legislators and ask for the passage of laws upholding and
sanctioning their wild and foolish doctrines. That was a stretch
of folly, a flight of impudence which was hardly regarded as
possible. It was to be imagined, of course, that they would
enlist as their followers, here and there one among the restless
old maids and visionary wives who chanced to be unevenly
tempered, as well as unevenly yoked. It was also to be assumed,
as within the range of possibility, that they might bring within
the sphere of their attractions, weak-minded, restless men, who
think in their vanity that they have been marked out for great
things, and failed to be appreciated by the world, men who comb
their hair smoothly back, and with fingers locked across their
stomachs, speak in a soft voice, and with upturned eyes. But no
man supposed they would abandon their "private theatricals" and
walk up to the Capitol, and insist that the performances shall be
held in legislative halls. And yet so it is.

This Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose, with a train of followers, like a
great kite with a very long tail, has, for a week, been amusing
Senatorial and Assembly Committees, with her woman's rights
performances, free of charge, unless the waste of time that might
be better employed in the necessary and legitimate business of
legislation, may be regarded as a charge. Those committees have
sat for hours, grave and solemn as owls, listening to the
outpourings of fanaticism and folly of this Polish propagandist,
Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose, and her followers in pantalets and short
gowns. The people outside, and especially those interested in the
progress of legislation, are beginning to ask one another how
long this farce is to continue. How long this most egregious and
ridiculous humbug is to be permitted to obstruct the progress of
business before the Committees and the Houses, and whether Mrs.
Ernestine L. Rose and her followers ought not to be satisfied
with the notoriety they have already attained. The great body of
the people regard Mrs. Rose and her followers as making
themselves simply ridiculous, and there is some danger that these
legislative committees will make themselves so too.

LECTURE OF THE REV. ANTOINETTE L. BROWN.--It will be seen the
Rev. Antoinette L. Brown delivers a