The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-07-06
NEWS or THE WEEK.

". heeler, promising lau IN the thlr-
teenth year of his age, son Of Chas.
d, Keeler, Esq, leather manufacturer OF
VergenDes, had been drowned whilst
bathing in Otter Greek, few rods below
the falls. A large number of citizens
commenced an immediate search for the
body which was not recovered until an
hour after the accident. Intellectual ef-
forts were made to to resuscitate him but
life was extinct. The unfortunate lad, it
appears, could not swim and had been
drawn out of deep water by one of his
mates only short time previous to his
final disappearance. Several boys who
were in bathing with him saw him 90
down but were unable to render effectual
aid An inquest was held and verdict
of accidental drowning rendered, The
bereaved family have the sympathy OF
our entire community Citi1eP.
"A sleeping Car is now attached to
the night train on the VT Central,
The New York correspondent of the
Boston journal says:
The effort to better observe the Sabbath
is resisted by the Germans, who mean to
make political thing of it. The German
paper calls on all IT'S friends to come to
the rescue. The low Germans are our
worst and most dangerous population.
They are strong infidels, bold and daring,
insubordinate and malicious, drinking all
the time, and making Sunday the great
day for riot and noisy pastime, with no
regard to the decencies of life, or the
rights or opinions of their neighbors.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A dis
patch from Chicago says that an accident
occurred on the Michigan Southern Rail-
road, last Monday night. near South
Bend, Indiana The stream where it took
place is naturally a small rivuet, but was
much swollen by the heavy rains the pre-
vious afternoon and evening, and the food
of wood which passed down probably
choked the culvert converting the embank-
ment into dam, and the great weight CT
water with the conclusion of the crossing
train, caused the culvert to give way, and
the train to be thrown from the track.
There was about $50 persons on the train.
Thirty-three persons we're taken from the
ruins dead, and fifty to sixty others
wounded. The killed, as far as their
names have been ascertained, are
Hartwell, Express Messenger,
Engineer and Firemen, both named
| Chulp.
Darlington, Baggage Master,
B. W. Smith Road Master,
Mrs. E. G. Gilett and child, and Stone
Mills, of New York
Thomas Mishan, of Michigan City.
The names of the wounded, as far as
ascertained, are given, but thcre are none
from this section Of the country among
them. A Mr.. E, A, Gurey, of Addison
Co., VT, was on the train, but escaped
unhurt. The train was running between
ten and twenty miles an hour.-The train
going west passed over the embankment
safely three hours before the accident.
Under the date of June 18th Horace
Greedy, A. D. Richardson and Henry
Willard, write letter to the public over
their own signature, at the Pixies Peak
gold region. Avowing themselves not to
be miners, nor directly interested in mining
but there for the purpose OF ascertaining
and setting forth the truth, they say they
have visited all the mines or claims opened
on the valley THAT of small stream
running into Clear Creek near Gregorys
Diggings), and have witnessed many of
the operations. They give reports fiom
many companies of operators. which show
that there is considerable gold there that
many have made the business reasonably
profitable many have come short of that
and many have failed of success altogether
They protest against the infatuation
which impelled thousands to 20 there a
month or two since, only to turn back
more hastily than they came, and conclude
as follows
Gold-mining is business, which emin.
emily requires of its votaries, capital, ex-
perience, endurance, and which the highest
qualities do not always command success
There may be hundreds of ravines in
these mountains as rich in gold as that in
which we write and there probably are
many; but up to this hour We do moi
know that any such have been discovered
There are said to be FIVE thousand people
already in this ravine, and hundreds more
pouring into it daily. Tens of thousand,
more have been passed US on a rapid
Journey to this place, or heard of as OF
their way hither by other routes.
For all these, nearly every pound o
provisions and supplies of every kind mus
be hauled by teams from Missouri River
some 700 miles distant, over roads which
are mere trails, crossing countless un
briged water-courSes, always steep-banket
and often miry, and at times so swooler
by rains as to be utterly impossible by
wagons. Part of this distance is desert
yielding grass, wood and water, only a
intervals of several miles, and then very
scantily. To attempt to cross this deser
on foot is -suicide-murder IL
cross it with teams in midsummer, wher
the watercourses are mainly dry, and the
grass eaten up, is possible only to thos'
who know where to look for grass anC
water, and where water must be carried
along to preserve life.
A few months hence-probably by tn
middle of October-this whole Alpin'
region will be showed under and frozen up