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The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
being taken out of one run of twenty buckets of dirt.--Another run yielded $16, and another $14. Capt. Skillman has taken the contract to carry the mail from Mesilla to El Paso, Texas, on horseback, once a week, and has already commenced the service. Upon the rumor of the Federal advance from New Mexico, a general stampede was begun from Mesilla. Referring to the flight, the Times says: Families were hastily shipped off to Mexico; valuables were secretly buried, and good-byes and partings, and tears, and God knows what anguish, mixed with a little propensity for fighting. A large supply of army hay was burned; cannon were buried; the valleported to be to take Forts Garland and Wise, and the trains of supplies bound for New Mexico. The Federal advance is at Alamosa, 35 miles from Craig, 75 from Mesilla, and consists of two companies, one of regulars and one of volunteers. They have thrown up two batteries. Four regiments of New Mexican volunteers are in th