Washington telegraph., 1849-03-07
From the NeaO York Sun.
THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRA

lHE LOSI Tribes OF ISRAEL.
Major Noah, in an interesting article
in Yesterdays Sunday Times, is of the
opinio2Ahat the "ten lost tribes" of Israel
were the originators of the cities whose
fuins strew Mexico and Central America
He concludes thus from the variety of
circumstances, and especially from the
fact that all our tribes of Indians, bearing
the, strongest marks of Asiatic origin, are
Identified with the Israelites by the fol-
lowing religious rites:
/. Their belief in one God. 2. In their
computation of time by their ceremonies
of the new moon. 3. In their division
of the year into four seasons. A. In their
erection of a temple, having an ark of
the covenant, and also in their erection
of altars. 5. BY the division of the nation
into tribes, with chief or general sachem
at their head. g. BY their laws of sac
rifices, ablutions, marriages, ceremonies
in war and in peace, prohibition of eating
certain things, by traditions. history,
character. appearance, affinity OF their
language to the Hebrew, and finally by
that everlasting covenant of heirship eX-
hibited III perpetual transmission of its
seal in their flesh, Gus ON only of late
relnqulshed.
The Phenicians (Canaanites) had dis
covered the continent 500 years previous
TO the migration of the lsraeliles, and
We're, it is presumed, the builders of the
pyramids of Mexico and Central America,
and of Palenque, Cholula, Otumba,
Tlascala, and olher cities, of which the
ruins now excite our establishments and
also the introducers of hyeroglyphlcs,
plenisphences, zodiacs, temples, military
roads, viaducls and bridges from Egypt,
Tyre, Babylon and Carthage. In the
apocryphal book of Esdrass, of great all
tiquity, it is said:
Whereas, thou sawest another peace
able multitude: these are the ten tribes,
which We're carried away prisoners out
of their own land, in the time of Osea,
whom Salmanazer, King OF Assyria, led
away captive, and he carried them over
the waters, 50 they came unto another
land"
They took this counsel among them
selves, that they would leave the multi
tude of the he0then, and 90 into q further
country, wherein never mankind dwelt,
that they might keep their statutes, which
they never kept i'll their own land,
(Assyria) and there was a great way to
90, namely, year and half.
According to Major Noah's theory.
they marched towards the northeast coast
of Asia-some remained in Tartary, and
many went TO China, where they have
been 1000 years, and are numerous to
this day. The main body crossed at
Behring's Straits to our continent, the
more hardy keeping to the north. Hud.
sons Bay and Greenland; the more cu!-
tivated passed down on the shores of the
Pacific, through California to Mexico,
Central America, and Peru, where they
met their ancient enemies the Canaanltes
(Phpnicians) whom, as once before they
diSposseSSed of their country. Further
more it is contended that they resided in
California when the ships of Solomon
made their three years voyage, and fur
nished the gold of Ophir to build the
temple; also that they are the settlers
aud proprietors of Mexico, Peru, aud the
whole American continent, and have
been here centuries before the advent OF
Christianity, and patiently await the pro-
misses of redemption.
William Penn, in writing of the In.
dians, said:
Il found them with like countenances
to the Hebrew race. | consider these
people under dark night, yet they be-
lieve in God and immortality, without
the ala OF metaphysics. They reckon 5y
moons-they offer their first ripe fruits
they have kind of feast of tabernacles-
they are said to lay their altars with
twelve stones-they mourn a year-and
observe the Mosaic law with regard to
separation"
These facts with the opinions of Nc
Kenzie, Bartram, Beltrame, Smith, Penn,
Menassah Ben Israel, the Earl OF Craw-
ford, Lopez de Gamara, Acosta, Malven.
da, Major Long, Boudinot, and Catlin
all eminent writers and travellers, 90 to
prove that the "ten lost tribes" were the
progenitors of the races and ideas found
in the New World, on its discovery by
Columbus.