Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-02-15

z hiSenard Ne saba. o. the most import
ant Of the Spanish authorities Of the time
oc the conquest, whose work was sup
pressed by the Council Ut the Indies ms
interfering with the policy of EXTERN.
=. .inatiQn, speaks Of a universally RECEIVED
traflitou amdng ihe natiyes Of New
ASpkiRof iorei9W Atlantic colony ARR
wing before the Christian era ON ih,
shores OF Florida, proceeding across III,
Gulf Of Mexico, landing on the Peninsu
In Of YWcatau aud founding great ctip.
now in Fuius, the greatest of which was
destroyed Thousand years before The
- 'afrivaf of the Spanards. Confirmator
ss,aof this landing of a foreign Atlantic col
oBy, is the statement OF Monte yuma Ia
Cortez that the ancestors of the Mcxi
cans, came as did the Spanards, from
the plhceluf Tire risingssiGl9 lL
Passing down the Atlantic coast, and
following up tht great valley of the Am
azon TO the head quarters of its afllu-
ents near the Pacific, we come 10 the
eify ei cuzco, gMid tlle vast reInahs OF
the sun worshiPpers ri Peru, in the high
valleys oi the ADDE'S Upon the shores
and islands 6f the sacred lake Of Tilira-
ca we find the remains of civiizali i'm
analogous to than of Copnn, but more
purely Egyptian aud Assyrian, aud hold
lag a. relation OF priority To the religion
.effAS Ipchk, Ike that Of, the rains of
NCopan TO the Aztec line Of the Monte
zumas. The highest typ Of the erania
h<ef the ancient. races slof Peru saggcsis
strongly the head of lbe ,Domlbnildcr
before gixcp- The principal dirty of
these ancient sun worshppcrs of Pc
Fspapbeav to,haye been ChrOp,. anwpr-
Ing n name and aftribntcs TO the old
Phenician Ball-chon, or Saturn.
Passing rnprihward, aud leaving he
:, hind those colossal monuments which
70 excited the wonder aud admiration of
. Humbolt, we follow heiiigh valleys of
She Corlilleras through Central Amcri-
= fay aud coming out IN the valley OF Mex
q icn, wiih,its temples aud tcocalli, we ar
at the great pyramid et Chnlua, hp cnl-
paiaaiing poiut ~ the entire mound
building system Of Ire two continenls.
ssFfom this point norihward' following
the Cult or Mexico aud the Mississippi,
wesarriye at theslyramil. groups of Ca
hokia, opposite what is now ST. Louis
The site OF the ancient capital OF the
Bown1-builders of the present United
States. The moup,sa Of ibe r Unite ed
States must be looked nj ~ the north
ern terminus of q system, which had n
southern center and tendency. Work
ing northward, being pressed upon by
the-Romads vi the northwest, to, cover
and Pfotect ibe pgricu civilization,
itfwas foSced into the builtling of earth
works, serviag the double purpose of
teocallii andr iuui6c,uious. Such a
state of affairs would leave the moH,el-
builders little leisure or inclination ~
build on the vast scale of tIpn soui hem
bretbrciL even cond they have eoRman-
ded the material and the laborers. The
eastern Asiatiss OF Central America al,-
pear to have arrived there with n sufli
cient'y pronounce d ci, iliza,ion of their
own u be able TO modify the monu-
men,s OF a more cultured race by The
:. interfusion oftheir own ideas and sym
a bols, uniting with thrm 80 build those
70 colossal and bizarre specimens OF arehi-
''tecture 20 perplexing when viewed as
. the product OF the people.
The mound-buildcrs Of the Unitpd
States had no such plastic material in
the wide nomadic tribes of the north,
by whom they were always liable TO
he ovesborne and driven southwark In
these circumstances they appear TO have
taken possession of n central point near
=. the Junction of the Mississippi and Mis-
+. souri rivers, which they held with great
strength, throwing ont their lines OF for
tificatiOns along the afiuents OF these
rivers. At the head waters of ,he Ohio
1atheir lincsof defense met Kindred system
of fprtifaaiions, which held the afluents
.of1 The Chesapeake and the region
sssouth OF Lake Ontario, from its military
iaecnterso OF Onondngn. thus covering and
proteetihg the important agricultural
civilization OF central and western New
York. Within these Ipes of defense,
between the Mississippi and The Allan;
tic, was embraced II region IN which
traces Of truly vast agricultural ciyi-
lization are found, and which must be-
pecltened its inhabitants by millions. -
VI7nminuz and tie Mound BuiReys," IN
July GdioaM
sAE Jossif MxNa4rLp I'm. report that
the notorious Josie Mansfield had lost
her fortune by the failure of the Bowles
Brothers, has been conlradioted. This
dangerous Gree is now in Paris, where
she lives in her usual gay and sumptu-
4, ous stYle, partly ON her own means
and partly or those supplied by
wealthy Englisman whom her mature
charms have enspared. Some time ago
the Mansfield attended The performance |
sf@Fra Diavolo" at the Opera Comique.
Being dressed very ''lond," the yrotusion |
Of disncpds she wsre, q well as her Tree
assd easY manners, IiatIrally attracted
= sihe attention Of The whole audience 10
s~the box in. " hieh she sat. A few days
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