The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-28
uTIGUENoT SPRINGS.


- saturday evening, we took the train for
he Huguenot, At half past Eve, and arrived
.,fely at our journeys end, about the going
IN ofihe sun. Ii 10 q most delightful jaunt,
by the bye and we take this occasion to call the
attention OF our citizens TO the fact, tina, &C.
cordng to an advertisement which may be
found in this paper, the President of the Dan.
vile Railroad has made arrangements to run
train every Saturday evening during the
season. omnibuses are ready a, Robiou's to
take up the passengers and their baggage,
and the train will be ready to take them down
again on Monday morning, so that they may
be in town again by nine o'clock. Here is an
opportunity tor delightful trip, and we would
advise all who wish 10 recreaie TO take it. 1t
will not in the least interfere with their bust.
ness. We have no doubt thst the train will
be crowded every Saturday evening.
We found the company and accommoda-
tons at the Springs delightful. The latter
have been greatly enlarged since last year,
aud may now compare with any in the coun.
try. Indeed we never. saw watering place
which could compare with the Huguenot in
this respect. The company had begun al.
ready, TO increase very considerably, and
there is every indication that il will be unusu.
ally large during the season. For the benefit
of our younger readers, we will here state,
that Mr.. McEvoy will open his doncing-school
during the course of this week, and that
every Saturday night there will be free
dance, open TO all Corners. This will prove,
of course, very attractive 10 the young people,
and we suspect they will flock 10 crowds to
the Saturday evening train. twenty-five for
a beginning is excellent.
Among other contemplated improvements,
the proprietor includes billiard room, which
will be erected with the utmost possible dis
patch. The bowling alley is a source of
great amusement, already, but we think it
will be eclipsed by the billiard table.
The Fourth of July, next Monday, is to be
field day at the Huguenot. We hear al.
ready, of large number of persons who in
tend to spend the day there, SO that we have
no doubt the train of Saturday evening will
De crowded. AS there may be some difficulty
in getting places, unless the ordinary train
be enlarged, we suggest the propriety of let
| ting the Railroad men know beforehand, SO
that they may know how many cars to put
on. 1t would be not at all inconvenient for
persons intending to go, to get their tickets in
the morning, and, doubtless, arrangements
would cheerfully be made for that purpose.
AS an item of news, we may say that the
spirit rappers have made their appearance in
the neighborhood of the Springs, and are doing
all sorts Of wonderful things. One Of the me.
diums, an old acquaintance of our own, by the
bye. whom we never suspected before of init
macy with the invisible word, by merely
holding his hands above large table, makes
it flap its wings up and down like rooster in
the act of Growing. He makes the tables and
chairs dance about the room as though they
| were possessed, and seems i'm fair way to ri.
val our friend McEvoy, as he has already
proved himself the rival of Orpheus, who made
| the trees and rocks follow the music of his
| pipe, or of Ampthion, who built the walls of
city by playing on his lutte. The spirits do
not confne their exploits TO these manifesta-
| tons upon dumb matter. They answer all
questions relative to the affairs of this life,
like genuine oracles, save and except that they
do not ciothe their prophecies in any ambigui
ty of phrase. They come at once to the point,
and tell man what he is, what he has, and
what he'will be. They tell the name of the
enquirer-say how much money he has in his
pockets, (no difficult matter, we dare say. in
Of inst hou II he
before he is married, &c. La word, from what
we can learn, these spirits are up to everything
professed by their brethren in other parts of
| the land. The late celebrated William Pope,
of Powhatan, reading in some paper of the
day that volcano had appeared somewhere in
| volcano Of our own" So we say,-"thank
Cd We have spirit rappers of our own
They have refused, heretofore, to make their
appearance at the Huguenot, but on Sunday
evening they sent message to the proprietor,
saying that they had changed their minds, and
would be there one day this week. We hope
they can be prevailed on to put off the trip un-
| til the Fourth. If they do not we fear their
place will be supplied by spirits of another
kind, for everybod. wAo goes to Fourth OF
July celebration cannot be expected to be in
favor of the Maine Liquor Law. Efforts have
been made, heretofore, to get them TO the
| Springs. Thus far it has literally been calling
'spirits from the Vastly Deep" which seemed
| very serious matter to that damned agcan,"
Owen Glendower, though Hotspur said he
could do it, or any other man, expressing him
selfin lhe meantime very doubtful as to whether
they would come when called. We cannot
but say that the Percys doubts were re asona
BILE, and we were strongly reminded of them
by the answer made to a member of his con.
gregaton by famous preacher of the olden
time' TO whom we have more than once allud.
cd, when they asked him to pray for rain F.; 81
VIII pray to accommodate you; but YOU NAV
depend upoa it it will not rain as long as the
wind blows from that quarter" We hone.
however, the spirits will consent to spena the
Fourth at the Huguenot, and if we shall learn
that they have accepted the invitation. we will