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B E i ^ A K I X G T H E W A T F O R F U T U R E G E X E R A T I O X S .

VOL 2 . - V 17. W H O LE X a 4 3 . N EW YORK, M ARCH 11, 1871. P R IC E T E N C E N T S .

flC T O m C. WOODHULL A TENUTE C. CLA FLIN

EDITORS JW D P R O P R IE TO R S.

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P U S . PASS.ffctCtaHtofNew T o r t .................. 1 T o th e L e? ieU tu re o f rhe S t i t e o fi Wtmtn * View; Secret T en- N ew V o r k ........................................ 9

Poetry 1..............................S Safe ! P rofirab le ! P e r m i n ^ n r ! . . . 9 |M the P o e te P o e tr r ) ; Kx- T h e P e n n sy lv an ia C en tra l R a il-

prtOKeis the G reat and Cn- ro a d ; M essrs. S o u tte r Jt C o ...1 0 | *na< Teacher; English P a trl- T h e R ig h t o f R e ro la tio n an d O urscan, tod what make* i t . ........ 4 New* M o v em en t; O p p ress iv e

A 3iat t* oar M rth o lo g is t; L ife M o n o p o lie s ........................................ 11bsoraacc for W om en............... 5 T h e C o th Q n e a t io n ; A d m ira l

|?wa «f Love (Poetry); Cp th e P o r te r 's V ic to ry ; R u fu slo ta a io ; A VTord to A m eri- H a tc h 's C ircu la r, No. 4 ................IS ,aa GirU......................................... 4 B ook N o tices, e tc ................................ 13 I

fnakClay. or Homan N atu re in T h e a tre s , M isce llan eo u s ...................16 Ia.XatiheO (Poetry)...................... 7

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THE RADICAL AND TH E CONSERVATIVE,THE C HRISTIAN AND TH E INFIDEL,

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j ^ A T I F I C A T I O N B Y T H E j ^ A T I O N A L j ^ O N Y E N T I O N .

THE CLUBS OF NEW YORK.

TH E CENTURY CLUB.

BY JANUARY SEABLE.

[C O N TIN U ED .]Ambrosia was drunk out of big-bellied punch-bowls, and

more or less divine discourses upon love and matrimony and the contrasts of these, upon art and poetry and music and literature, were delivered to the mutual delectation of the members—who loved each other so much that in the bounti­ful benevolence of their hearts they praised each the o ther’s performance w ithout stint or measure, until every person who wrote “ M. C. C.” to his name really believed that he was a great man—which was not exactly so !

A t these Twelfth-nights’ entertainments, for example, after the ladies had become extra sweet through the saccharine influence of the bon bons, Mr. Jones would say to Mr. Schnider, “ Schnider, where’s that new song of yours? I t ’s the divinest melody I have listened to for years. P ray do us the honor to sing it to the company.”

W hereupon Schnider replies: “ I ’m so glad you like i t But it isn’t half so good as your sublime ode to ‘ Christian Charity a t Yule Time.’ Do you know I think it is quite equal— in its way, of course—to W ordsworth’s Ode on ‘ Im m ortality.’ You will read it, of course; and if you will promise to do so I ’ll sing my poor little song—that is if it would be agreeable;” and the modest Schnidor hangs down his head to hide his blushes, and wait 4 ir his friend Jones’ re­joinder, who, assuring him that it would be quite agreeable, marches up to the piano, w hi'e Schnider marches up to the Christmas-tree and carefully unpins his manuscript music from one of the branches, and then car­ries it off with the ’umblcness of Uriah Heep to the aw ait­ing instrument. “ Now, my dear Schnider,” says Jones to himself, as he sits down to accompany his friend in the song, “ shriek, scream, bellow and roarl squeak like a cracked fiddle and make what hubbub of hurdy-gurdies and infernal discords you p’ease, my dear Schnider I I have my foot on the fortissimo pedal and I thunder myself de if!" And so Jones comforts himself under the infliction pu t upon him by the dear .Schnider, whose melody awhile ago he thought finer thau anything he had listened to for years!

This is the real state of the case behind the scenes with nil “ M utual Admiration” societies. W e do not mean it to

be inferred, however, that the Century had now become a mere bal m a sque and that every member was a sham ; for we know better, and have the profoundest esteem for the club, as a whole, and its aims at that time. Surely, too, it was a pleasant and a p o e tra l thought to decorate the Christmas-tree w ith poems and music and brilliant essays, that they m ight be read aloud by the authors. I t was—bar­ring the tree—precisely what happened at the banquet ot Plato, and if somebody belonging to the club wrote and spoke a discourse upon Love—sensual, icsihetical and divine —it was no more than what somebody did at the Greek banquet.

It is certain, at all events, that although cynics denounced the idea and its performance as u tierly childish, it gave much pleasure to all who were present at the festival. One met there also nearly everybody in the city who was worth knowing, either as members or as invited guests ; and the women, in their magnifieeut attires, blazing with jewels— which, however, were, of course, no maich for their own personal loveliness—gave w arm th, color, brightness and beauty to the scene, and astonished the rooms and the bache­lors’ pictures on the walls, which were altogether unaccus­tomed to nice female society and weak tea.

These were times of gen<-ral unbending and jollity, and like the Greek soldiers described by Ze ephon, the mcm- hqrs rollicked about in large, overgrown, school-boy fashion, and were as happy and merry as crick- ts on ihe hearth in winter. There happened, however, a great sell at the last cel-ebralion of Twelfth-night. One of the oldest and most experienced of the members, and a man of considerable a t­tainments and abil ty , had prepared a very elaborate ad­dress, and proposed to read it as a part of the Tw< If h e ig h t programme. The member was none o her than the genial and kind)}’ John A. Gourlie, and everybody v m ex pec ing a great treat, and Mr. Gourlie himself was in a fever of per­turb iti m as the time grew nearer and nearer for him to deliver himself of his w ell-m aiund b»by. Hi* friend* exhorted him to keep up his cour-'gr and compel hi* nerve* to be quiet, under p iiu and penalty of g e t 'h g no more toddy that night if he didn't. He screw, d h up atlast to a pitch of courage which enabled turn to d .fv 'h r m r a hers as if they were so many cabb.g and the la i»r* *. ? they were *o many cauliflowers—and the t ms bad come for him to take the reader* d«*k—*t*n t d r ’ .-r* ’Behold him! Ecce Homo! There b* i*. with hi*

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face suffused with p'rapiration, and great beads dropping from his fine forehead as if his whole brain and hod/ were In tears. His mannscr pt is in his Laod. He gives one defiant look at his audience, as wLo should ssy, “ Wait a bit, boys and girls. This emotion is physical! I will show you a thing or two, by-and-by, that will tickle you info vocifera­tions of applause! ” He is on the very verge of speech, having already cleared his throat, wiped Lis face and blowD ont his nose.

When—“ Hold on there, if you please. Mr. Gonrliel A gentlemen desires to «peak wi'h you.” “ What is it? What does the m n want? W hit does the man want to disturb thus my equanimity in the eleventh hoar, witLin one second of being the twelfth, for me to address, this formidable audience ?” quoih Jlr. Gourlic.

“ Pardon m e!" says the intrusive,officious and confound­ing gentlemen in question ; “ but if you would be so good as yield the desk for a very short time, while my friend, Judge Daly, speaks a speech which he has taken a great deal of pams to prepare for delivery this evening, entirely ignorant that bis esteemed friend, John H. Gourlie, was to be the orator of the evening—you will confer, sir, a very great favor both upon lhe Judge and Lis numerous friends. His address will be very brief:" “ Uofortinate 7 John Gourlie! Hapless John! what wilt thou do in this distress­ing dilemma? He was completely taken aback by the insinuating manner of the gentleman who played Jackall on this occasion to his Lion Daly. So much so, indeed, that be did not, at firel g’ance, take in the immense insolence of the request, nor the gross unheard of insnlt which it conveyed to him personally; so, being a good-natured man, and a gentleman to boot, and utterly incapable himself of any trick or fraud, he bowed acquiescence, and made room for the great Daly.

Never was before beard such an address in these halls as that which the learned Judge delivered. It abounded in stupidity and sleepicesa. The ihetoric was clumsy, un- w:eldy, vulgar—and as the great London critic »aid of “ Par­adise Lost"—“ It was reinarable for nothing but its extreme lengih.” It sprawled along for more than half an hour be­fore the audience—out of respect for Mr. Daly as a “ Judge of the Land”—showed many signs of weariness. Eut presently they began to yawn, then to laugh aloud, then to make whispered com metis—then to applaud wi'l* prodi­gious irony in their feet. And then, as the hour went past, and they were threatened with the sore infliction for another hour, they grew so angry zs to give dreadful signs of ap­proaching dissolution, and of vanishing without waitirg for the cock-crow. At this crisis Juge Daly's friend pulled his coat-skirts, but he pail np heed to it at first; so he pulled agiln, and kept pulling until he brought him np to a stand-still, much to the Judge’s chagrin, who, all along kept thinking within himself: “ What a fine fellow I am. Guess I’m astonishing tbeir weak nerves. I shall be in all the papers tomorrow morning. Great speech of Judge Daly last night at the Century Club. The Judge is the most eloquent man in the United States. His address will make his name immortal as long as the English language is Epoken, etc., etc. Ail which was vani'y, and the address was nothirg but “ vexation of spirit’’ to the benumbed and semi-paralyzed audience.

When the Judge left the stand, his courteous and affable jackal] turned to Hr. Gourlie, as be sat in his chair close to the desk, grimly gnashing his teeth, and smashing pardon­able oaths like fire-crackers between them, until his poor jaws ached with the unnecessarily inflicted pain—“Mr. Gour­lie, my boy,” quoth he’ “ now its your turn. Go at it man­fully. Splendid address, that of the Judge, wasn’t it? I wish I could stop to hear yon, old fellow, but I've an engage­ment with the Jodge at a big party. So good-bye, and good luck be with you.”

But John H. Gourlie couldn’t see it in that light, nor treat it in that off-hand spirit He had been sold, and he didn't like it, but felt sore over it and as savage as a great chained- up mastiff who sees a little poodle dog run away with bis bone, and cant help himself. In rain bis friends gat; ere d around him and offered consolatory words. John H. would not be comforted, and went borne in high dudgeon, with his tongue perpetually wagging like a silly magpie's, tee one sole sentence," I've teen sold ; I're been sold cheap.” And so he had, Tcry cheap according to all the accounts which we hare heard of Judge Daly’s address.

Our ambitions club men were not even yet siti-fied with the r rooms. They most keep up the dignities—they must extol their profession as the conservator* of literature and art. If they had possessed the wealth of A. T. Stewart— who was n e ter known, by the way, to do a good deed in his life, o r anything approaching to such, apart frum a selfish consideration, w ith the hope of ulterior gain, or the getting of himself blown t ig in the newspaper»—if they bad, how­ever, possessed th is m an’s wealth, they would hare bo Sided themselves a temple to meet and discourse, and read poems and prose writings, and bold f-tUvals and Twelfth-nights' e uteri* in m enu in. They were quite Greek enough for this beautiful extravagance ; and we heartily wish they had the money, and that Stewart bad sentre-1 a new lease of his old life, solely on cood iikn that be thould be the galley slave of these good men, so k/og as they were g w d , and de­voted to the uses of mankind, through litera'nre and art, and loving kindness and charity to ail poor pet-.ple, founding school* for the indigent youth cf the city, sod homes for the desolsfr and forsaken and the aged ; for the widow, also.

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and for the fatkerlet*. Stewart was bound by Ms own Im­mense Income», sod by his Infamotia chaffering* with his employe» to compel them to work for him at starvation prices—rarely or never paying any one in bis employ wages large enough to enable them to live as Americana, but rather aa Spartan Helot» and Athenian slaves:—he was bound, we siy, by these consideration» and by bis low peddler dealing with large merchant» and manu­facturer», whereby he obtained their commodities and go ,da at ruinous prices to them, and then turned upon them, as they stood transfixed «t hi» *ide, »nd demanded ten per cent off for caab ! we say he wa* bound by there trick* and, as we think them treacheries, to inve disbursed million» during his life-time in fhe direction of the benevolence hinted at above, if it were only to keep the balances oi compensation and of justice from toppdirg over pellmell into extortion and a rank injustice. Eut Stewart couldn’t have heen persuaded, even a dozen year» ago, to spend a dime for the public good, and although he has lately, in imitation of hi* immense superiors, built a fine house forpoorwom en.it was neither honesty nor truth. JnMice nor benevolence, love nor charity, religion nor God, «h u h made him do it, but his own ugiy and eoul-de*rroying vanity.

Poor Dives! he is greatly to be piped, for unless a rnan really do good deeds from the highest motive of charity, be cannot have the smallest conception of the delight and glory of life. He is not a man bnt a beast, and influenced by the ruling love of beast». Thi« man'* heaven is hi» gold. aDd if he were suddenly introduced through the gates of Death into the heaven of the Lord and his angels, he would be in hell, and suffer its torments, until they let him return to bis osm natural love, whence comes hjs only delight.

The century people not being possessed, however, of M Stewarts’ wealth, had to give—a good many of th'-m out of their comparative poverty—what we may call large sums, by taxing themselves to sustain its dignity. They had barely been occupants of the Broadway rooms for two years before they conceived the idea of amalgamating with the Natfonal Gallery jutt be:fore it was removed to Broadway, ¡n its new building. The project, however, vras found in­feasible, but the club shifted its quarters, nevertheless, to 435 Broorr.e street, and sojourned there one year. A very fever of going np and down and to and fro upon the earth —like that vicious old devil cf the Iduma-ans who plays a part in the wonderful drama cf Job, his book—seems to have taken possession of them ; fo>- in 1850 it reamed back again into Broadway and made house 575 im­mortal by the indwelling of its members. In two years time, however, they had had enough cf Broadway forever, re­membering that the way to destruction Ls the broad way, and that many walk therein, especially during the fashion- afternoon hours -, so threy sought the narrow way of Clinton place, No. 24, which seems at last to have led them to a happy and permanent, if not an eternal life; and zs we all know, there be very few that find either the one or the othfT.

Henry L. Pierson was the Moses of this Exodus, and a capital Moses he proved to be : for he4converted the large and stately rooms cf the mansion, which were sadly dilapi­dated, into luxurious suits fitcnly for artists and men of letters to enjoy themselves ¡d. there beirg the accredited princes cf ail good and jolly fellows. Mr. UnneweLr had in his keeping the casts from most of tbe original marbles of Thorwaldsen, and these were procured for the club gallery by that smart and indef ltigab’e Moses aferesald. The te and some pretty pieces of statuary presented by Ogden Ilagg* r y and Andrew Binninger. were the nucleus of the present superb collection cr/red by the Century and op exblbitkn in i's gallery, all of which were presented by the g'r.ero~a members of tbeir beloved Alma Mater, a* they now began fo regard the club.

David D. Colden deserves honorable mertir n. more than he has yet received at oar hands, as being net r.n’y the fit>t President cf tbe club, but one of the six commissioners of enrgralion, whose names are incorporat'd in the act which organized the commissi'n. He was a shrewd, 'nd'fttigable, benevolent man, and through Lis exertions and those rf bis colleagues, a vast nntb-r of the enormous frauds, »educ­tions, deceptions, rohteries and wrongs to wbPb emigrants were subject, hare been done rw iy with. This g*ntl< man affected painting, and had a real love for it, hut nature had not given him the genius for practical executirn and sue

costly edition of Gibbon or Bacon with the inner kn'fe ns hi* breakfatt talle. Mr. VtrpHr.de would not «alteren to pick op a putter knifr, he would »corn to waste to mtt'b time over a trifle, but would da*h asunder the pages with hi* open band. He once up-n a tirr.e entered the large VvA- store of Mr. B1 ricbnrd and his eye wa* attracted \rf tbe el- gar.’ binding of some book which had jwt been imported fro-n Kr.gbnd. In an instant be rnvV. * desperate grab at it, and opening It in the middle sM finding the pngts r .ther »tiff and tenvd'/cs «I the toir'n* he deliberately forced tbe covers be/it until they met oi> Dm outside, “ point to point, hilt to hilt, heel to Lee’.,” spitting the back of the book inter a great rent, and of co-ine spot.ing it for »ale. In sublime ignorante of the damage he had <tow < he began to r< ad the content*, and when he waa tired—whkh very soon happened—he flung it down opon the counter wwi -•ft the store, without naying " Good-bye, and God bles» yo»

and help you to take care of your book* until yoa sell them.' '•’resently Mr. Blanchard came into the store, and as nearly always happen» in such eases,he epled the manned and reined cover of the book the mom' rst he enu red, and asked (or u explanation, wLieh he quickly got; and bring of a baity and violent temper, and an ungovernable torrent of oalbs, corse* and bard word* in general ready to burst from hi* rnooth ns the least occasion of mishap, he began to abuse the ar.sent Verplar.ck with the eloquence of the Fire Point», and swore he would take it ont of his hide the very next time he entered the store. Three day* after­ward Verplxnck put in a gay and fes ire appeir ar.ee, entirely uncor.cioc- that he had done a wrong táísg either to hooka or men. Not so Mr. Blanchard, however. He waa Vesuvius impersonate in an instant, and with//.; eoe- descendiDg a word of explanation, he took Mynheer Ver- planck by bis Dutch »boulders, and put him out of doors. He wanted no hogs in his china » .op, be rmttered—"AM that man i* a very large hog,” he added, q .he loud enough f-.r his manager to heir him. Poor VerrJanck! He U dead bow, after living a good and us ful hfe. We may readily gather up the clews to his character from t»e various works of benevolence in which he was engaged. Besides Vdiftg o nec í the six Emigration Commissioners aforesaid, he wa a Ira-tee of the House of fiefage, and was never weary <A well-doing. As a member of the Century he wa* acme sod zealous during the three year* that he spent la it* serví«, and died in June, 1870. W .iit matters it now, how assay books end pictures he »polled? Death lias «poi.'d a.I hr* chances cf “ root-hog ’ a n i mar-book for the future. H» will never do it again: and he líos "here in windhtg-theet and ashe* on the floor of his windowle*» house, tor/fed vis long gTa.-s, inlaid with “ dai-ies fre*h and violet* Mae* Who »hall suy that hi* ¿ca b is not penitential. He was the originator and conductor of the «remo«« of the last Twelfth-eight which the club celebrad. Tas

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Tbe portrait department of the Art Gxliervof tkiscMis good s-u f ir zs it goes: but. wi'.’i *o n».iny 0r~zme porans painter* as members, it U t y no mcau* »-* creditalne, eiihr in the nnxh.T or the • • r. e of >t *.~npie», ■ tought to be. Moel cf those wr.g-n * r - [ r scM*»! ».U »ri kindly mo tive» by Paul P. Du.gun zr- ren up to the aarl although they are bc*ter than roue. Dcniel Seytaocr c e- sented by C. M. Leipp. and h, i dt's beaatrial panrut 4.

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Mr. CcHen's fri»ni, Verplanck, waa associated with him both as a cosnmiasiotter znd a member o f the Century. H» was an excellent.rgrod man, and quite a character. His brains were always wcol-gatbering or idea-butting, so that very often be was absent-minded or half nnconscious of u bat t e was doing He bad do appreeialir-n of tbe delicate handling either of engravings, works of r tr n or of books It was the striking inroar«*- ncy of bis character, tint with all bis love of beiuty be bad not s par W-V ot rtapect fcr H. n e would smear with dirty flngera a valuable eoyprrtdau engraving or crumple ft sp in U s ungainly fiat : and aa for books, be treated Hem as tavagvly aa Wordswcrtk, the great Eeg.isb poet, whom Southey hauls over the red hM m b of his wrath for coiling open the leaves of sums new and

admirable work r f E . 't tw » ^ e v i cu:!y peiated osa sum Inman is a man of gtr.:us ind h's pic*^r s are aofferd wifi it. like tbe all-perTscirg ligi.; tareogh iameauty. Heist fine coiorut, in i we brJ 1 :b<t o4r r, in its foebevt f i g » atoo, is to painting what ’ i i ’ i t* in \re\ry. It is the errai aroma of the words, and the exquisite choice cf that they ahall exprese toe most aaUie aLades cf Umgkt and tones of feeling, in a melody which is lhe;r sm btrib-cry. It is thi* that coustitctca poetry, sad k a this also which. Lke the iu p in t ir« fcr esser a painting, must be u-: : * liera, sud ezme aifitbe spirit of a mzn ta u L;.» wc-rid of tone aad ^ mx form and beauty, and c n ive**-r be acquired byedaafiw nor the meat inward v q t t i tU i ie r v H i the weeks affa great master«. RuSem, w. h t b M s lu rr s M e b t . teach II I i is is his psr+sre». bo! rvea aa e in lln x i ia these days ia A s t p a thraa ia « ¡h r afa hi teas despair i f ever approaching their fa r th ^ * br.lliaace, and th« aama may be a f a af tm fagaty T fa | know« to mankind as Tit taa. Bcáosda cae da ao^M ÌM

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Tu Mtura. howewer, to the portrait gallery ; it ia a suggea- »ifthy of conaideraliou whether the portraits of at least

*1 the Char fa of tue Century—thoue, we mean, who have mat contributed by their oerviceo, gift* and reputations in ue vanuu* professions which they represent, to its thorough rfotucy and »ucce-s—whether the portraits of these gende- art luould not, upon public grounds, be added to thuee arouly in existence. No more interesting record of the duhiooid possibly be made, since their name* will certainly ■/ut into the local, and many ot them into the national hia- lury Among their early members it would surely be pleus- Mt to hare portraits, reliable and well executed, of R Cary Lag, whose name will always be identified with American ir aitrcture; of C. Mayr, an artist of real ability, whose pauirt* gave a new impetus to art in this city and else- wmi», George C. Smith, Mayor Thompson S. Brown, the well-Rinembtred engineer, and Daniel Seymour, already Waorabiy named a* a man of great executive ability and iMfu.ceu.

| TO BC CONTUSUKO.I

A W O M A N ’ S V I E W .

DirriiREST PHASES OP SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIKE OK WOMEN AS DEVELOPED IN WASHINGTON.

*Tk*p«riod ha* u r i r e d when hnm an welfare demand* th a t Intellec ml «a ik llon of the tro th o f woman ebonld tak e the place, no t only in Iwiwa boeoia. ba t in tha t of m an and society, o f the la b ila n tia l *c- Imwledgment of it.”—El iz a W . F a k s h a m .

W a s h i n g t o n , D. C., February 25, 1871.bodil habits present more varied forms and enter more

faply into relations of life in Washington than in any other gbee in this country.

The surface fashionable life, including the social-politico rtoRat, develops a deeper meaning than is apparent to the OMl observer in its rounds of receptions, calls' and visit- kp. It is here that woman has exerted her greatest, and fvhqiait may be truthluily said, her only power, heretofore It is within these charmed circles her intrigues are entered ■to, and from thia, the centre of her power, she issues her •ditto, softly spoken, deferentially suggested, it may be, but psteatial nevertheless. That this power has been or is at ill timet exerted for the public good, we can hardly hope to ■tke apparent The atistocratic element, so essentially in- knent ut the female organization, renders a public spirit, a stale of duty toward the public good, of all virtues as women has been situated and educated, the most rarely to be found among them. Men do not, cannot escape the deterioration sf such influences. Many a man, whom no consideration of personal gain could move, has bartered bis political opinions lor loci&l advancement lor his wife. In this sphere of life her influence is generally on the ilhbiral and auti-popuhtr side, for this ia generally the gaining one lor personal inter- iil and vanity. In the social world she is queen ; here she rules and feeis the sweet intoxication of her power. But she is ostentatious in disclaiming all desire for equality or citi­zenship, and in proclaiming her complete satisfaction with the place which society has assigned her, exercising in this si in many other respects a most noxious influence over the .eelings and opinions of men—

I they cannot plant thiELiielvis. In tLc-ir dteire to prrmrve their realm of rule intact, th>y are gaining as great a noto­riety as the strong-minded , indetd, are proving a iUoiig claim to the appellation of agitators thenuelves.

On thia qui ation of equal j uy, the writer propose* in sub­sequent letters to give some interesting faits w hich show how the anti-suffrage advocates have imjieded their own just rub- in the management of our civil service. It is another daim for consideration that this city presents to the social phi oso- pher, that in its midst has been inaugurated the tiret com­paratively lair attempt to give woman that much needed boon of industrial freedom and independence.

W HO A R E O lH F lU E .N D s— NOW AND COMING f

We find, however, among the middle classes of society, in­cluding the labor clement and a sciui-litirarv class—women w ho read some, think some, and who have no great interests to peril—agrow ing thought u|hju this subject. The meet­ings at the capital, called together from time to time to dis­cuss and canvass these matters, disclose this fact, and whether

'n from a cause Her f .. e -.3 one of th«

g Le i’ we i t i l there, and whose ■ „ !„« in the i*K'Mi .,n t has li led it from the

i • » ■si-uii.r et to tbnt of an equal—a very Minerva,i . cu..ard r r *11 the right* of riti.-er»iiip which

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. . »3 >' * c * i j i t*..ukis< u}3'n L/t* *.ilo<ret. And young, t ft :<iLu.-.ag ivsiLictAi .v* U fv ie * ! .m life is opening , i '--Lr ma’.urir ii.Atr\ the wsre o í wh.*e natura has >. . l: aer the La;.i Lc.vtA.ly >f »c'f *i.pjw>rt, but, whiih ,-v. - , ' i yet *|*ark¡>» under the liitpiraiuwi of tl.e hopes the ... : lu n g s Then Hr f..'.l h*| py ta»'rs w l.ch we in-

: 'r'y h el t<h r.e i.. 3„ .,issfu ! lit is , whom fortune has ; v. .’L tiw maat »tied kiugu jrs a:h1 buried hi'jW3 It ha*

a tiV .z.ie ot'jnT.nn with the opposition to this cause ti-st t ie » omen engaged in It li»vc born dissp |vinted in 1 ie »nJ are unhappy ia their ui*r:ud relation*, and tlins t it w ihc . i i K of » i man fre m a fa *r rliuid pomL Tbi re is inu- b that might be aaid with profit upon this |>oint ; but, fv.*r our present jmrpoae, we w i*h to say, however the ranks may have been recruit«d from thi» cls>» in the past, r. tan no longer be said, w ith t ie daily tableaux >nn in the i« uiuiiiue re*om ol young, brave, Vautifu! women, who are at hast showing a great interest in the aubject Are these women to be sal'factorilv dispi'sed r t bv the JesLs of the fashionable butterfly, or tbr contemptuous fling* of the believeis in the >t>ud rights of an aristocracy ( f eJass and caste*

T H E G R A V L 'T l ' l t o l lL L M «>K A L L — U o w M1A1.L W E M E E T IT ?There i* unr questHn assuming la'g«- jiropiTtions, enter­

ing suhtlry, and in a thoiisuml way* wr hardly dare breathe to ourselves, the moil su re t uud peivuding of life's necessi- li«s—the discussion of which is the strongest pioof yet given o f the intensity and earntMutas w ith which to man is taking hold of the m il probhms of human existences. Mrs. Isabella Beecber Hooker is the Apostle John ol this dis­cussion. Following in the path of kits. Josi phine llutlcr, of England, and the noble women who, upon/ree platforms and with vn c lo ted doors, have entered their protest before the men and wotniii <>f their country against legislation which seems to be wholly unjust, lu cause, in its resulta, bringing degradation only to one let of victims to vices w hich it takes two to consummate. We refer to the “ Con­tagious Diseases A r t " passed in England and imitatid, at lcn6t, in one of our largest Western cities—St. Louis, and which it is 6ought to'recommend to other communities. Mrs. Hooker tukes the extreme point of opposition to the policy involved from the standpoint of woman’s degrada­tion, leaving out the view of male liiimnnitariaus, that of protecting our rons and brothers fiom the evils of their own bud practices. There is scarcely uny other pretext aiven by the most philanthropise of the advocates of the so-culled protective legislation. Both of tliete views arc the out-

the ballot is the result of the agitiflion or not, a large field of growths of unequal conditions, and the conceptions ofthought, a deeper sense of life's responsibilities w ill take hold on the life of woman. When we look back upon the results j accomplished for her, and in which the race must and do re­joice, may not the most conservative ol us yield an ear to the I new clnims set forth, for none will deny the work, und result belongs to these agitators ? If the laws upon our statute [

life growing therefrom. It is rare, at best, to find a man, however noble, generous and magnanimous his character may be, who, when lie analyzes his conception of woman’s nature and position to the final ultimate-6 he is able to see, believes that she is given to him for any purpose hut that of service, though noble and sweet that service tnay be.

books are written in brighter lines—if the poor laboring I i t is equally as rare to find a woman who.holds in her brain women whose days aie spent in toil can collect and control I and cherishes in her heart a conception of life and its higher her wages—if a married woman can own her own after mar-1 attributes thnt does net draw its coloring solely from the riage, and elect how and when her patrimony may be dis-1 lifeless marble-white of mere physical chastity. Trace these posed of—if a fallen woman find the way to repentance more I two conceptions all along through history'and it will be easy and the joys of chastity'still within her reach, it is be-1 found that discord only is the result of all attempts to bringcause o< the labors of these self-sacrificing women.

FALLAS, ATIIENE AND HEI1K— ONE SYMPOSIUM.

Now that the way is growing more easy their ranks are | fast filling. The evidences of this fuct are manifold. Proof of it may be found any day on visiting the committee room at the capitoi, which, by the courtesy ot the gentlemen, has been allowed them. The grouping of the faces here would prove a study for the artist or philosopher. “ Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker” is the central figure, and, with her sweet face and winning manners, acts the apostle of the new faith. She has proved a host within herself in this, to her, fresh field of labor. Mrs. Paulina W right Davis, one of the oldest, as she is one of the brightest, advocates of tills cause, has a countenance as gentle as it is full of character. Her noble life has left its impress in lines of beauty upon a face already past m aturity ; but whose ripening powers of mind and rounded life has grown rich in giving to others ol the wealth of her own prodigal nature ; she is what one of our best writers has called a “ mature siren”—a woman of beauty, culture and fine acquirements ; she has devoted her life to a cause which, however misdirected it may seem to others, to her has been conceived in a conscientious convic­tion, and carried out through a life misunderstood in its aims and objects, and subject to censorious criticisms. As this is eminently an age of culminations she nmy live to see the fullfilment ot her hopes, for she is one of the pioneers in this cause. In looking on Mrs. Davis, one cannot help re­calling the wonderful “ Myth of Una,” from which ever beautiful and subtile type of womanly power and wisdom, »he called the paper, edited by herself, in the earliest gray ot this movement, almost before the faintest flush of sunrise had tinted the dim sky of woman’s yearning life.

