Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-03-16

ANuAVN NEWS AND GOSSIPs
IHs NoN-ISrKRcouRsR PRINCIPLE TRIUMPH.
ANr.-We received this morning tho important
dispatch from Richmond, Va, to be found at the
head OF the Stars telegraphic column TO-DAY
virginia has thus inaugurated the southern State
policy which Is eventually to quadruple the value
OF every acre Of land in her limits and to keen At
nome large share Of the she dsburses
annually to feed, clothe and enrich those WIN
war on her institutions, and send Representatives
ana Senators to Congress to legisate especially To
the END OF robbing her Of her right of co-eoualtv
under the Constitution, and crippling her inter
ess In every conceivable way Mr Barbou,,s
system OF levying State taxes throughout the
South so az to discourage the consumption of
northern goods, wares and mere handize, and to
encourage their production throughout the South.
thus adopted by Virginia-for there can be no
DOUBT 'hat the other branch Of the Virginia Leqis-
lature will also speedily pass the bill-wil doubt.
less be adopted by every southern State. a. tho
remedy against the results of the increase Of alb.
olitionism at the North, that should be re,o,ted
to under existing circumstances, in preference to
disunion.
The RUSH FOR CHARLESTON Moro erc,t.r,.,.
concerning the probability that those who 90 IN
Inc Charleston Convention relying upon such &C
cominooations al the city will afford, will get
literally no accommodations whatever, while thew
Will nave TO pay an average Of at least ten dollars
per olem Ior the pretences Of accommodation
accordeo 70 Them has created more excitement
aniohg the Democratic politicians everywhere,
'nan any state of things we ever witnessed; and
well may, for 1t is an outrageous affair truly
Charleston contains perhaps fifty thousand in.
habitants, not more than half of whom are whites
II SO many The facilities Of the hotels for accom-
modating strangers, ordinarily, are not greater
than those Of any other American commercial
town of twenty-five thousand white Inhabitants
we take 1t. Now, it is clear that at least twenty
and it may be thirty or forty thousand persons
Will attend the Convention from distance. The
hotel keepers cannot possibly accommodate com.
Iortaoiy more than onetenth Of the crOwd-which
Will De -FOUR or five times as many persons as they
usually lake care Of in busy times with them
The people Of the city will doubtless put them
selves to more Inconvenience to make everybody
comfortable, than those of any other city would
submit to. Yet that they can take care of more
than two or three thousand more, is utterly i'm
possible.
To attend the convention without enoaoinu
rooms and lodging in advance, WILL therefore, be
worse than folly on the part Of any man; and to
secure board and lodging in advance will cost
enormously. The best the hotel keepers will do
Will be 70 promise to accord food and bedding at
So. The feeding to be done, of course as the
guest may bs able to elbow his way i'm the rush to
the table-and the lodging-a cot in room occu-
pied by from ten to two hundred heavy snorers
according to its capacity for close packing of
mattresses an! blankets. The five dollars Der diem
to be charged for such accommodations, will be
not more than half the cost of the brief soiourn
there. If board is to be put up one hundred per
centum, ones shaving, clothes brushing, boot
blacking bills, &c, must 60 up correspondingly
In fact, it will be utterly impossible for guest in
Charleston hotel to get the privilege of good
lock at servant Of the house for less than fifty
cents, as they will all be rOundly feed by more
guests than they conveniently wait on.
Such is the promise held out to such as NAV
dream Of attending the convention, relying upon
Charleston accommodations to get ANYTHING to
eat place to sleep In to receive ordinary atten
ton. Under such circumstances we again ad wise
all who design going from this region to 90 by
| steamship, contracting TO be boarded upon her
until her return here. Having taking great in
terest In the contamination Of the arrangements to
secure such facilities for Dem ocratic fellow.
citizens and others around US, we are able to say
that IN all probability We shall have early next
week at the Star office plan Of the steamer-one
OF the New York Sound steaners-to be engaged
exhibiting the arrangement Of her state-rooms and
berths with authority from her charterers to en-
gage either to such as may be disposed to 90 to
Charleston. Each state-room will contain two
berths and the charge, we presume, will be about
SIS to the passenger selecting berth in state
| room, and $50 to him who elects to occupy a berth
outside Of a room-these prices to cover all
expences OF the trip, including board while at
Charleston. We presume the charterers will re-
quire payment of, say, onefour:h securing the
state-room or berth, the balance to he paid on
taking possession-the money SO advanced to be
deposited in the hands of some party of well
knew responsibility, refundable to the depositors
in case of any failure of the charterers to consum-
mate the arrangements contemplated.
AN IMPORTANT MEBTiNG Yesterday afternoon
there was an important meeting of the Senators
and Representatives in Congress from Alaba ma
Mississippi, and South Carolina, to consider the