The New York Herald Newspaper, December 25, 1868, Page 3

WOMAN SUFFRAGE A General Convention of Progressive Women and Sympaibizing Men in New Hampshire ‘The Rights and Wrongs of the Feminines Discussed and Considered—Lucy Stone= Blackwell and Husband at the FronthThe ‘Trials and ‘Tribulations of the “Great Amere fean Traveller?=—Eloauent Speeches by Fe- male D. DJs and Female M. DJs—The Views of Williavt Lloyd Garrison, ConcorD, N. H., Dec. 22, 1868. Just about a year ago one of the HERALD corre- spondents was conimissioned to detail datly from this neighborhood tie inauguration, progress and final result of oue of the most flercely contested political campaigns that ever took place in any one of the States of this extensive Union, New Hampshire, always politically close and not unfrequently doubt- ful, was, in the winter of 1867-8, looked upon by the whole country wiih more interest even than the late Presidential coutest; for while the first was uncer- tain, the result of the other was fore shadowed, and upon the result of the con- test of doubtful issue very many thought depended the turn which the then coming election would take, If, a8 was sonietimes said, the example of New Hampshire lias sach an important influence upon the other States it will be a little interesting to Watch her course in the woman suffrage question, which, althougt not new elsewhere, ts comparatively a frezh issue ber 3 usual, this matter, so much agitated of |; all other reforms requiring a tinkering of the constitution and an interference with political machinery in general, had its birth in New Englind. Massachusetts was, of course, fore- most, and the radicai reformers elsewhere have na- turally wheeled toto ine, Within a year the mania has been siewliiy spreading, and to-day it broke out violently for the first time, and in solemn State con- Vention the declaration has been made that every effort will be used to wipe out all statutes which make distinction of the sexes con- cerning the matter of suffrage and kindred civil and political righis, The call which caused these enthu- siasts to assembie was veryspicy. It said that “the spirit of the age, vigilant for justice and righteous- ness, purified and matured by the recent struggles and experieuces for the redemption of a race, still grasps an evil unjust and oppressive in its resulta. While our national declaration afirms the ‘self-evi- dent trutiis’ of cquality, and that ‘all just govern- ments derive their power from the consent of the governed,’ our democratic government holds arbl- trary and unjust sway over one-half of its subjects. No discerning mind can fail to be arrested by the doubtful policy of withholding the ballot from the mothers, wives and daughters who adorn our hothes ‘With culture and refinement while it is conferred 80 freely on foreigners just arriving from the social degradation and ignorance of the Old World. ‘Vigi- Rance ts the price of liberty.’ ‘Man is only just to Dimseif when he is just to all.’ No position in life in which woman is not coequal and absolute in her relations, involving a community of interests which should have no aniagonism and cannot be separate o> hostile, can exist without muddying the springs from which Mt draws its highest life, Truth is reviving and mght iseverywhere asserting itself to fulfil its noblest Guties. The public is aroused for justice. The times are propitioas. We are sowing fallowed ground, Our movement is only reciprocal with sis- ter States, and irom across the waters comes the en- couragement of ‘God speed you.’ The ballot, then, is our final struggle.” It was in respoase to such stirring words as the foregoing that New Hampshire has wheeled boldly into line. The attendance when the morning session opened in Eagle Halt to-day was not promising of success In respect to numbers, but it picked upa ttle in the afternoon, and in the evening the hall was crowded and the same ts anticipated to-morrow. About two-thirds of those present were of the gentler sex, but their interest, attention and sym- f oops with the movement did not appear to ¢ greater than that of the masculines, Without auy hesitation, the gathering may be safe! Said to have beea composed generally of people oi reputed icelligeauce, and tue absence of temperance demagogues aud broken down moralists in general ‘was Very inarked. Mrs. Wilie, wife of one of the express kings of New Hampshire, and a woman of cowmanding and intellectual appearance, under- took the eubarrass'ng task of calling the body to order, and when she had gracefully performed this dusy Rev. J. P. Lovering, oi this city, was chosen the pecinanent presiding oilcer, after ‘which a prayer ‘Was offered by auotier clergyman present. Rey. Mr. Lovering, upon (aking the chair, made a brief speech, in which Ge said he deemed it the duty of every one to help on any cause which looks to the advan vat of humaniy towards the attamment of its evident desiiny. Whatever, therefore, seeks to reform social evil, to correct social injustice, to restrain the pern us and euiarge the healthful lie of humanity deserves our most earnest sympathy and faitufal pe the question of woman’s ngnt to al rage, whicil i cts and reiations was to discussed by men and ean ly r ich spegsll, Yes ay important Of, al - one tatina iy Pichon es it were Bore, gt lege femillar and had Won to a greater OF 1é3s éxtéht the asseut of ibe best aud wisest, That woman was to be honored was no new thing. The pen of histo- ry, which is the tongue of the past, gives us know- ledge of many who in every department of human aciivity Lave deserved and received reuown. In an- cient Egypt oracies were frequently detivered by wo- men, ‘rules were carried on by them and they are represented in sculpture sitting in the markets or meeting wen at banquets On terms of equality. In Greece women were admitted to the priesthood, shared its highest dignittes and were venerated as among the noblest avd saintiest. ‘This honoring of Women was Lot only true of peopies of culture and refinement. in the barbarian tribes of the North women were members of the councils of State. They fought tm _ battle. Among the Tentones they were the only physictans, ie Ro- man liistorian Tacitus says:—"The Germans suppose some divine and pr quauty resident in their ‘women, and are careful neiher to disregard their admonitions nor to reject their answers.” So far as precedent is concerned, therefore, we are justified in considering the broad question of woman's rights. Modera civiization emphazises this:—As man has advanced so las Wwoulan been more revered. As his ideal bas become purer her presence has become aa inspiration. As his work has broadened her infla- ence has had coextensive scope, We are to believe that asoui sa , Whether in tts bodily overall of + @ man or woma) organization. A woman has @ right to own her power, to use her power aud to possess the results of such use, We believe woman should have the batiot because it secures this, Reference was then made by the speaker to the fact that the day was the two hundred and forty-eighth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. Before tuey ulsembarked, said the speaker, they drew up a compact in wiich the government of the colony Was insututed on the basis of ‘equal laws’ forthe “generat good.’’ It contained the leading principles of the great doctrines which were after- wards prociained in the Declaration of Indepen- dence. Women worked nobly in that colony; and the principle of liberty then announced we are to vindicate. With a few remarks more, urging that the finuerent rigit of liberty should have legal right of exercise in the casting of the ballot, which ‘the speaker believed would bring @ better condition of things throughout the country ta social and Aitical reform, the following lines from Tennyson's poem, ‘The Princess,” were quoted in conclusion:— Woman {s not undevelopt man, But diverse. Could we make Ler as the man Swear love were siain, whose dearest bond is this, Not idke to like, but like in difference ; Yet in the long years liker must they gro ry a be more of woman, she of man He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor‘lose the wrealling tuews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail tn childward care More as tue doubie-natur'd part each ; Til; at the last she wet i tomaa Like perfect music unto nobie words. And go these twain, upon the skirts of Tims, Bit side by side, fuil-summ'd in ail their powers, Dispensing harveat, sowing the To Be, Solt-revereut each aad reverencing each, Distinct in individualities, But like each other, even as those who love, ‘Then comes the stateder Eden back to men; Then reign the worid’s great briials, chaste and calm ; ‘Then springs the crowning race of Bumen kind. ‘May these things ve! When Mr. Lovering had finished his opening ad- dress Rev. Mr. Babcock, of Lancaster, to faciiltate business proposed that a commitice on resolutions be selected and instructed to report a series of re- polves as soon as possible. The committee was chosen at once and made up as follows:—Rev. Mr. Babcock, Dr. Blackwell, of Vineland, N. J.; Miss |. Wood, of Concord; Miss Armenia of Concord; and Mra. C. 5. Piper, of Concord. ie committee having retired for a brief period returned ‘and submitted the following report through Rev. Dr. Babcock, the chairman:— Whereas the bill of riehie of the State of New ire reasly dec.nres thai ernment of right originates from the people and ie founied In consent; and wherens men suifrage {# the only recognized form Or coliveal Gonsest; and whereas taxation without represen: i ‘well as men, ation te tyranny, and women are taxed as Resolved, That the women of New Hampshire are right- fully entitisd to vote, Resolved, That yorernment, being # political partnership Ne direct ‘profte and advaat Bppro- gor cai ests Eistaacotes tome, aru ne ca sue dente; that ad ro ety her the i paru ing ox: and de rage of woman, polltcal pa { man, witenable her 10 take het natural ition and her legitimate influence aa conservator of public mora ‘That ruffrage of women, as of men, t# the key to Sn compeaseane tal pesuee tan Dene tad lie Resolved, That the co-operati 4 yen avery department of human petty bas proved Denedclal to NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1868. home, a refined so- herent in the human nature of the citizen, Cannot Goulet, eutly deny it Fo mame since women also have rights and “Tk the. mmocratle party, whlch former! iy ex- to foreigners aud poor whive men throughout the Union, and which now demands auflrage for the men lntely in rebellion, préiesting acaiust their disfran- chisem Of the rights of to the edu- New Hamp- Resolved, That reconstruction upon the basis of manhood ‘snitrage, giving votes to all men and withholdtag them from all women, is partial, anusoal, inconsistent, unwise and un- jus and we hereby instruct ihe proper oficers ia behalf of is Couvenuion to prepare and forward to Congress and to the State Legislature memorials in favor of extending suf- to women on equal terms with men. ‘That when the ballot ts placed in the hands of woman she will be in ¢ new means tection sgalnat the eviis of of new infemperancey of which ahe is now olten the lilpless victim, new el ney will be given t0. the laws for the suppression of in intoxicating drinks, and a ement of force and strin- -Rev, Mr. Batitock made a strong argument in favor of each of the resolves reported, and was {ol- lowed in turn by Mrs. Harper, the well known colored whose eloquence in describing the wrongs inflicted apon her sex stirred up tie audience to a high pitch of admiration, One of her theories Which touched the popular feeling was the closing up of all the grog iro in the land when the ballot is given to woinun, Herdeclaration of such a reform elicited the warmest applause. A Rey.’ Mr, Savage, of Franklin, N. H., @ man re- pes to be of extraordinary cuiture, claimed that the country had the help of the women of the country it would cauce the moral and poi'tical and religious elements to raise up above their present degraded level. If, he added, women have the right of ballot, the schools and churches will have doubie and triple their present vigor, the vicious and de- grading sights now so obnoxious and richie will be rare, the ballot box will be purilied, and thou- sands of the evils which tempt the young and weak will be Known no more forever. He hoped, in cou- cluding, that the great question would be candidly considered, and he had no doubt that if this was done the matter wouid be relieved of many of what now seem to be objectionable features, Mrs. Dr, Hathaway, of Boston, who was the next speaker, took occasion to give her opinion of some of the evil influences ot some of her own sex over men, and, very often, over men of reputed induence and greatness, Sie alluded particularly to the female lobbyists in Washington, aud exp: itas her firm belief that not a few men who had been elected to Congress from New England had been susceptible to the imfluence of these bad women, If, she added, the batlot is given to women, this class will be enabled to vote; but she would answer ‘this objection by saying that the power and induence of respectable women would more than counteract any that might be exercised by the other class, She alluded then at some length to the great consump- tion of liquor throughout the country, and st that the money spent in this direction migut weil be applied towards liquidating the public devt, Stephen S. Foster, of Worcester, Mass., followed the doctress in a sweeping demand for all mankind to enter heartily Into this great movement. He did not deny that he was intensely radical, for he be- lieved that every man who opposed giving woman the ballot was a tyrant and not a Christian. Christ, he added, was @ woman’s rights man, for he lived for woman, and even died for her. The clergy and lawyers, he said, ought to use their influence in be- half of the rights of the oppressed sex, and it would be a lasting disgrace to them if they did not. Mrs. Lucy Stone-Blackweil, the pioneer, champion, and irrepressible advocate of woman suifrage and kindred civil, and political rights, and a mighty op- position in herself to the alleged wrongs of her sex, was then introduced and welcomed with generous applause. Having presented herself in a clever manner, she proceeded to give a comprehensive his- tory of the Woman's rights movement, from its in- ception to the present time, accepting, in conclusion, that the whole was a happy omen of their tuture success, Rey. Mr. Babcock followed Mrs. Stone-Blackwell with an address full of hope for the coming of the happy day when women shall have the bailot, and he would undertake to prophesy that five years wlil see the sex in the full enjoyment of their social, civil and political rights. ‘Tue privileges claimed for them are natural privileges, and if they were awarded he did not believe, with vr. Todd, of Pitts- field, that womanhood would lose its various and nameiess charms. Wiliam Lioyd Garrison, of Boston, @ well known agitator and enthusiast in ail reforms in which he tak@s an interest, is even more energetic and indus- trious 1p this one of Woman sullrage than ie was in the old anti-slavery movement. He was not able tocome up to New Hampshire in person, but ne furnished his views through @ leiter, the read- ing of which was greeted with warm applause. He said:—“The conventions recently he'd in turther- ance of the movemeut for universal and umpartial saifrage—one in Boston and the other in Provi- dence—were eminently successful in respect to’ num- bers, intellectual ability, moral swrengiu and unity of action, and thelr proceedings sucit us to challenge general attention and elicit widespread commenda- tion, Ihave no doubt that the convention in Con- cord will exhibit the same features, be animated vy the same hopeiul spirit and produce as cheering @ result. The ouly criticism seemingly of a dispurag- ing tone I have seen of the speecues wude at the conventions alluded to is that there was nothing new advanced on the occasions, as though novelty wags the main thing, and the reiteration of time-honored truths, with their Jatest application to the duties of the hour, was simply tedious. For one t ask more light upon the subject; nor am I so vain as to assume to be capable of throwing any additional light upon it. One drop of water is very li