The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-05-04
From the ST. Louis Republican.
ARRIVAL FROM NEW MEXICO.

ARRIVAL FROM NEW MEXICO.
Assumption Of Territorial Government by The
authorities of 1sEas.
Among the passengers in one of the steam
ers from the Missouri yesterday, was Mr.. W.
y Skinner, for several years past a citizen OF
New Mexico. We are indebted to Mr.. Skin
ner for d brief account Of affairs in New Mex
leo, at the time of his leaving that territory
A lew days prior to the departure of Mr..
Skinner, an express had been received in Santa
re by Governor Munroe, which brought a
communication to that officer from Mai. Nelgh>
bors, Texan Commissioner, who was chen
at the Military Post, in the neighbolhood of
FL Passo. The purpOrt Of the communication
is understood to have been merely an apprisal
OF the fact to Col. Munroe, that he, Major
Nelghbors, as Commissioner on the part Of the
State of Texas; with plenary powers to estab-
fish the jurisdiction Ofhis government overflow
Mexico, had arrived in the territory for the pur-
pose of carrying out the object Of his commiss-
ion, &c. and trusting that Col. Munroe, Civil
and Military Governor Of New Mexico, would
cooperate with him, and lend him that aid which
might be found necessary in the establishment
Of the Texan laws, and the fulhllment of the
instructions given to him by the Executive
and Legislature Of the State.
The Sub Project at Fronteras, lin the imme-
date neighborhOod Of the Military Post, near
Ell PasO, where a strong Texan influence is
supposed to govern,) had resigned his jurisdic-
ton to the Texan Commissioner, thus abando-
ming to that State all territory from Don Ana
(%seventy miles north Of Ell Passo) to the Presi-
do OF San Blezario, a line bordering upon the
Rio Grande, some ITO miles in length. Mr..
White, the Sub-Prefect Of that portion of the
territory, may be able to excuse himself to his
Government Tor thus turning over one of the
finest portions Of New Mexico, with its popu-
lation to the Government, the very mention of
which, TeEanO, is full of adherence and a
never to be uprooted repugnance to a New
Mexican.
The recc ton of intelligence at Santa Fe that
Maj Nelghbors had arrived in the Territory
for the establishment of Texan jurisdiction
created an intense excitement in that city,
where the active stirring population of the
community, in all political matters, are almo st
exclusively Americans. Agitation upon the
it is said by our informant, is confined
to Santa Fe, in which place, as part Of the ter
may alone be said to exist a difference
Of opinion relative to the Texan claim, which
is ever a creature, TO a greater or less degree,
Of excitement for throughout the entire
and breadth Of the land, wherever a
native Mexican is to b efOund, or an American
feelings have not yet been warped by
personal malice against the present gentlemen
who occupy the different civil offices, there
exists but one senliment-that of great chagrin
the Governor Of New Mexico-the civil
and military commandant, Col. Munroe-
should have found himself SO hampered by his
instructions taat he could not h ave taken a
such as his position led the people over
he holds rule to believe he would take
in this matter, and Of a determined spirit Of
resistance, even TO death, against the unjust
nsuTpatiOn Of ToxastO the soil Of N1w Mexico.