The New York Herald Newspaper, August 5, 1858, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1858. UTAH AFFAIRS. THE MORMON RELIGION—@4LT LAKE CITY MAT. TERS—PEACH ORCHARDS—rHE MXTRAORDINA- BY OROPS—UNPAMALLELED RUINS—THE PRO- PORTION OF ARaBLE LaNDS—THE BIV6% JORDAN— GOV. CUMMING'S COURSR—TH# UNITED STaTES COM: M(SSIONSRS—HOMALESS GENTILKS—NO LODGIN NO KOOMS—POSITION OF CORKSSPONDENTS—TaB LATS PRISONERS AT SALT LAKE CITY—WAY TALY | WERE IMPRISONED—HOW THEY WERE TREATSD— BSING TAKAN SOUTH—TH@IR BSCAPE—THR MAN ‘WHOSE BODY WAS FLOATING DOWN THs JORDAN— STATEMENT OF W. H, FABENS. SPRCLAL CORRESPORDENCE OF THE HERALD. ‘Sarr Lake Crry, June 24, 1858. Nothing of commanding importance has transpired since the departure of tho last mail; a few things, however, merit a chronological presentation. On rising last Sabbath morning we were agreea>ly sorprised to fad the Ameri- can banner attached to the tops of several flegstaifs in | different parts of the city, though from want of wind the fings drooped gloomily by the side of their supporting staffs, The Mormons desire to appear very patriotic. The | Ianguage and deeds of the past, however, are not forgot- | ton, Some of the flags bad boos upon then insiesd of stars. Early inthe morning a Mormon band presented iteelf Before the Globe and commenced piping and drumming. | Its performance was very indifferent. Whether the salute was intended to be a serenade to some ope OF more was & question having no apparont apewcr. There was, of course, mo preaching here; the women all being at Provo, the preachers are there also, Some of the Gen- tiles amused themaclves by walking along the more shaded streets and through the beautifal gardens. ‘The most popular tree along the sidewalks is the locust. the tree most abundant in the gardens is the peach tree. Poach trees are very numerous throughout the sntire city ; they are burthened with fruit, which will not be ripe till September. The crop of pears in this vallsy this year Dics fair to surpass that of any previous year; it is worth & great amount of money. Ifany one man owned all the peach trees he could dispose of their fruit this year so as to make « fabulous fortune. The wheat, too, and, indeed, all kings of grain, will produce better crops this year than they ‘were ever known to before. All agricultural product, bave done better this season, so far, than they were ever known to do before. Grass is unsually good. The grain crop will not be ripe for four or five weeks yet. The cause of the oxtaordinary productiveness of this seagon is the prevalence of raing. Ordinarily the carsh during this monta is parched lke & desert and baked as io an oven. Bat nm 17th to the is upparalicled in such a season of the year in this locality, The Saints humorously accredited it to the Christians; the phenomena, some have goce so far as to say, was Heaven showerleg do dies siog upon approval of the peace. { caanot well estim @ portion of this valley is capacitated fur culti is Qt without irrigation, By no means visible responudeat can haif of the soil be readered availabic for agricultural purposss—provadiy mot one third of itis at Brigham intends, if he remains in this place, to take tue river Jordan and convey nearly. if mot quite, its entire volume of water along canste for irrigating » DI Gentiles. fhe Mor- wel to let Gov. Camming have a house, their maa; be serves them; on ail questions he takes their side; in all disputes he sides with them. Ho \d villanies perpe:rated 1p, far protection sgainst imprisonment, Geath; he has mo eyes to see, no his countrymen defamed, his couatry dis bouored, and the besa o/ our nation abased worse taan is the vilest wretch that ekes out an existence by pra.iising the most loathsome vices. the Gentiles here, pone save one concur wn the Governor's course. Of those with the army and of tne army, none to my knowieige ‘concur with bim. Waatever may be the phase of matters bere now, copilict and c.afusion horeatter is anavoidabie. Our people, united aad directed by jadicious and united uiticientiy bard task to achieve, aad ly om>acrassed, enthralled and subjected jasvleace Mow much wort at be with our cfficials a: they are’ Eta should be superseded, or that one should aperscded The Uaited States Commissioners were pot able, till within a few cays, t0© get aroom to seep in; now they ‘have one small room on the ground floor, in which they piace thelr blankets and sleep on the floor. Peter K. Dotson, Marenai ot toe Territory, has obtained, = or rather owned when he came bere, a smal hours, which, owing to the generosity of the owner, is densely populated by homeless Gen- tiles. The majority of us, oowever, are 5 ill w thout shelter from the storm, save that ailorded by the balis or entries of the saloon in which we eat, and the Carriages 0 those who possess them Your correspondent stili coo tinues to luxuriate sestarealiy upon the back porch of our ost, Mr. David Caudlend. y is 10 vain sbaken io the face of the Saints, it will not tempt them to furnish us Sinners with a local bad.tation. It seems to be the poucy of the Mormons to make our residence here so uncomfort- able that we will notremain If that will not acswer they ‘will make it 80 bot—if they can—that we cavaoi remaia. Invidious eyes are turned