Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-02-04

by tie Indians l have been through all the frontier
Sas and know the value of mules and horses In each
as something of the number lost. Placing their
va - 800 head and estimating the loss at 100 00O
We laye three and half millions of dollars; sum
amy sufficient to pay in full all the actual losses But
the$ estimates both large for the average price Of
mulIs in Nueva Leon, Coahuila, Durango, and the
souAeM part Of chihuahua has been about S25 and the
nunber lost is doubtless below hundred thousand
?. The Route for Railroad
We do not require twenty millions of to give
rdats for railroad, nor do we require line which
willembrace Cookies wagon road-a not only i'm
pradicahle for railway, but almost for wagons.
bett route exists further NORTH by which saving
be 1ade OF more than hundred miles in the distance
Forthe purpose of railroad require portion of
the region say about ten miles south of the line
Of az 22| or that agreed upon by the Boundary Com
mEon prolonged far west that due north line from
itsexemity shall strike the Gla the Pimo villages
TIE treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo gives the right Of
WY one league south Of the Ga which is all require
Wist of (his point
III M eisair iwmty miVioas ef acr<saf la.d
6f ths land 50 obtniBsd most unhesisatingly assert
thas after leaving the bottom land Of the Rio Grande
from to two miles in width there is not one-haf per
cent Of cultyabe land in this vast district and think
it would be Speaking within bounds to assert that there
Is not qurter per cent All the rest is desert;
miserable barren waste without tree shrub save the
thorny chaphra and cactus the sinking larrea. IL
is almost dettute Of water and with grass only along
the rvules which through the barren plains for
portion Of tie year. when they swallowed up in the
sands. In tbs assertion sustained by the gentle
men connectea with the United States Boundary Com
mission and by officers of the army stationed on the
frontier Id his letter to Mr. Secretary Stuart Major
EMORY eaking of the character Of the country in
dispute sou of the boundary Of the Commissioners says
The county embraced in the of difference, with
the exception of strip along the Rio Grande about
nine miles png and from one to two wde is 6arrsn and
acW not prace Whedt corn, grapes, ee or any thing use
tul as food br for clotiay"-(see Senate Docu
ment No. 6, Ipecial session, 1858, p. 1872
Now gentlemen, this district accurately described
by the chefepgineer Of the Boundary Commission,
braces between three and four Of the twenty millions Of
for which Gen. Gadsden has been negotiating. The
remainder better and if there any choice would
give the preference the district described by Major
Emory to that lying directly south Of the Ga AS to
the gold legion of Sonora believed to be one Of the
richest in th world according to the Charleston Mer-
curry the new boundary will not extend as far south as
the mining r,gion.
4. I've are to obtain the "Are-onia mines" ,,
zona mines which we acquire under the Gadsden
treaty They propose naming the new State Arezonia,
sfrom the rich minerals embraced in it, and think that
the first Governor ought to be South Caronan, as
:" tribute due to South Carolina diplomacy"
The Arezonia mines! Where are they? I assert that
no such mines or placers EXIST In the City Of Mexico
people talk Of Arezona Ell Dorado talked of among
the early explorers of America 1t is fabulous region
where mountains of gold and silver existed from whose
tres;e takfed down ia continuous streams.
These stories originated with the early explorers aud
were repeated in the Cartas de los Jesutas where it
is stated that single lump of silver had been found
weighing four hundred arrobas ten thousand pounds
The stories about Arezpna revived with every
ration when parties of adventurers made to go in
search of the 1t is but few years. since
the gold discoveries in California that the story prang
up again in Sonora The silver mountain had been seen
and bullets of gold and silver exhibited evidences
Of it's existence The consequence that about one
hundred men set off on prospecting" tour But the
mountain faded away before them like ack-olantern or
| mirage of the desert 1t could not be found.
asked the location of these mines, and told that
they were north Of The Ga in the country of the Coyo
tero Apaches district already within our domnions.
But generally when the question is asked in Sonora
Chihuahua you either get quizzical smile In reply or
that very Ineligible and to Mexican that very conclu
sve answer of " Quien Sale !"
II the Mexican Government conveyed the idea TO our
Minister that such mines the Arizona existed, and
that thew were to be sold to the United States it
ether intended as joke as swindle and doubt
not that the willy Castilian is laughing in his
sleeve at his success in dddling South Carolina dplo
mat. ....-
s. Tie Settlement Of the Gardy Grant .".
Here is stockjobbing operation with which we have
hoe tn
parties for right of way for railroad This is mat
between Mexico and the grantees and not for the
United States to medds with Yet the large operators
in the Garay grant being among most active politi-
clans and either directly indirectly connected with
Government they have go managed things in Mexico as
to influence our Minister in framing the PROFIT of treaty
10 their own advantage. do not believe that he was
aware of the selfish ends Of his advisers in this matter
but that the Mexcans did is evident So heal the
between Messrs sloo ani Garay and to ndem-
have incurred which at the cannot exceed or
two hundred thousand dollars it is cooy proposed that
the United States shall pay the spectators concerned in
these grants the of five millions Of dollars
This can only be compared to quarrel between plain
tiff and defendant in which the judge orders the case
dismissed and the jury to pay the damages and costs
As to the proposition in the Charleston papers that the
first Governor of the fabulous Arizona, now converted
to Ayonia should be South Cafonian, to this would
decidedly object God forbid that any American should
be inflicted with such punishment as banishment to
that tord desert though he may have been instru
mental in obtaining it! TRUTH