The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-30
Editarfai Carrenpandenc e.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, July :

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, July "a.
This 10 Sunday but as there is no pfea'"
ing here, as far as can learn, and as nave
read myself already into one long nap over
book written about the evidences oil cn'Is"a",
iva fact OF which had no douot oe'ote-i
hone i, will not be thought violation OF .he
sabbath, il continue my correspondence WIN
vou. The rain has taken its leave OF us,
hone for DAYS vet to come not cloud dis-
,,ybs the serene beauty of the heavens, and the
landscape is inexpressibly beautiful. You, as
we'll as the majority ofyour readers, are so
well acquainted with the main features OF this
lovely valley, that nothing | can say will be
news. of course. To me, however, every
thing bears the appearance OF novelty for
strange as il NAV seem, when the wandering,
uncertain sort of lie have led is taken into
consideration, know less about the objects OF
interest in nv own State than do about those
of most of the others. The day, understand,
has been considered warm by those who have
been here for some weeks. To me, it has been
delightful, as you may we'll imagine, after the
spell through which we have so lately passed.
The thermometer have had no opportunity
TO examine indeed, when a person feels no
inconvenience from the weather. he is not apt
10 examine il, as a man perfectly we'll thinks
nothing about his health. The scenery about
this region, should think, is of Itself so excl.
tingly beautiful, that il might make even SICK
man take up bis bed and walk, without the as
sistance of the waters. There is wild gran
deur about the mountains-and we have them
all around us-which contrasts strongly and
agreeaby with The placid beauty of the valley.
The trees are Of deeper green than they seem
TO be IN our more sultry climate, and they i'm
press one with ideas of GOODNESS and freshness,
which are surprisingly agreeable.
The White Sulphur Spring is, apart from its
qualities, one of the most remarkable phenome.
ma in a region Astounding with strange freaks
of nature. 1t bursts from a rock, the end of
which has never been discovered, with the
holiness almost of q mill stream. The spark
ling purity of its waters have l2ng been the
subject of admiration to all beholdeIs. To
compare it to crystal, were TO give hut faint
idea of its perfect transparency. In cold or
heat, in winter or summer, it still maintains the
same unvarying temperature. AT no time.
after the greatest variety of experiments with
the thermometer, has it ever been found to vary
the ninth part of a hair. 1t, likewise, invaria-
bly, preserves its pellucid character under all
trials and changes. No rain, how violent so
ever, or how mach soever it may discolor the
waters OF the surrounding streams, has ever
had the slightest effect on this. keeps on its
way, as though it were too pure to ming
with the every day waters of the every day
world. When we take into consideration the
difficulty of reaching it, we may call it a genu
inc diamond of the DESERT" though, to speak
truth, the valley in which ii is situated is any
thing but desert. Another peculiarly is
that il is never, n the slightest degree, affected
by the rise or fall of the waters in its neighbor
hood. Indeed, in all respects it is fountain
separate and alone, having no fellow, and
nothing in the remotest degree resembling it.
The Harowgate waters in England have
heretofore been thought to be more strongly
ulphuric than any others in the world but
learn that the present Earl of Carlisle, when he
visited this country as Lord Morpeth, about
eleven years ago, after having spent about q
fortnight here, declared that there were no such
waters in Europe. 1t is TO be presumed, o
course, that he was familiar with Harrowgate
and with the other medicinal waters, both O
England and the Continent. Sir Walter Scott
in his novel Of St. Romans Well, says tina
there was current in the neighborhood of tina
famous watering place legend which repre-.
scented the Saint as having had great conf;c,
with the gentleman in black and as having,
nally, put him to fight, not until, however, he
had left strong infusion of birthstone in the wa
Ter OF the Well, into which he dived on his way
nome.% The poor Shawanees, whose favorite
hunting ground is said to have been this valley
esteemed the White Sulphur very highly as
medicinal water; but we do no read that the
ever thought OF accounting for its sulphureous
qualities in the same way. Indeed, it may be
doubted whether they had priest among then
capable OF graphing with the old enemy SC
successfully as did the Saint, whose exploit
gave name 10 the Well just alluded to. The
fact is we suspect, they were too fond of play
ing the ID themselves, to permit that indivi
as they were bad enough without him, it i:
probable he may not have interfered with the
diversions. Be that as it may, the air which il
SO beneficial TO every body else, was fatal te
them. AS long ago as IVA, after the battle O
Point Pleasant, they left the valley and its trea
sures never to return. The property on which
the spring is situated, was originally patented
to a settler named Carpenter, who was killed
by the Indians at Covington, a number Of
years, we believe, before their final defeat. As
toldistinguish it still farther from every Other
species OF property, while so many thousands
OF estates all over Virginia have changed hands
this is said TO remain 10 those of the lipeal de
scsndants of the patentee.
According to The account given by DR.. Moor
man.in his book on the Virginia Strings. III,
mrs. white person who ever visited the Wb;,e
salphur' Tor the purpose oftryiug its waters n
irregular way, was Mrs. Anderson the an
cssuess' probably, of one of the many fam;I;s.
". A 81 name to be found in all parts of virgi
n