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a. a ri n . . 1! 1. ... .1.... - ll I n f mun-iii iii-iiii.u u-itc rcllcncVi lliclmrd 0. Mcl'urmtrW, THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF ARIZONA. ICSTAHIilSJtKD lftO-l J. It. MAIUON. . .KMTOR. PRESCOTT, SATL'KDAY MOUSING, NOVUM 11KK 10, 1?T. To ConniwrosnasT Correspondcnc upon nil subject of a puMIe nntnrr, which limy be of In terest to our readers will at nil times, when fur ntftheO, be jmbliihcj in the MlNKii, ut we wish It distinctly understood that sc will not be -countable with our life, our property, etc., for their contents We ctim tI to have onr hands full In 'ttllng our own troubles, and being too poor to otiratff i rlif litiriic editor, Intend to fix ii our own business with "jaw-lmiie." Arrival of Railroad Men. General Palmer,- Treasurer of tlio Union Pacific Itaihvay, Eastern Division, .Major Cal houn, correspondent of Forney's Philadelphia Vm, Mr. Parry, Geologist, our old friend Colonel Willis, Mr. Savcdra, who arompauied "Whipple, Bcnle and I.eroux, when these ex plorers traveled through this country, as guide, and several attache of this, the ad vance of the main iarty that is now engaged in surveying a route from Albuquergne to California for the above named railroad, ar rived in Prescott on Thursday last. The party came ria Fort Wingatc, Zuni and the San Francisco mountain. The engineers are coming on, and Mr. Parry, who called upon us on Friday evening, says it is the intention of General Palmer and jmrty to start out nest Monday, n' Camp Lincoln on the Uio Verde, over the Chavez cut-olf, to meet the main party at some point on the Colorado Chiquito. Wc understand that the princi pal men of this party express themselves well pleased with the country over which they have just passed. 'I hey have secured the cervices of Messrs. Lennon and Shoupc, to guide them from this place to the Colorado. We believe it is the intention to explore and purvey nt least two routes from here to Cal ifornia. Monday next, in company with Governor McCormiek and several citizens of Prescott, the gentlemen composing the party, intend starting on a tourof inspection trough 'the mining districts in this vicinity. Wc hereby extend the hospitality of the Mixer office to the party while stopping in Prescott. Glorious News from the "Grand Army of the Colorado." BRILLIANT SUCCESS OF LIEUT. HASSON. 20 BUCK INDIANS KILLED. 10 SqnBM'1 nntl I'uppoojo Captured. It gives us unbounded pleasure to an nounce to our reader?, and the balance of mankind, that Lieutenant Patrick Hasson, of the 14th U. S. Infantry, has lately made a brilliant and successful raid against the llualnpais. Wc congratulate the Lieutenant and his men for thus doing their duty well and nobly, as also the energetic officer com manding the District, Major Price. This deed of the Lieutenant givos the lie to the slanderous charge against his courage, which was, no doubt, fabricated for base pur poses by some enemy or enemies of his, and, which, it will bo remembered, was published in the Mixer of a recent date, as a rumor. The following are the particulars of the recent fight, as furnished us by that chief of mail riders, Charley Spencer : Lieutenant Hasson left camp, at the Wil lows, on the I'rescott and Hardyville road, on the' 7th instant, with 25 men under his command, and scouted the mountains to the fouth, in the neighborhood of Fort Rock. About six miles from Fort Hock, the party came upon an Indian rancherta, containing 30 bucks, squaws and children, 20 of whom wtro killed. The remaining 10 were captu red and brought into camp, where they re main under guard. Lieutenant Hasson was wounded in the fight, as wore also seven of the mon, two of them severely. The wounded receive all the can nnd attention Drs. Wood and Clark can possibly give them. Since the prisoners hare been in camp, one of the squaws has been happily delivered of a pappoose. On account of the refractory state of our sulpburets, and a general repugnance to " go in lemons and get squeezed'' betweon two such powerful thunderbolts as are McD. and McC, wc have refrained from prosjecting tho recent "outcroppings'l which appearsd upon the surface ofothe Misr.H, find which wore ejected, so to speak, from tho bowels of the nforeinentioncd " fossils'." Our readers are at liberty to "jump their claims," examine the records, and see which of their heads is loca ted iu tho right place. at least from their mercantile nnd social cir cle, a set of Illiterate, indolent, grasping, grumbling, thanklc -s lot ,of adventurers. 