The New York herald., 1862-01-18

III Wow tno umltoC0n OF our legltlm6te lnuu-
ence on this continent than the liquidation Of
claims, the major part of which have been built
up in fraud. and are now sought to be enforced
through unnecessary rigor.
Great Moral Revolution I'm tho Faubourg
do st. Henri Beecher.
AS yet we have not had any great battle upon
the Potomac but, in its stead, we have had
the great mill between Beecher, the Brooklyn
Pet, and Grau, the great Unknown, upon the
other side of the East river. The result was as
we predicted. The Brooklyn Pet, most sum-
marily and ignominiously vanquished, threw
up the sponge, and Grau pocketed the stakes.
Brooklyn is like April-half smiles, halftears-
in consequence. That part of the city settled
by emigrant pilgrims from New England il
hung in black, and wears sackcloth and ashes.
That portion of Brooklyn where vagrant New
Workers lodge is garlanded with roses, and
keeps open house. The old battle between
roundhead and cavalier has been refought,
and roundhead is beaten, battered and
bunged more than usual. Grau is no
longer unknown! he is immortal! He
has led the moral revolutionists of Brooklyn on
to victory! Let him henceforth be hailed as
the Washington, the Bolivar, the Garibaldi,
who enfranchised the public sentiment of
Brooklyn from the thraldom of the dramatic.
desspots Of the Academy of Music committee.
The old Puritans and Knickerbock-
ers never agreed very well in colo
nial times. Their descendants settled in
Brooklyn agree worse. The Knickerbock-
ers are gay, lively, go-a-head people, who
regard New York as terrestrial paradise, and
think it no harm to be amused. The Puritans
are sour, severe and sombre folk, who regard
Babylon and Gomorrah, and think the chief end
of man is to go to Beecher's church and sing
about Plymouth Rock-the only genuine Rock
of Ages. How two such diverse sects manage
to live in the same town it is impossible to say.
Possibly the Knickerbockers, who predominant,
stay there because they like it and save taxes;
and the Puritans, who, like . mule team, make
up in obstinacy what they lack in numbers,
live there because they believe themselves
elected and foreordained to do 80. The Knick-
erbockers have tried to make city of Brook
lyn. The Puritans have tried to keep it
village. The Knickerbockers have instituted
little City Hall, with little park circumja-
cent, and little, dirty, dry fountain in the
park-a copy in miniature of our own
Corporation ediice and grounds. They
have also started city railroads, pro-
cured limited supply of imitation Croton
water, and opened Central Park with exclu-
sive skating ponds-all like our own, but much
smaller. Indeed, had it not been for the width
of the East river and the high price of Albany
legislation, they would have built bridge
across to New York, superseded foggy voyages
in ferryboats, and annexed Brooklyn to this
metropolis altogether. The Puritans regarded
these innovations as the result of infdel ten
denotes, inveighed against them as exasperating
Providence, and opposed them bitterly. Only
when these improvements were brought under
religious control, and it was agreed that neither
cars nor Ridgewood water should run, and that
both City Hall and Central Park should be
closed, on Sunday. did the strife cease. For a
little while then it could truly be said, "le au-
bouvg de st. Beecher-c'est la pair ~
But the Knckerbockers could not be content
to go only to church in Brooklyn and steal
a while away to New York for their other amuse-
ments. They desired an opera house at home
The Puritans Indignantly asked what under
the sun they wanted of more places Of amuse-
ment than Greenwood Cemetery and Beechers
church All the old feuds were forthwith re-
newed, and again compromise was found ne
cessary, and the Knickerbockers offered to give
Beecher entire charge of the affair. Beecher
having declared himself anxious to re-
the drdmotis persono after the curtain dropped,
and see life behind the scenes generally, the
Puritans withdrew their opposition, and the
house was built. All the Brooklyn leople
attended its Inauguration, in full dress. e.,
with all the good clothes they had. Beecher
manager for the moral "Don Giovanni and
kicked the immoral "Traviata, out at the back
door. Chittcnden, in white cravat, played
call-boy with cherubic grace. Morally the
thing was as successful as fashionable church;
but pecuniarily the moral opera didn't pay.
horse tanning show; the moral lecture; the
moral soiree de magique, all had the same
moral, and the same pecuniary result. Then
some one suggested the moral drama, and
again there was trouble in the Brooklyn camp.
Finally, another compromise was agreed upon,
and moral committee of three moral CEN
sors was appointed, and the drama admitted to
the moral Academy. At first no plays could
be found moral enough All had immoral
drinking, or fighting or love scenes in the.'.
The ghost damned Hamlet" for the Puritans
insisted that ghosts had been immoral ever
since the ancient Puritans burned witches at
Salem, Massachusetts,. Besides this, there was
immoral poisoning and stabbing in Hamlet"
and the grave digger made grave subjects mat
ters for jest, In contravention of the standard
rules of Greenwood Cemetprv This was Chit