The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1852-05-08

secluded aud hitherto unknown Aztec city
IN Central America at great expense. aud
peril of life, to their adventurous protector
Many persons have expressed decided skep.
'csm rs to the truth of the story. and de
clare that II is fabricated for purposes of
mere speculation whilst others yeild implicit
crcdcnce To 1t. Without seeing and exam.
ming these interesting people for ourselcves,
we, ui course. cannot venture To express
decided opinion rs to their gcnology bat
1t u undoubtedly true that many cirru,n.
stances related by an,iquarlans aud travel.
ellers IN Genital America tend to corrobo.
rate the story. Almost all the inhabitani.
OF that country agree III declaring the ex.
istence oi a large city situated among almost
inaccessible mountains. isolated from com.
munlcation with the outer world, aud which
not more than one or two white men have
ever succeeded IN reuchng. Stephens, IN
his valuable work ON lucalan. we believe
alIudcs to this subject. aud seems 10 place
reliance in the statement Within the las,
month we have accidentally been placed IN
possession OF facts which confirm us in our
belief OF the truth of these stories and
though we are not sufficiently versrd IN
Aztec lore TO enter into a minute desctip
ton we will endeavor to give bfe: es
PLANTATION for the benefit OF those who take
AN interest in such subjects.
About three weeks since a gentleman,
who had recently returned from iehauntc.
pee placed in our hand, n volume composed
of a number of layers of parchment bound
together with brazen clasps, aud presenting
appearances of great antiquity. II was OBJ
tanned from an Indian curate--thete are
many such in that part oi MeNico--and the
history of it, as related by himself, is this
lie said tina, he had purchased il from a
native trader who once a year was IN the
habit of visiting n city among the noun
tains toward, the south, which is inhabited
exclusively hv Natecs The name o this
city is CoaNcheucingo, which, IN the Ian
punrr at the tribe to which the curate be.
longs. signifies " the mNsi'ly ui toe noun
tain Within 900 inner apartment of The
grand trmplr CniNchrucing" are kept about
flt, volumes suwll IN appearance t" the
,ue rc.rrrod TO, which, It - SAID b, thc
l
rnilpr,ion al records known To- have existed
Ia Mexico a. the timc al the conquest aud
which were DESTROYED LN tor,cI the heat
of hi- incorporate 2cal against the pagani-m
nt the Nltrcs. lac volumus preserved al
toaNrhpuciugo are regarded a. holy thluss,
and are only to lee seen on days OF great
public rejoicing or solemuity. twas on am
occasion Of this kind that the Indian trader
succeeded in abstractng one OF them.
Tins volume, which We have NOW beioreus,
i, filed with hicrogl, phtcd characters, AL
most all ct which are, oi course, pcicctly un
ntclls,hlc Us. Butpne circumstance cou-
uec,ed uilh it is of the highest Importance,
aud leuds to confirm the theory that the NJ
tees are descendants of race which migra
ted To- this continent from the eastern shores
oi Asia, ahou; twenty centuries ago. II i re-
markuble that ON one OF two pages oi the
volume, Immediately beneath the hero
glyphtcs, there AZ, inscriptions IN Greek
characters, forming words IN that language,
hut written backwards ia the Oriental style.
o. the first page these Greek inscriptions
run thus we give English characters for
want of Grrck not nap not Sogofo,
which yescryed roads, Oiogos Ton ponioa --
literally. work OF ail,' or OF all things.
II is to be- presumed from tbs tba, the book
is 4 history of the m, s,erlous people among
whom IT was found. and, could It be
thoroughly deciphcret, II would, no doubt,
completel, solve the the problems of our
aboriginal archaeology. On another page
there is "A picture of water, and under H.
the word. 'ussaiah!; which is evidently ma
lass1y Greek lor the sea. \ representa-
ton of a vessel iull Of men accompanies
this, aud conveys the impression that II ~.
fers to Il voyage or migration from beyond
the sea The existence of these Greek
words in this volume is very singular eur
cumstance, and proves conciusivcl, that II
must have been the work of some nation
from the old continent which held sufficient
communication with Grcece to learn the
language. That II is Asia'ic is proved
by the fact If the reversed writing, which
method is used by all oriental nations
coinc,den, fact with This one is the dlscov'
cry lately made of Il Hebrew volume iooad
in the possession OF II Western tfle OF In
dians. an account OF which has already,
been ,iyeu in almost all the newspapers,
and will doubtless be remembered by our
readers To what nation the authors oil THIS
Aztec volume belonged. is yet mystery,
though the fact. seem to indicate n Jewish
oruin; for although there are no Hebrew
characters in the book. the known fact OF
the disappearance of the ten tribes, the