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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-25
CTARIN'S
COMPANY.

~ CITY, RIVER AND HARBOR TRANSPORT kTYON
COMPANY.
oTcc Pier IS, n. r., foot OF Cortlaadt-st
Consgnmcnts OF freight forwarded directed TO any pa
VI the world.
UNEoUALLED FACILITIES FOR DISPATCH
Orders received for delivery of freight and n<
thandise to any part Of tho city.
SEA AND HARBoR TOWING AND RIVER and HAN.
BoR LIGuTERAGE.
Freight every description promptly Shtsrcd 70 cEy pofus
In the harboY at rca sonable rates
STEAMBOATS, BAnoEs AND GROVES TO CHAR
TER FOR EXCURSIONS.
Steamer JOHN II. sTARIN for NEw.HAvEN, leaves Pfep
IL. N r., foot Of CSstaIdtsts az daily lsUNDAYa
eIceptod.l
Freight points on D. L. w. r. received a. Pier Ip
For NowHsvsn and points East, 81 Pier ie
NORTH SHORE, STATEN IsLAND.-Eleven Mnss for
Ten Cents via stoamsrs from Pier l. z. r. foot Of WHIT
hsll.st.
CENTRAL sHiPYARD communipsw. N. I-prr DOCK.
Machine snd Boiler Shops Everything spertsinx 20 ts
construction and repair Of yssssla
't'uE EXILE. kAlLM Az, better known as tho
L NEwYoRK' LAKE Erie AND WESTERN RAIL
ANT 5s 9, train. rom csamoer,.st Depot
coaches S.IOn kmra and Banao Sleeping
eP% daily LSGi: Ii%itfd t - extra charge
7j M Niagara FAILS M sSiitsS 6at io a S
cSS s2 81 o2 cSy,p 5 GsOIsO M
ing trans arrive Toledo Saa N ana Ina!anapos am
B b I ss asa fSPH fSa9' .s rP S
sis an E%isrsHt IRAN train for tie stS West
las 5O 59a cfsseG SS 1880 %n S5Sa
Sundays I 20 lO:.O IN l.sb $40 IN u midnight
Paterson 5A 100 $50 $50 1920 noon 10 35Oi+O
$40 $50 tlo $50 $50 ais 1880 10 mitug ht sun
days 40 $50 1910 m LAD $50 ~ midnight .
Newark and Paterson via Newark O4o $40 $50 m 80
nights onv sunday, o. a m $40 $50 y N
~ ndnEnt sundays $40 $50 1870 las OSOs nj ana
warwick 100 m AsOpm
Newburg aud Cornwall 1850 IN $3.50 i:S0 Sunday
$50 N asp
RondOat and Kingston ami Montgomery a 4:Sopm
sunday $50 m.
Goshen $40 100 10 20 $50 $50 tSO s;i5pn san
day % $3.50 1870 IN $40 pm -,
Nddetown 645 $50 lO9Oa m $50 4S0s Sl5pIs SUNDAY
54D $3.50 lO2O M $50 Y Ii The trains ~ and tSvpMa
trains connect with New York. Ontario and western n~inV'
Pott Jervis loo . 1920 IN 4o0 $40 M SunuS o''0
1920 IN Is $3.50 -. -, 49,
Boats 2Sdst quarter OF aud quarter after eaS nou
from $40 am 10 lOi5 every thirty minutes anu ""A
lut0 To l245 a every hour -. Moan, ana
Tickets for passage and apartments IN DrNng
Sleeping coaches be obtained and oeis io oniass
aud transfer Of baggage be Tell AZ ms ~, ~ So
Nos. 26l &0l or 95l broadway Isl 49, 49, N' :"
Brooklyn the COMPANY DepS vo,k M TIA
Express trains from the West HiNo !" -'N"'
1880 1l;2o NJ and l0;20 IN , ,...,. ,ca,t NewYork
NORTHERN RAILROAD OF ,1.t, ri .aSS,E IA
Nyuoh $40 10 m S20t 400 $40 6Ao oioo IN AZ mie-
night Sundays . q aud ~ M ,o IN - .son~
Manuel spftng Valley and Money 'iio III I'm >'oop"
yCaN n. ABBOTT. 0sap rssss AssH. SswYs'I
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TO PHILADELPHIA.
fHE OLD ESTABLISHED ROUTE AND SHORT LINE

20 TRAINS EACH WAY wEEK;pAYs AND on
SUNDAY 3 STATIONS IN PlILADEL~
PH1A IN NEW.YORS
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For Young Ladies-City.

A ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE NEW
~ YORK TRIBUNE WILL BE RECEIVED At THE
UPTOWN OFFICES. No. l,23S broadway, corner Thirty
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Eghtaye o. East Fourteenhs. corner Union square
go 1hiTdavc FOty.sevcnh.st; Nos 1907 Third
ave near Sl1Cthst and al the HARLEM OFFICE, 300
Third ave One up 10
s D. at regular Office rates.
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AIRS. GALLAHERS French Protestant
w Boarding and Day school for Young Ladies' 400 Madi
s0uaye jOthst All branches tau yt for college prepa
ration Special attention Intermediate and primary classes
French and III gsh separate and limited class for
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
On ard after !. Eeb; a.. 1888;

GREAT TRUNK LINE
AND UNITED STATES MAIL ROUTE.
Trains leave via Desbrosses and CorGndt etre
Ferries 50 follows
Harrisburg Ptsburg, the West and South with Pnlman
Palace Cars attached IN. and ?. daily New.fork
and Chicago Limited OF Perlo Dining Smoking and Sleeps
ing Cars at a. M every dayj
connecting CORY for Iitusve Petroleum Centre
and the on Regions. - =
Baltimore Washington and the South Limited washington
Express Of Pullman Parlor Cars daily except sunday 10
arrive washington 4'95 M Regusr va 3: and +:
b and 0. r. K, and p, and night. sunday, via p
and r. r. ell m, p m and ~ night via b. and o. h
r. Z p. and - night ...
Atlantic CITY except Sunday, With through car lpm
Long Branch Bay Head Junction and stations
via Railway and Amloy, a. IN, IL noon, $40 H. ON
Sunday m and p ~ do not Lstop a. Asoury Park
Boats Of Brooklyn Annex" connect with al tbrOuy Trains 40
Jersey City, anordDg speedy and direct slansfer for
Brook Ign travel 80
iOi20 p m daily and IN daily except Monday: From
Washington and Baltimore $50 and $50 m $40. 30U
$50, s:59, 1925 and 1895 N Sunday, go $50 an.
1000 and 1898 From Baltimore, l:20 p NJ on SUM
days ego F5Sm Po6iladeiRhis 35o s'lg $50 6So
95o.53O, go 7l26 7;36 $50 sigo 1905, 1870 and
a.0O 400 nd m
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Tickets be procured at Lberty.s Pier No North
Rver2l, l62 2O7 2572Gl 27l, AL 72l, 9i4 1917; and
1928 broadway; 737 and 749 6thayc Rivngf"n.st IN
Greenwicst 1853 2n8 East l26th,t principal Hotels in
New-foIk cry In BROOKLYN at Nos Courtst lO7 Broad.
way ejS FultOnsti 2lO Manhattan.ave; De Kaib
ave- lsyE Auanucaye In Hobokeu 254 'Washineton AZ
hotels OF residence ~ destination. N7e"e0''o"
j. h. WOOTiEN, 4. @. HANCOCK
General Manager Gen pass srI 1cko+ -,
ii. 2 BALDNl IN, G. f. z. Agt IlO Liberty AZ y y no
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DOUBLE TRACK. THE MOST IMPROVED EoUrr
MENT AND THE FASTEST TINE CONSIST.
ENT WITH ABSOLUTE SAFETY.
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CWITHIN c. SHORTLIDGE'S

