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and B. S. Jones, of Ohio, would attend.

The meeting was organized by appointment JAMES M. BUSTILL, Chairman, who received one vote, WM. STILL, Secretary, who also go one vote, and that from the platform. No sooner was this done, than a string of resolutions full of the most randical, and visionary of the Garrisonian doctrines, was submitted. To these Mr. JONES of Ohio, spoke, and C. L. REMOND followed. Then came the immortal PURVIS, who labored hard to kick up a terrible dust, but fell grandly short of it. Finally, the question on the resolutions came. It had leaked out some how in the course of the meeting that these were to go out as the expression of the colored people, in the face of the fact that such an expression had just been given. Our able and accomplished friend U. B. VIDAL called attention to this, and asked that the resolutions be taken up separately, when another significant fact came out, that they had been already given over to the Reporter! Mr. VIDAL and BOWERS protested calmly and rightfully against such an underhanded proceeding, whereat PURVIS flew into a terrible rage, and pitched into every thing but the subject in hand; he alluded to GERRIT SMITH as "a visionary, light-headed man," and to his followers as a "baker's dozen of unmitigated scoundrels" grew almost frantic over the fact that the colored citizens of Philadelphia had actually held a public meeting, when it was known that the most able and popular colored man in the country, C. L. REMOND, was in town, and did not invited him to meet with them;" (we trow this was a word for Robert himself.) These colored citizens be stigmatized as followers of one DOUGLASS, (not STEPHEN A.,) "who" he said, "had seen eye to eye with us for twelve years, and traveled the country in OUR employ, invoking bolts from heaven to shiver into ten thousand atoms the American Union, and then as suddenly as these same bolts, announced his conversion to the Liberty Party, when he soon went over to the Radical Abolition Party, (we never before knew there were two parties,) and when the Republican Party come up, he (DOUGLASS) tipped over to it, leaving the GERRIT SMITH party (the audience knew this to be a lie.) And he must by this time be tackled on to something else." The immortal Bob really got quite angry when he came to reflect that in addition to all those things, there were Professors in the meeting of colored citizens above alluded