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ot, MORMONISM. Mormonism as Preached and Practised at Salt Lake. Growing Strength of the Recent Schism. «A New “Church of Zion” Estab- lished on the Earth. Theoretical Versus Practical Mor- monism---Fhe Principle and Practice of Polygamy. Experience of Godbe and of Harrison— Orson Pratt Attributes it to Spiritualism. Saur Lage Crry, 0. T., Dec. 19, 186. Mormonism certainly is the most anomalous ele ment] have seen in the course of empire. Three questions, each having @ social side, attract atten- ‘don in the West—the Indian, the Chinese and the Mormon—and the most curious is the last, Mor- monism, as you hear it preached and see it prac- taged in this city of Salt Lake, assuming the special smile and sanction of divinity, shows itself to be Sotensely human in humanity’s weakest sense; it mtirives to perpetuate and spiritualize what Christen- dom condemns as obsolete or lust; it endeavors to Ansuse into the society and commerce of the United ‘States its social stain and co-operative curse. The Andian does not seek assimilation with the Anglo- Saxon race. When civilization advances toward him the red man would rather retire to unscttled rogions, where white communities do not yet exist. Tbe Chinaman who comes to labor in America comes Ouly, we are told, to make some money among us, antending to return to his Mowery kingdom, there to end his days inease or affluence, quietly lay down bis pigtail and his bones and be peacefully gathered so hig fathers. The Indian or the Chinese does not want us to chapge our religious rites or our social customs tor his, but the Mormon does. Roman Nose or Spotted Tail has no idea of endeavoring to induce us to adopt sun dances for orisons, hunting for husbandry, wigwams for mansions, tepes for cot- tages, hi-yahs for operas, or scalp dauces for s0- ciapies, Cluh-Kang and Sun Chia-Ku, the Celestial associate Ambassadors with Burlingame, have no wish to make us change Christ for Confucius, or cut- jery for chop sticks. But Brigham Young and his twelve aposties, whose missionaries are now abroad 3m the States and in the world, who say that this gospel of theirs must compass all the earth, who want Utah as it is admitted inv the Union as a State, ‘Would fain have us adopt their doctrines anda cove- nants a8 our articles of faith, their,co-operative sys- vem for our principles of trade, and their concubinage creed for our ordinance of marriage. 1 speak of Brigham Young, of course, not as an individual, but as a representative of his system. He would wil- Mogly alter the civilization of the age, send all the heathens to hell who would not believe in him, and then jump Jim Crow and cry Cock-a-doodle-doo awid his coterie of concubines in this city of the wea ba, MORMONISM AS IT EXISTS. Wuatever theoretical Mormonism may be as a tem of spiritual faith, practical Mormonism 1s, as a system of ethics, quite incompatible with the bigber civilization of our age. Asa@ system of religion it goes back to the Vid Dispensation rather than comes forward with the New; preaches the terror of Jeho- ‘Val rather than the tenderness of Jesus; claims an eye loran eye and a tooth for a tooth rather than shows charity for human weakness and love for hate; sees the frown of the Father rather than the swile of the Son; 1s a fossil of the antediluvian era rather than a living ‘‘body of the time;’ it ls a clog on the chariot wheel of progress; it 18 the passing eclipse you see as you look at the setting sun. 1 have no desire todo any injustice to the Mormons. 1 speak of them more in pity than in anger, though they may not care very much for either; not as 1 have heard them spoken of by others, ou: as I hear them and see them for myself, though many of them may doubtiess think that my eyes are biinded by prejudice, my judgment biassed by antipathy, and that the devil sianda benind me dictating what I write. 1 donot wish to shut my eyes to Lue good the, Mormons have done ti these valleys of the mountains, nor to ihe existing evils of their system. The Mormon creed contains many commendable characteristics, beautiful sentiments and Christian precepts, which I hope to analyze Rerealter; and these have attracted hither from among the poor and ignorant in ail quarters of the earth what is calied an inspirational people, who have tilied the soil and built up this so-called earthly Zion; but its aposties preach and practice principles so retrogressive and repugnant as to turn the scale against the system, and bring upon it as a whole the anathemas of Christendom. Said a Mormon lady to me to-day, “Any change, no matter what, would be better than ihe present disgusting and “egenerating influence of Mormonism.” Wiile all the worid is tending towards the American idea of greater liberality, in- teliigeace, harmony and happiness, this Mormonism shows you aa emvodiment of despotsm, ethnicisin, anarchy aad woe. The most of the Mormon peopie areas honest in their faitn as Paul of Tarsus was when he thought he was rendering service unto God by the persecution of the Unristians; but in my opin- lon Paul was not more in error than these Mormons are to-day. The Indian who lacerates his flesh, be- eving that the sacrifice will insure to him success in battic, council, or the chase, is not mere sincere nur savage than Mavy Mormon men who lacerate the hearis of women by the doctrine that plurality of wives is the only certain source of greater giory and wigher bappiness in heaven, And, on the other haud, the veriest and sleckest Pharisee that ever passed by on the other side is not more hypocriticat than some other Mormon men who pander to their passions in the name of Christ. OPINIONS OF THE WOMEN. No other class of men more surely ‘steal the livery of heaven to serve the devil mm.” “During twenty years’ experience in this accursed city of Salt Lake,’’ said that same Mormon lady, “I have noticed that men have been most anxious to obey that peculiar part of the Mormon fait. And no matter how old they may be themselves, they generally waut young girls for their wives.’’ The Hindeo mother who casts her infant to be crushed under the wheels of Juggernaut * or drowns it in the Ganges is not more deluded than the Mormon maiden who gives the sweet affections of her heart to be crushed under the power of polyy- amy and sinks the tender sympathies of her soul in the moral pollution of Salt Lake. And yet this patri- archal “seaiing” of young women 18 publiciy pro- nounced to be ‘one of the most glorious principies”” of the Mormon faith. Said tider Wilford Wood rust, in the last sermon I heard him preach, “I would just as lief the United States government would pass a jaw against my being baptized for the remis- ion of wy sins or agginst my receiving the Holy Ghost as agaist my practising the patriarchal order of the marriage.” Klder Wilford Woodroff ‘would just as lief,” probably would rather, siuce 11 would deprive him of his wives in their vitaiity and youth, Eider Orson Pratl, the Most powerful apostie in tbe Church, put- ting sorth the sophistry that “the consututioa hever graited power to Congress to prescribe what part of the Bible any peuple should bélieve in or reject,” boidly proclanus the rigut to legalize and sanctify licentiousiucss, no mater what laws to the contrary Congress inay enact. But bow 1s it with Urson’s lawiul son, and with Orson’s lawful wile? Neither beiieve in polygamy, and consequently botb are “‘apostates” from the Church, assigned to the “buffetings of Satan,” condemned vo the tor- ents of eternal death. Aposties and prieste preach and practise polygamy as a holy inyunction, defend- lug It by the example of the patriarchs and direct divine revelations to Joseph