- FOR Yot'NG WEN AID BOYS
Thirteen miles from Broad street station, Philadelphia
Seventeen trains eacL daily between Media and Phla
students admitted Classified any time Al students
board IN he school win tne IIlncpa Ia1G eAoeent Ef
nicely aud comeey furnished Fixed price covers err , every
10 exana9n io %msoa IssG gHPsl 9esa te1efg Ti5
AT men a az, for ant 4, vance randy
n.y. sp5%i @ @ r,, ,a t 6oy fotr I or stIcnys
NAV studies choose tho regular English Scien
6c Classical or yil Engineering Course parts
i detective cSssnciton Conduoncd college students Of
any class tuorcd Young men whose early education has
students niIed at MEDIA ACADEMY in Harvard
DICKINSON stevens Institute Technology Troy and Boston
EMEnIX ACADEMY has physical and a chemical abora.
volumes added 10 the library 1883 Apparatus doubled in
yeaf Twelve students tttc for college and admitted 1883
seven and temperance charter prohibits
For new Illustrated Academy address the
principal ana PlqPII ,e'9 Tor euopTtrncF o,,.,,
Giarvard college Graduate Media Penn
0IOE VACATION Excl RSION-Instruc-
~ S 9n de. yT Mgqnt4p tnP on horssb2ek
For Young Ladies-Country.
BoRniE,N,,TIQOWN,NSj n Jn Female College;
P''''' Few WI O. BOWEN a. NJ Presidsnt
GROVE HALL.
" Miss Montforts school for Young Ladies' New.HayeD.
Conn. Tenth year begins september a.
For Both sexes-Country.
A MHERST, MASS.--Family School for deli
"a cate and nervous children Special attention given
detective articulation Mrs. W. ID. uERRlCK.
CLAVERACk COLLEGE
~ and HudsOn River Institute, Clayerack, ". Y.
$40 A YEAR
FITS for ALL COLLEGES and BUSINESS
French, Art and Music sprcialtios both sexes.
School continues open during July and August
Rev. ALONZO FLACk, Ph. d., President,
0earbers.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS.
RrETS CHOATE.

Nrvoptrs OF RUFUS CHOATE. with Some Consd-
Grafton of his studies Methods and Opinions ana oi
his style a. a speaker and Writer ly Jnshlh Nil
i'm A
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Express via Desbrosse and Cortland
street Ferries follows
$40, 100 $50 e and 10 Luiter II, 1llos M $40,
$40, L. g. t. and and u night sundays 6l6 8,
70 Limited and 10 MI 9, I, and ep m, ard night.
Trains leaving NewYoTk dolly except sunday l20 $3.50 and
lllO l, 2. !, and p connect at Trenton fer
Camden.
Returning leave Broad.st station Philadelphia 1901,
35, 500 4. 436 except Monday $50, 7!30 SEQ $50
H. and 1915 (Imted Express 1880 aud $40 D. M, ],
49, 8, g. $50, 7;to 745 and m or sunday l20l slS,
sndL nm 'Y Yoaye fhissi6Sis' ia Csm,ac 80 n
daily except sunday.
md foot OF Desorosses and CoIandt Street, Courtst
BROOKLYN Bush's Hotel. HobOken Station. Jersey City
Emgrant Ticket Office No Battery Place ard Castle Gar
den.
baggage from hotels and residences
CHARLES h PUGH, J. u. WOOD,
General Manager General Psssr Agent
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For Boys and Young Men-Country.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR TUE NEW
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hrsts until p and 30s West Twenty thrlst. corner
Eiehave o. East Eourtecnths' Union Square
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ave near sixcth st.. and M the HARLEM OFFICE 300
Third ave- One y-hfthst, up TO
6 u II nl-rn
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Musical instruction.

SVNNEK TIKNS.
NETWORK CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
~ EAST l4TII-NT, Third door east OF FIFTH-ANE.
incorporated 1860.
The NATIONAL MUSIC SCHOOL AND SCHOOL OF
EocutIon, Modern Languages, Drawing and Painting.
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and BRIDGETON at 1870 p. m.
JERSEY SOUTHERN DIVISION.

From PIER No :. North River via Sandy Hook.
COMMENCING MAY 22d l~Ss
ForSEABRIGHT LONG BRANCH, etc. at 4:3O lOl5 a N,
34j, 4:lJ =. IL. sundays. 300
For ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS at 1880. 1915 a. m. 3:45
4.15 p
For ELBERON, ASBURI PARK, OCEAN GROVE. POINT
PLEASANT etc, a. 1913 a. m. $40. i:45 sundays
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For LAKEWOOD, TOMS RIVER and BARNEGAT at S:45
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NEW-YORK AND LONG BRANCH RR.
NJ LONU On y MN nm.
Pennsylvania RR., foot Cortlandt
It. and Desbrosses-st.
IPhila. q Read. RN f0OtLlberty-st


