ST. BATHANS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 68, 20 May 1870, Page 3

ST. BATHANS.

v;. .; : - May 15, 1870. To write good' sense is not iii my line, and to write even middling good nonsense none but the supremely gifted should attempt. What, then,* is your A.B.C. to do without ability, and without subject matter for either ? Shall I say nothing, or r.ay something which means less and may, in itV 1 own way,

resemble doctora' pills—got up for weak stomachs and strong purses, and meant to kill or cure" nobody P When answering the forego I ngr, you can also answer another question which, I tuink, will give you more pleasure: Do you expect me to subscribe again for the ' Chronicle ;* and if you do, when do you wish me to pay? That's interesting to both of us ; as J dare sav you'd like to get the money, and I don't like to part with it. /

Mining affairs are going on smoothly here. Water was never more plentiful; and tne weather, although putting on a very' wintry aspect occasionally, is on the whole very favorable for sluicing operations, all hands being enabled to work full time —from seven a.m. until six p.m.

It is delightful to sit on the hill west of the township here, and view th: j picture,presented by " the basin " and its workings at foot—to see the "busy bees at their daily work, not extracting honey from every flower, but pure gold from mountains of granite—and to see numerous streams of sparkling water rushing, leaping, and dancing down the opposite hill, to give the prime help in doing soi Then, to the eye of the miner, tae most delightful part of the picture is to see all those streams—no longer sparkling, but heavily freighted with tailings—meet, and with their united burthens pass securely away through an excellent sludge channel. I see that Messrs. Vogel and O'Neill ar£ called upon to resign their seats. Like most persons here, I am not posted in politics ; and, in order io do the correct thing when called on, I am anxious if these gentlemen are to receive, or should receive, the benefit of any doubts entertained in their behalf. Coining from the land which " absenteeism " is said to have ruined, I have but scant sympathy for absentees in generaland, it you can show your readers taat the present positions occupied by Messrs. O'Neill and Yogel are incompatible with the due performance of the promises made by those gentlemen to their constituents, I for one will know what to do.—A. B. C.