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    • NEWS PROM THE GOLD DIGGINGS
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      The exciteme nt relative to the approaching Presidential election JUil y . Gen . Scotth » been ^ general well r , ceiv ^ , ™ Z " pec ts seen to be brightening . ' u ms Yesterday morning as has been telegraphed to this city , Judoe J Farlane , of Pennsylvania , was killed by the falling of i hem Sri * ^ 1 m Sundry at Holhdaysburg . lie was the editor of The Harris to Stone and Associate Judge of Hunting County . He formerly belonged to Philadel phia , was a mosf es . Lable citizen , and widely known through the State . ominable murders have Th- exciieme nt relative to the approaching Presidential *! , ^

      Several ab been committed within tl , o oast week . At noon on Wednesday last , a man named ftfCrodden , was stubbed in Gold-street . The unfor tunate man Jied the same night . Cap t . B radford , of the Tenth Ward Police , received informa tion about three o clock , yesterday afternoon , that a man who was sun posed to have been murdered , had just been discovered lying : in " he loft of a cabinet maker s-shop i ,, the rear of 95 , For « yth % t occup ied by a German named John Doeliel . Capt . B ., accompa nied by some of his men , immediately repaired to the olace and fo « lhe bod > J whlch was Ivin S * corner of the shon covered over with shavings . The bod y was much decomposed

      and to all appearance had been lying m the shop for a day or two On removing the shavings from the bod y , a large blanket was found wrapped about the head of the deceased , and it had evi dentiy been placed there to prevent the blood from flowim " throug h the floor to the room below , and thus revealing the mur * der . The blanket was taken away , when a terrible wonnd was discovered en the head , which had been fra : tured in a shocking manner , and almost stove in . One of the fingers of the right hand was nearly severed , and other marks of violence were discoverable upon the person of the deceased ; on examining the shop spots of blood were found upon the floor , stove , and grindstoneand from

      , appearances , it was evioent that a severe struggle had taken place there . A man who formerly worked in the same shop , with the deceased , is supposed to have been the perpetrator of the crime . A woman named Blonk , died at the Bellevue Hospital on Wed " nesday , from the effects of violence inflated upon her by her son on the 13 th inst . The son has been arrested .

      Mesdames Alboui and Son tag have arrived to charm us with tlieir voices . It is expected that lhe Japanese expedition , consisting of the Missisippi , the Princeton , and the Alltghany , will take its departure about the 10 . h of November . There is no important news from Havannah . The agitation increases , and numerous arrests continue to be made .

      The bark Buck-Eye , from Buenos Ayres , arrived at Boston yesterday . The Progress of August 12 th , contains the official recognition by General Urquiza , as Provisional Dictator , of ihe independence of the Republic of Paraguay , and the conclusion of a treaty of friendship , commerce , and navigation , by which the free navigation of the rivers Paraguay and Parans , is secured to the Republic of La Plata and the Empire of Brazil .

      The latest accounts from the Rio Grande have been brought by the steamshi p Yacht , which arrived on the 19 ih . The only paper that has reached me is the Brownsville American Flag of the 4 th inst . The excitement consequent upon the usurpation of Cardenas stiii continued . The representatives of Matamoros in lhe State Legislature deny the right of Cardenas to expel them , and Jlie National Guard sustain them as well as General Pristo for Governor . This guard has taken up his residence on the American side of the river , whence they correspond with their adherents . All the " principal cities of the state have also pronounced against Cardenas . General Avalos has issued a proclamation

      from the tenor of which it would appear that he intends to support Cardenas in his usurpation . He warns the inhabitants against taking a hostile attitude towards the Government of the State , and says , that if dissatisfied with the result of the election , they have a legal recourse before the national representation . He learns with regret that some misguided persons are assembled at the Raneho Falcete , with hostile intentions towards the State Government , and entreats them to return to their duties secure of amnesty for the past . He appeals to them b y the dangers they so heriocally passed through in October last , and assures them that he is a sincere friend , only solicitous for their welfare and that of the frontier .

      The Flag publishes the following account of some supposed tnurders between Brownsville and the Nueces : — Circumstances have recently transpired which lead to the belief that tW has been foul play with the stock-drivers on the road between this place and the Nueces . A short time since , Captain Shannon of the Custom-House in this place , received a letter from two drovers , to the effect that they had picked up near Santa Gertrudea , a drove of about fifty animals , supposed to be those of Mr . Lemuel Taylor , who was one day ' s march ahead of them with about that number of animals , and who they suspected had been murdered . Being in possession of this information , Capt . Shannon was on the look out tor the return of the men who set out with Mr .

