Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-11-18

n neonls have his distinct pledge backed win on example
to GU, faithfully Fugitive Slave Law and TO s'nha
by them the sectional ISSUE hehes !. 'S' '"a. ey W.
TO themselves to desire that This pickering should end and
IN ,e,nlv dscoun,enance oil attempts ts continuance ana
into either branch Of Congress Close Np
TIE ANTIQUITIES OF AMERICA.
The rssess energy Of HE Americans In exploring the
that been annexed to the union IS aay
discoveries that shed light upon the history OF the
oo,Iy Of Ibis great continent. In 1881 Captain
Joe Walker The mouualneer and trappeT visited
,he "Creal Bsss tract of table land lying between the
Rocky and the Pacific chain Of mountains His narrative
deyopes most curious results and has recently been con-
srmed by Lieut. Capt Walker states that n iraVeE-
sing the desert from the Colorado 10 s Rio Grande be-
tween the ella and San Juan, he met win numerous cru-
bling masses Of masonry and specimens OF antique po'e
clearly the evidences of ruined habstons and cities In
hs las, trip across says the Philadelphia Ledger ne saw e
ruins of city more than milo IN exent the sce's OIL
which ran at right angles The aonses, built OF stone had
been reduced TO ruin evidently BY tho ucon OF some great
heat, In the centre of the city abruptly rock twenty
or thirty feet high upon tho of which stood portion OF
tho walls of what had been an lmmense building The
outline of the building still disuc although only The
Northern angle With was fifteen or eighteen feet long, and
ten feet high! was standing These walH were constructed
of sone we'll cuarned aud welbuii Lieut. Beale, Tn ms
first trip across tho Continent, discovered 10 the midst OF
the wilderness OF ela what Appeared 10 pe S'Iups
the walls OF great thickness built OF slono HeuaVersea H.
and tosnd IL contained fory-lwo rooms.
kcor,espondent of the Pacervile Herald gives an ac
Ecouut more wonderful STILL of bridge the fonnda-
ons which of stone and nearly six hundred iee
From Of the ubuments to the olher While between
1.-The TWO ore no less than distinct piers The San
Francisco Herald however that this story Of the bridge
needs confrma ton The Panama Star gives interesting
interesting people snid 70 reside in the Great
Basin
| WHO BUILT THE CALIFORNIA PYRAMID
| In our summary Of the California news received by the
"Win6cd Scott noticed the discovery OF an antique
pyramid in the Colorado REGION ind s subsequent number
of our paper published long article in relation 10 H. from
the San Francisco Herald The Whole subject must DC
deeply interesting body and fo'm gentleman
dtonaI information which he has had the kndncss 10 put
on paper for us. 1t is as follows : v.o;.
"YUu. article tho antiquities ofthc Cir: Central Basin
calls 1ecoecl.n conversation had n lss2 near that
he Gin river lives John EdssT irupps oi the plains
and than icSiy years. und whose vcrac-
" cannot be questioned by one acquaip e win him
II Ia admitted py all rappcrs, that he s better acquainted
than uny living nun with lbs iocacios of all the hills and
the streams ,a, themselves in the Great Basins say
Basins because there many OF lhem While trapping
on the tributaries of the Culasado Indian offered guide
Mr. Bridgrr and party people living fur in Tho Desert
with whom they cosId 6aIIer.
