New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-23

Mozy Fossil RgaAss-We see BY an arti-
-. ,.,e number of the osage Valley, pub
,;.hed ., Warsaw, Miss oun, that great number
of homes have recently been found about two miles
f,o,, that town. They ere described as follows:-
TIE Mace where these bones were found. is
,hont two miles from town, and is familiarly
! known by the western people az lick There
ere many seeps of bracksh sulphur water, break
ias through the ground which has been resorted to
by various animns TIL there Is an acre or more OF
the ground excavased TO the depth of eight or ten
| feet. The bones were fouad two or three feet
below this surface, embedded On black level
The probability is that these animals resofted to
this place for the salt held in solution by the wa
ter, and heedlessly plunging themselves into the
mire were frequently unable. notwithstanding
| their gigantic strength to extricate themselves,
| and thus their remains accumulated to such an
amount.
| The number of different heads found amounts
70 seventy or eighty, and the large amount of de-
| tached teeth shows that greater number OF these
mons iers have fourd common grave in this basin.
| The bones which are found near the head of this
| basin, are in a much better state of preservation
l!ian those near the outlet. The skeletons OF va
rious species of animals are found deposited in
his basin, as the buffalo, elk deer, &c. There
| are two species only found, which are worthy OF
,.dniration of the one there are but few speci-
| mems, only some teeth and part of the maxillary
| b mes in which they were set. These teeth are
| fi.sured on the sides, much like the elephant
aolar teeth, and smooth on their masticating sur
face, which measures II by IA inches. The other
pecies Of bones, which great in number and
iupendous in size have differently shaped teeth,
| md oct of their superior maxillary grow tusks,
,ome OF which are 25 inches in circumference,
iad 10 or II feet long. The tusks are not pre-
rived entire. They appear to have been the
| inest quality Of ivory. Many of the maxillary
)nes have the molars entire, and tightly retained
| n their sockets. These moar teeth are OF 9
| uches BY or 5, on their grinding surface, with
'ecp assures, running across them, IN which the
| rnincnces of the antagonising moer played. This
ruation of The molar of this animal is very diff
| erent from that of the genus herbiverous, the
| FINDERS OF which have smooth continuous sur
aces The inferior maxilary is armed with a
usk Is or 30 inches in length. The famer is six
" seven inches in its centre diameter, and pre-
] .rnts an artculaiory surface with the aclabulum
{ 10 or IL inches The connection of the bone
the fore leg with the shoulder blade presents
milarly large articulation. Few Of the vertebrse
resisted the corroson of time. They are en-
i:ely denuded of their processes, so that we can
nly observe on few of them the canal for tho
,1inal marrow which must have been three or
cur inches in diameter.
a striking peculiarly of these bones is that they
;rve no cavity for marrow, but solid bone
hey are not pe,rifed, bat are preserved osse-
is matter, which is a conclusive argument that
ley have not been mbedded many centuries.
SUBMARINE TELEscoPE.-Ths is continuance
or lighting up the dominions Of the deep, invented
" ladv-Mrs. Mathers of Brooklyn-who OBJ
aimed patent for her invention last July. 1t con-
.',ts simply Of common lamp enclosed in glass
lobe about eighteen inches in diameter The
amp, thus projected from the water, is, when SUBJ
merged, supplied with air by means Of tubes which
,e above the top of the water. There is also a
large tube between these two, fer the escape of
The smoke and gas from the lamp TO the surface.
This instrument we saw in operation last even
iug at the American Museum, in vessel of water
about four and half feet deep. pin at the bot
orn could be as distinctly seen as though there
had been no water in the vessel. The inventor
says that objects have been as distinctly seen by
means of the lamp alone, in our harbor, twenty
two feet below the surface, at distance of from
fifteen to twenty feet from the light. When the
lamp is sunk lower than this, telescope is need
ed Objects may thus DO Uncovered at ol'nvst
any depth
The apparatus it is thought will be very useful in
the discovery of sunken wrecks, in the construc-
ton Of Notifications, and all works extending into
lie water. No vessel, it is predicted, will, ere
long, go to sea without it, as by attaching mirror
to the telescope, The bottom and keel of a ship may
be examined when under full sail. This instru-
rent has been seen and approved by severel en-
sineers and naval gentlemen. 1t is exhibited only
in the evening. Commercial Advertiser.
MORE Cloth CAsEs.-Jures were empanneled
Yesterday in the case of the United States vs. five
cases of cloths and cassmeres, four of cloths and
TWO of cassimeres, seized at Daniel Deal & Co. s
store and claimed by them; and in the case OF
tie United States twenty-eight pieces OF cloths
and seven pieces of cassimeres, seized at James
I.ynd 6 Co.'S store, and claimed by them
Phil U. S. Gazette.
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