American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-05-24
WONDERFUL CAVE.

A most extraordinary cave was recently dis
covered i'll Howard county, (Says late Mis-
souri, paper,) between Glasgow and Cooper s
bottom. One of the farmers of the neighbor
hood, wanting rock to build, we believe, a
chimney, went to an adjacent hill side for the
purpose of quarrying them. In striking the
earth with hoe, or some similar Implement, a
sound was emitted plainly indicating that the
hill side was hollow beneath, and, proceeding
to remove the dirt covering the surface, he dis
covered a wall built of stone, and built evident
ly by human hands. This wall he displaced,
and it gave him entrance to the mouth of a
cave, which upon subsequent examination, he
found a most extraordinary natural curiosity.
The cave has been explored to the distance of
800 yards. Twenty-Five or thirty yards from
the entrance is sort of room, the sides OF
which, according to an account we see in the
Glasgow Pilot presents a most brilliant and
wonderful appearance. The writer, who en-
tered the cave with lantern, says:
Il had not proceeded far before entered the
principal chamber that by a single light pre-
scented the most magnificent that | ever behcld.
The celing of this splendid cavern is some
eighteen or twenty feet high, and of a hccta-
gon form, the whole ceiling presenting a shin
ing surface as though it was set with dia-
monds'
Verv near the mouth, another writer says,
there is a stone shaped like horse, but not SO
large, being only about three feet high:
The head, neck, and the body arc entirely
finished, and part Of ore hind leg and all the
rest is solid stone. The neck is made Of three
pieces, and stuck or fastened together some
thing like cabinet makers put the corners OF
drawers together, (dovetailed,) the rest is al
solid
In another part of the cave the walls on one
side are very smooth On these walls numer
Gus letters, figures, and hieroglyphics appear
most of which, however, are so detaced as tt
render them unintelligible. Nevertheless thu
figures l, ,, 6, and are quite plain. Just a
bove these figures the letters DON &'CARLC
are iegible. Further on, the letters J. H. S
appear on the wall. An arm of the main ca
vera has also been discovered, and has been eX'
plored some 200 yards. A writer says:
s'yhe walls and ceiling of this extraordinary
cave are pretty much the same as in the othe
rooms. The walls have peculiar and eXtraor
dnary brillancy, occasioned discovered from
the feet that instead of stone as we first beev-
ed, we found them to be of a metal ,,very much
resembling sulphate OF iron, but more of sill
very appearance. We had not proceeded very
far before we heard rcmbling noise that occa'
sionall7 broke upon cur ears in notes the most
thrilling and melodious ever heard We stood
for considerable time in breathless silence tc
catch the most enchasting sounds that ever
greeted tie ear of man, and it was only at an
interval that we couldeummon courage to eX'
plore its source, which we did, and were much
surprised to find it proceeded from gushing
spring ir the side of the wall. The sounds We
heard we found to be produced by the fall o
the water, and varied by the current of air be-
fore alluded to, which we then found to be We
ry strong. We each took hearty dcught o
the lymPid water of this gushing spriEg, and
aftec surveying the diamond walls of the great
est natural curiosity in the world, we cos1menc
ed retracing our steps te its mouth, when w
found it to he quite dark end eight o'clock a
night