Then we have Victoria C. Woodhull, the young, brave spirit

social order therefrom. The first tiling necessary is equality —a removal of the idea of service as applied to woman from the soul of man. When woman is free these problems will be met and solved by the equal aspiration of both man and woman to harmonize and make bcantiful the earth. Until that time comes, however, with Mrs. Hooker, we bc-lieve it to be our duty to oppose leg slation which is impure in its source and atrociously unjust in its results. Such resistance is the best preparation for equality.

H. 31. Barnaiid.

[Fo r W oodhull & C laflin 's W coklj.]

SECRET TENDERNESS.

BY JU L IE T T E T. BURTON.

W e m eet and emlle where others tread T he sam e great thoroughfares,

And w ith a careless glance we read T he look the o ther wears.

We clothe the face In cold a ttire ,N or le t the eyes reveal

The language w hich the h e a rt 's desire W auld prom pt i t to unseal.

One loves the other, ah I so well.W ith silent, strong appeal,

W hich love It pains us n o t to tell.Y et pleases us to feel.

A nd for th a t Joy we’ll willing bear T he anguish in the bliss

Of secret tenderness, nor care T hat anguish to dismiss.

"tt'oodhnll i Clafliu’s atfccblfl- M a r c h 1 1 , 1871.

[Tor Woofta!] A CT*f'=’• W**klj.lSAPPHO TO THE POETS.

From Ida 's m any foant«In*d kUI.W h f t« Pkn■ a a e <ntk Io n N rw o-

Bon many Ihoa^hts. u d tetiooi fl.'l Th« Book of Tim« that Um b«twe«a.

From Homer's day to Shakerpear«-* lyr» ;And (hence to Byron's haaghty m ase;

And thence to Tenojsoa's soft Are,My tool again would I Lnfttee.

human love less anient now Then when that clastic steep I walked.

And fsce to flsce, and brow to brow,With Jore hlmael/ in passion talked f

OX no r the mate of Sappho Utm Immortal in Its virgin Are;

And «till its Inspiration glees. Wherever sounds the poet's lyre.

The soni of Poesy on high.Unbroken Lolds its hallow’d reign ;

It speaks th« same from yon pare sky. As when I trod th’ Arcadian plain.

The fountains here do marmar still As erst they ssng in Psris’ day—

T ie not in Time the mare to kill. Nor clog with rile, degenerate day.

No, no ! ’tfs not In vain I leave My Ida's steep for purer air—

Nor will I longer weep and grieve— The world doth still my spirit share.

My wild, strong spirit here that first In notes of madness rent the sky ;

The soul of poetry hath nar.ed,And poets are my progeny.

Divine Apollo ( bear this voice.Nor think thy classic shades are gone;

If not within thy land of choice.The world still echoes round thy song.

Washington, D. C. Frederick A. Aiken .

E X P E R I E N C E I S T H E G R E A T A N D U N E R R I N G

T E A C H E R .

H E S D A M E S S H E B R i i A X , D A H L G R E X <£• CO., P L E A S E T A K E N O T IC E . •

As an effectual answer to the inconsistent and foolish asseverations of the terrible effects that will be suieto follow political equality, we present the following testimony,which we declare unanswerable, and we'ask those who are attempt­ing to cast obloquy upon constitutional equality to either dis­prove this evidence or to acknowledge themselves in error and cease their efforts to mislead the people :

[From the Laramie Sentinel.]WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING.

At last the cause of woman suffrage has become respecta­ble, and, we know, a success. The telegraph informs us that that preponderous, grave, sedate and owlish body, the Com­mittee on Judiciary in the Senate of the United States, has consented—nay invited, the distinguished advocates of this doctrine to come before them and present their case. We cannot look upon this matter with indifference. Our own Territory has been the first political power on earth to try this experiment fairly, both in the enactment of law and in carrying it into effect. We don’t make it as a boast, but merely state as a fact, which probably every member of the Legislature here would admit, that it was due entirely to the course pursued by this paper, and the individual exertions of its editor, that the woman suffrage bill was passed in this Territory. I t was also the course pursued by the Sentinel which secured a fair and candid trial of this experiment in this Territory.

Yet, strange as it may seem, we have never been consid­ered a woman’s rights organ; we very seldom allude to the subject, and then only just at some critical time in the progress of events. We here have tried the experiment fairly and practically. We have tested it in what were sup­posed to have been its most vulnerable points. Without giving her time to fit herself for the new duties and responsi­bilities conferred upon her, we have placed woman in all the most trying positions incident to the political franchise. We have placed her upon the judicial bench and in the jury box, in official positions, and at the polls during the heat of the most exciting political canvass we have ever known. We did not simply cooler upon woman the right to occupy such official positic n s 'a s might be suited to her taste, but we re­quired her to also hear ad the burdens of her new sphere, even to the payment of the poll tax. Looking back at the history of the affair, it seems scarcely gallant—nay, scarce y just, and yet we are glad the principle has been subjected to this trying ordeal, because its triumph is so much more sal- isfaciory.

Every one w' o has studied it knows the large element of con-ervati-m in human nature—knows how strong are the preju !ie.i s of pre conceived opinions and the influences of early educa1 ion. We here had a fair share of it, and the woman suffrage law h id this to encounter among us.

The result has ptovi d two things greatly to the credit of the male portion of our sectinnof country. Fir.-t, that we had enough love of justice to try the experiment fairly— to give our wive-*, mothers and sisters some litrle show for their 1 vis in the trying position in which werhad placed them, aud secondly, that wc were not too g eat fools to learn

W e a s su m e th e 1 i t t 'T b e c a u s e w e d o n o t k n o w o f an i n d !- v i i u a l in o u r c i ty n o w , w h o w ill n o t c h e rfu llv a c k n o w le d g e th a t it '« e x p e r im e n t I n s p ro v e d a s u r e ss; W e d o n o t k n o w o f a s in g le m an « h o w o u ld f a y h e w ish e d tlie e le c tio n p r iv i­leg e ta k e n iiw av L o u th e In d i-a o f o u r T e r r i to ry . A ll th e n i . h t m ir v i- io tts c o n ju re d u p b y fev e rish im a g in a tio n s n bou t w o m e n “ u t s - x l r g tit ' tnsi Iv e s ," n e g le c tin g th e ir d o m e d c d u tie s , a n d f i l l in g f ro m th e ir n a t iv e m o d ' f ty an d p u r i ty , h a v e v u n .sb e d f ro m o u r m in d s . N o su c h re su lts h a v e e v e r

! been apparent in the slieb'est degree. They were predicated him on the Treasury bench, and be assured you will nre«j I upon 1 yhochtsU that turn's 1« gaf eractmen's w< re capable of hear him accused of teirg a demagogue acain."■ p rv , r tm z P e o rd e r o f n a tu re , and d isariau giD g a n d d efeat- ___ . . .

intr t ,e pla-s and purposes of ihe Aim gh-y . , E' Bub' er - i 1»0“« political a. ntimtnt, gave th.Tbe 9 eve'« *>f the w i mm i itfr'p* movement I* assured, following conversation n s an illustrailon: " Good Hhycdi ;*•

T< n v«ar> from now we »ualt 1-ok b tek and »mile at ourjcriid the ntembtr, "'What? you ary this—you iosnuai®su re lo u n d e d u p o n eu,-h (U st I a m a c tu a te d by m y o w n m le r r e t ! W h y no t have awl

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a t o n c e th e t r u th , th a t 1 v o t td a cc o rd in g to m y consciei.ee V’Wyoming—ihe youngest of ihe political family—enjoys the i " Because — became 1 really did not think you such,

proud di-tinction of favini le t the van in inis march ot ; fool."

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equal rights and universal equal tv before the law.

H io u w o o d P a r k , T e n a f lv .N . J .V i c t o r i a W o o D t t r n . :

Dear Madame.—The majority re port pre sented by Mr. Bingham aga nst y, ur memorial to CYn.ress is re.,lly one of the fe, b!e-t pul lie do» umer.t» I ever perused.

Wtll, well it is piiilul that the reccrd of the Republican party in tl e question of women’s freedom should be so dark and inconsistent. .

When the XV. Amendment was before the nation, I made my earnest protest against it, in season and out of season because I taw in that the establishment of an aristocracy of s x on this continent and de» per ib gradation for woman hood. I then pr, phesied new intuits and persicutions such as we had fever known Infore. In what shape it was com ing I did not clearly see, but I saw it must come logically aDd philosophically, and at the hands of the parly in pow er,

When tLe women in Boston si id out to the R, publican party and declared themselves Republicans in the Massachu setts State Convention, I blushed for my sex, fi r that party inirodu» ed the word “ male” into the Fedeial Constitution where it had never been before : that party made every ioid and lackey that treads this continent, foie gn and native, our rulers, judges and jurois by the XV. Amendment, and they have now damned their deeds of darkness by declaring that women are not “ citizens,” but "members” of the nation! ” —mere appendages to the State, Ihe Church and the home, the individual man being the true representative in all cases If this, indeed, be woman’s normal condition, may God grant us a wiser, nobler type of manhood as our prefix than John Bingham, of Ohio. Again, simultaneous with our political degradation, comes new social humiliations, and with the same class of politicians in the several States.

No sooner was the XV. Amendment declared the law of the land, making all men sovereigns, all women slaves, than propositions were made in several of our Legislatures to license prostitution by the State. Many of the sections of these bills are a disgrace to the decency ot the nineteenth century. Similar legislation in England aroused the indig­nation of the entire womanhood of that nation to white heat, while here it has scarce created a ripple on the surface.

In the last year, too, we have had our Dred Scott decision The verdict in the McFarland case practically declared that a man’s property in his wife could not be alienated by cruelty and abuse any more than his right to his horse and his dog.

All these things are the natural outgrowths of woman's political degradation.

In view of these monstrous wrongs of our sex, patience and calmness, and a willingness to wait—in those of us who can speak and write and work—are not viitues, but crimes- We have waited 6,000 years, and the time has fully come to seize the bull by the horns, as you are doing in Washington and Wall street, and show the John Binghams that we who pay millions of taxes every year propose to be something more than “ members of the State.”

Yours, respectfully,E l i z a b e t h C a d y S t a n t o n .

E N G L I S H P A T R I O T I S M A N D W H A T M A K E S I T

Me SDAMES WOODHULL & CLAFLIN :As my eye caught the above heading to a letter in your

last issue, signed by G. M. Peters, I laughed at the (as I then considered it) huge joke. The impression that it was a jocose satire was, however, befogged by the perusal of the letter which left mein the following quandary, Was the letter really a jest on English Patriotism ? if so, why clothe it from end to end in sober language? If, on the other hand, Mr. Peters really penned this letter as a review of English Patriot­ism, that fact lather than the letter, becomes a jest of the first magnitude.

Mr. P. starts out with the statement that “ perhaps of all countries in the woild England can boast the most of the spirit of pat) iotitm.” C irtuinly: look at tl c numbers whose patriotism indue»s them to leave her shores and to stay away. The foolish Fiench people, leave 11 La belle Fran»c ” and, on making a fortune abroad, return to their native country. P ri tty patriotism this to pit against Eng isli patriotism which indtices her patriots not only to go away, but to stay away! Sir E. Bulwer Lytton once had a few words to say on “ Enalit-h patiiolism,” as follows: “ The Englishman is va!n of h :s country i W hen fore? Because of the public buildings ? He never enters them. The laws ? He abuses them eternally. The pub ic m en? They are quacks. The writers ? He knows nothing about them. He is vain ol his country for an excellent reason: I t produced h'm.” Mr. Hunt, M. P ., once said: “ You speak » f the mob »if demagogues whom the Reform Bill will sind to P arlii- rnent; be m.t afraid; you have one sure method of curingthe wildest of them. Choose your man, catch him, placo

And E. Bulwer Lytton also says: “ In mts>i boroughs a man may bo bribul and no disgrace to him,"

nd “ a man prefissing very exalted motives is a very ridicu­lous animal with U9. . . We do not laugh at vulgar lords half so mu»h as at the generosity of patriots or the devot'on

f ph.losopht re." So much lor English “ patriotism.” Mr.P. proceeds to explain the secret cause of said patriotism to be the intimate connection 1 ctw» en the people and Govern­ment, which conneition is the woik of English l.iw, no doubt »f it. An English lord may contract as many debt« as he likes, hut you cannot sell, mortgage, or level an inch of his entailed propirlyfor the debt, though he can sell the laborer's bed from under him for a debt of five shillings.Over one-half of said population are debarred from taking certain degrees at the universities because they do not agree with cer ain religious doctrines.

In the case of an intestate his real estnte goes to the eldest son, the other < liildren being disinherited by hue. (This is in order to preserve a land monopoly.) 1 hose who attend the national schools are compelled to learn the doctrines of re­ligion promulgated by the Stite ns the only orthod x ones The right to preach the gospel in the parish churches it l ouglit and sold by and to the highest bidder, the people' having no voice in the matter. Commissions in the army and navy are bought and sold; men cannot rise from the ranks to be even a captain. Thirty-three families own all the Hou^e of Lords and two-thirds of the House of Com­mons. If these fact3 don’t cement the people and Govern­ment, and “ give a better guarantee of the defence of the Government by its peppie than any other country of the earth,” as Mr. P. says, egad, it is .difficult to know what would do so. But there, no doubt, the Government and people of England are as happy as turtle doves, and all the tales of reform agitations, tearing down rails in Hyde Park, aud cries of “ Reform or Revolution,” h ssesfor the Queen, cries of “ Down with the House of Lords”—are mere imaginations of those newspaper men to mislead people.

Now we come to the grandest discovery of all. Future ages will stand aghast at the abstruseness of the foolish philosophers who have written long dissertations connecting the flourishing of commerce with peace. Misguided men, listen to Mr. P ., who tells you that “ the arts of peace have ever been their aim in war.” You understand, the English have always gone to war to foster the arts of peace. What a comfortable fact for her adversaries! what a comfortable fact for her neighbors, for English politicians to say, “We don’t fight you because you have wronged us, oh no; we fight you to sell our wares!” At the same time shall I admit this statement to he perfectly true, yet I cannot allow Mr. P. to claim any originality in calling them to notice. Mr. Cohden proclaimed the same facts when England tried to introduce opium into China at the point of the bayonet; but Mr. Cobden declaimed at such a policy while Mr. P. applauds it—laissez alles.

Mr. P. says : “ Their (the English) mathematics in war seems to have been that it was too costly to main­tain except for any other purpose than to give each man a sure and profitable market for what in all the future he might at home produce. This, it will readily be seen, is a much broader basis upon which to found war than the damages that might arise from any more little hindrances to the enterprises of a people, for a few years only, we will say.” Exactly, Mr. P., some foolish nations go to war be­cause another nation has damaged them or interfered with their commercial enterprises. They are not educated up to the political standard that teaches that war is too costly »or any purpose except to extend one’s trade forever. The bare idea of the United States talking of going to war because England interfered with America’s commercial marine for a year or two, when such a course was to benefit England for­ever—isn’t it preposterous ? W hat right has the United States to protect her existing trade that should for one mo­ment be allowed to clash with England’s future trade? England having invented, the idea of going to war to pro­tect and increase her commercial pursuits, is America to pirate the patent by doing likewise ?

Mr. P. continues: “ Wequestion whether any wise peo­ple in this day would maintain war (which is always bad) upon any such trifling basis as mere compensation for past injuries. We tire quite sure that the Britbh people would never at any time have maintaimd war solely for any such purpose.” Unfortunate Mr. P ., on the same day that this i pinion of his was published, came in the jJerald a speech of Mr. Disraeli as follows: “ He then proceedid to warn the House that the pursuit of wealth and commerce was not the only duty of this generation.” Then again we have the Abyss'nian war staring us in the face, and the darned thing won’t bo fiid in a corner—it keeps sti» king out, as also does ihe s;izure.by England of six Brnzi ian ships fora fancied injury which the king < f the B ilgiins, in lrs c: parity t f um­pire, d»-cid»d was an unjustiflab'e act, as no injuty was iu leaded or profleied. Th' n there is the Tr. nt aff.ir, a threa" for en injury—and the bbm lardm ent of Kagorima in conse­quence of an assumed in jury; also a Chinese war for a pro"

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n. ay your correspondent “ C. B. P.," and if, having preo n a good taste of that anci nt learning, be would

-u ! to interpret it for us, so that a way faring mao a !'■; -1, shuuld not err therein.be would rtnder i

-<! uni !y iervice t ) his readers. As the Runic writing now amis, 'M impossible even for good mythological sihulars i ! !t!nre than catch ihe hem of the garment of its mi an :: tt iy not elucidate and make plain the symbolism and «¡logiis timing betwe. n the ancient mylhos of Egypt, In lixditite andjRome, and those of the Bible? At prtsenl •hy lie -hyVif-i membra, and have no intelligent iig itures to 'Hshiae ihtm into a body " corporate,” and invi st them with daman interest. “C. B. P.” is evidently well and thoroughly pu»l—who ver he m aybe—on these most interesriig oi ni the languages of man, viz.; the mythological ar symbolical languages. We can see that it is an »hi study with him, and that he has it all at Ills •iü!*rends.” So has Muller—but so have not thenipr commons—the oi polloi who sit outside the guild of katlíirning. “ C. B. P.” has evidently got a long way into ih-Kcrtts of symbolism—so far as he is concerned—but he rito to the Clerui, not to, nor for, the antipodes of this dan “An ounce of civit,” good apothecary, would do wonders here, in the way of opening up the readers’ spirit- a! ejesigaL C. B. P. sees plainly enough, for example, kit the Bible is a bi-sexed book—a book of dual nature, cor- Mponding to that of man, poss' ss ing a literal and a spiritual igiificance, and that this last is of infinitely the greatest importance. He speaks ot the time when we shall “ learn to open the Bible with the mythological key,” etc. But the kt is only ínteres: ing to him as scientific knowledge, not siipiritaal knowledge for human guidance, regeneration and derail life. There are tens of thousands belonging to the Xe» Church, however—that Church which is founded on lie spiritual meanings of the Bible—who do regard it in the ipiritiul sense above spoken of, and perhaps our friend C.1 P. would find that his rhetoric would be improved, and sol t whit the less convincing where it is understood « ill if he were less flippant, and more mindful of people's feelings when dealing with these themes.There is no more interesting subject in all the ranges of

luuua intelligence than this of mythology. And, moreover, it is a vastly more profound subject than superficial readers cf Lempriere's Dictionary have any notion of. Sweden­borg, the great seer and revealer of spiritual truth in symbol­ic, and of the spiritual world itself, says that originally men thought and spoke in symbols, according to a strict and isolate science, which he called “ Correspondence ”—each symbol having always the same meaning and shades of meaning wherever it may occur. Thus the symbolism em­ployed in the opening chapters of Genesis, has the same oict meaning when it is used in the Psalms, the prophetical writings, the Gospels and the Apocalypse of St. John. “C.B.P.” calls this science of correspondence the science of mythology—and mythology proper is written and pictured in obedience to the laws of correspondence ; and what is Rugo lar, all the great mythological stories can be unlocked

i-Md their spiritual significance revealed, by and through the Bible symbolism. That is to say, the spiritual key which unlocks the letter of the Bible also u locks the letter aDd

¡ picture of the mythologies. When the era of intelligent corn­il ounication between man and man, and man and the angels

of heaven—through the beautiful science of correspondence -ceased, in consequence of human wickedness, the spiritual meaning of symbolism was lost, and the imagery was worshiped in place of the sacred truth which it represented. Such is the averment of Swedenborg, and it is proved to be truth by the existence of the stone symbolism in. Egypt and ludia, and by the literary symbolisip of Greece and Borne, as manifested in their mythologies. The old Sophi, were well instructed in these arcene matters, and

the early Christian father»’ Origin, to-wit; were well acquaint ed with the double meaning of the Bible stories—the Bible

LIFE INSURANCE FOR WOMEN.

A P A rE R ON

THE STATISTICS OF LIFE AND MATERNITYREAD AT PLYMPTON IIALL, NEW YrORK,

F E B R U A R Y 24, I8TI,

BY HON. ALEXANDER DELMAR,

Late Director of the United State» Bureau of Statistics.

L a d ie s a n d G e n t l e m e n —Several years ago, and before ihe cause o! Woman's Rights could be called a cause nt all I pri U'lly and fully committed myself to its justici.* At tin same time I fell, and I f.-el still, that ihe practical recogni tion of the rights depended upon the interest which woriien sboul 1 succeed in obtaining in pecun ary affairs. For it is upon pecuni iry interests, rather ihan upon natural lights, that | olilieal arrangi menls are based. Hence it has always bei n my aim to op n new fields of employment and indus irial aetiviiy for women, confident that this course, if sue cessfully carried out, will do more than logic or argument 10 bring about the glorious result which evt ry serious stu­dent ot American politics must see is eventually inevitable.

I am here to-night fur the purpose of advocating the or­ganization, hy women, of an insurance company, wbieh shall insure the lives of women—not necessarily hy women only or for women only, for that would be to follow the proscrip live policy which is now pursued by the insurance compa nies controlled by men. I would admit gentlemen to the management; I would have male physicians I would insure male livis — as many of them as could be procured ; but the management should be in the bauds of women m ainly; the male physicians should be as sociated with properly qualified female physicians; and it should be made a point to influence women to insure their lives —I mean all women by whose death parent, sister, brother, husband, children, partner, creditor or other interested person would sustain pecuniary loss.

A WOMAN CANNOT NOW INSURE H ER L IFE .I assert it as a fact that among the hundreds of life insur

ance companies in this country very few will insure woman's lile at all; and that such as will, do charge an extra premium therefor, or subject the applicant for insurance to conditions of unnecessary and repelling harshness not ap plied to m en; not because of any organic circumstances pe­culiar to women, but by reason of incorrect views which prevail among insurance men with regard to the relative value of male and female life, particularly between the ages of twenty and forty-five.

DO WOMEN DESIRE TO INSURE TH E IR LIV ES?I heard it asserted that women do not wish to insure their

lives ; that not being the heads of families, there are none who would suffer pecuniary loss by their death, and that, therefore, they have no motive to insure themselves; in short, that there is not a sufficient basis of insurable interest in the lives of women to furnish the foundation for a female life insurance organization. To a certain limited extent this is true. I have already admitted that women have fewer pecuniary interests than men, and it is that very defect which the success of the present enterprise is intended in part to remove. But already women have in this country very numerous and important pecuniary interests, and they are multiplying every day.

PECUNIARY INTERESTS IN THE LIVES OF WOMEN.Every child under age has a pecuniary interest in the life

of its mother. The deatli of its mother may cause an entire destruction of its prospects in life. The father, if there be one, may marry again, and, in the warmth of new affections, grow indifferent to the claims of his children by the former marriage. The life of a child is ot pecuniary interest to a parent, and more particularly when that child is of the ex pensive sex. A considerable amount of capital has been xpended upon her support, her education and her prepara­

tion for life. He insures his house, his merchandise and his horse. W hy should he not insure his child ? Many women are the heads of families. We have lernale property-owners, bankers, biokcrs, merchants, manufacturers, editors, authors, artists, agents, managers, hotel and boarding-house keep­ers, clerks, postmis.ressi s, telegraph operatoi-s and work­ing-women. These persons are generally heads of families in the sense that the family depends upon them for support. Their relatives, parents, brothers, sisters, children, nay even husbands, depend upon them for support; and both they and their partners in business and creditors have a pecuniary interest in tlieir lives.

If we extend this survey to women not heads of families, yet possessing property, to women having life estates, to an­nuitants,. to widows and to the many other classes of women in whose lives pecuniary interests are involved, we shall

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have not onlv a basis sufficiently broad for the organization of one female life insurance company hut of many.

OBJECTIONS TO INSURING THE LIVES OF WOMEN.T h e p r in c ip a l o b je c t io n t h a t in s u ra n c e c o m p a n ie s n o w

h a v e to in s u r in g th e l iv e s o f w o m e n is th e b e l ie f th a t th e v a lu e o f f .m a le life is le»s th a n th a t ot m a le s , p a r t ic u la r ly b i tw e e n th e ag es 20 to*45. T h i s b e lie f ia fo u n d e d m a in ly o n th e Old A c tu a r ie s ' T a b l e ; p a r t ly o n th e c o n f irm a tio n o f llie se v a lu e s e x p o u n d e d in th e N e w A c tu a r ie s ’ T a b le ; p a r t ly o n th e u n e x p la in e d r e l in q u is h m e n t o f th e p ra c t ic e o t in s u r ­in g th e liv e s o f lem a lc s b y o n e o f o u r o ld e s t a n d w e a l th ie s t li le in s u ra n c e c o m p a n ie s ; a n d , s o fa r a s th e C ity o f N e w Y o rk is c o n c e rn e d , u p o n o u r u n fo u n d e d p r e ju d ic e r e la t iv e to th e p e r i l s o f m a te r n i ty in th e m e tro p o lis .

OBJECTIONS ALLEGED.I know that it is alleged that these are not the real ground

of objection, but that the reason why female lile insurance is not practised is because there is not to be found among females a sufficient number in whose lives pecuniary inter­ests are involved to furnish a fair average of mortality for the ground-work of insurance; or that sufficiently perfect medical examinations cannot be obtained. Or, again, that women are so difficult of approach as to render it unremu- neraiive to solicit life insurance from them, ilrese two last allegations 1 must dismiss as lrivolous. If male physicians cannot ascertain, as precisely as in the case of men, the health of a female applicant tor insurance, let the companies obtain the co-operation of competent temale physicians, and so remedy the difficulty. There are plenty of them, and they would be glad to reader their assistance on the same terms as men. if male solicitors cannot penetrate the arena of women’s offices and women's homes, lit the companus em­ploy temale solicitors who can. As to the first a.legation, that there is not a sufficient number of females iu whose lives an insurable interest exists, 1 have anticipated it by showing that such a number and far more than such a num­ber dois exist.

No. Twist it and turn it as you may, the real ground of objection is the actuaries’ table. And this is proved by the lact that among the tew companies who do underwrite female lives at all, the piactice is to refuse them altogether unless they are past the age of 45, or to charge an extra hazardous rale of premium. Some of these companies go so far i s 10 charge a discount of 10 per cent, from toe sum of the policy, in case the insured dies during lire period of piegnancy, or from causes, however remote, conneiLd with the phenome­non of child-bearing.

L IFE INSURANCE TABLES.The tables of life expectancy mainly used hy life insurance

companies in this country are the Carlisle, the. Old A< tuaru s, the English National, and the American Experience—elritfly the Carlisle. Of these tables, but two show ihe value of female Kle separately from male, viz., the Actuali. s’ and the English Life. When it is remembered that once a taLle of lite expectancy is adopted by an insurance company, it cannot be changed wnhout infinite trouble, danger and expense; the significance ol this fact, in connection with the question under discussion, is overwhelming. It amounts in substance to this: that not only cannot an insurance com­pany, unless it uses either the Actuaries’ or the English National tables, safely insure a female life, but it cannot even determine its supposed value without reference to tables of expectancy other than its own.

' TH E ENGLISH L IFE TABLESThe English Life Table No. 1 is based upon the English

national census of 1841 and the total mortality of England and Wales during the previous year. The English Life 1 able No. 2 is based on the same data, but the observations on deaths extend over a period of seven tears—1838 to 1844. The English Life Table No. 3 is based upon the same data, together with the English National Census of 1851 aDd ten more years of death registries. These tables were compiled by Dr. William Farr, ot London. Together they form the most elaborate tables of morlaiity ever constructed. They show a more favorable expectancy tor temale than for male life; yet, as they are based, not upon American, but upon English data, and not upon assured lives, but on the lives of a wuole kingdom—upon the rich, the poor, the affluent, the indigent, the pampered, the starving, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous, the temperate and the dissipated alike—thiy are not deemed safe guides to the value oi selei ted lives iu this country, and are but little used by American insurance companies; while such companies as do use them are much influenced as well by the overpowering evidence as to the value ot female assured life furnished by the Actuaries’ table.

TH E ACTUARIES’ TABLE.This table of life expectancy was compiled in 1837 by a

committee of London Actuaries, at the head ol which w as Mr. Jenkin Jones, from the combined recorded experience of seventeen English life offices, during a period extending to eight and a half years, and carrying insured lives to the number of 83,905.

Although the area of observation should be regarded as too small* to render this table conclusive as to the relative value of female life, yet it is, nevertheless, regarded as the best exponent we have of that value, and upon it rests the whole tabric of illusions which surround the subject of fe­male life insurance. It proves, for example, that while the male expectation of life at 20 is 39.8 years, the female ex­pectation is but 35.9 years. In brief it assigns a lower rank to female life than to male at most of* the ages, 20 to 45. I should say it degrades female life—but 1 anticipate.

The new Actuaries’ tables, which embraces observations on assured lives in certain English lile offices down to the year 1869, substantially confirms the results of the old table. But the new Actuary table is not at all used in the United States, and the impressions on the relative .value of temale assured life which have gained ground in this country arc due altogethi r to the old table, since they exisled prior to the publication ot the new. I t is, therefore, with the old table, and not at all with the new that I shall deal in this paper.

OTHER L IF E TARLES ON FEM ALE L IF E .The results shown in the Actuaries’ table arc directly op­

posed to those shown in all other lile tables that rxhibit the value of male and female selected lives separately. Kcra- seboom’s Dutch table, De Parrieux's Freucb table and Tin laison’s English Government table, all of which were based on s leeted lives, show that the value of female l.fe, includ­ing the period most disputed, is greater than that of male. But it is object d to these tables that tiny arc all bamd on the mortality of government annuitanta, w hich is the fact, and tbut as government annuitants live longer than other

•Waltonrd, of the London 9t*t. Soc., In Insurance Quids, p 1«1

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G K Ç o o d lm U & © l a f i m ’s U t f te M g . M a r c h 11, 1871.[F o r W ood h u ll A C laflln '« W o ck ly .]

H Y M N O F LOVE.

B T JA N U A R Y SE A H L K .

