Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-24
BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE.


From Caltfernia-Distress on the Plains.
Hea.,rending accounts of distress
among the enigrants on the Plains had
reached San Francisco and Sacramento
CITY. The Sacramento Relief Associs-
ton had sent out Mr. J. N. johnson as an
agent. Of his return the Sacramento
Transcript says:
That gentleman came from the post at
the terminus Of the desert road, OH Car
son river, in less than five days. dis
lance Of two hundred and fifty miles,
The supplies sent from Sacramento City
for the relief of the immigrants were
nearly exhausted. He expended all the
money placed in his hands and all his pri-
vate funds, amountingto between five and
six thousand dollars, for provisions for the
immigrants. He left some three thousand
pounds of breadstufls there, which would
probably last ten days, distributed in mod
crate quantities. There was but very lit
provisions in the valley, and the prices
are still very high. Flour sold for 81 so
to So per pound, and other articles in
proportion.
Mr. Johnson gives painful accounts Of
the distress on the plains. From the best
information he could obtain, the number Of
overland immigrants will exceed $4,000.
Up to the 18th Of June there had been
$4,000 names registered at Fort Laramie.
About $4,000 arrived in California.
The Transcript has seen and conversed
with gentleman who has just arrived
in the country by the northern overland
route from the United States, who fully
corroborates the distressing accounts OF
suffering among the immigrants. He
passed numbers who had very nearly ex-
hausted their provisions, and were drag
cling onward YEARLY, almost berett OF
hope. Families there were, reduced to a
state bordering OH restitution and starva-
ton, among which the helpless infant
shared the keen pang. of distress alike
with the watchiul mother and despairing
father. There were numerous graves
along the road, and frequently were found
bodies unburied, deserted by all human
kind where victims TO disease and fatigue
had laid themselves down to die-where
| ssThey the young. the strong, who cherished
Noble longings for the strife.
BY the wayside fell and persisted,
The transcripts informant states fur
Their. that in crossing the desert he fed an
immigrants family, embracing father,
mother, and two children, with few
spoonsfull of flour and water.
A man named Young, residing at San
Jose, started from tina, place with two hun
bred dollars worth of flour, which he
contributes himself, for the relief Of the
suffering immigrants crossing the Plains.
He takes his own team and wagon, and
pays his own expenses!
The Sonora Herald says:
Three Frcnchmen, working a hole
within the limits Of this town, took OH;
three pounds and half of the ore in les.
than three hours from The time they begar
to open the hole. and say they have seer
E enough more Of the metal in the dirt tt
, satisfy them that they will get severa
: pounds more out Of it.
( Miners generally in This region are do
J ing well, especially at the Mormon
5 Gulch, where handsome dsily returns are
,,-.'- .s.- i...'..-...~..-. @.,@-rs--as-
: The Pacific News relates the following
. astonishing instance of good luck:
e We yesterday conversed with gentle
I man Just down from the mines, who gave
us account of the good fortune of mar
e named Johnson. He had been in tn.
n mines hut three days in all, and will re.
e turn home with the largest pile ever taker
on, in the same length Of time. He com
+ nenced work on the south branch OF Mid
u die Fork of Feather river digging up
e wards from the base of the mountain
# when, Oh the second day, he came to ;
:, rock, around which the river had formed
y an eddy, and BY o'clock next day he hat
$ taken on: sixty pounds Of gold, wi,hou
! washing painful. The humps were from
4 FIVE to three hundred dollars. He theI
$ sold out his claim 70. SIS, 900, and packed
q his dust upon a mule and started for this
city. He will probably reach here in ;
It dav or two. This is undoubtedly the hes
:, davis work ever done in California. The
y truth of the story is we'll vouced for, al
d our informant himself saw the gold.
7 ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER
:, "A cattle drover, named Hewitt, from
e Warren CO., received at the banking house
- of Mr. Curtis, in Peoria, on Friday even
y ing, the sum of S 500, upon check; ;
r number Of supicious characters were
about al the time, and were ordered off b,
>. some one connected with the house. NJ
o Hewitt bought an overcoat on the same
. evening, and the next morning started fol
j. Melroy, in this county, he had gone tw.
e miles from the city, and got out Of his bug
= gy to walk up hill, when man a'tacke.
him and demanded the fifteen hundred dol
: lars he had received the evening before. -
). The drover turned upon him and threw
= him to the ground, when the PROSTATE
n rohber called out to an accomplish in thu
IS bushes to shoot. A shot was fired which
e missed him, when the man came forward
with club, and struck him on the head
O breaking the skull and depriving him O
e his senses. The robbers then riaed hi
e person and left him for dead. Mr. Hewitt
l. however, came TO his senses and drove 4
" the nearest house. Physicians were sen
:, for, who removed portions Of the crushed
e skull, and the man appeared perfectly ra
u tional. He says he could identify tn
g men could he see them. The citizens o
# Peoria have made search for the robber
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