Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-06
CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENTS.


The few days I spent so pleasantly in your town
last week have revived all my predictions for
country life, and find myself still signing for the
shady groves and bracing breezes which delight
the eye and invigorate the frame. frequently
sigh, with CowpER, s'for home in some vast will
derness, some boundless contiguity Of shade"
The shade especially would be most delightful, but
an not so certain about the arilderness, unless
was allowed to share its solitudes with compan-
ions of my own choosing, then I would not care
how soon I had place in the picture, nor how
near it was to the flashing of bright eyes, the
bewildering influence of "small arms" or the
cross fire of the infantry.
The weather is excessively warm and wet-the
most disagreeable kind of weather that it is posi-
BILE to conceive of. The steam that rises from the
pavement which is alternately heated by scorch-
ing sun and drenched by o pocket edition of
Noah's food, is almost suffocating. 1t is almost
impossible to keep ones self in King street, trim
for on hour at time. Your stsrched linen, done
up by fairy hands, and "watched by eyes that
never yet knew weeping" becomes suddenly and
dsagreeably moist, your collar is wilted, and your
whole outer man wears the becoming and attract
i've aspect of frost bitten cabbage.
The reeking, seethng steaming denzens OF
this modern Sodom of heated brick and mortar,
which :ems destined to share the fate of that an
cient city Of the plain, and be burned up by o
shower If burning sunlight from heaven, or wash
ed away, flooded and drowned by deluge of
water from the angry and lowering elements
You close your windows on the sunny side, and
open them wide on the shady, to close out the
sunshine and invite the breeze. You sit on cane
bottomed chair, and ply, with all activity of your
drowsy and paralysed energies, pslm-leaf fan,
by which you endeavor to raise breeze and Grip
ple a musauito, in both of which attempts you
make signal failure.
You resort to books as a panacea for the ills
thai city life in the summer is heir to-you read
something of the milk and cider order of literature
something neither abstruse, exciting or powerful
something like "Hiawatha," Nothing to
Wear" or CDR. KANE's Artic Expedition" You
read and doze and dream. Dream of deep, dark
groves embosomed in natures voiceless solitudes,
of the wild birds chitter aud chirup and carols of
long leaves and blooming flowers; of the green
lawns and growing fields, green, mossy, velvety
and luxurious; Of branching trees, aged oaks and
their deep and gloomy shadows, of breezy mead
ows and waving landscapes, where
"Some lost stream, that in woodland hollow,
Coils, to sleep its WEAKNESS away,
Shut out from prying stars that fain would fol-
low
In the emeral gooms of hemlock spray"
The canvass for the Mayors election is now
opening with every prospect of an interesting and
exciting time. F. D. RICHARDSON and CHARLES
MACBETH Esqr's, are the opposing candidates, and
the friends of each are sanguine as usual. One
Of them will be certain to be beaten, and the one
that gets the most votes will stand the best chance
Of being elected, but who that will be- neither the
CITY Council, the oldest nhabitant or MILLERs Al
manac can give US any definite or reliable infor-
nation,
I write in hurry as you see, and my currents
calamo is running against time, sz-nscessitats But
have reason for it. 1 am going upon voyage
have actually consented to trust my precious
life and brghtning prospects to the tender mercies
of the ravenous sharks and treacherous waves
The boat, freghted with precious cargo, will
leave the wharf at FIVE, and it is now half past
four, so you see must close in short order, mail
this letter and embark In my next may tell
YOU where went and what saw, and all about
nv hair breadth escapes by food and field. Till
then adieu Give my love to oil your readers
MAGNOLIA.