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


NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW YORK, June 10, 1858.
The City is unusually dull no tremendous riots,
no awful tragedies, no exciting Opponents break
the weary monotony. Murders and lower degrees
of crime ore numerous, but unless they are of the
most shocking barbarity, or characterized by
other extraordinary circumstances, no visible ef-
feet is produced on q people who ore already too
familiar with the aspects and reports Of crime
Such common. place occurrences as ordinary muir
ders, shooting ARRAYS, abductions and all that
kind, are considered as matters of course. More
over the British outrages have grown stale; and
the thermometer has gone up, within a very few
days, from $50 to 800 Fahrenheit. Considering
the last circumstance, there is no need Of excite
ment, and if my thing of interest should happen;
it would not be properly appreciated and enjoyed.
CAMcEHI, an Italian burgler who killed Police
man for trying to arrest him in the very act Of
robbing, is now undergoing his third trial for the
offence. On his former trials the juries did not
agree, which Is about equivalent to an acquittal.
This time q jury of fifteen hundred names were
summoned The whole number was exhausted and
still the panel was wanting one, which was taken
from the crowd. The prisoner made q single
peremptory challenge. No one supposes that he
will be convicted of murder, although 1t may be
proven, or that he will suffer the penalty if found
guilty so common has it become either for the
Jury to ~construe o criminal charity for the mur.
derer, or for the executive to interpose the privi-
lege of pardon. If the present Governor should be
q candidate for the Office o second time, the scoun-
drels whom he has let loose on the City will be an
important aid to him. There is o kind of intelli-
pence between lie too that no one has attempted
to explain.
The Northern partner in the Lottery Of s.
SWAN & Co., has grown very indignant at Mayor
TEXANS honesty in endeavoring to break up
lottery swindles. He retorts upon the Mayor by
accusing his agent of being a p~aid-winker at other
lotteries, and by stating that the object in view
is to ruin his political prospects for the next Con-
cress, oil of which is, Of course, a triumphant
yipdication of the lottery mans honesty and pure
motives. It is a curious matter Of inquiry how
thin becomes the skin Of q man who ~elevates
his eye toa scat in Congress, and how thick it
grows when the seat is won and worn. Perhaps
o one under experience" can solve the pc.
litico physiological problem.
Free Masons, like the crest of mankind" will
sometimes indulge in differences in spite Of pro-
testatious of friendship to the contrary. The
fraternity here has been on squally terms about
matters peculiar to themselves but the points Of
dispute have been a~micably settled, and the "grip"
is given with as much impressment as usual.
Sabbath breaking, which is very common and
in o cases unavoidable, does not always turn
out well. Among other means Of amusement on
Sunday, is that Of sailing in small boats rugged
with a single sail, aprecarious species Of fun when
the wind plays pranks and mad freaks. No less
than three of such sail. boats were capsized
and their inmates emptied into the treacherous
element on last Sunday. Three persons were
drowned in sight of assistance, the remainder
escapinc by sheer efforts and the assistance of
others. A female in the company proved the val
ne of ~ciinoliue in o case Of emergency, about the
only way in which such proof con be given.
Advertising has been elevated into a science.
Amongst other proofs of the fact, is the appear
anae Of q onew mode Of Advertising2 in the
streets. The method consists of q frame work
mounted on wheels, the frame work being
covered with canvass, and the canvass in turn
covered with gigantic posters Of all imaginable
sorts, sizes and colors. In order to give the peo-
pie the full benefit of the articles thereon set forth,
the machine is drawn by a horse poor enough to
prevent accidents, and to insure slow motion. So
much for the inventive genius Of q free people.
In spite of hot weather and filthy, reeking
streets, the City is said to be very Healthy. But
if the decrease in population be taken into consid-
GRAFTON, o we'll founded doubt may be entertained
whether the assertion is entirely correct. How o
pestilence ia to be avoided with the streets in their
present filthy condition, and a prospect of q hot
summer before US, no one can answer and nobody
seems to care. In such an event, the working
class must bear the chief weight in addition to
their nresent burdens. SETH.