, 1874-07-11

the White Sulphur.
The Bellies Of tho seasoll---Virginia
Men and Women.
The Carcrr Of a NIOuntafn-tt!vell"
turcss-.-AIaryland Gentry.
In Camp on the Elgacl1oul1c
River.
''The Ang|er's Retreat" Tho Perfection of
,Trout.Fisling-Life il tho
Wools.
Notes from Saratoga, Long Branch, and
Newport'--Arrlvals at Various
Points.
A Social Episode ut tho Hot
Springs Of Arkansas.

IL AA6S OA AAAAS+A@1e%~1s
THE ALLEGHENY SPRINGS.
From, Our 0en Correspondent.
D1En pAng, Allegheny Mountainr. Md,}
July, 1874. )
That first Of aummor.tonrlsts In point Of tlr,c,
the President, has led tho way. Whcn ho re-
tired, tho camps OF cool weather. took In their
tents, and the sun struck tho abandoned Capital
Dity to tic 1gure of 102 in tho sbntn.
TO TIE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
The President WAS provided With the Freet-
DENTS car Of tho 1altlmoro l. Ohio Railroad;
and, after holding railway. 1t was Judged
most po!ito to Bond nobody With him rs oHcore.
Ho travelled, in the midst OF l,iB family, across
Tho batt]etleld-region Of Manassas, Gainesville,
Cedar Mountain, tho Upper Nnptdan. and Cor
tionbvillc, and there turned oil, amongst Jetfor-
sou's mountains Of tho Ravcnnn, 10 stannton,
via that now, picturesque. but unfortunate road,
tha Chesapeake l. Ohio. uo was well ro-
yariled at Charlottesville; At staurton received
with clleers mud troopa. s'Tbere's nary politics
In ,Virginny," said voice from tho crowd;
"whoover IL for wa'unB il ournl"
Btauuton iB In somo respects. tho most flour
fsliing city Of Virginia, next to Richmond. There
tho new Valley Railway Of the baltimore g. Ohio
Company comes down from Hnrpo,'s Ferry,
bringing parlor-cars Of New Yorkers and Dalt-
moreans through to tho White Sulphur IN rapid
atyle.
Tic Presidential party were strnck with the ano
horses aud many stylish family at Stau-
lou. Hero, leaving tho Baltimore Road behind,
10 keep on ita ateady way to Salem. the party
began to scok the eastern slopes Of the Allc-
ebony, and ut nightfall tho many hundreds haat-
uning to tho White Sulphur Springs had been
dropped behind. They were III the nondesctipt
Btate OF
WEST vfHd1SIAt-.
4 State Nnoso Capital Is QUO way and It's mo-
tropo1is another; aud, it tho roads OIL which
they lio wore indefinitely extended. they would
never meet. Tho mon Of Wheeling appear to
live In Bort Of geographical churcla-Fteope.
riyeted up to tho pan-Handlo, while the mon Of
Charlestown, tho State Capital, aro down in tho
coal-holo OF the etlilice. Between tho two is a
mountainous wilderness. Inhabited by somo
thousands of bears, panttcrs, and wildcats.
This wilderness begins close to the Baltimore l.
Ohio I,aiIroad at Cheat River, is nearly 100
miles wido, and extet ia nearly to tile Ol,epa-
poake l. Ohio Railroad. The rich coal aud min
etal yeinH in it. and tho 1iuo timber, do not got
avail to mako tho land marketable, aud United
ssatea Senator Henry q. Davis roccntty paid
only s1 m acre for mountain timber On tho
North Branch Of tho Potomac. HiB logs would
not Aoat when ho cast thcm In the obstructcd
stream. the water faillng to rise to that solune
which would sweep tho lumber down to his costly
boom at Bloomington. lie has, therefore, for
30 nliles, been compelled to cut path along Bi1o
pf the savage stream and blast tho rocks in tho
shannel. livery expensive work, md somewhat
indicative OF the fate of / canal tint would try
10 croes the Allegheny Mountains with sufficient
water to float barge. senator Davis haa just
built great ompty dam on tho mountains to
catch rain aud brook-wator enough to send leg
fown the natural bed OF river by artificial i'll
nudation.
How much dam and water will 1t take to float
barge down from far higher altltuuea7 Seua-
tor Windom, make . men,
IuMngn SENATORS.
Fenton. OF New York, and Davis Of West
Virginia. arc both creations OF the lanber-inter-
EST. Fenton was cutting lumber twenty years
ago on the Allegheny Mountains Of West Penn-
Bylyania. Both we're traders, eollntrv-morchants,
and Hawmlll people Fenton usod to buy eggs
by tho dozen and sell them by tho Darrel: Davis
does iust that ut this mome1t. Tie keen senso
md cunning Of both Seem to euRgoss that the
loxea and other animaIs they routed from the
hl,nbor left to these Senators their artfulness.
Fenton has tho most voIvety touch in tho SEN
Ito; DAVIS fa u less cultured but equally acute
Revnarl. The lnttor used to be trsin-6rakes-
man and conductor.
v1no1n1A PLEASURE.
THO Virginia springs are oil gotten up in tic
same way: bare floors, small rooms out Of repair,
: 25-cont looking glass, q wooden slop-bueket, a
washstaud happy ii III tho possession Of more
than three logo, and mattresses suggesting the
voluntary claatiBemonta OF tho early Christian
Saints The attendance begins koll, grows de-
moralized eftor while, aud, It your place OF
resort be very largo and crowded one. like the
Qreeubriar White Sulphur you will ofton be dig
tressed to get &aitod ,lpon at all. II hunger is
the best aauce, they kcop it always on the table
at such preat resorts in timos Of rush.
The coppensations for these iuuouvepiorceH
are to bo found at tho White Sulphur in tie
medicinal oxcolloncs of tho water, which is ~
palatsblo ~ tho Kentucky Dluo Lick. md in tho
superior society collected thoro upon tho largost
nor light remark upon ladies'. for tho young Vir-
giuiap has strange, exalted iaeal for women,
autl his talk about thom partnkes Of the chvalry
Of Sponsor mud Ivanhoo, The ladice the!l,selyos
have an easy grace and sincerity, which nro
charming after tho commercial struggle for
social acceptance wo often Boe In tia North.
whore tho object OF Hiss Jones IL TO bold hor
place In the Smith cosorie, and tho goal Of yonng
R0bnaon'a dee1ra 10 10 10 lt!VltoQ TO party by