, ,5..- ‘ _j-‘.49 - J. .... ., _,t=.._.A-«A.-_.._,_-.2...-.-_.. : I , PROGRESS 2 FREE THOUG BREAKING THE WAY FOR I-IT i UNTRAMMELis3DLIvEsz , UTURE GENERATIONS. I Vol. 4.-«No. 26.——Wh0le No. 104. NEW YORK, MAY 11, 1872. at PRICE TEN cunts. .. Q TOLEDO, PEORIA AND Warsaw Railway Second Mortgage Convertible '7‘ Per Cent. Currency Bonds. Interest Warrants Payn able October c3: April. Principal 1886. We oifer for sale $100,000 of the above bonds in block. By act of reorganization of the Company these bonds are convertible into the First Preferred Shares of the Company, which amounts to only 17,000 shares, and into the Consolidated Bonds (recently negotiated at Amsterdam) of six millions of dollars, which cover the entire line, of 230 miles of completed road, to- gether with all the rolling stock and real property, to the value of more than ten millions of dollars. The road crosses the entire State of Illinois, and connects with the mammoth iron bridges spanning the Missis- sippi at Keokuk and Burlington. The‘ income of the road for the year will net sufficient to pay interest on all the bonded indebtedness and dividend on the pre- ferred shares. For terms apply to Clark, Dodge & Co., 103 Corner Wall and William Streets. NEW YORK sAvINc—s BANK, Eoiihih Are. our. Fourteenth SI. six rnn CENT. INTEREST allowed on all sums from $5 to $5,000. Deposits made on or before August 1 will draw interest from I ugust 1. , Assets, $2,473,303 05. Surplus, $200,272 95. X Safe and Profitable, CANADA SOUTHERN FIRST MORTGAGE SINKING FUND,THIRTY YEARS 7 per cent. Gold Bonds. AT 90 and Accrued Interest. A‘ The Road runs from Buffalo to the Detroit River, and is the Eastern link in the new Air Line from sorrALo to CHICAGO, and has been under construction for about two years past by railroad men who have seen the necessity for a Steel Rail. Low Gracie Short Route between the great railroad systems which diverge from CHIGAGQ, TOLEDO AND BUFFALO.‘ Among the builders of the road, by whose cash sub- scriptions 200 miles (out of 290) have already been grad- ed, bridged, and made ready for the superstructure, a. large part of the steel rails bought, all of the materials for the stations and a part of the equipment purchased, are ; MILTON COlJ'R'I‘RIGHT, J OHH F. TRACY, DAVID DOWS, WM. L. SCOTT, HENRY FARI-IAM, R, A. FORSYTH, HENRY II. PORTER, JOHN M. BURKE, M. L. SYKES. JR., B. F. ALLEN, all Directors'either in the Chicago and Northwest or in the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific ; §GEO. OPDYKE, of the Midland Road ;JOHN B. ALLEN, SIDNEY DILLON, DANIEL DREW, J. S. CASEMENT, J. 8: J. CASEY, O. S. CHAP- MAN, JOHN ROSS, DAVID STEWART, and F. H. WINSTON. The road will be 33 Miles Shorter than any Other Road. either built or in contemplation between Buffalo and Chicago, and will also shorten the distance between Toledo and Buffalo 23 miles. THE MAXIMUM GRADE on the entire line does not exceed fifteen feet to the mile——and Ninety-six per cent. of the road is STRAIGHT; The road will be completed and in running order on or before December 21st ofthis vear. The principal and interest of the bonds are payable either in New York, London or Frankfort. ‘ We confidently recommend the bonds to all classes of stors. ’ LEONARD, SHELDON & FGSTER, N0. 10 WALL STEET. l00tf. ‘ ' RAILROAD IRON, non SALE BY . s. W HOPKINS & 00., 71 BROADWAY. Baniini House of HENRY GLEWS 8:00., 32 “fall Street, N. Y. Circular Notes and Letters of Credit for travelers; also Commercial Credits issued available throughout the world. ’ Bills of Exchange on the Imperial Bank of London, National Bank of Scotland, Provincial Bank of Ire- land, and all their branches. Telegraphic Transfers of money on Europe, San Francisco and the West Indies. Deposit accounts received in either Currency or Coin, subject to check at sight, which pass through the Clearing House as if drawn upon any city ,ba.nk;‘ interestollowed on all daily balances; Certificates of Deposit issued bearing interest at current rate; Notes and Drafts collected. State, City and Railroad Loans negotiated. CLEWS, HABICHT & CC., 11 Old Broad St., London. BANKING AND FINANCIAL. 9 The St... Joseph and Denver City Railroad » Company’s FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS Are being absorbed by an increasing demand for them. Secured as they are by a first mortgage on the Road, Land Grant, Franchise, and Equipments, combined in one mortgage, they command at once a ready market. A Liberal Sinking Fund provided in the Mortgage Deed must advance the priceupoul the closing of the loan. Principal and interest payable in GOLD. Inter- est at eigtht (8) per cent per anuum. Payable, semi- annually, free of tax. Principal in thirty years. De- nominations, $1,000, $500 and $100 Coupons or Regis- tered. . Price 97 1-2 and accrued interest, in currency, from February 15, 1872. ’ Maps, Circulars, Documents, and information fur- nished. Trustees, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of New York. Can now be had through the principal Banks and Bankers throughout the country, and from the under- signed who unhesitatingly recommend them. TANNER & 00., Bankers, 98 No. 11 Wall street, New York. AUGUST BELMONT & C0., ' BANKERS, 50 Wall Street. Issue Letters of Credit to Travelers, available in all parts of the world, through the MESSRS. DE ROTHSCHILD and their eorrespondents.‘_ Also, make telegraphic transfers of money ‘on Callfornia, Europe and Havana. Anmson OAMMACK. OSBORN & CAMMACK, 0. J’. OSBORN. BAN KB} R S, - No. 34 BROAD STREET. STOCKS, STATE BONDS, GOLD AND FEDERAL SECURITIES. bought and sold on Commission. Rail Road Bonds. ~,. Whether you wish to Buy or Sell write to CHARLES W. IIASSLER, N0. '7 WALL STREET, New York. 62-113 AN UNDOUBTED Security, 0 PAYING so PER cm. MORE INCOME THAN 0 0 VERNMENTB ONDS, AND 9 1-2 per Cent on the Investment. FIRST MORTGAGE SINKING FUND GOLD BONDS OF THE Lganspon, Brawiordsville and South-Iilestejrngflailwayoi Indiana. THEY BEAR 8 per Cent. Gold. INTEREST PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ll/IEW YORK, FREE OF GOVERNMENT TAX.‘ AND ARE, COUPON AND REGISTERED. ’ p The issue is limited to $16,300, per mile, in denomi- nations of $1,000, $500 and $100. This Road, 92 miles long, a.fl‘ords the shortest existing outlet to Chicago, Toledo, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Logans- » port, and intermediate points for the celebrated Block and Bituminous Goal of Parke County, as, also, for the large surplus products of the rich agricultural and min- eral sectious of the State which it traverses. ‘ For the present we are oflering thesehlionds at 95 and accrued interest in currency, or will exchange them for Government Bonds, or otherjmarketable securities, at the rates of the day. Further and full particulars, with pamphlets and maps furnished by us on personal or written applica- tion. Joivns as SCHUYLER", No. 12 PINE sT., NEW YORK. FINANCIAL AGENTS or run conrnnr. 2 WOODHULL .& CLAFLlN’S WEEKLY. May 11, 1872. f Tll’E“lNEW‘D'iS“COVERY. \ In ‘Chemical and Medical Science. .1 \* ‘ ' - \\\\\\\\\\\~ sit! "a :3““““"” “““\\\\i\ — /I}. \t"x\ A7,. I ‘ I » ‘ 137-.“‘% GA Vlzvas SOLUTION X: UUMPUUND ELIXIR M or .— I 1. _ _, FRST AND NLY UTION ever mace ‘ 4 in one mixture of ALL THE TIYELVE valuable active principals of the well known curative agent, _, PINE TREE TAR, UNEQUALED in fCoughs, Colds, Catarrh, Asthma, Bronchitis, and consumption. , CUEES VVITI-IOUT FAIL Arecent cold in three to six hours; and also, by its VITALISING, PURIFYTENG and STI- MULATIN G effects upon the general system, is remarkably eflicacious in all DISEASES OF THE BLOOD. - ‘including Scrofula. and Eruptions of the skin, Dyspepsia, Diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, Heart Disease, and General Debility. ONE TRIAL CONVINCESI ’ ALs A Volatile .So11ition of Tar For INHALATION, without application of HEAT. A remarkably VALUABLE discovery, _ as the whole apparatus can be carried in the vest pocket, readv at any time for the most effectual and positively curative use in , All Diseases of the NOSE, THROA and LUNGS. THE COMPOUND Tar and Mandrake Pill. for use in connection with the ELIXIR TAR, is a combination of the W0 most valuable ALTERATIVE Medicines known in the Pro- fession, and renders this Pill without exception the very best ever offered. -Th ‘SOL TION and COMPOUND ELIXIR of is without dou the es emedy now ‘ cases of EEIOLERH AND VELLGW FEVER. It is a Specific for such diseases, and should be kept in the household of every family, especially during those months in which SHQLERA All YELLGW FEVER are liable to prevail. A small quantity taken ~ gaily Will prevent contracting these terrible iseases. Solution and Compound Elixir, $1.00 per Bottle Volatile Solution for Inhalation, $5.00 per Box Tar and Mandrake Pills, 50cts per box. Send for Circular of POSITIVE CURES to your Druggist, or to - 1.. F. HYDE 8:: co., SOLE PROPIRIETORS, 110 CE.” 22d St., _.New York. E“ Sold by all Druggists. . tf. SAFES. EIAEVINSS boss I AEEITHE BEST. . 265 BROADWAY. NATIONAL SAVINGS‘ BANK. THE I<‘REEDMAN"'S SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY. (Cliartered by the Government of the United States.) DEPOSITS OVER $3,000,000. 185 BLEECKER STREET, NEW YORK. SIX PER CENT. interest commences first of each , month. Four per cent. allowed from date of each deposit for full number of days, not less than thirty, on sums of $50 and upward, withdrawn before January. DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES, as safe as Registered Bonds, and promptly available in any part of the ‘United States, issued, payable on "demand, with in terest due. ‘ Accounts strictly private and confidential. Deposits payable on demand, with interest due. Interest on accounts of certificates paid by check to ~ . depositors residing out of the city if desired. ‘ Sand for Circular. ‘A Open daily from 9jA. M.‘t0.5 P. M., and MONDAYS and SATURDAYS from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. ~- V .' .. JOHN J. ZUILLE, Cashier. 5 “THE BLEES NOISELESKS, " LINK—MO’I‘lON, L-OCK-S'l‘I'.l‘ClI \?\\ ‘ma Sewing Challenges‘ the world in perfection of work, strength I and beauty ofstitch, durability or aonstruction and rapidity of motion. Call and examine. Send for circular. wanted. 3 MANUFACTURED BY SIEES Stwlild hidtlliltli $9., use n'IroAD‘IvAE, New York. » am I. cisco dz: Sou, BANICERS, No. 59 ‘Wall Street, New York. Gold and Currency received on deposit, subject to check at sight. Interest allowed on Currency Accounts at the rate of Four per Cent. per annum, credited at the end of each month. ALL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROUGH THE CLEARING—HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIVED ’ON DEPOSIT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS. Certificates of Deposit issued, payable on demand, bearing Four per Cent. interest. Loans negotiated. Orders promptly executed for the Purchase and Sale of Governments, Gold, Stocks and Bonds on commission. Collections made on all parts oi the United States and Canadas. 6~ti8 sAM’L BARTON. HENRY ALLEN BARTON & ALLEN, » BANKERS Mid SEEKERS, No. 40 BROAD STREET. Stcicks, Bonds and Gold bought and sold on com- E 01). Eiatllitlit a we PIANO-FORTES. The Best Pianos at the Lowest Prices, And upon the most favorable terms of payment. We invite the attention of persons intending to purchase Pianos to our New Illustrated Catalogue, giving full description of Styles and Prices, and the terms on which we sell to those desiring to make EASY MONTHLY PAYMENTS. SEND FOR A CATALOGUE. CHICKERING as SONS, No. 11 EAST FOURTEENTH S’l‘., NEW YORK. HARVEY FISK. A. 8. HATCH. OFFICE OF FISK &; HATCH. BANKER& , AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, No. 5 NASSAU STREET, N. Y., Opposite U. S. Sutb-Treasury. We receive the accounts of Banks, Bank- ers, Corporations and others, subject to check at Sight, and allow interest on balances. We make special arrangements for interest on deposits of specific sums for fixed periods. ‘We make collections on all points in the United States and Canada, and issue Certifi~ catcs of Deposit available in all parts of the Union. ‘ ‘ ‘ We buy and sell, at current rates, all classes of Government Securities, and the Bonds oi the Central Pacific Railroad Company; also, Gold and Silver Coin and Gold Coupons. We buy and sell, at the Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks and Bonds, on commis- sion, for cash. V Communications and inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receive careful attention. FISK & HATCH. ecu Agents, PATENT STDSEING Scrrcnrss _ AND LADIES’ rsorncron. NO MORE COLD FEET—~NO MORE “ DEFORMED LIMBS: MRS. DANIELS takes pleasure ,-in offeri-ng the above articles to ladies, with the assurance that they will give satisfaction. . ’ The trade supplied ata.,discount.. I U - No. 63 Clarendon Street L V V __ \ BOSTON. MRS. C. A. GAYNOR, S24. Broailway, New York. SYPHIER & co, (Successors to D. Mai-lcy,) No. 557 BIIOADWAY, NEW YORK, Dealers in I MODERNANI) ANTIQUE Furniture, Bronzes, CHINA, ARTICLES OF VERTU. Established 1826. OR A BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH, With plumper-s to set out the cheeks and restore the face to its natural appearance. Movable plumpcrs adjusted to old sets, weighted Lower Sets, fillings Gold, Amalgam, Bone,’ etc. ‘ TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN With Nitrous Oxide Gas. No extra charge when others are inserted. SPLENDID SETS, $10 to $20. L. BERNHARD, No. 216 Sixth Avenue, Between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets east side. W M. DIBBLEE, LADIES’ HAIR DRESSER, : ‘ 854 Broadway ‘ HAS REMOVED mom ms s-ronu To run , FIRST FLOOR, where he will continue to conduct his business in al its branches TWENTY-FIV E PER CE NT. C llEA.Plt‘B than heretofore, in consequence of the dliiercllce in his rent. « CHATELAINE BRAIDS, LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S WIGS, and everything appertaining to the business will be kept on hand and made to order. DIBBLEEANIA for stimulaflng, JAPONICA for soothing and the MAGIC TAR SALVE for promoting the growth of the hair, constantly on hand. Consultation on diseases of the scalp, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. Also, his celebrated HARABA ZEHNJ, or FLESH BEAUTIFIER, the only pure and harm- less preparation ever made for the complexion. N0 lady should ever be without it. Can be obtained only at _ . .WM. DIBBLEEPS, 354 Broadway. up-stairs. Imus. II. F. M. rxnowuas Postoffice address, till February, will be 132 Wood land avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. IN PRESS. The Life, Speeches, Labors and Essays 013' WILLIAM H. SYLVIS, Late President of the Iron~Moulders’ International Union ; and also of the National Labor Union. BY HIS BRO'l‘HER—JAISd'ES C. SYLVIS, Of Suubury, Pa. “We must show them that when a just monetary system has been established there will no longer exist a necessity for Trad es’ Unions.” - Wu. H. SYLVIS. PHILADELPHIA : CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAI<‘]3‘ELFINGER, 819 and 821 Market street. LEO MILLSER, OF NEW YORK, Will present to the public THE WOMAN QUESTION IN A NEW LIGHT. SUBJECT “WOMAN, AND HER RELATIONS TO TEMPER- ANCE AND OTHER REFORMS.” Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, in a letter to Gen. Jordan, of Pennsylvania, says: “ I had the pleasure of canvassing with Leo Miller Esq., in New Jersey, and I most cordially recommen him to our friends in your State as a gentleman of rare talent and character and a most eifective and elo- quent speaker.” ' CHARLES H. EOSTEE, , TEST. MEDIUM. 16 East Twelfth street, N. Y. The Road to Power. SEXUAL SCIENCE. Physical and Mental Regeneration. %.“;;:35,,£§°:3%§: men. Price 50 cents.‘ Address F. , I 1 , Wcllsville, Mo. D . W. H U L L , PSYCHOMETRIC AND CLAIRVOY' . A1VT~._PI~IY«SI‘CIAN, , will diagnose disease and give prescriptions from a lock or hair or photograph, the pzlticntfbeing‘ required wi be‘ given by giving‘ him the leading symptoms, but she tics are not required to do so. Watch the papers or his address, or direct to Hobart, Ind., and wait till the letters can be iorwardcd to him. Terms, $3. Money refunded when he fails to Lreten rapport with the patient. ‘ LAURA DE FORCE GORDON, Of California, Will make engagements to lecture upon the follow- ing subjects : I. “ Our Next Great Political Problem." II. “ Idle Women and Workingmen.” III. “ A Political Crisis.” Terms madclinown on application. Address, WASHINGTON, D... c. — DR. 0. S. WEEKS, D E N T I S No. 412 FOURTH AVE, Between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets, NEW YORK. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN, By the use of Chemically pure Nitrous Oxide or Laugh- ing Dr. W. has used it several years, extracting teeth for thousands with complete success, and with no bad effects in any instance. All operations pertaining to Dentistry performed in the most careful and thorough manner, at reasonable price. 9:; LIBERAL BOOK STORE. WARREN CHASE. 1:. L. MOORE. E. LUKENS. WARREN CHASE & C0., 614 N. FIFTH STREET,” ST. LOUIS, MO. Liberal and Spiritual Books and Papers PARLOR GAMES, VOLTAIC SOLES. PIIRENOLOGICAL BUOICS, (QC. 1l’i1,~> Comprising a complete assortment of all Books published and advertised by W . White & 00., J. P. Mendum, S. S. Jones, and other Liberal publishers, \vith,r:_tll Liberal Papers, &c. Dr. H. Storer’s Nutritive Compound. Dr. Spence‘s Positive and Negative Powders. FREERECK KlJRTZ’S DINING ROOMS 23 New Street and 60 Broadway AND 76 Maiden Lane and 1 Lilbcrly SI. Mr. Kurtz invites to E301 and comlortably fur nished dining apartments the down-town public, as- suring them that they will always flnd there the choicest viands, served in the most elegant style, the most carefully selected brands of wines and liquors, as well as the most prompt attention by accomplished 67-79 waiters . PAID FOR . OLD NEWSPAPERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION; OLD PAMPHLETS of every kind; OLD BLANK-BOOKS AND LE])GERs thug; are written iull , and all kinds of WASTE PAPER from Bankers Insurance Companies, Brokers, Patent-Medh ’ Cine Depots, .Pr1nt1ng-.Oflices, Bookbind. 61's,. Public and Private Libraries, HQtels, Steamboats, Railroad Companies, and Express Offices, &c. , JOHN C. STOCKWELL, 25 Ann street, N. Y. 68—-120. to ive name, age, residence, &c. A better diagonosis _ MAXWELL & 00., Bankers and Brokers, No. 11 BROAD STREET, New Yomz. THE LAW or MARRIAGE, AN EXHAUSTIVE ARGUMENT AGAINST MARRIAGE LEGISLATION, y c. S. JAMES, Author of “Manual of Transcendental Philosophy.” For Sale by the Author, post paid, for 25c. Address Alma, Wis. 75 I does not aspire to the honor of being a conspiracy. May 11, 1872. \ 3.‘ WOODHULL gt CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. . i I V 3- -mgu. ( gr; ,. The Books and Speches of Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennis Cé§Claflin will hereafter be furnished, postage paid, at the fol- lowing liberal prices : The Principles of Government, by Victoria C. Wood- ‘ hull ; p i3 00 Constitutional Equality, by Tennie C. Claflin ; 2 50 Woman Suffrage guaranteed by the Constitution, speech by Victoria C. Woodhull ; ‘" The Great Social Problem of Labor and Capital, speech by Victoria C. VVoodhull ; The Principles of Finance, speech by Victoria C. Wood- hull ; ' Practical View of Political Equality, speech by Tennie C. Claflin ; Majority and Minority Report of the Judiciary Com1nit- tee on the Woodhull Memorial ; Carpenter and Cartter Reviewed——-A Speech before the S'uffrage Conven.tion at Washington ; Each per copy ; 10 per 100 ; 5 00 The Principles of Social Freedom; 25 The Impending Revolution, 25 ~——-—4>—o-«ow»:- POST OFFICE NOTICE. 'I‘he mails for Europe during the week ending Saturday, May 11, 1872, will close at this ofiice on Wednesday at 10 A. M., on Thursda_v at 11 A. M., and on Saturday at 11 A. M. P. H. JONES, Postmaster. --—*—+-~a>—¢>—-————— MRS. A. M. MIDDLEBROOK. ... Recently we gave our readers some account of this talented lady whom we are able to,count among our most respected friends. She is open to_ engagements to speak upon any subject of general interest—religious, political or social-—any- where in the States east of the Mississippi River. Terms, $75 and expenses. VVe take pleasure in recommending her to our friends, as one of the most profit-able as well as entertaining speakers in the field. Her address is box 778 Bridgeport, Conn. ————ea-oat-——~—-—— THE INTERNATIONAL. It ought to be known. that this association is not secret-sit Its meet- ings are held in public; they are open to all comers, though only members are permitted to speak (unless by special invitation), and none but members are allowed to vote. The‘ several sections in this city and vicinity meet as follows: Section 1 (German).-—Sunday, 8 P. M., at the Tenth Ward Hotel, corner of Broome and Forsyth streets. Section 2 (Fr_cn.cl1).