The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-20

PHILOSOPHERS IN THE FIELD-The month of May
promises sport to the scoffers. It Is selected as
the period when the elect Of the rural districts
come up to this wicked metropolis for the pur-
pose of raising the funds wherewith to carry on
the special war in which they are engaged for
another year. The missionary aud purely reli-
gious societies fight CALAMITY against the devil
and all his works. and are therefore justified In
attacking him in his stronghold, and Obliging
him, on the Napoleonic principle, to pay the ex-
penses Of the campaign. On the other hand,
the Boomers, free lovers, spiritualists, CARR
soDian abolitionists, come outers vote-yoursclf
a-farmers, women's Fighters, Fourierites, social
lists, thermometers and Prudhommites, have war
against society and the church, which contest
they have been carrying on for number Of
years, without, 70 far, any very cheering signs
of success Indeed, their special organ-the
Tribune shows signs Of WEAKNESS, and, indeed,
faints by the wayside and shrinks ia the heat Of
the battle
But shall the philosophers be discouraged be-
mamma in the wilderness towards the tlesh-pots
of Egypt? No! At least the women's rights
section hold out bravely. Not satisfied with the
limited circulation of Massa Greeley's paper,
they have selected the HERALD as q vehicle for
the promulg cation of their official advertisements,
as will be seen by the following communica-
TOMS
ROCHESTER, April IS, 1859.
Will you please insert the enclosed notice In the
once this week. you make any charge therefor, please
send your bill me, the Anti Slavery Office, No
meeting. SUSAN b. ANTHONY.
In compliance with Mistress Anthony g request,
we print her adver tisement, as follows
wOMAN's RIGHTS.
Tho ninth anniversary Of the National Womans Rights
Association will be held at Mozart Hail. Broadway, New
York, on Thursday evening, May IL at o'clock;
Addresses by Lucreta Mott ErDesne L. Rose Caroline
II. Dali, Rev. Antoineste Brown Backwei Wendell
Philips.
meeting for business and general discussion will be
held at TX p. M. of same day, and at same place.
Communications should be addressed to Susan b. An
'SSly saSIay ASEra cXny sTsNTN Pres IT,"
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Secretary.
Ofcourse we do not publish advertisements
gratis, any more than the philanthropic Anthony,
the philosophical Rose, or the theological
Blackwell do their work of generally set
ting things to rights (women's not men's)
for nothing. They take up small collcc-
ton at the door, and we do the same thing
over our counter. But as we are anxious for
everybody to have their rights-women and all
(wben they find out what they are) we depart
from our usual rule 80 far as to extend credit to
our correspondent until the meeting of the Con-
vention, and we suggest, respectfully, that she
should hand over the money which she owes Ills
to the Nursery or the Lying-in- Hospital, or
the Woman's Hospital, or some other in
.stitution where the wrongs Of women are re-
dressed, or at least alleviated, by the funds of
wicked and unregenerate men.
We wish the Womans Rights Convention
pleasant time oft The convention next month
will be, we believe, the fourth general assembly
of the disguised angels Oceans of speeches have
been made, miles of pamphlets articles and essays
have been written, but beyond fearful increase
of murders Of wives by their husbands, and vce
versa, somc whipping Of men by women in the
street, and the occasional appearance of mise.
rable looking Bloomers, we have, seen no
special results to their labors. The Bloomer
issue has been abandoned as an incumbrance to
the platform. The style of dress has not been
appreciated anywhere, except among the Canaan
ches. We read of a Bloomer lady crossing the
Plains, and being so much admired by the Red
Men, that one brave offered her husband three
squaws in exchange for her. What pity the
bargain was not consummated! Then the Bloom
ers might have commenced social reform from
primeval principles, and all the other come
cutters might have made a grand rush to the new
land of promise. Here, we are afraid, on account
Of the hardening influences of civilization, poo
pie only laugh at the efforts made for their
regeneration.
However, let Anthony, Rose Il Co. come on
and hold their convention. They are not quite
so valuable to Tiffany, Ball, Stewart, and the
other shopkeepers, as an invoice Of opera
singers but for day or two they are quite as
entertaining.
THE CENTRAL PARK ADDITIONAL DOUBTFUL