New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-18
CHARLESTON COSY,

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from partakns Of the pains aud poverty of tho
Confederacy, is a scene of Sybaritcal pleas.
ures and Corinthian Joys Though half the
town has been burned, tho moiety 10 On
Earthly Paradise, 10 the midst of which stands
that eminent caravausery ycleped " the Mails
House," at the bar Of which, we suppose,
fluid happiness is still dispensed, albeit o.
gigantic prices per draught. Interminabls
walls, countless breastworks, ditshes of IN.
known depth, batteries Of Cibraltarian impreg.
inability, forts whose frown alone would repel
Grand Army, h0rn.works. ravelins, counter.
scarps and escarps. glaeis. and the God OF
| War knows what else--al these have been
combined, after fashion which would have
filed the soul of Marshal SAKE with envy, and
not less have delighted the benevolent soul Of
Uncle Toby. Within these strong defenses,
which have been entirely built, as we are told.
by the hands Of the alacrious "Dggers, taa
orienators of the Rebellion aud dry-nurses Of
Treason do most peacefully repose and laugh
to scorn the Federal fleet and the Federal
foot. They have nothing to do but SMOKE
drink, swear, eat, sleep, and be happy. After
Macbeth had hung out his banner, there was
a cry upon the outer wall which made hun
feel quite i'll, and led him to long conversa-
ton with the Doctor. 1t is quito different
with the chiefs of Charleston and their fam.
lies whether blanc, black or yellow. They
have oil the titillations ola siege without the tor.
ments. Not yet have they been driven to devour
their boots, as the French were in Genoa. On
the contrary, they have what the landadies Of
minor boarding houses call enough, and that
that's good" Fraser & Co. have "ta'en
order for it," Fraser g. Co. are merchants
who would rather give away than sell. Fraser
&, Co. run the blockade regularly three times
week. Fraser & Co. supply all manner OF
comfort for back and belly. Those benevolent
Doughfaces, therefore, who have permitted tbs
saline tears TO bestain their linen cheeks at the
thought Of all the misery which their Charles.
ton friends were encountering, can dam tho
sluices of their grief, OF weep for some Iass
favored Man. wners. Charleston is Ut We
may believe this correspondent far better Of
than she was, when in a death grapple with
the pestilcnce, or after desoating confagra'
ton, she cried aloud to tie rascally Yankees
for aid in mea. or in money, and uttered no
UNDECIDED appeal. We. forbear, out Of motives
of delicacy, from making more than bare
alluson to the money which has been raised
in Northern parts for missionary purposes, to
be expended in South Carolina, because tao
religious result has been so preposterous thAs
we are inclined to spare the ie'hng' oil ne
aniable donors.
Meanwhile, tho conteu. being SO msasureless
in Charleston, we wonder if the PalmestOes
ever think of the quite opposite condition OF
their friends aud tellow-sinners in VIrginla--thas
unfortunate State, the once fair territories Oh
which have been scathed and blighted by tho
actual presence of warts towns besIeged and
bombardel-i.s profitable commerce (iE TO-
bacco and oysters) almost destroyed-its capi'
tai city, ragged and writing Richmond, iuii
OF all the various distrosses incident 70 BEL
lgerent humanty--its importance dlmlnished
by political division which VIII never be re-
consdered-its historical glories so faded, that
future ages will hardly believe that it gave
birth to Washing Virginia, that was polltl'
cally so great and SO honored, turned into
tilting ground upon which South Carolina conf
pels her humble and complying sisters in So
ces.ion TO fgh. out her quarrR with Massa-
chusetts We get no boasts from Richmond
of the happy condition of affairs in that city
There is no Fraser & Co. there to supply
gratuitous dry goods and groceries to the
naked and hungry. With what flowings OF un.
speakable bile must yirginian, who has had
no breakfast and who cherishes not the widest
hope of dinner, who is out at the elbows, out
of money, and on. Of temper, read, should IL
come in his way. this letter in The Times.
and reflect that while he suffers in purse, per-
son, and estate, the Charleston Rebel eats
well. sleeps well, dresses well, and calmly
reads the bulletins of the campaign IN Virginia
We believe that we assert no more than she
would claim, although in dmerent terms, when
we declare that this rebellion originated in tho
mean selishncss of South Carolina-in the or.
ropance and passion OF her public men-in tho
recklessness Of n little knot of pestilent poll
ticians in Charleston aud the adjacent demesnes
in tine teachings Of such apostles "a Calhoun
and Butler The Virginia abstraction was
comparatively harmless until tho action Of
South Carolina gave to it practical and ma
lignant activity. That State has found the hre
and the chestnuts-the others must burn their
fingers in the roasting DO they suppose that the
culinary process would be over and the digltai Dis
tiers permanently abated, if tho Confederacy
were once fairly put upon its legsi y cred.