Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-06-17

Banks from paying the FIVE per cent. penalty, by
suspending the second section of the Act Of 1910?
THE PEOPLE.
June II, 1858.
CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE.
CHARLESTON, June II.
The "Alarm Bell" about which there has been
quite ga tempestin a tea pot" kicked up "to ORDER"
was shipped this day at New York, and will reach
here on Monday next by the Columbia. Several
of the Charleston mechanics are quite wratby be-
cause the job was not given to some of them, as
they conceive they could have done it as well as
Messrs. MEHEELY g. Sous, Troy, NY. The Board
of Fire Masters thought differently, and hence q
Yankee bell, on which q Yankee bellman will play
Yankee Doodle on high days and holidays, Will
be hoisted in the Cupola of the Orphan House,
and not on the New Fish Market, MS was at first
suggested. From a letter addressed to Mr.. G. A.
Bowman, Chief of the Fire Department, which ap-
reared in the Neps of this afternoon, I learn that
the weight of this monster Northern Bell is STA
thousand three hundred and SIXTY fire pounds, and
can be heard at q distance Of twelve miles with o
fair wind.
The refusal on the part of the Collector Of our
port to grant o clearance to the ship Richard Cob
den for Africa, for the purpose of bringing out
q cargo of African emigrants in accordance with
the emigration avs of the United States, has Gre
ated almost as much excitement as the big bell,
and the consequences of which came very near
being more serious. The editor of the Erening
Ns,cs sustained tho course of the Collector and
Secretary CoBD, and the Mercury advocated the
cause of the applicants, the Messrs. LAFIrTE 4 Co.
The war of words between these two journals be-
came warm and animated, which resulted in a
correspondence and explanation which appeared
to day in both the above-named papers.
The 18th Of June will be a day illustrious in
the annals of Charleston, and will long be remem-
bered by ethe sons Of the sires of '76." Apart
from the usual anniversary festivities, the corner
stone Of the Calhoun Monument will be laid on the
Citadel Square, aud the occasion and incidents OF
which will be embalmed in the fiery eloquence of
the Chevalier BArARD, the JUPITER ToNAss of the
South, the frank, fearless and impetuous KEITT.
The city and the country will both be out, com
posing a solid pbalanx of humanity covering ten
acres of ground. 1t is proposed to make II q gen.
eral holiday and suspend all BUSINESSMEN the
Banks-and let the people, business men and oil,
onJ booor With fhnir proapnnp
the memorable occasion.
1t was reported yesterday that the action Of the
House Of Congress on the 9th instant was unfavor-
able to. the proposed appropriation Of $4,000
for completing the New Custom House in this
city. The strongest objection to the appropria'
ton was the extremely low state Of the funds in
the National Treasury. I am, however, pleased
to notice a dispatch in this afternoons paper sta
ting that the matter was reconsidered and the ap-
preparation agreed to.
Gov. ALIsroN has recently senton from Virginia
a highly polished and beautiful bronze copy Of
HoupoN's Statue of WASHINGTON, which arrived
in this city on Monday last. The Governor has
taken it for the State, and it will be placed in the
Capitol at Columbia, if the Legislature should
sanction its purchase at a price Of $4,000. 1t
was sent to the care of Mayor MACBETH, who, with
the consent of the Commissioner Immediately
placed it in the beautiful grounds in front Of the
Orphan House near the statue Of the illustrious
PITT. The copy is by q promising Virginia artist,
W. J. HUBBARD, Esq, and for fine finish, life like
ness and a bold and striking outline Of face and
figure, it is worthy of the far.fsmed and admirable
original.
JUNE little Court of General Sessions and
Common Pleas is being continued into on extra
session. Judges WARDLAw and WITHERs are
both here, Judge WAaDLAw presiding. Saturday
last being sentence day, MARY McKEwS, who had
been convicted of manslaughter for the killing OF
her servant girl on Sullivan's Island, was senten'
ced to three months Imprisonment, and to pay q
fine of two hundred and fifty dollars. On being
asked, as the custom is, if she had any thing to
saw, why the sentence OF ;he law should not be
passed upon her, she responded in an address to
the court of some length, and much feeling. Hel
remarks were pointed and forcible, and she ap'
peared to be a woman of some natural ability, but
her mind had probably been neglected, or only
partially improved by q defective education. She
was we'll dressed, of fair appearance, and appear
ed to be about fifty years Of age.
The weather has been rather squally Of late, and
we have been favored with quite a number o.
heavy showers, accompanied by much thunder ane
lightning. The rain has had n most delightful
effect upon the atmosphere which is now cool ane
pleasant.
The steam ship Isabel, Capt. ROLLINS, from
Havana and Key West, arrived at quarantine q
10 o'clock on Saturday night bringing dates from
those ports to the 10th instant. She met with al
accident near Key West, from which, however, sh'
| sustained but little damage, by running on Wash