The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-11

important matters, was allowed to lie over.
We hope some patriotic member will push the
thing through next session. A. generosity or
humanity does not form part of The creed OF
these money making companies, it is useless to
expect spy voluntary action in the premises
from them.
Grand National convention Of Babies.
We received by mail yesterday, in poster
of magnificent proportions, the following Inn
portant proclamation, which we especially
commend to The serious attention Of all the old
graDnies. male and female, OF the won ms rights
associations OF the day, and of all sucking
politicians and old fogies. Read read
GRAND NATION L CONVENTION
BABIEsi
The babies Of the United states invited to convene
at the Fair Grounds Of the Clark County Agricultural
Socie,y Thu sdsy, October s, 1884 at ~hicu time
and place heir parents and admirers earnestly Iii
cited tp attend.
Every possible provision for their comfort viii bs
contain ten thousand persons has been engaged aud viii
be erected for the use Of the convention
Tue subscribers hope to zee ih- hrgest assemblage
OF children that has ever been known on ihe ostuen
They invite The assistance and of all their
On this occasion there will be distributed ny . com
mi. tee Of dirinterested lades aud gentl men,
THREE MAGNIFlCENT PRIzEsl
THE vALuEor
FIVE nUNDRE lOLLARSl
For the purchase of which one toe executive com
mitt*e has visited the manufacturers in New York.
PRIZES
lst grand sweepstake pr MUM of splendid se. Of
YsI plate consisting q c'% 70. set Of 81. pieces
20 similar prize Of equal value 70 the nnest child
ov we, 9 ne and not over Two ..rs Of age
mot exceeding one year OF age
For these prizes all who choose may compete the only
limitation being that the chill shall have been born
within the UniIed States.
The committee Of arrangements pledge them that
all viii be done that money, sxs'ioa ADD attention
o. 10 mai the ntion all thai it's friends wish
The strctsst order and the rigid of pro-
yriety of behaviour win DO enforced For this purpose
speci1 police force Of hunnre1 has been
tae" aid any person Ia the slightest cegree guilt OF
improperly OF language or behaviour VIII immediately
put III der arrest The COMMITTEES have Determined ana
win rmnatiop that tue convention shan
be conducted that lady need Under slightest
apprehension regard to the propriety Of going there
None present their children for competit on ex
cept those who choose 10 do trust that win
exhibition Of budoog 40 sers and such as no
horticultural show can rival We win do part, do
II vINAI, G. H. FREY,
l. PAIT, E. B cassidy,
J KIINEFnTER,, B. H Warbler
SPRINGFIELD, Sept. 9, 1854.
This is but another proof, q somewhat start
ling one we confess, of the progressive spirit
of the age, and of the manifest destiny of
Young America. Who will venture to deny
that we are great people when even the very
infants in the cradle participate ia the general
movement? The deliberative wisdom of the
country will receive q formidable accession of
strength in this grand Ohio convention of in
famine squallers, and we should not be sur
prised if 1t even made its effects felt in the next
Presidential campaign. In any case we may
expect more useful results from it than have
sprung from the sterile and unsatisfactory
movements that have hitherto been digniied
with the title of conventions. This form of ga
thering has for many years been limited to po-
litical conventions, tending to any thing but
the improvement OF politicians and to sgricul-
tural conventions, which have been, generally
speaking more expensive than useful The
Great Industrial Exhibition in LoudoD, follow
ed up by our own clumsy and unsuccessful
imitation, (Which would have proved splendid
affair if differently managed.) gave new i'm
petus to the convention system. From thi.
grand idea of an universal exhibition of alt
things, public ingenuity soon braached of into
specialities, and so we have had national horse
conventions, national OK conventions, national
sheep conventions, and, we believe, in Ken
lucky and elsewhere, national jackass conven-
lions. In New England there was quite
number of Shap ghai conventions last
spring, followed up by tremendous ga
therings, at Albany and elsewhere, Of land
and aquatic geese, ducks, pigeons and other
varieties of the feathered trihe with an occa.
sional sprinkling Of guinea pigs and poodles;
but up to the present time there has been no
Independent special convention Of babies. In
cidentally there were, to be sure, some few
premiums given in New England and one or
two other States to prize infants, but for the
State of Ohio and the county of Clark has
been reserved the imperishable honor of ca'liog
together the first grand national convention of
babies.
Seriously speaking, we look upon this move
ment as the most important and practical
that has been as yet attempted for the improve
ment and perfection of the human race. The
science Of ethnology has been reduced to such
unerring and simple principles since the publica-
ton Of the "Types of Mankind" that there ia no
reason in the world why we should not begin to
apply it to the production of better samples of
humanity than are to be found even in some Of
our high places. Baby conventions will afford the
mothers of the United States what artistic cri-
tics call the opportunities of comparison aud de-
duction; and we know from Sterne's description
in Tristram Shandy Of the accident that deter
mined his own idiosy ncrasy, what slight inHu-
ences may affect the deualnnempnt of the moral