Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1859-05-21

make II as attractive az possible BY means
of sub, heads. If you like fun read. II
is "sllcged" TO be from citizen OF Hori-
con, Wisconsin
PROMISE REMEMBERED
"PiKE's PEAK, March |, lS59.-My
Dear Brother Il promised TO write you
a good, long letter as soon as | arrived
here; and take my pen in hand 10 let
you know that we are all well, and TO
hope that these few lines will find you
enjoying the same blessing. You know
We left Horizon for the land Of gold about
the lst Of February, and we arrived here
yesterday. Ny wife stood the journey
frsr-rae, but MY five oldest boys were
nearly tired out when reached here.
Jane, the lille sis, is happy as lark,and
says, 'Tiss Uncle George for me- God
bless her sweet heart.
HARDsHIPs-PICK-A-BAC LoCoMoTloN.
"We lad all the hardships in the
world before we got here. We lost our
horses al Dubuque-they were stolen
from us. We got some extra oxen, and
lost them one hundred miles from Oma-
ha. We then tried wheel barrows, my
wife and | wheeling by turns, I'LL the In
dians stole our barrows. Then we walk
ed till The Indians stole our provisions,
and NV family got sick. so had to carry
them all on my back. Our money gave
ON, long before, and for two weeks we
travelled through wilderness where the
foot Of human being had never trod, and
in this condition, seeing no living being,
and without money 10 purchase even
cracker at any Of The groceries along the
line, we lived on roots ill my children all
Hooked like pigs, from roofing so long.
QUEEN BACK BEND.
IL have carried my family on my back
ill am so rounds d-shouldered that can
orlv see the blue sky and the bright sun
by looking between my legs, and up TO
heavens canopy that way. | lost t"o
hundred pounds of fesh-horse meat
when started from Dubuque, or We
should have got along bener.'
M HUmBUO
81 read in the Milwaukee News that
Pixies Peak was humbug. Bntit ain I,
and the News knows it as well as do.
We got here in the morning, after walk
ing all night, and though we are now
twenty four hours in the country, we are
not well off, but have good prospect.
GOLD!
"There is gold here-lots of it. The
gophers dig it out of the ground by The
bushel, and in the moonlight the whole
earth ior miles around looks like heaven
with its myriad stars, or like pretty girl
with yellow freckles. The woodchucks
Jig ou, bushels of it, and the snakes ir
this country look like solid gold ones from
crawling among gold chunks. Iii found
in all sized pieces, from The size of hens
egg up to the bigness of large stone, and
of The finest quality"
PILES AS BIG AS HAY STACKS.
1--WE have raked together what lay loose
on an acre Of ground, and have twenty
two piles as big as large sized hay
stacks"
INDIANS AND FINE TOOTH COMBS.
Last night two hundred Indians came
to rob us of set Of silver spoons and a
fae comb that my wife had to use on the
children, and we barricaded our house
with rocks Of gold until they could not
GAIN admi,lance and were forced 10 make
friends with US. The chief laid down his
weapons and came into our camp when
my wife used the comb on his head I'LL
his gratitude was as lively as his head
was, and he was so tlckled that he offer
ed 10 marry my wife, land show me where
gold was plenty. | loved my wife-you
know tina, George, bu, thinking that
nigh, die before get rlch.and feeling that
must make some property to leave my
children, | consented To the match, and
she has gone with the Indian, who is
great chief, and taken the fine comb with
her. Coae out with your wife, land bring
a fine comb, brother George.
BETTER DIeeINGs BEYOND.
81 am going TO leave these diggings for
a better one. Ii is too much trouble to
tug and pry up the great big chunks Of
cold thai weigh half a ton or so, and are
so thick you cannot get them out without
danger of breaking your legs. and am GO
inc Nd to a ravine, where all l have TO DO
is to 90 TO the top OF high mountaln and
roll il down 10 The river.
HOW HE KEEPS DOWN THE LIGHT WEIGHTS
1.-THE country here is 6ne,but the WINDS
are awful. My boys got so light win
eating roots ,,ha, can only keep ihem oy
He, or together, by pling Jumps OF gold'
about as big as mallots,on their shirt tails
as the lille innocents sit down on the