The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-03
Letters by tho Dog Train.
Correspondence Of the Cleveland Hersld.l

Correspondence Of the Cleveland HerslAi
Cov~fsA Miners and Cornish 7tr~s-Engssss- Dssesx
49, Dep Ai"e-PS~p'-H'S Masses are c~ s"d
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lengthy descriptions Of shafts, adits, whims and the
thousand etceteras that go to make mine. Having
my hAndin, however, shall go through.
Those who pore the past-those old Pates who
caued anuqusrians, or ethnologiss, and who make IL
tser to hunt genealoges aud the dervaoas
cornish brtons are descended 1t is not strange, there
fore that their language conno be traced to any certain
spectacle languages Such q bundle of barbarous pro-
vinciasms can be found nowhere else. make this Cd
Slopes, whms, and k6bss, that probably not soul a.
those who peruse these lines ever heard of before For
such benghted individuals Cornish miner holds DE-
Recur now to what was said Of the general paa Of 4
=, mine IL No. Of the sab Spa HI tan ,s :sss.
500 feet Deep and they are from lS0 to $50 feet apart
and sunk on or near the vein They are numberedi
shafts at every sixty feet ten fathoms in depth
slevel gallery and the one that communicates with
called the adit level" or No l. The others are some
times designated by the number Of fathoma they aee
below the adit level Is the ten twenty or 6f atho0
level but more often as level No. 2, &C., counting
n remember right, our examining party was left /.
my last letter in level No. 2 shaft No. l. gaping
with wonder at Of copper that projected from the
Down this shaft the cast iron pipes in which the pump
through them in ali directions All those levels below
asps e a
engine to keep the water clear It is the dull regular,
q
to evel No. and Oh to the left the opposite Of first
U Il. ,r tine Light 1s q %
wider than my hand in thickness By faith however, tho
e's pounding and and boring the
many long dsy and night without copper enough =
mining party Is composed Of ak or nina MAJ, .na
they divided into three "shifs, Cornish aa for
mining squad relief, like guard Of soldiers. Each
shift works eight hours Of the twentyfou which allows
each man sixteen hours rest and recreation Although
they live thus under ground, in the water powder,
smoke and mud Of the mine they are generally healthy
the foot and taking fifty two hundred feet st time
as may be agreed The miner carries away the .drt'
and raises it to the surface and also keeps the level clear
of water The miners are charged with their powder,
candles and steel.
another deposting most of their profits at the nearest
grog shop for safe keeping They not inclined to be-
come citizens to buy land or take part in the progress
The why SO many OF these grim denizens of tbs
pit congregated in the third level between shafts
Nos and is to master of copper that has been
detached by sand blast and lies partly slid down
the gallery Some are prosecuting the level farther
others still are at work overhead in the Slopes
Every mothers son of them gives Missing grunt as he
strikes the cold chise drill with his steel malet
wide and three feet long, that cuts shaving the
about oneeighh Of inch thick leaving gutter
Of this groove and then another till it is sunk through
the block It may be one or two feet deep Some part Of
divided again and again till it can be handled.
Here Is MMni% and We WIN 60 down It. to leye No
as it is a short shaft connecting the levels
shaft No till we reach shaft No g. and descending that
two levels are at gallery No 800 feet below the adt
level.
Thus all parts Of mine may be visited but it is hard
sary in order to comprehend its plan and progress In
most Of the Offices drawings representing the c0ndl
ton Of the work made from frequent underground
veys The longest level In the Lake Superior country
the Copper Falls east vein, feet The deep
est shaft is at the Cliff mine about $50 feet These dis
tances small compared with those vast systems Of
derground drains and galleries executed in the mines Of
Cornwall and of the HartS.
miles in length extending between 1900 and 600 fest
below the surface The water raised from the Cornish
mines by steam power would mako respectable river,
equal to the Cuyahoga In moderate rise. In Germany
the mines wrought to a-still greater depth.
The Oldest and most extensive mines Lake Superior
are, therefore, but just begun. Tho famous Cliff vein
is surpassed but by in the world The Burro Burro
copper mine, in Australia, is represented richer
Which scarcely credible a. the C mime produces
thirty-six solid feet 1t has shipped this season
s6s) 400 tons Of copper in masses and barrels
quires three steam engines and 800 to keep the
mine going at that rate Of production.
The engine that lifts the stuff from the depths Of the
pumps and another the stamp mill The Of these
engines sweep away the adjacent forest at rapid rate
endsnt is the autocrs No one remains there against
his will but if he does not please the directors he also
marched off, and another one is installed upon the throne
To fiji out ali the details Of successful mine its ma
chinery agents. clerks, and operatives would require
Suicide In Ch.c.go-The end ola Transgresso~.
[From the Chicago Tribune, March o..
NICHOLAS Lawrence, the young man who arrested
Thursday last for forging check in the of Dr.
Jail, during Tuesday night last His parents live Il
Ohio and the father reached here Tuesday having
been s I for Immediately on his arrival ,s h
During Of the interviews, and the father
was about to leave him the said, Farewell fathert
strain for several minutes, apparently being in
cited state of mind But on the next and last visit Of
calm, and alusion whatever was made to the pre-
vious conversation This the last time the father
The cells were ali closed and the jail locked up at half
past nine O'Clock in the evening Nothing further was
heard from Nicholas till about hapast two O'Clock the
ing his heard him talking apparently himself for the
space Of fifteen minutes and directly after heard him
push stool, If by his feet From that time all
STILL till the outer were unlocked at FIVE O'Clock in
the morning, when Nicholas was found suspended bv
s 70 iron % %
body allowed to remain till the Coroner was sent for
to hold an inquest when he was taken down. His feet
within half inch Of the oor and appearances in
Dictated that he died hard death. After the inquest
over the body delivered to the distressed father
to be taken to Ohio for interment.
The deceased about 20 years Of age and repre-
eented to have been smart and capable young but
his msdeeds brought him to nntimey end and added
to the hearts Of his parents and friends Last
fall he away from Ohio with horse and buggy and
his father expended nearly $500 to clear him from The
affair Last January he came to Norris in this State, ana
hired horse and buggy to 60 to 0swego but instead a
going thither he TO this city and put up ct hotel
He then inquired for the ONCE Of Dr. A. B. Newkirk -
which he directed To DR. NJ, he REPRESENTED him.
self as Enos Pauline from Green county, Ohio, the con
Of David Pauline, with whom the DR.. well ae-
quaintcd The young man represented that he wanted
Nothing further heard Of HIM until last week. when
he again turned up in this city with forged note In his
for $780, pretended to be signed BY Dr. New
Kirk which he endeavorsd to negotiate at several jewcy
stores for gold watch but failed he then forged the
800 check on the same person. and a. has been pro