T h e re Is n o h e av e n b u t love.A ll th io g s th a t liv e a n d m o v e A re u p h e ld b y Its b re a th .A n d i t i s m a s te r o f th e b a n d s o f d e a th .

A n d w a r a n d w ro n g a n d s tr ife .A nd e v e ry ev il life .T h r u ' a ll T im e 's m a rch a n d th ro e s .A re s u b tle h e lp e rs o f th a t s w e e t re p o se .

A n d love o n e d ay sh a ll re ig n O v e r h il l a n d d a le a n d p l a in ;A n d a ll th e la n d a n d seaS h a ll o w n th e tr iu m p h o f h is s o v e re ig n ty .

UP THE MOUNTAIN.

scopes o r m odem science, and ignored u tterly the discoveries o f th ree cen turies, w ould it be toleration to fit up a place tor them to teach long-exploded doctrines? His only reply w as, “ T o le ra tion .” So we quickly got into the wagon with babies, baskets, e tc., and jogged along am ong cactuses, and sap b rush , and flocks of sheep, over Uie plain, Uie burning sun sh in in g over o u r heads. House gained at last; a lyt-dy lunch, the horse and w agon w aiting at the door, and then to the H ouse o f God (?) goes o y D octor to practice patience and toll* rut ion!

A WORD TO AMERICAN GIRLS.I t m a k e s th e w e ak h e a r t s t ro n g ;T h e so n g lc s s g u s h w ith s o n g I A u d s p re a d s th e e a r th w ith flow ers .A n d b u ild s e n c h a n te d p a la ce s a n d b o w ers .

I t c la im e th fo r i t s o w n E a c h lo v e ly t i n t a n d to n e ,A u d m a k e th B e a u ty seemT h e scm b lau c e o f i t s o w n d e lig h te d d ream .

A n d vocal to i t s e a r .D u m b s ta r s a n d s o la r s p h e re —T h e ir m uffled m u s ic co m esI n g ra n d e u r ru s h in g l ik e th e ro ll o f d ru m s .

I t h e a r s th e a u g e ls s in g .A n d th e ir g la d vo ices r in g ,T h ro u g h a ll th e a z u re a is le sA n d d o m e s o f h e a v e n 's i l lu m in a te d .p ile s .

I t see s a m y s tic s e n s e —A la n g a g e d e ep , in te n s e —I n th e g ra s s -b la d e s a n d w eeds ,A n d floods o f g lo ry o 'e r th e a ilo u t m eiu ls .

I t m a k e th w o m e n ’s ey e sS ta r-b lo sso m s , m y s te r ie s IA n d in c e le s tia l s h e e nA rra y s th e i r lo v e lin e ss o f fo rm a n d m ien .

I t d e c k s th e v irg in -b rid e .P a in in g h e r b a lm y s id eW ith o d o ro u s p a n g s , w h ic h s ta r tT o b lis s fu l m u s ic a ll h e r th ro b b in g h e a r t .

T h e in fa n t o n th e b re a s t D o th l ik e a c h e ru b r e s t ;A n d h e av e n ly h a lo s s p re a d ,L ik e G o d 's p ro te c t in g b re a th —a ro u n d h is h ead .

A ll th in g s fu ll w e ll i t k n o w s ;A n d w h e re s o e 'e r i t g o e s M u sic a n d flo w ers a t t e n d ;A n d d a rk b ru te fo rm s re jo ic e , a u d call i t f r ie n d .

I t m a k e s th e d a rk n e s s l ig h t ,A n d l ig h t m o re g ra n d a n d b r i g h t ;T h e w ild e rn e ss d o th b lo o m ;A n d a t i t s c a ll th e d e a d co m e fro m th e to m b .

A ll th e g re a t w o rk s o f m a n A re b u i l t u p o n i t s p l a n ;I t p a in ts a n d ca rv es th e s to n e ,A n d th e h ig h re a lm s o f P h a n ta s y d o th o w n .

T h e p o e t in h ts d re a m s,T ra n s f ig u re d b y lo v e 's b eam s,S in g s h is g o ld e n so u g .B o rn e o n h is fiery w in g s th e h e a v e n s a lo n g .

I t b re a th e s t h r o ' e v e ry p ra y e r ,A n d m a k e s th e su ffe re r b e a r—T h e n o b le m a r ty r d ie ;A n d c o n q u e rs , l ik e a G od , th e i r ag o u y .

B c l ig io n , h o ly -ey ed ,G o d 's V e s ta l g lo rified IL o o k iu g th ro ' f a i th to H imIn so lem n te m p le s a n d c a th e d ra ls d i m ;

O r in th e s e c re t h e a r t ,W o rs h ip in g a p a r t .I s lo v e 's d iv in e a t ch ild ,B y th e d eep m y s te r ie s o f h e av e n b e g u ile d .

A n d lo v e a lo n e— w h en life Shuffles i ts m o rta l s t r i f e —U n lo c k s th e g a te s o f tim e ,A n d o p e n s th e e te rn i t ie s su b lim e .

A n d a ll tb e w o n d e rs g ran d ,A u d g lo r ie s o f G o d 's lan d ,T o ev e ry r ig h te o u s so u l.T h a t , liv in g , m ad e th e ¿ ru th i ts o n ly g o a l.

F o r lo v e is a ll In a ll.P e rv a d in g g re a t a n d e m a il;G iv e r o f t r u th a u d l ig h t,T h e s u n to ru le m a n 's day , th e s ta r s b is n ig h t.

A n d ae th e m ig h ty a ir ,W h ich p a e se th ev e ry w h ere—In f in ite i ts p lace—Ite c te lh fo rev e r in e th e r ia l space .

So all th in g s in G o d 's b re a s t O f b u rn in g love d o r e s t :A nd m an , h is d a r l in g p rid e .I f he lovo w ell, sh a ll ev e r w ith h im b ide .

A nd , o h I th is g lo rio u s e a r th .T e e m in g w ith w o u d ro u s b ir th ,So b e a u t ifu l an d good ,K o lliug w ith ra p tu re s th ro u g h th e lo v e r 's b lo o d ;

W ill one d ay be a s h eav en C row ned w ith th e s te l la r seven .F o r a ll th lu g e te n d to love.A ll v ice a n d fa lsehood th a t m e n 's h e a r ts do m ove ;

B Y A N N E D E N T O N C I U U O K .

R iv e r s id e , n e a r Sau B e h n a r 1 in-o , Cal., Ja n . 1871.Y esterday w e w ent to the m ountains w est o f us ; from

ou r house they appear qu ite near, b u t Ih ty are abou t fou r miles d istan t ; no r do they appear to be any g rea t height u n til the ir im m ediate v ic in ity is reached. In to a p re tty co r­ner th e doctor d rove the w agon, landed us, and then took out the horse. A sp ring of w ate r trom llic m ountnin heigh ts was sending dow n a clear, cool stream w hich w as passed along a w ooden g u tte r for six o r seven h und red yards to a patch of land ing th a t had been cleared and pro hably seeded. T here som e one had bu ilt a sm all cabin about four feet in height. Q uery— was he u L ilip u tian W ho could tell? I looked along the ledges an d in to the deep shadow s betw een th e h igh m ountains, th a t m y eye m ight, perhaps, obtain a g lim pse o f the little c iea tu re w no had bu ilt th a t wee cabin; bu t m y fancies w ere all p u t flight by the rem ark o f ou r m atter-of-fact D octor, th a t the cabin w as large enough for the m an to lie dow n, and th a t was all he w an ted in th is w arm clim ate; th a t ne had gone to the settlem ent to spend S unday; th a t he had seen h im be fore we sta rted , and th a t his nam e w as A lb righ t. A h, w hat w as the use ot d ream ing of a race ot L ilip u iian s afte r th a t o r of hop ing to see any one m ore d im inu tive than our selves! B u t there stoou the little b i t o f a house, like “ Sw eet Ivitty Clover,” fo u r feet high, w ith a real h it stove-pipe peeping ou t a la soldier, cam p-life style, and the re was a veritable iron kettle lor cooking on the outside and there w as a padlock on tbe door! P erh ap s, a fte r all th a t w as the house of th e th ree bears, “ the big bear, the m iddling bear, and the little w ee bear!”

L et us clim b to th e top o f one of these m ountains, said we to each other, aud see w hat is on the o ilier side. W an ted know ledge, you see, as d id M other Eve, dear old soul ! A h we are h e r tru e ch ild ren ! So w e left lunch-basket, ch ild ren and the biue-eyed belle o f seven m onths to the good doctor —yes, and another doctor— for docto is seem to be abou t the only n a tu ra l p roduction of the coun try , o r else they g rav i­ta te to it, there beiDg live in ou r little se ttlem en t—a singu lar instance of iron adap tab ility , seeing the re is n o th in g pro

fetaionally for them to do, unless of a surg ical natu re , in view of the inv igorating and ever recuperative clim ate.

W ell, to re tu rn to the m oun ta in ; w e w en t up , up , up passing rap id ly betw een burned sage-brush and b its o f w ild pea (a green p lan t w ith a dead yellow flower), over thousands o f holes in the ground, vary ing from an inch to seven or eight inches in d iam eter; on, on, over falling rocks o f g ran ite un til all a t once I rem em bered hav ing been to ld th a t those holes w ere n o t only the hom es o f rabbits, squ irrels and o ther harm less anim als, but also o f lizards, scorpions and snakes. Dear, dear ! w hy d id I th in k of t h a t ! A t first I stood still resolved to w ait for the o thers, as I wds fa r 'ah ead , b u t then som e of the snakes m ight craw l o u t of th e ir holes. U p the face of the m oun ta in i had though t to clim b, b u t found th a t im possible ; had to re trace m y steps and w as.then jo ined by o thers of the party . F inally , on hands an d knees, a lte r some dangerous clim bing, at last, a t last, w e w ere safely perched on tne top. B ut, oh, despair ! B eyond and ta r above w as a h igher range o f m ountains, and beyond those ano ther raDge. W e m ust give it up. N o, i t is n o t g iven to us to be carried up in to a m ountain to see all th e k ingdom s of the w orld and the g lo ry o f them , though a t th a t m om ent we should have been glad had his Satanic m ajesty been p resen t to have m ade him self as useful as in days of yore.

D ow n, dow n, we come. A h, good ! W e have found a narrow p ath , as if m ade on purpose fo r us. O ver lizards w e go. D ear me, how rap id ly they move, as if they flew T heir fea r of us takes aw ay ou r fear. W e never th o u g h t of grizlies o r wolves w hile there. I t Was well th a t I d id not th in k of either a t the sam e tim e as lizards or snakes. I am to ld th a t the re are some bears, and I have h ea rd w olves sharp ly yelp ing at dead of n ight. I t is said they are n o t dan- erous, but I am not certain w hether th a t is the exact fact or w hether it is m erely considered expedien t th a t w e should th in k so.

A t any ra te we arrived safely in the valley, w ith a few sun­flowers, to prove th a t flowers can and do grow here. __ W e had also seen spots w here real green grass grew , and th is w e reported and tr ied to rejoice over. W e had, m oreover, seen a really beautiful tree, about n ine feet in heigh t, and a few willows had once evidently grow n there, fo r on the dry sand w ere th e ir roots bu rned black.

T h e doctor seemed annoyed a t m y m irth fu lness over the verdure ot th is prolific land, b u t forgave all w hen, w ith real delight, I dw elt on th e charm s of the snug green valley be­tw een the m ountains, w here we had m ade o u r headquarte rs pro tem . W illow s were green, lealy and abundant, and half a dozen purple, hell-shaped flowers w ere joy fu lly transferred to the gentlem en’s button-holes or'presented by them to the la­dies. T hen we d rank o f the clear m ountain-spring w ate r tha t came trickling dow n the crevice th a t separated- tw o huge m ountains. W e dressed and curled our hair, too , in the selfsame stream , and w ere glad th a t our good old mother. N ature , would no t scold us fo r d rink ing and cu rling out of the same dish.

I should have told you th a t cactus and prick ly pear grow everyw here, and th a t the poor birds, no t beiDg able to find trees in w hich to build the ir nests, use the cactuses instead; or, perhaps they never saw a tree, and sigh no t fo r th a t o f w hich th>-y know not. Be th a t as it may, m y D enton secured tw o beautifu l birds’ nests m inus b ird or egg, w ith a small hole in the side, and lined w ith moss and feathers.

W hile we were eating a lunch of bread, bu tte r and grapes, the D octor said we m ust leave for hom e, as he had to fix the seats in his office for the M ethodists, who w ere going to have service there.

In vain we tried to induce the D octor to stay and w orship in natu re’s temple. .We m ust be to le ran t to all he said. In vain did we ask fo r a num ber of soi-disant philosophers or astronom ers w ho w ere teaching a false theory of the uni­verse, such as we knew to be false, as we had powerfultelescopes. W hile the ir system altogether ante-dated tele- J m y eyes, the last profanity.

W h a t I am going to say to you shall be said in real sin­cerity , and in a soberer m anner than is m y wont to speak, and w ith a view to m ake you feel how beautilul it ¡9 to be a w om an—full of w om anly v irtues, and those nameless gracm. also, w hich enhance v irtu e itself, and crown their possessor w ith a glory w hich carries all good hearts captive.

A nd to be a w om an in th is sense, and with these high m oral adornm ents, w ill be th e aim of every one ot you, if you reverence you r ow n na tu re , and the divine mission of y o u r sex , as the purifier and ennobler ot man. Be quite sure th a t you canno t ennoble m an by any mere outward beauty you m ay possess, how ever g rea t it m ay be, nor will such beauty alone ennoble yourselves. A ll men, it is true, love to see a p re tty face, and all w om en w ho have it to show love to show it; b u t love founded m erely upon a pretty face does n o t last long—can n o t ladt—and the homely girl, whose eyes m ake no conquests, b u t w hose h eart is full of goodness and love, and w hose m ind is full o f noble aud elevated thoughts, will a lw ays ca rry aw ay the best prize in the market ; anti w h a t is g rea test o f nil, w ill be m ost reverenced by her hus­band.

N ow you m ust not th in k th a t I w ant to preach to you. or th a t I am a sour P u rita n m oralist, w ho would liave'youn- girls a lw ays prim , and pu lling long faces; Nothing of fin- sort. I do n o t p retend to be a sain t, and fear I am very much o f a sin n e r ; b u t I have very h igh notions of what a woman should be, and m ay be, and I w an t you all to realize my ideal in y o u r lives. Y ou ca n n o t do th is w ithout setting your inw ard house in order, and tak in g care ot the lurniture. 1 am n o t now speak ing o f cha irs and tables— these things can very w ell take care ot them selves. B u t I allude to your inward faculties, and the developm ent and ornam entation ot these. Y ou are to look a fte r these th ings for your owu sakes first o f all ; and because the good G od h s m ade you so beautiful, an d has been so lavish o f H is beneficence in your case, that it w ould be the h ighest crim e to le t all tha t affluence of gifts go to w aste and ru in ; and you are to look after them, in the second place, because, in p ropo rtion to your own internal w o rth an d beauty , w ill be y o u r influence upon your own sex, an d upon m ine.

N ow , do you know w h at a good w om an can do for a very indifferently good m a n ? She can m ake him like herself; roo t all th a t is bad ou t o f h im ; nourish all that is good in h im ; an d so irra d ia te h im w ith h e r ow n glory that G< d him­self sha ll th a n k her, and g ive h e r a glad welcome at last, to all th e good th ings an d good folks in heaven. Don't laugh; fo r ex ag g era 'ed as it m ay look to you . I have a full faith in it, and in y o u r pow er— every one of you—to accomplish it.

T h is is n o t a sm all th in g to do ; and not one of you must th in k herse lf too sm all to do it. F irs t be good, pure, noble w om en yourselves ; and tak e m y w ord for it that not a jot n o r tit tle o f w h a t you are shall be lost; and that, though you never spoke a w ord, you shall reap a golden harvest of the very h ighest usefulness and beauty.

Y ou see, by these sayiDgs of m ine, w hat a high estimate I m ake o f you ; and it is no t a b it too high, if you will only do you r best to g row up to it. P e th a p s you tuink it is veiy queer ta lk , and th a t 1 m ig h t se t you to aim at more compass- able th ings. P e rh ap s you w ou ld ra th e r try wbat accom­p lishm ents w ould do fo r w om anhood, seeing that any body w ho has o rd in ary in d u stry can acquire accomplishments, and th a t accom plishm ents have g reat w eight in society. Bat as I rea lly love you , and am a so rt o f father to you for the tim e being, I could n o t sub stitu te accomplishments for the aim s I w ou ld have you to strive after. Accomplishments are very good in th e ir w ays an d I don’t care how accom­plished a w om an is ; the m ore so the better. B ut accomplish­m ents are sm all change afte r all, and not of very much ac­count excep t in very fashionable society, where moral excel­lence is vo ted a bore, an d b ra in s are a nuisance. I think a p a ir o f educated legs th a t can dance well are not of so much value as an educated head an d heart, although I respect the educated legs nevertheless; and w ouldn’t m ind taking off my shoes to them , as being m ore cu ltiva ted than my own legs, w hich do no t affect dancing.

I observe, how ever, w ith sorrow , tha t too much attentionl is paid to accom plishm ents, and , indeed, tha t the whole aim of education here is too o u tw ard and intellectual; that it does no t proceed from the soul, bu t, so to speak, from the m em ory an d the understand ing . I find that our women know m uch, are w ell posted in know ledge of facts and fig­ures, and the like; b u t I do n o t find them richly cultivated in feeling and im agination . I th in k th is is a great wrong done to them — th a t it gives a hardness to their characters and m inds w hich is n o t n a tu ra l, and th a t it takes a good deal aw ay from th e ir loveableness.

P erhaps you w ill think, this, too, a hard saying; but I do no t m ean it as such, an d I do n o t speak it as a reproach, but as a th in g to be m ended—nay, to be u tte rly avoided. A w o m an ’s m ind— as w ell as a m an ’s—should be open on al sides to the infinite, should be p lastic to all tender and sw eet em otions, and h er h ea rt shou ld be in unison with the sorrow and jo y of all ea rth ly and heavenly music. But th is can only be done by developing h e r spiritual nature; by aw aking w ithin h e r the deep religion, the purity and holi­ness w hich lie deep in h er h eart and soul; and when this is done, the circle of education , includ ing the sphere of knowl­edge, w ill be com plete.

M anners, indeed, are th e flow er o f character, and it is of the highest im portance to cu ltivate them . F ine manners will grow n atu ra lly out o f a w ell-cultivated and well-behaved person, and there is no p u ttin g them on w ithout the counter- ieit being detected. I know a lady the m om ent I see her, and w an t no announcem ent o f her. She announces herself,

and speaks to me by infallible m agnetism s. By the same signs I know also a v u lg a r person, n o r can she hide herseil, no m atte r how m any fine th ings she m ay have on, how many servants a ttend her, o r how m any chario ts await her bid­ding. I can pardon a th ie f w ho steals m y pocket-handker­chief, o r takes aw ay m y purse, bu t I cannot pardon ill- breeding in a lady; fo r h e r bad m anner and vulgar style profane the sex—not h e r alone, b u t th e sex—which is, in

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TUl two months back we had another cpelL 1 thocffht that everything again was right,And naked her to walk o a t that very n igh t—Td meet her at the garden-gate a t ten.When ahe let oat a t awful ra te again.She scolded, cried, besought and raved alternate.Said I was tam ing all her love to hate/*

M Then some fool told her I was a disgrace.That «he had no Idea bow I w ent on ;

And then «he slammed the door rig h t in my face:I don’t give op when once I have began.

A« to the reit not mach has taken p lace ;I ’ll fetch her yet before the game Is done—

Too bet yoar boots on that, my littie feller,I've so t lost, by a long shot, pert Miss Ella.**

Frank, who till now qn ite carelessly had lain, rpright in bed now qa ick ly rose again.Then said, in a n g e r : “ I cannot refrain From teUing yoa the sorrow and the p a in ] feel for having taken her th a t le t te r ;I take the w arning and I shall know b e tte r Next time. T on 'll please no: m ake m e an ab e tto r In aiding yoa w ith te m p tin g to beset her.'*

0 , man ! how perfect a re th y m oral laws.How based on ju stice and a doe regard

To weigh w ith even hand the viclim 'a-cause Who innocently once believed your word.

And foaoil its pledges cast aside as straw s—Faith, justice, honor, all a like unheard

By he who as a v ic tor is a rrayed And helps revile the tru s tin g g irl betrayed.

Who frames the code o f m odernized m ora lity 7 Who tem pts to cast i ts influence aside ?

Who woos and p lo ts w ith te rrib le rea lity 7 Each a rt and heartless w ile is freely p lied ;

His lying tongue, sm ooth w ith th e false u rb an ity . Cajoles, deceives, and is received w ith p ride

'Mongst fellows whose base m inds ap p laad th e toast. That they've disgraced, debauched them selves th e m ost.

do for a Terr like terse/’-

¡at is good a hat Gi d hns- ite at list, to Don't lacgh; till faith in it, ¡pllsh it. of you must , pure, noble hat not a jot ,, though yon irrest of'the

rh estimate I will only do k it isTe.y ire compess- bat acccm- it any body iplishmerti, ocietT. Bat you for the :nts for tie iphshmeoG towaccoo- iccompiish- y much ac □oral eicel-

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This is the age of qaestious, there’s no doubt.Which everybody asks w ith pertinacity.

Some for am usem ent, o th e rs q n ite w ith o u t *Brpecting to a ssaege th e ir cu rio s ity ;

Of coarse we like to see the last thing out.Be it a lord, a lady or m onstrosity,

Thepablic mind is skeptical, and, therefore.Of everything must know the why and wherefore.

We know why Mr. Johnson went to London ;We also know why he came back again.

His head becoming, like h is stomach, undone By John Bull’s beef, plum-pudding and champagne,

** Old Andy” fired him as the very one gun To settle naval q u ê tio n s, in the main.

Hesettled in the “ bon ton” mind qaite fast.And, getting muddled, settled him self a t last.

In feet the public mind is getting ** know ing,’*A truth so plain *tis hardly w orth the ehowing,For every one yoa m eet knows th is o r that,And has the question a t his fingers, p a t ;One knows the country 's going to the dogs,Because its head and front once hauled a t logs—Oar foreign policy a muddied dish.Spoiled by a ta in t of antiquated fish.

Another knows the taxes will soon crush us.To bankruptcy and dire destruction rush us ;Protection ruins ns beyond redem ption,From its influence there ie no exem ption.Then, what with negroes, Indians and Chinese,Our threatened fate m ost m akes one’s life-hlood freeze. The Capital and Labor question, too,Is to blaze up the country through and through.

As in all cases, some are right, some wrong,*Tis wise to heed all warning, on the whole ;

The people will not bend their necks for long : Monopolies are ruin—look a t coal

To-day. Think you, however great or strong The moneyed scamps may be, the final goal

Will not be a t the last ja s t retribution ,Perhaps by means o f sadden revolution !

I think I bear the reader saying stop.And so these knotty questions I will drop.Which I ran into somewhat unawares ;Still, every other man you m eet declares He knows exactly what ought to be done.And in what coarse the ship o f S tate to run ;Bat, mark my words, the taxes and protection Will not Jong hold the people in subjection.

At last the time arrived for F ra n k to p art Prom Cora, and 'tw os w ith a heavy heart He bade adieu to Mrs., Mr. Grey,Who said they’d like him very much to stayAnd spend with them a t least th e next week through(Miss Coia thought she 'd ra ther like th a t too) ;Bat Mrs. Clay, who came a w eek ago.In kindly and polite term s answ ered, 44 No/*

And so his m other (Cora and her aun t Went also, as ’twas 4* bu t a pleasant jaunt'*)Stepped In the carriage and drove down tho vola, Aitykitag a t the depot a t Grovedole.And now young F rank and p retty Corn stand.Too fall to speak, hu t grasp each o ther's hand,Amd n the tim e approached adieu to soy,

n a m c m first, then M asts- P rank , gave way.

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And Cora sobbed a’oad, and bid her face In auotl?*s neck aud damped hrr In embrace While Frank stood somewhat ►hyly by her side.And tam ed his face away, bis grief to bide.Why, bless the child !” F rank 's woodering m other said. While Cora's annt moet wisely shook her head.Yet clasped her little ward more closely to her—SAe understood the care you m a y te rvrv.

Yoa now portray them righting every wrong, A staff to help the weak against the strong, I ’ve heard you loudly rail a t the disgrace Of lawyers U kiog any villain’s caao,No m atter wbat great rascal he may be, ilo m ast defend with all ability.And take advantage of each legal flaw To help his client to escape tho law.

She then mused, “ W ell. now what la to be done ?I d idn’t qa ite expect this, bless her heart I

I t does beat all, and how It e 'e r began I can 't im agine; 'tie as well they part.

Hla m other m ast be proad of sach a so n ;I feel qa ite sorry he is going to start.

And. dear me, don’t they m ake a lovely pair?I never saw their equal, I declare/*

’• Yoa've told me lawyers badger a t a witness, And works him in to sach an agitation,

T hat In confusion, anger and distress.Ho cannot give tho sim plest narration

To get a t the whole tru th , while they profess They w on't allow tho slightest explanation ;

F o r rl^h t or wrrong they did no t care a pin, Their only thought was how the case to win.

The bell rang and tbe tra in cam e In a t last.And Just as he was leaving. F rank had clasped M iss Cora In his arms, and held her th e re ;And as be kissed her, her fine silken hair Lay on his shoalders. ’Twas a lovely eight To see them as she d u n g to him so tight.They parted w ith a loving, lingering look.And Cora slipped In to h is hand a book.

And thus his v isit to h is friends, tbe Greys,W hich o 'e r his m ind had shed sach various rays,W as term inated , and be left a t last.And rum inated much upon the p a s t ;He thought, w ith sorrow, on the fate of Pets,And then when nex t M iss Cora he would m e e t ;H is ag ita ted m ind became quiescentAs he perused M oore’s poems (Cora's present).

A rrived a t College, F ran k was Introduced 'M id m ach rem ark aDd some hostile comment.

44 H e 'll soon g e t some o f th a t disdaih reduced,*’Said one, some m ischief clearly h is in ten t.

F ran k , from som e observations, soon deduced T h a t som e unpleasantness was ev iden t:

H e clenched his fist and then determ ined fnlly T o lick the first who should a ttem p t to bully .

He won h is first fight, henceforth and forever Became a hero. Boys, lik e m en, w ho wins

A pplaud ; u n til you force your way, endeavor T o push you back by every active m e a n s ;

B a t one success becom es a g ian t lever.A nd helps to hide a host of- o th e r sins—

T he s tronger w as the vanquished opposition T he m ore secure th e v ic to r's new position .

F ran k soon w orked h is way in to th e ir good graces, Leaving h is p riva te m ark on several faces—A lthough i t is b u t ju s tic e here to say,H e never sooght to en te r an affray;T h e m iseh ief was he w ould defend th e weak,N or s topped one m om ent bis p la in though ts to speak, A nd w hen som e friend w as ru th less]) oppressed,He w en t to F ran k and g o t h is w rongs redressed .

H is school-days passed, as school-days alw ays do, W ith all the p leasure , jo y s and sm all v e x a tio n s ;

W hen, hav ing ru n h is course o f s tud ies th rough ,H is fa th e r gave him a six -m on ths ' vacation .

M eantim e th e problf m , w as he to p u rsue A trad e o r a p rofessional vocation,

W as da ily a rgued a t the b reak fast tab le—I 'l l g iv e th e w ords as nearly as I ’m a b le :

P ap a s a id : “ F ran k , you know , m y dear, is sm art, A n d I confess to b a r in g se t m y h e a r t O n m ak ing h im a law yer, an d I know H e 'll m ake h is m a rk i f once he g e ts a show.A d ir ty trad e—pray , p a rd o n th e exp ression—Is fa r too v u lg a r : g ive him a profession . •H ow ever, i t is no u se w h a t I say,You seem resolved on haring your own way.*’

14 A nd p ray w ha t tra d e w onld you p refer, m y d e a r 7”“ Mechanical and civil engineer.

H e 'd b e tte r go to E ngland to b e tau g h t,F o r th e re th e m ost experience can be b o u g h t;In two or three years no doubt he will learn Sufficient, so th a t he may then retu rn .”

“ W ell, w ell,” rep lied Papa, “ I w on’t o b je c t;'T w ill break one boyhood’s friendship, I expect.”

44 W h i t ! F rank’s attachm ent to Miss Cora Grey 7 I 'm sure, my dear, I hope it never znay;She's such a sweet and amiable ch ild ;’T is such a p ity th a t her brother’s wild.F or F rank to v isit them I d id n 't care D uring tbe tim e her brother Pete was th e re ;B a t Cora’s influence will far outweigh A nything which he m ight have to say.”

H ere Mr. Clay m ost wisely shook his head :Yoa ladies are a curious se t.” he said;

44 For my part, I can readily surmise T here 's far more danger in Miss Cora’s e y es;P e te 's age ie so m ach more advanced than Frank's,* He’ll scarcely w ant Frank to observe h is pranks, W ho's b n t eixteen, while P ete has tw enty years— And. so far as Pete goes, h a re no fea rs/’

Had they seen F rank that very m om ent when H e strolled w ith Cora in a cosy glen.And sat beneath the shadow of a bash.L istening to the w srblings o f a thrush.He.weaving in the curls of Cora's hair The jessam ine they gathered sitting there,F rank’s m other wonld have pressed them In her a rm s; His father had a thoasand sage alarms.

Mamma con tinued ; 44 Oft have you repeated T his or th a t lawyer, so-and-so, had ch eated ;T hat honesty and justice in the law W eie myths—in fact, j o q said no t worth a straw ; T h a t law and Jastice were opposing things (Tbe first hard cash, the second nothing brings).How oft I've heard yon angrily declare An honest lawyer couldn 't live a year.

4‘ Last week you said you’d like to see, forsooth.The lawyer« keep the oath which they impose,

T o speak the wholo and nothing b a t the truth,Defending a Jack Sheppard, or suppose,

To come to much more recent times, a Booth,Y oa’d like to hear him ouce tho tro th disclose.

By saying, * Yes, yoar huuor, I am willing To own my clien t is a perfect v illain .’

l ie woald deserve the d irest Indignation F o r v iolating th a t m ost sacred tra s t,

H is client’s in terest, which, by stipulation,R ight o r wrong, defend, of coarse, he m ast.

