Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1846-08-28
From The 81. LOUIS Republican, Angua 20. !
NEWS FROM SANTA FE.

INDEPENDENCE, Aug is, 1910.
We are in possession to-day Of further news
from The praires Our townsman, Mr.. Samuel
RalIston, has Just returned from Santa Fe. after
an unprecedented "trip of eighty days. He, in
company with Messs. Weick, Bumner and
others, left here with their goods in May and ar
rived in Santa Fee, making journey OF forty
DAYS. Alter completing their arrangements,
small company, consisting OF Messrs. Rallslon
and Hill OF our place, and Mr. Huichison and
John Mcknight, from Chihuahua, started in, and
are now here in hirty-seyen days from Santa Fe.
Previously 10 MIR Rallston's departure, there
was good deal Of excitement created by The nu-
merous reports in circulation respecting our
troops. Expresses had been sent out i'll every di-
rection By The Governor and private citizens, to
ascerta in their truth, but many oil them, alter
being out Two or three days, returned, having
learned nothing satisfactory.
The whole country is in state oil alarm. Far
mers adjoining Santa Fe are driving their stock
into the mountains, securing their possessions,
and putting themselves into position that they
can be out ut harms way al moments warn
ing. Provender OF every description is Succeeding
" scarce, Qhere not having been rain for near
" three months;) The vegetation is nearly ex-
haused Our informant thinks the troops will
have some difficulty in securing enough Tor the
maintenance of their animals even for month.
Provisions must OF necessity also be very hard
10 get, and unless some other means OF securing
them be found out than such as was anticipated
previous 10 their departure, they will be in very
bad way this wner. II was pretty certainly
known before they left that there would not be
even show OF fight on the part Of the Mexica ms,
unless very small force was sent along at first,
for The assertion Of the Governor was made, and
word sent 10 Gen. Kearney by our informants to
that effect and he further says, that il respecta-
BILE force comes upon him. he shall Immediately
abandon the country and remove south OF the Rio
del Norte.
The common people, and especially the Puebla
Indians, are averse 10 fighting the Americans
for an order for volunteers from the Governor met
with no response from them al all, and he has
now not more than three hundred soldiers in San
Ia Fe, miserably clad and poorly fed. Neither
were any soldiers 10 be had below, for Chihua-
hua had not and could NOT furnish any, and MIR.
Mcknight says, that there is no probability 81
any being gotten there. Some of The traders had
arrived al Santa Fe, but 10 business being done,
they had gone below.
Speyers had bought out all the Governor )
wagons and goods, and other small lois OF goods
from traders, and gone on. MIR. VIM. Mcknight,
Webb and Doane had also gone. Gen. Kear-
ney and all the troops and traders had pass
ed up the Arkansas TO Bent's Fort. The COM
pany of Armjos going out from here, were met
at different points, progressing slowly. Mr.. Will
liam Magoffin al or near Arkansas Samuel Ma
gotiin liule nearer this way, and Gentry aud
others al Council Grove, and some others still
this side.
Almost every day provision wagons were seen
upon the road, vending their way along; car
cases OF horses, oxen and buffalo were strewed
along at intervals. The great scarcity of water
so frequently spoken OF, proves to be fabrication.
On this aide ot,he Arkansas there is grass and
water in sufficient abundance for all that have or
may go out
Col. Prices regiment was met, just getting
fairly into the plains, about two or three days
ride from the Fort. This is all the news can
gather for you nowhere will be an express 10
the garrison today or tomorrow; he ought to
have been there before, but his animals broke
down. Through him, probably, you will hear
more particularly.