Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-04-14
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.

New YORK, April7.
The seasons have again become inverted, or
rather they have resumed their fckleness SO well
known in this climate. A week since we were
blessed with all the signs Of basty spring. but
they were premature, aud soon yielded so far as
! to allow slight fall Of show on the night of the
9th, since when, Spring and Winter have been
struggling for the mastery, the latter generally
getting the advantage. This is usually the case
in this climate, resulting in making April the
most disagreeable month in the whole year. And
what is very remarkable about il is, that the clerk
of the weather" in Brooklyn, MERRIAM the
Prophet, will not make any effort to have this
state of things altered. But the people are &C
customed to having their interests neglected by
the heads of departments in power, so what is the
use Of complaining?
The Mayor and his Squad, namely, the Alder
men and Councilmen, are .ftelngy exercised with
the proceedings of the Legislature in making
new charter for this misgoverned city. The Black
Republicans have the majority and the power be
longing thereto, and they use it for the purpose
of reversing the rules andlaws established in and
over the fat and plunder-making offices in the
good city of vagabonds. The prime object is to
take all power of appointments out Of the hands
of the Democratic Government of the city, and
to place the same in the gift of Black Republi..
can Governor by and with the advice and consent
of Senate of the same political color. The al
legged reason is that the Aldermen and Common
Council refused to act on the nominations of the
Mayor to FIJI the office of City Inspector; but the
possession of power is reason enough for its ex-
ercise with political parties.
A new Health Officer has been appointed to
succeed THOMPSON, who, heretofore, secured the
punder pertaining to the Quarantine. This in
dvidual wears the very significant name of GuS
DIR. GUN, may be, by whom all professional old
women are accustomed to swear by in cases Of
emergency, real orimaginary. At any rate, GuN
is the man for the place, inasmuch as the next
Quarantine is like to be located out in the sea be-
yond the names of ordinary men.
The old Police force, so unceremoniously and
hastily excommunicated by the Black Republican
Police Commissioners TWO years ago, in order to
make place for their bottle-holders and fuglemen,
now find themselves reinstated both in appoint
ment and in pay by late decision Of the Appeal
Court, therefore final, much to the chagrin Of the
leather headed Commissioners. By their course
in the premises these learned individuals, so greedy
of filthy lucre, have caused the city an additional
expenditure of SS7s,OO0, for which the city has
received no service whatever. So much for the
mserably corrupt government of political party.
This is one of the inuumerable evidences of the
worst governed city in the known world.
The New York Historical Society-to which
DADDY CHEEvER is to be presented as q fanatic
in remarkable state Of preservation-is in ecstacy
over the present of the LENox Nineveh Marbles,
which consist ofabou dozen pieces, representing,
as is supposed. in hieroglyphics and other unknown
characters, the history of the world long anterior
to the creation of ADAM and the Northwest pas
sage to the South sea. Under, one Of the figures
representing mon holding a 6r-cone to the nose
of the man around the corner, are few lines Of
writing in language now unknown to the world,
which, when translated, will give missing chap
ter in the History of the last Forty Besr-Hunts
of N1MRoD and HERCULES, clearly proving that
Niniveh was destroyed long before LoT's wife was
changed into pillar of salt. The Society are en-
deavoring to purchase at cost Of 100000, the ia
nous Egyptian Collection now in the city on ex-
hibition. The price asked for this collection was
100000, but "being as it was them" the price