The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1869, Page 5

Great Mocting in Ald of the Cretan Patriots at Cooper Institute. Speeches by Mayor Hall, Willian Cullen Bryant, Rev. Dr. Bellows and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. A meeting was held in the large ball of the (‘ooper Institute last evening, under the auspices of the committee appointed some time ago to take into consideration the propriety of adopting active pub- Mc measures for contributing substantial relief and Material aid to the patriot Cretans in their noble efforts for emancipation from Moslem rule. A nota- Wie array of public speakers were announced as having pledged themselves to be present on the oc- casion to advocate the claims of the Cretans to the recognition and sympathy of the American people. ‘The attendance was large and the greatest interest ‘Was paid to the speakers, and the warmest expres- sions of epproval followed every appeal on behalf of the cause of Crete, Among the gentlemen on the platform were the Mayor, A. Oakey Hall, Peter Cooper, William C. Bryant, Joseph M, Choate, Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. Mr. Crosby, Rev. Dr. Bellows, ex-Lieutenant Governor Woodford and others. The meeting was called to order by Mayor Tall, who presented himself and addressed the audience. REMARKS BY THE MAYOR. Mr. HALL, on coming forward, was very warmly received. Ho said:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—As Mayor of this city, I have been invited to call this meeting to order, un- @oubtedly because in this vast constituency of the jity, embracing so m: various political faiths, creeds and nationalities—i{t must be so—that there is not one in his constituency who does not heartily sympathize with the object of this meeting, bi lause.) However it may be at other times, I may might at least claim that I entirely heartily regent the whole sentiment of this In the earlier struggles against Mohat : of this century there were two great poets who hymned praises in favor of Grecian ae a erty—one Byron, the other Halieck—both dead. there are two living poets with us to-night, and I ‘am sure that we will allagree that it ought to be Jong before one should write their thanatopsis—(ap- plause)—whose harps have ever scorned oppression and are always re: to strike hymns in praise of liberty. And at will be my pleasurable duty to pre- gent them to you to-night, as the officers of thig meeting, by the selection of the officers of the com- mittee—you know to whom I refer—and at once nom- inate as chairman the political economist and philan- thropist a8 wellas poet, William Cullen Bryant—(ap- pilause)—and for secretary, the man of graceful and strong verse,Henry T. Tuckerman—(appiause)—those 1m favor of those gentlemen as officers of this mecting will say aye. (Applause apd cries of “Aye.’’) From the Dumber of eyes turned upon me and them it would be entirely absurd to put the negative; I therefore declare them as officers of this meeting. (Applause.) REMARKS BY WILLIAM C. BRYANT. ‘WrnitamM CULLEN Bryant then caine forward, amid the greetings of the meeting, and spoke as follows:— LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—We are assembled, my fricnds, for a merciful purpose. You will hear the claims of the Cretans to your sympathy aud uid more ably presented this evening than I could pre- sent them. Crete, you know, is one of the finest islands in the Levant, twice as large, at least, as our Island, and inhabited by Greeks from the very ear! period pf its history. In Crete appeared the earliest dawn of European civilization. Crete ‘was the first of the Grecian communities to receive Obristianity. It. was famed for wise and just laws, and when the great lawgiver of 8) was framing & code for his people he went to as a learner and copied its statutes. While I mention these thi the pee, Thave no doubt, arises in ir mind that the peop! of that island, they to whom God gave it who have always dwelt within it, havea to say under what government a live. For two hundred years—two hundred this very year— they have been crushed under otism. In 1669 the flerce Ottomans wrested Crete Mussulman des- power was has since waned and become weak; have everywhere multiplied, the Turks have dimin- ished in number and lost their original coeg 8 io ince of depoputating and enervat vices, their social system. The tans ‘Walt for the dawning of a brighter day, Xnd suap the ebsin the say F, ‘you may. have us from itinople that the Cretan warriors have to the Ottoman aut Do not Delieve it. They have not sent their sixty thousand women and f i i ii reserved cctha gine hath out @ a ee th rr regard as invaders and usurpers. Meantime it wel our land, oe sonnget ai iter of Eu- ropean civilizat to stretch forth a hand to the eldest, now in her utmost need. (App! jause.) It becomes a republic which in ita infancy broke the fe of an opp! ive government to sympa-- with a ple engaged in throwing of a yoke infinitely more odious—the yoke of a semi-barbarous tribe, alien to them in b+ BS language, in religion, practising detestea and treating their ‘tian subjects as an inferior and accu race. (Applause.) What we may do for the Cretans will be received with no lack of gratitude, and will be recorded to the honor of the American name in the pages of history which are yet to speak of the deliverance of Crete. When our present Minister to Greece, Mr. Tucker- man, arrived in Athens, seven hundrea Cre- tan children, with their teachers, came under the balcony of his hotel and sang a hymn of gratitude. He had been the secretary of a public meeting held a little more than two years ago in this city for the benefit of the Cretans, and the sym- thy then shown and the aid afforded had relieved eir suffering families, and encouraged the heroic asserters of Cretan liberty. (Applause,) TI regret to announce that an earnest sympathizer with the cause of the patriot Cretans, who was to have been here to-night, is unavoidatwy absent. The committee has received the following telegram from General Shanks:— WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 1960, To M. RODOMOCHT—I cannot leave; my heart is with you. jodspeed. JOUN P.O. SHANKS. Mr. Bryant—I have aiso to announce that this very evening the committee has received a d ich from Washington—from the Cretan provision: Ve ernment—which will give you some idea of the kind of reports we receive from Constantinople with re- ae aroare going on in Crete. Rev, Mr. by will re e despatch. « Rev. Mr. Crossy then read the following:— DESPATCH FROM THE CHETAN PROVISIONAL GOVERN. MENT IN