New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-22
HAY.mAKING IN CHARLBsTor sun

SHINE.
ave don't have king every day." said pru-
dent tayerner, whose exorbitant bill against Joseph
Bonapsrte and bis train had elicited an angry re-
monstrance. 1--WE don't have Democratic Ma
" tional Convention every day." the Charleston
pubicans are saying 10 themselves as they arrange
frghtfully fanciful tariffs and mediate inventions
| of extorton. Whoever may venture to attend this
Convention, must pay for the pleasure of the pous
pilrimage-must pay not merely through the nose,
but through the eyes and carr, and every other orr
fee capable of sanguinary emission. The optics Of
| the Charleston Cheyaliers are beginning TO play
them melancholy tricks, and under the influence OF
the delusion poor four-shilling piece assumes the
| proportiops of harvest moon. The Delegate
seems 10 be regarded much rice planter regards
his niegeu The Delegate, duricS oils short scourn,
il to be made the most of he is to be ieeoed and
| choused with that science which will leave him ex-
acty sufficient cash to pay his passage from tho
| State, and prevent him from remaining paupsr
and charge upon the public treasury. In the early
days of California mining, we have heard that for
single plate of pork and beans one hundred dol
lars were offered and refused Not long ago, in
Australia, with strong martngale upon his appe-
tite, moderate man might exist upon twenty dol
lars day. In Charleston they are rather i'm
proving upon the old Ophr prices current Beef
must be scarce In that oxess city, for
it 10 already sold for four shillngs per
pound; ard if other prices are proper.
tionately HIGH as they said to be- there will be
nothing cheap in Charleston except dirt, and even
q Democratic Delegate cannot live by dirt alone.
If beef commands such price, we ask, In sheer
kindness, the chickens of the Democratic church
TO consider solemnly the probable cost of brandy
and water-of the matin cocktail, of the evening
cobbIer, and of the vesper nightcap' For
single bed the price will be ten dollars per night;
but what the cost will be where four neat
night-caps repose upon single pillow, we are not
advised. A Delegate who INDUCES in the singular
luxury of taking his wife to the Convention and Is
go lo.t to all sense of paternal responsibility as 10
carry his innocent son aleng with him, must pay
one hundred and twenty-sx dollars per week, and
"let Charlie sleep in the parlor on sofa" This
is certainly pleasant prospect.
A man must be very much in love with his
party and little regsrdful Of his comforts
man must either hold warm office, or tho
hope of one must be springing exultantly in
his bos0m-whO will be willing to submit
himself TO such cuticular Investment 1t is all
very well to be Member Of Congress-to have
Columbia herself pay your board-blls, and tenderiy
wipe out your tayern-scores-butw when one Is
public creature at his own private charges, these
hldeous rates must be fatal to hilarity. We always
knew that it cost great deal to be genuine
Democrat. But then such triles as self.respect,
consistency, humanity, and honest company, are
at best but intangible; and we suppose that any
man. by dint of long denial, can get along comfort
ably enough without either of them. But it is
when faith makes place for works, and fidelity must
be proved by disbursement, that the true touch
stone is applied. Show US man who will go to
ChaIestonwithout trying to extort free ticketfrom
any railway company-who will satisfy the most
unreasonable hackman without protest-who will
eat a little dinner and give great price for it
without growling-wbo will pay for damp sheets
and bedbues and empty and dirty towels
more than the luxuries Of Eastern palaces would
be worthwhile will smile when he is swindled,
meekly acquiesce in the laws of destiny when the
be-pull is broken, and mount to mansion in the
skies without blaspheming-show us such man,
doing all, daring all, drinking all, smelling all, and
smiling at all for the cause of Democracy, and we
will show you ono who at least earns amply the
prettest of places.
For our own part az we have not been elected
Delegate to the Convention, we have not, of course
any personal interest in this matter. But we are
certainly pleased to notice this cumulative and con-
elusive evidence of that Southern hospitality Of
which We have heard so much. Most of our read
ers have been told of the Southern latch string
which always hangs outside the door, ready to be
twitched by the irst welcome comer-of the bount-
full entertainment which ever in those regions
awaits the belated trayeler-of the loss of life, or
at least of the assault and battery, which would
ensue should any thoughtess guest venture to offer
so much as groat to his host The people of
Charleston, in their bountiful preparations for the
gathering of the Democratic clans-n their projects
fer making much of their visitOrs-have given us
fresh illustrations of their proverbial kindness to
strangers. Here we suppose, are additional
and beautiful results of the patriarchal
system. When Let entertained pair Of
angels, and that, too, while high
minded constitutional pOpulace we're endeayorirs
10 execute sort of Fugitive Slave Law, by break
ing down the house door, we do not read that Lot
brought in, the next morning. for foot-baths, and
LODGING. and the feast of unleayened bread, 8
swinging long bill. But we suppose that his
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