Smith. Those Mormon sinpers way yuu caguot ethan to the Sul- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. JANUARY 2, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. fl it here on a And “the more ane merrier! . It is nearly pov ogous to the idea of the ind the pa be takes tn this world the ‘ yr Indian” he will bein the next, Jesus Christ told us that “in i 4 3 Z KS say! call themselves, ‘practise this polygamy that they nave wives and the world to come and thr ous the A hey 54 When doctors who decide? The heart experience of Mormon is one deep? and mournful wall the Some are induced to enter into 3t from religious duty. Some. are led into it by men taking other wives; but yet they say they never can succeed in silencing the “still small voice’’ which ever whispers to their secret ta that the principle is Wrong. The sad experience of women in Sait Lake, the years of mental anguish through which they have been made to pass, the deaths from broken hearts, the martyrdom of the affections dur- ing Iti living deaths—these are but a few of ita rlarc! Plurality may have been sanctioned for the time; Joseph Smith my! have recelved revelations that the institution i# divine: but if if is such @ very boly thing as these Mormon jpecnnaes and aposties say it is, the benighted mil- bons of Christian nations have not yet been edu- cated up to see it m that light. Mormon men assert that love is not essential m the married state; Diurality and progeny—those are the things. ‘The women say that love is the life and beauty of the that *‘’s home where’er the heaee * ‘ag or the gee st another the voice of woman not entitled to be heard upon this matter, in these days of ‘‘woman’s rights’? No? ‘Then nevermore call by endearing name the partner of TOnE ARTE. Let “mother” be a byword instead of all it bat ‘ Jor anything you please; ofthe Wierature of y nF ite tal it Out Of the literature of every taies of devotion until death; bura all your fove songs; never more speak woras of tenderness in any woman’s ears; never more look lovingly in any woman’s eyes; never dare to covet any women’s heart; never more imagine Mary at the Master's tect; that apy woman ever wept at Ione tomb psig SS of one It seems to me, owe ver, with reference to the marriage ques- tuon and all’ matters of the Christendom ‘Would still ratner heed the voice of Jesus and the voice of woman than the practice of the patriarchs, all the revelanons ever made to Joseph Smith, or all the sophistries of Brigham Young, Orson Pratt, George A. Smith, George Q. Cannon, Wilford Wood- ruff, or of any Mormon monster who would trample the affections of woman under foot. 4 CLOG UPON THE WHEELS OF CIVILIZATION. Nor is polygamy the only objectionable feature of this Mormon system. Mormonism, as it 1s here to- lay, discourages internal development, crusnes the life out of trade, vilifies the people tne United States, questions their authority and opposes the execution of their laws. An article in this very morning’s paper, advocating mising for iron and coal, 8 strongly against mining for silver and gold, on the ground that ‘it is demoralizing m its effects and ruinous in the end.” Zion's Co-opera- tive Mercantile Institution was established to make Mormons do business only in stores that hang out the sign of ‘Holiness to the Lord.” Christdrove the money changers out of the temple; Brigham Youn; ractically drives them in. Alluding to the death o! josepb Smith, I heard Elder Wilford Woodraff say that “somebody has got to pay the bill for the shea- ding of that innocent blood.” ‘Shedding innocent blood,” he said, “has cost this nation already four years of war, with 2,000,000 men laid in the dust and $4,000,000,000 in money; and,” he continued, “woe be to that nation, tongue or people that sheds the blood of the saiuta of God or undertakes to oppose the work of God in this or any other generation.”” Good for you, Elder Wilford Woodruff ; good again for you. Christ taught that it was right to render lawiul trivute unto Cesar. Brigham Young refused to pay to the receiver the United States internal revenue tax fixed by the assessor. And of course, in the present sense, Uncie Sam is Cesar. ‘the Indians recede from the civiliza- tion of the age; the Chinese advance to meet it, even if only Jor the time; but the Mormons, invoking the Judgments 0! Jehovah on it, stand boldly in the path- way of its progress. It 18 singular that the very people who iirst lea the way across the Continent, who first demonstrated the immense fertility of the soil, Who have literally made this desert to blossom as Lhe rose, who, they Doast, first discovered the gold an California, should now essay to stop the march of empire, inordinately tax the products of the soil by @ wholesale way of tithing, threaten to make fields and gardens @ wild waste in, @ay it 18 sinful to take the precious metais from the mountains, oppose the laws of the United States, and, in short, constitute themselves an element imimical to liver- ality, intelligence and progress. By the universal extension ol the peculiar system, which they say must 1uevitably spread over all tue eartn, they would deal a deachbiow to advancement, reduce religion to @ carnal, co-operative business, debase rather than elevate humanity, make concubines of women, propagandists of men, proselytes of botn and myrmi- dons and Mormons of us all. A LACK OF DIVINE ELEMENTS. But we are told that although the materialistic tendencies of the ruling priesthood have been for many years encroaching on the spiritual genius of the Caui 16 origin and mission are divine and pega] Qnd that now, as the fulness of the time come, there 1s about to be unfolded to the worid an evangelical system so subiime and yet so simple, so universalian and 80 beautiful, so magnificent and immorial, that ali tongues inust jom in the swelling haiicinjane which shall ever be ascending tn Its praise, all heads Must bow in homage to the greatness and grandeur of the principles it contains, all minds will be ilu- minated by the flood of light it will shed on all the Mysterious operations, human and divine, which have so perplexed mankind in past and mes; all hearts must melt in tenderness and grati- tude at the unutterable ecstasy the knowledge of this saivation will give to the huiman race. Its purpose is the oniversal regeneration of humanity. proofs of its divimity are to be the clear conviction it will carry to the niind and the heavenly influence it will shed into the heart. It is to travel over all the wide ficids of spirituality, philosophy and science, and harmonize them all co the complete satisfaction of mankind. The true nature aud the eee God in ail His mysterious ways are to explained, The surpassing glories of velesual spheres are to be revealed. Toe unknown wonders of the stellar universe are to be disciosed. The darkness that brooded over nature “in the beginning,” before this world ever was, is to ve unvelled. dhe original creation of man; the various types of mankind that have lived and died, trom the biack brutal being of the begin- ning up to the whitest and greatest man and the fairest and sweetest woman of our time; the natural order Of succession of those races; tne designs of Deity in thus creating them; the purposes of Provi- dence in all the events that ever have transpired since the beginning of the first of the dim and dis- tant ages to tne leading of the Mormons to the val- leys ol these mountains; the reasons why all tne peoples of the world have ever acted thus and 80; the natural, philosophical and mevitabie causes of all wickedness and wars; the true explanation of miracies; tne secrets of all siu and suffering; the precise application of the theory of