especialy upon those persons ‘who bistorise the affairs of tne Territory. Sasdow: not uncommon tothem Dare hints and threats are n unknown. If Lyd |, let it aiready be coasidered as upon record by w! and wherefore. ‘The Giobe, | am wold, is owned by Brigham. We pay $2aday for three meals of Provisions. Our food is by no means luxurious, but it is very good, for the mos{ Common articles are 8) cooked and preseated on the paintacic. Toe ageatof Brigham, Mr. ‘toe the other day to $2 60 a day meais; but he some of the Gentiles redelliag and deserting, so be had to reduce it to $2. | svould think ‘that at least two-thircs of the money paid into the saloon was cleared, and went directly into the pockes of the head of the churen. Two men arrived here a fow days since from the South Condition, whose story merits publication. They are Messrs. l’. MoNeil and W. H. Fabens—the ¢ Gentiles imprisoned bere when Governor Cummiag tered this spring—the latter of whom had bsen su; mordered and bis body floated down the Jordan lowing is the statement given by Mr. Fabens — entered Salt Lake City on the 16th of Uctober, 1857, California. wouth as far the bodies of two Ameri- ‘ne tol- Q: ; i i : 5 | d i E : ie rely et I l i i f j Q i g | night her viet [ees zg & | eapectll | dition are geverously treated by Geutiles, clothed, fed and \ SELLING COLONEL A few days since a company of men recently from Cali- fornia arrived here from Provo, They have been for some time past engaged in a negotiation with Brigham Young, Esq., endeavoring to sell to hima grant of land made in 1838 to Haley and Shepard by the Nicaraguan government. This graut contains, it is sald, 30,000,000 Sores, and lies along tne Mosquito coast 300 leagues in ex- tent. Ool. B. L. Kinney ang vthers now claim to be the logitimate claimants to said of land. Their title, however, is very doubiful. They desire to sell the land for ten centsan acre, or $3,000,000. Mr. John B. Hooper is the agent authorized to effect and conclude the ns Ho ie still at Provo. Several other gentlemen Cali- fornia, with Colonel H. Clarkston and Major Brookie, «ro here in copnectioa with Mr. Cooper. These gen\iemon think the Saints will make the p wse—very doubtfal NEW SOUTHABN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. There is a route from here to California which will make, it is eaid, in connection with the new route to Utah, the best overland junction between California aud the Eastern States. Tne route by Pole Creek, Republican Forks and Bridger’s Pass should be continued to Henry’s Fork, thence down Campbell’s Fork, through Provo canon to the source ef the Jordan at Utah Lake; thence through Cedar Val'ey to the south endof Rush Valley, crossing the desert at the south end of Granite Rock to Reden Springs; thence vialvinpar Valley and Ruba Valley direct to Carson V idered Valls route is consi bi Valley from this place than it is by either the old Soutuern or Nortnern route. The only diflicuity attending travel by this route is @ scarcity of water: the largest distanc: ‘without it is forty miles, but wells can readily be estat lished along the route aud thus give an ample suppiy of that most necessary of articles. [ne route bas beea ex. amined by Major =. M. Blair, formerly of the Texas Ran- gers, by order of Young. Esq. fhe distance between Salt Lake Cxy and San Francisso, via this route, bas been made inten days. The neture of the country admits of an excoilent road. An effort will be made py some well advised Gentiles to ge; government to survey this route, and if it is deemed suitaole, to establish an overland road vis it. Mrs. Landon, a Gentile lady who is endeavoring to got socrces to California to ber husband, to whom she is strongly devoted, is at presoat in the city. Oa ths first r her arrival the driver of her carriage stole ali ions and absconded. Other Gentiles have taken careofher, Mr, Gilbert has been very kind to her. SOCIAL LIFE AT PROVO—GENTILE ATTENTIONS TO THE YOUNG AND FAIR SISTB8S—JSALOUSY OF THE OLD BROKEN DOWN SAINTS. As I have before noticed, several California gentlemen bave recently spent some time at Provo. During their stay there some amusing social incidents oscurred be- tween them and the Saints. 1 am indebted to one Cato” for the following account of an occurrence there. It is written rather stylish, but substantial aod reli@ble men acknowledge the tratafuiness of the narration: — “The most amusing iocident that has trans- pirea during our residence among the pirus Saints occurred on the morning of the 3dof June. Aodout two weeks after our arrival ia Provo, the hotel at whica we stopped became densely crowded by the removal of 80 many people from Sau Lake City aad ocher aortaorn localities. Young and bes ial, Iedee th: ange ite ball, ‘and occupied a large portioa of the room at table at meal tinfes. My companions, Capiain J—— aud Mr. D——, are proverbial for tneir galleniry, so here tney paid iho strictest attention to their toilets; the demand for mirrors ‘Was astonishing, every bair of their fae dark whiskers and moustaches was disciplined to its exact aad allotted Place. Nothing that renders a man captivating to female eyes was omitted, nor was anything aturacts, in- terests aud epyrosses regard in meuners or in conversa. tion disregarded. (ar two