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VOLUME II.
Santa ft lUcckly acttc.
1 rUDUBIIED EVERY BTURDAY, BY
WILLIAM DBEAV.
TERMS.
WEEKLY- $S a year, payable invariably in
advance i single copies 12 1-2 cents. Advertise
ments. $1 50 per square of ten lines for tbc first
insertion, and $1 for every subsequent insertion.
THE U. X. Mail from anta Fe to the States
leaves regularly on the first day of each
month.
Passage during the summer months $125 (HI
. " winter months 10 0
401bs of baggage allowed to each passenger.
WALDO, HALL, it CO. Proprietors.
Santa Fe, Sept. 18, 1852 tf
Notice to
travellers.
THE undersigned, Mail Contractor from San
Antonio, Texas, to Santa i'i, N. Mexico,
would respectfully inform the travelling public
that he has placed upon the line the best kind of
stock and good comfortable spring carriages for the
accommodation of passengers.
The mail will leave Santa Fi on the first of each
month, and arrive at San Elizario by the 11th.
Leave San Elizario on the 12th of every other
month, and arrive at San Antonio on the last day of
the same month.
Leave San Antonio on the first of every other
month, and arrive at San Elizario on the lttth.
Leave ian F.lizario on the 20th of each month,
and arrive at Santa Fe the last day of the same
month.
This will be the arrangement fur the present
but will in a short time be changed to a monthly
mail.
Passengers will be taken through from Santa Fo
to San Antonio for $12, and from El Paso to San
Antonio for $100. From Santa Fo to El Paso for
$311.
Passengers will be allowed 40 pounds of bag
gage. Greatest distances between watering places 40
miles. Mr. Skillman is an old hand and well ac
quainted with the route.
He will also have on the line a small train of
light wagons,
b HENRY SKILLMAN.
Santa F, Dee , 1851. tf.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Territory of New Mexico, ) United States District
County of Sauti Fe. ) court, Sept, term, 1852
(JfcKAW at. VKAlfl
Henry L. Dodge k Attachment,
.Alexander W. Reynolds.
This day came the nlaintill by hi.i attorney, and
it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that
Alexander W. Reynolds, one of the defendants in
Ibis cause, is not a resident of this Territory, but
resides beyond the limits thereof, so that the or
dinary process of law cannot be executed upon
In in, It is therefore ordered, that the said Alex
ander W. Reynolds enter his appearance hereto,
on or before the first day of the next term of this
court, to be begun and held at the court room in
the city of Santa Fe, on the third Monday of
March next, and plead, answer or demur to plain
tiff's petition, or judgment will be rendered against
(nm. It is further ordered, that publication be
mude of this order according to law.
A true copy of the order made in the
above cause, at the September term of
said court. A.l). 1852.
R. II. T1IOMPK1NS, Clerk.
Santa Fe, Dec. 11, 1852. 25 4w
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Territory of New Mexico, 1 United States District
County of Santa Fe, court, Sep. term, 1852
HUGH M. BECKWITH, 1
vs I Attachment.
David Waldo. Jacob Hall, fe J
William McCoy. J
This day came the plaintiff by his attorney, and
it appearing to the) satisfaction of the court, that
neither of the said defendants are resillen! of this
Territory, but reside beyond the limits thereof, so
that the ordinary process of law cannot be execu
ted upon them, It is therefore ordered, that tney
m ke their appearance hereto, on or before the
first day of the next term of this court, to be be-
.1 k.U . tita onort mnn, in Mia itv nf Kantn
pill ttll" ""--lu n w... ' "
Fe nn the third Monday of March next, and plead,
answer or demur to plaintiff's petition, or jud;-
ment Will ue renuereii ugniiisi mem. ii laiminci
ordered, that publication be made of this order ac-
coming io ow' ,
A true copy of the order made in the
above cause at the September term of
. i . i r, iúkí
saiu conn, A.j wot.
R. H. T1IOMPKINS, Clerk.
Santa Fe, Dec. 11, 1852 -25 4w.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Territory of New Mexico, j Third Judicial District
County of Socorro. J court, Nov. term, 1852
William S. Mcsservyl
and
James J. Webb,
Merchants under the
namee of Nesservy &
Petition to foreclose mort'
Sarah Bongette.
