All Sorts Of Pen-scratches

The colored people of Washington are by the ears : and all about the "Lotus Club," n iusti tution of black " aristocrats," mofleled Bfter the white "Lotus Club " of New York. The plebeians claim admission, but the ineinbers raaintain their right to exclude " ruessengers, clerks, and school teachers " uniese they havo " literary taste of a congenial character " and are, besides, " high-toned and have cotuprehension." The members oj the club " recite poetry and Shakespeare, and criticise pictures and art," work supposed to be above the oapacity of " coramon niggers" - the aforesaid " messongers, clerks, and school teachers." Tha' " Civil Rights Bill " will neod dó"ctoring - Disoussing woman suffrage, the Allegan Journal says : " There is not enougl independence in the i'emale mind for a proper exercise of the right of suffrage. - Here as in Europe the fetnale portion o the coraniunity are too rauch under the infiuence and power of their spiritua guides, and if given the right of suffrage weuld vote en mat any ticket which political enthusiasts would urge theui todo without any reference to the issues whicl might be presented." The Journal man being a bachelor there inay be something like " sour grapes " on his stomach though we won't swear to it, having hearc several married men present the same argument and much more forcibly. - If Susan B. Anthony and her friend bave the least confidence in her claim to be a legal voter, wliy did they petition Congress to remit the fine imposed b; Judge Hunt in proferenco to waiting a decisión of the Supreme Court on the merrits of the case ? And if the recom mendation of the House Judiciary cora mittee is a precedent, what further use i there for a Supreme Court (or even a Cir cuit Court), unless it may be to overrule ths decisions of State courts ' It seems to us that the committee has overstepped its duty, or privilege even, in criticising the action of Judge Hunt. - 8enator Anthony voted for the Pem bina woman suffrage amendment, but a the same time declared that suffrage " was not a national right but a politica right, regulated by the body politie," ant therefore siinply a question of expediencí or policy : which knocked one of the main spokes out of Mrs. Stanton's suff rage wheel. Senator Edinunds " deniec that the right to vote was essential to the protection of natural rights. Under the law in many States wonien had a righ to do as they pleased with their property The laws in this country generally dis criuiinated in favor of women." Another spoke crackod. - Hard to pleasé : one " li.B. S.," who writes to the Detroit Tribune, complaining that the Senate Civil Rights bill gives more rights to the nogroes than to women. He says : " Behold the magie power of enfranchisement ! Many of our leading hotels refuse aduiission to women, if strangors and unattended, and have refused admiasiou to the black man ; but now he must enter on penalty of $500 if refused." What a persecuted people the women of Michigan are ! - A large foroe of unemployed laboring men dainonstrated at the City Hall, Detroit, on Friday last, and demanded work or bread : preferring the bread without the work, we presume, as some of thetu - the noisiest - refused offered work at$l,50aday. Big pay and no work was what the leaders wanted : " the country owed them a living, and they proposed to procure food, even if they had to steal," was the watchword, or so says the Tribune. - In tardy response to the demand of public opinión that Secretary Eichardson "get," that gentleman has resigned (if not resignedly) the office Secretary of the Treasury. And forthwith the President rewards him for arduous labors and intelligent and efficiënt services by appointing him to be Judge of the Court of Claims : an office supposed to require both integrity and ability. Comment is unnecesssary. - Neither the New York Tines nor the Cincinnati Gazette take kindly to the Civil Rights bijl. The Gazette thinks that the colored citizens of Cincinnati will be unwilling to give up their separate schools or their separate churches, as they must if the bilí becomes a law, for the inestimable privilege of mixed schools and churches ; that is for compulsory association with " poor white trash." - The Detroit Tribune says that the Civil High ts bilí "simplyenactsjusticeintolaw." A new kind of justice that which forbids a hotel or boarding house-keeper, operating on his own money, the right to say whom he will keep; that compels a general hash or admixture of races, nationalities, colors, etc. We don't know justice by that description. - At West Point on Friday last, 32 applicants for admisión to the Military Academy were rejected, failing in spollin', writin', 'rithmetic, grammar and jography. 