American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-03
Letter From Virginia.
ALLEGHANY SPRINGS, Va, }
July %, 1872,

tIgueIng journey OF two days and
three nights l reached this delight
full place on Sunday morning last,
and here lind all that is necessary
to restore quiet and health to the
weary and delicate. l am fully sat
isfied that more pleasant watering
place than the Allegheny Springs,
cannot be found III America. Pos
sessing all the advantages of eli
mate and convenience of access, it
completes, favorably, with all other
places in its accommodations. The
fare is simply excellent, the finest
beef and mutton, the purest and
sweetest milk. the best of bread and
the fattest chickens, with abund-
ance of vegetables, constitute our
daily board. The company is COM
posed principally of persons from I'll G
Gulf and Atlantic States, and a
more sociable party L never met.
General Preston of South Carolina,
Gen. Hood of New Orleans, and L.
A. Pollard compose our notabIes.
We are not cursed with that ubiquit-
GUS class of people introduced into
society by that tickle mistress
fOrtune-and generally denOminat-
cd, shoddy. Everybody here Is " ST.
mon pure" l recognize many Mis-
sissippians here who occupy the
front seat in beauty;s circle. Yester-
day visited the Mont gomery White
Sulphur Springs, distanced ten
miles, there l found a very large
and fashionable crowd; l was de-
lighted to greet two of Canton's
qnondum citizens, G. w. Wood and
lady. The accommodations at the
" Montgomery" are not good, the
table is poorly supplied, and the
bedding is horrible. A gentleman
informed me that he slept On hand
full of straw covered with an old
saddle blanket-for which privi-
lege lie paid So 80 per day. 1 at
tributed the popularity oil the place
to the cheapness of board-only
$40 per month.
Many improvements have been
made to :" Alleghany,' and six hun
dred people can be comfortably ac-
commodated. The striking feature
here, is the excellence of the serv-
vants-real old ante bellum Virginia
darkies; they are untiring in their
efforts to contribute to the comfort
of the guests.
1t was my misfortune to select for
my route, via Mobile, Montgomery
and Dalton. The route is twelve
hours quicker than tho Jackson
route, but owing to the recent heavy
storms that have prevailed in Ala
bama, the roads are in bad condi-
ton, causing delays which looses
connection and you travel at a Snail'S
pace. But / am informed that the
road is now running through on
schedule time.
Inever witnessed such wholesale
of crops as is shown
along the line of the Selma, Rome
and Dalton II. r. Entire fields of
cotton and corn have been swept
away, not stalk or fence rail lett to
mark the spot where short time
since, was green and promising
fields. Near the Coosa river the
railroad embankment, thirty feet
thick, was swept away like drift
wood. An old gentlemen, near this
spot, informed Ee that out of three
hundred acres of cotton and as many
in corn, he had but ten left to repre-
sent his half years labor and to sat
isfy his grasping Commission Mer-
chant.
1t has been raining here every
every day for twenty days, but to-
day the shines brightly with not a
clOud to shade its glory.
The Little Roanoke river flows
along the entire front of the Ale
ghany lawn; the once clear little
stream is now blOated, noisy and
muddy. understand that i'm the
vicinity of Richmond and Peters
burg there has been no rain
for fully thirty days, thereby in
jurlng the tobacco to a great eX-
tent, From present reports, l think
those gentlemen and capitalist who
are fond of "speculations," would
do we'll to watch the movements of
tobacco, as there is every indication
of a famine of the reed in this State.
Perhaps nature feels outraged at
those young and old men who be-
spatter the side walks and church
steps with their filthy tobacco juice
and intends depriving them of this
" manly privilege Look out young
gentlemen, or you will lose this ev-
idence of your maturity!
L shall leave for Western, Va,
very soon; should 1 discover any
thing of interest, the CITIZEN shall
be made acquainted with the fact.
Truly yours,
TRACY TUPMAN.
WILSON DJsGUSTED.-A New
York telegram dated July "a, has
IL ,J.,f -. Ia,