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69 Our success to day after running through 25 bushells of soil was only $11.00 - This is from the ounce per day as I expected - and my feelings will hardly brook - the great discount. Will the untoward fates never cease to pursue us. My feelings were much shocked by an accident which happened near us this noon. One of the miners - Charles Boardman of New Bedford was busy digging - into the high bank where so much success has been had - when the ground caved burying him in - and crushing him horribly. Poor young man! in the midst of his gold dreaming death has overtaken him - and called him away to that land where gold is dross - and the gems of earth - of no value. How sudden - how vast the change! How different the ideas - the objects presented to the [?soil?]. Now occupied with employments - and wishes of so earthy and so completely sordid nature - and now - as in the twinkling of an eye - gazing on the realities of eternity and absorbed in contemplating its position in that unchangeable state. At once cut off and the souls destiny fixed. But a moment ago - and he might have become a child of God - life and death were in his choice - he had a chance of Heaven - now lies he without choice - without remedy. And if unholy - unholy forever - if holy - then holy and justified through all eternity. I went down to see him. His partners had dug him out - and laid him on the sand. His hands yet bore the marks of the soil - his cap served for a pillow - his clothing had been loosed - but there was the paleness of Death on his brow. O! how thrilling - [?owing?] thus Death in the midst of life. It was not Death - in the chamber - with solemn faces and weeping friends around sad accompaniments - softening the presence of Man's last foe - but Death - in the very scenes of the living the implements lying near - and our struck miners - gazing reverently on the face of the dead. A blow had been given - a monition which all heard - one thought and another thought in the awe of their hearts - could it not as easily have been me? Am I safer than my fellows? I perhaps may be the next victim. I have no assurance of safety! How terrible to die thus suddenly!