for Eureka is Seilagman, 1550 feet above the sea, and all sorts of cripples turn out at the station every day, and are carried to the carriages for Eureka. The cures are marvellous, for many people carried to the water walk home; and from conversations with several of

Seven Stars Springs and Bath, Missouri.

them, it seems to me that they are quite true. The Seven Stars Spring is near Exeter station, by the county town of Casseville. This town was the scene of much brisk fighting during the Civil War: the place was desolated by both sides, and a great amount

of bloodshed took place over the district. The place is now most peaceable, the road to the springs really lovely-through the most beautiful of countries, and quite repaying a visit. It is, I should say, a drive of seven miles. spring rises from a hillside, and there is no foun

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tain or well, but a most primitive bath-room, on the side of the river, and a common barrel on end is the reservoir, at which a great number of people take their morning, noon, and evening draughts. They all gather round the bathroom, smoke, chat, and separate in a decidedly

primitive garb-namely, shirt and trousers only. I saw no ladies in the village; but understand that they do exist in the place. There are ten houses building, and there is a very clean, neat boarding-house. I think the ticket says two dollars per day for board. I was introduced to the editor of the newspaper for the district, but the name of the paper has escaped me. There is also a medical man. There are several lodging-houses in the place, and a stream of beautiful water runs through the valley. The

Panacea Spring is about five miles from Casseville by a good road. There is a capital hotel and bath-room, all built of wood, and a population of 400 or 500 people. The attendants are very civil, and I am only sorry at having to return, for the whole place has an air of comfort

that I have not met with before in the Western States. I now push on for the head of the Roaring River, which is one of the holiday sights. There is a great chasm about 150 feet. high, out of which rushes a river of many thousand horse-power. The stream is collected

in a dam, where one may see the yellow watersnake swimming. This snake is reputed very deadly, so I did not bathe in that stream. The valley is very beautiful, about 300 yards wide, and 250 feet deep below the general level of the ground above. The sides are wooded, and

a road runs through the bottom of the glen. There are several deep chasms in the limestone rock, and the road has been the bed of a great stream or torrent, and in wet or stormy weather will certainly be impassable.

Such is the country of the medical springs of Barry County, Western Missouri, and their fame is known over a large portion of America. They deserve a visit; the water has no taste, and is most pleasant to drink-cool and refreshing. It has been analysed by Dr Stevenson Macadam, of Edinburgh, and found pure, with few medicinal traces. Can it be that the people cured have been so simply by drinking unpolluted water ?—the supply in the prairies being from water-holes, stagnant and most unwholesome; so that the change may effect the cures seen and talked of. All along the road great waggons are met with called "prairie schooners," generally crowded with large families. There are also unchancy-looking fellows continually upon the road, and you find yourself with the "beard on the shoulder" watching. It is the nearest road to Eureka Springs, where there is a "vigilance committee" sitting. The comet is a great attraction here at night, the