The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-07
Giles County.
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Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.l
PEARIsBuRG, July 81, 1873.
To lover Of splendid mountain scenery
this county presents unusual attractions.
From every hilltop one may see ridges and
solitary mountains on every hand, and If
you would see them in the widest grandeur
it is only needn't to follow the windings OF
New river, which traverscs the county and
sewers ridge after ridge of giant mountains
as they cross its pathway. If ever railroad
is built up this river from the Chesapeake
sippi and Ohio the scenery will amply repay
every lover of nature who may desire to see
some Of her widest freaks. The Salt Pond
and the New River White Sulphur Springs,
in this county, are already resorted to by
many tourists in search OF health and re.
creation. "..-- ~ ...
The whole surface of this county is very
much broken; the roads, Of course, are ex-
ecrable; but there is hardly more produc-
tive soil In the State. 1t is astonishing to
see these towering hills clothed with the
finest crops. All the crops are good this
year. The wheat crop is very much better
than in adjacent counties. 1t is said that 1t
rarely fails here. There is a great deal Of
good farming done; the hills may be cultl-
waited to the very tops proftably IN most
cases. ii. rgsa.s-..'
; i have already alluded to the roads, but 1t
Is impossible to be too emphatic in their
condemnation. Many Of the best farms in
tho county are approached. by the most
abominable quilted tracks imaginable, called
by courtesy Wagon-roads. The people never
seem to deem it necessary to remove rocks
or ill up washes. And then, unless you
take one Of the main roads leading out OF
the county to Mercer, Pulaski, or Mont
gomery, it Is impossible to find the way
among these everlasting hills and hollows.
Your correspondent knows this to his cost,
as be got wound up In the intricacies Of
Walkers creek, on which there arc some of
the best farms in the county, and travelled
fifteen miles to point he wished to reach
when ten would have suficed. 1t was hot
day and he was in hurry, so Of course he
did not lose his temper and did not say more
tllan hundred times that he would not have
the finest farm in Giles county as gracious
uift if he had to live on it locked IN by those
hills and douhy barred from the world by
the intricacies and abominations which the
deuded people call roads.
There is considerable excitement here
about the election OF clDdidntc to the
Legislature. Here as in Mercer two Con-
scryatives and Radical are out. The peo-
pie are out with conventions, and will not
have them; SO the result is doubtful. Some
one of the old-fashioned politicians Sir.
Clay.-Dispatchl said he ",could rather DC
rigit than President" There are not many
of that kind left. Men are so crazy for
office nowadays they would rather be
wrong than miss it.
harrisburg Is TN unattractive little court
house village nestled at the foot of Angels
Rest "a very beautiful solitary mountain
commanding splendid view of all the sur
rounding country. There are several very
neat private residences and two tasteful
little churches, but the hotels and public
buildings are, as usual, without taste. nyou
want to have q pleasant time, Messrs. Editors,
take a horseback ride through these noun
tains. Mine is business trip and not q
jaunt for pleasure, but it has been most
pleasant, and now am off for home,
HOSPEs,