The weekly Butte record., 1861-03-09

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themselves for having charged Herschel v
johnson, during the late campaign, with being
a secessicnist. They claim to be prophets, and
say behold be IS now acting with the seces-
sionists of this State! They forget to say,
however, that be was an antisecessioHist men,
4 Der of the Convention which, against his wishes
and against his most earnest efforts, then, and
only then, he yielded to the wishes of the ma
jority
/ The same mode Of argument will make
Governor Letcher, of Yirginia-a man whom
Union men everywhere consider one of the no.
best patriots in the land, and to whom they
are now turning hopeful eve for such action
as will preserve the Union-a secessionist in
the event that Virginia shall 90 with the cot
ton States, for in his Message, in which he
opposes secession he thus nobly yokes his des-
tinies to those Of his native State:
In conclusion | have but 10 add that the
will of Virginia will furnish ali infexble rule
for the direction of my own action. Ny des-
tiny is linked indissolubly with hers. In the
expressive language of Ruth, Whittier thou
goest, will go and where thou lodgest, | will
lodge; thy people, shall be my people, and
thy God my Cod ="
But while the Breckenridge editors are on
this topic-trying to make secessionist out of
our late candidate for the Vice Presidency
has it ever occurred to them that every one of
the States which have seeded voted for Breck-
inridge? And that Virginia and Kentucky
and Tennessee-all of which voted against
Breckinridge-reiuse to secede SHASTA Cou-
Tter.
The SAD ACCIDENT NEAR FOREST HILI-
We find the following particulars of the dis
tressing accident, says the Sacramento Union,
as having occurred near Forest Hill, in an ex-
ira of the Placer Hill Courier, published at
that place, February 25th:
"This morning, at eight O'clock Daniel ].
Baker, one of the owners of the Dardanelles
claim, accompanied by Bowers, Frazer and
Shaw, entered tunnel to inspect the works,
preparatory to commencing operations Bow
ers had gone TO the top of the work on the
outside, and turned on the water, some two
hundred inches but observing that the shaft
was clogged," apparently by a sliding or
caving in one of the sides, he hastened down
into the tunnel to warn the others of the i'm
pending danger. He had scarcely reached
them, they being then within perhaps twenty
/ feet of the overhanging mouth of the narrow
shaft that contained hundreds of tons Of water,
rock and earth, and which was, Just then, by
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its confinement into the channel below But
moment or two before Bowers had given the
alarm the party were almost Immediately un-
der the shaft removing q cluster of roots,
which had been washed down on Saturday.
The one nearest the danger, Frazer, being then
perhaps ten feet off and Baker Immediately
behind him, hearing the crash coming, turned
and said Baker, we are lost :" and before
they could turn around, the mass fell. Frazer
grabbed an upright timber on the side of
the tunnel, where he sustained himself from
being washed away into the gulf of destruction
which was yawning to receive them but few
feet off. Shaw and Bowers hastily retreated
before death and destruction into a side drift.
/ close at hand while the rocks, earth aud water
was at least four feet in depth around the
lower limbs of Frazer, whose only safety was
to cling to his hold. The rush and fall lasted
perhaps two minutes, and when the persons
who survived recovered the shock, and realized
the narrow escape from death which they had
made, they found that poor Baker was missing !
On the first rush or fall, he seems to have been
picked up by the earth and water and carried
into the perpendicular shaft of forty feet, down
which he was dashed, amid the power and
weight of many tons to rocky tunnel of six
hundred feet, through which his body was
again carried, and then dashed from the mouth
of aume to another fall Of fifty feet perpendi-
cular hight. Here his body lodged, but life
was extinct. and the soul of the poor mortal
had waited its way into the presence of its
/ Maker. His remains were brought to his
residence near at hand, where his grief-stricken
wife, and large number of his friends, in sor-
row and tears received them, and are preparing
them for their long, last resting place. On
examination, it was found that the head was
almost entirely crushed, and one arm broken
Daniel j. Baker was born in Riga, Wyo-
ming county, New York, May I'd, 1926, aged
81 years.