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I iTr nr tti fur iira. BEECHER ON NEW ENGLAND. EDNESDAY VBN1NG, APRIL 1. Chabgb of Grand Labckny. A pedlar named N.Mallorv, was arrested yesterday by officer Wilson, of the 48d precinct, on a ehargo of grand larceny, preferred by a German grocer named Alfred 'eslen, who keeps a Btore at 202 Hamilton avenue.

It appears that yesterday morning during his temporary absence from the store some person stole the sum of $00 from the money drawer During Die forenoon a little girl came in for some beer and tendered in payment a 25 cent postage bill, which the complainant recognized as ono of those which had been stolen from the store in the morning. He questioned the girl as to where she had got the money, and she told 1dm that Mallory had given it lo her to purchase beer. The complainant then hud Mallory arrested. He was brought before Justice Boerum this morning and remanded for examination. Brooklyn, March :10, Mv FiiiEND, Agreeable to promise, I improve my first hour of leisure, lo tell vou something about my visit to the charming City of Brooklyn, or as some one has more aptly named it, the City of Churches.

The last name seems the more appropriate, when we pause blood goes up amongst them and approves his good fellowship, they accept, without prejudice, as oneoftheru tho highest compliment anj people can pay a stranger is to Bay, Tou Becm us if you wero born among us for he that wraps a home word round you Bignilles that he perceives in jou those qualitieewhich make homo dear to his heart. TltE YANKEE ALWAYS HATED. But while, one hv one, New are respected and esteemed, the class to which they belong is always bated. It may be well for us to examine some of tho causes of Ibis animosity. And I may presume thai it is not new it is not recent.

The Puritan stock has vcr been beloved. It was not popular in England. It was respected, tolerated, hut not greatly delighted Holland. In coming to our shores, our fathers brought sterling qualities with them, but they ere not dressed in a very engaging manner. YANKEE.

The Puritan stock lias never been popular. Jiel'ore the rniiin was formed, during the revoluiiotiery war. the Yankee was regarded just as he is now; and ilns is nut the first nor the second time that it lias been proposed to shoulder New England out of the 1'ition: ue I .1 i. i. io In res THE TRADES MOVEMENT.

Tlie Journeymen Tailors in Council, A mass meeting of the Journeymen Tailors of Brooklyn, was held last evening at Grrtntegein's Brooklyn Garden, Joralemon street and Fulton avenue. Tho hall was filled, some three to four hundred representatives of the time honored craft being present. They were respectably dressed, intelligent looking body o'f men, and their proceedings were conducted in an orderly business like manner. As we have already staled, the Brooklyn tailors have organised an association known as the "Working Tailors' Protective Trade in which some four hundred members are enrolled. A constitution and bylaws lias been adopted similar to that of Ibe Now York Tailors' Union.

The object is lo obtain an advance of of wages to the amount, on the average of tweaty flve per cent. No demand has yet been made upon ein idoyers in Brooklyn, but the list of pride, will be presented to them on Monday next. Mr. James While, the President, look the chair. Tne constitution of the society was read, and several Dew members came up and signed it.

The follow ing list of prices was submitted as tlie dc mands of the workmen Frock coats, plain Do. facingsextra Winter overcoats (facings according lo wort .40 1)0 1 (.1 5 oj smgle oreasled cloth troek coals Do. do. do. facings extra 0 id Spring overcoats (facings same as Winter Ii Oil Business eoals I 00 Do.

with full facings 4 Do. half facing 4 Single breasted cloth sacks 4 00 Single breasted sacks, fancy oil Skeleton coats, plain nil Cloth or doeskin plants I hi) Fancy Cass'uncrs do 1 Drilling. dt 1 Jackets 2 ua This is an advance of $1 on coats, and other articles iu proportion. Mr. Trow.

one of Ihe leading spirits and originators of the New "i ork movement, was then introduced and was received witli much applause. He is a fluent but soiiicwliat discursive speaker, and he addressed the meeting at some length, explaining the object of this movement, the mode of operation, and the success which had attended it in New Y'ork. He commenced by reading the constitution and by laws of the New York "Working Tailors Protoc.ive t'nion." Untie: that organization lie said the tailors iu New Y'ork had succeeded in their efforts lo obtain an advance of compensation. He had very litt'e hopes this movement at first: there was a prejudice against such efforts, because all similar attempts in tlie past had failed, producing only a conflict with the employers. But this time a different course of procedure had been determined on thev kept the'r programme to themselves until thev were organised, and hail a power behind them to give weight to their demands.

Tnis power behind the throne (as the speaker termed it) had been sufficient to bring even Brooks to terms. They wished to avoid a strike, as they did not desire any conflict with their employers, preferring a peaceable arrangement. The'people saw everything going up except the wages ofthe working men, and the iiardsfiipsof the latter were increasing until a feeling of general discontent prevailed. No man li'epreeated a strike more than he (the speaker) did. Il was a revolutionary proceeding; unjust to he employees and doubly unjust to the working men.

They had avoided this by appealing to tlie employees with reason, and they had generally met with a reasonable luponse. Some i'ew employers, however, hail proved contumacious, the head and front of the opposition being lhc tirm of Brooks ec the leading house in the trade, ami several other houses held out until Brooks was conquered; when Brooks fell they knew it was all up witli them. Iu dealing with such cases the speaker said the central committee of which he appears 10 be the generalissimo, still desired lo avoid the semblance of a strike, and he again averted to the evil results of general strikes of the workingmcn as evidenced in Hie fate of the English "Trades by which thousands of men were re duced to actual want, in a cunrtiet between capital and labor, labor must inevilably succumb. The spcakerhere explained what he meant by a strike, and the mode of procedure of the Now Y'ork tailors, against refractory einplovcrs. A strike, lit said, was a general combination of the workmen against the employers in Tin York Cnion had, instead of tb: aenoral.

Sacral plan, adopted the Napoleonic system ot luetics, beating the enemy in detail: concentrating all their force in one establishment at a time. If they had ten shops resisting: them to lay they would let nine slide until to morrow but tlie tenth should fall: and the moral effect of this victory over the one would influence the others, and thev would have less trouble in bringing them to terms. The speaker then described tlie delails of lids strategy, as applied to Brooks, whom lie felicitously designated as a Wriggling Brooks refused to sign the list of prices; one hour after the final answer was given five hundred of his workmen, each with a bundle of unfinished work under his arm. marched in procession to the Brook's establishment, drew up in line opposite, then each man falling oul ofthe ranks in turn, deposited his bundle on the counter, then marched off again. The final result was, that Brooks had to succumb, anil all Ihe smaller fry, whose courage had been sustained by the defiant attitude of Brooks, were coining in daily.

