New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-05
ERW-rIEYIC0.

I the supplementary purchase lFOn N''A'Oo' ''0
/ the peace Of i848 Of o long, irreguiae strip
. along our south western border, from III faS"
! 10 the Pacific. was made at n price enormously
| in excess of It's value. To this end, cooIce
! suirts of The iercet, most venon0us Pro-Siavery
! school. Including " Sheriff Jones OF Kansas 10
! fanny and Phil. T. Herbert. eX-M. G. from Cal.
'orpia. have migrated TO tho valley Of tho G'la.
To this end. that valley and so much of New.
Mexico as lies due north Of ii has been distln.
egished as Arizona. aud preteDse made OF
sending & Delegate theretrom TO COngress-an
absurdity witch bad 20 basis in law and never
received tie slightest countenance from the
HOuse. To this end, an act Recognizing ana
protecting Slavery in w.MeyiCO was, by red
eral influence, forced through The TerrItOfa'
Legislature of New-MeXcO in 1S59-M. A.
Otes, then Delegate in CODqers, being tho tool
used by the Southern oligarcby in effecting their
purpose, while the legislative autOuiata that reg
istered the edct supposed they by their docii ty
were securing to their friends and ncighbcTs q
liberal d'spensatiOn Of Federal "spos,' 10
tbi, end the Federal troops etatioued in this
region for Tie protection of their few aud eest'
tered white inhabitants from the uerciess RAIDS
of their savage natives we're, like those in Texas,
left By the traitor Floyd undes the command OF
Southern officers, who il was believed might Do
safely counted on, in case Of Il collision between
their duty and the b,hests Of the Slavery Propa'
ganda, TO give implicit heed to the hitter.
The calculation woaid seem TO have been
safe one. Tue treason of ArnOA at We'I foihI'
aud that II Twiggs in Texas, have Seen paral-
l,lcd by that of Nsior Lylde, tie Nlrglnan
placed by Fleyd in command Of FeIt hlmore'
which is the key 20 Arizona on the eEst. lie
has surrendered that post, with al its .armS'
.pro,isious &C., and zoo Tesalars 10 the ba reiy
800 Texans who menace1 it OF course, ey
,kncw right we'll that he would surrender bt'st -
they trusted their lives aud limbs within ranSi
,f Uncle Sans nqskets. Briefly tue suyrendsT
IF Fort AnOre N one more Of the da'terdl7 !
,reacberes by which the Slave Power has dis
raced the Republic and sealed It's own Gsoln.
e msy or may not be that Santa Fc, and the
.est Of NeW-NsXicO proper, is doomed to bke
'etray1.; bat the prOclamat on of Isartial 7"
" Col. Candy, ard the calling out oE tho m'liaa
,g Gov. Rencber, argue the cOutrSyy. J}us
,)weyer this may be, We may consider the
hole region known az Arizona temporarily lo't
!, the Nation.
!, Now TIE Government win be mportIned and
Nsniically eatrcated to ee:d new regiments, with
lIo best field artillery, ri1ea mpskets, an pie
,Ippl es. muntiOns, &c, TO retake wbsS has
zen 70 foully wrcaed Fl en- it's grasp, to re- cel
,lvcee incursiOns, DC, &c. We trust il " i'll
Iarr deaf ear to all such impOrtunaes uid
;lst the report 1f an expedition fitting out in
ali-arnia for This service % mistaken. srpa Il
california force may be needed TO Overaw >, tn 9
,ld!ans of Nevada Territory, protect the Over
! nd Mail aud gently suggest TO Utah the exEe- |
;ency OF behaving herself. But tho great Over |
Ind Nail no longer makes that mOnstr0us teiT-
lit through Arizona and hither NewA exico :
,lat 2. NJ. Gen. Aaron V. Brown decreed, but
hob was stopped by the gHrged CoDgres OF
lst Winter. That Mail now runs from g.. JO-
3ph up the Platte aud through the South Pass
J, Salt Lake and Carson V0lley--a route 10 be
irtiIer shortened in due time, but which saves
lilly five hundred miles Il the Greet Circle
aroggh ArizOna, and is comparatively = safe
rom savage or traitOrous .nolestation.
OF the yass region governed as New. Nexico,
.ard,y an acre in q thOulahd can be roGtahly
cultivated without irrigation, and hsrdly one in
! hundred will ever be cultivated at all. The
.carcty OF timber throughout is feariul-it would
.carcgly DO possible to make seryiaes5le AK
aelye from any tree craving IN tac Territory, |
Yhie. nine.tenths Of it, area has nos. a tree of |
sny Lind within day's ride. Its wases-courses,
even 10 the largest, eaye only the k,o GNnde, |
Colorado, and few Of their mountain sources,
are dry a good part Of each Summer. There
are rich mines OF silver and ether minerals, in-
Guiding some gold, in Arizona, wsch the dearth
Of timber and water, with the supsrs5undance
of uptamable savages, will probably long render
of little Use; and as to the gold Of The Rocky
Mountains, where timber is abundant, the precious
ore has hitherto disappointed by its scarcity all
sspguine expectations. In short, gold'hunting IN
New Mexico proper, as almost everywhere else.
has tbus far proved but bitterness to the spiI8
and wearipess TO tue flesh.
We trust, therefore, that the Government VII
mot be moved to divide and friter away its icfces
in attempts to reclaim Arizona, nor even u Aoiu
New. xico this side Of the Rio Grande. Beat
the Rebels thoroughly in Virginia and On the
Mississippi and the Territories will either remain
loyal or speedily become sos whereas defeat
IN the Potomac or in Missouri weahens tho
power and tue prestige Of the Union on the oha
and The Pecos. Let the Texans and tho Apaches
settle their little differences as TO she proprietor
ship Of Arizona, while the Republic deals Vlgor-
ously with the treason Gow tearing its Yitais and