New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-18
From New Mexico.
The st. Louis Republican publishes the follow

The st. Louis Republican publishes the follow
ing letter:
SANTA FE, March q, l86l.-Mr. Editoy-Tbe
reading of President Lncoln's inaugural here,
| yesterday, was the occasion of most intense eX-
element 1t was proposed to take immediate
| possession OF the Government property, which
could have easily been done, rs there are but fifly
soldiers IN barracks. But better counsel prevailed,
| and now believe the people are willing to wat
the action of Missouri, with whom they consider
their destinles so interviewer that they follow
| her lead.
| Many persons, the past week have left here far
the San Juan mines, and others are preparing to
| leave soon. | am informed that the road above
Abiquin is literally alive with people pushing their
way into that newly y-found colorado. As yet we
have nothing but good reports, which no one seems
10 doubt, but before setting my stakes in those
diggngs, will wait for some visible evidence of
buried treasure there.
The Santa Fe trail is the best if not the most
direct route, from the Missouri to those mines. 1t
is over the most delightful natural road that
wagon ever tracked upon until it reaches Los
Vegas. Seventy miles east of Santa Fe, where it
enters the mountains and winds its sepentine
course over very passable road to Santa Fe, and
from there to the mnes distance of two hundred
and twenty miles, a new road has been opened and
bridged, which is now the travelled way.
The Comanches and Kiowas are still deprednting
upon the property of our citizens. Some few days
since they took twenty-one horses from Masario
Gallegos, within fifteen miles of Fort Union. Il
few days later, the party took from the herd
Of Dr. Boyce, on the Canadian fork, thrty.fva OF
| his best CATTLE
| The White Mountain Apaches, heretofore friendly
| to the whesr are now at war. Col. Crttenden
| has been ordered to proceed against them. 1t is
to be hoped that he will be successful in hunting
them as he was the Comanches and koWas, last
fall, on the head of the Cimaron
Col. Loring, who succeeds Col Fauntleroy in the
command of tbis division of the army, has Just az
rived.
The citizens of Arizona held Convention in the
town of Mesjilla, on the 10Th inst, and resolved
themselves out of the Union. Whereupon Gen.
W. Claude Jones announced himself candidate
to represent Arizona in the Congress of the Con-
federate States of America. Claude is South
west Missourian, and particularly obnoxious
to Col Benton, in the last few years of his political
life.
Majors Il Russell's train is still in the Ration
Mountain. 1t is unfortunately in the fangs of the
law, upon a writ of attachment, which will be tried
the present week in the United States District
Court for the county of Nora
The farmers are now busy engaged in plowing
and planting. They confidently expect q suffi-
cheney of water for rrigating purposes. Should
their expectations in that respect be realized, it
will have most salutary effect upon the CONNER
cial interests of the country, which have been
more or less affected by partial failures of crops
the past two years, in consequence of extreme
drOuth.