Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-11-16
OUR BURIED EMPIRES.
A Remarkable Article ON Ancient
America.

The researches of Bourberg, says
b writer in the st. Louis Republican,
prove the existence OF q great Mex
ico.C Central American empire in an.
cient times, called Xibalba. Tho
Kings of the old American empire
reigned in couples. Together they
constituted Grand Council Of the
empire. They had q tradition of
Hood, which they call the Atlas, from
alt (water,) the etymology OF which
word is found only in the Nahuati
tongue. Here we find the derivation
of the various names. Nahua-atlan,
,Mazatlan and Allan, which have
been given to cities and towns Of
Mexico and Central American conti-
nent. There is scarcely ground for
doubt that this continent had been
VISITED BY THE IRISH
Before the beginning of the sixth
century of our era. Indeed, Virgil,
Saint of that country, was accused
by q Bishop to Pope Zachary of
teaching heresy respecting the ex st
ence OF a continent Oh the western
side of the Atlantic, and made jour
ney to Rome to defend himself lie
succeeded in convincing the Poniiff
that his countrymen had had inter
course with country beyond the
ocean. But the most remarkable
part of these relations is the evidence
that America was peopled by great
and prosperous race-that splendid
cities existed and mighty monarchs
reigned. It was doubtless the gold
en- age of the ancient American civ
ilization, when the stranger came to
Carthage, and when the Meropes
visited the Hyperboreans. The ven-
erable man who, we are told, came
to Chios before the time OF Alex
ander, from the great inland beyond
the Atlantic ocean, might have been
a sage from Uxmal, Ometipic, At.an,
Palepque, or Cholula. Or it may be
possible that he went from that he
went from the still more ancient seat
of civilization, the relics of which
remain in the county of Chickasaw,
= Mississippi. What mean the pyra-
mids of the Yazoo valley? These
huge piles OF earth reared by hu-
man hands, were the work of \ r'ce
every authentic trace of which has
vanished. In the valley Of the Ten
nessee, near the town of Florence, in
Alabama, there is a mound or pyra-
mid
STILL ABOUT SEVENTY FEET HIGH,
The four sides of which face the car.
dinal points of the the compass, and
are formed with geometrical pre-
cision. The base of this grand work
covers little more than an acre of
ground. In the immediate vicinity
of this large pyramid there are four
smaller ones, which occupy the
position OF corners, enclosing a per-
feet quadrangular space. This great
pyramid was doubtless, at some
time in the forgotten past, surround
ell by temple, in which the an-
cient American sun-wOrshippers per-
formed their devotions. Perhaps at
the very time when the subjects Of
Serostris were building the walls
and gates of Thebes, q great city
covered the plain, through whose
streets busy thousands rushed. But
the city has crumbled away, and the
people have passed to oblivion's
shoreless gulf. In the region from
Fort Pillow to Vicksbnrg, and from
the Mississippi to the Tennessee and
Tombigbee, there are remains of
ancient civilization found in many
localities. At Fort Pickering, below
Memphis, and at Florence, Ala,
and between fernando and Com
merce, and In Chickasaw county,
and along the Yazoo river, and near
the town of Portersville, Tenn.,
there are collections OF burial
mounds and pyramidal temple sites,
covering large areas, which show
that In these localities the
PREDECESSORS OF THE WILD INDIANS
Had stately cities. But those who
reared them and dwelt in them lie
.entomed in their ruins. We can
almost trace the course of civiliza-
ton on the American continent
by the monuments which have been
left. The mound-builders of the
northern parts Of America gave
place to savage tribes from the
region still further north. These
were doubtless hordes Of Seythians.
forced out of Asia by some earlier
Zanghis, Khans and Tamerlanes,
who precipitated themselves ON the
more civilized and pacific dwellers
In American cities, - their kindred
barbarians poured down upon the
iuxury-enervated Romans and came
near extinRuishin0 the torch of