SUMMER RETREAT IN ARKANSAS. 



It is not expected that a faithful description of Satan's 

 Summer Retreat in Arkansas, will turn aside the fashion 

 of two worlds, from Brighton and Bath, or from New- 

 port and Saratoga, although the residents in the neigh- 

 borhood of that delightful place, profess to have ocular 

 demonstration, as well as popular opinion, that his 

 Satanic Majesty in warm weather regularly retires to 

 the " Retreat," and " there reclines " in the '' cool." 



The solemn grandeur that surrounds this distin- 

 guished resort, is worthy of the hero as represented by 

 Milton; its characteristics are darkness, gloom and 

 mystery ; it is environed by the unrivalled vegetation 

 and forest of the Mississippi valley. View it when you 

 will, whether decked out in all the luxuriance of a 

 southern summer, or stripped of its foliage by the win- 

 ter's blasts — it matters not — its grandeur is ilways 

 sombre. 



