The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-05-02
The White sulphur Springs.
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.

With the completion OF the chesapeake
and Ohio road this famous southern water
ng-plarc will be only fifteen hours from Cin-
cinnati. BY the existing route ut present,
eta Parkelsburs and Washington, the dis
lance is well up &c thousand miles, and the
time about forty hours. This will give an
idea of the Importance Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio road to Cincinnati, placing her in d-
rect communication with places in this sea-
ton and on the Virginia seaboard, to which
she has heretofore been Il stranger. \ glance
at the map will indicate this more clearly
than can convey the idea by words and II.
tercnccS to yariuils routes and distances. The
assurance now doubly sure tint the eastern
connection between Huntington and Cincin-
natl will be put through ut once by way OF
Hillsboro', makes it 4 matter Of interest to the
people there and thcrcaboIlt TO know just
what it is that is to be opened TO them II
this direction.
left Lewisburg last evening for this place,
coming through from Grcenbrier river on
the line of the great road, or so hear to it ;;'
to amount to the same thing.
Some three miles this side of LcWiShurg
the pike, SO called, crosses the Grcenbricr
river where the railroad, that has followed
it from its junction with New river, leave,
IL, lEtflilS SOl SulotSl hoiSl Va tiiI
mountains.
Our conveyance arrived at Greenhrier river
about dark, Which we crossed in ferry OF
the old-fashioned sort. The Greenhricr is a
far less savage stream than New river, but its
current is very swift, and its banks in many
places steep and rugged. With all the force
of its current, however, and wldness of its
surroundings, it is tame and harmless as Il
babe compared with ferociolls New river.
At the ferry had been bridge, its black
ened, naked piers standing out in the current
alone, suggestive of fire. | was told by the
driver that General Wise, of the rebel army,
burned the bridge.
At the site of the burned bridge the rail-
road road-bed comes in sight OH the south
bank of the riy er, and keeps near the pike to
this place.
Wearrived 1T the springs well in the night,
and after that sound sleep always accorded
to such as have clear conScicnces, and have
ridden in Virginia stages, especially the lat
ter | arose this morning to make obServa-
tons in this famous southern watering-place.
1t is good time to see the springs and sur
roumdings now, as there is no crowd to di-
vert attention.
Nature and .art have combined to make this
place of rare beauty and usefulness. The
mir Is pure and salubriots, the elevation high,
the scenery inspiring, and in addition to all,
the waters are of rare efficacy in cases of dys-
peDSia and liver diseases. \ dozen or more
other diseases and ailments are greatly bene-
fitted by the water here. but it is, perhaps, in
dyspepsia and chronic liver complaints that
the most marked improvements are noted.
DR.. Moorman is authority for the statement
that the medicinal influences of the water
upon the system are cilthartic, diuretic, stdo-
rife. and alternative. Some cathartic and di-
uretic effect, rs well as 4 distinct determine
ton to the skin by sweating, is easily induced
under its use in the great majority who drink
ii. But the most decidedly controlling effect
Of the water over diseased action. and that
which, more than every other, gives its high
est and most valuable character as remedy,
is its Alternative power or that peculiar action
by which it effects salutary changes or alte-
rations in the blood, the various secretions,
and upon the various tissues OF the body.
THE SPRING.
The spring itself, from which this place
has its name and fame, is situated near the
centre of the grounds. The volume Of water
discharged is the same all the year around,
neither rainy nor dry seasons having any ef-
feet upon it whatever. In appearance the
water is pure freestone, but tie moment you
smell or taste you are convinced that Its looks
deceive its character, and that it is very
strongly impregnatcd with sulphur. As 1t
runs away over its pebhly bed it imparts to
all substances with which il comes in contact
surface coating of white.
THE GROUNDS. ......
The grounds are admirably laid of, and,
indeed, everything Is well arranged for the
comfort and convenience of the thousands
who flock here every summer. There are
eipht rows of neat, white frame cottages,
named respectively Alabama, Louisiana,
Paradise, Baltimore, Columbia, Tansus, Caro-
lima, and Virginia Rows.
These surround the large hotel, which Is
indeed large one. 1t is 4OO'feet In length
by corresponding width. and covers over an
acre of ground. The dining-room is the
largest in the United States, seating with
convenience over l 200 persons. Everything
about the hotel from top to bottom is built
on grand scale. 1t is not opened yet for
the season, but will be the 10Th of May.
THE PROPERTY
now belongs to Il joint stock company, anu IS
considered by them to be worth million
and a quarter of dollars. The ground and
buildings are worth about S2o0,OOO, which
leaves the spring alone to represent value
Of one million. For small spring, running
thirty gallons minute, this is rather high
valuation. ~
The property is now leased to c. S. Pey-
ton Il CO., whose lease will expire alter the
coming season. They took it for term OF
five years shortly after the war, and are said
to have made money i'll the spcculatloh.
They have been crowded with guests every
season, and are preparing for larger rush
than ever this summer.
NOT SECTIONAL.
The White Sulphur has always been con-
sidcred sort of southern camping-gr
but this last season it lost this distinctive fea-
ture, as the books show that it received more
patronage from the north side of the Poto-
mac than from the entire South. This IS Tor
two reasons First, the southern people are
not able to go to watering.placeS as they did
before the war; and second, the merits OF
these Springs are becoming better known in
the North. Steadily since the war the num-
Der of northern visitors to this place has in
creased with each returning season. With
the completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio
road there will be an influx from the West,
and these Springs will become national pro-
perty, i'm broad sense. They will be sort
of mutual camping ground for northcrners
and southerners alike, affording the repre-
sentative men and womensof society North
and South chance TO see more of each other.
There is nothing that so knocks down the
bars of prejudice and iIl-will rs this mingling
together of the wealthy, cultivated, and re-
fined, of each section. As conducted since
the war, this summer resort Is becoming q
national blessing. Here the extremes OF
sections can meet and smoke the pipe OF peace