polygamy, the principlé of which 18 still claimed to be divine, but aliogether different trom the polygainy that 18 practisea here to-day pb Brigham \oung; why the wisdom of Solomon whic! so dazzied Sheba’s admiring queen is as foolishness compared With the wisuoin vouchsaled to the seers of to-day which | have spoken with and seen; the whys and the whereiores of everything; the inigma of God, the migma of man, the glory of Jehovah, the glory of Jesus, the glory of angeis, the divinity of humanity—all these and many other matters, in- cluding the comforting assurance to tue wicked that no huwan soul is ever doomed to suffer eternal tor- ments, will be clearly demonstrated and made self- evident to us ali, Truth, pure and simple, grand and uulversai, 1s the sum and substance of the whole. ‘Truth beyond the highest human coaception ts just atthe moment of its dawn. This new evangelical system we are told, wil, in @ word, eluciuate tue mysteries of Eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to man. THE GREAT SOHISM. To this end, it aid, for over @ year celestial beings have been making periodical trips 0 earth and revealing the wouders of divinity, wienve and humanity direct to mortal man in the perwons of two gentlemen, residents of ts city ol Salt Lake, who for many years have sin- cerely sought through great ony of soul to learn and know the truth. This is what they say. They come with a straightforwara simpie stury, and no one here, where pearly every person knows them, seems incined to doubt toeir ane though many think and say they are deceived. in reply to this they answer with force and feeling that God could never be such 4 feartul monster as to pos- sibly permit them co be deceived when they sougnt so long and earnestly to Kuow the truth simply for tue guidance of themselves alome. They say the are immovably convinced that what they promul- gute 1s truth, els¢ there can Dever be to mortal map such @ thing as crutn; they Know it by every faculty of the mind, by every feeling of the heart, by every aspiration of the soul that can constitute knowledge on the earth, Firm in the conviction that Heaven has appointed them to inaugurate this new immor- tal system they have commenced the Work, aud they say they are resolved lenceforward to devote tueir powers and energies to it, calmly resting, for a vin- dication of theif faith, in the conviction whica we principles that wiil be from time to time uatolded will carry to the minds and hearts of humauity everywhere on earth. The HegALD has already published tbe wnanifesto which they promuigated to the world on the 2;th of last mongh. Godbe agd Harrison have always borne an excéllent reputation in Salt Lake. Those who question the divinity of Tueir mission and denounce thei system speak no ‘tof the men themselves, ABd similar 15 tne Char- acter of some of their supporters, That is to say that some of the most respectable men tn this city, and in ovher parts of Utah, either gilentiy assent to tne principles prociaimed or have actively espousea the movement. it has received an additional ele- ment of strength among the people from the sunple fact tit such men have been “cut off” from Brig- haw’s caarcn, Tey carry the weight of their per- sonal influence at once to the other side. Goube and Harrison nave heid a few private meetings, at which some of thetr Intimate irtends, eariiest adher- ents aut inquirers ito tus new phase of Mormon- isin have had opportunities of learning sometiung of its principles preparatory to its public inauguration aud lorual dedicauion as the new “Church of Zion.” ‘This, a3 L have already telegraphed you, took piace tins morning in the Thirieenth Ward assembly Rooms. Mr, Godbe lives in the Thirteentn ward, tic pur- pose was grauted by we “orthodox” authorities, Who, however, reserved the nat of replying to any of the arguments advanced by the ‘‘spostates.” ‘This condition was accepted, with the proviso that it should not be construed into a right to interrupt po AC eR wi the hour appoin vices. Many were unable to obtain admittance ‘The pi lings were opened by Mr. Godbe announc- ing and the assembly een the first hymn in the Mormon hymn ook, which thus commences:— ‘The morning breaks, the abadows tlee ; Lo! Zion's standard is unfurled! ‘The dawning of a brighter day Majentic rises on the world. ANOTHER OF THK *APOSTATES.”” Orson Pratt, Jr., Elder Orson’s “apostate” son, Who is quite an accomplished player, did the instru- mental on the harmonium. In tne opening prayer Mr. Harrison dedicated the meeting and the move- ment ‘unto God, holiness, righteousness, love, mercy, and all the fruits of the Holy Spirit.” Wheu Mr. Godbe rove to address the people they hushed at once into perfect silence, avd from the beginning to the end of his remarks, which were eminently characteristic of himself etme sincere aad simple), he bore along with him the interest of atl and the sympavby of most of the assembly. In an easy, Winning manner he related his experieuce— the same substance as 18 in the manifesto—how, frow his boyhood up he had ever cherisbed a alncere de- aire to live a blameless life himself and labor for tbe elevation of humanity; how his nature and his eventful ce among men had predisposed and strengtuened in him every principle aad practice ten toward liberality and charity; how in his Youth he had embraced the Mormon faith because it presented to his mind and heart the most reason- able, besutifal and humanitarian principles with which he was acquainied; how he bad been alwa) willing at any moment to do anything that mignt required of him—goon a mi for any len; time or resign his accumulated property; how he had with sorrow seen the Ile and spirit of the system steadily decline and degenerate into mere mavertal- ism; how he had talked with hundreds of his fellows this phangs. from 3} raaay and freedom to ishness and epee ow Brig! Young mis- understood and a) the true sentiments and interesta of the and years, from the rust the setting of the sun, agi} had sought tor trath aud Jight to know where divinity in the system ceased—If, indeed, it Was divine—and where humanity stepped in; how at last a flood of glory broke in upon his soul, an- geile beings came and showed him that lus aspira- ons were divine, and that reason, enlightened and purifiea by the Holy Spirit, with an honest heart, was a law of and the only thing that could be de- pended on; how in seeking ight only for indi- vidual guidance he and Harrison received 80 Much nore than they ever hat expected, and were an to the world the most adv: vy subjecia thet bad nitherto been Known; how he had never wished to flit more than an humbie, useful sphere in life, and devested notoriety, but that he could not if ue would resist the all-powerful impulse thas impeued bim to this work; how he couid never for ap instant doubt the divinity of the system, by reason of the fruits it must inevitably bear and the Immutabie evidence of ang how the gates of glory stood ajar and the heavenly hosts were smil- ing on and ‘aiting the unfolding of the s)stem; how be and Harrison had been assured that addi- tonal lignt and strength would be given thei 01 necessary occasions; how failure would be impossi bie, becauge tae revelations would be attested and sustained by the source oi ail love and joy and truth, and that embodiment of all strengtb aud power which controlled the destinies of individuals and of nations, ‘Tears coursed down many cheeks as Godbe took his seat ana Harrison came forward to contirm in bis more fluent and more emphatic style all that had been spoken by the other. He alluded to his early aspi- rations after truth, from,the time when, sitting on his mother’s knee she told bim she