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The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from Western Virginia. (search)
ing recently changed hands at the price of $200,000. On this occasion bidders were present from the region around and even from Richmond, and furniture was sold at fabulous prices. The mere springs-goer, who frequents these watering-places to escape the heat of the lower country, to whirl in a fashionable throng, or to use the healing waters, whatever other object he may secure, cannot fully appreciate the true beauty and glory of mountain scenery. To do this one must spend the first days of October amid the mountains. Then, and then alone, do those grim piles attire themselves with a gorgeousness which might befit an Easter a queen.--For man to die is to become loathsome, but Nature is most beautiful in her dying hours. And this is specially true in the mountains. Certainly nowhere else is the autumnal foliage so varied and so glorious in its hues. Whether it is due to the peculiarity of the trees or of the climate, I do not know; but though I have often in Eastern Virginia