Of the report on the petitions, Mr. Weed says:

Mr. Angle, from the Select Committee of the Assembly, to which
the woman's rights petitions were referred, made a report last
evening, which we publish elsewhere to-day. It is a compact,
lucid, and ably drawn document, highly creditable to its author,
and becomingly respectful to the petitioners. The Committee
report adversely to the petitions, but recommend one or two
changes in our existing law, which will, we think, commend
themselves as well to the opponents, as to the advocates of
woman's rights.

The work in the State of New York was now thoroughly systematized.
Susan B. Anthony was appointed General Agent, and it was decided to
hold a series of Conventions in all the counties and chief cities of
the State, in order to roll up mammoth petitions with which to bombard
the Legislature at every annual session. Two appeals[128] were issued
to the women of the State, one in June, prepared by Mr. Channing, and
one in December, by Mrs. Stanton. A number of able speakers[129]
joined in the work, and the State was thoroughly canvassed every year
until the war, and petitions presented by the thousands until the bill
securing the civil rights of married women was passed in March, 1860.

Lest our readers should think that there was no variety to our lives
in these early days, that we did nothing but resolve, complain,
petition, protest, hold conventions, and besiege Legislatures, we
record now and then some cheerful item from the Metropolitan papers
concerning some of our leading women.

NEW YORK, _March 14, 1854_.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE 83D BIRTHDAY OF ROBERT OWEN AT 600 BROADWAY.

When the reporter entered the room he found the ladies and
gentlemen assembled there tripping the light fantastic toe to the
music of a harp, piano, and violin. Ernestine L. Rose was
president of the occasion, and gave a very interesting sketch of
the life and labors of this noble man. After which they had a
grand supper, and Lucy Stone replied to the toast, "Woman,
coequal with man." The ladies not only danced and made speeches,
but they partook of the supper. They did not sit in the
galleries, as the custom then was, to look at the gentlemen eat,
and listen to their after-dinner speeches, but enjoyed an equal
share in the whole entertainment. Mrs. Rose and M