The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-05-07

enjoy your mild Havana, or your kief, or
your quid or your passion for castle
building. There are degrees, my son. in
human enjoyment A cool tankard and
long pipe in an arbor looking upon
smooth bowling.green has, ere now, been
the dearest solace of scholars or divines
Others can find no enjoyment more graf
flying than bright fire, close drawn
curtains, silver teapot. and an uncut
number Of the Quarterly. There are
men whom you could not tempt with
gold or jewels or trinkets for the Lord
Mayors banquet, to say there was great
er pleasure in life then playing with their
children. Sugar.and and tooth
pick will content some cigar and cold
toddy on the tiles others but for my
part, | do not know more pleasant an.
imal enjoyment, of the tranquil, medita-
tive kind, than an American drink and
cigar. and my kief afterwards. Yet G.
ven these rejouissances are transitory;
melancholy bubbling in the straw tells
of the last drop of the fiscal agent. Then
comes the empty glass aud payment and
remorse.
The barkOcpcr and his assistants pos
sess agility of acrobats and the prestidi
gitatvc skill! of mogicians. They are all
bottle conjurers. They toss the drinks
about they throw brimful glasses over
their heads they shake the sacharine,
glacial aud alcoholic ingredients in their
long tin tubes they scourago eggs and
cream into troth; they send bumpers
shooting from one end of the bar to the
other, without splling a drop they give
change, talk politics, tell quaint ancc-
dotcs. swear strange ooths, smoke, chew
aud expcctorate with astonishing celeri
ty and dextcrity, | should like to be
barkccpcr, if | were clever enough
1t is in the Saint Boblink House that
you can comprehend, in its majestic
amplitude, the great American institu-
tion of liquoriug Here, where the de-
sopiatcd oafer and the shrewd merchant,
sallow from Wall street bargains the
overprcssed, ovor-smoked over saturated
with-tobacco juice aristocrat, from Fifth
avenue the cotton sampling clerk tho
dry goods selling dissentcr, not being an
advocate of the Maine Law. or sitter
at the feet of John b. Cough the Con-
cress colonel the courteous steamboat
captain the scorchcd Southerncr the
apathtic Dutchman, from his Hudson
farm tho turn.down.collarcd lecturer
the llack-waistcoateG editor; The raw.
boncd Kentuckian aud bluccyod Ger
man; the boastful Irishman, mipgle and
drink. aud drink again The thing is
gravely done--sternly almost solcmnly.
The drink is duty, as well as a mere
relaxation and retreshment. 1t is a part
Of the mission of the sovereign people
aud the list Of American drinks should
be lung up in the national museum a
long with the national tar-bucket, the
national feather bed. the national re-
volver and bowie knife. the national de-
claration Of Independence and the ua-
tional and almighty dollar.
have no hesitation in saying, that
the table dhote at the Saint Boblnk
House is the best array of catablcs in
the whole world. In cookery, the sub
tety Of the sarces and refinement of tho
havoring may be surpassed by some few
European diplomatic chiefs but the
quantity and quality Of the viands do, to
adopt native locution, whip all crea-
tion. Rolst aud boiled, fried and stew.
cd, fish, soups, including the delicious
terrain aud the famous Gumbo oysters,
(such oysters J game, poultry, rice birds
from South Carolina, infinitely prcfera-
bic to ortolans, pastry. sweets. jellies,
bauc manages and ices. For an Apcean
feast, commend me to the Saint Bob.
link. Sing. muse, too of its breakfasts
with its plethora Of strange. but delici-
Gus fishes. and their hundred varieties of
bread. hot and stale.
This is, then, tho Saint Boblink llo'
tel, with its clerks Office like bankers
counting house; with its courteous, ac-
complshed clerks in rings and chains /;
with its bridal chambers fitted up in
white satin, ivory aud gold for rev mar
ried couples on their wedding tour with
its hundred mechanical appliances for
bellringing message calling aud trouble
saving OF every description; with its c.
lectric telegraph laid OH like gas or va
ter, countless walters its really moderate
charges, and Admirable management aud
discipline.
Can anything be wanting to make 1t
perfect? Little, perhaps, save the con
Yertion Of the bed rooms into which sin-
gle travellers aro put, from comforiless,
scanty draughty, dogholcs, into descent
ly furnished aud moderately comfortable
chambers, and save the abolition Of pun
ishment of that great nuisance, and
curse, and scandal, the expectoraiion OF
tobacco juice
Come away from the Saint Boblink
House traveller, for We are wanted in
Europe again, BY the time We return
to the States, the giant palace will have
been burnt down and built up again, larg
or and handsomer than ever.