The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-10
VERY LATE FROM AUSTRALIA.

Two weeks Later NeWs-M0re Gold Mines
Discovered-value OF the Silver Mines
Wages or Females, &C., &c., De.
Advces have been received from Sydney, N. S.
w. by the way Of San Francisco, to the goth of Sep
tember-f fifteen days later than the last intelligence
by the way Of England.
The latest dates from Port Philip are TO the 9th,
Launceston to the Sth, and Adelaide TO the 9TH OF
September.
Advices were, on the 18th September, received in
Sydney, Of the discovery of promising gold field,
on q mountain run about nine miles from Bath
urst. Messrs Watkins & Dean received q nugget
from their correspondent, which weighs OF. IL
dwta.
One Of the largest gold dust brokers Of Sydney,
under date Of September Is, says
As will be observed by the long list appendix my sale
Of gold dust this week has been extensive, comprising in
fact the largest quantity have ever sold under the ham
mer The price, however, which has ruled through the
week sustained at the public sale. Important
transactions have been entered into within the last few
days at lis for Mount Alexander and 69s for Turon,
but the price has declined to-day fully Is per ounce The
receipts Of gold from own diggings have been very
considerable indeed much larger than those at Melbourne
for the number of dggers that are employed. The
escorts have brought in from Gouborn 1855 ounces IS
nnyweghts Is grains from Bathurst 7S9 ounces 10
penny weights ~ grains from Tamworth 1868 ounces 10
pennyweghts IA grains and the mails have brought in
4S4 ounces thus making exclusive Of the parcels by pr
vate hands which known to be considerable 800
ounces II pennyweights grains The dust raised
own fields which has come into sydney during the week
at the most moderate calculation for private receipts
cannot be less than 900 ounces and the summer ad
yances may look for more important deliveries. The
Australian r. N. steamer the Anna Mary, and the Pho-
nician will take TO London about 100, 600 ounces
have dates from Melbourne to the 10TH the news is
not very important the last quotation for gold was 66s
3d. to 67s with little inclination TO do business.
Information from the western district shows that the
companies at work there making very satisfactory
One of those carving operations on the
Lower Turon is understood to be extracting silver we'll
gold in considerable quantities, from the quartz and
the shareholders confident OF very important results
The Bank of New South Wales has recommended ad-
vaneng gold at 4Os, at exchange of per cent
As an evidence of the comparative freedom of GER
tain districts from crime it is stated that at the
for trial. and all of them for minor offences. Seven
Of them had been convicts. The assze district ex-
tends hundreds Of miles, and the period from assze
to assze is six months. The papers cite this as a
proof Of the absence Of crime and the security OF
life and property.
Such paragraphs as the following occur frequently
in the Sydney papers,
His Exceency the Governor General has directed it to
be notified that her Majesty has been gracionsy pleased
to authorize the issue Of pardon to Dennis Reardon per
Norfolk the condition that during the remainder OF
his term of sentence he does not return to the Quilted
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
subscription, for the erection of second Roman
Catholic church in Hobart Town, has been COM
menctd.
Mr. Johnston, one Of the members for Melbourne,
has given notice of motion suggesting that Mel
bourne should be the seat of the central government
of Australia, and not Sydney.
About fifty acres of land near the Melbourne Bene
VIOLENT Asylum were sold by the government for
f69 $685. the land was put up in quartcracre allot-
ments, at f75 each, and some OF them sold as high
as 1900.
The average wages of seamen in Sydney are from
clio to fl2 month. AS most Of those arriving in
English ships receive only f2 or e., they desert as
soon as the opportunity offers. Scores OF seamen
were skulking about the outskir OF the town, and
hanging about the dens Of the crimps.
A very fine little nugget of gold had been present.
ed to the Sydney Museum, with singular story at
tachng to It, Mr. Stiff, sitting at breakfast with
party Of other gentlemen, and speaking OF the gold
ing his belief that the precious metal was by no
means so abundant as had been supposed, when his
teeth came in contact with something considerably
harder than the bread Of which he was partaklng,
be the nugget in question. 1t came as sort Of quiet
reproach against the expressions OF unbeef that had
been uttered, and atonement for these express
sions, was handed over to the Museum by its finder
An extra force Of British troops has been ordered
by the Home Government, to preserve order in Aus
traa but on the express condition that the Colonies
support the expense.
considerable attention is being paid to the cutiva
ton Of tobacco although the great deficiency OF labor
operates as a serious drawback upon agricultural i'm
provements. The quantity grown in the country is
equal to threefourths Of its consumption but in quail
ity it is very inferior to the imported. This s attr
butable not to any DEFICIENCIES in the soil or climate
but to the ignorance prevailing among the planters
of the proper method of cultivation. One planter
states that he raised crop of upwards OF forty tons
which was sold in Sydney at public auction at an
advance Of twenty per cent more than the imported
leaf A great portion OF the crop, ne says, mad
leaves measuring two feet nine inches in length, and
eighteen inches wide, being larger than any known
to have been grown in America. The average weight
per was rs cwt; whereas by the public returns
the average Of what is grown in Australia is only
IL 18th cwt. The duty upon imported tobacco is
about to be reduced, and hence an improvement in
the quality of the native grown is strongly urged
The Sydney Morning Herald SAYS
Instead Of being importers OF tobacco we should il i
grown here TO perfection be exporters of it to al
sister colonies and in its state also to the Euro
pean markets At present for home consumption there
is greater profit to be made by It's cultivation, if skill
fully managed, than in any part of the world for the
duty upon imported is positive bonus to the grower
NEWS FROM BATHURST.
From the Bathurst Free Press, September Ill
A letter recently received from Mr.. Morris Levy
storekeeper and postmaster, Ophr, to Mr.. Pike
tailor and draper Bathurst, states that new dry dig
gings have been discovered on the top OF mountain
bordering on the Summerhill creek, and situated be
tween Lewis Ponds creek and Eue de Cologne gul
y and that the few parties at work ON it are getting
plenty Of god" Beyond this broad fact no details
The diggings of the Turon have recently been
visited by a Mr.. Sawkins, who mas spent consider
able portion Of his lifetime at the gold mines OF Mex
leo and Brazil and after a careful examination ofthe
neghborng country, he expresses himselfvery favor
ably Of it's yet undeveloped resources.
Never in our recollection, or that OF any person
with whom we have conversed has the colony been
visited with such season as the present, and, we
hope, expiring winter. For nearly four months past
with an occasional interval Of few days fine
weather there has been nothing but rain, and during
that period the ground has never been sufficiently
dry to receive the seed Some few in the vain hope
that change to more genial weather must soon
take place. have thrown their grain into the ground
only to rot. In numberless cases paddocks have
been poughed and ready for sowing for three months
ago, that he had been waiting some fourteen weeks
for fine weather, in order that he might SOW but
that despairing Of its advent, ne had resolved to
trampe the seed into the ground with sheep, the
DOGGY condition Of the soil precluding the use Of
either horses or bulocks. The chances Of anything
more than half a crop in the country Immediately
surrounding Bathurst are, we are sorry to say ex-
FRANKLY mr. Won shoa11d cbo uro