The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-19
The CHARLESTON C0EyENfI0E.
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Reasons for Changing the Meeting TO
a Larger City.
Famine Prices al Charleston, and Exorbitant
Charges Of the Hotel Keepers.
TEN DOLLARS A DAY Tor BOARD
General Dissatisfaction. Of The Delegate.
and CAhers,
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CHANCES FOR QUARTERS AT CHARL EsTON-
EXO,tBlTAET pGIOES DEMANDED.
eV. srTcEAL WELLINGTON DESPATCH.
WASHINGTON, March II, 1850.
E'sy day peduces new evidence from Charleston
~ iasacrSs Of Che hotels and boarding houses
sA~ Eing tse most ex,ravsgant prices for quarters
dv Ing he SESSION ii the Democratic National Convention.
member Of Congress received letter day or Two
sfose, reply &c application FOR quarters, stating that
IL eooa have g room provided ne would agree 70 pay
We erSrmons frice Of ten twelve dollars for II from
The ltsh Of APyegh dsys before the Convention meets
10 &lclnsd saking it, Another gentleman showed me
hsfT 70 asr which he received from citizen Of Charles
@ 70 whcm he applied for rooms with board Tor himself
vue and son, informing him folows:-''I went 70
Ne prnc psi hotels TO what could do for yoI, but all
Ssfssedx osi:iyely 10 nave any ladies in The house in
ssss Aese drawing rooms parors and balls win be packed
with tcds and cots, Ind each occupant viii be Charged
IN dollars per day. Inex. 70 all The private boarding
nsses and found them al engaged Next went - severa
ysvse houses, and 4. last induced lady 20 say she
yss-d accommodate you, you and ycar wife Will take
bedroom and 10. Charlie sleep 10 The pGrcr on sofa
As vii charge You eighteen dollars per day for tho
ARee. lassure you yeu cannot do better you wsh 20
,ssne. lave never such 70 exciting Tine here as
Houfe, hu, had sc give up my last week anil he
~ u May, fer he landlord told 81 that we
nses pay during Ar.n fry dollars per week,
nd then allow I'm 20 put some one ese liz
S1 ROOM This ] ooGld no. afford, and wen.
- friends house, End now end must change again
.na God only knows where shall Co. The why
bsasd VIII be enormous is ihA. every hing market
very high. Beef sells for city Per pound
everything 10 IN thai proportion
EnOIss are making 70 procure enough persons 70 char
hy frs. class ocean steamers in New York.
ssch crack hotel in ITSELF and 80 round 20 Charleston in
uAs way The passengers, in such event, only having
10 And ., Charleston 70 attend the Convention without
bong beholden in she least 70 .ho lsndsharks.
ne Committee from Baltimore arrived here this even
he 70 confer with he National Democratic Committee
regard ts holding the National Convention toe latter
city They offer TO furnish the necessary FOR della
CATIONS &C. free Of Cost and me hotels and oter places
Il accommodation vii no: advance in prices.
sHR, DEMOCRATIC cosyENTON--CHANGE From
CHARLESTON.
