New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-14

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IN BY the revival The Low Church Episcopalisn
congregations have also been especially influenced
AT st. Philips Episcopal Church on Sunday of last
| week "a adults we're baptized. being the largest
number. il il said ever baptized on the same Occa
sion in any Episcopal Church IN this country. In
other churches of that denomination there are
numerous baptisms taking psce. Bishop Pot
tar bas recovered from bis aPoplectlc attack
At least sufficiently to attend church, and will
sail for Europe AS soon az his health will per-
NIT. In the Baptist Church the awakening has
been followed BY an immense accession OF converts
exceeding that Of every other denomination. Even
the zeal of the Nethodsts so successful in all
former history for their ability to gather men
into the fold by thousands, has not been able 10
convert 90 many as the Baptsts. But in this rey-
val Of religion the difference between High aud
Low Church EpscOpalianism is very apparent
The High Church party give no cOuntenance to the
movement, and regard it AS mere spasm. The
Low Churchmen hail ii with joy, and are doing
what they can to deepen and widen its influence
They point with Justice to the mighty revival in
duced at West PoiIt some years ago by the preach
ing of Bishop McIlvaine; to the revival at Prince
ton College. of which Bishop Hobart one Of
the fruits; TO Bsdop White, who listened and be-
came enlightened under the preaching of Whitfield
and TO numerous evidences Of their faith in such
especial OutpOurings of the Divine Spirit. The
great Union prayer-meeting IN the SAMSON street
church continues open, and the attendance has not
perceptbly diminished. The Mariners Church is
open daily for prayer and preaching, at which large
numbers are present. Other prayer-meetngs con-
Time to be kept open ct numerous places, public
halls concert rooms and eng ne- houses and crowds
are constantly to be found in them. There is in
fact no perceptibe abatement of religious
fervOr. 1t has even extended Itself to the dens
and novels of Bedford street, in the southern
part of the city, place as vile and
corrupt as yOur own Five Points, and has there pro-
duced marked change in the department OF hun
dreds The Mission House established in that de-
graded locality has been the scene of many CONVEX
sOns When frat opened there, the missionaries
were greeted with showers of brlckbdts, dead cats
and rats, or filthy women would hug the preacher
while he stood up to speak. Boys cursed both
preacher and teacher in the SundaySchOOl room,
fought there like dogs, and defed all attempts to
control them. Now, the scene is wholly changed.
Everywhere the patient missionary is greeted with
grateful bow and those who formerly abused him
are now his protectors. The men who still refuse
to pray with him are nevertheless ready to fight for
him; the Sunday Schools are quiet and orderly,
though crowded; and the labOrers in this vineyard
have witnessed mighty works done during the pre-
vaence of the great Revival. In the face of these
remarkable results it is impossible that any other
spirit than that of the Lord himself could have done
20 much in awakening and reforming 80 many who,
TO all outward appearance, were hOpelessy vile.
Our city and its Horticultural suburbs hail with
Joy the graceful footsteps and gentle airs OF advanc
ing Spring. The thousand gardens Of the city, and
within its suburbs are now a wilderness of BIOS
SONS. The peach and apricot arc already III full
bloom, and hlacs diffuse their grateful perfume
not prematurey, yet certainly some weeks before
their usual time The markets are full OF early
vegetables and agriculture here and in New-Jersey
is in full blast. Everything gives token of a
fruitful season. On canyasslng the market men at
- IL. H. l,.A That In trft
crop throughout the country has gone through the
Winter unip ured. Then the Delaware Is swarming
with shad TO all extent unknown for many years.
The fisheries above and below the city are taking
them in quantities great that in some III
stances the nets have been broken through by the
immense weight of the haul. An abundance
of sturgeon, many of them of monstrous
size, has added to the destruction. Of the
seiues, and i'll many cases they are slaughtered III
the water by men armed with pixies and boa-hooks,
to enable the fishermen to get their nets ashore.
This abundance of shad, combined with a dearth of
money among the people, has put the price down
lower than the average of many years. fresh
tempering of the wind to the shorn lamb. Blu,
Spring possesses powers for revving business that
seem miraculous. Even the newspapers feel its
influence Their columns are again crowded by
advertisers whom the pane scared away, and sui-
cieLt courage has been developed 10 establish new
Sunday journal. Nowhere did the panic operate
more dsastrOusly than among the heavy locomotive
building establishments i'll outskirts, from which
at least three -fourths of all the hands were dis
charged. But Spring has brought new business to
all thete great Establishments, and they are now
employing within fourth Of the whole force at
work in the flush times yearago, with encouraging
prospects Of soon getting back to the old mark.
Traffic on all our railroads is increasing, and the
emigration to the West continues. A steady stream
of adventurers is also pouring into Virginia from
this city, under the auspices of an association which
pursues It's objects nOseessly but eile lively. The
monster hotel in Chestnut street ia az ,ln the scene
of active building operations Yet the great coal
trade is exceedingly depressed, with slender pros
pect of improvement. Coal freights are low, and
do not remuDerate the owners, because the curse OF
DcInOcI attic Free Trade has lighted on all the New
England manufactures who consume no more fuel
because Free Trade has made the country too poor
to consume their goods. So depressed is business
in the coal region that some miners have been
compelled TO turn their coal into cash at any prlce,
to obtain the means of keeping their hands from
actual starvation The same fatal policy has
knocked breadstufs down to a lower price than Tor
ten wears past so that even this stupendOus folly has
its conversations. The Tariff feeling yet beats
strongly in the heart of all Philadelphia, indeed OF
al Pennsylvania except when voting for Free
Trade Government affords an opportunity OF showing
how much they are the slaves of party. But though
agitation may be hopeless now, the next three years
may be looked TO with confidence as big with bene-
fetal results to capital and labor throughout the
Union.
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