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

THE GOLD FIELDS OF NOVA SCOTL

It may, perhaps, not be uninteresting to many
of our readers to know that within a fortnight's
voyage of London new and most important gold
discoveries have taken place in the British pro-
vince of Nova Scotia. Six years since the pre-
cious metal was found in the sands of the sea-shore
on the Atlantic side of the
d to the belief that a minute
search on the mainland would prove that the rocks
ipnr o many
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a
bounding the province, almost the whole length
ntdh et
hbiasy
Ise
from east to west, were auriferous. After much'
labour, Professor Campbell, of Halifax, reported
to the Provincial Government that he had found
gold at many places he visited specially for the
purpose ; and within a few months after the pub-
lication of his report numerous leases were granted
by the Crown, and mines were opened at Oldham,
Waverley, Renfrew, Montague, Wine Harbour,
Stormont, and many other places. In fact, it
turned out that the band of metamorphic rock ex-
tending from Yarmouth to Cape Canso, a dis-
tance of more than 300 miles in length, by from
10 to 40 miles in width, contained gold in greater
or lesser quantities. Had these discoveries 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 which oc-
curred in California and Australia. Not so, how
ever, here, for the Nova Scotians 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 gold mining 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 gold fields when it is known
that small grants of land, k d
wor e only by labouring
men without machinery, have been sold, after a few
months working, for from 20,000 to 50,000 dollars.
One of the latest of these was known as the Ophir
Company's grant, at Renfrew, within a few miles
of Halifax. This company commenced working
last September twelvemonth, 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 half of the unemployed popu-
lation of the British Islands would have soon been
on the way to the golden land, and millions of Eng-
lish capital would have been subscribed for the de-
velopment of the mines. The recent monetary panic
has, however, effectually damped the ardour for
speculation ; and gold, the great talisman, lingers in
its native beds, until some more fortuitous moment
shall awaken the British capitalists to the necessity
of unloosening the golden treasures buried in the
soil of this wonderful province. —Westminster Ga-
zette.

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fashionable cosmetics notwithstanding the numerous new
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L Boston Transcript!!

THE 4 6 EVIVERS" 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 NI, 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 ➢I. 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 Pherw, 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 :
"prands savantas, nation incivilo !"
Let it be, then, as M. 0. B. Lohe chooses. If he
likes he may pile on us ignorance and bad faith.
lie may please himself, but we, nevertheless, shall
not cease to listen to him with a moderate but suf-
ficient politeness.