Show defeat of walker sari SAK DIEGO april 18 54 As I 1 predicted to you some time since the band have completely dried up they have been very anxious to get out of the country for a month or more mit but could not the president with his victorious army determined to move from the abominable state 0 of f lower california to the state of sonora republic of sonora and in passing the colorado river river was attacked by the cucuza indians and defeated losing seven men killed and all the animals he had stolen from the state sae of lower california for whom the victorious president had offered all kinds of rewards even of offering rewards to the indians for his head was n not ot found asleep he caught capt steele and his party took their arms and permitted them to leave the pais with a passport SO SD dr thomas foster returned to this city from a trip to the colorado this week arora his observations ions we gather the following about tho ath dinst a party of ten or twelve of walkers men came up the sonora side odthe of the colorado Colom do and crossed the ferry nearly in a naked and starving condition the party gave no satisfactory explanation why they separated from i wa walker aker they stated that about ten days pre walker crossed the ibe river some 40 miles b below the mouth of the gila by means of rafts and swimming I 1 they describe the whole of the command as being in a 4 most miserable ind and destitute condition wearing the same clothing with which they went to the country and this is in tatters and rags walker himself is no belter beiter clad than the rest and has but one boot and a piece of a boot at their crossing they cached 70 or 80 stand or of arms the cucura indians were here detected stealing some of their stolen cattle and in the attack upon them ae seven ven or eight of the fhe indians were killed I 1 after this wilker walker re crossed the river at the I 1 same point with only 25 men and started back for santo sahto tomas with nothing to subsist V upon but beef upon which they had for a long time been living they represent walker as havin having g turned b back ac k in in chabr desperation with without 0 ut an object or if he had one it was concealed and because it k was the only thing he could do the party arrived at the fort in iii extreme destitution and were kindly furnished with cloteil clothing ng and provisions by major heintzelman and dr me kinstry they represent themselves as extremely tre niely sorry for having joined the expedit expedition expedita 1 i on andare and are on their way to the settlements to ob tain employment they say if they can gain an honest living they will not I 1 go soldiering any more 9 since dr fosters arrival one of the men of i w wham min lie speaks has reached town traveling from the colorado on foot in eight days from him we have the following particulars of the march from san vicente to the river i walker left san vicente with men and driving off cattle in crossing the mountains a between them and nd the gulf two men deserted and twenty head of cattle were lost soon after crossing the mountain s they were i joined by 30 Cue cucuras Cu cupas who followed them to the river where they stole some 30 head bead of cattle five of the indians were seized as hostages for the return of the property and in attempting to escape three of them were shot at this time the rations had been reduced to beef alone and poor at that there had been corn but this had been reduced so that it was as only to be had in the mess of his Exbell excellency ency there was murmuring at this for walker had boasted that he would share the hardships of his men they reached the river six miles above its in mouth on th and about seventy from fort yuma the colorado here is about yards wide very deep and not rapid the men crossed by means eans of rafts in attempting to swim the cattle several were drowned and some escaped and the a attempt was abandoned the first raft took over among others capt douglass Dougi ass and smith an englishman and for douglass Dougi ass went along also a pint of boiled corn which was placed upon the ground and stolen by smith when douglass Dougi ass ascertained smith to be the thief he drew his pistol and deliberately shot hot 8 him dead thus a pint of boiled corn was worth a mans life the party remained at this point three days ajo on the second day after crossing there was much disaffection in the camp ant and in a barren country which they had invaded with hostile intentions tent ions with few means of repelling attack exhausted naked starvation staring them in the i face many men prepared to abandon the die waning fortunes of the expedition and return to the s settlements ettle ments for an honest livelihood the party of our informant were three days reaching fort yuma where they were received by major H with courtesy and their necessities 8 supplied u before leaving the fort many others came cam e in in and it was ascertained that fifty men had deserted walker and oth others rs were preparing to leave in fact a general stampede had oci burred finding his numbers thus reduced that he could not swim the cattle which were his only I 1 rations walker resolved to retrace his sapps ps to I 1 san vicente with the intention of reio rejoining his excellency smith he started back in the wi winter anter of his discontent with not more than twenty men and twenty or twenty five head of cattle the character which walker baars among his men is by no means an exalted one he is rep resented as excessively vain weak minded and ambitious his vanity makes him tyrannical his weakness renders hilp cruel his unbounded and senseless ambition has led him to believe himself born bor to a command his great pride was in standing upon his dignity his men were constantly harrasser harr assed with vexatious orders upon etiquette there was vs not a sensible man in the whole command who did not utterly despise I 1 I 1 him ohp an d la a team iram M rom horn and 1 te la barra who have stiff suffered ered imprison imprisonment mi mt and outrage at the hands ot of the the latest intelligence from walker states that he is still in the valley of la trinidad about seven leagues from the mouth of the colorado or ado A spaniard who arrived in san diego last week stated slated that walker had seized upon about sheep and shot ahot the owner mr dennis because he be refused to give them up voluntarily mr dennis had a partner in san isabel and one in stockton stock ton don jose espinosa a wealthy gentleman of santo domingo was taken prisoner and three hours were given him to decide between death and the delivery of a ransom of twelve thousand dollars there are now in san diego and vicinity some hundred souls who have fled from their homes to escape the outrages of the bandits many of them arrived on foot and destitute and the citizens of san diego have raised by bv subscriptions funds for their relief many more of the inhabitants stants would have fled but the distance and loss of their property prevented them don ignacio arce an old soldier of spain and his brother don santiago arce wealthy men were robbed of all their property don ignacio 85 years old was forced after losing his p property op erty to act as vaquero for walker over his own cattle he has a family of fifteen children childen r which is left in a very destitute condition i don santiago was placed as shepherd over the sheep stolen from the murdered dennis in the church of santo tomas w were e re deposited several trunks containing the plate candlesticks pearl necklaces and valuables of several of the old missions of the northern portion of lower california amounting to miny many thousand dollars these valuables were stolen and carried awa away y by walker these are some of the outrages which the people of that country have suffered at the hands of the liberators the property destroyed by walker is estimated at more than a million of dollars and by his licenses and example the indians who before were peaceful have become aggressors and their depredations are cleaning out what little was left by barp him it is is not supposed that walker has appropriated to his own uses more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars but a I 1 v vast ast amount of property properly has been wasted FROM SONORA sonona intelligence from sonora is is to the ath march the condition of the people is is miserable in in the extreme the depredations of the apaches are unabated provisions scarce and no money in in the country unprotected unemployed and starving I 1 the tha people are fleeing by every opportunity Emio E migrants emigrants rants arrive almost daily at the fort the tax levied by the government to pay for protecting them from the apaches is is so enormous that it is impossible to earn a livelihood and pay for the protection they do I 1 not get the decree prohibiting emigration is is enforced by soldiers stationed at all points along the frontiers and those who escape are obliged to ste steal I away in in the night the intelligent por tion of the people ate represented as being very anxious to become citizens odilie of the united states and it is is only in becoming such that they ex hect any relief |