Year: 1868

vince the offenders that citizens heads have
rights that must be respected, and that police
mems clubs are not always trumps.


Chance for the sorosis.


A ladies' eating club of the ancient and
honorable order of blue stockings is one of the
last sensations of this metropolis. This club
the Sorosis-held a meeting up town on Satur-
day afternoon last, en- grande tenue, assisted by
an excessive force of whiskered Bohemiana
From all that has appeared ofthe proceedings Of
the interesting occasion the business of the
meeting was dining and wining and mutual ad-
miraton, and the grand object of the sorrowfuI
sisters is that of mutual admiration society
''only this and nothing more" There was,
''once upon time, a gay old beer-drinking
philosopher whose creed he thus expressed -


Back and sides go bare, go bare,


Hands and feet go cold;


Give me good ale and don't care


Jolly good ale and old.


But this society of the blue stockings for
swears all such ''thin potations, they say, and
In solids and fluids, pecans and pastry, has set
up the splendid banner of equal rights" with
the old rib roasters of the Manhattan Club.
We submit, however, that the Sorosis ought to
strike higher than the Bohemian's paradise of
good feed, and that the time is at hand for a
grand flank movement upon the democracy in
behalf of women's rights in our political
affairs. Mrs. Susan B. Anthony, we Under
stand has been appointed delegate in behalf
of the women's rights women to the National
Democratic Convention. She should not stand
unsupported in that Convention by the Soross.
She ought to have as her escort into the new
Tammany Hall on 'the glorious Fourth the
whole force of this society Of the sOrrowful
sisters. By this grand move the Presidentess
of the SOrosis may become more famous in the
great American revolution of the nineteenth
than was Madame Roland with her coterie in
the terrific French revolution of the eighteenth
century. Otherwise the Sorosis, we fear, will
be but briefly Pickering fasco.


Passage of the Washington Municipal Bill.


BY vote Of ninety-four to twentysix the
Senate bill relating to contested elections in
the city of Washington was passed by the
House of Representatives yesterday. After
the many shameful acts of this radical Con-
gress nothing that it now does can surprise
the country. The bill in question was intro
duced and carried through for the sole purpose
of enabling the radicals to control the munich
pal affairs of the capital. In attempting to
legalize the illegal act of the City Register,
in giving certificates Of election to three radi-
cal Councilmen, who were not elected, and
to whom he had no power to give such
certificates, the bill is clearly unconstitutional;
for although Congress has sole control over the
District of Columbia it cannot pass an ca post
.facto law which will apply to that territory.
But aside from that point the bill gives the
Register the sole power to decide who is or
who is not elected, and if that individual can,
without shadow of law to sustain him, cast
out some one hundred votes polled at the re-
cent election in an Aldermanic district, he GER
tainly would not hesitate to disfranchise any
number Of voters where his own election was
the stake. The action of Congress- in this
matter is another indication of the dangers
which beset the country by continuation of
radical rule