Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-12-08

comparatively STILL small, though never ceaslng
voice, was now rushing mighty whlrlwind. IL had
become absolutely terrific; and were one day con-
sulting in the adjoining the one occupied by her
upon the expedency of removing her 10 some rstred
place in the country, when of a sudden her voice
ceased Fastening 10 her, 10 ascertain the cause Oh
so strange phenomenon we found her a llieless
corpse Death had interpoIated period in the SEN
tence she was utterng, where not even comma was
required.
Upon opening my aunts WILL (shc had come into
possession OF a con siderable amount of property by
her husband) il found that with the exception OF
few triing legacles she had bequcathed her whole
estate to an institution for the relief OF the deaf and
dumb prefaclng the Item" with the remark, that OF
all classes of unfortunate people, there were none she
SO dceRly commiserated those poor creatures who
had n1~F been blessed with the faculty OF speech.
tDxE.
THE TrHSANs OF THE MoUNDs.-Deeply interested
as is every American in the antiquities of his native
soil the citizens of section Of country should
they prove interesting than TO those OF ST. Louis
And as we are persuaded that the apathy which has
existed heretofore respecting those mysterious relics
of departed race by which every side sur
rounded has had its origin rather in total lack OF knoD
ledge than in lack Of enterprising enquiry lack oil
any thing else shall endeavor collect all the inor
nation in power upon the subject and from time TO
time embody the result of the research in columns
When we look upon these mysterious monuments OF the
past, the inquiry naturally itself the mind
"Who were their builders--whence came they-whther
they gone r. The plausible superstition seems
to be this that the tribes which awe along the
shores of the great lakes and the northern Atlantic coast
In progress OF regular series OF emigration, erected
the Gordon of earth heaps which extends
whole length of the continen from north south ports
OF military defence against the attacks of the natives OF
the soil until last they reached the southern exremi
ty of the contnent-crossed the ishmus disappeared
and founded the ancient Peruviaa empire in South
America Now, reader, problematical as all this may
seem TO thee, and scepca thou mayest be, we have
dozen capital argursents in support thereof At pre-
case developed by DR.. j. c. Warren of Boston in
a recent paper communicated 10 the British Scientific
association at Liverpool. Many years ago Uranium
came by accident into the possession OF DIR. Warren,
which struck him extraordinary, and which upon
careful examination, he found correspond with the
of of all the known races, of the indi
vdual nations constituting those On inquiry he
learned that the skull with other had been found
IN the depths of almost inaccessible cavern on the
bank of the Ohio fifty feet above the stream by
party of hunters who had there sought refuge. This
is sitsated probably Gapols, in the State of
Ohio and from the Of the calcareus rock which
prevented decomposition by the absorption 81 all moisture
and the naccessibly Of the spot centuries might have
c apsed since the bones deposited there Suisse
quently number of skulls from the ancient mounds Of
Ohio, were received-were compared with this, and
were found to correspond 10 outline. Now, the pro-
liability was that all these remains those Of the
North American Indians, called. Not at all they
differed from the structure of the Indian crania
pite-utterly-just much skulls could differ. One
thing then, certain the builders OF the mounds
and our aborignes were by means oil the same race
Some time after the circumstances we have related, Dr.
Warren tells that he morning found upon his table
three heads, the individual who had left them having
gone. On examination he at once pronounced them
skulls of the mound Indians and the lamented Srurz-
heim who then lec,urng in Boston, declared them
skulls OF the A few days alter gentleman
called who had furnished the remains, and informed
him. that these skulls those Of the ancient Inca
OF Peruvians taken from island the city of Sinio
renowned the spot where Mango Copac made his adj
vent from the Sun TO enlighten the Peruvian race =
These the mises-wha the conclusion III any
thing is that the builders Of oundsthose all around
us-were the progentors Of the Montezunas
ORIGIN or OLD HicxoRY."-Afer the battle Of
New Orleans, when he returning with the Ken
lucky and Tennessee volunteers he loaned his horse
to sick soldier in the neighborheod Of hatcher the
General fell in the rear Of the army, and pursued his
way foot. After he had marched some twenty or
thirty miles, OF the soldiers observed his cemrade
that "the General would break down" mo" OBJ
served his companion che is tough as hickory
Ever since the Of the anecdote in 1915 Gen.
Jackson has borne the title.
RATIONALE or SEDUCTION. Much Of our morality
prudent and right upon sysem with respect the first
false step Of women leads us we all know into bar
barous errors as to individual exceptions whes from
and conidipg love that first false step has been ia
xen many a woman has been saved in after life from
thousand temptations. The poor unforunates who crowd
streets and theatres have rarely in the 6rs instance
been corrupted by love- but by poverty and the
zion Of circumstance and example. Ii is a miserable
phrase call them the victims Of seduction they
have been the victims Of hunger Of vanity Of curiosity
81 evil female counscs but the seduction Of love hard
y ever conducts TO life Of vice. II woman has once
esly loved. the beloved object makes an mpenetrabe
barrier between her and other men their advances
erry and revolt she would rather die than be unfath
al even To a memory. Though man loves the SEX wo.
nan loves only the individual and the more she loves
'm the more cold she is to the species For the PAS
ion Of is in the sentiment the fancy the heart
4 rarely has much 10 do with the coarse images with
which boys and old men-the experienced and the
it--Bnirers Ernest Maifrarers
IMPORTANT BANK DEvELopEHESTs.--The follow.
ng important Developments Of the doings Of this recent
,ank Convention, are from the Albany Argus =
The banks ofthe state OF New York as well ss those
4 Virginia Ohio, North Carolina Georgia and the Dis
riot 81 Columbia we're strenuous in their exertions TO
induce the convention to fix upon day certain and an
arly day, for the resumption Of specie payments and
essted by their speeches and every effort TO de.
ny the return to sound state OF things, or to adjourn
Without declaring their ability and desire to do so with
certain and fixed period.
The convention was in session from Monday until
saturday inclusive, six days Before the adjournment,
ne banks OF 10 states were BY 4 delegates
rem this state, ~ delegates were in attendance.
At tbs organization of the convention and the adop-
on Of rules for its government the delegates from Nsp
ork resisted ansuccesy, order that the meetings be
eid pifh closed doors.
The subject ofthe resumption Of specie payments, and
ne period when, referred committee consist
nc OF one delegate from each represented In the
invention The committee consisted Of eighteen mem
'ers Init, New York proposed, without success, sew.