The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-01-27

necessity which would otherwise have exist
ed lor tls appointment 81 bis personal ene-
my Hamilton to the Lieutenant- Generally.
II 1850 board Of distinguished army Off
GERS including Jesup. Wool. Gibson, Totten.
dsC; reported: Tits expedient and proper
that the grade ofLieutenant General may
be conferred BY breYet." Therefore unless
The republicanism Of the presentday is more
refined sublimated than thatof our fOreia-
theirs it Is difficult to see Why Major Gener-
al Scott should not receive the proposed hon
ors.
An excellent measure has been proposed
to Congress BY one Of the Senators from
Massachusetts. On his motion the Com
mittee on the Post Office and Post Roads
have been directed to consider theexpedien-
cy ofproviding for the convenience and SCI
curity Of remittances abroad in small sums
by authorizing orders or drafts from our
post Office on all foreign post Offices, with
which il is in correspondence; thus consii.
tuting system of international post Office
orders. The utility Of this measure may
mot be so apparent elsewhere as it is in New
York; but here where we see men grow
ing rich on the premius extorted from poor
Irish labourers and servant girls for small
bills exchange )one pound or FIVE dollars,
and upward which these people are contin-
ually seeding to the relief Of parents or other
relatives in the Old Country the proposition
is generally applauded hope it will be
adopted BY Congress.
The literary World weekly iournsl
which was founded in this city in is47 by
Wiley and the Appletons, and has been
successfully owned and edited by Charles
Fenno Hoffman and the Messrs Duyckinck,
has ceasecd to exist. The last number was
published on the 91st ult During its ca
reer il has received liberal contributions
from Cornelius Matthews, w Gilmore Sims
and other eminent writer's and has exercised
considerable influence upon American lit
erature. It's failure is owing to the want of
a good business man for publisher.
Though literary papers fail however a
literary prestige seems to make the fortunes
Of hotel keepers. The most conspicuous H.
Illustration of this is the Prescott House at
the corner Of Broadway and Spring streets,
New York an establishment which derives
its name from William H. Prescott of Bos-
ton the great historian of Ferdinand and
Isabella Tornado Cortez and the Conquest
of Mexico. 1t is built and decorated in a
style not surpassed for elegance by the pail
atial residences Of those grandees whom
the eloquent pen Of Prescottpas comment
morated the historian has signifed his adj
miration Of the design and his respect for
the gentlemanly proprietor, Mr. De Groot,
by sending a costly portrait of himself to
adorn one of the apartments. This hotel is
indeed pre.eminent not only for the riches
of its architecture and furniture but for the
classic beauty, elegance and refinement Of
all its interior arrangements. Nothing
Aashy or gaudy meets the eye as in some
of the other new hotels but every thing is
in that good taste which is said in Eng
land and France to distinguish the mansion
Of nobleman from that Of pqrenu.
While the Hon. Abbott Lawrence was our
Minister at the Court ofSt. James l visited
London and was fayoured with letters of
introduction which enabled me to visit the
lCavendish House and Northumberland
House the residences of the Dukes of Devon.
shire and Northumberland, for the purpose
OF seeing their libraries and picture galleries
/ and, / saw their chief apartments, 30 that,
when state that the Prescott House is su-
perior in elegrnce to either Of those aristo-
cratic establishments, speak advisedIy. Mr..
Lawrence was recently in New York, and
putup at the Prescott House. and he fully
concurs in this opinion. Mr.. De GFooi, the
proprietor is neither obseqious nor ofiCiour,
az landlords too often are, but has the man
ners of gentleman of high breeding, and
has he happy faculty Of making his guests
feel at home. The servants are SO drilled
that they do more than obey orders; they
seem to anticipate al wants, and are so ae-
tive and intelligent as TO supply them almOst
az soon as they are uttered. The table & the
wines are worthy of such q princely estab-
ifhment yet the prices are no higher than
At other frst class hotels. few days so.
iourn at the Prescott House IL one Of the
pleasures which the educated and refined
will NOT fail To- enjoy when they come to New
York.
Yours Truly,
Yazoo.
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