The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1853-03-05
Another View Of Gold Hunting.

A letter, dated Melbourne. Nov. II,
published in Dickens Household Words,
gives the following glowing picture Of
the newly arrived emigrants on their
first landing in Australia. The suffer
ing depicted in this account is incidental
to the large immigration, and to the I'M
settled condition Of the country:
"Comfort is unknown here-that is,
in the town; although a house and gar
den in the bush is very different thing.
All the varieties Of the English climate,
and in far greater severity--especially
with regard to floods of rain, and dense
clouds Of hot, binding dust--rage in the
golden land. There are thousands Of
persons, many Of them women and chill.
dren, daily landing at the wharf, who
can not, either for love or money, get
places wherein to lay their heads.
Imagine n gloomy day (of which
there are many at the present season.
the rain descending in torrents, and the
unpayed streets morass the river
steamers running up and down the Var
ra between the town and IIobson's Bay
(where the shipping are anchored) all
day long TO convey at each trip humid
reds Of newly arrived emigrants. The
passengers are landed bag and baggage,
on the wharf, among hundreds OF their
fellow sufferers, and are left ruihlessly
to their fate. The men Of the different
parties dispense about the town IN ques,
Of lodgings the women seat themselves
upon their piled up baggage, gathering
their wondering children around them,
and await the husbands or brothers re.
turn with hope and confidence. Illus
bands, fathers, and brothers do return,
but after long absence, with weary feet,
flushed faces, and sinking hearts. They
have made tour Of the town, and there
is no lodging to be had-ihey are ALSO
luiely ho0seless. Besides this, every
article Of consumption is enormously
desr-siore room for luggage ~ found
at alb Is ruinous. Again men sisri
wildly on The same errsnd, and again
return unsucccs full. have seen tears
rolling down more than one manly fe-
lows face, as be has stood contemplating
his wife and children reduced 10 such
hard necessities and II is painful 10
witness the stunned look Of despair, or
the agony Of grief and tears with which
the English women receive the cruel 10
tellisence, and clasp with streaming eyes
their homeless little ones 10 their hearts.
The fcycrish hustle and excitement at
The wharf are increased by novel Kind
Of sale or market, which is necessarily
being held. and which IN iiseif, Is also
disagrceable aud omin0us sigD Of tho
iiInes.' The wares thus sold IN the open
air consist u lhe househould furniture.
the little lots q goods brought oul On
speculation, or often the personal kH
only Of many Of ihese people, Who, una
bic 10 find storage for their things, e.
eepi At a rent which would in frs
days or weeks swallow up their Whole
intrinsic value, are compelled 10 faefi'
fee their property for anything ihsi
will fetch. IL short. ihere Is d.ss'
greeable effect about this fret landing
Kind u dampef ihDwn upon lhe hoPs'
and prospeeis--a change ia the bfisis
idea originally forned--n demolition d
the visionary castles built since leafihs
kurope. which Tor am mueh m'iia'rn
10 The expression d the boinsD coahis'
nanc.) seiy fen fail "a feel on logch'ns
shofe."