This was the way they went lo work in New York and lie advised the tailors of Brooklyn to do the same and he had no doubt iliey wouid meet with eqiia! success. Tlie effect of this movement had not been confined to thcmeii. but had ber.elltted the female hands. At the shop where the speaker worked, the proprietor has voluntarily raised lhc price paid for vests 25 cents, and this Union would yet be able to assist tlie women and workers on slopwork; he thought the contractors who were making fortunes out ofthe government ought to let the working people have a little linger in the profits Tlie cause of former failure of trade movements in New York, had been through keeping alive the feelings of nationality. The English, Irish and German tailors did not affiliate.

On this occasion Brooks said when lie heard of this movement. "You Englishmen and Irishmen arc going to strike; I'll beat you with the Germans." But he had reckoned without his host; the Germans had shaken hands with the English and Irish tailors, and they had worked harmoniously together, ensuring the success of this movement. The speaker was greeted with cheers at the close of his remarks, and was awarded a vote of thanks for his labors in bclialfofthe workingmcn. Mr. Trow subsequently made an explanation that the plan of operation was to let the workmen of each shop regulate their prices witli their employer.

The Central Committee did not exercise or claim any authority to interfere between the employers and the employed. Mr. Host, President of the New York Union, then ad dressed the meeting iu German at least ball' ihe audience being of that Mr. Bardorf. also of New Y'ork, read tbeconstittition and by laws in German, and made a spirited address.

He. was followcd In Mr. Beinsch, of Brooklyn, who acted as interpreter between the chair nnd the Germans. Alter some routine business pertaining to the organi nation bad been transacted, tlie meeting adjourned to Saturday evening. C'ourl of Session.

lll't OTtE JUDGE C.AKIitSON AND JUSTICES EMMONS AND HOYT. John Kccler, a liard lookiug customer, well known to the police, was brought up for trial this morn ing 1,11 a enargc 01 ouriary 111 tne degree 111 breaking into and robbing the house of Mr. Ingennan in Doughty st. of a gold watch and chain vidued'at On being arraigned this morning he acknowledged the corn, and was sentenced lo two years in the Slate Prisou. John McColligi.n, a hoy about sixteen years ohl, who was jointly indicted with Kccler, put in a plea of petit larceny, and was sent to the pcniienliary sixmonths.

'Jerry Cotvsdcn, the celebrated forger, whose trial was set down lor today, is quite ill in jail, and therefore unable to be reniovt to the Court for trial. The trial of Chauncey Edwards, a conductor on the Greenwood line: who was indicted for abduction, along with another conductor named Tripp, who was tried at the last term of the Court of Sessions, and convicted, was commenced this morning. The ease will occupy liie entire day, and wc will report it iu full to niorrow. The jury in the cast of Pcler W. ltay, tried yesterday for manslaughter in the second degree, in causing the death ol Mary Burns by procuring an abortion, brought in a verdict of guilty of The judge, however, will not pass sentence on the accused, as he considers the verdict nol justified by the evidence adduced on the trial.

Police. At it Again. Priseilla Mott, an old offender, was brought before .) ustice Perry yesterday morning, on suspicion of larceny, under the folhuvingcircumstanccs officer Dawson, of the 42d precinct, ho arrested the fair Priscilla, testified that about one o'clock yesterday morning, while on his beat in James street, he met Priscilla, ho. in addition to her usual load of gin, had in her possession a bundle ('clothing, consisting of a child's entire suit, and a number of articles of female underclothing, all of which had evidently been stolen, as Priscilla, on being questioned, could give no satisfactory account ofthe manner in which they came into her possession, and he deemed il prudent to see Priscilla safe to the Station Ilonst'dcst she might lose some of thearticles before ihe owner could make an appearance. Juslice Perry remanded the accused to jail until an owner can be found.

Helping the Census. John Morgan, a clerk in a grocery store iu Cold street, was arrested yesterday bv Countable Colgnn, at the instance of the Superintendent of Ihe Poor, on the complaint of a servant girl named Mary Iianton. who charges him with owing annual duties to a little responsibility lo which she recently gave birth. Ed ward Hughes, a ship carpenter, working for Uncle Sam, was arrested by the suine officer, on a similar charge, preferred by a servant girl named Catherine Ncpburii. Belli parlies gave bonds before Justice Adams, to answer on Thursday nexl.

Stole Lead Pipe. A hoy named Gluts. (Jaftrcy was arrested, yesterday, by officer Casler, of lhc 44ih precinct, charged wilh having stolen a quantity of lead pipe from an unoccupied house, belonging 10 T. ltcuisen in Grand avenue. The accused will he examined before Justice Morehouse.

Stole Gloves. A young man, who gave his name as Chas. Clack, was brought before Justice Colo ban this morning, on tho complaint of U.W.Allen, a dry goods dealer in Grand street, near First, who charged him with having stolen a number of pairs of gloves, The complainant testified that last evening tho accusud came into his store nnd asked lo set (tome goods; he was shown a quantity, which he examined, bul left without purchasing any. ami after Ids departure, tlio eomplainunt found that a number ofpalrs of gloves, which lay on tho counter, had left witli him. He followed the accused, and, meeting Officer Travis, had him arrested.

Judgment reserved. the Yankee. The distance between a wicked man and a wicked woman is a great deal further than between a man and a woman, for oman begins higher than it man and falls further. A man lives so near to the ground Unit It don't hurt him much to fall. Hold in one hand a china eup, and in the othora pewter mug.

How much more beautiful ono is than the other. Let them both fall; the cup is broken into a thousand fragments; (hero is dent in the mug, but it is a mug still. (Applause.) Mr. Bcechcr then went onto say that the object of the method by which the Englander is trained is bound to produce brains. He defended New England trom the charge of being too fond of boasting.

No nation that possesses a true national lite is free from boasting, ihe Frenchman is fond of France; the Englishman or Eug land; but, continued Mr. Beecher, the first families oi Virginia never boast: (laughter) Ihochivalry of South Carolina never boast, i. Laughter,) Mr. U. claimed that New Fngland was never unfaithful to the Constitution, it was the South that was unfaithful.

