The Virginia star., 1879-09-27
LYHCHBURG, Sept. %, 1879.

PROF. WILSON-MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND
EDUCATION-THE VIRGINIA GUARDS GO
ING TO THE STATE FAIR.
LYECHBURG, Sept. %, 1879.
The Virginia (Blues) Guards of this city
have selected the number of men they Will
take to Richmond to drill during the Fair in
October.
One Prof. Wilson, who lately visited the
city to lecture on Moral Philosophy, Educa~
ton, &C., and failed in every attempt, has
gone TO other fields and pasture. and no one
laments his departure but his landlord.
Over one thousand of our citizens have vlsi-
ted Norfolk, Old Point and Hampton this
summer, and all express themselves graiied
and delighted with the beautiful scenery, the
inVIgorating salt air, and the geniality of the
people. Our people have seen and felt the
error in going to the capital of the nation and
spending so much money, and no excursions
from there come here, unless it be some So
ciety or organization; and they come to make
and take away money. But really what has
sickened our people has been the fact that
when these strangers and visitors from Wash
in9ton and the No rtI1 come here, they re
ceve every courtesy and hospitality. and
''free grace" eat, leep and drink, but when
ours 90 "acrosS the water" they can't find
their friends" and have to dig down in their
pockets and pay for every breath they draw
Hotels for COlored PeOple.-I have heard
much complaint from persons sojourning in
this State, especially from the North, that our
hotel accommodations were very inferior, and
that there was lack of lace curtains, Brus-
sells carpets, and the many other objects'that
| are necessary for first-class hotel." | did
not hear any complaint as to the fare. No
one ever compld1ned OF fare at IA Virgins
hotel. You can get more dinner, break
fast, or supper for twenty-five cents at the
Merchant House. Lynchburg, 'Hotel Paige,
Norfolk, or Fry's, in Richmond, than you can
and the victuals you get at Virginia hotel is
| fresh and not secondhand ded, neither has 1T
passed through two or three courses before it
reaches the mouth of the colored guests. The
| reason why we have no 1lnery and all that is
| this, our landlords pay taxes as lnn-keepers.
aud hire hands, and so on, and look for pat.
rOnage, but the too general hospitality of our
citizens prevent them from getting custom,
because when strangers and visitors arrive in
our cities, private citizens seem possessed
with mania TO carry them to their private
houses instead of encouraging the colored ho-
| tells. Let an excursion, or party, proSpec-
| ting, come TO Norfolk, LynchbuIg, or Rich
mond, and you will see at the depot or place
of arrivals, scores of "brothers' and ISIS
ters anxious to take some one 10 their house
es, and thus our colored hotels suffer. These
citizens ought 10 see that their kindness is
virtually an imposition on the lax-paying
inn>keeper. Our people should learn to do
| as people ''up North" do. Let strangers and
visitors go to public places. Then if you de-
sire to do so, call on them and pay their res
| spects. II this is done, our hotels may be en-
abed to have lace-curtains, Brussels carpets,
and Mona printed in white satin.
| The excursion season is over, and now for
| a little resume, Last year thirteen excur-
sions. principally made up Of c0l0red l0b0r>
ing people left here for Washington, to plod
| and bobble through the streets of that hot
summer city, and to be lodged and disappoin-
ted by the many who come over here and en-
joy their hospitality, and promises ever so
much ''when you come to Washington"
This year not single excursion train has left
here for Washington under colored aupices.
| Our daily Virginaan has been paying the
STAR the best respects of the Editors. also 10
0Ly
DR.. Derrick agree with the Virgtnadn on
the debt question. 1 heard leading Demos
crat say publicly at Nottoway Courthouse,
that the editorials in the STAR on paying the
debt were the ablest that had appeared 10
any paper in Virginia, but he did not know
the STAR was "colored," at least don't think
he did. CYRUS.