The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-26 00:00:00

THE GOLD FIELDS OF NOVA SCOTIA.

It may, perhaps, not be
ewinairtshtuninterestingiiisneinacuen. ttthoisehm fortnight'spparrnoe--
mpor t a n t gold
Atlantic side of the
sandsymost
prove oi f t theh at sea-shoret
h e
rocks
o c k s
voyageo of our readerso f London to k
new
eoww
atnhda t
the belief that a minute
discoveries have taken place
Till nr pre-
cious es i
many
metal
yefe :
aolaf Novawntdhase
this
foundSbays
a led.oi
nnt
oStthihxee
bounding the
ttohewpesrto,vi:ceer,e almost the wmhotleerleinnugethh
months after thepub-
lication
ldeases
search on the mainland woujolsuditse
labour, Professor Campbell, of Hspaliecfaialx,lyrefoprorttielde
to the Provincial Government that he had found
were grantedplaces.
purposegold
of his
a nahni
sdy
rp:vlpiatochreitsunuhamefeevwr
by the Crown, and mines were opened at Oldham,
anodthoefr
metamorphic
.
Waverley, Renfrew, Montague, w,-, e
in Harbour,
turned out
and many In fact, it
rphie rock ex-
tending from Yarmouth to Cape
Causo, a dis-
tance of more than 300 miles ;
al length, by from
10 to 40 miles in width, contained
mthaenyb
gold in greater
or lesser quantities. Had these disco •
veries taken
place in any other province but Nova Scotia,
there would have been a sudden rush of popula-
tion to the gold fields similar to that whi •
ch oc-
curred in California and Australiallot so, how
ever, here, for the Nova Scotian; are
a quiet,
plodding people, not easily excited,
or tempted
to leave their homes, more particularly
as the gold
was found embedded in the quartz rock, and
so widely disseminated therein that nothing short
of powerful machinery for crushing the rock, and
apparatus for amalgamating the gold
would be
likely to pay for working ; and, as the province
had but little capital unemployed, nothing of im-
portance was done in the shape of mining gold
for
the first year or two. A few Americans,
it is true,
began to prospect the different districts, and
quietly established themselves in the most advan-
tageous positions for working, Some of them
quickly realized ample fortunes- Others, not quite
so fortunate, worked on with much perseverance,
and are now making large returns on their capital.
Many instances could be quoted, showing their
profits to range from 30
to 1,000 per cent. on the
capital invested, and some idea may be formed of
the richness of these
that small grantsof gold fields when it is known
land, worked only by labouring
men without machinery, have been sold, after a few
months working, = f
or f
One of the latest of rom 20,000 to 50,000 dollars.
these was known as the Ophir
Company's grant
of Halifax. This company
Renfrew, within a few miles
eompany commenced working
twelvemonth, last September , and the first year's
,
report states that after paying the expenses of
machinery, crushing-mills, houses and plant, there
remained in the banker's hands the large surplus
of 137,000 dollars, or £27,000."
Had these gold
discoveries
been made ten or
twelve years ago, one
of the British Ihalf of the unemployed popu-
lationislands would have soon been
on the way to the golden land, and
.millions of Eng-
lish capital would i
m.anve been subscribed for the de-
velopment of the
has, however, effectuallyies The recent monetary panic
damped the
.ardour for
speculation ; and gold,
its native beds, until the great talisman,. lingers in
some
.more. fortuitous moment
shall awaken the British capitalists to the. necessity
of unloosening the Iden treasures buried in the
soil of this wonderfulgo
province.—Westminster Ga-
zette.