ATHENS. Tt {a with great satisfaction that we hear that public optaion fo the United States alll expresses itaelf strongly in favor of the struggling Cretans a fs that there ts some jt ness in. the operations ot the. wi thetr immense diMcuities the Any will not ceave Nghting for thelr liberty. One Srawoncks is the wast of provisions Sad mun Although Greece—the whole Hellenic race—and of civilization and bumantt C a Hever ceased supporting the Cretan cause, the obstacles with whieh wo have to contend are tery great and we appeal to the generous sentiments of those who have always shown themselves the true friends of Cretan liberty. ned by the Provision + Je pi: EisNoutoudia Ae Paunghiotakloy Bc Sppvieahiny A: Boe! ‘Countersigned by the chief clerk, J. ZAFOULOU KIB, ‘The reading Of the despatch was frequently inter- rupted by the applause ‘of the audience. nf ‘The CHAIRMAN then introduced Rev. Dr. Rellows ae & gentleman who had recently been near the weene of the Cretan ati le, As Mr. Beliows atose ho waa greeted with great APRECH OF DR. BELLOWS. Dr. Bevvows satd:—I wish [ could report myself to you, Mr. President, ladies and Wi had sctoaily’ vialted: Creve. T had Mitnply the around that beautiful isiand and Bop ms 101 rts the Mediterranean, Lg vi us on in ireece and the Levant. But I wus able to ther some inions from those familar. with the = ¢t of Crete, and to fom some opinions of my own in the regard to impetance of this question. In spite of what our excelent Mayor—I hope he may prove to be excel- lent-in spite of what he says that the whoie city of New York Is of one opinion in to the Cretan queston, | am afraid that American intelligence is not siequate to a proper estimate of the rea! merits of tht great question; for we have bad it before the abi mind more or less prominently for the last tiree years. During all this time we have seen jut little impressjon upon the American mind outside of Boston, where Dr. Howe warmed the ppulation with the fervor of his own sympathy for ty struggiing Cretaus, Boston sent $50,000 in mone’ and goods to Crete. Tnere has as yet been throughout America, @ tendency to apathy and in- differace to the vastness and merits of this strug- gle. ‘he relative inertness of the question of Crete upon jivilization and Christianity in the Eastern world's perhaps understood, and its tmpor- tance a respect perhaps we all of one mind in the city of New York, as the Mayor has said. We sympathise with the cause >f Crete as the canse of liberty in every part of the world. We may say Crete ia only a little place ind a great way olf. It is not so far away ay our ovn New Orleans was fifty years ago, when Jacksoi and his brave volunteers inet the forces of Great 3ritain and repelied them. We couid not communicate with New Oricans then as quickly as we cal with Crete today, When we consider that ve are here to-night in receipt of ao direct telegraphic despatch from that far- off isiaul, we can realize the fact that we have not be od tuck this litte country away in a crack, ou of sigit, and treat the subject with indifference. You wil begin to realize that such rapid sand re- markalle changes have taken place we can no longer throw ourselves back upon the Monroe doctrim, that we wiil not allow others to meddle tn our irs or interfere in the affairs of other people. In this day of railroads and telegraphs, this day of natonal and international converse, it ia too late to Bik about the Monroe doctrine, The world has so shrunk fn size now there is no part so far dis- tant asio be beyond our hy and interest. We now infuence every part of the world, and every part of the world influences us—applanse)—and my work and yours as American citizens ts, without isetioa, to speak Meat’ we think “an feel nicet 8 as men what we with regard ‘to the duty of humane and Christian nations mn respect to the crushed and oppressed and suffering Christian people of any part of the world. (Applanse.) on concluding Dr. Bellows submitted the follow- ing resotution:— Resolved, That the creteand the Turks, of the Christians at Christian civilization, renders the struggle 80 bravely main- tained for nearly three years by the heroic islanders pre- eminently worthy of the sym) ‘of the American people, ‘and the Intelligent advocacy of their representatives at home and abroad, as alike the cause of.civic freedom and of Chris- tlanity as opposed to barbarism and infidelity. ‘The resolution was put by the Chairman and car- ried amid applause. SPERCH OF REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER, Mr. BEROUEK next addressed the audience, and on coming forward was received with SREee. He said:—Fellow citizens—l will start with drawing a distinction between the grounds taken by my prede- cessors here—a distinction between political inter- vention and the intervention of moral influences and moral sympathies in the affairs of foreign ples, It would not be favorable to the cause we wish to pro- mote if the impression went abroad to Europe that we were attempting to organize the community or to press the government into an attitude of political intervention, We are not part of the convention called; we are not in sympathy with those ideas of dynastical rule which so prevails in Lu- rope and by which one nation meddics with the affairs of another nation. Whether there may not arise exceptional cases to justify the stretching out of the right hand of war, or its threat, which is equivalent (applause), | will not say. But at present we are not in acondition to meddle with anybody’s affairs but our own, except In the way of moral infuence. It is, therefore, moral influence and moral intervention—it is the intervention of public sentiment—that I advocate. Neither do | go with those who question the Sac pore of extending any considerable amount of mora! aid to tho: affairs of the East—so far off, they tellus. They a not far off. No lightning isso faraway that is not near enough to strike—(appiause)—and we have been struck to-night with flash from Greece. ‘Applause.) Nothing is far away in this world any longer. The world to-day 1s not bigger than 2 penin- war going on between the of From ite relation to the wernt go cad the t, and to the cause of any iniwtice which we can help, or sympathy which we canextend, we are bound as Christians and as To 100k with i which we enjoy We may be a nations eannot be 80 sepaiated as not to be maible for each other. As a nition, enjoying the blessings that we do, it is our duty to secure to others as far as possible the enjoymat of the fundamental principles of justice, of humunity, ot almighty ness and truth