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A HUGE JOKE.


HOtC They "EStdblished Mexican Trade.
American Reporter.
The party of excusionists who went down
to Mexico went to establish trade between
the two countries about as much as Noah
went up the mountain to take bath. They
went to have good time, and they had it.
It's manager needed money, and he made it
out of the excursionists. He had an eye to
trade himself, aid he came back Mexican
consul at Chicago. Some of the excursion
lists wanted business, but great many more
of them wanted a warm climate in cold
weather, a grand time at the expense of the
Mexican government, and plenty of Mexican
whisky. They got the warm weather
and the whisky, but all they got at the ex-
pense of the Mexican government you could
put in your eye. AS business undertaking,
the expedition was not even colossal fraud
it was very small humbug. To call it
HThe American Industrial Deputation" was
enough to make an overworked Mexican
donkey smile. | have before me list of
the excursionists; of the eighty persons en-
rolled l can pick out at moments notice
forty-four persons who had no business
whatever, ostensibly or otherwise. OF the
remaining thirty-six, not six actually went to
Mexico to extend their trade; and not four of
them actually did anything toward it. If they
had they would not have succeeded. The ex-
cursionists were after riches, and they found
them in half the old idols and decayed skulls
in the Mexican republic. | might mention
one of the party, who had no business at all,
who would not have hesitated to go into
gentleman's house and ask for sample of
his parlor carpet. This gentleman brought
L. IL. i
enough roots and plants to set up a second
hand botanical garden. Nothing could
satisfy his rapacity, and he was but little
worse than large majority of the party.
The unlucky Mexican who brought samples
of his wares to the principal hotels for ex-
hibition soon had to go back to his shop for
more samples. The excursionists always
met him half way, and always loaded them
selves down with the samples. Anything
that was free was SOON gathered in.
Many of the party were from
quiet rural Western towns, and were
getting their first taste of rubbing against
the outside world. They scattered their
satchels and bundles all over the republic
leaving one or two in every town the
stopped in. The man who did the mos
fourishing business was a chrome man
from Chicago, who sold cheap but gaudy
chromos at high prices, just as fast as the
Mexicans could make the change. The ex-
hibition in the college of mines, if it could
be looked upon seriously as an exhibit of
American wares, would be q standing dis
grace to the country. The goods exhibited
were of the cheapest and most ordinary
kinds, and there were very few of them.
There is tenfold better display of American
goods in any pawnshop's sale store in the
Bowery than was exhibited in Mexico.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
CRIMES AEP CRIMINALS

Some 90 of the Pekin whisky
ring plead guilty in the United States court
at Chicago lately, and were fined small sums.
A man in an English prison confesses
to have murdered a man in New York city,
some time ago. His name is not vet given to
the public.
II. F. Vass, a German, at Memphis,
Tenn, shot himself with pistol, March 81
Grief caused by the seduction If his only
daughter was the cause.
John Stenger, Jr., business manager OF
the Southern GlassworSs OF Louisville, KY
has disappeared, taking with him several
thousand dollars Of the company's money.
The famine in Upper Egypt causes
terrible suffering. In some villages the PEG
pie are naked, and, like wild beasts, dig foI
roots. In one town the women and children
fought over scraps of bread. Inland villagers
are said to be starving like dogs.
A dispatch from Moberly, Mo-, says
Joseph DaHy shot and killed his wife March
Both, while she was asleep. lie claimes il
was accidental, thought the pistol was empty
and expected 20 wake his wife by snappiue
the cap. They had been married only three
weeks. Daily is in jail.
On the night of March BOAT Newberry
Indiana two nen named John Bell and
Daniel Frame entered church where a col
ored festival and supper was in progress, anC
after eating as much as they desired, de
mand was made upon them for payment b.
Charles Thomas, colored man. One Of tn,
men drew razor and cut his throat from ca
to ear, killing him Instantly. Both men ar,
- all
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Personal AVID POLITICAL.