—-~Sunday, 9:30 A. M., at No. 100 Prince street. , Section 6 (German).-~Meets in 66 and 68 Fourth street, in the N. Y. Turn Hallo, every Thursday evening at 8 o’oLooK. Section 7 (Irish).——First and third Sundays at 3 p. m., at 26 Delaney street. Section 8 (German).—-Sunday, 3 P. M., at No. 53 Union avenue, VVillia1nsburgh, L. I. , ' Section 9 (American).-~Wednesday, 8 P. M., at No 35 East T wenty-seventh street. Section 10 (French).——Meets every Thursday at the N. W. corner of Fortieth street and Park avenue, at 8 P. M. Section 11 (Germ-an).~—Thursday, 8 P. M., West Thirty- ninth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, at Hessel’s. [Section 12 (American) meets the second and fourth Sundays in each month. Due notice of the place of meeting will be given in our next issue. Section 13 (German).—Every Friday, at 805 Third avenue. Section 22 (French).—~The second and fourth Friday in each month, 8 P. M., at Constants, 68 Grand street. Section 35 (English).-—Meets every Friday evening ‘at Myers’, 129 Spring street, at 8 o’clock_. ————-¢»e-o———~—— INTERNATIONAL WORKINGMEN’S ASSOCIATION. All persons desiring to become members of, or to form sections, and trades unions or societies wishing to afliliate with the In- ternational Workingmen’s Association, can procure all the necessary information and documents by addressing the regu- lar olficei-s of the Federal Council of North America, as fol- lows : ’ English Corresponding Secretary, John T. Elliot, 208 Fifth street, New York. . I German Corresponding_Secretary, Edward Grosse, 214 Mad- ison street, New York. _ French Corresponding Secretary, B. Laugrand, 335 Fourth avenue, New York. Spanish Corresponding Secretary, Majin J aner, 112 Lexing- ton avenue, Brooklyn. Italian Corresponding Secretary, Antonio Brumi, 621 East Twelfth street, New York. — THE INTERNATIONAL IN IRELAND. BY A REFUGEE EX-SECRETARY. In _all ages Ireland has been the abode of contention and misrule. Its history exhibits as many deeds of blood as its soil shows beautiful flowers. That it has been “ a land worth fighting for,” is evident from a survey of its records and its ruins. No doubt Pope Adrian charitably meant to do it a ser- vice when he handed it over exactly seven centuries ago—in the year 117 2-to King Henry and his civilizing English. We are sorry however to have to report a change of government did not produce a favorable alteration in the condition of a popula- tion which has ever been subjectto the intrigue of the courtier, the mailed hand of the plunderer and hyprocrisy of the prelate, or, in other words, to the rapacity of a trinity very different in- deed in essence from that to which St. Patrick referred when he held up before the people the shamrock. 1 The present condition of Ireland is deplorable. It is sad to see a land which might support in comfort the millions who are now obliged to cross the Atlantic, abandoned to the beasts of the field. Everywhere the signs of a departed race arrest atten- tion and sadden the mind. In America man is supplanting man. In Ireland cows are supplanting men, and that which was intended for the use of man is fast becoming an instru- ment of his destruction. 2 Among the handful of people who remain what an absence of cordiality prevails ! Where there ought to be but one poli- tical party, there are many, and all are filled with bitter jeal- ousies and the memories of a hateful past. There has never been in Ireland any want of ingenuity observable in the start- ing of new names, new parties, or new expectations with which to delude the people; and it appears to me that the present cry of “Home Rule” has been originated by men who have a greater fear of the masses of the Irish population than love for them. On the other side of the Atlantic for a long time past we have been impressed with a, strong belief that the United States and Russia are on excellent terms with each other, and that war with the latter power is unavoidable. In the event of such a contest, no doubt is entertained that mul- titudes of “ Alabamas” will “ escape” from American dock- yards to ‘prey on British commerce. Now, the greatness of England’s commerce is her chief source of peril, for it has placed her in such a position that tranquility within her bor- ders can only be preserved so long as a profound peace lasts between her and all powers possessed of maratime force. Should a number of privateers ‘watch for or attack her ships at sea, commerce will be destroyed. Commerce destroyed, manufactures must stop; and as a result millions of hungry men will proceed to overthrow the throne and to abolish the useless, and mischievous titles of nobility. Charity kept the operatives of Lancashire quiet during the American war, but charity cannot support an entire nation of working men, and in spite of regulars, irregulars, detectives and volunteers, the International Association should come prominently into view, In the event of such “troubles” transpiring in England, it must be evident the Irish people would be -alive and eager to grasp at the right of self--government and national indepen- dence. ‘ In such a case how would the “upper” classes of Irish so- ciety stand in the eyes of those whom they have been syste- matically plundering and persecuting ‘P Now it is precisely for such an emergency the “ Home Rule Association” has been preparing. Its members scarcely un- derstood the meaning of their cry. They have no programme. They are doing positively nothing to arouse the Irish race. They hold a public meeting once a year in Dublin, and some- how or another they have gained the reputation of being patriots. To keep the Association “select” admission can only be gained through introduction and the payment of a guinea. Should England’s difliculties increase and the atti- tude of the Irish people become warlike the talk of the “Asso- ciation ” will become louder. Its members will endeavor to convince the people that they were always good patriots and fierce haters of English domination. Trusting to their wealth and social position, they will do their utmost to overawe the population. Every artifice and political expedient will be re- sorted to in order that coming generations may not be de- prived of a nobility and other valuable‘ institutions. Should England’s -difficulties vanish the ‘fAssociation ” cannot fail to vanish also, for without doubt the great majority of its mem- bers do not desire separation from England. Our modern “Home Rulers” simply desire to “head off” every popular movement which might if “neglected” tend to interfere with the interests of the political, the religious, or the Mammon aristocracies. ~ I have referred thus fully to the “Home Rule Assaciation,” because among Irishmen everywhere, a very strong. hope—I cannot call it belt'ef—\prevai1s that it is destined to work won- ders for my "native land; and I have very frequently indeed heard it urged as an argument against the International organ- ization that it would distract attention from, and finally thwart and overturn the plan which the “home rulers” had for uplifting Ireland. c I feel glad at being able to state that the International was introduced into Ireland by men having but little faith in the quack political medicines which are being vended by a grasp- ing, selfish, and deceitful class in the Emerald Isle. One section was formed in Dublin, and another in Cork. I was appointed to the secretaryship of the Dublin section, but had to leave Ireland quite recently on account of secret but sure information which reached me to the effect that my ar- rest was intended by the Lord Lieutenant. As the Cork -branch was formed first, I shall as briefly as possible sketch its history. It was started by Mr. I.‘D. Morgan, a young Englishmen of A great intelligence, shrewdness, intrepidity and large-hearted benevolence. From the time that he identified himself with the International, he has met with persecution in some of its most vexatious forms. Attempts have even been made to de- prive him of the means of living, but in spite of all forms of tyranny, he has made up his mind to retain, wherever he may be, his connection with the Association, even were his death to be the result of an adhesion to its principles. After working in secret for some little’ time,» a branch was formed publicly on Sunday, the 25th of February, 187 2. It consisted of thirty members, and after the local rules were drawn up, the following declaration, of policywaa published : “ That all societies and individuals adhering to the Cork Section of the International -Workingmen’s Association, will acknowledge truth, justice and morality as the basis of their conduct towards each other, and towards all men without regard to color, creed, or nationality. That we, as Irishmen, believe it to be our duty to advocate the principle and aid the cause or the political and social revolution throughout the world, and that the International is one of the mediums by which that as- sistance can be given. duty is to advocate the rights of ,,?,Ireland to make her own laws, we consider ourselves bound and do pledge ourselves as Irish working men to co-operate through the Internationals with the working classess of all nations, for the object pointed out in the preamble of the general. rules of the International. That we believe it to be the duty of the Irish working classes, at home and in exile, to advocate the principles and form sec- tions of the International, and to aid by all possible means in promoting the general objects of the association.” ,1 The publication of this noble declaration caused a sensation throughout the length and breadth of" the land. The people naturally admired such sentiments, but the press treated the Cork Section with scorn, abuse and derision. The Dublin Empress, which would depreciate personalities when applied to its own magnificent self, insultingly inquired—for it was only a workingmen’s aflair-«if the “ differences of color referred to in the ‘declaration’ could be removed with the aid of soap ;” and it further inquired “if the treadmill would not be a very proper school for the Cork Internationalists and their fellow- conspirators of Dublin to study the theory of revolution in.” I could almost pardon the latter “inquiry” on account of its wit, but I cannot overlook the former. And yet the Empress is very anxious about the souls of the Bad Island savages, and its editor practices Internationalism, for he is a Scotchman and lives in Ireland. 0, he has no objection to International exhibi- tions of dogs and rifle cannon, or to International arrangements among governments which can brutalize and oppress defense- less millions, but International Workingmen’s Association ! 0 horror ! Heedless of the convulsions and groansof the printing press, the true-hearted men of the Cork Section determined to wait on and confer with each of the trades. The coachmakers had just issued an advertisement demanding the reduction of their hours of labor to nine per day. That body was therefore waited on first. It consists of eighty members, and they un- ceremoniously joined the International Society. A number of other trades were then waited on and the subject of joining the Association was favorably discussed at seventeen of them. Matters were no sooner in this state than the Reverend Canon Maguire opened fire on the society. From his pulpit, on Sunday, the 17th March, he denounced the International, and exhibited the grossest ignorance of its history and designs. There is no doubt, however, that he was to some extent de- ceived by an article which appeared on the previous day in the Cork Eccaminer, which is the property of the learned Canon and his brother, J. F. Maguire, M. P. i As the article was of a most inflammatory nature, and stated that five Frenchmen were over working up the people on the International principles. Mr. De Morgan wrote some contra- dictions to the Erccwmher, but that candid journal refused to insert his communication until the threat of the section to placard the city -walls with the letter and an accompanying ' statement that the truth-seeking Jiltanziner had refused it ad- mission to its columns induced compliance. On Tuesday, the 19th, the International explanation or statement was pub- lished. . . On the following Friday a poster appeared, signedgby nine employers, two foremen in large concerns, four commercial clerks, and five working men. It called on the people to at- tend a meeting at which resolutions of a condemnatory char- acter on the subject of the International would be submitted for approval and adoption. , At once the section put out a counter placard to the effect that the International Association was the great friend of the working classes. It called on the people to attend the meeting in their thousands, and to cry, “nine hours and liberty, long- live the people 1” » _ On Sunday the 24th of March the meeting commenced. The building in which the people met is capable of accomoda- ting more than four thousand persons, and it was thronged in every part by an excited multitude. I have read yarious “ re- ports” of the meeting, but I have not yet beheld in print a cor- rect account. Even American-journals such as the Irish People have been :most grossly deceived '§;by lying Cork newspapers. The tactics of the press in both Cork and Dublin, have been to misrepresent the International, to mislead workingmen, and to pander to the prejudices and vices of the task-masters. In- stead of being a service to humanity by advocating truth how- ever unwelcome its teachings may be, such papers are a curse to society. Gunpowder by blasting rocks and preparing That although believing -that our first ‘ / 4 , WOODHULL. & CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. O .. . . _. us the way for a tide of life may accomplish good, while the same‘ agent in the battle field may work hayoc and woe. Like gun- powder, printing may produce incalculable misery by distort- ing facts, by stultifying intellect, and by spreading abroad pernicious principles. All honor to those journalists who em- ploy their influence unswervingly on the side of truth, and who labor devotedly for mankind in order that .the sum total of hu- man woe may be sensibly diminished. The most painful fea- ture in connection with the Cork meeting is the fact that some individuals occupying humble positions in life were actually found ignorant, brutal, or immoral enough to raise their hand against the apostles or adherents of a reform which seeks to make civilized warfare impossible, by banding together the working classes of all lands in the self-imposed bonds of mu- tual esteem and fraternal love; but it was without thought those men acted, and tyrants great or small may well tremble when they consider that the time may arrive when the bone and sinew of the world will all be opposed to them. The cap- italist, aristocratic, and clerical promoters of the Cork meet- ings trusted that the misrepresentations which they intended should be uttered would effectually fill the working—men of Ireland with prejudices and passions which the missionaries of Internationalism would find it impossible to either penetrate or dissipate; but they were doomed to -disappointment and even their own very partial, colored accounts all agree in stating that the meeting was a failure. But, it has been asked, what right had the Internationalists of Cork to attend a meeting at which they were to be ridiculed, misrepresented, and injured for life. It has also been said that the members of the Association attended the gathering with an intention to fight and that ;their action in the assem- bly hall was all that was wanting to demonstrate their identity with the Comniunalists of Paris. The meeting was one to which all citizens were invited, and the members of the International Association had therefore as good a right surely to be present asthe capitalists themselves. Again, it is» well known that at any public meeting any person has a right to move an. amendment to any proposition or reso- lution which may be before the “chair.” The chairman com- menced his jaundiced speech with a great deal of bunkum, and Mr. De Morgan, who had courage enough to venture into a ‘meeting originated by his personal enemies, inquired of the speaker if he would “allow fair discussion.” The chairman, who is distinguished for his uncommon strength of lung, and his great want of brain power, had the audacity to say in reply that “he wouldn’t.” He then resumed his very ignorant, in- sulting and mischievous remarks. Some persons very proper- ly hissed, and the “chairman” very untruthfully, but perfectly in character, said that De Morgan was the hisser. Immedi- ately that noble-minded citizen was attacked by about twenty roughs, armed with bludgeons. They beat him with isavage fury, and tore his garments. Of course his numerous friends rushed to the rescue, and a fierce struggle commenced. Cries resounded around, and intense confusion prevailed. A cloud of dust filled the assembly room and obscured the move- ments of the combatants. De Morgan was saved. The hall was damaged considerably, but the designs of the promoters of the meeting were frustrated, for no resolution snbmitted to the people was carried. It must be remembered that the first blow was struck by the chairman’s party. They called a meeting for the purpose of developing public opinion but they were obliged to batter with cudgels the heads they had sworn to fill with enlighten- ment. The people came for bread but the capitalists gave them a stone. But what other treatment could have been expected from a class which is hypocritical enough to pretend to be- lieve that the-International Association wants to burn Cork, Dublin, New York, Berlin, Paris, and Moscow; or, in other words, to leave nothing to be done on the last day. , Before proceeding to review"the movements of the Interna- tional in Dublin, I will say that the Cork section is in a most healthy state, and is certain, to accomplish excellent results. The coach-builders have had the nine hours of labor conceded to them by their masters. ‘ ———————-<:‘»—0-<9-:-——~ THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. RUTLAND, VERMONT. ' VICTORIA C. WooDHULL— My Dear Madam : I have been highly entertained in reading your views on “the social ques- tion,” and admire the spirit, candor and frankness in which you present and handle it. I am glad to find one sister in the field who is not afraid to put her head out of the shell and show herself, her flag, and to handle all progressive subjects in broad daylight. I see nothing in your teachings that con- flicts with the best teachings of the lowly Nazarene and many of the worthy apostles and prophets of the olden time, and “ blessed are ye when they shall rcvile you, persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you.” The cause in which you have so fearlessly enlisted is a good " and just one, and it is only a matter of time when the end’ shall come and your works prevail, Social freedom, the rights of woman at the ballot-box, understood and counted as one’ of, the citizens of this republic, will sweep over this blighted country like a whirlwind. The storm is gathering, clouds beginning to rise all ‘around the horizon, and they must be blind who cannot see them. _ This is a new age; old things are being done away, and all things are becoming new. He who remains where his grandmothers‘ left him fifty years ago, will be wiped out; “Behold, there shall be twoigrinding at the mill; one is taken and the other ‘ left.” The time has come. The spirit of God is working si- lently and surely in the hearts of men, which begin to fail them for fear. 1 Your “queries and responses,” written only May ll, 1872-. i one day after an elaborate article addressed to A. E. Newton, and published in a western paper, are plain, unsophistical, pithy and to the point, and remain unanswered. I was grieved to see one, for want of material for argument, bluster all around and slander female character to make a point. This calumny only adds new friends, and binds them all in a wreath around you, and to the cause which is being spread out before us. There are only two questions now of vital importance to be decided in this Republican ring: Shall woman be allowed her rights as a citizen, ‘or shall she continue on a slave ? ‘ S_oLoMoN W. J EWETT. 