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COUNTY, MISSOURI, MONDAY, APRIL 80, is4s.

APRIL 80, ls49. mo. 2.
|sisting of Cooley, his young nephew, Preuss,
and Saunders (colored servsnt.) We car
ried our arms and provisions for two or
three days. In the camp (left under the
command Of Vincenthaler, the messes only
had provisions for a few meals, and . sup
ply of five pounds of sugar 70 each man. II
l failed to meet King my intention was TO
make the Mexican settlement on the Color
ado, a little %af1uent Of the Rio del Norte,
about half a degree above Taos, you will
ses It on my map,) and thence ssnd back
The speediest relief possible to the Psfty
under Vincenthaler ~ r.s.r s.aa
'On the second day, after leaving the
camp we came, upon q fresh trail OF Indians
two lodges with a considerable number
of animals. This did not lessen our uneasi.
ness for our long-absent people! The In.
dian trail, where we fell upon it, turned and
went down the river, and we followed it.
On the fifth day after leaving the camp
we surprised an Indian on the ice Of the
river. He proved to be q Utah, son Of q
Grand River chief whom we had formerly
known, and he behaved towards US in q
friendly manner. We encamped near them
at night. BY apfessnt Of a rife, my two
blankets, aud other promised rewards when
we should get in, | prevailed on this Indian
to go with US as a guide to the Little Rio
Colorado settlement, and to take with him
four Of his horses to carry our little baggage.
The horses were miserably poor, and could
only get along at a slow walk.
'On the next day 1.-THE sixth of u pro-
lgress) we left the Indian lodges late and
Travelled only some six or seven miles.
About sunset we discovered q little smoke,
in a grove Of timber, of from the river, and,
thinking perhaps il might be cur express
party King and his mem on their return.
I've went to see. This was the. twenty
second day since that party had left US.
and the sixth since we left the camp un.
der V~incenthaler. We found them-three
of them: Creutzfeldt, Breckenridge, and
Williams-the most miserable objects ! had
ever beheld. l did not recognise Creutz.
lfeidt'S features, when Breckenridge brought
him up and told me his name. ITheyhat
been starving! King had starved to dealt
q few days before. His remains were some
six or eight miles above, near the river
BY aid Of the Indian horses NJ carried thes'
three with as, down to the valley, to the Pu'
eb0 on the Little Colorado, which we reach
ed the fourth day afterwards, the tenth sftel
Ieaving the camp on the mountains,) having
Travelled through snow, and on foot, on'
hundred and sixty miles. lie
Il look upon the feeling which induced
me to set out from the camp as 70 inspira
ton. Had I remained there, waiting tn
return Of. poor Kings party, every man o
US must have persisted.
The morning after reaching the Littl'
Colorado Pueblo, (horses and supplies no
being there,) Cooley and ! rode on to tn
Rio Hond0, and thence 10 Taos, abou
twenty five miles, where we found what VI
needed; and the next morning Cooley, wit
four Mexicsns, thirty horses or mules, AM
provisions, sat out on his return to the re
lief Of Vincenthaler's party. l heard from
him at the Little Colorado Pueblo, whicl
he reached the same day he left me, AM
pressed on the next morning. On the wa.
he received an accession Of eight or tel
horses, turned over to him by the orders Q
Major Beall, Of the army, commanding Of
Ulcer of this northern district of New Mexi
CO. From him I received the offer Of ever.
I aid in his power, and such actual assistance
as he was able to render. Some horses
, which he had just recovered from the Utah'
were loaned to me, and he supplied m
from the commissary's department wit
, provisions. which I could have had nowher
else. l find myself in the midst Of friends
lOwens is living with Carson. Maxwell
at his father-in-law's doing a prosperou
, business as q merchant and contractor 70
the troops. l remain here with these oil
comrades, Cooley goes back; because
. was not necessary for me to 60 with hin
, and il was necessary for me to remain an
: prepare the means Of %resuming the expedi
'ItiJn to California as soon as he return
with the men left behind. | expect him o
"wednesday evening, the 3lst instant, thi
being the 18th.
: Say to your father that these are N
plans for the future:
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