Ex-Mayor Johnston, of Cincinnati, died
March 80.
Ex-congr William }. Albend died
at Baltimore, Md, March 30.
Ex-congressman James II. Gibson,
died at Abingdon, Va March 80.
The President has nominated Francis
a. Wakes, Superintendent of the census.
Gen. Grant has accepted the Iayitation
Of the King Of Siam 10 visit his dom!nions.
Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana has signed
She bill repeating the Louisiana state lottery
The Mexican minister 81. Zomacona is
i'll at Cincinnati with an attack of pneumonia.
Col Thomas A. Scott has been re
elected President Of the Pennsylvania rail
road.
The Pope has received 10000 francs
from the Count and Countess Chambord, OF
France.
The Sultan has sent a portion of his
plate and jewelry to be melted for the use of
the treasury.
Ex-Judge Giles. died at his residence
in Baltimore, Nd, on Saturday March 22d
aged - years.
al A4AfANs ~NNit -AaAst obutNn u 1AdlNl
2lst, says, L. K Bradley, Ex-Goy. of Nevada,
i dead. Age Il years
The latest kilograms from Madrid,
Spain, say the condition of Princess Chris
tiaua is nesrly hopeless.
1t Is alleged that France, like Ger
many, viii decline toparticipate in the mixed
occupation Of Roumelia
The Ohio Democratic State committee
have decided to hold the State nominating
convention NJ Columbus, June +
Capt. Edward OMeagher Condor, the
Fenian, has been appointed to a elerkship in
the treasury department at Washington.
Gen. Miles regards Sitting Bull as the
ablest and most powerful living Indian chief,
and ranks him with Tccumseh and King
Phillip.
Ex-congressman Riddle. of Tennessee,
committed suicide at Nashville. by shooting
himself in the head with a small pistol. Ii is
supposed his mind WAS affected by I'll health
and financial endorsements.
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STONE WELLS OF ARIZONA.
Natural Formations ia an Arid Desert
Arizona Sentinel.

Natural Formations ia an Artd Desert
Arizona Sentinel.
wonderful place is Tinajas, about thirty
miles southeast of Mission Camp. The
mountains have one face OF hard, smooth
granite. All the water falling upon this
basin has to flow through nine tanks, one
above the other. The lower tanks are of
easy access, and are often drained of their
contents by men aud animals travelling be-
tween Yuma and Sonora. The upper tanks
are approached only by circuitous and diff
cult climbing over rocks. To one standing
below they afford no indication of their
existence, nor does climbing the smooth,
one unacquainted with the way they
do it. In the upper tanks water
has never been known to fail. TO this
water comes game of all kinds in great num-
bers from the great waterless country
around Tinajas. Antelope, mountain sheep
and deer of several kinds come in herds.
Rabbits and hares are as plenty as any
where, and are prey for many coyotes and
beautiful little rock foxes. One would think
that all this game would be thinned out by
the Papago Indians, who inhablt the coun-
try. But these Indians are superstitious,
and avoid Tinaias with abject horror. With
in two miles of this water are certainly $50
graves, and probably more, each marked by
rows of stones laid in the form of cross.
Scores of men famished for water
have expended their last breath it reaching
Tinajas, only to find the lower tanks dry,
and, ignorant of the upper ones, have lain
down in despair to die. The remains have
been buried by late travellers, and the graves
marked, Mexican fashion, by q cross of
stones. During the rush to the gold fields
of California, cholera attacked travellers on
the road from Mexico as it did American
immigrants along the Platte; pestilence COM
bined with thirst to produce corpses at
Tinaias. Recollections of bleached bones
and grinning skulls protect the game from
Papago arrows and fiint-locks. After passing
through its usual fermentation the water be-
comes clear and pure as any In the world; 1t
comes from the clouds only, and, flowing
into the tanks over insoluble granite, it car
ries no mineral matter. Every heavy rain
pours whirlwind torrent through the tanks,
washing them out to the very bottom; no
organic matter stays behind. The number
and variety of birds here is marvellous, many
of them appearing to be of new and unde-
scribed species. At morning and evening
the din of their song. confined by the sides
of the mountains, is almost deafening All
around Tinajas is the remarkable vegetation
of the desert: near its tanks are many curl
ous plants nourished by their moisture
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WAITING FOR WEALTH.
[ milwaukee Special March 25) to Chicago
Times.

