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Show A COUNTRY THAT OUGHT TO BELONG TO THE YANKEES. Beyond tho Rio Grande the traveler trav-eler feels the dreamy atrnosphero hcented with tropical odors and lull of romantic traditions. It- is a land of adventures and romance, where the picturesque grace of the Spaniard, bis gay attire and impetuous spirit, still hngor to impart an indescribable I air of interest. And then the dark, but brilliant beauty of the women, their diamond sparkling eyes and '.inimical voices, are as charming a I they are novel to the American Ltr-Miger. Aud, by the way, they ad niirti blue eves and light hair much mure tLian the dark style of their own jrrtCH. Along the coast line there is I tun liitlu to suggest the beauty of the 1 ..,1 ,1- B-Imm hlnfi mnill.tllilM ;1re n-ffecled in clear lakes, aud crys ul streams 11 jw down through lux-uriaut lux-uriaut valleys. Up the wvst c ia-t the bleamer saila :.l.Hii within sight oi a rare panorama ol mountains and luxuriant plantations planta-tions uuiil you reach the California peninsula, und California itself, when you begin to find the legends of the Jesuits preserved in the grapes they brought from Spain in the Bixleeuth century. Smart priests were they to keep to themselves the secret of the country's wealth until a buccaneer caught oue of their galleons carrying , its precious freight to the pious brothers in Spain. Oi all the Mexican countries, however, if we may use the name in its first geographical mean ing, the districts around San Juan do Nicaragua are the most beautiful. Excepting the rainy season, the traveler is enchauted . beyond Ihe hopes raised by the enthusiastic trqjier, who gave a most glowing description de-scription of the wealth and boauty ol this luxuriant land, and doubtless with bia pen unsheathed the sword ol that untortunate would be conqueror, the gray eyed Walker. In tho interior, ihe lakes of Nicaragua and Mindiri, surrounded with plantations, are beautiful beyond all description, and the few coffee plantations are as good as so many gold mines. This is tbe great point on the map of this hemisphere; which corresponds corres-ponds to the Suez canal on the east, and is destined to provoke a game of diplomacy or war for its possession. Your transcontinental railways are but jokes compared with the water line which the proposed canal would secure, and it behooves the United Slates to appreciate what value England Eng-land Bets on this point. Wnatapity it is, too, that a turbulent, good tor-nothing tor-nothing race of people should hold this beautiful land right by tbe Bide of tbe great Yankee reformers. Washington Wash-ington Capital. |