The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1862-11-29
A. Strange Story.

The following wonderful story is told
by a correspondent of the Dublin Eoemimg
Mail:
This is the age of discoveries, and one
of such a startling nature has just been
made in an English county that it seems
out of place in the region Of sober fact,
and to belong purely to the atmosphere of
the three-volume novel. Here are the
circumstances-the names for the moment
am not at liberty to indicate:
The Earl Of married not long ago,
and brought his bride home to one of the
old family mansions which members Of
the English aristocracy regard with an
affection amounting to veneration. The
lady, however, being more continental 10
her tastes, after short residence in tie
apartment appropriated to her use, express
sed wish to have boudoir in the vicin-
ity of her bedroom. The noble earl would
gladly have complied with the request,
but upon examination, it was found that
the rooms, as sometimes happens in an
tIque buildings,were SO awkwardly dis
tributed, that by no conceivable arrange
ment could the desired boudoir be fitted
in. Thereupon it became necessary to in
woke professional assistance, and an archi-
tect was summoned from London. He
examined the house narrowly, and said
there seemed to be nothing for it but to
build, though at the same time he could
not resist the impression that there must
be another undiscovered room somewhere
in that wing of the mansion. The noble earl
laughed at the idea; the oldest servants
and retainers of the family were ques-
toned, and declared that they had never
heard even rumor of its existence.
The ordinary methods Of tapping, etc.,
were resorted to, but without effect. Still
the architect retained his convictions, and
declared himself ready to stake his profess
sional reputation on the result. The earl
at last consented to let the walls be bored,
and, when au opening had been made, not
only was a room found, but sight presen-
ted itself which almost defeats attempt at
description. The apartment was fitted
10 the richest and most luxurious style of
$50 years since. A quantity of ladies'
apparel lay about the room, jewels were
scattered on the dressing table, and, but
for the faded aspect which everything
wore, the chamber might have been tenan-
ted half an hour previously. On APP
preaching the bed the most curious sight
of all was seen, and this it is that affords
the only clue to the mystery. The couch
held the skeleton of q female, and on the
floor, underneath the bed, halfin and half
out lay another skeleton, that Of a man,
presenting evident traces of violence, and
proving that before he expired he must
have received some dreadful injury. The
secret connected with this tale of blood
has been well kept, for not merely had all
tradition of the scene faded away, but even
the existence of the room itself was forgot
ten. The survivors, probably, walled up
the apartment at the time, aud its contents
remained Theoretically sealed up to the
present day, when according to the best
calculations, after the lapse Of a century
and half, daylight has accidentally pene-
trated this chamber of horrors, which, to
the surprise of oil concerned, has been
discovered in one of the noblest mansions
in the county Of.