The Constitution was meant to give liberty, and to this idea New England was still faithful. He defied any man to point out where the Constitution was meant to conserve slavery. New England stood where Madison, l'inckney, delTcrson and the fathers stood, slavery was. treated, by tnem, aa doctor ti o.it won mi a liian's neck. Instead ot tilllsl cr cr 11.

itiiu me uueiij of the 'eountrv ill absorb the vicious humors, mil it didiPt. The "wen grew larger and larger, and forced lhc head of the nation back further and further, until, at length, it was seriously proposed to cut the bend olftogive the wen room to grow. (Laughter and long continued applause.) Mr. lit echer went on to illustrate ihe force of ideas. The men who control newspapers are now the real legislators of the country.

He claimed thai, in giving direction to (he thought of the country through newspapers, pulpits. Ate, the Sew Englander had the foremost place. Alluding to the war he said, that hereafter both sides would respect each other's courage. The Southerners had shown tbemsehes to be men ot courage, and he apprehended that no Southern men that had met a Massachusetts regiment would care again to question the courage of the men of Massachusetts. He claimed that Massachusetts alone furnished more men in tin war of the revolution than all the.

then, slave States put together, lit: said, he would undertake to guarantee that New England would not disturb the quiet of the country if the South would abolish slavery; until that. was done, there would be no quiet, for New England i would keep the agitation against slavery and for liberty, (Applause.) ltei'erring to the prejudices against intro liucing politics tite pulpit as a new tangled notion, 1 he said it was the old New England fashion; nol to bringiiuestions concerning the commonweal to the lest (il lheliible was the modern, the new tangled fashion. lb said ihe bat red of New England arose because New England was true to liberty. TEE I'HOI'OSITtiVN TO LEAVE NEW ENGLAND OCT OF THE VNIOX. For this national fidelity, il is proposed to reconstruct the Fiuou and leave her out.

ISut will you be kind enough to tell ine where New England is? Not on her own territory. New England is wherever her ideas are, and you have got to tear down thebooksthat till thelibraries of this continent before she is shut out. Shut out this territory, and New England ain't out. The laws that she made tliiob still, the blood that she put into them, the institutions that she framed stand as witnesses to bring herhack. Her sons and her daughters till the land.

One third part of the population of America is either New England or iiescenued irom New i people to ilay. More than one million men live in this nation to daythiit were born in New England, and are you going to turn them out What will jou do with those threads in our fabrics? There will be holes and patches. I take it, when New England is turned out. (Applause.) And if she were turned out, is her honor gone? Was Christianity destroyed when they destroyed Jerusalem? if you should sack Itomeandrazeit to tlie ground, would the ltonian Catholic faith go because Itoinewent? Ifyou burn the old cradle and burse, do you bum the man ihat forty years before slept in it? Do what you can in New England, the influence of her work abides still, and will abide in this continent. Not until you have reorganized the States, not until you have taken from th every ftiudatneulal idea, not until you have changed even portion of this government, can you get rid' of New' England.

No, nol then; for if you should destroy her book's, shut her schools, send home her professors, return her population back to her and till her up with people from her shores up the mountain sides, and build a wall of exclusion, have you got rid of her then? I tell you that you cannot make a'law that will keep ideas at home. A gun need not lie in a fort to bombard a Tort, New England does not need lobe in Ihe country with Slavery iu order to bombard it. On the contrary she would open every porihole. and through every newspaper, and from every pulpit, she wtuld pepper the Uion ten times as mueii as sue ever did before. Applause.

In this last morial struggle one or the other must go down, either the eaglet hat sours the siiuaud Is tlie symbol of our liberty, or the snake, ihe deadly copperhead. (Ore.1t applause.) I remember that when tlie sister sent to the Mas'er that her brother whom she loved as sink ing unto deaiil. He strangely delayed two days in the same place, and when He ctiiuC Lazarus was dead. But hen lie commanded in that voice which the dead must obey. Lazarus came forth, he came staggering with Ihe grave clothes binding bis bead, hands, and feet.

Thi the Master said, "Looso him. and let him go." We have sent up our prayers to the Master, that Liberty was sick unto death, and he has tarried strangely away' from us: but even if Liberty should seem to die and be buried that same Master shall stand by the side of a sepulchre, and shall say forth;" and then she shall arise and come forth, though staggering at first with the grave clothes upon her; and then, pointing to this broad continent, the Master shall say, "Loose her, and let her and thereafter no ma shall lake her life, or restrain her victorious steps. (Great applause.) Ilin. John C. Fremont being loudly called for, advance and said My frit mis.

ladies and gentlemen I thank von vcrv 1 for your friendly recognition, but while the c. hoLS of the eloquent voice which has just been filling i our cars are still vibrating through this hall, you will, I am sure, indulge me in my unwillingness to disturb the impression whfeh is left upon our minds; and you will I let me i onlini myself briefly to the expression of my thanks and of the pleasure I eniov in flndim? mvsclf among so many oftbe old friends Willi whom, only a few tears go, 1 was associated in a common cause. (Ap plau Many nd great events have been crowding upon us since then, making that lime seem remote us 1 hose mountains trom which one of our old organizations tool; its name. Y'ou aided thorn in the first organized op osition to the intrusion of those schemes by which the South hasptr cveringly endeavored and demanded ihat you should destroy the plan upon which ourgovern ment was The estimation in which the South hold New England people and New England it self, is sufficiently snown by the manner in which they met them in ih. first great bailie of litis war.

I congratulate you upon I he successful progress of your work. The stream upon the lieadwater mfwhieh you then embarked has brought 'u where you now are, to the waving and surging ocean. I congratulate you upon the clorious faith with which you have stood by your guns and 111r ships; and I see in it the earnest of that com pleleand final victory which will certainly be yours. 1 pniu. bin 1 ill nol go further into this glorious theme.

I wii. unit thank you. and beg you not to measure tin strength or the warmth of mv regard for vou hv the uccts ui; pt.k.n. ell', i I s. On the tdyof ihe language in which 1 have astic applause, followed by three n.siou of Gen.

