Arizona citizen., 1875-10-30

the expatriated mOund-builders who once inhabited the Mississippi valley ; The Toltecs succeeded them, and the two people were SO intermingled that the very legends of the Colhuas were f forgotten. Doubtless the civilization il of both the COlhuas and their imme- diate successors, the Toltects, was in time promoted by the advent among !, them of cGs.away crews of the mari time people on the borders of the Med iterranean. These nayigators, sailing along the coast of Africa without com. pass or reckoning, were frequently caught in storms q | driven far out to sea, when, reaching the westward flow ing currents, they were waited to the American shores. To return was i'm possible, inasmuch as they knew not of a certainty the direction whence they came Thus making a grace of neces- sity, they
 BECAME TEACHERS OF THE PEOPLE, |. Among whom they were cast Monte zuma told Cortez that he was sprung from the bearded white man, who, ages before had come across the Al lantic in ships and taught the people the art of civilized life.
 The Toltecs succeeded to the Empire of the Colhuas, and, doubtless, during the continuance of their ascendencv was the golden age Of North Ameri- [, can civilization They reared mighty temples and pyramids, and built cities, and cultivated farms, and practiccd many of the industrial arts common 10 that age of the world. They are cred ! ited with having built the great Pyra- mid of the Sun, and its companion wonder, the Pyramid of the Moon, at l Tectihuican, more than five hundred years before the advent of Cortez in Mexico.
 1 More than three centuries previous to the Spanish invasion and conquest of Mexico the Toltecs had been van quished by fiercer and more warlike people, the Aztecs, who came from the North. These made extensive con quests, and subjugated many of the ab- original tribes adjacent The influence of the Toltecan civilization vas not lost on their conquerorS. The AztecS had made considerable progress to- wards civilization under a dynasty of monarchs, who, it appears, preferred the arts of peace to a waste caused by war, when the ConquiStadores cape and plotted out the last remains of abIrig- inal civilization on the continent of North America. The last empire was BURIED AMID SLAUGHTER AND DEvAs-
 PATTON.
 But the painted blocks of Managua the neglected gods of Subtiaba and Pensacola, the earth pyramids of the Yazoo, the River of Ruins, as the name signifies, CaSaS Grandes of New Mexico and Arizona, the ruined tenn pies of Cholula, Xochimilco, Palen- | que, Uxmal, and Omeiepic, are cviden- 1 ices of q golden age of civilization in America, as well as in Europe, far back in the past.
 The Zuni villages of New Mexico the ancient Cibola of the Spanish chroniclers still preserve some tra- ces of the Aztec civilization which pre- vailed before the era of European set tlement These people made adobes and built houses, and cultivated the soil, and domeSticated animals, and manufactured cloth, and made vessels of clay, and in some of the advanced arts of civilized life excelled, hundreds of years before the voyage of Colum- bus Fabrics are now made as they were made ages ago, and the skill of men, with all the boasted appliances of machinery, has we! been able to pro duce textures equal to the Zunian blankets. Maj. Grimes of the United States army, now stationed in this city, served for a considerable time in New Mexico, and while there, collected many specimens of the handiwork off the strange people who still dwell in the renowned GbOla, the modern Zu-. mia. A Tonaha waterpot, beautifully decorated, brought by him from the Zunia villages, may be seen at the Min ing Exchange, on Fourth street, in this city. This work shows the manufac. turer to have been both skilled and ar tistic.
 Fragments of the works of men lie scattered over the continent from the lakes to the isthmus. Images and temples crumbling in ruins attest the high degree of civilization attained by the inhabitants of the
 LOST EMPIRE OF AMERICA.
 The mound builders of the United States, driven by fierce hordes of bar barous Indians Scythian Tartars - took refuge in Mexico and Central America, and minglinG with the Southern Mongolians, who, coming across the Pacific ocean from China and Japan, and the Malayans, who had also established themselves on this continent, they laid the foundation of. that civilization which, after undergo ing many mutations, had established