aspiring lorda of creatioo dis- played their all conquering auributes to the fullest extent of their power, aod i was uot io vam they did 89. At length they informed Major B—— and myseif that they bad the whole ruo of tne house, and stood A No. 1 witn the pretty young loveabie girls, particularity with those enchanting Creatures Misses Francis and Cie roy, who played the agrevable at tsole by gracefully Gil- ‘pg our piates with the lucious sustenance of life, while ‘they filled our eyes and hearts with their owa ooautifal images. Our fice galiants wore ander ial headway, aod seemed intent in shunoiag their oid frieods—Major B. aad myself—woo hed previously determined upon « very mo- dest and retiring policy, voting as two old fogier, whom neither beauty tue most vatra.cing, nor aitentions, howso- ever marked, could move or vitatize. Concludiog our casee hopeless, they even deemed it unnecessary to give us a formal introduction to their lady friends. Nor did they exhibit much unwiliiagoess to monopolize the Stiention acd regard of the ladies, particularily of Miss Francis and Miss Cleroy. fhey bai ten 8 the start of us, so if we had desired, i would have been useless to have emptied to mate headway with them. We stood back our gallant friends fuli sway. Their course was triumphal. The swoetest smiles and the tenderest g ances of the beauti- ful Miss Francis and the charming Miss Cleroy followed them aiways, and always seemed waiung but to be ton- dered to them. Our landjord was a long, loan, guant gilled, rheamatic, dried up old man, at least seventy years olf. Oar g lants supposed that he would never notice what they were about. But a's for their calculations. The greon eyed monster bed already taken hold of him, with, the of death. So one morning at breakfast? shofling "up to them, he in the most modest maa ner imaginable informed the chivalric the young bright eyed Miss Francis was one (be was old enough to be their great grandiatner) and that the sweet aud centile Miss Cleroy was also marred to one of the eldersof the charob. He added that as bis firat wife was too unwell to be present at whe tadie, he had Deen compelled to let Miss Francis wait upon it Our gallant friends, upon this exposure, turned white, and bive, and red, and white ageia they adaolutory wilted; they felt anoipilated; they knew not where look, or how to look, or how to keeo from looking just where aod how they ought not to. Poor tetlows! After they had gathered screngih suificieast to leave tue room they came to Major B. and me; they des'red to retcrn to our company, to bolster themselves up #.ib our presence and steady character, but we determine’ to puaish them llowship for a orcows. Our ts at exhibited the requisite redeatance, were, after a imonition, again admitted within the pale of our IT may add in this conection that the Gentiles who have been at Provo believe that a large number of tne women there would leave if they could. VISIT TO GREAT SALT LAKE. A company of six Gentiles left this Holy City yesterday to visit Great Salt lake, which lies eighteen miles west from here. Beyond Jordan we found the land incapaci- tated for agricultural purposes. There was good grazing for irrigating it. i. | ; i g® | t Ft i g gf £ i i | : : : f i i i q if 5 z Q j 7008. in McNeil ootained some be purchared liquor, with it be got tne | Tf night aad escaped. He weatto m DOW he and we were situated. ould do-aothing for any of us, for wes guarded aod watched. | snow there g 4 & H $ E : i thd tj il be wore going to send him Obes ii BE g af 25 & = & . 5 8 55 ist it e a = = z 2 s £ 3 2 z jer of the of from t Wi another ca) tain, ‘@ were turned over to tne | and by the sams guard of tea | ard cf ith, to Lehi. A new conducted ue le. | gna conducted to Sat i thirty. t miles from Springville to Salt Creek. cy a named place the Morm as mi ‘the bail and chain being loa, bt to puton McNetl, so be was lef five further soath, we acrivet at Fill and asked what we were to told me I might goto work would not work wh rigon wo thirty five miles, then to | and faally to Paints, twenty There the Bishop received as | eat. fhe Bishop aiviset the Indians wore bad, bat to went Ooder City: the President stay there, but ordered us south again was in fight—so on Sa- ‘the fed; took to the moaa- northward, wavolling at nigh; aod resting We wont into old: saw Mr. Ornebolit, the per. 00 whe gave me le. He gave ne food, covered us OF A 4 IATgR nek Of aire, Whoere We slept a night; i i Ei 3 ai i i iit A “ti i Corday night, (uns and came by day | water oocasonaly from the margin of the lake. Three several mountain. ous rocky islands aleo rise abruptly from out of the cen- tre of the iake. Your readers have been so frequentl; furnished with a description of these isiands that I not trouble them with another. The lake, {t will white as aby sn0W that ever fell most beautifai salt | ever saw ‘aod smooth. fhe border of the lake if |, derconding imto it, at some places one waik several hundred yards before the ‘or his head. Tne first thing moticed on is its buoyancy i if ti a if it, The ter without making the slightest motion is very agrees. die. One feols as though on a bed of noutterable sof ness; the waves rock him about delightiully. A bath in this lake would be inexpremialy