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Show 214 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN THE HISTORY vied with each other to see who could show us the greatest hospitality and kindness. There can no longer be apprehended any organized resistance in this Territory to our troops.’’ Upon his return from the South General Kearny sent a detachment of troops under Major Gilpin and Lieutenant-Colonel Congreve Jackson, now the successor KEARNY NAMES OFFICERS FOR CIVIL of Lieutenant-Colonel Ruff,™ GOVERNMENT, PROMULGATES elected by the volunteers, CODE OF LAWS, AND LEAVES who was afterward given a FOR CALIFORNIA commission in the regular army, to Abiquiii and Cebolleta on the Navajé frontier.5? Meanwhile a plan of civil government had been arranged and was announced on the 22d of September whereby Charles Bent was appointed governor, Donaciano Vigil, secretary, Richard Dallam, marshal, Francis P. Blair Jr., United States attorney, Charles Blumner, treasurer, Eugene Leitensdorfer, auditor, and Joab Houghton, Antonio José Otero, and Charles Beaubien, judges of the superior court. A code of laws was promulgated. On the 24th, general orders were issued designating the force to accompany Kearny to California, three hundred men of the U. S. 1st dragoons, Major Sumner, and the Mor- mon Battalion,’ five hundred in number, under Captain Cooke. ams Colonel Ruff was very much re pmeng en a disliked by the volunteers, owing Hughes says of him: malice,’ — 152 i? with tactics, and neither to Relative to the Kearny Code, in his ‘Colonel Ruff, though ill quali- letter to Adj reneral General Kearny says: ‘‘I take great pleasure in atten! amet indebted for these laws to Colonel A. W. Doniphan, of the at Mormon Battalion consisted of about oe oe of reaching California, ment, they were ise organization, see Tyler’s Reece Bolton 500 Mormons, where, according bY Jones, to entered the terms i ae On the 25th Kearny ** left Santa Fé, reached Alburquerque on the 29th, thence down the Rio Grande, across the Jornada del Muerto, thence by the Mimbres valley, across the range to the Gila, and westward to the Pacific Coast, reaching San Diego in December. Kearny left orders that Doniphan’s regiment, on the arrival of the 2d Missouri volunteers, Colonel Sterling Price, should march south to join General Wool at Chihuahua. On the 5th of October Kearny met an express sent by Commodore Stockton and Lieutenant-Colonel Fremont, who reported that they 155 On the 24th, Kearny ‘Head. Qr. Army wrote the adjutant general of the army as follows: of the West, ‘‘Sir: Having finished all my a civil government for the Tery. laws to be prepared & published arrangements for maintaining the existing, I intend in compliance leave here tomorrow with Major Santa Fé, New Mexico, Sept. 24, 46. public business in this place, having organized by appointing the officers & causing a set of for it, & having made the necessary Military perfect order, peace & quiet, now so happily with the instructions from the War Dept to Sumner & his 300 Dragoons for Upper Cali- fornia, as I informed you in my letter of the 16th Inst —I leave orders for Capt Allen & his (Infy) command of Mormons to follow our trail, aS soon as they reach here, & they will be accompanied from here by about 80 Mounted Vols. under Captain Hudson —I send to you copies of all orders which have been issued by my directions, which may explain some subjects omitted in my letters — On the 20th Inst I received a letter from Col Price dated the 10th & 12 miles west of the crossing of the Arkansas — He had with him 4 cos of his Regt 2 had proceeded up the Arkansas towards Bent’s Fort, & the remaining 2 were several days march in his Rear. Private received by his express to me, This is the only information Public or and I was indebted for this to his be- are the Field officers of the 1st or 2nd Dragoons —lI entirely who 215 leave directions for Col Price to remain in command of the Troops in this Tery. He will have his own Regt of Mounted Vols. — a Batallion of 2 Cos. of Infy. under Captain Angney, 1st Regiment of Missouri mounted volunteers, who received much assistance from private Willard P. Hall of his regiment. These laws are taken, part from the laws of Mexico, retained as in the original— a part with such modifications as our laws and constitution made necessary; a part are from the laws of Missouri Tertinah a part from the laws of Texas and Coahuila; a part from the statutes of Missourl; and the remainder from the Livingston Code: the organic law is taken from the organic law of Missouri Territory.’’ - 154 — e€ service MEXICO be returned to him from a train coming from Bents Fort. We are very much behind the times in the way of information which causes some inconvenience here & may give more to others & to your office in Washington. We have not éven received the promotions and Appointments made in July, & know not who ‘extenuate nor aught set down 1 is certainly a brave man and a ood ier,’”’ istina xi General Winfield S. Sebi agleras S Mexico ' Foreeea teenee ful oe account of this thi expedititiion see Doniphan’s' Expedition, ition, by) WITH ing in want of provisions, for which he asked, & which I ordered forthwith to to his being , Sovern volunteer troops, has some experience in military affairs, is well acquainted WAR & a Battn. of 2 Cos. of Horse Arty. & a part of Captain Hudson’s Co. of Laclede Rangers under Major Clarke.— These will be more than sufficient to pre- Serve quiet thro-out the Tery. & to protect the inhabitants from the Navajo, Eutaw and Apache Indians, who have hitherto caused them so much trouble by killing their people & stealing their flocks & cattle— Deputations from the last two Nations have at my request been in to see me & promise good conduct in future — I hope to see in a few days a deputation from the Navajoes— In my letter to you of the 1st Inst, I stated my intention of raising an Infy. Compy. from the Mexican population — The plan has been abandoned as unnecessary at this time — It may answer a good purpose next year— On the arrival of Col. Price’s Regt. here, Col Doniphan with his Regt will proceed to Chihuahua & re- port to Brig. Genl. Wool (as will other troops if any more should come here from Missouri) as I informed you in my letter of the 24th ulto — Finding that horses cannot be of service in this country & that they could not possibly travel to California, I have directed the Qr. Mr. to Mount the Ist Dragoons on Mules & send the Dragoon horses back to Fort Leav-h, where they can be |