New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-20
AUSTRALIA.
As>sy, \. Me,e.,r,e.-Po ssss -Bssiness--h~
the Digsinss'

sail till Monday ia already ccsec. -, nassenper TO
has an acquaintance who goes CUT ~ embrace the
Lyerpool-from thence to New" Cow lines to you When
opportunity Of sending by him rev s Young men some
III, Nowyorl there we're some lew .yu"e s;,;on Won
rAst sny;ons 70 come out here From .o p~SJence Of
cecupv as a public man. and having >. mt ouietus on
the community it is in your P.nng men, and others
the golden aspirations o. tnose sected and in order
VINO may nave oecJ m;,l Give you PLAIN Th;
1aa. you va! ,n~s as find them eAsls by Encland
.", Innr = q Colony settled ana a,,an No other
and II is English all over aea .,;on here Now and
nation has even large sandwich Islander, West
then, Chinese hn'a.Ieman from the =" states may
Indian, or cooreu the streets There are not nan
seen Wsaes in town who are number a. the
~,thonnb 7 hear there is g 9l's This is not the
mines They are mosu! s"t California was-Or is even
place for making mon cs opy gold digging but all other
now. In CaiLoin ass maid WELL Here nothing ou1 gold
eIaicnes % honor selling, appears " ;toist r fa..
ees - ~ the abOrer and ie he snccessfnI rho
sv call them both captain s.rs canital The distance
laborer at the lin ast gnqs is about $50 miles; the
from here TO the artorned on foot In about hve or
Journey nssn;no IN canvas tents On 'nc IoSuue, q"
sN ue! aries your tent, toos, unu 49, asao IN
.n e1nense Of about siVV do 80 Il An r. luy at the
town. as is nue. luz 70 three months provisions What
diggiDgs,) from wv can form an idea wien have told
that viii cost YOU provisions Ar r arriving on the
you t6e P'v INST nav the Cove. cnt Commissioner
groune' :v license 20 die one On'n ne win tneI
measure you off eight feet .I ,ty # vo" ike d" Won
least twentyn'e oI # not Why then that is the luck of
get any go,u nine After that eight more feet will be
seven on, u s 20 yosnd 20 the end OF the month
a .ucb narrow space as eight feet allowed TO each
MIN suo =. +ro thew have necessarily to rest their
digger OF sSe of the hole while at work, which,
eachs On Il yery trying to all but iron constitu
BENG n Aey stand in the water to their waists all
sons: 80 a,d bslDug out are relieved the next day
Sa! he vindlass and by that means bal out the
~ thsc after that, comes the washing may get
vi md mss not after working that way Tor three foar
eo'I ontbs Az the dry diggngs, where the exposure
81 ia &c, a;ccipr the dirt it has to be put in sacks,
s.rr;ed on the back nine miles and washed-Or can
sI =, rr;ed for SIS CARLOAD But there is no ne
Ia Of INV going through all this Mining here is
;nt the same as and is In California; only here t
< little harder and more expensive. From what L
kra sad Won will see the gold digger must have some
.sntal Next to him. the liquor seller does best in
at his busness is the most sure presume it will
80 no "a on the ear of the conscientious temperance
man in the States to hear any one recommending the
,elnc of liouor in order to make fortune. advise no
one II il business would not engage IN myself.
onlv ate the fact that fortune can be made at the
business in this town very rapidly; and NewYork
has a large number of rum-sellers-whO perhaps will
sllou II as long as it pays-and iii the end in my Opin
ION. lose their souls However, it will require capital
of 81 600 or $4,000, to do "a driving BUSINESS; aud
but few who have that amount think OF emgratlng
anywhere. .c
There is no Use in going into the city to find lodgings
.t hotels in boarding houses place is full carmen
will take you the Government grounds, men, women
children baggage ALL where you can erect tent gu you
have one if not can buy ready made put lt.n or
der and commence to live; for the privilege OF occupy
ING that ground that Government requires 81 20
Der week from each tenthOder thousands are thus ac
eommodated with hOuserOOm-every nook and cOrnerls
full Next to getting their tent III order is to get some
thing to eat beef pretty good and plenty at III cents per
pound mutton 10 cents bacon and hams oO cents fresh
pork there is none-nO ourfooed hogs here twofooed
ones say nothing about Bread such cost six cents in
New-YOrk lSa cents flour $l3 per BARREL vegetables
are worth their weight in gold; farmers won't raise po
tatOes while they think they can raise gold from the
earth coffee so cents per pound tea cheapest ana OF
course the poorest 81 sugar brown, ~ cents LOAF 20
cents Such are the prices of the necessares OF ife
delicaees are very high Fruit for instance apples SIX
cents piece green and unfit to eat; oranges though
raised at Sydney 700 miles north this lo4 cents apiece
cherries 80 cents pound raspberrles Oh cents saucer
cream 81 per quart but people who come mere 10 make
fortunes don't indulge in rich luxuries. Painters, car
pepters blacksmths and masOns find employment very
readily at So per day. and for the great demand Tor
houses they must be in great requslt0n Tor years To
come Tailors clerks and nice young men mad better
stay away from here People wear the coarest knd OF
clothes and the market is stuffed with the they can 9e
bought cheaper than in NewYork were shipped ready
made from England, and trust she has few more OF
the same sort left In fact, hardware and clothing are
the cheapest things in the colony This place about
rs large as Williamsburg with population more thah
double and increasing astOnshngly thousands arriving
every week-al Englishmen; even those vessels that
come from the States bring only British subjects from
Canada nv two associates and mysefwere the only an
kees" in our ship The Home Government sends out
these emgrants at very slight expense to each emf
grant they are not the class of emgrans you see III
NewYork but they are hale, hearty noble specimens OF
humanity-gants in physical formation and strength ar
tizans mechanics farmers mechanics such have spec
fed-dO well Immediately artzanS not so WELL they like
the farmers have not the MEANS generally to 60 to the
mines, have work in town TO get the means, c0nSe
quently laborers Many an artZan, many
clerk who left light employment and good salary i'll
London or Liverpool many a gentlemans son Is TO be
found working the docks on the public roads at
81 so per day. in order raise the cash TO reach the
mines. Yet thousands coming; from the LIST OF
October to LIST of November the Home Government
were to have 80 ships their way here. fear there
will be nice time before long have SAID there were
only two branches of business likely to pay here, viz,
cold-diggng and lquor-seng-by that mean the only
business that most emgrants would be likely to engage
n-other branches of business requiring heavier capt.
tsl than most of them can raise.
have to close abruptly or this will be too late for the
mail the Post Office hear has consented, after making
different arrangements to receive letters til II O'Clock
today-it is near that hour. Ii anybody in NewYOrk
chooses to come out here let them come they will not
only see the elephant but, blame me-, if they don
have to ride him. too L don't speak from personal
perience came out here, not dig gold but TO find
climate that the learned doctors in New York said was
euperior TO Italy they missed t, so have Friday,
l27; to-day, 75-beautiiul. B.