26 WESTGATE RoAD, NEW CASTLE oN TYNE, Eng. T 0 Mrs. Victoria 0. VVoodh-LLZZ, New York Oity, U. S’. A. DEAR MADAM: The undersigned desire to express their ap- proval of the splendid attitude you have taken in giving utter- ance td, and standing up in;defence of the truth in relation to the question of social freedom. In this uncertain age of spiritual and cognate immortalities, in these lasts days of the greatfight between right and might, we desire to congratulate you dear Madam, on your mission to mankind; and we sincerely and truly thank the spirit of ALL LIFE for your descent among us, for your birth, development, and the great promise of usefulness which your labors have al- ready given to those in sympathy with you. A Go on and prosper ! and know that there are other Spiritual- ists and reformers in England, the scribes and pharisees, who in their magazines tradupe your character and scandalously falsify your speeches and their evident meaning. \Ve are (on behalf of many more beside ourselves) dear madam, yours most affec- tionately and faithfully, - HUGH MGLEAD, JANE BUTTERWICK. JAMES CARPENTER. ANDREW GARDNER. BELFAST, IRELAND, VICTORIA TERRACE, April 5, 1872. CLEMENT PiNE—I>earSir: Yours of the 30th ult. duly ar- rived. I am glad to find you are still so earnest in the work of reform, as there is still much to do. I do not now get any American papers, and I have, to a great extent, given up the reading of papers of late years, but if you send me any speci- mens I will be happy to see the march of progress. I have printed two little pamphlets, some years ago, on woman’s political and social rights, but have not been able to get them launched yet, as it is intended that Ishould give a lecture on the subject before they would be published, and I shall try to do so during the current year, as I do not expectithe present session of “cocks and donkies" to do any better than the former ones in that respect. I see an envious article on Mrs. Wood‘ hull in the last Jfedium, by Hudson Tuttle, which Itake to be a proof of her advanced ideas and disinterested labors in the cause of reform. I can do little in the reform field at 131'esent, and for several years all the vital power I could spare has been expended in relieving the earth-bound captive spirits, and I consider it the highest phase of the subject which I have yet experienced. Yours faithfully, JOHN ScoTT. THE WILLows, BRIDGWATER, ENG. Aprillst, 1872. DEAR MADAM,—~Please accept my thanks for your kind atten. tion in forwarding 1ne the package of your journal, and other documents, including your portrait which is highly valued, and it exerts a fine magnetic influence on all who behold it. Your latest journal that I have received is March 9. I hope my name is entered on your books, so that the journal will come regularly, as I am watching anxiously the progress of your so‘ cial and political movement. Your Impending Revolution, and new Constitution for the United States, embody senti- ments and elevate a standard around which oppressed human- ity, in every clime, can rally. Your movement is of the aw- fully sublime which characterized the upheaval of the mount- ains in the physical world. Individual reformers have pro- mulgated similar views, but the difficulty has been that they have fallen still born on the world for want of an aggregating centre. You have nobly volunteered to be the nucleus, which may achieve a revolution that the world has not yet dreamed of. The reformers of old remarked, “ye hypocrites ye can see the signs of the weather, but cannot discern the signs 0 the times. The tremendous gathering in New York to hearf the “Impending Rovolution," and the vote. in Congress for admitting the brave females to expound their cause on the floor of Congress are triumphs of which you may well be proud. As far back as the year 1828, I listened with intense interest to the lectures of Francis Wright in the Cincinnati Theatre, on the subjects of the abolishment of negro slavery, the social freedom of woman, including the deformity of the marriage system, and the limitation of wealth by an increasing ratio of taxation on property. From that date I have been a decided advocate of that important "principle. Then one million of dollars was as large a fortune as fifty millions is at the So, if the principle wasof importance then, it present time. is so now in a fifty fold degree. Francis Wright was at that time associate editor with Robert Dale Owen for the Free'Em_7wZrer, which advocated those reforma- tory doctrines from a materialistic point of view. Robert, Dale Owen, as is well known, and myself, also, have added the spir- itual to the material, rendering the whole subject more in- tensely interesting and lucid, as Spiritualism may now be considered the underlying lava which is disentegrating hu- manity to develope a higher plane of social, political and reli- gious institutions. ' I hope the Trades Unions will _.see their error in throwing themselves away, in becoming auxiliaries to either of the par- ties, now that they have an opportunity of rallying around a standard which contemplates the good, not of one party only,- but of humanity in its broadest acceptation. Wishing you every success in your arduous undertaking, I remain, The friend of Humanity, CLEMENT PINE. Mrs. V. C. ‘Woodhull. ' . ,,I__.A___ DUPLAINVILLE, WIs., April 15, 1872. DEAR SISTER VICTORIA: Having read your letter in the Religio P. Journal and the remarks thereon, I felt constrained to raise my feeble pen (not for notoriety, however, as our good Bro. Jones is inclined to say of those who are engaged in the cause of humanity) in behalf of truth and justice; Our Bro- ther has accorded you a hearing, as you desired, for two reasons. First, for the purpose of giving vent to the spirit wliichseems to 1-ankle in his breast. I am loath to believe such a spirit does exist in the editor of a reform journal. But the old saying “nature will out,” is a true one, and I say, let it come. It is human to err, God-like to forgive those who have erred. Second, that you are the presiding officer of a sickly institution claiming to represent the American Spiritualists’: were it not for that pretending he would have treated you with silent contempt. Really this is a brotherly spirit toward an erring woman ; I suppose it would be against his spiritual principle to call you a sister. But you will receive aid from the spirit world, and from hundreds‘ of others in earth life, if not from the Spirit of the Journal. Why is our Brother troubled about the Spiritualists being led by the women. Is it because they are a weak-minded set generally and easily led astray? Then let him cease to advocate such a doctrine if that is its tendency. The Journal is full of it. Does he believe what he gives to the public; or is he another adventurer ? I infer from his own language to you, that he is seek- ing notoriety as a Spiritualistic editor, without regard to Spiritualism having a deleterious effect on the minds of the public. The bitter invectives which flow so freely in his remarks, illy become one who claims to be a co-laborer in the field of reform with yourself. Christ was a radical reformer. Hear him, Blessed are ye when men (and women he should have said) shall rcvile you, and say all man- ner of evil against you falsely for the truths sake. Who was it that gathered together to hear this radical fanatical ideas? The simple fishermen, “the roughs and fag-ends of socity,” brother Jones would call them. For the body of society were against him and his doctrines then more than they are against you to-day. ’Tis well sister I No contention- no progressior. Luckily for you the world has advanced a pace, or we would have another crucifixion scene. Did Christ cease to preach his inspiration thoughts fresh from the divine throne, because sc- ciety did not endorse hin and his views? Nay. He cared not for the tongue of the slanderer. His Father sent him and the work must be done to the bitter end, which was death on the c_ross. But the principles he died for will live forever to bless humanity. Dare our brother of the Journal accuse this greatest of all reformers as being an adventurer seeking notoriety? This the only thought that prompted him to action? Let our brothers and sisters pause ere they further condemn you. Ever your sister for the good of humanity as I view it. M. J. DoNALDsoN. )tOCHES’.[‘ER, April 17, 1872. VIcroRIA C. WOODHULL-Dear Friend: I see by the papers that the Woodhull branch of the International has been sus- pended by the London head. I wish to know the cause of this action, because we have taken preliminary steps here to organ- ize a section, but if your branch is suspended because you are prominent in it, it will be sufficient reason for me to abstain from taking any part in its formation. I do not propose to give any support to any organization which by its action, whether directly or indirectly, strikes at woman. I have not much doubt but the action had at London has you had been a man, would have not been noticed. Please inform me what is the cause of the action at London, as soon as possible, as we meet to organize next Sunday, and my connection with the organization will depend on your reply. Truly your friend, Dr. A. ORVIB. [We refer our inquirer to the editorial on the third page of last number for his answer]. ————-—:+—-————— ALMA, Wis., April 6, 1872. and shall distribute them among all our allies——c-an find use for more. You have characterized our vaunted republic in very just terms, and issued just such a call as the friends of humanity ought to respond to if they are desirous to accom- plish anything. Make any use of my name you like in con- nection with this comment. Yours truly, CHAs. LEIGH JAMES. ______.,______ MEsDAMEs Enrrons 2 Your ideas and arguments on finance, government, women’s rights, etc., are agitating the green scum of popular ignorance and inflated self-righteousness to such degree as to make its scent perceivable by keen olfactories in every pool (locality) where your papers are read. To those who complain that you do not talk everything as they would have it, you can say as one of old, “ O that mine enemy would write a book 1; ” then the compliment of criticism could be sent home to roost like a flock of fowls. Let the blows of reform fall thick and fast, no matter what Mrs. Grundy and the little ones say or think-—the world moves in spite of them- W. ————-————--9----—————— STOWE, VERMONT, April 12, 1872. DEAR MRS. WOODHULL :—-As I read to day, for the twen- tieth time, perhaps, your lecture before the Troy Convention, entitled “The Rights of Children,” I could but exclaim, God I been because of your prominence as a woman in it, which, if ., MY DEAR MRS. WOODHULL: I have received your circulars, I bless and sustain that noble woman in her fearless efforts to ' _ -,.--w -755.; ~. 1! 2% \ May 11, 1872. WOODHULL &; OLAFLIN’S ,WEEKLY. , I I . to 5, mica‘-I break the way for future generations! I need not utter that prayer, for I know you will be, as all true reformers are, sus- tained. The world to-day may scorn your sacrificeal efforts, but unborn millions will yet call down blessings on your name. I believe every child born has the God-given right to a well- formed physical, and a happily organized mental structure ; but how can we vouchsafe this right to children so long as they are the products of lust and hate ; so long as they are the offspring of wome11 who, did they confess the truth, would ac- knowledge it was from no will of their own they bore their sad, wasted faces and attenuated forms, but because of the chains of lust which tyrant husbands wove around them, and which they dare not resist. because of their promise “ to love, honor, and obey.” I once heard a clergyman make the following remark: “Many a poor wretch pays the penalty for murder on the scaffold, when God will hold the mother in judgment for the deed on the last great day.” The father’ of course is exempt? Oh, yes, what is it to him that the woman, the law calls his wife, is driven to rebellious and murderous thoughts, when performing gestation, contrary to her wishes. Pilate-like he can wash clean his hands even while signing the death-warrent of his child’s physical and mental welfare. Oh, men,. your presuming disposition over women, is bought, like the Potters Field with the “ price of blooc .” Ay, the blood of your own children! Oh, when will the world cease to behold the sickly, half made-up children, and the poor, miser- able specimens of humanity that now everywhere throng our thoroughfares? Surely not till woman stands by man’s side, everywhere his equal, and each alike are taught to use, and not abuse their their reproduction faculties ! Thus will they fulfil Nature’s great design, and people earth with beings, “ Only a little lower than the angels.” EMMA L. M. PAUL MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 17, 1872. Editors of Wbodhull and C‘laflin’s lVeeIcZy: DEAR FRIENDS: We are not personally acquainted, but as you are striving to, establish a human rights or equal rights party, and have called a convention to consider what will be the best course to be adopted, permit me to call you friends. and pI.1t my name with the others for the convention to be held in New York on the 9th and 10th of May next. I am opposed to all political parties, unless the old anti- slavery party was political. They had one grand object in view. They said the slave shall be free, whether we have tariff, free trade, State rights, concentrated power in the Union revolution, revolts, contented or discontented slaves, they .5-hall befree. This party was formed for_ active work when a mil- itary hero was President, who would neither obey Constitution or laws, when they were in the way of his ambitious designs, the same as our present military hero-President is doing; and in the same way surrounded himself with the worst men of his party; and abused the best. Then the best men of the party combined against him and his satelites, as they are now doing against the present administration; to prevent the offices of the government from being bought and sold like sheep in the mar- ket. Then as now the hero President claimed despotic power, to give the offices of the government, and the spoils incident to power to his special partisan friends. And the men of peace, toil and worth, opposed the prostitution of the power and gifts of office to establish a personal or party despotism; which neither regarded the legal right of man, nor the honesty and capacity of the persons appointed to office. When these great political parties were contending for power, the anti-slavery party was formed, as there is a similar disregard for the rights of honest upright citizens new as there was then; and experience has taught us that there is no hope that political parties will grant just rights, unless forced to, in order to insure success. I hope the equal rights princi- ples will be declared, {and that all present in the convention will say as did the delegates of old “ sink or swim,” “ servive or per- ish,” we are “for the declaration.” Yours for justice to all. 564 MILWAUKEE STREET, H. S. ’B.ROWN, M. D. _._.__,_______ LONDONDERRY, April 15, 1872. MEsDAMEs :——»Your paper, and the noble, fearless principles you advocate, meet with a hearty response and welcome from many an earth child, who has long felt the need of such glow- ing truths to waken life and action for those pent up emotions, so long slumbering, waiting for just such fearless souls as yours to stir the sluggish waters which are breeding corrup- tion everywhere in consequence of this inaction. It is heart- sickening to contemplate the vast amount of curruption fester- ing and pouring forth from what is termed the higher walks of life—the fashionable aristocracy. I felt doubly interested to secure every copy of your valuable paper since reading your letter to S. S. Jones, and his reply in his paper. I would rec- ommend that Brother J. take a dose of salts, believing his stomach is terribly foul and billions ; at least I judge such to be the case from what has already come off I am taking his paper, and like many features of the same, but a Spiritual- ist and a lover of fair play. I must acknowledge he displays a lack of candor and proper courtesy in his reply to yours. If I can read the signs of the times with any degree of :’correctness, he will learn, ere long, that the noble, unselfish principles to which you are giving utterance are not so far in the back- ground as he vainly imagines them to be. DANIEL D. WAIT. RRCCRLYN, April 19, 1872. DEAR MRS. WOCDHULL: I have been receiving your paper, through the kindness of «a friend, for nearly a year past, and have also read your book on the ‘.‘ Principles of Government,” as well as your sisters on “The Social Question,” all of which have afforded me great pleasure and satisfaction. Your paper has failed to come to my door for several weeks and I am com- pletely lost without it, for it supplies food for thought which no other paper can supply, although I have the “Banner of Light," “ Christian Union ” and daily papers. I have given away all the “ Weeklies ” to a dozen friends, in different 10- calities, “ for as freely as I received I gave,” and have never met any woman that was not really pleased with your paper. May God speed you in your good work is the earnest prayer of Yours, for Truth and Humanity, « EMILY B. RUGGLES, 95 Monroe street. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., April 7, 1872. VICTORIA WooDHULL; “Bright particular Star,”—In the glor- ious horizon of thought and action, I cannot express with my uncultured pen, my admiration of the grand and beautiful truths which appear in the WEEKLY. I can only add my name as one more worshipper, at the shrine of truth. I could not resist the desire to send you a word of greeting, when I real- ized that you are paving the rough and uneven way, with gran- ite rocks of justice, squared by the rule of common sense—the waythat every woman, ignorent and cultivated alike, must tread to reach the temple of liberty and equality, when we will surely mfsefg. I trust ere long, and the echoing shouts we will send on high to be caught up by the angels, will be “ Vic- toria !” Victoria ! ” . I cannot close without expressing my admiration and appre- ciation of the truth contained in Tennie’s speech, in your last issue. Strike home the truths to cowardly "hearts, And help the chains to sever That bind the soul’s of Women now, And they will bless you ever. ' _MRs. LIzzIE SCOTT. __.____,________ BRADFORD, N. IL, April 16, 1872. » Mas. WoonHULL,—Dear Madam:—I have long thought it my duty to inform you that you were known and appreciated for your work’s' sake in the little old Granite State by a few of your sisters at least. I have had your paper more than a year to read and value it highly for its outspoken truth and fearless- ness of Mrs. Grundy. May you and your sister Tennie con- tinue to be inspired to labor for the afflicted and downtrodden. Please add my name to the call for a People’s Convention for a new government. ~ MARY D. ANDREWS. TONGANOXIE, April 14, 1872. M -SIsTER,—Please send me a sample copy of your paper called, I think, WooDHULL & CLAELIN’s WEEKLY, and if it suits me I shall subscribe for it. I have become heartily disgusted with the treatment you have received from S. S. Jones’ journal and other statistics of his, and am determined to discontine my patronage to that paper. Please send mea copy and I would be glad to act as agent for your paper; I do not know the terms of your paper, never saw one. Direct to Kansas, Leaven- worth County, Tonganoxie. A. DODGE. CLAYVILLE, New York, April 14, 1872. SIsTER VICTORIA: It has been some time since I thought of writing to you, but circumstances have prevented me until now. Verily, I have learned from stern experience, that we are creatures of circumstances; that we are governed by sur- rounding influences as much as are the planets in their orbits. We are not the authors of surrounding conditions. They originate th'emselvcs—-control us, and hold us fast in their al- mighty grasp, saying unto us in tones of thunder, “ Thus far shalt thou go and no further.” WooDHULL & CLAELINS WEEKLY commenced coming to me about the 1st of January. and discontinued about the 1st of April. I am highly pleased with it. It grapples with the great social problems of the day, with an independence of soul based on integrity of motive. O, my sister I You are en- gaged in a glorious cause. Stand ye firm as a rock amid the ocean’s waves ! What though theological bigots do howl and persecute you as they did the great§Nazarene. You will please observe the glorious assurance, that, “blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.” Cheer your heart, and strengthen your moral and physical powers for the contest; and though all the combined powers of darkness marshall upon the broad plain of the moral world (for there the battle mustrage) and come up in the attitude of hostility against you, stand ye firm as a faithful sentinel upon the sacred ramparts of everlasting truth, and in bold defiance to all opposition, unfurl your spiritual flag of so- cial reform to the breeze of heaven; nail its staff‘ to the outer wall, and there let it wave forever in triumph, while your victo- rious shout shall rend the welkin of error, since, as God and the angels are with you, victory will ultimately perch upon your banner. Yours, etc., v JOSEPH P. SMITH. <0 BCWLING GREEN, PIKE Co., MD. Mus. WCCDHULL, Dear Friend, Sister, Zifoiher, Scwiom':——I know not what terms can express my loving, respectful sympa- thy. Although myself a mother and grandmother, older in years than you are, yet I feel that your maternal love is deeper, . fuller, over-reaches, in a very great measure, any woman who has ever blessed humanity wiih her labors, and I must send in my congratulations amongst the many, who are more capable of expressing them than I am, to assist to counter-act the cruel, abusive persecution you suffer from those who know not what they do. When I am hankering for human love and sym- pathy, I often think how much deeper and more agonizing must be your craving. I hope you have a true soul com- panion, for you needs must hunger for the strongest, purest and most constant supply, though you must be constantly enveloped in an atmosphere of love and wisdom from the in- visibles, which I hope satisfy your every wish. And as you pour out your heart’s and minds richest treas- ures, toiling and studying for humanity’s good, with scarcely one moment ever given for your own health, wealth or pleas- 'ure; you will surely find your reward in a higher life, beyond the dark river, where truth and light shall dispel every vestage of error’s dark night. I have not a whit less love and sym- pathy for your noble sister, Tennie. My heart leaped for joy and I could but shed tears of gratitude while reading her re- cent lecture°’on the Ethics of Sexual Equality. Yours for all the rights of life. MRS. M. HANsoN. ,.