The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-15
NEW XoRKIsMs.
From Our Otvn Correspondent.

From Our 0ton Correspondent
NEW YORK, May Is, 1869.
Thinking, perhaps, that the readers of THE TEIE-
GRAPH might not be unwilling to have something
from eyewitness OF the personneUe Of some of the
principal women connected with the Equal Rights
Convention, whose meetings are just over in this
city, took the trouble to attend their latest stings
and have come away happier and wiser man.
do not present myself in the aspect of a convert,
but am content to lean back and eXclam :-"Shinny
your own side, girls! !" when any demonstra-
tiOns among these women's rights women which
seem to threaten to infringe upon ours.
The last meeting was held in this city on Thursday
night, at Cooper Hail. Almost every seat in that
OblOng room-the more correct term would be lob
wide'-was occupied, although the price Of admis-
sion was twenty-five cents, and half-price for
men. No printed rules in reference to the admis-
sion of infants visible, but since no babies
visible perhaps it is not unfair to conclude that chill
dren in arms were not admitted The audience was
heterogeneous. Here sat Quaker, with his grey
coattails, long enough to be tied in front of him,
folded across his knees between which his broad
brimmed hat was nicely balanced. There poetic
faced young woman fixed her gloatng liquid eyes
upen the speakers in turn, and losing all self-con-
sciousness in her admiration of them presented an
artless contour to the slightly supercous observer.
Scattered on the right and left were bearded men,
brawny as backwoodsmen, who were evidently there
for the first time. At the conclusion of the even
ings entertainment / heard one OF them remark
that it had been as good as six meals to him, and
that Miss Anthony ought to be boxed up
and sent South, both of these re-
marks remaining pleasing enigma to
me. At frequent intervals through the audience oc-
Cured the various wel-known conventional types of
the principal grades of modern society. The nellec
tual and knobby by-browed woman, with very convex
eyes and shining spectacles; the imbecie-mOuthed
man, with small chest and no legs; the curled and
perfumed mnion of the drawing -room with astonish
I'M tic hal N hp m he
monplace clergyman bent on putting the best face
upon an equivocal question:; the thorough home
woman, deluded thither by the persuasion of
friends-these and the different shades that blend
with them made up large measure Of the audi
ence.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the head and front
of the offending She has been often described, and
those who have ever seen her like describing her.
She is a noble-looking patrcian of about sixty with
an abundance of hair perfectly white clustering
around her forehead, and eliminating at the back of
her head in natural chignon of which Lydia ThOmp-
might be proud thirty years hence. Her favorite
deess is of black MORE antique and she is devoid Of
ornaments. Her eyes are dark and fervid her man
ner composed and repressed. She always seemed to
to be ON the point OF saying something which she
orbore to say, yet whenever she did speak it
was happily and to the point. Vexatious
trhes she laughs off, She rarely raises her
voice much above an ordinary level she
possesses great deal Of TACT and knows how to put
a meeting in good humor. Her face is lambent with
dignity and sense of humor. She is too prudent
and orbearing to say the severe truths that might
flood up to her lips. She introduces speakers to the
audience with the quiet grace that might characterize
an introduction in drawing-roOm. She "shuts
down" on masculine nteropers with an unconscious
gravity that is truly comic Her tactics to ignore
their presence by deciding who has the floor, and
that decision whenever the masculine really is an
nterloper, is invariably in favor of some nice young
eteminate fellow among the sisters on the platform
An impression obtains amongst the ungodly that
Miss Susan b. Anthony is raw-boned and red. This
is not the case. Seated at a table upon Mrs Stan
tons right, with one hand supporting her chair or
the side of her head, and the other grasping the
treasury as symbolized in black morocco satchel,
Miss Anthony looks an interesting and highly intel
lectual invalid. Her abundance of fine brown hair
is brushed plainly back of her ears and runs Off into
a waterfall OF moderate dimensions. She is tall,
thin, and OF olive complexion. Her cheeks
are sunken, and her glass-enshrouded eyes
are surrounded by circles Of gloom. Her voice
is monotonous yet not unpleasing and what she says
is characterized from time to time with grim
humor. Upon the evening in question she evidently
thought that Miss Dickinson had done the assOcia-
tion much injustice in not keeping her promise to
lecture for them. This was obvious from her air OF
not having said by any means as much as she might
have said, and | should not be surprised if the
massive-iawed Quakeress and the fiscal Susan have
'sOlHe WOrus' together Wnen tney meet. MISS All
thony wears black silk, with panier retiring as
her waterfall.
The most remarkable-ooking woman who ap-
| peared during all the meetings of the convention
| was Madame Anneke, a German, who has fought in
| several battles, commanded men, had horses killed
| under her, managed a newspaper and been hunted
| from country to country all over Europe. The last
| country she was hunted to was the United States,
where she pursued the rival occupations of sword
ana pen that mad been such favores with her in the
| OLD country. But let us describe Madame Anneke's
personal appearance. She wears black velvet
dress with short skirt and opening nj front some
tmhg IKE mans vest. Around her neck and wrists
| is expensive lace, and her fingers are adorned
| WIN several valuable rings. Her per-
| sonneue is masculine. She looks as Vestvali,
free from nabbiness, might look twenty years from
now Her eyes are blue, capable of intense express
sion and most of the eloquence of her countenance
lies IN them Her thick hair is cut of at the neck so
as not to touch the shoulders in its fall and perhaps
ought 10 add, as distinguishing popularity that
II is parted IN the middle. Her voice is as smooth
and mellow as the mellowest notes of a trumpet
don't believe that Mr.. Levy, even from the corneta
| piston, produces more exquisite vibrations than
dwell in her tones. Her gestures in talking, standing
sitting, are those of aman Before she rose and while