Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-06
Re-openIne of the st. Cloud Hotel.

Re.Opening of the st. Cloud HI otel.
For month or so past the St. Cloud Ho
| tel, on the corner of Church and Summer
| Streets, has been closed and undergoing re-
pairs, preparatory to the coming in of a new
| administration, who, within that, time has
spent thousands of dollars in enlar eing, reno
waiting and refurnishing the house. Every.
thing having been made ready, the establish
ment, looking as bright as new pin, wa:
thrown open to the public, and so well does
that public understand and appreciate Mr.
CARTER's abilities as hotel-keeper. that by
twelve O'Clock nearly half the rooms in the
house were filed either with transient Gus
toners or permanent boarders. Everybody
remembers that the old Nashville Inn was
years ago, under the management of Mr.
CARTER one oftbe very best and most pop
| ular hotels in all the Southern country, and
we hazard nothing in saying that the St
Cloud will soon achieve the same enviable
| position and maintain it as long as 1t re-
mains under his control.
We sat down to an inaugural dinner at the
ST. Cloud yesterday, in company with num-
Der of other invited guests, and found upon
the new and elegantly furnished tables every
thing rare and substantial that money can
command in this market, all served up with
.uch taste and elegance as we have never
seen eoualed at any of the best hotels in the
larger cities. The tableware is entirely new
and is of the neatest description. The wines
with which Mr. CARTER served his guests on
this occasion, (and with which he will con-
tinue.to serve them hereafter were purchased
of one of the most reliable houses in New
York, and were superior to any we have
ever found upon hotel table. The dinner
Yesterday was not one to which all the extra
touches had been given for the occasion, but
was such as may be had every day at the st.
Cloud. Mr. CARTER's chief-cook is fresh from
one of the first hotels in Philadelphia and
will render the dining-room OF this house the
Mecca of the lovers of good living ali the
year round.
The old frequenters of the st. Cloud from
abroad will not recognize the place when
they revisit it. From cellar to garnet it has
been renovated and improved. Every room
in the building has been repapered, reprinted
and newly carpeted. ALI the old furniture
was sold at auction, and every beds.ead,
bureau, wardrobe, table, chair and washstand
is Just from the hands of the manufacturer,
and is of the latest pattern. The principal
parlor is furnished with much taste, the fur
niture being of solid rosewood throughout.
Mr.. CARTER purchased his carpets. bed-linen
(and it is linen) and other articles of the
kind, of R G. MCNAIRY & Co., College street,
and his furniture of CAIN & CORNELIUS
on Church street.
Mr.. CARTER has added another story to the
wing of the building, which gives him the
advantage of some twenty odd new rooms.
The dining room has also been enlarged,
and is now capable of seating comfortably
several hundred guests. 1t is newly papered
and decorated, and presents very handsome
appearance. There is no room of its size in
the city so we'll ventilated.
People who come to Nashville from other
cities have long been accustomed to abuse
Cloud, they will find that there is at least
one man here who "can keep hotel" and
keep it much better than those which they
consider well kept. A more airy and pleas
ant site for hotel could not be found than
that on which the st. Cloud stands, and if
the public don't find the house as pleasant
place to stop at, it win be because they
want more than can he found in the South
west.