The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-28
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
WEST VA, July 26, 1869.

Correspondence of the Richmand Dispatch.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
WEST Va, July 26, 1869.
am sure that an entcrprising paper like
yours must be mighty anxious by this time
for some news from the White Sulphur, ana
80 thought ! would just jot down one or
two things for you. hope you will be able
TO read them for everybody says my hand
writing is go bad. What shall tell you OF
frst--the lions, the circus, the Peabody
meeting, the man that was snake-bit, or the
ball7 think you would rather hear about
the rattlesnake, but know my own sex
would much rather hear about the ball,
and, Of course, you will give up 30 them.
But before say anything about the ball al
all, / must tell your readers that they can
now come all the way to the cold White !"
in the cars without going poking along in
those horrid stages any more. Last sum
mcr VIC crawled along, hot and dusty, al
the rate of two or three miles an hour.
Now the train brings us right up to nun
drcd yards Of Virginia Row, and they 90
say that by next summer the cars Will land
YOU right in the middle of the hotel; so
that YOU won't have to pay Trotter's omni-
bus fifty cents for an elegant drive OF three
squares and carrying your trunk. wont
TINT be nice!
I didn't reach the hotel grounds till
little after o'clock, and then | had my
supper to get and my ball-dress to put on,
az was engaged to dance with at least SIX
generals and two ez-congressmen. /
didn't, therefore, get into the ballroom till
near Ii, and so three of my partners lost
their sets; and resolved, in order TO make
them all pleased, not to dance Mt all. Twas
thus able to look about little and see the
dressing. for YOU know, let woman be
ever so busy flirting, she can always tell
YOU how another woman is dressed. And
all this | mean to tell you, at least till
get tired of the list, which is a right long
one.
1t was n very beautiful ball, indeed,
though not equal to that of last summer,
when those three Virginia beauties, Miss
Tt, Miss S---p, Miss My Nh,
were here to make the scene fairy-likc. l
am sure if / had been man should have
gone as a Grand Turk and fallen in love
with all three of them. This ball wasn't
equal to that it wasn't MS good one as we
will have on the 10th of August, but it was
Il very pretty ball, nevertheless. l en-
loved myself very much, or, rather, l
would have done so, but those foolish ma
ior-generals were SO dreadful jealous OF
one another that half my time YVES lost
pacifying them.
The music was nice, the room beautiful
everybody looked happy; the darkies
looked in ut the windows with their ivory
ornaments; the old bachelors warmed up;
the widows frisked about like young lambs
and kept throwing sleeps eyes at me; and
all went merry rs marriage bell till sup
pcr-time, when all the gentlemen grew
specially enthusiastic, and some very witty
ones said that Pcyton "kncw how to keep
a hote,n as if Planchette didn't know that
already.
There were great many ladies in cos
tune, and was SO much taken up in see
ing them that | almost forgot to notice who
was the belle of the evening. This Is al
WAYS very hard to tell, for the men are
such dcccitful creatures that they go about
and say the same compliments to half a
dozen different women and so there is no
Lcepinr any accurate account of stock. 1t
is better, think, TO 20 at once to the ball
dresses If you print this, for heavens
sake get it right, and don't INK up the
colors, or put the skirt where the body
ought to be.
The first one looked to sec how she was
dressed and behaved was Madam Be,
the wife of the Turkish Minister. ] don't
wonder this good man is satisfied with only
one wife, for this one is truly charming.
She has rich dark eyes and hair, is regu-
lar brunette and has a Greek style, and the
sweetest ways, and talks the prettlest
broken English imaginable. She wore a
rlain yellow corded silk and very simple
hut real gold ornaments, and very pretty
band of gold in her hair. like that style
don't you!
had heard such nice things said Of Miss
S--r, of New York, Virginia blood, L be-
lievc,) that l made General - point her
out to me. She wore pretty, tasteful ball
dress, and az she is rather tall, very dlgnl-
fed and graceful, and has such beautiful
manners, am not surprised that every
body admires her. General - pretended
to me to be indifferent to her, but | noticed
he flushed UP eagerly when she smiled on
him in her sweet way, though l dare say
she meant nothing more than usual.
Tho best-dresscd character, so many SAID,
was Miss C-n, who came as Ceres. She
was beautifully attired in white tarlatan
dress, her upper skirt Topped up with wheat
and grasses. She had in her hand Il scythe;
n little culver filled with wheat and grass was
fastened Oh her left side. This young lady
is of medium height, dark hair, and has
pretty blue eyes.
One of the most striking looking ladies at
tho ball was Miss Tt, Of New York, a
stately belle with fine, intelligent face,
dark hair and eyes. She came as Mar
ouise, and wore white tulle, embossed in
rold, with tunic of sky-blue velvet, Pompa-
dour style, pink satin sash, fringed with
pearls, her hair all powdered and adorned
with roses and blue velvet trimmings; orna-
ments. pearls and diamonds-which Gene
raj - said were "almost as bright as
nv eyes.'' ! am sure General - is q
wicked firt, but we will see who gets the
worst of it.
Looking around, | note q sweet, pure
face, with bright black eyes, n graceful
step, evidently young lady just entering
on her career Of happiness and JOY. That
is Miss He b, of Memphis; and
the men NIL follow her SO that positively |
am bit jealous of her.
So much for Tennessee; but there is
Kentucky fairly abreast in the race. That
pretty bright face, with dark, eloquent eye,
belongs to Miss lie Al, Of Ken
lucky; and the lady with such a pure, in
teresting, refined expression, by hcl side, is
Mrs. Ny, also Of Kentucky. II this is
~ sample of what Kentucky means to do
after the railroad is run to the Ohio, our
Virginia beauties will be put to their
mettle.
think the married ladies here are quite
us pretty and just as much admired as the
Young girls. Look there at Mrs. Us, of