Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
Things in Australia.

We have been favored with the following IN
tcrestiug extracts from a private letter, written
by a Virginia lady, now travelling through
Australia:
There arc but few Firginians here. The
principal part Of the Americans come from
the Eastern States. How the Colonists hate
them! They don't like to he pushed out Oh
their jog.trot wayS-Gor so they must, or DC
lost in the race. 1t is wonderful what q trade
America has here. | think | told you there
was no wood in this country to build with:
all the use they can make of it, is to make
farm fences and slceperS for railroads. There
fore, all building timber, boards, lathlng, &C.,
come from the States; all wooden ware,
doors and windows are ready made aXc-tan-
dies, hoes, all carriages, wagons, IN fact every
kind Of vehicle are either made at home, or
sent out ready TO be put together. 1t gals
them to the quick that it is SO; but it is a
necessity that can never be cured. This is
n terrible country to be poor in. If q man
lives in the bush, and gets out OF food, ;ll
the gold he has cannot procure 1t. II be has
GUN, powder and shot, there are neither BIRDS
nor beasts to kill. save kangaroo, now and
then; and, TO ent them, | an told. requires a
pair of plyers to tear the flesh apart. II he
goes TO the river to fish, there are none there.
They are endeavoring to stock the rivers. Near
" every ship brings something towards the
object. I suppose they vii. set them IN time.
But, worse than all, if there is n stream to cross
and NO boat to do it, the thing is impossible
for the timber sinks like lead. 4 small stick
tasks my strength to lift: it makes a good fire,
however; so you see it is good Tor something.
The country is truly 6 gold field only, and there
- Ill, .l., H. ,rb,1n Victorian Enl0py
has gold in it, and will lasta c~cntury-tor, con.
trary TO California diggings, the deeper they 50
the more gold they get. There is very little
agricultural country, and what there is cannot
be made of much avail, rs water is hard tn get.
More than eight months in the year everything
is parched. Cattle die by hundreds on their
stations. You will see the road sides strewn
with carcasses. Sheep do bcst-in fact, it is
the staple commodity, after gold. 1t never can
be u great country-for there is no chance Tor
the artisan or farmer"
THE LADY ELGIN DIsAsTER-A SAD AND
GLOOMY BURIAL SCENE.-The bodies of the I'M
fortunate victims Of the steamer Lady Elgin.
continue to bc picked up on Lake Michigan
So far 10 have been recovered, among them
little willie" the son Of Capt. Barry. formerly
of Baltimore. The body Of Capt. B. is still
missing. Many Of the bodies are beyond re-
cosnition. The funeral Of Capt. Wilson took
place at Chicago on Sunday, and was attended
by the Masonic fraternity and q large body Of
citizens. The Chicago Press describes n bu-
rial scene on Saturday night as follows:
The twenty bodies brought by the Mcqueen
reached the cemetery just at dark, and were
laid in a CHASTITY row on the turf. Large fires
were kindled, and by the light of these, the
many friends in waiting, chiefly from Milwau.
kce, eagerly sought marks for Identification,
and were successful in many instances. 1t
constituted 4 touching and strikingsc Gene, never
to be forgotten, the iitful play of the freight
on the white monuments among the dark TO-
liagc Of the city of the dead the grief.striek-
en- groups passing to and fro, seeking their
OWN, and turning away, sad at being denied
the privilege Of Il last tribute Of affection to
sonre one Of these poor corpses as their loved
and lost the mingled emotions Of grief and
Joy displayed, as here and there some mourner
claimed the remains Of n relative ; the hustle
Of unicrtakers and assistants as they selected,
filled, and closed the collins; the busy coroner
and his twelve CONDUCTORS in the task Of inquest;
the CLEAN OF lanterns passing to and fro, all
invaded that usually still domain at a night
hour, with 4 scene so strange, that it occurs
but once in n lifetime. May it not occur Of.
tener!
And over and above all shot out upon the
Northern sky the weird flashes efthosc mystic
rious lights never to us more impressive than
when they strcamed out above the scene refer
red to. lending at times a pale reflection to the
lake whose waters scarce stirred into waves,
seemed never to have been swept more rudely
than by the night birds wing, and yet the cause
and source Of all this mySery, and still appeal.
ed to by so many ofthat still unSatiStied ttrong
to give back their dead. Never have the ties
of love and kinship been more strikingly at.
tested than by tho patient waiting throng from
our sister city, who throughout last week hung
eager and anxious about the bathroom.
Four Breckenridge Electors in North Carroll.
ma have declined. Three Of them Haywood,
Keen and Bouldin) have declared for Douglas,
and one lllenry W. M,ller) for Bell Wash.
;ngton States and Umion, (Doughas' M~etropoli.
tan Organ.)
This is a specimen Of Douglas intelligence
about North Carolina. Haywood is in the field
for Breckenridge and Lane. DR.. Keen is Il
Douglas %clector. We have no such man as
Bouldin in North Carolina, and Henry W. Mil
Ter is net for Bell.
Tro out of the ten names on our Electoral
Ticket declined, to wit Messrs. Miller and
Keen. Their places were promptly supplied.
The old war horse Hon. Abraham W. Vena-
bic, more than supplies the place left vacant by
Mr.. Miller's detection. and j. NJ. Clement, Esq,
OF Davic. will bear the Democratic banner tri-
utnphantly IN the sixth DISTRICT Wilmington
Journal.
The President'h Private Secretary,
James Buchanan, Esq Private Secretary to
the President, will soon resume his residence
in Philadelphia. 1t is understood that the place
thus to be vacated has been rendered to Adam
j.. Grosbrenner, late Sergeant-at-Arms of the
IIon-o &C Rnnracontatirnc