The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-02

Cholera Driving People to tho Noun
tains-POlitical Sayings and DOings-
The Question OF tho GovernorshiP.
ALLEGHANY SPRINGS
Montgomery county, Va, June rs, 1873. !
ofthe many watering places Virginia boasts Of
this is one Of the most delightful 1t is peculiarly
and almost exclusively q Southern resort Of the
most aristocratic order. Few virginians are to be
seen here during the season. the company being
nearly altogether composed Of wealthy planters
and their families from the Mississippi Valley mer
chants from Southern cities and the elite OF New
Orleans. The springs are located on the eastern
ascent to the Allegheny Mountains, at an
elevation OF about twenty-three hundred
feet above the level Of the sea, and perhaps
the highest Of all the watering places In the
State. The buildings. which are the neatest,
fastest and handsomest Of any that have seen,
are costly ensoonced In a charming little valley or
opening in the middle of cluster OF knobs or spurs
OF the great Allegheny chain. lawn like an
emerald carpet crossed by beautifully gravelled
walks; cottages, unique In their architecture and
varied in color trees with an over-abundance of
the most luxuriant foliage; seats and stands for
rest, ease and comfort which dot the lawn. make
up a panorama refreshing to behold Then the
way you get here gives you taste or a relish lor
what awaits you. You come over the Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad east from Lynchburg
and west from Bristol and you whirled at
moderate rate through the most picturesque
of Uncle Sans dominions. There are, not the
wildness and subhmity that you see going over
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad but then there
are the beautiful green verdure, the cultivated
plains, the massive woods and the handsome cot
tages OF the inhabitants with an occasional noun
tain village on the way, and there is enjoyment
enough for the dusty aenizen Of the city to repay
n inf rtc hard unrE hnn hnn 1rnI
people can be comfortably disposed OF here, and
each season sees the place thrOnged with perhaps
the best most cultivated and refined society OF the
South. You are not plunged into the meshes and
dissipation OF fashionable mob made up from
every hole and corner of the country, and you are
not subjected to all the trials and universities which
such a mob entails; but here you see ladies and
gentlemen in the literal sense OF those words,
most OF them wealthy, though transformations;
proud, but not naughty, and the very eXemplars OF
courtesy and refinement. To the uniformed aud
curious Northerner would say, come here II you
want to see Southern society in all its
CHARMS TASTE AND CULTIVATION.
Just now there are not more than one hundred
and nifty people here Though nearly all the best
quarters are engaged, and among them | find
several distinguished families flom the South.
General j. B. Hood is mere, with his vile and
tive one. Mrs. Hood Is a TALL elegant and beauti-
ful lady. The General uses crutches though
wooden leg supplies the place OF the one he lost ut
Chickamauga, and the strength OF his arm is some
what impaired by the wound he received at
Gettysburg. Otherwise he is as healthy, handsome
and hearty as he ever was in TINS lie. Though
only married since the war General Hood has Jour
OF the prettiest children l ever laid my eyes
two OF them Withstand all near OF a size that it
is hard to tell which is the oldest. But what
tonished me most were the nurses-fOur nurses Tor
Jour children and they all seemed to be busy-in
TACT, TO have their hands iul. Three OF the nurses
are as jet black as coal, and are young plantation
negresses from Louisiana. while the fourth
old muatto nanny evidently a family relic, who
Will die she has lived among her old people and
her best friends. Many poor, OLD Southern negro
woman regrets the day she lorsook her old owners,
when emancipation proved rather a curse TO her
than the blessing for which 1t was intended. Gen.
eral Joseph L. Johnston, now visiting AT Abingdon,
has engaged rooms here and, with his beautiful
and accomplished lady, Will spend the season
here. And this Is II colncidence-Hood and
watering place. Johnston, the most distinguished
OF all the living officers OF the late Confederacy
Hood the bravest and most gallant, VINO, by virtue
OF Jef Davis, superseded Johnston in command of
the army at Atlanta and left the way open Tor Sher
mans march TO the sea. Had Johnston been in
command the way would not have been easv
and the distractions might nave been serious
enough to thwart the Lieutenant Generals design.
But, suppose, Hood and Johnston will meet as
old companions in arms,
BYGoNEs WILL BE BYGoSEs
and they VIII talk over the past as only two dis
tinguished ana great officers who have done their
duty can anord TO do. | could say "a great deal
more about the place and the excellent company
now here, but that | have other things to write
about.
THE CHOLERA
at Memphis Nashville and other points in the
Is having the effect OF rapidly hing up the water
ing places along the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-
road. Refugees are daily pouring IN here and at
the neighborlng sprngs-the MONTGOMERY White
but am scarcely satisfied that tGey VIII
escape the dreaded malady even here at the eicva-
ton OF $500 feet above the sea. Mr.. Tate "A visitor
here, who has been through three great cholera
cpdemics, informs me that IA each instance the
cholera, tracing 1t from its origin had confined
Itself TO limestone localities; that wherever the
Ormation OF the country was limestone
IN dccayed condition the disease to
in It's deadly march. This was apparent in each
OF tn epidemcs he witnessed aud the line OF
demarcaton where the epidemic ceased was
Of state. AZ soon az reestoae
soil was reached, there the cholera
No cases. unless they were carried there, occurred
in lrcestone countries; but he says the only and
sure remedy against cholera is 20 ''pick youIse
up and get away as soon as you can, Tor cholera is
no respecter of persons" | hear that there have
been several deaths from this disease at Green
VILE, Tenn, which would indicate that the malady
Is travelling eastward.
POLITlCs-THE CONSERVATIVES NOMINEE.
have had good deal OF conversation with in
teLgent conservatives in this part OF virginia.
1nd IL the general opinion that II VIII he necessary
10 put strong man from the southwest on the
state ticket TO neutraiZe the personal strength
and large family influence IN this part OF the state.
Judge John A. Campbell, OF Abingdon, is named
or Governor on this idea, who Is SAID 10 be very
strong throughout this trans-Alleghany region.
He is scarcely well enough known, however, IN the
state al large TO be nominated AT the head OF the
ticket, and IL IL thought that General Arthur q.
well known and strongly connected
lere. will be put on as Lieutenant Governor. judy
ng from the tone OF feeling in this section, have
jecome impressed with the chances or Colonel
Robert T.. Wlthers for the conservative nomination.
am told that the vote OF the southwest, after being
,3st for southwestern man, WILL In the event oil
ailing TO get such man, he cast almost solid l0Y
Nithers, winch would certainly nominate him. He
lad the advantage OF once residing out mere, and /
$ very extensively acquainted. lie has been for |
cveral years engaged In an educational move |
emf which sas led hun TO canvass this and other
portions OF the state very thoroughly. Ills claims
Ipon the conservative party arc very strong. he |
eing It's candidate In 1868, when the military com.
nsudant OF District No. refused 10 allow an cleo