Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-03-22
THEIoSTTRIBEs.

| 'i"' tilc Icn iOSI tiIDeS VI lSTtel were
the originators of the cities whose ruins
strew Mexico and Central America, He
concludes thus from variety Of circum-
stances. and especially from the fact
thatall our tribes of Indians bear the
strongest marks of Asiatic origin, are
identified with the lsrealites by the fol-
lowing religious rites.
l. Their belief in one God. Q. In
their computation of time by their cerc-
monies of the new moon. 8. In their di
vision of the year into four seasons. A.
In their erection of a temple, having an
ark of the covenant, and also in the erec-
ton of altars. 5. BY the division of the
nation into tribes, with chief or gener-
al sachem at their head. 6. BY their
laws of sacrifices, ablutions, marriages,
ceremonies i'll war and in peace, prohibit
ton of eating certain things, by traditions
history, character, appearance, affinity of
their language to the Hebrew, and final
ly by that everlasting covenantDof heir
ship exhibited in q perpetual transmits
sion Of its seal in its flesh, a custom only
of late relinquished. fE fh
The Phenicmns; (Banaanites) had dis
covered the continent 500 years previous
to the migration of the Israelites, and
were, it is assumed, the builders of the
pyremids of Mexico and Central Ameri
ca, and of Palenque, Cholula. Otumba,
Tlascala, and other cities, of which tho
ruins now excite our astonish' lent; and
also the introducers of hiel ogypbics,
plenisphenes, zodiacs, temples, military
roads, viaducts and bridges from Egypt,
Tyre, Babylon and Carthage. In the
apocryphai book of Esdras, OF great anti
quity, it is said: i ,r.s--a.g,
Whereas, thou sawest another peace
able multitude these are the ten tribes,
which were carried away prisoners out
of their own land, in the time Of Osea,
whom Salmancze, King of Assyria, led
away captive, and he carried them over
the waters, so they came unto another
land. n.I g A
"They took this counsel among them
selves, that they would leave the multi
tude'of the heathen, and 90 intoa further
country, wherein never mankind dwelt
that they might there keep their statutes
which they never kept in their own land,
(Assyr;a) { and there was great way to
go, namely, a year and half"
Accordingto to Major Noah's theory
they marched towards the northeast
course of Asia, some remained in Tartary,
AND 2adaem mRREK Been Y6bt gtta gttaGe, China ad are @ etibUs& etibs&
at 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 cul-
tivated passed down on the shores Of the
Pacific, through California to Mexico,
Central America and Peru, where they
met tLeir ancient enemies the Canaanites
(Phenicians) whom, as once before, they
dispossessed of the country. Further
more it is contended that they resided in
California when the ships of Solomon
made their three years 'syoyage, and fur
nished the gold of Ophir to build the
temple; also atthey are the settlers and
proprietors of Mexico, Peru, and the
whole American. continent and have
been here centuries before the ADVENT of
Christianity, and patiently await the
promises Of redemption.
w Ilittlu ellll, Ill WilIiuS VI tilo luutoiio
said:
"I found ITEM with like countenances
to the Hebrew race I consider these
people under dark night, yet they be
lieve in God and immortality; without the
aid Of metaphysics. They reckon by
moons-they offer, their firstripc fruits
they have a kind of tabernacles-- they
are said to lay their altars with twelve
stones-they mourn a year--and observe
the Mosaic law with regard to separa-
! tion." t+sstf.s - 4t a3ESEt
These facts with the opinion of McKen-
zie, Bartram, Beltram Smith, Penn, Ne
nassau, Ben Israel, the Earl of Crawford,
Lopez de Gamara, Acosta, Malvenda
Major Long, Budinot, and Catlin, all emf
nent writers and travellers, go to prove
that the "ten lost tribes" were the pro-
genitors of the race of indians found in The
New World on its discovery by Column
bus. as gas "a A3T
The TOMATO. o.---The tomato, which has
comeinto universal use, and is deemed ;