Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-04-15
CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE.

The public demonstration of the Ciceronian De-
batting Club which can off on Thursday evening
last at Hibernian Hall, was o grand and brilliant
affair. The large and spacious Hall was filled to
its utmost capacity, much the greater part Of the
audience being ladies. It might truly be said that
"Charleston had gathered there, her beauty and
her c~hivalry; and brightly the lamps shone DER
fair women and brave men; and eyes looked love
to eyes that spake again, and all went merry as a
marriage bell" The speech of the orator of the
evening, Mr.. EDWARD CARROLL, was a gem in its
way, showing deep thought and careful study for
one so young. The disputants, four in number,
did themselves much credit, from the bold, in
g%enious and original style in which they argued
the question of ''Young America VS.. Old Fogyism."
The Hon. EDWARD EVERETT arrived at this city
from Augusta, at FIVE o'clock on Saturday after
noon, end was met Mt the Depot by q committee of
gentlemen who received him with every demonstra-
ton of regard and esteem. RICHARD YEADoN,
ESQ, Chairman of the committee, made m appro-
pirate and eloquent speech, to which Mr.. EVERETT.
responded in his usual happy and f~elicitous man.
ner, saying many complimentary things about the
sunny South, her genial climate and hospitable
people. Both the speeches are published at length
in the morning papers, and you have doubtless
enjoyed the qualification of reading them ere this.
Mr.. EVERETT will deliver his address on the
life and character of WASHINGTON Mt Institute Hall
-. n,a.l.- ,ron,,. tLo I QtL ipyYopt trropna
ments have been made to accommodate twenty five
hundred persons, at one dollar n head, which will
be a very handsome Mount Vernon offering, in ad-
dition to about nm equal sum which Charleston has
already contributed to that noble and patriotic
object. The desire to hear him is very great with
the mass of our population, and it is probable that
even the spacious Institute Hall,-the largest in
the city-will not be sufficient to accommodate
all who may wish to see and hear the man whom
DANIEL WEBSTER called 1.-THE Corinthian Pillar Of
Massachusetts,"
The religious revival still progresses, and the
places of worship are frequented morning, noon
and night by the anxious aud enquiring multitude.
The evening prayer meetings at Trinity Church
during the pas, week have been crowded, and the
excitement has been more intense, and the labors
more fervent, Jealous and efficient there than at
other places, though all the meetings have been
attended with much good. The Methodists, thus
far, have had more additions to their church than
any other. The evening prayer meetings for this
week will be held at Bethel (Methodist) Church,
on Pitt, near Calhoun street, of which Mr.. FLEM-
mo is Pastor. The morning prayer meeting Of
the Young Mems Christian Association, is continu-
ed at Institute Hall, and the Union prayer meet
ing is still held ut the Circular Church every af-
ternoon from 5 to 6 o'clock.
Some little trepidation has been created in lite
rary circles by the appearance of " Sartave, from
the pen of JAMES A. MAITLAND about which
WASHINGTON IRVING wrote the letter over which
PUTNAM and PETERSON have been abusing each
other in such q spirited and pointed terms. The
work contains a Autograph fac simile of the letter
which IRVING did write, and not the one which the
author is said to have written over again to suit
himself. "Sartavn" is the name of on Island
off the Norwegian coast on which q vessel was
lost, and all on board persisted except one man,
and he it is who suggests the hero of the present
story. The books we'll writtenand will be read with
interest; besides the quarre of the rival publish
ershave excited the public curiosity to seeit, which,,
apart from its merits, will ensure il q large sale.
The slashing criticism which appeared some ten
DAYS ago in the Southern Presbyterian on HOWARD