No m atte r w hat h is v irtaous inclination,Sacb feelings m ust be tram pled In the d o s t;

l ie 's paid m ge t th e a rran t scoundrel off.Hence a t a n o ther thoughts may ju s tly scoff.”

44 There, th a t will do,” responded Mr. C lay;*41 won’t a ttem p t ano ther word to say.

W hen I was angry a t some escapade,I d id n 't th in k you pondered all I s a id ;T h o ' law yers a re no w orse than o ther folk,T hey ’re lawful gam e for every one to croak A t who im agines be is victim ized,And then , o f coarse, m uck evil is sarm ised.

441 m erely thought, as law yers alw ays take T he very b est positions in the S tate ,T h a t F ran k could in th a t way a tta in position,A nd be would m ake a ris ing politician.T h is old idea o f fighting one’s own way Is perfect nonsense in th e p resen t d a y ;A b ility is no th in g —all dependsOn a good cheek aud in fluen tia l friends.

“ But, now it 's settled, let the m atter rest;I hope th a t i t w ill tu rn o a t fo r the best.H is v is it to th e Greys is nearly over:He’d better go to Havre, thence to Dover.I ’ll send to Mr. B lack a t once a le tte r,T he sooner i t is over now th e b e t te r ;So g e t b is ou tfit ready in th ree days,I ’ll send for him to come from Mr. Grey’s.”

Pete Grey, the morning after his debauch.A w oke; he thought his parchiDg throat would scorch; H is temples th robbed ; his languid frame distraught W ith restlessness. In pain he lay and thought Of mother, father, Ella, Cora, F ra n k ;Then to his pillow half-distracted sank.His m em 'ry wandered to the past afar,He drew a heavy 6igh and m attered “ A h!”

Then thus communed: 44 Yes, here am I once more,A s I have been a dozen tim es before.I 'm sorry Frank saw me in such a state.Yet every one m ast know it, soon or la te ;Be e’er so sm art or wideawake and clever,Sach doings can’t be kept, I know, forever.If I could always feel as I do now,I th ink that I could keep the oft-made vow.

44 Now, le t me fece this question like a man—W hat have I been since first when I began This downward path, and shall I ever mend ?This cannot last—it m ust come to an e n d ;There’s nothing to prevent the reformation I promise after every dissipation.And yet I ’m going headlong down to ruin,W ith no excuse—’tis all o f my own doing.

44 Now what do my companions care for me 7 Do they th in k I 'm so stup id I can 't see T heir nods and w inks and smiles and jeers and nudges. And how the cowards th ink to pay off grudges By m aking game of me behind my back 7 Ah, well, when my ta rn comes I shall no t lack;I f P ete’s the fool to-day, i t 's Hank to-morrow.And so we merely pay back what we borrow.

44 Who has m ost cash is captain of the day.And holds the place as long as he can pay.And feels qnite big in paying for tbe d rin k ;Although he knows the others slyly wink On every side, yet there the fool will stand And take each hollow buffoon by the hand.W hile one dec la res ,41 tell yoa, he 's a brick,*W hile in yoar ribs h is thum b he'll slyly stick.

“ And when nex t day he hasn’t got a penny.H e jo ins the crowd, and la a jh s as mach as any,A nd th inks the captain of that dap a fool.Though jes te rd ay he qa ite forgot the rale.And each takes turns a t being fool or fooled.And in the game of cringe or pay is schooled.Or laugh who wins may be a be tte r nam e;Through all the world the sentim ent's the same.

44 Ohn th is be me, Pete Gray, philosophizing 7 Ha, h a ! to-morrow I 'll be m oralizing;B at, after all, we are no worse than others.A t cant and humbug all the world-are b ro th e rs ;Send m issionaries to o ther lands and skies.W ith p len ty work for them before their ey es ;T hey 'd better let tbe savages alone.T here 's plenty need their help m ach nearer h a ze .'

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TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY. STATE AND NATIONAL.

No Accountability to L aw U nless R epre­sented in it.

In No 40 of th is journal i t was asserted th a t women citizens of the S tate of New Y ork could not rightfully be denied suffrage under the Constitution and laws, and a briet statem ent was made to support the assertion. We now propose to m ake a more extended exam ination, and to prove conclusively w hat was merely stated then. 'I he pream ble to the S tate Constitution recites : “ We, the peo­ple of th e >tate o f New York, grateful to A lm ighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings, do estab­lish th is Constitution,” A rticle I., Section 1 of which pro­vides as follows«: “ No member of th is S tate shall be dis­franchised or deprived of the righ ts and privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgm en t of his peers.” A nd Article II., Section 1, pro­vides th a t every male citizen, twenty-one years o f age, having been an inhab itan t o f the S tate one year, a resi­dent of the county four months, and of the d istric t th irty days, and a citizen ten days, shall be entitled to vote.” B ut i t goes on to say th a t “ No man of color, unless he shall have been for three years a citizen of th is State, and for one year nex t preceding any election, shall have been seized and possessed of a freehold estate o f the value of two hundred and fifty dollars, over and above all debts and incum brances charged thereon, and shall have been actually rated and paid a tax thereon, shall be entitled to vote a t such eh ction. A nd no person o f color shall be subject to d irect taxation , unless he shall be seized and possessed o f such real estate as afore­said.”

“ S e c t io n 2. Laws may be passed excluding from the r ig h t o f suffrage all persons who have been, or may be, convicted of bribery, larceny, or of any infam ous crim e.”

“ S e c t io n 4. Laws may be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the rig h t of suffrage hereby established.”

These are the constitutional provisions regarding the righ ts of citizens o f the S tate o f New Y ork and of suffrage, and they teach us th a t “ we, the people,” o f the S tate of New York, do declare th a t no one o f us shall be disfran­chised or deprived of the righ ts or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by law or by judgm ent. A ll the members o f the S tate then are o f equal righ t. W ho con­stitu tes the members o f the S tate ? W e have searched the C onstitution carefully and fail to find th a t i t defines who are members o f the S tate, therefore we have the rig h t to conclude th a t “ We, the people,” are all members o f the S tate, and being such, th a t none o f them can be disfranchised or deprived o f the righ ts or privileges w hich are secured to any citizen.

B ut to a more critical exam ination of the full m eaning o f the language of Article I , Section 1: to be disfrancised presupposes previous enfranchism ent, w hich, having, no m em ber o f a S tate can be deprived o f except by law or by a judgm ent. These are the only means by which members o f th is S tate can be disfranchised. T he only law

which can possibly be brought to support the construction of the Constitution which deprives women citizens of the right of suffrage is the above section, which provides what shall be the qualifications of male voters. Is tha t a law disfranchising women f Not by any means. Todisfran- chise women there must be a special law passed in posi­tive terms stating the disfranchisement and its reasons. It cannot be left to mere inference. Are there any members of the State disfranchised as provided by the section in question ? Most certainly there are. IIow were they disfranchised ? By being convicted of bribery, larceny or some other infamous crime. This is perfectly p roper; it includes all who should be disfranchised. Such as tresspass upon the rights of others in such a manner as to become public enemies the public has a perfect inherent right to dispossess of the righ t to govern them selves.

But have women thus trespassed ? Have women as a sex been convicted of bribery, larceny or of some other infamous crime 1 No onewill pretend th a t they have. Or is i t a self-evident infamous crime, which requires no con­viction, to be a woman 1 We fail to find it thus set down in the Constitution, or thus provided for by any law framed under the authority of the Constitution.

We find, then, first, th a t women form a .constituent part of “ We the peop le” who thank Almighty God for freedom and who established the Constitution in order to secure its blessings; th a t they are members of the State, no one of whom shall be disfranchised or deprived of any righ t or privilege secured to any citizen except by the law of the land or by the judgm ent of their peers; and th a t there is no law of the land which disfranchises them, with the exception of such as have been convicted of some intamous crime. B ut we also find th a t women are denied the righ t of suffrage and are deprived of po­litical rights s cured to other citizens.

Is i t not plain, then, th a t men hold th a t women form no part of “ We the people,” th a t they are not c iti­zens and th a t they cannot exercise the rights o f citizens ? W hat is the excuse for th is discrim ination against women ? Men say they are not disfranchised because they were never enfranchised Such small escape is worthy of those who make it. Shame upon them for such Liliputianism ! B ut m ark you—do you stop to th ink where th is leads? I f women are not enfranchised and have no political rights how are they held accountable to your laws which have been form ed under the exeicise of political rights? I f the words man, men, male, he, his, him , are not used generii ally in the construction of law how can women be held accountable to the law which only provides for ac- countablility under these words ? Be careful, then, tha t you do not overreach yourselves in your eagerness to de­prive women of the rights secured to yourselves.

Let us tu rn to the S tatu tes a t Large of the S tate of New York, page 361, article I., paragraph 1, w hich provides th a t “ every person shall be assessed in the town or ward where he resides, when the assessment is made, for all lands then owned by him w ithin such town or ward, and occupied by him or wholly unoccupied.” I f the word* he and him "in th is section do not include both men and women w hat r ig h t has governm ent to tax woman ?

Article I., paragraph 2, is as follow s: “ Every collector shall call a t least once on The person taxed, or a t h it usual place of residence, and shall dem and paym ent of the taxes charged to him."

P aragraph 2. “ In case any person shall refuse or neglect to pay the tax imposed on him the collector shall levy the same by distress and sale o f any ot hit property .”

Page 365, paragraph 20, provides th a t “ any person feel­ing him self aggrieved in assessment may com plain,” etc.

Page 413, paragraph 2, provides: “ In each year im m edi­ately following a year in which a census o f the population of th is S tate shall have been taken,” etc.

Page 422, paragraph 37, provides th a t “ the town super­intendent o f common schools may annul any certificate given to a teacher by first giving him ten days previous notice.”

Page 461, paragraph 6, recites th a t “ W henever any num ber ot inhabitants of any town shall give tendays’ notice th a t they desire to apply the ir highway labor upon certain roads,” etc.'

Page 466, paragraph 27 : “ W henever any non-resident shall conceive himself aggrieved,” etc.

Page 467, paragraph 31 : “ W henever any tenant shall actually perform work, he shall be entitled to a deduction, and his land lord ,” etc.

Page 532, paragraph 1: “ No person shall be authorized to travel as a peddler unless he shall have obtained a license.”

Page 533, paragraph 6 : “ Every person who shall travel and trade contrary to laws, the license gran ted to him," etc.

Page 581, paragraph 59: “ The pauper so removed shall be m aintained by the county where he may be. Commis­sioners shall give notice to the town from w hich he was b rough t and w hich ia liable for support,” etc.

Page 588, paragraph 10 : “ The expense of sending any lunatic to the asylum shall be defrayed by the town to which be may be chargeable,” etc.

Page 589, paragraph 2: “ If any person shall sell liquor to a drunknrd after notice, he shall forfeit,” etc.

Page 620, paragraph 63: “ If the offender do not forth- with pay the penalties, he shall be committed by warrant to the common ja il of the county for every such offence whereof he was convicted,” etc

Page 632, paragraph 8. “ Every keeper of an inn or tavern shall keep in his house at least two spare beds, and provender for four horses more than hie own." Para­graph 0. “ Every tavern-keeper shall, within thirty days after obtaining hie license, put up & sign with hia name thereon. Neglecting which he shall forfeit, etc.

Page 635, paragraph 23. “ The courts may cause the persons convicted to appear and show cause why the license granted to him should not be revoked,” etc.

Page 067, paragraph 8. “ Every cittern of the Unibd States is capable o f holding lands within this State and of taking the same by descent, devise or purchase ” Para­graph 9. “ No claim or title of any citizen of this State who was in actual possession of lands shall be defeated or pre­judiced on account of the alienism of any person from whom his title may have been derived,” etc. Paragraph 10. “ Every person capable of holding lands, except idiots, persons of unsound minds and infants, may alien­ate such estate a t his pleasure,” etc.

Page 669, paragraph 19. “ It any alien shall sell and dispose of any real estate which he is entitled by law to bold and dispose of, he, h s heirs and assigns,” etc. ,

Page 681, paragraph 66. “ No person who shall actually and in good faith pay a sum ot money to a trustee shall be held responsible for it, nor shall any right derived by ■ him from such trustee,” etc.

Page 685, paragraph 105. “ The grantor in any convey­ance may reserve to himself any power which he might lawfully gran t to another,” etc.

H undreds of other citations m ight be made, but the above are sufficiently numerous and of sufficient range to establish beyond question, either th a t each and all ot these terms apply equally to men and women, or that there are no laws to which women are responsible. That this gen­eral construction was intended is evident from observing the exceptions to the general rule, where the subject in­cludes questions of issue between people as Inen and women. In these the words woman, she and her are used. These exceptions prove the general rule beyond the shadow of a doubt.

W e now come to the point a t issue. I t is contended tha t women have never been enfranchised and, therefore, th a t no law disfranchising them is required to prevent them from voting. I f by general consent, custom and practice the w ords “ man,” “ men,”# “ he,” “ his,” “ him­self,” include not only men b u t women, what warrant have men to assume th a t the word “ male” in Article II., Section 1, does not also include women. There cannot be two forms of construction for general law when special law provides for a special construction. If, in matters of prop­erty, taxation, residence, citizenship and responsibility, all of which are general conditions, men and women are in­cluded in words of male gender, shall i t loDger be assumed to declare th a t women are not enfranchised under the pro­vision of the C onstitution cited above ?

Passing by all considerations flowing from the Constitu­tion and laws o f the S tate o f New York, we make the positive declaration, th a t w hatever construction men may desire to place upon them , the Constitution of the United States—which is the supreme law of the land, includ­ing the State o f New Y ork— positively prohibits all such construction. I f men fly from all points ot State law, we will bar any further flight by the supreme law of the land. The C onstitution of the U nited States, Article XIV. of Amendm ents to w hich declares th a t, all persons born or naturalized in th e U nited States and subject to the juris­diction thereof, are citizens of the United States and, mark you, of the S tate wherein they reside.

All persons, then, who were born or who have been naturalized in the U nited States, and who are subject to the ju risd ic tion thereof, who reside in the 8tate of New York, are citizens of the State.

Now tu rn to Article I., Section 1, o f the Constitution of the State, and learn th a t “ No member of the State shall be disfranchised or deprived o f any righ ts or privileges eecured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgm ent o f his peers.”

Have words any definite 'm eaning by which we can learn w hat they should convey I Most certainly they have, and no w ording could be p lainer than th is o f the XIV. Amendm ent of the Federal Constitution, and Section 1, o f Article I. of the S tate Constitution. In these it is most forcibly set forth who are citizens, and th a t no citizen shall be deprived o f any rig h t or privilege secured to any other citizen. W omen, then, are citizena o f the S tate of New York, and men resident therein have no power to deprive

Mum II, 1871. «EtoodhnU & fclaflin’s Sfitto.then of the right to vote, which is a right they assume they hare secured only to themaelvea.

When we consider that portion of Article II., Section 1, which relates to negroes, and compare its provisions with the tyranny exercised over our own sex, an indignation ia aionaed in our souls which carries us nearly beyond the bomdary of courtesy. Negroes possessing a freehold of $230 were made voters; women possessing thousands were denied that right What generous, ju st and amiable crea­tures men were to be sure, to set up such distinctions, ■afcing negroes possessed of $2-50 of property superior in privileges to women possessed of as many thousands.

Thank heaven these, to women, debasing provisions itand in the State Constitution dead—kil'ed by the XV. Amendment, and all male negroes may vo te ; but women, » much beneath them in the consideration of men, still remain the debarred citizens, whilo the “ Binghams ” o Congress complacently tell us it is none of their business. *The State legislature has been memorialized ; and we

ksteby demand that such action be taken upon said me­morial as it is the bounden-by-oath duty of legislators to take to eecure to all citizens of the State of New York the exercise of equal rights and privileges.

It is nothing less than sheer folly for men to longer as­inine the power to lord it over women. They have no Constitutional right to do so. To continue in thiscouise, now that this assumption is shown to iie wholly w ithout authority, is to earn the name of tyrants who usurp power, and by it deprive citizens of their Constitutional rights.If men think such government can stand they will find themselves mistaken. No governm ent ever tram pled the rightsof any portion of its citizens in the dust and long survived the act. The sp irit o f revolt is even now abroad ia the land, and well may those who have usurped the rightsof the people, and who assume to d istribute them to only such as they shall elect, stop in their mud aDd blind career to consider whether it is not full tim e th a t the Con­stitutional rights of all citizens—women as well as men— be secured to them and they protected in their exercise.

SAFE! PROFITABLE!! PERMANENT 11 !

A G reat Enterprise.

SEW 30-7 G O LD LOAN.

THE NOR’ NOR’-WEST BY NORTH PA C IFIC , ETC., RAILROAD.

TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT.

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE SURVEYING PA R TY

R e s u l t s .

Day before yesterday, from the windows of our banking house, we discerned an immense crowd of “ W all-street Bulls.” Like Proctor K nott’s buffalo bulls, they w ent shooting along with their heads down, their eyes glaring, their nostrils dilated, their tongues out and their coat-tails curled over their backs, yelling, bellowing, ripping and tear­ing along to disappear in the capacious office of awell-kuown broker.

We sent out our messenger to investigate, and in a few moments he returned, trembling w ith excitement, to tell us that a new road had been commenced to the Pacific; that the rush we bad witnessed was to purchase the bonds, which had already risen from par in cash to 1.10, the last price to be paid in wild lands !

With our usual unselfish, prom pt attention to all railroad matters which, ventilated in our columns, m ight serve or in­struct our*reader3, we forthw ith hastened to examine the afiair.

Arrived at the broker’s office, we introduced ourselves and our errand, and an intelligent clerk, rejoicing in the nam e of Rabbit, waa detailed to enlighten us. .

Mr. Rabbit produced a map, around w hich and all over which were beautiful wavy lines, destined to serve as an iL lustration of the corrals for the land grants.

He also produced a piece of ice, a F lathead papoose, a fox­tail and a seal’s skin, specimens of the productions of the country.

After we had admired these to his content, he brought forward a circular, headed, in immense letters, safe I PnoKtTABLEl! fkhmanentII! and from this he explained to us all the advantages of the enterprise. Ah, wo mistake; all the advantages to tin enterprise, o f selling its bonds, which, being founded on “ a partial w ant of principle," he sasured us thus offered a guarantee that the interest would bs promptly paid os long as any sale continued o f them. Bo­lides Ibis, the bonds were a first and only lien (excepting about $600,000 existing heforo the mor: gage was executed) upon a land grant, which, after the snow was removed by the enmphny, would be found to lie in alternate sections of “goldmines, cool lands, timbered tracts and dairy farms," ud, in fact, including every inch of available d irt weet of

the Alleghenies, and all the fishes in Lake Superior and Punch him Sound,” the Pacific terminus of tbe projected

‘road, which road—started last July in its construction from Don’t I.uth and having no grades—is inpidly proceeding doten hiU all the way. Mr. Rabbit assured us that Bill Nye and a force of Heathen Chinee had been telegraphed to to commence work from the Pacific side, and then the road would he Uomt hill both ways, and would soon bo ended, upon which happy event a second mortguge would be made, the interest on which was to be guam nlecd by the Picgan Indians, from the proceeds of freight charges on the scalps of their friends, the Creeks.

Mr. Rabbit then took us to the bank vault and exhibited an immense pite of twi nty-five hundred millions of nickel cents, reserved by the company to pay the accruing interest on the bonds, until such time as the bondholders muy con­clude to allow tbe interest to “A Crew" to be named by the company, all of which plan was explained in the circular lie held out to us. lie then, taking us confidentially behind the vault door, showed us a bond of the “Nor’ Nor’ West by North Pacific” road and whispered to us tliut it had been engraved in that style so that the Dutch could not distin­guish it from a 7-30 “National Blessing." And the plan was highly approved of by the surveying party now in town.

Surveying party in town I whereabouts ? Good Gracious ! that's the pltgte to go to for information, said wo, and "Rabbit" had no sooner mutterod “Astor House, Room No. 4001," than hailing a hack we were off.

Solemnly we approached the abode of engineering wisdom. Timidly we rapped at the door of No. 4001. Slowly wo entered and found ourselves welcomed by an old friond.

Professor Ptlnor Boberls, Chief Engineer, who introduced us to the Chief Promoter, a tall, lanky gentleman, his hair not sable silvered but a yaller gilded, and sticking out all around his hat and face. His name waa Day Booke. His occupation, shaking thermometers, was resumed as soon as he had shaken hands with us and put our “Alpine hat” on a peg.

Mr. Boberts then introduced us to Mr. Ah. W. Shavc’cm, a gentleman of gigantic proportions, little ferret, tw inkling eyes, a nose all run into a little lump at the base, and a voice whoso insiDccriiy, hidden under a kind of “ hurrah boy” tone, we instantly recognized.

We had heard it as we entered, talking of John Minor Botts and promising somebody the Presidency of the United States. W e had also caught snatches of it professing for Woodltull & Claflin “ as much love as the law allows.”

Mr. Shavo’em was, it appeared, the general agent.W e were evidently in lu c k ; we had met the Chief Engi­

neer—Ihe chief promoter—the general agent.W e should get valuable details. We should beat the

broker, who had charge of tbe bond sales, all hollow, when we had H a t c h e d the news from the surveying party !

“ Rufus” would be nowhere! W e might even drop our paper and take to an opposition selling ot the bonds of the “ N or’ N or’ W est by N orth Pacific,” and run the price up to 150, payable in wild lands !

W e gazed around the room w ith an awful reverence.On the walls were hung therm ometers of various sizes

and shapes. These Mr. Day Booke, as we said, was engaged in shaking hourly. They were to be used in measuring heights, and Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian Instiiute, hud imparted to him, in a general way, the theory of horary oscillation.

Only, as Mr. Boberts remarked, Day Booke, having been accustomed in eayly life to the energetic m ixing of gin- slings, had so shaken the thermometer, that the m ercury' as a rule, stood in both e n d s !

However, that was immaterial to the accuracy of this way of measurement of heights.

A fryingpan and an old clock were tied together. W e learned that the first was intended for an- artificial horizon, and the last, being set daily to Greenwich time, and kept going until noon by diligent rapping, served, with the a r ti­ficial horizon and an old opera glass, for measuring longitu­dinal distances in the vast wilderness through which " th e road” was to be located.

In one corner a gridiron was leaning against the wall. Mr. Boberts assured us tha t the importance, in an astronom ­ical sense, of this little instrum ent, was only equaled by that o f Day Booke’s thermometers. By adjusting it in the plane of the true meridian, and w atching the sun’s transit across its bars, some of the most im portant points of the land grants had been located. The invention was really due to a celebrated engineer, a friend of T—thf—1 J —s, but its application in this m anner, by which the great cost of a transit instrum ent had been saved and the money ap­plied to advertising the Com pany’s bonds, was due entirely to the economy and scientific knowledge of Mr. Day Booke.

Concerning one instrum ent, a theodolite tripod, there was unfortunately a quarrel between Booke and Shave’em, Day Booke insisting tha t it was to hang a camp kettle on, while Shave’em resolutely argued that it was a F rench arrange­ment of tent poles, “ as the French are very small men."

However, w hat we w anted was information of tho country and road, and we are gratified at tho zeal manifested to en­lighten us. Shave’em was enthusiastic. H esaid the liberal, enlightened and progressive ideas ot the inhabitants make it an lienor to live and a pleasuro to die among them. I t is so healthy there that, as a rule, people live long enough to be bom over again. The inhabitants are

of the race known a§ the "m issing link,” so named by tho great scientist, Darwin. The “ wheat fields,” hun­dreds of miles from the outermost verge of civilization and never gazed on by the eye of mortal man, are regularly and industriously plowed and sowed by intelligent buffalo bulls preparatory to the advent of the heathen who are to populate the country and build churches when the road is finhlud. “ All this,” said Shave’em, who is a religious man and would not tell a lie if ho could help it, “ I have been convinced of by an erudite Piegan Indian.

Mr. Boberts declared that the country was not at all volcanic— not subject to the accidents of Mr. Seward’s island of St. Thomas—in fact, the geological formation was all that could be wished—he had only observed one speci­men of trap. This was a small Philadelphia trap to revive commerce, and had a big jay in it.

Air. Shavo’em spoke of the charming intelligence of the people, and their veneration for the chief promoter of the road. Their knowledge of Sbakspcare, particularly of H am ­let, who was mad “ north-northwest” only, but when tho wind went to the Southern Pacific Ruilroad scheme could tell a “ hawk from a hand-saw.” He instanced this by a feeling allusion to one of the aboriginal Methodist hymns:

W hen we die w o'11 go to D ay BookeW h u p 1 W hoo, haw 1

T he g rea te st m an th a t e 'e r land saw G ee I

W ho th is lit t le a lr th w ae s en t onW hnp 1 W hoo, haw !

T o tell a “ haw k from a hand-saw I"G e e !

Mr. Day Booke, who was shaking a therm ometer like a bottle of patent medicine and humming something about “one thousand feet elevation (o every three degrees,” w hat­ever that may mean, here suddenly paused and asked us it our own common sense could not assure us as well as the com­pany’s circular did, that the bond of an unsurveyed and un ­finished railroad must of necessity be very much more valu­able than the best bond ever issued by the best government under the sun ?

W e meekly responded that it did.Mr. Boberts mentioned one advantage which he thought

had hitherto been overlooked, viz.: that in the high latitudes where the road was to be you are never troubled by the per­pendicular rays of the sun. The sun, in fact, always looked at you very slantindicularly. In this way he thought the present climate, so closely resembling that of Southern France, would be preserved and improved upon. He also said that as soon as the public would take no more of the first mortgage bonds, the second mortgage bonds would be issued, being a lien upon all the property—available, iuavail- able, finished and never to be finished—of the Company, the proceeds to be used for the purpose of equipm ent with roll­ing stock, capital stock, watered stock, bogus stock and live stock, as particularly set forth in the circular we had received from Mr. Rabbit. Concerning tbe live stock, he explained that locomotives were not to be used; the trains, when the toad was finished, would be draw n by buffalo bulls !

W e rejoiced that we had thus got a point above Mr. Rufus Hatch.

W e were satisfied.W e said good-by.Mr. Day Booke followed us out quietly. He went down

stairs. He cunningly insinuated th a t he could sell us the bonds of the “ N orth-N orthw est by N orth Pacific” at a sub rosa reduction in price. H e w anted to sell badly and se­cretly at a sacrifice.

Ju s t then S h a v e ’em appeared. Day Booke “ shut up.” We heard Shave ’em quote poetry to him , and distinctly promise to make him P resident of the United States !

W e made no m istake this time. W e felt bad. W e thought of "V ic to ria’s” chances for 1872 against such a com bination.

W e believed no longer in tha t road.W e mentally likened its first bonds to bonds on the tow er

of Babel.W e quit.Infamous conduct of Shave ’em ! prom ising the Presidency

to everybody—he doesn’t care a ------who ! Oh, that hecould be pu t upon a diet, su iting his complexion, of “ s*ft squash, strained through a cane-bottom ed chair 1" But N e­mesis will pursue the tra ito r ! Never, oh never, will he be able to label the bundle o f" N or’ N or’west by N orth Pacific" bonds, entrusted to his care for sale or hypothecation (ten per cent, to be used in church building)

“ T a k e n ”by any one but himself, ahem 1 Wo can wish Shave ’em no worse punishm ent, for he did not live in the blessed times when the promise, “ Ask and ye shall receive,” was fulfilled; and, therefore, S have’em says he is poor ! He is too modest by half. Isn ’t he in the “ N or’ N or’west by N orth Pacific” Railroad now ! W on 't lie, by tha t promised rail—

“ Soon be thar.In tho la n d o f co ld ,T h ro u g h th e fo ree t o ld .O 'e r tho m o u n tin g cold,W ith ap lrit bo ld ?"

W ith a lot of little Picgan Indian jtnpooscs singing to him for he loves poetry—

*• Of thy propenalty And great lm m anatty ,

Now than wa » lu g ;Beholding In g ra tltoda T hee In th l t la titude .

Cortona th in g .”

1 0 $M huU & (£laflm’i5 HfíceMj. MaRch n, mi.THE PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL RAILROAD.

WHAT IS SAID OF IT BY THE PRESS

W hat V irg in ian Senators T hink of it.

WOODHULL AND CLAFLTX'S W EEKLY AGAIN VINDICATED.

We have taken the trouble to collect and string together during the past week extracts from the daily press and from the speeches of members of the Legislature of Vir­ginia, referring to the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, though it is not much more than two months since we gave a detailed history of the corporation, which, by the way, had never before been assailed.

The great vbrong which is being perpetrated on the people of Virginia in allowing this corporation a standing in their State and before their Legislature, will bear its legitimate fruit in due time, ju st as the usurpations per­m itted to it in Pennsylvania came very near to debauch­ing the Legislature of tha t State and rendering its judiciary a mockery of justice.

Meanwhile, it seems well to put on record the public opinion concerning the Company, and the expressed views of those individual members of the Virginia Legislature whose voices were at least heard in the defence of their own State. For the time is coming when a reference to all these m atters in a complete examination of the whole acts and aims of the Pennsylvania “ ring ” will be useful.

In the Virginia Legislature at Richmond, February 20, Hon. Mr. Hensley said the question was whether a Vir­ginia Legislature should surrender the State railroad sys­tem to an outside power which would yield th a t system up to outside interests.

Hon. Mr. A rnett solemnly gave warning tha t a welcome was being extended to a monster th a t now dominated Pennsylvania, the very State th a t had called it into exis- ence, and had fallen a victim to it. In th a t State the Legislature was the mere tool o f the Pennsylvania Central Railroad The supreme court was said to sit in its back office and decide all cases in its favor against State and people, and the Press was so subsidized or intimidated th a t no paper in the State dared to raise a voice against the road or give a true account of an accident on its line or branches.

Hon. Mr. Stubbs then made an expose of the fradulent pretexts by which the “ Pennsylvania Central ” sought to come into Virginia.

Later in the day, the House, its officers, reporters and lobbyists, we learn, were treated by the friends of the Pennsylvania Railroad to a collation ! I f a Virginia legis­lature has so fallen from its old time dignity as th is would imply, we are not greatly surprised to find in the Lynch­burg Republican the “ change in the m ind of the Senate in favor of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad bill is said to have been w rought by unbounded promise to Senators along the line of the Norfolk and Great W estern Railroad, in behalf of th a t road. I t is said th a t the ‘ Pennsylvania Central ’ undertakes to pledge $15,000 for every mile of the road, if Senators will p u t the ‘Pennsylvania C entral’ bill through successfully. Extraordinary influences are at w ork for the Pennsylvania people, and the most active lobbying in progress.”

