Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-10-07
ksPERATE ADVENTURE.

6iI6 encamped on the 18th of April.
e 9cring near the Spanish trail, we were
So sec BY the sudden appearance among
pc q <Ho Mexicans, o man and boy the
na4 Of the man was Andreas Fuentas,
eno net Of the boy Ia handsome lad eley-
en yza<s odd Pablo Hernandez. With a
ca<11cade of about thirty horses, they had
come out from Puebla de los Angeles, near
the E4clflc; had lost half their animals,
sto2o by Indians, and now sought nv
scanzp for aid. Carson and Cooley, two Of
nj uen Volunteered to pursue them, with
tn4 tLexlcan; and, well mounted, the three
eo< FH 90 the trail. In the evening Fuen-
go etnrned. his horse having failed, but
ION and Cooley had continued the pur-
g ihe afternoon of the next day war
w1oop was heard, such as Indians make
when returning from victorious enter
4is1 and soon Carson and Cooley appear
cd. driving BEFORE them q bond Of horses,
recognized by Fuentas to be part of those
they bad lost. Two bloody scalps, dang
ling from the end of Godey's gun announc-
ed that they had overtaken the Indians as
well as the horses. They had continued
the pursuit alone after Fuentas had left
them. and toward nightfall entered the
mountains into which the trail led. After
sunset the moon gave light and they fol-
lowed the trail by moonlight, until late in
the night, when it entered a narrow defile.
and was difficult to follow. Here they Law
from midnight till morning. At daylight
they resumed the pursuit, aud at sunrise
discovered the horses and immediately
dismounting and tying up their own, they
crept cautiously to rising ground which
interviewed from the crest Of which thew
perceived the encampment of four lodges
close by. They proceeded quietly, and
had got within thirty or forty yards of
their object, when movement among the
horses discovered them to the Indians.
Giving the war shout they instantly
charged into the camp, regardless of the
numbers which the four lodges might con-
tain. The Indians received them with
flight of arrows, shot from their long bows,
one of which passed through Godey's shirt
collar, barely missing the neck. Our men
fred their rifles with steady aim, and
rushed in. Two Indians were stretched
upon the ground, fatally pierced with bull
lets the rest FLED, except lad who was
captured. The scalps of the fallen were
instantly stripped off; in process, one of
them, who had two balls through his body,
sprang to his feet the blood streaming
from his skinned head, and uttered hid.
eous howl. The frightful spectacle ap-
palled the stout hearts of our men bat
they did what humanity required, and
quickly terminated the agonies of the CORY
savage. They were now masters of the
camp, which was pretty little recess in
the mountains, with spring, and appar-
emily safe from all invasion. Great pre-
| parations had been made fer feastinc a
largo party, for it was o very proper place
for rendezvous, and tie celebration of
such orgies as robbers of the desert would
delight in.
Several of the best horses had been kill
| ed, skinned and cut up-for the Indians
living in the Mountains, and only coming
into the plains to rob and murder, make 10
other use of horses than TO eat them
Large earthen vessels were on the fires
boiling and stewing the horse-beef; and
sesssai baskets containing fifty or sixty
pairs of moccasins, indicated the presence
or expectation of large party. They re-
leased the boy, who gave strong evidence
OF the stoicism, or something else of the
savage character, by commencing his
| breakfast upon horses head as soon as
he found he was not to be killed, but only
tied a prisoner.
"Their object accomplished, our men
| gathered up oil the surviving horses, fifteen
in number. returned upon their trail, and
reJOiDed us at our camp in the afternoon OF
the same day. They had ridden about one
hundred miles in the pursuit and return,
and all in thirty hours. The time, rlace
and numbers considered, this expedition of
Carson and Cooley, may be considered a.
mOng the b9ldest and most disinterested
which the annals of Western adventure,
SO full of daring deeds can present. Two
men in savage wilderness pursue day and
night an unknown body of Indians into the
defiles of an unknown mountain, attack
them on sight without numbers, and desea,
them in an instant-and for what? To
! punish the robbers of the desert, and re.
venge the wrongs of Mexicans whom they
did not know. / repeat it, it was Carson
and Cooley who did this-the former an
| American, born in Boonslick Comfy, Mis-
souri,; the latter Frenchman, born in
| st. Louis, and both trained to Western en-.
.erprise from early life.-Fremont's En-