delicious, did mot the in your mouth, nove ot eyes. When Organs it burns like an equal vol ume of fire—it smarts, it stings, it stuns, it strangles. @ solutely stunning you. Wé had to be very careful on ac waves rolied count of thie; but as the wind was if not all of as, by experiencs ing the brine into mouth and nose and eyes. (ae could not dive in the Iake to save hia life—no aaimal existence oan subsist in it it is used to cure or pickle flesh or fien it nas to be weakened. A person baving received the brine in his nose and eyes but once, ia satisded to end bis bath in the shortest possible tims, aad to put with might and main for freeh water, Fortanately the spriog fore alluded to ear at hand. After athorough wash ing in it, we succeeded in the sait off of our bodies Tt does not answer to let the brine dry on & person; it would coat bim over with salt, which ie as harsh as saod, aod would irritate, irrupt the ekin and produce other de baty wives | il ! il i Ls é . 4 | lh 4 i af H it i 5. 5. ? ! i i za i i E it i fl li iy & é i ty a F i Fl est Hit i = i HL i aT t afi i i é i the red faced man, who was making Be E G 3 : rg 3 5 4 . F 4 3 + £ He i i ‘der with the rest, but absolutely refused to obey it. ‘When it was spread abroad that he would nowgo, he was waited upon by a body of armed men, and intormed th: if he did not obey the order his property and the lives of ad famity would be imperiled. He stoutly ro- fused to go where \¢ did not wantto, and stuck to home. The resul: ., that notwithatanding the threats, ‘and quietute. has, as wili readily be con » outgrown the church. What firstopenea his eyes to the error of his ways was this:—Mr. Puineas Young, soa of Mr. Young’s brother, stole some of his cattle. Red man took the mattor before the church; the church re- buked bim for daring to prefer a charge one 80 nearly related to the Prophet. Our friend of the red faco was dissatisfied, and etitl continued the demand for the restitution of: his cattle. This displeased the church (Brigham Young), whereupon it summarily ansthome- tized the ex citizen of Massachusetts. Tho petticoated lady (abe wore only one skirt—no dress) is from Cushing, Maine; sne bas one child, a little daughter, with « pretty white face, around on the superior and lateral parts with a netof tow, while ber toes, fect aud ancies were very black and dircy. This interesting family, who live in asix-by-nine, propose to remove to California. WARM SULPHUR SPRINGS. Issuing from the foot of a mountain two miles north of the city, isa large and very warm sulphur spring. It gives forth @ rapid running stream a foot deep and two feot wide, which rushes out of the rocks in the mountains, and pours its flood along ‘pto the valley. The water !s so hot that itis uncomfort- able for bathiog; It gives offa steam even in mid-day; it is impregnated with salt and very buoyant. Cooled a ‘ttle it forms a delightfui bath. The Mormons have laid pipes to it, and thus brought the water into the city, where they formerly had a foe bathing houee, but it now bas gone t) wreck from want of care. Two miles further north there 1s a spring of hot sulpbur water; it is so hot « person cennot bathe in it; it will cook eggs and is large enovgh almost to dri mill. There are numerous springs like unto these along the ravge of mountairs to the east of this valley. There are toward Provo some springs of this nature much more Some of then are reported to be bottomless. The weather recently bas been very not. The nights, however, are apa our nocturnal heavens are as placidly and sublimely beautiful as can be fouad in any other part of the world. LS 43 Obituary. JOHN GORDON, THE KICHRST COMMONER IN SCOT- LAND. (From the Banffsbire Journal, July 20.) Jobn Gurdon, Eeq., of Cluny, a gentieman who achieved the distinction of being the richest commoner ia the ovrsn- ern part of the kingdom, died on Friday last. The earli- est member of the family of whom aoything is knowa was the grandfather of the deceased gentleman. Tals person, Mr. Goraon, was, it is said, attached to the third and fourta Dukes of Gordon, aad, according to all accauats, formed the nucleus of the weaitn which bas 0: olen into so large an amount. nurious descriptios. He come, and every acquisition was carefaMy uoarded. A geptieman acquainted with bis history aad character, speaking of him, observes, ‘that every shilling he got within bis flogers stuck tothem.”” Amassing money, th Curator (ns he was called irom his connection win Spey ealmcn fisbings, Xc.), as shrewd mon of those times did, embarked in the parcoase of property, which, in tae then disturbed state of the kingaom, was to be had at low rates. The Curator left three sons, the eldest of whom, named Cosmo, after his fatner’s patron, the third Duke of Gordon, succeeded him in Whe property, and beid it for atime. He was not a money-maker, aud did not long hold possession of the estate. So lar as we can learn be was vot married He wassuc | ceeded by his brother Charies, who also inherited an os- tate, which, with bis other brovner, he had purcuased in the West Indie:, and which still continues ia the family. Charles bad all the penuriousnees,if not all the ability for macagement, of his father. As bs advanced in years, the passion for saving became a perfect