The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-03-18

Startling News from New Mexico.
We give in another column some startling news,
purporting to have been received at St. Louis
which we received in this city yesterday after
noon. If this news is true, there bias been great
Mexican instruction at Taos.
The people rose TO the number of six hundred,
and killed Charles Bent, the American Govern
o. of New Mexico, the acting sheriff, Stephen
Lee, Genl. Elliott Lee, Henry Seal and twenty
her Americans, as well as the Chief Alcalde.
The insurrectonists, elated with success, were
sending expresses all over the country to raise
sistance, endeavoring to incie the Indians against
ourtroops; they had determined to capture our wa
gon trains. and the probability.was that Gen Doni-
phan and his comm md, mum bering six hundred
men, would be cut off and overwhelmed by su
perior numbers. As might naturally be expected,
this news created the most intense anxiety All
depored the fate OF our gallant countrymen, and
vowed revenge to the authors.
We hope this sad lesson will have its proper eff.
feet on the future conduct Of officers, and that
hereafter, when a place shall have been cap
tured, that it will be properly garrisoned. Our
forces must not be too much scattered. Concen-
tration in our army is strength.
The Charter Electiou-Great Fun Ahead
The Dusty Streets.
We have taken some pains to ascertain the
condition of the two parties in this city--the
wings and the dirty street" party-nnd the pros.
poets Of each in the coming election, and we are
led 10 the conviction that there is less harmony
among the harmonious" than was ever known,
and that if the wings will take advantage of their
discussions and chickering's their cards
well, and nominate for candidates men OF cha.
racter, who are known as such to the great body
of our citizens--their success will be secured be-
yond doubt or contingency. They have now an
opportunity Of acquiring control of the city gov.
ernment, and unless they commit as many blum
dsrs and mistakes they have done in former
years, New York will be, as they say, "regenera-
ted"
IL is source Of much amusement to persons
whose regard for both parties is equal, and who
cares as little about one he does about the
other; and who thiaks .conscientiously as we do,
that neither is good for much, to watch the trick
cry, stratagem and manouvering that the factions
and cliques OF both resort to, for the purpose Of
influencing the selection Of nominating commit
tees, and securing the nominations of candidates
from whom they expect slice of the STAT" or
{ aKment of the loaves and fishes Of the corpora.
ton larder. He sees working Mt once, all the bad
passions of the human breast, and none of the
good. He sees all considerations about the public
good totally disregarded, and made subordinate
to the influences of private gain, and the hope OF
emolument Such an exhibition we have re-
Gently seen.
AS we said before, the "dirty strceters" are in
glorious state of anarchy and confusion like the
Mexicans They are divided into factions, and
topsy-turvy like handful of ceppers after being
''shyed" by rewsboy, and one can tell
which will come 'head" or which will come
'tail," TIL after the election, or until they reach
the ground.
The result of the primary elections on Monday
last, has developed, to certain extent, the mate
rials that will compose the ''drty street" party
nominations The friends of the following IA
med gentlemen succeeded in overreaching the
other factions, and will probably nominate them
They are as follows -