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DIPLOMAT'S WIFE IN MEXICO
We could see from the deck of the Minnesota two boat-loads of them coming across the shining water and being landed at the Sanidad pier. After that, I suppose, they swelled the ranks of the undesirable without money, occupation, homes, or hopes. I saw Mr. Hudson, yesterday, looking rather worn. With groanings and travail unspeakable the Mexican Herald is being published in Vera Cruz. He says they have the greenest of green hands to set the type, and the oftener it is corrected the worse the spelling gets, the nights being one long hell. But as most of his readers have a smattering of Spanish and English, with more than a smattering of personal knowledge of the situation, the Herald still is most acceptable as a "breakfast
released.
food."
The
Mexico City over Puebeing fast destroyed. Mustin in his hydroplane can be seen flying over the bay, reconnoitering in that direction. Puebla is the key to the taking of Mexico City from Vera Cruz. It is always capitulating to somebody. It wUl doubtless do so to us. In 182 1 Iturbide took it. In 1847 it was taken by Scott; in 1863 by the French soldiers of Napoleon. In the battle of Puebla, 1867, there was a furious engagement between Don Porfirio and the French. It is a beautiful old city sometimes called the "Rome" of Mexico, founded by Padre Motolinia, situated about midway between the coast and the Aztec dty. It is crowded with churches and convents, though many of these latter have been put to other uses; however, the point now is when and how our men will reach it. The blue skies and the deep Inter-oceanic, the route to
bla, is
—
barrancas tell
no
tales. April s8th.
Tuesday.
Yesterday afternoon Major Butler came to see us. He is in command at the "roundhouse" of Mr. Cum22
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