The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1859-05-18
From our Notes.


At the risk of publishing that which
may seem stale 10 many Of our readers,
we venture to continue some scattering OBJ.
servations connected with our late strip, and
which were dotted down at various points
between Charleston and home.
We left Columbia on Wednesday morn
, ing, arrived in Charleston in good time and
took quarters at the Pavilion Hotel; which
is kept by Mr. Butterfeid, IL noble speci-
men Of an English landlord, who spares
no pains to make his guests comfortable
This House was recommended to us by a
brother edtorand We by no means regretted
having stopped there ; it is among the best
OF the Charleston Enthusiastically and com.
Portable sleeping apartments, good fare and
attentive servants and the fact that it is
hity cents cheaper per day than the Char.
lesion Hotri or the Mills House, is an item
of some consequence to those who have
not more money than they need
There were not many persons visiting
Charleston, the business of tie Spring.
which ii is said has been unusually hrav",
being nearly, if not quite over. We met II
few persons from our seciion--Col Barnes,
Capt. Stewart, Mcssrs w. Stevens and r
Hamilton, all Of whom left before we did,
with the exception of the Captain, who re-
NAMED, seemingly perfectly at home and
enjoying the good things of the city with
m air of the most philosophical nonchal-
ance.
There was not much doing in Charleston.
aside from business affairs and the ordina-
~ occurrences cf every day life. The thea.
tre was closed and there was no other
amusement thRI We heard Of Ample pre-
parations were In progress for the Fair of
the Calhoun Monument Association 30
commence on the 10th inst q, notice of
which appeared in the Leiger two weeks
ago. The object is highly crediIuble u"
one can look upon the unprrlcnding slab
which marks the testing place of the "ncc
truly great Calhoun, without feeling that
som"thng is due from the people Of our
Stale in commcmJration of the distinguish-
ed ser, ices ard virtues of him, whom wa
! rcc"gnizr ~ the brightest star that ever
sh"nc ia our Southern p0liti III hOrAon.--
Massachusetts and Kentucky have not suf.
trrcd the gravcs of Webster and Clay TO
remain in singular obscrultv {; but they
have reared To them monuments, such ~ n
grateful people would erect in honor of
those whom they loved and rc"rred whilst
living.
The subterrancan drains to extend from
the Ashley to the Cooper rivers, and which
we're commenced year or two ago are not
yet completed. The portion of Meeting
Street next rhc Pavilion Hotel Ia almost
blocked up by the workmen in the progress
of this Iaborious undertaking. Charleston
is making energetic and very oreditabc
efforts 10 ward off the approaches of that
affecting scourgc-the yellow fcver-which
has :" frequently "f late drpopulatcd her
streets and seriously retarded her CONNER.
cinl prosperity. The whole State would
reioicc could some means be resorted to, to
rilrctuaIly bar the disastrous visitation.
The subject Of requiring the dead to be
buried without the city, continues 10 be dis
cussed with considerable spirit through the
city papers. Men Of science have from the
earliest ages pronounced the custom ofinter.
ring the dead within cities fruitful source
of disease, and We understand tina! some of
the distinguished savons of Charleston have
said that the decomposition of dead bodies
has affected the water of the city to do.
gree, tha: the people might well feel sut.i.
cicntIy alarmed at To induce them to dis
continue the custom. Private feeling should
certainly, under these circumstances be sac.
rifced to the public good.
The excitement consequent upon the late
trial OF the Echo prisoners, seems to have
entirely subsidized in Charleston and everyt
BODY satisfied with the result 1t was the
opinion of several persons with whom VIC
cOnversed, and who seemed TO be familiar
with the subject and with the tines, that
the slave trade is now virtually opened and
that in few years there will cease To be
any practical opposition to it on the par!
Of the Government. The South Western
States are determined upon the question
and tbs Statutory enactments Of Congress
are unheedei and pronounced unconstitu-
tional. Looking over the papers IN the
well furnished reading room of the Char.
lesion hotel, We stumbled upon singular
advertisement in paper published at Enter.
prise, Miss. A company Of persons pro.
pose to pay $3.50 per head for one Thousand
native Africans, to be delivered within
twelve months at Enterprise, Miss. The
advertisement is signed by VIM S. Price,
sen, Geo. w. Dolby, Reese Price. and IF.
teen or twenty others. These men contend
that they are obeyng divine injunction in
enslaving the African, and the laws of the
United States upan the subject, being IN
constitutional. are nut entitled tn thair rpr