The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-10-19
pisbanded's Letter.

D1SbandeQS Letter.
 ST NIcKLAs HOTEL, New York, Sept. l3. E1dytors of the Mrkagy:
 The skalp-crop nipped by the Injuns this seesin will probably be the largest ever known, and the impewnity with witch they air permitted to gether thar buddy harvest, refecks no end of credit on the Quaker policy of treating them to soft sawder instead of cold lead. The Apatches appears to be doing a particklerly lively butchering bizness in Arizona jest now, and beg to congratulate the Sosity of Trends on the frutes of thar plesent Talks with that amabel and tender harted tribe.
 The fact is that the American Savedge of the plains is simply a Devil in garnet. He'll never keep faith with the white man while grass grows and water runs. It's only when grass kennot grow and water kennot run, and consekently hes nuther fodder for his mus tang, nor buffio meat for his own breadbas- ket, that he puts on poor face and goes Tn for palavering Don'tI know him! Reckon 1 do. I've drawn a beai too often on the darned yarmint not to understand his tricks and capers Onder the pressher of hunger, he "berries the hatchet" in the arth, and as soon as game is plenty he unberries it in or der to berry it more to his mind in the brains l
 of his white naybors.
 This is his seesin of recreashn. Now the Noble Savedgc is devoting his magnannymus mind to running off stock, burning settlers cabing, tommyhawkin wimmen and children, and doing Hells bizness ginerally. Arter 8 while, when he hes used us all his powder and bawl, and spilled his knife with peeling Christian Coconuts, he'll wash off his war paint, and go with a smiling face to the ncardest Injun Agent, to beg for fresh suI- ply of ammanishen and cutlery. know the copper-skinned cuss, just as we'll as eff I'd made him, and I consider it dooty that every border settler owes to his kentry his wife, his fammaly and hisself to send him on sight to those happy hunting grounds whar the shades of the illustrious Tiger Tail, Hole ina Blanket, Talking Potato, Snake-in-the- Grass, Dancing Bar, aud other distinguished redskins, are supposed to be pairing fantOm skulls and chasing celestial buffloes.
 Sum writers assert that our aboridgynees air the descendants of the lost tribes of Isrel. Elf so I persoom the tribes in questin was the black sheep of the Hebrew flock, and probly the other fellers were very glad to say ajew to them. s-r-.. ga The little lnjuns, or papOoses, bare the same relashen to the big Injuns, that the imps of the infarnal regins bare to the boss devils. Thar idees air taught to shoot in but one direckshin-namely in the direckshin of the white man. At the age of ten an Indian boy is expected to be able to hit rabbit with an arrow at twenty-five paces.- When he brings his game to the payrental wigwam, the benine author of his being shows him how to skin it with neatness and dispatch, and thus he takes his first lesson as a skalp- ist. At the age of eighteen or twenty he is usually quite kOmpetent to the task of talk | ing the skin off the head of man and a brother He then goes on his fust war path, and eff lucky enuff to raise an enemy's har while on the tramp, be is immediently recog- niged as first-class ruffian by the tribe to witch he belongs. With a strand of har at his belt and tether-i in his topnot, he feels like bird, and is considered bully boy with crystal optick by all his copper skim ed female acquaintances.
 The truth is that it's onpossable to civilize the Injuns of the plains. The Apatches, the Lepans, the Comanches, and cetery, air on curable cases. You thought iist as well try to tame so menny feroshus grizzlies. They air materially prone to thieving, lying, murder. ing, skalping, and drinking tharselves dead drunk when they ken get the reckwisit quan- tity of red-eyc; and the only way to pacifi- cate lem is to shoot lem at sight or drive lem inter the Pacific Oshen.
 Gineral Sheridan hes very correct idees on this subject, and so hes Gineral Custer, but onfortnitly they havn't got the means to car " 'em out. They require more sojers. But wot does Grant care for that The money that oughter go to defending the Injun iron tear is wanted for eleckshineering purpuses, and nothing ken be dun for the poor border settlers ontil arter the last punishable voter hes been bought up by the Administrator.
 Wot one-hoss government we live Onder. Sorrerfully, yours allus.
 | A DIsBANDEp VOLUNTEER.