notuer, but it 1s the | ertaarne dropping that we; away the stone. The tmportunate widow had nothing fresh or new to present to the unjust judge, but by hér per- sistent coming she wearicd him toto compiiaace with her petition. The end of tie constant assertion of aright withheld is restitution and victory. The whole anti-slavery controversy was expressed and included in the Golden Rule morally, and in the Le- ciaration of Independence politically. Nor could anythihg new be added to these by the wi the tee ingenious or the most eloquent. ‘Lij a line, precept cepts here p lute and there a ides WR Based eta of eben, It Sai there is nothing new to be in favor of suffrage for woman, ia there anything new to be urged against it? But, though the objections are exceedingly trite and shallow, it 1s sUll necessary to examine and refute them by argu. ments and ilastrations none the less forcible be- cause exhausted at an early perlod. The first objec- tion Is positively one of tie most cogent reasons jor granting suffrage to women; for It 1s predicated on the concession of the superiority of Woman over man in purity of purpose and excellence of character, Hence the ery is that it will not only be desceaamg but degrading for her (o appear at the {genre But if governinent is absolutely necessary, and voting not wrong in practice, it is surely desirable that the ad- mittediy purest and best in the nation should find no obatacie to their reaching the ballot box. Nay, the way should be opened at ounce, by every congsiue- ration pertaining to the public welfare, the justice of legisiation, the preservation of popuiar liberty. It is Lposaibie for a portion of the people to be wiser or more trustworthy than the whole people, or better walified to decide what shall be the laws ‘or the government of all. The more minds consulted, the more souls included, the more inier- ests at stake in determining the form and admintis- tration of government, the more of justice and bu- manity, of security and repose wt be the result. ‘The exclusion of half the population from the polls is not merely @ gross injustice, bat an immense loss of brain and conscience in making up the public judgment. As a nation we have discarded absolu- tsm, monarchy and hereditary aristocracy; but we have not fully attained even to manhood suifrage. Men are prescribed on account of their complexou— women because of their sex. The entire body politic suders from this proscription, The second objection refutes the frat. It is on the alleged or na- tural inferiority of woman to maa; and the transi- tion is thus quickly made for her trom a semi-angelic State to that ofa menial, having no rights which men are bound to respect beyond what they choose to allow. In the scale of _ politl We er, therefor one maie voter, however tz- norant or raved, outweighs ali the wo- men of America; for, no matier how inteili- gent, cultivated, refined, wealthy, intellectually vigorous or morally great any of their number may be—no matter what rank in literature, art, science or medical knowledge and skill they may reach— they are, politically, non-entitiea, unrepresented, dis- carded and left to such protection under the laws as brute force and absolute usui may graciously condescend togive. Yet they are as freely taxed and held amenable to penal law as strictly as though they had their full share representation in the legisiative hall, on the bench, in the jury box and at the conn This cry of inferiority is net peculiar in in the case of women. It was the subterfuge and de- fence of negro slavery. It has been raised in ali agea by tyrants and usurpers against toiling, over- bard millions seeking redress for their wrongs tion for their rights. Jt always indicates intense Poona supreme selfishness, It Isat of the The third objection is that women do not wish to vote. If this were true it would not follow that they should not be chised and left free to de- ermine the matter for themselves, It was con- stantiy declared that the slaves at the South neither wished to be free nor would they take their freedom if offered them by their masters. Had that assertion been true 1¢ would have furnished no justification whatever for making men the rty of their fel- low man or for leaving the slaves in their fetters. But it was Ld Nor is tt true that women do not wish to v Tens of thousands are ready to Foaponaibiity as soun as they shall us iegdly Der. res) be lly per- mitted to do 10; ad tee aré aot the ignorant. and degrad el women remarkabie their intelligence and moral worth. Lil gag mass will, ere long, be Lines ms § enlight to claim what bel to them of right. I to be permit- live to see the day when nei complexion nor sex shall be lea of degradation, but men aod women shall enjoy the same rights and ht [iad may the same means for their pro- Dr. Blackwell, of New Jersey, the husband of Lucy Stone, uttered the first speech at the evening je claimed that women, y, their genius, were rising to the level of and inteilec- tual stand and wi they gain the right of suf- all barriers will be broken down our government will approach nearer to perfec- ton than ever before, He believed that suffrage was t to all humanity and that none ought to be proseril he was enthusiastically certain that if women were allowed to vote the present degradation of ree and public affairs would be improved and that our whole social standing would be elevated. He deprecated the idea that the women Qreerty ae not want the ballot, ana he further be- ed that with the reign of man and woinan together there would be a pe! of peace and good will on earti, Another blessing from such an improved state of affairs would be @ great reduction 1 vice, crime and intemperance, for wherever woman has power there is invari bly amoral tendency. He did not, lke many, be- Heve that the present degeneracy ia polities was be- cause so many voters were foreigners or because they were democrats; but it was because such @ large percentage of them were ignorant. He be- lieved that the throwing of the great boon of suf- frage upon che negroes would for years be a dead weight upon the republican [ee on account of the ignorance of the race; but fe Was nevertheless in favor of it, as he was also in favor of amnesty and the restoration of the ballot to the rebels, In con- cluding he portrayed in eloquent terms a glorious future for the government and the country wheu the right of suurage Would be extended to woman. Kev. Mrs. P. A. Hanaford, of Weymouth, Mass., @ Very interesting and eloquent spenker, next ad- dressed the Convention, and as her speech was gen- erally conceded to be the most eloquent and enter- ‘taining of any that had come from her sex 1 give it in full, She said :—1 am glad to be here and to say my word, even though it be a little word, in benalf of woman suffrage. Though f feel most sensibly, 1 bad almost said, painfully, taat Lam but a Ruta beside those who have been sowers as well as reapers, ye evea if Tam only a gieaner, | am glad to be here an to say that | heartily endorse the sentiments which have been uttered during the last quarter of a cea- tury by the faithfal frends of the women’s cause, in the dear old Baptist cuurch of my island home— Nantucket—we once had a faithful deacon who was accustomed, mm nearly every address which he made in our conference meeting, lo say that he most “religiously? believed this or thai. So to- night i must declare — that not only believe in the right of woman, equally with man, to the ballot, but Timost “reliviousiy” believe this:—1 cannot, being too democratic and tuo repubiucan, believe in the “divine right of kings; bat £ do be: Meve in the “divine rigat’? of each human soul to labor in 1ts best possible way, and in every possible way, for the guod of itumanity and the oc glory of God. And itis, Lica, asa a Curistian minister that | advocate this relori. 