Year: 1873

abreast of Flushing Bay, and not far to north
east the ancient homestead of Gouverneur
Morris, fat.decked sloop, anchored short
distance from the shore. She is fixture.
She is always there, and she is directly over
the wreck of the Hussar. On the land close
beside her may be seen the old stone house,
but that has been described, and one is shown
two great cavities in the earth from where, it
is alleged, the trees, roots were pulled almost
a century ago, when the gored ship was strug-
Cling for life


From this sloop there goes down once, and
oftentimes twice day, diver clad in armor
of rubber, lead and copper.


The common depth in which man so en-
numbered can work to advantage is fifty feet:
This man goes down ninety. The current OF
water is so fierce that he can only visit the
scene of his labors on slack tide, and even
that one visit is only of an hours duration.
This man hopes to fndthe treasure, to place
chains securely about it, and then to have it
hoisted up from above. By various descrip-
tions, and from their own discoveries, the dig
gers have fixed upon a spot where the gold
should be, and the diver is, with his shovel
and pick, slowly approaching this spot. The
treasure will be discovered in the form OF a
great number of boxes, doubtless corroded and
amalgamated by the action of the water into
a solid mass.


The scene beneath the water is described as
being awful. 1t is nearly dark, and the re-
mains of the vessel lie in the shadow of the
overhanging cliff:


There are heaps of black timbers, the ends
of which jut out from the banks Of the drlfted
sand. Here and there is the stump Of a huge
rib projecting from the bed of the river, and
the glimmers from above fall upon the silent
and motionles place with an effect that is ter.
rifying. The diver hopes almost as each day
goes by to conquer his final difficulties and to
seize upon what the water and the sand have
retained so long.


He has sent up in bucket large number
of relics of the ship and her crew, and there
is a stone house not far from the spot in which
are heaps of articles thus secured.


One sees leather buckets upon which the
word "Hussar" may still be traced heaps of
twelve.pound cannon balls corroded out of
shape and into little else but rust; number
of shackles and chains; ships bell marked
with the initials G.. R., and the heurde-lis.
In champagne basket are large number of
human bones and skulls. The floor is strewn
with belts, cartridge boxes, pieces of broken
muskets, and with thousand things that are
commonly used on shipboard. The writer
has seen number of coins which have been
raised from this strange depth notably one
lump of silver money as large as an egg, upon
which was stuck in various positions number
of golden guineas with their imprints half eff:
aced by the action of the sea. These were doubt
less the possessions of some of the officers, who
left them behind in their haste A lady's
casket filled with jewels was brought up three
years ago, but it was stolen and has not been
recovered.


If the present company succeeds in getting
the treasure, as it deserves to do, each member
of it need have no more fears for his liveli-
hood. It is anxious work. A single days
labor may now make each one man or a
woman of great wealth, and on the contrary
days work may expose the fact that more
months of labor and expenditure must pass
over before the prize may be reached, if it
ever shall be.