State Journal

MEXICO-ITS INHABITANTS.

The population of the Mexican States consists of about 9,000,000 of freemen. Of these about 4,000,000 are unmixed Indians; 2,500,000 are Mestizos, or the Mixed offspring of Spaniards and Indians; 1,500,000 are Creoles, of the unmixed offspring of Spaniards; 1,000,000 are Mulattoes, or offspring of Indians and Negroes, including also the Mulattoes; 100,000 are Negroes; 10,000 Spaniards, born in Spain, and about 30,000 strangers, consisting of emigrants from various nations. From this estimate, it seems that the Indians and Mestizos form the bulk of the population. But it is said that they are in many respects superior to the Spaniards and Creoles. They are honest, industrious and peaceable, and generally cultivators of the soil. Those only are addicted to vicious habits, who live in the vicinity of large towns. They are of a ruddy complexion-small in stature, and have in general well formed features. Some of them are no darker than the Spaniards, and many of their women are superior in beauty to the Creole women, on account of their rosy cheeks. The Indians are excellent soldiers, well civilized, though still idolators, and they will undoubtedly form the democracy of the country, and being in no-wise inferior to the other races, probably destined to rule the nation. The Mexicans, before they were conquered by the Spaniards, had already advanced far in the arts of government and civilization. The conquest has undoubtedly hastened their march of improvement, and if they do but retain their freedom, they will, in less than a century, in all probability, be one of the greatest nations of the earth.

Boston Post.