Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-12-22

along the Overland stage route, and il IS from such
/ savages that danger may be appTehenaed to the
stations and stsges. These IndisBs have not, as
! yet manifested any disposition to kill white men
and are content With visiting she station at Steans
/ Peak, aud demanding corn which Is given to them
in order to prevent violence and defer open hostility
/ Two weeks ago, some % Apaches attacked three
Americans between this town and Tubao, and took
1 from them yoke Of cattle and 81 their provis>
I ions and blankets. Beyond this, they have eem-
mited no dePredations. Some Of them are loiter-
lug n the vicinity Of this town, and are nov and
then tanning a few Of their tame brethren
There Is o strong impression here pervading the
public mind that var With the Apaches is ineVita-
/ bic and that the Government had better take the
matter IN hand at once, aud send troops to this
! point Immediately. The Apaehes are inimieal to
the Mezicsns. As for the whites, they only re-
strain ed by fear from commencing war at once. II
is said that they bring 1000 warriors into the
/ field, armed mostly with rihes and shot guns, OBJ
tanned by theft, or purchased from traders (Mexi-
cans) who came from the Rio Grande. The war,
/ when begun, must be one Of determination and an
Inhalation. No treaties have been made with the
! Apaehes By any Of the officers Of the Government
in this Territory, the Indians being to any
contract that will prevent their stealing cattle and
! provisions. Such is the information l have OBJ
tanned from Colonel Walker the agent above refer
red to.
The same paper is in receipt Of a letter from the
ella mines which is endorsed as from gentleman
Of the highest respecability, and whose statements
may be relied on ThsFrter says;
At first considerable doubt was felt 10 whether
or not mining on the ella would pay. but all such
doubts have been disspated. Whether not the
gold field is sufficiently extensive to employ large
number of miners is question yet to be decided,
By the last accounts there fifteen families,
and an uncertain number Of miners--variously esti
mqted hut probably sixty, thereabouts-all salts
fed Most Of them were emigrants on their way to
California Most Of the claims from 400 to 500
yards from the river and Of course, the dirt has
be hauled 70 the water. Many valuable claims
situated up in the gulohes, where wagons or carts
cannot be taken. For such claims, donkeys viii be
doubtless used. As yet many Of the miners pack the
dirt GU their backs.
Several parties Of officers and officers families,
stationed at this Fort. have visited the mines, and
they are al satisfied that the mines now worked
very valuable. One of the officers, to satisfy him
self by actual observation, stood by and watched the
washing of a cart load Of dirt. The entire load,
containing forty-four buckets Of dirt, gave SOL,
besides about 81 in specimens given TO lady while
the washing was going Oh, and which were not
weighed Another gentleman was invited by a
miner to 20 up to & spot and see what the pros
pect would DC. After some eight inches Of surface
dirt was removed, the gentleman picked out with his
knife several pieces, amounting to about 81 so; and
painful Of the remaining dirt gave, when washed
out, about the same sum.
Gold has also been found on the North eide of the
Gila and in such quantities to induce some miners
to commence digging and pilng up pay-dirt in antie
ipatiou of the wet season, when water will be more
convenient. At present, these diggings are some
three miles from water.