an love, ant to see tnat is ime. rated br national national law. see thit the uples honor, truth, mercy and charity are throughout the wi it is not only represeats & posson of the world on which every eye is tarned with deep interest, not because the island of Cretestands at the mouth of the Ajgean Sea and represerts at this moment an illustration of the bravest tnd most disinterested self-sacrifice and love of liberty the world has ever seen; it 1s not because these brave people have sent their wives and mothers and old men away, that the young men might more effectually confront the power of the whole Mohamedan country; not be- cause Crete thus bears its bosom against the tre- mendous strength of the associated barbarism and heatheniam of Turkey, but it is because Crete repre- sents for us also the obligations we owe to the mother of civilization. Crete stands as of that magnificent and brilliant once lay like # diamond on the Mediterrancan, dispensing its light to the whole world; Greece, the mother of the arts and sciences, and of philosophy, and of @ purer re- ligion than Mohamedanism ever yet displayed. It is on these considerations that it becomes our duty, as far as we can, to testify agi it the dismember- ment of this mother of civilizat and to see that be independent or a part of beau- she naturally belongs, consolidated, becomes the outpost of FKastern civilization and forms a bulwark against the encroachments of Mohammedanism, whic! controls nearly three-quarters of the whole world, a fact which it becomes us not to consider with indif- ference. While there are three hundred millions of Christians we must remember that there are nine hundred millions of heathens, and they Mohammedanisin of what is going on amid this three-quarters of ite whole nomen race. if these nations remain silent inion oad has for her opprobrium that she in Asia Minor and this ‘tae of the Hell ontcthat they le of el little idea of the horrid ¢ ne in that portion atrociously have but ver; st 8 8, cutting down the and afters while per- by thousands, rami whole a el forests and all the fruit a mitting itself to remonstrate ae these And Turk professed out- be it on ant nat vi a} jorant was on; and sepreve his he commence’ | ry hang: power is now nothing but the effete, inert wornout and detestable civiliza- tion it its—sick and dead—and ought to have been bul long ago, and would have been so, but that it is bolstered up and kept alive with a sort of galvanic twitch by foreign may the Hel (Great applause.) jt, claim opon all Christian peoples; acting a tian Cp naar ar inspiration and ay it has elevated itself in this century, and in t's own history has written its glory by giving liberty to—I dare not say to how mi serfs and slaves. (A) piause.) Russia ts at i Christian nation, and I say again } would sooner see the Hellespont under the [ey of Russia, if even Great Britain and France were robbed of their hopes of Egypt and Syne, 80 long as @ Christian Power with some vigor of civiilzation in it comes to that part of the Medi- terranean and permits Christian light and influence to disseminate thro: that country. Coy We are not now think! that within two day's sail of Crete ts that land where Christianity was first planted and began its glorious career. It qos Psd ni go very far pare free! ria, holy land, pressed e bl feet of our Lord and Saviour Jeaus Christ ‘and tilustrated by the glorious works of a — aposties and mi: Te; that beautiful t flowing with milk and honey, is now a howling, ‘wasted wilderness, without ® road but one made by the French between Beyrout and Damascus, and now without the sign of civilization except what has deen kindled at Beyrout and at Jerusalem, from whence the light and heat of the Christian religion radiates with gentle flame, and which ee eacty math be _" ooo that onl estern civilization and Western Christianity were permit- ted to return to the fountains from w' it sprung, end thus remy, the debt the world owes for the mu- nificent gift of that religion which is the chief civil- izing agent of the globe, America owes a debt to the which has been very seldom recognized. 1 thought as I stood beneath the monument of Colum- bus what would have been the fate of Burope if he had not dl for us the New World, In my Judgment not only the growth of the people but the increase of enterprise and of civilizat! Instead of to create a Now World here, would te quarter. i nave does ties or the wi the governing country. Mr. Seward, who, | believe, with it address our foreign relations, must be tru to do what ia best for the government of the United States in to the recognition of Crete, be called upon to America. (A\ a e to the diplomatists and to the ity oad to conduct ite own business, ‘bot! en citizen sula, compared with what it was when Columbus explored it, and it is growing smaller every day. ‘The diameter of the world is the time that it takes for a thought to go round it. (Applause.) And the world cannot be considered any longer in any one of its parts as far from any other of ils parts. Crete to-day is our next door neighbor. Gppieuse.) So mae may ask, Is not this idling with the business of politics? Euro} politics meddle with not with the schemes or balances of the national powers of Europe we are concerning ourselves. ‘e do not care whether Russia gets a little more or less; whether Prussia less or more; whether Austria gets her best foot foremost or her worst. Wedo not care about Eastern India or England’s ambition or the ambi- tion of France. We do not propose to meddle with European politics in this direction, but we believe in Europe’s great common heart of humanity, and Wegannot but take part in every noble struggle andPeven in dynastic struggies. There are some that have generous hearts and roeese with the struggies of a people endeavoring to be free. To that extent we must meddle with European politics: To that extent we must sympathize with all who are making a manly struggle for a manly object. (Ap- pe) But it said that the rebellion dragged its slow length along till it was almost scotched, and that at best it could hardly survive throughout the winter—cer- tainly not thesummer. But now that it has strug- led so long with such a measure of success I do not hon tn so far as Euro} amanity itis, But it hink it is going to die easily; for it is of the nature of a just and holy warfare to temper the instruments that are in the fire of war and to give them a keener and a greater endurance, Crete is now aschool for warriors, and itis bringing up heroes that will become the world’s examples as well as the