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POETRY, ft From Vu Cult thiil Recorder . -V- V " D U EC* , ;*?. Jack a cjuarrel bad with Joje, t*i Save that one bight by chance, was at a country dance,) HI set 'hi* heel diretily on Jack*sioeV T<f tre& hf>on one's toe it not much, v '9bt JAck hacf corns and could Sqf bear ? touch. v. x .lei Jack then let slip a furious oath, That one of them should fell or both ; " A d hasted homfci a c hallenge to indite, For be it. kno*tfc, Jack could not Write \ A single wt>rd : So 'twould have been in him monstrous ab . ?.v . To tiy to piu M| thoughts In black and . white ; He did much better* ; Hfc goi Sam Scratc h \6 write th^ lettcr, When Joe i fie trembled and locked rather blue j* v 1 ~"twa* no great wonder* ?:* * i > the chalice ra?^ j Fiie afed. thunder! TV IW ^ou ?M^c Joe> ?^jtsssa MM ine ligtn rfhin* tkKmth fori It I "?v r- C^#' i . ~ ''^EfS Your friend, et cetera, Jack Biunder." Now though poor Joe wa* teribl? alargfl| Tflnnrr narrhnnrn bm tnicrht tmi AVin kirowiKB tfito U-mKM WithMw Tut secou&wlieiy left. TtteVr frlcndrf rftiglft f moiled- MA rear, 4 v. ii '^ W?U'dt^iir>oUSht W"4T 4' khh >V:' ? He left \he ^ ;Went ?iliA initWeir w#? 1 more, '^Sf /? fori id:.4'-. IHH R, Jim. menus .wr / *r/iv ? ~ w w vow w?v w \ 'u? 77 MissourHo hisVelation iSSto. a Am MmourMohiVrelation in tUis'ciunty? Bc?n>.iuinicated (or the Winchester Re ^blitenWipPy' Tifff'' 1 itirntv of nothing that Wbuld be mori' rnt> i taioiog than a few specu lative ut descriptive ideas Upon the curiosities 01 this country, hot It na:| torn I and artificial ; and which, were 1 adequate to the task, might furnish mmU r for the scientific cesfearCheS and itinerant labours of months. At present I shall confine my observa tions to the .Mounds, which, for the.it noniln r, variety and even con BtfoctK u. in my apiireWns'toti, claim ft #>re distinguished plum amongst the artificial curiosities of antiquity thin. iliey have hitherto sustained; anil i alu surprised that Writer* here tofore have taken 10 more notice of them heso ancient works pcrvatH almost the whole tse.siern country, I and vary both in rougnitude nud form. | Homt are cimicnl from the base to the ? {. -?oU rrs present only the low er segment of a 1 our ; some are sffit-globular*- other* fftu the form of ft pftlrallelogram. The tflost re ..rkabk appearances of mounds w jijratnius io the | western country, julbiu m knowledge, are onfth? thp nnnpr irnMin * w hirli ?( ? 1!MU ure u liner gnmu , wnitiij nv n luur distance, resemble a cluster of enoi nous Kay stacks ; they #t? gf W#,alh circular, and some of them tfs^Jeat height, having space enough 011 the top to contain several huudretf men. "fife largest of these mounds is a stupendous pile of earth, to form which' bust have required the labors of thousands for years: it stahtfs Immediately on the hank of Kahokia. Were it rtbt for the regularity and design displayed, the plain alluvial ground' on which it stands. and the great number of others Scattered] around if? I could scarcely bdievf iOo be the woilc of huma'n hands.-?' The shape if a parallelogram fr<*i north to south; en the' south is a broad apron about half way down, aud ^fitom this . anptber ^projection nearly fifteen flfct wide : 1 theaftjiole circumference is 8080 yirds, and the; height of the mound 90 feet. The moriksof bavp^tifeffl Wfp wlttf tfhtM*.J The exlfiqMinart _ V , . . n .