Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-09-20
Bath Correspondence.

| greSS OF health and pleasure seekers, and TIT
beautiful, if not the chivalrous, llnger abou
the mountain Springs This is PARTICULAR,
the case at the Healing, Hot and Waru
Springs, from the fact that visitors leaving the
West Va Springs stop at these places on theil
| return. a1 aI srs.
Very many persons visit the Springs in search
of pleasure, and yet it is strange but true, that
very few remain to enjoy that most delightful
of all seasons-an Autumn In the mountains
The air is then more salubrious, and the scene
ry is peculiarly grand, after an October frost,
with exquisite pencil, has touched the tender
leaf '1Ns then, ''The hound of the hunter is
heard" and then, There is pleasure in the
painless woods. But, in speaking of this
country. l desire to mention more particularly,
comparatively isolated region, and one of the
best of which these mountains can boast.
From your city Warm Springs is easy of &C
hontas county. A good road leads from your
emporium to Mcdowell, Highland county,
thence to Monterey and westward. Between
these roads, lying in the counties of Bath and
Highland, wrapped in the deep sombre shades
of the grand old Shenandoah, is the region to
which we refer. The soil is rich and produces
abundantly, but the distance to ready. mark
ct, and especially the rough mountain roads
conspire to make farming Improbable The
upland, however, is adapted to grazing and
many well fatted cattle are annually driven
away. A view from the summit of Shenan-
doah, lat VILLAGE grazing) is intensely interest
ing-the scenery is grand beyond description.
The Blue Ridge forms the eastern horizon, and
westward the far off Allegheny and Cheat
Mountains seem to say to the enraptured
vision-"Thus far shalt thou come. Elliott S
Knob, the highest point in the State, stands
in bold and beautiful prominence, towering
above the thousand hills which lie around Its
base. As far as the eye can reach it rests upon
the beauties of mountains, hills and valleys,
aud one cannot help thinking this the very bo-
som of our old Mother Virginia. But, from
this delightful eminence we look down upon
the detached region, spread out like a map and
wonder why it is so. If well graded road led
from this place to your city, or the nearest f.
r. Station, your business men would feel it an
acquisition of no mean importance, and the in
habitants Of the REGION would soon reap an
ample leward for the cost and trouble of build
ing this important road for besides giving
them a market for their surplus produce, it
would enhance the value of their lands.
Two beautiful rivers wind among the hills
and down the valleys, and they water the thou
sands of acres Of fertile land along their bor-
ders These make many desirable farms
which, from our emineuce, look like we'll cult
waited garden spots Near the junction of the
two rivers is the pIeasa Mt little village of Viii
liamsville This deserves more than passing
notice Since the war, the loyalty of the citi-
zens has not grown strong enough to support a
post Office. This puts them to very great in
convenience; the privilege is granted them,
however of getting their mail at a ''trooly
loil'' Office, ten miles distant. They have not
yet passed the fifteenth amendment" The
most important establishment, extensively
known as Wiliiamsville Mill, is that of Mr..
John Ell. Weldon. His family flour is known
in market, and is inferior to none iu the State.
The village supports two houses of merchan-
disc The firm of Potts and Stewart is relia-
BILE and has the confidence of the people. That
of Coursey & Clark, lately established, prom
ises to do business Saddles and Harness are
made to order. Blacksmithing and Shoema-
king are done at intervals. A neat and we'll at
tended Church is the pride of the village and
vicinity. This delightful neighborhood is beau
tifully hemmed ip by Tower Hill, Knapper'
Hill, BulIpasture Bluff and jerk might.
not pray to Jupiter for assistance before they
put their own shoulder to the wheel. More
anon. Truly yours,
Healing Springs, Va, Sept 18th, 1870
The FALLEN EMPEROR History will al
ways assign to the captive Emperor the first
place among the mOnarchS who were his cOtem-
poraries. He has ruled France for longer pc
| riod than his more celebrated uncle, and his
reign has been on the whole, an era of peace
order, prosperity and material progress. I'm
der his government France has kept her place
as the leader of modern civilization; her cap
ital has been rebuilt and beautiied; the arts
have fonrished there has been a prodigious
growth in her manufactures; her railways have
been multiplied she has risen to be the sec
ond commercial and naval power in the world
| and Ter Influence and ascendancy have been
recognized in every European cabinet. During
all this time the first rank has been conceded
to Napoleon, not only among crowned heads,
but among contemporary statesmen. Neither
Cavour, nor Bismarck, nor Palmerston ever
held SO commanding position in European es
timation, or approached his European influence.
France has not been free under his rule, but
| until this disastrous war, she has been great
and respected ed.-Lynchburg Nescs
Whatever there is of honor or glory in the
last days Of the Second Empire clusters around
the army of France, and its central figure was
the heroic McMahon, VINO yielded his life fol
Napoleon as his ancestors had shed their bloOo
and treasure in loyal devotion to the waning
cause Of Charlie Stuart. No sympathizer with
Prussia, says the Baltimore american, no mat
ter how enthusiastic be may be, but will pay
to the gallantry of the dead soldier the tribute
of heartfelt sorrow that he should be one o
the victims of the Emperors ambition and lus
of power. Mcmahon was not personal favo
rite with Napoleon, but, nevertheless, the
great soldier served him to the last. How ht
fought, what personal endeavors he made il
leading his troops, the story OF his wounds anG
death will tell. When the history Of this won
derful war is written, it will indeed be bitte
prejudice that refuses to McNIahon one of it
brightest pages. -Lynchbmg Republican.
The RADICALS AND THE GERMANS. Davis
the Radical Governor of Texas, has removed
naturalized Germans from the Galveston Boarc
| of Aldermen and appointed negroes in then
places This is the Republican love for Ger
mans. Flakes Bulletin says, IF he possessed
a grain of prudence or a particle of love fol
his party, he never would have given this infu
ential element of his party an insult that vii
drive from it every German vote in the State.
Gabriel Claude Jules Favre, Minister of For
eign Affairs, was born in Lyons, March 81
1909. At the age of twenty-one he took
prominent part in the pubic affairs as the op
ponent of royalty, and he had just attained
that age at the crisis when Charles X wa
hurled from power and gave place to Loui
Philippe. No man 10 France has been so ear
nest so eloquent and so consistent an advocat
Of republican principles as Jules Favre.
Thackeray says it is better for you to pass al
evening once or twice week in lady's draw
ing room, even though the conversation is rath
er slow, and you know the girls songs by heart