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EUROPE. Special Telegramstothe Herald. The Fenian Alarm in Chester and Liverpool. Seventy of the “Conspirators’’ Ar- rested in Dublin. Dissolution of the Italian Parliament. The North German Liberals Gain the Berlin City Elections. &e. &e. &e. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. A Serious Movement im Chester, England, but _No Result—Chester Castle ve Been Taken, but Co-operation F: ents to Blew Up the Liverpool Docks—Apparent Ac- tivity of the ‘Conspiracy.’ . Cuxster City, England, Feb, 13, 1867. The Fenian demonstration which was made in this ‘ity on Monday by about fourteen hundred of the “con- ‘spizators,’”” mentioned in my last despatch, amounted to nothing go far as regards any present result. The town ts now fuil of British troops and the Fenian invaders have gone off. There was no outbreak, no fighting, nor, strange to Bay, BO arrests. ‘The Fenians could have taken the city on Monday, but they waited for support by co-operative movements which were arranged for to be made elsewhere, and which, it appears, failed, The affair in inception and conduct to a certain point has been very much like tthe Canada raid made by the Fenians from the United states, The London newspapers ridicule the Fenian scare in Chester, and assert that the {crowd of strangers was collected merely to witness a prize fight. During the sitting of Parliament iast night the govern- ment officially stated the facts which I report. Lord Elcho, M. P., when in the House received a tele- gram from Lord Grosvenor, commanding the Chester Junteers, in which he stated that the matter was werious, but that timely information given to the authori- ties saved the cown, and in his opinion it was “all right” pow. Fenian Troubles Expected in Liverpool. Lonpon, Feb, 13, 1867. ‘There is more trouble expected from Fenians ip Liver- peo! and other places in England. ‘The Fenians and Fenian sympathizers in Liverpoo) may the docks, or some of them, in that port will be ~Mown up, aiid ¢he Irish police know very well from re- tent arrests made by them tii the “‘conspirators”’ havo ‘boon dealing in nitro-glycerine. ” , THE IRISH FENIANS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Arrest of a Detachment from England. Dvsuiy, Feb. 13, 1867. Seventy men, sepnesed to be Fenians, were arrested te thie city yesterday on the arrival of the mai! steamer : Kx-American Officers Captured in Iretnnd. Loxvow, Feb. 13, 1867. Fenian arrests still continue, Many new Irieh arrests were made yesterday, including ‘twe es-officers of the American army. THE REFORM QUESTION. a Disraeli Bill Un Loxpoy, Feb. 13, 1867. ‘The liberal organs generally denounce the plan of re- form announced by Disraeli on Monday afternoon in ‘We House of Commons. ITALY. The Derb: Proregation of Parlinment—The Cabinet Crisin. Frorancs, Feb. 13, 1867. ‘The Italian Parliament has been prorogued to the 28th @f February. Baron Bettino Ricasoli, the Chief Minister of State, hae resigned at the King’s request. Dissolution of the Parliament. si ” 7 TR pot Fronsxcs, Feb, 13, 1867, esa ‘of King = Hasna the Teng fralian Parliament,¥which had been previously prorogued, is G@seolved, and the elections for a new Parliament are erdered to take place on the 10th of March next. THE EASTERN QUESTION. American Ald for the Christians. ‘ Loxpox, Feb. 13, 1867. A» Awerican ship bas left a Spanish port bound to Candia, for the purpose of removing the suffering fami- lies of the Christians from the island. Election Triumph of the Liberals. Beauix, Feb. 13. 1867. Ip the election which took place yesterday for mem- ber of the North German Parliament the liberals carried ‘thie city. EGYPT. TInmall Pasha’s New Demand. Lowoox, Feb. 13, 1867. 11 is reported that Iemail Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, demands that he be made virtually independent of the Buvlime Porte, : FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The Lendon Money Market. Loxpox, Feb. 13—Noon. ’ Consoles for money 91. AMERICAN SPCURITIES . 1% at the following rates States hve-twentios linois Central shares a vi ai The Frankfort Bourse. Fran 1867. United States bonds closed at 104g my The Liverpool Cotton Market. 12—Evening. ‘The cotton market closed fiat this eveniug. he sales 4 ad uplands de- @lined to 1644. per pound, and middling Orieans to MME ‘and yarns 1 that ull and heavy, and this evening closes Liverpool Brendstufls Market. Lrvenroon, Feb, 18—Evening. ‘The market for breadstuffe is generally quiet. Corn en. 64. per quarter for mixed Westero. Liverpool Provisions Market. Lavenroot, Feb. 13—Evening. ‘Tallow sold w-day at 448. per owt, for American Lard 608. per ewt. 43a. per cwt, for middies. Aiverpoe! Produce Market. Levenroon, Feb, 13—Rvenii Dinesed 0 30 100, por von; epirita ‘urpentine, See. nt NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1867. 4 ews. ; rosin (common Wi!mimgten), 98. 64. per 112 Refined Pennsylvania and Canada white petroleum, ‘Is, @d. per gallon. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Quxenstown, Feb. 12—Evening. ‘The steamship City of Boston, Captain Brooks, which left New York on the 2d of February, touched here late The London mails and passengers were this afternoon, landed, after which she proceeded to Liverpool. Lavarroo, Feb, 13, 1867. The steamship North American, from Portland, Me., ‘bas arrived out. AMUSEMENTS. Masical. ‘The reprise of La Traviata at the French theatre last evening, being the second night of Mora’s Italian opera feason, showed a marked improvement in many respecss. The orchestra infused more spirit in the light, graceful mstrumentation of the opera; the chorus, although weak, showed better ensemble, and the leading charac- ters displayed more confidence, ease and dramatic power than on the opening night. The extraordinary want of enthusiasm on the part of the audience, amounting in some cases positive prejudice, on Her voice is a pleasing in effect, and not wanting in warmth of expression; but the reception she met prima donna and mar ty and artless man- ner were sutticient to make her a very acceptable Vio- letta. Signore Irtre and