world’s heroes, er / opened It may be said, Have we not enough business at home; enough to do to mind our own affairs before interfering with the affairs of the world? Feilow citizens, the way to take care of home business is sometimes to take care of the business not at home, Speer at home, but it does not stop there. Was Jesus? Did the the walls of Jerusalem? to go out into the gospel to all men’ Some it is Quixotic to attempt anything for Greece, that it is all very well to stand up and speak about it, but that we cannot do anything for Greece. But wecan do something for Greece. We can say to Greece— we are warm in sympathy with you when you do something for yourse! ves; we will bind up your wot though we may make none; we send you food and raiment and medicine while youdo your figh on yourown soil for yourselves. For Greece has not asked us for @ man; she did not ask us for armies: but she merely asks succor for women and children. Is it Quixotic to help Greece 80 Greece will take her place among the nations? This isthe day of the reconstruction of nations, (Ap- plause.) If half the money stolen from our free government were in the hands of the Greeks she would place her king in Byzantium before the year was out. (Applause.) There are many reasons hg he should give this moral aid to the movement in the Orient. It 18 an auspicious time. It is the time of the reconstruction of nations. Italy 19 one of the great Powers of Europe. is free and has become the strong ire, She now controls ths Em who opposed her. men hate and in re- There is one thing that ee im common— world hates it, and it gard to which they entertain oD ive Re The whole is t call on you to hate to-night. ‘The oO} of the Mussulmi ‘I will not of the just that n an—| Turk. The Turk is the accident; the M the cause. ( ter.) It is the Mahommedan. It is the system under which they are educated, and I hope before I die to on this platform emancipation and liberty of the Turk. and nge.) I am informed by it that when peop! common brethren; lead for their liberty and independence. ey are organized into ® government I do hope for the time when this despotic power will come to its destruction. (Applause.) I ask you to hate it. (Laughter.) Is this hate? Itis, But Ido not think it is because the doctrine of hateis “‘Abhor that which is evil.’” gl say, d Rependence ‘and ‘bulla. up a separate Yes. For just cause they have the cause Georgia and Alabama and Louisiana mi have asserted their independence. If there had been a law the weight of a feather that jusily upon them, there had been a single malign in- fuence that pointed at them, I, for one, would never have voted against it. But when people for fac- tlousness, boi : =a Bi for the sake of age, undertake to assert individuality, then it becomes a matter of self-defense to destroy them. That is the difference. (Applanse.) If Crete were a nation of — banded together who red to ravage traMc of the sea, would! give my consent, would I poy her cause? Bat they ask to be free; ts all—and ae have aright to their indepen- dence—to their national autonomy. (Appisuse.) ‘The people that have suffered as they have suffered de- serve the world’s confidence, and in no place in the world’s history, I venture to say, when of eve. of endurance, and of undying a and fortitude then mani y le island of Crete and (Applause). other nations. It is mot enor that this country is free, Liberty must be a sentiment common to all men. You are to be as jealous for liberty for ir neighbor as for yourselves, It is Bot enouga ¢ America i# free. ith America ought to be Europe ought to be free, Asia ought to be free. Freedom 1s the boon of God to mankind, and as long as my heart beats in srmpeaay with the truths of Christianity #0 long shall be in mpely with national iiberty. (Applause.) More than I hold that after we re to set the example, Tr we kindled the fire of liberty on these shores and developed the majesty of the common le, after having allowed the li iy baa across the Atlantic until thas distu and Hui ed the possibility of iom to the world, we have no right to be indifferent to the st for liberty. which the long roll is nations; and all the eart the earth is in 1 6 ground of rel! sympathy. I do not set before the old men , or the children that suffer with hunger, I ap) in behalf of hu- manity. Mr. Beecher then read the following reso- lution, which was unanimously adopted:— Redes het ed bie condition of the 60,000 Cre- jans, chiefly old men, and children, now in exile at brothers are hero- t fealty rainy the Turki Sempte, oho have outrages oe Christian sentiment of the thelr barbarous treat en sual ‘the benevo- [ of captives tn battle, interven prosperous and free people to alleviate oh at we earnestly tur fellow zens to contribute to the fand now raised fot the relia ives, and an commit: Rev. and at the close of his remarks wing resolution, submitted which was adopted with great applause:— enjoyed by ine Ualed Bates tenders 0h Oeste euay 20d wt the spirit of posties linger till they rebuilt Were not the words all the world and preach think of our to exert her national and popular + peter ay ‘4 oppressed avd in the interests government, foliow parting advice on and aveld “entangling ala with jances foreign countris we are bound a3 religious 8, reemen ve of our substance and our moral ment tothe Christians of the Hash now sirugsling bravely it the Iatand of Crete agninat the ibarbaris power of the ‘Far and that we respectfully ask the goverament of the Un! States Lo use its inflaence to put an eud to the atrocions war- fare uow desolating Candia. EXx-Lieutenant Governor Woodford was the last pe r. When he closed the Chairman announced the meeting at an end and the audicace retired, THE WORKING WOMENS ASSOCIATION. A mecting of this organization was held last night im room 18, Cooper Institute, and was pretty well attended, a sprinking of youthful, good looking and fashionably attired ladies being inter- spersed with the veterans of women’s rights pro- clivities who have heretofore composed the meet- ings altogether. At cight o'clock Miss Susan B. ANTHONY took the chatr, and having called the meeting to order and the minutes having been read by the fair secretary she faid she had received a letter of invitation from the Workingmen’s Association inviting the Working Women’s Association to attend their meeting, to be held next Tuesday evening in the Cooper Institute, The letter was read and the invitation accepied, ‘The Chairwoman then introduced to the mecting Mrs. ERNESTINE L. Rose, who proceeded to make a speech, Shesaid she was truly glad to