Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-21

5eurnal and Courier.
Wednesday Morning, Jan. 21. 1880.
A LONG AND DEEP DELUsION.

The death of MT. Edwin Marble, which
 happened at his home near Lynn, Mass., last
 week, puts stop, temporarily, at least, to a
 remarkable work, which has been carried on
 by him and his father for nearly thirty years
 As the story is told in an early history of Lynn,
 one pleasant evening, sometime previous to
 1858, vessel anchored at the mouth of the
 Saugus river, and boat containing four men
 was rowed up the river to favorable land
 ing place, where the men disembarked and
 disappeared in the woods. Everybody in
 Lynn of course soon knew of this suspicious proceeding, and speculation was rife as to
 what it could mean. Next morning the ves-
 sel and boat disappeared, but one of the
 men at the iron works near by found a paper
 containing an order for handcuffs, hatchets,
 etc., which if made and deposited in the place
 designated in the note should be paid for
 in silver that would be left where the goods
 were deposited, and no questions asked or
 answered. The articles were furnished and
 paid for. Later, four men, supposed to be
 the same, returned and settled in a romantic
 spot known to-day as ssPirates' Glen" There
 the pirates, for such it seems they were, lived
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 were captured by some of the Kings men,
 sent to England and killed for their crimes
 Thomas Veal, the fourth man of the party,
 escaped and hid himself in cave beneath a
 rock or ledge north of the glen. He subse- quent1y lived there and made shoes, as so
 many of the people of Lynn since his time have done. Finally an earthquake cleft the rock in twain, and 8 part of it fell over the mouth of the cave, and that was the end of geon Rock" on account of Veal having been imprisoned there. And it is also to be said that it was the popular belief that much pi-. rates plunder was buried with Veal.
 Soon after the commencement of the spread of Spiritualism in this country, MT. Hiram Marble, father of the man who died last week, became interested in the phenomena The spirits or the mediums took notice of him speedily, and he was told that there was chosen to dig for hid treasures. The name of the controlling power. as given, was Thomas Veal, about whom no one seemed to know anything. Mir. Marble held out for some time against the importu mites of the Veal spirit, but at last visited the spot described, and found it to correspond exactly with what had been communicated to him about 1t. Entirely converted by this. he went to the authorities of Lynn and asked to be allowed to buy Dungeon Rock" He was told that there was no cave there, but he de- clared that if there was not he would make one. He procured the title deeds to the place and set to work. He had much help from Veal's spirit which directed where the drills should be entered in the rock, and. otherwise assisted. The rock was hard as flint, and his progress WAS slow, but when he had thoughts of abandoning the work Veal inspired him with fresh hope and zeal. Thus he labored on through his life. At different stages of his blasting through the hard rock to the depth of about hundred feet, he found sev- eral articles that helped to keep up his cour- age-an old foreign dagger in one instance, pair of rusty scissors in another, and other things. These he would show to visitors, laugh with the incredulous, and never appear disturbed by scoffers. In answer to the ques- tion, what he would do if he did not suc- ceed, he once said: ''well, my effort, even tAeu, wAA HUI Oo WdStcu, AoE, H Il kO 1o IAS poorhouse, shall serve as conspicuous ex- ample of oredulity to warn others by." He is said to have had no indications of insanity in his manner. At last, his wife having died, his daughter married his son been made deaf by a premature blast, and his own health un dermined, he was apparently in a condition to stop work. But he did not, and labored on while life lasted, with unabated confidence. Perhaps by this tune he has seen Veal and had everything explained.
 At the death of Hiram Marble his son Ed win, who had from childhood assisted his father in the search for Veal's gold, and who inherited full belief in the final triumph of the undertaking. kept on digging patiently until he reached depth of about two hun dred feet. Last week he, too, died, and though he left no son to succeed him in his solitary toll he is said to have been firmly i'm pressed that some one would take his place. It would not be very strange if some one did.