Fortuna, as Alfred and, Ger- heir voices are of the proper calibre for the beautiful little theatre in which they sing. Jt Trovatore wil! be given on Friday night with @ new prima donna in the prinei- to coldness, and must certainly have the Violetta of the light soprano, had a chilling effect evening. with was euificiant to daunt any the powers of her voice. Her mont, were unexceptionable in voice and acting, pal role, Faust was given at the Olympic last night, with ite unsurpassed cast, before a respectable sized audience. Hermanns’ Mophistopheles is a chef d’auvre of acting and singing, and Madame Frederici’s Marguerite is also ex- collent, The next opera is The Czar and Carpenter. The fourteenth Wedoesday popular concert at Stein- way Hall last evening was very largely attenaed. The programme was entirely operatic, and was very well rendered by the splendid Harrison troupe. The Harmonic Association, Brooklyn, composed of the members of the choir of St. Peter's church, gave a Promenade concert at the Brooklyn Athenmum Inst even ing. to the general harmony of the occasion. Grifin & Christy’s Minstrels. Affairs—both musical and monetary—are apparently running in a very smooth channel, and crowded houses are the order of the night at this popular resort of our up town play-goers, ‘The “Naughty, Naughty Girls” loses nothing of ite popularity, and is encored every evening, the inimitable manner in which George et 4 “The Four Birds of Paradise’ make the most ludicrous flights renders it provoking the most stolid to laughter, before the footlights every night, to the infivite amuse- ment of the audience; and the ‘Grand Orchestral Re- hearsal,” under the leadership of Georgo Christy, still entrances al! who assist at it, Kelly & Leon’s Minstrels. Every seat in this bouse was filled last evening on tho rising of the curtain. Tne bill of the evening's enter. tainment was finely made up of novelties calculated to display to the best advantage the artistic abilities of the performers. In the firet part ‘The German Fligeolet,”’ by Allen, and “Somefhing New,” by Seymour, wero expecially well rendered. In the olio portion & new operctia, written by Leon, was very euccessfully intro- duced. ‘The performance concluded with the burlesque on ‘cendrillon,” in which Kelly, Seymour aud Allen ‘appgared in undress uniform, and won the usual meed of applause accorded their burlesque antics. San Francisco Minstrels. Last evening the hall in which this troupe hold forth {0 the admiring public yas filled to overflowing. Not even standing room remained twenty. mipuyes after the performance had begun, and the late comers in laig¢ Bumbers were turned away discontented from the doors. The programme of the. evening urcsented several new features, in which the “leading lights”? of the establish- ment had especial opportunities afforded for the display of their talents, "I would | were a Fly” was sung by Birgh with an effect peculiarly his own, and in the olio of the pesieczaanee Cackus snd Wambold disported in their fairy symmetry with equal success, The promi- nent features of the last part of the programme were ‘The Hilton Head Institute” and ‘fhe Ocean Yacht lub” acts, concluding as usual with the success/ul “naked drama’ burlesque. Hooley’s Opera House, Brooklyn. The programme at Hooley’s last evening embraced a variety of comicalities, which kept the audience in roars of laughter, The comic.pantomime entitied ‘‘De- chalumeau” is well got up and appreciated, “The Mutton Thief” and “The Black Crook”’ will not be with- drawn until Saturday nicht. Nearly all the songs and dances bad to be repented last evening, which made the performance rather lengthy. Mince! ye ME The well known Harrison Concert froupe, from Stein- way Hall, gave a concert at Livrary Hall, Newark, on Tuesday night, which was well attended Mrs. Emma Waller appeared with great success as Meg Merrilies, at Waller's Opera House, Newark, on the 12th. Misses Cole and Plunkett were aiso in the cast. Miss Emilie Melville, a promising comedieun», is per- forming an engagement at the National, Cincinnati. Daniel Bandmano, the German tragedian, bas made an engagement at Wood's, Cincinnati. An eccentrty and wealthy American lady at Homburg presented Mile, Patt! with an enormous bouquet arranged im the form of a life-size statue of the prima donna herself, although the resmbiance was not striking. Around the seck of the figuro was a valuable reck- lace The bouquet statve had a place on Patti's bal- cony during the rest of her stay at Homburg. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE, No Srecut. Erection mx Cauirors1a.—The San Fran- “We are likely to cisco Bulletin of January 9 says: have po special election for Congressman after all. Governor Low was telegraphed on the subject by our delegation in Congress, who asked him what the people in my opinion, a large majority ‘of the people of the State do not desire a special Con- If thie be 80, California will not be represented in the Fortieth Congress until after her dered. He replied: greseional election.’ regular election on September ‘Writ Appep.—Mr. Reed, in nominating General F. P. Blair for United States Senator, before the Missouri Senate, closed with an eloquent account of the General's military career. Senator Evans immediately rose and dogged leave to conclude the story by adding “but sur- This struck the Senate rendered to the rebels at last,’’ as not only very true but very funny. ‘TWe AMENDMENT IX Rropr Ietaxn, —Twonty-six of the Rhode Isiand members voted to ratify the constitutions! Only two voted against it, one of whom amendment. was Tew, the other Gerald. Tar Dreaprri Max.