Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-07-03

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, \
GIeeubrier Co., Va, June 2S, 1850 I

GIeeubrier Co., Va, June 2S, 1850
I'd stor Star: In my third letter desire TO
gIve your readers some of the statistics of this
establishment, particularly with reference to
the radical revolution inaugurated and carried
ou. in the interior arrangements Of this eolos-
sal hotel; and 1 am the more induced tn do
this on account of some complaints that came
to my ears before seeking this pleasant noun
tain home, touching the inside management
for 1859, which, Judge, were not wholly
groundless. And here let me remark that the
writer has seen Saratoga, is a habitus of Nsw-
port, and deems himself competent to Judge
of hotels and watering places. And am in
clined to the opinion that the fault last season
was not 50 much in the quality and quantity
Of supplies furnished, as in a somewhat de-
fectiye eu,stae; but more especially in the too
extensive and varied responsibilities and du-
ties de, clved upon a smaller force of man
ayers and supervisors than the requirements
and patronage of this gigantic concern de-
snspded. That this has been amply remedied
think your readers will see by my rzpose of
the organization for 1860; and we may be
assured that the present system here is an
earnest presage that this institution is now
founded on a rock" and that with a rigid
adherence to the strict discipline and drill
now in force, the liberal and muni6cent direc-
tion Of this fortifcstion may look forward to a
future of prosperity and success for their beau
tiful retreat.
The new inside superintendent, or hotel
keeper, was selected, as understand, after a
careful inquiry and comes endorsed by testi-
mODials of character, political antecedents
and capacity and experience in his vocation
from distinguished citizens, officials, and hotel
proprietors. There are also a score or more
of assistants, male and female and their clock
like performance of duty, whether as chief
and sub-managers Of the enormous dining
hall, in the valetudinary for invalids, or as
caterers and conductors of the culinary branch
is most admirable; and must present happy
contrast to last summer, when one man had
sole charge of near 200 servants. The cuisine
for this year embraces u bevy of French ar
tsts, from the best hotels in your city and
Baltimore, and their handiwork is visible in
those splendid soups, whose appetising odors
salute the senses even before the sound of the
horrid, yet welcome gong, aUaHt-coHrteTS of
well-ordered rOasts, and followed by neat
array of pastry, all combining to prOlong our
stay at the dining board, and put in jeopardy
the efficiency and power Of ones gastric mech
anism.
The inducements for resort to these noun
tain springs, regard as numerous. Like all
institutions of the kind, these claim to be a
grand curative for the complex legacy of ills
bequeathed to mankind by Pandora's last will
and testament My own experience and OBJ
servation have been limited; but am conf
dent that in humors and cutaneous diseases,
in rheumatism and neuralgia affections, and
as purifier and corrective Of the vital cur
rents, the specific of these highly-charged sui
phuric waters is strongly remedial.
But were there no virtue in these mineral
waters, there is enough in the scenery Of those
great Southern mountain ranges, in their in
vigorsting, energising air, to attract hither
the health and the pleasure-seeker, alike from
the pine-clad plains that skirt the Penobscot
and kennebec, and the torpid and sultry val
lies Of the Rio Grande, from the prairies of
the Great West, and the bayous and torrid
heats of the fsrthest South.
And the ponderous Registers of past years
in the Office here, with their repleted pages of
thousands on thousands of arrivals from every
State in the Union, but especially from the
sunny South, whose planters and professional
men, whose politicians and statesmen, whose
high officials and thriving men Of trade, whose
refined and beautiful women, perform their
annual pilgrimage up those great mountain
slopes, and thrOng these vallies, attest the
fact that the White Sulphur Springs of the
Old Dominion have attained a celebrity and
achieved a sdccess second to no kindred insti-
tuition on this continent. TELLIAxED.