Arizona miner. [volume] (Fort Whipple, Ariz.) 1864-1868, 1864-09-07
FROM NEW MEXICO,

buquerque papers to August 9th. From the
New Mexican of July "a we Gull the following
items
The FL Paso, Santa Fe and K Kansas City Stage
Company have purchased O new set Of Concord
coaches for their line. They spare no pans or
expense for the comfort of the travelling public
The line is now better stocked and provided with
better coaches than ever heretofore. Messrs
Cottrill Il Co. are just the men to carry semi
weekly mail between the States and here. 1t is
a pity the Postmaster General cannot take some
interest in having US supplied with at least q
semi-weekly mail.
Fruit IS beginning to be quite plentiful. We
see the plaza iull of boys selling apricots. BY
the way, apricots are substitute for something
to eat in the fruit line hard TO beat We have
been eating pies made from apricotts, and have
come to the conclusion that il would take man
some time to starve to death on that kind OF di-
et Hyou don't believe it, just try.
| Capt Bell 10 now performing the duties Of
Chief Commissary OF Subsistence. The captain
is an able officer. He was formerly Professor o.
Drawing at West Point, served with distinction
| in the army Of the Potomac, and for the last two
years has been in the Commissary Department
| Capt. Carey ia acting as Chief Quarterrhaste
! Of this Department, in the absence of Majo
NJ Ferran, who has gone to the States.
! Captain Updegraff, Of the 5th u. S. Infantry
has been promoted to the rank of Major.
i The annexed are from the New Mexican O
August 5:
j The news brought by the passengers in tn
coach not only confirms the reported outrages b.
the Indians, but bring additional proof Of tn
hostility OF the Indians Of the plains. and thei
determination to wage war against the whites
We are informed that at Walnut creek trail
numbering ten wagons, and loaded with govern
ment freight. was taken by the Indians, the wag
ons stripped Of their covers, and the unfortunate
drivers murdered and scalped. and that too in
Icredlble "a it may seem, within an hundred yard
of eighty or more soldiers, who calmly looked OF
and saw their fellow men butchered, and two o
them scalped alive, without Offering to lift han,
lin their aid or use the arms which government
had placed in their possession when it mstooI
them for men. IL this report be true, and WI
have il from source entitled TO the most i'm
lphcit credence, We sincerely trust some efor
will be made to punish these cowardy miscreant
for their shameful and inhuman conduct
We learn from the same source that Fort Lar
ned was attacked, but the artillery frightene,
them out OF their design, and they coDtente,
themselves with driving off some stock that wa
grazing beyond range OF the guns, and burning
bridge across Pawnse Fork.
i This state OF affairs will make il mperatiy
upon freghters TO travel in large bodies for mu
ltual protection, and 10 be more than ordnar
cautious in camp. In the case of the train abov
alluded TO- the Indians pretended friendship. an
rode along the train shaking hands with the dri
vers until they reached the hlndmost man. whe
they began their butchering and scalping
i Hon. Francisco Perea. our present delegate t
Congress, arrived in the last coach. A larg
number OF citizens went out to meet him and es
cort him into town, aud IN the evening he wa
serenaded by the 9Th Infantry band. On tn
whole his reception must have been very CRAFTY
ing TO him.
! With the issue Of July 10Th the name OF tn
Rio Abajo Press was. changed the New Mex
co Press" The size Of the paper remains tn
same, although portion of the matter is printe
lin Spanish, and an enlarged paper is promise
upon the arrival Of new supply OF materia
THE editor with characteristic pith exclaims
AS our paper is now double barreIled," "
bid our contemporaries I" the top of the NOR
! ing" and will recpocate their shots 10 the be-
,lof our ability.
4 That's right, brother johnson, and we wis
'lyou unbounded success. Pardon the suggestio
? however, that If you paid less attention TO COZ
, troyersy with the Santa Fe Gazette, and to Ior
, wnded discussions, you would make your pap
more interesting, and more serviceable to the il
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