Tueson, Oct. 1, 1857.

We are pleased to hear that the prospect for Arizona is so
bright. If you should succeed in getting a separate organization
for Arizona, you will lay the people under many obligations to
you. You have no doubt received many petitions for Congress, and
also your certificate of election as delegate for this purchase.
You received the entire vote; there was no difference of opinion
among the voters.

Your ob't serv't, J. A. Douglas.

Lt. Mowry, U. S. A. Tueson, Oct. 25, 1857.


I send you the last petition from the Territory. The work is now
in your hands, and we say, God speed it.

G. H. Oury.


Tueson, Arizona Territory, Oct. 17, 1857.

Every thing begins to look up in the Territory notwithstanding
the difficulties we labor under. The Indians the other day came
within eight hundred yards of Fort Buchanan and remained some
time, and when they left carried off with them all the horses and
mules in the valley for six or eight miles below. Try your hand
in this matter of our Territory, and see if some change cannot be