—The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Mercury took a seat at a safe distance from Thad Stevens, and, with quaking pencil, drew the foliowing portrait ;-— J} had a good Jook at him as he sat op one of the front thrown over the desk before indicate bis demoniac His in the re- cheek es, aquiline nose and square chin indicate decision seate, with bis leg him. His face does except in iis cmnatoral pallor, h and well devoioy perceptive facnities. jon of th Digh ed e e and force of character, His mouth is hie weakest foe ture, denoting, as it The vpver bones appear to hav mashed fn by violent blows, and bence the impression of deformity which bis face imparis to the casual observer. His Jimbe are emactated and bie lett foot is distorted. He is bie brown wig He laoghs is never ‘of tobaceo in his mouth. Such is the fe, whose ne Mee it bem ~ °e in this country the sanguinary horrors of the French soematen, aniers he is chock mated by a benefi- cent Providence acting through ao awakened and aroused «aid to be seventy-five years old, makes bim look much younger than that judging from his constant spitting, American people.” Tar Dirrrcvery.—The Montgomery Mai! compares the President's constitutional amendment with that of Congress, and finds the chief difference to ve ia the omission of the third ection, which disqualified certain The attendance was both numerous and select, and the proceeds accruing from the sale of tickets highly gratifying—the object being m aid of the new academy for that parish, Choice musical selections and popular dances comprised the prog amme. Fair ladies, elegant toiltes, sweet melody and brilliant gas jets made a fine toute ensembix, while the committees vieing with each other in the faithful performance of their duties, added does, pong ey high degree, WOMAN’S RIGHTS. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s Plea for Univer- sal Suffrage. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered last evening, in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the first of a course of lectures on national affairs, to be delivered under the auspices of the Brooklyn fraternity, taking for his sub- ject “Universal Suffrage.” Though the fact of tho rev- erend doctor's appearance in his favorite rile was exten- sively circulated there was but avery meagre attend- ance, the Academy presenting a beggarly array of empty benches, Whether from a surfeit of the subject or from the fact that a dollar for reserved seais and iifty cents for ordinary seats were considered too much for the Proposed entertainment, it is true that the lecture, na pecuniary point, was a decided failure, and whether from these circumstances or from the paucity of his hearers and their apathy throughout, the lecturer was not as pungent or forcible as bis wont. After being introduced to the audience, Mr. Beecher came forward and spoke substantially ag follows :— I propose to speak to you to-night upon the subject of universal su: By ‘sutversal Bu T mean that every citizen who has attained the age of manhood, as he has an interest in the Jaws and government and in the ‘support of the state and the peace of society, has a right to influence the state and its policy, and to express that influence in the potential manner implied in the vote. Another name for universal suffrage is manhod suffrage, or suffrage based upon the mere fact of manhood, and evs ape any class reason or any supposed preparation ese, UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE THE AMERICAN IDEA. And first, universal suffrage is but the carrying out to the fult of ‘the tendencies of our American history. At first, in New England, suffrage was confined to church members. This sounds to us singular, but itis only the local application of a principle which unfortunately yet exists in force, namely, that only the best qualified have aright to vote. If you hold that only the well qualified citizen has a right to vote, you ought not to find fault with any rg od mode of determining who are the best qualified. Experience has taught that the Church couid not save the State, but that it was itself corrupted, in that whoever wanted to vote was bribed for the sake of tt into charch membership. But we néed not be ashamed of the rieas of our fathers that the State is something sacred, and that political duty is 80 eminent as to require the best service and it was noble in them to say ‘‘a real Christian is the best man.” He isthe best man. It was weak in them to suppose, however, that a church member was of course a Christian, and that aman was of course not a Christian because he was nota church member. Against their fears, slowly, reluctantly, but aurely and irresist- ibly, the popular Wwiil pushed back the barriers and widened tho circle of voters, and the tendency, from the very founding of the colonies, has been in one way, without reaction, retrocession, or even tendency toward it, After two hundred years’.experience the sentiment of advanced men of refiection and sympathy with American ideas of government, is still in facor of wider suffrage. And all signs show that the time is come to place this subject on the ground of a univereal principle, and take it off from the ground of expediency, We advo- cate universal suffrage az a right of manhood, and not as a privilege accorded by society to the deserving. Universal suffrage, secondly, is a logical result of Ameri- can doctrines of society. All political power begins and tnheres in the people, and is alienated from them only by crime, And if it exist in any other form, as in magistracies and governments, it is by the delegation of these inherent rights of the people to officers or bodies of mon chosen by the people to represent them, Custom may have practically managed so that only a part of tho peopl: should exercise potential political power, but the principle is universal, and no man can hold that all governments derive thoir power from the governed, and then proceed to ex- clude large classes of the governed from the use of that power, Without going over to the doctrines of aristoc- racy. In our day there is choico left to a consistent, reasoning, logical mind only between the two theories, the democratic and aristocratic. We are bound to come to the ground that every citizen has a right to vote, or wo are bound to go back boldly to the aristocratic ground, and say “onty the best citizens have a right to vote,” We have never consisienily carried out our own principles in America, We have really proceeded on the theory that the goverament belongs to the best part of society. In other words, wo bave given a very im- perfect