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Show DK SOTO'S TRKAfil'HE. The MeuiphLs Amhuuli? of tLe ult. has a remarkable narrative, from which we make ihe following extracts: From time to lime, lor a period long exceeding the memory of living nieo, ihe lept'ed has leen current, and found many intelligent believers, too, that Dc Soto, ilm fumed discoverer of the "father of waters," first saw our ma.e-nilicent ma.e-nilicent Mississippi from the well known bluft' about two and a half miles below this city. There also litis been a vague, visionary story that iho vulgarly credulous accepted, lo the cll'ect lliat the old Spanish Oabalaro, or 1 some of his followers, had buried somewhere some-where ulon- the east bank of the Mis- ' si.Sfippi, an enormous Ireusnre, eons;il-int; eons;il-int; irincipal!y of a lew preciniH sloues of almosL untold value. So mueh i'or legend, and now i'vT fael. A descendant of one of De Soto's followcro, Senor .Jo.e Munzo. had, by the merest accident, found in a blind close!, the existence nf which was only brought to light by tho tearing down of . a part of nn old mansion, with the view ol' rebuilding it in a more modem form, n parchment which set forth in substance that, tit a. point near ihn oily, was deposited iu iheeurlh, a helmet, hel-met, containing a diamond, a sapphire, ami ii ruby of inimenso vnluc, together with nn order of knighthood and a sun1, of money; that tlit.s treasure was ihe property of one Jesus Munzo, who was tlie scientific adviser of I Solo, but. having fallen under suspicion of praul'iMug witchcraft, had anticipated his doom by suicide, lir.it coniided lo mother earth with certain incantations, the wealth that would sullico to ransom ran-som a piiucowheu princes were worth ransoming. Upon the strength of this information informa-tion a party ot leading citizens was at once organized lo investigate the mailer. mai-ler. It was about ten o'clock when Iho adventurers landed from their skill's on President's Island. Placing his thoodolile exactly in front of the venerable ven-erable tree which might well, from its appearance, have sheltered Do Solo and hisbandl Captain i proceeded proceed-ed lo, lay out the tirst angle indicated by tho puruhment scroll. To the surprise sur-prise of every one, tho "distance" brought the parly to a lonely spot on the shore of ihe river, where in a gulch, worn by the mail freaks of tho storms in limes gone by were iho remains re-mains of a boat, of a fashion that no workman has designed on tlie North American uontincnt for more than two hundred years, although the sauic description de-scription of vessel still navigates the coasts of South America, and are still built by descendants of the Spanir-h people who first brought to the knowledge knowl-edge of ihe civilized world our Mississippi. Missis-sippi. The boat had been constructed from a single log, and was about forty-six leet leniMh or keel. The wood had been almost liansformcd into coal by some strange ahnospheiic cause, and the truth of what we say can bo verified veri-fied by a piece of this aniiquo bark, which was brought from the spot by our reporter, and is now on exhibition i at L! is ofiieo. from the ruined stern ! p'.otrudcd nn iron which had once secured the rudder, upon which was still visible the iuitai.H 1LK. k I." Whether or n.it this is the remains of one of J)e Soto's boats it is impossible : to determine with certainly, but I'ro-I I'ro-I fessor Dillinglon was decidedly of the , opinion that the wood of which it was composed had been exposed to the ac-i ac-i lion of the element for more than two centuries. Tho inference was irresistible. In ihe course of ten minutes, tho work-mon work-mon had excavated a pit about three feet in diameter and two iu depth. Just at midnight, by Captain B a' time, tho spade of McGowan struck somo metalio substance; it proved to bo an ancient helmet, the upper part of which was corroded and eaten away with the rust of years. Fashioned as it had been to resist ilia stroke of lance, sword, and battle axe, it yielded to the first blow of the modern and ; homely spado. It was cleft in twain, and as the light from the lamps flashed down upon iis oxidized surface, from tho interior was flashed back thrco , wondrous rays of radiance, diamond pure, sapphire blue, and ruby red, all beautiful and dazzling, while gazing downwards the awe stricken tamperors with what a man uses or examines into at his peril, saw three gems of fabulous fabu-lous size aud lustre, lying upon a faded and decayed Older of nobility, . and within the rusted head harness of ! a knight who laid hid lance in rst for the last time before any city on the : North American continent had an 1 existence. |