cut party,iso-off p prong the an all 1ver in six to ■; is de-venty- |quite jtn es-!e wasgreat si dentaitors | gress. !can.»»ions, bettermicn-»f tin* n the jgress.ton.muchof climate, lieauty of scenery a unsurpassed anywhere in the w description of country exte Paneroe river, at the mouth o city of Tampico, to Tehuant however, is the most elevated and consequently the most lire tude of the city, and the proxiir clad peak of Orizcba keeptemperature almost unknowngreatest range of the therr _______ ______seventy-five degrees, never falling below sixty-five nor rising above ninety degrees, the weather being similar to warm days in May in the iati-tude of Philadelphia. The city was one of the first commercial importance under the rule of Spain, exporting immense quantities of sugar,brandies, fruits and coffee, but lias fallen intodecay, and is only known abroad as a coffee mart and as the seat of the American colonv in Mexico. Cordova contains possibly five thousand inhabitants, including a regiment of French and Austrian soldiers, and about one hundred and seventy-five Americans. The number of C onfederates who have sought asylum in Mexico, I am assured, does not exceed twentv-tive hundred, of whom not more than two hundred and fifty are in Cordova valley. But three members of the Richmond Congress are in the Empire—Senator Oldham, ot Texas; Judge Perkins, of Louisiana, and Wilkes, of .Missouri. Members of the House Conroy and Parsons, of Missouri, were murdered by the Mexicans last summer at Toro, between Monterey and Matamoras. Governor Harris, of Tennessee, is at the colony,nine miles southwest of Cordova, engaged in clearing up his land and making ready to plant a crop thisseason. Governors Reynolds (of Missouri) and Allen arc in the city of Mexico—Allen editing the Times and Reynolds acting as agent of the American and Mexican Emigrant Company.Very few Confederate field officers soughthomes in this country, most of the emigrants being line officers and privates, young men without families, and too often without that industry and application needed to insure success in any new country. Major General Sterling Price is at Carlotta ; Brigadier General Shelby has a splendid hacienda four miles from Cordova, on the Vera Cruz road; Major General Waterhouse is i contractor on the railroad, and Brigadier General Lyon is at the head of a surveying party near Tudpan. These are. the only Confederate generals east of the city of Mexico. Major General Magruder is Surveyor General ot the Government colonization enterprise. Wilcox talks of returning to the States, and Hindman of going to Yucatan. These are all residing in the city. Brigadier General Slaughter, of the old army, is interested in mills in the valley, and Hardeman, of Texas, is surveying on the Pacific slope of the mountains. Ol all these, General Shelby is the most energetic and enterprising, and consequent!v his prospeets are more flattering than any other American’s in the country. Besides working his hacienda, he runs large wagon trains from the railroad terminus at Paso del Maeho to the city. His wagons are all of Yankee manufacture, are drawn by ten mules each, and every wagon carries a load of six thousand or seven thousand pounds, the freight of which is from $300 to $350. Major General Juhal Early passed through this city yesterday, en route for Havana, where he will probably locate, as lie had become very much dissatisfied with Mexico. He is writing a history of his campaigns, which can hardly fail proving interesting, even if it he not entirely reliable. General Bee is a ship broker in Havana. Commodore Maury recently went to France after his family; but it is very probable that he will remain in* Europe, as latterly he has been out of favor with Maximilian.Judge Perkins was formerly one of the largest cotton planters in the United States, and secured a portion of his wealth before leaving* - - t»into a kingdomown bitterness lt;: sufferings, whicl punish and are tc must have pow only solace of tb ment or their sh natical ; believe plot among the ness—in which iinstrumentality ( counted by the sincere but fatal sober, as shrew cold as ever sed contrived, or as desperate and m i ages. There is m is no Gerrit Smii There is Siunine Stevens, vivid in eoutcmptuous c hell with youil restive, envious Simmer ; Wade, who dares to in by thanking thei impending deatl examples of the cold but delusigaming board, v post crons carnet as the soulless politics with the of the John Bro Lovejoys of a lb There can not there is nothing pro-negro move solete, but still g Uitors—in the sj sentiment of uni of politics iu all but a fraud—a fi never to have frlt; for them ; a frai make the constiI them to believe fraud upon tbai in the lightning very, enemy befo guns, the perpet their fathers, tli bonds, and thi race; and a f ran out the world, :i jurcd to believe are the public ol This stupendo public to cover: the reins of pow proceed upon tgovernment is a must inevitable now, and must llt; indeed, would p gantic and riespt ward of unlinii I President, seizi and inauguratii): der which a eon j lions and object; I plant the repub] all history and that powerful el revolt by an ini) had really despa well known tlia bitually expose course.But there is a these strong-wil ment—against w exaggerate our » power to relimp it is no use to s be difficult to ac ing, without re they must know liberties of theii vious and liourl. ness of spirit.distinctly culpaltheir oxpostuki never-ending epublicly made, iprivate ohjurgal ference, in solt; through the p customed to be
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Augusta Tri Weekly Constitutionalist
Augusta, Georgia, US
Fri, May 04, 1866
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