Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1849-03-17
miscellaneous.
Correspondence Of the Chronotype.
The California Fever in Hornby.-Let.
ter from Ethan Spike.

Correspondence Of the Chronotype.
The California Fever in Hornby--Let.
ter from Ethan Spike.
HoRNBY, Jinooary S0th, IS49,
MISTER RiTE:-We is all hit here The
kallyforny fever is broke ont all over town,
and RACES powerfully -hy di ofoby, funny
inZy, or chin cough is nothin' to II. Kernel
Peabody is gone crazy rs coot, an elder
Jnkins breaches every Sabberday about the
gold of Oter, an the pavements of the new
Jerewsalum. Fathers offered the steers,
two shotes, the old boss an half dozen
hns at less than haaf price, an he swears il
he can raise the money, he'll strike out for
the diggins, short meter. M others eenjist
wooried to deth about il an has mustard
poltis on his feet every night, hopin' to draw
the notion aout on him. But he keeps get
ting no better very fast, an raves about Sac
rymenters, Fransiskers, Sanjewans and Boo
ny visters, like all possest.
Last night the :" Hornby an Kallyforny
Life an health ass-soshiated mootooa in
dewrance Company" held IA meetin' in Lib
by's bar-room tn organise an kinder fix
things aout. Joel Spike, Esq.-a cuzzen of
mine-was called to the cheer. On takin'
the cheer, Joel came aout strong, an done
himself credtable.
Feller townsmen an neybors," says Joel,
say he, bowin' an scrapn' all the time,
60 this here is E-pock! Yes sir-ree," says
Joel, a rasin' his voice-"a e-pock, say
1t proves sbripler," says he. ''Don't we
read Of a time when plaow shares shall be
beat intu prunin' hooks (which is the same
thing as pick axes, and means the goohlen
age. Pm not a profit" says Joel, says he,
NOR son of profit, nor even a fortieth
cu2zen jarman to profit yer | venture TO
predicate the times near when we shall awl
eat hasty puddin with goold spoons! Them"
says Joel, " then will the millennium set in !;
the mounting of the Lords house shall be
the monntings Of kallyforny ; the lions shall
lie daown with the sheep, leetle child
shall be born in day, an every body shall
have pocket full OF tin. Amen--seeler ="
said Joel, windin' up his peroration, an
settin' daown amid perfect hurrykane of
applause and sereechins.
lnsine Libby next read to the ass-sociation
some extracts from the papers. The first
set forth how the ship Humhug was comm
hum with a hull mounting of goold in tew
a weghin' 0O0024 lbs screwples and "a
drains, aver-dewpoiZe, and sixty tew carrots
fine! This great mask of the preshus oar,
ii was stated, was sent on post-mortem rs a
present to gneral Rushing, by some of the
lpot-in-tates of Offer, on account of his hav-
in' broke his leg in the sarvice of his coun-
try, besides introducin' new kode of mil
ingfary discplin. Another account told
how Mr.. MISUNDERSTANDING of litigation
to the treasury-had got forty-five barrels of
gooId dust berryed in shapperawl, an dar-
sent leave it, an had petitoned the gineral
court an Mister Polk for plate of pork an
beans, but that it hadn't passed the legisla-
toor yet, on account of Mr.. kalhound
wanting to Introduce the WIlmot pervso
into the bill.
Several other accounts, equally impertin-
ent, was read, when a debait rs as to the
best way of goin' to the Elder RAIDER
Some was for goin' round Kape horn, while
Others stuck to Kape Kod ; an Enos Jink-
ms, who went aout tnackril fishn' last
year, an was proper sea sick, stuck to the
overland raoute threw Yarmouth With
out any CONCLUSION, the meetin' adjourned.
Yours trewly, ETHAN SPIKE.
P.S. Jinooary 81, ~ O'Clock,
Merrydian.
Elder Jinkins has gone! He's only bin
gone abaout IS minits. He was not sartn'
as he should go further than Portland but
might go on to kallyiorny. A good many
turned aout to see the Elder off, an, as the
newspapers say, he carried the best wishes
OF the kommunity with him-though Ben
Kyer, the kone aouter, said he didn't be-
Ileve they'd keep half the way aout--an he
advised him to get them put up in tin canis-
ters, like as they dew Holsters and green corn.
Haowsoever, every body shook hands with
the Elder, an united in singin' the follerin'
paradox, made by the scboolmaster, who,
as the Elder once said" shows decided
pinshunt for pig-ass-suss:''
&C From Iiomby's orfa mountains
10 Kullylorney's strands
i Where Sacry-menter river
Is thick with golden sands
What though the noF-west breezes
Blow some DER Bethel bill,
And likewise also freezes
Their wheel al Spooner's mill.
Pm ashamed ont mister Rite, but I'se
forgotten the tother staDzis, but they was
fust rate, and made every body cry. III try
aud get the school master To send you a
copy of the hull. T.. 5.
A Few Days in the Diggings.
From Ppuoh.
Landed at ST. Francisco. aftera 'tarnal tos-