* ? ? a "ll "" * ? i* rTJ^i? r r* J#1 1 W ? > T v rtimlriWyfttaqp1a? which time hassecoi of , a^reit aOdjjop Ite^fwoiflds; wei off temples, and mi fcr ones monuments chiefs! TOre' i%l in the^esfcjcapahl The gitaf number '?f mounds, and the surprising : quantity of human bones, every where dug tip 0T found <* thfe surface of the ground, With (Olthei appearaoces-rprove this valley jtb hays been anciently tUled fcith tb< habitations of men. ear St. Louis is a curious work, much admired, calleji the Fallen Garden. < It 'fttig leststo the mind (if the spectator the idea of a situation for assembling thg people for public councils. w > Winchester Heflubtican. , finm lhe Raleigh, XT. C. Star. BIG BONE and; arch CANES. I In travelling through the state of dessee last fall, the editor was iced to visit these natural curiosi ties. They are situated on the Cum berland \lo6ntain, on the lino be tween the counties * ~ " '? *1 varreh, t8 nltes Al'Miunville ami ,13 rrom Sparta. [The mouth of the Big Bone is in White, about 060 Vartisapart ?sn the "surface, under the sutface (for they unite) three fourths of a mile. The first , named of these caves was discovered in ISOft, and was soOn after sold Out in shares for sixty thousaigl dollars. The skeleton of on animal of immense size was found nitbt mouth, supposed to be of tnTOtt* species, "the rilm of which when placed In the back bone,' thc%>wer end on the ground, ad mitted a man who is five feet nine inches high, to walk erect in (file hoi low-? pidth of the ribs between 4| and 0 'inches ? hollow of (he back hone wbjdi contains the marrow, be tween Sand S inches diamter? socket of the bone working iu the shoulder Made, 6 inches? tusk Ix'tweon foth and five inches diameter, similnr to a dog's ; claw 4 M incites round, and from point to point d inches, holbm one inch diameter, weight, 1 3-4 lbs." In this cave " washing up, in the salt-petro dirt, six /e<it below thtj i surface, a scoop nett thread, a mockssouai ? of lark | i?t of ttol rs gtarork ' fromvIV*, These chased^ it) 1814, Ross, offogksb giuia,)Jfor fiii0,0 I, is ! If (listing I indefa (Br after cutting ?wny a part, ? an talk ol Uwdf; imbedded' stone. It ?? abo.it one inch quarter long, of a brownish yell colour, ronnd V. bead,, with br sparkling projecting eye#. W found, It waa apparently dead, hut after ly ing about five minutes exposed] to the air, it bqpn to stheW - twwotkmen on its eyes, which to giv< animal great paSo ' it somi va.Jbrj (wards bac^rrt,19rof KS celerity. After the lapse or aiKWH half ail hotflf it was brushed off (lit h tone, and killed. When fonml, the animal wa? lying in a rm^nd cavity coiled up 1liut? O. the dtvity yitself being en exact impression of tin* animal. This irtdne is naturally a little damp ; and about hall' an inch all round fl?? anftn?Was of a soft sand (moist,) the same colour as the animal Itself. Tlfcrexvere atiouJ44 feet of earth above tlie, rock, and thu Spot where the .block, in which the li/m'i us found, was cut iVotn the quarry, was about 701 8 tVet the rock, m> that the animal ECek from Si to *3 8 fet^L fVoui the sur face. Tbe atone, ^aa per fee' 1 ,:J |uite hard, t;ot from th chjwm icoibud. There exists in America no enor ? ' ?us spider, whose size^the bofly ??*?*' '"? an Hfclfaud a half loug,) io attack even small biros. ~ de lonobs hate furnished - its manners, as observ* Martioic lue. ]t spins opon ; its mpy ; it kills irchf fly-birffis, and small ling Special care to seizo n*peof thsaqqL know must be thus killed atest ease, Jts smog .infuse a poison into the ' thfcjrjnflict, for such "1 much more would be by envelopes its . of from 1800 /of white silk, and joiaed to its teuaciiy soon cause tta island it, bad intot ac enemies in the rAy tha greater the crevices ?ws itself" with kills o v SOti idm duties < ted will s ?uii-ion. 7W? r- ' > ? ; v.,/ ? / The wife of flie Lord Chancellor Hatdwicke, having ordetfd ftp bailiff to procure a sow of a lar size and hrewt, ni j,n>lial?l.v had lftog end* without success the man hunt into (lie ilintaK-i'oom was filled with viflfois of the highest class. and exclaimed with (lie most cxrilffng glee, "I have lireu (o lloj - sloii fair, my lady, ?"d R?t " <*<** icxadly of yqwr .ladyship's sizp.**^