The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-03-21

| cient palaces dreamed not Of the desoIatiou
which was to reIgnsfor SO many ages ever the
place of their hsbitatinn, Power and wealth.
/ greatness and luxury were theirs. Achieve
Enenis in art and conquests in war gave splendor
% the history Of their times; and gorgeous TEN.
pies rising on The ruins of less stately fabrics
cities springing over the t0mbs and burial places
Of generations that had gone before, indicated
their confident expectation Of increasing great
ness through an almost endless future But so
thiekly has the gloom Of ages gathered over The
broken dynastes that ruled the capital of ancient
Assyria, that learned men are in doubt whether
its reputed kings were indeed real personages,
or only myths and fablrs. And yet after the
lapse OF this long, long period, we behold the
resurrection OF her monuments, ina ges, palaees,
and temples, and are lost in deepest wonder at
the mysterious revelations that were SO power-
ful as to bury in sepulchre of so many centu.
rIes the proud 9aeen Of one Of the greatest EN-.
pres ever known upon earth. Rome was in her
infancy when Ninpveh vas destroyed. Six
hundred years had piled their dust upon her ruins
when Christ was born. And when Xenophon
passed over the plain on which it stood, four
centuries before the Christian era; its name fell
not Rpon his ears, and he knew not the site upon
which it was built. But now that empires that
tQeTe
was none to 5emoan her." have grown hoary
with antiquity, she sdivested of her burial robes
and comes forth. witness summoned from the
dead, to testify 10 the power. grandeur and wealth
OF the ancient empires the East; to the might
with which time lays his hand upon the prond.
est tokens of human glory, ard, above all, TO the
truth Of those inspired writings which no revou-
lions can bury in forgetfulness, and which FORE
told the desolation that was to shroud the
pride Of The Assyrian plain.
Thus The solemn ntteranee Of the Sacred Ora.
cles are confirmed by voice speaking through
the "long night of oblivion which has wrapt its
gloom around the metropolis of great and
wonderful nation. And now that the minds of
good men are turned with an increased inter.
est TO the fuflment of the ancient prophecies,
we hail with delight these singular discoveries,
as affording new and extraordinary testimony to
the truth and accuracy of Holy Writ The
strange Inscriptions on Sinai's hoary rocks; the
unknown characters lining the ruined temples Of
Persepolis; the cuniform devices of the Persian
monuments, and the hidden chronicles veied in
The paintings and hyeroglyphics of ancient
Egypt, have all yielded their treasures to the
skin Of modern learning; and the kings and peo-
pie OF Niheveh come on pilgrimage through the
dust OF three thousand years, to add increased
| testimony to the divine inspiration Of that vol
nme which has continued through the long lapse
| Of ages, and now halls these exhumed wonders
Of buried world as its ancient acquainfances,
come forth from their graves to unite with its
own revealments in hurting modern Infdelty
into irretrieyable confusion. and confirming for
ever in the minds Of men the truth which impi-
ETY. alone could ever dare or even wish to decay.
| The monuments of,Assyrian Art, and the secrets
of Assyrian antiquity. as far as developed, fully
accord with the sayings Of the Bible; and when
We behold their entire coincidence, we can but
exclain, as did the asionished Arabs in the SER
| vice Of Mr.. Layard. when they saw gigantic
| figure, human headed and eagle. winged. 'rising
out of the bowels Of the EARTH" Walab, il is
acoaderfuI bm it is true!
II Christian A1rccats.