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


Life AT the Springs-Generals Joe john
ston and Hood Hobnobbing Together
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 Of the most delightful. It Is peculiarly
and almost exclusively o 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 ensGonced In q 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 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 are whired at
moderate rate through the most picturesque
of Uncle Sans dominions. There are, not the
wildness and sub,lmity 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 denizen Of the city to repay
him for years hard work. About seven hundred
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 a fashionable mob made up from
every hole and corner OF the country and you are
not subjected to all the trials and adversitles which
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 III all its
CHARMS TASTE AND CULTIVATION.
Just now there are not more than one hundred
and nifty people here enough nearly all the best
quarters are engaged, and among them ! IND
General J. b. Hood is mere, with his vile and
family, which is a thoroughly Southern representa-
a
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 Iour
OF the prettiest children l ever laid my eyes on
two of them twins-and all so near OF a size that it
is hard to tell which is the oldest. But what as
tonished me most were the nurses-four nurses Tor
Jour children; and they all seemed to be busy-in
lact to have their hands lull. Three of the nurses
are Il of "A : "A N Inp
negresses from Louisiana. while the fourth Is an
old mulatto nanny, evidently a family relic, who
VIII die as she has lived among her Old people and
her best friends Many poor, OLD Southern negro
woman regrets the day she iorsook her old owners,
than the blessing for which 1t was intended. Cen
eral Joseph h. Johnston, now visiting at Abingdon,
has engaged rooms here. ana, with his beautiful
and accomplished lady, viii spend the season
here. And this Is coincidence-Hood and
Johnston hobnobbing 1t together at the same
watering place. Johnston, the most distinguished
OF all the living officers of the late Coufederacy
Hood, the bravest and most gallant, who by virtue
of JEFF 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 Instructions might have been serious
enough to thwart the Lieutenant Generals design.
But, suppose, Hood and Johnston Will meet as
old companions in arms,
BYGoNES WILL DE BYGONEs
and they VIII talk over the past as only two dis
tnguished ana great officers who have done their
duty can afford to do. | could say u great deal
more about the place and the excellent company
now here, but that | have other things to write
about.
at Memphis, Nashville and other points in the
Mississippi Valley, being now in an epidemic orm
Is having the effect OF rapidly hng up the water
ing places along the Virginia and Tennessee Rail-
road. Refugees are daily pouring in here and at
lhe nelghpolhg sprlugs-the MONTGOMERY Nmte
sulphur; but am scarcely satisfied that they VIII
escape the dreaded malady even here at the eicva-
ton OF $500 feet above the Mr.. Tate, visitor
here who has been through three great cholera
cholera, tracing 1t from its origin, had confined
Itself TO limestone localities: that wherever the
formation OF the country was limestone
IN a dccayed condition the disease was sure to
make It's appearance and victim after victim fell
D tn epidemics he witnessed, aud the line OF
demarcation where the epidemic ceased was
1s nnely drawn as the boundary lines
soil was as reached. there e the choera
ceased 20 be a destroyer and its rayages stopped
No cases unless they were carried there, occurred
IN lreestone countries; but he says the only and
sure remedy against cholera is 20 "pick your self
up and get away soon as you can, or 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.
PoLIrIcs-rHE CONSERVATIVES NOMINEE.
have had a good deal OF conversation with in.
ind IL the general opinion that IL VIII bc necessary
% put strong man from the southwest on the
state ticket 10 neutralize the personal strength
aud 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.
lie is scarcely well enough known, however, IN the
state at large 10 be nominated at the mead OF the
cket, and IL ~ thought that General Arthur o.
well known and strongly connected
lere. will be put on as Lieutenant Governor. judy
ng from the tone OF feeling in this section, have
Iecome impressed with the chances OF Colonel
Robert T. Withers for the conservative nomination.
am told that the vote OF the southwest, after being
;ast for a southwestern man, WILL In the event OF
ailing TO get such man. he cast almost solid l0Y
Nlthers. winch would certainly nominate him. He
lad the advantage OF once residing out mere, and |
$ very extensively acquainted. lie has been for |
everal years engaged In educational move
nent winch led him to canvass this and other
portions OF the State very thoroughly. His claims |
pon the conservative party arc very strong, he |
eing It's candidate In 1868, when the military com.
of nae, =, a. ,a,,,sn,, o., .r . 49,