New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-09-15
From santa Fo and California.

From The 81 Louis Republican. 9TH.
The only news received by the Western Mail
yesterday 10 addition what published in the morn
ing contained Ia The following letter from santa re
To the Editor OF hs fadpeHdeHcs Exposition Mr. subry
BY whom the letter received Ia said 70 have brought
great many letters which were doubtless irnrnedi.
aiely distributed and VII. reach 10 day two. He
Was ihrtywo dsysin making the trp-in the sst four
of which b. Travelled three hundred miles
The picture which this writer present, Of the condi
hon Of things At Santa re IL not very attering
state pride the military discipline tina; poet But
have sort Of doubt that II il not Overdrs~nnsy,
that Is true 20 the letter We have been assured IN
ceed by persons who passed the Winter al santa 20
that all military dscipliDe-a regard for propresy-
lost BY the esment under the immediate command
Of Col Price IL was common occurrence. not re-
s,rc,ed by any order Of the Colonel ocs Of his
regiment dealing Monte A. the gambiughels of santa
re- and the pDds Of their companies betting their mon
~ the turn OF the card But this insist, not
much the fault Of tbs suDordnstes As OF Col Price
who oush to have prohibited BY the most rigorous ex
anpes total disregard Of al military discipline the
end II which the picture drawn By the writer
Of he lstter from SAINTS ~ Colonel Price instead 81
being honored with the mission Of Bhgsdier Genera
should be cogrt-msrdsled and fall inquiry made Into
By which such deep disgrace has en- orught up
ON the country SANTA FE July q. 1871
MEssRs. FRyxcH AND PILE-Dsar Sirs have DOT
written 70 you, think, since LETT Ps~nee Fork but
really have passe1 through many lrying seems be-
tween tnst place aud Santa 10. that hardly reco
lect what have done When wrote you from there
had not had sny difficulty with The Indians but ~
Coon Creek on the log Of war, With the Arrspa
hoes and Camsncbe Indians combined Tor ire purpose
of robbing wagon.trsins We swOke one morning and
found ourselves surrounded BY seven nanGfes Vel
mounted werrors with mora than four hundred Of those
formidable weapons OF toe indian warrior called aoces
and were only thirty fighting men strong. am con
hdeut aud candid 10 saying that We owe our lives to
Capt TnOmss G.. Garrison, Of Jackson County, Missouri
whose knOTedge Of The Indian character caused MIN
70 turn the three fret scOundres that came - us into
the correl formed By wagons sn1 dissrmed them
Ofiers were tnen gwen 70 sn0ot the fret one that 81
tempted az escape and " minutes brought our rihos
nto requisition and one Of them sent bowling 10
eternity o. the next day wounded several oiners
and fought them every day for about 10 miles
assure you there but little sleeping done IN our
camp from Pawnao Fork 10 tina crossing VI BIZ Arkan-
River here the Indians let us aud We tell nappJ III
the security by which We were apparently sarroundeo'
but IN the midst Of the most tranquility on Tue
plains may be 10 the most inminout danger 10 the
JornadG the Arkansas and the Cimsfone Rivers
we met with large lot of renegade MexicaDs from Taos
and the Moro towns. These yisins we're the murder
ers Of our friend Waldo. Of Gov Bert Pre~eL Culver
and many other good citizens OF the otaps Inc very
ssht of this reckless band made my blood boil with ven
srancs toward them the widow Of the murdered Wal
DO seemed 10 call 70 avenre MS DEAN ana MS
orphan children stood before my eyes weeping in their
solitary bereavement. Oae word from our captain
wouid have br0us ant forth yoley from our guns that
would have sent them into eternity, but he ever watch
ful and prudent knew that We we're 100 weak 20 act
wise than on the defensive for had already ~
cer,sned that they numbered two hundred and seventy
so we contened ourselves by accusing then with be-
ing the murderers which they were and forbid their
ever coming In sight of us on penalty OF DEAN tbey
left u and we saw them no more.
We arrived at Santa 70 on the 18th Of June amer
trip Of 81 daysrom Independence losing 81 head oxen
stolen BY the Indians Coon Creek, and some 20 we're
lost for want of grass between Las Vegas and this place
And 10 when have arrived At the goal oil our desns
lion and domiced In mud.hOuse In the great Cy Oi
santa re and look around Ut aud manners Wa see
the most miserable Of society that exists upon tne
wide globe Lewdness In both sexes exhibits itseii Ia
the most garDg and shameless forms and ~aks sDroa1
NJ mid day as IL the human family had d"indied down
10 nothing more than brute Intellect snd 10 less tnAh
savage refinement True there many OF the Officers
and privees of Col Prices regiment who are gentlemen
and hold themselves e0Oir the vices and dissipation
that are contagious snd of which the very
seems composed but sas for the large majority they
have expended more than the amount OF their wages
and are indeed reckless, rsgsmuihn band disgrace
TO the name Of American tolderS and VIII return 10
Missouri miserable. ragged set with morals corrupted
and will long be great accession TO our state rem
Tertiary. " &c
am sorry 10 say that Col Price has lowered himself
in the estimation Of American citizens by publicly DE-
clarng he would take down the Stars and stripes
that iutier the Public Plaza on he lOh day Of AH
gust and the place n troops did not arrive by
that time from the states This declaration has caused
many TO sacrifice their goods aud prepare for leaving ms
tits an evident fact that all Americans and Mexcans who
hrve been friendly 10 the American cause would % muir
dered Immediately on the departure Of the army r.
Nr John lightncr OF our county. arrived here lev
DAYS tince from Chihushus and brings the sad inte.
eence that Mr. James Aull was murdered By band OF
Mexican ssassns about ten o'clock oil the I'D oil June
They entered the store where he was reading commit
ted the dsstsrdy ard robbed the store OF some I'VE
thousand dollars in cash The cupr,s are In jail but
will very probably receive farther punishment as
since the place evacuated by Col Doniphan, they
have played the tyrant on Americans MIR. lightner
would not have been permitted 70 leave out ne per
suRded them that be Dutchman. and As such got
his passport James Magofn s back al chihuahua and
in no danger but the authorities will not permit him to
leave MIR Pomeroy starts In few days for Chihuahua
10 settle up the business of Owens & Aull-
Truly yours, ChhloIOfhE"'