Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-08-23

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PUBLIC WANT.
We have frequently urged upon our citizens the
necessity for increased hotel accommodations to
supply the demands Of the travelling public and to
SO little purpose that we have nealy given over al
hopes Of seeing this really pressing public want
supplied. We have Invested the question Of its
claims to the consideration Of business men and
capitalists on the score Of City and State prids-a
claim to which they are not inclined to turn a very
ready esr-and have endeavored to show that even
were the rents of such an ediAce as is required to
fall short of the mark at which property may be re-
. garded as paying investment, the erection of q
hrst class hotel to be kept in first rate STYLE would
yet be Notwithstanding as it would induce
ments to hundreds yearly to visit Nashville on bust
ness and for pleasure, and spend their money here,
who are now kept away for the want of proper ac-
eOmmOdafOn in this line. For without desiring to
disparage the clever and wel4-meaning hosts of our
public houses, candor compels us to say that any,
thing like comfort need not be expected nor indeed
is.it found, in the small, badly planned, badly
ventilated structures in Nashville where the trav-
cling community are regularly taken IN Our hotel
Keepers do all they can. They keep well supplied
tables. They are attentive and kind But this told
and all is told
There is nOtniAg that gives reputation abroad to
city so soon as the character of its hotels good
hotel in city is the best advertisement it can have
Every person who stops at it carries away with him
grateful recolections Of his soourn and repeats its
praises wherever lie goes. As proof Of this need
only note the fact that the of the best hotels
in every city in the Union, familiar house,
hold words. Travellers on business or pleasure
from every quarter take them in their route. They
are always thrOnged. Has Nashville any such rep
utatiOn Does it deserve it? We repeat, We intend
to be candid nothing extenuate nor setdOEn aught
in malice. But we are sadly deficient on this point.
We have hrst-rate hotel, nor indeed sufficient ac-
cohmodations of an inferior kind for the actual
wants of the place. In view Of the unusual number
who will need to be taken care Of at the meeting of
he Legislature, may well ask what are we to do
uring the month of October, in addition to the as
embling of the members of the Legislature and the
ovid of Ofice-seekers who will accompany them,
ere will occur the convention of the Masonic
and Lodge, the opening of the Medical School,
State Fair, and the Fan Races all of which will
P to swell the crowd. How are these people to
accommodated Our hotel-keepers viii do all
can, and more, we dare say than they ought,
they want the room to properly provide for them.
vate boarding houses seem to be the only alter
tive left But these will be filed with the mem
ers and officers of the two houses of the Legisla-
ture, because our hotels being constantly crowded
during the business season with transient custom,
refuse to accommodate them and they are forced to
seek shelter in private houses. This may look like
oEerdrsWn picture, but we know the facts to be
as we state them. In view of these facts we again
call upon capitalists to step forward and supply
this great public want. The investment may not be
as good two per cent. month in safe endorsed
paper, but would stin pay and pay handsomely.
VINO READS LAw?-AocOrding to the Providence
Journal but two copies of the Revised Statutes of
Rhode Island found a sale in the mercantile commu-
nifty of that the principal city of the State, though
the volume was offered at nearly every store and
counting room in the place. We doubt if the pro
portion of Nashville merchants who purchase the
volume of acts passed by each session of Legis-
lature be not still smaller. There is probably not
volume sold in the whole State outside of the legal
profession. Who reads law? the Journal may well
ask Who outside of the bar, says the New York
-EDeniag Post, knows either those well.established
principles which protect and define his rights or the
character of the notifications in the law which the
Legislature makes from time to time? Little as
business men know of literature and science, they
aremore Herewith it is safe say, than
with that which enters into their daily transactions
and eventually decides upon their validity. Hence
vast deal more litigation than need be; hence the
constant recurrence of cases, involving questions
which were settled scores of years ago. 3-
Without endorsing the popular falacy that every
man be his own lawyer, that there is necessity
for the legal profession in communities wherein the
most complicated problems constantly demand
ing solution, cannot agree that little learning
of this description is a dangerous thing 1t is use
full to every to know TO what obligations his
ordinary contracts commit him, and to have some
notion of the force of language and the nature of
the law whereby it is to beiuterpreted. few min
utes day spent attentivey over an ordinary text
book careful perusal of the two three statutes
in each volume which affect personally, would
be time and labor well invested especially for mer
chants. sd
tSs- Attention is called to the advertisement of
Elk W, in our advertising columns. 1t will be
seen that he wishes to get clerkship, or to form
partnership in some grocery store.
ma Hollister Carter have just received lot Of
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