The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-04-30
OUR NEW. YORK LETTER.

20 Fishing-A Wealthy Merchants
Domestic Bliss-More Wives than One
Edison's Electric Light-Clean Streets
Affecting Coney Islsnd-The Return o1
Spring, etc., etc.
/ NEW YORK, April %, 1881.
EDITOR CHIEF:
A revival is popularly supposed to he
an exceptional means of grace, some
thing apart from the ordinary everyday
dispensation-a sort of pentecost where
fiery tongues are potent factors, and
where the spiritual manifestations par
take of the same miraculous character
which eighteen hundred years ago star
tied the fishers by the Sea Of Galilee, OF
awakened the wonder Of the hungry
multitude upon the Mount. We are hav-
ing many revivals in New York and
Brooklyn; eloquent evangelists are dis
pensing the bread of life; rough roads
are being made smooth and crooked
paths are being Strengthened. Sinners,
| am happy to state, are being gathered
into the fold by scores and hundreds,
and more are coming; but while pub.
licans and sinners are forsaking the devil
and his ways and are arraying them
selves under the banners of the Prince
Of Peace, war has broken out among
the saints which threatens, if not the
destruction Of the church militant, at
least its serious dismemberment. Men
and women who have hitherto been re-
gartled as quiet and orderly citizens, and
to whom the prize ring is an nnholy
abomination, now talk of punching each
others heads, and though they may not
take daily exercise with sand-bags and
dumLbclls, for a time, ut least, they
seem to eschew all spiritual weapons, and
| boldly affirm that clubs are trulill,s; they
travel upon their muscle and, like cock
sparrows newly flsdgcd, they seem to
be spelling for fight. Our Methodist
conference has just closed, and regret
to add, that the admonition of the hero
| Of Appomattox, when lie said, let us
have peace, appeared to be entirely un-
needed; the elements Of discord mani
tested themselves at the opening and
followed them unremittingly to the close.
A certain brother, Rowland, was an APP
plicant for a settlement, and a number
of the brethren did not appear to think
that Brother Rowland was altogether a
proper person to he put in charge of the
lambs, to say nothing at all of the sheep.
Brother Rowland had been accused of
various offenses, among which were
keeping boartlnghouse and assault
and battery were not considered the most
heinons In fact, can not see how they
could condemn him for simple assault
and battery, when Peter the Rock
wl,acked off a mans ear OH a slight pro
vocation, and the Evangelist of Tarsus
was amy thing but a peaceable man.
Brother Buckley Of Brooklyn, who is
bright and shining light, affirmed that
the erring brother smelled bad, but
whether the aroma was temporal or
spiritual he failed to inform the meeting.
Brother Rowland retorted that he guessed
he smelled about as sweet as the best of
'em, and told the convention that if he
was only minded to open his month he
conld make good many Of them hang
their heads. Now what did Brother
Rowland meant One thing is certain
his challenge was not taken up, and the
convention adjourned without calling
him to account. Immediately after the
convention was over II row broke out in
tile johnson Street NJ. f. Church. This,
a few years ago, WAS one of the most
popular churches i'll Brooklyn, but they
claim that the Bishop has given them
such miserable preachers that the church
was nearly ruined. In this dilemma they
took upon themselves to write to a pop
ular young minister and ask him to
come and take charge Of them; but the
Bishop had selected somebody else, and
both ministers met at the foot Of the
pulpit last Sabbath, and for few mo-
ments things looked sqnally. The Pre-
siding Elder, it is said, sent for platoon
Of police, and he expected to induct them
through the parsonage. Fortunately,
they did not come, for if they had APP
peared several Of the congregation init
mated that there would have been rough
work
Parson Haynes of the Washington Av-
enue Baptist Church, is in troubled wa
ters, and $50 of his members rendered
their designations the other night be-
cause they could not induce him to take
Horace Greeley's advice and "Go West"
Several of the departing brethren had
been. III tho congregation between twen-
ty and thirty years, and one of them had
expended Oh the church between twenty
and thirty thousand dollars. Parson
Haynes was recent convert from the
NJ. f. Church, its itineracy not suiting
, him, as he preferred a more settled life.
Altogether there has been quite time
among the elect; they have pitched into
each other in the liveliest manner, and
from the hints and inuendoes thrown
out it is pretty evident that all the sim
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A horrible discovery was made here in
the sluns; the body of a wretched woman
was discovered in an outlonse half de-
voured by rats. She had been dead