NJ EN lOhh OEN NAL A4ND ~ cOLN
N RIVER acknowledgements Nov. iS, 1888,
through trains will leave Grand Central Depot. -
m. Western New.York and Northern Express, with
drawing room cars -
stopping Albany Utica Syracuse Rochester Buffalo Erie,
and Toledo arriving al Chicago lO m next day.
1870 Chicago Express dIavlns room GERS to Canaan
Rochester and Buffalo; connects for Osweg0
II m, Western NewYork and Northern Express with
Albany Troy Utica Express drawing
a p m, Accommodation to Albany and Troy. ,,,
M ST. Louis Express. with sleeping for Niagara
Falls Buffalo, Cincinnati except Saturday. Toledo, Detros
$50 p m Express with sleeping to Syracuse and TO
Auburn road; also 70 Montreal,
ep m Pacific Express with sleeping cars for Rochester
Rn1lO Cleveland Toledo Detroit chicago 81 LOUIS Os"e
20; also LOwvlle except saturday. . ,,,
Night Express with sleeping cars 20 AIU2ny ahI
Troy with the morning trains for the West aud
NTicRes on sale at Grand Central Depot. No Bowling
Green 252 and 425 Broadway and at Wcscotrs Express
0nces park place 1856 and 942 Broadway, NewYoTk
and 3s Washington and 80 Fulton SITS, Brooklyn and 10
Fourth.st, williamsburg. ,--,-- -. 49,. -
Accommodations in drawngioon ana Sleeping cars can %
the ticket Offices IN Cly ana Az
333 Washng sOn-st. Brooklyn.
Bangage ca led for and checked from residence
nS ToIITFY '' c. =. MEEKER
j. cnners snperintendent General Psssenger Agent.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-28
YENEs AND THE EIRTB

Venus will be the lsvsliest star
in the heavens through the month
of May, as after elOngatien she turns
her steps westward, moving rapidly
toward us, and Fastening on to her
period of greatest brilliansy. She
will form a delightful planetary
study for the naked eye, and also
for tOlescspic observation. Seen
through the telescope at elOngatisn
or few days after, she takes on the
aspect Of the moon at her last quar-
ter, half her disk being illumined.
Then, like the moon, she becomes q
waning crescent, less and less Of her
enlightened surface being turned
toward, but increasing in size as she
approaches toward us, more than
enough to c0unterbalance the less
ened light. At the end Of the
month she has nearly reached her
eliminating point, while her high
northern declination adds to the
length of her stay above the hori-
zon and the favorable conditions for
observation. The beautiful planet
is especially interesting on account
OF the striking resemblance she
bears to the earth. In size, in dem
sity, in position in the system, in
the length of her revolution, in the
time of her rotation, in the posses
sion of an atmosphere, in the form
of her orbit, and in the amount Of
light and heat she receives from the
sun, she is more like the earth than
any ether mSmber of the solar sys-
tenn. She is our nearest planetary
neig Dor, and, if moon were fol-
lowing in her traek to complete the
analogy, Venus and the earth would
DO the twin sisters of the solar fam
lily. Indeed, the planets seem to be
IN pairs; Jupiter aud Saturn are
tho giants Of the family; Neptune
and Uranus follow next to tho
giants, and Mars aud Mercury COM
plete the list.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-28

