Good place for a Hospital.
At this time when the hospitals are overrun and more room is wanted, why not establish a hospital at the Huguenot Springs, in Powhatan? It would make an admirable one. The buildings are spacious — the hotel is large and airy, and the cottages as cool and comfortable as those to be found at any of the watering places. The water is excellent — better can be found nowhere. The location is handsome, and the grove surrounding it extensive and shady, composed as it is of the finest forest trees.A large number of patients might be provided for most comfortably at that place. The canal will take patients to within a mile of the Springs, and a spring wagon or two would supply transportation over that distance. A boat with a good awning would convey them up the canal very comfortably.
The Huguenot Springs is located in the heart of a fertile country and of a refined and hospitable community — a community which would heartily contribute provisions and comforts for the sick, but who have not the opportunity to do so, owing to the remoteness from the points where these things are needed.--Convey the sick to the neighborhood, and it would be a pleasure to them to minister to their wants. In addition to other things much needed, ice can be had there in much greater abundance than in this city.
Another.--A friend suggests, while we write, that Goochland Court-House is another place capable of accommodating most comfortably a number of the sick. The large Tavern there is not much used, and the Court-House itself is almost dispensed with, while there are other convenient buildings that could be opened to the sick. The neighbors would generously give their aid. The Court-House is only three-quarters of a mile from the Canal. The vicinity can afford liberal supplies, and the people are amongst the most patriotic and hospitable in the State. We name Goochland Court-House, as we learn that some of the sick have been sent to Columbia, twenty miles above that place.
