The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-02

on the 23d ult.
A couple of gentlemen, who were very anxious to
risk their'lives in duel, have been arrested, and
held to bail, at Richmond, Va.
THE WoMEN's RIGHTS CoNvENTIoN.-TH LAST
CHANCE FOR GENERAL ScoTr.-The ammunition is
long since exhausted on both sides, by the party
presses, numbering two thousand papers, from the
twenty. four FOUNDER down to the rusty musket.
They have succeeded in proving both candidates
towards, drunkards, and everything that is bad
Whatever in any of these journals, in
reference to the merits and dement's of the whig
and democratic candidates for the Presidency, is but
rehash Of what has been said over and over again
for thousand and one times 1t is all "Aat, stale,
and unproftable and the only result of the nause-
Gus abuse on one hand, and fusome laudations on
the other, is that they have both neutralized each
other, and neither amounts to anything. General
Scott and General Pierce are left just where these
| party papers found them.
The only thing of late that has occurred to dis.
turb this equilibrium is the action of the Pitsburg
Convention, which is admitted by the whig papers
to have injuriousy affected Scott, and turned the
scale favor of Pierce in Ohio, New York, and Mas
sachusetts. The position taken by Webster and his
friendswho stand aloof in cold silence, refusing to
have very important influence upon the result, and
seems to weigh the scale of the democratic cam
didate down to the earth In this terrible emer-
gcncy the wings and their organs have hit upon the
cxpedient Of enlisting the Fourricrite Phalanx of
New Jersey in favor of Scott; and Horace Greeley,
who went down there on Sunday last, upon a
special mission, reports to the wing politicians
that all is right in that quarter. leading Four
r;er;+e declared he wouId rather baya Ell nipoors
about him than the detestable Irish, who are all
going for General Pierce. Scott, it is understood
is in favor of pantalets and Fouierite farms This
will help to counterpoise the weight of the Pitts.
burgh Convention and the Webster secession.
But there is another movement coming OF still
greater weight and which will kick the Scott scale
high in the air-the Womens Rights Convention,
about to be held at Syracuse. The representatives
of all the isps viii be gathered there-the women
in dress coats and trousers, and the masculine gen.
der in pantalets, short frocks, and broad brimmed
straw hats. We learn from a Syracuse paper, the
Convention will comprise many women of great in
telectua ability, and Of exalted moral worth-Mrs.
Lucleta Mott Mrs. Paulina W. Davis, Mrs. Al
gelina G. Weld, Mrs. o. Smith, hrs E. c.
Nichols, Mrs Swishelm, Miss A. Brown, Miss l..
Stone and many otherwise women and able speakers.
Smith, who has SO much bosom-will expatiate upon
their rights and wrongs and pass strong resolutions
against the brutcs Of who Cypress them in every
shape and form-denyipg their undoubted right to
be bIicklayers, masons hod carriers stone cutters
carpenters, blacksmiths, Sailors policemen custom
house officers, lawyers, judges, members of the
Common Council, members Of the State Legislature
members of Congress, President and Vice President
IF tho I1nitpl States of he ahpat
GERS Of the army, from ensign up to the COM
nander. in. chief, and insisting at the same time
upon condemning us men to make neither garments
and baby clothes, to nurse their offspring, to
superirtend the domestic household, and see that
breakfast dinner and supper properly and pune
tually prepared--in the words of the New Testa-
ment, to be discreet. chaste keepers at homo,
good, obedient to their own husbands, that the
word Of God be not blasphemed." Having emascu-
lated mankind at large, and unsexed themselves
they viii add TO their platform resolution in favor
of General Scott, because he is more in favor of
women's rights than General Pierce. The re.
sstess tide Of female elequence will carry the hero
of Lundy's Lane triumphant to the White House,
where it is expected he win do the ladies justice
Thsis the last card in the hands Of the wings; but
it is master trump, that will sweep everything
before it, and Pierce and the democrats will find
themselves SO beaten, on the second Of November,
that they will not know where they are, and will
bear to be classed in the same category with those
horses in a which set down in sporting
phrase as nowhere" No great cause has ever yet
been successful without the aid Of the women--the
side which they have espoused has invariably pros
pered The Bloomers Of the Phalanx, and the Ma
tional Convention of women Mt Syracuse will settle
the Presidential question beyond the shadow Of a
doubt. Their fiat is final The game is up. Weep,
We democrats, ye have lost the spols.
Mr.. WALSH SET RIGHr.-We are requested to
say that our Nicaragua correspondent is wide Of
mark in his statement that Mr. Robert NJ. Walsh, |
as commissioner to Nicaragua, had been guilty Of |
unbecomng conduct towards that government. |
Mr.. Walsh was not accredited to Nicaragua in any