Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-08-25
NEWS FROM AMT FIX.
Co'resPoEGe"cc Of The RPubticGn.

l~NDErtNDEScE, Aug. 10, 1916.
MLSsEs. EDiroRs: We are in possession
t. hoy VI further news from the p~ruiries. Our
townsman. MIR. Samuel RallsiCn, has just re-
TUNED from Santa F., after an unprecedented
lrtp of eighty DAYS lie. in conn any with
Mrssrs. Weick, Eummerand others. lett here
with their loUds In MAY. and arrived IA san
Ia Fe. mokiug a journey of forty days. After
completing their arrangements, a small cum-
pany, CONSISTING of MleSsrs. Rallston aud Hill.
of par place, and MIR, Hutchinson and Jno.
Mcknight, from Chihuahus, started in. aud
are now here, IN thirty seven DAYS from San
Ia Re. Previously 10 Mr.. Rallsion's depar
turr there WAS o COOL deal ol excitement Gre
atcd by the numerous reports i'm circulation
respecting our troops. Expresses had been
sent out in every objection by tbc Governor
aud private c~i,lzens, To ascertain he i, truth.
but many of them, after being out two or three
days, returned, having learned nothing salts
factory. The whole country is in a state of
alarm. Farmers adjoined Santa Fe are driv-
Ing their stock into the mountains. securing
their possessions, and putting themselves in
u position that they eau be out of harms way
al n moments warning. Provender OF every
description Is exceedingly scarce, (there not
hs wing been a rain for nearly three months
The vegetation Is nearly exhausted. Our in
Dormant thinks the troops will have some
d~ifhculiy nm securing enough Tor the mainte-
nance OF their animals even tor a month
Provisions must i necessity also BE- very hard
to get, and unless some other means of secur-
Ing them be found out than such as was antic-
ipatcd previous 10 their departure, they will
b. IN a very bad way this winter. Ii was
pretty certainly know before they left, that
there would not be even a show OF fight on
the part OF the Me1icans. unless a very small
I nWE aNnE aHaN nln.-w - a.
oi the Governor was made, and word sent Ia
Gen. Keamey by our informonts 10 that eli
feet; aud he further SAYS that it a respectable
iorce comes upon him, he shall immediately
abandon the country and remove south OF the
Rlu del Nortc. The common people. and
especially the Huebla Indians, are averse to
hgilllng the Americans; for AN order for volun-
teers from the Governor metwith no response
from Them al all, aud he has now not more
than three hundred soldiers in Santa Fe. mis-
erabiy clad aud poorly fed. Neither were any
soldIes TO be had below, for chihuahua had
not and could not furnish any, and Mr.. Nc
Knight says there is no probability of any be-
ing gotten there. Some of the traders had ar
rived at Santa Fe, but no business being done.
they had gone below. Speyers had bought
out all the Governors wagons anl goods, and
other small lots OF goods from traders, aud
gone on. MIR. VIM. Mcknight, Webb, aud
Diane, had also gone. Gen. Keamey. and
all ths troops and traders had passed up The
Arkansas To- Bents Fort. The company of
Armuos, going out from here, were met at
different points, progressing slowly. MIR.
William Magoitin al or near Arkansas. sam
uel Magofin, a little nearer, this way, aud
Gentry aud Others at Council Grove, aud some
others still this side. Almost every day pro-
vision wagons were seen upon the road,
vending their way along; Ca rcases of horses,
oxen aud Buffalo were slrewed along at inter
walls. The great scarcity Of water so frequent
y spoken OF, proves to be a fabrication. On
side Of the Arkansas there is grass and
water IN sufficient abundance for all hat have
'r may go out. Col. Prices regiment was
net Justgetting fairly into the plains, about
or three days iie from the Fort. This
; all the news can gather for YOU now.
here will be an express To the Garrison to-
OF tomorrow, lac ought 10 have been there
before, bat his animlls broke down. Through
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