Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-04-28

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and left behind. In Two weeks he expecte.
TO be in these mild valleys. Unhappily, III,
guide consumed these two weeks in getting
the head Of the Del Norte-a distance which
only required four or FIVE days of travel, a.
COL Frement showed in coming back. Thi.
was the cause of the frs, calamity--,he los.
OF the horses and mules. The same guide
consumed twenty-five days, when sen, with
the party for relief, in making the distance
which Col. Fremont, with Cooley, Preuss,
and seryani,) without guide, on foot, il,
colder weather, deeper SHOWS. and half ia.
mished, made in six. That was the cause
ofthe second and irreparable calamity-th.
death Of the men. et -
The immediate scene of suffering in this
great disaster, where the ascent of the grea,
mountain was forced aud its summit scaled
must have been about north latitude 3sa, and
west longitude from London 10Y, the eleva.
iion above twelve thousand feet, and the
time that of dead winter-Chris,mas From
this point the noted objects, Pixies Peak and
the Three Parks, would bear abou, E. N. E.,
and the Spanish Peaks about E. S. E.
With this notice of localities, to which a
mourntul interes, must long attach, we pro.
ceed to give extracts from the remaining ard
final letters from Col. Fremont The first Of
these is dated
"TAos, New MryIco, Feb 6, lS4s
"After long delay, which had wearied
me 10 the point of resolving 10 set out again
myself, iidings have at las, reached me from
my ill-fa,ed party.
"Mr. Vincent Haler came in laA night,
having the night before reached the Little
Colorado settlement, with three or four others
lncluding Mr.. King and Mr.. Proulx, we
have los: eleven of our party.
Occurrences, since left them, are briefly
these, so far as they came within the know
ledge of Mr.. Haler: | say briefly, because
am now unwilling to force my min' 10 dwell
upon the details of whal has beer suffered.
need repreve from terrible con,empla,ions
| am absolutely as'onished at This persistence
OF misioriune-ihs succession of calamiiies
which no care vigilance Of mine could fore
see or prevent
"Yon will remember that had lef; the
! camp (twenty-ihree menl when set off with
Cooley, Preuss, and my servant in search oi
King aud succor, with directions abou! the
| baggage, and with occupation sufficient about
il 10 employ them for three or four days; az
ter which they were 10 follow me down The
river. Within that time I expected reliet
from Kings party, if it came at all They
| remained seven days, and then started, their
scant provisions about exhausted, and the
dead mules on the western side of the grea
| Sierra buried under snow.
"Manuel-(you will remember Manuel-s
Christian Indian of the Consume tribe, in The
valley Of the San Joaquin) gave way to {
feeling of despair after they had moved abou
Two miles, and begged Vincent Haler whom
had lef, in command, TO shoot him. Fail
ing to find death in that form he turned anS
made his way back to the camp, intending
10 die there; which he doubtless soon did
"The party moved on, and at ten mile
Wise gave out-ihrew away his gun anC
blanke,-and, a few hundred yards further
fell over into the snow, and died. Two In
dian boys-countrymen of Manuel-wer'
behind. They came upon him in the snow
on the bank Of the river.
''No other died that day. None the mex;
''Carver raved during the nigh,--his ina
gina,ion wholly occupied with images o
many things which he fancied himself 10 b
eating. 10 the morning he wandered off, an.
probably soon died. He was no, seen again
'Sorel on this day (ihe fourth from tn
camp) laid down 10 die. They built him
fire, and MORN, who was in dying conditio
and snow-blnd, remained with him. Thes
two did not probably las, till the next morn
ing. That evening a think ii was) Hubbar
killed a deer.
"They travelled OIL, getting here and ,her
a grouse, but nothing else, the deep snow
the valley having driven of the game.
''This state of the party became desperai
and brought Haler 10 the determination {
breaking it up, in order TO prevent them fror
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that he had done all he could for them--ih;
they had no other hope remaining than Ii
expected reief-and that the best plan W:
to scatter, and make the best of their wa.
each as he could, down the river, that, 4
himself, il he was 10 be eaten, he would,
all events, be found travelling when he d
die. This address had lis effect. They a
cordingly separated.
"Wnh Haler continued five oihers-Scol
Hubbard, Martin, Bacon, one other, and Il
, Two Cosumne Indian boys.
+ 'Rohrer now became Respondent, and s'o
, ped Haler reminded him Of his family, al
1 urged him to try and bold out for their SAX
b Reused by this appeal to his ienderes' aie
4 tions, the unfortunate man moved forwar
e but feebly, and soon began to fall b
/ hind. On further appeal he promised
Y follow, and TO overiake them at evening.
!. "Haler, Scott, Hubbard, and Martin nc
d agreed that If any one of them should 81
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