Red Sulphur Springs and the Giles county Volunteers.
Not long ago a brief paragraph appeared in the Dispatch relative to the treatment of the Giles county volunteers, while sojourning for a night at the Red Sulphur Springs. The paragraph was based on a long editorial article in the Pearisburg Gazette, which was copied verbatim by several of our contemporaries. We have received a communication, signed ‘"A Visitor,"’ denying the entire statement, and though our brief allusion to it might excuse us from inserting more than a brief contradiction, we give place to a considerable portion of the letter:The proprietors had not a week's, (as is stated,) or even a day's notice of their intention to remain all night at this place. I was near when Capt. McC. requested permission of his company to remain over night. He remarked that they only wanted some place for his men to sleep; that they had plenty of everything to eat. The managers of the Springs gave them a large house containing thirty-four rooms, with mattresses for the men to sleep on; gave them lights, &c., and only requested that the men would be careful not to grease or deface the house, as they were then preparing it for the visitors. Captain McC. said he would caution his men, and that they would eat at their wagons.--The manager proposed to give them the dining room; he refused to do so, saying the men preferred to have meals at their wagons. The manager gave him two large tables; which they used, and at breakfast. They did not say the night previous that they wanted coffee; they were told and assured that it was not on the place, or they should have it, as the groceries for the season had not arrived, and they could but hereby supply the table by borrowing until they should receive their own, as it could not be had in the county.
