The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-21

it with little "corn juice" or that this is
dreadful climate for the heartburn, aud the
water don't agree with him-let such one
make his appearance, and he will create rip
ple-yea, an effervescence throughout the en-
tire institution. Every individual therein,
from the youth who sweeps out the store to
the sedate bookkeeper, will Immediately feel it
incumbent upon himself to spend, if necessary,
his bottom dollar in alleviating the misery of
the aforesaid customer, and thereby preserve
him az O. respectable member Of society and q
patron OF that house.
Whatever you want in any line Of trade you
will find in this locality. and within the limits
of biscuit throw. Dry goods, boots and
shoes, clothing, hardware, groceries, drugs,
carriages, agricultural implements, crockery.
hats, tinware, leather. millinery goods, books
and stationary everything indeed, that hu-
manity need to eat, drink, wear. walk on or
ride in, except hearse and coffin, are to be
found here, and at prices the most tempting
Goods arrive and depart almost hourly. Boxes
| block the side walks, and junior clerks, pot IN
hand, are taking chirographic liberties In tur-
pentine and lamp black with the names OF
customers from North Carolina, South Caro-
line, Georgia. Alabama and Florida. Charles
ton enjoys lively trade from all these States.
Midnight finds most of these establishments
still open, and under the blaze of the gas lights,
a cohort OF workers may be seen engaged in
packing goods, opening fresh arrivals, or
cleaning away the wreck of the days battle. In
one establishment we wot of, seventeen thous-
and dollars worth OF goods were one day last
week sold before twelve O'Clock NJ. Elsewhere,
although it is but the beginning OF the season.
one. two, five thousand dollars are not un-
common results Of few hours work. General
good humor prevails among those who handle
these funds, and even the chronic grumblers
are bound to admit that the prospects we're
never more cheerful or encouraging. Step now
| into
| THE HOTELS.
The registers Of both the Charleston and
Pavilion show goodly array of names. There
is nothing very striking about them to you;
but the city drummer will diagnose the list as
accurately as physician diagnoses the cholera
morbus, and, in the course of q day, will have
button-hoed every blessed individual 10 the
house who has come to Charleston 10 spend
his greenbacks.
Your good drummer" has studied his busi-
ness as one OF l.. fine arts. He is first gen.
tleman, we'll dressed, gracious and soclable.
| he is an admirable talker, sweet-oily and care
full never to say "cuss words" in the presence
| Of q country deacon. He knows the town
gossip BY heart; can tell you to dot what
| "they say;n narrates a capital story, and has
| the rare faculty Of determining where enter
tainment can properly begin and end. He
Is a good drinkist; never failing With
his bottled hospitality when he finds the
needle pointing in that direction on the
moral compass of his guest; and generous
to the last FIVE dollar bill. he is also passa-
BILE biiardist, and il after nightfall this amuse-
ments is sought, takes care not to win more
than one game in Ave. In short, With pro-
mlsing customer in hand, he proceeds scienti-
icaIly to apply bis galvanic poles to every vu!-
nerable part, until at last. the pocket nerve is
touched and the magnetic circuit is complete.
HIS country cousin goes home satisfied that
John Smith is a perfect brick, the best, the
noblest and the most generous specimen of
mankind he ever encountered. he has had
good time in tho "City by the Sea-" his stock
has been replenished at the lowest cost prices,
and1he has made staunch friend, by whom
be can swear for better or for worse.
J Of late. however, our merchants have added
another pulley to their machinery of trade.
Instead Of employing one or two active men to
bag the miscellaneous mass of buyers who
come to Charleston, they secure the services OF
some live, go-ahead fellow from the neighbor-
hood which promises a good share Of CUSTOM
ers. or course, he knows every one personally.
aud has the ear and the advantage. He uses
it udefatigably. he sticks to his friends like
a coat OF tar, and lucky is that competitor who
can edge the smallest sentence into pending
| conversation.
So, by one means aud another-all fair,
honorable and business lke-our city mer-
chants are "pressng forward to the prize OF
their high calling" They have advertised,
and now is thef harvest. They have invested
larreIv in the purchase OF the latest and best
OF stock, and they expect to sell it. They offer
inducements which are not surpassed even in
the great centres Of trade like New York, Phil
adelphia and Baltimore, and they say to the
people of the South-"Ceme and try u.s." We
watch with interest the development OF busi-
ness during the coming month. The test in
Charleston will be the test elsewhere, and If its
results be gratifying at home, as We believe they
will be, we shall realize in fact what we have
long predicted, namely, that our people, step
ping from the burrows Of life upon it's table
land, will this year inaugurate new career OF
prosperity, and enjoy goodly share OF those
blessings to which, too long, alas they have
been strangers.
TEE POLICE BILL The Police bill has been
discussed AMI discussed until almost every
one is tired Of hearing it mentioned. 1t will
be brought up at the meeting Of Council to-
night, and we sincerely trust that the police
force will be ''reorgsuized," as some want it,
or the supporters of the bill be so thoroughly
disorganizsd by defeat that they will never