Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-12-24
CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE.
CHARLESTON, DEC,

| CHARLESTON, DEC, Il.
The long looked for, and long delayed Report
of the Board of Directors of the South Carolina
Institute made its appearance in the Standard yes
terday morning. and in that paper alone, as see
that the Evening Neps nor either of the other
morning papers have os yet noticed 1t. In the
preface to the Report the Board very modestly
suggests change in the mode, character and man
acement of future exhibitions, and propose that q
broader field of operations be adopted and high
er ground assumed. They indulge the hope that
at some future day Southern apprentices will a.
waken to the Importance of the subject and in
fuse new life and energy into tsinhuence and op
erations To the rising generation we must look
South.
One of the most lively and interesting features
of our gay and dashing city at this season of the
year is the numerous Anniversary Meetings of
Fire and Military Companies, and all other kinds
of benevolent and social Institutions and Societies.
On Saturday evening last | was one Of the invited
guests who were present at the celebration of the
Fifteenth Anniversary Of the Hope Fire Engine
Company The exercises were closed by sup
per at HAMMoSD's Refcctory on King stree. where
everything was furnished that could adorn ia
Bile, or miuisterto the comfort of hungry man.
The attendance was large and the festivities, ac-
companied by songs, speeches and sentiments,
were kept up with much life and spirit to late
hour.
On tomorrow evening the New England Society
will assemble Mt the Mills House at five o'clock in
the afternoon for the purpose of celebrating their
thirty ninth Anniversary, and the two hundred
and thirty-sevcnth celebration Of the landing Of
the Pilgrims. The society is very large one,
composed of many of our leading merchants and
professional men, and gay and happy time is
expccted The dinner, the sentiments and the
speeches are always fine, and some extra touches
in every department are expected this time.
On Saturday morning about nine o'clock our
citizens were thrown into state of alarm by an
unusual agitation of the earth and all the movea-
bic articles upon its heretofore quiet surface
After the vibrations, which lasted only few Sec
onds. had subsided, and the momentary panic
which succeeded it had, in measure passed a.
way, and mental and physical equanmity had
been restored, shrewd guesses began to be made
as to what this unusual phenomenon could be at
tributed to, and the majority seemed to favor the
opinion that it was genuine young earthquake.
The shock was quite perceptible, occurring in
series of vbratory motions from east to west, and
making quite ratting among the furniture
Professor GIBBS of the Charleston College notices
it at some length in the Courier of this morning.
Officer HICKS of this city, assisted by officer
FORD of Augusta, succeeded in arresting in that
city, on Friday last noted forger and robber who
had been passing under various assumed names,
among which was BERNARD, SIMMONS, FERNANDEZ,
and others. He had recently stolen a trunk from
the Rev. B. B. SANS of this city, which he, in
his hurried departure, had left behind him, and
had written back to the landlord with whom he
had stopped, to forward it to him at Augusta,
which was eventually the cause of his detection,
as he was arrested while receiving it in the Office
of Adams Express Company in Augusta. Officer
Hicks brought him back to Charleston in irons,
and he was Immediately committed for larceny on
u warrant issued by Magistrate KIRKwooD. He