1 spent 90 day in Arizona last winter nnd spring; and traveliti'. as I did, all over the northern and southern portions of the Terri torr, with unbounded facilities forseelngand attiddying the jicople, I took the advantage afforded me of making the most minute ob serrations. I met in Ihwcott at least a dox- en men who pretended to own mine in hat The Govornor and tho Capital Question. I Arizona and hor People, fti een y a nnou, , fr-m. I lis Kx-i Wc copy tho following extracts from a let IcW, in defence ' let- published in the San Francisco liultvin j of his action in signing the bill for the pvr- , f October 20, W". The letter is tiateu at mnnpiit lncntloii of the Canital at Tucson. ! F.n t Vuma. California, October 4, ISfi", Is Tho people of the Territory residing north of tho Gila certainly expected that His Excel lency would attempt some explanation of hie conduct in signing away the interests of the great majority of tho citizens for the aggran dizement of a hnndfull of speculators and pol iticians. We had, weeks ago, intimations from His Excellency that he intended to do so. (At length the general osjiectation is fulfilled. His Excelknrr begins by denying, what j wo charged by implication, that he knew at the time he signed it, of the use of dishonest j means to effect the passage of the bill. Now, l there are two faces to this statement. He was, pcrhajH, not cognizant of any facts which would warrant him in subscribing a judicial oath alleging that he knev that certain inetn licrs of the legislature had Iwen induced by dishonest means to vote for the bill ; and yet the circumstances under which the bill was passed were so plainly indicative of fraud and corruption, Jiat His Excellency must have been morally vmrinee'i that they had been used, (if his perceptive faculties were not blunted by tho proiecta of politi cal preferment said to bo held out to himself as a doHcenr for ignoring the dishonesty, ami consummating the iniquity which he lnul in his jwwer, and which it was bis ditty, to pre vent. " The combination,'1 says His Excellency, by which tho measure was carried may ltare been unexpected, bnt it wag not necessarily the result of dhhrneH mennt, and I think may be otherwise accounted for without difficulty." Why, then, if the task is so free from diffi culty, does not Ilia Excellency account hon estly for that "unexpected combination" which he admits was formed, through which the eople were outraged, their interests trampled under foot, and heavy expenses en tailed upon the Government. In the name of common integrity, does His Excellency pretend to wty that such a combination was effected without a resort to dt-lionest means ? In whnt school of morality ha ho been broil, that he coolly justifies such nets ? His Excellency hays that before signing the bill ho held it an unusual length of time, "atlbrding it opponents every opportunity to prove their various charges,'' yet " nothing whatever was established." The truth is, His Excellancy would be satisfied with noth ing short of such evidence authenticated by oath, ns would be competent in a court of law, well knowing that the opjionent of the bill could not possibly, in the time he allowed them, produce such evidence. In the mean time he allayed the apprehensions of the op ponents of the bill, and threw them oil' their guard, by intimations intended to, and which did convey the impression that he would veto the bill. While he had the bill in his hands, letters were exhibited to himtrom prominent citizens of Mohave county, stiongly condemn ing tho vote of their Hepresentative, Lewis, in voting forthebill, and declaring thnt every voter in the county was opposed to it ; a re monstrance from citizens of the same county was presented to the Governor, urging him not to sign the bill ; in the Executive office, in His Excellency's presence, Lewis, of Mo have, declared that in voting for the bill he had (l got even on tho Yavapai delegation." I His Excellency knew that MeKey of Yuma and Gass and Cutler of Pnh-L'te misrepre sented the wishes of their constituents in voting for the measure, and he knew that no honest motive could have influenced them iu doing so. An ordinarily honest Executive, possessed of ordinary