New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-17
TUESDAY

Francois Jolly, +. c., on the leyee, sent to
| prison in default of bail.
| W. A. Patton, charged with beating Alexander
Stewart at the corner Of Viere street and Garon-
delet Walk, gave bail to appear.
RECORDER ADAMS CouRT.-Jacob Regmon was
| up on the charge Of having played doggisll trick
| on Moses Booth, on Sunday, on Third street, be-
| tween Chippewa and Annunciation; that il, set
ting his bulldog upon Booth, and making him bite
him. Regmon was duly docketed for hearing.
| BOARD or scnooL DmEcroRs, THIRD DISTRICT.
This Board met last evening, Mr.. Bermudcz in the
chair.
On motion Of Mr. Stickney, committee of three
asappointed to examine and report on credentials
of the members claiming to have been recently
| appointed. The President named Messrs Piles
stickney and Maspereau.
The committe reported the names Of newly an.
pointed members, and tile report WAS accepted
The President then withdrew from the chair and
the roll being called, there were found present
eleven members.
| On notion Mr.. Wynne took the chair pro tenn
| ann the Board proceeded to elect officers.
! Mf. 4. BermudeZ reelected President by ac-
| elanlation, and resumed the chair.
Mr. Lewis Lombard was reelected Superintendent.
| Mr.. Stiekney offered resolution that all teach
| ers be considered reelected Adopted.
| On motion the members of Committees were
| named by the President as follows:
| Lean Maspereau, st. Ceran. D. Drouet.
Committee on Teaehers-Messrs. Lombard, Piles,
| Stickney, st. Ceran, LaItose.
/ Committee on School Houses-Aessrs. LaIiose,
| Maspereau and Wynne.
| Committee on Schools-Messrs. Lombard, Stick
| ncy and Drouet.
Committee on Books and stationery.-SIessrs
| Piles, Bonlet and Wynne
| Committee on Buidnss-Aessrs. Maspereau,
| Wynne and st. Ceran. a.a
On motion it was ordered that three hundred
cards with the names Of the Committees be struck
off. Whercupon the Board adjourned.
Singular Archaeological Discovery, Perhaps
A contributor of the Cincinnati Commercial fur
nishes the following:
IN the last number Of the Ohio Farmer pub
lisled at Cleveland there is nm article br Colonel
| Charles Whttlesey, recting the circumstances Of
the discovery OF the Masonic Keystone, at New
| ark, and describing the curiosity. Col. W, who
was formerly at the head of the Geological Survey
of Ohio was in Newark on the day the stone was
found, and XanIined the cavity from Whenceit was
taken. Ipublish portions of his article which are
more circumstantial in some respects than mine.
He says:
depression, within the work, in search Of human
bones. The cavity is at present only slight cir
eular depression, about twenty feet across, and
| two feet deep at the center To depth Of twelve
to fourteen inches, MIR. Wyrick found only dark
rick, alluvial soil, which had apparently aceumu-
lated by the wash of the rains during great length
of time, and from the decay Of vegetation.
Near the bottom of his pit, he came to
clay or clayey soil, Of q lighter color, with some
pebbles, and which had apparently not been dis
turbcd The first stone seen by him was an oblong
pebble, Of reddish quartz, nearly spherical, and
very smooth. Soon after, and near the surface OF
the clay he saw on the bank, just after he had
thrown mp a shovolful of earth, another stone Of
singular form. On examining it. it appeared to be
artificial and hastily brushing off the dirt, he saw
to his great surprise that it had on its sides, plain
II iy engraved characters. Somewhat excited, he
washed and rubbed off most of the adhering soil
The characters are large and distinct, and the
ancient Hebrew letter. The form of the stone is
that Of a truncated pyramid, with rectangular
base, about two by one and half inches, rising
about five inches. 1t appears to be Of compac
quartz, with faint lines of original stratfcatiOn
Its color is brownisllyeow, or gray, every part O
the stone being smoothly ground and polished
The four faces approach each other towards thu
top, which forms square of about an inch across
the corners of which are rounded off, On the base
is a projection, or knob, with neck for the pur
pose of suspending il" d
Mr.. Cunningham, who is a Free Mason, ant
well informed upon the history Of the order, ant
upon antiquities in general says the stone was one
used by Masons of certain grade in the East. Il
has in their system well known meaning; it:
principal use in ancient times being for deposi
beneath whatever structure the Master Masor
might superintend This symbol was not necessa
rily furnished with Inscriptions, but the Mason en-
one has.
1t would be placed in the northeastern part o.
the foundation; and if it stood on its point would
| indicate that something more was deposited be
meath. If it lay its broadest face, the point Oh
small end, would indicate the direction where other
deposits would be found. These, if found, would
disclose facts connected with the building.
No person was present with Mr. Wyriek but
his son, Is or Ia years OF age, who saw his fathel
pick up the stone from the earthhe had Just thrown
out. The little earth still remaining in the depres
sons OF the letters, corresponds to that Of the bot
tom of the pit, and it is evidently ancient, as vel
as all the marks on the stone.
:" All the citizens whom | have heard speak o.
Mr.. Wyiick, say that TINT the idea is MOTTO be en-
tertained of his making an attempt to deceive the
community in this matter. He s an old resident
and has been surveyor OF the country. have seen
no one who discredits his statements, as appear
ances at the place are such as to throw no suspi
cion upon them. Mr.. Wyrick showed the stone tc
Mr.. Ollie and myself, the evening after it was
found; and in the morning following went with us
to the spot where he states it was found. The
Free Masons here express no doubts as to its genu
ineness as an ancient Masonic emblem, well de
scribed in their books. The characters are nearly
three-fourlhs of an inch long. The rounded peb
BILE may not be artificial but it is singular, Mr.
Cunningham represents, that two balls should ac
company this emblem, wherever it is deposited.
'When was it placed there by whom and fol
what purpose? This is the first instance of nscrip
tions in known language found in the ancien
earthworks of the West. Our Indians have beer
earliest settlement of the United States, and per
haps from the days of Spanish discovery in tht
Gulf of Mexico.
But admitting the possibility of an Indian re
ceiving the emblem due this grade, why shoult
the Inscriptions appear in the most ancient of Ian
| guages? II lost by accder how could it be GOV
| cred to so great depth by natm IL accumulation
in so short period? II placed there by design a
a monument, its antiquity must reach back to Thu
days Of the race of the Mounds when these work
were erected. Was it secreted there in compare
lively modern times, by some worshipful master o
the savage race, or by some person into whose
; possession it may have come? As yet yariou
impressions exist as to its origin which, for the
present, are only conjectures. G. W.
, Newark o., July p 1860
The follwing by Mr. PeiNotto, Of Cleveland, i
eerroborative of the letters being Hebrew l. Th
Law of God. 2. The Word of God. 3. The Hol,
of Holes. A. The King of the Earth. The Eng
lsh sound of these Hebrew sentences are: lst
Torah Adona I'd. Dabbah Adonai. Sd. kados
Kadosheem. dth. MALACHI Aratz.
t " These Inscriptions are not inapplicahe, an
may, without improhability, have been engraVe
on tombstone or they, and this is q still NOR
: reasonable hypothesis, may have been engrave
!; on stone, (curionsly-on purpese) and deposite
] as the cornerstone Of some projected structure
by the Israelites The Hebrew letters, in the dia
gram shown me, are incorrectly formed, but suft
cently correct to admit of translation to on
G familiar with tbe yeIna cuiar ofM Moses.