The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24
For TEE CLARION.
Letter from Virginia Springs.
MONTGOMERY SPRINGS P. O., Val
July l6. 1873.

/ MONTGOMERY SPRINGS L. O.s Al
July l6, 1873.
EDITORS CLARION:
} This beautiful place, nesting among thu
thickIy wooded spurs of the Alleghanies
supplied by never failing springs of health
tul water, and ever famed by the bracine
breezes fresh from the mountain tops, was
for many years before the war considered
the most attractive summer resort in Vir-
ginia. During those sad esbelEuns'' DAYS il
was used as a Confederate hospital, and the
damage done to its buildings and grounds
while they were thus occupied, deferred the
old company from re-opening them for
| years after " the cruel war was over Five
years ago, however, it WIS leased to two en-
| terprising gentlemen of Christiansburg
| Messrs. Wilson & LorentZ, who did mucn
to repair its waste places, improve its ap-
pearance, and direct the invalid and pleas
ure-seeker again to its pleasant haunts.
The two last seasons under the manage
ment of Col. Thomas Wilson, additional re-
pairs were made, Improvements added
houses built, and hundreds locked here
from every part of the South. Many, com
ing staid-would go nowhere else, wanted
To 20 nowhere else, and vowed here would
they return as each summer rolled around.
aud with its malaFious heat and poison 0us
breath drove them from their Southern
homes. True to their preference, they are
docking back this summer By the hundreds.
bringing their friends with them and find
ing d hearty welcome at the hands of a
proprietor, Capt. G. a. ColhOun, a veteran
springs man, who has for years past lent at
traction TO the Allegheny Springs by his
judicious and popular management there.
Capt. Colhoun having become largely in
terested as a stockholder in the Montgon-
cry White, has nut the finishing touches To
the place, and SHE is arisen like the much
Wanted Phoenix, from her ashes. Repaint-
ed, refurnished, repaired from basement TO
garnet, the walks graded and grayeIed, the
trees and avenues trimmed, the grass lawn
Ieveled and shaver, and the pretty stream
which meanders through the grounds being
bridged with neat aud picturesque struc-
tures-nOthing seems left undone that could
add to the comfort or pleasure of the
guests. The rooms neat and airy, servants |
well trained and courteous, fare excellent |
and the cooking uneXceptionable. What |
more can man want, when he is helped To |
all these delights by such courteous and el- |
fcient gentlemen as Messrs. William Wade, |
e. NJ. Oberchain and W +. Rose, the clerks |
LIZ more is needed, our catalogue is not yet |
complete. A well-kept livery will supply |
stages, carriages, buggIes or saddle horses, |
for single riders or parties; tor the social |
evening ride, or the longer journey. The |
bar is supplied with the finest liquors ana
cigars, pracJiced band is engaged fer the
season, and proved itself re- peatedIy equal to
the railroads lands the guests in the very
room of the place.
There now about three hundred visitors
here and coming in daily. We notice from
the ledger in the last four days the arrival
Of siXty-eight from the South, representing
the States of Georgia, Louisiana, Mi9sI>sip-
pi, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina.
Maryla land and Virginia, while nearly every
other State in the south had already landed
l delegation here.
Last week the proprietor gave his guests
,he first ball of the season. Ii was coli
;eded by all perfect success, going oil
most handsomely. The hotel was iiiumi-
rated with transp arencies, and the spacious
)all room Jaste1uily decorated with arches,
estoons and wreaths OF evergreeuS, and
rom early in the evening till 3 O'Clock next
morning the floor was thronged with grace
Ind beauty, wnirling i'll the giddy :aazes OF
he dance. Among the dancers we noticed
rom your own State Miss Singleton, oil Can
on, Misses BIakemOre and McCutchen, OF
Ficksburg, besides The Misses Blanc, Mrs. ,
Baldwin, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs. .Daven-
BORT, Mrs. Bickham and Mrs. Iates, OF New :
orleans; Miss Marks and the Misses Jor-
Ian, from Alabama, Mrs. Xix, from South
CAROLINA, and Miss Mickey, from Norfolk, =
"a, and many other beauties whose names | :
We could not get.
But my time and your space viii not al :
oW me to lengthen this communication. =
let your friends and readers come and see
or themselves, and ii the testimony of one
Who has already given this place we IS .
rial is not Endorsed to the very letter. we
will agree to stand treat and say nothing
more. BoTEroUsT- .