New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-09-16
MEETING NH W. BEEcHExs 0HURes


Las. evening meeting YVES held E the PiyuosGA
Church. Brooklyn, lie favor of aiding ths Censrsl
Army Committee In their efforts 10 disseminate reading
matter among tbs troops ct the sect Of war. ~.
beecher began the services by reading the 18th Chap
ter OF Jeremiah, from the 18th Verse The applicasa
CT one expression to the action Of our navy seesd
almost inevitable; The cities Of the South shall b
shat up. and none shall open them; Judah shall b
Afser prayer and singing, the Rev. Cuan1r s G..
Co.'s addressed the meeting In reference 10 the onrs
tons Of the Evangelical Alliance. They had found n
furnishing reading matter to the Army that newsps-
regiment was receiving daily moro than 100 papers
from different parts Of The country and from 400 TO 6e
letters. In this way strong homo feeling was keus
up. He urged that, In letters Of friendship the wr.
the vices of the camp. Two or three words from .
wife, mother, a sister, would have more ioAusncs
than all the preaching and reading that could be fur.
nsbed. Mr.. Goss made an appeal for contributions II
good reading, and he said he hsd been written 10 fog
aid to get something to feed the contraNands on.
The Rev. G.. w. DEssisoE, Hospital Chaplain at Fort.
ress Monroe in the of some remarks spoke In
reference 70 giving ont books, TO contrabands among
the rest They wanted books with pictures, as they
conld not read, and he iutcpded rs 500" 90 p
,e,s, ,us mn thu apnaoer. few nights seo he $40
oronp of som forty c?ptrabauds gathered about Ars
BY the light of which ycans man was reading sbook
to them. When Mr.. Dennison went to isteFas hs
took sword satisfied that II be could cut Of the right
ear Of the high priest of Secession he would be doing
good deed bu, better IL it should cut of the rebel high
of the 9TH North Carolina Regiment 10 return e
their allegiance being willing to shed their blood and
bare their bosoms In defense Of the Stars and Stripes
In introducing the Rev. II: w. Bellows, Mr.:
BEEcHER sad that their initias being the same he bad
had the credit Of articles from the pen Of Mr. Below.
Mr.. BELLOWS hoped that "a their initials were the
same their examinations might not be very daereot.
He said that almos all difficulties had arisen from
the fact that had been obliged 10 call upon very
small machine to do great deal Of work. The theory
of the nation had been that that Government governs
best which governs least; and We had kept the Gov
ernnen small "a we could. We wanted IL to do a.
little as it could. But in time Of this rule
versed, and we now wanted to pass over In rapid
the life of the nation into the hands Of the
Government. 1t was this which made afnirs In.
applicable to foreign Governments. 1t took Of
little time to make the shift. Our little old army
was in the charge of old men--most of them between
20 and 80 years Of age. 1.-The were TO enumerate al
the officers between those ages In the regular army, v
would be seen what admirable "peace estabishmeet
t had been under the control Of thess venerable gcns
men. But complete transformation has been raAds
in the condition Of forces and in wonderfully shore
space of time. lie wanted to Say word about thSs
Young man at the capital toward whom 90 many oyes
were turned In him God bad given Just such man
as was wanted-a young man in tho prime of life,
compaeted Of the beet fbre, made for acton--a man
that will do better than he can tak-a man that CON
do at once oil that he can do at any tme--a man
whose every motion 10 graceful, insinussins.
frank, open, whose presence awakens euthnsiasus
and wherever be goes carries the plume Of Henry %
Navarro. In regard to the Cabinet, be knew tins
Gen Mcclellan himself wished for other man to DO
at the head of the War Department than the man whs
now stands there. He heard Gen. Mcclellan recoane
70 him the circumstances of the late skirmish q
Louisville. Mr.. Cameron asked how many Of the IStA
were wounded. " There were three or four. Wen
send them to my house." was the reply, and
/ will nurse them" Gen. Mcclellan sald -
one of the dying soldiers of this regiment did VOC
wrong; called yon towards; and here you have
stood before these shells like veterans" "But, sai4
the dying so9.es, ave deserved to ose our cciorss
and sb,GG die happily if know they arc to be re.
stored 10 the regiment" Mr.. Bellows paid hiGa
sonaI knowledge collection was then taken up Zoo
| the object Of the meeting.