Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-04-26
LTTCHF1ELD, CCONN,) THURSDAY,

to us in a friendly manner. By presents
and promised rewards | prevailed on him
to go with us rs guide to the Little Rio
Colorado settlement, and to take with
him four of his horses to carry our bag
gage. The horses were miserably poor,
and could only get along at slow walk.
On the next day, 1.-THE sixth from the
camp,) about sunset, we discovered a lit
tie smoke in a grove Of timber, off from
the riser; and thinking perhaps it might
be King and his party on their return, we
went to see. This was the twenty-sec-
ond day since that party had left the
camp under Vincenthaler. We found
them--three of them: Creutzfeldt, Will
liams, and Brackenridge-the most mis-
cradle objects 1 had ever beheld. / did
not recognize CreutzefeIdt's features
when Breckenridge brought him up and
told me his name They had been star
| ving King had starved to death few
days before. By the aid Of the Indian
horses we carried these three with us
us to the valley of the Little Colorado,
which we reached the fourth day after
wards, (the tenth from the camp having
travelled through snow, and on foot, 100
miles.
looked upon the feeling which indu
ced me to set out from the camp as an
inspiration. Had / remained there,
waiting the return of poor Kings party,
every man of us must have persisted.
"The morning after reaching the Lit
tie Colorado Pueblo, (horses and supplies
not being there Cooley and I rode on to
the Rio Hondo, and thence to Taos,
about twenty miles, where we found
what we needed; and the next morning
Cooley, with four Mexicans, thirty horses
or mules, and provisions, sat out on his
return to the relief of Vincenthaler's par
ty. l heard from him at the little Colo
RADIO Pueblo, which he reached the same
day he left nc, and pressed on the next
morning. On the way he received an
accession of eight or ten horses, turned
over to him by the order of Major Beall,
of the army, commanding officer of the
northern district of New Mexico. From
him l received the offer of every aid in
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 sup
piled me from the commissary's depart
ment with provisions, which could have
had nowhere else I find myself in the
midst of friends With Carson is living
Owens. Maxwell is at his father-in-law's
doing prosperous business as merch-
ant and contractor for the troops. re-
main here with these old comrades, while
Cooley goes back; because it was not
necessary for me to go with him, and it
was necessary for me to remain, and pre-
pare the means of resuming the expedi-
tion to California as soon as he returns
with the men left behind. I expect him
on Wednesday evening, the 2lst instant,
this being the 18th.
"Say to your father that these are my
plans for the future:
cat the beginning of February go
dey having got back at that time) / shall
set out for California, taking the southern
route-the old route-by the Rio Abajo,
the Paso del Norte, the south side of the
ella, entering California by the Aqua
Caliente, thence to Los Angeles, and i'm
mediately to San Francisco, expecting to
get there in March, and hoping for your
arrival in April. 1t is the first time 1
have explored an old road, but cannot
help it now. I shall move rapidly, Ia
king with me but part of my party. The
surveys has been uninterrupted up to Mis
point, and 7 shall carry 1t on consecutive
". AS soon as possible after reaching
California / shall 60 on with it. shall
then be able to draw up map and re-
port of the whole country, agreeably to
our original plan. Your father knows
that this is an object of great desire with
me. AL my other plans remain entirely
unoItered. A home in California is the
first point, and that will be ready for you
in April.
"Eyen;ng-Mr. st. Vrain and Aubrey,
who have Just arrived from Santa Fe,
called to see me: l had the qualification
to learn that st. Vain sets out from
Santa Fe on the 18th of FEBRUARY for st.
Louis; so that by him 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 California. Lieut. Beale left
Santa Fe on his way for California on the
9th of this month. He probably carried
on with him any letters that might have
been in his care, or at Santa Fe, for me.
Mosday, jan. 29M,-My letter as
sumes a journal form. No news from
Cooley. A great deal Of falling wealth
er-rain and sleet here, snow in the
mountains. This is to be considered
poor country. mountainous, with but lit
tie arabic land, and infested with hostile
Indians.
al am anxiously waiting to hear from
my party, and in much uneasiness as to
their fate. My presence kept them to-
gether and quiet; my absence may have
lad bad effect. When we overlook
Kings furnishing party, Breckenridge