discretion and firmness, would have vetoed a measure, so manifestly unjust to the people, and passed under such circumstances at once, without asking for swom evidence of positive bribery and cor ruption. We are aware that a few persons, under the influence of His Excellcncv's flowery logic have attempted to defend him from tho charge of complicity in the dishonest means by which the Capital wa3 removed from Pres cott; but that any one has expressed to Ills Excellency the conviction that the removal was not effected through fraud nnd corrup tion, ue do not Ixlicie. The second paragraph of His Excellency's letter is an effort to excuse himself for sign ing the bill, on the ground that the people of Pima had induced him in a moment of weak ness, to " put his foot in it," and thnt he had notsubscqucntly gained sufficient strength of mind to make his way out. His Excel lency is welcome to nil the bunefit ho can do rive from such nn excuse. We trust the people of Prescott will bo duly grateful to HU Excellency, for not re tracting anything he may at any time have said in fiivor of Prescott. Such generosity ought to be rewurded. The Capital Question. Letter from the Governor. TfHiitToBV of Arizona, ) Omct: or tiik GovnitNon, . Prescott, November !, 1807. ) signed " !. t T.,v mid was written, we sup- Editor or Tim Ajhzo.va Mtsna. pote, by that " Minted aristocrat," lien. C. Sir 'Vie question of locating the capital Truman, who was out here lent auminer in the . j,og s0 generally cau?ed excitement nnd hard etMJoyof the P.O. Department. Heaara: "As feeing in the Slfltca and Territories, thnt 1 a people, the resident of this Territory would Bm not Rt all siirprl-ed at the tempest it has be a little more prosperous, and InBnitely cremted here. Nor have I supposed in that more happy, ifthev would pull a little more tempest I could escnjio abuse Mini misrepre- together, and eject, if not from the Territory, . gent.-tion, and, eo long s you wire content to deal iu insinuations and Inuendos, however unjust and unkind, I did not core to complain. Hut the dirrtt charge in the last issue of the Minm, that 1 knete tho act of the late 1sgislature, to fix the capital nt Tucson, was imgscd through dmhoneH meunt, I am not willing to let rest unnoticed, although I can not think that you or any number of the people belloro it to 1 true. The combination by which the measure wa carried mar nave ucru m:c.pei:ivi, n Letter from Walnut Groye roit iiRU'oSDKNrf. o r T F Walnut GitoNovcml u . Editoii Amzo.N-A Miskr : Z, ' 1 ': mpei wiw iiuicu to arrivo iereon,,t , know whoso fault it Is, but Wt 1 fault with some one. ' 1(1 1,ke f' However, wo wish it still exist although wc have K' t i (1 (Ml t ill dwrlinivn nf n l.i .. ' . ' ,'0 He was in the net or mounting ,u ) tho gun in his hand, when l. ..... i.i. I.I....I...I. ii i . " I'ur ilia Minimum, inriiwiiirr im,, i.. . i .i . . , I ' """Jlunn v no ... ...i.tunuio, (IlllJUIIIr 11)1) me ngiit suiooi tlio horse. li n..' ." gun to snve himself, when the cr,Z JEMi clmrged it, nnd tr.o ci.t;re content ?J"" buckshot entered his bru BM! . ' 1 locality, and who hold them for sale at price I jt wfts no necessarily the result of a resort to rmniriiur from SAXOOO to S20O.(XH). These - I ... fellows with a famkhing look and with a sign of distress sticking out of the seat of their breeches, will tell you that their claims are as rich as the famous Washoe lode, and that lefcrc they will sacrifice themselves as Coinatock did, they will starve. One man remarked to me, in conversation about a mine he held for sale at 52.V.10, that he preferred starvation rather than part with it for lesa and he was desperately near starvation jioint when he made the illiterate declaration. There arc a collection of just such characters In CTery town of note in Arizona Territory. They have, or pretend to have, some gold, ailver or copper mines, which they put up for sale at an extravagant price, awl being too lazy to work, and too poor to get out of town, they eke out a miserable life in mm shops, just hypothecating enough of their undevel oped stock t" keep their rlcketty bodies and souls together. This Is a correct representa tion of one class of men in Arizona Territory.'' We may have 'a lot of illiterate, indolent, grasping, grumbling, thankless lot of adven venturers" in our midtt; they can be found in every new country. Itnt we will venture