would rather see bim good than see lum crowned @ king, through the times when, while in Essex, Engiand, he used to kneel behind the haystacks and appeal to Heaven for greater light than bis parents nad (his parents being Methodists), to the period when he embraced the Mormon {aivh, and felt by its sweet and gentle infiu- ence in bis heart that tue mission of Joseph Smith ‘Was divine, and that the prophet had peen commis- sioned to commences grand and glorious movement waich must eventually bless all the people on the earth. The mission of Joseph Smith, he said, was mainly to gather in these vaileys of the mountains ‘an inspirational people who could easily be moulded in apy manner that the wili of Heaven might diciaie. He related points in his own experieuce as a Mormon missionary under different priesily adininistrations, in wiicn ne bad seen \t claims to priestly power. Successors would pull dowa what predecessors bad bulit up; some would set him up, others Knock bim down, au others kick him because they {ound him down. Lie saw financial frauds aud many other things doring ven years of missionary iife, a8 weil as oftentimes the evidence of his own inferior judgment—all of which convinced him that, however divine and glorious was the system, its administration was lable to error, for man and priesthood alike were fallible, and the priesthood Was good or bad just as the natu- ral characteristics, the invelligeace, experience, ten- dencies and tastes of the man himself might make it. He, too, had grieved to seo in Utah the dual decline in spirituality, the assumption of Brigham Young’s imialubility, the increasing inclinauon toward despotic rule. The Mormons had not been physically coerced, but they were moraily coerced, by wnreais of excommunication; and it was the dounts that all these things raised in his mind which caused him the great agony of soul, lest, after ali, the system might be false, Hence he had-prayed aud prayed again and again for hight to know if tne measures of Brignam \oun, were right, and was williug to be himself convicter to have it shown that bis own and not Brigham’s eyes were blinded, because he was reluctant to Telaquish, but would most gladly save the system. And then from belind vhe veu came the durece ‘assurance that the system was divine, but that its present administration was corrupt; that Mormonism had been inaugurated on the earth by divine au- thority through Joseph Smith for a grand and _glo- rious purpose, and tuatit was the intention of the controlling powers above to raise it to that standard by which 1 Would influence aud control all creeas and parties, Heber C. Kimball, Joseph Smith (whose identity was vouched for by tte angels), Peter, James and Joun uod Jesus himself had come aud talked with them; they dia not see whe faces, but they saw the heavenly light and distinctly heard voices, and during @ long sertes of those direct and celestial visitations they had had revealed to them not only a grand system of theo- logy, which will be developed in due course, but all the great principles connected with the past aud future history of this globe irom the begining to the time when it shall become celestlaiized. They were tuid that @ great preparatory movement wouid take piace; that they wust come forward and bear wituess Lat the heavens were upen to all men; that all the glorious things explained to them now were only a8 Crumbs from the loaf, but that revelation in its ‘faluess would come to the Latter Day Saints; that as @ proof that the mission was divine God would bear witness to them througa others by a general dissatisiaction at the existing administra on of the system; and already the great ground. swell was comimg up, and the testimony was pouriug m to them from ali quarters. Both Godbe and himself, he said, quea- tioned and questioned whose holy beings again and again, and would not be sausfied until they had received demonstration upon demonstra- tion that their mission Was divine, “I said to those holy bemgs,’’ he continued, ‘You have to give me tesymony such as mun has never haa; you have to prove tu me that you are sent by the Controuing Powers; you have to deionstrate to me that wy mission 18 no} irom # good tiuiuence alone, but that it comes Irom the source of all power and autuority; and unless I have such demonstration 1 will not be- Neve it.’ I nave ned that demonstration given me which enabies me to say God hay sent me. Iain satisiied Lis vand is in it. I know what, though I am so unwortiy, Jesus has been unto me; | have heard His giorious voice; I have felt the meiting influence ot His spirit; | know that He lives; I bear tesumony that He lives, aud that tbe day of deliverance for hu- manity i nigh, even at our doors. Already the sound of the chariot wheels of freedom is heard im the distance; the truth on its way; sooner or later you will see it; do not receive it unless you Are convinced, but only just as God pears witness to the precepts we put iorth, so obey. We have been cympared to apostates and classed with ail the bad men who have left the Church and ied the prerogative of seers. We do not come with any such pretensions; we simply tell the story that hus been toid to us. President Young is a great and good nan in many respects; he has done a great worx for Israel; nis mission, how- ever, like \Wat of Join the Bapust, is about to pass away before toe grander dispensation which dawns on us to-day. With him personally we have nothing to do, 1 is Only with tue system, We sball not in- dulge in any personalities. We feel the grandeur of the movement with which we are connected; we Tely on the majesty of its principies and on the divine strength and assistance that will be given us.’ A hymn was sung, and Mr. Kelsey pronounced the benediction. Sucu was the style and substance of the inaugura- tion of thisnew “Ohurch of Zion,” whose univer- saliau principles promise soon to unfold to us so mucu tuaé 14 50 new and wonderful in religion and in scieuce, aud the trath of which, its propounders say, has been tested by their power to reader every thing lucid aud harmonious. BXCITEMENT OVER THE MOVEMENT. The movement creates considerable excitement in Salt Lake and, we hear, in other parts of Utan. it ig believed by many that Brigham’s power, now #0 boidly and openly assailed, must inevitabiy lose a foou deal of its influence, i§ imdeed, it does not fall fore Wiis powerlul inuovation. ‘Chere has long existed an gntipatay to his contracted and despotic admimistration of aifairs upon the plea of the infalh- bulty of the presiding priestuood, and this ovement 1s hatled especially by the women, not 60 muca, I fancy, a3 @ universal system of salvation as an open- ing for escape trom the seifisa sway of brigham Young and the demoralizing aad disgusting things bound up in Mormousm, Tn the afteruoou the Uid Tabernacle was crowded by the ‘faitafui,” as it always is op Sunday after- noon, and Elaer Orsou Prati dev. ted a considerable portion of his sermon to a@ denunciation of the Movement wnich is go disturbing ‘‘Zion.” This commuuication is so long aiready that I have not room now bo give at length what Orson had to say. He, however, attributed the movement to an inven- on of Satan against the exisung system of tne the saints yf God; tat the same evil influence that had given those revelations to Godbe and Harrison 4a this world would control them in the next, and ‘that they and all who foliowed them would be over- come and destroyed by Satan unless they did repent. ‘There fas been another meeting of We New Charch this eventng in the Masont: Hail, where Godbe and } Harrison spoke again, mucn to the same effect as they had spoken in the morning. Lawrence and Kelsey also