Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-07-17

In half an hour they departed as uncere-
moniously as they came. taking with them
some three hundred horses, and leaving us
as:ounded at this raid. to wonder if we were
vet awake, or whether it was an unsubstan-
tial dream.
"Los diablos,' exclaimed the General,
:sthey have taken my wife's saddle horse!"
SO thoroughly hal Fremont's lieutenant ex-
ecuted his order.
hamlet where now stands the queen city of
the Pacific, (San Franclsco,) he augmented
his stock to the number of fifteen hundred,
completely clearing the country; and then
comm enced one of the most peculiar races
for fight ever probably known. Barely
pulling bride to deyour a steak cut from the
quarter of scarce dead bullock; driving be-
fore them their spare horses--on, on, they
went; the roads, at all times bad, at this
season were horrible; fifty miles being
hard days journey, even for Californian.
= As.sheis exhausted beasts dropped under
them they tore off the saddles and placing
them on others, hurried on, leaving the poor
animals to be devoured by the cayotes, or
recover, as chance might bring about. Ever
at the head-the last to dismount and the
frs. to leap into the saddle, was this COM
panion of Kit Carson! this pioneer Of EN-
pire! Fremon Rarely speaking but to urge
on his men, or to question some passing na-
tive, taking the smallest modicum of refresh
ment and watching while others snatched
moments repose, was he, wrapped up in his
project and determined to have some Of the
fight.
/. Through San Pablo, and Monterey, and
Joskpbs, they dashed like the phantom riders
of the Hartz Mountains, startling the inEab-
itants, and making the night watcher cross
himself in terror as the band flew on. The
river SACRIFICES was reached swollen BY the
rains, it rolled on, rapid muddy stream;
his men paused.
"Forward! forward!'' cried he, and dashed
in himself; the struggle was fierce one, but
his gallant mustang breasts the current, and
he+eaches the opposite shore in safety; his
men after a time join him, two brave fellows
finding watery grave, and many horses be-
ing carried down the stream; but nothing
can now stop him-the heights adjacent TO
the Puebla appear--now smile might be
seen on the implacable visage of the leader
It's the sirth day, the goal IS won!
With ninety men on the last of his cara
van of horses, he fell like thunderbolt on
the rear of the Mexicans. The day was
with them; the little band of stout hearts
guarding the preside, taken by surprise, and
not having the advantage of the Mexicans
in regard to horses, were beginning to waver.
But cheer up, cheer again-succor is at
hand. On come those riders of Fremont
nothing can withstand their shock. With
shouts of triumph they change the battle to
a rout. The field is .con.
With Fremont was a Wallah-wallah
chief, the sole remnant of a band that Joined
Kearney on his journey across the plains.
in his wusPsInt, mounted on a bare-backed
mustang, he would ride up at full speed to
the enemy. and as lance was thrust at him,
dexterously throwing himself on one side OF
his horse, he would avoid the blow, and
grasping the pole, draw up his antagonist,
and with stroke of his tomahawk, cleave
his skull, calculating grunt of satisfaction.
Three did he dispatch in this manner, alone
and unassisted; and as, with his face covered
with blood, and his -eeKing Ratchet uplifted, 4,
he rode here and there, all fled before him.
The rout was complete one; and had not
Fremont's men been utterly exhausted, none
would have escaped. So ended the Riie Of
the One Hundred.
would state that the Government, with
their usual speed in such matters, passed
an appropriation to satisfy General Vallejo
and others for their losses, sir gears after.
This put virtual end to the war, for
though they again made a stand at San
Pascab headed by Pico, still they were dis
pirits3, dnS Gen. Kearney with his mounted
men defeated them with great loss. The
governership of the country being decided,
which bad long been source OF trouble be-
tween Kearney, Stockton and Mason, affairs
became more settled, and the American force
now largely augmented. was placed on such
footing as to soon "crush the head of rank
rebellion," and Pco and Castro fled to the
lover country, to fight for time longer
against inevitable fate.