Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-04-02
Correspondence o. the Ere, Press
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.

all in one, rs at this present time peryndes this
grent Republic. "Truth crushed to earth" with
whatever power Of supcrincumbcnt pressure, top.
pies over the obstruction and roviyes ngain in all
directions. We have at least four distinct and we'll
defined revivns on our hnnds--revival Of business,
revival of political agitation revival of the Slave
Trade, and revival of Religion.
Just here, however and in the immediate pres
ent, the Religious Revival overshadows and abb
serbs all the others. Nearly every church in tho
city is up and doing in the earnest work, and the
results not only in religious circles but in
all worldly haunt,-in tho courts, in tho counting
houses i'm the market places, and nt the corners
of the streets In Broadway, especially, the signs
of revival arc numerous and uumistalabe Tho
book sellers have brushed the dust of their stand.
ard religious works, brought them forward to their
conspcuou, windows, and set forth their devotion
al value in attractive pacards, in place Of the ac
seductive display Of the attractions Of light litcra.
ture The secular pictures in tho windows Of the
print-shops have given place to "The Deuge,'
The Last Supper" Tho Heavenly Plains" and
"The Day Of Judgment :" SO that not only "Ba1.
tors" but many other calls meet the unconvert-
ed as they pas, uuconcernedly over that fashiona-
bic thoroughfarc, Of which, if it may not truly be
said, "Broad is the way" yet "nany go in thoreat"
At every few steps, by the doors Of assembly
halls and especially at the churches, temporary
signs in large fair manuscript invite passenger, to
call for a few moments. prayer. One Of these nvi-
tations met my eye this morning in thi, shape -
"Uncontroversicnal Prayermceting from to c.
Call in Is or 20 minutes at your convenience" Tho
heterodoIy of the orthography, feared might be-
come contagious and spread to the doctrine, WE'LL
so declined the invitation and passed on. Near
the City Hall met celebrated lawyer, hurrying
to court and humming as he went
Glow vain are all things here below"
OF course under this all -pervading state Of feel
ing the churches are largely recruiting their mem
bershp and from all classes Of people. family
of notorious pugists, the Gardners, Of them
hight awful have been broughtto see the error
of their ways, and to fight the good fight no longer
in the ring" but in and for the church militant
The daily press here for the last three weeks has
given more space to the Revival than to any other
subject. In Nassau street yesterday the news.boys
were handing out the DAILY Meas, without money
and without price" to all passengers who would
| take 1t on those terms | accepted a copy to see
what the Lecompton organ would be driving at
now, and found the paper, under most startling
display oftypes given up to The Great Revival
Careless Sinners Powerfully Awakened Thou
sands Hopefully Converted : Thrilling Scenes
and Incidents :" So just now, turn where you will,
even to the theatres hotels and tho very haunts Of
the wicked the felt influence and talked Of topic
everywhere is the Great Revival.
The long expected Envoy and Commercial Agent Of
Turkey, Rear Admiral Mahommed Pacha, arrived
here last week, accompanied by suit Of officers
and engineers. They come to observe our institu-
tions study our arts industry and mechanics, and
contract for tho building Of two three battle ships
as a commencement to the reconstruction Of the
Turkish Navy. They passed the week in rccep-
tons by citizens and visits to our hospitals and
ship and navy yards Their great red flag, centred
with the Crescent floats with the Stars and Stripes
over their hotel quarters, the St. Nicholas, and
their turbaned likenesscs done in Imperial Photo
graph by Brady, adorn the pictured door-ways
along Broadway. Our Aldermen tried hard to ap-
proprate two or three thousand dollars to a grand
.plurge and reception Of the distinguished guests,
was too rank to allow it.
Music the divne.t Of all arts, is having an un-
exampled development with us just now. Thepre'
.entaton Of Meyerbeers greatest Opera, the Hugue'
nots, a, tho Academy of Music, in style fully
equal to any thing done in the most celebrated
> European Opera Houses, is proud triumph in oui
musical history. Every operate manager, hitherto
, has regularly promised to give us the Hugenot'
some time in the course Of his season; and owing tC
= tho great expense and extraordinary number anC
variety Of characters required has regularly
failed Mr.. Ulman, the present manager, alone
has been able 10 command all the varied moan
necessary to a successful representation, and nov
we are enjoying repeated renderings Of the Iugue
i, nots
: Our charitie. are in high state of activity W,
manage to cothe all the naked and feed all th
hungry so that nobody freezes nor sarves-that is
= nobody to speak Of To be sure, poor old negro
: whose rights" no white folk "arc bound to re
spect," had the i'll manners to 60 and die last weel
in one Of our underground tenements, because h
hadn't any thing to eat. And then, what was worst
he added to tha, injury the insult Of handing owe
his poor old unsavory body to be eaten up by re
|
r pretty much made darkness invisible before th
Is carnival was discovered, Aside from little inc
d dents like that we are doing the generous thing
Il all hands for our poor, Some more "Calico Balls
II are on the taps indeed almost on tip-toe the pr
a ceeds Of which, in cash and calico, go to charit!
One splendid occasion Of this kind is soon to come
% at the Crystal Palace, and all the Worlds fair a
to be there dressed in calico. Our Emigrant A
le Societies are gathering up all the vagrant childre
S pensioned little beggars and superannuated new
Il boys who are so much in our way, and are sendii
u u them to good homes in the West and grown-r
v girls whom We ought TO be neither able nor wi
i ling to spare, boing migrated by hundreds
ne the same Star-of- Empire direction, where hous
ke holds and husbands are said to be more plenty
be But. prominent beyond all others in the annals
~ charity, is the enterprise of the now cele6rat
John W Farmer, On the bursting Of our late pr
perous business bubble scattering ideness, power
LIE and starvation in all directions he began with
as determination to aid few families his own rier
~ and ueigbors, through the winter; but the fame
,e- his doings soon spread, other applicants came
,w could not DO resisted, and he found, very 'Peed
Ii. that all who fell among thieves were his iFieT
10, md neighbors so he leased large room on pl
by pose, fitted it up comfortably. supplied it boun
fully with wholesome and substantial food, and
as vited all the hungry 10 come freely and cat 4
III "all the hungry" meant, in that case none
~ your glitterng generalties,' like that fallaei
we phrase all men are created equal" but litera
nd all who are hungry, male female, child or adj
nj black or white gain equal admittance by the sim
sh- password, " | am hungry"
'ut made myself as ono Of the poor the other d
rm qualified myself by laying in good store Of atom
W. chic vacuum and invited myself down 10 Farm
Saloon to try how dreadful it is to cat tho "biI