Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-08-19
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BpRKLY SPRINGS, August Is,

BRRkLY SPRINGS, August Is, 1866
DEAR EDrroRs.-With the flight of August,
the population of Col John Strother's hotel is
increasing to its full extent; and the crowd is be-
coming so great that it is quite n pedestrian
feat to elbow your way through the pnrlors and
hall rooms, throngedas they are with such jun
bic of beauty and fashion. Ifyou should chance
to enter them at an ea=ly evening hour, you may
depend upon being more than once forced to the
wall, with but a dim hope Of speedy egress.-
So you will be forced occasionally to stand still
and look around on the sea of faces, and draw
upon your memory for some comparisons, in the
old wing meetings of 40. OF course at such
times the gentlemen are prohibited from their
displays of gallantry. Bows would be danger
GUS, for fear of coming in contact with the organ
of benevolence. veneration, or some other bump
of bewitching beauty.
But we have relief from all this in our rural
walks, which are very exhileratiag when one
has become weary of the monotony of indoor
life Hero and there group'of ladies and gen
tlemen may be seen en- ronto for the summit
Rock" Just the point that an artist would choose
to get view of the surrounding grand and pic
turcsqe scenery. From this place, far away in
the distance, we behold the rugged mountains
towering far above the gossamer clouds, which
throw their moving shadows over tho deep val
leys Iii q scene upon which any one, who Mt
all loves communion with nature, can gaze for
long time with awe and admiration. Hall way
up the summit of this eminence is the moss
covered rock Of Meditation, and Mt a short dis
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ing spot where tho bright waters, life like, play
eloquent music as they course over shelving
rocks, here and there laid with moss and ivy.
An around you will see an occasional wild flower
seemingly bowling enthusiastically to the wild
music of tho water. A party are now promis-
cuous!y seated around the spring, listening to
gentleman from Washington City, who is play
ing sweetly on his guitar, and so apparently the
very soul OF music. that he looks the Troubadorc
to perfection.
Another morning resort is to the5ten-pin al
ley and shooting gallery, where some of the la
dies have learned to drive theceutre with marks.
man like precision. In the evening the Grove
is what you would cal half holly-hocSed with
ladies in gay ribbons Of all Imaginable hues aud
patterns. The hoops at some times appear in
their most extreme dimensions-perfectly un-
parddnable some circrmferences, and really an
moving to meditatiye strollcrs. Even the chill
drcu are hemmed in by hoops-nartys toztash-
ion.
We have lately had an exhibition of one of
Cnpid's freaks which however failed, by the
timely interference of friends, in ending in an
elOpement In fact, the god Of Love seems to
be in his true element here, for heart exchanges
are of common occurrence, If close observation
serve US reliably. OF course all such affairs are
70 be expected in crowd of over four. hundred
persons; some of whom have been long time
on the anxious seat, and now apparently dis
posed to fall in love With the first pretty face
ttatmssrs the eye. a number of loveable la
DIS a5e herc, from whom an, 10th to separate
-as1 = the tisse fgr It draws near, often think
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