This day came the plaintiffs by their attorney,
and it aonearinir to the atisfaction of the Court
that the said Sarah Bonyette, defendant, ii not a
resident of this Territory, but resides beyond the
limits thereof, so that the ordinary process of the
law cannot be executed upon her,
It is therefore ordered by the Court that the said
defendant enter her appearance hereto on or before
the first day of the next term of this court, to be
hegun and held at the court house in the town of
Limitar, on the first Monday of May next, A. D.,
1853, and plead answer or demand to plaintiff 'i pe
tition, or inclement will be entered aeainst her. It
is further ordered by the court that notice, by pub
lication, be given according to law.
Atruaeopy. .. HENRY W1NSLOW,
Clerk.
Limitar, Socorro County,
December 21st, 1852.
J. W. REED,
' ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CITY OF SANTA Tl. NEW MEXICO.
WILL practice in the Courts of Santa Fe,
and adjoining counties ) and will attend to
criminal business in any part or me territory.
Santa Fe, Sept. 25, 1852.-6mo
OFFICE OF COMY. OF MJB.,
Fort Union, N. M., Ijkc 22. 1852.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
office, till 12 o'clock, M., on Tuesday the 28th day
of February, 1853, for furnishing Flour to the U.
Stale's! Troops, at the points and in the quantities
mentioned, as follows i
At Taos, N. M. 125.000 pounds.
At Fort Union, N. M. 150,001) "
At Santa Fe, " 50.000
At Albuquerque, " 2211.001) '
At Fort Conrad, " 125.1)00
At Fort Fillmore," 230,000 "m.
The flour must be of "superfine" quality, and de
livered in strong cotton "drilling" sacks, of 100lbs,
eech
Proposals are invited for the whole amount, for
that required at several nuints, or for that required
at any particular point, i
The contract or contract) to be made for one
year, and the faithful fulfilment thereof tobe guar
antied by two responsible securities whose names
must be entered in the proposals.
One fourth of the amount, required at each point,
must be delivered tpwUily, commencing on the 1st
dav of August, 1853.
(fffThe Commissaries, or principal Assistant
Commissaries of the subsistence in New Mexico,
will reserve the right of tM-mniiur or diintni.tiing
the amount to he delivered at each and every point,
by one third, by giving six months notice to that effect.
ISAAC BOWEN,
Cit. k C. S
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that tho undersigned
has been rraiitcd letters of aitiiiituslr.it ion on
the estate of lUrmam (Vmnuni, deceased, by the
Probate Judge of the county of fan Miguel, Ter
ritory of New Mexico, bearing date the day of
August, 1852, and all persons having cloiins ngainst
said estate are notified to present them for allow
ance within one year from the dale of said letters,
or they may be precluded from said efctatc, and if
not wi t lii ii three years, shall be for ever barred)
and all persons indebted to the said estate are re
quested to come forward and mako settlement
titniti lunni'.iii.x,
' Wmniwlraior.
Las Vegas, Oct. 2, 1852. tf.
NOTICE
IS hereby given that the firm heretofore known
as the firm of Geek k Zueller, of Doha Ana, N.
M., has been dissolved by mutual consent. All
demands against said firm, and all accounts due to
it will be settled with John N. Zoeller. All de
mands arc required to be forwarded with promp
titude, and all accounts must be settled without
delay: CECK i ZOELLER.
Doña Ana, Nov. 10, k8j2.
OUTFITS FOR SANTA FE.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public
of New Mexico, that at his establishments
WESTPOUT, MISSOURI,
and by his agent at
COUNCIL-GROVE,
Nebraska Territory, he is prepared to outfit and
supply with every thing requisite foi the journey
to Santa Fo, 'cu'upanies or individuals, upon the
most reasonabliKPrins.
fi'B'llpJiJVes that an acquaintance of many
years witTiliie Santa Fe trade, will enable him to
give general satisfaction in the business,
Al.lll'.KT U. UUUHK.
Santa Fi, Dec. 21, 1852. 28-3in.
ir wmtZíw
COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS,
Ponnsylvania,
Connecticut.
New Hampshire,
Santa Fó, Jan. 1, 1852-tf.
INDEPENDENCE, MWSOl'KI.
BY
B. AV. TODD.
I have removed from the "Noland House," to
the "Nebraska House," in Independence, Missouri.
