Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-08
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
The Piedmont Region Of Virginia, 9e.
CULpPrpKR @, b., Va, Sept. z, 1890.

| The Piedmont Region Of Virginia, orc.
CuLpprpEs O, H., Va, Sept. z, 1856.
| I am Whiting at a window Of the Waveriey
House, from which the Blue Ridge is visible
for many miles of its length, forming charm.
| iug back. ground for the expanse of cultivated
fields that lay on the gradually slopipg plateau
between. This Waverley House, situated i'm
mediately at the Orange and Alexandria rail-
road depot at this point, is recent creation
Of the necessities of travel by rail, though it is
beginning to be extensively patronized by
health and pleasure seekers from lower Vir.
gip's, who prefer its substantial comfort and
30 exquisite old-fashioned Virginia table and
the entire absence of straining after effect on
the part Of Its guests, TO the crowds, hustle,
FASHION, semi-starvation, loose manners and
worse morals in these days almost inseparable
from life at fashionable watering places. The
landlord is curiosity in his way; insomuch
as he appears to be totally unconscious that
ms profuse and carefully kept table is vastly
superior to nine-tenths of those of the man.
moth establishments in large cities, while the
f'A~hsJ VI ehO oAAdnSCu0ubc VI uOusC-
hold secure for his guests an aggregate of eff.
fective comfort that makes everybody around
him pleased with themselves and with each
other the great desderatum on the part Of
those who rush away at this season from the
brain and body taxing cares of active business
in the heat of steaming, fretting and strain
ing cit,es, to catch a breath of mountain air
aud to dive away for tho moment the con-
comitant hsrassments of debts to collect and
notes to pay.
The more 1 see of the country in the lap
of which this village lies, the more am [
charmed With it, and the more do wonder
why it is that rational people prefer to seek
D'f-destroying pleasure at fashionable water
ing places to awaiting themselves of its recu-
perating and soothing influences The legiti-
mate purpose Of a summer jaunt from husi-
ness and home cares is to renew the elasticity
of over taxed mental and bodily faculties and
functions. Dressing for breakfast, dinner and
the ball, late hours in the ball room or at tho
card table, and three times The usual quantity
of stmulants-wines and liquors-and inter
minable stufing at table, are not the means of
really pr, fitting by summer or fall trip from
home. But the game of lecturing the fash
iOna5le world on its follies and mistakes is in
deed a proftless task. So 1 will not waste
more ink upon it.
Within circle of eight miles from this poin,
-four, six ard eight miles off--arc three or
four mineral springs really equal in their IN,
dicinal qualities 10 any other in the State
sulphur, alrm, chalybeate and epson salts
being the health-giving substances flowing
from them in profusion. The fact that all this
region Of the State abounds with minera!
springs, Is the only reason why those around
Culppeper Court House have not come into fash
ionable notoriety Only four years since the
Orange and Alexandria railroad was opened.
and until that time it required journey Of
two days by horse vehicles over the usual
rocky or muddy roads of upper Virginia to
reach them; circumstance quito sufficient to
deter most modern travellers from essaying to
penetrate to them, when by steamboat and the
rail others equally as serviccable to health,
and far more interesting TO the seeker Of the
butterfly society, could be approached at usual
steam rates of travelling, so far as the expend-
iture of time and money is concerned.
am writing with the village spread out be-
fore me, and hardly human being in sight
This is great church-going community, and
a large majority Of its denizens are at this
moment sitting under the preaching of its four
or five mir sters holding forth in Sunday
morning seiyice. Friendly ducks are quack-
ing within reach of my ear, and lot of en-
viable pigs are snoring in my sight, uttering
an occasional grunt as now and then they
eye me with look that s-Stranger, you
poor devil who labor at the daily press may
well envy US, who can, at will, snooze in tho
shade with gentle breezes tanning US {; every
day and Sunday too"
Politics do not run high in this immediate
vicinity, the game being all on one eide. So
many late members Of the American party
and former active and earnest Wings in this
section Of Virginia are ranging themselves un-
der the standard Of Buchanan and Breckin-
ridge, as that the leading Democratic politi-
clans here are calculating strongly on so 900
majority in the State for their electoral ticket
in November ext W. ID VII.
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