Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-05
rHINGs nREnGED UP.
Two Rusty cid Cannon and Document
Written in the Days OF WIllism Penn.

THINGS DREDGED UP.
Two Rusty cid Cannon and a Document
Written In the Days OF Wnlism Penn.
From the Pli1adelDAia Eo,os
ave dredgers find all sorts of curious
hings while we're probing about in the
mud at the bottoms Of rivers" said an old
captain Of a Philadelphia dredging scow
q a reporter "The most unexpected
sort Of things come up from the bottom
when men are working away, thinking Of
nothing at all and smoking their pipes,
While the engine pu1's away and the big
chains are creaking IN and out over the
pulleys. Nothing that we find surprises
as much. for the rivers dumping ground
and a kind Of liquid grave, as you may
say, for all sorts OF articles; and the num-
Der Of different things we pull up out OF
The mud is enough to open the eyes ol
plain. everyday land sman.
ltwasp't SO very long ago that we sailed
Down the Delaware, in quiet fashion,
and began 90 dredge away IN the channel
~ Fort Mitiiin, never suspectlng that we
we're going TO make one OF the biggest
6nds in the river-ooze mat had occurred
since the days OF Columbus. We ha4led
10 tons of mud and rocks and oyster
he forenoon, when along toward dinner
time the dredge brought up a ing mouth
hui OF mud with two things sticking out
Of it that looked like big fire plugs.
WHATS that" said The mate, dropping
the clay pipe that lac was smoking out OF
his mouth on the deck, and Selling Il
Telescope. 'Cann0ns,' said /. 'POpguns,
said he, I'm a kind Of scOrniul way. Never
lheless, IL was cannons, and when we
dumped the load in the scOw We got them
put.
RELICS OF FORGOTTEN WAR.
They were old pieces. s-pounders, cast
IN London in 1856 according TO the date
On them. bv Charles Hunsicker. They
were rusted and dirty and so tul Of vile
smelling river mud and empty mussel
shells that it was enough to turn a
dredger's stomach to handle them. but
there we had ZEN, and after about an
hours bard work we got them cleaned
and gave them to the government.
"Cann0ns amt the most curious things
we ever found though; not by consider
able sight. for they amt halt as curious
as TWO things we found at Willow street
wharf one evening when we were deepen
lDg the channel What were theyg A
mans legs, sir, with nothing but the
stockings and calfskin boots on, as white
and fresh as If they had been cut eli the
living body that same afternoon. We
scOoped them up out of the bottom with
a big lot of slime; and there they lay
right on top OF the Init, as CHASTITY sight
as you want 20 see; aud you can just bet
Your last dollar that the Coroner had
them as soon as he wanted them"
The venerable navigator OF the mud
1redgeT then shifted his quid TO the star
board side Of his jaw, and beckoning the
reporter to a quiet nook in the stern of the
craft leaned against the tatfrail, and i'm
pTessively raised his finger.
THE ANCIENT MARINERS TALE.
"W hat I'm a-going TO tell you now I've
never told 20 a living soul on this whole
broad earth, and it's about the biggest
ind In the way Ofremarkable things, that
ever came my way" said the gray-headed
fresh-water seaman. Its all about a
packet that we found in the dredge one
day. when we were dredging down near
League island. 1t was in the middle OF a
leaden casing, soldered and wrapped ike
q brown paper parcel 1t was covered
with oiled silk, and here It is" and The
YeraciOus mariner produced a stained
parchment document that read as fol-
lows;
LcNDoN. ENG, Nave The First.
Ia the yeare OF our Lord, Mss
To TIE Right honorable CaDtains Charles
tklR- Whereas ii hath come to our knovl-
edge that cerian OF the aboriginal Indian
tribes who live near the tOwne OF Phil3 del
pil e.. aud in the grant which cure most
dreade sev gu of the United Kingdom Of
CT Brlta aud Ireland conveyed 70 VII
liam Penn, are stealing the horned cattle a ID
oiLer stock of settlers living neare them. and
also causelng the saide settlers create fear
and apprehension OF a raide. whereby they
may lose their lives, w. Thomas Gambler
well, Earl OF Carlisle, -ecretary To the King,
DO. i'm the name of his Majestic. command Y u
50 take q reasonable number Of the colonial
hnr ina Ia
and TO 81 ovcrawe the n iians that theye do
no damag" to the lives OF persons Of his Ma
estes lieee subjects.
t~lgnedl THOMAS CAMBERwELL.
SEAL. Earl of arlise.
That said the veraciOus mariner, as
he uncOnsciOusly lapsed into the manner
OF the elderly naval man, sis wot calls a
Great Find"