The Richmond Dispatch, after reviewing the history of the fast freight lines established in 1863 on the Pennsyl­vania Central for the benefit of “ rings,” which have been so beneficial to the “ rings” as to have made millionaires of every man of them, and so prejudicial to the corporation proper that, if we are correctly informed, out of nearly $18,000,000 of gross yearly revenue it has only earned net for its shareholders something like one-ninth of th a t sum, goes on to say th a t the president of the company adm it­ted the wrong doing, “ but, although the principle was ‘ wrong,’ i t was found to be profitable to somebody, and the Pennsylvania Company continues to this day to perpe­trate the wrong, notw ithstanding an effort on the part of other roads to abolish it. I t is now the ‘ settled policy’ of the Pennsylvania railroad to interpose these transpor­tation companies between itself and individual shippers, thus compelling them to pay a rate which, i t is plain, must afford a profit to both the road and the transporta­tion company.”

The Richmond Dispatch does not know half the story. Let it tell the history of the organization of tha t transpor­tation com pany! Let i t .search the court records at P ittsburg and in th is city of New York. Here will be found some evidences which are gradually unfolding and which will yet see the ligh t of day and be exhibited to a wondering public.

B ut the Dispatch proceeds: “ I t is the ‘ settled policy’ of the Pennsylvania company to introduce th is system of ex­

tortion upon all roads controlled by them, and the ‘prin­ciple,’ though wrong, would govern them here in Vir­ginia as it does now in the West and North. For, says their vice-president, ‘ the results from these lines have given us better rates than we get from individuals on sim­ilar traffic.’ The wrong was profitable to somebody and was sustained, notwithstanding that it was believed ‘ con­trary to the best interests of the public and contrary to the interests of the stockholders, involving unnecessarily the payment of these extra agents, and also a very large amount to pay the heavy dividends which these transpor­tation companies are earning, all of which is taken either from the stockholders or the community.’”

The Dispatch then refers to an article on the Pennsyl­vania Central, which appeared originally in the New York Herald, and which we reproduce below, and exclaims:

“ How long this monster corporation will be allowed to pursue successfully its audacious and reckless designs, either directly in its corporate capacity or through the various combinations of its speculating officials, and what will be the true future value of any guarantees undertaken by it, may be inferred from the following statistics, taken from Poor's Railroad Manual for 1870-T : In this it will appear that while the net income of this company was in 1863 five millions one hundred and eleven thousand, four hundred and thirteen dollar^ from an investment of thirty-eight millions two hundred and ninety-five thou­sand six hundred and sixty-eight dollars, its income for 1869 was only five midions and forty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars, from an investment of sixty-five millions and thirty thousand three hundred and two dollars; or about sixty-four thousand dollars less from an investment increased by nearly twenty-seven mil lions of dollars !

Add to this the fact tha t the annual report of that compa ny for 1870 shows that, while its capital stock anb liabili­ties were during the last year increased by nearly twelve millions of dollars, its income during the same period was increased only eighteen thousand dollars From what resource, then, unless it be from the sale of this increase of liabilities, are its dividends paid ?

The Herald article is as follows:The Air-Line Railroad—From Washington to New York

—No Intention on the P art of its Corporators to build it—A Pennsylvania Central Job—The National Railway—Philadelphia, January 20, 1871.—While the Pennsylvania Central Railroad is ostensibly fighting the Air-Line Railroad bill now before Congress it yet coatrols every movement now made by the parties having the mat­ter in charge. The Pennsylvania Road proposes to get the charter in their hands and hold it against any future roads for which charters may be asked ; and this is the way they will do i t :

“ A provision in the bill says tha t of all the commmis- sioners chosen for the government of the road fifteen shall be a quorum ; of this fifteen eight shall be a majority. These figh t men are already in the pay of the Pennsylva­nia Central, two of whose names I give that the public may know ihe kind of men who have been chosen to rep­resent their interests in this scheme: Columbus B. Guthrie and Joseph T. Potts, of New Jersey. The other six are from Delaware and Maryland.

“ The Pennsylvania Road will get possession of the char­ter for the air-line, and the road will never be built. They wish it simp'y to keep others out of the field. The Cam­den and Amboy will probably be controlled by the Penn­sylvania Central before many months. Does it look at all likely tha t they will stand idly by and see a road built to take passengers and freight who cannot but choose to go by the Camden and Amboy route ? It will be enough for them to light the National Railway and Baltimore and Ohio, which latter road will build a double track from Baftimore to Philadelphia to connect with the National. The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore route will be to all intents and purposes‘left out in the cold.’ An earnest undercurrent fight is in progress, and the end is not yet. I f cheap fares and rapid transit are brought out of the chaos the public may smile at the struggles of the of the railroad giants. The Air-Line will never exist ex­cept on paper.”

A t the shareholders’ meeting of the Pennsylvania Cen­tral, in Philadelphia, on the 21st of February, the follow­ing comments were m ade:

Mr. John Hume said the shareholders had just heard read a mass of figures th a t no one could understand or comprehend on the simple hearing. The shareholders had been a m utual admiration company long enough. The tim e had come when they should investigate the actions of their officers. He demanded a balance-sheet of the assets and liabilities of the company, with its guarantees, and an account of the salaries paid its officers. He went into a detailed statement of the prodgious increase of capital stock in seven years, the increase in expenses, the falling- off in receipts, and the outrage of farming out the privil­eges of the road to car companies.

An attorney of the company present attempted to shut Mr. Hume up, upon which Mr. Hume said that he (Mr. H.) had been for ten years a director in the road and de­clared the figures of the company’s reports fa lse! !

Mr. Kennedy then said if such a detailed report as Mr. Hume asked for was made, he could not understand it, and th a t i t would not be policy to let the general public or the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad know the working of the road.

Mr. Hume here loudly demanded “ W hat he was afraid o ff”

Mr. Cliff, of New York, a shareholder, here inquired as to

the rumors of the company's having stock of the Union Pa­cific Railroad and of the spoken-of purchase of the Camden and Amboy Railroad ?

Thomas A. Scott, Vice-President, rather flippantly re­plied that the company had no interest in the Union Pacific, and that its extensions are now limited to Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati and as from these centres other limt to Rew Orleans and the Pacific coast! !! Is there any other inquiry ?

Mr. Cl if f . Yes, regarding the Camden and Amboy Rail­road.

Mr. Scott. Oh, that is such a small matter that I over­looked it. Ycs, t here are pending negotiations for the lease of that road !! !!!

MESSRS. S0UTTER & CO.

THEIR AGENCY FOR THE STATE OF NORTH ’ CAROLINA “ ALTOGETHER SATISFATORY

TO THEM.”

Some time ago we published a full account of the strange financial operations in North Carolina, by which that State has been bankrupted. We had occasion to refer to Soutter <fc Co., of ll is city, in connection with these transactions, and for the exposure we made we have since been thanked by investors and by persons of high official position, and we have also been denounced by others who were participants in the frauds. Time rolled on, and finally, at this day, the schemes ol carpet-bag politicians, their close alliance with New York bn kers, the modes by which the resources of the old North State have been, between them, drained away, are patent to all men. New York firms find it desirable to cease operations in the capital of North Carolina. Soutter & Co., as their letter states, have withdrawn, but have found their former connection there “ altogether satisfac­tory” to them (which perhaps encourages them to go to Ala­bama in quest ol the financial agency' of that State). Gov­ernor Holden,, as we predicted, is impeached, and Little­field and Swepson are wanderers—the first with a price offered by the State to his captors! Thus we stand vindi­cated by “ the inexorable logic of events.”

Soutter & Co. have found it necessary to break through their dignified silence, and as there is no use here in affect­ing innocence of those facts, still les3 virtuous indignation at them, they go off to Alabama, where they fondly imagine, most likely, that the sound of their words will never reach us, and publish a tremendous letter, devoted, as far as we can see, to whitewashing themselves and abusing Woodhull & Claflin. Well, we published facts, very strong facts—the results have shown them to be insurmountable facts; and it may be natural in Soutter & Co., therefore, even if their business in North Carolina has been so “ satisfactory" to them, to decry us. As Messrs. Soutter & Co. do not approve the opinions we have expressed of the infamous manner in which, by a conspiracy, the people of a whole State have been impoverished and the State credit ruined, are they to be understood as approving of the facts first published ly us and now pretty well known in all business circles here ? We will at least do them the kindness of publishing their letter, as written by them for the Montgomery (Alabama) Mail and Advertiser. I t cannot hurt us and we doubt if it will benefit them; but we are charitable and will give it all the circulation they wish, notwithstanding its silly spiteful­ness, its absurdities and bad grammar.

In one point they certainly are mistaken, besides in many more we don’t speak of. By inspecting the files of ex­changes in our office, they will find our articles have been copied, in many instances, by papers of influence all over the South and Southwest; and they themselves, in their letter, are inadvertently unw illing witnesses of the good effect, in the present caution of the State authorities of Alabama and the watchful care of the Mail, to prevent, in that State, a recurrence of the late scenes in North Caro­lina. #

We think those who take the trouble to read Soutter & Co.’s letter, remembering all the circumstances of the Li’tle- field and Swepson North Carolina bond affair, will agree with us that the precious production only brings forcibly to remembrance the speech of Pistol’s boy in Henry V.

“ I did never know so full a voice issue frem so empty a h ea rt; but the saying is true, ‘ the empty vessel makes the greatest sound.’ Bardolph and Nym had ten times more vulor than (his roaring devil in the old play, that every one may pare his nails with a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged ; and so would this be, if he durst steal anything ad­venturously."To the Editors of the Advertiser:

Please have the kindness to publish the subjoined letter sent by us also to the Mail, in explanation of certain remarks in the latter paper, and oblige

Yours, very truly, Soutter & Co.To the Editors of the Mail :

An editorial in your paper to-day, headed “ Soutter & Co.,” accompanied by an extract from W oodhull & Claflin’s Weekly , of New York, have attracted the attention of one of ihe members of the firm referred to, now in this ( ity, and warrant the request that you will publish this note in the ensuing number of your paper.

It is due to ourselves to say that the article which you copy from Woodhull & Claflin’s paper in regard to the con­nection of our house with the affairs of North Carolina, al-

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though as old as last N ovem ber, has n o t been copied, as Jar is we know, in the papers o f N ew Y o rk o r N o rth C arolina, and it has not be^n cu s to m ary w ith th e m an ju respectab le bonkers, corporations and o thers w h o have been repeated ly issiiled in that jo u rn a l, to notice o r an sw er its sta tem ents, or for the papers o f N ew Y o rk o r th e co u n try to p red ica te their information o r accusations aga inst ch a rac te r on its nu- thoritv. I t is the p ap e r o f th e no to rious w om en b tokers ot New York, and its s ta tem en ts a re regarded as rather ridiculous th an in ju rious. T h e artic le youc.'OV was preceded by a no te to o u r house lrorn Madsmes W oodhull '& C ladn , req u estin g us to visit them in regard to the affairs o f the S ta te o f N o rth C aro­lina. which note and inv itation , it is needless to say , w ere un ­answered and disregarded . In a few days th e ir no te w as followed by an artic le th rea ten in g to im plica te unfavorab ly certain unnamed b ankers in tbe affairs o f N o rth C arolina, which was also d isregarded , an d th e n fo llow ed th e artic le you are pleased to endorse and c ircu la te , w h ich has passed w ith like want ot notice un til the p resen t tim e. I t is y o u r ed ito ­rial approbation w hich gives it th e d ig n ity to be answ ered now, wnieh we do by s ta tin g th a t so fa r as i t re la tes to us it is untrue. The lacts in reg a rd to o u r agency for the S tate of Norih Carolina, altogether sa tisfac to ry to ourselves an d to the public interested in in v e stig a tin g them , a re com piled an d partly printed in the p roceedings o f the p resen t C onserva­tive Legishture of the S ta te an d o f its C om m ittee o f S et­tlement^ constituted of ab le an d up righ t m en, consp icuous us lawyers and citizens in th e p e rio d before th e w ar, an d w ho were connected w ith its d eserved ly h igh cred it a t th a t tim e. We had long ago re linqu ished th e agency o f the S ta te w hen we could not lend ourselves to the course it p u rsu ed on finan­cial questions. I f you a re d isposed to assail ch a rac te r w e as­sume that both y o u r p rin c ip le an d sense o f p ro p rie ty w ill lead you to do so a f te r c o n su ltin g the best evidence ra th e r than on the au tho rity o f the w orst an d m ost igno ran t.

As a leader ot pub lic op in ion in y o u r S tale , you h as tily ac­cuse gentlemen of an in fam ous frau d in th e m an ag em en t ol the difficult and com plicated affairs o f an o th e r S tate , upon the evidence of W oodhu ll & C latiin , hav ing , w e k in d ly as­sume, little know ledge of th e sub jec t y o u rse lf an d re ly in g on them who have no in fo rm atio n tn a t is reliab le , an d pernaps lio motive which you a re capab le o f espousing. I t is o f m ore importance, how ever, ih a t on th is lo u n d a tio n y o u have based your accusations of o u r h av in g done o r in ten d ed som e fra u d against Alabama—ju s t w h a t you do n o t state .

The levity w ith w hich y o u have p icked u p an d adop ted the opinions of young w om en on questions o f ch a rac te r and State policy, and parade them as p ro p e r an d becom ing policy and sentiment fo r S tate ad o p ticn here , relieves us o f tn e o b li­gation to feel ind ig n an to r to an sw er com prehensively o r in detail the statem ents m en ts re su ltin g in o u r u tte r condem na­tion in the ju d g m en t ot M esdam es W o o d h u ll & C lailin and yourselves. If, how ever, w e m u st be hopeless o t conv incing these ladies and yourselves, w e w ill re s t u n d e r y o u r censure, bat will say, if you p erm it, th ro u g h you , to y o u r readers, th a t the real interest we feel in th e question of S ta te c red it is on ly the same in terest w h ich every th in k in g m an in th e S tate feels, viz.: one o f character. W e, w ith o th e r associates, re ­spectable in the business w o rld , h ave circu lated m an y o f y o u r State and of you r S ta te endo rsed bonds. W e, as w ell as you, are interested first in th e ir in te g rity an d th e n in the ir payment.

It gratifies us to see lire cau tion o f th e S ta te on th e first point and its honorab le in te n tio n s on th e last, an d the adop­tion of none of the p la n s on th e sub ject, in c lu d in g th a t a d ­vocated by the M ail, w ill d isappo in t tn e conv iction w e have of the soundness of the S ta te c re d it of A labam a.

We deem it m ore becom ing to d iscuss o u r business ch a r­acter and relation w ith th is sub ject w ith such com m ittee or agents of the G overnm ent o f A labam a as m ay be charged with that duty. T o th em w e w ill show no re luc tance or reservation—indeed, w ill aid th em to th e b est o f o u r ability . And, meantime, w e w ill, w ith th is ex p lan a tio n , ho ld o u r­selves excused from rep ly in g to th e gossip o f w om en , even if repeated in p r in t o r ad o p ted as th e foundation ot ju d g ­ment by its circulators. S o u t t e r & Co.

—Montgomerg ( Ala). Advertiser.

THE RIGHT OF REVOLUTION AND OUR NEW MOVEMENT.

Ah, this is one of th e vexed questions o f o u r day , and, strange to say, although it loom s u p in various shapes and forms, at all seasons, y e t n o p rin c ip le seem s to be e ith er agreed upon, o r even advanced, w h ereo n to fo u n d a th eo ry as to what constitu tes a ju stifiab le o r un justifiab le revo lu ­tion. I t continually en ters in to o u r fo re ign policy , as in the cases of Cuba and ou r claim s ag a in s t E ng land . I n the la tte r case it assumes th e g arb of p rem a tu re recogn ition of the so-called Confederate S tates, inasm uch as, h a d th e ir resis t­an c es the au tho rity o f ou r G overnm en t been based upon the acknowledged and un iversa l law o f r ig h t, in s tan t recog­nition would be no cause o f com plain t, as w itness th e la te recognition of the F re n c h R epub lic b y o u r G overnm ent. But we claim th a t it wps no t so based, hence th e recognition of it, even to the am ount o f belligerency, becom es an offence not only against in te rn a tio n a l m orals, b u t one fo r w hich this Government is ju stified in dem and ing res titu tio n in some form or other. L o rd P a lm e rs to n sta ted th a t seven millions of people, w ith an organized governm en t and arm y, were entitled to such recognition . T h is w ou ld m ake the principle appear to be m erely a m a tte r o f th e am ount of population and their ab ility to m ain ta in a fixed seat o f gov­ernment; but this test w ill n o t bear scru tin izing by prece­dent, which takes th e p lace o f w ritten law in in te rnational law, hence the dogm a is valueless. W e ho ld the true principle to be t h i s : A ny people have a revo lu tionary ■ right tnat suffer national oppression a t th e hands of the ir governing body, alw ays p rov id ing said people have exhausted every constitu tional an d legal m eans w ith in the ir power to remove said ju s t grievances. I t w ill be argued, “ but every revolutionary body thinks it has a ju s t cause of revolt.” W e answer th a t it m a tte rs n o t w h a t they th ink , their convictions, if w rong , m ay be taken in to consideration in mitigation of punishm ent, b u t can n o t affect the question as to whether the causes o f th e ir revo lu tion were in the selves

either right or wrong. T he resu lts are generally taken as a gu ide in afte r years, bu t at the o u tb u rst ot an internecine w ar, ou tside nations have to p rac tica lly decide as to w hether they consider it as justifiable o r not by the lunouul of counte­nance o r d iscountenance w hich they accord to it. I f they pa lpab ly e rr—as in the case o f E ng land during ou r conflict, w herein she abandoned all her ow n trad itional principles an d policy— then reparation m ust be eventually made to the in ju red G overnm ent, because the action they take in the prem ­ises increases the ta sk o f repressing the revolution by the facilities accorded to the revolu tion ists to m ain ta in the ir re­sistance; fo r exam ple, w ithou t a recognition o f belligerency, tbe cap tu re on the' h ig h seas of vessels w ould be an act of p iracy , and no arm ed vessel o f the unrecognized party could en te r a n eu tra l p o rt; neither w ould a neu tra l vessel be en­titled to any consideration if cap tured a ttem p ting to en ter a closed p o rt; the sh ipm ent of arm s to a closed p o rt w ould be likew ise an offence. F ro m th is it is ap p a ren t th a t by unreasonab le recognition of an in ternal revolt, the prev iously recognized G overnm ent m ay receive in ju ry a t th e hands o f a neu tra l. E nglish ju ris ts have held th a t the in ju red governm ent have no t on ly no redress b u t no cause of com plain t. W e ho ld differently. T he very fac t o f a cause of com plain t, a receip t of an in jury , carries w ith it a dem and fo r a m ethod o f reparation . A nd if it even be th a t the U. S. G overnm ent is the first to dem and such, so be it; i t is on ly one m ore instance in w hich our G overnm ent has reform ed the evil p ractices and un justifi­able usages o f the w orld. W here the in te rnational law, form ed by E u ro p ean precedent, is ju s t and founded on rea­son, it behooves us to acquiesce in and su p p o rt i t ; but w here it is no t so, no m a tte r how m uch it m ay be sanctioned by usage, w e m ust stand boldly fo rth and reform it.

T h e ru le w e have p rom ulgated of tak in g th e ju s tic e o f a cause and the exhaustion of every legal m eans o f redress before re so rtin g to force, w hen applied to any u p ris in g or rev o lu tio n of th e past, w ill be found to accord w ith the v e rd ic t o f m an k in d ; fo r w h a tev er passions o r in te rests m ay sw ay governm en ts fo r the tim e being, fu tu re generations b rin g th e p rin c ip les w e have p rom ulga ted to bear as the s ta n d ard s w hereby to m easure the ju stice of each case.

O ur G overnm en t is founded upon ideas com paratively n ew to th e w orld , and n o t perhaps in harm ony w ith the feu­dal p rero g ativ es and no tions of old and com paratively stag­n a n t nations. W e have r isen ; w e progress by ta k in g the lead in new an d ju s t ideas ; o u r g rea t m en have alw ays been innovato rs, s ta rtlin g th e w orld of th e ir day, bu t com ­m an d in g th e adm ira tion o f the fu tu re g rea t m inds of tbe w orld . I t is ju s t so w ith the new m ovem ent o f th e em an­cipation o f w om en. I t m ay he an in n o v a tio n ; it m ay s ta r­tle th e stu p id ly conservative, and hence in cu r th e ir opposi­tion . W e expect th is ; i t is one o f the prices one has to pay fo r being a pub lic teacher—a pub lic enlightener. W e there­fore m ee t i t as a m a tte r of course', and , fu rtherm ore, as a proof th a t o u r doctrine is tak in g ho ld and root.

W e do n o t ju s tify o u r innovation , because it needs no justifica tion . W e do n o t ac t on th e defensive, because ours is n o t a position sufficiently w eak to requ ire defence. No, w e s ta n d fo rth as cham pions o f a new idea th a t is based on justice , com m on sense and m orality , and we carry our ideas in to th e enem y’s cam p as a step in advance of the existing s ta te o f th ings. O ur opponents are now on tb e ir defence and so fa r b ea ten as to begin to have foolish ly alarm ing visions of w h a t th ey im agine w ou ld happen if w e carried ou r po in t (to use th e ir ow n language). T h a t is encouraging to us. W e are pleased, gentlem en, th a t the shadow s of com ing events are sufficiently defined and developed to cause you to' con­sider th e resu lts o f o u r com ing success. I f you are need­lessly alarm ed and w eave nonsensical visions of the results o f ou r com ing em ancipation , w e gan afford to smile, well k n o w in g th a t the day is n ea r a t h and w hen w e can afford to overlook y o u r past opposition and sm ile w ith you a t the “ foolish fig u re” you are now m aking. Y ou, gentlem en, are fa s t on the road to conversion ; the day of rid icule is past, the day of alarm has come, the day of ou r trium ph is a t hand . T h e g rea t m inds o f th e coun try are falling in line. T hose w ho slep t on unconcernedly are now ejaculating, “ T h is is getting a serious m a tte r.” T he halls o f Congress have ru n g w ith our cry for justice , thousands are now reading th e announcem ents o f ou r cam paign lectures ; and in answer to the question now on every lip, “ W hen w ill they stop ? ” w e rep ly , “ O n th e accom plishm ent o f Constitutional equality .”

A nd ju s t as sure as those w ords are now staring you in the face on ou r announcem ents in the public places of this great city—so sure shall we trium ph . T here are no half-way meas­u res in th is m atter. W e in tend to persevere and to conquer a fu ll and com plete victory. L et those w ho oppose “ stand from u n d e r.” T o the w eak of h eart we say, be strong. To th e re luc tan t w e say, stand aside. To the faithful we say .be of good cheer. T he ligh t is d aw n in g ; day is break ing ; the ju stice o f ou r cause ensures its success. M illions w ho have stood unconcernedly by are now th inking. T hough t means conversion to our principles. W e have struck the chord that is v ibrating in the hearts o f our people, and as we look upon the sea of eager faces w ho throng our lecture-halls, we feel inspired w ith the conviction of approaching, fast approach­ing, victory, w hich we shall a ttain peaceably if we can, loreibly if w e m ust. B u t the force we shall use will be agitation. W e shall invade by in tellectuality , by force of reason, by m aking ou r voices heard th roughout the length and breadth o f these fair U nited States, and reverberate across the A tlan ­

tic to d istan t shores. R igh t and m ight w ill be our motto. R ight, the object we are soeking; m igh t—th a t is, the m ight of reason and ju stice—the m eans to obtain th is right. W e are going to w alk w ith you to the ballo t box, expecting you to accom pany us as you w ould to church ; and if you fail to behave as on «ucli an occasion, we are going to m ake enact­m ents to enforce the observance of public decorum . Y ou cauno t stand in our w ay. Y ou know this ; you canno t depend upon the license of un restra ined men to carry co rrup t men and m easures w hen w e are present. Y ou know that, too. Y ou do no t fear that we shall w in. You only fear the pow er of self-aggrandizem ent a t the expense of the S tate th a t you are to lose.

N ot th a t we w ish to ta u n t you w ith the corrup tion tha t w ill soon be a m atte r of the past. No, we w ould have th a t ren t ill oblivion ; we w ould say, “ Oh ! it is all gone now ; never m ind , le t us w alk side by side and forget i t .” In the h o u r of y o u r regeneration we w ill stand, as it w ere, a t the end of a long journey , w herein you took a w rong path , bu t bo th arriv ing safely a t the end a t last, we can let our new jo y bury past erro rs ; we shall not say “ I told you so;” we shall n o t tu rn in tr iu m p h w hen the day is w on ; we shall help you g a th er up you r w ounded and bury your dead, le ttin g ou r silence a tte s t our sym pathy ; and if you r voices falter os you say “ forgive,” ours will quiver as we reply you are forgiven. In th a t day w e shall feel rew arded fo r all our labors, and proud th a t the flag of our country will a t last cover and p ro tect a people free, happy and contented.

OPPRESSIVE MONOPOLIES.

T h e fru its of the concentra tion of capital into the hands of a few m onopolists are now com ing hom e to the people as we have w arned them they w ould do ; w e are suffering from the very evils we have so often pointed out as the unavoida­ble consequence of the grasping of im m ense in terests into the hands of vast corporations. Coal, w hich should be ob­tainable a t $5 a ton , is now $12 to the retail consum er in th is city, w hich is as it w ere w ith in stone’s th row of th o u ­sands of tons of it, the ow ners of w hich are anxious to put the sam e on our m arkets, bu t are prevented by the cupidity of com bined coal-m ine ow ners and railroad com panies, who raise th e ir ra tes fo r th e freight o f coal to a ruinously high figure in o rder to cast public opprobrium upon the m iners by m aking it appear th a t a s tr ik e is the cause of the ex to r­tionate price of coal. T h e tru e secret lies ju s t h ere : Rail­road com panies are also coal m iners, and w hen tlieir m iners strike , in o rder to obtain a living rate o f wages, these ra il­road coal m in ing com panies raise tbe ir rates o f freight, in o rder to p rev en t o the r m ines from supplying tne m arket.

\Y e call upon Congress to take th is m atte r in hand. W e dem and th a t com panies incorporated as railroad com panies be preven ted by law from en tering in to and grasp ing other businesses. T he pow er vested in the ir hands as the great h ighw ays—w hich should be a public benefit—becomes a public curse w hen used as a m eans of “ cornering m a rk e ts” a t w ill. G entlem en a t W ashington , do you see w hat we are com ing to ? do you see th a t the largest city in th is Union is becom ing m erely a convenience for a few u n ­scrupulous m en to crush the people ? do you m ark iu this coal sw indle a finger o f w arn ing th a t points to the tenden­cies o f m uch o f our late legislation ? do you wish to see in these U nited States the inauguration of a contention of classes ? fo r j'ou are w orking to that direct end. T he mass of the people are beginning to m urm ur; the first undertone of a th rea t th a t w ill sweep aw ay m ore than they as yet com ­plain of is being now heard.

" A t f ir s t i t g ru m b le s , th e n i t sw e a rs , a n d th e n .L ik e D a v id , th ro w s sm o o th p e b b le s 'g a in s t a g ia n t.

A t l a s t i t ta k e s to w e ap o n s su ch a s m en S n a tc h w h en d e s p a ir m a k e s h u m a n h e a r ts le ss p l i a n t ;

T h e n co m es th e tu g o f w a r— 'tw i l l com e a g a in ."W e poin t out to you once again the evils attendan t up.m

the p lacing of facilities in the hands of these rapacious as­sociations. W e dem and th a t legislation fixes the rate o f transporta tion over railroads and canals, and forbids them from ow ning or carry ing o r o ther business, in o rder to p re ­vent them from becom ing a curse instead of a bks?ing to the people. W e would avoid a struggle between classes by preventing any one class from possessing the pow er to op ­press the general com m unity.

I t only needs a law of prim ogeniture now to place our people under a th ra lldom equal to the worst of E uropean m on­archies; all existing dividing lines will vanish hi fore this now div id ing one o f capital versus the mass of the people. In ad ­dition to the regulation by law of the rate of railroad freights we dem and free trade in coal. We cannot, we must not. we will not, stand silently by and see our population, in the rqidst o f a b itterly severe w inter, suflering all the miseries attendant upon a coal fam ine a t the caprice of, and to satiate the greed of, a few vam pires. T heir alm ighty dollar must be taught to respect the m ighty people.

P atience has ceased to be a v irtue, and ere popular im pa­tience m erges into popular excesses, we dem and lliat our public servants, both Congressional and Slate, take t : i s m atte r in hand, and, by wise and timely legislation. sa»e our country from the loom ing convulsion. W e a n no alarm ists ; we arc only as Mr. B right said in E nglrnd on a sim ilar occasion, “ More w illing to learn than o u .t:s ," and, in pointing out the threatening dangers of to-day. we ara doing good public service. We are rapidlv driflini; into serious times ; beware, then, in time. As President G rant once said : " I know o f no m ethod so effectiT* to abolish »

12 SKoofllmU & Claflm’s M arch 11, 1871.

M iU rigid enforcement." So we now •%), wc know of no melboi no sure of Abolishing these motvp )lr evils as the suffering the people experience st the:r h in d t; but the danger lies in the fart that when the p ople are g o a ie i to that po'ni, which will band th m together as a body agtinst capital, an upheaval will occur ¿hat mu.-t derange all oar business, depreciite government credi\ paralyze triple, m l commit irreparable injury to the entire country at large. The E'gar Thompsons mnit be tsught that the people have rig.iu that they are bound to revpett, and it is better for them that they be so taught ere an out­raged public, in their anger at oppression, take it into their heads that the Elgar Thompsons have no right which they fthe people) are bound to respect; and it is to this latter era we are striding : the coal corner will lead to wheat and floor corners. For years onr merchants have shipped grain to Europe, paying all costs of transportation, insurance, com­missions, etc., snd that grain reaches the consumer in Eng­land at a leas cost than does the grain sold to the Xew York consumer. Can anything be more preposterous than this ? Is there any one question of so much national importance as this one—of the extortion at the hands of monopolists ? Of what import are funding bills, the appreciating the national credit, paving off the national debt, etc., when compared to this overshadowing question that beards every laborer at his own fire-side, gradually breeding a discontent that will shake the very foundations of onr Government? The old States’ Right question, now in its last struggles, is being fast replac'd by the rights of the people to subsist­ence. Legislation, in accord with the principles and spirit of our Constitution, will remove these evils ere they assume a magnitude beyond easily effected legislation ; and we call attention to them in the hope that our voice may avert the certain consequences attendant upon a continuation of the present unchecked license of oppressive monopolists.

