Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-12


hut as hjs experience increases, his dissatis
faction invariably diminisbss, and he ere long, !
will be very apt 60 arrive A. the conclusion
that the word "comfort" is thoroughly under
stood IN England, and that they have there
some ideas upon the subject which he would
gladly see transplantej and fiourshing IN our
own American soil These remarks thongh
made concerning the country inus are equal
| ly sppliable to the hotels Of the great English
/ cities, in which one ends the same quiet, the
same satisfactory arrangements with greater
| elegance aud expense Living At frst-class
/ hotel ia London will cost an American, It be
insists upon his three mealG every twenty
four hours, not less than one pound sterling,
or Eve dollars per day
liadton Hall, ons Of the most complete Of
the remaining castelated edihces, once In
hsbited by the feudal lords of Britain, we
found within a mile-apd a.balf Of Bakewell 49,
1t is unoccupied now, and its six hundred
years Of existence have not left II without
some marks Of fines corroding tooth, but
still it shows as very plsialy what we're the
domestic arrangements OF the nobility 10 the
dark ages, centuries before America was dis
covered when the bArons we're kings and the
people slaves At different times, II has been
the residence Of the families Of Vernon, Ave
NELL Peveril, Manners and Stanley. This sec
ton, Derbyshire, being the highest goun1 in
England is called "the Peak" This TACT, to-
gether with the appearance OF the name Of
"Peyeril' among it's prominent families, sug-
gested the idea that Scott novel called "Pev-
eril OF the Peak was based upon the adven-
lures OF au inhsbitant Of this sec ion, and
my interest was vastly assd when found
the suppositon correct, aud Haddon Hall, IN.
der the name Of "Martindale Castle the scene
of some of the most thrilling incidents OF the
story 1t suggested also, it is said, many OF
the ideas Of Mrs Radcliffe sombre romance,
the Mysteries of Udolpho
A pretty miss Of fouaieen was our guide
through the different apartments. The old
kitchen with its two immense fre.places, in
which sheep and yearng calves we're roasted
whole, end the old tables on which dinner
was dished and the mince-meat chopped, is
still IN servlceable condition, but destined to
remain unused imagine, until the world
''tnrns into It's yesterdays, and goes back
again to the golden days of the reign Of
good queen Bass' II struck me strangely
as we entered then the Chspain's Room, to
e find it made the depository OF an ancientgun
, n buck skin doublet,a pair OF houseman 3 boots
and pistol holsters which probably saw ser
vice under the fiery Rupert against the ''eant
a their Chaplains, in those days. we're as war
!, like as some of ours now and welded the
= weapons of carnaf warfare with hotter yea
and more effect than the "Sword Of the Spirit
i The roof Of the chapel, Of unpainted oak, il
n as iresh as il it we're hut year old, although
n Sir George Manners put ii on in 1924.
Ascending the stairs, we found tho suites o
" rooms usual in such places, with walls hum
l. with queer old paintings an the rustllng ia
n pestry, worked by the fair fingers OF the gen
q tie danes for whose favor men in armor brok
ances and shed each others blood In on
of the rooms, is an ancient and rather d dlaplda
d ted piece Of furniture, called a state bed, Sc
1t apart and sanctified by the use Of the ddereu
d sovereigns who visited the baronal dwelling
K; Gts posts are fourteen and a half feet higf
and the canopy, curtains, mRtrass and cove
D. ings made so long ago az the reign Of Henr
is VI are Of velvet aud satin, aud are rich an
,e elegant STILL Opening out from the mai
, rooms, in the most unsupported hooks an
corners, are many of those secret ehambe
~ and passages, in which the men Of olden tin
ly delighted, and which, in romARces, so mut
III delight the little men and women OF our tim
b. aad many were the stories the guide told u
- of the startling events accomplished by the
'n use
d. Inc gardens, SUN keptln Pele't oIuer u
er old yew trees, the flowers, the terraces Il
Or swift running river, the little Wye, windiI
y" around the ioet Of the hill, are the same nc
90 as in the oden time, but while Nature rel,
or. ces in immortal youth, men wax old and d
OF and never in any city of the dead were =
,or more solemnly impressed than here when
~ rememb bered that the eyes of those who on
delighted to look upon this scene and say It
me this ia ours are now lustreless and dim, q
err shall see it no more forever