Milwaukee Special March 25) to Chicago
Times.
The Times reporter had chat to-day with
William Young. of the chamber of COM
meree, relative to his recent trip to New
York. Mr.. Young had read the Times dis
patches from Milwaukee limiting that his
Eastern trip might be for the purpose of con-
sultation with Keene ard the New York bull
clique, and he quite naturally desired to
know the inside facts connected with sus-
picions of that character. The Times re-
porter, after acknowledging with becoming
modesty) that he knew all about the big bull
movement in which the New York crowd are
engaged, and also knew just which promi
nent operators here are in with the deal,
said to Mr.. Young:
"But you saw Mr.. Keene while in New
York?'
YES" replied the governor" 81 called
upon Mr.. Keene, and IN his office / met one
of the Pinkertons, of Chicago, who was
there on the work of trying to find out the
author of that bogus dispatch that broke the
market recently"
Then the dispatch was really bogus?"
"Certainly. Keene didn't know any more
about it than you or did; not Bit"
"Are the detectives making any progress
toward discovering the author of the for
gery?"
mot that I could discover. The man, or
men, who played that trick are too sharp to
be caught easily"
"How about Keene's wheat has he I'm.
loaded any of it?
mot a bushel: no, sir, he hasn't sold a
bushel of ii, and will not until a good deal
better prices can be realized. l. in fact, found
things Just as / thought should that the
wheat will be held for very material adj
vance over present prices. Keene, or what
is styled by you newspaper fellows
as the .keene crowd will hold their
wheat until they get the original profit they
started after. And in my opinion they viii
succeed, fer / found that the stocks of win
ter wheat are reduced TO merely nominal
quantity, and that the winter wheat-growing
districts are completely drained. 1 also
found every indication of an immediate adj
vance in foreign prices, for they are very
short over there and must soon need a good
deal of wheat, and need it badly
And so it turned out, after all, that Mr..
Young did see Mr.. Keene, and that the ball
movement is still in progress.
The wheat market opened weak at the
morning board, but soon receded and prices
became firm. Receipts were 81, $50 bushels
against 81. 7S4 the same day last year. Ship
ments aggregated A., 600 bushels. Stock In
store 3,49S,oo0 bushels. against 543, 900 the
corresponding day in 1873,
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spring packing of Furs

TIE safe boetpwal of furs and winter
CLOTHING engages the mind OF the average
h0u%skeeper at this season. For the
benefit OF the inexperienced it may be
said$ that the first thing to be done is TO
freeTfrOm dust or grease spots any thing
des. ned to be packed away during the
sunsner months. A preparation made
as e,llows viii ne found useful in the
treatment of wooden goods. To table
sposaful each, Of alcohol and hartshorn,
dilised with a teacuplul of boiling water,
add:a half teaspOonful of powdered
bor;x. After she garments have been
wels aired, shaken and brushed apply
the 5nixture TO any grease spots on them.
Rug 1t on wslh a wooden rag until tie
spec disapper, then rinse thoroughly with
Luxe warm water, applied with a sponge,
and.rab the ptlce az nearly dry as posi-
BILE with dry, clean cloth. 1t mus: be
ent}tely dry before packing. If ola very
ligle color, chl0roform or ether Inuy be
uses instead Of the mixture. These will
noty need Inising, they evaporate, but
eth'tr should be applied quickly and
ligktly to the fabric, and rubbed briskly
to /: ssen the chances of destroying tho
coloSl or iDjuring the texture. Clothes
put. away with dust or grease spots on
thee, will breed rncths, and all the
trolaple taken for their preservation
wile be futile If they are not first proper
iy G.eaned. Furs should be placed in the
opesl air, and beaten with light switch
or lstttan in brisk wind on a dry day.
BY clubbing the fur with the band against
heigraiu, it can be ascertained if there
are Snotbs in ii, as little balls of the fur
wolsid fall out If that happens the fur
must be carefully combed, well whipped
ands wrapped IN a newspaper and put in
a case By itself with plenty Of camphor
gur$ around it.
Very often this treatment will save
fur2 attacked, by moths. OF course it is
much better TO employ prevention than
ours, and if only ordinary care is take
furs can be Kept safe from moths uh.I
the; are wOrr out. At this season, even
thoCgh still occasionally worn, they
shosid be exposed to the air and lightly
whipped from time to time. This frees
thee, from dust deposit, which is a rapid
genesator Of insect life in the early spring.
Everything packed away for the season
shoajd be in air tight cases and with
cam 6hor gum or cedar. chips scattered
around them
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ANSWERS to Correspondents :

