The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-19
The Watering Isiscss.


Gun WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS cor aEspeNDgNuE,
WBlTs SULPHUR SPRINGS. July Is, 1854
Il Pleasant Trip 10 the Suphw S1riass-Ia isrs'f-
Dig Account of the Jouaes- Descriptions Of The
Place pnsements- TIE Watey, &c
N the Thermometer % is too much for you, Just
lake advice and follow my example-leave the
noisy, dusty streets of pestllentd Gotham, go down
10 pier 10 North river, and on Wednesday after
Soon take the steamer Roanoke for Richmond, Va,
which place you will arrive at On Friday morning
allowing after a very pleasant triJ, no noise or
change of baggage, aud in sight Of Ia nearly all
sAe time, q very good table, and a mot excellent,
pleasant and truly Virginia fellow for captain. In
Richmond, go TO the Exchange Hotel, and friend
Ballard win put you thr ough at the rate of 81 so
ne day-rather high this, for the Old Virginia
folks, who like good bacon hams and fried chicken,
md not much ofthe agony piled on in the eating
Il Il. IT'S true you get all you call for, and some
Aings you do not call for In the morning take the
Central Railroad to Stanton, and not che Danvlle
Railroad who tell you the fare Is 81 so, but you
reach the White Sulphur you discover it has cost
yos tl sos besides, the railroad only takes you to
tbs end of their unfinished road, within fifteen miles
q Lynchburg, which takes three hours in stages,
jnst in time for the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-
road 10 Salem, Roanoke county, from which place
md its hotels may q kind Providence deliver me,
and give its aeas, bugs, bad bacon, bad fare and
worse rum, 70 some one else more deserving. We
ave new sixty miles from Lynchburg, and In the
morning take the stage at four o'clock for trip
through the mountains just sixty-two miles-and
over fine coun try as yon need ever wish for.
Oh for q little Of the industry of our Northern
ehsnics, to turn these rich advantages Of good cir
nate and SOIL added to splendid water power, TO
Ome good But people here actually AL seem
askep, ard are content to go in the old beaten
tack their fathers went before them.
We are now ten miles from Salem, having crossed
enc mountain, and have stopped at Mr.. Thompson's
~ breLkfast and u regular 8 od meal We get Tor
fftg cents-the inst since leaving Richmond. Four
more COED hours, and we rattle along ut q dashing
pace, crossing innumerable streams, all with fine
power and good fishing. Going up the mountains
Ii rather slow work; but the way they come down
rather fr,ghtens timid people. Here we are at the
Mountain House to dinner; and out steps the land
lord and asks you to take snie Of his old peach,
and very fine It is, too: but finer still Ia his excellent
dinner, for which, believe me, onr party had good
appetite. Again away down the mountain at full
speed. Now twentysix miles to the White and
only nine miles to the Sweet Springs, the valley be-
low covered with the richest corn and oat crops,
and very thiekiy populated, such houses as there
arr being mostly log huts. We are At the Sweet
Springs, . very delightful place, and at which we
change horses. The proprietor, like Mrs. Camp,
with an eye to the future, sends servant down
for pitcher OF water, and we promise we will
eome back soon, "a we understand there Is
nothing to be had at the White Sulphur.
But you may as well hang dog give him bad
name; tits quite the reverse. The table is really
good, and the attendance excellent Still, this
place Ia not what Is might be- II in the hands OF such
nsn a. Marvin, Of the United States. There Is no
order for anything-everything is truly VhgMian.
The cottages are AL going to decay, the woodwork
being In many patched up in Q most horrible man.
ner Some OF the cottages, especially those built by
FORMER Rrandees of Baltimore bat who have since
these days been, as learn, gazetted very band
same Virginia and Paradise rows are quite attrac-
tive. But when you come, be sure and avoid ooun-
ny tavern near the Springs, which the proprietor
will pass OF 70 you as the Simon Pure, and will ct
EAST make days board out of you by worse than
dusk) You look about and lind yourself quarter Of
. mile from the world Of fashion. There are here
many very nice families from Charleston, New Or
lsass, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, aud Rich
mOnd--n all about three hundred. We have
n hop every night, and music from very fair
hand; but as yet beaux are ut high premium.
Old bachelors and schoolb0ys are pressed into
service, and the ladies OF an uncertain age remain
wsi-r0wsrs. The proprietor announces that he
gives you all you eat, Onst like DIR. Duic Amara,)
bat CHAR ges you for the water. People should be
very Cautious on first arriving here about drinking
tie waters as too free use will make your head
swim, and otherwise derange your system. The
railroad is nearly finished, and will come by the
Springs, 80 that people can come from Baltimore IN
n day and half. must say adieu, AZ | AN oil TO
ne Rockbridge Alum Springs place very ceie-
trated for the efficacy Of its waters in cases OF ner
ysus debility. -du recoir. Yours,
MouNrAMEEa.