      Taylor , and a few days since encountered one of the three who accompanied aim , an old Mexican , named Justo Lopez , whom he caused to be immediately arrested . On examination , it was found that this Lopez had rode in the saddle mule on which Mr . Taylor left this place , and had , besides several piece * of gold , supposed to have belonged to Mr . Taylor . L » p « could give no satisfactory reasons for being in possession of this

      property , and was accordingly committed to prison . Mr . Taylor had not been heard from , and as the " cavallada" has been regonwed as hi * , there is little doubt but that he has been murdered . Mr . Taylor was from Austin , where we learn his family now reside . Wearing apparel , corresponding with that worn by Mr . Catanet , has also been found on the road between this place and Corpus Christ ! , which leads to the belief that he also has been wardered .

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      ^ I y recognised and acknowledged by Great Briiaiii and France . lh « civil conMuuiion of Liberia is a model in miniature of the united bJiit-s , wuh one remarkable and sufficiently sicniHcam exception , viz . —no white p < r > o . » i > t . llowed to he . one u citizen of J j Abena ; consequently white residents cannot hold any oftue in tne llepubhc . J Tiie main object of iho . < e who have founded Liberia has been to endeavour , .,. . : ^^

      to civile the negroes by means of colonising in Africa wmi tree and educated negroes from America . For this purpose wey purchased at various times from the Aborigines th « various waftis 0 ! country now incorporated as Liberia , and with u view to m T ? ™\ / bhs ° lhe rttce » lhfiy choselhe ioc » llly and climate most ad ored for the experiment . The population of the "Republic is variousl y estimated at from four to six thousand settlers , ana from two hundred thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand ADoriijines . The princi pal natural productions of the coumrv are

      cotton coffee , and palm oil . If Liberia foil , the fact wlUnlv prove that some thou > ands of partially civilised negioes cannot maintain a tree and progressive political state with the dead wei-ht ot a vast abori ginal population of savages hanging upon idem . On the other hand , if Liberia should largely succeed and prosper , it will be one ot the most cheering facts that the historian can record m the history of the blacks .

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      THE BLACK REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA . Liberia is a tract of country extending about 400 mile ? on the coast of Western Africa , lying to ihe north of the equator , between 4 deg . 20 min . and 7 deg . north latitude . It extends along the coast from Gallinas ( that notorious spot in the history of the slave trade ) down to what is now called " Muryland in Liberia , "— situate near Cape Palmar The first company of emigrants sent from

      America to Liberia , under the auspices of the " American Colonisation Society , " embarked at New York in February . 1820 , so * tat a quarter of a century can be claimed for this Black Republic . The colony progressed amidst various trials until 1830 , when the * ' commonwealth" was founded . The Colonisation Society of America watched over and tended its progress , and at last , in the mon th of July , 1847 , a convention of delegates met at Moravia , the capital ot this new state , issued a declaration of independence , and founded the Republic and government of Liberia , which has been

      News Prom The Gold Diggings

      NEWS PROM THE GOLD DIGGINGS

      The following letter dated from Melbourne , contains the opinions of a well-informed German gentleman : " Gold , as you are aware , lias been found in various places in this colony and the extent of these gold fields are not yet known .. During my sojourn at the diggings ( only seven weeks ) several new diggings were commenced , and from what I could learn from others , several parties had done very well at these new places . At present the mining operations are principally carried on in the vicinity of the creeks , where gold has been found in great abundance , as the

      Melbourne papers testify . The diggins are mostly on one side of the creek j and ' over the extent of many miles , you see hole by hole , tent near tent . Hence it is easy to account for the diggers choosing the hills , flats , and gullies adjoining the creeks , and prefer pitching their tents close to the creek , so that they may no have to carry or cart to any distance , the gold containing , soil for the purpose of washing ; but lately , owing to the scarcity of water , they have had to cart the earth several miles for the purpose of washing , and , owing to the immense number daily arriving at the diggings , the latest comers are obliged to comment

      farther and further" back from the creek j yet , even these back diggings have yielded an incredible amount of the precious metal . As regards the area ° or extent of the gold fields is a question no one is able to answer , up to the present time , in a satisfactory manner . They may continue for several years , and be successful as ever to a great number of people . That portion of ground I saw dug up on the gold fields , and where numbers are now busily occupied , will occupy twice the number of diggers at present there for the next two years ; that is if they search and thoroughly turn over this space of ground .

