BLACK’S.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1977, 6 September 1869, Page 2

BLACK’S.

[from our own correspondent.]

3rd September, 1869. A resident of Black’s, a digger, of bad antecedents, and who has not repented, on Sunday, the 29th instant, at about four o’clock, was engaged in an assau) t on his concubine, who receri ed the blows in a horizontal position, on the naked ground. A- digger, of illfame, attempted ' to elevate the victim of brutality, but in vain. Sergeant M'Clusky ran to the rescue, separated the ill-mated pair, and, with the utmost difficulty, he pluckily lodged this—both mentally and bodily—gigantic woman thumper, in question, in our new lockup, which was erected only about a week previous to the occurrence referred to. Strange to say, there was no blood spilled. But the exclamation of the wretch in question during his conveyance to prison, and while in prison, were shocking, morally and auricularly. Infidelity to her unholy vows is assigned as the cause of the “ row,” and there are not wanting, apparently, “ respectable ” diggers —church-going diggers—who affirm that the wife-thum per is a wronged party. Asa rule digging morality is of the loosest quality. The absence of settlement, the fewness of married couples, the obstacles to marriage, the discomforts of a bachelor’s life on the diggings, and the indulgence in the spurious substitutes for the society of wife, daughter, and clergyman—substitutes which assume the

shape of stimulants not always of the best quality. All these circumstances, negatively and positively, induce the digger to think himself a Pariah —“ the world forgetting, by the world forgot. The weather here is very good, personally considered ; but, so far as relates to fanning and mining, it is too dry.