disease. He de: clined move about for fear of incurring latterly he refused cyon to get up out of det, on the gn, tat he could po} ailord it, It is told taat the Duke of Gordon went to Cluny w bring him across to Gor. aon Castle, as he was injariog his beaith by conflaement. — The old wan declined we oller, alleging that he bad no | servants nor apy one to take nim across. “On,” Duk Jl take you Over, and it woa’t cost you a Bat we believe bis Grace's well meant efforis were juccessful cr At his death, Charles left two eons, John and Alexander. John, the elder son. is the gentiomea who is just deveas- ed, and who bas hela the estates for nearly tne last Atty years. It is understooa that be bas died possessed of | y worth between two and three millions, and | was without doebt the richest commoner ta Scot land. Hw father gave bim ana his brower a education, and John travelled tarough Paleetit and Egypt. fe returned 1806, coming home in the same vesee! which brought to Eogiand the remains of he immortal Nelson. Mr. Gor. | don’s father died stortly atter bis retura home, when, as _ eldest son, he succeeded to the landed properiios, to the mapagement of which he particularly cevoted bis time, ia most assiduouely to effect their tncrease. While ‘most careful in bance | Rae Making the best of his , the colonel could hardly, ina propor sense, 9° fad 10 66 a severe landlord. Hs wan faitarul to his bar. n#,and upoa the whole hi» tensatry sat uoder him upon easy terms, He had & ayatem of not giving leases, which firs: was unpopular, but bi« teoauts held their farms under him from year to year with the fullest confi lence, and it wae only now and then that « farm was put to the market. A feature in the ment of bis estates was that ne liked to have about him the old tevantry, seldom partiog with acy who had occupied bis land for any con- eiderapie time, aod were willing to remaia on it. Diseatia- fled, however, at the returns obtaiced in the way of in- Worest and dividends, be began to bay property. the first the estate of Shiels, atjoining Cluny Toon be secured the islands of Benbeculs and Sout . io the ext he bought also lying adjacent to Cluny, at bewween £60,000 ‘fund £70,000. All these parchases ne mate withia a com. paratively ebort period the habits of i eights houre, ype remains uafar- years ago be spenta large sum in ‘unequalled 7 coantry. which he [ratified regardion of expeare was ve good horses, of which he led always excellent stud. He had an inveterate hatred of wil aod would often travel several mies round aad ex- is carriage (which he ganerally drove himesif, band) to danger and destruction over miserable in Order to escape the exaction of thes toll keeper. Deasted that he could, and we koow that he almost travel [rom Clpny to Siaing, a distance of single toll. fa person Col. le sine, and of a stout, athletic of a hardy constitution, as m: ‘thal, at the time of he dea! ity four. Deceased was Sod was very weil bred. . We may aid & faoey © be io Parliament. one year. The thiog did not pay, oatly be got into disputes with his law abandoned a l’arliamentary career ia dis- never married, but had two sons jth daughters are dead one dying 8g0, aged about thirty. bor last at Kinstearie, son, Joha, now about ts wOderatood, beea in te. im th the north About i J to corviving O86, @ho Wenmarrea 1, THOMAS B. AYLYER. expedition to Hanover in 1906-6. A! he accompanied bia regiment to the Peniosuls, and im the campaign of 1 910 and Portugal, bat batlies of Roleia, Vimiera and Uo ifter the latter battle he returned to Fagisad, and subsequently assis in the Walcheren expedition. For his services in Ky. he received the modal, and for the silver war medal and three clasps for ibe battles above named. THE FRENCH CONSUL AT JIDDAM AWD HIS WIFE. Both #0 dreadfully massacred,jwore born at St Brien®. The Conrul was to the Administrator Goveral of 7. entered the consular carser in 1842, and bis services being thought woll of at the Minis. try of Foreign Affairs, he successively the faac. tione of consul at Park, Elsinore, Newcastle, then « second Massacre. In addition to bie ——, who miracalously has loft three sons. eldest is chancettor At the French consulate at Pernambuoo; the second, en- Polgne of vassoau, and Legion of Honor for his cond of the Duroc; and the third, aged 13, the boy provided for by Napoleon. , The oniy daughter of the beautiful Mme Roland and of M. Roland, Minister of the Iaterior, of France, has died in the Rae de Flearus, aged 77. She married, very gentleman pam od Caampagoeux, and led ar RaLp on the Zist of July. THE GOLD FIRLDS, OLD AND NEW. {From the Melbourne ‘May 15.] While the fact is indisputable that a off very rich deposits has been and Cackates be in actual operations continues to increase the increasing popu- lasion of Victoria, still, owing to the various i extracting the the diffe- methods of metal from rept matrices, and the gi enterpri Prevalence of associated ise of every description, our escort returns of late luce. ig the five weeks ended the 14th int, we find 4,089 oz. io Saree Sa pentane ee ae 258,763 216; pm the four weeks ended the 8th inst. a decrease againstthe current year. The quantities Sen Soe same period of 1866, '7 and °8, were as — 224,174 1867. 1856. 