Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-09-29
Correspondence OF the virginian
Mnrrr SrLrurn spglNrs. Sep

WHITE SULPHUR SPgiSGs. sept %.
This place recently the sceae of 50 much
life and gayety and pleasure. and at which so
vast and varied collection of persons was as
sembled, is now almost deserted. There not
more than twenty or thirty now here; aud as the
mornings begin 10 grow chilly, they are prepar
ing now TO seek their respective homes. This
las been the fullest season these Springs have
ever had. They have been crowded TO the
utmost e1tcnt of their accommodations. while
numbers have been turned away. The register
shows the aggregate number Of about four thous-
and arrivals during the season. ! have no doubt
the number Of visitors Ia this delightful place
will always be limited only by the capacity to
accommodate. The great Railroad facilities that
the State is beginning 10 enjoy will crowd our
mountains every Summer with those IN search Of
health and pleasure.
This, by the way, Is not small item in the
list of advantages to be derived by the State
from its Railroads. Beside the vast amount of
travel that will thus be caused to pass over
them, it viii produce Il market at every wat
ering place. and thus whole communities will
be benefited. The Coyngton and Ohio Road
will pass within few hundred wards Of the White
Sulphur.
1t is hard to conceive of greater lnetamor-
phpsis at place than that which has occurred
here within a few DAYS. The Cabins. the Lawn,
the Promenades. the Ball room, that were so
lately crowded with beauty and galluntry youth
and old age, Intelligence and stupidity, blooming
health and pad disease, are now silent and
like banquet hall deserted" The actors in
this grent play have all performed their parts,
and gone through the regular routine Of Spring,
hfe-they have laughed and talked, eaten and
drank, slept and played, danced and sung frted
and quarreed and now have gone home, all no
doubt highly pleased with the part they have
played. SO it is with generation. Earth is n
stage" Every man Is an actor. DC.
day in company with our former towns
man, Maj. Andrew Ellison, visited the great Al
leghany tunnel, about four miles from this place
tits a stupendous work, and when completed
will furnish powerful example of the vast ca
paoities of man. Its length is about 400 feet.
There ale two principle shafts being work
ed. one of 100, and one of 40 feet depth and two
entrance shafts. There will be about IA hundred
hands at work upon the tunnel and entrance
shortly, and Maj. Ellison informs me, it can he
completed long before it will be needed. The
estimated cost is sixty dollars to the foot. The
material is the most favorable that could possibly
be for the work, being soft slate just hard
enough TO make wallng unnecessary and soft
enough to work easily.
/ stated in my last letter that the work on this
road would all be suspended Christmas. except
the tunnel and some bridges. In this was mis-
informed. There will be about $500 600 remain
ing, 10 be expended on the eastern line after that
time. | was also misinformed as TO the distance
under contract. Forty miles of the eastern line
are under contract, and eighteen are being work
ed upon, and forty miles of the Western have
been let, as am informed by Maj Ellison.
A. Med.