Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-07-01

makes us acquainted, had marlboro,
your betters, and why therefore shoul,
yon presume to grunble? His table
lplentifully or sparely covered, as th,
case may be, with unestablished eata
Ebles-eoffee made, or seeming to b.
made, of burnt blankets, solder
bread, stale bacon. and palpitatin g
1chickens, greasy potatoes, and with.
ered turnip-t topsi is the table that
contents Aida, and if you don't like
it you may go-to a place entirely
unmentionable.
Truly, yonr republican inn-keepel
lis the most mighty of tyrants. You
may find him, sometimes, a very
amiable parsonage, as great men
sometimes viii be; but take heed
you trifle not with his amiableness;
for, verify, he is not person to be
tri1ed with by any rabblement trav-
eller, for whom he does notcare the
snap of his independent finger-no,
not he.
In truth the common country
tavern keepers those especially in
new regions, or at a distance from the
great towns are, for the most part,
mere farmers. who have. been driven
by sheer nedessity (not poverty to
open their houses to the public. In
very few parts of the land is the
country densely enough settled, and
the travelling sufficiently great, to
support lines of taverns along the
roads at corenient distances. The
farmer must hang out the bush and
play the landlord, or be eaten up by
his hospitelity.I He knows nothing
of cooking Or housekeeping beyond
what he has been accustomed to in
his family, and he cares nothing about
learning; in half the instances, he
would prefer the travellers room to
his company; it is not therefore sur
prising his hotel should not be the
best in tho world nor himself the
most obliging Of landlords.
With this condition of things pre-
vailing, it is evident one must not
look for any exemplifcations Of the
charming rural hostefries, the slittle
hawthorn-crowned ale-house, so long
embalmed in the pages of English
poets and n6velists, with its proper
familiars, the facetious host, his bux-
ON wife, and trim daughter, all OBJ
,sequious, bhstling, eager to make
themselves, and their house, and
every thinglin it, agreeable to' your
honor. Yop cannot here say, with
any propriety, you will take your
case in your inn, that being the priv
ilege solely Of its master; nor can
YOU have any greater expectation of
comfort, which is: an article seldom
put down in the bill of fare. In
brief, one should expect nothing; and
to the inexperienced traveller Ire.
commend the maxim which obaerya-
ton has shown me to be productive
of the best effects in modifying evils,
as well as preventing hundreA in
conveniences that might othd hdrWise
occur:-be submissive; gracious fly re-
ceive, thankfully suffer, pay your
money and depart in peace.
It was. once my fateto pass a night
in a certain waylside carayansary,
among the mounta aims of Virginia, al
Iowly and logly habitation, from
whose fneanIappearance no one would
have inferred the majestic spirit of
the rule within; up-er rather down
to whieh-fpr it stood at the bottom
of q hill-ohe fine evening in Sep
tember, rolled mail coach, well
crammed with passengers, of whom
], for my SINS was one. We num-
bered twelve souls in all, nine inside,
and three out; of which latter group,
I, being somewhat of a valetudinari-
an, was honored with a seat beside
his highness Of the whip; while my
two companions, the one a Mississip-
plan, the other a varmint, as he called
himself, of Tennessee, sat CALAMITY
upon the top, where they rolled and
pitched about, as we thundered down
The rocky road, in a manner admira-
BILE to behold-or, as the Mississip-
plan expressed it, 4like two short
tailed dogs in a boiling pot re-
semblance that was somewhat the
stranger for the tremendous bow-Wows
and yelpings, with which he-some-
times assisted by the Tennesseean--
beguiled the weariness, Of the way.
Certainly there never was a jolier
set Of rantipole personages got to-