The weekly Arizonian., 1859-05-19
A Great Outrage.


 peons who have escaped from the country. It was cold-blooled murder, and if the perpetra- tors could be found, they would receive no mercy from the people of this neighborhood.
 This mlrler, together with the fact that Am,ricaus have lately been ordered out of Herm osilo, in Sonora was the cause of cruel and unjustiiable attack upon some Mexicans, made on Sunday, the 9th instant by gang of selEcousitutel regulators, who proceeded up the Sonoita valley and with force and arms conpelel every Mexican employed upon the different ranches to leave, under penalty of ex- bering six or seven men, proceeded from rancho to ranche, driving away the Mexican laboerrs with their families, until they reached a mescal distillery, just below Axes ranche, near the head of the valley. Here number of Mexi- cans and some Yaqu Indians were employed, ani for aught we have ever heard, in peace able and legitimate man2er, On the approach ofthese regulators" the Mexicans and Indians fled, when, as we are informed by one who claimed to have participated in the fight, they toere fired upon, and fight took place Three Maxicans and one Yaqui Indian were killed, ani one Mexican mortally wounded, while of the attacking party, one man was slightly in- jured by lance thrust. From all accounts, we feel that we but express the sentiments of the respectable American portion of our peo- pie when we declare this attack to be co,cdrdly. fcrael, dai tot1lly un,ouranted It is pro- ceeding from first to last condemned by almost everpoae, except the party concerned, and will certainly involve these men in great trouble if they remain in the country.
 Already the effects of this massacre have been disasteroas Thirty Mexicans left Tubac th, dly following the receipt of the news, and every fl:m on the Soaoita is deserted by its exagycratel, l, has gone to Sonora, and it will be aw1aler if any Americans escape from the cola.ry. alive. Coasternatioa and distrust is sp;e1l among the Mexican population. Some flnilIes have sacrificed much to escape from the country; have abandoned their little prop e;ty, anl lel for th.ir lives. All this has been occls.oa,l by tn, m lrlerous conduct of this gang of llwiess men, who, it is said, actually too! var.oIs articles from the bodies of the poor m,n wio fell by their hands.
 The news of this massacre occasioned in the Santa C,uz valley, at Fort Buchanan, at Tubac, anu at the mines, among the Americans, feel ins sofjustinligaation, that band of men claim ing ordinary decency, should constitute them selves outlaws, under pretence of averaging the mlrlcr of an American citizen. Such outra- geous conduct must not be tolerated No steps should be taken calculated to effect the Mexican population of this Territory, or our relations with Sonora, without a meeting of the American inhabitants a full and fair deliheration, and comm;ttee oSresps;tlbie m ea appointed to carry oit the views of the meeting.
 m In the absence of all civil authority, the peo- pie have only one resort for assistance, namely, to the United States troops at Fort Buchanan {; and we are authorized to say that the military w'llreal Ter all necessary aid in arresting these dstur5ers of tho peace, and in preventing in future the.r lawless acts. A company of drag ooas ha2 already patrollei the country to as. sist in dispersing any riotous assembly, and will cooperate with the citizens in riddipg the