The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-11-05
DOUBLE SHEET .


mr.. James Lumley, an old Rocky
Mountain trapper, who has been
stopping at the Everett House for
several days, makes most remark
able statement to us, and one which:
If authenticated, will produce the
greatest excitement in Che scientific
world.
Mr.: Lumley states that about the
middle of last September, he was
engaged in trapping in the mountains,
about seventy-tive or one hundred
miles above the great falls of the
Upper Missouri, and in the neighbor-
hood of what is known as Cadotte's
Pass. Just after sunset one evening,
he beheld bright luminous body in
the hcavans, 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-rocket in the air. A few minutes
later, he heard a heavy explosion,
which Jared the earth very percipti-
bly,, and this was shortly after fol
lowed by rushing sound, like tor
nado sweeping through the forest A
strong wind sprung up about the
same time, but as suddenly subsided.
The air was also filed with peculiar
odor of sulphurous character.
These incidents would have made
but slight Impression on the mind of
Mr.. Lumley, but for the fact that on
the ensuing day he discovered, at
distance of about two miles from his
camping place, that, Us far as he could
see IN either direction, a path had
been cut through the forest, several
rods wide-giant trees uprooted or
broken off near the ground-the tops
of hills shaved off, and the earth
plowed up in many places. Great
and widespread havoc was every
where visible: Following up this
track Of desolation, he soon ascer-
tanned the cause of it 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 di-
vded into compartments, and that, in
various places, it was carved with
curious hieroglyphics. More than
this, MIR. Lumley also discovered frag-
ments Of a substance resembling
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 frag-
ment of an immense body, must have
been used for some purpose by ami
mated beings.
Strange as this story appears, Mr..
Lumley relates it with 80 much sin
cerity that we are forced to accept it
as true. 1t is evident that the stone
which he discovered was fragment
Of the meteor which was visible in
this section in September last. It
will be remembered that it was seen
IN Leavenworth, in Galena, and in
this city by Col. Bonneville At Lea
vcnworth, it was seen to separate in
particles OF explode.
Astronomers have long held that it
is probable that the heavenly bodies
are lnhabited-even the conlets-and
1t may be that the neteoss are used as
means of conveyance by the inhabi-
tants 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 meteoric conveyance,
and take full possession thereof-as
did the Spanish navigators of the
new world in 1892, and eventually
drive what is known as the ''human
race" into a condition of the most
ab]ect servitude. It has always been
a favorlte theory with many that there
must be race superior to us, and
this may at some future time be de-
monstrated i'll the manner we have
lndlcated.-.SN Louis Democrat.