The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-01-07
Letter from Tucson.

EDITOR MINEH.-it htrikes me bOfneWnht fcFsibly, judging from the class of cores. pondence which appears from time to time in the columns Of one of your Tucson oontem- poraries, thst newspaper correspondent Is not called upon to display either truth, or intelligence in bis writings; and, if these be wanting in an author, whose productions are nevertheless anxously graspcd at and parad- ed in print, it may be eGcusable in one who does not intend to take advantage Of any such preJndicial license, to try what he may do as correspondent. Hence this letter.
 TUCSON
 Feels Jubilant at the prospects Of the early settlement of the Indian difficulty. This movement, inaugurated with the advent of the new year, bodes successful issue; so say the people of Tucson; and we may be for given if, in our prospective happiness, we in- dulge little superstItious confidence.
 OUR GOVERNOR,
 Alas, is stranger at home. If you have a grain of sympathy for A man humbled, sub dued, bowed for very shame, cast it at his prison door, the Executive Mansion. He ventures not thence by day and seldom by night. have not set eyes upon him since his return from Prescott after the election. and l know no one who has been more fortunate in this respect unless his servant a boy named WassOn. He IS the ruin of . man who has bighted his once fair prospects in Arizona; he feels his degradation keenly, yet prompted by syarice he rather accepts the groans of the people he has betrayed, than seek repose by leaving the Territory at once and forever to bury the pas; by inter course with men who know him not. THE OTHER OFFICIALS Bear the public censure with more fortitudc Certainly they took less active part in work of popular corruption, and therefore bear lighter portion of the burthen of censure Cupid recently found his way into the office of one of the principal of these latter, and has already reduced his robust figure to a feeble bag of bones. l see no hope for him; for when love and politics array themselves side by side the strongest will is forced to shrink from their blighting influence.
 THE APACHEs
 Made raid upon the train of Fully < Ochoa on Sunday and captured somewhere between twenty-five and thirty head of cattle. The teSmstcrs made brave resistance and saved the greater part of the train from capture. One report says that five indizns were killed during the contest One of the teamsters was killed and two were dangerously wounded The affair came off near the crossing of the San Pedro
 NEW POST
 Has been established in the Pinai Mountains, abou; 60 miles from Camp Grant. Its loca- ton is considered inaccessible for wagons. Three companies of Infantry are supplied by packing provisions, clothing, etc, on mules. It is possible, however, that a wagon road may be pushed through from Florence. THE MINER
 Is welcome guest in Southern Arizona. We have it "for breakfast" every Saturday morning, and the manner in which it serves few political fiunkeys Is quite refreshing, assure you. lion. Coies Bsshford stated here, some time since, that paper would be started .: Prescott. =ith the view to shs crushing out of the MINER. or course the money appropriated by Congress for making surveys would he equally divided between such paper and that now printed here under the auspices of Stafford and Mccormick. I think, however, that the publication of one sheet will consume whatever funds they may snatch unobserved from the pockets Of Uncle Sam, and that the Hon. gentleman made the statement while under the influence of stirnu. lants and therefore st random. FLAyITfs pys