CITY OF TUSCALOOSA A. FRIDAY

NEW SERIES-VOL. 3-NO. 31.
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dimensions, in proportion to the size of the building. There Is only one door on tte lower floor, and none al all on the outside of the upper story. This door is very strongly bull. and high enough for coach 10 pass throush: il opens into the patio through which you pass 10 the steps leading to the upper stories, where alone every bodys lives except the lowest classes. In all the establishments of the better classes, the basement story Is only occupied by the servants and as lumber rooms, and what struck me us very strange. as stables. do not suppose there is such separate build ing In the city as a stable. In visiting Count Certuna, for example, whose whole establishment is altogether princely, and oth CTS of equal splendor and luxury, found this court on the ground floor used as sta. ble, and passed through rows of horses and carriages to make my way to the most spa ciois halis, filled with fine paintings of the great masters, and furnished throughout in style altogether gorgeous. In some of the larger private buildings thirty or forty different families reside each one having rented one or two rooms all entering at the only outside door into the court, winch Is the common property of all-and from winch each one has an entrance 10 his own rooms on the ground floor of the gallery above, winch runs all around the building. l do not think that the area covered by the city Uf Mexico can exceed two miles in length, and u mile and Il half in width u very small space 10 be occupied by popu. laiion of nearly two hundred thousand But 1t Is not at all surprising when you see thr. ty or forty families, enough to make re spectable village, and huddled away in one house, and consider what large number sleep in the open air in tha, delightful eli. mate. How pure must be the aimos phere when the city of Mexico is so remarkably healthy, notwithstanding such a crowded and filthy mode of living, and with tropI cal sunshining upon the moist surface o the whole valley One would think the latter sufficient of itself to produce the r,os fatal malaria.

 It is little curious that whilst the build ings and population of Mexico are thus crowded into so small space, and the rem! are three times as high as in the city 0 New'York, yet all around the city there il a vacant ground, and as dry as the city it sell, which may be had almost for the ta king. was riding out with friend on evening when he showed me square con iaining between five und six acres, just il the rear of the Plaza dc Toros on the out skirts, of the city, and not more than hal or three quarters of a mile from the publi square, which he had just purchased for fou hundred dollars. Why these lots are nc improved and the cliy extended, l canno easily comprehend.--Gen. Ihompson's Rt collections.