Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-02-09
Propheeies of Dnniel.

panying extract from the proceedings of
the Asiatic Society, relative to an ex-
tract from the Tribune in relation to the
prophecies of Daniel The extract il
from the London Athenaum, of the date
OF December l1th. being from the pro-
ceedings of the Asiatic Society of Deem
Der 4th, containing the latest letters from
Col. Rawlison. Nothing is said in these
lettersrespecting the Book of Daniel, and
IN so far they furnish merely negative
testimony against the paragraph from the
Tribune (; bat they are valuable, because
the cylinders confirm the Scripture Chro-
nology with regard to the capture of Sa-
maria to year, and the Palestine cam
paigns of Sennackerib to within eight
years. Bishop Elliot says:
&c BY turning to any Oxford Bible you
will see an account of the capture of Sa-
maria, at the 9th verse of the 18th chap
ter of III Kings, and opposite the date B.
G. 721, and by turning TO III. Kings, XIX,
you you will lind the Palestine campaigns
of Sennacherib to be credited to the years
B. q. 7io-709-that is, twelve years af-
twenty six, as made out by Col. Rawli-
soma very unimportant difference where
things SO far are in measure conjectu-
raj. This does not look very much like
any combination of Scripture by the disco
Eeries OF Laylard and Layard and Raw
lison- Nay, l have heretofore supposed
that Layard's discoveries have been the
most remarkable combinations of Scrip
ture which we have had since those made
by Laborde at Petra, l have no sort of
doubt, that if there is any truth in the
paragraph. Daniel will be found quite
equal to meet Colonel Rawlison."
The following is the extract
As1Arc-Dec. Sir George Staun-
ton in the ehair.-The assistant Secreta-
ry read extracts from letters which he
had received from Col. Rawlison, commu-
nicating some of the results of his recent
Investigations In letter dated the
4th of September, the Colonel announced
his discovery, that the series of six kings
named in the inscriptions of Van were
contemporaneous with the kings of the
Assyrian line from Sardanapalus to SEN
nacherib. The synchronisms are seen at
three periods-Lutipari is found conten
ding with Sardanapalus; his son. Semidu-
ri, is attacked by Deleboras and the fifth
Van monarch, Argisti, is an antagonist
of Sargon. The Colonel remarks that in
addition to the historical interest afforded
by this determination of the date of the
Van Inscriptions, it gives satisfactory evil
dence that the Assyrian royal series is
complete in our lists and it is further GU
riouS to observe that the earliest inscrip-
tons in Armenia and Assyrla are by con-
temporary kings.
In subsequent letter, dated the 25th
of September, Col. Rawlison gives some
account of the corsabad cylinders which
he finds to contain IL list of the titles and
conquests of Sargon, and notice of the
building of Khorsabad, very much like
what is inscribed on the bulls. He finds,
however, some important variations
Tamud, Yanadid, Eslyaman, and Gaspa
from the neighborhood of Samaria; though
he says that the extremely minute and
difficult character of the writing renders
the names, and all but the first somewhat
uncertain. He also reads upon it an &C
count of the capture of Tyre, which he
has not seen among the other Inscriptions
of Sargon. These cylinders confirm the
Colonels previous opinion that the cap
ture of Samaria took place i'll the first
year of Sargon's reign. B. G. 721, at least
twenty years before the Palestine cam
paigns of Sennacherib. He expects more
certain results from the other cylinder,
which he is informed is more perfect and
in larger characters.
In the two letters read, the Colonel
complained of attacks of illness; and IN
third letter dated the 18th of October,
written in tent at Ctesiphon, he says
that he is driven out of Bagdad by sick
ness, and ordered by his medical atteu-
dant to 90 into the country, and leave
mental exercise for a while. He has,
however begun to open some mounds at
Selucia, which look promising. The Co.
lionel, towards the end of this letter states
his conviction that the era of Nabouasar
marks the introduction of Assyrian wri-
ting into Babylonia, where kind of HE
rogIyphic only was previously in use. He
thought he had found evidence that the
hieroglyPhic writing had been carried to
Asyrta eleven or twelve centuries before
the christian era, improved there, made
partially phonetic, and reimported in its
altered shape at the epoch mentioned
The Colonel gives one case of the obvious
change from the picture to the letter, and
could trace the change in twenty instau-
ces.
MIR. Cass and the Monroe Doctrine:
The subject of Cuba and the Monroe
Doctrine being before the Senate, Mr..
Cass spoke in succession to Mr.. Soule, on
the same subject-readiug letter of Mr..
Jefferson's, and reiterating the views he
has often delivered in the Senate and else
where on the Monroe Doctrine and thus
concluded
1t will appear, in looking back to the