Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-08-03
MORE ABOUT THE "NEw RACE"
What Another Traveller Has 60 Say
ON the Subjective Doubts ssE. G.'s'
Story, COrrects Capt Aannfngs', and
Bets Up n Theory of His Own-lnter-
estinx Data.

ON the subject-He Doubts az. G.'s''
Story, Corrects Capt Mannings', AMI
estinx Data.
Editor Erening stdr.-The undersigned had
the pleasure TO peruse, in your issue OF July .,
u pa SADLY enough told tale OF hitherto
| known race OF Albinos aud had he encounter
ed IL il the pages Ga "Gulliver's Travels he
would have considered il entertaining to the
youthful minc; but as IL is attempted 10 b.
pslned of on grown people, endorsed, a. per
Jour introduction, by the governmeDt-w0o-
| ever he, she, or il may be-the writer deems II
just that this tale any other such tale, idly
conceived, be knocked in the head, right then
and here" The writer would state that he has
been aresident of New Mexico tor nearly TWEEN
tyyesrs, knows the Rio GTsnde from AbiquIn,
\. NJ, TO Eagle Pass, Texas, having had the
pleasure to help survey il a. the Mexican boun-
dairy, under the then MsIor-now General
| is chuck full" OF all the tradition, art o.
| witchcraft, &c, past aud present, impaired T.
him by an OLD crony living on the eastern bank
miles north of Santa Fe, and, consequently
fstters himself that he knows whereof he
| speaks. There Is no such q race, your CORES
pon0ent T.. e., and all the sdrdnS of General
Crook, TO the contrary notwithstanding. The
Mexicans are q decidedly nomadic people, a.
much as q fixed habitation will permit. They
are eminentiy stock raising people, and their
| ht rds are driven annually six or eight DAYS
journey into the mountains east or west, to hi
bernate, and there is not foot OF coantry unex-
plored by them. Before the government sent
their missionaries and Indian agents there for
| "Christanizing purposes, I" they lived sgreeably
enough with their savage enemies the Apsches
and Nsvajoes, but since the advent of these
outstanding influences tie Indians have gone to
the dogs, and initiated their example of stealing
and t0bbipg. Judge Benedict, Mr.. Aney,
Gov. Connolly, and many other eminent men
OF the territory, were continually exploring Its
great mineral resources east and west for a term
| of years, and had they discovered such q race
mentioned by Z. G., the writer would have
believed il, but ''f not, not" To cavil at the
statement Of e. g., the writer would like to see
| him or any other man come from California,
alone, accompanied by two mules. He should
like to get glance at the individual and ascer-
tain how he managed to make himself and his
two mules invisible, or to find out whether .
prairie dog or cayote hole furnished ample &C.
commOdati0ns for HIM and his mules when sur
rounded on all sides by sayages of the most
savage description; where he left the trail TO
make Santa Fe; whether he thinks one mule
can pack "grub" enough from California to
Santa Fe; where said albinos, after living for
upwards 200 years in the canon, proc ured their
splendid firearms, Henry rihes,) and excellent
horses, or their cotton, or their silks; and,
moreover, very tyro in the art of travelling
out west that sensation report, for the most pre-
poserous OF all stories Is the part OF his account
where he came across an Indian q Comanche
he says camp, and left unmolested. Hung be
the heavens with black! Has it come to this
that q village of redskins see man arriving To
and Dc parting from their camp, with two mules,
and they Lot kill him, scalp him, roast or dis
embowelhim and have great scalp-dsnce over
his CHASTITY remains? Pshsw,E. e., that won't
do, yCu don't know "Injun"
Another reason: the Comsnche Indians only
roam as far north as Preside de San Elizsrir,
in northern Texas; then the Apache country
commences; RUS to southern New Mexico,
say about Nalyerde; here the Naval oes own the
country up to about 100 miles above Santa Fe,
and there the Utes hold undisputed sway. The
NavsjOes own all the country west ana border
on the Umpquahs and Yaq his, west; south they
line with the Ginenos, TOnteros, and Mescsle-
Tcs, (all Apachee), near the copper mines, on
the CHA river. There is no trail from Cali
tornia to Santa Fe, the Old pack trail from
Santa Fe went down the Rio Grsnde TO SsbierO,
north, or Messilla. south, in Arizona; thence 70
the Apache Pass, to the Gila river, Pine viii
lagos, California desert, thence to Los Angeles.
