Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND REV.  A.L.  BROWN ON THE STUMP.—­Mechanics’ Hall was tolerably well filled last evening by persons wishing to hear the above-named ladies “spout” about temperance.  Seven-eighths of the audience was composed of women, and there was noticeable an absence of all rank, fashion and wealth.  The ladies proper of Utica don’t seem desirous of giving countenance to the silly vagaries disseminated by these strong-minded women.  We conceived a very unfavorable opinion of this Miss Anthony when she performed in this city on a former occasion, but we confess that, after listening attentively to her discourse last evening, we were inexpressibly disgusted with the impudence and impiety evinced in her lecture.  Personally repulsive, she seems to be laboring under feelings of strong hatred towards male men, the effect, we presume, of jealousy and neglect.  She spent some hour or so to show the evils endured by the mothers, wives and daughters of drunkards.  She gravely announced that the evil is a great one, and that no remedy might hopefully be asked from licentious statesmen nor from ministers of the gospel, who are always well fed and clothed and don’t care for oppressed women.  Prominent among the remedies which she suggested for the evils which she alleges to exist, are complete enfranchisement of women, allowing them the run of the legislative halls, ballot-box, etc.  With a degree of impiety which was both startling and disgusting, this shrewish maiden counseled the numerous wives and mothers present to separate from their husbands whenever they became intemperate, and particularly not to allow the said husbands to add another child to the family (probably no married advocate of woman’s rights would have made this remark).  Think of such advice given in public by one who claims to be a maiden lady!

Miss Anthony may be a very respectable lady, but such conversation is certainly not calculated to enhance public regard for her....  She announced quite confidently that wives don’t de facto love their husbands if they are dissipated.  Everyday observation proves the utter falsity of this statement, and if there is one characteristic of the sex which more than another elevates and ennobles it, it is the persistency and intensity of woman’s love for man.  But what does Miss Anthony know of the thousand delights of married life; of the sweet stream of affection, of the golden ray of love which beams ever through life’s ills?  Bah!  Of a like disgusting character was her advice to mothers about not using stimulants, even when prescribed by physicians, for the benefit of the young.  What in the name of crying babies does Miss Anthony know about such matters?

In our humble judgment, it is by no means complimentary to wives and mothers to be found present at such discourses, encouraging such untruthful and pernicious advice.  If Miss Anthony’s