New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-03
AUSTRALIA.
Some Of the Mi.erie- Of Gold Dig gins.

Ext froma Letter
MOUNT ALEXANDER, Saturday, Jan. g. 1859
DEAR BROTHER: You must excuse me for not writing
sooner as have not had the opportunity until now
suppose YOU would like to know little about pas
ssge " had hard times OF it. We were put On short
allowance Of water the FIRST week-One quart of water
per DAY for cooking aud al other purposes The pro
visions were Of the worst klnd-bscult and mOlasses
twice day and park and beans for dinner We had
beautiful weather all the Passage-lost one boy
board had two of sickness, both getting well
again; as for myself, | Was Dot SICK five minutes
Now Tor the Harbor. Our Captain was afraid be
burst not 20 in You enter the bay forty mile. below
Melbourne the entrance very and wldens ill.,
side 1t is most beautiful hArbor We we're beating
about days before got IN We dropped anchor on
the 25th November. The harbor Is nine miles below
Melbourne so We were taken from the ship by small
steamboats, for which had 10 pay four shlllIngs,
and thirty shlDgs per tun for baggage We sailed up
very narrow channel called the ldra larrd Rlrr
There We step shore, the rst tue Tor heen weeks
and pitifu sight We see-huDdreds 0i emgrants sell
ING YOU cant call II selling IL IL giving Il away cloth
ing If YOU want to get meal, they vii Charge you
thIee shings | never had one meal IN Melbourne
filled NY pockets with biscuit before LETT the ship and
found very useful | only stopped IN Melbourne
dsy and night; | went to tavern for bed and they
put me in .hed place with long bed down zach side
/ went IN and laid down little while, but the place
smet 81 could not stand il 80 got up and 10
the landlord and complained Of the ma ter. II slept
on a bench that night, and be wanted two shl-
OF emicranis who pitch their tents outside Of Melbourne
for which they have pay four shings per week that
is for the land only LiquOrs very dear. Beer ISL per
quart brandy per quart and Tor ROLLER Of bran
~ NObeI il what they call DRINK Oh sent 10 the
dieeiues With my AIT on my back tn-pan and one
blanket and fly ing pan With the weather hot
ever ie ia July IN America, ani ~ miles to gO-tO
wax Al hight you wrap yourself IN your blanket aodgo
10 sleep get IN the morning Vet through Sth the dec
though to I'LL i horse, let alone One ulght IL
SIl DIubf lso he On Naf A |
Travelled through the Black Forest, and tiy-
ern: paid 81 for supper and 8 for bed add slept On
tie floor al that price. Ii is hard road travel
hills and MOUNTAINS through woods, aud the water
You get TO drink is from mud hole, and very tile OF
that fifteen twenty miles sometimes and not get
drop, and the burning you up, your almost
d 40 Tor drink You don't want much hit 20 carry
then That's seeking your fortune | wished ny
ny self back 10 New Ork many TIM, Alter i've days
Tramp got to the diggings and most heart breaking
saht lou STAND aud look al around you Tor
miles AID II is al dug and then You wonder snere
you can Ind bn that is not dug however you 20 anu
md place You think is good aud then you ~ 10
yourself dug herr Then you Eaut license, tnaI
costs 80 then YOU want pIcA aud shovel AMI pins %
WO wlth-then YOU want tub for bali dDur barrel
lhey charge Il -aid then 10 sOrk properly! yol aanE
cradle a.sO-an together will cost 80; but there are
very few WHO yet all these tlugs- You can "orA
vi pch. shovel and two pans. bat Il j. losilg
game. There are hundreds who work few days and
then leave disgust There not One-thlrd can stand
il YOU want heart Ike lion and constitution Lie
horse, AID then days you would BE- dsSn-hearted
lou would lot be surprised 81 that you we're 70 see
Of the dsappontmeuts Say You have been SOrAlag
al the week, AID shen Saturday night coues you have
got bali lev penn Well hts-Sell you sAy
' B.ner tHck HeIf time Then you 20 AID sink hole
some twenty or twenty-five feet deep-thsn you Work
Tor three OF four days and not specs OF shIi /
you don't expect to any until you get 10 the bottom,
tie solid rvck About foot iron thr bottom you De
in 70 wash fu of expec alton OF having good hAli
ell, you clean the bottom get frS spscks, perhAp.
IuAner If ounce, and sometimes AOtsiHg. NOE yol
,ecin 10 undermine AZ the bottom thinking you may TALL
Il h something sometimes you do ger tiie, out MT
much don SAY thsis the alts al ba ~ n,e.n '
ases cut Of twenty IL Il has been the case wla
lie IL present but ain DOT one O. i've uP lt tide.
There we're i've Of No HorAed tbfte secA. 81 male