The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-19

indicated.
The best practical conclusion to these inves-
LEGATIONS is the immediate resignation or re-
moyal Of Mr.. Flagg, and the appointment OF
Chemung Smith to be cashier of some fat bank,
and his elevation to the membership of some
fashionable church up town. Then the right
men will be in the right places-Flagg no
where, Chemung somewhere.
MORE DEsEcRArlos-Mo SPons.-An ex-
traordinary project is now on foot in the vici-
nifty of Carmansville, Fort Washington and the
High Bridge, with view to desecrate. that fair
and picturesque region by cutting it up into
streets and otherwise destroying its beauty and
healthfuness. We publish to-day some docu-
ments setting forth this plan, in the shape of
TWO petitions to the Legislature praying for the
appointment of commissioners to carry out this
piece of barbarism, and remonstrance against
the prayer of the petitioners The second pc
tition states without mincing the matter, the
true onjeo, and purpose of the petitioners, which
is simply to make money out of commissioners
salaries, fat contracts, and 30 forth.
| Every project to divide this district of the
| The most beautiful portion of the country is
| that which lies between Carmansville and the
Harlem river on the one side and Spuyten Duyvel
| creek on the other. 1t is not equalled as To-
| cation for handsome villas by the environs of
London, Paris, Vienna or Florence. In the
suburbs of no other city in the world
can there be found a locality combining
oot, oh IF
surrounding scenery, picturesqueness Of out
line or salubrity of atmosphere. Nature
| designed it specially as a spot which should be
occupied by beautiful country residences, hav-
| ing plenty Of ground about them, intersected
| only by such green and winding lanes as may
| he necessary for inter communication with each
other. The idea of dwelling or cutting through
these lovely hills, or reducing that delightful
country to the dull tasteless and unhealthy fiat
of the remainder of the city, is too monstrous to
| be entertained. Yet there are men whose cupi-
dity is invited by the prospect of gain which
| promises to accrue from such work of de-
| structiOn.
There is no necessity whatever for streets and
avenues in this region. The Kingsbridge
TOdu anu leutu dveuue duOIu COfumOUlOu5 ap-
proaches enough to the neighborhood without
disfguring it by the unsightly mathematical
constructions of city surveyors and street con-
tractors. Whenever more avenues are required
they can and will be made by individual residents
to suit. their own convenience and at their own
cost without taxing the city property for the
sake of creating some fat jobs for a few indi-
viduals.
We protest against any such enterprise as
this being sanctioned by the Legislature. 1t is
wholly unnecessary and mischievous; and if
these or any other greedy spectators shall ever
succeed in their design to destroy the most
beautiful and valuable portion of the whole
county Of New York, their work will remain a
standing reproach to the city, sink of cor
ruption, and monument of folly for all time.
| RELIGIOUS REvIvALs-We hear that there is
a movement among some Of the churches of
several denominations to bring about revival
of religion. 1t is high time that something was
done to bring the indolent, ungodly and mani
mon worshipping Christians to a realizing sense
of their conditioa. 1t has been too much the
fashion here with our fashionable preachers to
pronounce sleepy discourses to nodding pa
rishioners, reclining upon velvet cushions and
wrapped in ermine and silk and broadcloth, and
all manner Of pomps and vanities. Other
preachers, capable of better things, have wasted
all their energies upon the slavery question
| AS they have quite proved that il is a moral
impossibility for niger driver to enter into
the kingdom Of heaven, and rs the niger him
self is nearly exhausted, it may not be imperti-
ncnt to request these cxpounders Of the word 10
leave the black man to the politicians, and to
shower their hardest apostolic knocks against
the devil and all bis works, as developed in the
daily life of the white man in Wall street and
elsewhere. There is still another class Of shop
herds who go roaming about the country, de-
livering lectures upon all manner of topics, and
neglecting the spiritual interests of their focks
TO bore the long-suhering and accomplishing
denizens of the rural districts. The natural
effect of all this has been that the sheep being
left to themselves, have strayed from the fold
and have either backslidden into the Slough of
Despond or fallen into the pits of hcresy and
scbism. There has been nothing like general
revival of religion here for many years.
and to that fact may be undoubtedly traced the
rise and progress of the Mormon abomination-
disgrace to the country-which never would
have fourishcd had the clergy done it, duty.
These sinners are past praying for; but grand
effort should be made for the reclamation of the
slothful and inactive. The church must stir
them up. There must be some powerful preach
ers. some lusty wrcstlers, who can meet Satan
on his own ground, and throw him. There is
growing tendency towards speculation and
doubt, disposition to wander away in search
Of the unknown God, to whom Paul found
monument in Athens That tendency can only
be counteractcd by exciting the faith-the en-
| tbns;aotic faith Tho faith x.yb;cb boI;o.o. III