Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-04-18
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HOTELS.
"a. yon az it."-(Sn.KsfEAnk.

truths by simple images. They would make, for
nstancs, the chilts castle Of cards, erected with
such expenditure Of time, patience and ingenuity,
aud contemplated, when finished, with such proud
satisfaction; abettetty of the vanity Of human
intention, than the profound theorem W hich treats
OF objects and employments engaging our more
matured aspirations, and energies ;-and they
would find in the breath that demolshes it, n fter
IT'S novelty has passed snway. a far better exem-
puhcauon OF human INCONSISTENCY than is afforded
by elaborate treatises on the same subject, from
learned philosophers who have rackeh their brains
to give this Tapory essence form aud substance;
l'better because more easily understood for these
give us ethics in lieu of practice, and speculation
for truth. I love these wise cold saws" these
deductions of observation nd experience, rather
thnn Of study and conjecture; of common sense,
rather than of cultivated intelligence; OF worldly
lshrewdness, than of closeted wisdom; such as re
taught on the mothers knee, from the words Of
Solomon; the earliest lesson to infant intelligence;
after that of love TO its parents and its Gol-and
next inculcated. whipped, as The case may be,
into the school-boy. from the fables of Esop, inn
pressed on the man from the teachings Of Time,
in the,incdents and yicisstudes OF his earthly
reer. Then, too, we have them recapituated,
aud adapted 10 every nge and circumstance by
poor old Richard, Of almanac notoriety, and hung
on the wall with the calendar If days md months.
that admonitlon and existence may so hand in
hand. Nay, more, we have the poet to portray i'll
single line. what is too often the history Of life,
pike the rocket. and down like the stick"
whereinthe futiltty its ends is opposed in
full, but too often truthful anthesis TO the vain
glory of its outset s9s
Asthe child "ithits cards; the man with his
exlstencej the rocket TO its stick; SO may be
community 10 lis purposes AMI institutions.
| BREATH, a cnpIice, small difference of opinon
may destroy what cost and labor have produced.
| Among tie wise saying TO which We have alluded,
is this lttakes all sorts people TO make aworld.'
10 which might be added il takes all sorts of pla-
ces to accommodate them; from the well organi-
zed and elegant hotel, supplying wants which hab-
ii has made second nature 10 tie wealthy and lux
uricus; 10 The humble establishments adapted to
the requirements and means of sucha s consul,
| economy, as we'll as convenience. We have no
more right to say To the man whose comfort de-
penis Oh n soft bed, rich dinner and his accus
TONED glass OF wine. you shall not have them,
\ though willing to pay for them; than 10 another,
you must have all these expensive induIgences, OF
nothing. We might hold this language TO both,
but, mark you, neither is bound 10 comply with il,
for neihee Is restricted to route of travel, or
one city of sojourn, and each follow lis bust
ness or his pleasure without visiting Mt all, or
consulting our peculiar municipal regulations
| They can do as they have done for years, when
they had not The same, or any thing Ike the same,
! facilities for avoiding US. When there was but
\ one read meast to west, which they quilted al
Brownsville 10 take CT, cuious journey by Pitts
burg, and thence desc. nd the river 10 points below
us, rather than pass night in what were proven
! bially the wreIched inns of Wheeling. Now,
they have dozen avenues to their destination
(which render them perfectly independent OF US,
and we can only hope for the advantage of their
intercourse by adopting mea ures necessary 10 at
trnct it. Such measures we trusted had been Sc
cured to us. A building, i'll every respect equal,
and in many superior TO the best in our country !;
had been provided by few public spirited ind-
TidualS, and furnished in style suited to every
class OF respectable visitors. Its reputation had
spread fai ami wide, and in the frequent opportu-
mites we have had, both at home and abroad, we
| are not aware we have ever heard il complained
| OF in the least particular. We have found it our
selves, and heard ii represented by others as al-
Iiordlng 10 The public aud to its customers, every
accommodation the most exacting taste could de-
mand-elegant parlors; leading rooms; airy halls
Tor promenading; an excellent table; attentive
aud obliging attendants /; chambers and lodgings
scrupulousy clean; perfect decorum exacted from
the inmates of the establishment; in itself so en-
tirely orderly and genteel, that it imposed on all
the necessity of at least appearing SO, lest they
might be excluded from it; to which circumstance
IS perhaps attributable, from its bearing hard on
persons unaccuStomed To such regulations, its de-
nunciation as arstoc:atic; while the proprietor
was accused of want of tspopular manne1s''
which, so far rs GU: observation extended, opera
ted moretto his own disadvantage in the loss OF
such custom as these could command, in our esti-
nation. by the way, large and honorable class,
than 10 the annoyance OF the established guests of
his house, who could dispense with the form, in
consideration Of the substance.
II was alleged too, as another cause of grievance
! that he was Catholic, ana employed only catho-
lie servants in his household; but This did not
weigh with US, tho not Of this persuasion, or with
many othe s, for as we entered it n hotel, not
as church, we confess to have been more intent
on provision for time than for eternity; and 10
\ have regarded it adapted more to our animal,
than to our spiritual necessities. Be all these as
they may, we regret to find that an experiment OF
little more than a year. to supply an essential requ
site TO city desiring prosperity, and seeking all
vancement, has failed entirely, and that this hcte,
well qualified TO accommodate, if. not all, at least
one, and by no means an Insignificant or unmpor-
tant class Of travellers is about TO closed, and
these visitors deferred from city by the want of
such provision of bed and board as they may OBJ
tain elsewhere. We regret this for many reasons,
and think it eynces decline of that public spirit
which has sustained and carried us through great.
er difficulties. We regret itus the loss of an es
sential appurtenance 10 that railroad connection
for which we have SO long contended and which
we have only just obtained; for, though may
continue 10 bring freightto city. it requies no
foresight predict, will offer little Inducements