The Arkansas advocate., 1836-08-19
ar most obedient servant.

l State of Tennessee with the necessary funds.
 Very respectfully,
 Your most obedient servant
 c. A. HARRIS. Acting Secretary of War His Excelency NEWTON CANNON,
 Governor of Tennessee. l
 It Is fact not generally known that .here does exist In the Ear West, at least two small tribes or bands of white people, One of these bands is called .Ma,ck- eys They reside III Meyico tho south west side of the Rocky Mountains, and between three and five hun dred miles from Santa Fe towards California in val. ley which makes deep notch into the mountains sur rounded by high and impossible ridges, and which can only be entered by narrow pass from the south west They are represented by trappcrs and hunters of tho west, known o the wrer of his to be an innocent in- offensive people, living by agriculture and raising great numbers of horses and mules, both of which used by them for food. They cultivate maize. pumpkins and beans, in considerable quantities.
 These people frequently deprcda.cd on by then more warlike red neighbcrs which they submit with out resortng to deadly weapons to repe the aggress DTS. Not far distant from the Mawkeys and in the same range ef eaan!s anahe: band e !he aes cfption called .Nabahofs. description of either of these tribes will for both. They have been des- enbed to the writer by two in whose veracity tho fullest confidence may be plaeed and they say the are o the common stature, with light naxen har light blue eyes, and their skin is of the most delicate white ness One my inlormants who of these people at Santa Re, IT. 1881, in describing the Mawk ey says, .hey much winter than me as winter than the darkest Indian in the Creek nation and my informant of as good complexion white men generally
 trapper, on ore occasion, in wandering excur- sion, arrived at the village of the Maukey. He was armed with rifle, pair of belt pistols, knife and om- ahawk; all ol which to them, and appeared to excite their wonder and surprise. After conversng some time by sign he fired one of his pistols; instantly the whole group around him fell to the earth the most consternaon; they entfeated him not to hurt hem, and showed i'll various ways that they thought him pernatural being He vast numbers ofhorses and mules about the village.
 Query.-May not these people be remnant ofthoso who Inhabited this country prior to the the present of lndansl the traces of whose cities, Notifications, and cultivated fields and gardens, are stlll 10 be throughout the whole western countrv.-N. Yorker.
 The preceding article has been going the rounds of the newspapers for six months. preposterous afti- cle chnnced to It is perfect hoax. It true that there two tribes of Indians west of Santa Fe, called Nabajos and Moqus. That they nno- cent nofensive people, far from the truth any thing could well be. They always at with, and robbg tine 'iexicaI,s--aIi are boid ufid people. They raise great numbers of sheep horses c and ths depredatons generally their own sde As to their light axen hair &c it s all They arc like other Indians little winter, and of them with beards As to the trapper arriving at their yllage happen toknow that the Americans have traded with the Moqus for years The New Mexicans hryo regular Nabajo interpreter attached their army and the Moquis speak the Nabajo language. The fact it, that wag who had been in Santa Fe some years ago published article in Missouri paper hoar which was the foundation of the foregoing paragraph He presented the Nabajo the descendants of the Wech This we had from his mouth.