the assertion thnt several of this "set" or " lot" are fully as industrious, as honorable in their dealings and very nearly as intelligent as this stuck np penny-a-liner, whom chance has thrown to the surface. Our people may have apjejared rough and uncouth to this digni fied Shoddyite, who, while going up on the steamer from San Pedro to San Francisco, some time since, remarked to n gentlem with whom ho ws conversing in relation to this Territory, tltat " the only gentleman ho met with in Arizona, north of tho Gila, was Gov ernor McCormiek." His assertion iu regard to the miners and prospectors in and around Prescott, is n bae fabrication. They do not ask for from 20, 000 to 200,000 for mines which "they pro tend to own in thnt locality;" do not go about town "with a sign of distress sticking out of tho scat of their breeches," and have never yet arrived at ''tarratitin point." There are, we admit, some Jetc persons here who might tuiswer the defeription given by Truman, but they are scarce. There 'never was n snore persevering, industrious and in telligent lot of people in any uew country than the old citizens of Arizona. They have worked liard :o develop the country, and, though as yet unsuccessful, do not "grumble" as much as they might. A great many of them have, at various times in thoir lives, liful enough money to buy r. thousand "specinl correspondents" twice over. They nro mostly immigrants from California, and neither come hereto "escape the vigi lance committee or avoid the draft" as as ccrted by a certain gentleman of this Terri tory, in a speech made by him in New York in the summer of 1K6d. All of them paid their way here, and did not travel at the ex pense of government. I he toi lowing is the closing paragraph of irumairs utter, ami we wilt uo mm Uie dMimttt mean, and. I think, may be other wise accounted for without difficulty. He this as it may, m mH emphatieHlly deny Mat I Hot of the ne of tuck nuan. On the con trary, after bidding the bill for nn unusual length of time, aud affording its opponents every opportunity to proie thtir various charges, nvfhing vknlmer tcae eatabWunl, and since the adjournment of the Legislature not a few of those who bofon. were loud in de claring the act adopted through fraud nnd corruption have expressed to mc the convic tion that their judgment was incorrect, liming, as you are aware, been charged by many of the residents below the Oiia, with n determination to keep the capital at rres cott, under any and all circumstances, be cause of tnv ininint: and c'.her Investments in nipple, and lodged in his bowil. 1 dcntli to onsuc in three days. , " ' hnd lived, honored nnd repcrtcj i','1 had the pleasure of Lis ncmainUr was n Prussian by birth. He rc(, tK)session of his senses. exr.ri...,..i . 1 . willliigmiw to die, and madeaw,!. ' stance w. follows : First, that ill i TV ' i. ;.. ----UC paid. Second, That the sum of i'yVi printed to defray his funeral cxnenw i i nat wimterer money might nniS,n payment or his debts nnd funeral txtt expended Tor whi.-ky, wheirtvith "A.)' are to have a Rood time. Ik A,, j . . 1 Tnllll fif Dm Sintritiinl .li.rl...... his ft lends thnt, if they desired if b visit them in the spirit nnd mmur. impressions of the other world. " The old settlers say that this is t!,i tT . second man who has died in Y t,r. i since its tirst settlement, not i ne df liitmU' their fate at the hands of the lndur ine I nutans continue to vi itw -carrying off our grain to an alarti. rr They visited tlio ranch of Tlmmas 1.. L thnifhid out a stack of wheat on t,.sX and carried it nwny, together wit j 'a' sett of harncaa, all his kitchen Inn: - " library, etc., having entered the I )ulling down one side of it On a r raid they carried oil 300 sai ks of.-n him nlune. Such is lift- in Atw v Hoag is nnothcr unfortunate maim Mb. V. It yak, publisher of the late Arizona GatdU, has contracted with the publishers of this paper for furnishing the Minkk to a mim lor of subscribers to the Ometie, whose terms of subscription had not oxiiired. The .Mi.vi:it will be rotrularlvont to those uereonsdurinir the unexpired time for which they paid for sufficient of itself to cate tho defeat of any Disgraceful. Wc havo the authority of tho ban rranciaco Call for stating that on last election day, the public schools of San Francisco were closed, and the male teachers nnd their pupils went around town and through the bar-rooms, peddling tickets and electioneering for John Swctt, tho enndidato of the Hadicala for State Snperintenont of Public Instruction. This net ought to be ..u, v . ...... ; teniMy shot himself last Spring and letter tof June last; to certain citizens of .. , LatincT-W Tucson, to state that I should acquiesce ! to mature n crop, nnd just on the prnt (whatever my personal views or interests) ! riving the benefit of it finds hliivse f ss .. ,.,..; .d.: . 