MIR. K. G. should be more careful as to his To-
eastern greeny; but occasionally he may wake
up the wrong customer.
The facts impaired by Capt. Manning, of the
u. s. A, are in the main corroct-barriug the
Albinos. The territory of New Mexico is An
archaeological collection; far and near, at every
hand, one meets with the rims OF extinct
race. The southern portion OF New Mexico has
been well explored and described by skl!fu
army officers, especially those graduated froa
Vert Point, who, by their superior education,
were SO well fitted for the task. But Capt. Man
ming is wrong in suppcsing that the remnant OF
these aboriginal inhabitants il descended OF
the mystical mound builders of by-gone Rgea.
Dress, tradition, language, religious ceremo-
MES, all conform TO the idea that they are de-
scendsDts of either the Tascslsns-the allies of
CCrteZ-or the Monte zumas. The only openly
performed religious festival is called the day OF
Montezuma, personated by some one, accom-
panied by his daughter, Malinchas. All other
ceremonies are performed in a cellar-like build
ing called La Estufa and no eye, save that OF
one of these so called Pueplos, ever beheld any
ceremony performed therein. When it takes
place the town is surrounded by their guards,
and no traveller, white, brown or black, can for
that night arrive in the town.
There are many such towns on the Rio
Grande-from Santa Fe west, st. Domingo, Los
Luces, Los Lentas, Limitas, SOcOrro, Islete, and
many others. Their fields, farms and vineyards
are a model of neatness, which might be well
the towns are tastefully decorated and white
washed, and kept scrupulously neat and clean:
in lieu OF glass the window psnes are made OF
crystallzed gypsum, very clear and transpa-
rent. One feature is noticeable in their towns
the houses have no doors the ingress and egress
takes place from the roOf-a means employed
undoubtedly in former times TO guard against
surprise by their ancient enemies-the paches.
Although nominally Catholics, they retsin yet
at the rise Of the sun the head Of the FAMILY
mounts to the roof and peers into the sun, 70
see IL Montezuma is coming. The sun is adorsd
as the great vivifying principle, fire comes
next; and IT is said that the holy nre the repre-
sentation OF the sun never dies in their estufas
where il is nourIshed by their Pubuaxantes
priests; they had q tradition concerning the
coming of the white msn-substantially tie
same one MoDteZuma had and impaired to
fernando Cortez, and when the white race
penetrated into New Mexico in the later GEN.
fury fiOm the east, they having become accus-
toned meanwhile to the Spaniards, who came
under Onste, about 1923, they hed in dismay.
Every traveller in that region will remember
the ruins of an old church on the road to Santa
Fe, on the banks OF the Pecos river, for want of
a better name called Pecos church. Tradition
has il IT, the sacred fire was guarded here, to-
gether with a monster snake, TO whom children
were sacrificed daily; but on the advent of the
Americans the fire happened to die out, the
people deemed themselves bewitched, and scat
tered. An ancient looking individual was
pointed cut TO the writer at Xemez, In the early
part OF the sos, who was reputeo to have been
governor of the settlement.
But fear the yarn il spinning out too long,
else mention would be made of two towns in the
ruins settled by the Jesuits, called La Gran
Quivira and Questa Llavo, where treasures
amounting to millions lie buried, as told by the
chronicles Of the place, kept by the fathers.
The town, upon being sacked, was destroyed by
the Apaches, its inhabitants put to the sword,
except one father, who escaped with the
chronicle to 81 Paso del Norte. A. JAUR.
ARRESTED IN IRELAND FOR MURDER IN
MAssACRUsHTTs-Thes state police OF Massa-
chuaafta have infOr m ati0n n Than, Cal