The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-02
Editorial Correspond euce.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, July

| t0Der. ne htc 10 very as'ecooes duu 80 are
blankets. know not how others may like il,
but TO me. though, in general, fond of warm
weather, il is delightful after the long spell Of
heat through which we passed before left
home.
| have just returned from the ballroom
where found the representatives of almost
every State in the Union, though, as before
there were few who sacrificed at the shrine oil
Terpschore. do not think the young PEG
| pie OF the present day dance with so much ami
nation cs their predecessors did, but they make
| up Tor II IN other respects. The dances are de-
cidedly more afectionote than they used to be-
The waltz was regarded as having made con-
siderable advance in civilization; but 1t was
mere circumstance compared TO The foiRa' OF
the Schottische, or any of the recent lmporta'
| tons. | wonder how the people OF the oioeh
| time cot on with the minuet. have never seen
| it EXCEPT on the stage, but it appeared to me-
even there, where, suppose, greater license
was allowed than in fashionable circles, to be
a very dull affair. Indeed, it gives man OF
these enlightened days a chill to look at the
dancers. | have no doubt fellow in shorts
and pumps, with cooked hat under his arm,
| was very often found stiff foZen in the ball
room in the morning when they went TO clean
up. Such is not likely to be the case again,
at least during the reign of the present fashion
bic dances.
The crowd in the mountains this summer is
said to be unusually large. learn that the
yellow fever has broken out with great fury in
New Orleans, and that will, doubtless, convert
the summer emigration into conpete exodus.
The mountains of Virginia will catch large
portion Of the wanderers, suspect.
have seen so little of the newspapers since
left home, that l know not what is going on
in the world. News is any thing but new, by
the lime it gets here. Occasionally catch
scraps of conversations between groups ofper-
sons, who seem TO be better Informed with re.
| gard to passing events than | am. When left
Richmond, war in Europe seemed inevitable
indeed, to have already commenced. 1t is
| strange to see the utter Indifference with which
| an event of so much moment is regarded here
am not familiar with the usages of watering
places; but | suppose people generally &c
there to forget every thing they Care mos
about at home, except amusement. Certain il
is, that the train oil deluge with which Europe
is threatened, makes but little impression upor
the visiters of the White Sulphur. 1t is nc
business of mine, to be sure, but cannot help
hoping that cup may be allowed to PASS.
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route to be taken by the Covington and Ohio
Railroad. Upon this subject there Is much
warmth, and not little bitterness, as you may
very we'll imagine. Not being sufficiently vel
acquainted with the merits of the case, for
bear 10 express an opinion-I hope, however
| that the dispute may not mi ure the interests o
| the great central line 10 the West and South
west; line which offers to Virginia advan
tages of which no person can form an adequate
idea. Virginia has, West of the Blue Ridge
and between that chain and the Ohio, coun
try which it is no figure Of speech to call ar
empire. 1t would be sha T were she to ne
glect to deveIope it, and to make it, CONNER
cially as well as politically, her own. But we
|
am opposed TO anticipating trouble. "Suffi
cient unto the day is the evil thereof"
Ishall my face Eastward about Saturday
having already overstayed the time TO which
had limited myself, several days. l cannot
omit in this place, the expression Of my graft
tude for the extreme kindness which have re-
ceived at the hands of the proprietor, Mr.. W
Calwell, and at those of his brother, Mr.
Lewis Calwell, the latter an old friend and com
panion. My treatment, in fact, has been more
like that which near relative might expect
and it is the more acceptable on account of its
having taken me somewhat by surprise. have
not been treated at all like casual guest, but
exactly like valued friend. To this kindness
| am indebted for having played the truant be
you'd nv time, for Ihave found it almost i'm
possible to get off. II. r. P.