The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-03-05

fanciiul; (as professor in Harvard Univer-
 sity should not be accused ofwilfuily lying land
 that he was not proof against influences, the
 following contracted views which he takes of
 the Santa Rita valley will tend to obviate :-
 "Seen through its wonderfully clear atmos- phere, With bright and azute sky or with ] every detan brought eat by the hght of he
 moon, this valley has seemed alparaiise and aga'n, under circumstances of great anxiety,
 It has been prison of he'll"
 He next speaks ofhaying been kindly treat-
 ed 5y family from Arkansas who had settled
 in the Santa Rita valley, and after giving a
 brief account of the 'ca-ture ot one of tia daughters by IRdians, aad of her wonderful escape from Ter captors, concludes by saying that she was in the habit of chewing tobacco 1
 The lady referred to died in ,h;s town a5ou,
 two months ago, was the daughter of 1Ir Pen
 nIngton. and at the time of her capture and escape was but recently married subsequently, she was made 2 widow by the hand of the A pa. che. Ste was an esteemed and highly respect- able lad. It may be needless 10 state that ;he professor was mistaken when he afIira ed that "she was in the habit of chewing.'
 The glsring inconsistency which exists everywhere in this work is hardly less proni- nent than certain characteristic ofthe author, g which it betrsys, and which no word more just, s ly than 'aJpocracy' expresses. For instance | he fills severa! pages with accounts of Indian atrocities thrilling scenes of desolated homes e and wide pread destruction, friends, csmpaa- S ions, neighborS and felIov-countrYmen tortured. h murdered and mutilated and then says of the n white inhabitants who would take vengeance tt op such outEages, No treaty or flag of truce W s too sacred to be disregarded, no weapons too il ,ruel or cowardly to he used or recommended Il y Americans" a
 The fact is that Pumpelys work, a cross " America and Asia, is so far as America is c, concerned, an extravagart aaj absurd fable The whole account, itmay bs safs 10 conclude ' 'as thrown together at random in the hope n hat it would never reach the eyes of any one w ho would take the trouble (2) of collecting ~ le facts and of exposing }ha falschood. He IF ives exaggerated accounts. of incidents. and be rjdenty having frgotten the names of p,r ", ons ani places constructs names to answer he is purpose. Rodge's, whoos h. represents ls slD aving isared coaspcuous!y at ,a,..a siit. has rt 'd no existence there; lpt the ucts attributed CT h'm were those of a raan named Burch ea 2 Ike manner the net. ol 3 man named Bai!y oi re represented as those of a 5r Palmer. Bu ", e have given sufficient space 10 Nr Pumpelv ih Id did rot speak sia-le word about e Is 'irs of human ears which "ruffan" had fixed 'on string and concealed in his trunk, nor 'ol the manner in which the l8 pairs became
 creased to 9. This story, like many others. IT.. 3 have decided, is too absurd for sensible eli ,ope to read; and having done so much i'm ward setting PumpeIIy on the proper track 'he ! upon See Wing, or some other intelligent "' ""' ongcdan 10 correct whatever misstate,nents for is work may contain regarding his country On | the habits and customs ot his people. pre-
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