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Monterey

Monterey image
Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
November
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

-We fina in the Louisvilleluurml, quite a plensant passage 01 lescription. It corrobórales the feat of .he Brown County boy in the orange tree, jn the 23d of September. "Monterey is a beautiful place, filled with orange groves and gardens. It lies at thevery foot of the Sierra Madre mountaitw, which embrace it on every side, their tops lost in the clouds. A beautiful river sparkles through its midst - iis soil produces every fruit of the tropics. The orange, citrón, potnegranite, fig and banano, surround you ; on every side the most mngnificent birs warble on the branches of the trees. Nature has done! every thing ; it is only the vile race or Mexicans which renders the place detestable. I send L. a flower which I plucked from the garden of Ampudia's palace, which is more beautiful than I have power to describe. I galloped all through it yesterdav, pulled the flowers, lounged on the grass,sucked the oranges, kicked over several flower pots, shook my sword at a few ragged natives, and imagined myself a pvince. We will have easy times now for a few weeks, nothng to do but eat and sleep, and we desire it 1 assure you. The march up was terrible, exposed as wo were to all the severity of a tropical sun."Sincc the great religious Reformation (!) Great Britain has spent 65 years in war, and G2 in peacc. She borrowed in 7 wars, which lastcd the 65 years, L834,000,000. In the same time, she roised by taxes, L1,169,000,000 ; tlms forming a total e.vpenditurc of $8,982,120,000 in our currency. This enormous sum, extorted from the taut strained sinews of labor, would have constructed ff leen roilroads around theglobe, allowing $25,000 psr mile ! To raise another such sum, would require a tax of $10 on every human being on the globe ! The interest of thissum for one month, at 5 per cent., exceeds the amount contributed bij the whole christian ivorld for preaching the eosvel of Jesus Chris t to the heat ten for