Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-10-08
Later from Santa Fe.

The ST. LOUIS Republican, OF the 2lst
ultimo, has the following despatch, dated
independence, September 80:
The Santa Fe mail reached here this
morning. Business was very dull, and little
hopes OF improvement as long as the poll.
teal excitement was so great The cleo
ton was TO take place on the fifth, and Gov.
Lanes prospects, as the American party
candidate, were pretty good, over Galligo's,
Pthe Mexican-a priest suspended by the
Bishop for bad conduct, who is supported by
a few wealthy families Of the Rio AbAjo.
Weishtman, in the ConveDtion, did not
receive one vote.
On the night before the mail left the
prisoners confined in jail broke out. Among
them were the murderers of John Finnegan
Thanew Governor gives universal salts
faction. He will have work, doubtless, with
the Navajo Indians, who refuse TO give up
the murderers demanded by Lane. All the
Indians are now quiet, but troubles are
|apprehended with the Entails, who are
very insolent.
The headquarters of the army are per-
manentIy established at Albuquerque, to
which poinf* Major Cartoons company Of
dragons are ordered Col. Brooks COM
pany Of artillery are TO 60 near the MesiIla
News fro below is still that large body
Of Mexicans are near Ell Paso; but there is
no probable ground for the rumor.
A party, consisting of Col. Miles, Maj.
Sibley and wife, Capt. Bee, Capt. Steele and
wife, and Missee R ichardsonand Shoemaker
with train Of forty teamsters, left Fort
Union on the Sd for the States, and were
passed by the mail on the Upper sCimerone,
on the 18th inst All WELL They expect to
reach Fort Leavenworth by the 25th.
THE WHoLE SToRY INA NUT-SHELL.-Th The
Albany Kulck4rbocker, under the head of
aIadependence and Progress" tells the
whole story of our nations birth and great
ness, and progress in the arts and sciences,
in remarkably short paragraph for a
thSme so com prehensive The style is
rather racy, but decidedly Ito the point: =
+ st IS sseventy-seven years ago to-day
since Uncle Samgwas born, and what an
eventful seventy-seven. years they have
been. Seventy seven years ago the United
States was remote circumstance; they
now compose the second commercial nation
in the world. In three-quarters of century
they have revolutionized the World, built
up an Empire, licked our Mother, and
fenced in continent. In less time than it
took MethuselAh to get out of swaddling
clothes, we have made more canals, tanned
more lightning, ana harnessed more steam,
and at greater cost in money, than the
whole revenues Of the world could have
paid for the day he got out Of his time. In
seventy-6ve years we have not only changed
the politics of the earth, but its wearing
shirts being as much the
offspring Of the United States as ballot-boxes
and Democracy. Since the Fourth Of July,
1776, the whole world has been to school,
and what is better, has learned more CON-
mon sense than was taught in the previous
four thousand years. The problem Of self
government has been solved, and its truth
made immortal as Washington or yellow
corn. Its adaptation to all the wants of the
more aspiring Nation, has been made most
signally manifest. Under its harmonious
working. republic has grown up in an
ordinary lifetime that would have taken any
other system of government thousand
years to have brought about Yes, in less
lime than II has taken some greenhouse
plants TO arrive at maturity, we have bull, |
Nation that has spread itself from Maine to |
Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pacific-aI
Nation that has caught more whales, licked
more Mexicans, planted more telegraph
posts, and owns more steaEboats, than any
nation that has ever lived or ever will live.
For all this, we again say, thank God and
praise Thomas Jefferson,