45 wero admitted. Four years ago out of 144 candidates 79 were rejeoted, and of the 65 admitted but 42 now reiiniin to stand the examinations for graduation. - " We and Our Neighbors " is the name of a now serial story by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and which was com menced in the ührütian Vuion of the 20th of May. The opening chapters are rich with promi8e, and it is not too much to say that it will increase the already numerous attraotions and great popularity of the enterprising journal naiued. - To show what an intelligent body the House (Congress) is, it is onlynecessary to State that Speaker Blaine announced on Tuesday, on the authority of the Clerk, that two bilis reported the day before by the Judiciary Committee, and passed by the House, had been before acted upon and passed the present sessiou. - It is now intimated that the Civil Eights bilí will not be taken up and pass ed by the House at the present session ; also that as passed by the House it is an infrineement on the Sumner patent, and therefore a bilí of falee pretensas. And, besides, Carpenter pronounces it unconstitutional. - Ex-Congresstnan Strickland is reported as indorsing the Reform Convention called to be held at Grand Rapids : which is good and suffieient reason why thoughtful men and honest reformers sbouldn't make haste to " vamp in." - An anti-temperance party is to be organizad in Boston, under the lead of th United States Brewer's Associatiou. There are any number of inteuiperate parties in other oities and towns than P oston. ■ - About one hundred Bowdoin boys have been sent home to their parents for open rebellion : that is for continued refusal to drill in acoordanee with the rules of the inatitution Oxisting at the time of their matriculation. They aan come back within ten days and savo expulsión by renewing their matoiculation agreeuient, and obeyiog military orders as well as civil rule until the close of tho term, at wliich time they can have honorable disniission if they then have no stomach for military pomp and parade. - A Lunsing Justice of the Peace having resigned, the Common Council of that city has appointed his succe&sor. As tho Constitution (art. VI., sec. 17) providea for filling vacancies in the office of Justice of the Peace by election by tho people, and in no other way, what is a Council election worth, even though authorized by a city charter. - On Mouday Gen. II. H. Bristow, of Ky., was uoininatod to be Secretary of the Treasury, vice Eichardson transferred to a snug berth in tho Court of Claims. Bristow and Eichardson were both confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday, - the formor without objection, the latter by a 8mall majority. - Treasury Solicitor Baufield has alao resigned, following the good exatnple set by Secretary Richardson ; but as vet we get no announcement that he has been installed in. another lucrativo office. It is to be found for him, however. - The shore end of another Atlantic cable was successfully landed at Boyoe Head, N. S., on Sunday last, from wbich point it is to be extended to Eye Beach, N. H. Atlantic cables are no longer a " nine day's wonder." - The tariff and a tax bill which passed the House on Monday, imposes a two oeut stamp tax on the vouchers or receipte so generally used by banks and their depositors in lieu of regular checks. - Gov. Talbot, of Mass., has vetoed the bill abolishishing the State constabulary. The Sexate (U. 8.) took a tilt at woman suffrage on Thursday of last week. The pending bill was one to establish the Territory of Perabina, reported or called up by Mr. Boreman, of West Virginia, and which Mr. iSargent, of Cal., moved to amond so as to provide that " the right to vote or hold office should not be restrained on account of color, race or sex." The amendment was favored by Messrt. Saegent, Stewart, Morton, Flanagan, and others, and epoken against by Messrs. Bayard .Coxkling, Edmunds, and Merrimon, after which it was lost by a vote of 29 to 29. Mr. Stewart thought woman suffrage was in accordance with " the spirit of the Constitution ;" Mr. Morton believed " woman had the same natural right to a voice in the Government that man had ;" Mr. Carpenter thought that " if our wives, mothers, and daughters go to election places, there will be decency, ordor, and peace ;" while Mr. Flaxagan said he " was a new convert to the cause of woman suffrage, and was made a convert by the glorious efforts of the woman'g crusade against iutemperance." It was this last argument which socured the votes of Zack Chaxdler and other wellknown apostles of temperance for the amendment. At Adrián on Tuesday afternoon last sixteen cruaading ladies entered the front room of the saloon of one Wm. Fisheb, and sat themselves down as if to stay. At 3 o'clock Mrs. F. (her husband being absent) requested them to leave, saying that she wished to lock up for the day. Three oomplied, but thirteen refused, and so Mrs. F. turned the key, put it in her íocket, and retirad to a back room. The hours sped, crowds gathered, friends in.erceded with the returned Mr. F., but to no purpose. Mrs. F., had the key and she kept it. Toward 10 o'clock in the evening she relaxed and the ladies dejarted amid the hoots and jeers of an excited rabble. Now the crusading iadies of Adiian either lack sound discriniination and discrimination and discretion or they have joor advisers. They have no right to ake forcible possession even of an illegaly run saloon and refuse to leave on request, and we beg leave to hint to them hat that kind of moral bullying - we tnow no fitter word - is not only unwomanly, but is not calculated to promote a jood cause. It would not be tolerated n men.