The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-06
EditeriaI Corresp ondence.
GREEN SPRINGS, Aug. 4,

| hdaterfai Corresp ontence.
| GREEN SPRINGS, Aug. 4.
| am thus far on my way home, having
spent most agreeable ten days in the noun.
tains. We left the White Sulphur on Monday
last, and stayed that nigh, at the Warm
Springs. For the first time. had an opporiu'
nifty OF inspecting the famous Warm Spring
bath. Truly, a man who wished to spend
summer in oriental luxury, could go no where
to secure that Object with greater certainty
OF succeeding than 10 the Warm Springs. Inc
accommodations are superb in every respect
Airy rooms, excellent beds, snow white shee's'
and the entire absence Of mosquitoes, or o'ner
more Objectionable vi.itants, invite TO reposc =
I should fear, only, that l should sleep too
much, were to stay there fortnight Yet
| there ia enough, too, TO keep man awake, and
/ TO make him enjoy life with keen relish. The
table is not merely good-t is sumptuous. Ii
| i such an one as priace might Sit down to
everv day, and bless his stars that it was no
worse. found that the lady under whose i'm
mediate charge this part of the establishment
was, was an old friend and acquaintance Of
mine, and was welcomed by her with a cor
daily which gave zest to the admirable fare.
They are said TO live remarkably well at seve-
raj of the other Springs. They cannot live
| better, anywhere, than they do at the Warm.
At least, if they do, feel satisfied that they
keep something to eat Of which never heard,
and which do not care to see. Then there
is the ba,h-the glorious, sparkling, crystal
bath-forty feet wide and FIVE feet deep. Talk
about luxury Can there be any luxury great.
er than immersion in such stream Of living
water Z The servants at the Warm Springs
are extremely attentive, and they are so neat
and tidy, that il is positive pleasure to be
waited on by them. fell in, at that place,
" it'll a gentleman from Richmond, with whom
l was well acquainted, and who pressed me so
hard to spend the week, that found great dit.
fculty in resisting, especially as l had every
disposition to do so without any solicitation.
The Central Railroad does not pass within
twenty miles of the Warm and Hot Springs, |
believe yet they must be benefited in almost
an equal degree with the rest, by the compile
ton of the great line to the Ohio. The Virgil
mia Springs form great system, of which the
White Sulphur is the centre. They all pos
sess medicinal properties ofvalue, and of such
character, that it seems necessary to go
through them all, as through course of me.
dicine. First, there is the White Sulphur, to
set right the liver and the digestive organs'
which, it seems 10 me, who am no doctor, are
a, the bottom of nearly all chr diseases. When
the functions of these two important organs
have been restored, their action must be con-
firmed, and then come in the tonic waters of
the Sweet Springs. Next, the patient must
have his baths, etc which he can get no
where so we'll as at the Warm or Hot. do
not know what part the other Springs play in
| this grand drama of restoration, but believe
| each has its part. The reputation of the
White Sulphur, however, is, and must contin-
ue TO be, until at least the discovery of ether
we tiers equal to them, like the sun in the sys
| tem-alone and unapproachable. 1t is this
| Spring that has given tone and character to all
| the Virginia Spring region. Without ii, pro-
badly, the many valuable waters that have
| since been discovered, would have been, com
paratively, unknown. And now, even at this
late hour, the prosperity of the White Sulphur
is the prosperity of every other watering place
| in the mountains. Extinguis that, and you
| bio, out the sun-you throw the system into ir-
| remediable confusion. Taken all together. there
| is no where, upon the face of the earth, com
| parable to the western part of Virginia for its
| mineral waters. To me it seems wonderful,
that people should flock to them in the way
they do, considering the diffic ulties they have
to encounter, for the present, let them come
from which direction they may. If they were
merely in pursuit of pleasure, from the West
| and Southwest, they mig int easily pass on up
| the Ohio, TO Wheeling or Pittsburg, without
days staging. From the Southern Atlantic
country it would be even easier to reach the
grand centres of gaiety and fashion, Saratoga,
| Niagara, Newport, Canada and the Lakes
| There must be some very powerful motive
which can induce them TO stage it from Guy"
andotte, on the one side, or from Salem or
Mecham's on, the other. That motive is, to
me, sufficiently palpable. 1t lies in a simple
truth: there are no Springs like the Virginia
| Springs, there are no mountains like the Vlr-
ginia mountains, there are no breezes like the
breezes of Western Virginia. To drink the
waters, TO take the baths, to breathe the air,
| The sick will run the risk of being stranded
upon sand bars for weeks, will climb noun
tains at the imminent peril of life and limb,
will spend days upon bad roads in the most
execrable weather. travelling distances which,
on railroad, they would traverse in as many
hours. They press forward to the shrine OF
| health, with all the enthusiasm of pilgrims,
who know that when they once reach it they
may hope 10 live. Do not these facts plead
powerfully for the Springs Ought not Vir'
ginia, while she is pouring out her treasures
like water in other quarters, to open the ap-
proach to them, the pride of her children, the
very jewels of highest price in her crown T.
During the present season, the number of visi.
tiers from the Southwest has been immense
and they have come in spite of every obstacle
which it has been found possible TO throw in
heir way.
Nor will it be found at the end of the season