ART. 1. SKETCHES OF THE GREAT WEST. BY LEWIS C. THOMAS,
II. THE WEEPER'S DREAM. BY WILLIAM WILSON,

III. JOHN WATERS, HIS SPRINGE. BY JOHN WATERS,
IV. THE RANGER'S ADVENTURE. BY A NEW CONTRIBUTOR,
V. THE WIT'S END:' A RETORT LEGAL,

VI. AN INVITATION. BY ALBERT PIKE, ESQ.,

VII. A RACE ON THE BAHAMA BANKS. BY NED BUNTLINE,
VIII. THE ADVENTURE, OR THE SPECULATORS' VICTIM,
IX. THE WALKING GENTLEMAN. NUMBER ONE,

X. KNOWING CHARACTERS: GENERAL AND PARTICULAR,
XI. SONNET:MARY, THE MOTHER OF JESUS,' .

XII. REQUIEM FOR THE DEPARTED. BY HIRST GRANVILLE,
XIII. BORNHOLM: FROM THE RUSSIAN OF KARAMSIN. BY A. C. BECKER,
XIV. THE SOLDIER'S BRIDE: A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION,

XV. A CHAPTER ON LINES. BY A NEW CONTRIBUTOR,
XVI. STANZAS: NOVEMBER. BY H. M. IDE, JR.,
XVII. DARK ELLSPETH'S LIFE-TALE. BY MRS. J. WEBB. NUMBER TWO,
XVIII. THE SHOWER-BATH EVADED: A FRAGMENT,

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XIX. WITHIN THE VEIL. BY REV. EDWARD WHITE, HEREFORD, ENGLAND,
XX. THE LOST FAWN: AN AUTHENTIC SKETCH. BY ROPER, .
XXI. LINES TO GEN. MIRABEAU B. LAMAR. BY MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS,
XXII. THE ST. LEGER PAPERS. NUMBER Two,

XXIII. THE LADY ANN: A BALLAD. BY JOHN G. SAXE, ESQ.,

LITERARY NOTICES:

1. NOAH'S DISCOURSE ON THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS,

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2. ADDRESS AND DINNER OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY,

3. MAPES' ADDRESS BEFORE THE MECHANICS' INSTITUTE,

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4. VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION, .

EDITOR'S TABLE:

1. GENERAL HAMILTON'S SECRET OFFENCE TO COLONEL BURR,
2. THE PAYMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST,

3. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF MUTUAL ADMIRATION,
4. RANK TO THE DESERVING: STEAM-ENGINEERS,

5. BOOK-KEEPING OR THE RICH MAN IN SPITE OF HIMSELF,
6. THE LATE MATTHEW C. FIELD: 'PHAZMA' AT NIAGARA,

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7. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS,
2. GEORGE JONES AND HIS PROTEGE WILLIAM
1. THE BISHOP' CONTROVERSY.
SHAKSPEARE. 3. HANS PLACE: MISS LANDON. 4. BACHELOR'S BALL AT THE AS-
5. OUR MAGAZINE: PERIODICAL
TOR-HOUSE: POETICAL INVITATION TO MARRY.
7. A FEBRUARY SNOW-
READING. 6. A SERENADE: THE POWER OF MUSIC.
STORM. 8. BOARDING-HOUSES: THE EXEMPLARY LODGER. 9. CANINE LATINITY: A
LATIN EPISTLE. 10. HOOD'S PENSION: THE CAPTAIN'S COW: SITTING FOR A POR-
TRAIT. 11. WORDY OR BULKY AUTHORS. 12. WHAT IS ELOQUENCE? MR. GOUGH.
13. NATIONAL RAIL-ROAD TO THE PACIFIC. 14. SEEING OURSELVES not AS OTHERS
SEE US:'MR. SMIT.' 15. AMERICAN VS. ENGLISH CONGRESSIONAL MANNERS. 16. THE
BARBERS' VICTIMS. 17. PREGNANT POETICAL AND PROSE PASSAGES FROM
PUNCH. 1. LANMAN'S 'LETTERS FROM A LANDSCAPE-PAINTER.' 13. A CONNOIS-
21. MR. LONGFELLOW:
20. ELEGIAC STANZAS.'
SEUR OF A COUP-DE-PIED.
GROUNDLESS CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM. 22. A COLLEGE REMINISCENCE: 'SABBATH
MORNING.' 23. NEW SHAKSPERIAN READING: THE OLD GENTLEMAN IN SPECS.'
24. ROGERS' POEMS AND TASTES: MR. HALLECK. 25. 'POPULAR PREACHING"
RELIGIOUS' SHORT-COMINGS.
26. TARDY HONORS: MR. QUOZZLE.
28. OFFICE-HUNTING. 29. THE LATE LADY HESTER STANHOPE. 30. MR. HENRY
INMAN ABROAD. 31. RATIONALE' OF Ass's EARS. 32. MUSICAL LATIN COUPLET.
35. LIGHT BREAD AND 'COSTS.'
33. UNBOUGHT SUFFRAGE.' 34. A PLAGIARISM.
36. DECORATIVE PAINTING. 37. BON-BON MOTTOES. 38. KNEELAND, THE SCULP-
40. OUR NEW CONTRIBUTORS. 41. EGOTISM
TOR.
43. PUNCH IN THE EAST.
OF SMALL AUTHORS. 42. NEWSPAPORIAL MATTERS.
44. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS, ETC.

39. KNICKERBOCKER' PENS.

27. OUR

MONKS' MOUND, ST. CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

ABOUT six miles from the Mississippi river, in an eastwardly direc tion from St. Louis, in St. Clair county, Illinois, is situated a remarkable group of mounds, which rise out of the level prairie of the American Bottom, at a distance of two or three miles from the bluffs, or high-lands, and range semi-circularly with the margin of the prairie. The greater one, or Monks' Mound, is in the form of a parallelogram, and is estimated to be one hundred and twenty-five feet high. Its top is flat, and presents an area of about two acres, laid out in a garden, planted with fruit and shade-trees, and containing the residence of the proprietor. On the south side of this mound is a terrace, about two hundred and fifty yards long, and ninety in width, perfectly level, and elevated about forty-five feet above the surface of the prairie. At the distance of a quarter of a mile to the north-east, Cantine creek enters Cahokia creek, and the latter winds around within one hundred and fifty yards of the northern base of the mound. To the west, some two hundred yards, on a small mound, was formerly the principal residence of a community of Monks of the Order of La Trappe, from whom the place took the name of Monks' Mound.' Southwardly there are two mounds, about sixty feet apart at the base, and sixty feet high. One of them rises very steeply in a coni. cal form, and has a large tree growing near the top of it. At a distance it looks not unlike a large helmet-cap of a dragoon, with a feather in the side. On the west of these mounds, and immediately at the base, is a large pond; and it requires but a very little stretch of the imagination to suppose that all the earth used in elevating the mounds was taken from the bed of the pond. The mounds altogether on the American Bottom have been estimated at two hundred in number. They are of various forms and sizes, and some of them are crowned with trees, that must have been growing for centuries. They are all composed of the same kind of earth, without any stones in them, except