The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-09-08

PrnAmp 1N fHs AMERlcAe DEsERr.-A

monday Evening, sept. q Aso3
PrRAmD in ras AMERICAS DEsERr.-A
party of travellers ascending the Colorado
some two hundred miles above its conhu-
snce piththe ella, with asyiew TO discover
some tributary of the former that would in
dieate an easier end more direct route to
California, came upon an object on the
plain. to the westward ofthe,C Colorado which
arrested their attention and caused no small
degree Of wonder and excitement. 1t was
first described alta distance, its regular out
line giving It the appearance of a work Of
art. Il proved to be an immense stone pyr-l
amid. composed Of layers or cour ses Of
from eighteen inches to nearly three feet in
thickness, and from FIVE to eight feet in
length. 1t has a level top Of more than
fifty feet square, though II is evident that it
was once completed, but that some great
CONFUSION of nature has displaced its entire
top, as it evidently nov lies a huge and
broken mass upon one OF its sides, though
nearly covered by the sands. =
The discoveries give the following de-
s~cription of this ancient pile in letter to
2 California newspapers:
-sva This pyramid differs, in some respects,
from the Egyptian pyramids. 1t is, or was,
more slender or pointed, and while those Of
Egypt are composed Of steps or layers, re-
ceding as they rise, the american pyramid
was, undoubtedly, almore finished structure.
The outer surface of the blocks was evident
ly cut to an angle, that gave the structure,
when new and complete, a smooth or reg
ulhr surface from top TO bottom.
From the present level Of the sands that
surround IL, there are ~ffty-two distinct lay
ers. Of stone, that will average at least two
feet; this gives its present height one hun.
dred and four feet, so that before the TOP
was Displaced, it must have been, Judging
from an. angle Of its sides, at least twenty
feethigher thar, at present. How far it ex-
tends beneath the surface of the sand, il
Is impossible to determine without great Ia
Dor.
Such is the age OF this immense struc'
lure, that the perpendicular joints between
the blocks are worn away TO the witth o
from five to ten inches at the bottom %
each Joint, and the entire oil the pyramit
so much worn by the storms, the vicissi
.tudes andthe corrodings of centuries, as t.
u make il easy Of ascent, particularly upoi
one of its sides. We say one of its sides
because a singular fact connected with tbi
remarkable structure is, that il incline
nearly ten degrees to one side Of the yer
ticalor perpendicular. There is not tn
slightest probability that it was thus cree,
ed, but the cause Of the inclination is ne
easily accounted for. =
BY whom, at what age OF the world, an
for what purpose, this pyramid was erecle,
will probably forever remain a hidden my
terry. The party, in their unsuccessful a
tempt to cross tho desert at this point,
their wanderings, discovered other evideI
ces OF a nature that would seem TO make
certain that that portion of country upu
the Colorado, now the most barren, WI
once the garden and granary OF the cont
nent, and the abode Of millions of our race
The SLAVE TRADE TREATY.-By the Ia
foreign arrival we have the following SUI
mary ofthe interesting report Of the Sele
Committee in the British Parliament on Il
slave trade treaty. 1t is a very long al
important document:
It's substance is, that Britain possessed,
1850, "a treaties with civilized powers
suppress the trade; of these, ten give Bri
ain a right Of search and mixed court
twelve give the right of search and natio
nj tribunals; and two--the United Stat
and France-refuse the, rightof search, b
agree to maintain a squadron oft A lrici
Coast,
e Britain has also ~ treaties with A frict
81 Chiefs and Princes. Since the above dn
she had terminatedtwO more with civiliz
Governments and 90 with Africans, makir
an aggregate Of SO treaties to suppress Il
trade. The Committee report that I
trade would soon be extinguished If the c
ban market was closed, and think the pre-
ent time favorable for the joint efforts
A Britain, France and the United States,
e stop il on the Cuban const.
Brazil is exonerated from ,blnme. Port
gal Is charged with conniving at the ira
fee on the Mozambique Coast, and Il
Committee say that history does not reco
q more decided breach of national hone
1 than Is established against Spain, aud it Is
matter OF great surprise, while Spain Is
this time indebted TO England and Fran
for their efforts to form a tripartite Conve
ton to protect Cuba from %piratical attacl
the Government of Spain should not TAI
warning from that one OF the reasons allie
cd for the United States for not Joining til
Convention is the continuance OF the sla
trade in the island.
The report does not say what Is done, b
from the abuse Of the American flag ira
sle ing to Havana, a more cordial oo-opperati
on the part of the United States would II
terially assist tho Efforts to abolish tho ira
in, that quarter,
A large meeting was held at Cincinn
- on Thursday evening, to consult as to I
impeachment of Judge jacob Finn. !
ter a statement, made by Mr., Jolide, as
particular cause Of calling the meeting
being because Of Films conduct 10 the
cent slave case before him-the follow
resolutions were offered and passed b