rendering to the principle that society ought to be in the banda of educaied and moral men. It ought; bat it ought to ba in their hands only by educating and rendering moral every man in it, which ts @ Very different thing from taking a class of society that are egucated and moral, and saying that in them inhero privileges political, because the State is benetited their exercising them and the exclusion of others, hold that reason shoutd vote, and morality shouid vote, and, therefore, 1 hold that it is indispensable that reason and morality should de carried down, just as k as you can find a man, to the very pottom of ‘society. We have reasoned, however, one way, we bayg aggd another; fand to bo consistent with off hut doctsinee ee. sam WKe nd overground Thad this, that if all power originauy belongs to the people, ait the ecm have aright to the exercise of that power, and discrimination ip favor of ‘one class, whether on moral or intellectual grounds, and against another, is odious and inconsistent with our ‘own political philosophy. SUFFRAGE A NZTURA TIGHT. Thirdiy—I hold that manhood saftrage is intrinsically jagt and right as weil as consistent with our philoeophy ; and in the line of our historical development it is the right of every man to have a voice in whatever affects his name, his happinese, his family, his property, h’s safety and his own life. Laws and pvlicies do tvis, and every mun, if there be any such thing az natural right, has a right to aevoice and _ influence in determining la and policies which reach him, siit him, which make the difference between happiness and Prosperity in his case or subversion and wretcheduess, here can you find a natural right if it is not in this neighborhood? It is said that society has the richt of self-preservation, What is society, as distinguished trom the people? The people have the right to preserve themselves, and, to do it, to tear society to pieces, if it be needful to chat it, to modify its structural inetitn- ticns. But soci as something different from the whole people, has no rights, Society means govern- ment, or the organized condition of the peona, And society, as distinguisied from the people, hae uo rights which & democratic people are bound to respect, It the whole people agree with itself that a part of it shall not vote, and that pari consent to it, that is their lookout; but for an aristocratic majority to agree together that the other part shal! not vote ‘san injustice, It 1 said that 10 making, the laws the best should be employed; but that once wade, all the people should receive a common and’ like i before the laws, so that the administration of Jaw being just and right the benefits o become equal, universal, and that th it by. 15 verea) suffrage ju the constructiog of the law. But I swet, érimfokl fawe and theiy admonisiration are but avery small part of thé go érnment intiuen-e. Com- mercial laws have far more to do with convenience, and with prosperity, for they determine the whole flo ordinary lite. Now, it may be laid down asa funda. mental canon, that no class of mon are fil to levislate for another class—that overy class knows its own interests, and no legisiation is just in which all ipterests Lave not been fairly reprerented and teit, I should like to know it money lenders could be trusted to make the lawe for borrowers of money. Would you permit creditors to make all the laws that were to influence debtors ? or debtors to inake the laws out of the bands and over the beads of creditors’ They bave to tussle for it, and get a compromise between (hem Would you alow importers 10 make the laws, or would you allow home manufac- turers to make the lawe? Do you not lead above all that contest and get to anequiilbriam? Can poor men suffer the more parenial rich nan to frame the policy of industry? Are we bound to let the employer make all the lawa, and the employed to have no voice’ What is the question, the reveliion of the hour in-labor, but this, that 2 large class of men in iuterest have diroctly or ip- airectiy boro excluded trom determining policies? Everybody feels bis own want. Each sort or class know their own necessities ax nobody else can know them, aud no legislation can be equitable enough which the whole citizenship bas not ld « chance to make its wants an ite interests kuown, We have an authoritative instance of this in the South at the present time. ‘The jaws are here made by white wen, aud they were made for white we. Yet it is said that in many of the Southern States freemen are now admitted to equal rights ander these laws, but the administration of these Jaws does not aflect alike the biack and the white in the South, The laws rospect.ng vagrants were made for white vawrants and not for black. The laws respecting orpbans: and orphavage, as they were made exclasively in the interest of one kind, are not fit to be apphed to all kinda, To admit the blacks, therefore, to y before those laws Is nota protecuon. They bear qualiy on one or another clogs, and ~o, though you give equitable adminis- tration to laws, it is necessary that classes should bave hada voice prior to administration ip legisiation iwelf. No class cau be more thuroughly free than by putting the whoie sv Trage in tte possession, leaving out of determimation who shall he admitted to it All the | power of the State with us is lodged im the vote. That ‘whieh is in the crown and in the sceptre in England « im the voto in America, and that class that wields th vote wields everything, because it is a majority of the le, Iti# not lees s class. In Ameriea. however, I think not one-fourth part o the people vote. clude the foreign po; fon and that population which the jaws exclude, all idreo and women, it wili be found that the whole political power of the country is in the bands of about one-fourth part of its population, and of tme pot more than one-half upon an average ever vote, and it may bo said that the great questions of our land are sottied by less than one-enth part of the ree of the land. t this to constitute a clase? Tf it is by default, it till makes those that attend to their political duties a clase; but