Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-01-11

Ahe dciHc Mdit steamship Company
have issued a card stating that they
have already issued as many tickets for
the steamer, intended to leave for Panama
on the 9th Of January ,as is consistent with
the safety and comfort OF passengers. The
ship Apollo which has been on the berth
for San Francisco only week, refuses to
accommodate any more passengers; but in
a day or two, understand, one London
and two Havre packets will be up for
the gold digglngs, so that all will have a
chance with the pickaxe and shovel.n
The New York Express makes merry
over the California fever TO an almost ex-
uberant degree. The proverb is true that
"contenment is better than riches" and
we would not be surprised if many poor
fellow, in this California affair, were vet
to realize the "deep damnation of this ia
king off," But hear the Express:
"The California yellow fever is evil
IDENTIFY assuming malignant type, in this
meridian at least-for some people, we
see bv the newspaper advertisements, are
absquatulating without paying off their
honest debts. The doctors say there is a
remarkable resemblance between this dis
ease and that other, down at quarantine,
the Cholera. In both cases persons ofir-
regular habits are invariably the first TO be
attacked, and always the first to be carried
Off"
s'True patriots they, for be it understood,
They leave their country, for their countrys good
Gin Canal street, near Broadway, we no.
tIce placardin the window of dry goods
establishment, Of which the following is a
STOCK SELLING OFF CHEAP!
GOODS GIVEN AWAY!
SELLING OUT TO GO TO CALIFORNIA.
Great Bargains. .
GOLD DUST TAKEN IN EXCHANGE.
There is every PROBABILITY that those who
can be persuaded to stay behind will have
cheap rents, high wages, and plenty Of
employment, in a short while-though in
all probability the city will have to adver-
tise for inhabitants.
A great many Of the light fngersd gen.
try, we are informed, have already emf
grated, and if the telegraph was in opera
between here and the "placers," a sense
ofjustice might constrain US to notify the
diggers to keep sharp eye on their bags
and buckets-for New York vagrancy was
never too highly celebrated for work
when II can obtain the proceeds Of other
peoples labor by little sharp practice
We should not be surprised next, to hea,
that a posse of police has been dispatched
to keep back the human avalanche rushing
down town, among the shipping offices
applying for passage for those placers
Nay, if the excitement keeps increasing
to much higher pitch, it will be indis.
pensably necessary to call out the military
The number of individuals carried off by
the "gold itch' is enormous--how many
it is not exactly easy to say, but as we have
organized board Of health to report pr O.
gress at times, our readers (those who
don't 60 of, we mean, may depend upon
a irregular bulletin. Here is the first report:
BOARD OF HEALTH.
Total number of cases since
disease began, 1919
New cases, this day, COG
Old cases recovered, 600
Cases convalescent, |
Dangerously sick, 1900
Carried off, 1900
Expected to go off-incurable, 5000
1t is the opinion Of the health officer,
that the malady is contagious, infectious
and malignant-every thing. He would
also recommend starvation as the best
method of treatment. Keep the patient as
quiet as possible, and say nothing contrary
to his wishes.
According to the Philadelphia Times,
the gold fever is first indicated by an un-
usual opening of the ears, singular ex-
pansion Of the eyes, yellow cast of coun-
tenancc, clutching OF the hands, and
thrusting them repeatedly into the trow-
ser's pockets, or the fancy reticule.
An evil symptom Of the fever is men,
toned by the New York Star, in connec-
ton with the six thousand persons con-
gregated at Panama, awaiting passage:
sSome Of them are said to be desperate
characters. 1t was thought that the steam
er expected at Panama OH the 9Th of July,
would barely touch there, for fear attempts
would be made to take possession Of her.
1t is also said that the fever prevails among
the emigrants."
"7here is something tempting and peril
Gus in thus getting rich without troubte.-
In the eleventh and twelfth centuries
many people in Bohemia set to work to
wash out of the sand of one their rivers
the gold contained therein. Many of
them gained more than could be got then
by agriculture and the raising of cattle
But what happened? When the other in
habitants of the country saw that hundr eds
and at last thousands earned more by this
easy business than they with their hard
labor, many Of them, thinking they could
do as we'll as others, left their land until
led. There arose great scarcity and Sc
we're famine in the land. OF what avail
was their wealth then, TO the most fortu-
nate gold-washers, who in years space
had procured pound and more Of the no.
Die metal? They could not for hard mo-
ney purchase bread enough for themselves
and their families; many persisted Of star
Walton, and the government finally forbade
the business orgold washing under heavy
penalties.
"And has not that, which then impover-
isheI little country and its inhabitants,
been repeated also on grand scale in the
history of mighty Kingdoms? Incur days
what has poor Spain, what has Portugal