      The number of the people at the diggings may be estimated at about 45 , 000 men , but this is difficult to say . I follow the Argus , whose last estimate was 40 , 000 . Your other query , as to what is the average earnings of the diggers , tt is almost impossible to say . I have seen hundreds of people who have done very well , that is to say , who have made from about 201 bs . to upwards of 801 bs . weight of gold each . Then there is another , which I consider is the largest portion of diggers , who make from 31 bs to Solus , weight , each I should say a very large one . The usual time in which they generally make a small fortune is three months , and this I consider a fair calculation . I spoke to many at lhe diggings and to one party in particular , who had dug thirteen holes , and some of them thirty feet deep , when in the fourteenth hole lie dug , he made for his own share 601 bs weight of gold . Then another took above 201 bs weight out of his first hole

      which he spent in the most foolish manner , came back to the diggings , and has to try very hard for a new fortune . I dug myself six holes , two of which were above 20 feet deep , and had commenced two more , but np to . the last moment was not lucky . Had I stuck at it , and persevered a little longer , I should in every probability have made something by mis time . It is almost impossible to tell the average earning of a digger . However , as you take the Argus paper regularly , you'll find some calculations in it to elucidate this point . At present water is very scarce at the diggings ; and I have seen several parties here in town who have just come down , and they give some dreadful accounts in consequence , and state that early of a morning , some desperate affrays take place between parties as to who shall have his first kettle of water ; and , further , that people were watching at their watev holes , so that no one should take awav Hie three

      inches of water which the hole only contains . If this be lhe case , no wonder so many are returning more dead than alive . The Forest Creak diggings are from 70 to 75 miles from Melbourne , to the Friar ' s Creek about six miles further , and to the Lodden six miles still further on than the Friar ' s Creek . Bendigo Creek diggings are in another direction , and about 90 miles from Melbourne . "

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      o " Religious Equality . "— -In his journal of Saturday , Mr . Frederick Lucas announces that he has received , through the intervention of a gentleman resident in this city , who introduces himself as Sir CullenEardley's " friend , " a " characteristic " document , in which the writer invites Mr . Lucas to join the deputation about to wait npon the Grand Duke of Tuscany to intercede for the Madiai , now in prison for religious causes . Having the advantage of an 4 < organ" at his own disposal , Mr . Lucas , naturally enough , makes the most of ti ' . o privilege .

      and , accordingly , the hon . gentleman fills up three- mortal columns of the Vahlet with a reply to Sir Cullcn ' s simple and not unreasonable challenge . One extract will show the spirit in which it has been met by the wily supporter of " religious equality ' and civil liberty alter the approved Rowan model : — ' I shall not enter at any length with you into the difference between , on the one side , a Catholic Government in an exclusively Catholic country taking means to prevent the introduction of heresy for the first time among an exclusively Catholic population , and , on the other side , a Government , whether

      Catholic or Protestant , ruling over a mixed population of Catholic and Protestant subjects , whichever denomination may have the majority . Jn the former case , no native inhabitant of the State can become a Protestant without committing a crime in the sight of God , and without inflicting an injury upon society . If I were the ruler of such a State , I would not allow the foreign preacher' to sow his noxious weeds among the good corn , and in the kind of repression to be used for preventing the first introduction of heresy I would be guided by the circumstances of the case , and considerations of expediency .

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      In countries , on the other hand , where horesyois of lono- siding , has become traditional , and does , no *^ atnvally ' imrlv guilt on the part of those who in profoosingTt , adhora « n ! v tn the creed" in which tl : « y l . avn been brought npfj Wl » nld net differently . If I were a member o \ . -, c ....., titiitioijft ] Sfcntci like belgiimi or r , ngl : i ;;< i , on u-hiclHMrr si-io the mixymiv hftpuenrd to be , I would advocate tho striol-i ; iinj . Mrtinlilv , n

      ^ estates have rotted them also of the religioi ^ endown ni accumulated by the piety of their ancestors ' for centuries Viore ~ -by the aid of those endowments uphold themselves in a position ot social and legal superiority over the mass of tho people—use those endowments as an instrument of insult inri a means and a motive for every kind of misgovernmc ^ ami the maintenance of every species of abuse-in such a rase I care not whether I belonged to the majority or the mincritv / to the class of he oppressed or the class of the oppressors , to the Catholic or the Protestant-m any event I should be earnest with my whole soul , for cutting out of the flesh of the Stale so foul a gangrene , and establishing perfect religious equality among tho people . " i j

      The Tale op MYBTBET—Sounrfers * Newsletter of Saturday says :- '' Yesterday a Government inquiry was instituted at Howth before Major Brownrigg , deputy inspector-general of constabulary , into the circumstances connected with the drowning , at IrelanoVa-eye , some time since , of Mrs . Maria Kirwan , wite ot Mr . T \ ilham Kirwan , an artist . Mr . Kirwan was in custody ot the police on suspicion of having been accessory to the death of the deceased lad y . The Earl of Howth

