Oh, what a fall
was there, my countrymen!

_The Albany Argus_ of March 4th, says: THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN
DEFINED BY THEMSELVES.--Miss Anthony and Mrs. Rose before the
House Committee, March 3d. The Committee took their seats in the
clerk's desk, and the ladies took possession of the members'
seats, filling the chamber, many members of the Legislature being
present. Miss Anthony presented a paper prepared by Judge William
Hay, of Saratoga, asking that husband and wife should be tenants
in common of property without survivorship, but with a partition
on the death of one; that a wife shall be competent to discharge
trusts and powers the same as a single woman; that the statute in
respect to a married woman's property descend as though she had
been unmarried; that married women shall be entitled to execute
letters testamentary, and of administration; that married women
shall have power to make contracts and transact business as
though unmarried; that they shall be entitled to their own
earnings, subject to their proportionable liability for support
of children; that post-nuptial acquisitions shall belong equally
to husband and wife; that married women shall stand on the same
footing with single women, as parties or witnesses in legal
proceedings; that they shall be sole guardians of their minor
children; that the homestead shall be inviolable and inalienable
for widows and children; that the laws in relation to divorce
shall be revised, and drunkenness made cause for absolute
divorce; that better care shall be taken of single women's
property, that their rights may not be lost through ignorance,
that the preference of males in descent of real estate shall be
abolished; that women shall exercise "the right of suffrage," and
be eligible to all offices, occupations, and professions;
entitled to act as jurors; eligible to all public offices; that
courts of conciliation shall be organized as peace-makers; that a
law shall be enacted extending the masculine designation in all
statutes of the State to females.

Mrs. Rose then addressed the Committee, saying: The right of
petition is of no avail unless the reform demanded be candidly
considered by the legislators. We judge of the intellectual
inferiority of our fellow-men by the amount of resistance