have an op- portunity of addressing the Working Women’s Association. She had had the pleasure a great many years aco to address workingmen’s essocia- tions, but she never had the picasure until to-night of addressing @ workingwomen's association, The Interests of men and women were, however, so clearly connected that it was impossible tu speak to the one without the other. She had been somewhat con- nected with co-operative socicties as far back as 183%, Perhaps by mentioning that date they mignt think that she had ceased to be very young, and that was the fact; but co-operative societies, until very lately, had not fourisaed. There were now in England a great number doing: well. France was permeated with co-operative societies, She be- lieved, according to the last account, there were eight thousand societies in France under the co-ope- rative union sysiem, But to be successful It re- quired not only numbers, but means, and she sup- posed the great difficulty here was to find means successfully to establish co-operative unions. She advised tiis association firat to become incorporated, as until that was done the society had no legal ex- istence. ‘The next step.in order to raise money would be, she should advise them, to get up an active committee and send them to some of our great pubic speakers, such as Wen- deil Philhps, Curtis, Cheever, Beecher, Chapin and Bellows, ask them each to give the Working Women’s Association the benefit of an hour's talk. In that way they would be able to raise money, for money was power and upton wa3 strength. With regard to those women who required work and had none, alas! there was but very little to be said. After they had acquired capital they might commence va- rious operations that would find business for at least some of tie women; for instance:—One of them was an insurance company, another was a savings bank. It was a positive fact that most of the ‘savmgs banks in this city had become hamensely wealthy; and by whom? From poor women, from servants—from girls who put in five, and ten an‘ fifty dollars. She should tike to know why the Women’s Association could not form a savings bank and manage it? They could employ women capable of taking hold of the business— such as tellers, bookkeepers, doorkeepers and clerks in the various offices, She en pro- ceeded to speak of the wretched manner in which parents brought up their daughters, attributing th .t as the sole reason Why women were not able toequal if not surpass men in the various walks of hfe. A girl was learnt a little sewing and a little writing, and when she had to fall back on her own resourcea she thought that one of these branches would give her a living. That was a terrible error. Why were not women tanght the different branches of mer- cantile and other life as well as men? Because the girl from her childhood, haps, was told that the only alm and object of her existence was to endeavor to get married. (Laughter.) Snedid not mean to speak against ; but the way wo- men had been brought up unfitted them even for marriage; for if she were truly fitted for married lite, if she were truly fit to be almost for any pplause.) vern a home she would be fit to ion. (Applause.) Mrs. Rose then proceeded enumerate various branches, such as watch q chain making, jewelry making, ly adapted wi were for women. But nowa- days Ss eee ceieier 60 G0 wes te tent catch @ bean and be and n— buried. (Laughter ) At of six- teen or sevent come out of ing where they have | the of embroidering little cats and dogs, re edu- was ent ed. did we have ml im the papers about “the social evil?” It was, in ninety-nine cases out of every hundrea, from necessity. 1t was or It was vice or death, of them fell into vice and for the sake o! miserable ex- a istence. She then alladed to the ns preachin; from their pulpits without extending 01 hand to help. such women. It would be infinitely better for them todo something for their bodies, and their souls would take care of ves. After urging unity and perseverance in the work the speaker con- cluded. Misa ANTHONY announced that tel ph wires Were about to be introduced into the Cooper Insti- tute to educate gir!s in the business of telegraphy, On motion Executive Committee were em- Lal nding take the necessary steps towards incor- pol A committee was inted to secure prominent lecturers to speak re the association, as was also a de to the convention of the Women’s Franchise at on the mg and roe eo this month. sh Mrs. DUNNING (née Shirley Dare), a member of the Phin was Men “introduced” ad made a na remar! eeting of the sym! of the “Sorosia’’ of New York as well as that of oes ye objects of the Workingwomen’s Asso- After ae: boned unimportant proceedings the The Louisville Democrat regards Ben Butler, in calling upon Andy Johnson, as the “most impudent man fn America,” and relates this anecdote:—Some thirty years ago @ certain Washingtonian rang at the door of the then British Minister to this country, and telling the servant that he had important basi- ness with the Minister, was shown into an ante- room, where he was soon joined by that official, when the following dialogue took place:— Min! yea ee wie "as sir, what business it is that It is this:—In passing your Mr. P.—Certainly, sir. house I learned that you have a whist party here to- and, asilam remarkably fond of the e, I ae game, night, thought I would just and see what are trum It Te retatea that the sublime impudence of the thing so amused the minister that he invited the in- Sean the room where the were assem- introduced him as “the most impudent man The only difference between the two cases 1s that General Butler called upon Andy Johnson when the latter’s game was about up. Ratproof buildings are wanted in Chicago, The Virginia peace delegation meet in Washington to-day. Kudo, a Japanese student at Monson, Mass., has been baptized. A white quail has been shot in Missouri, When anything quails it is said to show the white feather. Dry reading and plenty of it—Governors’ messages about these days. A son of General Grant is to enter an Exeter (N. H.) academy to fit for Harvard. John Bohen, who stabbed and killed James Foley, eer Britain, Conn., last October, has forfeited hi The Hartford and Erte road contemplates build- ome from Woonsocket to Putnam, twenty-five W. H. Green will be tried at the January term of the Superior Court in Litchfield, Conn., . Ga fuer in eld, Conn., for the mur. a nekal aPC? PO Repl fa e Owen . Housatonic, Conn.” oberg Having given the statistics of the hogs in Chic: the there are now reporting the amount ot Pig ren mantumnctured, " “VTne ‘he amount o iF from Mic! famiin from Maine and plain John Scott from Heateytvants. A Vermont editor says he had a present on Christ- ‘all | 8s Morning, which ‘‘was net & piano, but it could | yell.’ | jon'oean wited fn Wabledale, Coun. ‘Anovher wae jal x . ti , tin Pale Vill le, Conn. hother was Lee ETS aa vo Uni se especial Senator Kiekton, of Indiana. iTS Boston proposes to buy water for domestic uses | from Charlestown, What's the matter with the | “Seaneee Hae it “Kinder gi'en cout?” Bangor are congratulating themselves that, bod as. the late, fre in that ol that city was, it might | have been worse created more distresn. - yeas to NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘ OBITUARY. Brevet Major Gencral Level! Hilaire Rous- seau, United States Army. It ig with deep regret thai we announce the death of Brevet Major General Lovell H. Rousseau, of the | United States Army. This sad event took place at | New Orleans at eleven o’ciock Tharsday night, the | disease which proved 0 fatal being congestion of the bowels, On Thursday night our despatches annonnced the illness of the Genera!, but as he pos- sessed a very powerful constitution we indulged in | the hope that he would eventually recover. This, however, Was not fated to be realized. At the age of fifty years and four months Lovell H, Rousseau departed this world. Looking back upon the past life of the deceased, there is mach to praise and little to censure, A Native of Kentucky (being born in Lincoln county of that “tate om August 4, 1818), of Huguenot descent, and reared and educated in the midst of what was and still is a peculiarly ordered society, he grew up to manhood sharing all the prejudices eharacteriatic of the Southerner, The death of his father while he was yet a youth straitened the circumstances of hus family and compelled him to labor in aid of those who had been ieft dependent. His educational ad- | vantages were limited to a common school, bat with rare energy he tanght himself the Freneh language, mathematics and other of the higher branches. He engaged in the study of law, abandoned it fora while, by reason of il) health, and eventually re- sumed it, being admitted to the bar of Greene county, Indiana, to which State he had moved his residence. ‘The young lowyer soon entere’ into political life as 4 member of the whig organization, taking an active part in public questions and being elected to the State Legislature of Indiana during the summer of 1843, His political career did not last long. Posseas- ing considerable military ardor the outbreak of the war with Mexico found him a captain of volunteers, and at the battle of Buena Vista, fought February 22, 1847, he so greatly distinguished himself that he was flatteringly complimented in the official reports. While absent in the service of his country he was elected to the Indiana State Senate, serving for four years, although by removing to Louisville, in 1849, he had virtually quitted the State before his term ex- pired. In Kentucky he had a iarge and lucrative practice, his legal abilities being of a high order. In the spring of 1860 the deceased was elected without opposition to the Senate of Kentucky. The great crisis in the history of the United States was ap- proaching, and he took his stand by the side of the Union without a moment's hesitation. Strongly Southern as he was in sentiment, deploring, as he publicly avowed, the election of a sectional President, and willing, as he declared, to do all that he could to prevent the republican party from interfering with the affairs of the South, he could not be induced to give his consent to, much less unite with, an effort to dissolve the Union. Notwithstanding the opposition met with from the secession members, he boldly spoke out in lavor of the national government, and, finding the majority to be against him, he resigned his seat for the purpose of raising troops for the defevce of the Union from among the loyal citizens of his native State. With 5 and fraternity once more siniled upon the of the United States. Bf Miner Botts. Yesterday morning at one o’clock foun Minor Pot's died at his residence in Culpepper, Virginia, aged sixty-six years and four months. Thus has passed away from earth one of the most prominent public men of the Old Dominion, Mr. Botts was born in the village of Dumfries, Prince William county, Virginia, on the 16th of September, 1802. While quite a entld his parents moved to Predericks- burg and from whence to Richmond, where, in 1811, they perished in the conflagration of the theatre. Under the cave of a guardian the subject of this sketch received a liberal education, studied law, and in 1821, before he haa reached his nineteenth year, was admitted to the bar and immediately engaged im the practice of his profession, [la abilities, thougi of @ very high order, were not adapted to the law, or if they were he soon grew tired of it; for we find him in 1827 abandoning ins profession and retiring to his farm in Henrico county, where he devoted his time to agricultural pursuits. Being in comparatively attuent clreum- stances he posseased @ great deal of leisure time, which was devoted to politics. A ready, plausible speaker, he soon became widely an¢ popularly known, and in 1883 was elected a member of the Virginia Legisiature (lower house). About this time the old whic party had commenced to assume a fore people definite form, and the deceased espoused its doc- trives with ardor, soon becoming one of its most devoted porters. From the beginning of his political career he seems to have been an op- ponent of the democratic party, becoming more intense tn his opposition as years advanced. He remained in the LegiSlature of ms native State untt! 1839, a period of six years, during which time he probably aid more towards increas- ing the strength and influence of the whig party in Virginia than almost any other pubife man of his time. In !829he was elected a representative in Congress, serving for four years. As a Conzresa- man Mr. Botts became more widely known, but did little or nothing to distinguish himself. He was a Orm advocate of al! of Mr, Clay’s measures, A na-- tional bank, a protective tariff, and the distribution among the States of the proceeds of the public lands were the views held by the great Kentuckian, and no representative supported them with greater ardor and devotion than did the deceased, although fn At least one particular—the protective tart policy—he was opposed by the vast majority o1 his constituents. That he was prompted by con. scientions motives, however, as well as by his warm