, 1869-06-16
TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY,, JUNE t6 1869.

50 ordinary thing " It to lnd n1e ltpsed da1gb-
Ter n each peasant household that tho peasants
generally have lost mat nne moral senge which, In
better society. attaches Ahame 10 the fallen wc-
mAn-
Tne whole IteE7ture within the reach OF the
Scotch peasant consists Of the Bible, the Shorter
catechtsn, PlRrhnB PrpEresa, snd perhaps
Bostoas Fou5old State. All these arc commonly
10 be found IN the cottaxeA II accident or dis
ea4e, or the dreaded rheumatism, or old age dis
ahles hIru, his lot "a dependence on his children Il
they are ahe to maintain him, II not, then On the
parish poorI rate The peasant married ands II
more difficult to get Into !" serF1ce" a. Plough
man than when hu WIZ single, and on argc farms
the foreman Ii usually the only married servant
thus the village u chiefly hiled By married peas
ants whose trcs of farm labor have been inter-
rupted BY marriage, md who now d nd precartous
Nagea "a lAboreI1 In the draining aud breaking
OF land, dyke making, stone qua11J1ng, and as
schytheDea and corn rcspers II haJmafing and
harvest. 0Ee Of these days when the revolution
u! spirit !s awote, the Scotch peasant VIII sud-
denly become n troublesome - his Irish brother
TEE GOLD pICarkGs IN SCOTLAND.
tAmecaua CT the Royal Geographical Society
the other night, the Duke Of Sutherland showed q
nugget OF gold nom the gold neds In Sothetiand.
and offered to grant license 10 any Of the distn-
gutshed people whom he saw before him. Shafts
are being sunk and tunnels worked, and the ma
tor!t5 Of The colonial diggers manage to Keep up
The uyer1sc md Of gold Others make little more
than laborcr'a WaSes- II men 20 away others
come, and several thousand pounds worth have
now been obtained Tou know It MAS drst dis
covered BY Suthe1iAnd man who h8d been IN
Australia, and who returned to hIA nat1ye glen
With the arm conviction that he would md gold
there. Very soon town sprunR up, and the grouse
crow Justly beside It md the sheep, used to the
din ol rocke.z znd the hmm Of voices are begin
ming To browse quietly, instead Of scampertng Oh
to the hin tops with nouriahing tails behind them
One who has been staying among them 4tses the
tn1k Of soue Of the dlggerA 4 man with \ strong
Yankee tWang, being tntaHogaed, answers that be
IL native Of Sutherland. Ha hAa been wander
ting about America for the Last nfteeu Jearh He
learned gold digging In California, and arref .
while spent At that work he kept = school in Terxs
for nve years- T1ting Of tast, he came TO Eng
1aud, and became poKrsr Oh the London North
western halfway. Heard OF the olgginga1 and
thought be Would Ike 70 t1y his hand 80 he GANG
10 kudonan and got q cradle He can speaf
Gaelic still, and English with considerable
l twang; can speak Italian, which sounds remark
ably like mi1ure Of Spanish. Latin and Po1tu-
guese, MI t1-prunounced and nisappled The
| poorest digging he ever tried. Shant atck 70 It
| much longer, means to clear out Cheerful grin,
| pleasant greeting, and farewell; Aud - TO
! anoshrr. Very poor dlgglns8 these Went 70
I
New Zealand, TO California, md to British
Columbia; wss up nes1 Salt Lake City, digging.
no, long ago; heard Of this tnd IN the south, and
came up with mate, more for the fun Of the
| thing than for any other reason. Yes it1 hard
work; Ies, and not much to get OCT Of II, but
there's nothing like life In tent Tou see It the
same inside as out. 70 when Jnu come out IN the
| morning you don't catch cold. Very comfortable
here, but shanr stay long, Greetings, sa!uts-
tons g1ins smiles, hattouchlng. and part for an.
other claim- Two swcls, In hroadc1osh and gold
| watches, home to sec thelr friends in tho old
country, mean to 80 back to TIC colonies Heard
OF this In Edinburgh, and came up to see the fun
The people over the wafer viii be 80 I1ucn inter.
ested IN brooch. or ring, Or pin, dug cut Of q
creek Ia the old country. It scems 10 straugs
l1ke This IS ye1 poor digging The best mel
Can 1ust make wageA Shanr stay much longer
But We could get claim down there lin an oil
dt!ka on one Of the old sea-matgins), would no
rnlnd ktopp ing BIT And 70 on.