The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-01

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Tue MAYoRALrY-FERNAND0 W00D IN THE
FHID-Wben the Holy Alliance had CON
fortably located Napoleon Bonapsrte on tho
Island Of Eiba they considered him ont Of the
way; but one fine morning., very early ia the
spring, the report Of hIs return to France,
upon bis owo book" startled the Allied Pow.
ere, and brought about q sudden change in the
programme upon which they we're engaged. So
DOW, we apprehend, has the following authorits-
tive proclamation, through the Daily Ne,os
broken in upon the calculations of Tammany
Hall concerning Fernando Wood and the
Msyoralty. Says the News:--
subject 70 have susnorasivsly STATED that Mr. Wood
he es, su be tie d.rsocrdtic candidate for Nsyr
Dsc~mbr, and % add tAa tere Is no cnprome and ~
oh~ p ssto~-cty, Stote N wati@sal-thG ooAd induce
him 70 from tA p,,pose Those VINO desire 70 do
feat his election thus notaed In me that they may
mako al the necessary arrangements and combinasions
We give the cream Of this extract In italics, as
we find 1t, 30 that the Tammany sachems may be
assured Of the earnestness and emphasis of this
pronuncaniento. Mr.. Wood Is In the field as an
independent democratic stump candidate for
port him, 10 be it; but IL the Wigwam shall
undertake to set up another candidate, the cleo.
ton last year Of Robert T. Haws, as Comptrol-
Ter, is strikipgly suggestive Of the inevitable
result II this Is not pinning down the sachems
sagamores and whiskey skins of Tammany to
the exact question of yea or nay, we are some
what mistaken in our estimate of the aforesaid
manifesto.
But il must not be understood from this move.
ment Of the ex.Mayor that he contemplates any
factious opposition to the democratic cause in
our November State election. On the contrary,
we are informed that It is his purpose to stump
the State for the democratic State ticket, and for
the defeat of the republicans as the party repre-
senting the reasonable abolition platform of w.
Il. Seward. Our December municipal election
will be another affair, in which Mr.. Wood, as be
pretty plainly intimates, will square up his un-
Hall He may have taken this idea from the
Charleston Convention movements Of Wise and
Douglas; but at all events, our readers, in this
declaration Of the exMayor to stand before the
people upon his own merits, will discover the
power which one resolute man may exercise
against the Oldest electioneering machine on the
continent.
The WoMAN's RIGHTS MOvEMENT-POLIrI-
CLANS IN PETVIcoArs.-Very little has bsen
heard of late of that curious social excrescence
denominated the woman's rights party. Lucy
Stone had let her hair grow, taken husband,
and put on crinoliue. The Rev. Miss Antoinette
Brown had also changed her name, tackiug on
to her maiden patronymic the addition of Black
well, and taking to herself husband Of that
name. Mrs. Abby Kelly Foster had found the
management of her man Stephen as much as che
could attend to. Mrs. Branch had gone little
too far ahead in her advocacy of womans rights
and considerable odium had been brought On the
movement by the free love doctrines and prac-
tees which came to be dovetailed into 1t; and 80
it came to pass that people had begun to forget
all about woman's rights, or to suppose, at least,
that the subject had passed into the domain of
dead and gone curiosities.
1t appears, however, that there is still soma
vitality left in the curious thing; for we see that
there was womans rights convention held at
Saratoga week ego, Az which Miss Susan
B. Anthony and the Rev. Antoinette represented
the progressive o.. - - .hn;- ann aaw uhiIn
.i.o Raacnfine side, Judge Culver, of Brook.
Ign, and one Of the Lebanon Shakers, did some
talking in support Of the movement. How the
ladies could tolerate the presence of one Of the
Society Of Shakers, whose principles would de-
prive them Of the enjoyment Of the dearest of all
their rights, is slight inconsistency which we
leave to themselves to reconcile.
The platform Of principles adopted by the
Convention combines some general moral refec-
tions with the one declaratory resolve that their
great work was to discuss the right of woman to
vote and to be voted for. It will take great
deal OF discussion, we imagine to convince any
man that the position Of his wife, or sister, or
daughter, is to be improved by bringing her into
contact with political rowdies on the Five Points
Woman's empire is in the family circle, and SO
long as she rules there worthily and efficiently
ahe exerts an influence greater than legislative or
political assemblies can ever do. It is from the
cultivation Of the domestic virtues that true hap
plneas and true greatness spring. The greatest
evil thai enlightened strangers notice in our ma
honal habits is, that they do not sufficiently fos
ter love of home and Of domestic pursuits aud
amusements. To allow our wives and sisters ito
vote and to be voted for" would be bad way
OF remedying that evil. Politics don't improve
men, and we can't afford to let the women be
spoiled by them also. If the would-be reform
ers In breeches and petticoats, who met at Sara
toga last week, cannot suggest anything better
than to unsex women by making them politicians
they had better give up their trade of reformers
and take to their ordinary occupations. The
woman's rights movement is about played out
since Lucy Stone has turned to rocking the
cradle.
MUSIC AT NEwronT-The vsitors at Newport have been