personal friendship for Mr. Clay, there appears to be no doubt, for long after Virginia had rejected these measures he adhered to them unflinchingly. In 1839 Mr. Botts was a delegate to the Harnmsburg Con- vention, which nominated General Harrison for thé Presidency, and during the canvass which followed gave the nominee a warm and effective support. The accession of Mr. Tyler to the Presidency after the death of General Harrison at first gave the de® ceased sincere pleasure. He was one of (he warmest and most intimate personal friends of Mr. Tyler, and regarded with satisfaction his promotion ta the highest office m the gift of the A merican people. @ commission from the War Department, he soon succeeded in -establishing a camp on the northern side of the Ohio river, and thither the loyal men of Kentucky flocked to the standard of the United States. He was commissioned a colonel of volunteers in June, 1861; and, although rich friends turned against him, the poor eagerly joined the cause which their defender had espot |. By the 1st of ber he had two full iments of infantry and @ battery of artillery in his camp. Tne enemy in- vadi the State of Kentucky during that month with the intent of capturing Louisville, he crossed his command, secretly and rapidly, on the night of September 17, and took possession of Muldraugh’s # by a series of rapid marches, thus orn Ld is forethought the object of the insurgents. For this skilful movement he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers, to date from October 1, 1861, and was com ed to the command of a brigade, iposed of Tegular and volun- ot Gen: Re remained in Kentucky at the ougsean head of his forces until the fail of Fort Donelson and Nash’ when he hed into Tennessee. He ar- od ae eeMicoriat ta netemaee when himself. In the ao Ootinth he bores of mmand of the Third division into of Tennessee ive point of the Confederates, At the blood: of eral Rousseau’ le of Perryville Gen 8 bore the brant of the attack, losing one-third of its losses upon the forces, dificult to decide what the result of have been. For his services on this government promoted him to general ¢ rage 1e division in the then new! Cumberland, under General George H. the bloody three days’ battle Stone river, he saved the army from defeat by head- ing a gallant charge of the regulars under com- man kness in occasion the bya pee cavalry of through Alabama In this raid he inflicted some damage and although, near Lovejoy's fs forte wes upon Fs ra ting wap cut wi through to Marietta, where it rejoined General ‘Sher. man’s army, the general result stamped General Rousseau asa dashing and able cavairy officer. During the ee tions of General H who, with army from Atlanta, had invad Tennessee during December, 1964, General Ruos- seau held command of the fortified post at Mur- freesboro, and repulsed every attack made by the opposing forces on that position. On the Lith a yery sanguinary contest took piace in front of Murfrees- boro, the assault being fierce and determined; but Rousseau’s defence was equally obstinate and final victorious. The entire tary career of General Rousseau was distinguished for ability, gallantry and that never failing test of merit—success. We cannot, in @ newspaper article, review all the minor points in his career, all the engagements he Net in, all the gallant deeds he Pens. ‘hroughout the long and weary years of bloodshed his faith in the final success of the Union arms was never once skaken. With the beng! of his kindred eitner actively engaged in the cause of the South or ardently sympathizing with the rebels, it speaks volumes in his favor that he never once faltered in is uty 90 a ove And, nobler than all else, when the war had ended, he was one of the first to stretch forth his hands to the defeated Southerners and welcome them back to the Union as friends. The history of General Rousseau’s life since 1865 ts of importance, although it can be briefly told. Re- signing his commission he returned to Louisville, and in Al 1865, was elected a Kepresentative to ver influence he possessed was in favor of the constitutional amendment abol- ishing slavery, and when that had been finally adopted he urged the complete restoration of the Union by the prompt admission of the Southern States to representation. The quarrel between Con- | the President found him an ally of the ter, aud it was for defending Mr. Johnson that he was a. insulted by Mr. Grinnell, of lowa, who used language in debate reflecting upon his military career. The General awaited an apology for several days, but, Gnding none forthcoming, met his insulter on the Capitol grounds and inflicted 'a severe caning. For this he was censured by the House, when he tm- mediately resigned his seat, but was unanimously re-elected. Atthe ex ion of his term he de- clined a re-election, although urgently requested to accept @ nomination. During the latter part of 1867 he was commissioned @ brigadier eral m the reguiar army of tne “Unive Kates, and = was afler sent to take session of our new Territory of Alaska. Here he remained for some time, when he was recalled uy the President and ordered to the command of the rth Military district, embracing of rkansas. During the recent Presi- dential campaign he was severely censured by the radicals because he refuged to use his powers against the whites of Louisiana. General Rousseau had not the stightest sympathy with the radical party. A Southern man by birth, he d with horror the effort to place an eecrems, semi-civilized race of negroes over the white inhabitants of the South. For holding conservative views he was fiercely de- nounced as an ally of rebels; but it can be predicied that the reputation of Lovell H. Rousseau will remain bright and will be remembered with pride long after bis detractors have sunk into a mer- ited obscurity. Like General Hancock, he was im- mensely popular with the Southern le and par- ticularly with the white citizens aN New Orleans, His sympathy with them in their tical aut so endeared him to all classes that we have hi oficial assurance wherever he or any of his staf oficers went his name was sufficient to insure respect and attention. We are, therelore, not sur- rised to learn that in New Orleans the manifesta- at his death are universal and that all At that time there were many rumors touching the loyalty of the President to the whig party, and for the purpose of sounding him Mr. Botts oceupieé the same room with Mr. Tyler at a hotel in Washing- ton, It was this rooming together that gave rise to the now current and amusing saying that he (Botts) “slept