The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-04-08

missaries to their aid 10 diminish uproar and main
| tain order enough for any business. Occasionally
operatives and tradesmen, who tried to get hear
ing for sentiments adverse to the club creeds and
projects, have been pulled down and exposed to the
process OF throttling agents prococatsts police
instgators and spies of reaction. There have been
twenty SIX OF these reunions eectoraiss, on each OF
four days OF the week, within the city, and four
or five in the environs. Some Of the halls can
admit thousands--one three thousand--and always
crowded.
The conservatives do not appear to have held any
electoral meetings for discussion.
Specimens OF the spouting at the reunions, show
ing the extravaganza and mischievousness of the
notions and spirit Of the sects. might be multiplied
spierre"-"S Shopkeepers, If you do not come to
us, your children shall not be even workmen''-
"We shall take into our safe excepting the five hum
dred royalst representatives"-"The people must
destroy every thing like hierarchy in labor the whole
system of wages; all the employment Of labor by
capitaP'-"The people must examine how the pro-
perty capital of each class each individual has
been acquired; they must deal with the bowgeosie
as they would with royalty''-'The national debt
shall be spunged; the grand livre, the register OF
stscks, must be burnt'-"Social distinctions and
all special authority in what is called the State,
must exist no longer; universal education in COM
mon, and compulsory and gratuitous; inter-
mnable all royalties and arstoc races in Europe;
revolutionary agandism''-"France is red
hot furnace, and every thing in Europe must red
den"-Such have been the topics communicated
missioned to attend reporters. As the evenings
have been fine, visited two of the argest meetings
and inferred, from what witnessed, that the ac
counts Of the journals might well be presumed au-
thentic.
The Misrepresentation and offence are not on the
side of the American resident here, who truly de-
scrbes and relates the aspect and of things
but on that OF the American at home, who dstorts
and degrades American republicanism, by con-
founding it with the democracy of Europe. Roy
atty would disappear If true republicanism could be
widely diffused.
Your attention may be directed to remarkable
upon the surface of the globe, which delivered at
the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the first
of this month, by Sir Roderick j. Murchison, the
Vice President. every fine lump of ore, ;" brought
Here is an extract from the report of the lecture.
You have, now, more concern in the auriferous
subject than any other people
"From the Ural mountains and the twenty five
districts OF Siberia, in the region around the -four
ishng city of Krasnoiarsk of which one il 200 miles
in length and 100 in BREADTH where the metal is
invariably found in the broken materials and debris
above mentioned nearly the value of E3 500 900 in
gold is annually derived. Precisely similar, geo.
logically, are the chief backbones of the American
continent, which also afford at intervals clustered
collections of gold ore. 1t is right, however, to
state fact Of financial importance, that California
has not hitherto produced more than E 500 00C
annually. The learned lecturer adverted to a re-
mark, which seemed to amuse the audience not a
little, made by Sir Robert Peel, when addressed a
few years since by Sir Roderick the probability
of gold being found in Australia, that he hoped Eve
might not have too much of good thing The re-
cent explorations of those intelligent and persever-
ing American officers, Albert, Emory, and Peck
employed under General Kearny, proved that in
all the long tract watered by the Rio del Nore the
Colorado, and the Gila, which had been, for the
most part, long inhabited by civilized men, gold
ore was known in two three spots only, and then
the real profit was derived from gold gravel. Such
would be the case in California; and Sir Roderick
inveighed against what he might almost designate
the popular delusion, that all that region would
prove equally productive of gold. or course hi:
opinion was founded on the presumption that thers
would be no deviation from the Constants whict
appeared, almost, as far as they had been deter
| mined, TO be a law of nature
1t has lately been proposed, in a communication
from Ceylon, to employ the juice of the cocoa nu
| tree for the making Of sugar; il being considered
that each tree is capable Of producing upwards O
one hundred weight per annum, and that an acr
Of cocoa-nut trees, requiring little cultivation vii
produce at least twice as much sugar as an acre O
sugar-cane, requiring much more cultivation.