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resolution Was offered in the Board Of Alder
man last evening, recommending the aopoiutmsut
OF special onmittee Of Ave, 20 act in conjunction
win similar committee frem the Board Of Coun-
cilmen, TO proceed to Albany and procure the pas.
ssge Of zach smendnssnts TO the city charter as
would, IN their jadg nent, most oonduce TO the in
terest Of the city, The resoosica gave rise to
siderable discussion and, after amin ated debate,
was referred to the Committee on Laws resolu-
tion TO tax city railroad cars was also offered
which, after being amended, was referred 10 the
Committee on Ordinances
Nothing of very especial interest came up in the
Board Of Councmen lsst evening. Mayor Woods
first veto received In relation to resolution OF
the Board directing the Commissioner Of Rspsrs
and Supplies to employ men 20 take down the
ruins of the City Hall. rhe resolution was vetoed,
on the ground that the mode In viii ,h the work
was directed to be done conficted with the city
charter.
Cossoa continued quite firm yesterday, and the
sales reached about $500 bales; shout 500 20oe
were on the SPOT, sad the remainder 10 transttw
The market closed In favor of sellers. We quote
middline UploDds &C., do Florida at $50. sic
Mobile OF sse., sDd New Orleans and Texas a, slcl
State and aesfeEO brands Of -four we're unchanged,
at Saturdays rates. southern continued dull
Wheat was nominal Indian corn favored purchas
err, closing at l03 l04 for Southern white and
yellow. An extra lot OF Southern white Sold at log.
Mixed Wssdul Provisions were at about Saturday.
quotations, with moderate transactions. About 500
bbls. lard and 500 boxes short middles Of bacon
were sold, deliversbleon ship board, at Baltimore
for export the former at l0c. and the lat er Mt TIC
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The Old ,Wanen,s Convention OF the Day and
the New Rev olution. .+.....
They have been holding for some days past,
at New Orleans, another of those curious pow
vows, called Southern Commercial Cenven-
tions; and they have been proposing various
devices for developing the resources, stirring
up the dormant industry, and for establishing
the commercial independence Of the SCatn.
Among these devices they propose that the Pa
cific railroad shall go by some Southern Route,
tapping the Atlantic at Charleston--thas pne
lands ought to be voted literally to. Southern
railroads--that Cuba must be had-and that
it would be good thing to re-establish the
slave trade between the baracoons of the coast
of Africa, and the neglected seaports of Mexico.
Such are some of the principal expedieats
laid before this Southern Convention at New
| Orleans, the great object of which ia to devise
| the ways and means Tor rendering the South
| wholly Independent Of the North in domestic
| manufactures and foreign commerce. Well the
| old women in both hemispheres have lately been
| stirring themselves, and holding all sorts OF
conventions upon matters OF science, religion,
politics and trade and this New Orleans
Convention may be classed among them. The
gravity and practical utility, of its proceedings
are only surpassed by the awful and pompons
solemnity of the doings of the late grand coun-
| Gil at Rome upon the paramount question Of
the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Yir.
gin. If the learned Roman hierarchy have
unanimously authorized the Pope to decree to
the allied armies at Sebastopol, "and the rest
of mankind" the Immaculate Conception of
the Virgin as dogma of faith, and as the true
road to the golden streets of the New Jerusa
lem, so is the New Orleans convention equal.
| ly unanimous in favor Of Southern railroad
as the true route to the gold mines of CaIifor-
| MIA. 49,.
| Upon other subjects the practical utility of
the propositions entering int he'dpliberayioos
Of the New Orleans convention, are Oh & par
with the resolutions of our women's rights,
and other old granny conventions Of the North
II the New Orleans reformers have resolved
that we must have Cuba, our women's rights
women have resolved over and over again, that
they must have the right OF suffrage, the right.
to run for Congress or the Legislature, for Pre-
sident or for Governor; and an equal right to
- ,lpn nv 90 nj oh In
the bIeeches. And if it has been proposed at
New Orleans TO take measures for re opening
the African slave trade with Africa, our old gran
ny conventions Of the North, of both sexes and
all colors have been resolving tor twenty years
past, that slavery and all distinctions Of color
shall be abolished So, too, II our Southern
conventions have decreed in favor Of liberal
grants of the public domain to Southern rail
roads, our land reformers of the North, old wo-
men included, are working away like beavers
for the cession of all the public lands in free
farms to actual squatters upon the dogma of
the Hutchinson family, that
Uncle Sam is rich enough
To give us all a iaru.
4 Even the great cardinal measure OF these South
/ ern conventions-that of establishing the bene
| fits of direct traffic and free trade between
| Southern and European ports-is eclipsed by
| the proclamation of Miss Frederick Bremen,
which proposes nothing less than universal
association Of ladies, young and old, Of all
| Christendom, for the abolition of sin and misery
! throughout the world.
| No. no. Southern abstraction conventions
and speeches, and resolutions, will no more
alter the laws and channels of trade, nor build
Pacific railroads, nor secure the Island of Cuba
nor re-establish the slave trade than will our