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SMS. A. J. DC3I1VAT, Mitor nd rMPrittor OFFICE Cor. TUIrdaud WarIn;rtoii SI A Journal forthC People" Devoted to the Interestsofll JfVMfgru'lf Independent In PollUcsTamfcHrtrtaw . URif to all Lire Is5S5flflmr-Ju, . -t Radical InOjUXisins andRtpos tha Wrons TBUMS, IN ADVANCE: Oneyser Six months:--. Three montiis-i., -SSOO .173 - 1 00 Free Speech, Free Press, Free People, y- ok spmiiefi5!Krifirie artrcapnnto tSna ;i 1 JtL--r. or ni ilnt!nn will lwv r .it-theft- ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable VOIi. 1. PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1871. NO;: J Tenns. tY : k Tssr - TOOLE SAMUEL1IEEDS A WIPE. In the course of Mrs. Gordon's lecture on Friday evening she made a telling hit at the-lords of creation, who persist in calling politics a "filthy pool," to which we desire to call the special atten tion of the Democratic Era. She said that men were not consid ered crood house-keepers: at least men's house-keeping had not proved a succes in California among the' miners; that they were ashamed of the filth in their cabins, and feared that if women should enter they would be contaminated. Men had also made bad work of the national house-keeping, hence their "filthy pool." And she was certain that a wife was at present the most urgent need of our bachelor Uncle Samuel. Now, inltiedness and candor we ask the Democra'ic Era if its editor has no desire to see woman cleanse "the filthy pool of party politics" in whicli he writhes daily? That man fails to make the political arena anything else than a "filthy pool" should be to him sullicient evidence that he alone is not competent to take charge of it. Let our brethren hereafter ltc ashamed to boast that they wallow in a "filthy pool," which they have no desire to cleanse or disposition to yield in part to the purifying influ ence of woman, whose skill in tidy house-keeping has made her as deserv edly famous as her brother's lack of it has madehlrrKTjolitically iufauious. et Uncle SainUel to "courting at the gate." The moral liMUSnce wiu io him good, and his speedy marria"gb V.th thrift, economy and tidiness, which form the embodiment of his waiting bride, will result in such a moral and political cleansing of the "filthy pool," which he has made while "keeping bach," as will make him wonder how he ever lived in the bachelor atmosphere engendered by his own mismanagement. "We exhort our Uncle Samuel to take unto himself a wife. DELI0A0Y AND -EEFINEMENT, AL. ET The following extract has been sent to us as a "curiosity" by one of the promi nent workers in the woman cause. The letter is from his son in Kentucky, whose feminine peculiarity of "modes ty" and "refinement" seems to be the principal ingredient in his excessively "delicate" temperament. Wc think himself uud the "few Southom ladies of his acquaintance who hold this matter of woman suffrage in the extremest abomination," while he himself "detests and scorns it," should be placed in a dainty band-box, scented with lavender, and laid away among catnip and dried clover. This work-a-day world has no place for such dainty denizens, clothed temperance i rmv?my -yw-alio W"tnc, al ar . w:r my most sol-.ta5i.-., ur writing for or il. ill! fr- d tx-.-i,.' z the woman suf- . h. O.' all creations now before 11: Aiat-lean pcopk it is held in the ex- .t fcooaihvitiun, I detest it and mxtni "l! -conic Intuitively to every , ifyit ?i Lhu to oppose it, and h'er feeijUi". fil frcm t. "What is thought wrfcaailvocatesit? She is ihuxt&i by the m -dest of lier sex, 1 sx. . , ,y the opposite sax. The ...1. r . ...r,?7l. w rt of all; the immodest, unrefined, of on. I live noi ! lady acquaintance to ijiTe- it WHghtest support, and it i the universal sentiment of Southern Francisco Alia of July errv tree was shown yeMertttv which was certainly a ihead aOBe" rage. It measured met in fUmgfli, weighed seven mntlo, and had three hundred and i ft$-fWeherris upon it. The variety i aJOiiTwaLatfee. "ik .yal Anne." It was fSR a3Br fiBrflfitg's nursery on the WIHitinot, near Portland, Oregon. It will remain Sat ehort time on exhibi tion ; HeriK!f drug ttorc, Montgomery rv t 11. uranch of cherries from Mr. Laefliuflr uurht-r. nowon cxliibitionat Kett. Fern- & Woodard's, comer of Awit ant Alder si .rets, is only twenty Stfwfe lt? undwejgUs over five :Mmi. JShcrt too manycherries on it to count. Tut a thousand would be jwfetfii&s. we ti-.ink, and.they are all , I.toliff.ovtl Annas." If that branch ioflish thi Franciscans, they ought. t th" no wc speak oI.ul- .iasL 11.1 ' rCVTTK ' U San Franciscans and Portlanders Uiiairtfee abtr.enjbig ."cherry story" let (Ma t'Hx w dfd'last week, to the ivm of ft-th Luelling, at Milwaukie, "SsiiH4- 8te loaded branches of uoxtras si jgfHui .Vnncs and gaze upward amii the fchi;e where hang such clus UUM ot , j ambcr-hued fruit as above-named branches . irative insignificance, i tlie present loaded ap- fotw "ffees, Mr. Luelling in ifcJrnes to California. tfjJUirv ""ees that cover an area tfftid judge, less than onn fourth af ground. His other fruits Ifcy 'Klihis cherries. His li&k femes especially Kive of i piindA?itj.'ield ; aud then tjt le orchard well, f lmm'a Ma'.i .. we can't do the Mihlr. " , anybody who croaks of ' -1 ' u lflfrfiv nr 1 1 merlin tn.l. -:. is p Kt artcrliold his peace. -in dimity ,anL encased in local prejudice: "I am treTfighSMo hear of your success i" -r!rwSiietemperance cause. It OiHb OEEEEIES. STtwip' forms' in "asst h ' 6.000 MM" mm mm MBS. STAFTOIT'S PEIVATE LECTURE Says the Laramie Sentinel: Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton recently delivered a lecture in San Francisco "to ladies only," but an enterprising news mncr reporter of the Chronicle contrived tn smutrsrle himself in by a Jell Davis disguise, and reports and publishes the whole speech. It contains a good many good things, of which the following is a specimen : The venerable lady said, to start with, that woman was not inherently weak. and that her debility only came "be cause she neglected her baths, violated every law of her nature and God, aud dressed in a way that would kill a man," wjncn is penectry true, sue said, lur tlier, that women by their own folly brought the pains of child-birth on themselves, chiefly by their method of dressing, of which she had never been guilty. In giving birth to her first four children Sirs. Stanton said she suffered very little; but cam1? to the sensible conclusion tliat even that little was too much, and needless; "so," she contin ued, "I dressed lightly, walked every day, lived as much as possible in the open air, ate no condiments or spices, kept quiet, listened to music, looked at pictures, read poctrv. The night before the birth of the child I walked three miles. The child was born without a particle of pain. I bathed it and dressed It, and It weighed ten pounds and n half. That same day I dined-with the family. Everybody said I would surely tile, but I never had a moment's inconvenience from it. I know this is not being deli cate and refined ; but, if you would be vigorous aud healthy in spite of the dis eases of your ancotors, try it." At this point, says the reporter, there was the most enthusiastic applause, many of the congregation the reporter not included rising. Farther the fair lecturer went, baying tjhat she never met six women in all her life Who knew anything about babies. "When babiea. cry don't, for mercy's sake, give them that fearful curse of childhood, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup." Another idea, by the way, with which we heartily agree. "We scarcely know whicli most tn ad mire, the sneaking cowardice of a "re porter" who would thus inveigle him self into the private discussions of a gathering of women or the mendacious audacity that would publish the ridicu lous act. "We are glad, however, to note the appreciation in which Mrs. Stanton's lecture is held by the sons of women; and we hope that women themselves will be vastly benefitted thereby. "Wc don't think we ever saw so much practi cal good sense printed in so short a space. BEO. ABBOTT HEAED PEOM. A lady friend of ours incidentally informed us, a few days since, that the editor of the Portland Noutiiwest sometime ago published nearly a column for our especial benefit; anil our fair friend wondered why we had never replied. "Weanswcr that Mrs. Duniwny did not send us the number containing nerattacK. was tuat lair v wc think not. Wo are fully aware that men (should exhibit magnanimity and gal lantry to true ladies; but we know of no conventional law which justifies a ! woman in shovinga stiletto into a man's gizzard, in the dark, without ut least I entering a solemn protest. The next! time our sweet editorial sister fires a : broadside into lis we trust she will not be so wanting in editorial courtesy as 1 not 10 senu us tiie .northwest for our inspection and delectation. If she pushes us right hard she will gel her hair pulled "you bet." licdrocl: Dem ocrat. Wcare sorry that our brother did not receive our "reply." If the fault was ours it was an unintentional one. "We have wondered that wo heard no more from Bro. Abbott, but the above is, wc ' suppose, a solution of the mystery- "We'd dread the threatened "hair-pulling" if we had the least idea that our friend was in earnest, hut wc have never found our brethren half as pugnacious as they pre tend, so we venture at this late day to send the paper with the politest bow and most benevolent smile at our com mand, hoping that our sturdy editorial brother will launch hard argument at us in substantial broadsides whenever he has anything to say in his own be half or that of his man's rights brethren. TEIED BY HIS PEEES. A colored jury lias been summoned nnd will le impaneled at Cnmbridce. Guernsey county, Ohio, to try the case of Bobert "Wright, colored, for shooting with intent to kill. This is the second occasion where a colored jury has been impaneieu in tnc tinted states. "We find the above going the rounds of the newspapers, and proudly point to it as the legitimate result of the liberties of the ballot. Can't women see that with tho right of suffrage will Inevitably come the right to be tried by a jury of their peers ? We'd be ashamed to sit in judgment, among a packet! jnry of women, over the case of an unfortunate masculine malefactor, and we wonder that men arc not ashamed to try women by a jury who are not their peers. "We are waiting anxiously for the Herald to speak its sentiments upon the jury ques tion as related to women who are male factors, or suspected of being such. "We ask this of the Herald because it hns been magnanimous enough to lend its columns to a correspondent who sees the injustice of trying a negro by a jury of white men who arc not his peers. WOMAN SUFBAGE ASSOCIATION. We think that the friends of woman suffrage will agree witli us that the time has arrived when the organization of a suffrage association has become neces sary. AVc ask any and all such persons to confer with us personally or by letter in regard to this matter, and we trust that they will see the necessity of speedy action in a cause so vitally related to the best intcxnU of the people of America. 