Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-04-03


Foryn AT LAsr.-rhe geographical location Of
the Garden Of Eden, has been found at last, and
proved too, from he ,sritiagsef Hosea The
Virginia Telescope, religious paper, also devO-
tel to the cause Of Kansas emigration, in an ar
ti;!c OF column in length, after reviewing all
tie writer's of ancient and modern, times, who
have written on the subject Of the Garden Of
len, falls back upon the writings of Moses,
shows to the apparent satisfaction Of the writer,
that the happy and beautiful home of our first
parents. could have been located no where else
than in the South Park of Kansas! We quote
from the Telescope:
Rev. LYNAx CoLENAx in his Historical Geog-
Tuyhy Of t6e Bi5Ie, says, that the learned have
brol.ht to the investigation of this matter the
all II the most recent discoveries of Eastern
Missionaries and travellers; and after the widest
range Of inquiry, have only returned with some
elaborate theory OF fanciful conjecture. The
geographical position ofEden as defined by Mo-
sss, Is involved in great obscurity; yet it was
evidently designed to describe the location OF
the country by landmarks that were famtliarly
Known u the tiinc. -Four rivers proceeded from
H. one Of which sreompassetl the land of Havi-
an Wherc were found fine gold and precious
S'ohcS Two other places bearing this name
are mentioned IN ten. X; 4 and 90; but each Is
evidently distinct from this, which is totally I'M
Al'Sn Another encompasseCt the land OF
tash; which, in other passages, is the Ethiopia
2. tle Scriptures, lying upon either side of the
hed SEA- in Upper Egypt and Southern Arabia,
V'en 10: az but in this place It seems to be the
nan. Of some other country, now unknown
Inc tai=t river Hidlekel, flows from Eden to-
NariS AsSyriL The fourth was Euphrates
Inc Bible plainly says that the rivers Of Para
ciss arose from one source: aud, flowing out Of
he garden. divided into four great rivers run
mig IN different directions. Nowhere but in
ne south Park Ofkansas is such thing known
"a earth II this be the case, and we have no
Feason to dOubtit, may it not in short time
create as great revolution in our feelings in re-
gard to Ellen as Prof Baldwin's ''ArmageddOns
Is ereaun5lR regard to prophecy? We shall
Proud and happy Kansas After 5000 years
Of darkness and Pasanis,n, civilization is again
seeking your sunny plains, planting the flag Of
liberty in the birthplace Of our race, with the
Bible in one hand and the sword in the other
Those holy szints-St Robinson, St Stringfel-
low st Fillmore, St Shannon, St Reedcs and
fnany other good and devout saints whose names
re do not now recolIeet-tleserve the thanks Of
a. christendom. fer their efforts in reclaimins
this Eden Of our fathers, and il the prayers OF
such righteous men as stA Horace and Henry
aVaileth anything, verify they soill haps their re-
sad. But, friend Telescope, how did Adam
md Eve manage to live amid the SHOWS of the
Rocky Mountains In state Of nudity, aud after
they ate Of the foEbidden fruit, and received the
kaowledgeof wickcdness, where did they getfig
raves to cover their naselncss! That's the
question. Where did they get the fig leaFess-
slrslY not in the South-Park Of the Rocky
Aoqatains. 5leiss, 80 ssseff5