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Ftcm 1hB~&JrtQyAL ftKCISTER. ^IjVXAj Bj IT. M. Brackearfcge, Esj. ?{CO*TIWUfc?.> ?TTiave described th? sccond trace watefed by the ^Missouri, as a specimen'of that which lies west of the Mississippi, & south of the north west chain of lakes. ~ The country spoth of'thc Arkansas, that on Red filler, and the greater part. of the. province of the Texas, have similar features. Thus iumpcars> that with the exception of a^fclt of one hun dred and fifty, or two hundred miles in width, at. most, stretching from the Missouri, in a line parallel with ihe course of the Mississippi, across the dffkansas and Red -River lo the Sabine, about twice thfc territory of New-York, but not a tenth part of the ' wesjtm section of the valley, thejprojRrice of Louisiana is little better than a barren waste, and thac the eastern side will always contain ? much glrateT population . From- what has been said, it will be Seen that the prevailing idea, and" with which we nave so much flattered otirsehrjes, of these western * ions being, likrthc rest of the ted States, susceptible of* culti :iofl, and fording endless outlets to settlement is certainly errone ous/' He theft gives a more free and fanciful .description of those vast prairies, or natural meadows, which of * liuTtferj,". and describes as a gently _ wdpUtinfl ,sca of bright green. Those wastes, useless and even in jurious as thev may be in a civiliz ed country, afford to the traveller delightful scenes, not only of softly sweet picturesque, but often of sub* lime effect) and filling the princi pal extent, as well as constituting the first characteristic feature of the country, they seem to claim the Chief attention. Producing abun~ dant pasturage tucy will probably never fyr destitute of inhabitants : either Jh# present Indian tribe will form independent there, and occupy them, like Tartar Hordes, to the annoyance of the future civi lised ?Cukr$onthe rich borders of the riverf, or else be- expelled by the faZf and outlawed of the whites, who n>av form, in their stead, bands more dangerously savage. . Bur, leaving*rhe political dreamers coin)* maginc the consequences of these things, we proc<4|fto our author's 'dc?cii{jtiun of rciuuics tiot tew un Xirtary, | might opcratclPRv^pt the great er part of the Western region j but tomcthiWEOf ^jtfFer ent kind must have effected vjjtange in this coun try, which appareiuiv were once co iperc? with trees. what immense quantities of the earth must have been carrird *bff, to form the great allurriom of the Musissippi, by means of the Arkansas,. R?d River, JWfcchieBy ?from the Missouri, not to mention the vast quantities lost ;n thj^fiulph of Mexico ! The re mit? ? calculation would be iu rious^Thr proofs of the loss which this country has eu>uinefl, ar^ very e vident in the neighborhood of near ly all the rivet; whTch discharge ? tham.sdves in the Missouri above the Plajte. Some of the appear ances wfje?e the earth has been tl.u# cfiriedWii*, may rank among our greatest curiosities. The traveller on entering a plain, it 'deceived at Kthe fir^g lance, by what appears to l? the nTigp of some great city : hi? ^eer rows of h<AM% stretched for several milts, aton? apparently re gular struts, there seems to be alt the symmetry ? and order of a town .built on a magnificent plan, and tl?e occasional deviations from this plan, in imagination, represent i I palaces, temple*, or structures | standing detached f#os? the rest;? I These appearances are caused by the washing away of the tisth and durable substances, while the *eins ?t uc>(\4 prevade the mass, continue undecayed, and seem l!D be walls constructed by human hand*. The horizontaT strata which mark them, from the different stories, while the detached hills of various : sizes and shapes, with their ever green, creeping junipers, on their dfosj represent the insolated edifices. Rie remarkable walls described by te wis and Clark on the Missouri, have bctn produced in this way." The extract oTa letter from Mr. Sibley, United States' factor jn