-m.m__._ EAsT GIRANVUILE, Vt., April 14, 1872. DEAR MADAM : I have been for several years waiting the pro- gress of. events to engage in something that would tend to re- lieve burthens and elevate conditions of the toiling millions of the United States. I feel that the time is now beginning to dawn when to act is wel.l and wise. Although in apparent obscurity yet I have some notoriety in Vermont as a business man and an early Spiritual- ist. I am satisfied the time is at hand when women will form an element of redeeming strength to the nation. We purpose to make a call for a convention in June to nomi- nate a new ticket for our September election, in which con- vention the women will participate. I am fully satisfied that we must have an independent action from all religious and po- litical parties of the present, and solicit the fishermen for our apostles as a general thing. Those in high places will hardly be willing to yield their usurped position and power by re- quest. Crowned heads seldom care to disrobe themselves by request. This government is now in fact a limited monarchy, and if allowed to pass on unmolested will soon become absolute. If we are to be subjugated to perpetual toil it might as well be by a ‘crowned head as a crowned party. We think a larger share of the earnings of“ the poor are forced from them in the United States to support fraudulent rings and office-holders and to carry elections than is forced from the serfs of the English government to support a standing army with drawn swords to subjugate the rebellious. I have no time to spare to recite these abuses, but congratulate the increasing army that have moral courage to stand up to the fight manfully and without fear. D. TABBELL. LINCOLN. NEBRASKA, April 10, 1872. WOODHULL & CLAFLIN :——Ynur paper has failed to reach me for the last three weeks, much to my regret, as we dislike to our friends. I suspect the paper is purloined either on the route or at the ofi‘ice here, as there is no paper that has excited so much interest as yours,‘ and still most people would not have it understood they were subscribers, on account of the prejudice existing generally to what are supposed to be your views. I find it is only necessary for most people to definitely and clearly understand your views before endorsing them, and I have taken great pleasure in correcting false impressions by lending them your paper to read. I could use several copies to good advantage in that way.. Yours for the truth, ‘ WILLIAM J . BUMSTEAD.‘ ._é._.:¢.______...:. LANCASTER, Pa. April 14, 1872. VICTORIA C. WooDHULL: I am pleased with the independent style of your paper, with the‘ unflinching courage of true womanhood evinced by you in declaring the rights of your sex regardless of conventialities and old fogy notions that have become sacred by age, and have labored for suffrage and so- cial rights of woman several years. I never vote for this so- called Republic of ours, for by voting for our present govern- ment I vote away every right that I, my wife and child pos- sesses; therefore, have been working in awaiting for just what the New.York Convention proposes to do—to form a govern-_ ment for the people, by the people, believing, as I do, this is the only way to work out a reform in the government. I therefore write you wi.shing to be known, and to be permitted to work in this grand movement. Yours, for humanity, WILLIAM DAvIs. ———-——-—--0-—--—-—— . . OTTAWA, Mon., April 15, 1872. MY DEAR Mrss CLAFLINI I have always wanted to write to you, but knowing how many correspondents, and how much business you have to attend to, I have not intruded. But now I have an excuse for writing: My paper has failed to reach me several gtimes. I dislike to lose a single number; it is too readable. I have never received N o. 20 and 22. Please send them as I want to keep them all to refer to in the future. I cannot tell you how much I think of your paper. It-grows better every week. You have so many able correspondents. Your last—I should say first—lecture was grand. I glory in such expressions; it is time they were uttered; it is time that subject was probed to the bottom; it has been tabooed and crushed down long enough. If civilization is to advance that subject, the science of sexuality must be discussed and brought before the people. I am glad to see that you and your sister have had the moral courage to stand up and strike the first keynote to the social revolution that has got to come. Wheu I think of the over- whelming opposition you have to encounter, I tremnle for fear you wlll fail. But no, I know better than that, you will not fail. You are in the hands of a mighty power and it will up- hold you. What, though you are slandered and ill-treated by the ignorant bigots of the world as long as you have the ap- proval of your spirit guides. I glory in your position; I should like to stand by your side and work with you, but as Providence has ordained me a different lot, I must submit; but if I cannot help personally, I can at least encourage you in your work. _ Would that we had more women like you and your sister. NETTIE E. PAGE. ._....._.—._.¢...___._._.__ A LETTER FROM A BRAVE, TRUE WOMAN. DEAR VICTORIA AND TENNIE: I feel impressed to enclose a letter from a suffering sister. This day have I asked the angels to guide my pen in loving words to cheer her, praying to help her to bear bravely. I I you wish to publish it (reserving the name, as that I would not give without her permission) I think it will serve to help show the world the heart wrenching sacrifices that brave true womanhood can make for the sacredness of virtue “and truth. Many will ask, could she not afford to live in misery for the society of her children? Ah 1 we know that thousands expe- rience years of living death for their precious darlings. Children have been taught to venerate fathers who have laid down their lives upon the battle—field of freedom. Many not children venerate such a mother as this, who makes sacrifices far transcending the glory of the warrior; and with her heart- strings clinging in love round her darling babes,refuses to dis- grecethem by disgracing her own womanhood, and goes forth a martyr to woman’s freedom. SADA BAILY. _._____..._._.___ 177 16th Street, BROOKLYN, APRIL 8. MRs. SADA BAILv—-Dear Madam: I read WCODHULL AND CLAELIN’s WEEKLY, and in it I saw a letter from you, which makes me desire to write to you a word of sympathy. My own case seems much like yours only less fortunate,,since when I desired to live with my husband as a friend and sister he re- fused, and to be true to my convictions of duty not to live with him as a wife, when I felt no conjugal sentiment towards him, I was obliged to leave him entirely, and the law in this State gives him the control of my three children, because I cannot show that I am as able pecuniarily to take care of them as he is, so that my adherence to the truth of ‘my own soul, has de- prived me of the society of my children, -which you have for your comfort. I have found this to be the severest part of the trial, and this you have so far been spared. But though at great afiiiction, I would not return to the slavery of the mar- riage institution, to have it removed, and I have learned more of the real truth of the present condition of things in society, and of the mind of the spirit, for the future age, whereof St. Paul spoke,I wrenched myself out of the marriage institution, at the loss'of everything generally held dear, than in my whole life be- sides. The future of true womanhood is full of glory and joy unspeakable, but we must have-a. period of dire distress in the world before it will be completely ushered in. The lines wi.ll be drawn sharp and cutting that separate truthand error, and everything that cannot endure the searching and trying fire of truth will be consumed, until truth will be manifested King. Your fellow—sufi'erer for the truth. MRS. SPRAGUE VOSBURG. A COLUMBIA, Kan., April 16, 1872. MY DEAR Mns. WooDHULL,—I have time only to send you my prayer and blessing and a line or two. We are in sympathy with both you and Tennie in all you say. It does us great good to respond to your utterance of those vital truths which our long study of , man and his rela- tionsi has brought to us. We rejoice that you are president of the Spiritual Association, for Spiritualists as yet are not half out of the shell of ignorance and slavery. We are poor, but we have a large invcfitmsmt inyyou and in the universe. ‘ " - 7 ’ ‘ '7 i ‘ ’ PROF. J. H. CooK., miSSe?1.1%mbe?»aS We vise both to read anal circulate emees Esineis A. M.» 9993;, hi; :1), s. p t A wooDHULL p it CLA'FLIN’S WEEKLY. » May ll, l 2137 2. ' VINELAND, N. J. April 14, 1872. ll/Ins. VICTORIA C. WooDHULL,—I am all over interested in the new departure from the old corrupt ways. I have watched your sayings and doings with great interest. I consider the departure contemplated of vitalimportance _‘to the working classes. So put my name down for humanity’s sake—for my own sake. CHAUNCY PAUL. A __.___..,,____.____ PORTAGE CITY, April 3, 1872. I see a notice in your paper requesting all in favor of the call for the convention to be held in New York, on the 9th and 10th of May next, to. send their names ; and although I am a poor laborer, and of no consideration among men, I will send you my name, and pardon me if I venture to write a few of my thonghts, showing conclusively, to my mind, that I ought to favor the convention. It is useless to shut our ‘eyes to the fact that, in our courts, justice is not given to the people. We all knew that the wealthy man who Vrobs, or steals from the people thousands of dollars, is screened from receiving the just punishment due to his guilt. While the poor man or woman, with a view of obtaining necessary food or clothing for himself, or herself and family, who com- mits a crime of less importance, is almost sure to receive a se- vere punishment, administered by the very courts who shield the great rascals. In_our government we see the principle of the peoples utterly disregarded,.and legislation carried on for the interest and benefit of the few, without giving the laboring class the consideration to which they are justly entitled. Wit- ness the legislation to favor capitalists, railroads, and incorpo- rations. The farmer thinks he ,does well if he can realize 8 or 10 per cent. on the capital invested. The incorporation must realize 30 or 40 per cent. The poor man who labors by the day to support himself and famitv, compelled to pay -a rev- enue tax upon the necessary food and clothing for his family use. Orphans of both sexes, destitute of homes, dependant upon their own labors for their maintenance, are compelled to pay taxes. Their.-land, the peoples’ land by the government given to rich companies. The general course of legislation is such as to make the rich richer, and to keep the poor in pover- ty. A code of laws created and enforced, and one half of the people governedby those laws, denied a voice in making them. (I refer to the marriage laws.) If this is a free Republican government, I am sick of it. I believe that no change can be for theworse, -and that any change must be for the better. Un- der our present constitution as it is, we can look for nothing better than we have had. We have tried it in the hand of all parties. Don’t let us be deceived again. Put not too much faith in the new party, which is "to meet in Convention a.t Cin- cinnati. If successful they will travel in the same well-beaten track of other parties. Let us have something better than we have had. Raise the banner of the new government, and a multitude of poor laborers will rally to its support. I thank God for such noble minds as Victoria Woodhull, Tennie Olaflin, and the host of noble-minded women and men engaged in this move- ment for the good of the world. Yours truly, » R. Bron. FREMONT IND, April 10, 1872. lV.[ESIZ{A1\IES Wooi)HULL & CLAFLINZ I find that you pub- lished an article on the ability of the Nation to make our money, and of the plan Congress has chosen to procure it, showing that had any individual managed his own private matters, as Congress has the nation’s, society would have sent such persons to either the insane asylum or to the State’s Prison; this was published in your number of January 6. In the hopes of catching the eye of some thinkers, I wish to treat this question of “intrinsic value,” “real value,” “real money,” and I will be glad -if you can insert this in your most excellent paper. To begin it, I tell you and all those “specie payinent” men, who use the above terms, fully believ- ing‘ they have an idea behind these words which we are unable to answer; that their idea is only a stong delusion sent upon them, that they might, as they have, believe a lie; that they may be cheated, damned. To prove this, if they do not now know, that that for which ' there is no demand has no value; and the value of any article is in exact ratio of what demand there is, oi;.;,nay be for it, we will tell them that after the demand which gives all values is withdrawn from it, their “ in'trinsic value” is worthless. Hence the terms “ intrinsic value” in the mouths of those cap- italists, who hold the bonds of the difierent nations of the globe, which, according to the Hon. Geo. S. Boutwell, our present Secretary of the United States Treasury, is $23,000,- 000,000, whose annual interest requires the aggregate coin or all those countries whose debt this is, each year to pay it, means the same thing, as did “the Divine Right of Kings,” in the mouth of George III of England, in 1776. While the colonies believed the king, he taxed them at will. Just so the “ specie payment” men do with all countries and peoples and tongues who hold as they do to gold and silver bullion possessing intrinsic value, as by it they are made to believe the aggregate amount of money made, or to be made by nations must be limited by the quantity of these metals all these nations possessed. This secures a large demand for these metals, which, in fact, gives them all the value they pos- sess, and also warrants to them a sure sale of all the coin they gather as interest annually, and that, too, at whatever these capitalists may think the nation desiring to purchase the sale of its bonds may be able to pay. And so long as this de- lusion, “intrinsic value,” is impressed upon the‘great body of the people just so long will these capitalists, by the aid of the “ specie-payment” men, be enabled to tax even to the same tune that the English king played on his old Fidelle, “the divine right of kings," and that was at will. But the moment this delusion is dispelled by the light of a little common sense among the laboring classes, giving them to fully comprehend the truth that all value depends upon de- mand, and not upon any inherent quality called “intrinsic value” in these metals called the precious metals, this game bywhich capitalists have been enabled to live upon the fruit of the laboring millions -through all the long centuries of the past will, like that of the king who had exhausted the substance of these Ainerican Colonies in 2776, have effectually played out ‘ W. HOPKINS. _._._.._._.,___._._ , A correspondent says 2 “ Your women speakers are afraid to usethe best argument for their suffrage. It is that the bal- lot put into the hands of women would break up parties and party rings. Th.ere is no power that could impress female opinion within the iron circle of a ring. Parties brokenjup the choice for representatives would. be for personal virtue and intelligence. The motto would be, ‘men, not measures.’ The uncontrolable character of the female vote would consti- tute the best ineans of liberating men from established opinion, which is established religion. Your 4,000,000 women votes into the electoral urn, the fermentation will so clarify and purify the contents as to form a wholly new liquid. Start your women speakers in this argument, and it will attract the attention of all who dread party oppression, party corruptions and party stupidity.” ‘ Snnnnnooxn, P. Q. CANADA, April 20, 1872. A To Mas. Vrcronni C. IVOODHULL--Dear Madam: I should rather call you my beloved sister, my excellent friend, or‘ by some such title of endearment, to express my feelings toward you, or address you as noble lady, to signify the true respect in which I hold you. Had the terrible sufferings and anxieties. of the last thirty-five years brought me no other reward for my patience than the rich privilege I now enjoy, through perfect freedom, of making myself known to you, and claiming the communion of your exalted intelligence, I would not think the time and pains unworthily bestowed, because I am, like your- self, enabled to cast aside the trammels of unworthy custom, in the performance of a delicate act of the strictest duty. How happy, then, shall I beif you sacrifice, from the ‘many calls upon your time, a few devoted moments to bless me with a line in answer—at most a few lines, for I can read much where lit- tie is written. You high spiritual nature, with the long exer- cise of its faculties, must realize that every word of yours will bear with me its true and full interpretation. Only write in the freedom which is your native and your determined sphere of life. ’ v - I have been some years in retirement, carefully digesting former and continual experiences preparatory to the social revolution which is now on the eve of disclosure. A month ago I sent for the Banner of Light, to see what is moving among the agitators of the time. The perusal of your reply to A. E. Newton was my reward and satisfaction. I wrote to my friend, Mr. White, for your “Principles of Social Freedom,”-and he was so kindly considerate as to mail me two copies, one of which I take pleasure in sending to the few who dare to follow a trace of thought, and the other I have read and re-read, and pon- dered and reconsidered, until, in another perusal to-day, I re- sist no longer the inclination I have to write you. . The only previous knowledge I have had of you is merely that of your existence, derived from the occasional mention of your name in a newspaper. You stand upon an awful height. You have unsexed and disrobed yourself to do battle of truth and duty for an unworthy race, suffering, yet ungrateful for relief. I will throw the mantle of my power around you, that you shall not be more conspicuous than admired and re- spected, even. by the worshipers of outer garments. I am no less than sixty-four years of age. From youth the falsity of legal marriage has been evident to my understanding. Of late, I have thought to fathom many questions; but this one I could not, for want of the knowledge and peculiar perception that belong to the female alone, and I could never meet with a thoughtful, discerning woman devoted to its consideration, under circumstances that would enable me to profit by the light of her intelligence. You have solved all the difficulty by a plain statement and demonstration of “the principles of so- cial freedom.” But “ more remains to do.” Complete as is your work, it is only the ground-plan of the high and holy temple to be reared by future labors of a vast multitude. My eyes are suffused, my sister, as I think of your suffering, in struggling to-a position of positive usefelness, Rejoice at the dreary past and the dreadfui prospect still before you. Be proud of the riches inherent in your nature, whereby you have paid the price, and purchased a lasting blessing for more than yourself—fo1'- millions yet unborn. But you less need en- couragement to stimulate, than entertainment to rest and amuse you. I am endeavoring-to plan a journey to New York, and if successful, shall aspire to your personal. acquaintance; so you may as well invite me-for, though superfluous, it will be most agreeable. I am deeply your debtor, and must, in some way, discharge the obligation. GEORGE BARNABD. T-4 Srsrnns Vrcronm C. WOODHULL AND TENNIE C. CLAJELIN: Dear friends, —l‘.Ieeting lately with a number of your WEEKLY Ibecame very much interested in the independent and fearless manner, in _,which it treats and presents practical radical sub- jects, those upon which the immediate and future welfare of human society must greatly depend. The utterances in regard to the false organization of the government, the corruptions, favortisms, class legislation, political rings, office holding, and government supporting commercial millionair thieves, are some of the links in the chain of corruptions which encircle and interlink the entire working machinery of the government, and for whose special interests, the vast and cumbersome com- plicated machinery of place favoritism, seems to be organized and especially designed. If it had not been that the country is possessed of such unbounded natural resources; it would have ceased to exsist, as organized long since. But un- der these natural advantages, the false organization and its vast train of corruptions are overlooked, and the government credited with what is due to nature’s storehouse of natural means of supply. The representative majority system of gov- ernment is as monarchal a system in principle, as the one man system when conducted by party influence as ours» is. All things considered, the laboring masses are enslaved and robbed of their earnings, to a greater degree than any other government according to its age. And through ignorance, they are constantly deceived to vote for some party demigogi- cal office holder, or hunter, whose business is to exercise the power thus delegated in a majority, to legislatejdirectly against the ignorant voter, as a producer, and in favor of the idle cap- italist, who has already become rich by robbing labor, and for whose special interest, all legislation is conducted. And, if such legislator is questioned as to his influence in favor of a bad law, he replies that it is the will of his constituents. Whereas nine—tenths of his constituents had no will, but the will of ignorance to vote for party, because they do not under- stand the manner in which. the legislation. is conducted. That money legislates, instead votes, and that this same power is wielded again at them, instead of for them. Thus, labor is en- 4 slaved for the benefit of the non-producing aristocratic legal- ized capitalists, whose ill-gotten wealth has been obtained through a corrupt system of false legislation, under the con- stantly reiterated asscrtion, that it is all for the good of the And the mass are still Or if they do not, they still country and the voids of constituents. willing to accept the statement. think" they can remove the wrong by continu- ing to vote. But delusion ever follows as often as they repeat. it. Ever since 1840, I have felt almost indignant when asked to vote, and had determined not to vote any more under the present organizationg, believing the whole system of our constitutional organization is a fraud upon the Declaration of Independence; which was so wisely and truthfully utteredjby our revolutionary forefathers, and to whom the race is largely indebted, not only for what they wrote so sublimely truthful, but for the terrible ordeal through which they passed, i11 bequeathing to the American people the inalienable and natural right to freedom. A But, alas! the slave-holders who held the balance of power, made a slave constitution embodying two kinds of slavery, both constitu- tional—_ the black, chattel and, constitutional —— the white, constitutional, in allowing all those who had no moifey to be robbed of their inalienable God—given birthright by any one who had more money than would secure their own, and as many others, as they were possessed of money to purchase. Thereby the grave of liberty and inalienable industrial home possession, as also the individual right to all the proceeds of their own labor, was dug, and has been deepening ever since the constitutional organization was established. Hence serf- dom approaches with gigantic strides. . The fee simple in the possession of land in unlimited purchaseis as essentially monar- chical as the most unlimited despot that ever ruled. Under the constitutional organization, one man, or numbers of men, has the unlimited right to own all the land in the Union, and thereby dictate the terms under which all might exist. Your plan, by which minorities should be represented is a great im- provement on the bare majority system, which new rules. I cannot see how it is possible that justice, equality and frater- nity can ever be established. under the present constitution. Not only so, but monopoly and aristocratic ownership, have be- come so extensively established under special legislative en- actments that it would require a mighty radical revolution to set aside their controlling influence, justice seems to depend upon the framing a new constitution based upon the spirit of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, which would forever forbid lan.d monopoly, class- legislation, and the money—ruling influence of aristocratic wealth, which would place all on equality, so far as rights are concerned. Imagine what would be the effect upon the labor- ing millions if they all knew what is true, that all the wealth possessed throughout the en tire nation; that all the railroad in- ternal improvements of all kinds; all the architectural mon.u- . ments of art and science; as well as all the supplies of every rkind, which minister to the needs and enjoyments of all classes were the product of their own earnings. As, also, that they pay forty millions annually to the many for protecting million- aire merchant vessels on the high seas, to fill their owners’ cof- fers still more full out of the products ofthcir own continuous toil, from which a bare pittance remains, only suflicient to keep them able to toil on; and because they are allowed to vote for some one of the same class, whose business it is to per- petuate their slavery and degradation, the mass seem to accept the situation as one of freedom and equality. Also, that the millions of gold as tariff, which is paid into the national treasury, and all taxes of all kinds, both national and State, and all the taxes of the wealthy classes are all paid by the la- boring classes. Yours truly, Dr.. J. H. HILL. TOLEDO, Onro, March 11, 1872. Mrs. VICTORIA C. WOODHULL: Dear Friend, I feel a deep anxiety for the principles you advocate, since I believe they are ‘founded in truth. A. truly happy state of society must be es- tablished on truly righteous sentiments. I know you will be persecuted by both your sex, and the men, too. But this has ever been the case with genuine reformers, in all ages of the past; ergo you will expect nothing less than slander and perse- cution. Ignorance and superstition. must give way to the de- velopment of knowledge. The light of the plain, simple truth will shinegand does, even now, begin to enlighten the benighted mental horizon. I mentally desire to see a thousand such lights as yourself come out boldly—declare to our race what they honestly think and believe. Be not dismayed. This lon.g line of hypocrites; the whole sycophantic race of our enemies, mammon idolators cannot injure a hair of thy head, for you are as much higher than they, as heaven is higher than hell. The revolution is going on, and must go on until the corrupt state of affairs shall be correctly understood, and order brought out of chaos. ations will bless the name of Victoria C. Woodhull as among the first and most noble pioneers of this great revolution: i. e., the emancipation of fifteen millions of citizens of the United States into all their right. ' The men are determined, if possi- ble, .to keep you in bondage until after’ our next Presidential election. - This should not be. Stir up the minds of your sex; sound the emancipation trumpet far and near, rest not until this great work shall be done: for done it must and will be’. I get your paper every week. I am in full harmony with your ideas of government and political economy. I have examined your subjects and find them, according to my judgment cor- rect. I wish some of our women could. read your paper un- prejudiced. I suppose you are aware how awfully the men be- rate you and how much they strive. to prejudice both sexes But all this is rather in your favor, shows your §_E, Y, 0., lV_[.D, ' against you. merit in honestly standing out for truth, Thousands of succeeding generg E .. . ‘Ii ll i . ,. May ll, 1872. 4:; wooDHULL & OLAFLIN’S WEEKLY A . 7? PHILADELPHIA, PA., 120 S. ELEVENTH ST., October 24, 1871. Zlfesdames "Woodhull ct‘ Claflin, 44 Broad Street, New York: Having been a constant reader of your paper for some time, permit me to congratulate you on the bold, unflinching bomb- shell in the cause of truth and suffering humanity you send forth every week. The enclosed article on the “Social Ques- tion” was written under the impulse of the moment after Mr. Hull had finished his last article, as it seemed to me that all was not said on ever Joint. I am a physician, iliongh not in practice at present. My wife, whose card I enclose, has been in the practice of inedi- cine for a dozen years, and is a sound, radical reformer. If you find the enclosed article appropriate for your columns, I will prepare articles on the other two divisions of‘ the subject. If you should desire them for any particular issue, please ad- vise me, as my duties may not always give the necessary time for preparation. I hope that you can be elected President, as then I can read- ily conceive what influence you. will bring to bear for a better state of things in the nation. I thank Mr. Tilton from the bottom of my heart for his able and bold’ defence of yourself against self-righteous, deluded slanderers. Yours fraternally, JOHN Bnown SMITH. ST. PAUL, MINN., Sept. 7, 1871. VIcTonIA C. WoonHULL—-Dear Madam: I have just con- cluded reading with intense interest and pride your vigorous and unanswerable speeches on Labor and Capital, Principles of Finance, and Constitutional Equality; and you will permit me to say, dear madam, that the forensic eloquence and sharp- cutting sarcasms which you have therein blended with the highest and noblest quality of pure Christianity stamps you as one of the master and leading light-s of the age. - The following is a compliment paid these speeches in my presence yesterday; and though somewhat rough in its garb, is at least honest. A man of fine ability, but, tyrant like, op- posed to the woman movement, exclaimed: “Those speeches were never written by a woman! There ain’t five‘ minds in America capable of producing them, and these belong to our best men! No woman ever born possessed the legal acumen and reasoning powers therein displayed! They are not only brilliant, but all powerful ! ” What think you of that ' compliment from the mouth of an enemy ? As I am exceedingly anxious to read the continuation of your reply to H. Gr -, you will excuse me for remarking that I have seen only the first article on his letter, as the WVEEKLY has 11ot yet come to hand. Yours, for Justice, Humanity and God, OSSIAN E. DODGE. .__.._M_.._Q....}_..___.,_._ DO WE INDEED? Do we believe in freedom in the great ltepublic? I should say not, when we permit public opinion, that great Mrs. Grundy, to thrust a finger of scorn before us whenever we in- dulge in freedom of thought, action or affection. Shall we do right only because the laws of our country must be obeyed, in- stead of being governed by an inward principle of right and wrong? Do we lead free lives when we fail to obey the moni- tor who tells us what our systems require to perfect health, be- cause popular prejudice is opposed to woman exercising freely in the open air in all weather, swinging her arms as herbrothers do? The motion of her limbs in running is thought womanly, and in an anti-strong-minded community anything which merits such severe! criticism must be checked. Is this our boasted freedom? Are we governed by God’s law implanted within us, or man’s law when we love our parents with that yearning tenderness? Since “ God is love” is not such thrill- ing emotion the impress of divinity in our hearts ? 2 What right have we, as parents, to prohibit our children from loving those worthy of their respect and esteem, because they do not possess bank stock and property, those indispens- able permits to good society ? If this is a free nation why may not our women wear dresses of it convenient length for loco- motion without occasioning remark? If the sun is hot why not wear a broad-brimmed hat upon the promenade as well as at the sea side? If this is a free country why may not our daughters as well as our sons enter into honorable pursuits for earning their livelihood instead of sitting quietly at home to be supported by father or brother? Why is it worse for the young and healthy to find ways of becoming self—suppo1-ting even if they are women, than to be permitted to do so when overtaken by misfortune and widowed-—they are thrown upon the world helpless, with little children clinging to them for support? These are questions that should be answered candidly and with earn estncss. . HARTFORD, November 24, 1871. Mas. VICTORIA C. WooDHULL—Dear Madam: After a care- ful consideration of your late speeches, I have concluded to address you, being emboldened thereto by the fact that you are the recognized head of the great movement f'or the im- provement of the condition of women throughout this country. You alone are giving heart and_ soul to the cause; but let me ask you if it would not be best, before you place yourself upon the pinnacle of adverse public opinion, and become the St. Simon Stylites of your sex, if you really deem the great mass of women, in the present stage of advancement, worthy of the sacrifice? _ Honestly speaking, I do not. You are, evidently, too good and noble to give up all the sweets of a secluded life for the sake of even a half world of incapables, who would scarcely dare exercise the power you would place in their hands. Remember the warning given the Princess: “Beware, lest when ye seek the common love, the general hate shall drag ye down.” The times are hardly ripe as yet; I think we must wait. , It is indeed difiicult {,9 Wait and perhaps see others snatch the fruit of the good seed you have sown, but it must have time to germinate. , ‘ Thus far I have been speaking of female sufirage; now I beg you will permit me to. say a few words upon free love. The high and wise cannot always see what is plain to the humble, because that although to you is given to scan a sub- ject upon all the sides presentable to your view, you cannot, unless you take Caliph7s disguise, hehold the under. I think you will agree with me that all true reforms that affect hu- manity are subjective. If preaching could affect anything, it seems that to enjoin chastity and the repression of every ani- mal passion, would be of true benefit to the world. But can it? I know well that the love you mean by free love, is as chaste as anything earthly can be. I will not pretend to ignore that free love is Heavenly, but you will seldom find it upon earth between opposite sexes. I have sometimes thought it to exist only in the dreams of young girls, or of women who keep their youth all their lives. A ‘ You have broad views, cultivated understanding and a great heart; and the evils you condemn are these no doubt; but back of all you can propose, the great difficulty is still untouched. I have read what you have said of the evils of unloving and ill- considered parentage, but with imperfect parents, imperfect through long generations during which theyzhave been conceiv- ed, born and reared subjects to all you deplore, how can you take a fair start upon the right course? God bless you always. ___,_,_ 50 BnoMrIELD STREET, ]3osToN, Jan. 29, 1872. DEAR Mus. WOODHULL; Eighteen years ago I said these words to a friend: ~“ There is not more than one couple in fifty who are married, but the time will come when all shall be spir- itually married. and then the services of the priest will not be needed.” ‘ I think you may infer from the above that I thoroughly sensed you in your lecture at Music Hall, Jan. 3, and al- though I have been full of the subject for years I could not give utterance in public to the great truths, and no man could have done the subject justice, and no woman, less pure, sensi- tive and refined by nature than yourself, could have been lis- tened to with the same respect, as was manifested for you. You can count me one of your friends, for such I have long been, who is fearless to speak in your cause on all proper occa- sions, and now the glove is thrown, man may speak for woman. ' » Through suffering, akin to your own, I have walked, and from spirit intelligence learned most (worth knowing) that I know. I should be most happy to meet you when you are again in Boston, if you can find time.to grant me an interview. Yours for justice and truth. C. M. A. TWITCHELL. HAS SLAVERY CEASED? Mr DEAR WOODHULL 81: CLAELIN: Knowing how bitterly you are opposed in your noble’ efforts for human freedom, I have been tempted to ask the above question-—and to answer it, also. A There never was more abject slavery than is found at the present time, and in this boasted land of liberty and religious freedom. Some may ask: in what does this slavery consist. I answer to the customs, superstitions, and ignorance of the Jews. \Ve have taken " Apocraphal books, written when, where, nor by whom, we know not; but because the writers claimed to be inspired, and designing popes and priests, for selfish and tyrannical purposes, have claimed much higher authority for them thangthe writers did, and we have become willing dupes and slaves. I know that we are not quite so bad as those Wise(?) fathers that King James had translatnig and se- lecting what was the Word of God and what was not. We do not now, as they did then, drench the earth with the blood of innocent girls because forsooth some wise one had charged them with falling in love and having criminal intercourse with his satanic majesty, the devil, in the seductive form of a goat. King James wrote a book on demonology, and during that century many thousands were put to the ter- ture to make them confess such violation of their chastity by his goatship. Catholics and Protestants throughout Europe vied with each other in which should excel in the number of victims and severity of punishments. If my nature did not re- volt at the rehearsal, I would give one or two cases, but it is too debasing. Suffice it to say that every tribunal of Chris- tian (?) Europe was the scene of this holy zeal in persecut- ing the innocent. The wheel and rack seldom failed to bring a full confession of guilt, when more ~ dead than alive the victim sought death as a relief from humcm (?) Christian (?) tormentors. Does any one ask why this was done? What caused such barbarity? Does not the gospels say the disciples were to cast out? devils? The fact is the effort to fasten these Jewish and heathen mytha— logical books and dogmas on the world has caused not less than twenty millions of 3 human beings to be put to death since the pure and peaceful Nazarene trod the hills of J udea. And to-day the great and, in many respects, free people of this country are in abject bondage to the dogmas of the dark past. Paul said it is a shame for a woman to speak in public, and so it must be. ' The licentious press, ;which is noted for their free lust, are most loud in their denunciation of divorce. We have ever seen philosophers persecuted by fanatics, and generally under the holy name of religion. , We, in this country, must be veryucareful not to amend any of the laws of that meekest of men4—Moses——he.ordered 23,000 Hebrews slain because they had worshiped the calf that his pious brother Aaron made for that purpose, , while Aaron was honored as a worthy high priest, Twenty-four thousand more were slain because they,’ like ther law giver, took Midianite woman for wives; hence it is not very safe to follow the example of _ this {man Moses, with re- gard to the ladies, and I hope few will take the faithful (?) Abraham as a guide in his treatment of the beautiful Hagar; for twelve or thirteen years he enjoyed her love as a wife, then to drive her into to the wilderness, with their innocent and promising boy, with no provision but a bottle of water and