spoke. ‘The evening meeting was quite enthusiastic. Similar meetings are sunugunced tor ext Sunday ip bot places, PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT. The Woman’s Movement in New Hampshire. Second Annual Convention of the State Woman Snffrage Association — Ad- dresses by a Whole Battalion of the Caudle Family—The Rights and Wrongs of the Op- pressed Sex. ConcorD, N. H., Dec. 31, 1800. The woman’s movement in New Hampshire 18 probably more earnest and active than in any other of the Nastern States. About a year ago the matter became to be seriously considered for the tirst time, and a Stave mass convention was called in this city, and there were attendants from nearly every section of the Granite State. The body was in session three Gays, ond before separating a State association was formed, having for ite purpo’e, of course, the vigor- ous agitation of the question of female suffrage and its kindred accompaniments, It i# due to the in- dustry of the oMocers of the association wo say that they have stirred up the old State from one end to the other. Meetings im aid of its purpose Dave been frequently held in all the cities and many of the towns, numerous auxiMary organizations have been formed, and when the Legislature meets scores of petitions for universal suffrage will pour in, The ridicule usually characteristic of this fem inme progressive movement does not seem to abound here; but, on the contrary, many leading and influential men seem to look favorably upon it, and nearly the whole community give the matter their serious and candid consideration. In conse- quence of the favorable feeling which seemed to heve been engendered the association thought it would be a wise and remu- nerative policy to have @ second State Convention, and its proceedings have occupied the past two days. The attendance has been large, par- ticularly at the evening sessions, and the interest which those present have manitested has been won- derful, None of tne speeches have disclosed any- thing particularly fresh or new bearing upon the subject so persistently agitated; but the repetitions of the alleged wrongs of the sex have been #0 posi- tively and pointedly reasserted tnat it is worth while to reproduce some of them in describing the ‘scenes in the Convention. Mrs. ARMENIA & Ware, wife of Nathaniel White, one of the financial pillars of Concord, called the body to order in her functions of president of the association. Rev. Mrs. P. A. Hannaford, of Reading, Mass., then offered an eloquent and fervent prayer, and Rev. J. F. Lovering,'of Concord, {ol- lowed with some introductory remarks of a con- gratulatory mature upon the results of the associa- tion’s efforts. During the transaction of some routine business, such as the appointment of committees, 4c., the au- ditors were addressed by Mrs. JuL1A WARD Hows, of Boston. In commencing she alluded to the first Woman’s Suffrage Convention, held twenty years ago at Worcester, and to the position which she occupied’ in relation to the movement at that time, and also to the general ecstima- tion In which the cause of woman si Was toen held, referri to Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips and Dr, Howe. At that time no one expected to live to see slavery abolished, and the woman question laid far back of the slavery question. She spoke of the present aspect of tne question, and of the rapid growta of the cause in ‘Une eatimation of thinking men and women. She made a thrilling allusion to the coarse of our gov- ernment on the Cuban question, and criticised the toby ent for standing as the ally of despotic pain against the stragg) Cubans. Speaking o! tne departure of the Spanish gunboats from New York, she said that at that sight the ghost of Captain Kidd must have laughed, but the timbers of the May- flower groaned. The relations of statute law ana higher law were alluded to, and changes in the very foundation of political economy became necessary in the growth of the age. A loud and excited speaker was Rev. J. M. L. Bascock, of Wilmot, N. il., who followed next in order. He arrayed in laughable ridicule all who would try to stay the onward march of petticoat government, and said that every man who woula oppose the movement earnestly was a man devoid of conscience, common sense, and a living disgrace to the woman who bore him, and he couid not expect anything better of him than that he would throw flith on the grave of his mother. But, after all, they could and would outlive all that could be thrown 11 their way, and be believed the future was very near when they would have cause to rejoice at the complete triampn of this great movement among the women. He gave a oper description of lovely . Woman at home, and then asked, in the name of Goa and humanity, 1 the citizens of New Hampshire would not unite in removing the disabiliues with which she is burdened. With suffrage she would be i the State and nation all that she now is to the ome. Acie n from Worcester, Rev. Mr. STRATTON, Was the first speaker at the evening session. He went over the often-tojd story of women’s wrongs, such as making them amenable to the laws which they had nothing to do in framing, and forcing them to pay in taxes to the pubiic treasury and toen exclude them from all voice in deciding how such public funds shall beexpended. Their exciusion from civil equality he deciared to be @ monstrous wrong and 8 custom more properly belonging to the past than the present civilized generation. He maintained that woman was qualified to vote, and that she should not be excluded from the right of suffrage except for the same disabilities as exclude mea. He trurther claimed that woman was quatifled to hold office, to govern as well as be governed, and it was @ standibg and @ perpetual disgrace to our civilization that the sex was nat elevated to its proper and deserving sphere. Some men were aiways harping about the superiority of woman's nature, but when anything was said about the bal- lot they declared them wholly unit forit. Such, indeed, was tie consistency of the humanity of the present day. He referred to Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria as nobie examples of what woman mught be in this country if they were placed upon & civil and political equality witn the rest of humanity, Where women had reigned and administered pub- lic affairs the history of the world shows them to have been far more able, and aiways more impartial, than the governments of men, The women Of our country, lie said, should be encou- raged in their movement for justice, aud wiere there were obstacles thrown in their way there was evidence of malicious infamy which was anything but reputable to our American people. If, he aaded, the political atmosphere 1s so impure that woman cunnot be trusted in it, then the time has come for a sweeping reform. He claimed that the Bill of Rights granted to woman an emancipation {rom her present civil and political ooudage; but our narrow minded and ungenervus legislation, to eur disgrace be it said, kept them excluaed from what were clearly their ‘natural rignats according to our organic law. ‘The politics of the present day, he thought, needed ‘ae Wisdom and influence of the best women of our counwy, for wit tueir presence and counsel there would be a gratifying diminishing of frauds and corruption on the part of those who administer our public affairs, An invelii- geut woman, and there are millions of them, is as capable of discovering the public necessities and supplying them, if she had the power, as any of the men of the present day. The feeling in favor of justice towards the oppressed sex he believed to be rapidly deepenin, over the country, and