"DEAR COLONEL, Thanks for your kind letter of last week. If I could see you and have a long talk, and answer all your questions, T could come nearer history of the Indians at this post than by any written account. Having had them constantly under my observation for nearly three months, and the care of them constantly on my mind, certain things have become so much a matter of certainty to me that I am liable to forget the amount of evidence nccessa ry to convince even the most unprejudiced mind that has not been brought in contact with them. I will, however, try and give you a connected account, and if it proves not sufficiently full in detail, you may be sure all its positive statements will be sustained by the testimony of all competent judges who have been at this post and cognizant of the facts

Sometime in February in under a lag of truce, with a letter from Colonel Greene, saying they were in search of a boy, the son of onc of the number taken prisoner near Salt River some months before This boy had been well cared for, and had become attached to his new mode of life, and did not wish to return. Tbe party giving you a clear idea of the a party of five old women came were kindly treated, rutioned while here, and after two days went away, asking permission to return. They came in about eight days, I think, with a still larger nunber,, with some arti cles for sale, to purchase manta, as they were Before going away they said a young chief wonld like to come in with a party and have a talk This I encouraged, and in a few days he came with about twenty-five of his band nearly naked. He stated in brief that he was chief of a band of about one hun dred and fifty of what were originally the Aravapa Apaches; that he wanted peace; that he and his people bad no home, and could make none, as they were at all times apprehensive of the approach of the cavalry. I told him he should go to the White Mountains. He said, That is not our conntry, nei