Fremont's remarks iieiu called for Theodore. Tilton, niwn came forward and made a lie said thai while lhc echoes of the people for Gen. Fremont berating in his brain, he. was anx i'or call to the same illustrious tiothcr quarter. (Cheers.) He ul.d 1 it ill 1.

Ii fin tl.e call Inadt were stii! rev iously patriot I cuuSKlen a that the greatest error committed by the government since the commencement of the war. was the failure to support the emancipation policy of Fremont at the beginning of tlie war. The saving; of the nation depended upon three persons. Tlie first was (ion, the second the Anglo Saxon the third the negro. The Yankee heretofore would not work with the negro, and God would not work without him.

Faint cheers.) In conclusion the speaker expressed bis conviction that the nation would come triumphantly oul of her present struggle, and on retiring; was loudly applauded. Tlie Rev. Mr. Hatfield was then culled Tor, and made a few remarks, after which Gen. Uuryeii announced that a series of such addresses were to he delivered from time to time under tiie auspices of the same club, and the audience wended their way homeward.

The Ccikcorax I.ecion. A letter from an officer of the 1'henix, or PMth regiment, dated March "JStli, gives some facts in relation to that organization. Tlie regiment was formerly attached to the Spinola Brigade, under command of G'ol. Burke. The enlistments being rather tardy Ihu full number of men was not obtained, and tlie regiment was transferred to Corcoran's Legion, on Statcn Island, where it became consolidated with the Phenix, or 1.151 Ji regiment.

The 155th was from Bull'alo, under command of Col. McMahon, an excellent officer, who assumed command of the consolidated regiment, known an the Ki4tli. The Colonel contracted a disease some time after tlie Legion started for the seat of war, and died. Lieut. Col.

Burke was justly entitled to the position of commanding ollicur, and in every way qualified, but il, appears that in' stead of being promoted, younger brother of Col. McMahon was placed over him, and now has charge ofthe forec. This causes some bitterness of feeling; still we infer that all will be made right in course of time. Col. Hiirkc's portion the command are mostly from Brooklyn, and their friends will be glad to know thai they tire in good spirits, and that the paymaster is soon to visil them.

Smokino on A Paii.ko.m, (jAlt. Koliert J. ltarr, one of the assistant engineers of the Eire Department, and Cohort I.enuon. a ciniducior on one of the Greenwood ears, were brought before Perry this morning, on the complaint of Capiain lthodes i.r the bid precinct, who charged 11,,.,,, with committing an affray. Ibe officer testified that he found Hie accused disturbing the public pence by lighting in Pulton street, and he arrested them.

Lennon asked Icivi. 10 explanation, which being granted, he stated that shortly before tlie tight had taken place liarr came on his car and commenced smoking a large pipe. This was a violation of the rules of the company, and he requested him to desist, liarr relused 10 do su, when the oomlnctor undertooK to pui nun 011 me car, and hence the flgbl, The examination tl (lie case was postponed until tomorrow. A Curious Analysis of Yankee Character and Yankee Morality ox AVIIAT TERMS NEW WILL REMAIN" Qt'IET. SHE CAN'T BE LEFT OUT IN THE C9L9.

Speeehes by Gen. Fremont. Tlieo Tilton.Rev. Mr. Hatfield, ie.

Tin announcement, that Ilrnry Ward Beecher was to deliver his famous lecture, "What shall we do with New England" at the Academy of Music last 1 veiling, dre one of the largest audiences wc have seen in the building since the memorable evcniiiir on which (Jov. Seymour addressed the citizens of Brooklyn. The alfair was l'OI up under the auspiees of the Banin Republican club of this city, one of the most entcrprisiiur, and the only distinctive lcpubliean club organization which lias kept intact since the Presidential election, a fact mainly due to its energetic Vice President. S. M.

Criswold, Esq. A line band was in attendance, which from about seven o'clock, when the audience began to arrive, until e'nrht when the lee. turcr and stage committee did, played a sue. cession of patriotic airs. The stage was occupied by the committee, a large number of the prominent citizens usually seen on sueh occasions, (ien.

Fremont, who occupied a central position surrounded by his staff: Gen. "Wool, who had promised to attend did not conic, in consequence of been called from the city on official business: Gen. Duryca presided, and in a few pertinent remarks introduced the Rev. Henry TVard Beecher, who was received with loud ap. platisc.

and poke substantially as follow NEW EXULAXB. There lies, lieivux ii tliest. T.aAvrcnee and i lie Atlantic ocean. a Utile nre of land, a lew hundred miles wile and lm, seems tu tiave been matle up of the nienls anl afterthe rest el' the comment was niaile. lis rit.s stick oat beyond all covering: it lias sand ennuirh tu scour all creation i laughter): there are no larce rivers, but tliure are many nimble little ones that thai seem to have been busy since llie flood in taking exercise over rifts and rock's.

Us imlitreiiuiis produe tio; swere ice, Indians and rocks. Its "wild fruits are whortleberries and chestnuts. About the time that this part of the eontine.n was first explored, a plasne had swept off a larsc portion of its Indians. Trading and commercial atlventur' rs had endeavored to effect a settlement in vain. Ttie place seemed to hard for Indians and roving traders.

This lonsue "I' land was set apart apparently fur a wiluerness. and it had peculiar aniiindes for keeping men away trom it. Its summers were short, us winters lung, Its rucks innumerable, its snil thin, liounilc.l tu Ibe north by hyperborean cold, to the east by endless forests, to the soutn by the ocean; only to the west was there an opeaini: thriiugb which the'people cuiild make tlieirway out. should there ever be a population. To settle this cobl, sterile, and sombre corner of real ion a raoeofmcn was raised upended the Puritans.

TUE Y.VSKEES. Naturalists tell us that every plant lias iis insect and every plant its parasite so there mu sonic sort of animal adapted to live on these shores and that animal was the Puritan. The Puritan was not described by e'uvicr. or by any naturalist, Xone of the modern ethnographers have irivcn attention to this class of beings. They have been described in popular literature ainl'in newspapers: and if we may not believe them what shall wo believe? (Laughter.

I Taking our idea from political speeches and newspapers, the Puritan was a hard, toiieli. gaunt creature, utterly devoid of taste and of the 'iter atrectU'iis. bul excessively endowed with a holy i onibativeness. He was alwavs'to he seen with his eves earth bouuil. and sanctimonious face: whenever they were lifteilit was to find fault, or money, as the case uiisht be.

