Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-04-03
THE TEN LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL.

THE TEN LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
Major N oah, one of the leading and most
intelligent Jews of this country, having
been asked to indicate the ''probabIe Ioca-
submits the following highly interesting
views:
The subject, always one Of deep interest
has occupied the research of the most emil
nent divines and historians. Many years
ago, Budnot, of New Jersey, published a
work Of grea, interest, called the "Star OF
the West" in which he attempted to prove
that the N Worth American Indians were the
descendants Of the lost tribes. The work
was read and laid aside with increduity.-
Forty years, however, have developed many
circumstances and discoveries tending to
confirm The opinion of DR.. Budinot, and
The work, though out of print, is one
which, 10 the curious would amply repay
perusal.
We have never doubted the fact. Nine
and-a-half tribes were carried cap,ives from
Samaria two and-aha!f Judah, Benjamin,
and-a-half of Mannasseh remained IN Judea,
or in the transit ordane cities, and the latter
constitute the eight millions Of the existing
nation. All tina. we know Of the route
taken is from the second E-dras, an apo
cryphal book, but one Of great antiquity,
and one entitled to respect. The notice
runs thus
"Whereas, thou sawest another peaceable
multitude these are the tribes which were
carried away prisoners out Of their own
land In the time of Osea, whom Salmanezer,
King Of Asyria, led away captive, and he
carried them over the walers, so they came
into another landn
They took this counsel among themselves
that they would leave the multitude of the
heather aud 90 into further country,
wherein mankind never dwel,, that they
might there keep their statutes, which they
never kept in their own land, (Assyrla.) and
there was great way 10 go, namely, year
and half.
They marched towards the north east of
Asia some remained in Tartary, and many
went into China; where they have been
1900 years, and are numerous at his day.
The main body crossed at Bherng's Straits
to our continent, the more hardy keeping
TO the Norlh-Hudson's Bay aud Green
land the more cultivated passed down on
the shore Of the Pacific, through California
to Central America and Peru, and there
they met with their old enemy, the Pheni-
clans the Canaani,es j who, having dis
covered The country 500 years previously,
had formed colonies, built the city of Pc
Ianque, with pyramids, like those they had
in 0lp1,
Ca, Mllans Tlascola, together with hyero-
gyphics, zodacs, temples, military roads.
IaqueductS, viaducts, bridges of great beauty
existing at this day, and proving that they
were built and settled by those who had
erected Tyre, Babylon and Carthage. When
the tribes of Israel encountered their old
enemy they fell upon and destroyed them a
second time, and when Columbus discov-
cred the country, he found the various tribes
Of Indians, whose orig in was unknown.-
These are The missing tribes, and This is the
opinion Of Adair, HeckweIder, Charlevaux
Mckenzie, Bertram, Smith, Bellrame, Pend
Mannasseh, Ben Israel, the Earl of Crawford
Lopez de Gamarra, Acosla, Ma or Long,
Malvenda, BudInol, and all eminent writers
and travellers
We trace the march Of the tribes through
Asia to this continent. After 500 years we
find the red men of America, bearing the
strongest marks of Asia,ic origin, and divi-
ded into three hundred different nations, re-
markable for their intellectual superiority
their bravery in war, their faith in peace
and identify them to be the descendants o.
The lost tribes by the following religious
rites, peculiar to all our Indians and 10 the
lsraeii,es.
l. Their belief in one God
2. ln their computation of time by THEN
ceremonies of The new moon.
5. In the division Of the year into foul
seasons.
4. In their erection Of temple-having
an ark OF covenant-and also in the erec.
ton of allars.
5. By the division Of nations into tribes
with chief or general sachem at theiI
head.
6. By their law or sacrifices, ablutions
marriages, ceremonies in war and peace
prohibition of eating certain things, by ira
ditlons, history, character, appearance, al
fnity of their language to The Hebrews, and
finally by the everlasting covenant of heir
ship exhibited in perpetual transmission
Of lis seal in the flesh, a custom only ol
late relinquished. All the indians on the
American continent, from Labrador TO Cape
Horn, are the descendants of the tribes
which, as Esdras says, went into further
country.
Mr.. Callin, who lived several years a.
mono the Indians of the north west. assures
US tha! all the Mosaic laws, tradilonary with
them, were strictly enforced; and William
Penn, who had no suspicion of th heir origin,
says: 81 found them with like counlenances
to the Hebrew race. consider these peo-
pie under dark night, yet they believe in
God and immotaIi,v without the aid Of me-