Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-08-13


quldI uped!
la the second period the terrestrial man.
malta increase in number, and we have
along with them numerous Pachydermata,
or animals with thick skins, such as the
Paleolherium and Anopeletherium, and
other genera of aquatic animals, which
dwelt on the margin of lakes and rivers.
In the first of these extinct genera these
species vary in size, from the Rhlnoceros
to the hog. These and other species, near
ly fifty in number, were discovered by Gu
vier in the fresh water formations of Mont
martre near Paris.
In the third period lived the Mammoth,
the Mastodon, the Hlppopo,amus, and those
huge Soths, the Megatherium and the Me-
galonyx, the giants Of the natural world,
the grandest and the last specimens of that
extraordinary population over which man
never swayed the sceptre.
The lion and the tiger are supposed to
be the successors of the creatures last men,
toned. Up 10 this stage. no traces of man
or of his labors, can be detected, and this
gives the remarkable result that the three
periods have been succeeded by fourth,
in which the Almighty placed man upon
the earth, and created, as his subjects and
his servants. those races Of living beings
which occupy the surface Of our globe, and
inhabit the depths of its ocean.
Referring to the Mosaic record of the
creation, the article to which we have re-
ferred comes to this conclusion: '.The
records Of faith now stand on the same level
with the records of reason. Truth, bro't
down from on high, harmonIzes with truth
from below and the Christian who refused
to surrender his cherished volume to the
taunts of reason, now holds it with a t:mer
grasp, and scans the series of creations
which Science has revealed, but as the har-
binger Of that latest exercise Of divine pow
er which gave birth TO man, and placed him
over q new animal world.
"But the confirmation Of The Mosaic ac-
count of creation is not the only, or even
the chief result of geological discovery
The commencement OF organic life in ami
mails and plants of the first period, and its
higher and progressive deveIopemente in
different orders, leads US back to that be.
ginning which was so long yelled from hu-
man reason while the successive destruc-
ward to the terminus of our own period
to that day Of the Lord, when the heavens
shall pass away with great noise, and the
elements shall melt with a fervent heat,
and the earth also, and the works which
are therein, shall be burned up"
The Omnipotent may have designs 10
work out, of which we and all we behold
are but the preliminary instruments. To
us, it is possible, commanding beings may
succeed, as different from us rs the lion is
from the megalosaurus, more superior to
us than we are to the monkey.
We need say nothing to fix the readers
mind on he reflections which follow:
"Should this. apparently last period of
animal lie, be one in which man is TO ex-
ercise hls faculties in the investigation of
his Makers works, the fossil geology OF
the world we now inhabt will exhibit de-
posts no less interesting than those which
embosom the gigantic frame work of man.
moths aud masodons. How interesting
will be the excavations in which the buried
cities of modern Europe will re-appear in
their ruined grandeur =; how strange the
discovery Of submerged navies embalmed
in their ocean beds or the foundered ship
with lis imprisoned skeletons or the battle
field, with its PROSTATE warriors or the
hallowcd cemetery, crowded with the re-
lies Of youth and age, and crushed beneath
their tablets Of marble, aud their monu-
ments Of bronze -
MADAME DE LA CoNTEssE JEANNE
correspondent of the Atlas, from Paris, re-
ates the following: 1.-The Countess Jeanne.
one of the leaders of the aristocracy of ia
bourg ST. German, died las. month, and
the inspection of some half burned papers
which she was destroying when the grim
tyrant surprised her, unraveled IL strange
mystery that has always enshrined her
After the downfall of Napoleon, one of the
prescribed emigrauts-a bishop brought
with him from England the Countess, whom
he introduced into one Of the oldest lami-
lies of Paris as lady of high rank whose
origin must, for the sake of the church, be
unknown, and who must be provided with
an asylum. The will of the Bishop was
law, and the noble host ass gned the fair
incognita TO a wing of his house, and settled
q pension OF twelve thousand francs on her.
She was introduced into society, and be
came noted for her piety, charity and love
of retirement. Time passed on--the Bish-
op died, and was soon followed by the no
beman, whose will directed that the Coun-
tess should continue TO occupy the pavilion
and receive her pension, while no attempt
was TO be made to unravel her sacred Sc
cret. She gradually mixed in society, won
all hearts, and al the time of her death was
unsurpassed as matchmaker, keeper of Sc
crets, and devotee. Well. the papers were |
no, entirely consumed /; the physician found
enough 10 awaken his suspicious, and on
the shoulders of his late patient he disco
vered indeIible proofs that this model of
virtu, and fashion, an invitation TO whose |
saloon had been the passport TO the first
society in France, was no other than Jeanne |
de SUI. ali the Countess de la Mote, the |
authoress Of the disgraceful Necklace Sto- |
nv, in the days of Marie Antoinette. She
was publicly whipped, branded on both her
shou dcrs. and sentenced 10 the Sal,petrie
for ife-fror1 whence she unaccouniably |
her after life has been I'M |
known until the above Development. The
affair hus created quite a STIR among The |