The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-02-15

cannon lying tangled among the sea-weed
on a ledge. That was enough. Inspired
with the greatest enthusiasm. diver after
diver plunged below 20 be the first to dis
cover the treasure, and ere long one of
them brought up an ingot of silver worth
several hundred pounds. Transported
with success they left a buoy to mark the
spot, and made all sail to carry the glad
tidings to Phips. He would not credit the
tale until he had seen the ingot, when he
exclaimed, "Thanks be to God, we are all
made -
Every man vas at once enlisted in the
service of fishing for the treasure. The
bullion was discovered first after that, in
the bottom of the hold, the sea miners
found the coin in bags. which had been so
long under water that hey were encrusted
with stony she'll. hard as rock. This was
broken with crowbars, revealing gold, jew
els, and ''peces of eight" in glitterng
abundance. The last days work brought
to light twenty massive silver ingots, and
the whole amount recovered was some what
over tmee hundred thousand pounds, a
sum equal in the value of our time TO five
millions of dollars.-.S. q. w. BENJAMIN,
81. Nicholas for february.
A "CUsTOMs" JoKE.-A Joke in the dry
details OF the customs business has como
to light here, which for down right rich
ness may challenge the public service of
this or any other country for a fellow
Some time after his Inauguration Mr.
Hayes appointed Florida man named
Vance Special Inspector of the Treasury
Department. Vance got his commission,
anu was Jerked out of the steaming ever
giddeS last fall and sent on a tour of
inspection through the frigid Nnrtheru
regions. He had special instructions to
visit the Marquette District, on Lake Su-
2erior. and overhaul the administration of
Mr. Osborn, the Inspector there. Vance is
not familiar with all the details Of the Gus
toms business, and like all new converts is
exceedingly Jealous, and has way of
making himself numerous that is not
agreeable to the old officers of the service
As soon as lie got to Marquette, Osborn
TOOK Nancc's measure and resolved to teach
him a practical lessou He told Vance
that it had come to his knowledge that
smuggling was being carried on to an
alarming extent at Isle Royal. a mineral
knob that lifts itself in the noithern CEN
tral portion OF Lake Superior, about 100
miles from anywhere, and intmatcd that
he might make his everlasting reputation
oy proceeding thither, ferreting them out,
ahd bringing the perpetrators to punish
ment. Vance was cap.ivated with the
idea, and took the first boat for the island
IL happened that the boat on which Vance
was an eager passenger was the last boat
OF the season to make n trip to this chnnk
OF land IN the watery waste. and the next
trip viii be made about the 1st of next
June. Vance has already been ir, exile
over two months, aud he still has four
months "f isolation aud reflection before
MN. There are a few Cornish miners and
indians on the island and that is all.
here are no newspa pers. no communica-
ti"h with the on: side world and worst of
all, no whiskey. If Vance lives through
his Information of more than a half a wear.
and returns with his usual enthusiasm to
me service he will be voted a veteran. -
Ch'c0go Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.