Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-07
AUSTRALIA IN A NEW LIGHT.

WILLIAM HowIrr, very clever English poet and hus-
band of MARY HowIrr, whose ranslaons have made us
SO well acquainted with the novels Of Miss Bremen has
emgrated to Australia, and communicates his first i'm
pressons Of thu, golden land to the London Times
1t seems that john Ball, ns usual does not manifest
the go-ahead" qualities of IFS pet offspring Brother
Jonathan for Mr. Hewitt declares that he reached his
journeys end after arduous and eyentui journey Of
" nearly two months, only two hundred and fifty
miles of ground But then, he exclams, such ground
Some folks insist that it is only hundred and fifty miles
others two hundreds but know very well that in Eng
land it would measure two hundred and eighty"
After reaching the diggings the emigrants first ef
fort of course to get taste Of the comforts he was
accustomed to in the old country He had his stea and
Immediately set forth in quest Of the Commissioners
tent" where he mil ght obtain letters from home"
The official residence of this parsonage is the other
side of the creek two Of these statdy tents in fact,
lined with blue cloth, and with other ents in the rear,
the whole enclosed with paiings. If you could
see our pots pans pannikiu our tin dishes some for
making loaves and puddings in, Others for washing in
our knives forks spoons lying on our bags OF sugar.
rice, four &C., standing about our tea chest our lam
term tin teapot of capacous size our IN
wood our lantern at night suspsnaoa s rom % string in
the TENT the interior of tent with the beds spread
broad part of the oor and covered with grey
rugs the tent hung round with pieces of dried salt beef
straw hats with wells around them, caps, and
guns standing in with books and writing cases.
and portfolios you would say it scene at once
rious and comfortable looking
This description of ''roughing 1t beefsteak and
bottle of port shows attention to the decencies and
luxuries of life in Australia than have been accustom
ed to hear of in California. But there is of
the medal which dscloses picture did not expect to
find in the modern Ophr under the dominion of her Bri
tannic Majesty
On the day after his arrival Mr. Hewitt sailed forth
witness the abors of the dggers and washers and after
recountng the marvels that broke upon his vision at
every step he gives specimen of Yorkshire jockeyng
in claims that would do honor to certain which
Mr. Bull has been celebrating during the last half century
for keenness and cunning:
" About noon we had specimen of the way in which
the mares nests have been got up, which have hum
bugged England the Continent and America. There
was great hurrahng at a hole and man who knew
came running up to desire to go and see nugget
which had just been dug up as large his finger AS
nuggets have been found here, but only small
gold it appeared the surprising / hastened on
but before could reach the spot met man who
saying WELL Pve sold the nugget and my hole for a
good round sum- Where's the nuggets asked oh,
the who has bought it has gone off with it,
There nugget, doubt, but it had been putt
by this man. an old Bendgo miner in order to sell his
hole at good profit. Many of the Munchausen holes
of which $4,000 and 81 900 said to have been
shoveed up in few days Mount Alexander were got
up in the same way and for the same purpose
But this "ayng of golden eggs bait the trap is
fortunately the only misfortune under which the emf
grants suffer We believed that Australia of the
most salubrous regions of the South but the season.
says Mr. Howt has been fightfuly unhealthy and the
journey to the gold fields has been fatal to many
Thousands have been struck down by sickness; hun
dreds have already returned cursng the parties who
sent them such onesided statements Of the gold fields
and the climate; hundreds still lying i'll from the in
sdious influence Of this ne salubrious climate In
letter Just received Melbourne that scarcely
soul there bat has been ILL., and all the country is the
same Gentlemen who have been in India, China and
the whole continents Of Europe and America say
that this is the worst climate they know Without any
apparent people are every where attacked with
dysentery, rheumatism cramp and influenza. All this
ought be fully and fairly stated The little black fly Of
Australia is perfect devil The grass seeds in summer
which pierce your legs like needles, and actually
through the sheepskns into the flesh Of the sheep and
into their lungs and kill them (but this is particu
lary the with the seed-spikes of wild geranium
which act like corkscrews the dust winds and the vio-
lent variations of the atmosphereoften of less than
hundred degrees in day-these nuisances which
ought to be well known deal is said about sending
out young women to marry the men in the bush. God
help such marry the greater portion Of such
fellows the class here Their very language
is perfectly meased with obscenty and the yest oaths
and the bases phraseoogy, and they drink all they
get In short this is country to to- people go
to India, to make money as to spending it here, that
der present circumstances would require different tastes
to those of most cultivated men and women"
We do not pretend to say that Mr. Hewitt the literary
man. may view Australia with other eyes than DR. Smith,
the laborng man. who is content to in the busb"
and sees difference between dying in the parish
workhouse in England perishng by fever while grasp
ing the nuggets of Australia Yet are inclined to
think Mr. Hewitt tells the truth His writings free
from exaggeration and oversatement Australia after
ALL fear not the promised land which noveliss and
spectators have hitherto presented in such seductive
poets to British and Irish emigrants Baltimore American
IpoLAroRs BY MIsTAKE.-The late Lady Baird. Says