The weekly Arizonian., 1859-10-20
Thursday, October 2Om ls5o.
Arizona Correspondence.

In the possession of that curse 10 the tru, interests ofall new countries, paid newspaper correspondence, Arizona can certainly la, claim to her share Sufficiently long has sh. suffered from the empty twaddle of ignorant and corrupt scribbcrs, and it is 10 be hoped that for the present t has ccased-if for no other reason than that Othcllo's occupation has de- parted, either from the want of a continuance of the snews of war or the return, through the rcprooches of guilty conscience, of some small particle of shame for the gross mtruth. they have been the authors of and which through their means have been scattered broad cast over the Union. They have tried the cx pertinent and, thus far, have found their effort. to injure Arizona an uphill labor; they begin to realize that the truth is not 10 be crushed and are sensible of the utter contempt evinced towards them by ail classes of our citizens, as the authors through disappointment and chag rim of series of ridiculous untruths and gross mistatemeuts, Gt only as the emanations of the brain of some idiotic charlatan, The injury they have dono us has only been temporary; it has been the means of bringing Arizona promi. nently before the public and her true position is daily becoming better known throughout the country.
 We had intended, ere this, to have answered q few ofthe mistatemens to be found in one or two ofthese letters; and as we suppose We now have the last that will be written fer some time to come-unless the writer considers the east equally as good a location to write from, having seen while here only part of the country-we shall devote few lines in reply
 The statement, in one of the letters signed "Gia,' that the people of Arizona, in their desire for Territorial organization have neg lected all efforts to establish law and civil au- thority' is grossly untrue The writer knows, as well as we dor that the people of ths Terri. tory have done all in their power tc establish the supremacy of the law-they have all they can look for in their present position We have a Probate Court on the Rio Grandc and nearly all the towns in the Territory have Justice of the Peace and ConstaLles We would ask, what more can we look for? Perhaps the writer has some new system he wishes to see established. as yet unknown, which the people, in their ig. norance, are unable to appreciate Eff so, We would like to be enlightened or otherwise we are obliged to deny his assertion.
 We had hoped We had long since silcuced the false statements of Gila, as to the popua. 
 ton of Arizona, but it appears We arc in error. He puts the number of the Americans west of the Messila Valley at one hundred and eighty when he knows, CT should know, as well a5 we do that there are that number around Tucson alone We need not speak of the santa Cruz oni Sonoita Valleys, tho number of people at TubHc, Calabasas, and thn mining precincts. or of the San Pedro and Membres rivers. with those employed by the Overland Mail Company. lot alone the Americans west of here 10 the Colorado river a distance of near three hundrod miles We have only to refer the peo. pie east to our weekly columns, and to the let- ter of the RevJ. P Mochcbcuf Vicar General