Washington telegraph., 1849-05-02

leaving the camp on the mountains, hav-
ing travelled through snow, and on foot,
one Hundred and sixty miles.
L look upon the feeling which induced
me to set out from the camp as an inspl-
ration. Had I remained there, waiting
the return of poor Kings party, every
man Of us must have perished.
The morning after reaching the Little
Colorado Pueblo {horses and supplies not
being there,) Cooley and I rode on to the
Rio HondO, and thence to Toas, about
twenty-five miles, where we found what
we needed; and the next morning Cooley
with four MeNicans, thirty horses or mules
and provisions, set out on his return to
the relief of Vincenthaler's party. heard
from him at the Little Colorado Pueblo,
which he reached the same day he left
me, and pressed on the next morning.
On the way he received an accession of
eight or ten horses, turned over to him
by Major Beall, of the army command
ing officer of this northern district of New
Mexico. From him received the offer
of every aid III his power, and such actual
assistance as he was able to render. Some
horses. which he had just received from
the Utahs, were loaned to me, and he
supplied me from the commissary's de-
partment with provisions, which l could
have had nowhere else. find myself
in the midst of friends. With Carson is
living Owens Maxwell is at his father
in-law's, doing prosperous business as
merchant and contractor for the troops.
[ remain here with these old comrades,
while Cooley goes back; bacause it was
not necessary for me to go with him, and
it was necessary for me to remain, and
prepare the means of resuming the ex-
pedtion to California as soon as he re-
turns with the men left behin6s [ expect
him on Wednesday evening, the 31st
inst, this being the 18th.
Say to your father that these my plans for
the future:
'At the beginning of February Cooley having
got back at that time) shall set out for California
taking the Southern route-the old route--by the
Rio Abajo the Passo del Norte, the south side of
the Ga, entering California by the Aqua Caliente
thence to Los Angeles, and Immediately to San
Francisco, expecting to get there in March, and
hoping for your arrival in April 1t is the first time
have erplored an old road, but cannot help it
now. shall move rapidly, taking with me but
part ofmy party. The surveys has heen uninter-
rupted up to this point, and shall carry it
consecutioely. AS soon as possible after reaching
California ] shall 60 on with it. l shall then be
able to draw up map and report of the whole
country, agreeably to cur original plan. Y our
father knows that this is object of great desire
with ME. AL 7ny other plans remain entirely an
altered. A home in California is the first point,
and that will be ready for you in April.
'Eoeaing.--Mr St. Vraiu and Aubrey who
have just arrived from Santa Fe, called to see me.
L had the qualification to learn that ST. Vrain
sets out from Santa Fe on the 18th February,
for St. Louis; that by him l shall have an
early and sure opportunity of sending you my
letters--the one now write and others after the
return of Cooley, and up to our departure for Cali
fornia Lieut.. Beale left Santa Fe OIL his way to
California the 9th ofthis MONTH He probably
carried on with him many letters that might have
been in his care, or at Santa Fe for me.
Monday. January 29.-My letter assumes
journal FORM No news from Cooley. great
deal of falling weather--rain and sleet here
snow in the mountains. This is to be considered
poor country, mountainous with but little arabic
land and infested with hostile Indians
Il anxously waiting to hear from my par
ty and in much uneasness as to their fate. NV
presence kept them together and quie.: my alb
sence may have had bad effect. When we over
took Kings famIshng party, Breckenridge said to
me He felt himself safe
So far the extracts of the first letter and they
are mournful enough The next written after the
retain OF Cooley, with the survivors of the party,
will be still more Though written with rapid
ity, and confined to events--the mind recoiling
from the description of scenes and of the details of
wo--it is still too much for this nights paper, and
must be deferred till our next.
*With view, among other great objects, to
the Mississippi and Pacific highway.