if tbe by law that so & part are excluded, then it isa class, constituted by ens actment, and ought to be as it is here, and more than it is im England or upon the continent, ONIVERSAL AGAINST IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE. But it is asked me in “Would not impartial suf. be better than enreeeiah uA ~ not if persons for office. It remarks that the chief objection Against the latter was aot to this section, but to the firet section, which makes @ negro ® citizen of the United States, end “forbids a State from depriving him of any Tights or privileges which a white man may possess.” That's the rab. Twe New Onn Revere Caxor Sopmrr To Be Dis Prascmieen, The New Times of the 9th inet, | orrowl ia takes pride ii Legisiature, it read nor 7 Me in the fact the Louisiana + | would. “Would you go 90 far aa to admit the Chine ‘unawed by the vociferous and inane threate of Con- | Tent, California, Indians?" Just so far as they were gress, has had the courage and independence, by 4 | prought within the establishments of organized uananimous vote of both houses, to hurl back, into ite | political society, I would. I would not adumit foreieners very teeth, that infamous constitutional amesdment, whiob would deprivegninety-cine hendredthe of ite citl- copa of their most bigbly vrised polities) rehte bad signified their intention of becoming city sain Wet Mipore nes vens euler of Dae detuged oth base, bad and incompetent men?” any ppint of \umao life that te not sebmersed f dangers, The man can do is to be born. Afar toes tes ere attics coer Srery mat to vl! hie dangerous ensnde rom man toa to excl ty the Dox, (A) —— The Condition of the best men requires that they shouldbe educated, and all men made capable of their civil duties. It is dangerous to have go many ignorant men, therefore, do away with ignorance and make them safe. SUFFRAGE AN EDUCATOR. But suffrage is itself a powerful education. Consider what questions have been discussed in camp, in cottage, in the shop, in the hustings, in the papers; the rights of men, the structure of society, the nature of govern- tment, the policy of States, the limits of war, the laws of trade, political economy. This nation has liar with great questions during the education of the war, When aman bas a vote he bas a great many schoolmasters, When Patrick first comes over bere no one cares for him, but after he is naturalized he bas a schoolmaster, when he sits down to his meal ready to teach him which way to vote, and at the end of five years be can vote as well as you. But it is said “You agree to exclude criminais, idio's, those not of age and papers, with women. You ury ‘uot consistent, there- fore, in se doctrines of universal suffrage.’? I reply, we exclude criminals because they have forfeited their rights under society. Idiots, because they are not men, A watchcase ia nota waich, and a man case is mot a man, tion.) Weexciude those under age because we must have some time when a man becomes aman. Paupers are excluded, but pauperism is not criminal, and paupers ought not to forfeit political rights. It is a Shame for misfort: and trouble to be a disgrace, Panpers ought to vote. But how about women? Can any reason be given why the natoral rights of women are not just the same as the natural rixhts of man? you say because she is a woman sbe has not the rights of reason, moral sentiment, social affection and all the rights of citizenship that a man has? What if by. some accident civil power had first been put into the hands of women, and the question was, whether men would be admitted ‘to suffrage, now what kind of argument would you have in say: “God made women specially to govern?’ I think I could make it, a pricri, @ much stronger argument against men’s coming now and voting than now men. are able to make it against women’s voting. WOMAN'S INFLUENCE ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. T think the Jater question of civilization is such as in- dicates, providentially indicates, a peculiar want of that which woman’s mind brings to tho influence of public affairs. In the beginning of society its wants and inter. ests are largely material and physical. In the material condition of affairs, as an adjunct and attribute of it, these are characteristics; but ag society unfolds and de- velopes more and moge, the question arises, does it not become more intellectual, more ethereal and esthetical ? Now woman is peculiarly adapted by her organyzation, her istinots, her judgment, and her own love of thought adapts her to be wise and matured on ethical and es- Uhetical questions. The question of education is more and more in vogue, The great questions of to-day are the questions of humanity, of reformation, of morality— questions of labor, questions of ten thousand suftering in human society. Ail these are becoming legislative questions, These are the very questions shat woman’s mind is peculiarly organized to ji of, aud to judge of wis iy. @ need these elements wherher women ni to vote or not, men needs to have them to vote, and society needs them. The in- fluence of women in politics, and in morality are not to be left unconsidered. Now public affaire-are selfish, eor- did and coarse, and men are unjust and will be go, as long as the ballot is confined alone to the hands of men, and this will be seen by what has taken place wherever woman has mingied her influence with man—in the schoothouse, in the church, in the neighborhood, In civilization, in society at Jarge Civilization and refine- ment will take place wherever woman mincles her in- fluence in the administration of public affairs, It is asked me if I would permt my wife and daughier to dabble in the turmoi! and excitement of public affairs? My reply is, the presence of women will take away the excitement and change the nature of things in this respect; mot to-day perhaps, or to-morrow. But do you believe that of the candidates for public otfice, would present themselves as candidates with the knowledge that women would vote, that such men would show their faces a3 now unblushingly as candidates. (Appiause,) Do you believe that if the judgment of