The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-03-20
RALEIGH, n. c., TUESDAY,
A NIGHT OF TERROR-TWO MEN I'M
PRISONED IN A MINERAL CAVE.


being shut up in whales belly; and after
being swallowed so suddenly no wonder he
should feel somewhat down in the mouth
But Jonah has been outdone by Messrs. Jas.
Peacock and John Kelley who were i'm
prisoned in the bowels of the earth all We'd
nesday night, separated from humanity hori-
zontally by three hundred feet of water. and
perpendicularly by thirty feet of rock
Wednesday morning Mr.. Peacock and Mr..
Kel ly went to work as usual at the recently
discovered Peacock Chapman -Radcliff- Bunt-
ing lead. They had to go down shaft sew
enty feet deep; then along a drift horizontal
800 feet there is then a rise of about eight
feet into new crevice, when another drift is
reached about six hundred feet long. leading
to cave of considerable extent. where they
had been excavating. Quitting time arrived,
and the miners started to return home. They
came to the descent between the second and
the first, and sliding down this, of the
men found himself in the water. In an in
stant he comprehended the situation-the
drift between them and the shaft by which
they must return to daylight was filed with
water, and the water constantly rising.
AT little distance east was ravine, be-
side which was shaft, which became filed
with water, and from that made its way
through the network of crevices into this
drift. There they were imprisoned, not
knowing for how long; and there was Iut
one possible way to make thlir situation
known to those upon the surface. a shaft
was being sunk into the cave in which they
bad been ut work. and small drill hole.
about two inches in diameter, had been bored
down through thirty feet OF solid rock. BY
using this a speaking trumpet. the men
below made those at work above sinking the
shaft, aware Of their unpleasant and danger
ous predIcament
OF course every Dart was at once made to
iip,l i Isrp joI,t INK
filled with wafer and drawn up; but for a
long time it seemed doubtful whether by this
method the quantity of water in the Shaft
could be reduced faster than it was running
in. At last it became evident that the water
was lowering, and the men at the pumps"
(barre s. worked with renewed energy
This continued all night, till daylight next
morning
A candle or two had been lowered through
the drill hole and "wee drap' of stimulus,
by both of which the miseries of those below
were rendered lighter.
By six o'clock in the morning the water
had been drawn off to such an extent that
the men in the cave concluded they could
make their way out. They began to wade,
the water being up to their necks: and, hold
ing their candles aloft, began to wade along
the drift. By and by they came to place
where the cap rock. roof of the tunnel in
which they were, SO low that the candles
could not be held above the water, and were
eXtinguished; while in some places there
was room enough between the water in the
drift so that they could keep their noses
where there was air; in some places the tun-
mel was completely filed with water for a
short distance, compelling them to forego
breathing for the time.
But at last the shaft was reached, and the
cold, wet hungry, bruised, weary devils
that is the way the story was told to us, and
they certainly did not look like men or angels
were dragged to daylight once more
About twenty men were engaged all night in
endeavoring to reduce the water in the shaft
so that the men could escape, to all of whom
the person rescued feel the deepest gratitude
for their untiring exertions.-Dubuque Times.
THE FEMALE EQUEsTRIAN.-A lady's
horse to be perfect, should be all over hand
some, and well upon its launches. If slight
ly hollow in the back so much the better, for
it generally tends to ease in action. and to
lessen motion in the saddle. lady should
never he heard upon the saddle-that is, there
should be no humping noise, not even in a
trot. She should sit so closely, and when
rising to the trOt possess such elastic motion
from the foot TO the knee and the waist, that
her return to the saddle should seem as light
as Il feather She should sit square to the
front" and her horses ears-to speak as a
SOldler-ouSnt TO dress well with the Dut-
tons of the bosom of her habit Nothing is
so bad as to sit vita lean to one side, and
when companions are following after, to let
them fear that very little would cast her off
from the stirrup sile of her saddle. Her
hands should be down, but light, and her
arm, as well as every inclination of her figure,
should harmonize with the motions of her
steed, as if both p sscSsed the same volition.
Hon. Grantley Berleley's Life and Recol-
Lections.
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