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 Jackson County 1864 Travelers' descriptions. FROM OREGON.
Prof. J. Tweed permits us to make the following extracts from a letter
just received by him from his brother Henry, in Phoenix, Oregon:"As I stated in my last letter to you what the scarlet fever was doing to the inhabitants of this county, I will say again it has not let up any yet, and many are the Rachels in our land. It is not uncommon to bury two or three a day in our little neighborhood. Last Tuesday there were three buried, and last Sunday I heard the funeral of seven preached. Outside of the epidemic there is no other sickness. "This valley is as dead as a stump--and why is it dead? It is because of the dry weather during the winter. There was no water to work the mines with, and the most of the miners have [gone], or are going to, the new northern gold mines, and I shall go next fall or spring. Nearly everybody that went from here has, or is, doing well. I don't say this to create a fever back in the States, for if there is anyone that is doing well there, I would say to them to let well enough alone, for I have tried the gold excitement, and I think the biggest fools in the world are those that have been fooled--although I have never been sorry that I took the gold fever." Oquawka Spectator, Oquawka, Illinois, May 12, 1864, page 2
QUEER PROCEEDINGS.--On
last Tuesday evening, when the Yreka stage arrived at Phoenix, having
on board Lisle Lester and a woman from Yreka, a suspicious-looking
customer came forward, paid his fare to Jacksonville and entered the
stage. Before they had gone far, however, the little eccentricities of
the new passenger, in connection with the presence of an unknown
traveler--who had taken possession of the after boot--excited the alarm
of the ladies, and the same being made known to Mr. King, the driver,
he invited the inside passenger to take a seat on the outside with him.
The stage had not gone far until the villainous-looking "individ" had
made several attempts to make the team run away, and had tried to
obtain possession of the lines. Mr. King ordered him off the stage, but
he refused to comply with the request until a cocked revolver in
unhealthy proximity to his head reminded him that "distance lends
enchantment to the view," and caused him to spring off the seat and
retreat a a "double quick."--Jacksonville
Sentinel.
Marysville Daily Appeal, Marysville, California, December 17, 1864, page 3 Last revised May 17, 2024 |
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