us interruption, it pre-figures new
forms of violence and disregard of order which may accompany the
participation of women in active partisan politics.--[New York
_Tribune_.

The letter of a correspondent, printed in another column,
describing the presentation of a woman's bill of rights, in
Independence Square on the Fourth of July, will interest all
readers, whether or not they think with the correspondent, that
this little affair was the most important of the day's
proceedings. We have not a doubt that the persons who were
concerned in the affair enjoyed it heartily. Those of them who
made speeches naturally regarded their eloquence as a thing to
stir the nation. All persons who make speeches do. The day was a
warm one, and imagination, like the fire-cracker, was on fire. In
the heat of the occasion, of course, the women who want to vote
and who desire the protection of the writ of _habeas corpus_
against the tyranny of actual or possible husbands, felt that
they were making great folios of history; but the sagacity of the
press agents and reporters was not at fault. The gatherers of
news know very well what they are about; and when they decided to
omit this part of the proceedings from their reports, they simply
obeyed that instinct upon which their livelihood depends--the
instinct, namely, to write only of matters in which the public is
interested.

The good women who wrote and published this declaration, fancying
that they were throwing a bombshell into the gathered crowds of
American (male) citizens, are very much in earnest, doubtless,
and are entitled--we have platform authority for saying it--to
"respectful consideration"; but their movement scarcely rises, as
yet at least, to the dignity of a great historical event. There
is a prevailing indifference to their cause which is against it.
The public is not aroused to a fever heat of indignation over the
wrongs which women are everywhere suffering at the hands of the
tyrants called husbands. The popular mind is not yet awake to the
fact that men usually imprison their wives in back parlors and
maltreat them shamefully. The witnesses, wives to wit, refuse to
bear testimony to this effect, and the public placidly accepts
appearance for reality and believes that the gentlewomen who