The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-29
CHARLES TON.
Present Condition Of the City.
The Southern travelling correspondent Of
the Boston advertiser writes IS follows from
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The S0utneru Ila'euuH SoAcoPoooeut Va
the Boston advertiser writes as follows from
Charleston:
YANKEES AND souTHRRNERs.
1t was noted on the steamship by which
came here from New York that, leaving out
the foreign element, our passengers were from
Charleston and from Massachusetts,. We had
nearly as many Boston men as Charleston men.
One OF the Charleston merchants said to me,
that when he went Nerth the passengers were
also Almost equally divided between Massachu-
sets and South Carolina; and he added that in
Eastern Massachusetts,, where he spent some
days, he found many men who were coming to
Charleston. Of our Massachusetts, men, some
are already in business here, and others came
on to 'see the lay of the land, as one OF them
said. That's all right, observed an ex.rebei
captain in one Of our after-dinner chats-"thats
all right; let's have Massachusetts, and south
Carolina brought together, for they are tne
only two States that amount to anything.
hate all you Yankees most heartily, IN gen
eral sort OF way" remarked anOtner Q, 1nese
Southerners; "but find you clever enough
personally, and I expect it'll be good thing
for us to have you come down here with your
money, though it'll go against the grain with
as pretty badly
There are many Northern men here already
not much Northern society, for out lew OF
the men have their wives here. l took q long
walk Yesterday with former Charlestonian-
man who left here in the first year of the
war. and returned soon after the occupation of
the city "You Northern people, said be,
are making great mistake in Your treatment
of the South. We are thoroughly whipped
we give up slavery forever, and now we want
You to quit reproaching as; let us back into
the Union, and then come down here and help
Us build up the country and make the South
what God intended she should be-" And as
we-walked he pointed out and named the
" Northern houses branches of old houses
in Boston and New York, new houses built up
and working by Northern capital and energy.
On King street, the street of retail trade, in
third the stores were classed by him as North.
ern, and not few of them bear names well
known in Boston. On Meeting street, where
the wholesale trade congregates, in some
blocks almost every house is new and from the
North.
YANKEE motions"
Every little variation from the old order of
in which there is sometimes good natured
Querulousness, and sometimes sharp spice of
contempt. Stopping moment this afternoon
in store where were three or four intelligent
men, one of them asked me the use of 1.-THE
thing" l had in my hand. 1t was one of the
handle-and-straps, so common in the North for
carrying shawls, cloaks, overcoats, &c. Sec
was, 1 explained its use. well, now, what
Yankee notion, :" "Yes," answered another,
"but how handy it isl To bring here the
conveniences and comforts of our Northern
civilization no less than to bring here the
Northern idea OF right and wrong, justice and
injustice, humanity and inhumanity, is the
work ready for the hand of every New Eng
land man and woman who stands waiting.
There is much prejudice to overcome, and
some OF it is bitter and aggravating; but the
measure of success won by Northern men al
ready in the field is an earnest of the reward
for Others. Self-iuterest is masterful agent
in modern civilization.
Business is reviving slowly, though perhaps
the more surely. The resident merchants are
mostly at the bottom of the ladder of prosperi.
ty. They have idled away the summer in vain
regrets for vanished hopes, and most of them
are only just now beginning to wake to the new
life. Some have already been North for goods,
but more are preparing to go-not needing that
while they vacillate with laggard time North.
ern men are sp,inging in with hands swift to
catch opportunity. IQueried of the returning
merchants on the steamship how they were re-
ceived in the MOTH. An Augusta man COM
planned that heEould get no credit, and that
there was disposition to be grinding and ex.
acting. One Charleston man said, Il asked
for sixty days and got it without word of oh.
four months was given three, and treated like
q gentleman everywhere. Another showed
me the receipt for debt of about fifteen hun
dred dollars contracted before the war, which
he had paid in full and he asked for four
months on bill of eight thousand dollars,
which was readily given. Still another settled
his old Indebtedness with one-third cash and
eight and twelve months notes for the balance,
while he got ninety days on three-fourths his
new bill One man said he had many friends
in the North, and they all knew he had been q
thorough rebel; he expected some taunts, but
tried to carry himself like gentleman and was
courteously received, 'even in Boston," These
are specimens of q score of answers have re-
ceived to this question.
Many OF the stores were more or less injured
by the shelling. A few of these have been al
ready repaired. and are now occupied-yery
likely by Northern men. Two dozen, great
and small, are now in process of repair and
scores stand with closed shutters or gaping
doors and windows. The doubt as to the title
of property, and the wise caution of the Presi-
dent in granting pardons, unquestionably has
something to do with the stagnation so pain.
fully apparent; but very much of it is due to
the hesitating shiftlessness Of even the South.
ern merchant, who forever lets dare not wait
on / would.