New York Daily Tribune

The Spirit in New Mexico. While we hear of threatening movements in Texas, in popular assemblies and by the authorities themselves, to enforce by military aid the jurisdiction of that State over New Mexico, intelligence of as determined a spirit of resistance comes to us from the latter. Our advices from Santa Fé are as late as June 12th. In the election for State officers and members of Congress, under the State Constitution, to take place on the 20th, the candidates had found it necessary to take strong and decided ground against the Texas claim, and to pledge themselves to resist it. Such was the force of public opinion, that no one could have any hope of success who refused to take these grounds. The liberal course of the military officer had rendered them very popular, and an attempt by a few Texas emigrants to foment discontent against Col. Monroe, on the ground of the Indian incursions, proved abortive. The citizens of New Mexico were generally preparing to resist, by force of arms, any military force which might be sent by Texas to take possession of their territory. Information, in which reliance was placed, had been received there, that Gov. Bell and Major Neighbors would be in New Mexico, with a military force, by the last of August or the first of September, to enforce the Texas claim, and it was this which had aroused the people. So we gather from our St. Louis exchanges.