Arizona weekly miner., 1874-01-23
rr.FU4 lFron MOndsys Daiiy.l at.a ti.. Howard and His Treaty with
 Cachise.

Oh, the ioolishness, not to say crimnality, of sending such cowardly, clover. footed person as General Howard to deal with such deyilish Indians N we have in this Territory, who, like his predecessor, Colysr, sought and rewarded the worst Indians in the country. and gave the cold shoulder 10 all the good ones.
 Having arrived in New Mexico, Howard made arrangements with Jefferds, q white man, so far as the color Of bis skin goes. but an Indian at heart, to guide him to Cachise's camp. Soon smokes were raised on every prominent mountain, and this Indian telegraph carried the news to Cachise, who prepared for the long promised visit of friends
 Howard went, in company with Jefferds and lew Indians, passing on the way, sever al bands of Indians, who greeted hiR as a friend. since they understood that he was on hls way to treat with Cachise, in Cachise's own way. His journey through southeastern Arizona was A sort of honorary procession, since Indians caine from every hill snd vale and cheered him on his way, yet, ip letters to Washington; in his addresses to young mems christian associations, and other ."pi0us" bodies, he animadyerted upon his trip to Apacheland, without harm or accident, as something wonderful, rivaling, almost, that of Moses out of the wilderness. Now, we wish it to be understood that Apaches have never been known to act so foolshly as to hurt such friends as Howard and Jefferds-- the first of whom was about to give them free iiving,at the public expense, and unlim- tied license to murder and rob civilized people in Sonora and Cbihuahua; the last named, an old, tried friend, who paternally calls the Indians "his people" who, according to his own assertions, has traded and raided with them fog number of years past, when their hands were against every white man save one--Mr Jefferds. And, then, that fa- nous, or, rather, infamous treaty was made, treaty under which Cschise has acted the part of dictator, Acknowledging the right of no power on earth to count or supervise his warriors, ss warriors on other reservations have been counted and supervised carrying out his alleged right to raid upon Mexico; telling General Crook that his treaty with General Howard was explicit as to the sta- tioning of troops on his immense reservation, where, according to Howard, none were to be stationed. All this, while Cachise was doing his very best to keep other bands of the Apache nation at war with Americans; all this, while red robbers and mufdcrers from the Tulerasa reservation, in New Mexico, were uAIDOftu OH OhCntst Ft,cTNhttOn, anu let-tc1 upon govcrnment food by Cschise and his bireling white lieutenant, the notorious Capt Jefferds. Little wonder Is it that the Mexi. can government and people feel vicious to- wards our government, for under the license granted by Towards treaty with CAcbise, two of their frontier states have been har asscd by the worst tribe Of Indians on the continent, who have murdered and plundered by wholesale. until the border counties of those states are almost devoid of people and property. +fl
 And this is the treaty which Howard says he or no other white man could have made save by ''Divne help which, be claims, as- sisted hm iD constructing 1t. If this is not blasphemy, we don't know what is His treaty is like his books, mixed; badly mixed, and needing investigation. It is, if anything, a worse treaty than tbat made by him st Camp Grant, with Eskiminzin, . wily old Indian who has ever since been trying his best to make the Indians forget that they ever made treaty with Americans, whom he wishes them to murder and rob, in the old way. He it is of whom Howard said, "I would trust him with my life" He it iswho recently rebelled, on the San Carlos reserva ton, and endeavored to inaugurate general war. He is the same Indian who, while treating with Howard, picked up stone and asserted that he intended to keep the treaty as long as that or any other stone should exist.
 But, he has gone back on all his fair prom ises, and Cachise can no longer say to him, as he said to some other Indians who had treated, "Now, thst you have yielded like dogs, have ''no place to go to, and cannot make open "war upon the Americans; but, can and will "war upon the Mexicans." Del Che, too, one of Towards pets, is like Howard, little irregular in his accounts, and, culprii, charged at the bar Of American justice, with wrong doing That both worthies may soon lee punished for their crimes is the sincere wish of fhe MINRR. N .- M