The Nevada journal., 1853-03-25
The Disbanded Volunteer once
More.

More.
A year or two ago We used occasional
" to publish funny letters from the Sun
day Times. written by this personage.-
He was supposed to be Yankee volun-
teer in California, who, on being disban-
ded, went to the gold diggings' Last
Sunday another letter was printed from
him, showing that he is in Australia
Here it is:
PoRr FILLup, AusrRAILY, Aug 90, 1852.
Mister Eddmur-Littul did I xpect,
wen I writ from Payris last winter, to
turn up at the antippodees. But this IS
a wurld of rewerses. Wot with playin
ut picket with the French scjers and
treatin the greasets to paistry and uther
dallykisses, my pile wilted down very
rapid. saw something must be dun to
get up nv fincnancies or purity soon lde
be fat on my back without liver in my
port mummy. Fortnetly, jest at this
tiias kem along RUNNER Of gold from
Aistraily. The rummc- was in every
bodies mouth, and 4 ank Y in with
proeAy ear he'd tA2 of 9f suthkitin
,nyaelf with eharkole srtch the French
sI,sn 40 ,,sr thew T., into s. @te place
but, on reeeY'n ttta 0t'rss, soca got 2 d
OF tho yapors. Weakly the report &c sii-
cred strensh. or I'll it wrai dsii,red 4.
Nv the British Hum nis, ihen ass
10 Pawsean, a luz plump gre Aset
who'd sorter taken nine to .eeA es
-"Pawlean, line o, p, h !" she s,m
prenayvood my meanin, for Ida tor her
the Inelish langwidge, and bursting int
a dud Of tcers she offered me her puddle
as keepsake; but as dogs is onplesen
in crowded bark, was compeld to de
kline the suvvenear Next dayI go
my PASSPORT, and putin "The MISTRESS
Of Payris" in my pocket to turn oyer
during the vige. was soon on root toI
Austraily, by way Of Havver and the
London Dox-Pawlean wavin her han
kercher as the cars started, and xpressin
hope soon TO hear Of my rival. Findin
clipper ship in the TENS goin out with
wimmen and uther commoddities ior
supplyin the infant settlements IN the
inteeryur, | engaged my tar aSros', Gro % and
idge was like long passidges in Jeneral
"a good desi Of jammin, and dammin,
and pitchin, and rollin, and retchin,
menny of the wimmen rejecting evry-
thing they tuck onto their stommicks
ontii we brought u? oil standin in the
butiful natural basis at Port Phillup.
made tracks at wunst for the Victory
diggins, and hev now jest returned from
Nugget Crick by bullock xpress, with
gold enuff to bribe board of alderme en-.
Thare's no rockin and siftin ut Nugget
Crick, tell you. Evry grane's as big
as kwd Of pigtail, and plenty for all
that chews. Kangiroe stakes is the prin-
sipul artikle Of grub ut the diggins |
can't say like fresh kingiroo much, but
it goes fustrate wen its jerked. Its
kweer kind Of an unfinished lookin ami
NAL. sum thin betwixt deer and bull
frog, with a leg and quarter on eech
side, q cradle in its belly, and spiral
spring in its tail. The tail with little
salt sprinkled on it, is considered, as
we used to say in Payris, q reglar bone
bush. The climit and the licker-two
important pints-it better here than in
Californy. 10 my subsekwent advices |
shall give sum account Of the state of
society in the settlements. Morals is
from fair to middling, and the churches
and meetin houses is we'll attended by
Christians under convickshun. Yours
allua
A DIsBANDED VOLUNTEER.