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terranean. Forced from their an
cient seats by the fresh

Who were the progenitors of mos,
of the North American Indians, the
mound-builders, who had received
their civilization from the early
Phenican adventures, and migra
ted southwark through Texas and
Mexico, and finally into the central
and southern psrts Of Mexico
There the built other cities ani
founded empires. May not th,
Colhuas, who were the builders O.
Penlenque, Uxmal, Cholula, Tecti
huaan and Subtiaba. before the ers
of Toletcan civilization, have beer
the expatriated mound builders who
once inhabited the Mississippi
Valley? The Toltecs succeeded
them, and the two people were &C
intermingled that the very legends
of the Colhuas were forgotten.
Doubtless the civilization of both
the Colhuas and their immediate
successors, the Toltects, was in
time promoted by the advent among
them of casaway crews Of the mari
time people on the orders of the
Mediterranean. These navigators,
sailing along the coast of Africa
without C ,mpass or reckoning, we're
frequently caught in storms and
driven Far out to sea, when, reach
ing the westward flowing currents,
they were waited to the American
shores. To return was impossible,
inasmuch as they knew not of GER
tainty the direction whence they
came. Thus making a grace ol
they
BECAME TEACHERS OF THE PEOPLE,
Among whom they we're cast. Mon
tezuma told Cortez that he was
sprung from the bearded white
man, who, ages before, had come
across the Atlantic in ships and
the people the art of civilized
life. The Toltecs succeeded to the
Empire of the Colhuas, and doubt.
less, during the continuance OF
their ascendeucy was the golden age
of American civilization. "They
reared mighty temples and
pyramids, and built cities, and
cultivated farms, and practiced
many OF the industrial arts common
to that age of the world. They are
credited with having built the great
Pyramid OF the Sun, and its com.
pxnion wonder, the Pyramid of the
Moon, at Tectihuicam, more than
five hundred years before the advent
of Cortez in Mexico. More than
three centuries previous to the
Spanish invasion and conquest OF
Mexico, the Toltecs had been
vanquished by a fiercer and more
warlike people, the A1tecs, who came
from the North. These made exten.
sivc conquests, and subjugated many
of the aboriginal tribes sdjacent
The influence of the Toltecan civil
zation was not lost on their con
querors. The Aztecs had made con
siderable progress towards civiliza
ton under a dynasty of monarchs
who, it appears, preferred the arts o.
peace to a waste caused by war
when the Conquistadores came and
blotted out the last remains of abo
riginal civilization on the continent
of North America. The last empir,
was
BURIED AMID SLAUGHTER AND DE
VISITATION.
But the painted blocks of Managua
the neglected gods Of Subtiaba ant
Pensacola, the earth pyramids of th'
Yazoo, the River of Ruins, as thu
name signifies, Casas Grandes of New
Mexico and Arizona, the ruined tenn
pies of Cholula, Xochimilco, Palen
que, Uxmal and Ometepic, are evi
dences of golden age of civilization
in America, as we'll as in Europe
far back in the past. The Zuni vii
lagos of New Mexico-the ancien
Cibola of the Spanish chroniclers-
still preserve some traces OF the Azte'
civilization which prevailed befor'
the era of European settlement
These people made adobes and bull
houses, and cultivated the soil, ant
domesticated animals, and manufac
tured cloth, and made vessels OF clay
and in some Of the advanced arts o
civilized life excelled hundreds o
years before the voyage Of Columbus
Fabrics are now made as they wcr
made ages ago, and the skill of mer
with all the boasted appliances o
machinery, has never been able t
produce textures equal to the Zunia
blankets. Major Grimes, of tn
United States Army, now statione
in this city, served for considerabl
time in New Mexico, and while ther
nY th