New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-17
LATEST FROM ARIZONA.

TIE APACHE EXPEDITION-RETURN or CAPT.
EwFLL-A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT -
NEW COUNTY-FEELING or TIE PEOPLE
LATEST SONORA INTELLIGENCE, ETC.
From Our Own Correspondent.
TUBAC, Feb. "a, 1860.
The scouting party against the Apaches, under
Capt X. S. Ewall, U. S. A., has come in. The
following extract from n letter written by Mr.. S.
II. Lathrop, Director of the Sonora Exploring and
Mining Company, who accompanied Capt. Ewall
with ten citizen volunteers, gives complete ac-
count of the expedition:
"The late robbery of the Sonora Company is one of
the most daring and only successful because the
country to which they took the stock Was compare,
by Captain Ewell of the army, with twenty-five dra
GOODS, and myselG with twenty men. We had the sat-
isfacton Of c<mng up with them something like one
hundred and fifty miles from the rancho. Taeir mum.
Der can be judged of from the fact that they killed aud
ate fifteen head the day of arrival and themselves
took TO the mountains entirely inaccessible to u.s.
They easily kept out of the range of rifles, and de-
fed us in all ways. AS scaled one mountain they
would take to another, shot falling lar short of
them; as we would get within six to eight hundred
wards they would discharge shower of arrows, doing
us no HARM and fe bullets which came unplea'anty
Close We could have followed them in the same way
hundreds of miles with the same success OF one
thing / sm certain, if the Apaches get stock to the
north Of the Gila have no hope OF recovering them
they will eth kill them them into the noun
tans To my mind there were only two courses TO be
adopted, one, TO make vigorous campaign against
them, driving them into su9jection then making
boundary over which they shall not pass. Another
TO lay off a reservation north OF the ella and e5tab
lth depOts where they can be fed; they must
eat and had they the inclination, the country they
OCCUPY would not produce enough to feed them.
Unlesst omehDgs done by our Government other than
making Calico Treaties and sending special agents
to distribute presents they must again have possession
OF this great mining Territory. A proper effort now
made will give protection Tor tile present, ana secu-
rity for the future.
al know of no yirtue these Indians possess. They
will abandon their families in order TO steal they will
leave them as hostages and break treaty within sight
of the post which confines them. Bands will separate,
the one part TO make treaty the other 10 steal They
are towards at heart, yet will risk all to steal. Our
troops are powerless, they few in number and
without horses. The military commander here Capt.
Ewa doee all in his power; but what can he accom-
pish when he can, from two company post (which
ought 10 be four) mount bat twenty tive men The
$40 900 600 paid for this Territory if properly protect
cd will prove good investment; but if we are left
without protection, il might az well have been thrown
away
A concerted movement for the formation Of
Provisional Government has been commenced by
,ba LEADING men of the eastern section of this Ter
ritory. 1t is proposed to call Convention at
Tucson which shall convene some time In April
next and form q Constitution. The movement is
rather premature as the friends OF the measure
should at least wait until the Adjournment OF Con
gregg in order 10 give that august body an opportu-
nity of legslatnQ in our behalf Then, II nothing
is done for our relief, the establishment OF FRO,
yisi0nal Government will become necessity, ana
will meet with little opposition. 1he Leg"'s'u'o