tho morning of April 30th I was at breakfast at 7.30 o'clock, when a despatch P, 21st Infantry, from Captain Penn, commanding Camp Low ell, informing with the avowed purpose of killing all the Indians at this post. I immediately sent the two interpreters, mounted, to the Indiau camp, with orders to tell the chiefs the exact state of things, and for them to bring their entire party inside the post. As I had no cavalry, and but abont fifty infantry (all recruits), and no other officer, 1 could not leave the post to go to their defence. My messengers returned in about an hour with intelligence that they could find no living Indians.

"Their camp was burning, and the ground strewed with their dead and mutilated women and children, I immediately mount- ed a party of about twenty soldiers and citizens, and sent them with the post surgeon with a wagon to bring in the wonnded, if auy could be found. The party returned latc in the after- was brought to me by a sergeant of Company me that a large party had left Tueson on the 28th noon, having found no wounded, and without having been able to communicate with any of the survivors, Early the next morning I took a similar party with spades and shovels, and went out and buricd the dead immediately in and aboat the camp. I had, the day before, offcred the interpreters, or any one who would do so, $100 to go to the mountains and com municate with them, and convince them that no offcer or sol- dier of the United States Government had been concerned in the vile transaction; and, failing in this, I thonght the act of caring for their dead would be an evidence to them of our sympathy, at least, and the conjecture proved correct; for while we were at the work, many of them came to the spot and indulged in exprcssions of grief too wild and terrible to be described.

That evening they began to come in from all dircctions, singly and in small parties, so changed as hardly to be recognizable in the forty-eight hours during which they had neither eaten