iFyom the Charleston NeEs. March IA
5he boarding capacity OF Charleston however ample fer
Ne wants IN general, Is limited m comparison with the
greater par; OF April 70 furnish these 10 he
TENDED form and 70 arrange for many ysers posi-
Ole, grea. pense has been and Will py the
landlords IL changing the whole furniture and arrange
rms OF Their esiaohmsnts so as % provide for the
seyAinmeni OF much larger number OF guests Fer in
STANCE the Charleston Hotel Vii De lifted % afford com
Portable bed and BOARD thousand guests, where
ss under the present orra1zston three hur red woud
absorb ,s accommodations large rents, have
paid by them for outside houses for guests In addition
heavy co,sys have been and viii be made contracts
and purchases OF supplies 10 feed the thousands expected
Already do they suffer enhanced increased
prices in all market articles arising from holding back
BY the maIAstmen of meat. &c for the convention period
N thh respsc. our people at large feel the
venion TO be burden. TIE charge OF tive dollars per
day instead CT reing extorton, but necessity-a
tav return compensation sor TIE Efforts made he ex
yeases involved
shall be changed from Charleston sreeringly saws
that the little city, with liz forty thousand Inhabitants
fhah Of them sAvee) cannot accommodate the masses
sseHased By rom txsnty 70 niiy housand-who w.sh
sss and the country should reoce at any crcumsance
which should relieve the convention OF the outside pres
sure which would come from the corruption aspirations
interference ard insolepcs Of such TIE appro-
pirate parties who should be convention do not ex
esed thousand Charleston and viii provide for the
accommodation CT ten thousand decent v.sters-surey
viii guarantee .ha; New York aud other Northern cities
viii Eeep away from Charleston their shoulder hittere
psg ugnes, prize lighters BLACKBOARD Office seekers pick
pockets, burglars and rowdes generally the Netos will
guarantee that Charleston NOV having sixty thousand
saeitants, two thirds vhites) accom- modatons
ready for every respectable and well behsved vser who
may with 10 be here during the convention. Charleston
has bit little affinity with the convention ard less with
the thousands who Will come In its train and her people
however afew might complain at the removal would De
yelciced II were assembled at another place.
The despatch from Washington announces ina. the De-
merrac Central Committee there propose call the Con-
some other place than Charleston they have
10 right TO do The last Convention selected Charleston
{" he place for he assembly, and this committee ap
pointed by IT, were lot charged with any authority IN tie
Dsaer They can only arrange other details.
would y not be amusing II the committee did make the
ea1 cay to New York, and the Northern delegations
there and the southern delegations adherng strictly
thr won't 70 authority And usage, net at Charleston
weuld not be propuous political eventP Toe South
consisting of nearly all the democratic States aud con
sshnpg me true democracy, wond lay down constitu
Sonal platform, nominate . proper statesman for the
Iyeehtncy, and the ppscrupuous unscuudness OF the
Northern democracy being soUghed OF into the New
Yoyk body representing nothing pu, theseyee) would
nee more unturl the constitutional banner anu uno,r !,
ea back the hosts q abolition, or give denverance 20
ne Southern States
From the Charleston Mercury, Mar h ISL
An intense excemen: prevailed ia tie city yesterday
the publication Of spesial Washington despatch,
,hieh some measure cas-, doubt over the meeting Of
ae Convention Arrangements which had been il rapid
rcgress, were suspended in many instances, ard In
hers family carried on with frequen, reading of the
BY the Of our dispatches his morning. viii be
Arlington Still scheming One OF special des
sthes very shrewdy suggests the motive for the dis
wed by the friends OF Mr. Douglas transfer the Con-
nhon. Il possible 70 some city where they win be n
o,As since, when they prsted Of the danger 70
spprehen led from personal violence 70 Charleston.
=, however the, last card, and ms vii fsll Mr.
win preserve Southern aspect and cannot be brow
ten or bulbed.
With reference to the allegations Of these Interested
ties, there rs much ha: In Imagination, and much tha.
exagseraton The SIX hundred and fly gentlemen |
compose the Convention will be taken good Of, |
the preference given them. About hundred have
Ady been nvi.ed 70 accept OF the Inequalities Of
pens, and many more undoubtedly win be- But tie |
ffiad hangers on, who admitted the floor Of
Convention, must AXE their chances for feed and |
NJ. 10 greatly 10 be desired that their number may
Seduced 70 a Email figure as possible
sae Convention win meet IN Charleston; but # Mr.
vgias and his frer 10 desire Northern Convention lei
% call one.
HIGH PRICES N CHARLESTON MARKET.
- From tie Charleston Courier1
eAe high price Of meat al the present time "a causing
ssh Dissatisfaction among citizens. SO general