Officers returning home.
--The New Orleans Delta, of the 18th inst., says:
‘
Col. George Crittenden, late of the United States Army, and one of its most gallant and accomplished officers, arrived in the city yesterday from
New Mexico, via
Texas.
Col. Crittenden resigned from the old concern before leaving
New Mexico, despite the tenacity with which his father clung to the
Union--From Col. C. we learn that
Major Loring was only waiting to be relieved in
New Mexico to return to the
South, and that some five or six other officers who had resigned were also on their way home.
Gen. A. S. Johnson, it is supposed, is with
Colonel Jack Hays' party, which started from
California some time ago, in the direction of
Texas.
’