The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-14
NEW YORKIsMS.
From Our Ol0n Correspondent,

NEW YORK, May IA, 1860.
Well well what nice time of it the women have
been having at Cooper Hall, to be sure! Two whole
days all to themselves the very heart of the city of
New York. and to-day jubilee over at the Brooklyn
Academy OF Music. The warmth of Wednesday and
the mugginess OF Thursday abated their ardor not
jot. Headed by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and
abetted by Susan b. Anthony, the stageful OF poti-
cal Pardiggles and evangezing Jellibys at Cooper
Institute something more curious than one sees
oftener than once or twice in a lifetime. This
Woman's Rights Convention which has been held
for the last two days. morning and evening, at
Cooper Institute, is very extraordinary affair. Its
political significance is of its chief claim to
public interest After that come other consdera-
tions, such as the ages and toilettes
of the various parties, their respective
positions in the social scale, the conflicting motives
that drew them thither the amount OF sincerity and
venaty mingled together the ardor Of their hopes,
the speedness with which these hopes will be real
zed or the sowness OF the death they will die One
of the evening speakers was that chaste refulgency
of the stage, Miss Olive Logan, one of whose beliefs
it is, according to q recent article of hers in Packayds
Monthly, that young babies ought to be entrusted to
servants while the mothers are out getting living
Miss Oliv0 has good deal to say about virtue, chas-
tity, and the decentralization of the modern stage.
She was particularly hard upon the wearers OF yellow
hair and the sporters OF padded limbs and made
pointed and whitening illusions to buresque-queens
mo names being mentioned" however. She stated
that il was not necessary for her to allude to her
reasons for leaving the stage, but bearing in mind
the overwhelming brilliancy OF her debut, some
four or five years ago, as "Jua" in The Huilch-
back, at the Chestnut Street Theatre Phila-
delphia, one is tempted to be curious perhaps,
and to press the question why did she abandon the
stage and adopt magazne-writing and the lecturers
rostrum? The sprightliness and vivacity OF Olive
Logan however, are an excellent seton to the sterner
stun furnished by the pillars of the convention. Mrs.
soft in tha no ahafr
OF the Modern Gracchi, and Miss Anthony kept watch
on her left like the maiden aunt of those heroes.
Other members present were Madame Matide Fran
Ziska Anneke, from Milwaukee, Mrs. NJ. f. Wendt
OF HobOken, Miss Phebe Coggens from st. Louis,
Mrs Livermore from Chicago the Rev. Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, etc. Among all these fine manly
looking young women, who were evidently in earnest
about their rights noticed good deal OF bone and
rawness. Why tendency to redness in the female
nose should be sympathetic of strongmndedness
is one of those psychcal mysteries which is not to
be fathOmed in this early stage Of the female suffrage
question. That 1t is so Cooper Institute has abun-
dainty testified during the last two days, and so
leave the fact as found it.
1t is proper however, that should add in this
nectiOn that the WOmens Bureau, ON Twenty-third
street near the Academy of Design, has been opened,
and threatens to be success. The Revolution has
broken out on one moor, and number Of other
hybrid innovations are spreading themselves through
out the other stories. Women are giving new in
depreciation TO the text which says she is "bone of
mans bone and flesh of his flesh" They are try
ing to neutraze the distinction OF SEX and to char
acterze the nineteenth century with political her.
maphroditism, far, at least the United States
concerned. 1t was hoped that the Sorosis would
fraternize-I use the word ''fraternizen advisedy-
with the ladylke young fellows who conduct the
Revolution but it has been Unexpectedly discovered
that the Soross are afraid of being oyershadowed,
and prefer seeking quarters for themselves else
where. The fact is the Sorosis are only playing at
being in earnest, while the ReUOlntiOn and the dash
ing corps of pettcoats that run it solemn and
remorseless as death itself
The newly elected Police Commissioner, Mr.. Henry
Smith, in place of Mr., Acton resigned, has been tax
ing mild look into his prospective duties, and en-
uurng all the embaTrassments Of public man in
new ana untred sphere He has as yet, taken no
part in the sittings Of the Board, oontentng himself
WIN watching It's actions ana acQuaintlng himself
G'.L tAe I2turc o! the questions II discusses, ~