Ih is supposed lo regard atlinen as wrong bul himself: his vocation is tu put all things right. Thcrefi ire he is Uu inoral tinker ol Ibe universe, and is for mending rips in morals, and putting patches upon conduct generally, making up the deficiencies he detects in l'rco iueiiee ana rrcaiinn. hike the scabird he is ever the ing, ninl never better pleased than in a storm. en ature inlests the hole western continent, and eaii es nn.rc disputes, controversies uiul excitements all Hie rest of the population put together. So otla creature could have lived in New Kiigtainl.

and nothing else could live there if he did. He was tougher than the simie. drier than the sand, more obstinate than sea. ons: and. indeed, some naturalists tell us that since the Puritans settled in New JCngland its climate grown much milder even N'ew Hiigland inters eo rot stand the eternal fault rinding of the Puri i Laughter.) As long as this controversy between nature and the Puritan was contlned to New Kn men were patient, lint with a hundred vears.

we have ecu gicat nb. chiefs introduced upon I lie re. of the int. There is the Hessian has rob he 1 n.n.toiis i millions of dollars from the wheat crop there are nd blights, and the cureiilto on trees: ial then we have the Canada thistle, the vcrv Vankeeof liotany hungry, and prolific; with million of seeds, and every seed sure to sprout: growing i. times as fust hen yon cut it up by tin roots as when you let it aii no.

Among all these nunc have been so much de pk'ied as the spread of ibe Yankee. He is the plague of the onlim lit: goes every here: engages in everything; is always and everwbere the same disputing, meddling! reioriuiim cji. iraeu lie a in and is in New id. eciiis likely 10 be until the end of the in di putant in theology, fault. or til.

ding in see .1 the i to every griiidip i. or ki: ai pry ing up peaceful citizens bouses lo reaping is safe the vender of gina racks eke i per. be lias alwavs ome new way of 1 twi. ng. or rolling, or ctiiirn or i wing.

or plowing to show. His ploWS wall. i a lmig machines would build the Chinese '1 i.i ('iritiiu Yankee has at fas: exhausted tin patience ot (la saints of the plantation and ibev have deiermined to him home to his as Mr. Cox, of Ohm. a and to but him 1 1 then all by himself' We wnuii! suggest, thorciiirofi.ro, that all the Yankee inventions be and a ail built of c.ir:s, j.lows, reapi rs.

ewing machines, clock am! tl.e eont rlvances which the indefatigable Yankee has iiiventoi. and thai all the Yankee books, spelling books, reediug hooks, hi Iories. geographies, tlieoh glial hunks, scieutilie bonks be piled upon the top of those, and thai it be rendered lawful to shoot any Yankee who attempts to scale the wall and then it may be hoped that, left to feed upon these, they niav become refined beyond the body, and peradventiire the whole slock may rise some windy day in blessed translations ami leave the world in peace, to shudder at nothing any more, except the remembrance of the horrid Yankees: 1 Loud laughter and applause.) Laying aside these important views, it may be well to consider coming down into more sober ways some of the facts and influences which arc connected with the reputation which New England has achieved. The American people are a conglomerate Even early in their history they were a varied people, but only within the last fifty years has emigration been so great as to have a very marked and appreciable effect upon the popillatic 11 of Ihe country. That there should be, among so many men of various na uooamies.

more or less national prejudices, was to have been expected: the wonder is, that there should have been so few. 11 lias Hardly amounted to an appreciable friction in the 'OCtal machine! for tlu. er.ontsv la iwi.t. neeiieu lor 11s development. There has been work enough for alt, and pfosiieritv for all.

and men who are thriving are seldom given to hatreds. THE fhE.ILDICE AGAINST THE YANKEE. Hut there has been some prejudice. The strongest has been against the African. The reason for that "has been both personal and political.

He wears the baib'cof his race in feature and complexion. His whole figure marks him not only as one differing from others but differing outwardly and manifestly; and this will always expose a race lo prejudice and injury. Ilut the prejudice has been more a political one, for his race is a slave race, and slavery has always been regarded, bv a nations, not only as a misfortune, but as a dc 'raila'tiou 'i'he stigma has passed over from those who are slave those who are free of this race. Next in the prejudice stands the Irishman. It is, however, not against the Irish.

as aclass, bulagainst the IriBbjust coineover. that Ibis prejudice has existed. inly as against theigioVan't the rude, the quarrelsome Irish has it existed. The moment they or their children go to our schools, or begin to rise in ourcommunity, then the prejudice is all goTie. Nexl to the negro and the Irishman isihe Yankee.

Tin prejudice against him is really widc sjread ami deep rooted. No one who has lived only in New England can form any conception of the extent of this prejudice in the South and West. It is educated into people. Parents leach il to their children children infuse each other with it. Even the slaves are inoeculated with this prejudice, and most of the specimens they have opportunities of seeing are not calculated to remove the impression.

1 Laughter and applause.) Indeed the Yankee is given over irredeemably to reproach at the South. His name is so seldom mentioned except with objurgations that a story is told of an old slave at Hilton Head who was overheard praying most fervently for the Yankees." lie thought that was theirChristiannanic.iGreai merriment.) The U'ot. und particularly the flats iviug along the Ohio, is settled vcrv largely from the Souih. This population brought ith it this spirit. But the large emigration of New England people has tempered the prejudice in the Northern portions it scarcely exists in the Northwest.

When iherefure politician appeal lo hatred ofthe Yankee, they may be said to strike an original faculty in ihe Soiubern mind. HMessrs. Fowler AWells will look sharp at head of a Southern man I think they will discover an organ lying somewhere between the organ of the love of whisky and the organ of love of tobacco, which may be called hatred ofthe Yankees. (Laughter.) And yet it will lie found that this feeling is rather against a class, rather against the ideal than the real, Tor when a true genuine man of N'. England This Taper has the largest Circulation of any Evening Taper published in the United States.

Its value as an Advertising Medium is therefore apparent. Mr. Bcechcr 031 the Yankee. "We surrender a considerable portion of our space to (lit report of lecture delivered the Academy of Music, last by the Kcv. Henry Ward Beecher.

