The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-09-23
Later from Santa Fe.

LOUISVILLE, sept. 1.-The mall train from
Santa Fe has arrived at independence. But
few emigrants were met on the plains. Be-
tween the frontier and Fort Laramie, the
drought prevailed to an alarming extent.
The Indian tribes seemed peaceable, and
no apprehension was entertained by the
whites, but there was some i'll feeling exist
ing between themselves, and preparations
OF hostile character were on foot between
the Sioux, Paconas, and Camanches, and
serious trouble was anticipated.
F. st. Aubrey was killed in row by
Major Weightman, at Santa Fe. Aubury
had just made trip from San Francisco to
Santa Fe, in the short space of twenty two
days. No particulars are given.
Information of an authentic nature hav-
ing reached st. Louis, that about the middle
of August the Sioux Indians killed an OK
belonging to an emigrant, near Fort Laramie,
message was sent to the fort, requesting
that force be sent to bring the offender to
Justice, and Lieutenant Grattan and twenty
men of the Sixth infantry were detached
for this service, and they were waylayed and
killed, not one remained to tell how, but
the deed was done on the 18th August. It
is also stated that when the express left Fort
Laramie, the tort was surrounded by the In
dlans, and there are reasons to fear it was
destroyed. The garrison numbered one
commissioned officer and fifty men. 1t is
stated that, after the battle, the Indians went
to the American Fur Company's station, and
carried off goods to the amount of $4,000.
SOME ACCOUNT OF F. X. AUBREY.-This
MAJ. Welghtman was, two years ago, the
delegate to Congress from New Mexico, and
was an officer in the army during the Mexi-
can war. The cause of the quarrel that led
to Aubrey's death is not yet known. He
was one of the most daring and enthusiastic
travellers of the present age. The following
slight sketch of his career is taken from The
st. Louis Republican,
In 1913, Mr.. Aubrey was introduced to
our readers, as having performed the most
remarkable travelling feat upon record. Be-
fore that time he was known to us as a mer-
chant Of great enterprise, connected with
the Santa Fe trade, going to and fro with
great promptness and success; but it was
not until 1913 that he performed the Journey
between Santa Fe and independence which
gave to him his fame for perseverance and
personal endurance. On the 18th of Sep
tember of that year, he left Santa Fe with
the intention of making quick trip to the
States, and he certainly accomplished it.
He made the entire journey, of eight hun
dred miles, in five days and fifteen hours.
If the travelling time only be counted, the
exact time was four days and half! Du-
ring this time he slept two hours only, and
ate six meals. He broke down six horses.
walked twenty miles on foot, and he had to
swim creeks and endure the rain for twenty
four hours, and travel nearly six hundred
miles of the distance in the mud. By the
aid of a steamboat, which he found at Inde-
pendence landing, he made the whole dis
tance from Santa Fe to st. Louis in a little
over ten days-l200 miles. No one accom-
panied him over the prairies, and a portion
OF the land trip was at the rate of one hun
dred and ninety miles to the twenty-four
hours. This journey earned for Mr.. Aubrey
the 0oubriquet of the "Skimmer of the
Palms. and he has worn it ever since; and
the passion seems to have been innate, for
we find it announced by the telegraph that
he had undertaken, for wager, to make the
distance between San Francisco and Santa
Fe in twenty-five days. Supposing him to
have performed it, then, taking his trip in
l849 from Santa Fe, he may be said to have
travelled from San Francisco to st. Louis in
thirty-two days.
For series of years, Mr.. Aubrey was en-
gagged In extensive mercantile transactions
between Missouri and New Mexico-some-