The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-05-14
New York Correspondence.
NEw YoRK. MAY Z. IS5

I
is now clear aud smiling again. Com
paratively lew strangers were here the
first two days but this morning the rails
roads and steamboats, have brought UNI
doubleday large accession to the nuns
Der of the celebrationists
On Sunday afternoon heard from n
young French Clergyman, Mr. PLATE,
at the Brick Church in Beekman street,
very Interesting account of the rise
aud progress Of the only Bible and Evan
gelical Society existing in France at this
time.
Alter the Revolution Of 1893 the mass
Of the French people became atheists
They had no veneralion Tor Christianity.
Twenty years ago, man in quest Of a
Is BILE, hunted through all the bookstores
IN Paris and could not find one. Like
many christians, numerous copies or the
Holy Scriptures had been burnt bv the
R"manisis, and in France the book had
become almost obsolete.
After the Revolution of lS4S (lull of
promise cruelty disnppoiuied) there was
no basis for society III France The
thing wanted was some principle of
moral and religious government. Athe.
ism was nothingism-they could not
build on that--bht they received gladly
the preaching of the truth as it is in
Jesus.
Immediately after the adoption of
republican government Ivy the French
nation, he was deeply impressed with The
universally receptive mental condition of
his cnnnIrymen. There was an almost
child.like desire to be taught.
Day after day, the immense halls of
the political clubs, in that exciting time.
were crowded with people listening anx-
lously to the numerous impracticable
schemes of demagogues and dreamers
for remodelling society and repairing de-
Iecls which they ascribed to every cause
bu, the right one. They had discarded
their King, and now they wanted To know
the secret of selfgovernment. One day.
III the midst of "A heated political debate.
to an audience of 5000 people, Mr..
PLATE told them the secret 1t was the
religion OF Jesus. tie told them Of
Chrisrs plan Of government. The clamor
Of tongues was hushed, every ear was
intent, every heart receptive, aud when,
at the end of ihree.iDurihs of an hour.
the missionary oflhe Bible Society would
have sat down, the new republicans
begged him to go on ; they wanted to
hear more , aud for one hour and half
L.,
immense concourse.
They were deeply impressed, if not
convinced aud for minute after he had
concluded no one stirred even in that
assembly of inrusive Frenchmen. Then
une of them rose, and said, Citizens,
shall we now resume our political dis
cussions? For one, would like to have
y"u do what ! am about to; go home
aud mediate upon What has been said"
This suggestion was unanimously adopt
ed aud the people left the hall.
This will illustrate how ready the
French people then were. and perhaps
still are, To welcome the colporieurs and
evangelical teachers Of the Bible Society.
But unfortunately the resources Of this
institution III France were cut off by the
personal recunlary EMBELLISHMENTS Ia
which the suspension of labor aud trade.
after the Revolution Of IS4S, subjected
the friends and supporters Of that 500
cieiy. MIR. Platte now asked for the CO.
operation ol the christians Of the United
States.
The meeting Of The American and
Foreign Ann Slavery Society at the
Tabernacle yesterday was attended by
John Van Buren, and Geo. CONWAY, The
Ojlbway blade. Lewis Tuppan, the
Secretary, aired his vocabulary upon the
Constitution. the Compromise, the
/ friends Of the Union, and what he was
pleased to sligmatize as the lower law
ecclesiastics. An agent he said had
been sent to disseminate Anti Slavery
views in New Mexico, aud the society
intended to encourage the substitution oi
flax Tor cotton. He spoke Of hares
Sumner IN connection with Neptune :
trident and Jove's thunder, and then
offered Is resolutions. Henry Ward
Beecher was among the speakers. and in
his dialrlbe he applied 10 Daniel Web
ster The quotation. 80 Lucilrr, Son OF
tine morning, how hast thou fallen"
Yesterday | took party Of my friends
10 an attractive spot near New York
called High Bridge" BY all means
aGvise your friends TO visit il when they
come TO this CITY.
We got into the cars at the corner oi
Broome ST, ut ! IL P. ~, and rode up
through the Bowery and Fourth Avenue.
In the later we saw large procession
Of neatly dressed boys aud girls. on lter
way to unite with the mann body OF Sun
day School members, to the number Of
about 10000.
The cars which we were in were
drawn by horses, andmy country friends
had ample time 10 comment upon the ell
egant buildings and tasteful gardens in
Uuion Place aud the Avenue as we pass
ed along. At 9Th st the horses were
detached, aud the L" black pony " or los
comolive su5sl luird. In an hour, we
had passed through the long tunnel 600
feet through solid rock above and
around) aud arrived at Harlem. There
! chartered carriage, aud we rode
about ,hree miles further, through ro>
mantle country, fragrant with the bios
SONS Of innumerable apple and cherry
trees. The " High Bridge" as il is ap.
proprlaiely called, is built across The liar.
lem rlver for the conveyance ofihe Gro
ton. So serpenline is the road To it that,
at the distance of three miles, il appears