SUMMER RETREAT IN ARKANSAS. 
Ir 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 always 
sombre. 
