Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-21

SOUTHERN MANSERs.-A correspondent OF
the Boston Bee, writing from the Glen House
at the White Mountains, says
81 have another difficulty to record, arising
from the peculiar character of Southern chtv-
airy, and Northern sense of propriety and in
dependence. On Tuesday, young gentle
man from Memphis Tenn, who had arrived
during the day in company with some others
from Tennessee, eDdeavored to introduce the
customs-ss he subsequently said they were
of the South. After finishing his dinner,
and while the ladies and gentlemen were still
seated at the table, he threw himself back III
his chair, and gave loud, shrili whistle, as
if in search of lost dog. The chief walter,
Mr.. Grady, (who, by the way, is very civil
and polite man, and capital waiter, having
served at the Revere House, Boston,) an
swered his call, at the same time requesting
the gentleman not to whistle again, should he
require any information respecting the depar-
ture of stages-which it appears was all he
desired to learn from the waiter, This re-
mark, coming from servant, so aroused the
Southern chiUalyv Of the hot. blooded Tonnes
sean, that he Immediately proceeded to the
landlord, and demanded the instant discharge
of the chief waiter,s threatening, that if his
demand was not instantly complied with, to
leave the house. The landlord, with calm
ness really refreshing, told the whistler that
the waiter could not be discharged, and he
would furnish conveyance for his (the Ten
nesseean's) departure, whenever be should
choose to depart. This rather cooled off the
chivalrous gentleman for the moment, but
he went around the house, told his grew
ances to his Southern friends, and by tea-time
he had persuaded some half-dozen asses like
himself to ask for their bills and baggage.
Mr.. Thompson, the landlord, ordered a
stage coach to be got ready, and the party left
for Gorham, amid the laughter of large
number of gentlemen who had become ac-
TAINTED with the facts of the difficulty. AS
this person intends visiting Boston, the pro-
prietors of the Boston hotels had better COM
mence training their walters in the school of
Southern chfoaly, and in order that they may
not entertain angels unawares, give the
name of the party which is J. p. Perkins,
Memphis, Tenn. Many Southern gentlemen
gentlemen in the fullest meaning of the
word--censured the conduct of the Tennes-
seean, and laughed heartily at his presumptu-
Gus demand and folly.
No one will deny that citizens of the
Northern States travel more than their South
ern brethren, but who ever heard of any diff
Guilty arising between a Northern man and a
domestic in hotel +? There may have been
an instance in the history of the country, but
/ am not aware of 1t. And how is this mat
ter to be accounted for Do Southern men
consider all whom they encounter at the
North as mere slaves or interiors, or do they,
Immediately upon crossing Mason's and Dix
on's line, throw off whatever of the gentle.
man they may have previously possessed, and
at once assume the BLACKBOARD and bully !
OF course, my remarks will not apply TO
many, very many, high-minded, honorable,
gentlemen Southerners who visit the North;
but the frequency of difficulties with walters
leads one to suppose that there is some exist
ing cause for it, on the part of Southerners,
not yet explained