The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-26

Wild birds the wing-ths nstive dog sinks away
In the cold light to his hiding place among the dead
The sleeper and the cimes that softer
the sunny island from whose fields the daughter vesta
wove her farest garland but his brow Is flushed, hts
wildsrment world Of and wonder Is written Ia his
look He has drsst Of gold Along that road over the
blue mountains, where few years since little band of
brave adventurers In search OF pasture for their
theep multitude, denser and motley than that
which treads he sands to Mecca. moves on And down
that river where the seamen Of the Calcutta frigat
few years since had picked up the gtterng atoms but
threw them away thinking it vas mica ships straung
bore passing out to With respect to this dis
covery all the credit OF 1t is due Mr. Harxraves
California at the end Of $780, being greatly struck by
the analogy that appeared to exist in tho gcologi-
enter upon the inquiry that lead TO the discovery.
The value Of the exports from the port OF Melbourne
alone. from the gold discovery, In November, 1851,
amounted to 81 236 1885, exceeding in value all the gold
imported into Europe from Mexico and South
1885 In 1872 the colony contained only 1O454 souls
81 0C0 acres in cultivation and "a 0o0 under pasture
Now has 2000 O00 OF free people, export of f2 s99
SEQ, import Of f2 078s00 has 900 900, say.
AZ 100000 sheep and for tho discharge OF her debs and
liabilities, bars upsn bars of yellow metal piled in her
mountains Yet. with all this, she is not at rest.
The wrinkied hand Of England is upon her.
again sgainst the perpetuation Of this terrible and nca
culable wrong. In vain; the continues the pos.
thence becomes intoersble In 1851, the five colonies
New South Wales, Port Philip, South Australia New
ZcalrDd, and Van Bieman's Land enter into a SOLEMN
League and binding Themselves to the other
20 resist, by every just within their wer the
spcrtaon Of criminals their shores They adopt
flag The convict officers and their supportsrs-the
polutionsts, as they calied-denounce it sed
tous rag 1t does look indeed IL it copied from
the bunting OF the Chesapeake Honor and victory
that flag II Is lifted In holy cause-it the type and
crest of nation full OF youth glorious promise
One Of these days will the world with the
five stars In undsputed possession Of the field That
destiny was pro ordained pre- arranged = would
have coms-though all her wealth lay in the heeces OF
her ocks and sands sparhled through the streams
Nh fhau Aranf ytfnh ala
diate The gold discovery shortens the road to It,
ehortens it by thousand nes-dsperses many super.
to-y-has saved her. perhaps. many discom6turc-
many staggering bov-many an exhsusting wound
geld which has caused d. many brain to ache has bills
has wounded many soaring SOUL and, clinging to It,
has brought to the dust gold which has bought the
integrity OF the statesman and led his wisdom csptve
gold which has slenced the tongue Of the orator and
bought the luscious atteses Of the poet gold which,
in the gay saloons Of fashion many fair and noble girl
has pghted the which consigned her life bitter
and locked her radiant neck the snake which
;n,o bs counc o th sDa whim a n1 s s1osn @
senon among her chiefs has broken the seal Of her most
sacred secrets has forced the gates Of her strongest cs
des has bought the evidence which hurried her apostles
to the scad has bought the votes which made her
inhereDce to others aud her glory to strange people
gold which has led the traitor the garden and With
kiss betrayed the redeemer Of the world gold which in
many shapes has stepped with stesthy tread oted
amongst men-which has been the fever, the madness
the despairhas been In turns and in quick succession
the spy the swndler the perurer the assassnths foe
Of innocence, the blight Of beauty, the bane OF ge
MUS; gold has become Q fountain Of life, and joy
and freedomthe serpent has been transformed into
blossomed wandLucifer has become the morning star
To you the citizens Of America 1t must be peasng in
deed. to behold republic rising up share with you
the abors and the glores OF future before which the
conces OF the Old World shall be humbed and In the
light Of which humanity shall grow strong Aready-as II
you had secret intimation OF tyou have gone down
to shores Of the Pacific and there arayed
q bridesmaid in her jewels your youngest daughter hss
waited the coming of the bridegroom The conner
traces his descent from ancetry which given to
you the tongue you speak and the sounder portions Of
the laws lou The newcomer has had trisls
similar to those which taxed the patience aud reused the
enterprise and rowing nterests-a the sympathiss all
the faciteseu the faculties which qualify enter
with you into reiato e ,tasssmanhp and eonusrce.
In thcse coyEuni umaniy restores Itself One
fsir morning towards the close Of last summer stood in
. field that overlooked the Hudson. | was struck
with the ripeness OF the fruit which. waved around
me, and broke into expression of delight Ii
seemed to mort glorious had in any cline
tie most glorious which the earth could bring forth
'Thst seed said who stood by, from Egyptu
IL had been buried in the tombs OF the kngshad lain
with the dead for two thousand years But though
wrapped in the shroud and locked within the pyramid
IL dies not It lived in the senceved In the darkness
lived under the mighty mass OF stone-lived WITH death
itcland that the dust Of the kings has been
tuibednow that they have been called and they stir
not that the bsndases have been removed aud thy
not-behold, seed gives forth life and the fields
joce in its glory And thus 1t Is that the energies the
instincts, The faith all the vitsitieS which have been
crushed elsewhere have been ertombed elsewhere in
these virgin coils revive and that which seemed mortal
becomes imperishable And thus Ii is the will null
uply anu borne back TO the ancient land viii make the
wilderness rejoice Children Of the Old World be Of good
cheer Whilst in the homes. by the Rhine the Seine
the Danube, and the Arno-in the homes you have
left the wicked prosper and spurious senates pro-
vide OF the offspring of the tyrapt to the third aud
fourth generation Freedom strengthens herself in these
lands and in the midst Of couatess hosts conceu
tates tho power By which the captvc shall redeemed
and the evil loi d destroyed.
Mr. Meaghsr corclsl amidst most tremendous cheer
ing and waving OF NAT sad hendkerchiefs which lasted
for several minutes
1t then announced that tho lecture on behalf OF
the Catholic Institute which had been fixed for that
evening and was postponed in consequences OF Mr.
evening