1 am free cO Coniess, as others here may have con- tessed, that I do not believe ta Women’s rygats; Lor do I believe in men’s rights. I belleve in human nights. And itis asa humau being, a child of the Great Father, an heir of tie universe, that I clatin muy place at the ballot box and wherever cise God may give me power to work in His cause. I have 10 disposition to sn at men, fort have too many Waei, true, nobie friends among the other sex—men who have kept the diadem of their virtue, without a jewel lost, men who are worthy to be calied the sons of God, Mrs. Livermore wrote tie other day:—"I have no quarrel with men; but 1 won’t be pushed to the wail by the best of them.” She is rigut. But the fact is the best men do not Wish to push us to the wall, ‘the best men, inside and outside of ali the churches, are wiliing to have women aid in every way the marcu of civilization, the triumph of reform, the reign of intelligence. Curis- tians pray that all possible means siouid be used for the spread of the Gospel; we, who desire the ballot for woman, are ouly asking that she may be per- mitted to jabor side by side with her brother man and thus be lully what God meant she should be—a heip- mheet for man. You have heard and will hear from those who are far more competent than | to present arguments most convincing to every candid mind coacerning the right of women to vote. 1 simply appeal to those before ine Wito are Christians that they give their heart and hand to this reform. 1 be- lieve that if Women lave the ballot they will then have more power to do good in the world, . It 1s a well Known fact that the larger part of the member- ship of tae Christian Churca? in all its branches 18 feuunine. There are move womea than men who are enrolled among the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. All these women would of course if permit- ted to cast thelr yoies, especially on questions of moral reform, cast thei on the side of righteousness and truti. 1 can see in their doing this a vast influence for good in our land. Yet some of these very Women, We are told, do not want to vote. Well, Lunderstand their position. 1 was once among their number, When that noble pioneer in this cause of Woman's suifrage, a woman whose can now speak with reverence as well as When Lucy Stone iirst began tv speak upon 3 rights I was one of tuose who did not te her labors nor sympathize with her ; bat as the years have rolied om and L have had more of that liie experieace which briags wisdom as Well as gray hairs, aad have, as 1 humbly trust, drank more deeply tuto the spirit of my Lord and Master, | have co.ae io wndersiaad her noble seif- sacrifice and uattriag efforts, to thank ii wit all iny heart and to ¥ among her followers anit fi and thas for man, for ha nity aad thus for God, With me and with many other women inour land this favor toward the cause of wowan sutrage, of equal rights, has been a taing of growth, like ad- vaucemeut in any moral cause. This is not because 0 for women to use individuals and : ty generally haye to grow. As Lucy Larcom says— Step by step our feet must go Up tae poly mounta: Dro, Li by drop within ws "s iinmortal counts Hence these meetings are held so as to awaken new courage in hearts that are already consecrated to the work of S)readiug the Gospel of tusnanity, and also so as to sow tie goud seed that shall briag fruit, Coming years will show that this imeetug, like that Ittic meeting held in that upper room iu far off Palestine, shall Hot have been held in vain. A reform is advocated here in which Christians of ali sects can engage, as Ley can in te temperance and Kindred reforms. And I am convinced that they who reaily desire to do the will of God will, if they seex to know tne truti, Come to the conclusion that itis their daty to engage in this reform, Weare told sometimes that women will forsake their home duties and become unwomaaly i they go to the polls aud vote. Wuill tase any ionger to go and deposit avote than it does to attend a prayer meeting? Some ~ fot Lette not ow Me polls because they wonld ve tg leave children at homme. my Se ? he Naines should they fo to the prayer hiedting forsake home duties. But as they can goto dha meetings and not forsake those liowne duties, so can they attend to their ducies as citizens at the po. and not leave any of their sacred duties of home un- performed. A tew evenings ago a@ brother of Mar- garet Fuller lectured in iny church, imreference to hus sister, and, at his request, I followed with a few remarks concerning that represeulative woruan of America, the grandest woman of the niveteenth century In the course of those remarks | referred to the womanliness of Margaret, wiich was none the less for her “strong-mindedness," and quoted a nh from her “Memvirs,”? which had been s for me by adear frlend, one whom i hope you wil! be able to BOHEMIAN RAID. The Bohemians on the Rampage—Sbarp Practice to Make Merry Over the Holie days—Blackmailing at Wholesale By Ly- ing at Reiail—Grocers and Butchers the Victims—The Public Humbugged. The saying is attributed to Thomas Jefferson, in defence of an unfettered presss, “that error is pow- eriess Where truth is ieft tree to combat tt.” Tits is but measurably trae, for “a Le will trayel @ mile before truth has put its boots on to follow it,’’ or, in the more terse words of Tom Benton, “a Lo well stuck to is as good as truth.” It is upon this | ater, ag an axiom, that a certain class of peuny-a-iiners pin their faith and base their operations. With as little education as it is possible to have to be able to siring a few intelligible sentences together; hiding their ignorance behind big words, the true meaning of which they don’t know; using pseudo-sctentific terms with the same pomposity as the ass in the fable strutted about with a lion's skin; these men, too lazy and incompetent for useful work, seek to obtain their grub and their indispen- sabie grog by practices morally Hf not legally criminal. ‘They are a pest in soctety, a disgrace to journalism, They are cgiied Bohemians on account of their moral aMnity with the tribe of those Eastern Bohemians, or Gypsies, “a v: bond people, now found in most parts of Europe and also in some other portions of the world; “wandering rogues,’’ “robbers,” “out- casts,” “Pariahs,’’ “banditti,”’ and who are described as having but “few redeeming characteristics; they are treacherous, cowardly, revengeful and cruel.’ This description of the roving bands of Bohemians— the outcasts in every country on the globe—is, though couched in strong language, literally true. And your literary Bohemian is but a duplication of this character. Careless of everything except his own gain, possessing no recognized standing in the profession, which would only dishonor itself by ad- mitting him; having no local habitation or name, and, in fact, nothing to risk or lose, this chap will dive into the dirtiest mudholes and with his pen bespatter the decent people as the pass him unno- ticed, in order to earn a penny by cleaning the spots on their garments, or get a second penny for his promise to desist, as people throw fippence to a hun- @ty organ grinder to induce him to move away. “Sensation” is the very bread of lite of these abominable creatures. ‘The fish out of water would sooner live than could a literary Bohemian without a “gensation."’ And then he always pretends to de- vote himself to the public good. Never is he propel- led by any regard for his own self; no, this self- sacrificing individual will apply all his energies and faculties to the work of ferretting out wrong where none ever existed, to make an elephant out of @ mole hill, to raise a cloud of dust from a single grain of sand and blow into a whirlwind the chirping breath of a cricket—and all that for the public good, says he, while amid the noise he sucks his toddy and munches his chop at a cheap eating house, giggling ft the credulity of people fodliah enough to believe him and to farnish him a Lig: AL ood at their ex- pense, to induce lim to desiat from kicking ap such a fuss, , This is the character of the literary Bobe- mian and these are his practices, which translated into plaa English mean stmply that he lives on blackmail and extortion. And just now tlus scamp, this mean pretence, this masked knave, ig engaged in raising another cloud of dust that he may ext6rt ‘a doliar or two to keep tim alive over Christmas. He 1s hungry and want vo be fed; he is naked and wants to be clothed; ie is greedy and wants to be stutfed, and he has hiupon the grocers and butchers and millers and flour dealers of our cily to come to his rescue. He wouldnot beg, as the original Bohemian some- times wil do; he stoops not so low, not he: but he Drepares 4 list of the victims selected, and whoever will not some down Banhesipely 18 mercilessly destined © be roasted on the gridiron of his Bo- hemiaa wath. The scheme was an easy one to his mind; has so often been tried and found successful in other drections that he had no hesitation to try itagain. The modus operandiis very simple. He joes ADOW among a number of first class grocers, Individuas and firms who, by long years of assidu- ous attenton to business, have earned reputation as well & fortune, and hence are erpeceey to be able‘and villing to pay roundly, and he buys here and buys there smail quantities of this and that staple, paying for it probably with borrowed money advanced on the strength of the success of the enterprise, thus ultimately compelling the victim to furnish tie means by which he is being victimized. Keeping Usse arti for some time in his posses- sion and Ranipulating them to suit his purposes, the Boheman trots off to a Peter Funk chemist to have themexamined and analyzed. Where weight is in question he selects his own scales, or in most cases he just at random jots down “short weight”? without ary examination whatever, Having done this and prpared his list and added to it a glowmg introductions, “full of sound and fury, signitying nothing,” he takes it to a newspaper which he knows or sirmises to be in sympathy with bis prac- tices and viters his “astounding disclosures” for sale. ‘The aper, always in want of something to keep its barxmeter of life above the freezing point, is but too glia to get at such a “windtall,” empties its till of ak the ragged stamps and spare penates, pays for the “disclosures” and the blackmauing list appears in [rint. ‘This is thc iirst step, Of course contradictions at once pour in, and here aud there one or the other is published; but with them comes a continuation of the “black lst,” kept back from the first publication for ulterior ourposes. In the meantime the parties charged are privately approached—not by the Bo- hemian himself, but by one of hia “pals’—that by doing 80 and so he would be set all right and tha stigma removed from his name, as it was the case with a large dealer m groceries on Vesey street, whose name Was thus published,and who slated yes- terday that he was told by a “friend”? that everyting would be made right by his joining the ‘elub,? which woud cost him twenty-five doliars. Another resource is also employed. ‘Those in the trade uot yet publicly mentioned are made to know that their names are on the list and are ready for publication; but that with “proper” explanation of the charge “over by @ gentleman who is the design insinuated the naines would be withheld. Of what nature the ¢‘explanation’’ thus sought is expected to be need not be told. Everyone understands the mere reference, If only a few take the bait in either case the Bohemian has gained his purpose and re- tires to his grog and ten-penvy mutton chop in high glee, ‘This is the way in which these things are generally: done by the literary vagabonds who infest ais city. See now, how it has worked in the present in- stance. The charges made in every instance are so ridiculous as to excite the laughter of alt in anywise acquainted with the particulars of this trade. The charge is made. against Hecker & ther that their packages of flour and rina are short in weigit, the six pound puckages being less one ounce, the one pound farina ages one-half ounce short, and the insinuation thrown out that to cover up the fraud Hecker & Brother do not designate on the package the weight it contains, Whoever bought any of Hecker’s flour or farina knows that the latter charge ts untrue and needs no contradiction. Yet Hecker & Brother, over their own signature, reply to it as follows:— All oar packages bear a label with the woight of the package distinetiy printed on st, AU flour dealera know that wheat contains a large percentage of moisture, and that flour, espe elally if put up i il packages and exposed to a dry atm: sarily love xomewhat io its weight. This is hich being put up in srnailer pack- in @ qranuisted state, necessarily ap ly, \t phere, must nec especluliy true of {arin ages then flour, and visture much mo: aunot be aiy underw. Astle from this case, he tour sold by us. The moat thorough an gements are made in our milis to secure ac elghing and to avoid all variations anderrors. We know that no package of any of our preparations of four has ever left our establishment which was Intentionally of short welght. We have for many years employed Mr, Henry Miller as sapertuteadent of this ini matter of weighing, and enclose hig aifidavit, showing HECKER & BROTHER, Yao York, se:—Henry M the mode uniformly adopted. City ant County 0) ‘y sworn, deposes and éays—He resides at So, 93 Sulfolk in said city, and is in the emplo that he has'been in their employ: Jast past; that he was at first e years in the occupation of puttin twenty years joyed by them for many up the Varieties of flour sold by Hecker Brothers under the names of ‘sel{-Raising” and “Farina” that wien so employed he made it his especial business, in the putting up of said flour into packages, to see and ascertain in every instance that each ant all of auch va~ Flows packages contained tho true and full welght they pir. ported to contain ; that for aud during about eight years lust past deponent has been foreman and superintendent of the packing department of the sald Hecker Brothers; 6 such superintendent it bas been and tx his especial charge and daty to see that the flow by them w of fuil weight; that such flour boys under his supervision, aad tt has bee invariable habit and custom of deponent to at the intervals of half an hour to an hour during the packages no filled; that whenever any packayes alls short of the weight stated ia the printed lavel adlxe! to it, tt jected by deponent aud uot allowad to ve used oF s6id ores to that uni it 14 filled to the weight fts label nt j at further, after the packaces are fille iy for delivers deponent selects first one package, then haif a dozen and then a dozen, and has them weighed, and if the aggregate of their weight does not correspond with the eum of the weights sated ou their respective jabels the whole «re ned to the packers and required to be ope: 4 ‘and weighed againg that so tar ws this d extends in every ‘department 4 Hecker Brotuers it is invariably the custom to wee that every ackage of flour # up U ‘weight it purports to aino package {s allowed to go out therefrom un- yup to such standard wei and further do ponent saith not. RY MILLER. Sworn to before me this 224 day of December, 1863, AMDROSE MONELL, Notary Public, New York county. the Ths edectually ¢ ‘pO bat matter. A e rat Chute woo Water nesta HR, Brown & Corot the Eagie Flour Mills, corner Bleecker ana West Eleventh street, ee three and a halt pound ackage of buckwheat was one and three-t 1$] pances short, three and @ half pounds Gra cat Hone three-quarters of an ounce, and se¥en pounds flour two ounces. ‘The Bohentian fails to sow by what re- sponsible agent he Caused these B urea to be re- weigiod, If ag fl, and his own irrespousibie word suggests a doubt of the fact. Upon inquiry at the mill named Mr. Brown deciares tie ciarge to be faise as against his firm, for every package 1s care- fully weighed betore being prepared for sale. But he gi the same explanation as Mr. liecker, that all fl coming from the mill contains a certain degree of moisture, which evaporates if kept. for several days in a Warm ary room, and though seemingly it may lose in weight it docs not lose in bulk or baking power. ‘Take the article of coffee. In no single instance did tae wily Bohemian ventare to give the price he pail or caused some female friend to pay—for in most stores named by him actus mqutry discios the fact that it was a woman who made the pur- 2 for the pound of coffee. Hvery one knows twenty-five and thirty cents a pou ground coffee, even of the cheapest grades, can be sold, and the people who buy 1 kaow