Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-12-04
Col. Fremo ont's Celebrated Ride IN Cs,teor.
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Cot. Fremont. cs'.h..'ed RIA. IA ca'.sor. |
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The National fnteligencer has the following
account Of the ride Of Col. Fremont, which has
been alluded to in the trial.
II wss at dsy5reak on the 22d March. lS47,
that Lieut. Col. Fremont his friend Don Jesus
(pscUounced Haisoos) Picc, and his servant ia.
cob Dodsou, sat out from La Cuidsd le los Age. |
los Che city Of the Aueeis) in the southern
part Of Upper California, to proceed ia the short.
est time to Monterey, on'the Pacific ocesu. dis.
tsnt tu'l four hundred mites. The way is over
a mountainous country, much Of it uainhabited, |
with no other road than a trace, and many de.
flies to pass, particularly the maritime defle Of
Ell Rncon, or Punto Guido. fifteen miles in ex.
tent. made BY the jutting of PERCEPTIONS noun.
tain into the ses, and which can only be pas.
sed when the tide ie out and the see calm, and
even then in many places through the waves
The towns Of Santa Luis Obspo. and accssion-
al ra,chos, sre the principal Inhabited places ou
the route. Each nj the party had three horses
nine in all, to take their turns under the eaddle
The six loose horses ran ahead. without bridlc
or halter. and required some attention to keep
to the track. When wanted for change. eay
st distances of twenty miles, they were caught
by the lasso. thrown either by Don Jesus or the
servant Jacob None of the horses were shod.
The usual gait was a sweeping pal,op. The
6rr day they ran one hundred and twenty five
miles The next day they made another one
hundred and twenty five miles, passing the for.
,nidable moun,sin Of Santa Barbara, and count.
ing upon il the skeletons Of some fry horses,
part of nesr double that aMmber which perished
ia ,he crossing Of that terrible mountain by the
California ba,tslion on Christmas DAY. ls46. ..
m;ds, raging tempes, and deluec Of ain and
cold more killing than even the Sierra Nevsds
-,he day Of severest suffsrirg. ny Fremoo, and
his mea, that shey haze ever passed.
At ssneet ts,e party stopped 70 spp with the
friendly Capt. Dana. end ., nine st night, San
Isais Obispo was reached. the home Of DIM Je.
ems. end where On affecting reception awaited
Lieut. Col Fremont. in coneeqSeoce Of sn io
cident which occurred there, that history wiii
one dav record: and ne was detained uIl IL
O'clock N t:.e morning receiving the vsi's OF
the inhs b,ants, (mothers and children included }
taking breakfast o. f.honorsapd waiting f< a
relief Of fresh horses 70 BE trcugh IN from the
surrounding country. Here the nine horses
teom Los Angeles we're left, and eight others
taken in their place. and 4 SPaoish boy added
| to the party 10 assist in managing the loose hor
sea Proceeding at the usus, gait 0u 8 at night
and having made some seventy mites, Don Je
sus, who had spent the night before with his
family and friends, and probably with bu, little
sleep, became fs,isaed, snd proposed hal. for
a few hours. II was in the valley Of the Sail
mas. (Sal. River. called Buens Veniws in the
old maps,) ss.d the haSn, ef Ma.auding Indisns
For safety during their repose. the party turned
of the trace. issued through canada into .
thick wood. and laid down, the horses being pu,
TO grass at q short distsnee, with the Spanish
bay i, the saddle to wstch. Sleep. when com.
menced, was too sweet 20 be easily given up,
and il was half way between midnight and day.
when the sleepees were aroused by "a estampe
Go among the horses and the calls ofthe boy.
The cause Of the alarm was soon found--not
indiaas, but white bears-this valley being
their great resort, and the place where Col F.
and thirty five Of tbs mcW encountered some
hundred of them the summer before. killing
thirteen upon the ground. The character OF
these hears is well knowa, and the bravcst hun.
ters do not like 30 meet them witheut the ed
van'sge Of numbers. On discovering the enc
my, Col. F. felt for his pistols, but Don Jesus
desired him TO lie still, saying that people coad
scare bears : and Immediately hallooed at them
in Spanish. and they went off S1erP went Of
also; and the recovery OF the horses frightened
by the bears, building rcasing fire, making a
breakfast from the hospitable supplies Of San
Ln,s Obispo, occupied the party ill daybresk /;
when the i"urney was resussed. Eighty miles
aud the afternoca brought the party to Monte
rey. The mex, day, in the sfternooa, the party
by Col. F. from San Luis Osispo. being q pre-
sent 10 hi,a from Don Jesus. he (Don Jesss) de.
sired 10 make az experiment q what one OF
them could d. They were brothers. ore q
ernss younger than the other, both Of the same
color. (cioasmon.) and hence called 81 canoio
or los esnSIos, Uhe eiwss~sa, or the ciass-
mona) The elder wssthen taken ios the trial I;
the journey commenced Spoa him q aessiag
Monterey, the sflerooon well advanced.
Thirty mics under The saddle done that eve.