      Lord-Lieutenant of the county , and Mr . Cornelius Egan , J p were present at the investigation . A reporter attended from this journal , but was informed by Major Brownrtacr that it whs deemed necessary that the inquiry should be private as well for the furtherance of the ends of justice , as to avoid the publication of exparte statements prejudicial to the accused Gentleman . We understood that the inquiry had not closod ^ last evening , and that the accused had been further remanded for eight days . "

      Emigration from Ulster -Prom nn official return it aprom that the number of emigrants who left ihe port of Londonderry for the United Slates and British America between the 1 st of Jtmuary and lhe 30 th of September , 1852 , amounted to 5 , 015 ; for the same period last year , 5 , 795 , showing a decrease this je » ir of 780 . Emigration from Connaught . —An intelligent " western correspondent of lee Freeman ' s Journal supplies some interesting information with respect to the progress of emigration from Connaught and the gradual dying out of the Celtic race . Upon the authority of a Mayo clergyman , the writer states that the number of families in his parish in the year 1845 was considerably over 2 , 000 , and that at present the number does not exceed 500 .

      Emigration from Waterford . —Attout 1 , 200 emigrants have taken their departure from Waterford for America , via Liverpool witiiin the last fortnight , by the steamers Mars and Osprey . They are stated to have almost ail of them belonged to the very best and most respectable portion of the agricultural population , Terrorism . — The Limerick Chronicle states thai on Thursday , a notice , headed b y the fi gure of a coffin , was served on Mr . Finnerty , to discharge fourU en men who were brought by him to instruct the labourers at Knocksentro , the estate of Sir Capel Moly . neux where 120 men of that neighbourhood are employed on drainage operations . The incendiaries , who are known , are summoned to Castle Connell petty sessions .

      Agrarian Murder in Limerick . —The Mail has the following account of an atrocious Agrarian murder in Limerick :--Limerick , Sunday . —I-am sorry to have to inform you that this county was last night the scene of one of those atrocious crimes which disgrace the land , but from which we have happily been for a long time free . The victim in tiie present instance is a farmer , by name William Shine , a tenant to the Earl of Dunraven . The unfortunate man was well known as a most respectable and industrious character , and his only crime it seems was , that he had thy temerity to take some land on the adjoining estate of the Rev . William Waller—land from which some people supposed to be implicated in the present brutal murder had been removed . Most

      fortunately lor the ends of justice the police of Adare , were out on patrol , under their active officer , Sub-Inspector Channer , and on their return towards the village of Adare , about eleven o clock on Saturday night , they heard voices in loud and angry tones before them . They quickened their pace , and shortly came up to the spot where they found the body of the unfortunate Shine , still warm , but life was extinct . They immediately pursued the parties whose voices had been heard , and succeeded in capturing six or seven individuals , who are now in custody , and on whom , ° I understand , the strongest suspicion rests . This during murcltr was committed , I htar , within a stone ' s throw of the village of Adare , and not ten yards from a respectable house by the road side . Abater

      account says : "lhe man named Shirer ( not Shine , us stated ) , who liad been beaten near Adare , in ihe county of Limerick for taking laud , and who was supposed to have betrii murdered on the spoi , is not dead , and that hopes of his ultimate recovery are entertained The tumour was that the police found the unfortunate man de-ad * but it is certain thai he was very severel y beaten . All ihe parties concerned in the outrage have been arrested "

      The Vacamt Bishopric- The Dublin Expreu , an or <> an of the ln > h government , asserts that the selection of Dr Siu « er for ihe vacant see of Meaih has been confirmed , and appeals ' to the choice as " an udd . iiui . ul instance of the sound discretion evinced by the Earl of Ejjlu . ton in his appointments . "

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      Extension of tiie Electric Telegrapb to the Islk of Wight .-ihe laying down the telegraph wires between Southampton and Lyminglon , near nurst Castle , is progressing rapidly . There are to be tw » independent wires between the two towns . From Brockenhurst station , on tne lJorcnester Kaihvay , the wires are laid beneath the turnpike road in earthenware tubes . Parties have visited Lvmington to examine the practicability of extending the telegraph to Osborne , in the Isle of Wight , down a wire on the bed of the Solent from Lyminyton to Yarmouth , at the south-western end of the Isle of Wight . Pleasant Alternative . —Many of the seamen of the Seringapatam nave been imprisoned because they refused to proceed to sea , considering the vessel not sea-worth y . Their feara have been justified , for the ship has been compelled to return to Liverpool in a very leaky condition .

      Ireland

      IRELAND

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1700/page/3/