Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1857 — Singular Discovery. [ARTICLE]

Singular Discovery.

The Waterville N. Y Times of the 12th inst. has the following! 1 Yesterday afternoon while tiro boy* were at play abbot ten rods west of the road and near the margin of the creeks. they discovered a hole in the ground neaily large enough to admit the body of a man. It excited their curiosity do " such a degree that they thrust in long poles but could not reach bottom. They immediately made those circum«tanco» known to the laborers at w.ork near the lower mill. Some lights and ropes were soon procured, wjjen two of the men one of the boys were let down into the hole. * 1, ;? They descended about thirty feet JbcI fore-they struck the bottom, when, they found themselves in a subterranean passages running nearly cast-and west, and about twenty-five feet wide. It was built of coarse unhewn stone, but of a different quality from any known to exist in this vicinity. The stones were laid in a dark tenacious cement and the whole work was handsomely done. The floor was nicely hewn limestoncliko Eastman’s quarry, and were probably brought from it. The day was so- far advanced that little was done toward an exploration of this singular work, but discoveries that ’ were made were .very important and may lead to a solution of the mystery. The explorers on going eastward about thirty rods, came to a large square or court, which was estimated by them to be about fifty feet in diameter. In this court, they found the following articles, which will doubtless lead to some further strange and important discoveries, z < Several bundles of arrows and many, hundred bows of hickory, so massive and inflexible, that neither of the men could bend them. Sixty-two stand of fire arms, of that description commonly known in military parlance as ‘blunderbuss,’ and were in general mseJjtt the reign of Louis XIV of France. Their locks showed them to be of French manufacture as they bore the impress of the French coat of arms. Their stocks were much decayed and fell to pieces on the slightest touch. The, barrels were of brass and covered over ’with a very thick coat of mingled mould and verdigris. Eleven rusty and much battered swords were found, without scabbard or mounting of any kind. Their hilts were of elaborately carved bone; but they did not exhibit niel- workmanship, and they were totally void of inscription of any ki » d * <4 « ~.al add An iron bar, supposed to be the one lost by Wjdker some thirty years ago, was. found- It was-ijve one inch in length., and weighs . twenty-three pounds. Nineteen sauce pans, eight copper boil-, ers, and one hundred and ten iron goblets " were found distributed about the room in

en tire disorder, leading one hr conclude that some feast or festival had be On br ok - en np without previous notice. In th* north-east comer of the court werefbtftKf two shins containing parched com, very dry and hard, but wholly untouched by mould. Under tins immense. heap of< provisions was of . brass and iron, the front piece of which bore : the following letters in Roman characters: ‘D. L. O. S.’ —i —r— — —A Massachusetts paper cations* all wlxq incline to attend concerts on the evening o£,Jnly that by a law of the son who shalLbt present at ;1J ccrt of anything but; sacred music, , on Saturday evening, «baW pay a fine of five dollars. Blue as indigo thatl - ■ -

—A home without tfgirf ill it; h h only ha!fbleat; it is an orchard with- c 'out blossoms, and a spring without song. of sops is lih® r Lebanon with its cedars, but daughters by the fireside, are hke the roses in Sharon. —r- —..