The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-03-21
THE WEEKLY ARTZONIAN
SUNDAY MARCH 2l, 1869.
GEN. ORD AND THE APACHES.

O GEN ORD AND THE APACHES.
 From accounts received by private letters and through the public print, from San Fran cisco, it becomes quite evident that the days of trifing with, and carrying on mock-hostility against the Apaches are, at length, about to pass away.
 During the administration of Major Gen Mcdowell, a vigorous war was nominally carried on against the Indians, in Arizona, bat virtually, it was not a war, but species of transaction quite e-halfremonst-atiye and halfauthoritative. We have not any doubt as to the war having been thus conducted for some distinct motive; but we do not know, n or can We surnise, what coald have been the issue viewed in the distance, to induce department commander to feed and fight, at the same time, a couple of thousand Indians for a term of three years. It would hardly be just to believe that he had no definite object in view, or that this policy was merely designed to continue until results, pro or con should develop themselves However this much we can plainly see, that nothing of good, but much of evil has resulted from our sham war since the spring of 1866 Bul it is gratifying to feel that the light of a new era, in the history of the Apache war, is already visible, and will, ere long, have entirely dispeIled the shadows Of the past three years maleadministra- ton.
 Major-Gen. Ord, upon assuming command of the department, saw at glance, that def- nite, and not random proceedings upon the part of the military, were necessary to the suppression of the hostile Indians in Arizona, and, already his administration, under which they have been denied all the privileges hth erto extended to them, has stricke n them with a degree of terror hitherto unfelt If full license to carry on the war vigorously; to give the enamy TO time to lay up supplies, and to attack them whenever and wherever found had been given the military authorities in Arizona three years ago, the condition of af fairs would, at present, be very different. As 1t Is, the Indians now better prepared for war than at any former period, and, it is grati- fying to find that the department commander is fully aware of the necessity of prompt and vigorous action in the case.
 The following is an extract from some proof, sheets sent us by friend in San Francisco:
 Thirty six companies oftroops. one-h half cavalry, are now i'm CT eu route for Arizona. Oflcers are directed, and expected under pen- alty of disgrace to find and punish the Indians when sent in search of them, and are promised praise and promotion in proportion to their success The system of feeding those Indians who choose to live near q military post, only to get means to supply their war parties in the field, is at an end
 ''The troops are directed to push their way into the heart of the Territory, north of the Gila, there to establish themselves and ex- terminate this worst of all Indian tribes.
 "AlreadY many new posts are established and the geography of the country is becoming rapidly developed, The Indians have already been repeatedly and severely punished in their own remote haunts where they have hitherto considered themselves safe
 Another year ofGen Ord's administration will give to Arizona brighter day than she has yet seen. Her wonderful resources once secure from the Apache assassin and robber, will naturally draw a large and enterprising population; and the Southern Pacific railroad through her wide borders VII soon make her one of the most thriving of the frontier States.