Rowlands'
I a nldbsefamous '
f three great
com-
plexion, and the teeth arc known in all quarters of the
gl ous,,pmreapeaasrsantrionosilf7
has
se hair, the tehe,uncotmr:
felted in France, Germany, and elsewhere, but none of she
spurious preparations have possessed the extraordinary
properties of the genuine article. Rowland? "Kalydor"
for the complexion has retained its prominent place among
fashionable cosmetics, notwithstanding the numerous new
articles introduced for the complexion. The " Odonto" for
the teeth is highly prized by thousands who have used no
other dentifrice for years. Rowlands' great success during
the past two generations, and their preseat prominent
position as manuta4urers. may justly be attributed to the
exo,llent character of their articles, and to the fact that,
unlike many other proprietors of established fame, they
do not allow their cosmetics to deteriorate in quality.—
"1340011

THE ,i UNIVERS" ON KING-MURDER
SINCE 1789.

In speaking of the frequent occurrence of the
crime of Kingmurder since the Revolution of 1789,
M. Louis Veuillot has given great offence to M. de
Girardin, of the Presse. In retaliation, one of his
retainers has drawn up a long catalogue, almost as
long as the Homeric catalogue of ships, of accom-
plished or attempted King-murders prior to 1789.
From this list it appears that as there were great
men before Agamemnon, so there were assassins of
Princes before Agamemnon died at the hands of
Clytemnestra. In reply to M. de Girardin's paper,
M. Veuillot makes the following remarks in the

Univers:—
A henchman of M. de Girardin has taken it into
his head to prove to us that Kings and Grand Dukes
were assassinated before 'B9. He takes incredible
pains in the matter, and omits no case. From him
we learn that Brutus killed Caesar, and that Alex-
ander of Pherm, tyrant of Paphlagonia and of else-
where, died at the hands of his own wife. Aga-
memnon, too, was destroyed by Clytemnestra, a
crime with Which politics had not a little to do.
These examples make up a total of three columns,
but to-day M. de Girardin's henchman adds two
columns, and declares that he is by no means ex-
hausted. He appears to be one of those who gets
up his Encyclopedias, and whose zeal is much above
boiling point. He may go on if he likes, but we
confess to him that he has won his cause. We sur-
render. It is true there have been political assas-
sinations before the Revolution. Yes, Clytemnestra
did kill Agamemnon before having read the Decla-
ration of the Rights of Man.
What remains to be proved, however, is why
there have been more attempts at King-murder since
1830, only thirty-seven years, than in the thousand
years which elapsed between the death of Charle-
magne and the death of Louis XVI. It has yet to
be explained how—without any personal wrong,
without any premeditation—the idea of so great a
crime entered into the mind of the first miserable
man who calmly committed such an act in the hope
of acquiring glory. It is, indeed, remarkable that
these abominable assassins, for the most part, be-
long to the most vulgar class of criminals, and are
only conspicuous by a stupid sort of vanity. They
conceive the idea of the crime as one catches a cold
in a draught, or a fever in traversing the marshes.
If they reflected at all, it was to look upon the
scaffold as a short cut to glory, as the pathway of
the weak. But •of all this, the assassination of
Alexander of Pherm, by his wife, is not much of an
explanation.
At the time when attempts against the life of
Louis Philippe occurred, at least once a year, M. de
Girardin, at that time a Deputy and a Conservative
journalist, gave another explanation, which was
very much more like our own. It is the business of
M. de Girardin's henchman, to read up his old
papers, and to consider whether his former explana-
tion, now contradicted, be not the truer. But do
not let us deprive our adversary of his final flourish
of trumpets. He declares that if we hesitate to
declare ourselves vanquished he will only give us
the option between ignorance and bad faith, but he
reserves for himself the right "to substitute the
cumulative for the alternative charge."
We have nothing to say to this sally of M. 0. B.
Lohe's, unless that it seems to us in bad taste. But
retailers of second-hand knowledge are subject to
this defect. Scarron said :
" Grande savantas, nation incivile !"

Let it be, then, as M. 0. B. Lohe chooses. If he
ikes he may pile on us ignorance and bad faith.
He may please himself, but we, nevertheless, shall
not cease to listen to him with a moderate but suf-
ficient politeness.