Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-27
oHAR1EsToN CORRESPONDENCE.
CHARLESTON, August "a, 1857.

CHARLESTON, August "a, 1857
An election for representative to fill the un-
expired term of J. CHARLES BLUM, deceased,
commenced this morning. The candidates are
WM. WHALEY and THEODORE G. BARKER, and the
friends of both parties are very active and san
guine Quite an effort has been made to get up
an excitement, but it has been, in great measure,
a failure, as the very small vote Of to-day very
clearly indicates. Great efforts were made by
the friends of BARKER to make it appear that
WHALEY had been Whig, and sletter was para
ded before the public and published in all the city
papers at five cents line, which was purported
to have been written by Mr.. WHALEY to Judge
MAGRATH, in which he declared himself in favor
of the Cincinnati Convention, but it was all no 60,
and BARKER will evidently be beaten notwithstand-
ing he was too young to have any antecedents,
either good or bad There was only 766 votes
polled up to twelve o'clock to-day; they may be
holding back for demonstration tomorrow.
There was a free fight yesterday afternoon at
the ferry boat wharf on Sullivan's Island that
would have done honor to the days of knight er
rantry, or the more daring spirit Of modern chiv-
airy. 1t commenced just rs the last boat was
leaving, and quite number of persons were en-
gagged in it, both natives and foreigners, and sticks
and knives were freely used One man "a native)
had his head deeply gashed with piece of timber,
and an Irishman was dangerously stabbed. How
the matter will end it is hard to TELL but it is more
than likely that something serious will grow out
of it. Matters of this kind do not generally close
with the first oct, and this will not turn out to be
the farce Of HAMLET with the part Of HAMLET left
out. "sG,
We have had all sorts of weather during the last
two weeks-wet and dry, and hot and cool, and
still the city remains healthy andit is NOW pretty
well'established that we are to have no epidemic
this fall. The merchants are preparing for an e1-
tensive fall trade, with confidence almost amount
ing to certainty that they will not be disappoint-
cd. The summer absentees will soon begin to re-
turn, and our streets will soon be crowded with
the busy, bustling, hurryiug throng that herald
the opening of on active business season. l can.
not tell where the fall fashions will be slowed a.
way, as there are about as much hoops and criuo-
line on King street now as can find room for com
Portable and convenient navigation. Mrs. FLORA
McFLIMsEY with "nothing to wear" will soon be
expected on Change, andset the fashionable world
in futter.
The battle for wealth is still being fought with
fierce and unyiekling ferocity that knows no ces:
sation, and recognizes the binding obligations of
no armistice. We waste our lives and exhaust our
energies in bootless haste to be rich-we deyour
each other, and grow fat upon the labors and hon
est industry of others but what ayails and what
of happiness does it bring us in the end Just
rainbow, and are ready to grasp the tabled crock
of gold, the tickle phantom .eludes our grasp and
flies away at our approach. Just as We are pre-
pared to live, we are called upon to die and leave
all that we hold dear. Yes, the rich must die,
and lose in moments time the carefully boarded
wealth of lifetime of anxious care and tol---of
weary days and sleepless nights.
Ihave been led to this train of reflection by the
news of the sudden death of one of our wealthy
merchants, whom fortune had favored with an
abundance of this worlds goods while yet in the
prime and vigor Ct life. He had just purchased
a princely residence, and was preparing to enjoy
life in style that become his position in the world
But Il few days elapsed, and that spendid mansion
echoed the sounds of wailing, lamentation and wo.
That rich man whom thousands had envied, and
sought, with obsequious diligence, to win his
smiles and favor, now lies cold and emaciated
corpse in that very room which he had fitted up
and furnished with such care, and where he e1-
pected to spend long aud happy life in the soce-
ty of his friends, and in the many enjoyments
which wealth can bestow. But the gay saloons of
that stately mansion are now draped in mourning,
md the songs of mirth and rejoicing are changed
10 the walls of anguish and desolate hearts.
The Knoxville Convention is over and the pre-
smbles, resolutions and speeches appear very well
IN paper, but whether they will ever be made
available by practical application, is another
hing, and amounts to question which may not
30 so easily solved. We are eminently q talking
people, and are disposed, too often,to satisfy our
selves with words, and stop short of their practi-
,al illustration. We are all convinced of the ne
,essity and Importance of direct line of Euro
,ean steamers from some Southern Port, and
,ome literature; and they have both been discuss
ID In all the Commercial Conventions that have