Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-10-12
SOUTHPORT, WIS: FRIDlY, OCTOBER - lS49

been heaped upon me, they have been disguise
under the most kind and ingenious forms but
! refused them all. | was determined that
should be said that the King Louis Phil
! ippe the King who devoted Versailles TO al
the glorles of this country, had known, b.
cause, before restoring to him what was his, thu
! governors of France wished to probe to the bot
tom the fortune of that nabob of European mon
archy. Unmeanng curiosity! but from that eX
animation, made by men who were not, as far a,
L know my friends it has resulted that the nab Il
! who was represented as so parslmonious, had eff
fected such singular savings out of the twelve
millions per annum of the civil list that he left
thirty millions of debts And now | demand
that they should 90 further; demand that they
should examine into the origins of those various
debts, and that after having found them, they
should make them known to France. But b.
lleve me they will not do that! no; they will moi
do that
Its impossible for me to depict the energy ant
the conviction displayed by the King during the
latter part of this conversation.
HOUSEKEEPING IN CALIFORNIA.
We have any amount of information respect.
ing the outdoor life of California. The tirst
glimpse of indoor life, however, is furnished BY
a good housewife from Winthrop, Me, whose
letter to her Cbildrenis published in the Portland
Advertiser OF Saturday, and is a capital account
of housekeeping in Ell Dorado.
The following is her description of her domes-
tic arrangements
eve have now been keeping house three
weeks. | have ten boarderS, two of which we
board for the rent. We have one hundred and
eghty-nine dollars per week for the whole We
think we can make seventy-five dollars of it clear
of all expenses, but | assure you have to work
mighty hard-l have to do all my cooking by a
very small fireplace, no oven, bake all nv pies
and bread in dutch oven, have one small room
about fourteen feet square, and little back room
we use for a storeroom about as large as a
piece ofchalk. Then we have an open chamber
over the whole divided off by a cloth. The gen.
tlemen occupy one end Mrs. II and
daughter, your father and myself the other We
have curtain hung b5twaen our beds. but we
do not take pains 10 draw it it is of no use to
be particular here"
She says they have bought no furniture; and
from her account they get along very comtorta-
bly, without such supertuities; for she adds
"The gentlemen of whom we hire the house had
been at house keeping; he loaned us some few
things, but | assure you we do not 90 into the
Injuries. We sleep on a cot without any led or
pillow except our extra clothing under our
heads" The price of these accommodations is
$2l week. The good lady, nevertheless, en-
terans no great love Tor San Francisco, and has
decided yearning for down East" There is
not pleasant thing there, she says, but gold OF
that there is plenty, but you must work hard for
Il.
"Te Betty" she adds, "they have to pay
twenty-five dollars for making dress. If there
was anything pleasant here should like to have
you all come Immediately. But there has been
no rain for three months, nor won't be for so
long to come; not a green thing to be
seen but a few stunted trees, and so cold that We
have to keep fire to be comfortable. When
you are eating corn and beans, think of your
poor mother, who does not get any fruit or vege-
tables ex eptiug potatoes, and those eight dol
lars bushel, and as soon as we are worth ten
thousand | shall come home, if | do not find
some pIeasanter place than this, which am in
hopes will be in one year from the time left
Mrs. ii took some ironing 10 do, and what
time had helped, and made 81 in as many
hours | have not been in the street since |
began to keep house; don't care to go into
house until get ready to 90 home; not that |
am homesick, but it is nothing bat gold, gold, no
social feelings, and want to get my part and 90
where my eye can rest upon some green thing"