Charleston, the place and the people . inment;inns were vastly more genteel, to use that obsolete formof commendation. In Charleston these were often k^ptsomewhat as English lodgings are now. The owners lived in the background; cooked, and tookthe orders of the guests as to Avhat they would be pleasedto have for dinner, if they occupied private rooms, or servedthem themselves if they preferred the table dliote. Two ofthese houses were admirably kept by free coloured people,who were quite characters. The first, Joness, is describedby the traveller Hamilton (already quoted) as being thebest inn
Charleston, the place and the people . inment;inns were vastly more genteel, to use that obsolete formof commendation. In Charleston these were often k^ptsomewhat as English lodgings are now. The owners lived in the background; cooked, and tookthe orders of the guests as to Avhat they would be pleasedto have for dinner, if they occupied private rooms, or servedthem themselves if they preferred the table dliote. Two ofthese houses were admirably kept by free coloured people,who were quite characters. The first, Joness, is describedby the traveller Hamilton (already quoted) as being thebest inn of the place, kept by Jones, a negro, with silverforks, clean tablecloths and all the luxuries of the table;. . iced claret to convert Diogenes into a realizes the English idea of a city. Avaluable manuscript narrative by Mr. J. Francis Fisher, 460 CHARLESTON of Philadelphia, who married Miss Eliza Middleton, alsomentions Joness. Later than Joness was Eliza Lees,— the house now called the ^lansion House in Broad. The :^LA.^SIO^- House —Eliza Lees Street. Both Jones and Lee were in great subjection totheir wives, w^io were excellent cooks, and as excellentcooks are apt to be, great termagants as well. SOCIAL TOPICS. MEXICAN WAR 461 Their tempers were chiefly expended upon their hus-bands, and did not affect the guests, except that thehitter were sometimes amused by glimpses, through anopen door, of a cuff or a slap, with a dishcloth, bestowedin the pantry by his angry spouse upon the pompous butlerof the dining roo:n. Both women were mulattoes, clevererthan their dark husbands, and so oppressed them ; but theykept good clean houses with attentive and well-managedservants, owned by themselves. The first hotel was the Planters — now a ruinous oldbuilding opposite to the Huguenot church, at the cornerof Queen Street. A merry place it w^as in time of yore,when the wealthy men of the middle country, Hamptons,Mannings, Richardsons, Singletons, Canteys, etc., w
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