The Northern Galaxy

Singular Discovery in Mississippi.

The Louisville Journal, in a recent article says: "In the South-western part of Franklin county, Miss., there is a platform or floor of hewn stone, neatly polished, some three feet under ground. It is about one hundred and eight feet long, and eighty feet wide. It extends due north and south, and its surface is perfectly level. The masonry is said to be equal if not superior, to any work of modern times. The land above it is cultivated, but thirty years ago it was covered with oak and pine trees, measuring from two to three feet in diameter. It is evidently of very remote antiquity, as the Indians who reside in the neighborhood had no knowledge of its existence previous to its discovery. Nor is there any tradition among them from which we may form any idea of the object of the work, or of the people who were its builders. There is also a canal and well connected with it, but they have never been explored. A subterranean passage may be underneath. Farther explorations may throw some more light upon its origin."