Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-04-08

In The cause Of private company; and it is
equally difficult to assign an adequate motive
FOR the order surprising it to have issued from
the proper department at Washington. No
/ animation beng given rs to the date Of the
supposed ltsruc IONS, it is uncertain from which
vi the two administrations they is sued Perhaps
! General Pierce Is now beginning to redeem his
| pledge, that no A nerican, in foreign country,
snail suffer injustice or inllgnltv, and 90 una
venged.
{ AUSTRALIA lntelii renee from the Aus
traan gold fields, by the latest files from that
quarter, IL chiefly important, As indicating both
a continued large 9upply from the old sources
and the discovery Of new ones Great distress
was prevalent in consequence of the great and
constant influx OF new corners. The average
ct arrivals at Melbourne alone, was over two
thousand per week. At Forest Creek, near
Mount Alexander, the arrivals during the week
preceding Oct 9Th, amounted TO nearly thirty
thousand. Three-fourths Of these were from
Bendlgo and It's nclghborhood, attracted by the
reporleI discovery Of very rich diggings on
Hill, thirty miles from the same place, another
rev gold field had been discovered. Bllarat,
the original gold field, was receiving return
Of diggers, and had yielded gold to the value of
more tnnn $4,000 during the first week of
October. The total yield of gold at Port Phil
lip, from the first discoveries up to the last of
October, is estimated at upwards of ten tons
valued at more than forty millions of dollars
Favorable reports Of large yields are also spok-
en- Of ION several other new localities bearing
the following euphoncous appel tlves Penny
weight Fiat, Lever Flat Moonlight Gull, Ding
Icy Dell, Dirty Dicks Gully, &c, sc Boston
atlas.
G. The following discovery, described in
the Boston Post OF the Isl lnst must be rank
ed among the most curious of the age. CAN'T
be that the cabalStic words over which we are
told the antlquarlans Of the modern Athens are
| puzzlIng themselves, are relics of dead lam
/ gunge spoken by forgotten race centuries
/ before The Purtans landed at Ply mouth ,
Should any one discover key to their mean
ING, he is requested to leave an abstract of it
at this office.
a MYSTERIOUS Dr. CovFRT. Yesterday af-
, ternoun, as the worinen were engaged in dig
| gng a hole upon the Common. in winch to set
a tree, they came upon brick arch, which. up
on uponlnr and waiting awhile for the nitrous
= to escape, one OF the workmen descended
and explored this cave. i was about ten feet
Deep fifteen feet in length and SIX feet wide.
Upon III" north side was an iron door, from
winch issued flight Of stone steps. The door
WIS nearly decdyed with rust. The brick were
of very quaint mould, differing entirely from
any that We have ever seen or heard of before,
beng of n seml-clrcuar shape. -Four small
elrthern Jars or pots, OF curious form, with
uncoulh heads moulded upon them, were found
in one corner OF tins vault; one of which was
iiIled with amorphouS pieces Of silver. covered
with V lIowIsh brown mould or crust The
other three contained motley assortment Of
je"cIry of the most singular torn and make
consisting OF heavy gold rings, deliberately
wrought with ChaslngS of beads and antique ar
mour, entwlnnd IN scrJII-work and flowers
tr ,ce,etS, buckles, elr-rings. &c. In a crevicu
between The bricks was stuck a dagger, which
upon 'ouchlng, the blade INN 'dlatev crumbled
to pieces. benz compe tcly eaten up with rust.
The handle, upon Mite rubbing, proved to be
OF fine god, st with SIX costly diamonds.
Here Is "A problem f,ranllqulritn, to solve
The only clue or key to lhlS strange affair is
the nSc 'ipuon found engraven upon the handle
OF the dagger, which 80 ne Of our learned pun>
dts are npw trllAL to translate 1t reads thus
40. Or.-L. IKP. A."
The articles have been deposited in the City
Han; aul the cave will remain open to day
for the examination Of the curious.
The feeling towards the English at Vienna
\ pasSnge in our Paris correspondents let
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