The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-06-05

Latest from santa re and California.

Latest from santa re and California
We copy the following from the St. Loui
Republican of the 18th ult:
| Yesterday evening several gentlemen arriv
ed, on board the John J. Hardin, direct iron
Santa Fe and California, from whom we hav
gathered the following information.
Lieut.. VIM. G. Peck, Of the Topogrsphicu
corps, left Santa Fs in company with Messr'
Woods and SANFORD, and their party. At tn
time he left Santa Fe, Col. Price was still Their
and all was quiet, but il was believed to be tina
suIen and stubborn quiet which superior fore
alone compeIs Although the instruction
which we hare heretofore noticed, had bee
put down, Il was the general opinion that the.
only nesded the aid Of competent leader t.
rise again. The ciSil government was going
on trying the insurgents, Judge Beaubien pre-
siding.
/ After Lieut.. Peck was out some days from
Santa Fe, he was Joined by Mr. Mcknight
! from chihuahua; Lieut.. Theodore Talbot, who
went out with Col. Fremont; Lieut.. E. Beal
of the United States Navy; c. Joplin, United
States Army; christopher Carson, Robert E
Russell and others from California. From
these gentlemen we learn, that the court al
Taos has condemned number of the insur-
gents to be hung, and that eleuen had been ere.
cuted, and large number schipped. Six were
hung on the day that Lieut. Talbot passed
through Taos.
| Thaca oyacu fisaf,c volt cd tho Moy;,,po yorv
much, and when Mr.. Mcknight passed thro'
vagas they were endeavoring to raise volun-
teers for another insurrecton. The Alcald,
and other influential men were opposing the
effort, but with what success remains to be
| seen.
When Lieut. Peck and his party were about
nine miles this side Of the Cache on the Arkan-
sas, they were attacked by about ninety Ca
manche Indians. who succeeded in stealing ten
of their horses and mules. The party with
Lieut.. Peck fell back and waited two days,
hoping to be Joined with other parties coming
in. On the second day the Camanches again
attacked them, and succeeded in carrying off
all their horses and mules, thirty.nine in mum.
Der. In the second attack they had fight of
some duration, in which one man, named Will
liams, was severely but not MORALLY wounded,
by spear or lance in the body. Several 9TH
ers had their clothing cut by the balls fred by
the Indians. A musket ball struck the pistol
of Lieut.. Peck, on the lock, and took the inn
preston of the snsapfacturer's name, as plain
as il conld hay q scsn made upon it. They be-
lieve that they Billed one of the Indians, and
wounded more, but they were all carried off.
They killed some of the Indians horses. That
night they were joined by the gentlemen above
mentioned, and supplied with fresh animals.
At the bend of the Arkansas, party of
Pawnee Indians made an attack upon their
camp, and attempted to execute stampede
among the horses, but did not succeed. They,
however, stole two horses. They fired good
many arrows into the camp, but without effect.
They appeared to have but one gun among
them. These gentlemen report that it is the
intention of the Indians to attack every party
which they think they are strong enough to
contend with, and are very hostile to u.s.
This being the case, it behooves the govern
ment Immediately to send out force and whip
them into better behavior.
They met Mr.. McDowell's company going
out, at Diamond Springs, and the next day met
small company at Council Grove.
Lieuts. Talbot, Beal, and the other gentle
men from Ca Fornia, left San Diego on the 25;h
of February last. At the time of their dopar-
ture, Lieut.. Col. Fremont was at Ciudad de
Angeles, acting as Governor of the Territory,
under an appointment from commodore Stock
ton. The Commodore had returned on board
his ship, and had left that part of the coast
Col. VIM. H. Russell, of Galloway county, in
this State, was acting as Secretary of the Ter
ritory.
Gen. Kearney was joined about the 9th of
at San Diego, by Lieut.. Col Cooke,
with the battalion of Mormons under his COM
mand. Great praise is bestowed on Col. Cooke
for the condition in which he brought his COM
mand in. 1t is said that all his men were in
fine health, with their arms as bright as when
they set out on the march-in excellent discip-
line, and without any serious loss.
Soon after being joined by Col. Cooke, Gen.
K earney, with the Mormons and dragons,
proceeded to Monterey, where he was, when
our informant left There he had been Joined
by the two artillery companies from Baltimore.
We cannot learn from our informant, that any
portion of Col. Stevenson's command from
New York, had arrived. Commodore Shubrick
lad Joined Gen. Kearney at Monterey; but we
ire unable to learn what their operations would
De. The question of the right to act as Gov
,rnor of the territory, was still in dispute be-
ween Gen. Kearney and Commodore Stock
on. II was understood that General Kearny
Intended setting out on his return about the
st Of July, but the state of affairs, it was sup
,osed, might delay his departure.
Some of the gentlemen named, we under
tand, are bearers of dispatches to Washing
on.
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