that they bay a certain percentage of chiccory, and 80 far there is no fraud. And in no case this lonemian dares to assert that the article sold to hin friend was warranted to be pure coffee, This ion is inade on the authority of more than a dozen of the dealers named by the Bohemian in iis list, who ail declare that they never saw such outrageous falsehoods in ay as given to the public by tuls literary gypsy for fact. In the matter of tea the list mentioned pretends tomake agreat show. But what 14 it alter ally ‘That green tea was colored and that dust was found in black tea. What an astounding “disclosure |"? As if the world had not known tt before that all qualities of green tea, from the lowest to the highest grades, are colored in China before they are packed and shipped, and that to hetghion the green color the tea ts ciried and roiled in heated copper pans. And as to black tea, no chest directly from China was ever opened which had not a certain percentage of dust, for the dry leaves and stems of the black tea are very easily, by mere attrition in the chest, ground to powder and dust. And tie analytical chemist whom the Bohemian employel does not assert the dust he found was not tea dust, and in his statement ofthe coloring matter in green teas he is problematiy cal ana uncertain, Had the Kohemian not looked #0 much for blackmail aud extortion He could have found adulterated tea, but not where he sought it. Tuere is a sample before the writer now, seat here from Philadelphia, to effect the sale of a damaged cargo of “green tea,” which is no tea atall, and upon trial ylelded @ dirty, greciish, apes ot futd, which stained @ plated spooo black and ieft a thick, dark, muddy sediment at the boitom of the cup. Such deleterious compounds to expose is a benefit to - penis but that was not the aim of the greedy hem Th arge of short weight in other articles is flatly disposed of by the the dealers charged tn snort metre, Messrs, Park & Tilford, corner of Sixth ave- nue and Ninth street, say:— ‘We are charged jort weight to the extent of one half and Checquanet ounce. respectively on three and a half pounds brown sugar ani one pouad currants, Admitting the correctness of the weighis, as stated, at the time they dl no pure el Ly im that they wr correct Shen Ww Hehe Uy’ iit ine Suche dierepaney noted ‘due caused Beier tonvin ua and to ue nevural adherence to the paper parcels in which they were packed, either of which wary amy, Ly it to ht ference stated. The Nc this ciference occurred on this clam of articles of no low value that the whole amounted to less than three-quarters of a cent, while the ‘other hres articles, of infinitely greater value and on ‘the difference would bave been many weight,” should be con- ‘that “true ausive ‘ovidence that no wrong wae intended. Messrs. Acker, Merrall & Condit, of No. 132 Cham- bers street, deny the fraud insinuated:— ‘We have beén doing business at this location for about three of thirty: years with a large clase ny oP nT i 5 : Fhe complaist aqnimss wos’ nde Mr. Thomas R. Agnew, of No. 260 Greenwich atreet; Mesars. T, Y, Kelley & Co., corner of Vesey and Churel KR. P, Percy, of 61 Vesey street; RK. Lowenthal, 3m Poreeti A. Craig, of 24 Greenwich street; A. A. Goold, of 146 ‘Bowery; Edwin Keeler, Jr, 163 Sixth avenue, and W. £. Pit- man, 628 Sixth avenue, ail deny these and similar charges brought against them by the Bohemian and his Lelpmates to be utterly unfounded and false. OUR DRY GOODS PALACES. ° A Saunter Through the Haunts of Fashion Peeps In Advance at the Holiday Garb of Upper-Tendom—Tbo Mode” in Dress Goods, Shawis and Laces—What the Mer- chant Princes are Preparing for Their Pa- trons. Up Broadway ! through surging masses of busy hu- mauity, by lofty palaces, whose transparent fronts, adorned with the most beautiful and expensive of fashionable paraphernalta, reminds us of the gor- geous Eastern bazaars where Turk, Greek and Jew upon grand gala days display to sultan or bey the treasures accumulated in secret for these spectal oc- cagions, i Christmas and New Year are practising their en- trance bow, and, whether Nature means to greet her annual visitors with smile or frown, Broadway evi- dently, if one may judge by the preparation made in expectation of their arrival, intends compensating for whatever coldness the mutable dame may dis- play. Some of tho working Gothamites, mostly of the feminine gender, appear to have changed their vocation; for young, meagrely clad girls, who are usually met moraing and night on their way to and from their places of business, may now be seen grouping around showily dressed windows, building tottering castles of some improbabie od time coming,” when they, too, may possess luxurious ar- ticles, and casting looks of envy at the elegantly clad aristocrats lavishly expending for the unappreciaung infants sums which, to their compressed ideas, ap- peat enormous. It is hard to note the terrible tncon- sisteucies of life—privation, aye starvation on one side, with excess of wealth on the other—and not muraur, “Why are these things so? for Faith, 10 more than the human frame, seems (o fancy hunger or cold, and, like love, generally disappears wien poverty enters, Queen Fashion, the most arbitrary and exacting of monarchs, utters never a fault-iuding word wien she enters New York's superb dry goods estabiish- ments; and it certainly is not strange, for her critical, eye can find nothing to offend, Looking in at A, 'T. Stewart's and proceeding to the centre of the ro- tunda is found the glove counter, which is presided rr of the many diferent styles of Alexandres there displayed. Gloves are favorite articles for holiday presents; and as every shade of every color and of every size can here be purchased, warranted to fit and wear, and as every man, woman and child 1s expected to wear gloves, even if they possess no underclothing, the rush 18 easily accounted for. Silks are also dis- played im the rotunda, These counters are sur- rounded by wealth and beauty—some purchasing expensive dresses as presents to dear friends; others selecting the most becoming shade and style for themseives, “Krank told me not to give over $150 for a dress, but this one | must have. You Kuow { must fave it for Mra. B.’s reception. Isu’t it lovely?” asked a young woman, evidently not long married, ‘This was @ silk, White ground, with bouquets of flowers richly embroitered over its surface. “pend tis at five tuis afternoon, if you please,” to the obliging clerk. “I really cannot be sued with any other description of dress.” it is to be hoped “Frank” didu’t scold when he found aaotier hundred added to the bill, for the purchase was 1a excellent taste at all events, Black, green, mauve and blue satins, with silver leaves; oriental walking dresses, with black velvet upper skirts; striped silks, are extremely fasiuon- able just now, apd French merino, wit rose leaf and bud in velvet, bearing the appearance of having been painted with the brusn of au aruist; changeabic satin stripes, Magenia and salmon, green and brown and green and crimson, most elegantly bieaded, are also en rege. Uncut velvet for eveniug wear, in every conceivable color—Lyons, muuve, rose pluk, Antwerps, rich white, for brides, are also inach sought for, One carriage dress of black silk, ein- broidered by hand with biue and biack, is espectaily eiegant. The uew sultana, or blood color, is very much admired, and this a3 yet rare and beautiiul hue “lights Re exquisitely. Metternich green and very light shudes of corn are ta great dema entirely new design, called “satin de Hoi taking very well. 4 is silk On one side, sat otner, and periect on either, making @ very eco! cal dress On account of its reversible quality. tere are lovers—any one could teil tiat by tie dush-tha’ rises to cheek and brow as they test the diferent qualities aud inquire prices, for doiars and cents soon Knock the romance out of a husdy Here mothers, Wondering What will be most becoming vo their daughters and smuing a they Laing low Sur prised and pleased the dear yiris will be to ind their wishes anivipaiel. Oioaks are seli- ing briskly. Astrakaa fain, liued with suk, aud tur, brown, biack or white, with iui, cap