loaf of bread, while he had such wealth. Few of the uufaitlzful of the present time would be so false, but he was the chosen father of the faithful, and this was to teach women obedience. But enough; it does seem to me that the people of this country should have independenceenough to throw off priestly and heathen yokes, and ‘ assert their freedom, take enlightened reason, and the plain teaching of physiological science as the only guide in this most important question, the relation of the sexes, and procreation; then all is plain. Ihope you will live longto aid‘ humanity in gaining its freedom; you are wield- ing an immense influence for good, may the good angels pro- tect you. H. G. DAvIs, M. D. _ PnovII>ENoE, December 10, 1871. DEAR Mas. WOODHULL: Please sendto my address one copy each of your paper of December 2 and 9; the first of which contains the complete statement of your admirable views on social questions, which I want ever at hand to read to any un- believers or revilers who may chance my way. and people too, whom you may be proud to call friends You must know that ignorance and cowardice prevent a universal conversion to your doctrines. I have a friend who frequently spoke very enlightingly of your journal. It chanced one day as I sat reading it, he called, and I still held it as I rose to re- ceive him. I had occasion to excuse myself I from the room a moment, and handing him the paper I said, “You will find excellent amusement here; some fine things in this weeks jour- nal.” “Ah!” he replied, “I never chanced to see the paper before.” Can you imagine for one moment how I felt? Here x was a rising young man, in whom I felt "unbounded confi- dence, who had been giving unlimited abuse to_a journal he had never seen. I lost every particle of respect for him in an instant, and preached ‘him "a lecturefjthen and there on “fair dealing,” not to call it by any harsher name. The fiercest de- nouncers are sure never to have seen the paper. God bless you for every noble: effort in behalf of your sex. Though they revile you, persecute you, wound you with thorns of hatred and malice, every good word must live to bless the women of the future. I pray you have abundance of charity, for it suffereth long and is kind. Charity for these “little men and women” who lack either the moral courage or the mental capacity to take in your broad, liberal ideas. Yours truly, H. H. SCRANTON, December 3, 1871. MRS. VICTORIA WOODHULL :~—Dear Madam : I have long/con- templated writing an article entitled “An Unnatural Marriage . and its Results,” which will be a true account of the experience of a woman of my acquaintance, who quarreled with her lover, and, in a freak, married an inferior man to spite her lover, raised a large family of children who inherited their father’s mental inferiority and deformity of person, and of their influ- ence on the society in which they move. I have never been able to obtain a copy of your paper, but from what I can glean from other papers I conclude that such articles as/_ the one I in- -tend to write are appropriate for your colums. It is a sad story and will be somewhat lengthy. I would like to have it. published for the reason that it may do some good. I con- sider an illustration of false relations in marriage, sustained by facts, the most powerful argument that can be ofiered on a question that greatly concerns the welfare of all mankind. I can get the article ready in a few days, though my household duties are so numerous that I have but little time to write. I am twenty-eight years old. Please let me hear from you soon. Respectfully yours, ’ / . BRACEVILLE, 1871. Mus. VICTORIA VVoo:oHULL,——Shall I ask to be excused for ad- ‘ dressing you? Have just finished your “Message” and can truly say it is the best ever written by a President. Oh, how my inmost soul thrilled with pleasure, as I traced those words uttered by your earnest, unselfish woman’s heart, and cannot forbear addressing you as I have often wished to do heretofore in these passing months that I have so" closely watched you in your upward course. I am thankful the angels have chosen an instrument that has the right ring. and may success crown your every effort, I daily pray, though prayers amount to very little, unless we take-hold and work them out. 0 Glad to see so many in our ranks who are by no means free from sectarian bigotry, come out to do you homage. Yes a great work is before us and you are doing yours nobly, grand- ly» As a good Presbyterian friend of mine remarked when I that girl is“ plucky,” and will tell some day if she lives. . M. B. L. SPRINGFIELD, MAss., Nov. 18, 1871. —DEAn Mas. WOODHULL: I was greatly disappointed and very sorry that you were not permitted to come to Springfield, as I had in anticipation a rich feast. To the reading of your ut- terances my soul responds and renders unbounded thankfull- ness that the angel world has, indeed, taken the reins, into its own hands, and hereafter the counsels of the Most High shall be declared, and for the reign of despotism and tyranny, shall be substituted equity and righteousness.“ A The noble cause to which your energies have been, and still are espoused—~the cry that has been heralded through this nation from your lips has unlocked the door for woman's emancipation, and soon its open passage will welcome the thousands anxiously watching for the redemption which is to be obtained only through full and entire freedom to souls and bodies too. You have my mast heartfelt sympathies and prayers, together withjmy entire confidence that success will attend your endeavors, and that speedily. It would give me great pleasure to see your face. 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A few imagine it yet in existence, and still vote for Jackson and J efferson. But the moment it makes a serious attempt at resuscitation, it will be met by some sort of inter- nal hermorage that will settle it back into a permanent inanity. The Radical Republican party, drunk with power; elated with success; glorifying itself for virtues it never had; taking credit for a compulsory act, and calling it voluntary, robbing the grave of democracy, to adorn its own rotten carcass; attempt- ing reconstruction, impeachment, and remodelling of the ..government; failing in all; running the government after the fashion of the army during the war; utterly repudiating the old J effersonian rule of sobriety, honesty and capacity, assuming that the government had been saved’ by the army, and there- fore belonged to the army, and especially to the officers, who had learned to kill and steal both during the war, and filling the offices with accidental men, drunken men (a la Parker In- dian Commissioner) and thieves; like a beggar it has beenhriding its horse, the people to hell, and now finds itself in a feeble spasm to perpetuate its rotten life by the flimsy pretext of remedying its ruinous work by “ civil service and one term,” neither of which contains any principle, or gives any guarantee of future and permament improvement. The conglomerate, complexvgender convention, now assem- bled in Cincinnati will demonstrate incompetency and dishon- esty by repudiating the better proposition, refusing to apply it to its own nominees, by compromising principle, bytrampling Ion the necks of- the people, and by nominating a ticket solely on the ground of success. Considering the purpose and character of the discordant ele- ments, itwill not surprise us if it breaks up in a row. What- ever the result, it is only a change of masters. Capital will run that convention, the Philadelphia convention, and the Democratic convention, if held. No matter who is nominated or who is elected, the result will be the same. All the women are disfranchised and reduced to a state of vassalage; all the laboring classes are to these men only so many machines to do their bidding at the ballot box, and live in poverty that their masters may revel in luxury. This, then,‘ is the last of their rule. One of them may sue- ceed to the throne’ once more, -and that is the ‘end of it. But of even this We are not sure. It may depend on the action of our own convention. -The Labor party is narrow, selfish, di- vided and sold out by Puett, Campbell & Co., before its con- vention met at Columbus. Its leaders are as incompetent and ; dishonest as those of the other parties. Utter confusion, dissatisfaction, discord, reigns throughout the country. The public confidence in politicians and party rule is destroyed and gone forever. They remind us'of a swarm of bees minus the _'queen, . At such times the bees fly hither and thither, by a sort of blind impulse, and act very much as human beings do when crazy. Before the convention met, the Reform Radicals were quarreling over the slate to be forced on that patriotic and unselfish body; they will quarrel still more when they get there and undertake to reconcile Protec- tion and Free Trade. ' Parties may be so utterly demoralized and the people be so thoroughly aroused before the election "day that they will ask for the best platform and the best men. In that event much depends on our action. We cannot afford any mistakes. If We imitate them we are no better. It therefore behooves us to lay aside all personal ambition and preferences, and give to. the country such a platform of principles and methods as will strike in at sight; as will show them that we really understand political economy, and are therefore entitled to support ; and on that platform we should plant such candidates as will put to the blush all com- petitors. We want no expediency here. No name should be selected on account of its magic. A Pre-eminent statesmanship ——the poyver to analyze the customs of the hour, and to point out the methods of their solution—should be the tests of our leaders. Let us have “civil service” in fact, as well as in the- ory, as in the Cincinnati Convention, and we shall thus prove our worthiness to be trusted." _ We are sorry to find, even among us, petty ambitions and questions of popularity agitating the minds of some who will take an active part in the new party of the people. The en- dorsement of the Convention should give character to its own nominees, and the Convention should not seek to make itself respectable by hanging on to the tale of any kite. It -should make the nominees, in their public character as rep1'esentatives, and not the nominees make the Convention. We should not, like the Labor party, go swoopingv among outside politicians without opinions, uttered’ or unuttered; nor like the reform radicals have been, but one motive to beat Grant; or the Democrats, to take advantage of the radical split and gain the throne again; but we should act as though these parties had no existence, and at this hour there rested on us the responsibility of a new government, based on the princi- ples of 7;atu9'aZju.9t-ice. In the appointment of committees we should ignore the ar- . bitrary geographical basis, and select without regard to local- ity. The platform and regular resolutions are of vast import- portance. Here is demanded the best ability of the conven- tion, if we would harmonize and succeed. We repeat and emphasize, that no person has any claim in the convention or the country, for any service, sacrifice or personal influence; that the sole question to be considered is fitness. In this respect we should set ' all similar bodies a wholesome example. If we are really worthy of the work com- mitted to our hands we will do it in this way, and in the end we shall certainly win. ’ —~—-—-v-e-o»—-'——- THE DELEGATIONS. Already the delegates to the Convention to be held Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday of next week, are arriving in the city. ,Many of these are people who have had no interest in political strifes for many years. The Convention will consist largely of this element, and it is prophetic of what1'esults.will flow from its action. These old “ thinkers" who have buried themselves, as it were, from the world that they might think are now to be again let loose upon it, and if the proportionate results follow from their action, as a wise man predicated would follow from the letting of a single thinker loose upon the world, a tremendous earthquake in pdlitical movements may be anticipated. One thing is noticeable in them all, they are desperately in earnest, and their action infithe Convention will no doubt partake of this character. No half way measures. No compromise of princi- ples for the sake of expediency. No surrender of ultimate rights for the sake of present gain. We are informed however, that there will be an attempt made to put off definite action, in the hope that something fa- vorable to the general cause, may turn up in the other political parties. To all such we would say, the true way to make such achange in present political parties is to take a bold and de- cisive stand ourselves, thus showing that we are really in earn- est in our demands. ‘ _ But after all, the future destiny of this country lies in the formatiom of a new politicalparty, which, if at first something “ is not to be feared ”’will grow into a grand movement, aggre- gating to itself, from every side, all that is devoted to principle and right in all reform. VVe know that this is the sentiment that will predominate in the convention. A ———-—————&-O-9--——-—— CONFIRMATORY. In the first number of this journal, issued May 14, 1870, we stated that the Democratic party was dead, and that the Re- publican party cohered only by reason of position and oflicial power. The first of these assertions requires no proof. It has become aself-evident fact ; and now Horace Greeley, in the Tribune of the 17th inst., confirms the last thus : The Republican party has thus accomplished its original ob- ject, with very much more. Itwill soon be transformed or dis- integrated by reason of its complete, conclusive successes. A party with this name may outlast the century ; but it must contemplate other objects and work to other ends than those which united and animated the Republicans of. 1856-60. The party‘-cries daily raised of “Keep the flag-flying !” “Stick to the party I" “No breaking ranks !" &c., &c., appeal rather to men’s passions than their reason.‘ They are mainly impelled by those who expect to retain their present offices or achieve better through the party organization. The party called Re- - and by all publican may be the best in existence, to sustain it ; but it is so, if at all, for different reasons from those which called that party into being. A good many of those now most zealous for maintaining the Republican organ- ization, are building the tombs” of prophets whom they stoned not many years ago. ‘ If any one fail to see the point, no comment of ours could enlighten him. . ———-——-<9-0-sf WEEKLY- . The gospel of “ mammon worship, ” so ripe in our land, ought to have been “played” or “ worshipped ” out long ago, and the evangel of labor, honest, persistent, manly toil substi- tuted. in its place. The divinely appointed gospel of worlc should not only be preached every Sabbath but practiced every six days of the .week—“ For six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work.” And it would be well for our “model Republic ” to heed this divinely ordained command, and for all the people to Work while the day lasts, and not a few to _be shirking out of their "share of “humanity’s perpetual labor.” This more shirking out of honest toil is not, however, the worst feature of our social system in North America. No, no I not by any means, the worst. But we, as a people, have so far degenerated from our good old ancestors that now, instead of labor, honest manual toil, being a badge of honor, and a passport into “ respectable ” society, it has become a synonym for social ostracism and disgrace with those “ weaklings ” of a shoddy and mushroom" aristocracy, and I believe about the only aristocracy we have yet in America; always trying, how.- ever, to ape the English nobility so much every way their su- periors. . The American aristocracy is a hypocritical and hollow- hearted sham, professing to believe in our republican institu- tions and the sovereignty of the people, yet practically giving the lie to such professions by apesing the nobility of Europe. More anon. J. H. A. b I have a compound to serve up for VVOODHULL & CLAELIN’s IVEEKLY, simmered from spiritual journals. The food may be palatable for the advance guards of the reformatory battles waging. Although Victoria seems too highly flavored for Hudson Tuttle’s and Emma Hardinge’s fastidious taste, and will not readily assimilate without a strong portion from Moses Hull’s biblical laboratory.” “ VVithout charity ye are as sound- ing brass.” That Troy convention was the cauldron for all radi- cals and conservatives to keepboiling, and well does Tuttle per- form his part, though not there at the time the President was elected. The fire brand grows thicker and faster on his hands and the momentum is going till a second Calvin may appear and try the burning stake, that one personage that dare step to the front and urge on the timid where his philosophy says, “thus far shalt thou go and no farther.” Because he can re- surrect fossils and arrive at conclusions relative to the origin of man, by what laws does he find that humanity ceases in pro- gression as soon as the, problem is solved “ a man ’s a man for a’ that (a woman too.) If Spiritualism is to be the open portal for the races to enter and be purged of bigotry and self conceit, these teachers of fifteen years growth require strength; yet I bear the light of the nineteenth century to not repeat the puri- tenical mode of dispatching those that tread to their own music. When Victoria Woodhull gets her present hobbies so well clothed and mantled, and the mantle so nicely drawn as not to perceive any more reforms needed on this earth, then she mustfistep aside and let more vigorous ones drive the car of pro- gress and not in the least obstructtheir path. Spiritual and scientific philosophy is a very fine theory, but_if not practical, its no more benefit than the churches, and we are destined to live on chaff a while longer. Does reformation mean that an individual may put in his ideal and place, the ban on other’s opinions, or is it work for all in their own way? If atonement is right, and more spiritual‘ conventions are needed the saints can sup the wine and bread in the name of Jesus, instead of Hudson or Emma. Candid minds do not exalt Victoria Woodhull as Presidential candidate, nor woman’s right advocate, neither Spiritualist worker; but the fact of her truth and principle of doing what- ever she chooses, unless absolute injurious to others,which is the chief corner stone in the new dispensation. Should Emma Hardinge progress as fast in few years to come, as in the past, she will be ready for high mass at her burial, as the one love so sacred and nobly conformed to the Episcopal marriage rite after fifteen years denouncing church superstitions, and priestly cor- ruptions, and ought to sing anthems of praise. “ I am holier than thou.” If intuition is claimed by these mediums, how in the name of common sense can superficial twisting be made from Mrs. Woodhull’s speech that promiscuity is advocated all in a nut shell ? “ Mind own your business.” If Emma or Hudson does not wish to love but one specimen of creation, is that any reason that others may not be Christ-like. This same spirit of selfish pride and arrogance has been the curse of the world and brought the gibbet and faggot into requisition, those that fled from persecution in their turn, soon as the yoke was loos- ened from their own necks, placed it on others of different views all the ages down even to our’ boasted civilization. The only hope was in Spiritualism to stop this horrible work; but free- thinkers are aghast to see the strongest advocates of this divine philosophy betraying the intolerance of the sixteenth century. Great heavens ! sink personalities and give heed to principles though every individual fall in the attempt, and not allow the power of ignorance to predominate outside of church walls. What though all the saints of the spirit-world returned, if hu- man rights cannot be enjoyed, and slavery of mind and body be the eternal destiny, better annihilation. Mrs. Woodhull offers to resign the Presidency at a world’s convention to bury per- sonalities; but then, if the devil is determined on a subject, she would not be out of the mud; nothing less than concession of what is to her a truth to arrogant demands would satisfy. Then who has the right to demand an abandonment of self-hood. Let each remain on their farms, working out physically what they are incapacitated to do mentally, {the great fundamental laws"of life—it may be healthier for soul and body, —and not drive the stakes so firm that the progressionist cannot uproot. MEMPHIS. ANNIE. ———————-«v—o<>:-———-— Lecturer’s Co-Operative Union. AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT—NO MORE MONOPOLY or BUREAUSAND . or BRAINS. The necessity and utility to speakers and societies, of some more equitable method to meet the demands of the rostrum, as an educator, is too apparent to need discussion. It is pro- posed to form one or more Co-operative Unions of Lecturers, for the mutual benefit of themselves and the public they serve. The following objects are sought to be attained: 1. Systematic, practical education on all the great social and moral subjects now under consideration. 