Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . es with thatfrom Zacatecas at Queretaro, is the northernmost pointfrom which money is despatched by conducta to portion of that even from here is despatched to San Francisco, by the portof San Bias, just as apart of that from Za-catecas goes to Tam-pico through San LuisPotosi. The countrynorth of San Luis tothe east ships its fundsto Matamoras; thoseof Durango are di-vided between Mata-moras and Mazatlan ;while Puebla, Oaxaca,and the rest of thesouth find their nat-ural outlet at
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . es with thatfrom Zacatecas at Queretaro, is the northernmost pointfrom which money is despatched by conducta to portion of that even from here is despatched to San Francisco, by the portof San Bias, just as apart of that from Za-catecas goes to Tam-pico through San LuisPotosi. The countrynorth of San Luis tothe east ships its fundsto Matamoras; thoseof Durango are di-vided between Mata-moras and Mazatlan ;while Puebla, Oaxaca,and the rest of thesouth find their nat-ural outlet at YeraCruz. The importance ofthe great conducta inthese times is dimin-ished by the growing safety of the transport of moneyby private hands. Its days are numbered with tlieprogress of the railways, nearing so rapidly the centralcluster of cities in which it has its origin. Even now itno longer came wholly to town, but took the Central trainat the first feasible point, at Huehuetoca, the Spanish cutfor the drainage of the valley. Its place as a spectacle isfilled by the pay coiiductas of the THE PORTALES AT MEXICO. THE QUESTIOX OF MOXEY, AXD SHOFFIXG. 103 A revision of these accounts is needed almost frommoment to moment as I write, to keep pace with the rapidchanges in affairs. A National Bank and banks of foreignincorporators have been established in the mean time, withauthority to issue large amounts of but inefficiently se-cured paper. The Mexican National Bank may now issuebills to the amount of $60,000,000, upon a capital of$20,000,000. They are legal tender from individuals tothe government, but not from the government to individ-uals, nor between individuals. One of the arguments infavor of this bank, our minister was assured, was that itwould counteract in some sort the influence of the UnitedStates: the usual patriotic leaven cropping up, it will beseen ; though how it should accomplish the purpose inview it is by no means easy to understand. A flood ofdepr
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