For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

LETTER FROM GEORGE W. GOINES.

[We insert with pleasure the following letter, received from our old friend, Geo. W. Goines, who is now in Australia. We are sure it will be read with interest by many of our readers.]

DEAR DOUGLASS: —I have often threatened to drop you a line since I came to Australia; indeed, I have no excuse for not doing so.—There are many things that would interest you in this country; in fact, so very many, that I hardly know what I shall write about. But as I hope to be able to send you some money soon, for the support of your paper, and the furtherance of the glorious anti-slavery cause that you are engaged in, I shall now merely give your a short letter upon matters and things in general.

Since I came to this country, some twenty months ago, I have found a goodly number of our suffering brethren who have made their escape from the land of bondage, and taken shelter unther the lion's paw of Queen Victoria; and I am pleased to say that they have not forgotten their brother Joseph in prison. On the occasion of a Christmas dinner that I attended in the diggings, where I now am, I was delighted at hearing a toast

after "Queen Victoria:" "The American slave—may his chains soon be broken, either by the power of moral suasion or at the mouth of the cannon." After many similar toasts, &c., I proposed you and your paper, and the success of the anti-slavery cause in the United States, which was universally responded to. I then proposed that each one present (we numbered some twenty) should become a subscriber to your paper, which met the approbation of many. But it being a day of jollification, I did not get any money. I have no doubt, however, that I shall yet be able to send you a list of names, ere long, and have Frederick Douglass' Paper floating in the breeze of the free colony of Australia.—There are men now in these diggings that would walk three miles to look at your paper; but such a thing is not to be found.

The country is in a flourishing condition. All that will work can do well. Wages for labor are as good here now as they were in California in 1852—I mean in the diggings. Some little dissatisfaction prevails in regard to the licence tax; yet, I have no doubt but that all will be made right after a little skirmish. To allay the rowdies that partook of these excitements, JOHN BULL knows how to dispose of all dissatisfied foreign interferences. Those at the head of these disturbances are those that have been in the habit of applying the lash to the trembling flesh of the American slaves. But I am glad to say that some have been summarily disposed of, and will not again disturb the United

States with their presence.

I have lived more than one year in Melbourne, and more than six monthis in the diggings. I have made money and lost money. But I have made up my mind, as long as I can enjoy good health, not to leave the country until I can make something, or satisfy me with all gold countrys, and then I will return to my much missed comforts of home. For you may depend upon it, it is not home to have to live upon mutton and damper, (or as we call it at home, ash cake,) and to have to sleep as we can, or as I have done since I have been in Australia, with one blanket and a thin cotton quilt, expecting every moment a bush ranger to come in on me and take what money I had.

But, Frederick, I was, and am still, better off than the American slave; and when I think of his wretched condition, I am buoyed up to persevere onward and upward. My motto is, that if it please God, I can make a few pounds, I will labor in his behalf. Do not think, my friend, that because I am on the other side of the globe, I have forgotten those at home, who, I believe, would think of me were I in their and your condition.—My mind is often recalled to the many glorious meetings that I have been instructed in getting up in the city of Brotherly Love, and the labors that I have bestowed on the people endeavoring to inculcate in them the principles of the anti-slavery cause. But, in Australia, thank God, there are no slaves; although I often think that an anti-slavery

lecturer would do a great deal of good in this country. I would be glad to see the whole world speak out in thunder tones against the abominable system of American Slavery. Although I am more than sixteen thousand miles from where slavery exists, I almost daily have discussions upon the subject. Advocates of that which is wrong are not wanting. They are to be found in the white-washed American. The men that have left their own country and sought an asylum in the so called Free America, have become tyrants themselves, and would buy Slaves, had they money enough for the purpose. More anon.

Ever yours, respectfully,

GEO. W. GOINES.

SANDHURST, OR BENDIGO, Australia,

January 10th, 1855.