The Nebraska House is a large new building, and
bus recently been much improved by alterations
and additions. Having taken this house for a term
of years, I intend to make every effort to promote
the convenience and comfort of travellers. The
palronace of my friends and the travelling public
is respectfully solicited.
JJ. W, 1UJJU.
January 1st 1853-ly.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the undersigned
has been granted letters of administration on the
estate of James W. Graves, deceased, by the Pro
bate Judge of the County of Dona Ana, Territory
of New Mexico, bearing date the 3rd December,
1852. All persons having claims against said es
tate are notified to present them for allowance with
in one year from the date of said letters, or they
may be precluded from said estate, and if not with
in two years, shall be forever barred; anil all per
son! indebted to said estate, arc requested to come
forward and make immediate settlement.
LUIS WM. GHCK,
Mministrator.
Dona Ana, Dec. 17, 1852.
The Boy and the Panther.
A WILD WESTERN SCENE.
It was a fine morning in August, when
little Samuel Eaton, about seven years
old; was making a dam in the brook that
ran before his father's door.
He was an only and beautiful child,
and his mother almost idolized him.
There he was with his trowsers tucked
tip above his knees, working like a bea
ver, his mother's eye beaming out from
beneath his sunburnt hair, and with
some of his father's strength, tugging at
a large stone in the bed of the stream.
Samuel, you had better come in,
hadn't you?' said Hannah in a tone of
half mother and half mate.
'No, I guess not,' said Samuel.
An acorn came floating down the
stream. The boy took it tip, looked at
it, 'reckoned' in his mind that there were
more up the 'gully,' and when his mo
titer's back was turned, off he started
for the acorm.
The gorge of the mountain into which
he was about to enter farmed ( the work
of centuries) by the attrition of the
stream he had been playing in; and
walking on a level that bordered each
side of the water, he loldly entered the
ravine. An almost perpendicular wall
or bank ascended on each side to the
height of a hundred feet, composed of
rocks and crags, fretted by decay and
storm into fantastic forms and positions.
A lew scattered bushes and trees sought
nourishment from the earth that had
fallen from the level above, and excep
ting their assistance, and the unseen
surface of the rock, this natural part
seemed inaccessible but to bird and
beast. About an eighth of a mile from
the entrance a cataract closed the gorge,
throwing up its white vail of mist in
seeming guardianship of the spiiit wa
ters. The verdant boughs hanging over
the bank cast a deep gloom upon the
bed below, while so lofty was the dis
tance, they seemed to grow up to the
sky. Blue patches of water were to be
seen peeping between them.
Hannah soon missed her boy, but as
he had often wandered to the fields
where his father was it work, slio con
cluded he must be tli.-jre, and checked
coining fears with the hope that he would
return at the hour of dinner. , When it
came, neither Josiah nor any of his men
knew where he was. The agitated mo
ther exclaimed,
'He's lost! he's lost.' and my poor boy
will starve in the woods!'
Gathering courage, she hastily sum
moned the family around her, and des
patched tliem all, but her husband, to
search in different directions in the
neighboring forest. To her husband she
said,
'Scour every field you call your own,
and if you can't find him, join me in the
gorge.'
'He wouldn't go in the gorge, Han
nah.' 'He would go anywhere.'
She knew not why, but a presenti
ment that her boy had followed the
course of the stream dwelt strongly upon
her mind.
'I can't find mm, Hannah,' said the
husband, as he joined her at the mouth
of the gorge.
An eagle flew past the mother as she
entered the ravine. She thought to her
self the dreadful birds are tearing my
child to pieces; and frantic, she hasten
ed on, making the walls of the ravine
echo back with her screams for her off
spring.
Theouly answer wns the eternal thtin
der of the cataract, as if in mockery of
her woe, as it threw its cold spray upon
her not ano throbbing temples.
She strained her eyes along the dizzy
height that peeped through the mist till
she could no longer see, and her eyes
filled with tears.
Who but a mother can tell the feel
wes ol a mother s heartf t ear came
thick and fast upon the reeling brain of
Hannah.
'0, my boy my brave boy will die!'
and wringing her hands in agony, she
sunk at her husbands feet.
