ME =I Sultruiting From the " Louisville Journal." limerica----its Age and its Antiquities The only knowleilgo which the present can obtain of the past, inferior to written history must be, gathered from the lessons taught by the monuments that have survived the •devas tating wars of ignorant and infurated men, the cra h of the elements, and the slow corro ding po ver of untold time. The two oonti• nonts o this Western hemisphere abound with these mote enduring records. The labors Of the antiquarians in Asia, - . Africa, and Eu rope have disclosed monuments of art now in ruins that were reared by . a people whose his tory has passed down to us in written records. With the general history of the Assyrians, the Israelites, the Egyptians,. the Carthagenians, the Greeks and the Romans we are all already acquainted, and all the discoveries made by antiquarians in their researches in those coun tries, among the ruins of ancient palaces, temples and cities, serve but to illustrate some portions of written histery that ere now dark or illustrate others that are imperfectly de tailed. But such is not tl.e case in America. The antiquities of America extend from the shores of the Atlantio to the Pacific ocean, and from the great lakes and British provin ces to Peru and Brazil, in South America.— These ruins are not illuitrated or even alluded to by any written history. Their origin is lost to view behind the impenitrablo veil im posed by unnumbered cycles of unchronicled centuries. Immense forests growing over .• the ruins of large cites and the gigantic size of trees, with indications that other genera tions of trees sprung and grew and decayed before them,. prove that these ruins preced ed the christian era. Neither history or tra dition indicates the origin or the rise of those vast mounds that are found scattered over-the North American continent. They stand in si lent grandeur, monuments of a race ofjeople that have long since passed away, leaving no other trace of_existence. -It is fashionable to speak of the Eastern continent as the Old World, yet it is not known to be entitled to this appellation. Who can say that the Andes and the Sierra Nevada aro not the seniors of the. Alps and-the Himalaya V:Who ia prepar ed to prove that the ruins of Temal and Pal enqtie and the pyramids of Cholulu, in Mexico do not take precedence in age of the sphinxs and the pyramids of Egypt or the winged li ons of Assyria ? History traces the rise and fall of Nineveh, of Babylon and Thebes, but we have no record of the rise, progress or fal l of those great cities in Central America which the laborious researches of Stevens and Cath erwood" brought to light. Tho humanfaced bulls .and the winged lions of Nineveh find their equivalents in the grotesque carving •in stone of hideous forms of men and animals.— Who can say that these rude sculptures of A merica did not precede. those of Asia. But we Will not speculate on a subject that offers no basis on which even a plausible ar gument could he erected. The existence of numerous and immense ruins in America of what were once large cities is a fiXed fact, and we must be content to remain in utter igno rance of the epoch in which they flourished. The most extensive of these ruins are to be found at Uxmal and Palenque, in the south eastern part of Mexico. At Unnarare im mense pyramids, coated with stone, and quad rangular stone edifices and terraces. The highest of these pyramids is 180 feet, and on the 'summit it supports a temple ; on one of 'the facades of the temple are four human fig ures out in stone with great exactness and elegance. The hands aro crossed upon the breast, the head is covered in something like a hemlet, about the neck is a . garment of the skin of an aligator, and over each body is a figure of death's head'and bones. At Palenquo are immense ruins, a city of great extent, with the remains of a royal pal ace. One temple, thet• of Copah, was 520 feet by 660, and is supposed to have boon as )aro as St. Peter's at Rome: Another tom pie -of-great-dim en ti ons-is-here T having-an-en-- trance by a portico 100 foot long and 'lO feet broad; it stands on an elevation of 00 feet:— The pillars of the , portico are adorned with . byeroglyphs and'other devices. Different ob jects of worship have been found, representa tions of the gods who were worshipped in this country. These temples, with fourteen largo buildings and many other objects of curiosity stand here at! monuments of ancient greatness to remind us 'of the remote origin of Pt titighty empire. .. This city has been described es,the Thebes of America, and travellers have sup sed that it must have been sixty miles in Circumference and contained a population of 8,000,000 souls. It is in - Mexico that we must seek the lar gest pyramid in the world. The tourists, the historians, and the geographers have made us familiar with the pyramids of Egypt, amongst which that of Cheops looms up a wonder among wonders. But Cheops Is a pigmy com p red with that of Cholulu, in Mexico. The pyramid of Cholulu is diezibed os oov ring forty four acres of ground. On it , sum mit was a temple, and in the interior has been discovered a vault rooted with beams of wood containing skeletons and idols. Several small pyramids surround this large one. It ap- 1 ars to have been formed by cutting a' hill into an artificial shape. , Its dimentions are immense, being nearly three miles in circum ference and about four hundred foot high.— It is divided into terraces and slopes, covered with platforms, stages, and bastions, elevated ono above the other and all formed with large stones skilfully cut and joined without any celent , In 80111 C respects t he style of archi tee ure resembles the Gothic being massive au durable; in other respects it resembles the 4 gpytian ; yet in general construction manner and style of architecture are different from any thing hereto described in the - world . The wave.of, =migration which has plant edthe Anglo-Saxton race on the shores of the Pacific cannot fail to be favorable to the ad vancement of knoWledge among men. The well known activity, enterprise, and inquisi tive character of the race will naturally prompt them to explore the ruin which are so pro fusely scattered over Mexico and South Amer ica and it yet may be the .destiny of some restless yaukee to trace in the ruined temples and cities of this strange land a history which has hitherto him hidden under the rubbish of countless centuries. 8e2 6 .'1 come t for the saw, sir.' 'What saucer Vol& 1 "W 'Why the saw, sir t int+ n borrowed.' 'I borrowed no saucer.,', 'Sure you did, sir, you borowod a saw, sir.' 'Get out you rascal, I never saw your sau cer." Abbree the ea* sir, now sir,' 'Ohl 'you 'want the saw. Why didn't you say so ?' friend of the correspondent of the -New York ..c . pirit of the Times remarked a day or two since, that she had a story of great in terest to relate. '•What is "I know of fifty dollars being loaned at•five per cent. a mouth, and forty dollars of it loft with — the lender as collateral!" f 1161-tuitiolls. 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