soon, very soon, 16 will ik out like the coming of a vol- cano, and then where there 1s now vice and hatred there will be love and purity, and the whole human race will be elevated. Que means to secure an Cele of wages for women was to give them the bailot, for then their range of employment would ve enlarged and their services would command a better price. This sentiment, he added, was strong in tne Western States, aud be had no doubt but New tng- land would be far behind the West im according tie just right of the ballot to women. In concluding, the revereud speaker expressed himself somewhat hopeful of the cause wich they had come together vo espouse, Rev, Mrs. P. A. HANAFORD, pastor of @ church in Hingham, Mass., followed Mr. stratton. Sue is a handsome, clever-looking littie divine, and taere was a ring of sparkiing eloquence in her voice which wag really refresning to jistea to, Sne said:— Ever since 1 was annouuced to speak here it has been on my mund to write a speech. But parish duties and pulpit lapors forbade, so that mot until £ got into the cars at half-past seven o'clock tis inorning did | find time to take pencil in hand, and then { taought to myself, surely I can do no justice tothe great theme of woman suifrage in the short intervsl of riding to Concord aud upon the jostling cars, Bat {could try, and bere 13 the result of iny trial:—Since we ldast convened in this ty our cause has made commendable pro; id was anterested to lind thay ts, owe at Worcester noted one slight indication; one straw which shuws Which way tue current runs, She men- tioned that she and Mrs. Stone had each received several votes for Aldermen of Boston, and thatsne thanked the bands which cast them, if cast in seriousness, for the friendiiness exhibited thereby, and if cast im derision still she thanked the voters, because It was a timely bint, and, as she said, “A caricature is sometimes a prophecy.” The day after the last Guoeruatorial electiun in our State my nus band smilingly notified me that one vote had been cast for ine as Governor of Massachusetts, 1 thanked him for the intelligence, remarking that the cause of Woman must have made some progress,’ since the vote was not cast to make me & pound- keeper, as a few rebuking spirit, not having the Jear of “the coumg woman” before tueir eyes, used to gaat their votes for women Ou my ative island, jhould have the unit f say. fy ve the o portunity of say- office, even if all the candidates for ‘vote should be men. And yet we can- NOt 1eel that the country would be so well governed by men alone, ag it is not now, even if the men were elected in part by the votes of women. God never meant for nan to be alone. He declares ia ‘His word that it tg not good for man to be alone. And that is we very ground we take. We want men and women to work together, the two halves of one whole, believing that the interests of tic whole country will thos be batter preserved Mra. Hone has spoken to-day of this woman move- to her like anew reigion, So has it been tome. | thought the field of reform ample be- fore. I believed the temperance reform to be grand and extensive, and so itis. But the woman move- nent is & grander, nobler reform; for in its suocess and triumph ies the rescue of humanity from evil, the lifting of the race from sin to holiness, from the power Satan unto God. it is @ religious nove- ment, and we are on God’s side. May we not ask the Apostie’s question, “If God be for us who can be ainst us?” it 18 winter now; it will be summer by aud by. So it is the beginning of good days for the irieuds of woman suffrages; and by and by ft will be nage noon one midauinmer, and the hour or victory ‘for ua. We oan afford be @ laughing stock @nd to be called strong- minded women, Who of hte ‘would be cailed weak-minded?) Tho time _ surely come “gle those er) barron = I share the victory, as the Rey of the anti-slavery reform—reviled a8 they were once—are now victors in the conflict an of those who look share the glad rejoicings upon our dear old fag and thank God that it waves over a country forever free. It may be seed time in come places, as it has been for the last twenty years; but it will be the garnering time at Jast; and ‘God grans you and I may shout ‘The Harvest Home.” { have not felt able physically to- day .to talk much, nor do I feel myself in any sense ‘a8 well abic as many Who are present to 8] upon thisgubject; out I have had some experience during the past year and learned some of the reasons why this reform should be My experi- conventions and im _ various ence in our the country con- Jecturing trips about vinces me that there 1s widespread ignorance in regard to our reasons tor advocating woman sul- frage, and yet s growing interest, which will soon dispel that igoorance. Women wio once said, “We don’t care to vote, we have al! the rights we wWant,’” are arousing to a sense of their duty; tor suffrage is the solemn duty of the woman at the pres- ent hour. Further in her remarks the reverend Madam wt for woman, because it would interes the country for the veneiit of the children and grandchlidren who are to come us. Wo- men who are now cursed with drunken husbands ‘Will, with tne bailot, have the power to stay the evil of intem| ce in the land, aod thus much, very much, misery will be removed, and the fearful record of crime will be most wonderiully reduced. She said further, that until women get the balllot they can not properly edu- children if their education 1a distasteful ther; for, according to common law, tue Mother has no ‘authority over her own offspring, notwithstanding she 1s the one above all others the beat qualified to guard and regulate their young minds. Believing the ballot to ve an educator, she thougat no man should have it for his own personal benefit; but this reason was insignificant among the multitude of others wiich pressed so raps, upon her mind, and she could not see how it was wat tuere were sane men who would exert themselves wo stay the progress of this glorious movement. Spe then enlarged somewhat upon the distinction on account of sex in our colleges and other educa- onal institutions, concluding tuat the ballot was the only means to effect a reform, A Mra, HaTaaway, a pracusing physician, of con- siderable practice in Boston, Was hext introduced. She took the sensible view of working lor converts to their cause raiher than deciaiming upon their wrongs, aud what she would have is the holding of meetings all over the State, and the libera! distribu- ton of tracts, and then organizing further for the purpose of securing political power, and thus gain the great boon of justice, for which they nave all so long and industriously lavored. Key. Mr. DSNOKMANDIE£, & Unitarian clergyman, from Laconia, was nexs brought forward. tie thought the whole human race ought to revolt aguinst the injustice done to woman, particularly that distincuon which guarantees to ner only nalf Temuneration for lavor, ‘This ctass of out rages, it seemed to him, demanded immediate acuon, and he hoped the time was not far dis- tant when a reform would be inaugu- ated. In fact, he aiready d.scovered one sign of advancement in the presence of a female reporter, wio had done her work side by side with the men of the provession, aod probably received as mach com- pensation for her services as her male associates. ‘Yhis reterence, it might be explained, was made complimentary to Miss Neliie McKay Hutchinson, who represented the oe ecouemy and agricul- tural journal of New York. She sat at the reporters’ table, and all through the sessions was as much an object of interest as Jim Fisk would have been. lu fact, she was rigged out in @ menner worthy of the irrepressible Admiral, Regular