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Singular SaH Dcpostorg-An officer oi the U. $. Dragoons, writing from Ouachita river, August ,, gives the following statement oi the salt plain of the prairies, which we copy from the Cincinnati Gazette:

 About 200 miles from Fort Gibson, we came to tho great salt plain. This was one object of our journey, and the sight was truly gratifying The bed of the river the Nescu- tunga) was widened, being near six miles in width and ten i'll length, the river running by one side oi 1t, through a small channel in the sand, while the upper plain throughout was covered by crust of salt, as white as snow. We approached it through sand-hills, and when within four or five miles of it, the plain looked like an immense salt lake which had dried up and left the salt in it's bed We found the salt to have d local origin it comes to the river in creek, which is very salt.- This oYerllows the plain, and leaves the Wa ter to crystalze on the surface. Heavy rains will wash the salt away, but the overflow from the creek comes at the same time, to bring more salt water for specialization. At this point we first began to find buffalo.

 Within two days journey of the great salt plain, we came to the salt rock, as il is called. We found it to be in the bed of the Semirone, stream south of the one the great plain is on, and IS an immense spring of salt water rising at the base of high clay hill, and boils up over space of l60 acres, crystalizing as fast as it reaches the surface, forming a rock of salt all over the ground above, so hard that we broke one mattock in vain attempts to get mass of it. The holes where the water comes out, are lined with salt as far down as the arm could reach"