The pain of 'hope deferred' had strai
ned her heart-strings to the utmost ten
sion, and it seemed as if the rude hand
of despair had broken them all
The terrified husband threw water
upon her pale face, and strived by all
the arts he knew to win her back to Me
At last she opened her languid eyes
stared wildly around and rose trending
to her feet. As she stood like a heart'
broken Niobe, 'all tears,' a fragment of
rock carno tumbling down the opposite
bank. She looked on. &he was tier
self again; for half up the ascent stood
her own dear boy.
But even when the glad cry was is
suing from her lips, it turned into a note
of horror. '
'0, mercy mercy!'
The crag on which the boy stood pro
jected from the rock in such a way as
to hang about twelve feet over the bank.
Right below the edge of this crag,
partly concealed by some bushes, crou
ched a panther. The bold youth was
aware of the proximity of his parents,
and the presence of his dangerous ene
my at about the same time.
He had rolled down the stone in exul
tation, to. convince his parents of the
h':h station he attained, and he now
stood with another in his hand, drawing
it back, and looking at them as if to ask
whether he should throw it at the terri
ble animal before him'. Till then the
mother seemed immovable in her sus
pense; but conscious of the danger of
her son, if ho irritated the beast, she
ran some distance up the rock, and mo
tioned with her hand that he should not
throw. Yet with the fearless mind of
childhood, and a temper little used to
control, he fearlessly threw the fragment
with all his might at the ferocious ani
mal. It struck one of his feet. He
gave a sudden growl, It shed his tail with
fury, and seemed about to spring.
'Get your rifle, Jnsiah!'
The poor man stirred not. His gla
zed eye was fixed with a look of death
upon the panther, and he appeared par
alyzed with fear. His wife leapt from
the stand, and placing her hands upon
her husbpnd's shoulder, looked in his
face and said:
'Are you a man, Josiah Eaton ? Do
you love your child?'
lie started as if from sleep, and ran
with furious haste from the ravine.
Again the mother looked towards her
son. lie had tallen upon Ins knees, and
was whispering the-little prayers she
had taught him, not in cowardly fear,
but a thought came across his mind that
he must die. The distracted mother
could keep still no longer. She rushed
up the steep ascent with tho energy of
despair, reckless of danger, thinking
only of her son. Tho rocks crumbled
and slipped beneath her feet, yet she
fell not. On, on she struggled in her
agony.
The ferocious creature paused a mo
ment whenhe heard the anxious mother
approach. True to his nulure, he sprang
at the boy. He barely touched the crag
and fell backward, as Hannah ascended
the opposite tide.
'Ah!' said she, laughing deliriously,
'the panther must try it again before he
parts us, my boy; but we won't part,'
and sinking on her knees before him,
she fondly folded him to her breast, ba
thing his young forehead with her tears.
Unalterable in his ferocity and the
manner of gratifying it, the panther again
sprang from his situation. This time he
was more successful. His forefoot
struck the edge of the crag.
Ho will kill us, mother, he will kill
us!' and the boy nestled close to his mo
ther's bosom.
The anuimal struggled to bring his
body to the crag his savage features
but a step from the mother's face.
'Go away, go away,' shrieked the mo
ther, hoarse with horror, 'you shan't
have my boy!'
Closer still closer he comes his red
eyes flashing fmy, and the thick pant
inps of his breath came in her very face.
At this awful moment she hears the faint
report of fire arms coining from the gulf
below; the panther's foothold fails, his
sharp claws loosen from the rocks, and
the boilled beast rolls down the preci
pice, at the feet of Josiah Eaton.'
The sun's last rays gleamed on the
little group at the mouth of the gorge.
They were on their knees the mother's
hands raised over the head of her son,
and the voice of prayer going to their
Guardian for his mercy in thwarting the
panther's leap.
The three Orphans.
We copy from the last number of
Bleak House, the following most tou
ching picture of the suffering and pri
vation of poor orphans in London such
es may be met with every day in large
cities; yes, and in cities not large.
These details must be regarded as a
faithful recital ol incidents which the
author has either seen personally, or
which he knows to be true.
In another chapter of (his number.
Dickens draws a picture of Mrs. Jalla
by, who, surrounded by scenes such as
these, is found absent from her home,
when called upon, to attend to tea-drinking,
where speeches were to be made
and letters written "on the general me
rits of the cultivation of coffee, conjoint
ly with the native, at the settlement of
Boonboola Gha." The same person
was absent another lime, "on the Boo
riboolian business, arising out of a soci
ety called the East London Branch Aid
Ramification."
