Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-24


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Later advices from the gold region
Of Kansas state that the company who
went from Lesvenworth have gone TO
Cherry Greek, where they are now
making from five TO eight dollars .
dav in digging gold. The higher they
90 up the stream, the coarser they find
the gold, and the more of it. They
ere 20 we'll pleased with their success
that they have determined to winter
in the mines, This news y the most
satisfactory and reliable Of any that We
have yet heard. -
The first discovery Of these gold re-
pions was made a. follows: As long
ago Is 1886, Eustache Carriere. =
French trapper now living, superanua-
ted, with the Chouteau family in this
CITY, was lost from his party in that re-
gion, and wandered for several weeks
through tho country, during which
time he collected in his shot pouch nu-
merous specimens, which he carried
with him to New Mexico. They pro-
we'd to be gold, and 3 party was there
formed and returned with N. Carriere
to search for the locality. He was un-
able to find the streams where he had
collected his specimens, and was tied
up and severely whipped by the Mexi
cans, underline supposition that he did
not wish to disclose their location.
Th;s ~es tho 6ss& discovery which NO
have been able to learn. The Catholic
missionaries have frequently found
specimens IN possession of the Kansas
Indians and other, who annually visit
the country for hunting.
We are glad to be able to relieve the
painful apprchensions Of the public
with regard to the fate Of the children
who we're carried away in q balloon
from Rome, some eighteen or twenty
miles eact Of Centralia, on Friday even
ing last. A gentleman from Centralia
informs us that the little wanderers
we're found in the top Of tree, the
next morning, where the balloon had
lodged, about twenty eight miles south
west of their starting point, by farm
er living in the vicinity, who at once
took measures to relieve them from
their perilous situation. The story of
the eldest a girl about eight years Of
age, was that the balloon passed over
Centrslis where she saw and halloed
to the people, but was too far off to be
heard. In the course of the night her
little brother (about four years of age)
complained of cold, when, with the in
stinct Of a mother, she wrapped him
in her apron and held him IN her arms
to keep him warm. Fortunately she
had some idea of the mode of relieving
the balloon Of its gas, and, pulling upon
a rope connected with the valve she
was rejoiced to see that its effect was
to lower it gradually toward the earth.
The first point it touched was a tree,
from which it was blown by the wind
then it came in contact with another
tree, where it fortunately rested, and
there the young 9ronauts were found.
They had suffered somewhat from cold,
and probably also from fright, but had
received no serious injury from their
perllous voyage. The news of their
rescue was announced in one of the
churches at Centralia on Sunday NOR
ming, and was received with heartfelt
Joy and thankfulness by the whole
congregation, as it will be by the public
at large.