Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-04
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
Hotels in washinston.-The New York

uoIelS In w asnlngton.-lne NC" ioiA
Herald. the no less infsllibls srbiter OF good
taste than Of good morals and sound politics.
having shown up its latest creation-deo1se
Law, as a public man-has turned lts al'en-
tion to showing up the hotels OF Washington
city, all of which it pronOunces, &c eothedrd,
detestable hotels; as though the fact that
such is its judgment of them to-day, makes
them so. Though it is but fair to adopt its
opinion of the politicians whom 1t alone has
warmed into brief notoriety-for who should
know them through and through better than
the author of their political being-we opine
that its opinion of hotels in Washington is
worth just as little as its views of the prospects
Of presidential candidates few weeks ago,
when it was pledging its reputation for the tri-
umph Of Fremont by an overwhelming ma
;ority. Its conductor, who writes in so sweep
ing terms against every hotel in Washington.
has not ventured to trust his ears within the
bounds of the District of Columbia for year
past; evidently in the fear that they would be
called for as a forfeit by some one Of the many
gentlemen here, he has taken occasion to black
guard in that time as violently as he black
guarded the hotels of Washington on Sunday
morning last So he cannot have written from
personal experience in this connection. He
complains that their charges are higher than
those of New York This is untrue.
We have beside US the bill recently paid by
a gentleman, who, with his wife, occupied
chamber and parlor at Broadway New York;
hotel, few weeks since. 1t amounts to Sl2
per day for their board and the use of the
parlor. No hotel in Washington charges such
high prices. What the Herald says about
the attendance of the servants at the Wash
ington hotels is also false. None are better
drilled, or more civil and accommod ating any.
where in the country. Nor are more substan-
tial comforts to be enjoyed in the hotels of any
other city in this country; though, we admit,
the immense caravanseras of New York and
one or two other American commercial empo-
RUINS are conducted with closer attention to
psrade-to fuss and featheIs-if the reader
pleasss. The Herald seems to be after mali
ciously inducing some one to lose q fortune
IN building an additional huge hotel III this
city; asserting, as it does, that many keepers
of such establishments here have in late years
retired with large fortunes. We should like
to know who they are. Our information on
that head is directly the reverse of all this
If any single one has done so, we should like
to know who he Is
The truth is, the hotels of Washington are,
like all the rest in this country, quite as well
kept as the business they transact will war
mt. nd hot ~
quite as general satisfaction to their patrons
as any others in the land. No man Of brains
expects landlord to set before his one or two
hundred guests as varied or as deliberately
prepared bills of fare as he would certainly
present them if they numbered daily from
five hundred TO one thousand, as at some Of
the hotels in New York The editor who
makes that fact the ground work for such
sweeping charges against the Washington
hotels, is evidently unfit to form sensible opin-
ions in such matters, as the conductor Of the
Herald has so recently found himself to be in
politics.
The Orange and Alexandria Railroad Com.
pany.-The proceedings of the recent annual
meeting of the stockholders of this company,
he'd in Alexandra, demonstrate that it is not
only one of the best-managed public works in
the Union, but one the stock of which bids
fair very soon to be as profitable as any other
railroad stock in the country, not excepting
the consolidated New York Central and the
jersey MOnOpoly's roads. In less than two
years Its network of connections will give it
the command of the travel and freight of an
immense scope (breadth) of country, stretch.
ing lOpgitudinally from tide water on the At
lsRtic coast to the Mississippi; and in two
years more perhaps to Mobile in one direction,
TO New Orleans in another, to st. Louis and
the western confines of Missouri in yet another
direction, and again to Chicago and Dubuque
In another. From the Mississippi at Memphis
to tide water on the Potomac, it will be essen
tally and absolutely without rival as the
eastern terminus Of travel and trade that is
destined to astonish all the railroad operators
in the land for few of them indeed are as yet
aware Of the dormant facilities for making a
profitable railroad business which exist in the
fertile, hsalthful and beautiful and mild las
to climate) regions of Virginia, Tennessee,
Alabama, Kentucky and Arkansas, which are
to become tributary to it (the Orange and Al
e1sndIia TailToad) and to it alone as the east
ern outlet of their travel and transportation
OF all description. Besides being much the
shortest route through which the business of
the regions to which We refer can possibly
reach the Atlantic coast, its climatic advap
tagss and advantages Of grade and through
connection will render it the most certain.
speedy, agreeable and the cheapest long line
of railway on the North American continent
1t can be run probably with given amount
of freight and passenger traffic at less rates
per mile than any other in the Union, or our
experience of twelve years in connection with
the construction Of such works has not added
h .anna:Axr II nd