10030. Sacramento Daily Union, Sacramento, California, Thursday Morning, January 18th, 1866. Letter From Arizona.

Sacramento Sacramento , Thursday Morning , Daily Union California January 18th , 1866 LETTER FROM ARIZONA. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE UNION FORT WHIPPLE (A .'1'-) December 23rd, 1865. ENGAGEMENTS WITH THE APACHES - A detachment of eight men of Company G, Fourth Calif— ornia Infantry, under Sergeant James F. Chapin, had a severe engagement with the Apaches at Willow Springs , about forty miles from here, some ten days since. The Sergeant and his men were escorting a mule and burro train (belonging to a fur merchant of Prescott named Wormser) from Date Creek towards Prescott. The Indians attacked fiercely and for a time had possession of a considerable portion of the train. But Chapin and his small command fought with so much determination that they not only recovered almost everything but actually drove the Apaches two miles from the place of attack. The entire loss of Wormser was one burro ( sometimes called a jackass) and half of a pack of clothes. James Boyles and John Lonzburyr of G, were severely wounded in the action. They are at Fort Whipple in the hospital at present, with an unextracted ball in the body of each. They will probably recover. Had Wormser' s party fought like the soldiers of Captain Grant s Company , the Indians would have had more of a lesson. Wormser himself was wounded, but not dangerously. Sergeant Chapin thinks several Indians were killed. ANOTHER FIGHT . A detachment of Company F, Fifth United States Regulars , on their way from Fort Whipple to Wickenburg, with a mule load of supplies , were attacked by the same party of Indians on the Hassayampa- Sergeant Herman, command— ing the detachment, was killed on the spot- The Indians were beaten off , with the loss of several of their number, but as the soldiers had to take a wounded man on the mule the Indians got their baggage in their absence-