The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-01-13
The Geld RexSOn.
PoRrLANn. Maine Dec o5 1s

NAoe' W INT toWIs Wiuin Hef lfnilS, VIII
each furnish its quota TO swell the tide o
emigration towards the Pacific, and many
farmer will leave his field to reap a colder
harvest elsewhere. A barque is ADVERTISE
TO sail from this place within short time
Tor San Francisco, and some, in their hast.
TO get rich. have already taken the lane
: route. Bath has sent dozen Of stalwar
kennebeckers, and in most of the princi
pal towns, companies are forming to search
tor gold. Bangor, never backwar in the
race for wealth, is foremost in this enter
Pnse. A Trim schooner is soon to sail from
thar port with thirty passengers, and an en-
terprising Yankee has fine barque Of 800
tons burden, now building, which he has
chrstened The Gold Hunter" She IS 10
leave for the gold region early in March, il
her taking name, so Suggestive Of fortunes
waiting % be-hunted up, attracts sufficieat
number Of passengers. The prospects for
the coming year are 80 peculiarly unfayora-
bic in Bangor, that the Gold Hunter will
probably be well lreighted, and her passen.
gers have an opportunity Of mingling in the
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Hundreds OF young men in this Stale.
dazzled by the hope Of speedily amassing
boundless wealth, are preparing 10 leave
their comfortable homes for the golden lands
Of California. They little know what foes
will encounter them wasting disease:
pinching privatiOns-daily exposure to the
manifold dangers Of a country inhabited by
men who acknowledge neither divine nor
human laval the countless horrors that
the Spanish adventurers under Pizarro found
in their wanderings over the mountains OF
Peru. Fortunate will they be if they es-
cape the fate Of many Of those gallant cav
alters, who, seeking to dig for gold, dug
only their own graves" Doubtless most Of
these modern gold hunters will learn too
late that they would have found more true
happiness and wealth, if they had never de-
serted the fields and forests Of their native
State for the treacherous shores Of the new
ly-iound Ell Dorado.-COrrespOndence Bos-
ton Courier.
The following incident Of golddigging
on the Sacramento, is related by cores
pondent Of the Courier and Enquirer, at
Monterey
| Provisions are very scarce, and to obtain them
many murders have been committed, or the pur-
chase of them at exorbitsnt prices has indirect
| ly but eventually led to murder. One story re-
, lating TO an affair Of this kind, nav deserve
/ place here. A man who had what is called a
] good hOle, had been digging necessarily for two
days, when he was accosied by one carrying a
I A 4 T.
whole Of this the digger. purchased for about
one hundred dollars ia virgin gold; and, while
devouring il, the man who had sold the provi-
sions, took possession of the hole. After finish
ing his repast, the gold-hunter ordered the fell
low out; bat on his positively refusing 10 come
knocked his brains out with a pick axe, took
| from the pockets the virgin gold that had pur-
chased meal. and then dragging the hndy out
/ Of the hole himself, continued the digging
| This, believe, is really true, Just as have
| told Il.
A Mr.. Barnes, of the New York Regi-
ment, closes a letter on the subject, as fol-
lows. lie seems TO think "0ld Bullion"
himself might "larn" something new on the
gold subject Who knows but the "yaller
boys" may yet flow up the Mississippi
| worked there myself about month, and
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| my life, butt is nigh upon all gone already. |
wore out my shoes, and trousers, and Jacket, and
when | came TO buy new ones, ! found they
were worth more than their weight In gold. /
wish Col. BEsToN was here; ] reckon he'd larn
something new about gold; and other folks, too,
who say there's nothing valuable but gold, say
what now know is an everlastin' and etarnal
humbug There amt no prices now in all these
diggings; the question is, when you ash the
price of anything, show much gold have YOU
got'' And then the measure is handful
JACK BUNsBY on CALIFoRSIA-GoLO
vs.. PorAroEs.-The following hit is from
the New York Sunday News
Being asked what he thought of the gold par
ic, BUNsBY crossed his boots, took a whiff anC
said, "lf 80 be as how gold can be got in Cali
fornia for digging. why, good; the only question
would be, 20 dig or not to dig. And so, bu
then, do We see, a man must do something els,
besides digging. lie must eat, drink, sleep AM
be clothed withal-and if all the people turI
gold diggers, who shall perform all the other kim
of work. Now, il so be, man should dig gold
and fill his pockets, why, so. And, If SO be, an
} other man should dig praties, and I'LL tin ket
4 tie, and put II over fire, in unison with som
wild kids and few yarbs, and the man who ha
been digging the gold should come and say, Civ
me some of that ERE mess, why, so, also. Now
what would the pratie-digger say How nue.
gold have you dug1 Oh, says the gold digger
have had great luck to-day but am very hun
d CRY. Good, says the pratie digger; give me two
D thirds of your gold, and you shall dine with me
,, Why, you inhospitable fellow, do you want {
rob- No, says the pratie digger, but 60 and es
{ your gold. I'll eat my dinner alone, and saw
h what is left until tomorrow, and then can 2
e and dig gold, and you can dig praties for your
self Now, says Bunsby, the pratie-digger woul
be the best off, for the other could not wait un
3 Ill the morrow for a dinner, and it's therefor
e my opinion that digging praties may be, undo
SONS circumstances, more profitable than dig
- ging gold, and my names Jack Bunsby.'