The man who had been shot while descending from the window was found to be quite dead, the ball having entered his heart.  The two survivors were subsequently identified as Ramon Gomez, and Pietro Vaga, better known as “the Hunchback,” two of the most notorious highwaymen and burglars, for whose apprehension a large reward had been offered.

SHIPWRECK OF THE MONTICELLO.

J.V.  Brown, Esq., Editor of the Lake Superior Journal, who was on board the Monticello, gives the following graphic account of the disaster: 

It becomes our painful duty to record the most perilous shipwreck that has ever occurred on Lake Superior, and having been a passenger on board the Monticello at the time, we are enabled to give all the particulars in relation to the loss of the vessel, and the hardships of the passengers and crew.  We went on board the Ontonagon on the afternoon of the 22d September, 1851, on her return from Fond du Lac.  She left the river at half-past five o’clock bound for the Sault, with about one hundred persons, twenty tons of copper from the Minnesota mine, and a few barrels of fish from La Pointe, and in coming out of the harbor one of the wheels struck a floating log very heavily, and it is supposed to have loosened the packing boxes around one of the shafts.—­She lay on the bar a few minutes on her way out, but the sea at that time was light, and we cannot think it possible that she sprang a leak from the effects of the slight pounding on the light sand.

[Illustration:  LOSS OF THE MONTICELLO.]

We had been out about half an hour, when the firemen discovered the water rising around the floors of the engine; they communicated the fact to Capt.  Wilson, and it was made known to the passengers, but the leak was not thought to be serious, and created but very little alarm.  The pump was put into operation, and on examination the captain and engineer seemed confident that the pump would keep her clear till we could run down to Eagle harbor, a distance of sixty miles; but it was soon discovered, that the water was fast gaining on the pump, and preparations were made immediately for raising water by means of barrels and buckets.

The wind was blowing at first from the westward, but soon changed to the northwest—­it was fresh but fair, and aided by sails and all the steam that it was prudent to carry, she came on at a rapid rate, still keeping on her course, in hopes to make the harbor.  The passengers and crew worked steadily at the pumps, but the water continued gradually to gain on them.  The most of the copper and all the other freight was thrown overboard with a hearty good will—­the wealth of the mine seeming of but little consequence at such a time.  Every possible means were employed to raise water, and every passenger assisted to the utmost of his strength and ability to keep the sinking vessel afloat.  Two pumps, three barrels, and a half dozen pails were constantly in motion, and still the water gained steadily, but surely, on their efforts.