with the President.” A long conversation took place between the two Virginia politicians. Mr. Tyler was cautious and evasive; Mr. Botta was anxious and inquiring. The result of the interview ‘was so unsatisfactory to the latter that he wrote a private letter to a friend in which he broadly intt- mated that it would be good policy to “look out for Captain Tyler.” Tne publication of this letter cre- ated a marked sensation, and is said to have exer- cised considerable influence upon the mind of President. Indeed, even . Botts time entertained the hope that i cation would prevent the desertion of Mr. the demi 7. His never while his previously ‘were soon after. At the extra session im 1841 the bills to establish a fiscal corporation were and promptly vetoed. In a moment, as it were, the warm friendship of the deceased for Mr. Tyler to ity. The seasion of Congress bitterness mmereased, head ‘opposi- tion to the administration, In pope ed and in Bumerous published letters he was ui in his denunciations of the treachery of Mr. was favorable to his impeachment. This opposition to the mt greatly affected political fortunes of ti deceased. after for two terms, he was left out in 1843, Congress, nor did he return until 1847, when he was elected for the third and last time. In the Pres- idential cam of 1344 he gave @ wamm sup) to Henry Clay, was el st the de- feat of the Kentuckian by President Polk. The elec- tion of a whig administration tn the person of Genera! jor, in 1848, brought him again prominently before the public, but the early deatn of the hero of Mexico and the subsequent virtual Tylerizing of Fillmore so disgusted him that he determmed upon retiring political life. His last public effort was in be- General Scott, in 1852, when he stum Vir- against Pierce. But the influence of Mr. Botts departed. Virginia gave a majority for the aie ase Ogee with their election the wi pik.) ora of the Know Nothing. or Amert- Party gave Mr. Botts an opportunity to reappear before the public, and it can be truly said that, for the first time, he allied himself to a political orzan- ization that commanded his fullest syiopathies. 1t ts true that he ever declined nominatioas for office; but it is also true that, had he accepted them, there was little or no chance for his election. ‘The great mass of the pp oes eee, to whig- ism; and under the | Henry A. Wise and others Know Nothin; ‘was destroyed by the democrats in Virginia. When the war broke out Mr. Botts op- posed secesgion and used all of his infiu- ence in retarding the departure of Vir- ginia. He retired to his farm and took no ~ in public affairs. He was twice arrested by the Sonfederate authorities and both times released. At the same time he does not appear to have taken any very decided stand for the Union until after the re- beliion was suppressed. Let us here do the deceased justice. ‘That he was at heart a Union man we firmly belleve; that he hated the secession leaders there is not the slightest doubt, and that he ardently desired the defeat of the rebel armics and suppres- sion of the rebellion ts, we think, certain. But while the contest seemed doubtfal, when final victory hang trembiingty in evenly scales he remained at home in Virginia, sometimes in and at other times in the rebel ITines, always ou quiet terms with both sides, The seerct of Mr. Botts’ vaciilating course is to be found in his political sentiments. He loved ardentiy, and felt unbounded, pride in Virginia. The trinmphs of her song were his victories, and ff he did not openly expresa satisfaction he no doubt in- wardly exulted over the deeds of Stonewall Jackson and Robert &. Lee. inst this State pride was an inherent veneration of the Union aud, more potent than all else, the bitter hatred he entertained for the democratic party and leaders. This hatred had lasted for years, and we sincerely believe tat it was only extinguished when he died yesterday morn- ing. Thus, when all things are considerea, there is much to excuse vactllation or, to use a les# clegant but more expressive phrase, the riding of two horses during our recent civil war. * After the supression of the rebeilion Mr. Botts Joined the radicals in thetr contest with the Presi- dent. The reconstruction laws found in juin a sup- porter. He necame a candidate for the Reconstruc- tion Convention and was defeated, receiving but three white votes in his county. This embittered fa his eurnioes i. made him # the Loa] tte ‘or over thirty years he had been in public life; most of the time with a minority, but bags id ted. His irritability of temper was ever insufficient to make him many enemies, even though it doubtiess retarded his political advancement. That he died i ol many triends we believe and trust; that his political course during the past three years allcnated mai we know by recent events. But, no matter what his faults may have been, his devotion to the Union ang opposition to the rebellion will ever entitle his mem- be / to romgoets It matters not what motives prompt- thia, We only know that when Virginian after Virginian of prominence, of influence and of great abt drt into the maelstrom of revolution John Minor Botts remained aloof, and when the flag of the country once more covered him it gave pro- tection to a man who had never swerved from his alle- the federal and beg So thi {ter all, we of the North cannot but hink weil of the deceased. His political ideas be- long to a t and dead era and are of no conse- juence to the present generation; but the mem e his loyatt; inust And may we not Tope that when his rem: have been taken Richmond for iasernaa are conveyed to the grave to-morrow not few will the “number of ‘white Virginians Who Will follow the bier and who will cast aside |p animosities and shed a ne of regret tear upgn the sod marks the last ii i the dags in the clty were flying at balfimast yester- gist” wi his virtues or faultee oved In these sans ot Political agitation tae dente of soneseie man a 4 1960.—There pees fortune. While extremists are endeav tt ir thrust year two of the sun and tro ot the mmopn Two of their ideas of it upon the , regard. | them will be visible on the Continent. The first will les# of the injury likely to be i , Men un- | occur on the 27th inst, At Boston the moon will en- away ti ft yo ambition 1 ae moerene pale Sy po at reales, minutes to seven P. M. P.M. ‘And the officer was one of thes. Even a& of the be at six ini 0 Seo act reed aans |e hare canara its to see the Union re-eatab- ‘Asia, Boaton at twent Hisnee alent Mat eosh man snould have died be- | foun nuinatca sams ave Beara sy comton at went