The Richmond palladium., 1865-03-23
ARIZONA.

There fat oboDg, looking for all the world like
dolphin, d resting among the pleasant hills of the
Coioradeiver, with Chihuahua and Sonora and
Texas f near neighbors, which is known among
TOURISTS Arizona, among politicians the GADs-
DEN punse' In old time il sort of cast
away one Mexcans and hllibusters let it alone be-
cause Tas almost out of sight, hid behind the
ranges the Sierra Madre and traversed by the
fierce wiors of the of Apache. The Santa
Fee rarely paid it visit, and it left to the
Jesuitse native rancheros and the Indians for
than a Indred years. The war with Mexico, or
rather 5ents growing out of that war, first threw
light " the beauty and mineral value of the prov
ince. Ina Anna il was called, and the up-shot was
that wought IT, and paid ten millions for it, and
CONVEX il into territory and have had amount of
troublGth il. Lattery we have been trying TO make
sometH of it, and the prospect is more hopeful than
it used be. May-b it wont turn out a loss after
all.
Tbest legislature (which recently adjourned) is
reportby writers from Prescott City, the territorial
capito have taken some decided steps toward per-
mane,nd settled organization. The members
generf men of practical ability conversant with the
wantAd needs of the country, and identified with
its in.sts. They passed wholesome mining regu-
atiovded the territory into appropriate counties,
and de, of course literal grants to the Pacific
Railr. For farming purposes the country is rep
as developing new and increasing induce
men: On the road to Fort Mojava, well upon
that fucsan and in the valleys OF the Rio Eerda,
and Salinas, there are lands mellow as upon the
ella nta Cruz and San Pedro. Farmers and gar
denenay emi CRATE whenever they have mind to
do s~ith the assurance of good lands and good
mari When the rivers fairly opened the de-
manr through the mountains for grain, fruit and
vegaes will be very great.
II is now little danger of the savages. The
lndi are unusually quiet. Dispirited by the hard
bloveait them during the summer, both By military
andil expeditions, many of them have gone TO So
norCer tain it is that they have not for months
maoy disturbance about Prescott. Perhaps the
gro Of the town, the shr piping of the steam
whi and the roar of artillery from Fort Whipple
hasen them TO know that the whteman has plant
ed foot TO remain. Where there was no house or
sigi residence in June last, there is now busy
sith hundreds of Inhabitants, with shops and
stoteemIng with goods.
1e is no rebellion in Arizona. Treason out there
is slow discount notwithstanding the the proximi-
" dAxIAILIAS, DR.. GwYNS and the Texans. The
pee Ike their law makers are sensible. The mem
be! the Legislature met in capacious log building
fruhich the Stars and Stripes foated in quiet dig
niis though proud of their supremacy in this new
anomising country. While the population of the
Tory Is largely composed of men who have never
beorih of Mason DIxoN's line, there is no dispo-
sitto raise sectional issues. Indeed, the leading
seemed to have arrived at the sensible
cosion that the Admis isstraton is pursuing the only
homer able the nation and hopeful for the Re-
pu-
arizona be unrepresented to-day upon the tented
fishe viii mt be when the reckoning comes When
this 10 be paid she will stand ready with long
amen purse. Her glittering hills and gulctes will
cobute hberaly to the depleted treasury of the na-
tand go far to sweep away the debt which a loyal
pe have so cheerfally assumed--Cin. Times.