Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-10-11
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he recognised it as the hat of his
guest.
Something, however. unusual in
its appearance induced him TO scru-
tlnlse it more closely, when he obser
we'd a double crown, concealed in
which, to his astonishment he found
plans and elevations, with most per-
feet reconnaissance ofthe rock, made
by the very simple gentleman who
knew not the angle of the flank from
the flanked angle ola bastion, nor
could tell a ''horn work. from a
"ram's horne." Our Gibralter mer-
chant, pocketing the paper, fastened
TO lay the matter before the Governor.
In the meanwhile the foreign gentle
man having missed his hat, suspec-
ting that all was not right, and that
by remaining a moment longer he
should cndanger his personal liberty,
hurried down to the port, and, enga-
ging with a hoatman, was beyond
Ethe range of the guns of the fortress,
and on his way to Cadiz, before his
friend returned home. The person
who thus escaped from the rock. on
his arrival at Cadiz, coolly called on
the British Consul, TO whom he rela-
ted the cause of his sudden flight
from the British fortress and the loss
OF his papers and drawings: ''but, no
matter" saidh pointing to his fore
head, II have it all i'll here, my name
is Bcrnadotte." II will he renem-
Eered that at ST. Helena Bonaparte
mentioned the design he had oflaying
siege to Gibralter, with the mode Of
proceeding and the amount Of force
to be employed, and the result Of
which he was confident would have
been success-all, no doubt, planned
from the information he obtained from
tho man destined to wear the crown
of Sweden. I.
DiSintermentS-R Remarkable Gases.
"A correspondent of the ST. Louis
Reveille, speaking of the frequent oc-
currence of the body remaining linn
Der after death, gratifies the curious
on such subjects by detailing the TO-
lowing cases. They partake rather
of the marvellous: Il, rs.,s,
There is nothing unusual in a body
remaining without decomposition ten
times, nay, fifty times as long, as in
the case in question. Twas one of
more than thousand persons who
witnessed the dsinterment of the re-
mains of ST. Cuthbert. The corpse
was taken up entire, the flesh plant
| as mine is now, the color not much
altered, TO all appearance; and the
| grave clothes, not by any means de-
cayed. He had not heen enbalmed;
no cutting had taken place on any
| part of the body. ST. Cmthbert had
been buried from the early part of
the eighth century aHthe nineteenth
century. He was take up from be-
meath the altar of the churchof Dur
ham, in the county Of Durham, Eng
land. '4
have seen more than twenty
dead bodies in the ruins of ancient cit
les in the kingdom ofNaples, during
the reign of Murat. There was not
4 bone broken, nor had decay moro
than very slightly marked any Of
them, though more than 1900 years
had passed away since that catastro-
phe had taken place that involved SO.
much ruin7-the same in which the
younger Pliny was victim.
Charles the First was taken up out
of Parliament Close in 1910. His
person had not been stripped. The
apparel was stiff with blood, and the
head slightly adhering to the trunk.
He had been wrapped in tarred
canvass cloth, and without coffin. /
have seen at Carlisle, in Cumberland,
England, the remains of a Roman la
dy, with her grave clothes very little
decayed, esshara very p, .rfect, the
rings on her finger seemed to have
lost none OFF their lustre. The burial
of this lady had taken place fifteen
hundred years ago. Any person in
the least acquainted with such sub
jects, must know that a body remain
ed one hundred years or so unde-
cayed, is not in the least remarkable.
There was fo.Snd in Solway Moss,
a few years since, a draQoon o. his
horse fully accoutred. Heihad sunk
there in attempt to cross the place
about the MIDI. of the reign of Ed
ward the Third, when thatgnonarch
invaded Scotland. | should much
exceed my privilege Of writing in a
newspaper, should | enumerate qaat-
ter of the thing ST this kind thatI
know of. IS y, -----~7 Asa,