woman’s moral sense, of mothers, wives and sisters, were to sit in judgment on manners as well as on men, that such things would be tolerated that exists now almost with impunity? Do you not believe that if the tribunal of adjudication were made up of the moral senso of men, quickened by woman’s sensibility, a more strin- gent morality would prevail aud a bigher tone of honor would succeed to the death of meanness and sordianess? Men and women together are nobler than woman or man alone, Whatever makes the mother more intelll- gent, moro wise and comprehensive, makes the children 80. Far be it from me to leave the impression that I undervalue domesticity, that I wougd take away anythin from the sanotity of the housebold, or that I would. relieve by a siegie particle the pressure of duty ig rafer- ence to ail minor details of household geouomy. It is honorable for woman to love home, gnd not be ashamed with her own hand to perform, neces duties of home and bous*hold. ot Ler'stiil knead anid bake the daily bread; tet her dwevent home, if you please, not a hongehold irudge b% “an honorable worker at home, 1 would not teko way a single particle of spirit from do- west affection; but I scorn and repudiate the declara- on Use woman is betier fitted to be a worker at home in jou as she is isnorant of everything else. 1 hold that the more she knows of things abroad, the better she is propared to transact her duties at home, and the larger her influence the more it avaiis in every specific application of it. Do you believe that if woman went through a collegiate course of studies, had all the accomplishments which would make her a much larger intellectual being, the lees she would be fitted for anv specific duty of toil and jabor? The larger you make her intellectually the moro fraitfa) she isin thought and resources, the more she will be able to bring honor and adornment to every pat ticular daty of the household I wonld not scorn the mending of the stocking nor the sewing on of the shirt bottons—that everlasting illustration of woman's duties. Let her stay at bome if you please; but she is not Ot to | be my mother if she does not know waeciae beyond daroing the stocking and sewing on shirt buttons, (Ap. plause. ) A SCRIPTURAL PLEA FOR WOMAN'S BQU! LITY. It js said that euch notions are contrary to the spirit and letter of the Scriptares; that woman should stay at bome and bear children; should not become public teachers, but should be confined to her ordinary place, second and subordinate to man. If these things were #0 it would ciose the discussion, as we are ail bound to reverence (he Scriptures as of Divine authority. But they are not so. You would err, not knowing the Scrip- tu Twill aamit that there is clearly a semblance of such trath; but T admit also, and insist upon it, that a better aud deeper historical knowledge of the Scriptures lakes away the whole force of any such allegation. For what was tho Hebrew cus.om in reference to woman? You will look through the whole of the Old Testament, and you will not Gnd a single disqualifying, disbonoring @ lowering restriction. There is nothing in the Wid Testament that favors the Oriental notion of the in- equality of the sexes, but much that supports the modern doctrine which was derived rather from the purer fountains of the Hebrew moral sense, from the impure foantoms of Greek sense. Not one book of the New Testament written distinctly to the Jews sanctions any line or lotier of restriction. Whenever there w an injunciion to silence in meetings—a relative subordina- tion—the apostle in that case was writing to the converts ‘that were either Greek or under the influence of Greek customs, as in Timothy’s Epistle to the Corinthian churches, which were distinctly Greek. The Greek held that a woman was pot only not equal, but was ineffably below him. foe tenn that not only were women not rmitted to walk the streets, but that it was s shame for them to be seen standing in the doors of their houses: to receive their husbands on their return home. They even considered it to be # stigma for a woman to be intel- ligent. gent gUrPRAGE WOULD NOT NER wouan, It is said that if a woman were to exercise the suffrage it would destroy her delicacy. It wour ht of cer. ‘\ainly correct the indelicacy of man. But what is the effect of enlarged intelligence and enlarged action? I do not ask that a woman in speaking, ip the whole realm of Iiterature, in the pro- @veat and yet to ablic of art, in the whole May tor vince of religion, in honored department of suffrare, shonid undertake fh meo. The whole be mom in instruction, g the future. boty. juestion on a iar higher ground, 1 put it on the ground of conscience. As God is true and it it to ever SUPPRAGR A WOMAN'S But I put the whole Just, and sympathetic and loving, I ‘man’s consci and the whole of society rises up as one man to march with ‘its face set as if it at 2 to Jerusalem, men and women band in hand walking, as God hath deciared, it I have joined to- gether, let no man put asunder.” (Applause) The lec- turer here closed and the audience dispersed, SAILING OF THE STEAMSHIP AFRICA. Bostoy, Feb 13, 1867. ‘The steamship Africa sailed thie afternoon for Liver pool via Halifax, taking fifty-three passengers for Li erpool and twenty bt for Halifax. She carries apecie. FIRE IN CINCINNAT). Cixawsati, Feb. 18, 1867. Tho publishing house of the Miatmi Printing Company, on Canal etrect, near Eighth, was destroyed by fire this ‘mornil The pressor were saved in a damaged condi- tion, An edition of one thousand copies of Basil Duke's history of John Morgan's cavalry raid and a number of Lit a were destroyed. Lose, $35,000; insured Svicpes BY Soorwe,—The Seventeenth precinct THE BSSISSIPPI RIVER CONVENTION. —S Lous, Feb. 13, 1807, Morning, President McPherson in the chair. A large Rumber of delegates were present who had arrived since Yesterday's session, Mr, Barton Able, of the Committee on Resolutions, announced the following names as the committee:—Indiana, Chas. H. Mekin, A. F, Wemple; Pennsylvania, R. C. Gray, Joseph Knapp; Minnesota, E, D. Williams, W. D, Washburn; Illinois, William Eg- gleston, 