Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-18

the Charleston Hotel the proprietor under- | stands his business. The servants do his bid ding first, and such attentions to the guest
 command little more generosity from the pocket. could name hotels where one is impressed that the place is run for the benefit | of servants, to be paid by the guests after \ they have paid for hotel accommodations | Landlords make mistake in permitting a
 half dozen to stand at the door and on the
 steps. ready each to receive quarter
 for having done no service for the departing
 traveller. In one instance four quarters to
 servants and two dollars for the bus up and down had to suffice; yet with good effect | however, at the depot, as heard darkey
 say to the depot man 'tNo, sir, he's no
 drummer; you bet on that. He's no drum
 of the remark was that my two fat-top trunks
 had been questioned as belonging to a drum mer.
 | The Charleston Hotel is now reaping it's ! harvest from people fleeing to Florida The
 races are in operation, drawing from all parts of South Carolina. I heard the pool-selling ! in the bar room, but am entirely unsophisti-
 cated in the m0das operG7edi
 The rice business of Charleston, as well as
 the cotton and phosphate, is getting to be one of magnitude
 ride to the Battery will give a delightful 1 smell of sea air and view of Fortresses Monroe and Sumter in the distance. The Ashley river on the west and Cooper river on the east make Charleston a peninsula. The city is drained through an artificial con- duct between the two rivers. The artesian well is being brought into use for purposes of water supply for the city. This well has been running warm water for many years and still runs warm. Where the warm comes from I will not pretend to say.
 The city IS showing some signs of improve ment. Many new buildings have been erected on the parts burned during the war. Ra1i of ha fro
 The hospital, the old slave prison buildings with their turrets, and the arsenal are still conspicuous. These all in time, as well as
 the places of burial adjoining, or surround
 ing the many churches, will be beautiied as the grounds are susceptible of such improve
 ment, and no doubt it will be done when
 Charleston regains it's glory of old. Churches in number vie with those of your city
 The custom house probably cost the govern ment SIX times as much as the New Haven custom house and postofice. The walls of the cathedral stand as after the fire. good looking mulatto informed me that sther's the ones that never build till they gets the money in hand" Another told me: q keeps out the hospital, sees too many boxes car- ried away" Pointing to the medical col lege which adjoins the grounds, he said That's the hospital for Democrats that's the hospital for Republicans. Things has changed. It was Republicans in that, the Democrats in that, before the Dem ocrats got into power." One said to me: "You know things are at op- posites here than with you. Intelligence with you is Republican. Intelligence here is Democratic. Ignorance with you is Demo- cratic. Ignorance here is Republican" I could not dispute it.
 I think the taxes are not so burdensome as has been supposed. The trouble is people have not been used to paying taxes, and when the one-half who own the property are taxed for the other half who do not, it is not palatable but is it not so in all northern cities? Are you not represented by large population who pay no taxes? Let business revive, all will be reconciled If the South had been wise fifteen years ago, Gas the symptoms now are they are gaining wisdom) by encouraging small settlements and immi- grafton, to- day it would be prosperous.
 If you and had been reared here, we should have been like the people here. I do not now, never did, believe it wise to give the power of suffrage so generally. It was mistake. The government should have held the right till the right time, and when it came exercised the most liberal policy. But it is as it is and the thing must be tried to the end.
 To-day is like June. We have had week of weather, rain. wind and cold The change is grateful. Yesterday the races disappoint- ed all the favorite horses It rained all the time, but each had the same chance I SUD- pose. I hope to encounter interesting ob- jects as push still nearer the equator. M.