the Osage nation, is not less interesting r "The Grand Saline is situated , about 280 miles southwest of Fort Osage, between two forks of a small branch of the Arkansas,one of which washed its southern extremity, and the other, the principal one, runs nearly parallel, within a mile of its opposite side. It is a hard level plain of a reddish colored sand, and I of an irregular or mixed figure $ its greatest length is from n'orthwest to southeast, and it* circumference full 30 miles? ^firom the appearance of drift wood that is scattered over, it would seem that the whole plain ! is at times inundated by the over | flowing of the streams that pass near | it. This plan is entirely covered ; in dry hoc weather, from two to I six inches deep, with a crust of beau I tiful clean white salt, of a quality j rather superior to the imported brown salt i it bears a striking re semblance to a field of brilliant snow after a rain, with a light crust on its top. On a bright sunny morning the appearance of tbb na tural curiosity is highly picturesque. 1 It possesses the quality of looming j or magnifying objects, and this in a very striking degree, making the ! same billets of wood appear as for midable as trees. Numbers of Buf faloes were on the plain. The Sa line isienvironed by a strip of marshy prairie with a fefr scattering trees, mostly of cotton wood. t ? Behind there is a range of sand hilL?,some of which are perfectly naked, others thinly clothed with verdure, and' dwarf plumb bushes^ not more than thirty inches in height, from which we procured abundance of the most delicious plumbs I ever tasted.-^ The distance to a navigable branch of the Arkansas about So miles,' the country ? toierable level, and the water courses easily passed. <f About 60 miles south west from this, I ramc to the Saline, the whole of this distance lying over a coun try remarkably rugged andbroken, affording the most romantic and picturesque views immaginabte. It is a tract of about y miles, in which nature has displayed * great variety of the most strange ana whimsical vagaries. It is an assemblage of beautiful meadows, verdant ridge*, and rude misshaped piles of red clay thrown together in the utmost apparent confusion, yetaffording the most pleasing harmonies, and pre* senting in cve;y direction an endless variety of curious and interesting objects** After winding along for a few miles on the high ridges, you suddenly descend an almost perpen dicular declivity of rocks and clay, into a series of level fertikmesdows^ watered by some bcautMk rivulets, a ni here ?nd there adorned with shrubby c otto ft trees* elms and rc-> , dars. These meadows are divided] by chains formed of red clay, and hugh masses of gypsum, with here ,nd^/#^of,rv* might Imagine himself surrounded t?y the ruinx'of some ancient city, and that the plains had sunk by some convulsion ?f nature, than 100 feet below it* leve hugh colurftflW se to the height of, aofl | ' capped *ith rocks | sum, w^ich the hancf, of time ever crumbling oflL and strewing in beautiful traftspd^Bt flrfkea along the declivities of Phil), ir.g like So many mirrors sun." ? (To bt ContinurU.) atictfcotetf. A husband and wife, who quar relied .ratheftfrorc than man and Wife iisdbly do, which the reader will believe was bad enough, were on the eve of separation * when t*r .good lady, affecdng tofidlMck, fold her spcuse that " shei>etieved she should die, and put on the best face to the world, thought shr had hrtvc*. stay and end her days in their old! house which he, good easy old man, fully assented to ; and very se riously asked her, " whoiushe would advise htm to marry when she was gone. This was too much. "Mar ry the devil P* replied she in great warmth; " Marry the devil ? No,, my love," answered he ; <f no that can never be, * the canons of the church prohibit it, I have married his daughter already. " One Sxoallow doe* n*t make a Summer. t One sharp frosty day, the prince of Wales went into the Thatohec House tavern, an4 ordered a beaf . steak : but, observing that it was excessively cold, desired