2. To furnish a good article at a reasonable price, and thus place the benefits of this source of pleasure and profitable in- struction within the reach of the poor. p 3. To equalize the compensation of those engaged in a com- mon work. . j ' 4. To provide a contingent or insurance fund for the benefit of those who may“ need extra help in cases of sickness or mis- fortune. 5. To provide in cases of necessity the data necessary to. the exhaustive study of the subjects to be discussed, so as td offer in ‘every case the most practical solution of the question under consideration. A political, To this may be added such other measures as may be deemed useful and necessary to the‘ accomplishment ‘’-“of the organization. The purpose and plan have already received the approval of a number of the most efficient thinkers and workers. Thq mere statement of what we propose. is all the argument necessary. Correspondence, and suggestions are solicited from lecturers and societies, that we may have the wisdom of all from which to perfect our organization. We are greedy now to supply lectures on Graduated tax, ,,the great equalizer of surplusvproducts, and solution of the capital and labor controversy, Finances—~Tarifi’ and Free Trade; Cifiminal jurisprudence, including prisons, prisoners, capital punishment —-Penal sanctions to law, and their true basis. Suffrage, Land re- form, VVage_s, Social science, Moral science, Medical lectures. The scientific cause and cure of Asiatic cholera, The purposes, functions, powers, and methods of government including the referendum (final approval of the people) witha feasible plan of actualizing, etc., etc, _ As soon as organized, we propose to ar- range, correlated subjects into courses,adapted to particular tal- ents of speakers, and let these courses as far us practicable fol- low each other, so as to diversify, and systematlze the work. No $550 bonus will be required of lecturers; ’ and no per’ cent. will be demanded to enrich one at the expense of the many. Our purpose is to equalize compensation, and equiva- lents between the speakers and thepublic. All the members of this union must be competent to give satisfaction—to render an equivalent for the compensation. The subject and its proper presentation is of more impor- tance gghan the agent. The union should guarantee compe- tency in every lecturer, and therefore must ‘use care in selec- tion. The union will be amply provided with lecturers to meet any reasonable demand. The slate presented herewith shows the drift of this movement to be eminently practical. It is desirable to hear the suggestions of our best thinkers, and therefore we solicit correspondence. Address, JOHN B. WOLFE, Sec. Graduated Tax Association, 510 Pearl street, New York. Reform papers are earnestly solicited to copy the above. —————¢-o%———-—— 7 Indiana State Association of Spiritualists. To the :S’pz'rllualisls of Irzdloma, ‘Greeting : We hereby announce to the friends of Spiritualism in Indi- ana and elsewhere, that the Sixth Annual Convention of the “Indiana State Association of Spiritualists,” will be held in Westerfield’s Hall, in A the city of Anderson, Madison county, Indiana, commencing Friday, May 24, 1872, at 10-,1, o’clock A. M., and continue in session over Sunday. Each local Liberal Society and Children’s Progressive Lyceum in the State will be entitled to three delegates and one additional delegate for each ten members over twenty, and each county where no so- ciety exists will be entitled to three delegates. All friends of » May 6, at 10 o’clock A. M. the cause are cordially imiited to attend. Everything possible will be done to make the convention both pleasant and profitable. We are authorized ‘to announce that the Hon. Robert Dale Owen, and other good speakers will be in attendance and take part in the convention. Anderson is a thriving place, situated thirty-four miles north-east from Indianapolis, on the Bellefontaine railroad, and has an active society of Spiritualists and a Children’s Pro- gressive Lyceum in successful operation. vention will be entertained free, and board procured for others at a low rate. By order of the Board of Trustees. (Attest.) J. R. BUELL, Secretary of Indiana State Association of Spiritualists. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April, 1872 ——————--—-o-—e~<>»——~—— The second quarterly convention of the New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists and Friends of Progress, will be held in Jersey City, on VVednesday, May 8, commencing at 10 o’clock, a.m., holding three sessions. A cordial invitation is extended to all interested in the great reforms of the day, especially those designing to attend the People’s Reform Con- vention in New York, May 9 and 10. The convention will be held in Union Hall, corner of Grove and 4th streets. Speakers to be in attendance—Mrs. Susie A. "Willis, Horace Dresser, L. L. D., H. T. Child, M, D., Victoria C. Woodhull, Grover C. Stewart, A. A. Wheelock, L. K. Coonley, M. D., and we expect Cephas 13. Lynn. Order of exercises on pro- gramme. L. K. COONDEY, Pres. ELLEN DICKINSON, Sec’y. VINELAND‘, N. J ., April 10. —-——-«-ea-o—«——-4- The Universal Peace Union will hold its sixth annual meet- ing at one of the rooms of the Cooper Institute, on Wednes- day, May 8, at 11 o’clock A. M., and 3 and 8 o’clock r. M. The Second Animal Convention of THE AMERICAN Luzon REFORM LEAGUE, will be held in New York City, Sunday and Monday, May 5th and 6th, in Cooper Institute: Room No. 18, Sunday the 5th, day and evening; in Room No. 24, Monday 6th, afternoon and evening. John Orvis, Mrs. Victoria C. Woohull, J . K. Ingalls, E. H. Heyward, Miss Kate Stanton, Mrs. E. L. Daniels, T. H.‘ Banks Miss Jennie Collins, Geo. B. Drury, Albert Brisbane, William Hanson, and other speakersjare expected. ' _M_.,___. The third annual meeting of the “ American Anti-Usury Society” will be held in Hall 24 Cooper Institute, on Monday, Speakers at the con— . 14; May 11, 1872. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. That the managers ofNiblo’s have long been inclined toward the sensational in the dramatic line, and that they have put money in their purses thereby, is patent to everyone. During the past two weeks, however, they have capped the climax of sensationalism by the pro- duction of a piece in which incidents of very recent oc- currence are reproduced, and many well-known char- acters are represented, as far as possible, in form, fea- ture and dress. "‘ Black Friday ” is a very peculiar production. It has onlytwo effective scenes, and the balance of the piece is insuiferably stupid. Its extravagances are something so appalling that we are inclined to ques- tion if the two gentlemen whose united efforts con- ceived it, were thoroughly in their right minds at the time. A maudlin sympathy for the late Prince of Erie might account for much, but that any human being should, on two occasions, forgive thieves, who were not especially near and dear to him, and finally present them with fifty thousand dollars each, is piling it on a little too thick. We were sorry to see that the au- thors have painted Stokes——-represented by Dash Hoff- man—-even blacker than he really is, and while await- ing his trial for murder, it is hardly fair to prejudice the public mind against him afresh. Realism is rap- idly becoming the goal _which all managers, are striv- ing to attain in dramatic representations, but it is a question if they are not likely to carry the idea to ex- cess. Both the interior ofa banking house and the steamer scene were of this nature. The former gave a correct idea of the appearance of the interior of a Broad street banking house, and the manner of con- ducting the business, but we found it very dreary and believe few persons were interestsd in the details it presented. The third act is short, representing only the departure _—of the steamer “Bristol” for Boston, It was Well conceived, but, thus far, the mechanism has failed to work. The only interesting feature of the act was the appearance on the stage of exact counter- parts of Daniel Drew, Commodore Vanderbilt, August Behnont, Horace Greeley, Jay Gould and Henry Clews. The makeup of the persons who represented Drew and Greeley was remarkably perfect. Mr. J . W. Collier acted “ Bob King ” extremely well, and both he and Miss Lizzie Price made the most of the two scenes—one in the second and the other in the fourth act——where alone dramatic effect is possible. Mr. Collier looked strikingly like the late Prince of Erie in the closing tableau; but Miss Price was hardly so good a representative of his paramour. The parts played by Mr. A. H. Davenport and Miss Bessie Sudlow are too disgusting and uninteresting to criticize; and how the authors could imagine such characters is a problem. Mr. Thorne has not made his appearance since the opening night, and the part of “Dash Hoffman ” was taken by Mr. Morton, at very short notice, on Tuesday evening. The piece is fairly though not extravagantly put upon the stage, and curi- osity will doubtless continue to attract full houses to witness it, as has been the case thus far. With a great flourish of trumpets and a Drury Lane‘ reputation, the Vokes Family, five in number, opened at the Union Square Theatre, two weeks since. Not- withstanding the prices were raised, crowded houses have nightly greeted the new arrivals, and they seem to have achieved that great desideratum—popularity. This is well deserved, for so many talented members of one family are seldom found; and the resemblance of the brothers and sisters proves their relationship beyond a doubt. Thus far they have appeared in only one picce—“ The Belles of the Kitchen ”-—a one-act sketch of life “below stairs." The three sisters and two brothers monopolize all the parts, doing a genuine variety business, in which each one excels, unless we eiccept the singing damsel, Miss Victoria Vokes, who is fearfully out of tune in all her vocal efforts, though she sings with great facility of execution and some taste. They all dance well, extremely well, and Mr. Fred. Vokes quite eclipses the elder Majilton in the use of his long, limber legs, which fly in every direc- tion, regardless of joints. The youngest sister, Miss Rosina, the prettiest of the three, is by far the jolliest actress, and her natural, rippling laugh Whenever she does or says some mischievous or ridiculous thing, is perfectly. contageous, and sets the whole house in a roar. “ The Belles or the Kitchen ” is hardly the play to exhibit their talents to the fullest advantage, and they do themselves injustice in making their first appearance therein. They possess a deal of broad comedy talent amongst them, and are quite able in ability and numbers to bring out suitable plays, Written for their special requirements, as Lotta and hosts of others do, with marked success. They are burlesque actors, nor yet up to the true comedy mark, but something between, and a piece a little on the farcial order, with a dash of seriousness, just to make it real, and plenty of opportunities for dancing, would suit this bright, witty and charming family quintette and make their fortupes. They are essentially differ- _ent from any combination we have ever had in this country, and are able to accomplish what few have ever done previously——keep a large audience in almost one continuous. roar of laughter for nearly an hour, Mr. Booth’s ‘re-appearance at his theatre on Monday evening, as “ Sir Edward Mortimer,” in ‘- The Iron Chest,” was greeted by a full and intelligent audience, who constantly testified their delight in, and apprecja, tion of his remarkable rendition of this diificult char- acter which he has literally made his own through long __ and careful study. On Wednesday, “Richard III.,” was to have been produced in magnificent style. . ———-————~«»——-———— LEAD‘ US NOT INTO TEMPTATION——A WOI‘/IAN’S PLEA FOR WOMAN. ]From_the Louisville Commercial.] There is one sin in this world which, withjall its fear- ul consequences, is confined to a woman alone, visited with undying wrath upon her defenseless head, com- mitted as a Curse 130 the memory of her children, and ' placed as bar before her at the very threshold of Heaven, while it touches man scarcely as a. crime, I Shall can by no pleasing pseudonym in this article, but by the / _ shame are hers. WOODHULL at CLAFLIN’S WEEKLY. name which scathes her with a tongue of tire. I shall call it adultery! ,. Every now and then we hear of some weak wbman caught in the toils, held up to the public and carefully dissected, all her inner life laid bare and gloated over, all her past goodness and respectability treated as a sham, and all the props. of outward defense pulled away from a life which, at its best, and with the grace of God to support it, can only be weak and erring; her name made a by-word and reproach, and published through- out the land for everybody to read; even her’ children taught by careful igduction the crime of their mother, while every avenue to escape from the consequences of her sin are ungenerously shut out by the good people who dispense advice and tracts to sinners, while they are cheating Heaven. It is a source of painful speculation to a moralist why any woman, with a happy home, should give the world a chance to snatch this happiness from her, and why. when this woman has reached years of‘ sober ma- turity, and passed safely all‘ the pitfalls of youth and passion, she should fall voluntarily in mid life. It seems to me like this: A girl’s life is shielded for her before she knows there is danger; she is married, and believedyto be beyond it; a young wife is the centre of attraction; her husband is loving and attentive; then come children; the strange, mysterious life that comes from Heaven makes a thousand responses from the sacred depths of a mother’s heart; by and by the baby is taken out of her arms, it may be by death, or it de- velops into an independent life of its own; the husband has grown careless by this time—husbands do ; he has found the congenial spirits away from home, and the wife misses the tenderness. and the endearment that her'woInan’s heart still craves; the husband is also im- mersed in? business all day, and sleeps like a log all night, andseems to forget, when with his wife, that petting and caressing are the aim of a woman’s life. He is very willing that his partner or his friend should be her escort to the theatre and parties, when he is too tired or too busy to go. He thinks she is no longer young and gay, and he is sure of her love, as she is his wife. She can look life in the face without blushing. It has no sealed book for her. Therein lies her danger. She has tasted the sweetest drafts of love, and now she thinks it is all past, some one offers her the enchanted cup, offers it with earnest protestations of love. She knows it is a sin to listen, but you and I both know sin is sweet. By dallying with temptation she falls. You may call it what you wi!l—love, depravity, infatuation. The crime and sweetness were another’s ; the sin and And there is no woman that will stand up and be her friend. They will fondle and praise the tempter, and hang on his smiles with delight—-he is so. fascinating, so elegant, so gallant; he was imprudent, and indis- creet; ifa married man, a shocking, naughty, wicked fellow; but she, my good people, was criminal. And some considerate friend writes an anonymous letter to her husband, for fear that he should not know that she was as bad as he. And having descended to that depth of meanness which has no beyond, waits un- til he or she reads with rapture, “ a full account of do- mestic infelicity,” in the morning papers. Well, for the people who walk the streets with the scarlet letter branded on their hearts, I pray God they may never be uncovered, but I think it might prompt them to a little charity when one defenseless woman is being torn to pieces hy human wolves. And to those men who publish their shame and that of their child- ren, I would say that, “Joseph being a righteous man, was minded to put her away privily,” but that they are ittle like the Josephs of either the Old or New Testa- ment. - ——-————--9--—————-- THE REVOLUTION COMPLETE.——Th6 downfall of the alcoholic nostrums which have so long been a curse to the health and morals of the community is nearly ac- complished. The introduction of Dr. Walker’s Vine- gar Bitters was a mortal blow to the whole brood of rum-polluted nostrums advertised as “ Tonics," and they will soon be consigned to the limbo of things lost on earth, with the hearty consent of all the intelligent portion of mankind. Uncontaminated with the deadly bane of the bodies and souls of men, Vinegar Bitters’: contains all the valuable remedial properties with which the Creator has endowed the choicest medicinal herbs, roots and barks oi the Western world. It is in- deed the pure and powerful Tonic and Alterative which the masses have been asking f'or so long and which the profession hitherto have been unable to supply. Botan. ical research, chemical skill, and a profound insight into the causes of disease, have combined to produce a, specific which literally erad/icates dyspepsia, billions. ness, intermittent and remittent fevers, nervous dis- orders, rheumatism, gout and all other bodily ills which are not absolutely beyond the reach of medicine, ____._.+_________ A NEW SCIENTIFIC PERIODICAL. THE POPULAR SCIENCE lvlonrhnnr, conducted by E, Youmans. New York: D. Appleton & Co. The first number of this promising periodical is be- fore us. The name of.its editor, who is well known as having labored many years in a generous spirit to awaken interest in science, is a guarantee of its value. The first article is by a men whom all thinkers must respect—-Herbert Spencer; and on a. topic of the high- est importance-—“ Our Need of the Study of Sociology.” We hope hereafter to lay the whole of it before our readers. The other articles are full of interest. Among ‘them We note “ Science and Immortality,” by Rev, T, W. Fowler, “ The Source of Labor,” from “ Cham. ber’s Journa .” “Quctelet on the Science of Man,” from nature. " The unity of the human species,” by A. Le Quatrefoges. The editor says that the present undertaking is experimental. We propose to give it a fair trial; but it will be for the public to decide whether the publication shall be continued. All who are in sympathy with its aims are invited to do what they can to extend its circulation. This invitation we cor- dially echo. ‘ _....._.,___.______ NEW MUSIC. Messrs. Ditson & 00,, ofNew York and Boston, have 1"eC611t1.V P11b1iShed"‘Baumbach’s New Collection of Sacred Music.” It is adapted to church choirs of all persuasions where chants, chorals and anthems are occasionally sung, but it is especially desirable for the Episcopal Church, as all the chants of the morning and evening service,'the Te Deum. processional hymns, etc., are arranged in great variety and true artistic style. Mr. Baumbach is a composer ‘and organist of some note, and for many years has identified himself with the progress of church music, and his latest effort in the cause will become popular on its own merits. ...