111 the action oi me j.gisinturc upon m n ounumrs w tn capital question, unless convince! that stirh action was the result of improper proceedings. I consider my course, whatever the conse quences, to have been entirely justifiable, and the only one which, as an impartial offi cer, 1 could have pursued, and I fearlessly challenge tho must rigid investigation of my conduct in this and in alt Territorial matters. At the tame titno I retract nothing I have at any timo said in favor of Prescott; my confidence in the resources nnd future pros perity of Central Arizona is unimiaired ; and J41 Apacne, wno rules ana reigns suprc this delectable countrv ; who sits and 1- thc sun nt noon-dny on the hills, nurki you are situated, nnd pounces upon night when you are least expect.:. Hoag is trying to secure the ntniu wheat, and the balance of his corn j it has been hauled up to Big tftcvm tion. lit regrets that he was notapj the treaty lately ratified between Il,p and the Indians, the conditions of wtt. as follows: In consideration of a rz way through his ranch, and safety s tcction while there or thereabout, the ngree not to steal or molest any th.ng lint 3(1 la tho cbanco nf the seat ef eovcriiment can tint . tie agrefr with Ins gun to prutcct ana no one to s-reatcr ie.nr,l inennvenienrn tlmn I t!'el Sn citizens and soldi, TS. ana . . . . ; tuem to pass to nnd fro when tlcv it tti i t r vniir nnnriimiT Eiiirsnr i Iticii.vnn C. McCointicK. Mr. justice to state, that rect: it is truthful nnd cor- the G:tlt. man who nould countenance and allow It, " I supposo there is sotno renl good cause for a little grumbling on tho part of the peo ple of Arizona Territory. About Precott the dread AjkicIic j-eoms to have things verv much his own way, and will have, so lonir as it remains fashionable to permit savages to ! massacre whole communities and then tnnku i poaco on theirown terms. Jicside, the troo sent out to this coast, for tho most part arc professional thieves and highwaymon, nnd thoe who do not desert before arriving nt their plnce of destination manage to effect their release from the service shortly after ward. In the neighborhood of Tucson nnd Tubac the Apaches make an occasional visit. The residents, of thono town', however, are ever on tho alert for the red deviU, nnd their incursions are few and far between. New dis coveries of gold, silver nnd copper nro almost daily made in different sections of tho Terri tory, while it is well known that tho Indians hnvo their homes in the finest natural valliea and best timbered regions within the Iwund ary. The Vulturo mine nt Wickenberg is turning out very rich quartz, and the mill is running night and day, It is the intention of somo parties of this place, who own an ex tention of Mr. Wiekinberg's claim, to put up a 10-stnmp mill the coming winter. Noth ing is being done with the mines in the lower portion of the Territory, and in tho vicinity of Prowott the treatment of the sulphurate is nn up-hill job. A tri-woekly until runs tho entire length of tho Territory south of the Gila, and ft is rumored that the servico will be rc-osta Wished betuoen Prewott and Albuquerque." Patsy Marley, and a Smelting1 Furnace. Editor Arizona Minimi: Through the columns of your paper, I would like to make n statement of fncts which have come under my observation within the past two months. It will be a nut for some of the old croakers against Central Arizona to crack. About two months ago, Patsy Marley com menced experimenting wi:h a furnace, to sec if he could find any substance thut v.ould do as a substitute for fire-brick, but he found nothing that would stand the heat required. Iieforc he failed, ho wa? enabled to melt the ore sufficient to obtain line samples of ''rough bullion ;" abo, the slag was what is termed, by smelters, a Jlac artirh. A test made by refining four ounces of the bullion, produce ! twenty-seven cents, about two-thirdsof which