The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-09-11
The Allegheny Sssr5sggs--A Eeer
faunt--Tfte yellow Sulphur aA.d teie
Montgomery White.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.

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CnnIsTIANsDuEG, September G, 1869.
Asthe Springs season is now drawing to Il
close, and your columns are not so crowded
with correspondence as they have been, j
propose to give you a deSultory letter de-
.cribing some of the incidents that made a
recent round to three of those near us par
licularly agreeable.
At the Allegheny 7 found a most agree
able company, among whom were several
ministers Of different denominations, and
AIN sure that our free and easy CONVERSE
ton, pleasant jokes, and social intercourse,
will not soon be forgotten by any of the
party. | could not help hoping that the
cordial familiarity which marked q. our
association would prove to the world, as it
confirmed in Us, the conviction that there
is unity in diversity III the church as well
as in nature, and | have no doubt that many
II Christian heart felt, as they witnessed our
ministerial clique, "I1ow sweet and how
pleasant q thing it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity"
But our time was also diversified with
visiting the scenes OF nature hat arc so at
t~ractive to the eye Of the artist. One day
we spent in q fruitless search for the falls
where poor Randy Stiles lost his life. Hav-
ing mistaken the creek, we climbed through
the widest gorge have ever seen. An
other day n party wentto Fishers View, and
went into rapture over the grand mountain
scene that burst in all its grandeur upon
their gaze. Another day was spent in a
successful deer hunt, when the desire OF
years was gr~atiied By killing q deer. | had
often sat for hours upon 81 stand, but had
never seen o wild deer leaping through
the forest, and really was anxious to know
whether or not | would have the buck aguc.
After sitting for hours quietly listening to
the ripple Of O. mountain stream | was
aroused from my reyerie by the word Of a
companion, and instinctively cooking my
gun, | sat looking across the stream in
breathless interest. Scarcely had / time to
fix my attention when a beautiful large
buck came bounding toward me, and as
quick as thought | raised my gun and fired,
and shalt never forget the thrill Of pleasure
that passed through my heart as l saw him
stretched in death upon the bank. l had
struck him in the brain, and be fell, almost
without a struggle, dead in his tracks.
Having acquired sufficient notoriety by
this feat, and failing to repeat the exploit
after several attempts, we came on home,
and on horseback started for the Yellow
Sulphur. Arriving here about II o'clock,
and finding that every place was crowded,
we were Joined by another companion, and
rode rapidly On to tine Montgomery White.
Here we were greeted by pleasant friends,
and were soon escorted to the most delight
tul rooms by the gentlemanly clerk, Mr..
Turnbull.
The Montgomery White was always one
OF The most beautiful places in the noun
tQins, Even Some painful associations Of
younger Gays could not detract from it's
natural beauty, chastened and adornc,! by
the srt of man. The cottages are large aud
,eommodious, the dining7room ample and
well ventilated, the parIors pleasant and