Delaware State journal and statesman., 1865-11-14
A STRANGE sTORY---REMARkA
DISCOVERY.

Mr.. James Lumley, an old Rocky Noun
tain trapper, who has been stopping at the
Everett House for several days, makes n
most remarkable statement to us, and one
which, if authenticated. will produce the
greatest excitement in the scientific world
Mr.. Lumly states that about the middle of
last September, he was engaged in trapping
in the mountains about seventy-fiye or one
hundred miles above the Great Falls Of the
Upper Missouri and in the neighborhood of
what is known as Cadotte Pass. Just after
sunset one evening he beheld a bright lumi-
nous body in the heavens, which was moving
with great rapidity in an easterly direction.
1t was plainly visible for at least five seconds,
when it suddenly separated into particles,
resembling, as Mr. Lumley describes it, the
bursting of a sky-rocliet in the air. A few
minutes later he heard heavy explosion,
which Jared the earth very perceptbly, and
this was shortly after followed by rushing
sound, like tornado sweeping through the
forest. A strong wind sprang up about the
same time, but as suddenly subsided. The
air was also filled with peculiar odor of
sulphurous character
These incidents would have made hut
| slight impression on the mind of Mr.. Lumley,
but for the fact that on the ensuing day lie
discovered, at distadce Of about two miles
from his camping place, that, as far as he
could sec in either direction, path had been
cut through the forest, several rods wide,
giant trees uprooted OF broke off near the
ground-the tops of hills shaved of, and
the earth plowed up in many places. Great
and widespread havoc was everywhere yisi-
bic. Following up this track of desolation,
he soon ascertained the cause of IL in the
shape Of an immense stone that had been
driven into the side of mountain. But
| now comes the most remarkable part of the
story. An examination of this stone, or so
much of it as was visible, showed that it had
been divided into compartments, and that in
various places it was carved with curious
hieroglyphics. More than this, Mr.. Lumley
also discovered fragments of a substance re-
sembling glass, and here and there dark
stains, as though caused by liquid. He is
confident that the hieroglyphics were the
work of human hands, and that the stone
itself, although but fragment of an immense
body, must have been used rsome purpose
by animated beings.
Strange as this story appears, Mr.. Lumley
relates it with so much sincerity that we arc
forced to accept it as true. 1t is evident that
the stone which he discovered was frag-
ment of the meteor which was visible in this
section in September last twill be remcm-
bered that it was seen in Leavenworth, in
Galena and in this city, by Col. Bonneville
AT Leavenworth it was seen to separate i'll
particles or explode.
Astronomers have long held that it is pro-
bable that the heavenly bodies are inhabited
even the comets-and it may be that the
meteors are also. Possibly meteors are used
as conveyance by the inhabitants of other
planets, in exploring space, and it may be
that hereafter some future Columbus, from
Mercury or Uranus, may land ON this planet
by means of a meteoric conveyance, and
take possession thereof-as did the Spanish
nayigators of the new world in 1492, and
eventually drive what is known as the thu
man race" into condition of the most alb.
ject servitude. 1t has always been iavorite
theory with many that there must be Il race
superior to us, and this may at some future
time be demonstrated in the manner we have
indicated.-Missouri Democrat.