was gold the bahtnee, silver, which proves the ore exceedingly rich. He expresses him self perfectly satisfied that there is an abun dance of ore of tho smelting c!ns in l!in sec tion of country. He also says that if parties will furnish him with proper material for furnaces, and necessary assistance required to start them, he will keep a steady stream of tho precious metals running, day and night, and, by tltat means, will prevont people from louring tho country cursing their bad luck and the hard times. Why cannot some parlies who arc able to import tho material do so, and aid in the all-important object of giving the country a proper start? One good furnace, with extra material sufficient to keop it in rcjtair for six months, would not cost more than almut two thousand dollars. The furnace would have the capacity of smelting from twenty-live to thirty tons'evcry fwon y-four hours. Now, suppose there would be tin average of twenty-five to thirty tons smelted every twenty four hours, yielding twenty dollars cr ton, which is a very low estimate, it would give n result, in six months, of alout ciphty thous and dollars. Think of this, ye disheartened hormbrm, put your shouldors tn tho wheel, give Patsy ti chance, nnd he vill vory soon cloun out tho Indians. Gk.nekai. McDowei i. It is the general belief and tho consequent impression among soldiers and citizens hereabouts, thnt a man about the size of Brcrot Major General Irwin McDowell, Commanding Department of Cal ifornia, which said department also includes tho country known upon maps ns Arizona, will arrive hero shor!;,-. We nro glad of it, and earnestly hoje the Hunllapais will not molest him wlnlo traveling through their country. He fs a big chief, and when ho goes he goses," for his onemics or "any other man." We hope his visit to tho Territory, this time, will result in good. Wo would liko to have him stay with us, nt least long j i-nuiiu io uucwmo acquatnimi witn our cotin , try, its people and their want. and steal as much as they likc.fo they steal from him. He enys he wans no; Hon lrom tlie uorcrnment, winch ntd: dobt, nntl can't afford to pay cut at'r ' a common man liko him. He funtrr that there is not n drop of Ethiopian t:: tlit.-e liHliati, ns tne Hollows cl it.- hardly make a perceptible ir press -an rich alluvial soil. At some future t no rentier, l win lniorm you now u,rc progresses hether wc arc torr-: as a William Penn, or nn extraorc.: Wc have here, kind rr a-hr, aprj no (small proportions, whi h Los r cupants of many a Iioii-eh-!d gr the prevent owner, T. Lamberst n, l quarried the stones and dressed t. " manufacture fine, superfine ai. 1 -Hour. Part of the honor Is dtir t miller, who, by his skill in dre$ir.t has produced a decided eticct as t t, lie fuithcr wishes it tindcrstxd ti" commence to jrind every 31 nJa t and continues from day to day supplied. Hon. Allen Culltimber.a wcii t-vda has tiNo in course of erection a Cjctj: that will when completed manufactn for the millions who are destined wit their way nmoiig us. And, from L socintiou with the wisdom and inlr"., our suffering Territory, n fruitftl r taken possession of his mindj hews.' paring to leave for California inKsr. 1 better half. Population will hit ni of every hardship. We were favored a few d.ijs r view of some gold bricks at the rsn'rf gram & Cargile, who have arwln"' 1-ntimore it Co. of WickenburgKrri them with grain. Their contratt, In formed, amounts to some !HJU,tunj ( barley nnd wheat arc now being pi ft1 their ranch, preparatory to being Is Wickenburg. One of the most succctsful fanm'1 George Jnckson, who has raised rt woum (io nonor to any ianiiis 1 -r Uowers fc IJro.'s ranch not exctpi t shown to the nconlc of Walnut (J"1" many things cau be done. proT.dMC-1 Thin nrnnnrlv Riwnkinir. tne !-" .1.1 1. Inntt-n AS lik of Arizona. Everything sown or & yieldod an abundant crop, tz iro Mr. Lnmbrrann raiitd a trees tbrcn veare old. some trcM JifiS? T..fi.r Smith. 3r.otfcrr r .;i!,.ni unil ntvner CI tSt 1 u-Mnli iitnniUto-daVS'-'-' -r.-t.-'.! :.ir.. ..A tlinU I-.-" auer naviug uuncivu the hardships of a frontier lifr. ' barked in this enterprise, coni'- ....... n- l... .nnnuflirtlirC Oll'l- . . . , : I aw - '"- ,..ni it; anu it tins fccrvani ui . don't soon grant us pcnin"" 4 own wiimKy, we win irin'! ntu rl..rnr..I Ull4 lllilliMIII The Indians arc again on the thl tweeu Camp Oady and tbc to.u"