navy blue was tne material of her outer garments, and brass buttons were numerous, and, to crown the whole, her jauaty sult was profusely ornamented with gold trinmings, the whole covering @ form not exacuy beautiiul and neither positively repulsive. Mrs, CAROLINE M. SEVERANCE, Of Cambridge, made quite a lengthy address, advancing, however, only those views which she presented at the late Cieveland Convention, aud which Were fally sketched in the HERALD at the time. Dr. BLACKWELL, tue nusband of Lucy Stone, spoke now for che first time since tue Convention began, aituough he had been present upon the platiorm during ail the various sessions. In the course of his remarks be referred to the Boston addreas of Secre- tary Boutwell, claimtng that be iznored the women of the country im speaking upon the most fundamen- tal topics of the day. He referred also to Mrs. Stowe's “Uncle Toin’s Cabin,” claiming that it had changed half @ million votes in this country, but yet she could not volé herself. He also referred to the Byron scandal, saying that she wasrun and hounded down by two-thirds of the whole country because she bad separated from a husband who had been guilty of @ crime for which both the laws of God and man justitiea a divorce. She simply withdrew from Mr. Byron, without mur- muring @ single compiaint or making a single charge, and yet she was everywhere abused; and dra. Svowe, Who came to the defence of this poor aud mjured woman, had also received the denancia- tions of nearly the whole press of the United States. If, he added, the circumstances had been reversed, and Lord Byron bad witndrawn from his wife, the men of the country would have said that he acted not only wisely but maguanimously towards his wife. He believed, he said, in the old sauce for the goose 1s sauce for \d he was glad that Lady Byron, in her unfortunate case, had such an eminent defender as Mrs, Stowe. He believed that Lady Byron was fally justified in her course, but nearly all the itver- ary men of the country—except, perhaps, Mr. Par- ton—had taken up the cause against her, and every literary woman had as untiormly united in defending the injured woman. it was to the credit of this one and to the shame of the others that such were the tacts. He also referred to the laws applying to woman and their injustice, as shown in the Lewis kidnapping case. The Doctor then concluded with some general remarks upon the general question of universal suffrage. Subsequently Miss Lucy Stone, the doctor's wife. and Mrs. CAROLINE M, LIVERMORE and several others of less note addressed the Convention, and it finally wound up by the adoption of the following resolutions as expressive of the sentiments of the people assembled :— . Resolved, That we demand suffrage for the women of New mpshire_as a right which beiongs to them equally with ‘and of which they are unjustly deprived by men; that & government created aud admfalstered by men alone /s not & republican government, but an aristocracy of sex, and there‘ore cannot do justice to women nor secure the welfare of its citizens, Resolved, That women as class have special interests to be protected as wives, mothers and widows; that the legisla tion of nen aione ix class legislation; that ciass legislation and must ever be destructive of the best people. 4, That the country needs the cultivated intellect and enlightened conscience of woman in politics, in order to counteract the influence of ignorance and vice, to stay the ravages of interaperance, to check public and private ex- travaganoe and to estaviish w higher standard of political moral lity. vod, That woman needs the ballot as an educator; jercise of suifrage will be & direct appeal to t mind and heart and conscience of woman, directing her thoughts from frivolity and fashion, and enlisting her activi- tlex in momentous objects of State and national interests. Resolved, That {tis the duty of every Christian woman to demand and exercise her right to vote for the enactment of lawa and the selection of capable and honest puviie Ollicers. Resolved, That the men of New Hampshire, having voted to abolish political distinctions of race, are bound by their sense of justice, thelr chivalry and, self-respect, Dot to allow their own mothers, wives and daughters to be pauked, puiiti- joanest men. tity the action of the Executive Com- “mittee in sending cdlegates to represent New Hampshire at Cleveland in thi jon of w national society, and we hereby declare thé New Hampshire State ialion auxil- fary to the American Woman Sufrace Associat esolved, ‘That we instruct the New Hampsh! ffrage upon woman, and asking Congress to stti- mit asixtecnth amendment to the federal constitution pro- Lgpiting political distinction on account of sex. Resolved, That we congratulate Wyoming upon being the first Territory which hus conferred auffrage upon woman, and wo congratulate Vermont that she has the opportunity of becoming’the first State to do th justice. The Convention was harmonious all the way through, the degree of unanimity being almost un- pleasant, but the procecdings were, nevertieless, Interesting, and they undoubvedly instilled @ fresb vim of industry into those really enthusiastic and earnest in the cause of woman suifrage. WOMEN'S RIGHYS IN ILLINOIS. me great act of poiltical Governor Palmer’s Reasons for Not Appoint- ing a Lady Notary Public. (Springfiela ([1l.) correspondence Chicago Tribune.) Mrs, Myra Bradwell, well kuown to the legal fra- ternity as a lawyeress and the editress of the Legal Jews, made applicayen to Governor Palmer, to-day, ‘for the appointment of notary pubfie for the city of Chicago. The Governor declined to make the ap- pointinent in the following letter: SPRING Chicago, {1 Mrs. Myna Buapwri E to acknowledge the ro- Dean MADAM—I have the houor celpt of your favor of yesterd jate, accompanying a pe- tition algned by sisty vogal voters, requesting that you be ap- mint ‘be damnified by your official eccentric importation one of tne if ‘of 1845 tatutes, the duty of the Governor with suilictent security, from eacl tary, upon the duties of his office,” fn th ed for the due aud faithful discharge o! “ipod the same law provides that auit may be brought uch bond for the use of any part, upo injured by.» for- felture of its conditions. I need not say lo you that, a married woman, you are ly incapable of executh bond required by this statute, nor couid you, If appointed, be held responsible, in a common law suit, to any who neglect of duty, nor any feasance in ollice, aware that the recent reforms and improvements in Tam the laws affecting married women have conferred upon them many honors an: but you are well advised of the fact that none of the more here have been confer upon lnding exectto tracts, oF refer ‘cont uF, contract whieh does. Bot hor be, very re Mave tne ON Me PALMER. FASHION GOSSIP. Holiday Styles—The Bizarre in Toilette— Successful Christmas Sales—Parisian Absurdities Transplanted—An Ex- traordinary Oriental Robe— Fashionable French Im- positions, Asa matter of course fashion holds high carntva) in bewildering and elaborate toilets, as im every other description of beautiful things during thus special gala week vetween Christmas and New Years, culminating, a8 our readers need not be re- minded, in the burst of manifold toilet splendors, afforded by the customs of tne day after that, tra- ditionally honored in Gotham, as the reception day of the year for one’s gentlemen acquaintance. In the opinion of merchants—and, in fact, of any one who has had anything to sell this season—it is’ delightedly conceded that the mania for holiday re- membrance and gift presentation never, in any pre- vious year, ran higher than in the present, and