Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1832-06-14
va: THURSDAY, JUNE IA, lss2.

6AtA 49,
Tourists seem to have a penchGnt for decry-
ing inns and taverns in this country, and es-
pecially those in the western states. We at
home know, however, that, for their descrip-
tons, they are often more indebted to fancy
than reality. As a set off to their statements,
which no doubt have often been read, We 20
by the following account Of an inn at Frank
fort, Kentucky, given by a traveller. now in
that city, in a letter dated in May:
Did you ever stop, on a drizzly summer
day, at a country inn, called in the ancient
dominion an "hoaGry," where the entrance
was almost entirely obsiructed by the filth of
pigs and poultry, the room filled with chill
dren and chickens, a square table covered
with flies, as busy IN slipping the still burnt
whlskey, as a swarm Of bees preparing to
emigrate, a bed as numercusly inhabited as
the great plantation of which governor Pope
IS the overseer, a cupboard under the stair
way. where the butter and other dainties are
kept for the supply of customers?
Ifyou have, (and the Boniface was at home,
to devote his most o~bsequious enquiries usu-
al at such places,) you are capable or appre-
ciatlDS the delight now enjoy, in one of the
very best houses | ever put my foot into. |
may safely assert it is not surpassed, in all
that Is necessary 10 the comfort of a ~soiourn-
er, by any on the American continent. A
most spacious building, capable of enter
tanning two hundred persons) admirably con
structed; comfortable drawing rooms, with
large AIRY chambers adjoining, furnished in a
style Of n~eatness entirely unrivalled.
I'm the stllly night" the luxury of bed is
here enjoyed that requires no. even a rood
conscience 10 invite 1.-THE chains OF slun,ber.n
At table, you need not sky the copper 10 as
whether you are furnished with tea
or coffee. Catherine of Havana does not
furnish better coffee. ] have been deceived
IN but one PARTICULAR thought for a time |
was using knives and forks plated with silver,
for which | mistook the brightness of their
polish.
Do you enjoy the luxury Of drink? do you
thIrstp then forego Tokay, and you may have
whatever you desire, and Of the very best of
ITS kind | have tasted of all, from the spark
ling champion (Which. I hold is the best)
through all the iermented, down TO crab CT
der; champaign brandy, through all the dis
TILED. down to New England rum, (which |
shall ever maintain is the meanest) and ! de
clare | have never seen cOngregated a better
supply. Are you fond of eating? then It's
worth a ride of "a miles (or will be when the
rail road is completed to a dish of tripe and
or bacon and fish, with their condi-
ments.
But above all, I am in one of the most elf.
ted and interesting families that can any
where be found | enqnired where | should
stop. was told there were two good houses
in the place, Weisiger's and Marshali's. The
A. u N of the latfor haino Fanat familiar IN
me, determined nay choice. ireadily became
acquainted with the landlord who is an intel
iigent gentleman. and an agreeable compan
ion presently discovered that he is a ripe
scholar. familiarly acquainted with the an
cient as well as the modern classics This
some surprise. But my astonish-
meut was almost unbounded when | learned
he was a graduate of Princeton with the first
honor-an eminent lawyer and nephew of
the Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court of
the United States, who is known wherever
has a habitation or a name.
The tdadtady is not less remarkable. Gift
ted with all the advantages OF early educa-
ton, with a mind, manners, and various at
tainments greatly above lady dowagers, &c.
SC. who are made TO figure in Court Jour
mails, and Court circles, she is at the same
time the very best landlady l have ever seen.
Now all this in any other would be regard
ed as fiction. Such a house, and in kentuc-
ky, SO recently but a wilderness, such pro
prietors, and in Kentucky, too; regarded
throughout most Of the civilized world, and
even IN some OF the sister states, as Inhabited
by a demi savage race, where the tomahawk
and s~calping knife are the companions of all
the grown up boys. But you do or ought TO
know it is sober reality.
We stated recently the fact Of the French
government having refused a charitable do
nation from the Duchess of Berry, sent TO
the poor and sick at Paris. This refusal
has incensed the Viscount Chauteasbriand,
through whose hands this charitable gift was
to have been dispensed. He has published a
pamphlet on the subject, in which he gives
the following graphic picture OF the present
condition of the French government:
"Ihe quasi legitimacy has for its support
some young men who have taken a fancy to
it: some old bachelors graduates of consti-
buttons, who adhere to it with all their hearts
models Of foftitude, who expire from eX-
haustion after the oaths they take 10 all man
ner of regiems. That which is now establish
ed in France is not a monarchy; it is a has
tard republic, and. as a counterfeit, 1t is made
OF the basest alloy. This republic has a sort
of breast plate OF royalty stuck upon It, which
takes all the blows, aud binders them from