Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-05-28
CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENTS.

CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENTS.
CHARLESTON, May rs, 1857. :
Our city again seems to be infested with robbers
and incendiaries. A daring attempt was made
by two negroes last night to Destroy family
against whom they bad some i'll feeling, by burn
ing them up in their house on Church street. The
inmates were sleeping in the third story, and the
fire was set under the stairway below the second
Aoor thereby cutting off all chances Of escape, as
there was no other way by which they could have
saved themselves except it was the vc:y danger
Gus one of jumping from the window, a distance
of more than fifty feet and on stone pavement.
The negroes were imcdiately arrested and COM
mitted to jail. 1t is thought that three or four
others are implicated in the daring outrage.
A gentleman residing on Mill street in the west
ern part of the city, had his bed-chamber entered
few nights since where he and his wife slept,
and fine gold watch and 5000 in money taken
therefrom, and the rogue escaped without waking
them, and the articles were not missed till the
next morning, when it was discovered that the
house had been broken open and robbed. The
sleeping apartment of gentleman on Cumber-
land street was entered last night in the same
quiet and stealthy manner without waking the
sleepers and n lage quantity Of jewelry taken
without the knowledge or consent of the owner. -
Things of this kind arc of almost nightly Occur
renee, and yet the perpetrators almost always
manage to escape detection. Most house-keep-
ers are now on the alert and are prepared
with appropriate weapons, and it is more than
probable that an example will be ma de one of
those nights that will put the demonia fraternity
ia dread and fear, and effectualy check their bu-
sness for while.
The winter has broken again, and the weather
is now respectfully warm even for the latter end Of
May. Mosquitoes are coming in clouds, and all
the paraphernalia of q Charleston summer, with
all its annoyauccs and inconvenience will soon be
upon US like the Phlistnes upon Sampson of old.
As far rs my personal comfort and convenience is
concerned, I would be glad if the late cool wealth
er would continue all the season. 1t may be chill
ly again next week, and if so, We shall be moro
convinced than ever that there is something more
in the comet than an invisible TAIL
The city is just now oil in a futter of nervous
and feverish excitement, preparing for the grand
reception of our guests from the West which are
to arrive on Wednesday next by the five o'clock
train from Augusta. The occasion will certainly
be one of deep and absorbing interest, and will
raise ripple on the still, stagnant surface of bu-
siness and commercial life that may be sufficient
to enable us to survive the ennm of the summer
sostice, and live to each the bracing d invigo
rating breezes of sober autumn, Sore capital
will b. put in motion which may find Judgement
in some consumptive pocket which has lived in
hungry hope till it had well nigh died in lank and
lean despair.
Five hundred delegates are expected from Mem.
pbis alone, besides large number from some six
or eight other Southern and Western cities that
will claim place in the picture. We are preps-
ring for the accommodation Of from fifteen to
twenty thousand persons and we think that figure
will not fall far short of the number who will be
present You will find the programme Of the
proceedings laid down in full in the city papers of
to-day, and from the flourish of trumpets there,
you may guess pretty accurately what our expec-
tations are, and when we prepare for tempest
we are seldom disappointed.
There is to be procession aud dinner on
Thursday with any amount of illngs.up and ct
ceteras, both public and private. On Friday there
will be IN excursion round the harbor and grand
ball ut Institute Hall; tickets FIVE dollars the
attendance will of course be numerous, but the
price is high enough to make the company sufh-
centy select to suit the tastes of the most scru-
pulous and fastidious. Three of our best bands,
united, will make the music, and thousand tink-
ling feet aud fairy forms will furnish the poetry
of motion according to the latest Paris agony
On Saturday there will be dinner given to the
press, and at night a brilliant display Of fire
works will take place OIL the battery and the whole
matter will explode and expire in blaze of "vil
laiuous satpetre" glory, and fall back to earth in
q shower Of sparks.
I am bankrupt in language, and feel the utter
impotency of my feeble pen to give even in n
glimpse Of this glorious gathering of the Western
clans on the shores of the broad and beautiful
Atlantic, even in perspective. / must refer you
to the papers after the matter has transpired, as
they will doubtless give it all its "grand, gloomy
and peculiar" outline of detail, ms each one of the
city journals have already engaged three short
hand reporters to take everything down as it
happens, with strict directions not to draw upon
their imginations for facts, q thing which I sup
pose there will be no necessity for doing, truth
will be stranger and more wonderful than fiction.
shall be about with pencil and note book and
what the papers do not chronicle you may look
for in o condensed form in the next epistle from
MAGNOLIA.
Written for the Yorkvile Enquirer.