Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-05-12
Life in Charleston.

,,. W IthiI tho area OF a quarter of mile
square in this city, embracing the Mills House,
the Charleston Hotel, and the hall where the
Convention is to be held, all on Mceting3
street, 1T rigbtaneles with this street, whore.
are the Pavilion, Planters and other hotels
and boarding houses, nearly all this crowd of
about two thousand active politicians, proba-
bly,, are gathered. Sou;c few are on board
steamers and in moro distant localities, bts
the mass aye within TINT area, especially on
y. Meeting street. The Mills House and Char,
lesion Hotel have, ] suppose some twelve hun
dred. These two hotels are the centres. From
carly morning till niiduight, or till or 2
O'Clock in tho moruipS again, thc'halls, rccop-
ton rooms, parIors, passage ways, pavement
and bar-rooms of these hotels arc crowded
with men discussing the merits of their can
didates and the chances of each. Though
speaking one language and with less differ
ence OF accent from the different parts of the
country than the people of any other country
and though more homogeneous by far than any
other people, yet there is no difficulty I'm deter
mining to whit section eacl one belongs II
is not necessary to be told tlis there arc pc
cuiiartirS distinct and unmistaknhle. And
the men gathored here are Representative mCn,-
or types, IN an exaggerated form, OF classes
OF men, or of the people Of different localities.
There is no mstakiug the diving hoistcrous.
determined, selfsatisGcd Western man. fullof,
talk. never tired of talking, loving discussion.
Watching every opportunity to throw kimsef'
| iuto an argument, and then holding on to it
pertlnacieusly and with great, earnest
ness Douglas is thorough type of this class
/ sec many little Douglascs here These men
are thoroughly Democratic in the general,
comprehensive sense 7of the word. TheS are,
great takers, but not great thinkers They
are apt at catching and aDpropriating. the
ideas OF others, and then, after having adopt
ed, of rcItcrtting them in The same tcrns as
earnestly as if they were original These arc
characteristic features however Of the w est
ern man of the New England stock more than,
of any otllcr Nor is there any difficulty in
identifying the man from New England Tie
does not carry himself as Greet and defiant as
the Western man; he docs not go as direct
and boldly to the question he beats round,
tnkes 4 tortuous course, and is evasive; he
argues, while he appears to be inquriug, rath-
er than by bold statements or assertions. His
words are measured, and they como partly out
of half opened mouth, and partly through
the nose, whilc the Western man opens his
mouth wide, and the words appear to roll ont
from the bottom Of his throat The Eastern
man appears, to be cautiously calculating al
ways the movements around him, and low lie
may turn them. to some account He can.
pump frank, cpen-minded person dry in five
minutes, without having communicated an
idea. The men here from the North, too,
may be distinguished FROM the rest, but not
so readily. And then, again, the Now York
er aud Pennsylvanian are unlike each other
The Pennsylvania is quite steady and sub
atantial in looks and in his mental character,
the New lorkeris active, scheming; and Il
droit, whether in the garb or style of o we'll
dressed city gentleman, or that of n rough
from Tamuany or the Pewter Ming, or from
the interior towns. The PeBnsyyauun has
a local. sort Of look--the New Yorker move
.c0smopolitan. The Southern man, may be
Known from his quiet, digniied frank manner
and erect bc1ring lIeiscvcr rcady'an able
to respond in argument but is not naturalty
loquaciouss He, too, like the Western man,
is earnest and determined, but quietly, and
with a certain degree of reserve. Herarely
makes an attack, but will hold his position to
the eud He slnore socu,l--more democrat.
ically SOcial,,if / may use such an expression
than tho men from tie Nurths=or the East
He. is somewhat protdyit is rather, however,
pride OF charactcr than. anything else, whilo
at the same time his manners are simple, easy
and utterly free from -hautcur he appears
to be more Of theughtthan of action These
types of classes or of sections of our country
may be distinguished in the crowd at Charles
ton, more in this manner Of observing them,
than from the style of dress or personal ap.
pearance i'm other respects. -. a
Tire hotel keepers aud people of Charles
ton have fniscSlculatod evidently, the number
of visitors expected during the sitting of the
Convention. From present appearances, there
will not be probably over four TO five thousand
strangers on the occasion. Many suppose
there win not be over three thousand, Ex-
cept the Mills House aud the Charleston Io-
tel; suppose the hotels will not be full. II
These two WILL because Of their location and
capacity. should notbe surprised, howev
er.if these should have many vacant beds or
rooms by Tuesday night. People will not
stand paying five dollars day for indifferent
board, and to sleep on cots with crowd of
sotherspin the.sama rooms whenever they can.
do better. undefstanathe otherhotels and
boarding houses ato taking &c lowering their
prices considerably. Most of the resident
families are IN tho country yet, SO chat the cis
" would be really dull but for tic, Conyol.
tion. =. 'gY... ~
tsPAHLoR YIEws,---The calm, moderate, de,
liberate yiewsof the. conservative S6atherners
are that Huater, Of Virginia, would make tho
best President. Some South Caroliuians are
particularly friendly to Huptsf, foe the reason
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