Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-15
Treasure Digging and sp,r,tu.
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TreaiMre as;sm ;nigEing =; and spiritu.
From a recent article in the Salem O5.
server, it appears that Mr.. Hiram M.,ble
is at work endeavoring to discover tba olJ
pilots cave, in Dungeon Rock, at Ivnnw
The rock is situated in the northwest mart
of Lynn, towards Lynnfeld and Sauqus
and is accessible by the old Boston road
turning to the right about a mile above
Plus Hill Cemetery. 1t is located in the
depths of the great extent of woods which
stretches for miles in that direction, cloth
ing a rolling sea of huge hills, and conceal
ing from view wild and wonderful drift
of giant boulders and numerous bare sur
faces of primative rock. A safe and well :
worn carriage road leads to the summit Of
hill within which Thomas Veal's old pi-
rate cave is supposed to exist. Of Mr..
Marble and his labors the Observer says:
"Mr. Marble resides throughout the year
In his small house near the summit of
rock, with his wife and son and daughter.
Some distance off to the north he has laid
the foundations of one of Fowler's octapou-
al houses, which we presume will be finish
ed before ne digs his way into the tradi-
tional cave. There is no arabic land in the
vicinity, the soil yielding too heay crop
of rocks to allow the more tender growtbs
in the garden. There is room for a good
ly hen-coop on the table of land on the hill,
but nothing more in the farming line. The
apex of the hill is huge mass of rock,
forty or fifty feet above the house lot, from
which, standing near the lofty flagstaff, you
obtain wide and admirable view of the
distant country for miles about.
"Mr. Marble has been engaged at the
place for six years past in what he consid-
ers to be spiritual mission, and in what
most other people consider to be a wild
and absurd undertaking. He was a man.
ufacturer in distant place, and was SIM
pressed or felt call to come here and de-
vote himself to the work of finding the
cave where the pirates formerly resided,
and where Thomas Veal was entombed by
an earthquake. He believes himself to be
acting under the special direction of the
spirits of Thomas Veal and girl named
Catharine, who was stolen by the pirates
and became an associate with them. Un-
der these auspices he has accomplished
truly extraordinary work. He has drilled
and excavated a tunnel of about 80 feet
into the solid aspar rock of the hill. The
hole is high enough to stand up in, and you
may perhaps touch the two sides by ex-
tending your arms. 1t is solid fiinty rock
all the way, and the excavation by drilling
and blasting has all been done by Mr. Mar
BILE and his son, assisted sometimes by an
other laborer. The tuDnel descends in all
about thirty-fve feet and winds as much
more. A pair of steps descends into the
cave and torch illuminates the way when
visitors enter this spiritual region.
"Mr Marble exhibits an ancient broken
sword, an old time dagger and a pair of
antiqe scissors, as having been found dur
ing the progress of the work in seam of
the rock, where a superintendent mass
slid over the cave at thu time of the earth
quake. Sceptics and outsiders say that
these relics were placed there to impose
upon Mr.. Marble, but he has persuaded
himself that the discoveries were original.
He regards them as proofs that he is with
out doubt right in his gigantic undertaking.
"When he finds the cave, if he ever does,
for the spirits do not tell him how far he
is from the entrance, or how much longer
he must labor-he expects to find the re-
mains of Veal, of the girl Catherine, and
of one Arabel, who was the wife of one of
his pirates. He has in his house a pretty
well executed portrait of Catherine, done
by an artist in Boston, named Fenton, who
painted it one day under the inspiration of
Spirits He has also daguerreotypes of
all the women-Catherine being rather
lovely and Arabel rather satanie-and of
VEAL"
Mr.. Marble says bis object is not money
or treasure, but to investigate 'spiritualism'
and establish its truth by finding the cave
and its described contents in the singular
manner pointed out, which was made diff
cult in order to better test his faith. He
advances about foot month in his un-
dertaking, and expects to terminate bis
"mission" within year. He is a man of
intelligence, of pleasing appearance and
manners, and talks with apparent modera-
ton about his work.