The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-30

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CnRrsrIASsBuRo. Va, July Is, 1854.
Route TO CArsstiansbSrg-Steaa .Aeeoos-
modations-Ine Raiirord-Facfori AMI
Trade at LyneAAavga-Faclit;es to Ira
Gers and Shippers.
While multitudes from every region gre ira
yelling to and fro 10 search of recreation, health
and pleasure, and many good ca ,amite" is
painting 10 escape the beat, eonhnsm -at snd dis
ease OF the city, toey win not be unsilling TO
hear something further Of the ways and means
OF looomotion to our delectable springs sod
mountains
Your correspondent has spoken we'll and tru-
~ of the delightful trip, good table, excellent
Virginia Captain, &C., Of the "Ocsan Steamer
Roanoke" ! testify to what have sen. He
might have said the like Of the Jamestown
After landing bis traveller at Rockets, in the
morning, he hands him over to the kind ohses
of friend Ballard TO put him through the" day,
and then gives true and pleasant bill Of fare
from thence to the White Sulphur Springs for
two days longer, including the long ami tedious
ride by stage from Stanton to the White Sulphur.
Now, without coniroverting siogle item ia
Ibis bill, beg leave, for variety's sake least.
to present our readers with another, somewhat
different. Within few weeks past, business
has called me several times to pass between tide.
wafer and the mountains on the s. Side Rail
road and the Ls nchburg and Tennessee R.il.
road, and take pleasure in commencing
these roads to the public, ga furnishing insur-
passabe facilities for reaching the springs aoa
mountains
These roads having overcome formidable 90
ssscles, are now advancing rapidly towards
completion. Cars Of the finest KIDD, in charge
of 10. most attentive and accommodating Goa
dustors, now ruD dairy to Concord station, and
connect with Lyncbburg. (only twelve miles,)
in less than two hours by fine stages, over a
delightful turnpike. The 8. Side company
have purchased the Appomattox road, tnine
miles long,) from Petersburg to City Point and
their cars connect regularly with the New York
s.eameTs-Roanoke and Jamestown-going and
returning They have done great and noble
work, and will meet their reward. The pubic
at large will do them justice, when the unex-
pected success Of the roads compels them to ad-
NIT their value and importance.
Bnt to return TO your Gothamite friend on
the Roanoke: He will arrive at City Joint
some time before day break on Friday morning.
The cars will be waiting for his accommodation,
| and in one half hour he can reach Petersburg,
in time for the Lynchburg train. In Lynch
bnrg he may spend two or three hours at one
of their excellent hotels aud proceed by the
cars at four P. NJ. to Salem. where he my
spend night of comfort and rest. II be aims
OF the Sweet, about forfy-6ve miles, Or the
White Sulphur, about sixty miles, he win take
the morning stage and after ten miles will hold
up at Friend Thomson's, on the west sid ofire
miles from Richmond, (while his fellow pas5en-
ger in the Roanoke is yet in charge OF Friend
Ballard, waiting for the Central cars.) Fare
through from Petersburg only So SO.
But perhaps your friend may wish a still
| greater variety Let him then consent to spend
an afternoon in LyDchburg-the City Of Hills
and examine her works of enterprise and Indus
try. Especially let him stop for an hour in
one OF her factories, aud ser them roll and twist
the Southern weed. He will not call it lost
time. In the morning. after breakfast, he win be
ready for the cars to Bensack's, some thirty-fye
miles from Lynchburg, and arrive by stage at
the Sweet Springs same evening. Or he may
keep his seat in the cars to shawsyllle
1 ten miles east of Christiansburg. Here stages
wait to give the weary traveller a pleasant ride
of four miles, to most delightful retreat called
| Allegheny Springs. These springs, long known
| ard valued Tor remarkable curative powers, es-
pec.a1y in cases Of confirmed and distressing dis
peps q, have been recently fitted up at emo nous
! expense by their agreeable and enterprsing
proprietors, and now offer attractions TO visitors
| which none who test them will be slow to ap-
| preciate or acknowledge.
| Or, be may proceed to Christiansburg, where
| stages will. wait to take him to the yellow
Sulphur, -four miles distant,) Of old quite oele-
| brated, and now refitsed at great expense for
the seeker of health and pleasure Once more,
| not yet fatigued with his morning ride over and
| through the Alleghanies in these splendid cars,
he may proceed as far as Newbern, about TWEEN
| ty-ive miles beg ond Christiansburg, and dis
tant about tbirty-eight miles from the Red
| Sulphur, which latter place be may reach by
stage at o'clock p N. same day. Fare through
from Lynchburg, So so.
J But, without ringing any further changes on
| this bill Of fare, would like to add that such
are the connections and obligations already
existing between the s. Side Railroad and
the Lynchburg and Tennessee Railroad, that The
| shipper may, 10 O few weeks place his goods for
| L. nchburg, Chrissiansburg, or Newberp, and in
| few months, the Abingdon or Tennessee line
| upon the abovenamed steamers, in New York,
and they will reach their homes in the quickest
time, with no transhipment save at City Point,
and no charge for Commission, forwarding"
| &c. TRAVELLER.
1 MAE KUHN nv TICurNryc On Mcrdov affny.