Mr. Bcechcr undertakes IJic vindication of Hie rate ofwliich he is claimed 10 be oik of the ablest representatives. It Ws picture is not upon lie whole as ihitlei'mg as a New Englander ini ili detre, ii is safe to say that it is as highly colored us Mr. Beecher could venture to paint it. Far one "Who is proud of his whole country, wo trust that Mr.

ix eehe in his desire lo avoid the cliaig of flattering, lii. native section has tieatcd its mjuple too severely. Mr. Pecchei says that tlie Yankee Puiitau "is the "plague of the continent. He goes every re, 1 engages in mid is a ays and every 'where the same tca.

iniperliuen, ''meddling, initaiiii that He wasitiEn gland, and seems li to be eve ywhe; ro the end of the world. Ne creat i ever lived with "such rare qualities for mak'tig people aivrry him. theology, an agitator inpolittcs. fnult liudii in moral awl social re fotius. he i forever pi'viu inlotueu house.

to ee if they do nol lu'cG I Ttii not a flattering piinroit lv any mer.ns. It has been proposed to lcuve NYw England out of the L'uion most urdoiibtctlly the advocates of this lan will eize upon Hiejt'od missions of. Mr. Bcecli cr. and ue tlieiu to their own o.ivamage.

Of all nuisances, in 3 social point of view, the man ticrmilly iiUert'eiing with what is legitimately the l' of otheis, Js the greatest. In a religious point of view, tin: spirit of intemicdlintr lias leen the parent oft cjigious persecution. In a national point of view, we have a vivid iliiis of its in Uiewar dev.istatinjr the otnit ry Mr. Bcechcr ivniimls his hearers that the Puritan was driven on; of England and of Holland. Mr.

Bcechcr surely do es not intend to justify those who propose to lbUcw the example of there countries, and yet his ejuarks susceptible of this application. It the Yankee is the "plague of the continent if" he is of a race with which othereorinutinitics found it impossible To eoni there is only one method left ofde with the vchj. Beecher under ttkes to solve. Mi.Bctclic r's nna'ysisjof tlto. moral character of the people, of his native section presents no tea.

iure up.m which the admire of N'ew England "will care to dwell. It is no palliation ofaswind ler and a liar to say that in cOnsequeuce ol'rcli. gious conviction he docs neither on is merely saying that byposerisr is added to his other delinquencies. Ef any defence of New Eng. Innd i judged at lliis time to be necessary, in justice to Nov, F.vglarju.

it is but right that the task should fall into ot lier m.ads. Wendell Phillips could do it inutb better, in comparison With Phillips' negro hero 1 Mr. Beecher' Yankee a very sorry rascal. We will not accept Mr. Bccc iier 's portrait as the true or.c tliere are peddling Yankees there are Tan Icicswho make of religion, anil tinder its sacred labor to set fellow uu 11 by t'ae throats.

these, and sueh as these Mi. Beeeberis qur.lificcl to speak, hut we choose 10 tvmeiiiler her Clmiites. b.er Curtis, her Eve. rett Woodbitrys, Websters. Let Mr.

Beielur be the eulogist of her peddlers in uoliour, "in polities and religion. Mr. Beecher promises us peace 011 tbnt tlie Yankee much' of teulin Pais 4u iel shall be adopted, lis no other terais will the Tankte be The future wouid have additional terrors for us, i vre impiic'tly relied upon Mr. Beecher. But wc believe, that Connecticut TTillshow.

cc TucsJay next, that even the Puritan has learned something in when ju England he elairjied the religious liberly which he denied to oihers, when he daily interfered in the sports nud pastimes of others, he was so at a nuisance that, rather than Puritanic ideas should be prc iloniinntc, the Puritans were driven out by the people they had disgusted and oppressed. The descendants of the will learn from the present war that there is safety only in conceding tlie rights to other which they elaiiu for themselves. The political views of the Puritan have last provoked a conflict, but wc know that upon other schemes lie has s. his heart. "Will Mr.

us that when the slavery question is settled, the Puritans of his class will be content to abandon their other hms? There are oilers, as we know, near the heart of New England, which, if followed up as persistently as this slavery question has been, will provoke strife, aad will end in bloodshed. Of the antic of the orators who followed Mr Beecher it is hardly ncix ssay to say anything. Would it be worth the trouble to berate Mr. Til tonwhc he contends that ifweareto he successful in ibis war under God our hope is in the Yankee and the darkey? IIow long would it take Jell'. Pa is to nnircli Jiis rebel hordes into Wash" ngton if allsave Yankees and darkies refused to defend it 'r Those who resemble Beeeheras a monkey does a man, must, of course, improve upon his exaggeration.

It is only in this way they can hope to attract not ire. Lrc aeral Fremont may congratulate the country 011 the magnificent prospect before si nee. a. he boasts, he opened the battle six years ago. Alas! poor country, if these be the men who aspire to govern it One Mr.

IfatiLeld wound up the proceedings by aikli tig liis little to foment ilis cord, by onlugjzhi the irrepressible conllict tlu ory: though ll I mt fuols know that if such a doctrine was bclievt cl in at the time of the for. ination of the government, wa would have no Union now either tt defend or destroy. Within two years New England ideas have obtained ascendancy. The friends of freedom in every land, mourn ovr the changes that ascendancy has brought aboat. To the people struerlint: for liberty America was, two years airo, an inspira" lion and a hop To day the aristocrat, the inonarcli, the desjwt, refer loom condition as an evidence of the fatality which attends a government of the people.

Tlie effect of the contrast Will not be lost upon the people. It will be an all sufficient answer lo a thousand such addresses as that we publish lsewherc. The news from Vicksburg is discouraging Two of our vessels attempted to pass the re be' batteries; one or them was stink and the other disabled. The Siiiillowci expedition, the last of the many eirciiiluo iis routes on Vicksburg, has been abandoned, as a failure. Farragnt has'suc ceeded in getting below now between Vicksbury and Port Hudson, both of which points arc in possession of the rebi ls.

His position is not free from danger. We have still further news of the avaeuation of Kiehuioud. Thcbesl authorities believe there is nothing' in them Among the tipplii unls for relief among outlines yesterday, was the wife of Jackson, who shot Colonel EUbTOtUi at Alexandria at the commencement of the war. Stories of rebel distress for want of food si ill come on. The report of the committee on the conduct of the war, together with the testimony, will make, is said, ten volumes.

