Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-03-11
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variety of weather known to the season, and icy
winter has been coqueting most charmingly with
the rosy footed spring. Ice and flowers, storm and
sunshine, together with other uncongenial articles
and elements have mingled in iarring discord, and
perplexed even the weather-wise toaccount for the
strange and ~fanciful freaks of the elements. To-
day has been rs mild as April, and every thing
indicates the breaking up Of the winter, and the
opening Of spring and the spring business.
King street looks like a flower garden-a tangled
wilderness of animated sweets, an agitated sea
of young and smiling humanity, while the retail
merchants are driving profitable bargains, and
pockcting the profits reaped from the abundant
harvest Of fashion and folly. Dress is all the rage,
and the styles this season more rich and costly
than ever. Though the times are said to be hard,
vet there will necessarily be much money put in
circulation, especially if every body pays their
bills, and some of the circulating medium may
fall into hands that need it.
CHARLES MACKAY the song writer has been here,
and made rather q failure in the way Of lecturing.
The first night the proceeds Of the sale of tickets
did not pay the hall rent, and the second night the
audience was so very small that the lion could
not be Induced to roar, and the money was re
turned to the ticket holders, and they adjourned
to the Opera, or to hear FOWLER, the great phreno-
logical lecturer who, by the by. has succeeded in
getting up quite an excitement, and is drawing
crowds to hear him and have their heads felt.
The Italian Opera Company filled the theatre
to overlooking almostevery evening last week attwo
dollars a ticket, while the great song writer, the
English BERRASGER, could not get up q corporafs
guard at fifty cents q head. He has gone to
Savannah, andif he is not more successful there, he
will probable shake the dust from his feet, rs a
testimony against the heathens of the new world,
and leave for Merrie England in the nextstcamer.
If he writes q book about this country, we of
Charleston may expect q chapter of wOrmwood
and gall devoted to our especial benefit.
The Courier and Standard continue their irras-
chile phillipics and fire cracker filings at each
other, to the no small amusement of the outside
lockers on in Vienna. The city press is generally
too quietly and gracefully polite, ever ready with
hat in hand with a bow and n smile for all. like
an occasional goose quill tilt among the mailed
knights, if it is for nothing else than to enable
them to show their skill and mettle, and break
the dull monotory of newspaperdom, which is
sometimes almost uncomfortable. Ishall await the
final catastrophe which is usually expected, &C.
cording to Shakespeare, to take place somewhere
about the close of the fifth act, before I give my
opinion as to which has the best of it. They
have both, thus far showed the pluck of the game
cock and the skill of ~practised pcnsmen.
The price of ~cottouis still going up, and sales are
increasing. About three thousand bales were
time for the planters to sell their crops, and those
that hold back for higher prices, will, ten to one,
have finally to sell at greatly reduced prices. The
Liverpool market will reach the highest possible
point in q short time, and when it begins to de-
cline there, the reaction at home will be quick and
powerful, and before it can recover the next crop
may be in. | have watched the market with some
care, and were l n large cotton holder, I would
sell tomorrow, as the present prices are tremb-
lingly balanced upon the uncertain news of every
European steamer.
A new Restaurant called GO the Sideboard" was
opened near the corner of Broad street and East
Bay, this morning, with n grand flourish of trum-
pets. 1t is intended to eclipse MI other establish
ments of the kind in the city, in point of splendid
apartments, elegant furniture, and luxurious en-
tertainments. A select supper party intended
chiefly for the gentlemen of the press, was given
on Saturday night, and 50 grand, gloomy and
peculiar" affair it was, with the gloomy" left out.
The Editors were emphatically 'too full for utter
ance," but they went home and committed their
impressions to paper, which you MAJ see in the
local columns this morning, with an afterthought
of the Ncws in the afternoon.
Quite q number of country merchants have Or
rived in the city for the purpose of laying in their
spring and summer stocks, and as far rs can
learn they are pleased with the bargains they are
enabled to make. I met one this morning from
the up country, who has been in tn, .ubit Of
trading at the North, but who expressed his deter
mination to try his luck in Charleston this season,
and said that he expected by so doingt to be able to
save money and sell his goods cheaper in the end.
Charleston has improved very much asa wholesale
market within the last few years, and the stock
for this season is peculiarly heavy and select.
The present City Administration is getting on
swimmingly, and the Council are going it pretty
strong on the principles of retrenchment and re-
form. They have stopped contracting new debts,
and have taken out q patent for paying the old
ones on a new and improved style. Captain RoU-
MALETT and his police force keep q sharp look out
for rogues and r~ascals, ~severa! Of whom they have
lately ''cabined, cribbed and confined" in q place
where they will be out of harms way until the
day of reckoning shall transpire.
The troubles in tho Citadel Academy are still
the topic of conversation among certain circles
The case has been decided, and l presume finally,
but the public, or q portion of it at least, do not
seem to be satisfied. Those who object, and can
not help themselves, will certainly claim the privi-
lege of grumbling, q luxury in which all alike can
and do occasionally indulge. We shall have an
occasional communication in the papers on that
subject for a short time, and then the bubble will
burst and all will be quiet again. 1t will have Its
place among the nine days wonders, and then die
o natural death, as the doctors say, for want of