Our readers will find Mr. Train’s valedictory in another column.  Feeling that he has been a source of grief to our numerous friends and, through their constant complaints, an annoyance to us, he magnanimously retires.  He has always said that as soon as we were safely launched on the tempestuous sea of journalism, he should leave us “to row our own boat.”  Our partnership dissolves today.  Now we shall look for a harvest of new subscribers, as many have written and said to us again and again, if you will only drop Train, we will send you patrons by the hundred.  We hope the fact that Train has dropped us will not vitiate these promises.  Our generous friend starts for California on May 7, in the first train over the Pacific road.  He takes with him the sincere thanks of those who know what he has done in the cause of woman, and of those who appreciate what a power The Revolution has already been in rousing public thought to the importance of her speedy enfranchisement.

The heading of the financial department and the column of Wall street gossip, which had given so much offense, were removed, and the paper became purely an advocate of the rights of humanity in general and women in particular.  Up to this time the editorial rooms had been in the fourth story of the New York World building, and the paper was printed on the fifth floor of another several blocks away, with no elevator in either.  Miss Anthony made the trip from one to the other and climbed the seven flights of stairs half a dozen times a day for sixteen months.  In 1869, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Phelps, a wealthy and practical philanthropist of New York City, purchased a large and elegant house on East Twenty-third street, near the Academy of Design, which she dedicated as the “Woman’s Bureau.”  She proposed to rent the rooms wholly for women’s clubs and societies and for enterprises conducted by women.  The first floor was taken by The Revolution.  The handsome and spacious parlors above were to be used for receptions, readings, concerts, etc., and it was Mrs. Phelps’ intention to make the Bureau a center, not only for the women of New York, but for all those who might visit the city.

Notwithstanding all that had passed, Miss Anthony did not abate her labors for the Equal Rights Association and she worked unceasingly for the success of the approaching May Anniversary in New York, securing, among other advantages, half fare on all the railroads for delegates.  Hundreds of letters were sent out from The Revolution office to distinguished people in all parts of the country and cordial answers were received, showing that the hostility against the paper and its editors was principally confined to a very small area.  A private letter from Mrs. Stanton says:  “We have written every one of the old friends, ignoring the past and urging them to come.  We do so much desire to sink all petty considerations in the one united effort to secure woman suffrage.  Though many unkind acts and words have been administered to us, which we have returned with sarcasm and ridicule, there are really only kind feelings in our souls for all the noble men and women who have fought for freedom during the last thirty years.”