Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-05-07

Searching for the Barred Treasures of the Sea.
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Boston Relief and Submarine Company, an
interesting report was made by the Directors,
of the result of the two expeditions of the
Company to recover treasures buried in the
sea. One Of these expeditions was to raise
the vessels and other materials sunk by the
Rassians in the Earber of Seyastopol. In
this exPsditions as yet, only partial success
has been obtaised. The two vessels Of the
ex Pedition are however, to be employed the
coming season in operating upon vessels
in Turkish water.
The other expedition has been sent to the
Caribbean Sea, under the command of Capt
Couthony. After various misadventures, the
whole of the crew being attacked with yel
low fever at st. Thomas, from which they
all fortunately recovered, at length the Bay
of Cumana, in Venzuela, was reached, where
work at once commenced upon the sunken
Spanish frigate San Pedro. and it has been
continued stsedily ever since. The several
divers connected with Captain Couthony's
force spent in the aggegate about 81 hours
under water daily, during the time they had
been at work upon the wreck After Ye-
moving vast amount of deck material, the
divers penetrated deck-room, where they
found gun-carriages, deck furniture. &C.,
piled up in one large mass, making any at
tempt to work useless without first removing
it. AT this place four magnificent brass can
mons were taken out, and eleven strange
boxes supposed to be cast steel /; they were
of the size of candle box, but were thought
by some to be PlatfRa. Silver dollars were
also found at the depth of sixty feet in the
water covered with mud, but were mostly
separatci several gold watches were here ia
ken out, and many other valuable articles,
and the divers came TO the cuncInsion that
when the explosion of the vessel took place
these articles were driven from the forward
part of the ship, where the bulk of the treas
ure undoubtedly remained
Taking this as reasonable view of the
case, they proceeded to their work with re-
newed sfgor, and after great difficulty sue
ceeded in clearing away the large amount of
rubbish, and obtained an entrance 10 the
hold in the forward part of the ship, on 18th
of December last. Aboat 500 in specie
and another brass six-pUeEder was taken out
at this place in short, time also watches
aesd many curious relics. The money foun d
here was cemented together in rolls of $l5,
$40 and sloo each, and plainly showed that
they must be very near the vast amount of
n4oney contained i4s This ship. According to
the osRcial documents, when the San Pedro
went down she Contained one million Span-
ish dolAaFss and million and half in gold. q
large portion of which should be there stSif
The work was row fairly counne enced, aud
the directors felt greatly encouraged. cad saw
no reason why the stockholders silcuad not
be SO. The last atsyices5 wts4cts Were Up 20
saa. Est, represented that they had been urs-
expeetedly stopped in their labors by timber
&C., in the hold btr in st1urt tf1ae Eoped
to removed 1t. In the meantime, Capt. Cou-
tbonv r.. Id been to the capital to obtain IL
cense for his as;vers to dive for pearls at the
Pearl Bank.-TfaceLer.