The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-05-08
MARCH 81, 1851.

MARCH 81, 1851.
p S. Intelligence arrived on yesterday from
Albuquerque, that Chocon, the head chief of the
Jicsnilla band Of Apaches, together with several
others Of the band, had been captured, and were
held in custody at that place. subject to order.
With the party thus captured was Anderson, the
murderer, of whom have spoken above. So you
see the gallows-bird" had scarcely adventured
his pinions in one bold, free mountain fight ere
he found them clipped, and himself beating the
bars of his adobe cage.
The Governor has sent demand for the cap
tives and they are expected here this evening
This new announcement put an end to the treaty
making which was to have taken place yesterday,
as the Governor did not feel like entering into
treaty with a subordinate while he had the heddin
possession. There will be, Of course, no treaty
made now till Chocon arrives; and as the mail
leaves in the morning, shall not be able to fur
nish you copy with this letter, a. had thought
attended, as an outsider, meeting called for
nominating q candidate for the Delegates seat in
Congress. Several speeches were made, both in
Eoglish and Spanish. presume the meeting was
gotten up mainly by the friends Of Captain A. w
Reynolds 1t appeared to me very much like O
play, in which each one acted the part previously
4 assigned TO him; or like the manuscript sermon
| Of a certain young divine of whom once heard
follows: Here become ddactic here get ar
| gumentative; here | become pathetic here am
| imaginative; here | get excited" &c. Captain
Reynolds was called upon for speech, and, rs it
was Of commendabe brevity, will give the whole
Of 1t from my photographic notes:
"FELLow- CITIZENS Deicacy would forbid my
making speech under the present circumstances.
am in the hands Of the people The voice of
the people is the voice of God!' That is my yeli-
gioaD
thought this was rather an honest confession
Plainly translated, it was saying: "Gentlemen :
I am an exceedingly plastic oreature--not only
dough faced, but dough throughout, so that | can
be easily kneaded into any form you may wishn
Ii reminded me very much Of drunken fellow
who missed his way. and fell into an iron forge,
where the sons of Vulcan were smelling, hammer
ing and laundering away, amid the roar Of the
bellows, the glare of the furnace fires, and the
corruscations Of the brilliant sparks from the
heated metals. lie gazed in stupefed astonish-
ment, thinking that he had broken through the
earth's crust and had fallen into certain place
he " had read about One Of the sooty Vulcans
coming up asked him who he was, where he was
from. and what he followed. "Oh!n said the
terrified bacchanal, 'in the world which I lef, ]
was Lord -, but here am just whatever your
Lordshps would have me bep or course the
Captain was nominated.
Major Weightman was nominated by some Of
his friends here, on last Thursday night. ] knew
nothing Of the meeting till this evening, and
therefore am not prepared to speak Of 1t from per-
sonal observation. From the reported numbers in
attendance, however, am disposed to think there
was not much noise and confusion" on the COCA
sion. As belong to no political party myself,
feel very much as the good woman who ran up
the ladder and peeped down the hatchway to see
her husband and the bear fight. "Desr meIn
said she, dit is the first fight | ever saw where |
didn't care which whipped !"
Judge Houghton resigns his seat tomorrow, so
that we will be without Judge till one is ap-
pointed and sent from the States.
Respectfully, w. g. X.