New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-11

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extending bis arms as If 10 seize very biz
object, and after having taken once more lc>l
N small looking glass, and eyclaim;ng. VIII
me expression Of the highest pitch Of sItista,
ton, " 6ueno good he rode off
| 1Ae Comanches appear 20 divide the whole
1enlsn race, so lar as it does not consist OF n
1.ans ihto Two classes, Amer snd Msxicsas
me ioriner they call. if seized the words
nght, bsbot ibO-the lstter. Toior ico Vbo
Itey declared that al Bsbot Ybo were the;.
! friends, and good and all the Toinr Aco VI,
! tSeir enemies, and bad men The tribe Wa mat
! on he Arkansas River was lust pran,r;nT /,
/ war ex edition against Mexico. and ws f,rni =
famous A Dache chief from this country anon ?
them. with whom they appeared 10 have msls
a partnership Cor the enterprise, and wao very
likely served the N as guide. A few DAYS ago
the news reached here OF q strong party of Co
manches having passed through the southeast
ern part of the State of chihuahua. 20 make
war on the civilized Indians inhablting the pu.
ebOs or Indian villages along she Sierra Made,
where that mountain chain passes this State
They passed the estate Of Il gentleman who
made private peace with them last year after
they had carried away one of his children, and
they renewed the peace on the couditi0n that he
should do nothing 10 aid the Pueblo Indians,
whom they were about 70 attack. These civil
lied Indians. however, are very brave, aud du-
ring the last year killed great maSy Conan
cbes who had fallen into their territory, for
which they are now 60 be chastised.
These Pueblo Indians of Northern Mexico
are of diierent races, distinct, as il appears,
from the Indians of Southern Mexico, WAC are
ST the Aztec stock Those living in the State
of chihuahua are called Taraaares, those in
the State of Sonora IaquiS and MIyOS. In the
course of this winter | shall have occasion 90
visit the former. In general they do not like
white men, leaving or shutting up their houses
IS soon as they see any such person approach
ING them, and generally they refuse all transac-
tons of commerce orpersoual intercourse with
any person of the white race. with the eXcep-
ton of few who live near them This aver.
sion, however, hear, can be overcome, and
shall do my best to that effect Ii they are not
of the Aztec stock. they are nevertheless de-
scendants of q population which belonged to the
Aztec empire. and parto0k of the old Mexican
civilization.
This is asserted by some TO be equally the
case with the barbarous Apaches in the Mexi-
can mountains. IL is believed by some that
these Indians are the descendants of a certain
part of the same population of old Mexico,
which refused TO come under the Spanish yoke,
deyOtlng themselves TO the eternal practice Of
revenge against the white race. They certain
ly arc not of the Aztec stock, at least not those
OF whose language | have learned some words,
but Of the sO-called MeScdisrO- 1pdcheS, inhabt-
ing the mountains east of the Rio Granle.
Some of them visited our camp. According to
the information they gave me, they have the
same language with the Apaches of the ella
and of the copper mines in the mountains at
the head waters of that river; but. according
to the same information, the other Apache
tribes speak different, or various different Ian
guages. was assured that the language OF the
MeScdieros and GiiehOs, or Copper Mine 4 pa-
cheS, had great affinity with that OF the Pueblo
Indians in New Mexico, who are descendants of
portion of the civilized population of the Az
tee empire, without being if | am not mistak-
en- of the Aztec stock itself This whole chap
ter of Ethnoogy appears TO be very much in the
dark, and nearer acquaintance with the Ian
guages Of the Apaches, the Pueblo Indians Of
Noo- MeIico, the NayajOs, the Iaramdres, aud
the Ya9nis and Mayos, would throw very i'm
portsn, light on the historyof ancient Mexico
though IL ia vary possible that mora light nj
ready exists than know OF.
This opinion about the Apaches is, however,
up 10 the present moment, little more than
mere suppOsition. and it is very possible that
they were, even in the times of the Montezuma
empire, as hostile TO the peaceable aad civilized
inhabitants of the valleys and plains as they
are now That empire, arrived at certain de-
gree of civilization, had barbarians ut ts east.
ern frontiers, in the same manner az was the
case with the empire of the Incas aud the civ
ilzed States of Cuntinamarca aud Central
America.
The descriptions given of the Apaches differ
veIy much from each other. Some assert that
they are of the meanest character and appear.
nnce while others speak highly of some of their
chiefs and warriors. The few whom | saw on
the Rio Grande were indeed mean looking fell
lows. Their conduct toward the population Of
the settlements in the valleys and plains is in
deed entirely worthy Of highway robbers, steal
ing without need, and killing and destroying for
wanton pleasure.
If you and your readers are not tired OF the
subject, ! shall continue il in another letter.
julius FRGBEL.