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THE COAL QUESTION.

The Herald and some very hasty people who jum p at con­clusions, are appealing to Congress to have the duty on coal abolished, so that the British coal of Nova Scotia can be landed in this city at a low price, and the Pennsylvania monopolies be taught a lesson.

Cannot the Herald see that there is no question of b itu­minous coal, only of anthracite: that onr bituminous coal mines of Cumberland and Broad Top have not altered the prices of their coal, but stand ready to supply the markets at the usual price with any amount.

The British mines don’t produce a pound of anthracite coal. Why, then, invite them to come into competition with our bituminous coal miners who have done no wrong, and who from Cumberland and Broad Top will to-day gladly furnish all the bituminous coal New York will take, at a cost not one cent higher than last fall.

W hy punish these poor bituminous coal-men for the ein of the great anthracile monopolies whom they are separate en­tirely from, and hate as hearlily as the people at large do?

No; this idea of the H erM is all wrorg. The evil lies just where we pointed it out two months ago, in the granting by State legislatures of franchises permitting corporations to carry on two different occupations. Thus these great anthra­cite companies own mines, and mine coal, and also own railroads, and transport coal to market. When they want to break down other coal mines they simply do as they have just done—raise the price of freight, and under all circum­stances, they look for profit from transportation, and not to mining — thus breaking down rival m ites and becoming owners of them at low prices. There are plenty of anthra­cite mines which would be at work to-day did not the com­panies owning the lines of transportation resolutely prevent the passage of any products to market.

Let the State legislature pass a law forbidding railroad or •canal companies to have any interest whatever in mines, and ¿¡-franchising to that extent existing corporations, and also fixing a maximum rate of toll, commom to all mine-owners on the line of transportation. Let thpm also forbid any mining company from owning or working more than so many collieries at a time, whether in fee or in lease on roy­alty. When this is done the public will not be much dis­turbed in tbe future, by the arrogance of these monopolists who, to take care of their own interests, doq’t hesitate to shut (iff private mines from market by advancing tolls from$2 to %1 at one time.------------ - ♦ -------------

ADMIRAL PORTER’S VISITOR.

a g o o d s t o r y , a n y h o w .

W c find somewhere or o' her this story, true or not.The Chinese visiting etiquette is, that the rank of the

caller is denoted by the size of his card. Thus the visiting card of a high mundaria would be an immense roll of paper nicely tied up.

Admiral Porter lately engaged a full-blooded Chinese ser­vant, and Mrs. Porter immediately thereafter held n “ rcccp. tion,” whether to commemorate the employment of the • yellow boy" or not is not known.

John Chinaman attended the door, and received with great disgust the small pasteboards of the visitors, and, evidently wiib an opinion of hit own of the low condition o f the Admiral's friends, pitched the cards into a basket, and,

Religion from a New QrAHTER.—Every Saturdsy afier noon, in a little saloon between Ann and Fulton streets, not far from Broadway, twojgenilemen may be tcund sitting to­gether in “ close communion ” over their glass ol Locliingoa, after various nodding of Lie ids and taking of notes. TheRev. Mr M--------1 having given Mr. W--------n the tips orpoints, the latter duly dresses them up and they appear in one of the leading ciiy papers in the garb of those Sunday refgious articles that have lately been so much talked of. Locbirg-ia is said to be all po ent as an inspirator, and when a more than usually good article appears, it can safely be at­tributed to a more than ordinary abut.dar.ee of Lochingoa. We have heard of churches being converted to many peculiar uses, but to get up sermons in a basement liquor saloon is one step in advance of all our previous experience—next.

E r r a t a .—In an article on “ Engli-h Patriotism and What Makes It,” in our last issue, several errors crept in, which its author d' sires should be noticed. In 5th line above the end of tbe 1st paragraph, read surpass for “ compass.” In 19th line of 2d paiagyaph, read navies for “ novice;” in 29tb line of same, read as for “ and,” and in 43d, read endeared for “ endorsed.” In 12th line ot 2d column, read difficult) for “ differently," and in 22d line, read grievance for “ grievances.”

RUFUS HATCH’S CIRCULAR, No. 4Frauds in Railroad Management and Their

Remedies.

MILW AUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILROAD COMPANY,

T he m anagers o f railroads h a re a g rea t m any different ways of robbing tb e people. Commodore V anderb ilt does n o t build railroads, he bays them , doubles, by h is w aterings, th e ir share capital, and doubles in the sam e way bis profits—provided, always, he can m ake the people pay d iv idends on bis w atered stock. T h is is the scope of h is wonderful ge­n iu s as a ra ilroad roan. In th e Chicago and N orthw estern there was different role.

C ontractors sn d speculators (outsiders mainly), m ade the money here. T hey found p lian t and sub tle d irec to rs to take the shells and give them back the oyster. T he public, unfortunately , has to pay for tbe shelle the full price of th e bivalve, in th e increased charge upon w hatever they eat, d rin k o r wear. F o r every b lunder, for every act of unfaithfulness o r fraud, the people pay the penalty . I t may be all the same to the par­ties bu ild ing o r ow ning a road w hether i t cost $50,000 or $100,000 per m ile. T o the pub lic th e difference is th a t betw een the am ount o f divi dends paid on these sum s.

T he m ethod w ith tb e M ilw aukee and St. Pau l m anagers has been dii fe ren t from those nam ed. T he m oney m ade here is by an inside “ ring, w ho bu ild and buy railroads, and sell them , a t th e ir own price, to the one they contro l. T h is is a safe and easy way, b u t con trasts poorly with th e b ril lian t effrontery o f Commodore V anderbilt, who despises aod defies pub lic opin ion . Everybody feels i t to be a mean and sneaking th in g for A B, as con tracto r, to sell his w ares to A B, as railroad d irecto r, because the offender can so easily cover his trail th a t detection or p un ishm en t—removal from office, w hich is the penalty m ost feared, because i t rem oves from opportun ities to p lunder—is im possible.

T h e M ilw aukee and St. P a u lR o ad is a patchw ork, made up of ail k inds o f m aterial and taken in a t prices which b est su ited its m anagers. W bat tbe several portions cost i t is im possible to tell, as they a re all lumped toge ther in one m ass. I t is equally im possible to tell w hat the several pieces earn , o r y h a t they are w orth. One of these, the McGregor and Y ancton line, w hich had a land g ran t o f 1,536,000 acres, is now being b u ilt by a “ rin g ," contro lled by M ilw aukee and St. Paul directors, and as fa s t as b u ilt tu rned over, w ith o u t equipm ent, to th is Company, m inus th e lands and a t tw ice Its cost. A lready 126 m iles have been b u ilt. The land th a t w ill in th is w ay be secured to tbe “ r in g “ w ill be worth probably , $10,000,000! T he road is being b u ilt th roagh a country a lm ost d e s ti tu te o f population , and cannot, for a long tim e, pay much, if any , m ore tbaD ru n n in g expenses.

A no ther land -g ran t line, w hich now com poses a portion o f the Mil w sukee and St. Panl Road, w as th e M innesota C entral. T he land gran t calls for 643.503 acres. T h is lin k was p u t in to the consolidated company a t »be price dem anded by th e “ r in g “ who b u ilt it, and a fter they had severed from i t the lands, to be confiscated for the ir own benefit and use.

A nother land -g ran t road w hich th e M ilw aukee and St. Paul R ing have g o t hold of, is the H astings and D&cotah, w hich is en titled to a g ran t 550,000 acres. Of th is line, fifty m iles a re b u ilt. I t is fair to presume th a t th is road is to be b u ilt and p u t upon the M ilwaukee and St. Paul in the sam e m anner as have been the o ther land-grant lines already nam ed.

A nother, or the sam e, “ ring “ are bu ild ing a direct line o f road upon the banks o f th e M ississippi, from S t Pau l to La Crosse, to be sold to the M ilw aukee and St. Paul Com pany w hen the rails are laid. T h is is a rival line to one a lready in operation , and belonging to the sam e Company. T he tw o are parallel to each o ther, and will com pete m ainly lor the same traffic. A th ird road, tbe W est W lnconsln, now being bu ilt by another ra ilroad com pany, will also be parallel to the tw o named. W hen com p lcted , w hich i t speedily will be, there will be three roads com peting for a business only sufficient to support one.

A nother m agnificent operation , and lo w hich vast genius for railroad fng w as show n, w as the leasing o f the W estern Union R ailroad to the M ilw aukee and St. Paul. T h e form er was a thoroughly broken-dow n concern, never having paid a dollar, e ither In in te res t o r d ividends. By th e la s t rep o rt o f th is Com pany, m ads fo r 1866, Its share capital

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T W n e t « u n ia t s for lb« foor years av e n g e* 1177.0» annually. Bai W tu i t b e C o s pan y b e r a t e each year all tbe t o r e ln-

-« L I t Is a o l p robab le th a t a tin g le dollar v t« earned coaid be t a d e applicable, e ith e r to ln te ree t or dlv ldeada. T h e road m ight liter ally be said to r a n h o t now here, and to ran to aow bere. I t r u grow- tog w orse and w orse every year, be ing ground to powder by the Chicago and N orthw estern , and o th e r riva l lines. B a t th is wn# jn a t the field fur

gTmnd display o f railroad »kill. A po rtion of the M ilwaukee and d t P aol ring b < tg h tn p a con tro lling in te re s t in Its stock, and sold i t to th e ir Com paoy-«or. ra th er, exchanged stock for stock , to the am ount of

1.507,300, w hereby said Com pany becam e possessed of this wonderful p ro p erty . 1 believe th a t, as a p a r t o f th e transaction , the bond-holders con sen ted to reduee th e ir bonds to fiUOO.'O).

Upon this sum the Milwaukee and Sl Panl Is to pay at the rate of 7 per cent., $*44,000 annually. In addition. It pays dividends npon the stock issued in exchange for that of the W estern Union, at the rate of 7 per c en t, and amonnting to $1* 5.545 annually. Tbe total rental paid for the W estern Union Road, assuming that the Milwaukee and 9l Paul continues to pay dividends, amounts to $345,525 anooatly; and all this

r a properly, the net earnings of which were not sufficient to keep tbe Company on its legs. But eTen with the net earnings claimed (of flTT,- 009). the annual balance against the Milwaukee and St, Paul, resulting from the transaction, am ounts to $216,517. No portion of the lines of the two roads came w ithin tw enty miles of each other. They run, lu fact, in opposite directions. Tbeir eastern termini, on Lake Michigan, were more than twenty miles a p a r t; tbeir western, on the Mississippi River, were 200 miles apart. The Interests of the two Companies were neither m utual nor antagonistic. Tbe St. Paol, as far as any benefit was to be derived, m ight as well have leased the Hoosac Tunnel or the ro*d of the Boston, H srtford and Erie.

Is It to be wondered a t that scrip dividends are the order of the dsy, with the M ilwaukee and St. Paul, in spite of the boast of its directors In their report of hiG9. that, “ h a rin g completed their improvements and paid thvrefor from the earnings of the road for 1866, the policy of tbe directors in future will be to divide the ne t earning in cash to the share­holders.“ The nex t dividend made was a proper commentary upon all these high-sounding bu t hollow promises. The Det earnings of the Com* panjr, instead of being applied to cash dividends, have been, and most be used to sustain the worthless railway property which the managers of th is Company have purchased and sold to it. When dividends are earned aod paid in cash on the common stock of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, by the present management, the M illennium will not be tar off.

By the declaration of dividends in stock a ll the loseea resulting from m lscondact and frauds are sought to be thrown upon the people in in­creased charges for transportation . T he only way to meet and correct such abases is by a law which shall, by tbe severest penalties, prohibit, altogether, scrip dividends. Those already declared by the Milwaukee and SL Panl am ount to $3.152,647—to pay 7 per c e n t on which the people are to be taxed $*220.695 annually. To this fictl ions capital is to be added the sum of $1,5 7,5.0 of capital issued to the Western Union, m aking a to ta l w atered capital of $4,760,347, in addition to that paid in the purchase of land-grant lines. I jadge, however, that such dividends are about played ou t, even In the M ilwaukee and. Sl Paul, as tbe last one o f the kind caused a fall of some 10 per cent, in its stock. I t was a transaction too barefaced for even a creduloas public—it was a farther w atering o f th a t which before had neither consistency Dor color lefL

The Company opened last year 100 miles of new road. I t increased its share capital in the m eantim e $5,238,t09, and its funded debt $l,050.&8. T he aggregate of these, for 1669, was $34.664,213; fur 1670it was $40,553, 554. The increase was $6,389.341, or nearly 20 per ceuL The increase of earnings w as from $7,250,688 to $7,420,061, or a t the rate of a little over 2 percenL This is the way Watering w orks: Increase of capital, 20 per cenL; ofeam ing(> ,2percenL Nor is th is the only way watering works. On those roads whose capital stock has been largely watered by the issue of addi­tional stock and scrip dividends, everything U made subservient to the one necessity of securing sufficient n e t earnings to pay the promised 8 per cenL on these illegal-issues. N ot only are the charges of trans portation advanced, b u t tbe expenses of the road are curtailed, and an economy practiced, profitable, no doubt, to the holders of the fraudulent stock, bo t perilous to tb e traveling public.

First-class men, unw illing to give th e ir services a t less than their fair m arke t value, are replaced by ignorant and inferior workmen who con­trac t to do double du ty for half w ages; a brakem an discharged here and a flagman th e re ; passenger tra in s are perm itted to make up lost tim e by running a t full speed over drawbridges—no n u tte r how dark and frosty the n igh t—and to m eet heavy freigh t tra in s while they are crossing the same structure . The w orn-out tan n in g gear yields to the f ro s t; an axle sn ap s ; oil cars jum p the track and block tbe way of a late and rapidly approaching express ; there is no one to haul down the w hite signal ligh t which proclaims all r ig h t ; a fearful col­lision is the result—the oil is ign ited and in turn fires the passenger c a rs ; the bridge—a weak wooden s truc tu re unable to Blind the weight and ja r—gives way, and five and tw enty roasting human beiDgs are dashed on and under tbe ice th a t covers the river oelow. But these are uuavoidable accidents. These com panies keep as many employes as they can consisten t w ith their dividend obligations, and as these obligations increase expensive safeguards m ust be dispensed w ith, even thoagh a frightful increase of the dangers a ttend ing railway travel be lift resulL

Of all the varieties o f fraud and m ism anagem ent there is none so dan­gerous and fatal as for directors o f railroads to engage in the construc­tion or purchase of these works for the purpose of foisting them, at their own price upon those they control. T he only question considered in such cases is the ab ility of the com panies to take and pay for them. Now, no road should be b u ilt (except as a private enterprise) where there is no t the prom ise o f a fa ir re tu rn upon its cost. W here the par­ties building are responsible to them selves alone, for their blunders and losses, no o thers w ill be undertaken. Such as are bu ilt will be economi­cally constructed and managed. But, w here parties are relieved of all sach responsibility u tte r d isaste r and ru in are the certain resulL They never stop un til compelled to do so by the poverty o r bankruptcy of their victims. The “ ring“ in the M ilwaukee and SL Paul are fast getting to the end of their te ther. A few m ore add itions of unproductive and com peting Hues, a few more dividends in scrip; and all will be up with this concern.

T he diversion of land g ran ts from the purposes for w hich they were made has already become a colossal evil, and should imm ediately engage the a tten tio n o f Congress. T here are three great lines in Iowa alone from which tbe land granta have been severed, to w i t : T hat made to the Cedar Rapids and M issouri R ailroad, e! 1,422,109 a c re s ; th a t made to the M cGregor andiY ancton Railroad, o r 1.536,000 acres; and th a t to the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad, o f 1,226,163 acres. T hese grants in­cluded 4,184,270 acres—an area equal to th a t o f the S tate o f Massachu­setts, o r abou t 7,000 square miles. T his imm ense dom ain ia now held by absentees, on speculation—a m ost odious and In jurious mode o f holding our wild lands. All these three lines have been leased. T he owners of the lands, consequently, have no m otive b n t to get the m ost they can for the ir land granta, which have bean wholly d iverted from the objects for

March 11, 1871. SffoodhnU à Claflw’fi äföfffclt). 13

vlicft tbey v e n m*de- Tbe mine p a r ti« haxe re*L vj^ u u k m c i i b i from tbe eonetrwctioo of tbe read«.

f -<r acrt for th<ee land» they bar« aa additional prodt of nearly $3O.(XX\0OO left. Thi* ia»t earn Is to W vrao^from tbe ew«*! of theploceer. In the mean-

ihe rood* a u i remain vritboQt traffic till the feuds are * /d and settled. The interests of the ab- m<M o w ers and of the railroads are now whollyaasa£iic’*tic.

Bad the railroads held the lands they would hare pro«»ocrd their early settlem ent, and woold, of necee- •it?, hare proved kind and beneficent landlords. Tbe a5*ca:ees are certain to prove most indifferent and •dish ocea Ctoncre*« should immediately Interpose la ail sach eases and forbid any further severance of the iaad franis from the lines to which they were wade, bach a step, to be ta re , is locking the stable door after all the best horses have been stolen. Where the ermats have been misappropriated they should, in all ess««, be renamed. There are many valuable frmatsaodispoaed of. Others may vet be made. All such ¿rants should be the basis of all secorities that m y be leaned for tbe parpose o f bailding the roads The node of their sale and the prices to be paid, aboald be accurately defined, eo that the grants, while they {K emote tbe construction o f railroads, will, a t the am time, advance the public welfare.

BOOK NOTClE&i

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THBEE MEN IN A POPULATION OF THREE MILLION INHABI­

TANTSATTEMPT TO RUN N EW YORK SOCIETY AND

NEW YORK CITY, A N D TO T H E S E T H R E E

MEN DO OUR M U N ICIPA LITIE S BOW, DEM O­

CRATIC AS DO TH E SE R E PR E SE N T A T IV E S

PRETEND TO BE.

Now, these three m en, agen ts o f ra ilroads, foreign capitalists, or deceivers o f friends in th e ir W all-street operations, can drive from th ree to fifteen horses in New York city, and to these do these sam e deputies bow.

H. T. Helmbold, know ing th is to he the case, and knowing that these men give large suppers to foreign representatives o r those in troduced by them , and large sums to have th e ir suppers, &c., pub lished , fearing that their principles, o r th a t p ersons to w hom they hold a false face, m ay d iscern th a t they occupy this false position, end th a t th e ir s ta tu s has o r m ay quit them.

I, H. T. Helmbold. now p ro tes t, th a t i f i t be im ­portant for a man to su p p o rt h im se lf an d m ee t h is honest obligations, th a t the rep resen ta tiv es o f th is municipality should su sta in him , w h e th er he drives one, five or more horses, o r erects a pole, o r is com-

’ pelled to erect a pole, and append thereon certa in flags.

I am (fee to adm it th a t every m an has pecu liarities, some for yacbte, o thers fo r fast horses, and m ine m ay be the weakest. Y et I do n o t be lieve th a t had five or ((teen horses been driven by e ith e r o f tbese th ree parties, that a depnty, and he a m ere boy, w ould have dared to arrest o r no tify any o f th ese th ree c lub ­house men, or th a t a country o rd inance had b een v io­lated, bnt, on the con trary , w ould have taken off his hat, and have allowed them to do as they pleased. In conclusien. Dr. H. T . H elm bold w ould lik e to know if self-made m en are o f any acco n n t in N ew York ? If not, he is a freeholder e lsew here , and can quit New York c ity and live.

P. 8.—Dr. H. T. H elm bold n ev er in ten d ed , know ­ingly. to violate an ord inance, an d he personally re ­sponds, and always respec ts no tifica tions w hen re ­ceived from principals o r p ro p e r sources, an d Is w ill­ing to ’concede all ra th e r th a n offend, an d i f he is allowed to remain in th is c ity , ra th e r th an em igrate to New Jersey, Pennsylvania. M ary land o r W ash ing­ton, in any or either of w hich place he is a freeholder, and where he will be k ind ly g ree ted and shaken by the hand. Nothing would s u it h im b e tte r th an to quit such “ small-idea m en” and p laces, and New Turk should not ex u lt in b e in g cosm o p o litan any longer. These three m en re fe rred to m ay, in lees than five years, take th e ir b a ts off an d b e aubaerv len t to hie will.

O f a ll th ing . In w hich pertB ts should take in teres t, •o n « U o f *o CTfai im portance u tha t o f education , la «electing echoo!« sufficient de libera tion is seldom had- T he w hole fu tu re o f a ch ild '» life m ay be d a rk ­ened by a fait« *tep In e a rlr yeara. T here are com pera tive ly few people » h o are fitted for having charge o f the young. I t require« the m eet ex q u isite tacL the m oat com prehensive r ra a p o f characteristic» , a» w ell aa an alm ost iufioite adap ta tion to eircums-tance». T h e in s tinc t* o f childhtH>d a re a iaav » pure and true. T hey shoo ld never be » tou ted and bleared by an uu- reaeonablc cu rb ing . T hev »hoald sim uiy he d irected •o a» to avoid the q u ic k « n d » aud shoal'« w hich cer­ta in p red ispositions tu igu t d rift them tow ard . T rue education i» n o t so m uch the stuffiug process a« it i» th e w eed ing o r e i ir r in a u n g process, by w hich the w hole m en ta l streng*o m ay be exe rted iu p roducing a m ind capable o f the h ighest and nob lest purposes o l life. M ost o f ou r boarding school» teach th e se th ings w hich re la te too palpably to th e ex te rn a l, aud arc therefor« to be deprecated . T he re are , how ever, some w hose p rinc ipa ls have th e tru e idea ol education . A m ong them m ay be m en tioned the School for Y oung L adies, a t No. 15 E a st T w en ty fou rth s tree t, under the cha rge o f M esdam ce M Ulard A C arrier, w hose adve rtisem en t appears in an o th e r colum n.

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A liberal d iscoaut made to lodges aud societies.

Bxkam «ft Co.. H alters. 160 Broadway, have recently added a new departm ent to their old and regular business, consisting of a large stock o f geutlem en’s furnishing goods of the very best quality , and all of their owu m anufacture, from recent aud choicest styles. These sty es have been selected w ith great care from late im portations, and will bear comparison with any offered iu this city. T heir sh irt departm ent is a specialty, being uuder the supervision of one of the most experienced artis ts in the city. Gentlemen may rely upou ob tain ing the best of everything, for Beebe <ft Co. ne ither m ake nor offer any secoud quali­ty goods. Tbe public will take notice tha t with tbe exception of Beebe <fc Co. all o ther first-class houses have removed up*towrn, which they have n o t fouud i t necessary to do to re ta in their long-standing custom.

Jo h n G ault’s B illiard Rooms, 69 and 71 Broadway, are the mo»t popular resort o f the denizens oi W all s treet and vicinity. "P h e la n ta b le s" and " p u re d rinks " are the a ttractions.

W e take special p leasure in calling the a tten tion of all our readers who need den tal service to Dr. Koonz, a t No. 1 G reat Jones street. New York, who i*s both judicious aud scientific in all departm ents o f den tis­try. H is room s are fitted tastefu lly and elegantly , and be ing constantly filled w ith the elite of the city, testifies th a t h is practice is successful. He adm in is­ters the n itrous oxide gas w ith perfect success in all cases.

T here have been m any attem p ts mode to corfibine the usefulness of a sofa and a bed in one article of household fu rn itu re , b n t i t m ay be said they have been to ta l failures, and i t had come to be though t th a t n o th in g could be inven ted w hich would p resen t the elegance o f a first class parlo r sofa and also pos­sess all the convenience and com fort of the be6t bed. All the difficulties, however, have a t la s t been over­come in the com bined Sofa Bed, m anufactured by W m . S. Humphreys. 634 Broadway, who presen ts the public w ith an artic le of fu rn itu re w hich no critic could detect was any th ing m ore than a sofa w hen closed, and w hich no one would ever suppose could be converted in to a sofa w hen in its bed form, and ye t the conversion is m ade in stan taneously . I t is the desidera tum long sought b u t never before a tta ined .

T he Society o f Progressive Sp iritua lists hold regu­la r Sunday sessions, m orning and evening, a t Apollo Hall, in 28th street, near B roadw ay. T he following ta len t is engaged for th e cu rren t season : H iss Lizzie D oten , P rofessor W m . D em o an d N . F ran k W hite.

Musical.—T he a r t o f vocalization is th e m ost im ­p o rtan t b ranch o f th e educa tion o f a s in g e r ; as a lerfect en unciation is th e m ain -sp ring o f expression .

! d ies A nna B allard , te ach e r of sing ing in Y assar Col­lege, and who sang a t th e B eethoven festival there, has pub lished " fifte en vocalizes. to give execution and —ualize the voice." T hey will be found adm irably

lapted to th e nse o f pup ils , g iv ing ra re p rac tice to th e voice.

N o th ing m arks th e charac te r o f a m an m ore d is­tin c tly th an h is dress. I t is n o t necessary th a t a per­son should have a tw o hundred dollar s u it o f clo thes to be w ell dressed. D ress ing does n o t consis t so m uch o f th e m ateria l w orn as i t does in th e s ty le of its m ake np . Few people a re adap ted to conduct a Ready-M ade G ents1 C lo th ing E m porium . I t is a diffi­c u lt ta sk to have c lo th ing to su it an d to fit all custom ­ers. B u t i f th e re is one who m ore th an any o th e r has overcom e all these difficulties i t is R andolph, a t his C lo th ing E m porium , corner of G reat J o n es s tre e t and B roadw ay. H e n o t only sells to everybody, b u t he

to be . I f

fits everybody to whom he sells. I f von w ant “ f i t te d " in s tead o f " s o ld ," go to R andolph1 you w an t to be sold instead or fitted go to som e one w ho w ill force bad fits upon you if ne c a n 't fit you well.

Willard’s," a t W ash ing ton , is s till th e favorite re so rt o f all w ho v is it the cap ital. I f a s tra n g er is in th e c ity he can alw ays tfc lound by go ing to ** W il­la rd ’s ." T he im m ense p o p u la rity th is hotel has gained m ay be traced d irec tly to its ta len ted and ob lig ing p ro p rie to rs , M essrs. Sykes, C hadw ick & G ardiner. T hough th e tw o la tte r g en tlem en have now re tired from the m anagem ent. H r. Sykes is a h o st w ith in him self, in m ore senses than one, and fully su sta in s th e very env iab le re p u ta tio n o f th is far- famed hotel, th a n w hich none in tb e w orld is m ore w idely know n.

F o r P ho to g rap h s go to H eck er’s in 14th s treet, betw een Broudway and U n ivers ity place. See adver­tisem en t in nex t n n m b e r .__________

Oilman & Thorn have ju s t opened a first-class diuing-saloou a t 98'C edar s tree t, a few s tep s w est of B roadw ay. T hey supply , by th e ir a rran g em en t of p riva te d in ing-room s, a n eed ,loDg fe lt in th a t v ic in ity . G entlem en who have p riva te b usiness to a rran g e can a tten d to i t there w hile d iscussing th e ir lunches and d inners. I t is a lso a m ost desirab le a cq u isitio n to tbe accom m odation o f lad ies who m ust d ine dow n tow n, and who have an aversion to pub lic dining-room s. E very th in g is served np in sp lendid s ty le and a t ab o u t one-half the price o f m any o th e r places. T hey also keep a choice selection o f w ines, liquo rs an d cigars. G eneral en trance a s above. P r iv a te en tran ce n e x t door below 98.

Everybody wanting anything in the line of "dress­ing for the feet," are referred to the advertisement of Porter & Bliss, In another column.

MIDLAND BONDSIN DENOMINATION'S OP

$100, $500 and $1,000.

8 Per Cent. Interest

First Mortgage Bonds!ST. JO S E PH AND DENVER CITY RAILROAD

COMPANY.

These favorite s e v e n PER c e n t , b o n d s are Principal and Interest Payable in Gold.secured by a Flr*t M ortgage on the great M idland |Railroad of New Y ork, and their issue is stric tly lim lied to $90,000 per mile oi finished road, costing about $40J00 per mile. E n tire length of road, 545 miles, of I which 920 have been completed, and much progress 1 made in grading tbe rem ainder.

RESOURCES O F TH E COMPANY.

Full paid stock subscriptions, abou t.............. $6,500,000Subscriptions to convertible bonds................. 600,000M ortgage bonds, $20,000 per mile, on 345

mile«...................................................................... 6,900,000

E . Howard & Co., No. 15 M aiden L ane, N ew Y ork m ake th e beat S tem -W inding W atch in th e coun try A ik fo r I t a t a ll th e dealers. E v ery w a tch g u aran teed

T o ta l........................................................... $14,000,000Equal to $40,000 per mile.Tbe road is b u ilt in the m ost thorough m anner, and

a t the low est a tta inab le cost for cash.T he liberal subscrip tions to the C onvertible Bonds

of the Company, added to its o ther resources, give tbe m ost encouraging assurance of the early com pletion of the road. T he portion already finished, as w ill be seen by the following le tte r from the P res iden t o f the Company, is doing a profitable local business:

N kw Y ork, Dec. 2, 1870. Messrs. George Opdykb «ft Co., New Y ork :

Gentlemen—Y our favor of the 1st in s t., ask ing for a s ta tem en t o f la s t m o n th 's earn in g so f th e New Y ork I and Oswego M idland R ailroad , is a t hand. I have n o t | y e t received a rep o rt o f the earniDgs for N ovem ber.

T he earn ings for th e m o n th o f O ctober, from all sources, w ere $43,709 17, equal to $524 510 01 p e r an- uuin on th e 147 m iles o f road, v iz . : M ain lin e from Sidney to Oswego. 125 m ile s ; N ew B erlin B ranch, 22 m iles.