That it will do anything more than show a vast amount of bickering nmong our Generafs, is very dubious. The rebels are reported to be retreating front Kentucky and concentrating and advancing their forces on Murfrt 'csUoro. A letter in the Chicago 7'iWs says that Curtisidc is to take Kosccrans' position. This is cry doubtful. to observe the multiplicity of churches which everywhere with graceful columns and tall spires rise.

It seems to me as though progression had indeed reached the topmost round in the ladder of civilization, science andart. literature and religion, here in this Edon, so rich in its wealth of moral and religious advantages, so blessed with its many charitable institutions, its public. lariiilies, ye. Speaking of public facilities. I verily believe, that in point of the city of Brooklyn surpasses any other city of its size in the Union.

There is the Brook ivneity line, the oldest, if not the first in point of equip luenls and convenience. Next and newer is the Newtown road, which in point of first class accommodations, surpass anything else in tlie line of city rail cars, which have as yet come under my observation. The Newtown and DeKalb avenue lino of ears, leave Fulton Kerry at the lclt. taking an easterly direction, through Water street. Gold street, pass directly Hie Navy Y'ard, Fort Green, the City Hospital, (now nearly tilled with those brat hearts who have labored and bled for our beloved.

Union, en through pleasant streets, and across broad avenues, past magnificent palaces, and picturesque cottages, out over open Ileitis, 'ueath the blue sky on on where in a little while smiling orchards, and Holds of waving grain will salute the world wearied traveller, and bid him welcome to where nature iu her loftiest mood, invites the mind to contemplation and repose. While ruminating upon the case ami elegance of these ears, and observing tht perfect order which see.ned to predtminate inevery department, it'ie attentive politeness of the kind and'genllomanly conductors and other employers, we sttm to recognixe a master hand that must necessarily be at flic helm in order to facilitate tlie interest and advancement of all the officers and crew iu genera! of so gigantic an enterprise. Upon our return lo tlie city, we made wc made some inquiries respecting the hoard" and officers of the company, when we wero told that the whole thing was conceived, planned and almost wholly executed by one individual, the present. President of the road. Wc listened with much interest.

10 the eulogiiims of different parties on the energy, perseverance and untiring industry of the favorite Gencr al. Mr. Catlicrwood. We returned to our Hotel musing upon the results and reward of an enterprising. go ahead spirit, to which, in tins instance, seems atiueti every quality mat enuears him to the hearts ofthe all under his immediate supervision.

We no longer fell at loss to know the source: from which order and precision emanated, when wo found that a very Napoleon was at the head of this new ltailroad Campaign. We can but congratulate the Company and all parties interested, in possessing so worthy ami able an instrument as their President. Surely, with such a man as Mr. Catlicrwood at the head, the interest and advancement of nil concerned must l.e facilitated, and success gloi ions success i lie reward. 1 1 vKi.uy;,.

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away fncii art because all its forms and symbols were wtloMy imbued with ideas inosl dangerous to lhc nascent Christianity. They were men ol" integrity and simplicity, and manly, downrighl, and earnest conscientiously followini' llu'ir convieiions. Indeed the Puritans came out of a lock thai is not remarkable for grace. They are robust, har.ly, stihstaiitial.il be relied upon, enduring bu! prai niati cal. obstinate, and conceited.

Out of this curly Piinian isiu has grown up a generation of men less but they are equally earnest and conscientious. The New England character is not well understood except bv those who have lived in New England. It is supposed that New Englninlers arc stern and morose. Tliev are ome tun sober. It is true, gravity and earnestness them the appearance sometimes of sombreness.

Put it is only appearance. They are men who have something to do. and seem intent on doing it all their life, ltui un deriving this exterior, there is the most genial and inieiisc att'ectioti. If love and friendship have ever found a more cordial welcome, a more enduring loyally than in New Eugl. ink: I know not where to look for ii.

Tiicre may tie less tlame. hut the coals of love arc there, en when raked up, and they ill keep through a long night. and lie ready lo kindle again when the morning i ohi 's. i There is bui little expression gien in New England to feeling; for the New inglander is apt to have deep feel ings rather than noisy ones. A feeling is so sacred that i the New I is taught to avoid its nianifesiaiinn to strangers." Yet these people carry deep wells in lli.

ir hearts. It lakes a long line to draw the bucket up. bin asofteu as you go. summer or winter, from yeartoycar, there isnot'a day. not an hour in which the bucket may not be brought up to the top, brimming lull, and teavc a silent and 'inexhaustible supply behind.

lApplausc.) I lit it is not strange that a mercurial people, who carry their fcelines in their eyes and on llieir lips, should misjudge thi reserved people. NEW ENT.LAND WOMEN. One cannot desire a nobler refutation of the slaniicrs that are heaped upon the New Englander than the estimation in uhich the daughters of Nuw England are held for tliere is no national scale of prejudice against New England sweethearts and wives. There is 'not a Western' r.ian or a Southerner who is not fully willing ami glad to take them to his home. They will tight the brother, but they want to marry vile sister.

Laughter and applause.) Woman, like gold, is a legal tender the world over, no matter what image or superscription is stamped on it by the national mint and ihe licry Southerner knows il as well as another, tboud applause.) No where else on earth, however, more than in New England, is woman the full mother of every whole man; and one Y'ankee woman is tw ice as Yank as two men. i Laughter and applause. '1 HE SOVTUEIiNERS AND TUE There is nothing more contrasted, either, than the methods of enthusiasm which exists in the North and the South. The New Englander acts always as if he was ashamed of his feelings. There seems" almost lo have been a drop of Indian mixed Willi his Puritan blood.

The Southerner is frank; the Yankee is reserved, constitutionally. The one speaks more than he means, and seems never aide lo speak enough. 'The oilier never speaks half so much, ahd seems distressed lo think he must speak ai all. The one flames in anger and glows in lore. The ovber smothers anger, and is shy in friendship.

The Southerner gives you the expectaibm of more than you will ever find: and" you will always liud more than you expect in the Yankee. A large amount of prejudice has arisen from the relation to New Eng land 10 the South and 'West of mauit'acturers and peddlers. 'The ingenuity of the New Eriglunder titled him to become Ibe manufacturer of the country; but in earlier times the wares of New England we're conveyed to liie South by adventurous men, who sought their customers from cabin" to cabin. It waseohsirterad as the finish ofa young man's education to send him on a peddling tour through the South. Tin ware, ooden ware, clocks, jewelry, and all manner of light goods, and that collection of things that Vent under the name of Yankee Notion." were regularly sold throiighall West amlSouthliypcddlersfrom New England, and particularly from Connecticut.

