Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1851-09-25
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NEw YuEK, Sept 81, 1854
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Ths Australian papers are 6led with long ediid-
riRl articles, aconmunica,ioas, and eoFrtspon-
denres.- on the discovsty cf Gold Mines n Ba-
hurst aboai 80 miles from Sidney II The TepoE;s
we're not endorsed by KS Colonial Authorities. 4.
nsng Others b. he Gorefhnept 9ealogis.. Ishenll
b spl o deem ihem false ri a aay rae AigklY
exaggerated. LumPs III geld. weighing oTgr !
ponnd are said 10 be TiEExa -spA without any dig
ging ii all Business y. ii stand ii Baihnrss,
and according ID sAs 5aaaurst Fra Pfsss & houses
are deserted. ns.ters servants. apprentices cleEgT
men, iavefp seepers IN Short DC rich and Poos,
of al agp ana hoth sexes line every read leading Is
rs 4ggings some on hoEsebaea some IN vehicles,
nd others on foot.
The price Of provisions bad slrraty doubled ant
The Frss ssss fears that i famine viii be the resal
cfhe excitement. If capitalists, in sidney anios
! er places. cannot Be preyaflei upon 10 purchase
! -four, and send it TO the mines on Speculation.
Catharine Hayes IS at the Astflr House. She
commences her eoncertxFHext week. have no
donbt that her singing will be liked; but, she
wants 10 make anything, she should by all means,
| paw something handsome to the addle-headed fel.
Low who has engaged her to consent to annaf her
contract with him.
The Young Meas Wing Committee met agein,
last Night whea. everything passed Of harmoliens
II. Amone The wofkingmen of9ur tity, the nominal
/ lion or WmsJ MeAipine for State Engineer and
Surveyor, has created quite al: excitement This
MeAIpine Is the person who Eas Engineer III ske
\ Dry Dock al Brooklyn, and his conduct, while in
ths position, viii be the means of taking thousands
\ Of votes from him, ia New YORK City. The Gran-
lie Cutters held ont for niue weeks, On strike a
gainss him. and the carpenieIs Society have de-
noaneed him ID no measured terms Oal 81 tso
thousand men employed ia building that docA, bot
fifty could Sc found who would contribute ono dol.
/ lar each. towards making him present ola Silver
] jar He bears The name of n.esciless, unfesliug
I iyrans, among working men and iexpect thar, Pc
fore election be will be denounced BY almost every
| workers association in this civ The Democrats
win ind that parry harness will hot always bind our
mechanics; the nomination Of McAlpine on any
/ ticket would be dealhblow to il.
/ An attentive reader 81 the Pennsylvania papers
cannot fail see that on The success Of Col glsr
! tia Locofoco candidate Tot Governor, hang aM the
hopes Of James Buchanan for the Baltimore norni-
nation 1t is we'll understood here, BY politicians
thai the nomination Of Bigler was strongly opposed
] by Simon Cameron U. s. Senator, Col French. and
| other Cass Democrats; ard thar these gentlemen
are even now socool and lukewarm, and 50 dana
The Candidate ofthe Party with heir faint pTaie
that Il is evident their game Is to indirectly favor
Johnson's election, and, then shelve Buchanan fer
the race Of 80, BY pointing out thai he cannot car
1 ~ his own State Whether this game will succeed
or not is, Of course. doubtful but the Berks CO
Convention, the neplus sltfa, stronghold Of i'IDe
rnocFacy, r although it urged the support Of Bgfr
nevertheless threw Buchanan oyer hoard in Az, and
came oul strong in favor Of Cass.
The State Fair at Rochester+and the RAILROAD
Celebration at Boston absorbing great atcption
but the details are so voluminous that shall not
here attempt to enter them. The interest evinced
1 IN the latter, by The people Of Canada ought 10
convince US that sahguinary modes are not the On
1 ly, dreYen perhaps the best modes adapted To- Tie
enlargement Of the area otdresdom." Unqh4s,
iionably the commercial intercourse, now So rap
I idly extending between the New England and
Northern States and the British Provinces, win 10
i more for the advancement of annexation than
$4,000 hunters 7 each with brace Of revolveFs
One simple fact snfEices to show the drift Of The
current which has set in and must, eventually
bring these Provinces into the Union, By some folly
Of armed Intervention, on our part So great las
been the increase Of Commercial relations With Tie
States, that the WhoIe system of e. $ d. 1pounhs
shillings. and pence has been swept away; and
their system of curreiIcy is now uniform with our
own. This, however, i only the first innovation.
The" Almighty dollar" IS Just the wedge which is
to split The connection between Great Britain and
/ her North America1 Possessions.
A desperate effort is being made by the Gas
Company TO get an extension Of its contract fifteen
years longer. Notwithstanding all the preience At
4 cheaPness which is putlforth 6ythe friends Or DE
movement there is no getting OVER
the fact that the price demanded nearly one-third
higher than the rates charged in Philadelphia, ana
nearly three times the rates now charged in L0a-
don and, in fact throughout Epgiand as far as
quality isconcerned it is only necessary 10 cross
overto Brooklyn, 10 be convinced tha. our New
York Gas is an inferior article.
In England, the charges Of the Gas Companies
have been undergoing gradual reduction, within
4 few years, ion account of what are termed Gas
! Consumers Companies, the stock Of which il heId
in small shares, BY small shopkeepers and others a.
tuaily interested not IN pocketng large diyidends
1 bu, in being furnished with good cheap light The
average price in London is now four shilsings and
siypence sterling, equal 10 about sl,I0 per 0v6
cubicIfset.
From parliamentary paper dated early in 1850
/ find that lhs number Of Gas Companies ii Eng
land and Wales was SO, aud in Scotland and Irel
land, ITO BesideasheseE there are s3 Gas Works
owned By pirate individuals, and u BY Munich
pal Or LocatbodiesB making, in all Ts5 distinct es4
adjustments The Cavita thus invested is $751;
100000 and the nnnber Of men euplo, ca Is over
20 900 The Gas actually produced is abonts, co.,
oOo,oOG cubic feet. Allowing fofleakage AID waste.
the quantity sold tot the public every year. is about
1900 600 600 feet producing light equal 10 that
given hy 39I3s,64O gallons Of spsrm oil. Now
this quantity Of oil aI 81 so per gallon, would cost
SIS 200. 46O, while he price charged By the compa-
MES for their gas, lis only about S7,92OOoO int
New York, however, at monopoly prices. The same
quantity Of gas would cost SIS so0u00
had nearly forgotten to mention that ths quanti-
" OF coal, annually consumed in the Manufacture
of gas 10 England, weighs II, 900 tons.
Yours Truly, JEFFERSON.
a. The Alsxenaria Gazette remarks
with much truth, that the attempt to mako
political capital cut Of the Cuban affair, nsust
fail before an intelligent, Law abiding patri-
otto people Politics have nothing 70 do
with The subject, ia any particular, and, If
/ they ara to be Ynfxed M With Il s,,rels. thn