T h e road com m enced to tran sp o rt coal from Sidney under a co n trac t w ith the D elaw are and H udson can a l Com pany in th e la t te r p a rt o f N ovem ber. T h e b est inform ed on th e sub jec t e stim ate th e q u a n tity to be tran sp o rted th e first year a t n o t lees th an 250,000 tons, w hile som e e stim ate th e q u a n tity a t 300,000 tons- T h is w ill y ie ld an incom e o f from $375,000 to $450,0C0 rom coal a lone on th a t p a r t o f the road.

TakiDg the low est o f these estim ates, it g ives for the 147 m iles a total annual earning o f $899,510 0L The total operating expenses w ill not exceed fifty per cent., which leaves the net annual earnings $449,755 02, which is $214,555 02 in excess of interest o f the bonds issued thereon.

I should add th a t th e earn ings from passengers and fre igh t a re s tead ily increasing , and th a t, too , w ith o u t any th ro u g h b usiness to N ew Y ork. Y rs tru ly ,

D . C. L IT T L E JO H N , P res id e n t

N . Y. and O. M idland R ailro ad Co.

T h e very favorable e x h ib it p resen ted in th e fo rego ­ing le tte r show s th a t th is road , w hen fin ished , w ith its unequaled advan tages fo r b o th local and th ro u g h b u s i­ness, m a s t prove to be one o f th e m o s t profitab le ra il road en te rp rise s in th e U n ited S ta te s , and th a t its F ir s t M ortgage B onds c o n s ti tu te one o f th e sa fes t and m ost in v itin g ra ilro ad secu rities ever offered to in ­vestors.

F o r sale, o r exchanged fo r G overnm ent an d o th e r cu rre n t secu rities , by

G E O R G E O P D 1 K E &■ CO.,

25 Nassau Street

1 0 5 MILES COMPLETED and in operation, the

earning« on which are in excess of in te res t on th e

total issue. Grading finished, and ONLY 6 M ILES

OF T R A C k ARE TO BE LAID TO COM PLETE TH E ROAD.

M ortgage a t the rate of $18,500 per mile.

Price 97% and accrued in terest.

W e unhesitating ly recommend them , and will fur­

n ish m aps and pam phlets upon application.

W . P . CONVERSE & CO.,54 P IN E STREET.

MAXW ELL & CO.,

Bankers and Brokers,No. 11 BROAD STREET,

New York.

Th e u n d e r s ig n e d b e g t o i n -form th e ir fr ien d s th a t th ey have opened a

b ra n c h office a t

No. 365 Broadway, cor. Franklin Street,connected by te leg raph w ith th e ir p rin c ip a l office,

No. 46 EXCHAN GE PLACE,and so lic it o rd e rs for F o re ig n E xchange , Gold, Gbv- t rnm en t S ecu rities and S tocks, w hich w ill be p ro m p t­ly a tte n d ed to .

CHAS. U N G E R & CO.Jan u a ry 3,1871.

T A M E R & CO.,11 W A LL ST R E E T

JOHN J. CISCO & SON,

BANKERS,No. 59 W all Street, N ew Y ork .

Gold and Currency received on deposit, sub ject to check a t eight.

In te re s t allow ed on C urrency A ccounts a t th e ra te o f F o n r per C ent, p e r annnm , cred ited a t the end oi each m onth .

ALL CHECKS DRAW N ON US PA SS THROUGH T H E C LEARIN G -H O U SE, AND A R E R EC EIV E D ON D E P O S IT BY ALL T H E CITY BANKS.

C ertificates o f D eposit issued , payab le on dem and, bearing F o u r p e r C e n t in te res t.

Loans nego tia ted .O rders p rom ptly execu ted for th e Purchase and

Sale o f G overnm ents, Gold, S tocks an d B onds on com m ission.

C ollections m ade on all p a rts oi the U n ited S ta te s and Canadas.

H A R V E Y F IS K . A. S. HATCH.

OFFICE OF

FISK & HATCH.B A N K E R S ,

ANDD EA L ER S IN G O V ERN M EN T SE C U R IT IE S ,

No. 5 Nassau street, N . Y .,

O p p o s i t e TJ. S . S u b - T r e a s u r y .

We receive tlie accounts ot Banks, Bank­ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at sight, and allow interest on balances.

We make special arrangements for interest on deposits of specific sums for fixed periods.

We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certifi­cates of Deposit available in all parts of the Union.

We buy and sell, at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds of the Central Pacific Railroad Company; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons.

We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis­sion, for cash.

Communications and inquiries hy mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention.

FISK & HATCH.

A BEAUTIFUL

SET OF TEETH,W ith p lum pers to s e t o u t th e ch eek s a n d re s to re th e face to i ts n a tu ra l appea rance. M o rab le p lum pers ad ju sted to old se ts , w e ig h ted L ow er S o u , filUngs ol Gold, A m algam , B one, e tc .

T E E T H E X T R A C T E D W IT H O U T PA IN , W ith N itro u s O x ide G as.

N o e x tra ch arg e w hen o th e rs a re in serted . S P L E N D ID S E T S , (10 to (30.

L. BERNHARD, No. 218 Sixth Avenue,Be twees Pearteenth and Fifteenth (iw u east aide

i i M a . a

14 W ondhnU & » ta f l in ’5 W n U « . M arch U , 1871.

BANKING HOUSEOF

H E N R Y C L E W S & Co. ,

N o . 3 2 W a l l S tre e t.

In terest allowed on all daily balances of Current} or Gold.

Perrons depositing w ith ns can check a t sight in th e earae m anner as with National Banks.

Certificates of Deposit issued, payable on demand o r a t fixed date, bearing interest a t current rate, an available in all parts of the United States.

Advances made to our dealers s t all times, on ap­proved collaterals, a t jnarke t rates of interest.

W e bay, sell and exchange all issues o f Government Bonds a t corrent m arket p rices ; also Coin and Coupons, and execute orders for the purchase and sale of gold, and all first class securities, on com­mission.

Gold Banking Accounts may be opened w ith us upon the same conditions as Currency Accounts.

Railroad, S tate, C ity and other Corporate Loan negotiated.

Collections made everywhere In the United States, Canada and Europe.

Dividends and Coupons collected.

WOODHULL, CLAFLDC & CO.,

Bankers and Brokers,N o . +4 B R O A D S T R E E T ,

N e w Y o rk .

THE

J. OSBORN. ADDISON CAMMACK.

OSBORN & CAMMACK,

B A N K E B S ,No. 34 BROAD STREET.

STOCKS, STA TE BONDS. GOLD AND FEDERAL

SECURITIES, bought and sold on Commission.

KENDRICK & COMPANY,

B R O K E R SIN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, AND

ALL CLASSES OF RAILROAD BONDS AND STOCKS.

TOW N, CITY AND COUNTY BONDS of the N orthern and N orthw estern S tates largely dealt in. Orders prom ptly executed and inform ation given, personally, by le tte r or by the w ires. No. 9 New street. P . 0 . Box No. 2,910, New York.

f A X 't , BA R TO N . HENRY ALLEN.

BARTON & ALLEN,BAN KEKS AND BROKERS,

LOANERS’ BANKOF THE CITY OF N EW YORK

(ORGANIZED UNDER STATE CHARTER,)

“ Continental Life ” Building,

22 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.

CAPITAL............................................................. $500,0 0Subject to increase to ........................................l,O0i),U)U I

BOARD o r DIRECTORS :

WILLIAM M. TWEED, SHEPHERD F. KNAPP, A. F. WILMARTH, EDGAR F. BROWN,EDGAR W. CROWELL. ARCHIBALD M. BLISS,

DORR RUSSELL.

This Bank negotiates LOANS, makes COLLEC­TIONS, advances on SECURITIES, and receives DEPOSITS.

Accounts o f BaukcrB, Manufacturers and Merchants will receive special attention.

S3&- FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST paid on CURRENT BALANCES, aitd liberal facilities offered to our CUSTOMERS.

DORR RUSSELL, President.A. F. WiLLM/utTH, Vice-President.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH INSTITUTE, "j

T E A R 1810-71.

B0 ARP ING & DAY SCHOOLro a

YOUNG LADIES,No. 16 East 24th Street, near Madison Park,

NEW YORK.

CAL1ST0GA COGNAC.

Principa us—MADAME MALLARD AND MADAME CARRIER.

Madame Carrier, with whom she hae associated her­self after a co-operation of six years, is a niece of the late Sir David Brewster. From her early training and a thorough education, received in Scotland, together with several years' experience in tuition, she is in every respect qualified to take charge of the English Department of the Institute.

The Principals hope, by devotion to the mental, moral and physical training of their pupils, to secure their improvement and the cucouraging approbation of parents And guardians.

For particulars, send for Circular.

JA M E S McCREERY & CO.,Broadway and Eleventh street,

On Monday, February 13, will offer a splendid stock of

Housekeeping Linen Goode, selected with great care for our re ta il trade, a t ex-

• trem ely low prices.R ichardson’s Irish Linens,

Id every m ake and number, a t gold prices. Linen Sheetings.

10- 4 Barnsley sheetings a t 85c.11- 4 Barnsley Sheetings a t 90c.

Several cases of very fine Sheetings,2Vi and 3 yards wide.

Damasks.9-4 Bleached Barnsley Damask. $1, from $1 30.

9-4 and 10-4 Damask, new designs, in very fine Goods Also, a few pieces oi

R ichardson’s 8-4 Striped Damasks.A large lo t of

Damask Table Cloths, from two yards to six yards each, with

Napkin en suite,under gold cost.

Crash and Towelings.Crash, from 9 cents per yard upward.

A large stock of Towels of every description,from $1 50 per dozen

B lankets, F lannels, etc.Our stock of B lankets, Flannels, Marseilles Quilts.

Counterpanes, etc., etc.,

Ne w j e r s e y r a i l r o a d —f r o mFOOT OF CORTLANDT ST.—For W est Phila­

delphia, at 8:30 and 9:30 A. M., 12:30. 5*. 7*, 9:20* P. M., 12 night. For Philadelphia via Camden, 7 A. M.t l and 4 P. H . For Baltimore and Washington and the West, via Baltimore, 8:30 A. M., 12:30 and 9:20*

M. For the south ana southwest, 8:30 A. M., 9:20* M. Silver Palace cars are attached to the 9:20 P.

M. train daily, and run through to Lynchburg without change. For the West, via Pennsylvania Railroad— 9:39 A. M., and“ 7*$P. M. Silvei Palace cars are at­tached to the 9:3'» A. M.. and run through from New York to Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chi­cago without change. Silver Palace cars are attached to the 7* P. M., daily, and run through to Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louie audChicago without change. Tickets tor sale a t foot of Oortlandt St., and Dodd’s Express, 944 Broadway. («Daily.)

F . W. JA .......— "November 1, 1870.

This pure Brandy has now an established repute- tation, and is very desirable to all who use a stimu­lant medicinally or otherwise.

Analyses made by the distinguished Chemists, J. G. Pohle, M. D., and Professor 8. Dana Hayes, State Aesayer, Massachusetts, prove that i t is a purely grape product, containing no other qualities.

For Sale in quantities to suit the demand.

California W ines and

T ine Dom estic Cigars.

S. BRANHAM & CO.,66 BROAD STREET,

NEW YORK.

F. W. JACKSON, Gen. Supt.

THE BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R.Is an Air-Line Route from Baltimore and W ashington to Cincinnati, uud is the only line running Pullman’s Palace Day and Sleeping Cars through from Washing­ton aud Baltimore to Cincinnati w ithout change.

Louisville in 2 9 hours.Passengers by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have

choice of routes, either via Columbus or Parkersburg.From Cincinnati, take the Louisville and Cincinnati

Short Line Railroad.Avoid all dangerous ferry transfers by crossing the

great Ohio River Suspension Bridge, and reach Louis­ville hours in advance of all other lines. Save many miles in going to Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Atlanta. Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans

The only line runuing four daily trains from Cin­cinnati to Louisville.

Silver Palace Sleeping Coaches a t night, and splen­did Smoking Cars, with revolving arm chairs, on day trains

Remember l lower fare by no other route.To secure the advantages offered by this great

through route of Quick Time,'Short Distance and Lo- Fare, ask for tickets, and be sure they read, via Louis­ville and Cincinnati Short Line R. R.

Gety our tickets—No. 87 W ashington street, B oston, No. 229 Broadway, office New Jersey R. R., foot of Cortlaodt street. New York; Continental Hotel, 828 Chestnut street, 44 South Fifth street, and a t the depot corner Broad and Prime streets, Philadelphia; S. E. corner Baltimore and Calvert streets, or a t Camden Station, Baltimore; 485 Pennsylvania avenue. Wash­ington, D. C .; and a t all the principal railroad Offices in the East.

SAM. GILL,General Supt., Louisville, Ky.

HENRY STEFFE,Gen. Ticket Agent, Louisville, Ky.

SIDNEY B. JONES.Gen. Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky.

CCENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JER j sev.—Passenger and Freight Depot in New York, foot of Liuerty street; connects a t Hampton Junction

with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and a t Easton with the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its connections, forming a direct line to Pittsburgh and the W est w ithout change of cars.

J. R T E R R Y ,IMPORTER, MANUFACTURER AND

DEALER IN

HATS & FURS,19 UNION SQUARE,

N E W Y O R K .

AGENTS WANTEDEVERYWHERE.

No. 40 BROAD STREET.Socks, Bonds and Gold bought and sold on com­

mission.

R A I L R O A D I R O N ,FOR SALE BY

S. W. HOPKINS & CO.,71 BROADWAY.

PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO,

CARL HECKER & CO.,

46 EAST FOURTEENTH STREET,

U nion Sqnare, N kw Youk.

CARL HECKER.__________ JR___ -

MISS SIBIK O’HARA,Ladies’ Hair Dresser

AND

CHILDREN’S HAIR CUTTER,(Late w ith J . llau n ey , o f Baltim ore J

No. 130» F ST R E ET , Bd door fh>m T hirteen th , W ashington , D. C.

B raids. Onrla and Fashionable H air W ork for Ladies on toaad.

we are selling out a t g reat bargains. Domestics.

An immense stock of Domestic Goods, Shirtings and Sheetings,

in every well known brand,a t m anufacturers’ prices.

JA M E S McCREEIlY & CO.,Broadway aud Eleventh street,

W ill open, on Monday, February 13,A fresh assortm ent of

NEW FRENCH CHINTZES AND PERCALES.

English Calioos in a new shade of purple,a specialty with us.

Tycoon Reps, Ginghams, Delaines, etc.Also, a largo stock of American Prints,

in all the most popular makes, a t very low prices.

S Y P H E R & CO.,(Successors to D. Marley,)

No. 557 BROADWAY, NEW YORK,Dealers In

MODERN AND ANTIQUE

Furniture, Bronzes,CHINA, ARTICLES OF VERTU.

Established 18M.

ALLENTOWN LINE TO THE WEST.Sixty miles and three hours saved by this line to Chi­

cago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, etc., with but one change of cars.

Silver Palace cars through from New York to Chi-

SPRENG ARRANGEMENT. Commencing May 10,1870—Leave New York as fol­

lows :5:30 a . x .—For Plainfield.6:00 a . x .—For Easton, Bethlehem, Mauch Chunk,

Williamsport. Wilkesharre, Mahanoy City, Tukhan nock, Towanda, Waverly, etc.

7:30 a . m.—F or Easton.12 m.—F or Flemington, Easton, Allentown, Maucb

Chunk, W ilkesharre, Reading, Columbia, Lancaster, Eplirata, Litiz, Pottavillq» Scranton, Harrisburg, etc.

2 p. x .—For Easton, Allentown, etc.3:30 p. m.—For Easton, Allentown, Mauch Chunk,

and Belvidere.4:30 p . m .—For Somerville and Flemington.5:15 r . x .—For Somerville.6 P. x .—For Easton.7 p. m.—For Somerville.7:45 p. m.—F or Easton.9 r. m.—F or Plainfield.12 p. m.—For Plainfield on Sundays only.Trains leave for Elizabeth a t 5:30,6:00,6:30,7:80, 8:30,

9:00, 9,-20,10:30,11:40 a . m., 12:00 x ., 1:00,2:00, 2:15, 3:16, 3:30.4:00, 4:30, 4:46, 5:15, 5:46, 6:00, 6:20, 7:00, 7:46,9:00, 10:45, 12:00 p . h .

FOR THE WEST.9 a . x .—W e stern E xpress , dally (exeept Sundays)

—For Easton, Allentown, Harrisburg ana the West, w ithout change of cars to Cincinnati or Chicago, and but one chango to St, Louis. Connects a t Harrisburc for Erie und the 0*1 Regions. Connects a t Somerville for Flemington. Connects a t Junction for Strouds­burg, W ater Gap, Scranton, etc. Connects a t Phillips- burg for Mauch Chunk, Wilkesharre, etc.

6:00 p . m .—Cin cin n a ti E xpress , daily, for Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Readiug. Harrisburg, P itts­burgh, Chicago and Cincinnati. Slecpingcars to P itts­burgh and Chicago.v*Connects a t Junction with D., L. and \V. R. It- for Scranton.

Sleeping Cars through from Jersey City to P itts­burgh every evening.

Tickets for the West can be obtained a t the office of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, foot of Liberty street, N. Y .: a t No. 1 Astor House; Nos. 254, 271, 524 Broadway, a t No. 10 Greenwich street, and a t the prin- d u a l hotels.

R. E. RICKER, Superintendent.A P. Bxmnwix, Gen. Pass. Agent.

L A R G E P R O F I T S ,

To sell a little a rride , endorsed by every lady aring

it. I t keeps the needle from perforating the finger

and thumb while sewing with it. I t will sew one-

third faster.Sample aud circular mailed free, on receipt of 35

cents; or call and examine at

777 BROADWAY,

NATIONAL FINGER-GUARD COMPANY.

“THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST."

Beine constructed with regard to adenliflc accuracy, are used in all test* of skill by t i e host player* in tie oonntry. and In all flret-cless club* and hotel*, HIM- trated eatalogue of everything relating to btlliudi aes t by mail.

PH ELAN & CO LLENPER788 BROADWAY, New York Citj.

J I a k c h 11, 1871.

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jWwÂtall & Ælaflin’s WttMg. 15

American PatentSpongeCo-R E. Ro b b in s , E s q .

President-

W . R . H o r t o n , E sq .

Trtasvrtr.

MANUFACTURES OF

Elastic Sponge G o o ds.

ELASTIC S P O N G E

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CORPORATION NOTICE. — PUBLICnotice is hereby given to the ownei or owner*,

occupant or occupants of all Houses and Lots, im ­proved or unimproved Lands, affected thereby, that the following Assessments have b ten completed, and are lodged in the office of the Board of Assessors for exam ination by all persons interested, v iz .:

1. For laying Stafford pavem ent in Seventh avenn«, from F ourteen th to F ifty -n in th street.

2. F o r laying Stafford pavem ent in F ifteen th street, from Seventh to E ighth avenue.

3. For laying Stafford pavem ent in F ifty-seventh street, from Lexington to S ixth avenue.

4. For laying Belgian pavem ent in T h irty -n in th street, from Seventh to E ighth avenue.

5. F o r laying Belgian pavem ent in South street from Catharine to M ontgomery street.

6. For laying Belgiau pavem ent in Tw enty-eighth street, from Broadway to E ighth avenue.

For laying H atnar wood pavem ent in F orty-six th street, from F ourth to F ifth avenue.

F o r laying crosswalk a t easterly in tersection of Varlck and King streets.

F o r laying crossw alk a t northerly in tersection o f V arick and King streets.

10, F o r laying crosswalk a t westerly intersection ol Y arick and K ing streets.

11. F o r lay ing crossw alk a t southerly in tersection of V arick and K ing streets.

12. F o r laying crossw alk corner Y andam and V arick streets.

13. F o r laying ctossw alk a t easterly in tersection of One H undred and T en th s treet and F irs t avenue.

14. F o r laying crossw alk a t w esterly in tersection o f One H undred and T en th s tree t and F ir s t avenne.

15. F o r laying crossw alk a t w esterly in tersection of One H undred and E leventh s tree t and F ir s t avenne.

16. F o r laying crossw alk a t easterly in tersection of One H undred and E leven th s tre e t and F ir s t avenue.

17. F o r lay ing crossw alk a t easterly in tersection o f One H undred and Tw elfth s tree t and F ir s t avenue.

18. F o r laying crossw alk a t w esterly in te rsection of One H undred and Tw elfth s tre e t and F ir s t avenne.

19. F o r lay ing crossw alk a t w esterly in tersection o f One H undred and T h irteen th e tre e tan d F irst& venue.

20. F o r lay ing crossw alk a t easterly in te rsection of One H undred and T h irte en th s tree t and F ir s t avenue.

21. F o r lay ing crossw alk opposite No. 1,160 Broad way.

T he lim its em braced by such assessm ents include all the several houses and lo ts of g round, vacant lo ts, pieces and parcels o f land s itu a ted on—

1. B oth sides of Seven th avenue, from F o u rteen th to F if ty -n in th s treet, to the e x ten t of ha lf the block bn th e in te rsecting streets.

2. B oth sides o f F if te en th s tree t, from Seventh to E ig h th avenues, to th e ex ten t of ha lf th e b lock on th e in te rsec tin g s treets.

3. B o th sides o f F ifty -seven th s treet, from L ex ing ­ton to S ix th avenne, to th e e x te n t o f h a lf th e block on th e in te rsec tin g streets.

4. B o th sides of T h irty -n in th s tre e t, from Seven th to E ig h th avenue, to th e ex ten t o f h a lf the b lock on the in te rsec tin g streets.

5. B oth sides o f S ou th s treet, from C atharine to M ontgom ery s treet, to th e e x te n t of half the block on }*ne in te rsec tin g s treets.

6. B oth sides o f T w en ty -e igh th s treet, from Broad w ay to E ig h th avenue, to th e e x te n t o t h a lf th e b lock on th e in te rsec tin g streets.

7. B oth sides o f F o r ty -s ix th s treet, from F o u r th to F if th avenue, to th e e x ten t of h a lf th e b lock on the in te rsec tin g streets.

8. T h e eas te rly side o f V arick s tree t, com m encing a t K ing s tree t, and ru n n in g easte rly an d sou therly h a lf the b lock tnerefrom .

9. T h e no rth e rly s ide of K ing s treet, com m encing a t V arick s tree t, and ru n n in g no rtherly an d w esterly h a lf the b lock therefrom . •

10. T h e w esterly side o f V arick s treet, com m encing a t K ing s tree t, an d ru n n in g no rtherly an d sou therly ha lf th e block therefrom .

11. T h e sou therly side o f K ing s tre e t, com m encing a t V arick s treet, and ru n n in g easte rly an d w esterly h a lf th e block therefrom .

12. Both s ides of V andam street, from V arick to M acdougal s treet, and th e eas te rly side o f V arick s treet, from S pring to C harlton s treet.

13. B oth sides o f O ne H undred and T en th s treet, com m encing a t F ir s t avenue, and ru n n in g easte rly h a lf the block therefrom , a n d th e easterly side o f F ir s t avenue, from One H un d red an d N in th to O ne H u n ­dred and E leven th s treet.

14. B oth sides o f One H u n d red and T e n th street, com m encing a t F ir s t avenue, and ru n n in g w esterly h a lf th e block therefrom , and th e w esterly side o f F ir s t avenue, from One H u n d red an d N in th to One H u n ­dred an d E leven th s tree t.

15. B oth sides o f O ne H undred and E lev en th s treet, com m encing a t F ir s t avenue, and ru n n in g w esterly h a lf th e b lock therefrom , and th e w esterly side o f F ir s t avenue, from O ne H undred and T en th to O ne H u n d red an d T w elfth s treet.

16. B oth sides o f O ne H undred and E leven th s tre e t, com m encing a t F ir s t avenue, aud ru n n in g easte rly h a lf th e block therefrom , and th e easte rly side of F ir s t avenue, from One H un d red and T e n th to One H u n ­d red an d T w elfth s treet.

17. B o th s ides oi One H undred and T w elfth s tre e t, com m encing a t F ir s t avenue and ru n n in g easte rly h a lf th e b lock therefrom , and the easterly side o f F ir s t avenue, from One H undred aud E lev en th to O ne H u n ­dred and T h ir te en th street.

18. B oth s ides o f One H undred an d T w e lfth s tre e t.

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RailroadOF IOW A,

Co.,H ave b u ilt and eq u ip p e d 180 m iles o f the new road th rough the rich e st p o rtio n o f Iow a, th u s o pen ing the first th ro u g h ro u te across th e S ta te lrom N o rth to Squth . P a rtie s d esirin g to in v e st in

F IR S T M ORTGAGE 7 P E R C E N T . GOLD BONDS, upon a finished ra ilroad , issu ed a t th e ra te o f on ly $16,000 to th e m ile , and offered a t 90 an d accrued in ­te rest in currency, a re in v ite d to send to th is office and o b ta in pam phlet, w ith full pa rticu la rs .

P a rtie s exchang ing G overnm ents fo r th e se Bonde w ill receive a b o u t one-th ird m ore in te re s t u p o n th e Investm ent.

W. B. SHATTUCK, Treasurer,P in e S tree t, N ew Y ork.

com m encing a t F ir s t avenue an d ru n n in g w esterly half th e b lock therefrom , an d the w esterly Bide of

[ F i r s t avenue, from One H u n d red an d E lev en th s tre e t to O ne H undred and T h irte en th s treet.

19. B oth sides o f One H um lred an d T h ir te en th s tre e t, com m encing a t F ir s t avenue, and ru n n in g w esterly h a lf th e b lock therefrom , and th e w esterly s ide of F ir s t avenue, from O ne H u n d red and T w elfth to O ne H un d red and F o u rteen th s treet.

20. B oth sides o f One H undred and T h ir te e n th s tre e t, com m encing a t F ir s t avenue, an d ru n n in g eas te rly h a lf th e b lock therefrom , and th e easterly- s ide o f F ir s t avenue, from O ne H un d red an d T w elfth to One H undred and F o u r tee n th s tree t.

21. B oth s ides o f B roadw ay, from T w en ty -sev en th to T w en ty -e igh th s tree t.

All persons w hose in te re s ts a re affected b y th e above-nam ed assessm ents, and w ho a re opposed to th e sam e o r e ith e r o f them , a re req u ested to p resen t th e ir ob jec tions in w ritin g to R ichard T w eed , C hair­m an o f th e B oard o f A ssessors, a t th e ir office, No. 19

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THE ACTUARIES* TABLE AGAIN.

Hence i t follows that the actuaries’ table stands unimpeacbed as to the relative values of male and female assured life : and it is to the actuaries’ table that I will address mrself.

1 conceive it a sufficient answ er to the pretentions of this table as a safe guide for female life insurance in the United S tates to point out, first« the fiact before alluded to. th a t It acts upon too lim ited data, and. particular!?' upon too lim ited a nam ber o f fe­male lives, to furnish a proper basis for female life insurance : and, second, the fact that its data relates to a country In which, am ong all the countries of modern progress, woman is most harshly subordina­ted to the will of man. The laws of prim ogeniture, the laws of descent, the laws concerning marriage and the lack of laws concerning divorce, the laws relating to the rights o f m arried women which to-day prevail In England—to say noth ing o f the condition of affairs forty years ago, when this table was com­piled—are a disgrace to any com m unity o f persons who owe their birth, their education and their sup­port to the physical suffering, the tendersolicitud* and the anxions cares of women. The life of a woman am id such circum stances as surround the women of England, and particularly wo­men of the insuring class, is happily no criterion by which to m easare the life of an American woman. And I p ro test against its being regarded any longer in each a light.

I t is a practice for college stodenfs. freed from the thraldom of m athem atics! studies, to solemnly bury th e book of Enclid. I tru s t 1 shall live to see the day when the women o f America, freed from the coojugal and social subordination reflected in the English ac­tuaries’ table, shall bury that table as solem nly as eoll«-ge students do the tabulated tortures of the A lex­andrian sage.

W hatever the case may be In England. In th is coun­try there is little tem ptation and little opportunity for a man to kill h is wife, e ither by poison or the slower b a t equally effloicious m ethod of breaking her heart. For. mark you, th is is the practical im plication o f the actuaries’ table. A ssassinsand bru te husbands are in all co u n trie s : bu t here the woman has a social s tatus which she has not in England, and she Is be tte r taken care o f and be tte r able to take care o f herself. In England there are m ore women thao men ; while in th is country there are m ore men than women. The la tte r are therefore scarcer, and they are valued iu dae proportion. I t is. however, no t only on th is ac­count. hut on many o ther and h gtaer accounts, fam i­liar to man. tha t woman in America is much less sub­ordinated to man than in England, and for these rea ­sons h»-r life is more seenre.

So mach for conjugal bru ta lity . I t does n o t and i t cannot ex ist here to any th ing like the ex ten t to which i t may prevail in England. As to secret crim e by p iiso o , the opportunities which a woman has of secretly poisoning her husband, are a thousand tim es more num erous than a man has o f poisoning the wife. And as to the pecuniary in te res t to com m it these crimes, they cannot be stronger in a m an upon the life of an insured woman than they a re already in a woman upon the life of an insured m an.

H appily these secret crimes are o f rare occurrence in th is country, and , w hatever m ay be the case in England, as is’inferred by ou r insurance m en from the actuaries ' table, they furuish, to the ex ten t th a t they do occur, and fo r the reason ju s t s ta ted , a stronger a rgum ent again st the expec ta tion o f male life than they do against th a t of female.

A SMALL E X P E R IE N C E A N D A G R EA T P R E JU D IC E .

H ere I mijjtat well rest my case.The enem ies to female life insurance m ainly depend

and m ust m ainly depend, fo r there Is no o th e rp lau s i- ble support fo r them , upou the evidence o f the E nglish acto n n es ' life table. U nless I m ach overrate the value o f the considerations adduced, th is support m ust now give away. But an old prejudice d ies h a rd ; and there rem ain still other, though much less p lausi­ble grounds, open w hich the prejudice again st fem ale life insurance is m ade to stand.

T he extra risk to female life during the child-bear­ing ages established by the actuaries ' tab le is be­lieved to be corroborated by the actual m ortaliiy of females in th is country. I t were an easy task to stifle th is fanciful no tion by show ing th a t i t has no support in any collection o r tabo lition of au th en ti­cated facts, and is due a ltoge ther to th e prejudice established by th e ac tu aries ' ta b le ; b u t I prefer to m eet i t as presented and confute i t w ith facte no t only well au then ticated , b a t facts b rough t hom e to ou r very doors—facts ga thered from a careful d igest of th e m ortality records o f th is c ity du ring the p ast five years.

