The Express. — 1851-08-30 (London, England)

DEATH CAUSED BY LEAPING FROM A RAILWAY TRAIN.—A melancholy accident occurred on Thursday morning near Derby, at the Wingfield station, on the 'Midland Railway, which resulted in the death of one young man and the serious injury of another. Richard Griffith, who keeps the Post-office at Iligham, near Alfrcton, and a companion named Mosley, had been to Derby, where they remained all night at the house of a relative. Mosley having to be at home to his employment the first thing on Thursday morning, Griffith agreed to accompany him. An excursion train from London to Leeds was upon the point of leaving the station about six o'clock, and whether they considered this the ordinary six o'clock train, or whether they believed it would stop at Wingfield station, is not known, but in this train they seated themselves. Finding, on their arrival at Wingfield, that the train would not stop, they unfortunately jumped out. Mosley sprang upon the platform, and, rebounding, fell underneath the carriages, and was killed on the spot. Hie companion lay insensible fur an hour, but was subsequently conveyed home in a fly, and is now under medical treatment.—Derby Reporter.  CALIFORNIAN I)IGOINOs.—The following is an extract from a letter dated Stockton, June 27 :—" There is, at the present time, a great excitement concerning the quartz diggings, and some arc taking out large sums, but the majority are barely making a living. From one hole at Carson's Flat (70 miles from here) 400,000 were taken in some two or three months, and it promises to continue equally rich, if not richer. But it puts a considerable damper on the spirits of a company to go down from 40 to 80 feet and get nothing, which is often the case. A company of six had been working three weeks into a quartz mountain I when I left the bar last Monday. They had got down some 14 or 15 feet and had found nothing so fur. One of them had given it up. I was acquainted with them all, so that if they had got anything I should have known it. A gentleman who I am acquainted with here in the city received a piece front Carson's yesterday, sent by his partner, which I weighed 25 ounces. lam at the present time alone when in the mines, all the rest having left, some for home and some for other mines. Generally speaking, a man will do better to stay in ono place, even if he should not make as I much, for 200 or 300 dollars are soon spent in moving frame one place to another here." TUE MoBMONS.—A correspondent of a contesiporary, writing from Ohio (U. S.), says: " On our way M, I and from the convention, we were compelled to spend part of two days at Detroit, Michigan. At the time we were there two very important criminal trials were going on in that city, one in the Circuit Court of the United States, and the other in the Supreme Court of the State. In the former, one Strong, a Mormon prophet, with a largo number of his subjects, were being tried for such crimes as the following :—lnterrupting, forcibly, the United States mail; passing counterfeit money ; and murder. For want of proof, they were finally acquitted. Soon after the 1 death of Smith, the founder of the sect, this Strong gave out that the prophet had visibly appeared to him, and formally constituted him his (Smith's) successor. By this means Strong drew after him several thousands of the Latter-day I Saints,' and settled them on Beaver Island, in one of the upper lakes. Just before his arrest his followers had fur-1 malty crowned him as supreme sovereign of the world, and as God's vicegerent on earth ; swearing not only absolute sub,jeetion to him, but, by solemn oath, dissolving all allegiance to all other earthly • principalities, potentates, powers,' and governments of every kind."