We have been treated with a glimpse at…

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We have been treated with a glimpse at an old copy of the Weekly Missouri Republican, yellow and rusty with age, of the date of July 19, 1850. The address which is written in pencil on the margin is, “A. O. Keating, Monterey.” It contains many items which have either long been forgotten, or settled down into historical facts, but which now, seen in the newspaper forms, in which they first appeared, are matters of absorbing curiosity. Among such items we noticed, and were particularly interested in the account of the Yuma Ferry massacre, which took place on the 21st day of April, 1850, when a party of Americans who owned the ferry near the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers, together with their employes, were brutally murdered by the Yuma Indians, up to that time supposed to be friendly.