selves will, and wcr they struck right INTO the
hear, Of that Grsa Desert where no white man before or
since hus trodasa and which the hardy munnlaneeTs viii
only venture 20 skirt About five days avel The party ar
rived ut ,hsea mouusius Bucs rising in grandeur in
that soli,eY These mountains were covered win
diversity o. forest and fruit trees with streams OF pures
water ppng their decliyities Al their base was
pEaerous agricultural people, surrounded WIN waving
fields of curn and profusion OF vegetables Inc people
ye.s dressed in eaherthey knew nothing Of hrc-aTns
jusng ouy bow and for mile ater mile, cir
rns these Bues adobe houses au3 three stories
,hiph MR. Brdesr allowed enter aay Of their
owns houses. and after remaining Ihree days, oaein
scariel cloth and iron for their lus hs left then; not how
ever without beors being given o understand mat lev
held communication with any people beyond their desert
home That these are tho same people VINO once nnaoeo
the banks ella and The Coarado and iait those ohu
ments wonder The "Casas Grande when 50 ueepy al
,rac,ed The followers of Fremont aud Donipaan and them
vanished DREAM there can no long or DC oouo'
ubobe houses attest II.
another with Mr. Papin the agent Or lhs American Fur
Company Ho told me that another u Tho party, MIR
Walker aineer, utter whoH one Oh The mountain
Passes is named and who is known TO Dc man o. nh
had given him description OF .hese Isolated people
my mud there is not the aadow Of aouo' Of 1ee
existence"
The San Francisco Herald in Gned 10 think that thu
people spoken the oqns land bases it's belief upon
Captain Walkers Of Their country ind manners IL
says that the Implicit conf encs may be placed In his
narrative appears Accord o. Captain Walker that
Through very of II Great Basin The Rio
Colorado Chquito Little lied River II takes its rise IN
that skt the right bank OF the Rio Gande
flows almost due West and snpiies into the Colorado at
point the parallel II latitude with Walkers Pass-
About 100 miles North of ths and running almost parallel
|,
$50 miles long fitweeD them stretches an immense
land broken dosy by Sicas of no great length
which up above Ihs general elevation. About hall
why between the two livets and midway In the wilderness
between the Coioa' and tho Rio Grande Ia The country OF
Mcqus From midst of The plain rises abruptly on
all sides Buc Of considerable elevation, the top Of which
fiat as If great power had sliced oil the summit
Away up hero MoQuis have bu three large villages
where they rest night perfectly from the attacks Of
tho SVho liye TO he -
The sides Of table mountain almost perpendicular
Cliffs and ie top only be reached up steep flight oil
stops IN The solid rock Around its base is plain OF
arabic Ian d. which the Mcqu cultivate with great assda
~. Here heY raise oil kinds OF grain melons and vegea
bles ihey have also number OF orchards, filled with
many knts Of fruit THE peaches they raise Captain
Walk Gays particularly ne They largo ocks
OF sleep goats but very lew beasts OF burden cattle
They harmless inoensve race-knt and hospiiablc
10 strangers mako very little resistance when attacked
Il The warike Nayaoes who dwell 10 the ntains 10 the
Northeast of ,hc the habit Of eve ping down upon
them every three years, and driving oil their stock
81 such times they gather all that is movable from hes
tIms fly for refuge their mountain stronghold. Here
,he enemies dare not follow them VIII en- stranger ap
proachcs they appear ON ha Top OF the DcSs and houses
watching his movom Ooe Of their villages which
Capt Walker stayed FOR several days 10 five o, six hundred
tyads long The houses are generally built OF and
morar-sonle them of adobe. They snug md
comfortable and of Thorn two, aud even three
stories high The Inhabitants considerably advanced In
of the urs ssd manufacture excellent WOODEN cloth
lne Blankets leather, basket work and pottery Unlike
Of the Indian tribes Of this county, the women work
within doos the performing nil the tam and outdoor
labor As race, they lighter in color than the Digger
lndisns Of California Indeed the women are toefaby
fa In consequence of bong much exposed 10 the
sun. Among Them. Captain Walker three perfectly
white with white lair and light eyes, He two others
the kind the zuni villages the Rio Grande
They DOUBT Abnos and probably gave rise 10 the
rumors which prevailed of the existence Of white To-
| dians 10 tho Basin.
"rhe Moqus have probably assisted nature In levslng
The top OF the N suniain site for their villages They
have Gut down e rocks In many places and have e1cVa