a greater number of useful presents, in line of orna- mental merely, have been the rule, not the exception, One marble palace on Broadway,boasted a sale on the day before Christmas of not less than 250,000 silk dresses purchased for Christmas presents, Now, itis safe to surmise, that at least 200,000 of those trully acceptable holiday souvenirs have since been cutand trimmed by the hand of confident modiste genius into bewilderingly fairy or stately creasions, to be donned by expectaflt owners as the special recepion robe upon the approaching New Year's Jéte or day of feminine conquests, 4 To a mere looker on in Vienna, especially in the world of fashion, many and gorgeous indeed are the Ppersonelles and toilets presented. larize, Mrst premising, however, reader merely that notuing, literally notaing is too bizarre to be worn, or, i rici in quality and elap- orave in design, considered too prononcé to be worn ana admired. Oriental satin robe (white) fancifully trimmed about the train and banas of black velvet bordered with gold cord and tine bullion fringe, was completely covered on the surface of the skut with huge poppy-like looking Oriental flowers in full bloom (any one of them measuring across the diameter the dimensions of any ordipary tea plate), which flowers, by the way, were of the most flery scariest. Gracefully en- Sconced, not hiduen by any means, but rather brought out in the boider relief by his extraordinary surroundings, a princely peacock, app: life size and with fully ontspread tail, glintea at the gazer from tue folds of this toilet extravaganza, and ap- peared to survey in proud deflance a double flouuce of peacocks’ leathers, ail Sompones, of bullion deftly embroidered upon the fabric. very glitter of this novel feather But to particu- to the general Apropos of this fact, a, gorgeous low square corsage, with bias arently of brill certainly ol! lifelike ancy, ly cop- was really beautuul when 12 movon, and, added to its other novel auxiliaries, certalnly conspired to make this not decidedly the most bizarre robes it has ever been our tortune or misfortune to behold. For whose maniac taste vhis fearful toilet Abel was concocted—for 16 1s little else tuan a Slik and velvet concoction—or whose diseased fancy it will take in this Babel of seusation hunting and creaung fast women remains to ne decided, Oriental satins are great favorites in Paris this winter for evening wear. They are elaborately trimmed with ‘hearer black—the latter pien- tifuly besprinkied witn gold. In fact the rage for gold ornament upon dresses and in trun- mings of every description amounts to a Parisian maduess, ‘These Oriental satins are one of the most beautiful and dressy mate- nals for dress wear that has been adopied for years. Itisa lustrous compound of wool and silk. ‘Those in biack and sliver are superb, as also the silvery seen of tue white ones, also the gold yellow and we red, shot with a coppery brown. ‘fnia latter combination of colors, as aiso canary color, 18 revived for the season in numerous ex- quisite combinations aud wich startlingly beautiful eufect. ‘The new Pauaia tissue is very stylish. This is @ species of goods all wool, and promises to be an excellent weariug material. It is greatly in vogue, as may be supposed, for demi-toilettes and strect wear. Plaid cosiumes, trimmed with the same and bordered witu biack velvet, are getting to be a most stylish and acceptabie at-home dress for ladies. ‘The newest are trimmed witn fringes, woollen, of corresponding colors. Tight fitting and half tight Utuag sacques, confined with a sash at the waist, enjoy equal lasiiionabie favor Mus winter. Nothing can be more stylish than the compiere costumes now growing inv general wear for either house or street composed of either grosailies tissue or Oriental satin of some rich dark color, the new black buffaio brand alpacca (thap Which nothing is richer or more generally prejerred), or of one or another of the rich looking Panama materials above spoken of. ‘Tne outside garment, either shawl or cloak, called the adjusté, is aimost universal, none but those of very stout figure preferring the loose cloak with capes or doubie peleriae. he style of curly, loug-haired cloth calicd by the French Moutonniere, in every description of pretty soft gray or drab, in some instances lined throughout and edged with iur, is @ most comfortable yarment for very severe weather. Owing to the unprece- dented miidness of tue season 80 tar we in New York have had ilttle opportunity for the enjoyment either of its comfort or display. The metropolis is said never to have had a finer supply of rare iaves of every concelvable putters, as algo superb {urs of fasiionavle varieties aud ices. 2 For outdoor demi-toilets the Astrachan, both white and black, trimined with its own soft !ooking lona hatred iringe, is very stylish. For evening wear the new robes of white gros grain silks, bound, edged and ornamented wi! pipings or bands of either silk, velvet or satin br! liant colors, are the newest and prevuiest desig: abroad. They are just appearing limitedly in the city, but everywhere much admired, White ana daintily tinteu silks, elaborately embroidered in colored silks by hand, are always beauuful and modish novelties. ‘Inese latter are usualiy made piatn in skirt; but double skirts and tunics are the lost generally acceptabie styles. Bodices cut square and entirely open are a novelty. ‘i'hese later display exquisite iuce chemuisettes, eituer high to tue throat or haif hign. The sieeves for fuli dinner dress are usually the flowing Marie Anvoincie, loose and open, trimmed witb real lace, or slashed fogkaw openings of real lace to maica the chemi- eel Robes en pannier are fast diminishing in size—at least the pannier 1s—ulthough the upper skirt is still considerably puffed. Among bonnets the ‘diadem” is the latest and most becoming sensation, if we except the babe or infanta, which for some iaces 1s exquisite. Next week you will provably lice to know what all the world anu bis wife are wearing principally for jewelry and shoes. In such event, depend, as previously, upon yours, ever fasnionabiy alert, CUKKENTE CALAMO. ALL FOR LOVE. A Lad Aged Sixteen Blows His Brains Oat in Presence of His Sweetheart. [From the Pittsburg Post, Dec. 27.] On Saturday afiernoon a strange case o1 shooting occurred at the residence of Mrs. Wehowsky, No. 233 UNO street, in the Third ward, Allegheny. Henry Seitz, a German boy, sixteen years of age, came to the house about eieven o’clock in the morning to meet there Miss Louisa Stelaager, & young lauy of his own age, to Wium be bad been paying attentions. He also tound there her friend, Mary Walpert, a real- dent of the First ward, and about seventeen years ola. After passing some time wita the young ladies he went to the yard and commenced shooting at a mark With @ pistol in company with another boy. ‘riring of tis he returnea to the up stairs room, where the young ladies were, and asked Miss Steiua- ger to WccomMpauy him to the Union Skating Park. be gave no* decided answer, and, it 1s reported. he then declared that if she would not go he would shoot himself, He was then flourishing a pis- tol, which she told him to pat away or he would do some damage. Miss Steinager proceeded to get ready to accompany Seitz to the skacing park, and Was engaged in putting a shaw! on ner frend, Miss Walpert, naving her back turned toward Seitz, When the report of a pistol was heard in the room, and the frightened girls looking around saw Seitz lying on tne floor, bia face covered with piood. He had shot himself iu the sorehead, the ball eatering between the cyes and lodging in the brain against the skull, Ae never spoxe a word, et