Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-01-17

ana psalms, ID poetry ana Is cidssicai luefdtule.
II is now three months or less since thisgreat move
ment began, and the number oflovey female converts
whose hearts have been touched with fire, are equal
legisns The great revusion in trade last summer
1.-The suspension of specie payments by the banks
and the revolution at the polls last November, are
ofthe causes ofthis singular religious movement.
During the last five years. the expansions oflhe banks
the overtrading of the merchants and SPECTATORS
the general madness of the times naturally weaned
men and lovely woman from religion and from God.
II is true splendid churches were built every part
of the city, and all the gorgeousness of outward deco
ration marked those structures. But the living spirit
was not there-the sacred tongue of fire sat not on
the altar-the burning and shining light from Heaven
illuminated not the sacred place They were many
whened sepulchres in the sight of the Redeemsr-
dark dismal, rotten, nasseous. The very angels,
dread Michael and beauteous Raphael, as they
leaned over the azure clouds of heaven, Sunday
morning, to marx the changes on earth since the
day they drove Satan from il, could not help smiling
in derision pity, in such way heavenly beings
SMILE at the hollowness and hypocrisy Of the present
age.
The truth is that the same process has overtaken
religion that had Frustrated the banks. From the
expansions of paper by the one and the expansions
of sin by the other both had suspended specie pay
ments--both had become objects of contempt-and
both were assailed as wicked and corrupt by the loco
focos and infidels The holy clergy of New York
seeing the condition to which pure religion had been
reduced by the wckedness of the times their heads
together, and determined about six weeks or two
months ago, to commence a new religious movement,
and TO curtal the paper circulation of sin and wick
edness until they be able to resume, sometime in
the spring specie payments IN truth, grace, and pley
pari passu with the bankers and 6nancers in Wall
street.
This movement in religion was much wanted. The
prevalence of ocofocosm in politics, finance religion
and the morals of society, has been awful for several
years past. No naton-no psople-no constitution
mo government stand unless it is founded on the
broad and pure principles of religious truth and belief
There is credit system in piety as well as in pecu-
MARY affars-n morals as in the money market. Ia
fidelity in the awful truths Of eternity is ultimately
destructive to nations heartlessness in life or de-
pravity Of conduct.
In this view Of the present religious movement we
cordially approve of it-wlth the special exception
that pretty women (as all pous women pretty
and amiable) neglect her practical duties to comply
with the soirSes and delightful reunions in the
churches throughout the city. Let her remember
that God Almighty somewhat better pleased to see
a woman in her kitchen, directing and managing the
mysteries Of pSddings and pies, than when she is
spending, night after night, at prayer meetings and
thus, perhaps permitting her kettle of fish TO boil
over, her buildings get burnt the hole in her
husbands stockings enlarge its dimensions by not
recollecting that ga stitch in time saves nine" We
all can be pious, practical and philosophical Good
sense is heavenly sense Performing engagements
to each other is prasi ng God. Amen aad ever more
THE MsRsIsc HERALD And THE WALL STREET
PREss-We had the satisfaction Of presenting read
ers this morning with later from Navy lsaHd than
any sfthe Wall street. other prints This nothing bat
and only consequence Of the superior facilities
we enjoy from the number of correspondents the
engagements Of the Herald embrace. The Courier and
Enquirer gave this morning the items Of from the
Buffalo papers Of Thursday last; the eleventh ins,an-the
Journal Of Commerce supplies its readers with few
.es from Niagara Falls, January the ninth, and
letter copied from the Rochester Democrat dated Janus
ry the eighth while in its postscript it rakes up the Aha
ny Argus Lockport correspondence OF the seventh and
the Eryress Is on level with the Courier copying from
the Buffalo papers Of the eleventh. Now the Herald Of
this morning gives letter direct from the American
lines on Grand Island Immediately opposite the patriot
encampment on Navy Island dated the eierenh instant
which one day later than the digent Of the city
papers and days later than the sanctned Journal
beating them all in every opportunity of communica
ting the earliest and authentic intelligence, and
dist,ncing them by land well water. We ehal.
lenge scrutiny and comparison.
Growth and Popularity % the Herald.
The organization Of the HERALD EsTABrisaMErr
ia now complete Our steam sngine-doube-cyn-
der-three news boats-our foreign and domestic cor
respondencc- money and commercial markets
our theatrical critcisms-our law and police reports,
oil united and condensed into system, under the
personal inspection and supervision of myself the sole
editor and proprietor, enable to issue two daily
and two weekly papers with ease and despatch.
For many weeks past we have beaten all the Wall
street papers ship news, foreign and domestic arrv
ais and local intelligence Of every kind. The SUPER
onty Of the Herald in commercial matters is now as
universally acknowledged as il has for long time
been in every other department. in life. In every
branch ola newspaper, our intellectual and physical
elements far superior to any otter this city
As natural consequence of this powerful organrza-
ton, the popularity and circulation Of the Herald
increasing beyond that Of any former period. This
increase and this popularity are not now as In 1885
and 1886, confined to the city ncighborhood-
are coexteHsve with the whole Union, and even