A Washington Special to the Phil
adclphia Times, of the 18th, says:
x-Postmaster General Key, now
Judge of the Eastern and Middle
district of Tennessee, has been in
the city for several days. He had
very pleasant call on the President,
having met at the sap{e time Secre-
tary of State Freiinghuysen, who
was Senator of the United States
when Judge Key was member sf
that exalted body.
Speaking of the business, indus
trial and political situation in his
section of Tennessee, Judge Key
said that the people are prosperous
and happy; that the State was never
In better shape than it is now, and
that as far as he had been able to
Judge the people were not in favor
of this persistent agitation of the
tariff. He said
Tennessee is a tariff State and
the people are opposed to any legis-
lation which will interfere with the
proper protection OF American in
dustry."
In reply to question about the
vote of Mr.. Dibrell Judge Key sald:
"Mr. DibrelI represents the dis
trict in which I reside, and | know
that his votes with Mr.. Morrison on
the tariff are not approved by his
constituents. | believe he justifies
his course by saying that he voted
in that way hoping that the bill
might be amended so as to meet the
views of the two wings of the party
and thus form the basis of a COM
promise. But that docs not seem to
satisfy public sentiment. The peo
pie are not willing to commit their
interests to the mercy Of expert
mental politics. They believe in
letting well enough alone. AS
have said, Tennessee is a tariff State
and the people next time will see
that there is ne doubt about her rep
resentatives on that point. 1t would
seem that the Republicans might
have chance in Tennessee. | new
er care to say much about politics.
| try to keep out of politics, but it
surely does look that way. There
was a time when the Democratic
majority ran close up to a hundred
thousand and at the last election it
had fallen to twenty thousand. So
you see the majority is being grad
ually whitfield down. The chief OBJ
structiOn in the way of Republican
success in the State seems to be in
efficient party leadership. | say
this, however, not upon any person
al knowledge of the matter, but
from current comment and very
general complaint among the pee
pie. The industries of Tennessee
are growing in Importance from
year to year, and the people must
have the guarantees Of safe admin
istration Of public affeirs. The |
country suffers much from these in
cessant agitations.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-28
THE MORRISTOWN GAZETTE.

The approaching political cam
paign will be one of the most in
teresting and exciting in the an
nails of American politics. THE
GAZETTE purposes keeping its read
ers fully posted, and will be es-
pecially attractive. In view of this,
tho publisher wants 1000 Cam
pdiqn Subscribers : In order to OBJ
tain this number, THE GAZETTE will
be furnished from now until the
first dag Of December for. 80 cents I!
Won't our friends at the different
post offices in Hamblen and adioiA-
ing counties go to work and make
up clubs? To the one sending us
the largest club we will present
-Four large and UalUable Steel En-
graUings and one gears Subscription
to The GAZETTE. The one sending
us the first club of FIVE will re-
ceive the paper, for the time, free.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-28
SiTIONAL SUICIDE.
A KENTUCKY JUDGE IN A FIT OF DE-
PRESTON KILLS HIMSELF.

A KENTUCKY JUDGE IN A FIT OF DE-
PRESTON KILLS HIMSELF.
MT. STERLING, KY, May 15.-
This community was thrown into
the widest excitement about II
o'clock by the startling announce
ment that Judge Reid had commit
ted suicide. Judge Reid was cow
hided recently by Lawyer Cornell
son. For the past few days his
friends had noticed that he was CON
siderably depressed in spirits, and
commented on it. But he had just
returned from q canvass ofthis Gap
plegate) district, and had been in
close consultation with his friends
as to the advisability of still remain
ing in the field, as he appeared dis
couraged at the outlook. This morn
ing he was more cheerful and in
better spirits than he had been for
some weeks, and was hopeful of the
canvass, and had made arrange
ments to visit different portions of
the county during the week. His
mental alteration must have come
upon HIM suddenly, doubtless su-
perinduced by pain in his head,
of which he complained to Judge
Breek. 1t appears that he went into
Judge Breck's law office about half
past 10 this morning, and told him
he would like to go upstairs, as he
was suffering from severe headache.
Judge Breck after a lapse of an
hour went upstairs and was horri-
fed to see Judge Reid stretched out
on the floor dying, his head lying
in pool Of blood and a pistol on
tho floor by his side. The follow
ing note, written on the back of
business-card, WAs elne "Mad,
madl Forgive nre, dear wife, and
love to the boy" 1t is not signed,
but is in the handwriting of Judge
Reid. 1t is a singular fact that no
one heard the report of the pistol.
The weapon used by Judge Reid
was one he kept at his house, but
never carried. 1t appeared to have
been just loaded.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-28

II is stated in Washington upon
what is said to be excellent authori-
ty that Senator Anthony will resign
his seat next week or, at the latest,
the week following. Ill-health is
assigned as the cause of the step
contemplated by him. The doctors
consulted by him have unanimous
ly declared that he cannot perform
the Duties of the Office, except at the
risk of his life. Senator Anthony
has been in the Senate for FIVE con-
secutive terms, having been elected
for the last time in 1882. He en-
tered it in 1859, and is therefore by
many years the senior member Of
the body. In 1869, and again in
1871, he was chosen President pro
tempore,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-28
THE JUNE MONTHLIE.S.