and collar to latch, timed with outs? Laur, seu to be favorites. One handsome veivet circdiar, Wilh pointed hovd, immed with real iace aud corded vii heavy SUK, atiracis Considerabie attraction. Opera cioaks at tuis establisnutent are exquisice, i every shade aud color. Several silk piusies, of Bu perb Scotmsh designs, are beuig “urade of with’? dentediy short time. Carriage and re wedding aud ball dresse: 3 and Walklug dresses, ready made, ch admiration of the exaimur. the trummed with sik fringe, pulled tun Whitesatin, immense trail, dotted with W bows, Is very beauuful, But the jace counter, atver ali, is ¢ reatest ioliday curiosity. Point lace, point @appique, point lace siawis, point sets of sleeves, collar and handkerchiefs ave considered in good taste, and black Chanully shawls are in active demand, Point jace fans, Maurie Antoinetie capes, co Tires and bobs have eacu and ali a snare of at- i Oi} aud, looking at Une seewlag exiravagaice of outiay, Oe Gan bat wonder where au tue money comes Irom. One lady at the point lace counter laughingly ob- served that her lord felt shocaimgiy poor, “And,” said sue, “that dreadial New York Ceatral gave aim its yesterday—avout $50,009 out of pocset; but, psiaw ! he Will make it up on Some oiler stuca in a day or two, 1 guess i will take tie set,” consisting of collar and cuits, ut a magniicent price. A‘ long as men gamble women shouid at least have tie privilege of being as prodigal as they piease. Une 18 devoted to iaacy goods, Wuere every Nick ack and Ojou necessary tO an elaborate toLet can be obtained. Handkerchief, glove aud jewgiry boxes, neckties, cologne boitties, von-bons, dous and “goodaess only kuows What nol.” Cauels' hair suawis receive a great deal of attention, aud one large square shawi Was particularily noved, ‘the do- Sig Was aulmun leaves, purple, Orange and bite, set in white and black, A middle aged lady paid tie evormous price asked for it apd walked of with lier ti ques,” Kept Im an old Ludia chest, are general opjects of admirauon to the iair sex, | These suawis, worn, peruaps, through several generations, are finally disposed of here; aud, strange to relate, find ready purchasers bt this clty among the haut ton. Some oi these are literally worn ont and smeli disgusunuly str 0 of pipe smeke—most annoy ii oue would suppose 10 delic ale Oliactol ies, but Unis Beets not to be the case, as the fair ones are ready to pay & premiam for dirt, rents Wwvacco reminders, all for something clean and sweet, made ma day i must be, to an od dud Of @ thing Worn by novody knows who. Lowever, the “antique” selis well, and Uhat is suilicient. “Charming” bouvets are also ex- hibited in biack velvets, wimmed t exquisite with roses and thisties. Everybody i# ia hurry, everybody josties agatust everyvody cise, and, nut withstanding the near approacit of Christnas, a0. a few look careworn and out of sorta, Jonnston’s, corner broadway wad Ninta street, is evidently doing @ brisk business, noth withstanding the close proximity Of Stewart's mammoth estan. lishment, Popiins, #atia pantilles, white mohair reps for eveuing dresses, “imported py Mr. Jonnston;” all wool veieura, poplin epingiines, suitana glace, Irish popuns and Cretonue clot are going Uke dew before the sun. At (iis place black silks are iso in wonderful de- mand. ‘fue best makes are Boneti’4 ant Rousou's. All descriptions of cheae and colored silks are here displayed, a4 weil as every description of plush aud A new style of goods, caiied Colorado cloth, on account of its Cheapuess and durability, is selling at a wonderful rate. Here, as at Siewart’s, clerks are busy and proprietors in good humor with them- seives and mankind generally. ‘At Jackson's mouraing store everything desirable can be obtained in full or partial mourning. Coming out of gay, sparkling Broadway into 4 place draped with havillments of woe is sagmtne be an oe ing change. One widow's bonnet of second mourn. ie with tiny cap border, brought forth a remark from an old inald to the effect “that folks knew tie wearers of such folderois were always in the market,” but who noticed her acerbity? None of the widows— Test assured of that, Kiack crape muis are among the novelties at this establishment. Lake & MeCreery, 491 broadway, is crowded with Here are to be found the very creaia This may be pariially ac- n % road which will be next in size to Stew- sve sea im point of decoration quite equal. Kel- lum, whose rewarkable versatility of genius bas made him a favorite with ail lovers of the beautiful, iw the architect. They wil then have a na nd for ladies and children exclusively, inciuding dress- making, The dimensions will be seventy-seven fect front on Broadway, 227 feet on Kleventh street, five stories high, with Mansard roof. ‘Their holiday stock ls gorgeous; every: tint and every quality o1 every- wearable to be bought if one only funds, | Articies in price at any these pI There is a great rush here for changeable popiins, worn young la‘ies tor walking creer s also for @ i! style Senn, = broidered uniquely in colors, mely “neat an moderate,” for Christmas ‘There h @ very ex- sagen new shape, se ® great Goal sougit ater new shape, nt after. ‘The lace assortment here is ba eqdal to Stewart's, includ int lace sets, cheiisettes, shawis auc wide collars—the jatier very scarce. Satins for di seem in great demand, the favorite colors E : being canary. Metternich green and corn, some with marrow pes, are abaviutely “stunting.” ari an entiroly yew article, avuear, 3. +, Sa very desirable for reception dresses. Anew whité armure and velvet Hiperatrice are looked after lovingly by not @ few of the fair sex whose pores were not equal to the drait on them. Black gured velvets, satin de Leon, Bonett’s manufac- ture, are great favorites with the mass of buyers, Everything here is orderly and in the best of taste, jay attire, ie They will occupy their new store shoi Lord & Taylor's, dressed out in b ied, ‘The stock 18 very similar to stewart’s and Lake & MpCreery’s. The greatest novelty im dress at this establishment Is the satin stripe with Pompadours. This, with a rich brocade of 0 Mexican biue, with the richest of bouquets 1a) Scattered over tt, makes bright eyes and wis! Pa or Tom had given them more money. The ladies? department is Sapecially worthy of notice, Every pattern that genius can conceive and taste appro- priate is made the most of here, Under garments are tucked, puffed and trimmed most elaborately, A Dabe’s bassonet or crip is exquisitely tasteful—a basket, with chaise, to be covered with dotted Swiss and elaborately ruiied. Blue satin bows, tacked in here ana there, get it off amazingly. If such elegant affairs would only stand the wear and tear of bab dom it Would be grand; but, unfortunately, the little aes do not suMiciently realize the value ot bright colors and Biel starched ruffies, and go receive them ina manner despoliatory of brightness and durability, ‘Phe richest of embroidery {n both linen and silk is displayed in this department. As usual at Lord & Taylor's, the maminoth wheels are kept well greased, and the machinery works admir- ably, Clarks are attentive, proprietors agreeable, and ail “goes merry as a marriage bell.” : ‘The establishment of Arnold & Constable ts in fuil Sulks are setiing rapidiy, as are every description of goods suitable for presents, ‘There is hardly standing room at the counters. Scarcely anything, however, can be seen that bas not been described at other stores. Foster Brothers, 272 Bleecker street, and Eighth avenue, hear Eighteenth street, are extensively pa- tronized, but by an entirely dierent class of custom- When one leaves Broadway fasiion and style arily leit behind. ‘here are the shop girl; ut, economical wife, Who makes the most aud helps tim earn more; the widow, struggling for little ones—all these purchase at Uie cheapest stores. Here are found piaids and prints, erinos, famnels, loug. and square shawla and ‘y Variety of muslins, most of them bougnt at auction, and, of course, of grades somewhat tnie- rior to Uiose Lo be found op the great thoroughfare of the metropolls. THE BOWLES-FISK CASE. also crowd holiday biast. are nece: the prud of Hans’ wage Mr. Bowles at