The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-01-21
NUMBER 10.
Hotel Beues,

The following admirable editorial. we conv
from the Philadelphia Public Ledger W.
agree in opinion precisely with the gentleman
who has called our attention to this matter. and
think that the force and propriety of snch re-
marks must be admitted by all who understand
and value domestic happiness II sincerely
trust" concludes our valued friend, that the
sentiments conveyed may prove salutary, by
promoting social reform. 1t should be remem-
! bered by the other Sex. that there is a beauty
winch seeks not the public gazc, and that there
are virtues content to shine at home
-" lhere Is growing disposition on the mart
oi certain portion Of our fashionable people
to spend a considerable part of their days of
leisure at hotels. In summer months. the ho-
''is at Saratoga and at Newport are resorted to
us the burning points of the fashionable world
and In winter. Washington comes in for a share
OF the dissipatiOns of the same or similar class
OF society. In addition to this there are per-
sons, married and sing e, who prefer life in
fashionable hotel to the solid comforts of a
nome partly from erroneous notions of econo-
my ana partly because housekeeping is con-
nected with certain inconveniences, in tho
shape OF supervision or labor, from which board
ing affords comparative relief We decidedly
o3Ject TO the taste of a married woman, who
can be better satisfied in hotel than in house
OF her own-who can cheerfuiiy substitute
public lie for private one, and the substitute
oi pubic drawing-rOom for the retirement of
a nome with her husband and her children.
think that hotel life is the very grave
OF 1conJugal tenderness and affection, and feel
assured that properly constituted woman in
any sphere OF life, will submit to it only tempo
rarily and from necessity. We would as rcadi-
ly believe that flowers can blossom without
dew or sunshine. as that delicacy of sentiment.
ana SOUND morals can be cultivated without re-
t!remcnt and the undisturbed play of the affec-
.lons III the family circle round the domestic
hearth. woman who can find pleasure and
happiness away from her own freside, has al
ready lost the greatest charm of her sex and is
sure to become, in the end, a burthen to herself
and her husband. But there is class of ladies'
longing for the distinction of being considered
bellies of particular fashionable hotel, and ad-
mired as such, not only by their acquaintances
but by strangers. This assuredly is in wretch
ca bad taste, and as vulgar as it is wretched.
lhe idea OF pressing all the time for strange
company aud endeav voring to please whom YOU
40 not care for. admitting everybody into your
society who can afford TO live in the same house
and be observed, criticised, and perhaps SLAM
dered, by persons you can take no notice of,
because they are beneath your notice, is enough
TO make any rational woman who has been more
than year out of boarding hOol detest a
lie IN public house. be it ten times as gorge
Ously furnished as st. Nicholas or the Prescott.
we say nothing of the Irritation galleries.
whispering rOOms,' and bridal chambers
which are usually exhibited in the hotels with
so much pomp and vulgar nsignifcance We
have 10 fancy for courtshp under chandelier.
n woman OF true delicacy and refinement will
exhibit neither her charms, nor her graces. nor
her accomplishments to the public. Exclusive
ness is the very essence of ladies society," as do
mestic retirement is the very soil in which grows
every female virtue. The most poctical beau
ty OF woman is the blush on her cheeks the
hotel belle has usually but one color and that
not always her own.lf man wants to know what
sort OF feeling belle of the genus we have de-
scribed inspires him with, let him put the oues-
ton to his heart how would like to have that
woman for a wife? and he will have no difficulty
in understanding HIMSELF
SCHAMIL.-The London News speaks as fol-
lows Of the above named Circassian chief. who
for twenty years has defended his country
against the attacks Of Russia. in a continued
war:
Abandoned to his own resources, Schamyl
has for twenty years. successfully combattcd
the most renowned Russian generals. He was
born in 1897. His beard became grayish at an
early age. but his hair is light. and his consti-
tuition, though apparently weak. has been so
well preserved and exercised, that he possesses
almost the advantages of youth. He is the first
horseman. the first marksman, the first swimmer
OF the Caucasus. though in that country able
horsemen, swimmers and marksmen abound
He is not only an excellent general, but most
able administrator. Since 1884, when he sue
ceeded Chassi Mollah, who died at his side at
the breach OF Hlmry, in an engagement with
the Russians, not single act of weakness can
he alleged against him. Sober chaste compar-
atively enlightened, he has never employed the
power with which he is invested for the salts
faction of his personal passions. OF one hum
dred and fifty tribes, different by origin, tradi-
tions, and to @ certain degree by language he
has formed people ready to die for their faith
and their country.
WHAT SCOTCIIMAN MAY BECoME.-At meet
ing in Edinburgh last month to obtain '.justice
for Scotland Sir A. Alison, the historian, re-
lated the following anecdOte:
Gentlemen, one very curious thing occur
red to show how Scotchmen do rise all the
world over, and with this anecdote ! will con-
clude. Marshall Keith had the command Of
the Austrian army, which long combated the
Turkish forces on the Danube, under the Grand
Vizier, and after a long and bloody combat the
two Generals came to a conference together
The Grand Vizier came mounted on a camel,
with all the pOmp of Eastern magnifcence.-
The Scotch Marshal Keith from the neighbor-
hood of Turiff, in Aberdeenshire, at the head
of the Austrian troops, had a long conference
with the Turkish Grand Vizier and said to Mar
shall Keith that he would like to speak a few
words in private to him in his tent, and he beg
ged that no one should accompany him. Mar
shall Keith accordingly went in, and when the
conference in the tent was closed, the Grand
Vizier threw off his turban tore off his beard,
and running to Marshal Keith, said. sou,
Johnnie, foo's a wi We, man." And he then
discovered that the Grand Vizier of Turkey
was an old school companion of his own, who
had disappeared thirty years before from pa
rish school near Methlie.'
An EXTENSIVE LoBBY-It is said that the as
signees of three or four patent rights which pay
about million per annum in tariffs. have COM
bined for the purpose ofprocuring an extension
from Congress ofthe monOpOlies for seven years
longer Woodworth's planning machine and
Colts repeating pistols are understood to be
two of them. They are said to have raised .
fund of 100000 to be disbursed at Washington,
to carry through their object Their champagne
Is alreadx aauipn in Xashiuotau like yEafar