Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-03-27
NEW YORK. March 10.


Never since the fall of man, Cardinal VOL
sey, Se,astopol, or whatever other unfortunate
thing ever caught q historical tumble. has there
been such general time of Reyival-such a
National Revival, such combination of Re.
vlvals all in one, as at this present time per-
vades this great Republic. Truth crushed to
EARTH with whatever power of superintendent
pressure, topples over the obstruction and re-
wives again in all directions We have at least
four distinct and well defined revvals on our
hands-reyival Of business, revival of political
agitation, revival of the Slave Trade, and reyiv.
al OF religion, each of which has its propaganda,
ITS devoted worshippers, and its prospective
" land of pure delight"
Just here, however, and in the immediate pre-
sent, the Religious Revival overshadows and alb.
serbs all the others. Nearly every church in
the city is up and doing in the earnest work,
ana the results are seen not only in religious cir.
Giles but in all worldly haunts-in the courts
IN the counting houses,-in the market places,
and at the corners of the streets In Broadway,
especially, the signs of revival are numerous and
unmstakable. The booksellers have brushed
the dust off their standard religious works.
brought them forward to their conspicuous win
dows, and set forth their devotional value in at
tracuve placards, in place Of the late seductive
display of the attractions of light literature. The
secular pictures in the windows of the print.
shops have given place to " The Deluge," :. The
Last Supper" The Heavenly Plains" and
" The Day of Judgments" so that not only
" Baxter's," but many other calls" meet the
Inconverted as they pass unconcernedly over
that fashionable thoroughfare, of which, if it
may not truly be said, " Broad is the way" vet
" many go i'll threat
At every few steps, by the doors of assembly
halls, and especially at the churches temporary
signs IN large fair manuscript, invite passengers
to call for few moments prayer. One of these
invitations met my eye this morning in this
shape: ncontroyertional Prayermeetinc from
o to u. Call in 10 or 20 minutes at your con-
yenience." The heterodoxy of the photography.
l feared might become contagious and spread
to the doctrines as well, so declined the inyi.
tatlon and passed on, Near the CITY Hall
met celebrated lawyer, hurrying to court and
humming as he went
How vain are all things here below"
OF course under this all-peryading state of
feeling the churches are largely recruiting their
membership, and from all classes of people. A
family of notorious pugilists, the Gardeners, one
OF them hight awful have been brought to
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 NecS, without money and without
price to all passengers who would take it on
those terms. accepted copy to see what the
Iecompton organ would be driving at now. and
found the paper, under most startling displav
OF types, given up TO "The Great Revival
Careless Sinners Powerfully Awakened Thou
sands Hopefully Convert, ~ Thrilling Scenes
and Incidents" So just now, turn where YOU
Will, even to the theatres, hotels and the very
haunts of the wicked, the felt influence and talk
ed-oi topic everywhere is the Great Revival.
After the Christian the next most notable ce.
lebrity with us is the Mahommedan. The long
expected Envoy and Commercial Agent from
Turkey, Rear Admiral Mahommed Pacha arriy.
ed here last week, accompanied by suit of Of
hcers and engineers. They come to observe our
institutions, study our arts, industry and me-
chanics, and contract for the building of two or
three battle ships as commencement to there
construction of the Turkish Navy. They have
passed the week in receptions by our citizens
and visits to our hospitals, and ship and navy
Yards Their great red flag. conferred with the
Crescent, floats with the Stars and Stripes over
their hotel quarters, the ST. Nicholas, and their
turbaned hkenesses, done in Imperial Photo
graph by Brady, adorn the pictured doorways
along broadway. Our Aldermen tried hard to
appropriate two or three thousand dollars TO
grand splurge and reception of the distinguished
guests, but the odor of past transactions Of
similar nature was too rank to allow it, so we
are doing the illustrious visitors some cheap Ii
oni!ing for season, and then they will pass on
their way. T.