The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-30

Air. Carl Schulz"
a GLOOMY ACCOUNT FROM TIE MEx1.
! CAN BORDER. gentleman Writing from
the Mexican border to IL Government
Official gives quite IL gio"my account Of
"ifnlrs III that region of country. H..
states, i'll cif.ct. TINT to-day may be SEGA
tlouting tho flag of the revuntionis,.,
aud hazzas, loud and long. may be heard
| for D!uZ aud his followers Tomorrow
J"arcz is engaged in pulling down thu.
Haunting lie. and tho revulnliouists aro
ffunticaily noeiny before tho Govern
ment forces. only TO return next day and
| repeat their nets of violence and vllalny
with greater vlgor. The necessities OF
tho coutend;ng purties Gauss them to br
unpirnsnnt aud Improbable visitors,
aud their presence in Arlzpna naturally
brings traffic to stand still. Koaming
bnuds OF Mexicaus cover the country,
htcnllng horses, cattle, sheep and proyi-
s'ons, and capturing loaded trims of
cars, which they run off to Mexico, and.
III some instances, they commit murder
The writer states that it ii feared the
Mexican people do not take the required
means to stop these raids, aud that there
IL IL probability that the people Of Ari.
zunn will take the matter into their own
hands. III addition to Nil this. rho
writer continues, Colyer's religiousiy-
Inclined pets, the Apaches. are uguin on
lie war. path and indulging in the nno-
cent pa.iime Of pilIngiug. plnnleriug
and raising scalps.
The crops are almost q failure this
year. the supply being much lass thnl,
the .!emand. Merchants who have de
pended on receiving their supplies from
Mexico now fail to obtniu them, nn,l
starvation starcs many Of the poorer
classes in the face This, in addition to
tile scarcity Of money. induces many to
withdraw from Arizona, nn.l Il general
,learth Of business there is the reault
Tho nnfathomable mystery (.ays the
Liberh) which has eluded the grasp Of
su muny historians and book worms, is
i'll the hnnds Of the Princes Of Orleans
| The tale goes that when the Bnhiile was
taken, document fell into tho hunds Oi
Phl!icppe E..Alltte. which showed that
AGnie of Austria, after twenty.thrce
years of marriage. gave birth to dnngh.
ter. but Lonis XII had boy subAti.
stitnted for his real child. Tho next
year, M wo know. the @ ,een had n
second SOD, afterwards known ns Phil
lipe Dnke Of Orlsnus. the founder Of the
present house 1t is therefore asserted
that Louis NlV aud his descendants nre
usurpers. and that the Princes of Or
lunus nre the legitimate heirs to the
crown Of France. In 1889, Philippe
Egalit.e had pamphlet printed aud
culnted in the provinces. in which
this mystery was divulged, but it il
doubtful whether any copies are now i'll
! cxlstehco.
a New FAsnIoNnp SNOW Tho snow
which blocked ths Union Paclli: K.il
road is described as IL peculiar kind Of
snow. 1t would En:k and soon become
ms hard ns ic.. The snow pl0ws, driven
up ngnInsL it with the united futce Of
four locomotives. would hardly IN Ike IN
impression. Tie only way to get il on,
was 10 dig trenches every NIX feet dawn
to the rails. and then use the snow p!Ows.
But that was not always successful. A,
one time three engine were thrown from
tle track. mud the snow plow4 smaslioti
in trying to get through. when to the eye
1T would seem that ihe engine would 20
through without difficulty At some
points. says IL lottcr writer. [ have seen
the snow 10 Iiutd that tho engines would
leave tho rails and run right npon it,
mounting it ns though 1t was u flint rock
Yun wuuld not believe that uulasn YOU
cnnd see IT, but it is truo. did no,
believe it till saw it, for 1t seems ILL.,