Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-06-04
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1882.

and taverns in this country, and especially those
in the Western States. We at home know, how
ever, that, for their descriptions, they are often
more indebted to fancy than reality. As set
eff to their statements, which no doubt have OFT
en- been read. we copy the following account OF
an Inn at Frankfort, Kentucky, given BY ira
Weller now in that city, in letter dated in May:
Did you ever stop. on drizzly summer day,
at country Inn, called in the ancient dominion
an {. honaru," where the entrance was almost
entirely obstructed BY the filth Of pigs and Poul-
try. the room filled with children aud chickens,
square table covered with flies, as busy in sip
ming the s,ill-burnt whiskey, as swarm OF bees
preparing to emgrate, bed as numerousiy inha-
bited as the great plantation OF which Gov Pope
is the Overseer, cupboard under the stairway,
where the butter and other daintes are kept Tor
the supply of customerss
If YOU have, land the Boniface was at home,
70 devote his most obsequious enquiries usual at
such places,) you are capable of approaching the
delight now enjoy, in one Of the very best hous-
es | ever pat my foot into may safely assert
II is not surpassed, in all that is necessary to the
comfort of a sojourner, by any on the American
continent. A most spacious building; Capable
of entertaining two hundred persons) admirably
constructed; comfortable drawing rooms, with
large airy chambers adjoining, furnished in style
of neatness entirely unriyalled.
"In the Silly night the luxury of bed is
here enioyed that requires not even good con-
science to invite the chains OF slumber." AT
table, YOU need not sky the copper to ascertain
whether YOU are furnished with tea or coffee. Ca
berino of Havana does not furnish better coffee.
I have been deceived IN but.one PARTICULAR
thought for time | was using knives and forks
Mated with silver, for which mistook the bright
ness Of their polish.
Do YOU enjoy the luxury of drink do you
thirsts then forego Tokay, and you may have
whatever YOU desire, and Of the very best of its
kind. have tasted Of all, from the sparkling
champaign (which hold is the best) through all
the fermented, down to crab cider; champaign
brandy, through all the distilled, down to New.
England rum, (which shall ever maintain is the
mesnest) and declare have never seen con.
gresated better supply. Are you fond OF eat
snpS then tits worth ride Of "a miles Tor will be
when the rail road is completely to a Cish Of
trpe and coffee, bacon and fish, with their
''f sss sSss. .u h in one oi1hsao.. gifted
found. Ienquired where should was
told there were two good houssssl 20 place.
Weisper's and Marshall's. The faAeeof the
latter, being most familiar to me, determined my
cho,ce readily became acquainted with the
landlord who is an intelligent gentleman, and an
agreeable companion. presently discovered that
he ia ripe scholar, Familiarity acquainted with
the ancient as we'll as the modern classics. This
created some SURPRISE But my establishment
WAS almost unbouaded 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 now known wherever law has habltation or
aname.
The kandiady is not less remarkable. Gifted
with all the advantages OF early education, with
a mind, manners, and various attarnments great
~ above LADY, dowagers, &c. &c. who are made
to figure in Court Journals and Court circles, she
is at the same time the very best landlady have
ever seen.
Now all this in any other country would be
regarded as fiction. Such house, and in Ken
tucky. so recently but wilderness. such propri-
etors, and in Kentucky, too; regarded through
out most of the civilized world. and even in some
of the sister states, as inhabited by dem-savage
race. where the tomahawk and scalping 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 Co.
vernmeut having refused charitable donation
from the Duchess Of Berry, sent to the poor and
sick at Paris. This refusal has incensed the Wis.,
count Chauteaubriand, 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 pre-.
sent condition of the French government:
..The quasi legitimacy has for its support
anne xouns men who have taken fancy to u;
some old bachelors (graduates) Of constitutions,
who adhere to il with all their hearts-models Of
fortitude, who expire from exhaustion after. the
oa,hs they take to all manner Of regimes. That
which il now established IN France Is not mo-
parchy:l d, is bastard republic. and, as coun-
terfeit. il is made OF the basest alloy. This re-
public has sort u breast-plate OF royalty stuck