Gov Fisk and Minister Zamacona of Mexico visit Hemingray

THE MEXICAN MINISTER.

Governor Fisk's Guest Yesterday

Forenoon — On 'Change at Noon — In Clifton,

Under the Auspices of President Edmund

H. Pendleton, Afternoon — Prevented

by Illness From Attending the

Dinner in His Honor at the Queen

City Club.

Yesterday morning Governor Fisk, of Covington, Kentucky, took charge of the Mexican Minister, M. de Zamacona, and suit, and in his private carriage made a tour of Covington. They stopped at Hemingray’s glass-works and made a minute examination of them, then visited Mitchell, Tranter & Co.'s rolling-mill, and then the Covington Water-Works, where the Minister expressed himself much interested in the pump, and gave the opinion that a fortune might be made by its introduction into Mexico. After a lunch at Governor Fisk's residence they returned to the city, arriving at half-past twelve o'clock.

ON 'CHANGE,

Where the distinguished representatives of our sister American Republic met a hearty and enthu­siastic welcome. A few minutes were spent in introducing the Minister and his suit to members of the Chamber of Commerce. At one o’clock Mr. William Means, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce, escorting the Minister to a seat beside him, took the chair, called order, and spoke as follows:

MR. MEAN'S SPEECH

GENTLEMEN: We have with us to-day a distin­guished representative of our sister Republic, He cones to us in a sort of unofficial way as the Embassador of the United States of Mexico to the United States of America. Coming as he does at the private invitation of a few of our honored citizens, his presence has been unheralded. He appears with us to-day through the courtesy of your Board of Officers. Representative of his country and all its interests, he has given particular attention to building up a trade between the two Re­publics, Gentlemen. I introduce to you Senor Zamacona, the Minister of Mexico to the United States.

MINSTER ZAMACONA'S RESPONSE

Minister M. de Zamacona arose, amid applause, and spoke as follows:

Gentlemen: nothing could be more gratifying to me than the reception I have received in the Merchants' Exchange of this enlightened and refined city. I know of nothing that can promote closer or more friendly relations with my country than the feeling manifested in this welcome. Not only is there in this a connection with our interests and trade, but civilization and progress throughout the whole continent. It takes place when the pub­lic mind is ready to be enlightened as to the re­sources and wealth of my country.

Thirty-six years ago. on my first visit to this country, very few merchants had fixed their minds upon the commercial interests of the two countries. Only five years ago Nothing of the great progress of this country was known in Mexico five years ago. I can be a wit­ness to that. When I saw so many articles in this country of use to us introduced under European commerce, and also that Mexico's interests to the United States were brought around by Europe, commerce that could come direct, I began to study the question.

The geography and topography of Mexico will convince any one that a large trade can be de­veloped with the United States. Interland transportation can be easily accomplished, as the large plateau, the most productive part of Mexico, ex­tends from the City of Mexico to the American frontier by an easy grade. This affords ready facilities for the construction of railroads. Again, the respective products of the two countries show that for them nature designed a large commercial interchange.

We have articles which it is impossible to pro­duce in the United States, such as coffee, sugar, sulphur, tropical fruit and a great list of others. On the other side, we can produce from the United States agricultural implements, machinery, house-furnishing goods — in fact, every product of your great manufcatures. When our Republic was established in 1821, England was ready for our trade, and in 1823 she had a regular line established be­tween her and Mexico. Heavy subsidies were paid for this purpose by the English Government.

There are now five lines of regular monthly steamers between Mexico and Europe, and they cost the Government nothing. On the other side, Mexico has been obliged to subsidize her lines to the United States, five of which she how has.

In conclusion he referred to his visit to this city and the extreme satisfaction he found in the uni­versal prevalence of not only a disposition but a desire to cultivate commercial relations with Mexico. He was most enthusiastically ap­plauded. After a few minutes on the floor he started, under the conduct of Mr. Edmund H. Pendleton, President of the Board of Exposition Commissioners, to make

A VISIT TO CLIFTON.

After a drive through that suburb the party, with their guests — M. De Zamacona, Mexican Min­ister; Jose T. de Cuellar, Secretary of Legation; and M De Zamacono, jun. — stopped at Mr. Shoenberger’s splendid residence. There they met ladies end gentlemen of Clifton and enjoyed a collation. From there they proceeded to Mr. Henry Probasco's, where they were admirably entertained. It was late in the afternoon, near sundown, when they arrived in the city.

THE DINNER AT THE CLUB-HOUSE.

To his great regret the Mexican Minister, in consequence of the fatigue and exposure to the raw open air of his two days’ visit, was threatened so seriously with illness as to be unable prudently to venture out to the dinner given in his honor at the Queen City Club-house. His illness was such as to detain his son at the bedside, so the Legation were represented at the dinner only by Senor Cuellar, Secretary of the Legation. The chagrin of the Mexican Minister and his son at this misfortune they expressed in the following letters to the Hon. A. T. Goshorn:

THE MEXICAN MINISTER'S LETTER <                                                                                                  Cincinnati, March 25, 1879.

MY DEAR MR. GOSHORN: These lines are written under the most powerful impression which can af­fect the human mind. I have struggled during the afternoon to keep up my strength, frightened by the idea that the state of my health would prevent me from being with you and your friends to-night. When returning to the hotel I felt myself broken down. I did not mind the physical pain, but the impossibility to attend an entertainment which I expected in the greatest pleasure and the crowning honor of my visit to Cincinnati. My physical weakness has prevailed upon my moral energy. Believe me, my dear Mr. Goshorn, that is an utter im­possibility which keeps me in bed. Only a little rest could cure the symptoms I feel of an incipient pneumonia. Please accept my most sincere regret, with the expression of my thanks, for the kind regards you have bestowed upon me, and convey to the good friends you hare made me with the painful impression which troubles my mind. Yours, sincerely. M. DE ZAMACONA.

LETTER OF M. DE ZAMACONA, JUN.

MY DEAR MR. GSHORN; Please accept the ex­pression of my must profound regret for not being able to enjoy the honor of dining to-day at the Queen City Club, and believe that only my father's sickness would be able to deprive me of that pleasure. Please express my sentiments to the gentlemen of the Club, and believe, I remain exceedingly obliged. Your most obedient,   M. DEZAMCONA, JUN.

GUESTS AT THE DINNER.

The following were the guests at the dinner: Hon. A. T. Goshorn, Jose T. de Cuellar, Secretary of the Mexican Legation; Edmund H. Pendleton, L. Markbreit, Geo. W. Jones. Colonel N. L. Ander­son, Wm. Means, Hon. Stanley Matthews, Dr. N. P. Dandridge, John V. Lewis, Colonel L. M. Dayton, A. C. Barney, Wm. S. Ridgway, James Gordon, Wm. Henry Davis, Herman Goepper, C. C. Pome­roy, A. H. Bugher, S. B. Warren, Brent Arnold, Theodore Stanwood.

The dinner was exceedingly social and enjoyable. There were no set speeches, but there was speaking in a sort of spontaneous way, in which Hon. A. T. Goshorn, Senor Cuellar. Secretary of the Legation, Messrs. Edmund H. Pendleton, L. Markbreit, Geo. W. Jones. Wm. Means, Hon. Stanley Matthews. S. B. Warren, Colonel N. L. Anderson, Colonel L. M. Dayton, T. Stanwood, James Gordon and Herman Goepper took part. The company adjourned to dinner at Colonel N. L. Anderson's East Walnut Hills, November 1, 1879.

The Minister and suit, if his health permits, will resume their journey to Washington to-day.