HARPER's MAGAZINE for June, begin
ming the Sixty-ninth Volume, promises
fOretaste of summer in two papers
the one ef European and the other of
American travel. Mrs Lille will write
Of the famous French watering place.
Biarritz, with illustrations from Mr.
ReinhaIt's clever pencil, and Mr.. John
A. Butler of the "Nerth Shore" of
Lake Superior, which, Mr.. Chas. Gra-
ham illustrates from sketches made last
summer. Two papers. of much COM
msrcial and industrial interest, will be
q careful and comprehensive articls on
the organization and wsrk of the New
York Custom house, by X. Wheatley,
and one on Sheffield and its trades, by
w. II. Rideing, both illustrated Col.
Higginson' paper will describe "The
Great Western March" of population
during the administration of John
Quincy Adams, and will have fine por-
traits Of that president and of John G.
Calhoun. There will be more of Will
liam Sharp's charming pcems, Trans
cripts from nature" with Alfred Par
sons illustrations, as well as further
OF William Blacks and Z.
p. Roe's novels. with pictures by Alb
bey, Dielman, and Gibson. The short
stories will be The Dagger" tale of
old Rome John McMullen, with illus
trations by Fredericks, and "a Humble
Romance," by Mary E wilkins.
Among the miscellaneous papers win
be an account of Virginia's one witch,
Grace Sherwood, and a reminiscence Of
Abraham Lincoln at Cincinnati, by w.
NJ Dickson.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-05-28
1857 AND 1894.
New York Sun

The year 1857, the year Of finan-
cial panic, was marked also by a re-
hgiOus revival ofextraSrdinary pro-
portions. Daily prayer meetings
were held in Fulton and John
streets, and were crowded with bus
mess men. The churches could not
hold all who hungered for spiritual
food, and theatres were turned ints
temples of worship wherein both
clergymen and laymen exhorted
sinners to repent of their sins and
flee from the wrath to come.
Great numbers of converts were
made while the religious excitement
lasted, and the attention of the pso-
pie Of New York was largely con-
centrated on the subject of the sal
vation of their souls. Even in count
ing rooms and warehouses the fire.
quent theme of conversation was
experimental religion. Merchants
inquired Of their clerks as to their
spiritual welfare, and urged then to
be punctual at prayer meeting.
Men had found by sad exeriencs
that earthly treasures melted away,
and were impelled to seek the en-
during heavenly riches. Trade was
so dull that they could easily spare
time for prayer, and they improved
the opportunity. Well-known mer-
chants led the prayer meetings, and
the supplieations were intersperssd
with eXhortations to sinners uttered
by men fresh from the counting
houses. These financial tribulations
have come upon us, they said, to
teach us how vain are the things of
this world, and how imperative is
cur need of heavenly treasures.
That extraordinary religious ex-
element was known as the great
awakening, and during its centinu-
ance it was the absorbing sensation
of the day. The newspapers were,
full oft, and it extended through
out the Union
Only little over a quarter of q
century has passed since, but is
there any possibility of a repetition
of that great religious revival in
New York?
The present is unquestiOnably
very fit time for such q revival.
During the last three years, assured
ly, men ought to have been taught
the instability of earthly wealth.
The financial market, instead of inn
proving. has been steadily growing
worse, and nobody dares predict
when the bottom will be reached.
Even Mr.. Jay Gould and Mr.. Van
derbilt are powerless te hold up
prices? and the Hon. Russell Sage,
himself a piOus man, no longer ven
lures to sell puts and calls.
But we discover no signs of a relig-
ious revival The merchants are
not going to prayer meetings in
business hours. The churches
have no occasion to hold special SER
vices, and many Of them are never
full even on Sunday.
SO far from there being any re-
vived interest in religion, we hear
rather complaints ofthe indifference
of the people to religion. Doubt
and skepticism prevail as never be-
fore. The prayer meetings are
neglected, and the preachers ad-
dress unresponsive and unsympa-
thetic congregations.
What is meaning of this change
since 1857? Can it be that the f.
nancial disasters, which have come
upon US, have noty chastened our
business men, and that still greater
calamities are necessary to awaken
them to their wicksdness and their
dangers2