Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-10-18

since we had TO make the use Of them we did,
\ = But it is no use for me to at
tempt to give an account of our endless chain o
woes-as we crossed the Saleratus Plains, yot
must believe we suffered more misery than Capt
Riley ever dreampt of in crossing the Desert o.
Sahara, although goaded by merciess Arabs
for we, in the depth of anguish for water, were
execrated and execrating one another for the en-
couragement and rope that each had extended
the other in the commencement of this miserable
expedition, and damning march. The tortures
of Montezuma were a bed of roses, compared
with the Undesirable woes which we endured
My heart sickens as memory recalls the hours
of anguish, famine, thirst, fainting, WEAKNESS
watching and despair, which we spent in toiline
and dragging our miserable selves, with the hall
rotten carcasses of our long since dead horses
for we carried the horses when they could nc
longer carry us-just as we came in sight Of
those snowy barriers of the path Of the gold-be-
sotted traveller, we had eaten the last mouthful
of decent food-heie we were compelled to sum-
mon our last drop of civilized blood to agree on
a plan of mutual support,-like shipwrecked
mariners on the waste of an ocean of water, we
put ourselves upon scanty allowance of wretch
ed food. A tablespoonful of chopped dead horse
meat was allowed to each individual. The most
of us, in order to make it go as far as we could
made it into soup and took pint of the liquid for
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it is to live in this world till you can relish such
a dish as that. We then discovered for the first
time what an excellent sauce hunger can make.
The government of California sent on some sup
plies to help on the poor starving wretchss-but
we were not lucky enough to see them.
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But you may ask: "Are you now paid fol
your trouble 2" If we were, or if there was any
prospect Of psy for it, would never have told o.
the misery of getting here. There is not one
man in 500 who ever made fortune in this OF
any country in digging gold Here, as in the
States, the SPECTATOR the non-producer makes
all the money. From my means of observation
and inquiry cannot hear of any man or compa
ny that is now averaging, clear of board, 81 {
day. 1t costs everything to get little of mise
rable feed-there is but little if any encourage
ment to attempt to keep soul and body together
the "game is hardly worth the candle" in this
country. Hundreds take their own life every
month-murders are more comwon-if maj
lives alone, and there is any chance for an ind
vidual, or band, to get his money, his money
they will have and there is report in thi:
country, as in the States, "that dead men tell NJ
tales" The words morality. snssal obligation
duties to man, and all of this class of meaning
have been long obsolete in California. Shoulc
man mention one of them, he would be aban
doned as an insane man-they abandon the in
sane and the sick here, as soon as they find ou
they are to be suspected of needing the care O.
their fellows. God save the commonwealth O.
California.
There are thousands upon thousands here who
are pining in poverty and want, broken down in
health and spirits, given up to dissipation anc
every vice that has had birth since the founda
ton of Sodom-thousands, say, who were wei
off at home, who have tender wives and pratt
Ting babes, in some of the states east of the
mountains, who will never again caress those
wives, or dandle those babes upon their knees
unless government shall do something to hell
them from this place-doubtless there will b.
briggs and ships that are now rotting in the har
Dor of San Francisco, and thus secure passag
for many that would otherwise be blasted by tn
pestiferous climate, and be charge upon tn
State for funeral expenses.
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A great attempt is being made to get the sol
for the workers, and out of the hands of specu
ators. How it will succeed no tongue can tel
"a great many squatters that have talked with
say they will die or succeed in having thei
ground--sooner or later this great battle has &C
TO be fought all over the world-this probler
must be solved, whether the people whom Go
has placed on the Globe are entitled to their Ii,
ing from its hosom-certainly no better time tina
the present can be found for settling this ques
ton here. You can get no idea from the paper
in this country about how this matter stands
They are all under the power of the speculate
they advertise for the capitalist. and the capita
lists support them. When | write again | wi
give you the phase of the question as it the
bears. have no more to say at present tina
to tell every body that enquire about me, that
shall be at home as soon as l am lucky enoug
(for it's a lottery to get money to carry m
there. If you know of any body that is comins
tell them they would be better off on the bank
of the O'Plain Rver--with wooden gray
stone.
Direct your answer to Sacramento city.
Yours truly, ii. U. b.
New Haven, Oct. 2-noon.
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