The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-13

serve In the milits-in the half pctti-
coat, half pantsioons costdme Of tho
zouave extremitiss. Of osurss-they should not
demand the right Of suffrage. But the most
sensible argument used against Mr.. Cowan's
proposition was that the ladies of America do
not want, and would not exercise, the privilege
or voting II the law placed it within their
reach. This argument, Of course, came from
the married Senator'S; for they must have
drawn the picture in imagination of pleasant
and peaceful domestic scene at the breakfast
table OF Mr.. Jones (democrat), and Mrs.
Jones (radieal)-for all women are radicals,
in domestic If not in political sense-en
election morning, before each went to the polls
to vote.
But, seriously. the question Of negro suf-
frage, which entered largely into this debate,
is one that forces itself so prominently upon
public consideration as to have become a
political necessity, and will have 10 be settled
in favor Of impartial male suffrage. restricted
within certain limits OF intelligence. We can
afford to place female suffrage in allegiance
for the present. seeing that popular opinion,
which is strongly on the side of allowing the
negro to vote is entirely opposed to granting
the same privilege to women, and that the vast
majority of women themselves are strongest in
opposition TO ii.
MORE LAST WORDS ron PROFESSOR LO0MIs.-
1t was perhaps unknd of the meteors, but they
must have been in conspiracy TO thwart the
calculations OF Professor LOOMS They blazed
out, as all the world knows, where he had pre-
dlcted there would be no meteoric shower,
and after there had actually been such
shower be sneeringly contradicted even the
testimony Of the ocean telegraph, which he said
himself would have brought us the news.
Moreover, it now appears that they shone only
by their absence where he had predicted that
the shower would be visible.
At the same time that we telegraphed to our
London correspondent for the result of the OBJ
servations at Greenwich we telegraphed SINH
lar instructions to our San Francisco cores
pondenL The latter, however, reserved for
Tie mail the news that the meteoric shower
was not visible on the Pacific coast where
Professor Loomis was so positively certain
that it would be witnessed. We have just re-
ccived from our San Francisco correspondent a
letter which states the fact aud thus finally
disposes Of the pretensions Of the Yale College
professor as an astronomical prophet. The
meteo,s have beled his predictions, both
afflrmatively and negatively-on the European
coast of the Atlantic by brilliant display. and
on Inc Pacific coast of This continent by no dis
play ut all His New Haven admirers may
persist in their determination to select as an
cpi!aph FOR him these lines from Buffers Hndi-
brns:-
Ia mathematics he greater
Than Tycho srahe, or Ezra Pater
This might be moro appropriate than the
eulogy in Dr. Woicot's Peter Pindar on char
acter
Whose modest wsdom-nevef aims
To find the longitude or burn the Thames.
The learned professor, indeed, cannot fairly
he suspected Of being ambitious 40 burn the
Thames" nor is it likely that he will set any
other river on Are. Yet, like q Titan in minia-
ture. he flung defiance at the meteors, the
ocean cable and the HHRALD; and we fear
that he must now patiently submit to wear
what SHAKESPEARE calls :" the yoke Of in
auspicious stars.'