Arkansas intelligencer., 1846-09-12
NEWS FROM SAN FEE.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE N. O. REPUBLICAN.


independence, Aug. ID, 1916.
.Nessrs. Editors: We are in possession to-day
Of further news from the pralrles. Our towns
man, Mr.. Samuel Rnllson, has just returned
from Santa Fe, after an unprecedented trip Of
eighty days. lie, in company with hcssrs.
" eck, BIumner and others, left here with thoir
goods in May, and arrived in Santa Fe, making
journey of forty days. After completing their
arrangements, small company, CONSISTING OF
Messrs RalIston and Hill, of our place. and Mr..
Hutchinson and Jno. Mcknight, from Chihuahua
started in, and are now here, in thirty seven days
from Santa Fe. Previously 10 Mr.. Ralston's
departure there was a good deal Of excitement
created by the numerous reports in circulation
respecting our troops. Expresses had been sent
out in every direction by the Governor and pri-
vate citizens, to ascertain their truth, but many
of them. after being out two or three days. re-
turned, having learned nothing satisfactory. The
whole country Is IN state OF alarm. Farmers
adjoining Santa Fe are driving their stock into
the mountains, securing their POSSESSIONS and
putting themselves III position that they can be
out of harms way at moments warning. Prov
cnder Of every description is exceedingly scarce,
There not having been ram tor ueariy three
monlhs,) the vegetation is nearly exhausted. Our
informant thinks the troops will have some diff
Guilty in securing enough for the maintenance Of
their animals even for month. Provisions must
of necessity also be very hard to get, and unless
some other means of securing them be found out
than such as was anticipated previous to their
departure. they will be in very bad way this
winter 1t was pretty certainly known before
thew left, that there would not be even show OF
fyhl on the part of the MexIcans, unless very
small force sent along at first, tor the asser-
ton Of the Governor was made, and word sent
TO Gen kearney bv our intormantS to that effect
and he further says that il respectable force
comes upon him. he shall immediately abandon
the country and remove south of the Rio del
Norte. The common people, and especially the
pueba Indians, are averse to fighting the Amerl-
cans for an order for volunteers from The Gov.
ernor met with no response from them at all. and
| he has now not more Than three hundred soldiers
in Santa Fe. miserabIy clad and poorly fed
Neither were any soldiers to be had below, for
cb;huahua had not and could not furnish any
and Mr.. Mcknight says there is no probability
Of onv being gotten there. Some oil the traders
had arrived at Santa Fe, but no business being
done. they had gone below. Speyers Ind bought
on, all the Governors wagons and goods. and
other small lots Of goods from traders, and gone
On. Mr.. VIM. Mcknight, Webb. and Doane.
had also gone Gen. kearney. and all the troops
and traders had passed up the Arkansas TO Bents
Fort. The company of Armijos, going out from
here. we're met at different points, progressing
slowly. Mr.. William Masoffin at or near Ar
kansas; Samuel Magoflin. little nearer. this way.
and Gentry and others at Council Grove, and
some others still this side. Almost every day
provision wagons were seen upon the road, wend-
ing their way along; carcasses OF horses. oxen
and buffalo were s,rewed along at Intervals
The great scarcity of water so frequently spoke o
of. proves 10 be a fabrication. On this side Of