__,_______ BILLIARD TABLES. \ The game of billiards has become one of the perma- nent institutions of the World. Perhaps no game com- bines so many of the requisites of amusement, exercise, and intellectual discipline as does this. It has none of the objections urged against many other sorts of amuse- ment. Even the religious people who abj ure cards play billiards. One of the necessities of a good game of bil- liards is a good table. No matter how excellent a player a person may be, he will play a poor game upon a poor table. It may seem almost superfluous to call attention to the fact, since it is so well known; nevertheless, we may re-echo the general sentiment when we say to our readers, if you want to purchase a billiard table, be ure and buy one of the PHELAN & COLLANDER manu- acture, and it will not disappoint you. x ———————+————-———— Flowers are one of the few things in life that bring us unmixed pleasure. They are the most innocent tribute of courtesy or affection, as acceptable in the day of feasting as in the house of mourning, Florists are thus in a sense public benefactors. Hodgson, at No. 403 Fifth avenue, from among the palaces takes us away to the sights and odors of the ‘country with his rustic work, his gnarled boughs, and curiously crooked seats, his fragrant flowers and beautifully assorted hoquets. Of all the ornaments now devised for bcautif'ying gcntlemen’s grounds, there are none that can surpass rustic work, either in grandeur, beauty, utility or dura- bility. It may be introduced almost anywhere if the surroundings are in the least rural; in many cases it can be placed where nothing else could be, often times converting an eyesore into a place of great beauty, and yet ornamental and ‘useful. As it is, there are few that have either the taste or good judgment for the judicious arrangement of the materials out of which the best rustic is made. To make or design rustic objects, the maker or designer must exercise good judgment as to the best place for his object—whether it is a house, bridge, vase, basket, or any of the many objects that maybe formed of rustic work—for if the object is in a bad position, be the object ever so good, it looses half the effect, or even becomes an eyesore. There must be something rural in the locality, something in tone with the object. Perfect taste is required for the form of any object, although in anything rustic the form will be muchmodified ; yet there must be an original design to give meaning and grace to the object. In all cases, unless working with straight material, nature must be followed as nearly as possible, avoiding right angles or anything that looks formal; every piece should look as if joined by nature. This not only gives beauty but stability to the work. To all this must be combined the skill of the builder, to give strength, finish and neatness to thcjwholejwork. Many people think that as a matter of course carpenters can build rustic, but there are few if any that can give that natural rusticity so necessary to it. It is a trade by itself, and requires men with a natural taste and inventive genius. Some men work at it for years and cannot do it creditably. There is nothing that may not be made in rustic work, from a dwelling house to a cage, a bridge to a card basket. Many of the vases are filled with plants and look very handsome, with ivy half hiding the wood- work, and fine fidwering plants capping the whole and making it a thing complete in itself. There are also malt fine baskets filled. Certainly nothing could be more ornamental or better in a window than one of these. But these things to be appreciated must be seen; for large constructions, we would advise any one to visit the grounds of Mr. Hoey. at Long Branch, or Peter B. King, Esq., on the Pallisades overlooking the Hudson, or General Ward’s estate. :_.___.._~...__ THE CELTIC WEEKLY.—ThiS new literary journal has been received by the press and the people witha warmth of welcome which indicates its worth and merit. From ahost of press notices we select the fol- lowing : “THE CELTIC WEnLLY.—-The first number of a new illustrated romantic and patriotic story paper, entitled ‘The Celtic Weekly,’ has been rcceieved. It contains eight pages of five broad columns each, and is replete with spirited and irreproachable tales of fiction, which are admirably illustrated, sketches, bits of humor, his- tory, wit and wisdom, and records of pleasing and mar- vellous adventure are also given. John Locke is the editor, M. J . O’Leary 8: Co., New York, are the proprie- tors. ‘Among the authors are John Locke, Dr. Waters, Dennis Holland, Dr. Julius Rodenberg, Mrs. D. Madi- gan: (nee Callanan), Marie O’Farrel1 and others. The subscription price is $2.50 a year, and the price per numbcr is six cents.”—Brooklyn Eagle. “‘The Celtic Weekly’ is the taking title of a new paper, starting in a. new path, with the well grounded hope of securing aclass of readers which no other like publication has yet reached. In size and style it is sim- ilar to the ‘Ledger.’ Its columns are filled with a va- riety of entertaining matter-—storiea and p0ems——in which the Celtic element appears, but does not over- shadow all else; notes on literature, art, etc.; wood cuts embellish thegpages, and we doubt not the new paper will find numerous admirers. It is published by M. J. O’Leary,& Co., and mailed to subscribers for $2. 50 a year.”—Ncw York Evening Mail. The paper is for sale by all ncwsdealers throughout the United State sand Canadas. Mail vsubscribers ad- dress M. J. O’Leary & Co., P. O. Box 6,074, New York City. Agents wanted in every town in the Union. Lib- ralterms given. an-. MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNITIES. V Ioanmn CoMMUNI:ry—~Queen City, Adams County, Iowa. EBENEZER CoMMUNIrY~—Ebcnezer Colony, Iowa. RAPPITE COMlVIUNITY~—EC0110I(1y, near Pittsburg. Swnnnxsri COMMUNITY———SWeed1Sh Colony, Bishop Hill, Illinois. SNOWBERGER COMMUNITY—Sl;lOWb_e1‘ge1‘ Colony, Snow Hill, Pennsylvania. Zoomrn CoMMUN1rrx—Zoorite’s Ford, Ohio. ONEIDA AND BRANCH COMMUNITIES. ONEIDA CoMMUNrrx——Lendx, Madison County, New York. WILLOW PLACE CoMMUNIrY——Branch of O. C., Madi- son County, New York. WALLINGFORD CoMMU1~IIrY—Bra11ch of O. C. Walling- ford, Connecticut. Address Oneida Circula, Oneida, New York. . . -j-—-——¢—-———j THE “ Pioneer” of March 27, is by all odds the bright- est issue its publisher has sent out in a long time. Its leader is capital and the editorial generally good We suspect the new contributor, Mrs. Hanks, must have acted as editor. We are acquainted with the usages of her pen and are sure we recognize it in the article re- ferred to. The selections are good also. Two fine articles from Mrs. Shepai-d’s series on the relation of capital and labor, appearing on the first page: and our friend J . B. W. (Wolff), has a fearless and logical argu- ment in favor of Mrs. Laura D. Fair We congratulate Mrs. Pett Stevens on having so able an assistant as Mrs. Han _j,,____._ COSMOPOLITAN CONFERENCE meets every Sunday at 2:30 P. M., in the nicely fitted up and spacious hall, southwest corner of Bleecker street and the Bowery. Seats free, a collection being taken up to defray ex- penses of hall and advertising. Council of Conference every Wednesday evening, at the house of Ira B. Davis, 35 East Twenty-seventh street, near Fourth avenue. THE‘ NEW YORK LIBERAL CLUB meets every Friday evening at 8o’clock, for the discussion of Scientific and other interesting subjects. Good speaking and entertaining discussions may always be expected. For the table of every family the Halford Leicester- shire Table Sauce is expressly adapted for use upon fish and meats of every description. It is the cheap- est relish and the best that is made in any part of the world. Sold by all A 1 grocers, at only fifty cents per pint bottle. A book for the times. “ The Clergy a Source of Dan- ger to the American Republic."_ Sold by subscription only. Agents wanted. Address W. F. J axnieson, 10 orth J cfferson street, Chicago, Ill. I Mus. 0. TIBBITS, Natural Magnetic and Glairvoyant :7’ I-I Y S I C I A IN‘. Rooms 289 Smith street, between Sacket andillnion streets, Brooklyn. ' ' Miss T. heals all curable diseases by LAYING ON HANDS, and by the external and internal use of mag- netisim and non-péisonous medicines. Ofiicc hours from 9 A. M. till9 P. M. Examinations, treatments and medicines reasonable. Consultations free. V‘ 14 Dr. Ammi Brown, D E N T I S T. 25 WEST TWENTY-SEVENTH STREET. TURKO RUSSIAN BATES HE ladies are informed by Mns. HYACINTHE R013- INSON that she entirely rebuilt and refitted and opened the Baths No. 112 E. Twenty-seventh street, near Fourth avenue, for ladies only, thus avoiding the inconvenience and unpleasantness attending those baths which are not exclusively for ladies. These baths include all the most recent improvements, and con- sist of the Hot Air Turkish Bath, Vapor Russian Bath, Cold Plunge Bath, Shower Baths and Douches, Mani- pulating, shampooing and Dressing Rooms. Mrs. Robinson having had several years experience in con- ducting the Ladies’ Department of the large baths in ’ this city, assures those ladies who may visit these that they will find every arrangement calculated for the most luxurious and healthful enjoyment. Physicians sending their Patients to these Baths for the cure of Colds, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Nervous and Ladies’ Complaints, may be assured of having them well treated according to the most recent modes. Single Bath, $1; Six Tickets. $55 ; Fifteen Tickets, $10. fig? Open daily, from 11 A. M. to 4 P. M. Dr. Amos cIfl}l1’lS0l’L’S DELICIOUS AMERICAN TOOTH POWDER.-—-IBartics using dentifrice are aware that most of the drug stores are filled with all sorts of crude preparations for the teeth, made by adventurers, merely to make money. Dr. J ohnson’s powder was made for his patrons, regardless of expense, and forced into the market by druggists. It is the only article that has stood for 25 years the test of science and experience, being the cream of all preparations for the teeth and a perfect luxury. As a delightful mouth cleanser and teeth preserver, for children and adults. it has no equal. It is used by, and has the recommendation of, eminent Chemists, who will not lend their names to any other preparation.—To those who need Artificial. Teeth the writer would say, that his artificial teeth are all that art and ingenuity can accomplish in respect of appear- ance, mastication, and restoration of the contour of the face. Public speakers, especially, who wish to avoid the disagreeable hissing sound of artificial teeth, will find this a perfect triumph over all other methods, while they are decidedly the most healthy and cleanly known to the public. DR. A. Jormson :—-Dear Sir : Your American Tooth Powder is superior to everything of the kind that I have ever used or examined, and it is decidedly the finest article for the toilet I have seen. Yours, J . J . CZROOKE, Chemist. Price—-25 and 50 cent bottles. Large bottles contain- ing double the quantity, 75 cents. , DR. AMOS JOHNSON, .111 East Twelfth st, near Fourth ave. 3 ¢_ fie; 34 3» I 1 . ,;May 11, 1372. EECOND MORTGAGE 8 PEZEE C.B3N'1‘. CONVERTIBLE BONDS 0 OF THE iNinArLAPoLis,W.n BLOO]§.’£IN‘C3'r-TPOTI Western Railway At 82 1-2 AND IN’I‘ERES'I‘. 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TRACY, CITY EMPLOYMENT BUREAU, GENERAL BUSINESS EXCHANGE, an WASHINGTON S’l eosmu. ‘To Americans Visiting London, And wishing to meet with a comfortable HOTEL, try Richardson’s, 36 Finsbury square, London, near the Bank of England. Home comforts and moderate charges. LDCKVVOOD‘ &; 00.. BANKERS, No. 94 Broadway, TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS, Including the purchase and sale on commission or GOVERNMENT AND RAILWAY BONDS, STOCKS AND OTHER SECURITIES. PROFESSOR LISTER, Astrologer, Has arrived in the city from Boston, and can be con- sulted at his residence ' '74 LEXINGTON AVENUE, Between 25th and 26th streets, New York.3 100tf. . "I‘HiE MAGNETIC ‘ No. 1 1 8 West Twenty-third St. NEW vosx. criv. This Institute organized upon the combined prin- ciples of CLAIR V0 YA NOE, w . MA GNETISM, and JIIEDICTNEX Makes a specialty of all those diseases, which by the medical faculty, are usually considered incurable. ' Among these may be mentioned PARAL Yslb, SCRR OFULA, RHE UMA TISM, " A I) YSPEPSIA, EPILEPSY, CHOREA, NEURALGJA, CHE ONIO DIARRHEA, Diseases o1j,th~e Liver, Spleen and I{id- 6 neys, and especially El1IGII'I"S DISEASE, AND AU. DISEASES PESULEAR Ill WOMEN. In this last class of complaints some of the most ex- traordinary discoveries have recently been made, which surmount the difficulties that have heretofore stood in the way of their cure. That terrible foe to human life, CANCER, is also conquered by a very simple, but recently dis- covered remedy, which by chemical action upon the diseased fungus causes it to separate from the sur- rounding parts and to slough on‘, leaving behind only a healing sore. The peculiar advantage which the practice at this in- stitution possessesover all others is, that in addition to all the scientific knowledge of Medical Therapeutics and Remedial Agents, which the faculty have, it also has the unerring means of diagnosing diseases through CLAIRVOYANCE, as well as the scientific administration of ANIMAL AND SPIRITUAL MAGNETISM in all their various forms. The Best Clallrvoyanlts and Magnetic Operators are Always Employed. This combination of remedial means can safely be relied upon to cure every disease that has not already destroyed some vital internal organ. No matter how often, the patient affected in chronic form, may have failed in obtaining relief he should not despair, but seek it from this, the only institution where all the various methods of cure can be combined. In addition to the cure of disease, cla.irvoyanticon- sultations upon all kinds of business can also be ob- tained. 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She will also give advice and information about\sty1es, fashions and prices of goods, even if those writing do not wish to purchase, when a stamp is inclosed to pay return postage. Address, ' » _ Mr s. V. Em1lyBattey, Fashion. Ed. Pomerog,/’s 1)emocrat, ' P. 0. Boa: 5217, NEW YORK CITY. N. B.—~MONEY sent by mail should be in the form of a check or post-olilce order for all sums ver one dollar. Among many other well-known firms in New York, Mrs. BATTEY refers, by permission, to James H. McCreery 8: Co., -Morris Altman, and the proprie- tors of the HOME Joummn and of WooniiU'LL‘& CLAr‘LiN’s WEEKLY. ’ 94 Mrs. Laura Guppy Smith. This lady, who has spent six yearsi-n California, re- , ' eeiving the highest encomiunis from the press of the Pacific ‘coast, cannot fail to please Associations de sir ing an earnest, eloquent and entertaining lecture. SUBJECTS : I.--Woman in the Home, the Church and the State. I1.——One of the World’s Needs. ' III.--The Religion of the Future. IV ——The Social Problem Reviewed. NOTICES OF THE PRESS. To those who have not heard this lady lecture, we would say, go by all means if you would desire to hear an earnest, vve1l—spoken discourse, with an un broken flow of well-pronounced, grammatical Eng- lish. We have our own ideas about woman’s mission and how far she unsexes herself when she ventures to lecture men, yet spite of our prejudice we were car- ried away by her words last evening at Maguire‘s Opera House.—-Sam Francisco News Letter. This lady pronounced a remarkable address last night at the Hall opposite the Academy of Music. Remarkable because of the extreme beauty of lan- guage and opulence of fancy, and interestin on ac- count of its tender and grateful sentiment.-—- he Daily American Flag, San Francisco. has always the most appropriate. Her voice is sweet and melodious, her enunciatlon pure and distinct, her attitude and gestures very graceful indeed.—/S’ac7“a- mento Oorrespondent Santa Clam Argus. Mrs. Laura Cuppy Smith gave an interesting and instructive lecture last night to a large assemblage at Maguire’s Opera House, which if delivered by some peripatetic male pedagogue with a large reputation, at a dollar per head admission, would have received unbounded eulogiums from the press.——»S’an Fran- ciscoE9camine7’. . Laura Cuppy Smith, one of the best educated and most talented lady lecturers we have ever listened to. —-San Francisco F2’ga9=o. Mrs. Cuppy Smith possesses great talent as a speaker, and, standing before her audience in her simple, yet elegant attire, with a spirituelle face,which seems to index the emotions of her mind, commands the attention and respect of all her hearers.-Sim Francisco Mommy Call. Maguirels Opera House never contained a greater throng than convened to listen to an erudite lecture on Radicalism, by Laura Cuppy Smith, last evening. . —~Alta 0colif‘omia,,San Francisco. ’ v Mrs. Laura. Cuppy Sinithhas proven herself to be 9. lady of rare culture added to great natural eloquence. To say that she ran (S among the first of all who have addressed an Omaha audience, whether male or fe- male, is but doing her _u1st1ce.—VVM. L. PEABODY, Chairman Relief Committee Y. M. 0, Association.—. Omaha Republican. _ ' idly on, the richest gems of inspired genius ; rivetin - Such women you seldom meet. Her praises are 0 the tongues of all the people.——()maha Tafibune. . She is a. fluent speaker, using elegant langua‘ ' ‘and with far more than ordinary argumentative po ers.— Omaha Herald. ' lecturers we ever heard.— Omaha Republican. Address , 44 Broad street, N. Y. co-orssnrivs ASSOCIATION, No. 30 Beekman Street, NEAR WILLIAM, NEW YORK. THIS ASSOCIATION IS COMPOSED ENTIRELY OF PRACTICAL J OURNEYMEN PRINTERS AND PRESSMEN, Representing every department of the trade. Those who favor us with work may therefore rely upon having their orders filled with NEATNESS, ACCURACY AND DISPATCH. Havin greatly enlarged our accommodations, and. added al the latest and most fashionable styles of TYPE, IMPROVED PRESSES and MACHINERY, we now possess one of the largest and most complete printing establishments in the city, and are prepared to compete for all kinds of‘ MAGAZINE, NEWS- PAPER, BOOK and PAMPHLET WORK. JOB PRINTING executed in the best style, plain and illuminated, in gold colors, tints and bronzes. All grades of Fire, Life and Marine Insurance Work. Orders by Mail will receive prompt attention IIIIIEA CUPPY SMITH, A .2 J‘ She never hesitated an instant for a word, and she A Walking majestically through the splendid gardens of literature and philosophy, culling, as she went rapé; ’ the profoundattention of all her charmed hearers. .. - She is an educated, refined lady, and one of the be‘ k A WOODHULL dz CLAFLINSK WEEKLY. lvlay , 11, 1872. Vinegar Bitters are not a vile Fancy Drink, made of Poor Ruin, \Vhiskey, Proof Spirits and Refuse Liquors, doctored, spiced, and sweetened to please the taste, called “'1‘onics,” “ Appetizers,” “Restorers,” &c., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a true Medicine, made from the native roots and herbs ofCalifornia, free from allAlcoliolic Stimulants. They are the Great Blood Purifier and a Life-giving Principle, 2:. Perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the System, carrying off all poisonous matter and restoring the blood'to a healthy condition, enriching it, refreshing and invigorating both mind and body. They are easy of administration, prompt in their action, certain in their results, safe and reliable in all forms of disease. No Person can take these Bitters accord- ing to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair. , Dyspepsia. or Indigestion. Headache, Pain {.1 the Shoulders, Coughs, Tiglitness of the Chest, Diz-- ziness, Sour Ernctations of the Stomach, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions of‘ the Kidneys, and a. hundred other painful symptoms, are the olIsprings of Dyspepsia. In these complaints it has no equal, and one bottle will prove a better guar- antee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. For Female Cornplaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these 'I‘oiiic Bitters display so decided an- intflueiice that a maiked improvement is soon percep- ti e. ' For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheu- matism and Gout, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Bilious, Reinittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have been most successful. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derange- ment of the Digestive Organs. They are I]. Gentle Purgative as well as n Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflam- mation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in Bilious Diseases. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt- Rheum, Blotclies, Spots, Pimples, Pustul‘es, Boils, Car- huncles, I{iug—worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes, Ery- sipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. One bottle in such cases will convince the most incredulous of their curative effects. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, Eruptions, or Sores; cleanse it when you find it ob- structed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, and the health ofthe system will follow. Grateful thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT- mnns the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained the sinking system. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are effectually de- stroyed and removed. Says 'a distinguished physiol- ogist: There is scarcely an individual upon the face ofthe earth whose body is exempt from the presence ofworms. It is not upon the healthy elements of the body that worms exist, but upon the diseased liumors and slimy deposits that breed these living monsters of disease. No system of Medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmin- itics, will free the system from worms like these Bit- ters. ‘W lileehunical Diseases. Persons engaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, ’I‘ype-setters, Gold-heaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, will be subject to paralysis of the Bowels. 'I‘o guard against this take a dose of WALi