Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-05-27
PRoMIsE RENEMBEREp.

legged to be from citizen oi Horleon,f
Wisconsin.
PROMISE REMEMBERED.
PrKE's PEAK, March 1, ls59.-My |
Dear Brother;--I promised TO write to
you good long letter as soon as l arrived
here and take my pen in band to 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 on the lst Of
February, and we arrived here yesterday. I
Ny wife stood the journey first rate, but
my FIVE oldest boys were nearly tired out
when they reached here. Jane the little
sis, is happy as lark, and says, 'Tiss
Uncle George forme.' God bless her sweet
heart.
We had all the hardships in the world
before we got here; we lost our horses at
Dubuque--they were stolen from Us. We
got some extra oxen and lost them one
hundred miles from Omaha. We then
tried wheelbarrows, my wife and wheel
ing by turns, till the Indians stole our
barrows. Then we walked till the Indi-
ans stole our provisions, and my family
got sick, so had to carry them all on my
back. Our money gave out long before,
and for two weeks we travelled thro' a
wilderness where the foot of human being
had never trod, in this condition, seeing
no living being and without money to
> purchase even a cracker at any of the
groceries along the line, we lived on roots
till my children all looked like pigs from
roofing so long.
QUEER BACK BEND.
. l have carried my family on my back
L till am so round shouldered that I car
only see the blue.sky and bright sun by
looking between my legs, and up to heav-
, ems canopy that way. lost two hundred
. pounds of fiesh--horse meat--when star
> ted from Dubuque, or we should have go
along better.
NO HUMBUG
read in the Milwaukee News tha
= Pixies Peak was humbug. But it ain
and the news knows that as well as do
We got here in the morning, after walk
ing all night, and though we are noN
twenty-four hours in the country, We ar
:, not well of, but have good prospect.
GOLD!
There is gold here-lots Of it. TIL.
: gophers dig it out of the ground by th
= bushels, and in the moonlight the whol
l. earth, for miles around, looks ike heaye
a. with its myriad stars, or like pretty gi
- with yellow freckles. The woodchucb
81 dig out bushels of it, and the snakes
~ this country look like gold ones, fro
IL crawling among gold chunks. Ii is foun
,s in all sized pieces, from the size ofa hen
v- egg up to the bigness of large stone, ar
no of the finest quality.
ae PILES AS BIG AS HAY STACKS.
HE We have raked together what lay loo.
N on an acre of ground, and have tweni
m two piles as big as a large sized hay-stac
- INDIANS AND FINE TOOTH COMBS.
~ Last night two hundred Indians car
to rob US of silver spoons and fine cor
ou that my wife had TO use on the childrt
;oh ana we barricaded our house with roc
,oa of gold until they could not gain adm
90 tance, and we're forced to beg 10 ma
friends with US. The chief laid dol
!. his weapons and came into camp, VIII
II my wife used the fine comb on his he
-, till his gratitude was as lively as his he
:, was and he was 50 tickled that he
~ fered to marry my wife, and show
- where gold was plenty. ] lovedmy "
=, and-you know that, George; but thil
ing that might die before got rich, Z
feeling that I must make some prope
,,ho to leave my children, consented to
,aru match. and she has gone of with the
-ite. dian, who is a great Chief, aud taken
fine comb with her. Come out with y
;,os wife, aud bring fine comb, brot
fed George.
ooid BETTER DIGGEGs BEYoED.
oun- I am going to leave these diggings
IS Of better one. Il Is too much trouble
not tug and pry up the great big ehanki
ined gold that weigh half ton or 30, and
may so thick that you cannot geIthem OF =
Nsi0 out danger Of breaking your legs, and
going up a ravine, where al have 4
is to 60 10 the top Of a high mountain
roll il down 10 the river.
~ how HE KEEPS down THE II
d, II "Eiohla'
saw The country here Is ine, bui the v