The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-07-20
LETTER FROM PHENIx.
PH0SIx, Maricopa County, A. T., July 12th, 1872. {
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| Tn nOucing your Tetcfence 10 Maiue anu the Indian policy, in your issue of the 9th inst, we thought what pity that good, hon. Lest men and women will retain erroneous ideas which indirectly cause the death of so many of their fellow countrymen, in the most atrocious manner possible. These notions of Indians are derived principally from sensation al novels, written by men who know nothing of what they write, and, who give to the public the morbid creations of a sickly imag inarion Before coming to Arizona, we thought of the noble Red Man as living life of primitive simplicity and innocence; dress ed decently and rastefully, according to his own grotesque ideas: bravely enduring cold, heat, hunger and thirst in hunting. fishing and trapping. that his dusky partner and lov- ing babes might have food. We thought his squaw as a model of chastity and industry. constantly busily engaged in making articles for the decoration of her liege, the adOrnment of the wigwam, the clothing of the family, cahontas and her innocent, gushing love for the brave Captain Smith an emblem of the pure and the holy, ofen excited our imagina- tion and filled our fances with pleasing pic lures. Since coming here, however, and see ing the daughter of the Red Man, true to nature, we must confess to having lowered our admiration for the loving squaw,a peg or two. We were in the store of Bi:hard 6 Co. with two gentlemen, when in stalked two sguaws, one completely naked, except cloth around the loins, and a crying babe entirely devoid of clothing; the other, in addition to the cloth, had on very dirty l under garment and beads around her neck ! Filthy beyond measure dirt is no name for the state in which they were. We were very much abashed, and did the only thing we could, under the circumstances-blush up to the cars, and look down on the floor. Yet, in spite of us, our eyes kept wandering along on the floor to where they stood.
 l In the meantime, the squaws had been har- gaining with the clerk for some semetlla, and, , not having sack in which to put it, the one with the garment whisked it off quickly, made of it an impromptu sacking in a trice, in which the semetilla was triumphantly placed, and stood as nude as her companion. We could stand it no longer. hut hastened to put our hand to our face. By the time we recovered little from our shock. we found that our companions never noticed it, as with them, it was matter of course.
 " After some effort, we managed to straight en up little, and tried to look indifferent, but we felt like sheep-thief. Since then, we have lost all respect for them. and see them daily around our streets in filth and naked ness, living lives of idleness and shame, with out ever thinking to blush Bah it makes our stomach sick to think of Captain Smith allowing embrace.
 Schools.
 After the misrepresentation of Colyer and 1 his like, it is encouraging to find outsiders | taking an interest in our welfare, and the l thanks of the citizens of Arizona are due, l and will be given to Mis- Mary J. Stafford, | for her kind sympathy, as expressed in her letter of May 5th, accompanied by her sub- stantial aid.
 She says: !" The people of Arizona have beer subjected to death and torture, unparal- leled in the history of any of our new settle ments, and the arm that pens slander against them. should become paralyzed, and the tongue speeches."
 The public school here, and the one at l the Mesquite have been in operation till late ly. They are both closed now on account of the warm weather. but will be resumed as soon as ,he season is over
 Our Sunday School here in town is contin- ued regularly. It is very interesting and the children are making some progress. A Sun day School is kept up in the Mesquite school house without interruption; which, by report, is doing nicely.
 Weather, Water Melons, and Gold.
 On Sunday afternoon. black, heavy, clouds overcast the sky; thunders muttered vivid lightnings rent the heavens, apparently reveal ing the glory of the other world and the rain came down on Tuesday. This rain has clear ed the air and laid the dust nicely, though it has interfered considerably with the farmers in their work.
 = We have proofs, every day, of the great wealth of Arizona in agricultural and inner al productions. MT. Buck, in two weeks from the 18th, ult, to tie 10th, inst.,-sold on hls ranch, $257 worth of water-melons. On Sunday last, alone, he sold S57 worth.
 So much for agriculture; now for mineral.
 We saw J. NJ Bryan with buck-skin bag full of golden ingots, bearing the stamp of the Vulture mine.
 Mail and Teams Delayed.
 The trains of Cavenness Bros, which left for Wickenburg; and of Dr. Jones, which left for Mcdowell, got only few miles from nl t..I