Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1848-01-08
FROM SANTA FEE.

FROM SANTA FEE.
D.!es from Santa F., are TO the 18Th Novem.
her. The Republican is informed that Lieut.
Merit Of MeNajr's company, was in com.
mand of Captain Cess company-jhat officer
and his three Leu,enants being all under arrest.
and it was the general opinion that three of
them would be cashiered.
The arrival Of Gen. Price was expected dai.
y, and was looked for anxously, as it was ex.
pected that he would disapprove OF some Of the
acts Of Col. Newly.
The weather is very cold says one letter.
1--WE have had snow every day for the last week,
which renders outdoor business very disagreed.
BILE. There may be some failures among the ira.
ders in this place, as nearly all the troops have
gone south, and there is no one to buy their goods
There are at present enough goods to supply
three thousand men. Emerson & Turner, Of
St. Louis, have gone south with their stock.
The Republican says that the Quartermaser
and Commissary trains accompanying the troops
south, have suffered greatly by the loss Of stock
the whole road being strewn with dead oxen.
The road was destitute OF grass.
At Santa Fe, there was a large sale Of Ameri.
can flour at IS 80 per cwt., and the average
price Of corn is about 81 per fanega, or s1,75
per bushel. The market was we'll supplied.
John Slusher, Absoom Hirst Jacob Hautz
and Daniel Matthews, OF the Missouri Mounted
Volunteers and Jeremiah Styles, Of the Illinois
Regiment, died at the General Hospital. in Santa
Fe, in November.
Col. Newly seems to be very unpopular, in
all respects. In some letters that have come to
our hands, he is styled Col. NoDoDr.
McNair's company was at Ell Paso, abou,
the LIST OF November. There had been a mutt.
ny in his company--and the soldiers had their
own way chiefly it is alleged for want of
frmness in McNair. Much praise is given to
Lieut.. Merritt in the same connection.
A correspondent Of The Republican writes from
Fort Leavenworth-
We have, also, intelligence from Col. GIL,
PIN battalion, on the Arkansas, but it is not OF
a reputable character. have received letter
from source on the prairies, worthy of credi,
part Of the contents Of which will transmit to
you. 1t appears that some Of The Officers in that
battalion, while enlisting their men. enlisted
woman, dressed in mems apparel, and took her
with them Two loulenants, it appears in
IloIzscheiter's company, had her EN- ployed as
their cook, and as she was about to be discovered
they attempted to smuegle her back to Missouri,
but she was seized and the two gentlemen or.
dered under arrest. As matter OF course, the
ARREST will be alI-perhaps a court Of inquiry
will be ordered, and the two gentlemen acquitted
Col. GIpin himself has set the example OF
INSTRUMENTATION, by disoboying an order which
directed him 10 send his two mounted compa
MES, one to Fort Scott, and the other to this
place, in order that they might be fofaged during
the winter, aud thus be in good condition 10
take the field early in the sping. This order
the gallant Colonel has treated with neglect, and
has gone with his mounted men 10 the Big
Timber, on the Arkansas river, above Fort
Mann, where, in all probability, the horses will
die before spring.
CoNGREss.-On the lllh, in the Senate,
Mr., Dickinson offered the following reso.