Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-30


the following intelligence;
Speaking Of gold, a Mexican merchant and
Spectator in Mesilla has twenty-five pounds Of
the dust Several of our merchants have it by
the pound Ifthe dust were only made a circu-
lating medium IN Mesilla, these tight times would
be almost entirely removed
At Camp Roblero there are at present three
companies-Capts Pyron's Coopwood's and
Frasers. The grass IS excellent in the vicinity
of the camp, and the horses are recupeTadng rap
idly The men are vigorously drilled, daily and
have all the routine of camp and field in constant
practiee-infrutTy exercise dress parades, COM
pany and battalion drills. The officers drill daily
with the sabre.
There are at Fort Craig and Fort Union, ac-
cording to the report of deserter, seven com
| only ten days radons The regulars are to
move TO Albuquerque, aud the volunteers are to
remain: bat only for few weeks it is supposed.
/ The volunteers viii be commanded by Col Pine.
I Fort uon has been destroyed, its garrison hay
/ mo moved some six miles from the post TO a nat
urally advantageous position, which they are
/ terrifying.
That portion of our territory lying adjacent to
/ California, and on the Watersof the Colorado
/ river Of the West, is attracting much attention
/ in California, although almost unknown 10 this
/ portion Of the country. Two large mining dis
Ticts have been prospected and fair placer dig
! giugs discovered, and the best of gold quart,
and al extensive silver region, similar in re-
/ sources to the Nashoe country, and equally
rich These districts are named Potosi and Col
Grade. Our California exchanges notice "a largo
/ emigration to those points One Eek" who is
much inclined TO abolition, says in this way the
/ Territory may be rey0lutionized and made
sound in politics
BY private letter from DR.. J. Nagle to ". d.
| Skillman, agent of the $ A. and $. d. mail coal-
! pany dated FL Paso, September 10Th, we gather
! the following:
/ "Our mail down this week, was cut off by thirty
/ Apaches, under Nicholas, fifteen miles from Eagle
/ Springs. Owing to the heavy state Of the road,
| the mail was being brought on packs, and the
/ men having carried the breastWor1 made by the
Indians to mold that position they had to aban-
/ d0n their stock and the mail, which the Indians
/ took possession Of We had one man, Lauberg.
wounded, but not seriously. Our men got of
about sun up and fell back on Quitman, where
we have 10 or 20 men. Capt. Holiday, who is
there, VIII try and put the present mail through,
with what men and stock Aye can spare, though
| the Indians have possession of tlc road, aud
/ wiil probably attack the frenchman' tram. We
viii perIaps have to mount 10 0T y men with
cach 4agtg fer tAe present.
Since writing the above, Stewart tells me
! that the indians attacked his party about 3
o'clock p. 81. 18th, and Dc thinks they left him
about midnight TO follow the EIenchman's s trail -
Itis proposed to initiate martial law in Arizo-
ma. I.eut-C0L Baylor second in command OF
/ the 2d Texas Mounted late regiment, aud By
| the Interpretation Of some men, not Governor OF
/ the Territory OF Arizona has made speeches to
| some OF the inhabitants on the opposite side OF
the Nile, suggesting that they petition him to
declare martial law in the Territory; and pc
! tition, we have been informed, has been circIl-
lated for that purpose. and has several hundred
4 signers.
The necessity, in this Territory, the slightest
necessity does not exist Tor the establishment OF
martial law. We have Just escaped from one
| despotism and why should we be- plunged into
anothar-lnartisl law law which recognizes
no hqbeaS corpus, whose tribunals are secret
| from whose decisions there is no appeal, fol-
whose proceedings there are no Investigations,
no house or home inyiolate, no one safe in prop
erty or liberty. That the intelligent portion oi
this community require or desire any such order
Of things is false
In the Arizoaia1i of August 10Th, there is pub
/ lished a list OF the deaths BY violence ia that
thinly settled scope Of country, from STEMS
I Peak TO the Colorado river. known as Western
Arizona, from the date Of its acquisition to the
| lst Of August, 1861. These unnatural death,
were [tt v pei GrLt Gl INT dAtAl4l Lteiltut lDbt
! lation. And within the last six months, auc
since the Inauguration Of an open war by the
United States forces with the Apaches, and since
the withdrawal Of the overland mail, this pei
cent has been 1870 OF the entire population
and every rancho, farm ana mine in that sc0p,
OF country, has been abandOaed in consequence
One-third Of the deaths have occurred within tn,
last six months.
This is frightful retrospect, But Westerr
Arizona has not had to bear all the burthen o
tie legacy lelt by the United States government
in the Inauguration of the Indian war by th,
! United States troops at Apache Pass. The whole
Territory has suffered most terribly. Whole val
leys have been depopulated, mining district
abandoned, and the bTavesta and most industTioU
of our citizens murdered by scores.
We herewith publish list of the deaths b.
violence which have come to our knowledge oc
curing in the proposed limits Of the Territory G
Arizona, within the last six months. To TIA
United States government we have 10 lay tn
blame, and the whole of it, of this terrible csta
iogue Of blood, to its blind Indian policy, and {
lis blind officers, in carrying that policy out; +
It's shameful neglect to provide proper legal au
thority IN our midst for the punishment OF crime
and to its Inauguration Of war and tyranny
This list must be considerably under the rea
number.
In Western Arizona, 40 In Eastern Arizona
Americans by Americans g, Americans by Mex
cans 3, Americans by indians 36, MoSicens b
Indians 35 Mexicans by Americans 5, Mexican
lv Mexicall<-s.-4s4 Ess-r movements q, cour
martial and desertcrs 4, cause Of death unknown
3, lYnching 2 Total, l5l. OF this numbe
there were killed by Indians q, and by othe
causes 20.
Tie Times, of tle 26ih nit, furnishes the fo
lowing:
Capt. Hammers and Capt Adams companie
Of The I'd Texas rife regiment, are daily expeete
at Fort Bliss, Capt. Pyrou, of this regmen
left ior Sun Antonio on the 23d, having obtaine
leave of absence for six weeks. Capt Walker
company has arrived at Camp Roblero, fror
Fort Stanton. Just before leaving, threc-OU
Of picket Of four meH-of this company weI
killed by the Afezcalero Apaches. Several
the Apaches were killed in the fight Cap
Walker had fight with the Indians at theranc
Placito, near Fort Stanton, in which six Apache
were killed.
The Pine Alto mines have been free from II
dian depredatious fIate. Rain was still fallin
daily, and there was abundance of water. Pr
visions were very high; -four $50 per hundred
bacon % cents per pound. Most Of the Amer
cans have abandoned the mines, in consequence
Of the inequality of the yield Of gold and tn
? price of provisions.
Dir. Rochman is erecting furnaces and smel
ing works on the La Esperanza silver lead. IL
ore is a combination of silver, gold and lea,
I A prospect o. fifty pounds yielded S14
: The Arizona Guards had been on scout i
2 search of Indians, as far as Lake Guzman br
J found none.
f Major Sticlzney, late Of Tucson, who was rc
ported to have been killed in the late India
= FIGHT at Cooks Springs Canon, has arrived
Mesilla safe. He shows several evidences of
: most narrow escape Of bis life. He has seyeri
, arrow and shot holes in his clothing, and wa
larrieted and thrown off his horse by an Indial
Bv cutting the harriet he succeeded in maxim
2 his escape to the copper mines, after wanderin
four days in the mountains. He received an a
row wound IN the hip during the engagement
} but Ii is not serious.
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