the waiter to bring him first a glas* of brandy and v^ater. He emptied that in a twinkling, then a second, then a third. ? "Now,*' said his royal high ness, "I am warm and comfortable i bring my steak." On this, Mr. Shertdan, who- was present, wrote the following impromptu : TKe prince came in, ancl safif 'twas eold, Then put to his head \he rummer -? Till vwallovt after twaUovt came, Then he pronounced It summer . ? # ; - i ? ' A Contribution to Natural Philosophy A traveller was Miking of having seen is some foreign country 1>u%j so large and powerful, that two of them would drain a man's blood in a night ? Sir John Doyle, to Whom tki^was addressed, replied, " My good sir, we have the same animals in Ireland, but they are knoWn by another name ?, they arc (failed bum ' , j 1' * . . . . v * t * . X A W -j* ^ it VI A - An msrrman tell Ironvth'e main top of one of our. ships' a few days fcgo, and tumbled on the deck, very near the first lieutenant. Every onfc' thought all his bones 4ere broken j however he cot up and rubbed his arm, when the firsc lieutenant ex claimed, " where do you com* from ?" " Please your honor I am fro in t 1* North of Ireland 1 f* ? 4'i m " What haye you got to say, old, Bacon Face i said a counsellor to a Parmer, at the late Cambridge as sizes, *' why," answered the Far rner, /??! am thinking Ait my B<*% ? con Face and your Calf's Head would , make a good dish^T - near Manchester, #ere observed b|aome gentlemen, j a few days sincejfo be Susy in as sisong jBl ass over the wall of a pound, where it was confined. On asking the reason, the tan, with true humanity and Character, made the following reply ? Why lookee,mi^ ter, we saw this here animal agr without victuals, d'ye ?etf? ~ & hrr. :ki R'S at W(shaid that he had . i L-Mlg table with Oitc of the fhe company, me ahd genealogy, that he had been ori- 1 led for a church, re j-?* thai ahc thought him futinglor the steeple." ?'? . i r ? I ' * ?*+i*n-trs ij NO. i5 WnEUr.AS, 1 have ihis day received a.Coftimuoioiiion from toe L?iamt Lodn*? io wt>ich ye uwe juiivhmmi, officially ihc Union o f itit lua Grundl^od%t4 ot 4h|UttA and ac^uipumed by tUe a? u^ cles, of the Union, concerted m unani mo vi sly by each. _ .< ji-'id e*erea?, I am required to lay tbs - same bsriore ihe'OftictW and Members of the Lodge over which I have the hut\ur io prtrvtcrtr* in LfOttfre c^cnrmcorw tjttrer that thejr may take the same into consider ?lion, aful solemnly ddermine whether they wiH-'acqui??ca <? or dissent from i ho Tctma of tfiesaid Union* You are thcre feat hereby notified a unrequired to give your attendance at the Lodge Koom in , Camden j on the regular lodge evening > pre-" cisely at 6 o'clock-; which will be on TUESDAY the 2M day of July ne?u The utmost punctuality la enjoined 6t? < the mejnbers. as the business Is ^f a mo* | m&ntous ami interesting ** % * ' ? ; CHAPMAN W&fJif Master p/ KetMhaw Zhdfe A o. 65* j June 23. ^ ^ R EGIMENTAL ORDERS* Cairiden June 23 l3li\L THE Captains or officers commanding companies sfe heitby required t* h a v^ their defaulters at the general review ?? of the 35th HeKimeAt on the 29m Mtafr ? last, summoned to attend the Keu\ihentaS > Court Martial at Camden on the 25th July ne*t, (as well thou: who absent a a those who were . not equipped according ^ ? to law) and iha&e their returns to Capt* j i.avr, Prqgdent of Hi* Court* at lets! three days previous to their sitting* By Order o/ Col. F. Ulair, C- D. HUNTER Mjutonu June ii REGIMENTAL ORDERS. * A-fcOURT MARTIAL ^eitl convene at Camden, on Frft&y thd SstJt q? July next, for the trial c? non-commis sioned offers end privates* defaulters it J1 the Gen. Review of the *6th Rdgt. 3. C. y C ; Militia on the *Wk May last. The cotitt to consist of the following Officers. CHAPMAN LEVY, JHrendenU * k : Capt. BELK,1 ?-?'*' jfo'kftSgU - Cspt, EVANS- J Mr* John ^hUak^r.will act ?% Judges Advocate. The^ cdurt^ will adjourn from' day to day, until all the business that may ' .come before .them . shfll be, concluded* By Order Dm., $ C..0.-MUNTER ,4<jut*nt. ?*- June 33. ? $ to come