New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-11-12
From New Mexico. \
St. Louis Democrat publishes the following

The St. Louis Democrat publishes the following
letter:
BARCLAYS FoRT, n. NJ, Oct. Is, 1s60.-Up to
this date we hear nothing from the Nayajoe expe-
dition Fifty head of horses and mules, taken by
Captain Holloway's command from the Conan
ehes in the Chuperito affair, shert time since,
were disposed of to-day at Los Vegas, at public
sale. The Indians were left afoot, but were not
pursued to their village; on the contrary, i learn
that the great Comanehe and Kiowa humbng is at
an end, and will now go into winter quarters. Let
an estimate be made OF the expenses OF this end
Of it, (six companies) and compared with its bril-
liant results and some faint idea may be formed
of the economy of maintaining the old fogy sys-
tenn. The contempt which previously existed in
the minds Of these Indians for our regular troops
has been increased tenfold
The drouth has parched up the whole country
and the cry over the whole Territory is, where are
we to winter the little stock still left us. If we
keep it within the settlements, it will perish with
hunger If we send it to the frontiers, we place it
within the jaws of the savages. Crops are a fail
ure, and ruin stares us in the face on every side.
What will be the final result God only knows. In
| the meantime, Faunteroy the Great is fully oecu-
pied in strate splitting there in Santa Fe He has
| backed down from employing military force to
| protect the useless pile Of mud in Santa Fe, to
which alluded in my last, because he found him
self in the wrong pew ! understand he has
against the Navajoes, and has sent upwards of 100
head of beef cattle to feed the families of these
warriors while absent in the field.
Let US compare this with his treatment of our
citizens They volunteered their services, and
were contemptuously rejected. When they offered
their services gratutously, he refused to give loan
or sell them the refuse ammunition with which the
ordnance department is encountered.
When ap order was received from Washington
permitting the Governor to purchase it for their
use, he countermanded that order. In the face of
all these facts and the additional one that he has
now had command of this department nearly one
year, and has seen hostile tribes of Indians lay
waste our frontiers on every side, and even pene-
trating to the very suburbs of Sante Fe, without
making single effort worthy the name in our de-
fense, yet he has been sustained in the position he
has so signaly disgraced by the "powers that be.n
An intelligent public can form correct opinion
from these facts, not only of this gallant officer
himself, but also Of those who have wantonly sac
rifced territory to sustain him.
| 1 learn also that Judge Otero has been released
| from his Fort Defiance flour contract, because it
| was ruinous one. Mr.. Hersch took rninous
flour contract last year, and is still furnishing the
| flour at half its market value, yet he was not
released from it, although his store and all its con.
tents were destroyed by fire. Why this injustice
this favoritsm? Or is it because the Judge has an
| ertra Democratic Link in his tail?
i Respectfully yours, $. B. WATRoUs.
| Son reperusing this hasty scrawl, per,
| ceiye an inference might be drawn from it which
| would do injustice to Captain Holloway. He was
] stationed at Mr.. Hatch's rancho to protect govern
ment stores, and of course could not pursue these
Indians even had the handful of infantry under his
| command been available for that purpose. But for
| the troops at Fort Union, who have been SO uDsuc.
| cessful in their search after Indians, this was