We may very well imagine the reputation that New England would get among those who knew her only by her peddlers. "Who can estimate the various deceits, the cute contrivances, not to say swindles, to which these rc. ortcd lodifpuse of their wares. Wuut musl hurt been the impression made of the people who sent out such re prcsi iuaiiuesV Ah: shall I deny the impeachment? Shall 1 deny one of all lhc slanders that have been uttered against Ihe peddlers? Shall I consign the wooden milniegsand the clucks that proved steadfast intniniera ble to the limbo off xploded s' 1 fear i hat is the iieak point of New Englander. Hut there is some tl ing beside this.

The training in the Smith and la the North, in business, is so eniirely different, thai men trained in these respective schools are not only unlike, but would be very likely to be disagreeable to each other. In the North, each man begins hie with the consciousness that he has his own particular fortune to make, with very little lo make it out of, and nobodv to help him. He must live in a most economical maimer, but witli all his economy, he must be respectable. He must work with untiring industry, and to industry there must be added so much intelligence that he shall he able, in this endless competition, by some new wav ofe isi doing, to earn more than others. His earnings are at best: his frugality musl therefore be intense.

N'ew Englamlers have industry, economy, und an inevitablc ness of ill to which fev," but Yankees would submit. Now, it is not possible that this should take place through genera tarns, and not leave its impression upon character and maimers. The smthcrner lives in a eli maie that requires bin luile provision; on a that yields abundant al the cost of but little labor; liis ork performed by his slaves, and spends his Jiuo in pol'nics. in hauling, or in neighborhood conviviality. Can less himself, loving inilu' devoting hiinsclft'o pleasure.

In ing in a elimau that will not penm: Now England industry, he cannot but disiikc the hai iudi.strioii icoi.omieal Yanlae: an.l when th get. rich, when he marries a plantation, or soua 1.. 1 crui.it. img estate Irom a tirst taiuiiv," st lange thai men hai.ge lit i tobacco from "Me oi' 11 cir mouth p. the and express their views upon character in phrases that are more distipci thai: pious.

(Laughter.) But it is an even gam. cmi nipt: for the YaPlae dt spi es Ua ca. olt i.u,., divmg Soutlnrner. ho wastes enough 10 support l.oric vL man ilesplses inn: jest as ilmroughl' a the c. emer huts ihe si, rev.

unmet grasping There is a true del. a ciacy 111 X. England. going A i tow nsiiqi. 1 Hunk, 1 lhc i.nh liitical mot racy 011 1 in globe.

But the gr.tiud w. Now England society is in i. leas; the rigid of en to all bis attribute. ihe dtr.y and the digmtv i.nd, above all, tin fundamental moraii: j.niiticai ecom my, tbed. iclinie ol equivalent.

thai a man musl give a fan equivalent for everything he gits. That is New England am! tl gh you may call it bv other nemos ii. politico ec UM.niy and in trading, is'simpfy the doctrine of radical honesty. The spirit of adventure, of spi culul ion, of large financiering, has conn in later, anil bibuigs lo exceptional eases. Tin masses of New England rneii are educated to ihe moral conviction that no man has aright lo anything that he does not earn or inherit and I might almost say thai the people of the South arc ordinarily educated to the idea that no man has a right in liny thing.

Work in N'ew England is almost an equivalent term with honestv. Nowhere else is begging so disgraceful. Nowhere else is lhc conviction so ingrained that men must earn all thev hold. Southern society reverses this idea. The idea is to live without working, and to get the most willi the least exertion.

I am not speaking of the maiiv just and honorable men in ery southern city who arc a law unto an.l are ruled bv the universal laws of commerce and equity rather llian the local influences around them. Bin Southern society is built on a peculiar institution that has dominated "in thu South. Their earnings are not their own earnings, bul what their slaves earn for them. This taint works up and down all through tlie southern character. CCK10US IDEA OK MOKAI.ITY.

Win the Yankee is dishonest, it is not bv denying ibe principle of honesty; by carrying his "smartness lo excess, and evading Ibe ib clrincs of honesty. His principle is a moral one his error lies in pushing his shrewdness too fur. The Southern man will tell a lie point blank for a purpose; ibe Yankee man has been so religiously educated ihat he invariablv assumes a clumsy lie lo he wicked. (Laughter nnd "applause.) They must be ingenious, they must be imaginative, they must be constructive; there must be a smartness iu them that shall excite surprise if not admiration. The Southerner puts bis heart into his lies, but no brains; the Yankee puts very little heart into his.

bio i great deal of brains. He will not admit that they are i tm vare propositions. (Laughter.) They may inn. men. but what fools men must be to be misled it is their fault The Southerner lies by telling falsehoods tin, Yankee by telling truths.

Thus even the vices of the two sections reveal the basis on which they stand and the education on which they have grown up." Tim moral restraint in men who will do wrong produces singular devtslop inonts. The pioneer soulhcmers, casting offalt restraints and pretences, act fearlessly according to their will. Tfie have a sort of free and large courage. Thev are men unrestrained, and they have that low degree o'f excellence which inheres in the savage. The Yaiikue is educated to obedience of law; he is law abiding and he is a poor law breaker the poorest in the world: he is a coward before the law; he must .1..

wrong wi'thin the statute, il at all II is nol difficult to further lo show ihat tlie organic influences al work iu the two societies make men so differently that ihoy cannot coexist without nornc degree of jar. Consider hat must be the tlfeet of bringing a stringent, rest cs. active, prying and indefatigable, money loving cia of men into contact with careless, shiftless, easy, indolent men who drive along the easy current of life win, an intense senso of to day. and a tropical repugnance lo thinking much of to morrow. Is il wonderful that the grp ilti om.

should oll'cin! the pulp of the other? is L.icr giiic nature made inlenser by his original moral education, that justifies the impression an.l explains the fact that Yankees are tho scven si slaveholders. We hate only to consider the inju iic and cruelty of exacting from slaves the industry am) regularity which a northern man expei ts from himself all his liie. It would hurl a slave 10 do the work which a free man scarcely fuels. '1 he one rows up stream, the other down. No man can row as far up stream in a duv as he can down "We must add (0 this the disagrecable'siiit of I i i I i I I I fe34 ly.

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