11,213 110,816 46,187 46,394 119,439 63,438 048 8,258 Total 07 .....5++.. 148,360 210,881 228,906 Wa bave every reason to anticipate much bulkier par- Cela a8 soon as the wet season sets in, sad this for two reasons. In the first place, large portions of the chief vely duriog the dry saps, the pian of briaging water from @ distance in such quantities ag to work pro- fitabiy ground that would pay by no other means, is gracually obtaining amongst the more inielligent portion of the mining community. Taois system has been, and conupues t© be, most si in California, where works of a magnitude yet unattempted in Australia are constantly undertaken, to the great advantage of the pro- Jjectors and the public at large. There is anoiher ted source of increase, which no doubt qiil, in process of time, constitute almost the pairs a our gold produce. We al- luge to the quartz dykes w: the aurife bh intersect ferous: districts in every direction. Thi run north aod eimier magnitude. Hitherto, except to which we ehail more parilcularly allude whea we ia one instance, come to speak what gold has Deen cbtaised from toc reefs is mostly socared by the puce process of breaking up the rich lumps with & bammer, and washing the disintegrated quartz sud intermediate or contiguous Clay slate. fnas thousands of tous, averaging from one to two ounces, are either piled up tor the bappy day when cheap and go0d macuinery will be farpishea within a reasonaole distance, or sold or abandoned to the road contractor. There are, to be eure, afew favored spots were tolerable machinery has beea erected tothe mutual aivantage of the proprisiary and ‘the miners, the quartz being rich enough, ¢ ¢., averagiag more than two Ouxces per toa, to admit o; higa price being paid. The smaliareas which uptoavery receot period have been allowed by the loca! governing bodies to ‘the quartz miners, have operated very uafayorably. No very large pans of operatioa could be carried on; aod besices quariz reef frequeatly dip almost perpendicularly for 60 or 100 feet, thereby rendering the process of ex- traction both tedious aod by mony the coasequence of which bas in mapy instances toet miners Dave abau- doned their claims, and mili owners not beiog gasranteed sufficient quartz to keep tacir machiaery in coastant em- ployment, have either removed their plant to some more Promising locality or soid it at a ruinous sacrilice. WATRR SUPPLY. This question bas been for some ciaie agitating both the diggers apd the metropolitan speculators. Several com- panies have been formed, or are in course of for- mation, amongst which the dandharst Company stands foremost a our last summary we described witn of quariz mining, | considerable minuteness the pian of tucir operation. | This scheme 1s, nowever, more adapted for the sappl; | of the municipality of Sandhurst than for the beaeit of the mivers; and in comsequencd ® company has Deen set on foot at Elysian Fiat tor the purpose of placing & mining district of vast extent, but almost unworkable during the summer, upon an equal or perhaps better foot- ing other goldfields naturally more farorabiy situ- ated. At Ballaarat, too, certain movemeats iadicative of a similar result have been initieied, but no distinct action beyond « survey, the upahot of which able report. la the meaatime companies has rer from the deep sink! adjacent to tee shal- {oe gremnd tstensed to bo anette process which will haved. Expe taught that four fifths of the shvllow siak- ings on the gold Geids will pay to rework by moans of sluien “pete tae cee Alt pet te csaph ont me ed upon the old system, and even finally abandoned by the Chinese, who to a extent E ef gE iz silat! li At ti i rll sft ee il ee ni 38 PE ites { 4 3 z z iN i ij if ie Hi . | 3 i i i z = = i Hy i z i = il ii i i ‘of amall parties. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS AT MELBOURNE. Subjoined #ta:ement supplies a taole of imports and exports at the port of Melbourne, {rom the commencement ‘of the present year. — ‘eek ended 2 ? = Jap. = = fi HBRSoNSE a Balance against the oolony. & PROSPROTING. Prospecting for new gold fleids has been for a dead letter, but signs of better t mes are gradually ap pearing. A number of schemes for opening ap couatr; to 0e auriferous have lately been propounded, and more than one company orga 7” Toe moat fensibie plan that we have beard of is initiaved, OF at any rate first publicly annoanced, by YU Ooanor, a member of the jog Board o. Batinara., tm the * inate depth to Se karen dctoresiant apes of alluvial ber into im i iit z Hl E Balla- work advances, to None of the tendors for the construetion of the Geelong ere accepted, and accordiagiy fresh tenders have been advertised for, to be sent in up to the 5 Tt is proposea to commence this line also in june. On the 6th inst. the President of the Board of Land and Works announced the decision come to by the royal com- mission, and confirmed by the Fxecutive Counsil, on the competitive designs sent in fora new Post Office for Mel- AGRICULTURE AND STOCK. Within the last few daysabundant showers of rain have fallen, and ploughing is being vigorously proceeded with. Notwithstanding the very increase which has taken place within the last year or two, in the area of groand under cultivation—an incrtase which has rendered us