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Charleston Argus, Volume 1, Issue 13, 27 April 1867, Page 2

The escort which lefUn Wednesday last for Wes f port conveyed 2,001) ounces gold for the ttank of .New Zealand, the produce of Charleston district. We are glad to announce that Mr» Carroli, who lately sustained su.h severe injuries at the Albion Hotel, is no longer in a da< geroua .-tate, though s<»me time j must elapse ere Lc will fully recover the effcetd of the blow. Should the weather prove propitious, Mr. Bartine will accomplish his ' daring fent of crossing Constant Bay on a I single wire rope to-morrow afternoon.

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There are few items of intelligence by i the Earopean mail which will be received! with such heartfelt sorrow as the reported death of the great African explorer, Dr. I Livingstone. The information, it is true, I has not been confirmed, but it is feared! that the report is not without foundation, and that we shall have to bewail the loss of one who has worked long and manfully in the cause of civilization. He is sunposed to have been killed in some encounter with the natives in Central Africa. During the same week, the rumor was spread of an insurrection in Kerry. At first the number of insurgents was reported to be about 1500; quickly as the facts were ascertained, it melted down till now it appears there were never more than 100 or 150 men. The whole history reads like a martial version of the «' mountain and the mouse;" but, taken in conjunction with the proceedings at Chester and else where, it would seem that an extensive movement was contemplated, which, but for timely frustration, although not within the shadow of a chance of success, might have caused some bloodshed and mu.-h irreparable misch'ef.

At the inquest held upon the deceased Isnaj Saunders, who was drowned by the swamping of the boat conveying passengers on board the steamer Southland, in Wood pecker Bay, on the 20th inst., the jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and held the boatmen engaged exempt from blame in the matter. From the evidence, it clearly appeared that the weather was exceedingly unfavorable; at the same time it was shown that the bo it was overturned by the passengers rushing to one side. 11 ad they preserved good order, there can be little doubt but that every soul woul' 1 have been saved. The jury, in a rider, recommended the appointment of some oue to regulate the boats' crews at Woodpecker Bay, as regards determining when they should or should not carry passengers to and from the steamers. Fortunately for us we have had the best man that could we believe be found to undertake j these matters here, and but for his care and watchfulness in permitting boats to go : outside, we should in all likelihood have j had to chronicle numerous deaths by drowning. Up to the present time not a single passenger has lout his life. at Constant Bay, although there have been some wonderfulFAnarrow escapes. ( \V r ej;take\he following from the " Grey River Argus* of the 23rd inst.:—On Sunday evening a messenger arrived in I town for medical assistance to a man named Scanlan, a butcher residing at Eutherglen, who was reported to have been severely stabbed by a-man named Murphy, also a butcher, residing at the Cement Lead, situated a mile or two to the eastward of Rutherglen. Dr Jackson at once set out, and up to our going to press had not returned. Reports were rife during yesterday that the man Scanlan had died of his wounds, but no reliable information was to hand last night. It is said that Scanlan went over to see Murphy, to arrange some business matters ; that a quarrel ensued ; and that Murphy stabbed Scanlan in the abdomen, causing his intestines to protrude. It is stated that the assailant was apprehended yesterday, and conveyed to the lock-up at Lagoon Township, and it is since reported that the man Scanlan is dead. But as there appears to be a good deal of doubt concerning the affair, we refrain from publishing all we have heard until definite information is to hand.