I applied the key on hearing this and
opened the door. In a poor room with
a sloping: ceiling, and contamine verv
little furniture, was a mite of a boy, some
five or six years old, nursing and hush
ing a child of eighteen months. There
was nn fire, though the weather was cold;
both children were wrapt in some poor
shawls and tippets, as a substitute.
Their clothing was not so warm, how
ever, but that their noses looked red and
pinched, and their small figures shrunk
en, as the boy walked tip and down,
nursing and hushing the child with its
head on his shoulder.
"Who has locked you up heir done?"
we naturally asked,
"Charley." said the boy, standing still
to gaze at us.
"Is Charley your brother?" ,
"N. She's my sister, Charlotte. Fa
ther called her Charley." '
"Are there any more of you besides
Charley?"
"Me," said the boy, "and Emma,"
patting the gimp bonnet of the child hi
was nursing, "and Charley."
"Where is Charley now?"
"Out a-washing," said the boy, begin
ning to walk up and down again, and
taking the nankeen bonnet much too
near the bedstead, by trying to gaze at
its at the sume time.
We were looking at one another and
these two cunaren, when there came
into the room a very little girl, childish
in figure, but shrewd and cider-looking
in the face pretty-faced, too, wear
ing a womanly sort of a bonnet, much
too large for her, and drying her bare
arms on a womanly sort of apron. Her
fingers were white and wrinkled with
washing, and the soap-suds were yet
smoking, which she wiped off her arms.
But for this, she might have been a child,
playing at washing, and imitating a poor
working woman with a quick observa
tion of the truth.
She had come running from some
place in the neighborhood, and had
made all the haste she could. Conse
quently, though she was very light, she
was out of breath, and could not speak
at first, as she stood panting and wiping
her arms, and looking quietly at us.
"Oh, here is Charley 1" said the boy.
The childhe was nursing, stretched
forth its arms and cried out to be taken
by Charley. The little girl took it, in
a womanly sort of manner belonging to
the apron and the bonnet, and stood
looking at us over the burden that clung
to her most affectionately.
"Is it possible," wispcred my Guar
dian, as we put a chair for the little
creature, and got her to sit down with
her load, the boy keeping close to her,
lit iris her apron, "that tins child works
for the rest? Look at this! For God's
sake, look at this!" '
It was a thing to look at. The three
children close together, ad two of them
relying solely on the third, and the third
so young, and yet with an air of age
nuil steadfastness that sat so strangely
on the childish figure.
"Charley! Charley!" said my Guar
dian, "how old are you?"
"Over thirteen, sir," replied the child.
"Oh! what a great age," said my
Guardian, "what great age, Charley?"
I cannot describe the tenderness with
which he spoke to her; half playfully,
yet all the more compassionately and
mournfully.
"And do you live alone here with
theso babies, Charley?" said my Guar
dian. "Yes, sir," returned the child, look
ing up into his face with perfect confi
dence, "sinco father died."
"And how do you live, Charley? Oil,
Charley," said my Guardian, turning
his face away for a moment, "how do
you live?"
"Since my father died, sir, I've gone
out to woi k. I'm out washing to-day."
"God help you, Charley, said my
Guardian, "you're not tall enough to
reach the tub.'"
"In pattens I am, sir," she said quick
ly. "I've got a high pair as belonged
to mother."
"And when did your mother die?
I'oor niolhi'i!"
"Mother died just after Kmma was
born," said the child, glancing xt the
face upon her bosom. "Then, father
said I was to be as good a mother to her
as I could. And so I tried. And so I
worked at home, and did nursing and
did cleaning and washing, for a long
time before I began to go out.,, Anil
that's how I know how J don't you see,
sir." ..
"And do yon often go mil? "
"As often as I can," said Charley,
opening her eyes, and smiling, "became
ol earning sixpences and shillings!"
"And do you always lock up the ba
bies when you go out?"
"To keep 'em safe, sir,' don't you
Lsee."' "aid Charley. ".Mrs. Blinder
comes up now and then, and Mr. Grid
ley comes up, tometimcs, and perhaps I
can run in sometimes, and they can play,
you know, and Tom aint afraid of being
locked up are you, Tom?" ' " ' ' '
' Concluded on ith jhigi.' " '