al- most self supporting, 80 far as cereals are concerne1, and quite pcr tot eae of other countries for bay and potatoes under cultivation. The agricultural P sent year are not ready, but itis believed that there were Dot fewer than 300,000 acres of land under crop during the year enditg 3lst March last. The preaent price of flour is £18 10s. per ton. The net ii iealien Aereatee 4 resent ts e net immi during the pi year amoun' to 6,465, the arrivais between January Ist and the 9b instant having been 14,164, and the departures 7,639 The lation of the colony at tae end of 1857 was returned yy the Registrar-General as being 463,136 souls. AMBRIOAN MUTINBERS AT LARGE. Six of the seamen commitiei by the American Consul to be sent to the United States for trial for mutiny on the high seas bave got at large in a rather astonishing man. ner. By « vote of the Legisiative Assembly, the Attorney b pete ‘was direcied to adopt the necessary i steps r setting the men at liberty, as they were British syo- jects, though holding American protection tickets, and ‘though the mutiny was committed on board an American ‘Vessel on the high seas. The At:orney General, however, Was spared the troubie of takiog any action in the matter. The men, it appears, got out of the cabins ip which they were cot foed on board the Tornado, ana the police were called on board to reconiine them. Of course the men resisted, but were ultimately overcome. They were some daye aiterwarcs taken ashore by the police, aad tried be- fore the Williamstown authorities for resisting the police in the exercise of their duty. The charge was proved, and the men were sentenced to seven days hard labor on board the huiks. At the end of that term they were put asbore, the Zcrnado bad seiied in the meantime, and there Was DO One to re-arrest them on the cnarge of mutiny. ‘There bas since been a meeting of american shipmasters, ‘woo have adopted @ memorial to the american Secretary of State in regard to this and other cases of which they consider they have good cause of compwaint. AMBRICAN SEAMPN AGAIN LN TROUBLE. At Sawbrioge Police Court, on 13th of May, betere Lieut. Crauford, R. N., and Or. Plummer, J. P. Roland Folger Coffia and William Heury Anderron—the former the master and tne iatter chief mate of the Amert- can ship Senator, trom Liverpool—were brought before the Court this afterncon, to avswer @ charge of having violently ageauited archibaid John M’Lean, tne purser of the same veesel. After hearing the testimony the prisoners were com- mitted for trial—the captain to be admitted to bail ia two sureties of £25 each, ani tho mate in a personal recogni- vance of £200, and two sureties in £100 each. Tae Obs mab regretted the ench bad not the power to deal sum- marily with the captain, for the case against him amounted to not more than a commen aegault TRADE AND COMMRRCR. ‘The course of business throughout the past month (April) bas been seriously arrested in consequence of the irregularitics of the postal service. The advices which were received by the Columbian respecting the extent of exports to this colony, in all January, were ature prove the tone of our local trase aay general reliance been placed in the as-urance Englisn ahip- pers bad at length recognized the necessity of Irmiting foreign transactions so materially as to allow, ja the degree, fer the gi than to the determivation which, tince the arrival of the Australasian, has been seen to have resulied from a legiti- mate cause. It is now ascertained that speculators in the United Kingdom have temporarily and partially sus- pended their colonial transactions; and we have, therefore, to te all those who are iaterested in the pros- perity of this country on the salutary change which has taken piace in the views of our friends at home. THE MINT AND GOLD PRODUCE AT SYDN&Y. From the ayaney Horald, May 10 } just imported into the Sydaey Mint, from the Ist of January to the the pu of colpage, baa been 140,212 cunces. amount ot gold coin issued durivg the same period haa been 617,000 sovereigns, and 90,000 haif sove- na. Total value, £582,000. following are the weekly receipts of gold dust, and number of sovereigas and baif sovereigns issued from the Ist of January to the 30th of April, 1858 :— —————sme ———— = Receipts. Half Sovervigns. — Ounces. - 10,88; i Total. 6,070 11,850 1858, Jeseary. 2,847 2,805 March . .] April .. Total. f i : 77 i il : z ij guch aa is employed b: with another; that each wyer to, the private business or taovat ce whinees, any further then hie ap. parent affect his reliability, or touch the a witness is not bound toanswor insalting of annoying manner. Court he wili bave bis remedy ‘The English Bank Acts. BSPORT OF THE PARLIAMENTABY OOMMITTEE— i ral! in i i i il A i * = 3 Z 3 £ 5 g an instructive example how readily misfortunes are at the timo attributed by the suffers and others sy: ing with them to the operation of the statu ennet- ments, which misfortunes, upon a full review of all the circumstances attending thom, itis obvious that no wis- dom of the legislature, no regulation of the cirrency, could bave prevented.’ The particulars of thirty houses which failed in 1857 show their aggregate liability to be £9,080,- 000, of this sum the liabilities wbich other parties ought to provide for amount to £6,215,000, and estimated assets £2.817,000. Besides the failures which arose from the suspension of — remittances, another class of failures is dia- closed: The nature of these transactions was the system of open. credite which wore granted—that is, by granting to per- sons abroad liberty to draw upon tue house in England to euch an extent as had been agreed upon between thom; those drafis were then negotiated upon the foreign ex- changes, and found their way so Eogland, with the under- standing that they were to be proviaed for by maturity. ‘They were principally provided for, not by staple com- modities, but by other bills that were sent to take them up. There was no real basis in the transaction, but the whole arate was @ means of raising a temporary command of capital for the convenience of the individuals concerned, merely & bare commission nanging upoa it; a baoker’s commission was all that the nouses in England got upon those transactions, with the exception of receiving the consignments probany ef goods from certain parties, which Drought a merchant's Commitsion upon them; but they formed a very small amount in hig org with bgt sy reap credits which were granted. house, at time of its suspension, was under obligations to the world to the extent of about £900,000; its capital at the last time of taking stock was under £10,000. its business was ciueily the granting of open credits, 7. ¢., the house permitted itself to be drawn upon by foreign houses without any remittance previ or contemporancously made, but with ao eagage: that it should be made before tho acceptance arrived at maturity, In these cases the inducement t> ceptance is & commission, varying from % to 1}, per cent. The acce; are rendered availabie by bei discounted, as will ap; hereatter, wi the affairs the banks which failed come under our notice. Tne obvious effect of such a system is first unduly to ennance, and then, whilst it continues, to sustain the price of commodi- ties. In 1857, teat fall of prices watch, according to Mr. Neave, far-seeing people hai anticipated, actually ocour- red. Tables bave been put in by more than one of the witnerses, exhiviting ao average fail of 20 or 30 par cent, im mapy instances mucn more, upon toe comparison of July, 1867, with Jaouary, 1866. Li nerds noargument to prove what effect euch & iall must have upon uouses waica nad accepted bills, on the security of produce consigned, to the exten! of ove hundred times the amouat of their own capital. The Liverpool Borough Bauk, the Westorn Bank of Scot- land, the Northumberiaad ana Durham Bang, and two bill broking houses in London which saspented payment a second time in 1857—‘‘these five houses,” say the com- mitiee, after entering into details, “‘contriouted more tham nee tothe commercial disaster and discredit of ‘1857. It is impossible for your committes to attribute the failure of such establishments to any other cause than to their own inherent unsoundacas—tho natural, the inevita- Die result of their own misconduct. Thus we have traced @ syetem wnder which extensive fictitious credits have been created by means of accommodation bills and open credits, great facilities for which have been aiforaei by the prac- ‘uce of joint stock couptry banks discounting such bils aad rediscounting them with the bili brokers ia toe London market —— credit of the bank alone, without refe- rence to quality of the Diils otherwise. The redie- counter relies on the belief that if the bank suspend and the billa are not met at matarity, he wiil obsin from the Bank of England such immediate assistance as will save bim from Consequences '’ The evidence which was taken by the commiite relative to the North of Europe is ‘hen referred to, and portions are quoted to snow that the real origin or the disaster there sustained was the undue of commercia! credit, and ¢» confirm Ube proof that no system of currency can secure a commer- igi Coramunity against the consequences of its own im- providence. After stating their belief that discussion and Increasing knowledge will satisfy tne public of a fact so obvious as that, the ‘sition of the executive government, ik of Eagiaod have me power whatever to exceed in their ieouee foe Limit tm- SF law —the commitiee proceed to analyse the evi- giv the provent directors and other eminent Witnesses, vor of maintaiving the act of 1844, and te ts against that act. They mention ing the groat increase of trade, the whole amount of bank notes has actually diminished since ‘1844, and under the law, still continues: that tn ordinary times thre lwo cogulsasic navantene 6 ro ie no Avo wd 3 en gd the = begs Eg the power of incr: amoung! notes wi may be ot without the dopoait of bullion. edgy The report continues — It is bore necessary for your committee to advert to the question, whether the law should be left, subject only to power which was contemplated by dir R. Peeland ur. Husk iseon, and was actually exercised LE two govern. other 1 i t E ? i i ' i : i i § fi i aft i af iene a i it | i z i 23 i i H z z 3 i g Ht iP Fu] fa: Ha Fi 7 il | f i g 8 : i i fF 4 Fi & | im it fe ui sei ett fe Te = i . a ij ment, the time andforudent opportunity of giving irther effect to those principles by which the convert. note bas beon kept above