Your obedent servant.

 SAM. HOUSTON. To the Editor of the Red River Herald.
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The following is sketch of grand pro- Iject for draining and recIaiming all the allu- vial lands in the valley of the Mississippi, which are subject to inundaton, from the mouth of the Chic to the Balize. The pro- ject we believe. was conceived in Eicksbarg -and was first published in the Eicksburg Register. Ne conceive it to be an excellent scheme, if # can be carried out.

 The draining of the inundated lands ol the Mississippi has often been the subject el thought and investigation, with men of in- quiriug minds: but its strange that an enter- prize so magnificent, and attended with re- suits so important to the wealth and health of the valley of the lower Mississippi, has not as yet in this age and country of vast and daring schemes of internal improve ment, excited the public attention.

 We have no means of asceraining the exact quantity of the alIuyial lands of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio 10 the Baiize but we suppose the following estimate not very wide of the mark: