Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-06-19
Correspondence PUBLIc LEDeRR.1
HoT SPRINGS, ARK, June Is, 1863.

that my old friends, your numerou
readers, shall labor under the belief the
because have drifted in this precinct 9
Tophet that am in feeble condition o
health that requires my presence here
but rather that / really made the visit 70
their information and benefit. To prov
that don't have any new or old ralgia
it is only necessary TO state that m.
bodily absence from here will be recorde'
tomorrow. That have come hither TO
the benefit of your readers, who may b'
| interested in information concerning thi
locality, will appear in the ensuing para
graphs
You will readily understand my excuse
for this disclaimer, when you learn that {
great many persons who are here arr
very anxious that their friends and ac-
quaintances shall not be informed of theil
wherea souts. Some people deem it sc
suspicious that they DO not register theiI
names, and hide away as if they were
fleeing from the very shadow Of suspi
cion. And perhaps this is well, for not
all the patients we see here are rheu-
MATES and neuralgia.
Among the visitors from Memphis !
note Mr.. Robt. c. Brinkley, whose friends
will be delighted to hear that he is i'm
proving rapidly in health, and will soon
return home rejuvensted and invigorated.
General Gordon Granger is also testing,
with good effects, the virtues of these
Plutonian decoc,ions that spring from
the vicinity of Hades. Mr.. Proudft is
also improving vastly. DR.. Knode is get.
ting fat and powerful DR.. Erwin looks
as young as school boy, and DR.. Creigh-
ton is as fine as silk-all from the effects
of the waters, wine, etc., you know. Eu-
gene Msgevney, Mr.. Waldran and the
ladies of their families are improving
daily. Colonel Leatherman, the next
Governor of Tennessee, is as large as q
whale, and seems to have found in these
thermal springs the fountains of perpetual
youth, to discover whose rejuvenating
waters DeSoto wasted the years of bis
manhood and strength, without success
Dr. McGavock is gradually separating
his identity from his notable chills, and
promises soon to be lively lad again.
1t will please the friends of Captain Fiem
Calvert to learn that he is improving
wonderfully, and will soon be as good as
new.
There are about three hundred and
fifty visitors at these springs, and they
comprehend every class of disease and
ills that flesh is heir to. There is every
character and representation Of dis
figured mortality and broken-up human
ity that can be imagined, testing the
curative properties of these springs.
There are rheumatics, neuralgies, vene.
real subjects, Of every grade and class;
barren people, and folks that are too pro-
liic equity cusses, only, however, of the
querulous and crusty male kind; folks
with itch, scrofula, letter; with noses in
all phases of disintegration; speeches.
women (raritiesl and women who talk
necessarily; men who always laugh and
men who never did laugh; people who
can't speak English and people who can,
as we'll as those who can't speak at all |
and, really, they are all here to improve
their condition, which | hope God in His
goodness will grant to them all as the
most desirable boon of their existence.
But that they all expect too much is self
evident, and if they, one and all, don't
suffer a deal in securing what they Wish,
you can set me down as subject Of the
King of Holland.
Really, one of the most amusing scenes
that has ever made he laugh is to see the
queer and odd variety Of poor and az
aicted humanity that pass in review into
the Office of DR.. laurence, the resident
springs physician, daily. A. caravan of
cripples end invalids of oil degrees on
their pilgramage to the Pool of Sloan
could not present more varied aud odd
psnnrsIs Of ills than these two huadred
patients Of his do, daily, when seeking the
talismanic influence of his healing skill.
That the poor sEicted creatures may
quickly recover is the happiest wish can
certainly express in their behalf.
1 Il IN - fiaaaans st~o - IA.
Erwin's many friends in your city to
learn that be is doing foe and success
full business in his specially. His repu-
tatien as ladies physician is especially
doing himself snd patients great good
seryiee,
There are sbout-wel, more than
enough doctors here to cure or kill all tbs
patients that seek to get rid Of the tor.
menting devils of disease that brought
them hither. Ny professional sympathy
e$tsnds to ell of them cordial good
wishes tor their sHceess.
| These springs aye situated 10 gerry
beautifully, sfaaestered portion Of thu
Ozark mountain region. The bill, from
which they spring, has evidently beer
formed by the continual deposition of tht
silicious aud csrbonaceous matters
which are evolved from the interior chem
ical laboratories OF the earth. Tie vicinity
if very picturesque in point of scener,
and exauisiteiy beautiful outlines
Mountains, passeg. valleys, streams
springs, splendid neurological forma
tions and grand views ara comprised il
I the general featares OF the country.
The thermal waters gush forth from 10
Vulnerable points in their mountain
source and from very considerable slti
tudes. They range in temperature frou