The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-11
Correspondence Of the Dispsfch.
DAGGER's SPRINGS, Aug. 30lh, 1854.

| MKssRs. Eprrons:
Let me speak dasgers but use none :"
lou mustnot expect from me the usuai sterec-
typed language of adulation which generally char
acterizes the pampered correspondents of our
fashionable watering pIaces II plain truths. plain
" spoken, without "iear, favor or aeectation, are
acceptable to yourselves and readers, you may oc.
casionaiiy hear from one who has more frequently
been an admirer and recipient of pleasant para
sraphs from your spirited journal, than contribu
tor or correspondent.
Inose who have been baked and roasted and
sewed and boiled end done brown in the Metropo
u.s. must not think that they alone are an exclusive
ana privileged few. Let those who have followed
In the trail of the Iron Horse" as he careers over
mountain and valley, breathing fire and smoke and
soot rom Ills brazen throat, give in their expert
ence. Let those who are so far behind the age az
10 De dragged at a snail's pace by old fashioned
horses' over hills and glllies, occasionally down
them and In them, speak their sentiments, or for.
ever alter hold their peace. Or let one who like
myself, in an ill-fafed hour ventured into that
patent oven, Familiarity known packet, not of
the express but of the Glow ine speak of an inten
Sly ofhea tthat city thermometers have not dream
ed Of in their philosophy.
Should you be tempted in fit of desperation to
leave your residence in the city for an excursion
to the interior of Virginia, you must not expect
those comforts, conveniences and elegancies which
have rendered home so delightful. You have
started in pursuit of pleasure under difficulties,
and the road that leads to it, like Jordan is hard
road to travel" Preiminsries having been settled
imagine yourself sufficiently recovered from the
fatigue ofthe journey, to be able to look around
you with discriminating eye, and to WELD a pen
that will naught extenuate nor set down aupbt in
malice. You look upon the mountains, that rise In
their majesty around you, you stand near the
stream that meanders through the beautiful valley
at your feet, your eye rests for moment upon the
socalled improvements that are scattered with
sparing hand amid the noble old oaks that nature
planted with her own untutored skill, and your
first exclamation will be, how much has nature
done for Virginia. how little art has contributed to
improve her gifts!
Imagine grove of oaks, In extent about equal
to your beautiful park, sopiDg uniformly and gent
ly towards the South, at one extremity of which on
the North is situated old fashioned country
tavern, two stories high, with portico extending
its whole length, at the other a mineral spring
strongly impregnated with sulphur and containing
as | was assured by sapient NJ. D., not less than
twenty ingredients, with building, intended as an
ornament, but which resembles an inverted tin fun
mel, resting on pipe-stems On either side of this
lawn there is row of cabins, without the least at
tempt at architectural display each cabin being
double and having chimney in common with Its
next door neighbor, entirely exposed to view civ
ing to the tout ensemble very much the appearance
of dozen big turnips with carrots stuck between
them.
On the lawn before you, instead of deer and elk
you have hogs and calves, ad nanseum instead of
statues and statuettes you find stones and stumps
Gd H6aum and instead Of miniature lakes and
fountains, decorating the grounds you have slug.
gish branch, obstructed by logs and weeds where
gnats and mosquitoes increase and multiply ad IN.
fnHum. But in the midst OF your observations of
nature and art, your attention is attracted to the
bowling alley, where under dilapidated old shed,
the most skilful players vainly endeavoring to
realize the rarity Of ten strike or even "spare
After many fruitless efforts to roll straight on
crooked alley, you find yourself "sugared' by some
more lucky wight and you enjoy the privilege of
paying the piper for the amusement of the ladies'
when you would rather pay for the pleasure of
discLarging the balls from cannon against the
alley ITSELF After the sports of the alley you re-
turn to yoar room, inclined to enjoy little rest
during the heat of the day, when your attention is
attracted by a remarkable race which has lust com
menced between a fiddle and fife You are for
some time at loss to determine wbichis ahead,
but you are at length forced to confess that the
fife has won the race. If you wish to enjoy real
break down, old pirgihRy reel, you mist come up
here and listen to "blind Billy" on his fife. 1t will
do your heart good to see the country girls, with
their rustic beaux whrling through the mazes of
the waltz. Although the company at present num-
bers about eighty visitors, there is not one of the
fashionable city bellies to be found. As for beauty
will not say that is monopolized by two married
ladies, one from your city and the other from
Lynchburg, because might be suspected of want
ofgallantry, and supposed to be not an impartial
witness. The ballroom is rather small affair and
not at all distinguished for the taste of it's decora
tions On one side you have portrait by arardl
artist OF the Saviour Of Mankind and on the other
a highly colored picture Of Uncle Sams dominions
taken by MITCHELL The table is well supplied with
substantial viands, served up in very plain STYLE
and although the proprietor seems to be worthy
man. he is certainly not the best bread man in Anne
rica, and ii we may judae from the indications
when soup Is served ups he was not born with
silver spoon in his mouth. 1..
He avows the opinion, that II is very injudieious
to make expensive improvements at the Springs
and has carried his principles faithfully into prac
tice. His notion is, that you should not attempt to
attract visitors by the pleasures Of taste and imagi
nation, but that you must wait until the visitors
come, before you make your improvements. In
other words, you must never venture Into the
water, until you have learned to swim. When
such principles actuate the propretors of our Vir
gna Springs, 1t is not to be wondered at, that the
North attracts Its visitors by thousands while the
South can only number its scores or hundreds
We trust that better time is coming, when i'm
provements shall be made In Virginia on scale
Commensurate with the blessings that nature with
lavish hand has bestowed upon her.
Truly, your friend, NNow SOMETHING.
SAVANNAH The number of ofinterments in Savan-
nah last Tuesday was % of which Is were from ye
low fever. This outnumbers the !nterments Of any
day Of the season. Among these who died of yel.
low fever was VIM. r. Taylor of Virginia, aged
% years. The deaths during the week were l23,
ofwhich rs were from the epidemic.
New ORLEANs.-The number of deaths In New
Orleans from yellow fever during the week ending
Sept 4, amounted to 1875.
Miss Orrel Gleason, of Warren, Mass. conn.,
mitted suicide last week, by hanging herself while
under the effects OF typhoid fever.
Mr.. T. SANFORD, for great number OF years the
Editor of the Mobile Register, and who had long
been looked upon. as the father of the Democratic
press of Alsbama, retired from, that journal on the
Cd inst.
Capt Joseph B. Breck, Of the ship Hathaway, OF
Charleston, charged with shooting matinous sea
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