The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-04

WH1TE SULPHUR SpRNes FOB TIE SEAsoN.-
Whatever may be the vicissftudes Of the fu.
ture, it win be many long years before South
erners forget the beatitudes OF the Virginia
Springs In the days before the war. As natural
ly as few the swallow homeward, did Caroli-
nian and Georgian, Albanian and Texian,
Mississippian and Louisianian, turn to the
blue mountains of Virginia and drink in there,
in few short weeks, deep draughts OF enjoy
ment, which were tonics for mind and body,
during the rest 81 the business or fashionable
season. None have forgotten the picturesque
cabins, the huge hotels, the eyer-slorious
mountain peaks, the dancing, the flirting, the
match -naking, the bracing mountain air; all
forming that ne plus ultra Of fun, jollity and
general good times-that summit Of summer
ambition-that unapproachable, indescribable
and never-to-be-suf6cient tly-praised heart
stirring, joy-making scens-the old Virginia
Springs.
Much has been lost that will never be recov-
cred, but most Of our old enjoyments gradually
return. Last year the White Sulphur-King
of Virginia Springs, Grand Mogul OF health and
vigor, Tycoon Of quips, cranks, fun and frolic-
was opened for the first time since the war.
Hundreds of southerners focked to the old
place, and found that it retained all its natural
charms. There were some short comings,
some little annoyances, and it was!reserved for
the present season to witness the White Sui
phur rediuirus-to witness it in new and
glowing. garb, which is as far ahead OF the
robes Of year ago as the present silks and
satins are ahead Of the 'homespun dress" that
Southern ladies wore.
It is not every man that can keep hotel, and
it is not one hotel-keeper in thousand that
could run the White Sulphur Springs. But
Peyton & Co., the present proprietors, have an
inspiration, an qfsatas Of their own, and have
breathed into the famed watering place new
life, and given to it startling resurrection.
s'Two thousand feet above tide water;" every
deep inspiration making the blood dance
through the veins like quicksilver; every cold
water fight ending in the defeat OF all the blues
and all the ailments that mortal ever knew.
There is the renowned parlor, which is half as
large again as the east room in the White
House; there is the dining-room, which is the
largest in the world, being three hundred feet
long and seating twelve hundred persons; there
is the 'lover's walk" dear to maid and swain;
there is the finest bathing establishment in
the country; there is the bowling alley and the
billiard room; there is Rosenberger's full brass
band, which discourses golden music; table
that would tempt even the man who ''feasts
with" Lucullus tonight; and, lastly, valetu-
dinary kitchen where invalid visitors will, upon
valid excuse, be furnished with all the delica-
cies which the sick and feeble require. The
White Sulphur has accommodations for F1F-
TEEN HUNDRED GUESTS, and can find room for
twice that number.
Messrs. Peyton & Co. are host in them
selves; but they have other hosts Of great
strength and stunning Importance. Mr.. J. B.
Tinsley, of the Spottswood Hotel, Richmond,
Is one Of the best business men in the South,
and as attentive as. o newly engaged couple
Mr.. j. B. Peyton, the room clerk, 30 well known
lastyear, is as pushing as q steam engine, as
courteous as Sir Charles Grandson, and as po-
lite as basket Of chips. Then there is Col. C.S
Peyton, of the Virginia Hotel, Staunton, whois a
nonpareil in hotel matters, and there is also MIR.
E. G. Peyton, formerly of the Exchange Hotel,
Richmond, who is unepproachable as a model
of what hotel clerk should be.
The White Sulphur has all the old traditions
and all the new attractions, all the charms Of
nature and art, all that can tickle the palate and
elevate the soul; who but o poor ''slave Of the
pen" would not throw care to the dogs, leave
reconstruction to take care of itself, haste to
the depot, and, after rather long railroad
Tip and twenty mile ride through the finest
country that America knows, find 'himseK,
herself and the little selves" in that s'New
Eden" and ssBower of Perpetual Bliss" the
White Sulphur Springs.