The association will hold a
convention at the same time and place, at which Lucretia Mott is
announced to preside, and several ladies to make speeches. Most
of the ladies are known as women of ability and earnest apostles
of the creed they have espoused for the political enfranchisement
of women. Their declaration of rights, we do not doubt, will be
strongly enforced. These ladies, or some of them, have been
assigned places upon the platform at the grand celebration
ceremonies to take place in Independence Square to-day; and they
have requested leave to present their declaration of rights in
form on that occasion. They do not ask to have it read, we
believe, but simply that the statement of their case shall go on
file with the general archives of the day, so that the women of
1976 may see that their predecessors of 1876 did not let the
centennial year of independence pass without
protest.--[Philadelphia _Ledger_, July 4.

There was yet another incident of the Fourth, in Independence
Square. Immediately after the Declaration of Independence had
been read by Richard Henry Lee, and while the strains of the
"Greeting from Brazil" were rising upon the air, two ladies
pushed their way vigorously through the crowd and appeared upon
the speaker's platform. They were Susan B. Anthony and Matilda
Joslyn Gage. Hustling generals aside, elbowing governors, and
almost upsetting Dom Pedro in their charge, they reached
Vice-President Ferry, and handed him a scroll about three feet
long, tied with ribbons of various colors. He was seen to bow and
look bewildered; but they had retreated in the same vigorous
manner before the explanation was whispered about. It appears
that they demanded a change of programme for the sake of reading
their address; but if so, this was probably a mere form intended
for future effect. More than six months ago some of the advocates
of female suffrage began in this city their crusade against
celebrating the centennial anniversary of a nation wherein women
are not permitted to vote. The demand of Miss Anthony and Mrs.
Gage to be allowed to take part in a commemoration which many of
their associates discouraged and denounced, would have been a
cool proceeding had it been made in advance. Made, as it was,
through a very discourteo