Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-04-26


the Xunis were abandoned after 1861
the Zunis having murdered their priest
and restabIished in 1886 The conhic
between the governors aud the clerg,
and their adherents broke out in ope1
tumult in 1912, and Governor Roxas wal
assassinated while in prlsion, The mur
derer, Antonio RaCa, was captured by
the governor of New Biscay and execut
ed, and quiet restored in l643 by Alonz,
PaCheco ileredla.
This strife among the Spaniards them
selyes di,Credited political and religious
authority with the Indians, and the con
slant aggressions OF the Apaches, which
the feeble Spanish force WAS unable t.
overcome, still further rendered to dis
courage the puehlOs. At the same time
the prohibition of some of their idoatroui
rites and the change enforced in matri
monlal customs eXasperated them. Ii
1850 while fernando de Ugarte !,
Concha governed New Mexico) a conspir
acy was discovered, including all the pu
eblos (the MoQuis expected), for the pur
pose of overthrOnlng Spanish rule. SINH
lar attempts were made at various times
hlltI ptlb uttUob
ed and quelled. Until 1876 the colony o
New Mexico found itself in most per
ilous condition. In that year, not more
than ten soldiers kept garrison at SAINT.
Fe, and the whole force of which the gov
ernor could dispose, did not exceed LOO
armed men. Not less than eight mis-
sions had been permanently abandoned
one near Zuni, one at San Antonio, south
of SoCorro on the Rio Grande, and sl2
near the salt marshes of the Manzano
The Apaches, to whose inroads these dis
asters were due, crowded the Spaniard'
and Pueblo Ind ans on all sides. Tht
latter were disaffeccted and preparing Il
rise in arms against power that faleC
to afford them sufficient protection. Ii
1850, New Mexico contained not more thar
| 800 Spanish Inhabitants, including thu
few families settled at I'll Paso del Norte
where mission had been founded in 1859
SANTA VIZ THE ONLY TOWN
What has recently been stated concern
ing old and rich Spanish mines is abso
lutely untrue. Up to l725, not a single
mine had been actually worked in New
Mexico, Many attempts at mining vert
made, numberless prospect holes" wert
dug, but the result invariably proved thu
ore to be too poor for improvement witt
the mechani al appliances of the times
Between 1908 and 1850 New Mexico COS
pesos, without Welding any returns. The
little post at Santa Fe (the only "town'
in the country was maintained simply
as a military necessity; as IN advance
post against savage northern tribes, ant
protection of the really valuable settle
ments in southern chihuahua, Durango
and Sonora. Parral WAS the nearest set
Element in the south from which New
Mexico could derive assistance and sup
plies, except in the matter of meat ant
corn, which the few ranchers in the valley
OF Casas Grandes were sometimes able tt
furnish
THE REVOLT OF 1850.
1t was therefore comparatively easy TO
the Pueblo ln'ilans when, after perfectlnI
an understanding among all the variou
linguisticaI stocks. including the Moquis
they broke out suddenly on the 9th ano
10th OF August, $3.50, to sweep everything
before them in the few districts wher
scattered "ranchos" Of Spaniards ha,
/ been established. The greatest slaughte
took place in the valley of Taos, in tn
neighborhOod of Nambe, of Santa Clar
and Santa Cruz, and on the banks of tn
Rio Grande from Santo Domingo to tn
vicinity of the prfs Sent site of Albuquer
que. A number of people were also kile
at Galisteo. The priests were murders
in every pueblo; Cha, Sandia and Islet
excepted. BY the 18th of August SAINT
Fe was completely cut of from the south
and the Indians from Pecos, Galistec
San Marcos and the Cienega were movin
upon the town in force. Tooppose then
Gov. Otermin had about 100 able bodie
men and two small cannon.
THE SIEGE OF SANTA FIR.
The siege, or rather blockade, of tn
government building at Santa Fe, whithe
Otermin had retired with the people (non
combatants amounting to over 900 souls
lasted until the 2lst of August. Durin
| that time the Indians were once route,
on the south side of the Santa Fe river
on the ground near the present college O
cah AhlEuVl but wv dIu lllt CltSt Vi I'LL
action the northern tribes appeared
browning the bills OF old Fort Marcy ant
threatening the former palace" from
that side. Afterward Otermin had t,
remain on the defensive, for the insur
gents were too numerous and they hat
quartered themselves in the houses of tn,
little town. Several assaults upon tn,
palace were repulsed, but the chapel O
San Miguel and the old parish church (oI
the site of which now stands the cathe
draD we're set on fire and all the wood
work consumed. The besiegers cut tn,
Spaniards off from the river; provisions
and ammunition began to fail, and Oter
min therefore determined upon making
sortie. 1t took place on the q 1t of Au
gust at daybreak, and was complet,
success. The Indians were surprised ant
completely routed, a number of then
killed, wounded and captured; the re
mainder scattered. But the situation
was desperate nevertheless, and nothing
left to the governor but to evacuate thu
place and retire to Ell Paso. 1t is strange
to relate that he effected his retreat with
out any serious opposition. meeting, al
Fray Cristobal in the Tornado, the rem
nant of the Spanish settlers of the lower
Rio Grande valley who, as soon as they
heard OF the uprising, and found them.
selves unable to obtain information from
and concerning Santa Fe, also fearing an
attack by the victorious and exultant
Pueblos, had taken up the march toward
FL Paso. In October, 1850, the refugees
from New Mexico, amounting in ali to
l,946 (Which number included about SOC
friendly Pueblo Indians and several nun.
dred Indian servants from Mexico) were
safely quartered around the mission of E
Paso del Norte.
In the rebellion there had persisted 40l
among hich were seventy-eight capable Of
bearing arms and twenty-one ecclesiastics
THE ATTEMPT TO RECoNQuER NEW
MEXICO.
The insurgents did not pursue the fugi.
tives, nor did they ever formally threaten
Ell Paso, but the Apaches improved the
occasion to enter Chihuahua and subso.
quently Sonora also. This proved the