The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-11-13
A LosT WORLD.

The past quarter Of Century, disinterring
from the dust Of ages the hidden secrets OF
generations so long gone by that the very
names Of many Of the generations who once
figured so conspicuoHsIy in the worlds an
mails. have persisted with them, has developed
many strange facts with regard IL ancient
America. Ii would be strange. after al, il
instead Of having" 40 past, !" no aniiqaitv,7
as has been alleged BY her detrsctors. the
continent discovered By Columbus should
prove TO be the older OF the two. Through
out its entire length and breadth traces have
been discovered Of race, Or rather a world
Of people. who performed their part in the
great life-drama at so early an epoch. thar
nearly every vesiige of their existence must
have disappeared centuries before The disroy.
cries Of Columbus.
The hardy Norihmen who visited the A.
lantic coasts a. early as the fourth or fifth
centuries, found them occupied by hostile
races in such numbers as to repel every at.
tempt to penetrate the interior; the NORTH
men, who made the first authenticated DIS
cayeries ia the western hemisphere. in spite
Of the fact that Columbus has alwavs rereiv-
ed that honor, and WIN must stil have been
preceded by others, whose accounts &c The
strange lands they had visited, and the won.
ders they had been, in the absence Of corrab-
grafton, were received as fables by their
coontrymen. Had there been 10 those DAYS
such things as newspapers the whole w.rId
would have learned of the existence nf an-
other continent. II would have been inter-
esting 10 ahistorical point Of view as il would
have developed the existence and perhaps
have preserved the records o. number Of
nations Of which the last vestiges are now
\ fading from the earth.
Whatever mas haze been The origin 81 our
Aborigines, Il i certain that large portion,
Of waat are now the United States, and Of
countries farther South. we're Inhabited BY
numerous people. wearing comfortable cloth
Ing, and being Somewhat advanced in the
iatts. Some 81 them, Is those ii Mexico and
Central America, have left behind them .ast
ruins. proving that the ciIies which thew
founded were not unworthy Of being ranked
with the prOudest Of olden time. Through
out the Northern country numerous traces
Of vanished people have been from time 10
time discovered, brit fainter AID less abso.
lutely defined than th0se 81 tie Alters
showing conclusiyely the great antiquity 81
the Northerners The mound builders, 81.
dirations Of whose industry and engineering
skill have been found by tie archae.ps,st
Squiefs, scattered over the Middle and North.
ern States, must have been more numerous
in their DAY Than the enlightened people Who
have suppIanted them. vet they haYe van.
ished % entirely from the scene Of their
earthly labors, that. unless we adopt the the.
orr Of retrogression aud accept the North
American Indians aud the Southern Aztec.
a. the lost representatives ~ ancient Amer
ca. We have Rol Tie slightest clue 10 them.
The most remarkable Circumstances in con.
neri.on with these people, il, that they left
behind them 10 utensils or other implements,
and that, N cases where records have been
discovered. they were 10 an alphabet 50 un-
like ANYTHING before known 1.-THE tablets Of
Copana shd Pslenque, for insiance) as to de-
" al research. Traces there are Of customs
similar q those Of the Asiatics-iraces Of an
indemnity Of language, but all tos vague and
uncertain. as YET, TO base theory upon. IL
seems as ih6sgh al some iar.gone period Of
the worlds history, Almighty Providence, .,
4 punishment Tor lts sins, had blDued II once
from existence sn tatire world, whose very
,Boauments mock Tie proud and yain.glon.
Gus spirit which led To their ewctioa. Bat
there will doubtless arise person. competent
% the task. Who, from ilssir knowledge o
dialects and hIeroglyphic writing, NAY gel
succeed 10 clearing up this most wonderful
and impressive u modern mysteries.
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