The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-12

Inc VISITOR al tue Whlte sulphur In
walking about the grounds will have his
attention attracted by sign board
standing by the side of a walk near the
spring on which is painted in large let
ters the words
"a CURIOUS ROCK"
and an inverted hand with the Ioretinger
pointing down TO the ground.
Upon looking down in the direction
pointed by the finger your eye will rest
upon boulder rock, which at first sight
presents nothing curious, but upon a
closer examination are found
distinctly marked upon the stone
the footprints OF II child. There
are four tracks equal distance apart.
the right and left alternating, the toes
and every feature of the foot as distinctly
marked rs that of footprint made by q
child in fresh mud. This rock was
found several years ago on New River,
when the Chesapeake and Ohio road was
being made through the New River
canons, and was brought 10 this place,
where it has since been on exhibition
Now the question is, whose child made
these footprints? Was it some little
Indian pspoose who playing upon
the banks Of the wild stream
little dreamed that the footprints
he made in the sand, were to come
down through the ages in an imperish-
able form to be stumbling stone TO
the wise men of this age; or to go back
to what our modern geologists term the
pre-Adamite age, might it not be the
tracks of DARwIN's 5 original ancestor, for
l have already heard a discussion be-
tween two learned gentlemen, one con-
tending that they were evidently the
tracks OF human child. while the other
was as fully convinced that the prints
were from the foot OF an Oursng outangi
or might it not be the footprints OF the
legendary angel, who At the creation,
was sent to distribute the rocks through
out the earth, and the apron string
breaking let them all tall into New
River? The rocks of these mountains
are SO many monuments OF antiquity
bearing traces OF the ages preceding ours,
but what mortal can undertake to give
the date OF their inscriptions.
Chaos of ruins! vino shall trace the void,
Ger the dim fragments cast lunar light,
And SAY .nere was or is" where all Is
duubly night?
OF all modern humbugs l know of none
greater. not excepting spirituallsm, than
that what we cali
THE SCIENCE or GEOLOGY.
The truth l. thss geology as science
consists maialy OF probable guesses.
"That field of peat says SIR CHARLES
LYELL, has probably been 900 years In
course of formation" "Ns," replies
friend of his own in a published criticism,
IL think it quite possible it has only been
seven hundred years in growing" A piece
Of pottery is found in the valley of the
Nile, and geologist Immediately argues
that it must have lain there more than
twenty thousand years. But an anti
ousry soon points out marks upon 1t
which show 1t TO be less than TWO thou
sand years.
Yet it is upon guesscs of this kind,
which do not amount to tenth part OF
a proof, that the LYELLs and OWENS and
CpLENsEs venture boldly to assert that
MOSES knew nothing whatever OF the
subject on which he was writing.
BUNsEN asserts that the growth oil
language proves that the world is more
than thirty thousand years old, yet ne has
no ARGUMENT to set aside the historical
account of the confusion of tongues at
Babel. One set of scientific gentlemen
have more recently asserted that
man was developed" out of an ape, yet
they do not know what the ape was
developed" out of. They acknowledge
a prime cause yet fail to tell us why it
was not as easy for the Almighty, in the
beginning, to make man as to make
monkey. Men have been striving to
get rid of the Bible and its inconvenient
morality for two thousand years, but they
are lust as far off from 1t to day as they
were in the beginning.
THE TOWN OF LEwISBURG,
the county seat of Greenbrier county is
situsted nine miles west of this place,
and accepting the invitation of WN.
B. CALDWELL, Esq, to take sests
in his csrrsige, Mr.. FARNHAM OF the n.
y. Times, and mvself after a pleasant
ride Of two hours over good road
visited the quaint old town on yesterday
Lewisburg, while it does not present the
bustling appearance otsn active business
town, is enjoyable for the air OF content
ed quietude it assumes, its fine social sd-
van,sges and the "reminiscences OF early
history connected with the old burg.
Here was the site of Fort Union, where
Gen. ANDREW LEWIS rerdezvouzed his
srmv to make his famous expedition
against the Indians which terminated In
the battle of Point Pleasant. Still stand
ing is the old stone court house which
was the scene of one of the finest dis
plsys of PATRICK HENRY's forensic elo-