Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-04-03
Religious Reyiyals.


Tar as our information goes, have lost none
of their general interest. They are spoken
of in the private circle, in the business
mart, in the omnibus and the railway car.
and are the one absorbing topic OF conver-
sation. We repeat the remark we made a
day or two since, that never, during the
lifetime of the present generation, was a.
religious movement less liable to exception
of any kind. 1890.
we have known some extraordinary re-
yivals in certain parts of the country, gen
orally confined, for season, to some one
denomination of Christians; but at the
present time we hear of them from Texas,
IN the South, to the extreme of our Wcs-
tern boundaries and our Eastern limits
their influence is felt by every denomina-
tion. In looking over our exchanges of
this week, we find much space devoted to
the account of this great movement, The
Evangelist says: "Itis characterized by no
sudden growth of ferycnt enthusiasm 1t
began early in the autumn by an unusual
seriousness in the churches, and those
marked indications of the presence of the
Holy Spirit which the quick eye of the
faithful pastor so readily detects"
We learn from the Traveller and other
Journals that in Boston the same desire to
attend the prayer meeting is evinced as is
shown here, 1t is Justly remarked by the
Observer that one important characteristic
of these meetings is the union of the vari-
Gus denominations of Christians. All diff
ferences are laid aside ana Christians an
pear to feel that they have common cause
to promote. 1t is impossible to estimate
with anything Ike accuracy, the number
of conversions under the influence of these
meetings. The reports insome of our re-
ligious exchanges, however, satisfy us that
the number is very large. The Western
Christian Advocate, published at Cincin-
natl, of March TO- contains two columns of
brief notices of the reyivals in Ohio, llli-
-nois and Indiana These are from forty
two clergymen of the McthodisC Episcopal
Church, and they report that within the
last three months there have been four
thousand three hundred and eighty-four
conversions The lowest number in any
charge was thirty the highest, seven hun
dred and fifty. These, it will be rcmem-
bered, are in one denomination. How
great, then, must be the aggregate of all
the churches The total in these Western
States alone must be very great,-M T.
Commercial Advertiser.
AWFUL" GNRDINER.-This notorious
pugilist and formidable bruiser, who has
been recently converted at New York, was
at the prayer meeting in the John Street
Church, New York, Saturday. He is a
powerful man, says New York paper, six
feet high aud we'll built. He has a strong
voice which was distinctly heard in every
part of the house. He said lie was not
ashamed to declare that his past life had
not been what it should have been. He
had tried all the amusements and pleasures
ofthe world, but never found any real sat,
isfaction in them, and had enjoyed himself
more in one hour since his conversion than
in all his former life He wished it under
stood that he was on the Lords side. TIc
audience, he said, knew how faithful, he
had served Satan heretofore, andhe was de-
termmed to serve the Lord as faithfully in
the future as he had the Devil in the past.
Elopement at the South Romantic De-
noament
1t will be remembered by our readers,
says the New Orleans True Delta, that the
other day we mentioned the mysterious dis
appearsdcc of Miss H., a wealthy planter 's
dppghtor of this State, and of MIR G., an
,enterprising dry goods clerk of the city
Itwqs fairly presumed that they had gone
togeshNf, but whether they did, and With
eratEieg went was not certainly known, -
We are now able to report that they went
hut LII. -
censc threatened the couple with danger Of
being oyertakou, and they resolved to cross
the bay to thqt Southern Gretna Green; the
Village 5s BIskcly in Bald#is eouatS.
This they dds a licensewas procured and
under "tho bridal oak Of Blakoly, cmiehty
tree which has spread its leafy canopy oycr
the headsssof p,apy a couple in the act Of
beng made better or worse for lite, inc run
agays were legallyHnited, the dienified and
venerable wliite-headed functionary, judge
.Wilkihs, performing the ceremony. He
has enaceca the village b0cksmith In d
nltaiber Of such Gretna jobs, Mr H. "a,
young married gentlcnian, connected With.
90 extensive Canal street. establishment
accompanied the heirl Of the iosefs, and
had the bride under his fathcfiy snp otvise
ION until the ceremony, at which lto was
presCait invested anothot with the precious
charge The party. rcturncd to tho CITY
and OH tie trip over the BRIDE
groom nlapifested his ability % protect the
ll:ssSaly l:sSlsy OF his choice bv inaictind q severe
llcge5naI chastisenent upon ae apparchy
gentleman who lad draIk enos,gh d, ron,
der him Insulting Ia Shis behavior. He
sas StoolSed d9wp by AZ ipdisaaqs fss,