Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-08-06

'Oe' al or'lcle undeT he above title which
appeared IN our columns a short time ago.
NY The k'"dnrss Of friend, dgnitary of
me Episcopal Church, we are enabled to
auo The following TO the very in,eres ing
Information then given:
In the year 1894, some officers in the
service of the East Ind q Company disco
rereo on the coast Of IIadramaui some an
clent inscriptions, partly cut in the ruins
Oh an old city, partly in Il living rock, and
~ language quite unknown. Copies Of
one OF these inscrii lions were gent 10 Ger
many, in The hope that there some learn,d
philo'ogist would be able 10 translate it, and
unfold IT'S" h ddcn meaning.' This hope
was not realized, nni the mystic writing
had nearly proven useless, when tho Rev.
Z. Forster, Of England, the author of :. Ma
homcdahism unveilcd,' and n well known
Oriental scholar, hit upon the interpreta-
ton.
ms gentleman was preparing, last
summer, a treatise on Arabian geography,
when he met wiki these Inscriptions in
Wel'sted's Travels ia Arabia. lie attempt
ed their Translation, but ultimately rclin-
pushed tho task as hopeless. Turning az
lcrward, Tor material for his work, TO Il
tract on ancient Arabian history, bound up
with his copy OF Schullcn's Monuments OF
Arabia, but 50 rare in England as not to be
found IN the library Of the Britt h Museum
he opened On IA .t,le and monument which
Instantly struck hiin, from ihc equal length
OF The two documents and the apparent
identity Of their locality (near Aden on the
coast OF iIadramaot,) as an Arabic version
of ,lhe uncypberabe inscription he had
seen in WeIst"d's travels.
Awakened to new hopes bv this discov-
cry, Mr. Foster prosecuted rs researches
aud succeeded in decyphering the record
which had stood the ravagrs and mutations
$500 years, and which takes us back TO the
age OF Jacob and joseph. and within five
hundred ears of The hood1 In tins record
are restored to the world It's oldest char rae
ters and language. while it also contain, u
full and clear declaration Of the great cen
trail truth of the COS ell, she preached to
them Jesus, and the resurrection" Al
though the A:abic translation was The clue
I" tins discovery, MIR. +. Corrected several
errors and removed some obscurtlcs
The insc ipl;on is three parts The lon
gest IS OF ten lines, engraved on smooth
piece OF rock forming one side of the te
race al llisn Choral. Then here are three
short lines, found on a delatched rock, on
the summit the hill. There are also two
lines, found near the long inscription, lower
down the terr,ce. They ali relate to one
transaction, an incident in Adite history.
The tribe Of AID, accord ng to Mr.. Sale,
were descended from AL, the sou Of Avs
or Uz, the son of Aram, the son of Shem
the son of Noah. The event recorded is the
rout and entire destruction OF the sons Of
Ac. an Arab tribe, by the Avs, or tribe of
Ad, whom heyinvaded In Mr.. Fosters
book Tao SMILES are given oil the inscriptions;
the AdltIc and tho ltamyaritc alphabet and
glossary containing every word in them,
lis derivation and It's explanation; with notes
OF coP'ous illustration upon every point
which they Involve
On tie sub CT Of these inscriptions, Mr..
Foster, in his dedication of his book to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, thus rcmlras
What Job (who, living in tho opposii7
quarter OF Aratia, amid the sands of the
grca, Northern desert, had no lasting ma
terial within reach on which 10 perpctuate
his thoughiS,) so earnestly desired, stands
here realiz d. 'Oh that any words were
now written! Oh that they were printed in
II book! Tha, like the kindred ere, Of
the lost tribe of Ad they wete craven with
an iron pen, and lead, in the rock forev r.
For mine is better aud brighter revcl,-
ton than theirs For know that my Re
deemer livcth, Hnd thut he shall stand at
the latter day epon the Garth; and though,
ail'r my skin, worms destroy this holy yet,
IN the Ash shall sc. Col; whom snail
see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold,
and not another
-" Bat Il is not the antq Y OF ghe>e
monuments, however high. WHICH const-
tules their value il is the prrcieas cen
trail truths of revealed relrg on VIII ch they
record and which they have bundled 10 An
from the first ages OF tho post diluyian
world, that rais3 Them above all price -
Viewed in this respect, they strike at the
very root Of sceptlclsm, aud leave not
even his own hollow ground beneath tho
feet OF the unbeljever. Fo, il what the
in6d,l yainly would bring into question
us organizing Win \ IIIS'IttlSSN SldnuS
here. registered us the pr meval faith
oi mank nd, there is an end, II; once, To
the idle sophiswy OF unbeEct. The in
scrip,i2n on the rock Of I'>N Gherab, Il
contemporary witness of The faith orFhe
most ancient OF the Cd Arahuns changes
the state OF things, placing beyond the cav
lis of scepticism itself, al once, the fact aud
the purity OF their belief in the sclip'usaI
doctrine OF the resurrection; and pre>cn,
ting to The eye this great Gospel truth, 10
borrow the noble language of Mr.. Burke. }
covered with the awful boar of lnnumer.
able ages
WAR-Murr>Ry GL"Rr-TuE SoI-
pIER.-rhe following san extract from a
review of Alson's History of Eararc IN
the last number ot the Westminster Re
view" In the sentiments ot the reviewer,
every philanlhropi>t and wo hope, every