M O R TA LITY O F M O TH E RS IN N E W Y O R K .

T oe conditions re la tive to child-bearing a re con­ceded on all hands to be m ors unfavorable in New Y ork than anyw here else io th is country . I t is the la rgest c ity in th is coun try , and i t gives b irth to num bers of illeg itim a e children, born o f wom en whose usnal residence is in the ru ral d istric t« , b u t who come to the c ity to be confined, p rivate ly , and away from the p ry ing eyes o f village gossips. O thers come here a t th a t anx ious ju n c tu re to avail th em ­selves o f the b e tte r o r m ore conveniently located physicians which the c ity affords. O thers again come in to our hospita ls and lying-in asylum s to avail them selves o f the proverbial boun ty o f th is g rea t m e­tropolis. No wom an living in the c ity and liab le to be confined will go ou t of i t ; so th a t in the long run th e city gains in in fan tile population m ore th an its ow n proper gain . If m a te rn ity is a fatal com plain t, the c ity should show a m ore than com m on m orta lity o f women from the perils of ch ild -b irth .

New Y ork, too, is cored for th e fac ilities i t affords for the com m ission of fe tic id e . Q uack docto rs and abo rtion is ts a re perm itted to live here unm olested ; to flaunt th e ir s igns in ou r m ost fashionable neigh­borhoods, and even to use the colum ns o f pub lic new spapers as tbe m eans o f announcing th e ir d is­g u s tin g crim es to tbe public.F U R T H E R REASONS W H Y N E W Y O R K SH O U LD SHOW A

LARGE M O R TA LITY FRO M CAUSES C O N N ECT ED W IT HC U IL D -B IR T U .

F urtherm ore. New Y ork has the densest and th e m ost indigent population In the U nited S tates. T he K 'g is tra r of V ital S ta tis tic s o f th is c ity , under whose superin tendence a thorough census of the tenem en t houses Is m ade from tim e to tim e, s ta tes (R eport 1868. p. 41") that one-half o f tbe to ta l population of the c ity lives In tenem en t houses. By a tenem en t h ‘>use is m ean t “ every bouse, bu ild ing , o r portion thereo f w hich is occupied as th e residence of more than three fam ilies living Independently o f ano ther uud doing the ir cooking upon tbe prem ises, o r by m ore thuu tw o fam ilies upon a floor so living and cooking, but having a com m on rig h t In tbe balls, stairw ay, y a rd s closet*, etc ., o r som e o f them .’*

In 1868 and 1869, toge ther, there were. In all, 50,000 deaths in New York. O f th is num ber, 86.0U0. o r 7*2 per cent., occurred In tenem ent houses and public in ­s titu tio n s , chiefly resorted to by the tenem ent-house population, w hile b u t 14,0"0 deaths, o r 28 per cen t., occurred in p riva te houses, hotels and boardiug houses i

L et a woman be so u n fo rtunate as to bear ch ildren in these dense* abodes, shu t o u t f>om th e ligh t and air, atid reeking w ith filth and foal odors, and w hat are her chance* o f life? I say no th ing o f the ch ild ’* cb iiice. They are no t the sub jec t o f th e p resen t d is­cussion . am i. If they were, they would n o t be w orth ■peaking about, th ry are so small.

T n e resu lts of tetiem ent house m o rta lity , as given by the accom plished physicians o f tbe health depart- incut, are, how ever, *o a stounding as to cause me to h* s lta te a b o u t accepting them . T h e re may be some e rro r a b o u t 50 pur Cent, o f tbe p o pu la tion liv ing In

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these house«. Tet, the reports effect to give the pre­cise location of the bouses, the num ber of tenants in each house, and the separate m ortality o f each, so that the evidence appears to be very strong.

However, one becomes be lte r able to credit this ex traordinary m ortality—two and a-hslf times th a to f tbe most favored class of tbe population—after he has read the following passage from the R egistrar’s

i ten th annual report:j “ As the m ailer now stands, in some parts o f the | Sixth. Fourteenth. Eleventh. Seventeenth. Eighteenth

and Tw entieth wards, the lit tog have very little more ground space th »n is appropria ted to the dead."

IMMIGRATIONFinally, consider the foreign im m igration in to and

throagh tnis city of from fitki.OOD to3U .U) ■ persous a year. D aring the past year ended Ju n e JO last there were 2^.354 im m igrant pa^seUirt-rs U nded at this port. Of this num ber there were 1SJ.347 males and I'&O-'fi fem ales: and of persons between the ages of 15 and 40 years there were 107.46b males and 62.601 females A larger proportion ol the im m igrants were females, and a la rg e r proportion o f the females mothers—m others exposed to the si ive sh ip horrors of a Liverpool packet ship, and the rick of m ortality which m ight reasonably be supposed to flow from such circumstance*. Of the 256.3^4 im m igrants m en­tioned, 299 died upon tbe voyage—16 »wales and 149 females liow mauy died afterward, from the perils of the voyage, we caooot tell. How many m others died o f Liverpool packets, whose deaths were fa!*e!y as­cribed to m iscarriage (m iscarriage, io one sense, in ­deed !) we are not inform ed ; bu t we can readily im a­gine.

Under all these circum stances re la ting to the pecu­liarly oofavorable conditions o f female life, perm a­nent as well as transient, in New York, It is adm itted tha t the m ortality records of the c ity ought to show for females o f the child-bearing ages the m ost frigh t­ful m ortality conceivable.STA TISTIC S O F FE M A L E M O R T A L IT Y IN N E W Y ORK

Now. le t us eee w hat, in fact, th is m ortality is. I have here a d igest (Appendix) com piled from the carefully inspected certificates or tbe deaths of 127.2 5 persons, the to ta l uum ber who died in th is n ty du ring the quinquennial period ended w ith the 31st of D ecem ber last. T hese s ta tis tic s a re based on data, which, I am advised, a re *’ m ore nearly perfect than th a t of any o th e r city in the w orld ." (Dr. R us­sell’s le tter. Appendix). T he b u d a l perm its are iesued by the Bureau th a t records the certificate o f death, and a burial is a lm ost im possib le w ithou t its knowledge. F a ilu re to re o r t is m ade a felouy ; so is tbe issue o f a perm it w ithou t a report ; so is a burial w ithou t a perm it. Iu short, no deaths can fail to ap­pear on the reports , except those o f the v ictim s of m urders and fe tic id e th a t rem ain undiscovered.

Now, then , o f the 127,' 0 1 per sou6 who died in th is c ity in 186G-*7-*8-'9 aud ’70, 68.000 w ere m ales and 59.V00 females. M urk th is ex trao rd inary d ispropor­tion—68,000 m ales to f>9.00-J females. T he aggregate p o p u h tio n for the w hole period o f five years was 2.119.459 males and 2.268.794 fem ales, a s estim ated in the tab les appended. T he average death -ra te for males was 32 in a thousand of popoiarion . w hile th a t o r females was bu t little over 26. (A pepudix .)

O f tbe 53,000 fem ales. 34,000 died before they were 20 years o f age—th a t is. before tbe usual ch ild-bear.ng period, and before tbe age a t w hich insurance com ­panies usually ever in su re anybody, male o r fem a.e. Of the rem ainder o f tbe 59,100 there d ied 11.< 00 be­tw een the ages o f 15 and the ex trem e end o f l i f e : so th a t tbe to ta l nam b er who d ied du ring th e ch ild -bear­ing ag6 was bu t 14,000. M ark you. th is was tbe to ta l num ber of females who died du ring tbe age o f 20 to t-5, w ithon t respect to w hat they d ied o f ; w hether i t was chile-bearing, o r the pangs o f single-b lessed­ness ; w hether It was from quack doctors, ten em en t houses o r Liverpool packets, from th e sew ing needle, from consum ption , from brokeu hearts, o r s tarvation .

Now. tu rn to the o th e r side o f th e account an d le t us see how m any men d ied du ring tbe sam e age. I f 11,000 women, betw een 20 and 45. died in a c ity uncom m only filled w ith perils to m atern ity , how m any m en died during tbe sam e age. 10.000 ? 8,000 ? 5,< 00? M any, less th an wom en o f coarse : the only q uestion of in ­te re s t is, how m any less ? W ell, th e dea th record says nearly 16.000 m en—nearly 2.OOf m o r e m en than wom en ; and th e d ea th record is r i g h t ; and i t agrees w ith all o th e r death records, excep t th a t o f th e ' few d eb ilita ted lad ies who 40 years ago in su red th e ir lives in the London offices, upon th e “ recorded ex ­p e rien ce" o f w hich th e E ng lish ac tu aries ' tab le is based.

R IS K O F M A T E R N IT Y .

L et us look a t th ese m orta lity records s till closer. Io th e norology used by the B oard o f I le a lth . w hich follows th a t o f D r. W m. F arr, now sanc tioned by a generation o f experience and the a p p ro b a tio n o f the learned w orld, tbe im m ediate causes o f death s connected w ith the phenom enon o f m a te rn ity a re a r­ranged under the head o f " D evelopm ental. O rder Tw o, of W om an." They are principally ch ild b irth , p u e r­peral m e tritis , puerperal convulsions, puerperal m arnia, m iscarriage, abo rtion and ph legm asia-do leus. U nder the sam e head (of “ D evelopm ental, O rder Tw o, o f W om en " ) a re included, also, th e com para­tively few dea th s th a t occur a t th is age from chloro­sis, from asthen ia o r deb ility , an d from a trophy .

In o rder t o asc» r ta in w hat p ropo rtion of tb e four­teen th o u san d fem ale dea th s betw een th e ages o f tw en ty and forty-five resu lted from causes in any way connected w ith m atern ity , I have on ly to sum up those who d ied from the specified causes m entioned . B ut le s t i t m ig h t be claim ed th a t—and especially in cases of women who died because they w ere unw ill ing to becom e m others—the tru e source o f dea th may n o t alw ays be com m unicated , even though tbe p enalty be th e S ta te p rison . 1 am w illing to a s ­cribe to the perils of mat< rn ity all the d ea th s o f fe­m ales betw een the ages of tw en ty and forty-five a r­ranged under th e head of “ D evelopm enta l,'' includ­ing uot only those who d ied from th e causes s p e d fled, b u t also those who d ied from a num ber o f o th e r com plain ts.

I find th e w hole num ber d u rin g th e five years in question to he 746.

A- , du ring th e sam e period o f tim e and the sam e ages o f life, 331 wom en aud 1,756 m en. a m a jo rity of 1,425 m en, d ied from violence—accidents, hom icides and su ic ides—and the to ta l num ber of m ules and fe m ales liviug a t those ages was su b stan tia lly equal It follows th a t the so m uch dreaded perils to women o f m a te rn ity a re ju s t half as g rea t as th e ac tnal peril to men o f being b u rn t, stabbed , poisoned tired o f life o r s tru ck by lig h tu iu g !

F A L S E C E R T IF IC A T E S O F D E A T H .

I an tic ip a te fu r th er o b jec tion . It has been asserted th ’*t ihe d ea th certificates re tu rn ed to the Board of Ile a lth by the physicians a re no t re liab le as to the causes of m orta lity . I hear an em inen t physician In the aud ience *ay. ” T h a t 's s o ; coffin p la tes a re eu graved w ith a good nmnv lie s ." I care n o t w ha t may be’tlic p ractice o f ind iv iduals . I aui now sp eak in g o f the profession generally , an d I can n o t c red it the aspersion . I believe thu l do m ore honorab le body of men ex ists th an th e physicians o f th is c ity , aud J canno t believe them to he capable o f such delinquency Besides, the requ irem en t of the law', and of th e form o f certificate, is defin ite and th e penalty severe . But I will ad m it the a llegation . Now*, iu w hat respect doe* It affect the sub jec t under d iscussion ? I t is said th a t w hen woineu d ie from causes connected w ith m a te rn ity , the doctors, eltln-r from ignorance or design, charitab le o r c rim tua l. certify to causes of death n o t connected w ith m atern ity . V ery good. T hese false causes o f d ea th a re deem ed to be, m ost likely , en te ritis , p e rito u itls , m e tritis (uo t puerpera l), m e tro -periton itis (no t puerperal), aud u te rin e tum or.

I have m>t had tim e to co lla te th e a u tis tic * o f dea th s from these causes fo r th e w hole ol th e period under exam ination ; b u t I have com pleted th e w ork for the years 184N and i860. T hese a u tis t ic « show

that 433 doaths occurred daring the tw o years from tbe«e cause* combined. Of these deaths 114 w ere male snd 331 female, a m ajority o f 207 female. As. daring the same period, the com bined deaths from sonstroke, the effects o f beat and alcoholism, were 4I9_ o f which 109 were female and 310 male, a m ajority of 201 male—it follows that the risk o f death to women from causes even connected w ith ma-tern itv . i* no greater than th a t to males Irom causes to which the la tte r are peculiarly and constantly ex ­posed. (Appendix.)

M O R T A U T T FROM IN T E M PE R A N C E .Indeed. It we took account of all the im m ediate

cao^e* of death resu lting from th a t pernicious hab it ot tippling, in to which over-work has driven o a r best men, when formerly only onr w orst men indulged in it. the case would look still worse for the male ex ­e c u t io n of life. Hmc much worse, I leave you to ndge from the following brief s ta tem en t:

Mr. Ntrison. an em lneo t actuary o f London, a d ­dressed a ircnlar to physicians, m aking very thorough iuquiries concerning persooa In the higher walks in life who were in the hab it, not o f g e ttin g drunk , b a t merely o f drink ing . T he replies to h is circular cover 6.111 cases. Of these , according to the English life table, th-.-r* ought to have died, d a rin g the period coveiwd. 110 me«. B ut there did d ie 357 m en, or three tim es the normal proportion . T ue group iug of the. im m ediate causes is very In teresting . (Neison, pp 294 and 221.) F if ty per cent, were certified to have died of d iseases of the head and d igestive organs, tbe normal proportion of these deaths to a ll deaths, in all England, being 16 per cent., and an ion .' selected lives 30 per cent. Suppose we apply these resu lts to the subject under investigation , w here would then s tan d the m ortuary re la tions betw een m a ta rity and rnm ?

An em inent obstetric ian lately told me th a t women were m ach less liable, no t only to acciden t, b u t to death from any cause du ring tb e ch ild -bearing age. than men. d a rin g the corresponding a g e : b a t, much as I respected h is au tho rity , and m uch as 1 fe lt pre­disposed to accept It. I could n o t believe i t u n til the exam ination I gave to the m orta lity records o f th is c ity established it. as you have had It estab lished beyond all and any k ind o f doubt.

FE M A L E A N D M ALE L IF E IN N E W Y O R K .And now a word as to th e general sub jec t o f the

respective longevity o f fem ales aud m ales in New *'ork.

1 will n o t troub le yon w ith th e de ta ils , b a t the m ortality record* o f th is c ity d u rin g tbe p a st five years—and I do no t go fu rther back, because previous to th a t tim e—th e com pleteness of the records is open to suspicion, establish the lact, th a t th e m orta lity of males is g rea te r than th a t of fem ales a t Dearly all .ges—from b irth to 20. from 20 to 45. and from 45 to

the end o f life. S epara ting those persons who d ied a t *0. and over, from all tb e rest, tbe fem ales p reponde ra te — the m ost convincing o f all proofs, o f th e ir superio r longevity.

R E A L CAUSES O F M O R T A L IT Y IN NEW’ Y O R K .If we tn rn aw ay from the ab su rd itie s w hich these

well estab lished facts expose and seek to know the real im m ediate causes o f death am ong ns, we eball find th a t i t is n o t m a te rn ity b a t consum ption . I hav no t had tim e to a rrange th e very valuable m orta lity records of th is c ity so a-* to de te rm ine th e num ber and proportion o f death s from th is cause as t co u ld wish., nam ely , d u rin g the age* from 20 to 45. and am ong m ales and female* respectively, and n o t from ph th isis pulm onatis alone, bn t also from pneum onia an d o th e r d iseases of the resp ira to ry organs com bined . B u t one-th ird of all the death s iu E ngland (after deducting the m orta lity o f infancy) was e stim ated by S ir J am es C lark to have been caused by tube rcu lous d iseases. F rom one-th ird to one-six th o f a ll th e d e a th s in all large tow ns in civilized coun tries a rc due also to th is cause. A ccording to tn e U n ited S ta te s census of 1860, th irteen specified d iseases o f the re sp ira to ry o rgans took off nearly 29 per cen t, o f all the deceden ts to the U n ited S ta te s d u rin g th e p rev ious year. A ccording to th e sam e a n th o rity th e y took off 3 1 k per cent, o f a ll the deceden ts in th is S ta te . Ac­cording to th e New Y ork S rate C ensus o f 1865 they to o k off 34% p e r cen t, of all th e d eceden ts :n th e S ta te , an d 31 p e r cent, of all in th e c ity of N ew Y ork in 1864-5.

In every in s tan ce tb e m o rta lity o f fem ales from th ese d iseases o f th e th ro a t and lungs—w as g rea te r th an th a t o f m ales—m ore pa rticu la rly in a d u lts be ­tw een the ages o f 20 an d 45. th o u g h s till m ore p a r­ticu larly betw een the age6 o f 20 a n a 25. (A ppendix .)

M A T E R N IT Y N O T A D IS E A S E .

M atern ity is n o t a d isease. In E n g lan d , tw en ty years ago, w hen 10.000 liv in g ch ild ren w ere bo rn , b a t forty-tw o m others d ied in conseqaence . A nd as to those who, d read ing the ills o f m a te rn ity , fly to o th e rs th ey know n o t of, th e ev idence o f o a r m o rta lity records teaches u s th a t th e ir n u m b ers an d th e conse ­quence* o f th e ir ac ts are , happ ily , m uch ex ag g era ted n popu lar estim ation .

picture of MIm Detnorest. Among those present vq noticed the whit« haired philosopher of the 7Vifcau, who looked pUcid and sub lim e; Jam es Wehli, the p ia n is t : Mrs. Jen n y Kcm pton. who looked a* happy «ud sm iling as usual, and her handsome husband- Mr*. Jen n ie J n n eC ro lv ; Mr* Clara Brinkerbofl. who was elegantly dressed in bine silk ai.d point lace; Mr*, and Mi** Sm ith, of the Grand Central Hotel; Mrs. B ailey, the fashion editress of Our society; Dr! J . B. du lle r W alker, who was fa «lllcssly arrayod In evening dres* ; Mr. Gvo. W. How*, of the LotusCloh; Mr. Ja* 11. Todd, of the Church Music Association; Mr. W. F. W illiam s, of the Hc#t; Mr. J . O. Twttcheil; Mr. A lbert W eber, tbe popular piauoforte manufso! factu rer. and mauy oth* rs well known iu the musical, lite ra ry and fusniouable world. A t tbe conclusion of tbe concert » favored few were invited to the resi­dence o f Mr. D em urest, where the successful yoang cam atrice was presen ted to her uamt-ruus admirers, and was congratu la ted upon her artis tic triumphs, bde very sw eetly and m odestly replied, ** I thauk yoo, and only hope 1 deserve your praise." Miss JVs m anners a re very pleasing aud nnaflected, and she has hosts o f frieuds. A bountiful supper, presided over by M adame D em orest, wbo wore a very rich black velvet iu her usual unapproachable style, was ready for tbe gu ests soon a f te r their arrival, and ll is needle** to say th a t am ple ju s tic e was awarded its many tem p ting Item s. T h e party did not adjourn u n til Quite la te , aud every oue w ent home pieased aud delighted w ith M r.. M adame and Mis* Demorest.

L a n d G r a b b i n g .— Hon. George W. Ju lian , Chair­m an o f the H ouse C om m ittee on Pab lic Lands, has m ade an e stim ate of the am o u n t o f Government land dem anded by subsidy jo b b e rs o f the present Congress, in tbe p rinc ipa l b ills th a t have passed or are now pending.

H een u m era tes tw en ty -th ree b ills , which have passed th e Senate, con ta in ing g ran ts o f 75,006,320 acres. Of these, tw o, the Oregon B ranch Pacific Road, for 4,730.- 0 4). and tb e supp lem enta l g ift to the N orth Pacific Road o f 11,000,000 acres, have a lso passed the House.

B esides these th e re a re th irty -tw o b ills peudlng in th e Senate , w ith agg regate grant* o f 115,218.600 acres, the g rea te r n am b e r o f w hich I t is supposed will be passed. T h u s, i t w ill be seen , th a t by means of fifty- five bills, i t is p roposed to rob the people of 189.234,- 920 acres o f th e pu b lic lan d s, for tbe sole benefit of p riva te m onopolies. T h is added to the amount here­tofore do n a ted to th e various Pacific roads and other schem es, g ives th e enorm ous aggregate of over Four H undred M illions acres, w hich have been diverted from p a b lic to p r iv a te ose—equal to about MO.tOO square m iles. " T h e eab jec t is too immense to do jn s tic e to i t . "

T H E T H E A T R E S .

D ebut o r ^Ilss V ien n a D em orest at ' C h ick erin g H a ll.

A very charm iDg and u n iq u e affair cam e off a t C h ickering H all on S a tu rd ay even ing , th a t deserves som eth ing m ore than a pa s in g no tice . I t w as the occasion o f th e dehut of M iss V ienna D em orest, th e d au g h te r o f o n r w ell-know n fellow -citizen and pu b ­lish e r , M r. W . J . D em orest. before a N ew Y o rk a u ­dience. T h e young a sp iran t for m usical honors had s a n g in B rooklyn w ith g rea t success, an d her ap p ea r­ance In th is c ity had been a n tic ip a ted w ith p leasure and no little cu rio s ity . M em bers o f the p ress, m u s i­cal a rtis t* and am atenr* . and lite ra ry and fash ionab le people to th e num ber o f a b o u t tw o h nndred an d fifty— th e capac ity o f th e hall—w ere in v ited to w elcom e, hear and c ritic ize the young ladv. T h e and ience was select, en th u sias tic and em inen tly s ty lish , m any ele­g a n t to ile ts be ing d isp layed. M iss V ien n a , w ho is lovely and fresh as only a yonng g irl can be, was fanltlessly a ttire d In a very rich, though sim ple, w h ite silk , m ade and trim m ed very becom ingly . She was a*si*ied in her e n te rta in m en t by th e B ro the rs Poz- n a n sk i. who d iscoursed sw eet m nsic on th e ir respec­tive in s tru m e n ts ; Mr. G ustavus F . H all, w ho. n o t­w ith s tan d in g a severe cold, sang very d e ligh tfu lly , and Mr. G eorge W . Colby as conducto r. T h e first piece Mt*s D em orest a ttem p ted , “ I will ex to l T hee , O L ord ," from “ E li," w as h a rd ly well selected , as i t is ex trem ely difficult and needs g rea t icp o se of m anner to be rendered effectively ; b u t she m anaged th e in tricac ies o f th e score w onderfu lly , in sp ite o f very ev iden t nervousness. A n encore was loudly uem unded and a p o rtio n o f tb e piece w as re­peated . “ Com e u n to H im ," from th e " M es­s iah ." was n e x t in o rder, and w as feelingly rendered , th o u g h wc th in k M iss D em orest’s forte Is n o t, as ye t, o ra to rio m nsic. T h e Ar- d iti w altz , and a very sw ee t ballad th a t followed for an encore, show ed her voice to m ach g rea te r ad vantage than th e first tw o pieces, and she seem ed perfectly a t hom e in th e b rig h t, a rch m usic. H er voice is pnre , sw ee t and h ig h , and h e r execu tio n sm ooth and su re . W hen tim e and p rac tice have rounded and perfected h e r rea lly fine o rgan we see no reason why she shou ld n o t ran k am ong o u r first a r tis ts , an d we hope th e p rom ise she give* o f fu tu re excellence will be realized . D uring th e even ing M iss D. w as the rec ip ien t o f very e legan t floral favors, pre­em inen t am ong w hich was a superb m am m oth b ou ­q u e t s en t by th e ed ito rs o f Our Society. On one side of i t ap peared th e fa ir lad y 's tnouugram in red and v io le t le tte rs on a w h ite g ro u n d ; on th e o pposite side a crim son s ta r shone re sp len d en t from a bed o f w hite cam eilas—a h e a r t and au ancho r lu red cam ellaa w ere the dev ices ou th e rem ain ing sides, and a crown, m ade o f hyac in th s, rose from th e ceu tre an d com pleted th e em blem atic offering. T b e w hole affair was m anaged w ith th e u tm o s t good ta s te an d lib e ra lity . Ou en te rin g th e hall every lady w a s jire s e n te d w ith a

B O O T H 8 .“ R ich e lieu " is s till on th e boards a t th is splendid

th e a tre ; i t h a s been b ro u g h t o u t in a m anner reflect­in g c red it upon tb e m anagem en t. W e consider Car­d ina l R ich e lieu one o f Mr. E dw in B ooth 's finest im- person ifica tions. M r. L aw rence B arret appears to adv an tag e as D e M anprat, d isp lay ing fine powers of a c tin g in h is sad d e n an d ea rn e s t changes Irom foe to frien d and friend to foe. M r. Sheridan also shone to ad v an tag e as th e t ra ito r De B aradas; we would, how ever, ad v ise h im to sp eak a li t t le less rapidly, so as to be m ore d is tin c tly beard . M iss Pateman ex­h ib its som e fine n a tu ra l a c tin g a s J u lia De Mortimer. G rea t p re p a ra tio n s a re b e in g m ade to bring out “ M ach A do A b o u t N o th in g ." Mr. Booth playing B en ed ic t and M iss P a tem an app ea rin g as Beatrice. I t is n o t in te n d e d to rn n th is la tte r play long. As u sual, o th e r o f S h ak esp ea re 's p lays w ill be brought on th e stage, a s O the llo , H am le t, etc.

N EBLO’a G A R D E N .M iss L izz ie K e lsey ap p ea rs in th e p a rt formerly

ta k e n b y P a u lin e M arkham , o therw ise there is no new fe a tu re to ch ron ic le w ith regard to tnis theatre. M ies K elsey is a b e au tifa l b londe o f pleasing and en­g ag in g m an n ers, an d is ap p rec ia ted by the frequenters o f N io lo ‘8. T h e “ C ro o k " ru n s u n til the middle of A pril. T h e P h ilad e lp h ian s have a tre a t in store that th e y w o t n o t of, in asm u ch a s th e entire company, scenery an d a ll a re to ap p ea r th e re in the Academy. “ R ich ard in." succeeds th e “ C rook” a tN ib lo 's .

G R A N D O P E R A H O U SE .B enefits a re th e o rd e r o f th e day a t th is theatre—

th is-even ing in fav o r o f M r. V arle t, “ La Penchole’* b e in g th e p iece. “ L a G ran d D achesse ," “ Brrbe B lu e" a n d “ L es B rig a n d s" a re 6till holding full sw ay. “ L es O eorg ienD es" w ill be b rought out on tb e 6 th , an d , from th e p rep a ra tio n s going on, some­th in g m ore th a n u su a lly a ttra c tiv e m ay belooked for. “ Les G éo rg ien n es" is p ro b ab ly O ffenbach's best pro­d u c tio n in o p e ra bouffe. T h e m usic is said to be fu lly e q n a l to a n y th in g p roduced by th is famoae com­poser. T h e c o sto m es a re p rom ised as more tb&n u su a lly go rgeous. I t is a sign o f th e tastes of the day w hen o p era bonffe can rn n fo r such a length of time a s i t baa d one a t th is th e a tre , w ith every prospect of c o n tin u in g in d e fin ite ly .

b o uque t, an d every g en tlem an wit! very p re tty

A C hinese la n n d ry m a n a t K ansas C ity has got an ed ito r th e re , w ho is a b a ch e lo r , dow n on him. The e d ito r h ad h is w a sh in g re tu rn e d to h im as follows: “ T h ey s e n t hom e w ith o n r w ash ing yesterday a thing th a t b ran ch es off in tw o w ays a litt le below the top, lik e a ra ilro ad ju n c tio n , a n d has packered frills edged w ith ‘ t e t t i n g ' on each en d o f tb e d ivide. W e don't know w h a t i t is , a n d w e’re a pvor, friendless man, w ith ou ly o n r v irtu e , a n d n o n e b u t v illa in s would seek to in ju re th a t ."

Wrhen w e re flec t on th e co n d itio n o f women and th e ir re la tio n to so c ie ty , w e can n o t help perceiving th e im m en se in fluence th e y possess and exert in all c iv ilized n a tio n s . “ M en m ake law s, b n t women make m a n n e rs ," h a s long s in ce becom e an adage, and if it is tru e th a t law s a re ineffec tua l, w here the manners an d cu sto m s o f a peop le a re opposed to them , we shall see th e h ig h va lue we shou ld s e t on fem ale education.

A n h o n est o ld d a rk e y dow n S o u th s a y s : “ Dey told n s d a r w as p e rv is io n s in tb e C o n s ti tu tio n for we called folks, b u t a a t 's a l ie ; dem p e rv is io n s d id n ’t cum. Dia n ig g e r a in 't seed th e fa s t m o u th fu l."

P b eb e I la a b e r . n ine ty -five y ea rs o ld, re tid ieg at Ilom eU sv ille , N . Y ., h a s lived w ith h e r husband sixty- e ig h t years , a n d c o u n ts up 145 liv in g descendants.

T h e A n tio ch L ed g e r say s A g n es Lew is, a girl of six­teen snm tncrs, h a s p low ed o n e h u n d red acres on her fa th e r'* ra n c h n e a r A n tio c h , d riv in g bix horse« at­tach ed to a th re e -g a n g plow .

B eech er's cb n rch h a s sev en teen h undred and eighty- n in e m em bers, o l w hom tw elve h u u d red aud ten are fem ales.

T h e cham pion “ k n l t t i s t " o f V e rm o n t i t Mr* L. H O rcu tt, o f S o u th B arto n , w ho k n i t . In n in e hour», nine do u b .e m itten * , m e n 's a lz e —o n e au h o a r

has aM a d a m e R a l l d c o s . Im p o r te r , 779 Broadw ay 1 rich and e le g an t a s s o rtm e n t o f B onnets andBound • H a u , th e m o s t e x q u is i te novel tie« im ported all ths n ew co lors .