Desperate Wife-(D My husband is
not onl " false 10 me, but treats me very an
kindly lie knocks me down with chair
CT something, every few hours, and last
week locked me up in the cellar while
he went shooting. When he returned,
after fva days absence. he released me
with the remark; 'Great Scott, amt
you dead yetl1 Yesterday I detected
him putting arsenic in my tea. What
shall / doabout it, (2) Are underskirts
cut gored with ruffies this winter or notY
Oh You must win your husband by
kindness. Hiding behind the door or
und<T the bed will only make him worse.
Plat your hair like trunk handle so
that he can drag you around the floor
more easily; ard WORK him satin-quilt-
ed club holder to hang on the bedposf.
The great thing IS the proud conscious
ness Of having performed your duty. Do
this ana all viii be well in ten or fifteen
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AT MOUNTAIN MEADOW.
A SWtiror Of thH Famous Massacre Re
Iates TIs Experience.
NJ.


Steeville, Mo-. Mirror
There resides near Oak Hill, in this
county, man 10y The name of VIM. Garrett,
who haA remarkable history as one of the
few survivors Of the terrible Mountain
Meadow massacre in September, 1857, where
nearlg 200 men, women and children were
slain by the Indians and Mormons, under
the leadership of John ID. Lee, who rece, .ly
expia4ed his crime with his life. At that
time Garrett WAS boy 10 years of age,
and with his sister Malinda, then
years old, was captured by the Indians
after they had butehered his parents, and
for twenty long years he remained a cap
tive. During the Indian campaign in which
Gen. Custer was killed, he was captured by
United States soldiers, and being found to
be a white man, an investigation finally
resulted in establishing his identity. He
was taken to the home of his childhood, and
at once recognized the place. He has an
uncl., living at his old home in Henry coun-
ty, III this State The girl long since had
become the wife of Red Cloud, the we'll
known sioux chief. and has by him three
children. She prefers remaining with her
Indian friends When rescued Garrett had
forgotten his mother tongue, and was as
wild as an untomed savage.
Hip remembered only his own and his sis
ter'g name, and the horrible scene of the
massacre, which nothing could blot from his
mensory. He visited the Mirror office on
Tuesday last, and gave us some interesting
INCIDENTS in correction with his twenty
years life among the savages. In appear
ance he is little above medium height, erect
and muscular, with dark hair and beard,
ford complexion and bright, keen blue
eyes; He says the Mountain Meadow mas
sacrs was undoubtedly planned by Brigham
Young. He remembers visiting Salt Lake
with the Indians and seeing the Mormon
leadsr pay the savages for the scalps of men,
women and children, thus offering them an
incentive to murder those not of the Nor
moIs faith.
Garrett was adopted by the "medicine
maBs' of the trlde, and indicted into the
mysteries of the treatment of disease by the
Indian method. Had became a great Indian
doci@Jr a fact which he has turned to account
since his restoration TO civilized life. He has
the population Of possessing great skill in
the treatment of the sick in the height or
hool! where he has married wife, purchased
a farm and now resides.
Ra has sufficiently mastered the English
Language to make himself understood, and
is a snan of more than ordinary intelligence.
He II devotinga portion of his time to study,
witis the design Of publishing a narrative of
his life in the wilderness, and work on In
diaIs medical knowledge.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Amnesty has been granted 100 more
French communists.
/ The plague quarantine has been great
IL modified at Berlin.
March % Pullman car was levied on
in Cincinnati, o., for taxes.
Nearly 100000 copies of the new
Methodist Hymnal have been sold.
1t is stated that the water At Szegedin
again rising.If tie rise continues there
viii be little hope Of saving the few remain
ne houses.
From Duluth lake navigation was re-
ported to BE- open. March 2Sth, the steamer
Siskiwit lef with &c passengers for Prince
Arthur's landing.
In the last Legislature of Wisconsin 3
bill limiting the term of Office Of county
Teasurers became law without passing the
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Senate, having been signed by the officers of
both houses and the Governor.
About four hundred more plantation
negroes, recently from the South, left st.
Louis on the END inst, for Kansas, and about
two hundred arrived by the steamer Helena
from Mississippi on the 23rd inst
a private letter received at Winnipeg
March %, says trouble is expected with In
dams in the West. Big Bear seized the goods
OF trading party, and fifty mounted police
were dispatched to arrest him. Big Bear says
he viii not be taken, and is trying to induce
other chiefs to join him in resisting the de-
mands OF Governor Laird.
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His Natural WAY.


