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The following correspondence, taken from "The Deseret News," explains itself:-- SALT-LAKE CITY, Aug. 14, 1871. TO THE HYERS SISTERS,--We the undersigned, residents of Salt-Lake City, having witnessed your performances during your recent engagement at the theatre, and being willing to acknowledge talent wherever found, as a slight testimonial of our esteem tender you our influence and assistance in making a remunerative benefit, to take place at the Salt-Lake Theatre at such time as may suit your convenience. JOS. R. WALKER. A.W. WHITE. WELLS, FARGO, & CO. (Per C.F. SMITH.) JNO. CUNNINGTON. J.B. MEADER. M.H. WALKER. A.M. MORTIMER. JNO. MANN. S.A. MANN. A. BENZON. D. CANDLAND. J.C. LITTLE. TILDEN & LAWRENCE. B.G. RAYBOULD. JAS. SMITH. N.S. GOULD & SON. SEIGEL BROTHERS. TAYLOR & CUTLER. H.O. PRATT. HOOPER, ELDREDGE, & CO. WILLIAM M. JOHNS. ROBERT K. REED. CALDER BROTHERS. PROFESSOR THOMAS. JOS. J. DAYNES. HUGH W. McKEE. R. ROSS. THOMAS FITCH. JNO. T. CAINE. W.F. ANDERSON. MARK CROXALL. J.F. HAMILTON. CAPT. SHAW. G.W. LEIHY. F.T. WISWELL. TEASDEL & CO. H.S. BEATTIE. JNO. L. BURNS. To this the following reply was returned:-- SALT-LAKE HOUSE, Aug. 15, 1871. Messrs. WALKER, TILDEN, A.W. WHITE & CO., HOOPER, ELDRIDGE, & CO., AND OTHERS. _Gentlemen_,--Your esteemed favor is before us; and, gratefully accepting your high compliment to our humble endeavors, we respectfully name Thursday, Aug. 17, as the time of the proposed benefit at the Salt-Lake Theatre. Respectfully, HYERS SISTERS. While in St. Joseph, Mo., they elicited from "The Daily Herald" of that city the following encomium:-- "Whoever of our readers failed to visit the Academy of Music last evening missed a rare musical treat. The concert of the Hyers sisters was absolutely the best, furnished those in attendance with the choicest music, which has been in St. Joseph since we have resided here. "The Hyers sisters are two colored ladies, or girls, aged respectively sixteen and seventeen years; but their singing is as mature and perfect as any we have ever listened to. We had read the most favora
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