0. C. Skinner; Tennessee, W. B. Grau, H. Hiner; Ohio, Theo, Cook, A. D, Gashern; Wisconsin, R. C. Libby, Major EB. Paine; Missouri, Judge Sarauel Treat, James B. Earls; Louisiana, W. Jeff Thompson, E. B. Briggs; Kentucky. RH. Walford, B, C. Live; Michi ea Joy, A. W. Copeland; lowa, Gen. H. L. Reed, H. W, Starr. General Vandeveer, of Ohio, moved that Mr. J. E. Abott, who had been engaved as a civil engineer with General Wilson in the survey of the Upper Mississippi, be requested to address the Convention, giving such in- formation tn relation to the survey as he thought ft. Mr. Abott took the stand and entered into a detailed statement of the surveys made by General Wilson and the engineer corpa, which abounded in facts and figures from which much information was given to the conven- tion. Mr. Abott gave a full account of all the obstruc- tions in the different rapids, and gave the figures. which will be of great benefit to the convention, and will be considered by the Commitiee on Resolutions, Much dis- cussion was had in referring matters to the different comuitt when, on motion, Professor Waterhouse, of St. Louis, was invited to the stand, and be proceeded to Tread a paper involving the whole question of river !m- provements, Tne convention then adjourned to three o’clock. In the afternoon session, immediately after being called to order by Mr. Cook, of Ohio, Chairman of the Conven- si ea Committee on Resolutions reported the fol- jowing:-— In order to bring before this convention the distinct Propositions to be considered, your committee recom- mend the following resolutions :— Resolved, That the interests of the whole Mississippi val- ley require the immediate improvement by the navonal gov- ernment of the Mississippi river from the Belize to the Falls of St. Anthony. including espect iy the bar at the Belize, the upper and lower rapids and the removal of the obstruc: tions above these rapids, and also the Ohio river from Cairo to Pittsburg, and especially the work at the Falls of the Ohio, said Improvements to secure the navigation of said rivers free from all tolls or tribute. Resolved, That the vast importance of such action as will secure the needed improvements at an early day of the fol- lowing rivers is commended to the favorable and earnest consideration of Congress, viz:—The Missouri river from the mouth to Fort Benton, the lilinois river, the Red river, the Tennessee river to Chattanooza, the Wisconsin river to to the Fox river, the Arkansas river to Fort Smith and the Cumberland river to Nashville. Resolved, Uhat when the financial condition of the eoun- try may justify, Congress be requested (o cause. pro} vestigations to’ be made as to the necessity of im| hereafter all the other rivers of the Mi Resolved. That Congress should b. {fet of bridging the Miasiasinp! and other navigable rivers of he United States as will, while recognizing the equal im- portance of ratiroad and river transportation. harmonize the interests by securing proper facilities for both, Your committee recommend, in furtherance of the foregoing objects, the appointment of a committee con- sisting of one member from each State represented in this convention, with a sub-committee of five, to pre- pare a memorial to Congress demonstrating the natioual importance of sald objects, and that each member of said general committee repott to said sub-commit- tee such statistics as will facilitate its work. It is further recommended that the resolutions adopted and the memorial be forwarded to Congress in the name of this convention by the president, and that copies thereof be furnished each Senator and representative from the Mississippi valley. Mr. Eads, of St. Louis, moved to include the Missis- sippi river in the above resolution, and to sustain bis motion argued the importance of that river as a channel of communication. ‘The motion of Mr. Eads led toa warm debate, during which the claims of the various rivers were argued. A motion was made to include the [linois river in case the motion of Mr. Eads was insisted on Finally Mr. Eads withdrew his motion. A elevate from Iowa offered an amendment that the improvement of the rapids should be urged as the primary object of the convention. This led to further debate, and the amendment was withdrawn, and the resolutions adopted singly w thout amendment. A memorial committee, consisting of one from each State represented in onveation, was then appo'n'ed. ° the committee:—W. H. B, Richards. lowa; C. H. Mekin, Indiana; T, Cook, Obio; 8. P, Wetherbee, Wis- conain: B. C. Lire. Kentucky; i. H. Budok, Louisiana; John Dougherty, Ilinois; H. M. Rice, \innesota; J. M. Pennsylvania; C. L. Tucker, Missouri. ‘Complimentary resolutions were then passed thanking the officers of the convention for the able performance of their duties, aud the citizens of St. Louis for their ‘ind attentions to the when th cconvention aajou sine die Before the convention finally ad- journed the delegates accepted an invitation from the citizens of St. Louis to attend a banquet at the Lindell House. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE, ne AccipEnts.—Mrs, Peter Brewer, an old lady of seventy- ‘one years, fell down stairs on Saturday last in Utica, and broke her neck, She was trying to descend in the dark to relieve the watchers over her dead husband. Theodore M. Dickerman, a cripple in both limbs from childhood, was drowned in Albany on Saturday evening. ‘The horse on which he was riding backed off the dock, and Mr. D. fell from the saddle, (avent Hia.—A Mrs, Chale, of Toronto, only afew weeks married, overhauled her runaway husband in ‘Troy a fow days since, where he was working ander an assumed name, Svicion.—Thomas Martin, an elderly man, jumped off the dock in Troy on Saturday and was drowned. t Israxticipe.—In a lumber in West Troy, a dead infant was found on the 9th inst., buried snow. Hartrorp PRaxgs—An enterprising young man in Hartford sent over three hundred invitations to people in New York, Middletown and New Haven, as well as Hartford, and got up a decidedly surprisea party in the last named city. Quvarret Between Cyrrianr.