The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-02-06

then comes the trying time with The builalC
chips. They will neither burn nor blaze
so make up your mind TO eat a raw dog, OF
any other raw meat, without hot coffee OF
warm stuff Except No. g.. If the weather
continues rainy, so that you become tired oil
eating raw dogs or buffalo bull, just turn up
one Of your wagons, and cook enough under
it 10 last several days, and pack your load on
your mules. or oxen, or your own back. Don'I
back out; gold is ahead land you are in-"go
il boors"-ifyou get sick on the road, or your
wagon burned up, don't give ont as long as
you can toddIe along, and when you cannot
proceed any farther. Just lie down andFest,
then up and travel 10y tie moon till you over
take your companions. Then, il SO be you
lie several days, an Indian may come along
and examine your head; irbald he will re-
spect your age and not scalp you, but hand
you TO the squaws for a plaything. If you
have good head of hair he will only cut q
little piece out, Just about the crown, as a
token of Remembrance. which will either cure
YOU or make the wolves come to prayers.
You may have 10 swim some creeks, as I'm
Gle Sam has not bridged the road yet, and
there are a grea, many creeks. You ill be
very apt 10 pass ten or twelve Of these day.
so that before your clothes get dry from one,
you be in another. This frequent cold BATH
causes cold chills on fellow without any
heat, and often death when little hole Is
dug, three or Jour feet deep. and the dead
fellow rolled in, clothes and all-the dirt
thrown over him the wolves hold council
over his cold home, and soon tear him up
and have FEAST II will be all the same
thousand years hence.
In travelling TO California by land, parties
of Indians will frequently be seen, more or
| SIS every week. and il is hard TO tell wheth
er they are hostile or friendly, so cunning and
arlfu arc they in false aPpearances.-There-
fore, be cautious.
Prudence would dictate The formation OF
companies. Select Captain, one whom you
!eel willing 10 obey, and travel together IN
compact bodies-as separation would be
dangerous in the extreme 10 all.
After travelling Ten days, rest oil two days
10 give your animals time TO Craze. the men
10 wash their shirts. clean up their arms,
and repair all damages TO wagons, &c, IS
A physician would be OF great benefit with
a suitable supply Of medicines and surgica
who ought 10 be paid literally
out OF the company, and sufficient sum
should he advanced in order to procure good
and sufficient medicine for all.
Paper, pens and lux, with wafers-you
will need take enough of these along, and
supply ofb!ank pocket memorandum books
they are of great value. Almanacs will be
found useful.
All men that attempt 10 go to California, with
the expectation Of realizing anything must be oil
good strong constitutions, able bodied, Injured to
hardship, acquainted with fasting, capable OF sui
fering fatigue ard not expect 10 have others do
the hard work, and he look on; for every man
works for himself, and he that can do the most
holds on the longest, is up late and early, and
continues at it, will receive the benefit. But you
young fellows, that never worked a day IN your
lives on the road, in the field or woods, IN the wet
heat and cold, depend on it, your case is gloomy
Your bones will lie, to bleach Mother Earth, with
the beasts that roam lords of the soil. The march
itself, will take the marrow out OF your bonesand
your name go down to future ages as a toel-hardy
chap, grasping after those things not within your
reach. You young men who have good employ,
ments, are respected at home and beloved ny all
who know you, and are unacquainted win nara
labor. drop the idle phantoms and stay where You
are, nor move peg You mechanics, who have
families, and are well employed, keep at your
work, and be contented. Old gray-headcd men
have no business in these tramps. Stay at home
NOu lIsiNC SOlu NOul hOuoC lilsiu YOU Will
have if you go to California and back, unless
some one gives it to you. tell you. it is an easy
matter 10 talk and tell big tales. Aladdins lamp
would not suit some fellows, and make them STA
behind. Go they will, and continue so until
there's no 90 in them. Like the rolling stone,
they gather no moss. 1T is not all gold that
glitters," it is not all men that are born lucky.
The lucky planet was not out at your birth-rath
err the unlucky. You might as well say because
Jack drew $4,000 in the lottery, you can do the
same. This is nonsense. Stay at home don't
be catching at straws; you arc well enough off, II
you only think so. Keep moving along the even
tenor Of your way, steady and straightforward,
and you will be happy; but if you had all the
gold in California, you would think there was
more somewhere else, and not be satisfied until
you had beat your brains out against gold wall
then die an avaricous fool-kill yourself for gold
and make everybody around you unhappy and
lost and forgotteu-lost his soul
and gained nothing, so it is, and will be with
thousands Before l would lie out on the cold
ground among the wolves, Indians snakes and
lizards, half-starved for something TO eat. famish
ed for water three or four months, and dig, dig
in the dirt and mud Day after day, three thousand
miles from home, for three or four menths more
for few glittering sands, away from domestic
friends and earthly comforts, with
for life before l would quit father,
mother, brothers. sisters, wife, children and friends
aud travel two thousand miles over dreary des-
ert earth, among wild beasts and more than saw
age Indians, TO get handful of gold, suffer sick
ness, levers diseases and all the evils this life is
heir to, would turn into white dog, and hire
somebody to kill me. FOOL
Once more, tell me how all have come out
that went into the diggings. We hear that 5000
persons are employed, and make from IS to $50
per day. Who gets the money? Not those who
Zig and toll, but the trader, Spectator, and he
who hires hands and shows them where to dig,
furnishes tools and the means of living. The Ia
borcr, as in this country, barely makes his living
You hear a flaming account of how one Mr.. A. or
b. has made in one week 81 500. He might have
gambled among the laborers, traded with them,
and thousand other ways, to obtain the fruit OF
their labor, but the particulars are not given that
he stripped off coat and jacket, with spade and
pick in hand, waded into the earth hat-band deep,
into deep hole, and dug out the pure stuff.
How was it in Peru, one Of the richest mining
countries on the face of the globe? In the lead
mines. and every other mining operation through
out the known world! Does every one come out
-ich-full of gold 4! Does every tenth man, eve
~ fitch or hundredth man. better his condition,
i ofto of foil. fatlouc