The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-20
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,


| GREENBRIER Co., Va, Aug. IT, 1860.
| The fashionable season at the White SULPHUR
| Springs may be said, now, to have reached its
height. At the present moment there are gathered
together here, within the limits of this beautiful
little valley about seventeen hundred visitors rep
| resenting, chiefly, the most intelligent and the
wealthiest society of the Southern and Middle
States. There are, of course, among them several
distinguished individuals and prominent public
men, but think the number of these is smaller
| than is usual at this place.
| There is also deficiency of beautiful women-a
| deficiency which is palpable that the women
| themselves invariably acknowledge it. The snpu-
| lar fact that among so many people of education
and refinement there should be found so small pro-
portion of female loneliness may be accounted for
| however, upon the theory that beauty and clever
ness bear an inverse relation to each other, for
am assured by an old bachelor friend, that, if the
girls here not pretty, they are more tn an ordi
narily agreeable" The Summer has, so far been
| spent in manner rational that the straigbtest
| moralist could find no cause of complaint. There
has been little or no dissipation, and not even any
extravagant gaiety. The ballroom is well filled
every evening, and the dancing is conducted with
much spirit, although never continued after mid
| night The other watering place amusements, such
as as riding, walking, rolling at ten pins, and
flirting, are all more or less INDUCED in but
very quietly. In short, it is not TOO much to saw
that better behaved set of people could
scarcely be found in the world than those who are
now sojourning in this mountain region of Viz
GINA. Life at the White Sulpher was so long sy-
nonymous with discomfort and privatiop that most
persons who come here now are being agreeably
surprised to find everything so comfortable and so
many efforts making for their accommodation and
pleasure. The company of capitalists who own
the property have certainly much vet to do to
render the place as attractive its natural advan-
tages entite it to be- but they have done enough
already to show how easily their future work may
be accomplished.
The new hotel is mammoth building, about 400
feet long, and like the steamship Great Eastern is
chiefly remarkable for its size. Its external ap-
pearance is sufficiently imposing, but its interior ar
rangement is the most awkward and inconyepient
one that the ingenuity of man could possibly con.
trive. The architect who could succeed in re-msd-
cling it, so as to adapt it properly to the uses for
most liberal reward from the proprietors but
should be regarded as the benefactor of thousands
OF his fellow creatures, who must continue wear
after year, to visit the White SULPHUR The
grounds have been very much extended and i'm
proved, and i am told by those who were here last
summer, that the amount of work which has been
accomplished since that time is almost incredible
The various designs of the company will doubtless
be fully carried out in the course of the next wear
The railroad connections, north and south, will be
completed to this place, it is said by the summer
OF 1862, and it is fair to presume that with such ia
cliltles OF travel, the number of visitors will only
be limited by the extent of the accommodations of
Tered them. One or two hotels more will certainly
be required, and we must expect the White Sui
phur then, to become just such place as Saratoga
now is.
sented here by an encamrment on the grounds of a
military company from Richmond. Company f,
Isl regiment Virginia Volunteers, under command
OF Capt; Cary. They came at the special invita-
ton OF Col. Morton, the President of the White
Sulphur Springs Company, who, during their So
Jnurn here was indeatgable in his politeness and
attention to his guests They, in turn entertained
the visitors with their daily drills and parades,
MI aIn of a1u
accompanied them. Governor Letcher and one |
or two of his aids were with the party. Everybody
was avorably impressed with the soldiers and their
3ncers, ana taking them as fair sample of the |
virginia volunteers, was glad to learn that the
ancient commonwealth has now at her command |
(actualy enrolled and in uniformly three hundred |
ana elghty.hve companies of her citizens This |
unusual military spirit was of course accustomed
by the memorable John Brown invasion. and is |
manifested not only in Virginia, but throughout
the whole South. Let us hone that Norfbern |
ianatcs may learn from it how united is the de- |
termination of the people of the slave States to |
resist to the very death any future aggressons upon
their soil. |
Strange to say, almost perfect silence prevails
here about the great POLITICAL rather Presiden-
tal issues, before the country. On former oc-
casions the White Sulphur has been the acknow- |
edged Southern headquarters of the whole army |
OF politicians. The quadrennal struggles of the |
Republic have often, indeed, been materially reliev
ed by the Doctors who have sate under the infu- |
ence OF this delightful climate, to consult upon the
public welfare. But now, the subject of the ma |
TONS woes is scarcely ever alluded to-, Can it be
that the case is deemed so desperate that the poll
tcians skill fails to suggest a remedy? If so, it is
high time that the patient should have the benit of
the sound common sense practice of the people, lest
quacks and ricksters should Destroy altogether, Its
existence
Last night there was grand dress ball and eve
~ effort was made at the display of handsome per
sons and conspicuous dresses, but, | have found
no reason to modify the opinions have expressed
above, in reference to the scarcity ofpretty women
text week, the Western Virginia Agricultural
society holds here exhibition of horses and 9TH
,r live stock. hear, also, some talk of fancy
ball. 1t may interest some of your readers to
know thatth weather, after having been the hot
est ever known in the mountains, is now delight
ully cool. The thermometer at midday, for two
lays past, has stood at $50.