. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . meda to the Plaza llayor, there is at nil hours great activity upon this thoroughfare, on either side of which very irregular archi-tecture is spread from the aris-tocratic mansion blue-tiled, gold-balconied, scarlet-blinded, to the dingy flat roofed, two storied stone front. Each block has a different name. The Calle Pla- teros or rather the street which bears this name and a thousand others in company is lined with stores, which have a second class Parisian appearance, the goods exposed therein bear the Fre
. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . meda to the Plaza llayor, there is at nil hours great activity upon this thoroughfare, on either side of which very irregular archi-tecture is spread from the aris-tocratic mansion blue-tiled, gold-balconied, scarlet-blinded, to the dingy flat roofed, two storied stone front. Each block has a different name. The Calle Pla- teros or rather the street which bears this name and a thousand others in company is lined with stores, which have a second class Parisian appearance, the goods exposed therein bear the French trade mark in a majority of in-stances. Here we find the Cafe Concordia^ the Delmonico of Mexico; we stop a moment to ;:^^ refresh ourselves with a sorbet or a the corner of the streets Indians in picturesque costumes offer to sell us large bouquets of violets, we should say an immense bouquet,for the small sum of 25 cents, where in New York the same would cost notless than $10. The ladies here seldom venture in the street on foot; they drive a shopping and VENDEE OF EEFEESHMENTS. The Population. We find that the Indians are by far the best part of the the whites, there are three distinct classes: 30 First, the wliitcs descended from tlio original Spaniards, or from French,German, or Enghsh ancestors ; second, the pure Indians ; and thirdly, theMestizos, or mixed race, who constitute tlie laborino: class. Estimating thepresent population at 10,000,000, the whites will probablj^ number 2,000,000_20%—, the Indians 3,500,000—35%— and the Blestizos 4,500,000—45%.The Indians belong to various tribes and differ as much among themselvesin every peculiarity as do the Anglo-Saxons from the Latin race. The Indians of the cities are low and brutal, constantly drunk. In someparts of the country, however, they are hard working and industrious, neatin their person and sober in their habits. In the mining districts they proveby far the best ha
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