The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-05-07
lrgain for the House Of Commons.

do tho Sardanapalus, you can revel in
splendid, and ruin yourself if you like
but if you are but a simple, sensible, sin
gle traveller who has travelled, perhaps,
twelve hundred miles with no moro lug.
gage than valise, or a shiny carpet.bag,
you may board and lodge, and enjoy
your thousandth share of all the luxuries
in this hotel-palace for the moderate sum
of three dollars. or twelve shllings and
six.pence per diem. There are even
cheaper and not much less splendid ho-
tells ; but the st. Bobink is first chop
an a One house.
For your three dollars a day you have
the run of all the public apartments, a
noble billiard room, where you may win
or lose dollar-bills of or to excitable
southcrncrs and Senators in want of cx-
element, to your hearts content; read
ing-rooms, whore the ten thousand news
papers of the Union, all printed on the
largest possible paper in the smallest
possible type, are spread on the green
baizc tables smoking rooms where you
may taste the flavor of real lIavanas, or
luxuriate in the mastication of the frag-
rant pig tail writing rooms; audience
rooms cloak rooms lavatories, couserv-
alton parlors, and lounging balconies l
don't know whether they have fitted up
whiting room at the Saint Bohlink
yet but dare say that convenience will
be added to the establishment on the re-
turn Of Washington Mush, Esquire from
Europe. At the same time perhaps, it
would be as well to elect an apartment
devoted to the natioual pastime of cx.
pectoration. At present, for want Of a
special location, the whole palace is one
huge srittoon, which is iucouvenient to
foreigners
The bar-room of the Saint Boblink
may be initiated, but it can never be c.
qualIed in Europe. No efforts Of plastic
art, of upholstery ingenuity Of archtec-
turnl cunning could produce such re-
suit as is here apparent. The green vel
vet spring couches, with carved oak arm
rests, that artfully invite you to lounge;
the marble mantoipieces and stove tops
that seem to say. seduciively,-" come,
raise your heels above the level of your
heads, and show the European stranger
row of chevaux de frise Of black pants"
the rocking chair the dainty marble and
bronzs tables, transatlantic remiuis.
cence of Partisan cafes y arabesqued
gas-burners the cut glass looking glass
es; gilt frames. and Venetian blinds; the
spleudiferous commercial advertisements
that so worthily usurp the place of stu
pid high art pictures and engravings; for
who would not rather see Fits, fits
fits" in chronio-lithography, or Doctor
TuruipsGeds medicated maugelwurzol," ;"
or " tho Patent Ilcraceidan Detective
Padocks," sumptuously framed and
glazed tLan Sir Edward Landscer's
Deerstalking,h or the Queen after Win
terhaltorl But [ do the bar Of the
Saint Bobliuk injustice, There are some
engrayings. The massive head of Dan
iel Webster frowns upon the sherry-cob-
bier drinkers proudly lin PRINT in the
muddy Mississippi, defiant of snags and
sawyers, streams along Peleg Potter
steamer, huge, hurricane-decked, many
portholed, high-pressured, and hideous-
her engines working in sight, as if her
boilers were impatient to burst, and had
come up from the enginc-room to see
how many passengers there were, before
/ bursting.
Then there is grand view of the pal
ace itsof-the St. Bobliok-as large as
life lat least on the scale of half an iuch
to foot) Autographed by Measrs. Sax.
ony and Mayor The bar.room has al
most made me forget the bar; though
one visit to it is sufficient to stamp in
our remembrance forever. There, on
that great marble field Of Bacchus, are
sold the most delicious thirst-quenchers
in the two hemisphercs 1t is not neces
sary that | should cnumerate them. The
names,at least, of egg noggs, juleps, bran
dy smashes, timber doodles, and stone
fences are known in Europe There are
already several bullets in Paris were
you car be supplied with the cool and
cunning drink knOwn-whercof | am ig-
nOrant-as a fiscal agent. Tho bar keep.
er is a scholar and gentleman, as well
as an accomplished artist, captain Of
fire company, and | believe, a man of
considerable property, aud has un9p-
proachable skill in compromising and ar
ranging tbese beverages, and making
them not only exquisite to the taste. but
delightful to the view. His drinks are
pictures. See the tall tumblors, grace.
fully proportionod. and elegantly chased.
See through his pellucid walls and art
fully chiselIcd blocks of purest ice, the
frozen powder at the top; the crispnch.
es, spear, arrow, halbert-headed. that
cling about the rim like bronze scrolls on
buhl cabinet. See the blessed liquor
within, ruddy, golden, or orange tawny
dancing in tho sunlight, sparkling in the
CLASSY depths, purling through tssures,
ripping through the interstices of the
ice, aud seeking the lowest depths, the
remorest caverns,where the seaweed (rep-
reseuting spring Of minD is, and the
mermaids dwell. SEQ tho summit, crown
ed by blushing, pink-crested strawber.
~ Do you not feel inclined to sing
with the poet:
Hide, on hide these hills of snow
Which thy frozen bosom bears,
On whose tops the pinks that grow
Are as those that April wears
You feel inclined at least to hide the
pink strawberry by swallowing it, and to
melt the hills of snow by sucking them