FROM VERA CRUZ TO MEXICO.
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 The annexed description of the route at this luncture may not be uninteresting We iakei, from the Albany Knickcrbocker

 Ten hours march from Vera Cruz places our soldiers in an atmosphere as pure and healthiul as Saratoga; for almost the very first step they take IS an uphill one, which continues without mtermissIon until they reach the city of Mexico itself, some eight thousand feet above the level of the sea- The road to the capital is probably the best one south of the city Of Washington, bemg macadamzed the whole distance; while for scenery and decorations il is surpassed by no other panorama in the world >- The usual mode of conveyance between Vera Cruz and Mexico Is by four horse stage coaches The horses are Mexican, and, though small, are strong and spirited. The stage leaves Vera Cruz al eleven at night, afternoon at Jalapa, distance of about sew enty miles, and continual ascent through mountains The houses on the way side are few and wretched, constructed of canes ten feet long, fixed in the ground, and covered with palm-irre leaves. The village strongly resemble those of the American Indians: ho- vels ten or twelve feet square, with amall patch of ground for ChiIics and Indian corn; the only difference in those original styles of architecture being that the northern builds with logs, the southern with mud in the shape of bricks. 4 large portion of the country between those two belongs 10 Santa Anna In addition to which he owns some forty thousand head of cattle in 7is pastures, and is unques,ionably one Of the larges, ag- ricnl,urists in North-Ameriea if not the world The ascent of the mountain range and the varieties of the road naturally keep the tra- weller on the qn, rire. With the air sin- guiarly transparent, with the brightest of skies above, and the most varied of soulh- ern landscape to an unlimited extent below, the eye finds continual feast The city of Jslspa stands on the slope, ihroned on hell of the mountain four thousand feet above the sea, and with four thousand feet of the bold and sunny range above it The whole hor- izon except in the direction of Vera Cruz, is circle of mountains, and towering above them all at a distance of twenty-five miles (which, from the elearness of the air, seems scarcely the fourth part of the dis,anecl ri- ses the splended cone of Orizaba. On the the summit of the range stands Perose, a town connected with strong fortress. per haps the highest in position that the world exhibiis--eight thousand five hundred feet above the shore. Height makes the differ ence between heat and cold every where. In the middle of summer which burns the tho blood in the human frame at Vera Cruz, men in Peroie button their coats to the chin aud sleep in blankets. Thus winter is