—In a quarrel between Jenmo Foster and Carrie Peterson, at Chicago, on the th instant, tho former stabbed the latter seriously, but it is believed not fatally, Deane witn Ronvers.—Mr. Hubert Livingston re- cently recovered a watch in St Louis, of which he had been robbed by garroters. His advertisement was an- swered, and @ night interview appointed." After three cantious meetings, he finally received his property, valued at $225, by paying $75. AxoTner Suicror.—Mra. Julia Jones, of 279 Bacchus street, New Ori committed suicide recently in a fit of low spirits, by shooting herself with a revolver. ‘Law iN Missi-sirrt.—In Vaiden, Carroll county, man name Daniel Grantham was fined by Mr the Mayor, for riotous conduct, and on refusing to pay the One. Mr. Will'ams, the constable, levied on his horse. Grantham afterwards went to proles, in his office, and asked bim if he intended to make him pay the fine, Sproles told him that be did; wheren} Grantham drew a pistol and attempted to shoot but: knocked the pistol up, and the ball took effect in the eye of Williams, killing him instantly. Sproles then caught the pistol, and during the scuffle Grantham fired, the ball taking effect in the groin of Mr. Sproles, inflict- ing, it is thought, @ mortal wound. ARRESTED in Cu1caGo,—A young maa named M. 8. Stick. ney was arrested on the 4th inst,, at the Sherman House, bere with the murder of J. 4. Bickring on the plains, October. N.Y, in the ik Distinauismen Amnivals.—Mra. Johnson, Mi Harriet Lane, has given birth to a boy. ra. Williams, fe ‘Sire. was safely delivered of twins on second marriage. Cxxtat Srerew.—The Detroit Board of bare ke 4 aystem on and after the lst resolved to adopt the cental of March, 1867. He eS ea ey ut tnd. Winchest » Va, and there found by the Fifth New York cavairy. Smith was found su: ded by hi bridle rein, is Vhroat cut and seven all botee ia bis Pannoxnn.—The hotorious Mollie Trussell, a fashion- able courtesan of Chicago, after being in State prison for afew months eo : maa in ae Laie rn 4 oor eminently respectable and powerful. «A Cattece, vas Hoally accepted tne cello naam Prenent e Cal Hamilton College. LECTURES. Sheridan and Bulwer. The Reformed Dutch church, in Twenty-first street, Detween Fifth and Sixth avenues (Rev. Dr. Alexander R. Thompson’s), was well filled last evening by a highly respectable audience gathered to hear Mr. George Vaa- denhoff read from the British poets. The distinguished elocutionist having been introduced he stated that the programme prepared for the evening embraced selections from two of the most celebrated of the poets of Britain; for he did not think, since Sheridan wrote the School for Scandal, a finer comedy hag been produced than Money, by Bulwer. The one was of the past, tho other of the present century; be would place them in association and the audience could therefore easily ob- serve the difference in style. Three acts from Money were recited, and as Mr. Vandenhoff concluded the first he pronounced it the finest first act ef any comedy. ‘Much interest was manifested during the readings, and ‘the School for Scandal received all the attention and ap- preciation Which characterized the first part of the pro- gramme, Intellectual Readings. Last evening Mr. F. C. Harriot delivered the last but two of a series of six iectures at the Universalist church, Bleecker street, before a large and select congregation. The subject of ‘Dead Letters,’’ mementoes of the past, the dear and forgotien remembrances of other days, was treated witb a pathetic fee! ng that found its way to the heart of every hearer. A ‘Hunting Scene” from Dickens’ immortal Pickwick, blended as it was with inimitable humor and pathos, elicited alternate ex- pressions of admiration and merriment. The recitation of Poe’s wonderful metrical camposition of ‘The Bells’’ was undoubtedly the greatest vocal eflort of the accom- piisbed lecturer. ‘Sheridan's Ride’ and the “ Sexton and Ti jometer’’ were the fluai bit not the least in- teresting elocutionary efforts ol the disuaguished lec- turer, Young Men’s Christian Association. ‘The rooms of this association, were crowded last even- ing by a highly inteiligent audience, which bad assem- bled for the purpose ot hearing a lecture by Professor Guyot, of Princeton College, oa the *‘Science of Nature and its Moral Teachings”? The lecture was an able and lucid explanation, in a condensed form, of the control- ling powers &nd forces of th» various forms of nature and the similarities to be found im the different sysiems, all of which tend to reveai the work of God and to compel man to acknowledge His greatness and goodness. The lecture was a learned effort, showing on the part of the lecturer an intimate acquaintance with the subject; but was rather too long to be enjoyable to persons of such a “practical”? turn of mind as the residents of the metropolis. Physical Science, Dr. Hebbard lectured inet night at the Cooper Insti- tute upon the ‘Origin of Life, the Mysteries of Being and the Laws of Hereditary Descent.” The law of re- production, it was stated, apphed to the three king- doms—mineral, vegetable and animal, This law was illustrated in each of these departments, but more es- pecially in that of the human family. The’ responsi bility of parents for the physical, moral and mental character of their offspring was most clearly demonstrat- ed and impressively urged. The observation of the laws which regulate the health of the human being in his threefold nature was most solemnly ebligatory—its failure entailing misery upon an innocent progeny. The lecturer spoke with much warmth of the vastly dispro- portionate amount of attention given to this fundamen- tal subject im comparison with others of infinately less importance. A Prrmarie C. —A Kentuckian has been stopping in Evansville, Ind., lately to try the effecis of the madstone to cure the bite of amad dog It had no effect, and he is sald to be atmost deranged with droad of his ajiproach- ing fate. Died, Murray.—On Wednesday, Febrvary 13, Patrick H. Murray, a native of county Westmeath, Ireland, in the 55th year of his age. 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