Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-12-30
THE GOLD REGION.


The Gold Fever has reached Maine Most Of the towns
within her limits will each furnish its quota TO swell the tide
Of emigration towards the Pacific, and many farmer will
leave his field reap golden harvest elsewhere barque is
advertised to sail from this place within short time for San
Francisco and in their haste get rich have already
taken the land route Bath has dozen Of awart Ken
nebeckes and in most Of the principal companies are
forming TO search for gold Bangor backward the
for wealth. foremost in this enterprise trim schooner
to sail from that port with thirty passenges and an
enepng Yankee has fine barque of 500 tons burden now
building which he has chrstened sTnE Com HUNTER"
She to leave for the gold region early in March, her taking
name suggestive OF fortunes waiting be hunted up
tracts sufficient number of passengers The prospects for
the coming year are so peculiarly unavorabe in Bangor that
the Gold Hunter will probably be well feghted and her pas
sengers have an opportunity of mngng in the agreeable
society of California
of speedily amassing boundess wealth. preparing to leave
their comfortable homes for the golden lands of California.
They little know what foes will encounter them therewas
ing diseasePnching pvations-daly exposure mani
fold dangers of country inhabited by who acknowledge
neither divine nor human laval the countless horrors that
the Spanish adventures under Pzao found in their wander
ings over the mountains of Peru. Fortunate will they be if
they escspe the fate OF many of those gallant cavaliers who
"seeking to dig for god dug only their own graves"
Doubtless most of these modern gold hunters will learn too
late that they would have found happiness and
wealth if they had deserted the fields and forests of
their native State for the eacheous shores Of the newly
found I'll Dorado Correspondence Boston Courier.
The following incident of golddigging the Sacramento
is related by correspondent Of the Courier aud Enquirer
Monterey;
Provisions very scarce and obtain them many
ders have been committed the purchase of them
ban prices has indirectly but eventually led to murder
One story, relating to affair of this kind, may deserve
place here who had what is called good hole had
been digging necessarily for days. when he accosted
by one carrying bucket containing food Of some kind The
whole of this the digger purchased for about hundred dol
lars IN virgin god and, while devouring il the man who had
sold the provisions took of the hole After finish
ing his repas the gold hunter ordered the fellow bat on
HE av
took from the pockets the virgin gold that had pur
chased meal and then dragging the body the hole
himself, continued the digging This believe, is really
true, just as have told it."
Mr. Barnes, Of the New York ReeimentI closes letter
the subject follows. He to think Old Bullion
himself might "larn" something the gold subject
Who knows but the "yaler boys may yet flow up the
Mississippi
al worked there myself about month"; and got as much
gold as thought would last all my life, but is nigh
upon all gone already my shoes and trousers
and jacket, and when buy Ones found they
worth than their weight in gold. wish Col.
Benton was here reckon he'd arn something about
god and other folks too who cay there nothing valuable
bu gold, say what now know Is everasn and etarnal
humbug There amt prices in all these dggings
the question Is when you ask the price Of any thing, how
much gold have you go And then the Is handful
JACK BUSsBr ON CALiFoRSn-GoLD VS.. PorAToEs.-
The following hit is from the New York Sunday News
Being asked what he thought Of the gold panic. Busssr
crossed his boots, took wh and said, IL be how
gold can be go, in California for digging why, good the only
question would be, to dig to dig And but then,
do ye see must do something else besides digging.
He must cal, drink sleep, and be clothed witha-and all
the people turn gold digge who shall perrm all the other
kind Of work Now If be- should dig gold, and
Gil his pockets why, And If 50 be, another should
dig prse and I'LL tin kettle, aud put FIRE, in uni
with wild kids and few YARDS, and the who
had been digging the gold should and say give
Of that ere mess why also Now, what would the pa-
tie digger say How much gold have you dug Oh, says
the gold digger have bad great luck today, but very
hungry Good says the prate digger give wo-,hrds Of
your gold, and you shall dine with Why, you nhos-
ptable fellow, do Kpu rob No, says the pratie
digger but go and your gold. Pleat my dinner alone
and what is left until to morrow and then go and
dig gold, aud you dig pracs for yourself Now,
Bunsby, the paedgger would be the best off, for the other
could wait until the for dinner, and it's there
fore my opinion that digging praes may be, under
cumstances profitable than digging god and my
Jack Bunsby"