among the managers
of the meeting, it was finally decided to send a policeman to
quietly remove this garrulous disturber of the peace. A policeman
was accordingly summoned, but his entreaties had no effect on the
old lady, who stoutly maintained her perch, and declared she
would not go with him. Then Miss Couzins descended from the
platform, and accomplished with her winning ways what the
policeman couldn't. She calmed the troubled waters--got the old
lady to sit down by her side and keep the peace the rest of the
evening. Who wouldn't maintain the peace when entreated from such
a quarter? Mr. Ransier was enabled to finish his speech--a really
good one--Miss Anthony remarking at its close that she wished she
could have had him for her judge instead of Mr. Hunt. She then
made a wide awake and telling speech, which, if this letter were
not already too long, I should like to give. At its close she
introduced Mrs. Guthrie, a daughter of Frances Wright, that woman
of rare mind and original thought, who came from England to this
country some forty or more years ago; and who, with Robert Owen
and some others, tried to start a colony on the community system.
To the surprise of all, Mrs. Guthrie declared herself opposed to
woman suffrage. At the close of her remarks the Doxology was
sung, and the convention adjourned _sine die_.

F. E. B.

The correspondent of the Boston _Commonwealth_, after giving a
pen-picture of the ladies on the platform, said:

The Convention laid out some very practical work for the
consideration and action of Congress. It circulated a petition
and obtained six hundred names of citizens, both men and women of
the District, asking that the word male be stricken from the
organic act of the District government. This was presented by Mr.
Dawes, for Mr. Butler, to the House, and referred to the
Judiciary Committee, before the members of which the ladies
to-day had a hearing. Their case was presented and briefly argued
by Mr. Miller, a lawyer of some promise and reputation, a
resident of the District. Mrs. Sarah Spencer, of Washington,
addressed the Committee on the legal points involved. She said
that the petitioners did not conceal the point that the XIV.
Amendment did not give