The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-31
On to the rescue, on
Ye youths, with hearts so brave,
To noble deeds and daring acts
The fallen ones to save,
Sad News from Col. Fremont and his Party.

Correspondence of the st. Louis Republican,
INDEPENDENCE, March co. l949.-I herewith
send you slip from the Santa re Republican, OF
February I'd, containing some intelligence OF Col
Fe some days after its issue, reports the whole
number as having persisted, with the exception OF
COL Fremont himself, who was in Taos badly
bitten 1t is possible, though, that there may
be some mistake in this, as Santa Fe is noted for
unaulhenticated rumors.
From the Independence Expostor.1
Col FREMoNr-Lqte and Important from Santa E e.
We stop the to-day. to announce the arrival OF M
Snss with him the ? Fe Republican ID Feb
Tuary 1s49 from which learn that Col Fremont and
Rmss IT,, st s safe The whole county
taken take from the santa Santa Fe Republican Feb ad
Col FRraoNT-We present to our readers II thI,
Taos, relative to Col fremont. unfortunate expedition
which win be found below.
this fa am COMPELLED to be- be- short '''
There not much novelty in this PLACE unless Is the
very unfortunate affair of Col. Fremont.
the United States for Caliornia Being The winter
season. and being overtaken by very severe snow
one lost some 10 mules IN one night Being left on foot
the party could scarcely remain where it was and was
patched thes men to sesk some settlement when after
twenty days absence and not etuning the Colonel started
$50 miles which he made nine days On b. avs
commander, M8JOr beal issued an Ouer
provisions for the detailed party and mules to them
Col Fremont, though much emaciated, and in feeble
The suerngs Of the party have been terribly even
mont and Major Bea Certainly deserve great credit in the
whole affair the one for his and o ga
in misery and the other for the and
the unfortunate party.
This news will create deep sensation wherever
it is read and great will be the desire to hear the
real extent of the calamity. We are not without
hope that the report greatly magnifies the suffer-
ings to which the party were reduced, and that
some if not all of them, may have been saved.
The last direct intelligence from Col Fremont
was contained in letters from himself, and from
| Mai Fitzpatrick, and Mr.. S. U. Lupton, to Col
| Benton This was about the last of November.
| Heswas then at Pueblo San Carlos, twenty-five
| miles above the Fontaine qua Bout, on the Upper
| Arkansas. He purchased supplies of provisions
there and fresh horses, intending to commence the
| ascent of the mountain. He dsmounted his men,
and packed the horses with corn. His intention
then was to cross the mountain which lies between
| the Arkansas and Sierra Nevada Two days after
he left the Pueblo, he was followed by two men,
who wished to join his party, but as he had no need
of their services, they returned. They stated that
they overlook the party when ascending the noun
| tain through very deep snow. Col Fremont was
| in advance with few of his ablest men, breaking
| a road for the mules and horses. They were, when
these men left, within six miles of the summit of
| the mountain, and it considered that the most
difficult part was accomplished when they reached
the top, as the descent would be much more easy
and rapid 1t was Col. Fremont's purpose, says
| Mai. Fitzpatrick, TO fall Immediately on the Rio
del Norte and considerable distance north of the
1 New Mexican settlements; from which place he
would steer directly for California, leaving the two
hitherto travelled routes one north and the other
south Of him, and passing midway between the
| two. Col. Fremont's party was composed Of about
thirty persons, and he had over hundred horses
and mules. An interval of six or seven weeks