. HOT SPRINGS OF ARKANSAS.
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To the Editor of the Advocate.

 So repeated has been the unequiyocal testimony which has been afforded of the great medicinal virtue of these waters, by the entire recovery of a long list of invalds who have made use of them, that am nl- pelled to offer you this communication, i'll the hope that 1t may not be altogether una vaiing i'll its purpose. The common claims of charity and good will toward our neighber require of us to make use of every means in our power to relieve, or even mi tgate, the suherings of humanity. l am satisfied that a more full description of these waters and their effects will most materially advance these objects. Although your inI- mediate subscribers may not require to be informed upon the subject, yet ] am not without the hope that other and more dis tant Editors may unite with you in giving to a brief statement of facts a more exten- sive circulation. The approaching season, when invalids from every direction are seeking for places of resort during the sul- try season, is peculiarly propitious.

 have no other interest than most anx- ious desire to impart 10 others the invalua- bic benefits have myself derived. l was induced, upon information most vague and unsatisfactory, from mere rumor, to under take journey of upwards of one thousand miles, incur an expense to say the least, in convenient for me to do, and suffer from priyatien and fatigue in no small measure, in order that l might make trial of these waters as a dernier resort; and sir, assure you that have never for one moment re- pented of my undertaking. How, 1 may well ask you, shall one who, after years of failure of ordinary means, has been enabled to throw off huge load of pain and suffer ing, which he had carried about with him for upwards of seven years, how shaii such an one hold his peace!

 My limited knowledge of the sciences will not enable me to give any description of the particular quality of these waters, or the face of the country surrounding them. Some have supposed that they contain no