An Irish officer Of distinction attended
bstl, but was not as proficient in dane
ing'ns in the use of his sword. While
stassding up in cotillion his partner
ca.hd his attention to young man
oplajsite, who hsd previously exhibited
mucsl skill as q dancer, in the act of
miscking the movements Of the officer.
A Ia tie conversation convinced him that
il w.s the intention Of the young gallan
to rs3icule him, and therefore he inquired
of s.m. SIS that your natural way OF
daIs}ng3" lie was answered that it was.
"Wr5l,8 said the officer, IF so, by
eracsous, if catch yOu dancing artificial
" after, u knock you down. The
* ,aepce was that the young fellow
ha persist in mimicking while he re-
mafaed in the room.
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your finding, and to indicate Gen. Porter
from the charges which were made against
him, which destroyed his name and his rep
utation at the time the trial took place. So
far as any further recommendation may be
concerned, have no suggestions to make.
The only effort / have made is to have the
facts SO presented as to induce you by your
finding to restore Gen. Porter's name to
that page of history which, thus far, since
1862, has been blank; to restore it there
with the purity and integrity and the honor
for which he exerted himself as soldier,
and which he has always endeayored to
maintain as q man.
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Il is well enough to hang up chrome
wig God bless our home" on it, but it
wilE 30 no haem to help on the matter by
a listie less fretting. A great many peo-
plessk the Lord 10 do what they won't
liftsheir fingers TO do for themselves.
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Decanters are now el.borately incased
in gilt silver. The glasses and goolets
correspond A new card tray immitates
a dead white sheeting, and on this are
incrusted gold enamel birds on spray
of apple blossom.
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ssr Robert Peel, speaking of Lord
EI69n, said that even his failiDgs leaned
TO Ssrtues side; upon which bystander
observed that his lordships fastilgs re-
seHsoied the leaning tower Of Piss, which,
in sStte of its long inclination, had never
yetgone over.
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RICH DISCOVERY.

friend has just arrived from Rockford,
twenty miles south, considerably excited
over the discovery of a silver ledge that as
says $4,000 per ton. He describes it as a
true fssure vein, easily traceable upon the
surface by means of groupings and float, for
several miles. The rock shows considerable
native silver, and a streak, probably foot in
width, of bromide of silver. He is perfect
ing a record of location, and will return with
a months supplies in the morning.
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS BUSINESS WITH
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lMATNE LEGTSLATURE.
SENATE.

THURSDAY, Jan. 30th.
Prayer by the Chaplain.
Papers from the House were disposed of in
concurrence.
On motion of Mr. Conn, a message was sent
to the Governor requesting the return of the
act authorizing Androscoggin county to pro-
cure loan. The act was returned by the Secre-
tary, and on motion of Mr.. Conn. the votes
by which the bill was enacted and engrossed
were reconsidered, and it was referred to the
Androscoggin County Delegation.
MIR. PATTEN moved to table the resolve in
favor of the town of Gouldsboro. After
brief discussion of the matter the Senate re-
fused to lay the resolve upon the table, and it
passed to be engrossed.
On motion of Mr.. MORRISON,
Ordered, That the several committees of
the Legislature report finally on or before the
1th day of February next.
Mr.. VINToN approved the order, and hoped
Il day would also be named in it for the final
adjournment of the Legislature, suggesting
the 2lst day of February. From careful
survey of all the real, controyerted business
he was satisfied there was not more than half
SO much of it before the Legislature as there
was last year ut this time
The legislature of last year adjourned Feb
ruary 81, and the present session could safely
close at the same date. Name a day, adhere
to it, and the legislature will be ready for ad
journment then.
Messrs. ELLIS and THOMPSON thought the
order premature and the latter Senator moved
to lay it upon the table.
| Mr.. PATTEN moved that the date be changed
| from the eth to the 10th of February.
! Mr.. MORRISON said that he had no desire
to shut off business, but TO spur up commit
tees. He was not particular whether the date
was the 9TH or 10th, but some time in the inn
mediate future. He accepted the motion Of
Mr.. Patten. The final adjournment of the
Legislature could be effected better by an
other order he thought
The Senate refused to table the order, and
! it was given a passage.
On motion of Mr.. HAYES, pending its en-