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Show From Mexico. "Washington, 8. Strother, United , States consul general at Mexico, in a dispatch dis-patch to the department of state, transmits trans-mits the annual reports of several consuls con-suls in western Mexico. They are chiefly filled with criticisms on the Mf-xi-can tariff, with apparently well founded complaints of its operation: Importation Importa-tion from the United States have seriously seri-ously diminished and smuggling is largely increased. Mining is checked by the onerous exaction of duties on supplies. sup-plies. There is an universal complaint of the influence oftariff on trade, not withstanding thit tbe importation of some articles from tbe United States have increased, esp?cially of cotton prints, which were scarcely known in liexico eix years ngo. Except for the enormities of tbe recent tariff laws, mining would revive, and the productions produc-tions of gold and Bilver and cofl'ee increase in-crease beyond precedent. The priceB of flour, beef and pork are simply outrageous outrage-ous in Mexico, while in Snn Francisco, distant from Lapaz only eight days, thay are very low. |