Home. (rom the Springileld, Republican (Bowles? paper), ag Mr. Bowles arrived at home last evening, accom. panied by Mrs, Bowles, “as well as could be ex- Re ed,” after his somewhat exceptional experience during the previous twenty-ivur hours, He was released in ample time to make his arrangements for Curistmas, when Vice President Coilax and wife oe to be luis guests, their arrival bemg anticipated O-UaY. The Bowley Account of the Arrest. {From the Spring@eld Republican, Dec. 24. The brief despatch from New York Luesday night, announcing the arrest of Mr. uel Bowles, editor of the publican, and Nis imcarceration in the Ludlow street jail, took the public by sur- prise, but no more than tne event itself occasioned the victim of tue petty spite of James Fisk, Jr., at Whose instance the arrest was made. Mr. Bowles had been Benne several days in New York—in fact had been in that city more or less for several weeks, as Mrs. Bowles was staying there on account of 11 health, Fisk well kuew of his presence th mdeed had served upon bim on Monday a notice of the dismissat of the libel suit began against the Republican for $50,000 a Tew weeks ago and the begitoing of a new sult before the New York courts. te could have arvested Mr. Bowles at any time, but, Tull Of malice, he arranged, with ail the sinall cunning that characterizes ihe succesafuk pediler, to have the arrest made when it was im- possible to go through the pecessary forms for Mr. Bowles’ Immediate release and to necessitate his spending & alght in jail, and by tae aid of his obe- dient tools the plab was successtully carried out. Moreover, if 18 apparent how that Mr. Bowles?’ movements had been carefully watched by spies for some days previous, 80 as to be sure and select a nd place that Would prevent the miscarriage e plan. ‘Tie arrest took place soon after eight o'clock Tuesday ‘oveniwg, in the corridor of tue Fifth Ave- nue tlotel, Mr. Bowles was stauding there in con. versation With Mr, William Boud, of New York, and Mr. Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, when the Sherid’s oMicers seized him roughly, presenting at tie same time a writ from tie notorious Judge dunn, dad hurried hin to the door and thence to a carciage Which was in waiting. .No resistaace was made or contemplated, of course, and the actions of Une oilleers were Violent and uagentiemaaly beyond wnytniug their trade would seem to demand in such a case, Though seized so suddenly Mr. Bowles thought at once of the cause of his arrest, and, thoushiful more than anything else of the effect the news migat have on Mrs. Bowles, he managed to say to Mr. Bond, *This is about the Fisk busmess,’? and bo request hid to Convey tne intelligeace to his wife ot the Albemarle tlotcl, wien he was driven rapully to the Ludiow street jail. Ou arrival there Mr, Bowles requested the privt- lege of writiag & note to jus wile, aso bo Mr. Fisk's coungel, f rising maverialy for the letters were fur- nishéd with reiuétance and their preparation hur- ried by the oMicers; but, though quickly ready, the lateor wero found to ‘have disappeared, and’ the jailer, though civil, professed inabiity to send the notes that might. But by ten o'clock imany persons in the city had got wind of the aduir aud began to gatuer at the jai, among them Mr, Bond, Mr. Charles A. Dana, of the Sun; Mr. George bliss, Mr. Hugh Hastings, fort y of Albauy; General Arthur aud others. The jatier refused to allow any of these gen- tlemen to see tue prigouer, on the ground that the prison. was closed at five o'clock; but he seomed willing to stretch is authority in other # and allowed other prison- ers to receive visitors freely—a privilege that was especially noticeable in the case of @ lawyer who had been commutted jor vel but an hour before Mr. Bowles. Tne latter was allowed to see the cards of his friends, uowever, and the r no louger having any excuse for not sending ters Mr. Bowies nad written, allowed notes to, be sent to Mrs, Bowles and to air, David Dudley rield and reuce A. seward, leading counsel Fisk. Mr. Fieid received the note the same and made unsuccessiui attempts to find his od cileat, but wiihout avail, Mr, George nee took it upon himseif to hunt up the iY, with whom he acquainted, aod who, he git, Would reciprocate previous ta.ors shown hat high oficial was finally found at a party e house of Mr. A. L. Brown, in Fi Venn ia tonor of tie election of Mayor Hall, an re Fisk, MeCunn and ail the Tammany mag- were assembled, and Fisk and hia cronies aughing over the neat lite stroke of be had done. ‘The Sherif pro- ignorance of the arrest; but he was very ommittal about release, would do nothing, ot speedily got of st by his superiors. r. Hugh Hastings also tuoaglt he had some claim for decent treatuent from the Sherii, and at a late hour in the night that gentiewan, logerier wht Geacral Arthur aud Mr, bliss, Wentgto the she bouse; bat with all their ringing of tie door bell and Knocking the Slerid was not vo be raised, e be louad during the night, though the three gentlemen named apove ‘made a night of 1? in their efforts Wo secure Mr. Bowles’ release. quarters tae jau a 3 i : eo sory of tue building, and had for a sleeping te mount & roow of goud size, comfortably Turnisned and moderately cleaa. He was not put in @ cell nor lowed tato his room, Except that he could not leave the building, there was uttie to remind him that he was @ prisoner; aod he obtained such rest as Was possible in viey of the circumstances apd the natural excitement attending the arrest. With the dawn of the morning the game was up, gud it only remained to go through the iegat forma to secure release. And then was positive embar- rassment from tae auount and the quality of the aa sistance offered. Mr, Fisk mus: have seen then, if he had not thought of tt before, What a great thing It j¥ to have friends; and indeed strangers as weil as friends focket to the jail with tenders of assistance aud sympathy. Besides residents of New York there appeared at an carly hour Mr. W. K. Baker, of tus ery; Judge Colt, or Piitsfield; Ce Dawes, Mr. Sylvander Johnson and Mr. eee (in of North Adains; and Mr, Frederick Jillings, of Cal- fornia; and among the residents of New + Mr. Ledyard F. Bill, brother of Gurdon Bill, of city; Mr. George Bliss, Mr. Clarence Seward, br, Biake, son-in-law of General Dix; Mr. A. A, Sellover, Mr. O. D. Munn, of the Scieniije Ameri- can; Mr. Hugh — and Mr. Cyrus W. Field, were earilest most in their offers of aid; while Mr. E. W. s.oughton, an eminent lawyer, and who 13 ranked as airiend and counseJor of the “Erie ring,” prof legat services tree of expense. Mr. Bliss at once took in hand the procuring of a bai bond ; but brief as the time was Which was reqwtred tor ite preparation the indignation of Mr. Cyrus W. Field couid not brook the delay, and, with Mr. Clareace Seward, he started for another bail bond, aud actually returned with it first, So, with two boads for $50,000 each, guaranteeing his appearance when wauted, the severity of wie law and of James Fisk, Jr., was satis- fled, the s doors swung open, and before eleven o'clock Mr. Bowles was iree agaim. The sureties upon the two bonds are A, A. Seiover and Cyrus W. Field upon one, and tingh Hastings, Elliot C, Cow. din and H. G, Marqaand upon the other. The bail required seems high in to the offense Mr. Bowles has committed 5 So ends another chapter of the Fisk Loel suit, The $50,000 damages which Mr. Fisk claims for what the Republican has said about him he is not likely to ob- tain very soon, if the case is ever brought to which is very doubtful. But he has succeeded in ad« ding to his cleap novoriety, aad he has aiso compelled Mr. Bowles to spend one night in jail, For @ sonal annoyance of this kind, for a little mean revenge that he saw no chance of satiating any other way, oughiy executed by n compuateaut judge und © oughly executed by a coun ani ing teri of New York. TE ESTATE OF THE LATE NATHANIEL HAWTHOINE. E 3 Concord, Mass., is offered for sale. is off for Kurope again, where Mr. Juliaa the only son of the novelist, is expe ced to pul his studies, Mra, Hawthorne has euited te jour Of her husband. she ia the sisver, yf ats. dort aud Mass Baabosy,” — 7a