the house, recounted his money and found one of the smallest coins missing.  He at once called the thief and charged him with the crime.  The Mexican knew this American to be very resolute; when, therefore, he heard him threaten him with severe and summary punishment if he did not, at once, produce the money, he knew there was no escape, and accordingly drew from its hiding-place, on his person, the missing coin and restored it to its owner.  The American, being used to such every-day occurrences, passed by the affair without further notice.  In the other instance an American was traveling and had occasion to stop at a Mexican’s house during the night.  On going to pay his bill for his lodging in the morning, he noticed that two pieces of his money had been abstracted while he was sleeping.  These coins had been taken one from either end of his purse.  This was what drew his attention to the fact of his having been robbed.  The host was informed of what had happened and at once proceeded to restore the missing money.  He called his son to him, a boy twenty years of age, and after threatening a good deal, he made the lad take his choice between owning the theft or submitting to the risk of being discovered by a search of his person for the missing coins.  This had the desired effect, and at once the stolen property was returned to its rightful owner.

Both of these facts are simple, and perhaps, uninteresting; but they serve to exhibit a characteristic of the lower classes of Mexicans.  Doubtless, such paltry thieving is the result of a want of animal courage, easily discernible by the close observer of the Mexican race.  Of course there are many exceptions to this statement.

The white men interested in the council had their hands full in their endeavors to smooth over this affair, for the Indians were much dissatisfied with such treatment.  At first they demanded that reparation should be made them by their agents giving them a certain number of horses.  The Superintendent explained to them that he had not the power to do this, but he assured them that the murderers should be arrested and dealt with according to law.  The Indians willingly received this promise, but seemed to feel, as finally was the fact, that they were doomed to be disappointed as far as the punishment was concerned.  It afterwards happened that only one of the murderers was apprehended, and in a very short time after he was locked up as a prisoner, he succeeded in making his escape and was never retaken.  This was all that was ever done by those in authority to render the justice that had been agreed upon and which was richly due to the Indians.  After quitting the council, and while on their way back to their hunting-ground, the small pox broke out among the red men, and carried off, in its ravages, the leading men of this band of Muache Utahs.  On the first appearance of this trouble, the Indians held a council among themselves, and decided that the Superintendent was the cause of the pestilence that had visited them.  They, also, decided that he had collected them together in order thus to injure them, and to further his designs he had presented, to each of their distinguished warriors, a blanket-coat.  They found that nearly every Indian who had accepted and worn this article, had died.