00BBESP0HDE1ICE. Tiiis department of the. New North west Is to be a general vehicle for ex change of ideas concerning any and all matters that may be legitimately' dis cussed in our columns. Findingit practi cally impossible to answer each corres pondent by private letter, wc adopt this mode of communication to save our friends the disappointment that would otherwise accrue from our inability toan swer their queries. "Wc cordially invite everybody that has a question to ask, a suggestion to make, or a scolding to give to contribute to the Correspondents' Column. From away back in Missouri comes to us the following indorsement and in quiry: "Dear Mrs Duniway: I have seen several copies of your paper and I like it very much ; but wish to know if you would bo willing if there should be war to take your stand on the field of battle ami help protect the laws you arc so anxious to help make. Truly, your friend, Annie D." "Wc sincerely thank our unknown friend for the above "lead ing" question, which gives us opportu nity to come right to the point on the fighting question. "Wc do not believe that it is a woman's place or sphere to fight and kill and maim. Hers is the greater work to mold the mass of man hood in its infancy ; to give life rather destroy it; therefore it is her right, con sidering that she imperils her life when man is born, to enjoy immunity from peril on the field of battle. Yet, woman has never been known to shrink from the terrible ordeal of war. "If there should be war" when women vote we say candidly that we should be "willing to take our stand on the field of battle;" but we believe that with the advent of woman's political era will also come the advent of "Peace on earth, good will to men." O. M., Oregon City: The Home Shut tle Sewing Machine is furnished witli or without table, according to the choice of the purchaser. Mary-A. G. : -AW know of no such work. Cannot find it In the Library. Julia G. If.: Your idea that there is something indelicate or immodest con nected with the inherent right of suf frage is founded upon prejudice, without the least foundation in sound reason or common sense. If there is anything in delicate in American politic the men have created aud fostered that indeli cacy, and it is time that woman, with her refinement and purity, should come to the rescue before man's very presence becomes a source of contamination to the "divinity" whom he effects to tror- ,ty in ner youtn, beauty ami prosper- ity, but whom lie too often spurns as a l reptile in her age, poverty and helpless ness. Other letters will be answered next week. Tkai'I'ixg ax Audience. Some years ago an eccentric genius, the Bey. Thomas 1. Hunt, used to give temper ance lectures. One night he announced that he would lecture fii Easton. Now, temperance was not in favor among the male portion of that burg. The women, however, were all in for the "pledge," and, consequently, on Hunt's first night, not a man snowett iiimseit in the nan, The benches were pretty well filled with women, though, and Hunt commenced; but, instead of temperance, he put them through on the vanities of dress, etc They wore great stuffed feather sleeves then. They the sleeves caught it, then their tight lacing, and so on through the whole catalogue of female follies; not a word about temperance. And the ladies went home hopping mad, told their husbands about it, and voted oltl Hunt down to the lowest notch He had announced that ho would lec ture at the same place tiie .Trcxt night Lonir before the time appointed they commenced to come, and when Hunt hobbled down the aile the buildingwas comfortably filled with men. Hie old fellow looked about, ckueklcd and mut tered: "Hogs, I've got you now!" The audience stared. "Aha, hogs, I've got you now." After the crowd had trot nuict a little. the lecturer said : "Friends, you wanted to know what I meant by Haying, 'Hogs, I've got you now,' and I'll tell you. Out West the hogs run wild ; antl when folks get out of meat they catch a young pig, put a strap under his hotly, and hitch him to a young sapling that will just swing him from the ground nicely. Of course he squeals and raises a rumpus, when all the old hogs gather round to see what's the matter, and then they shoot them at tlieir leisure. iist night I nung a pig up: I hurt it n little, and it soucalcd. The old hogs have turned out to-night to fee the fun, and I'll roast you," antl so he did, pitching Into their favorite vice with a relish and a gusto. Ax Oregon Papeh. Wc have re ceived the first number of the New NoimrwEST, a paper published at Port land. Oregon, edited by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, a lady who, judging by the initial number of her paper, seems emi nently qualified to fill the editorial chair. T lie New Northwest is lively and spicy, jrivinsr room to news, poetry, literature, and remarks on the topics of the uay. it is conducted wun marKea ability, and deserves success. Mrs. Duniway is undoubtedly an energetic working woman. Arthur's Home Mag azine. That was a beautiful idea in the mind of a little girl, who, on beholding a rose uusn, on the topmost stem oi wiucn a rose was fadinc. whilst below and around it three beautiful crimson buds were just nnfoldiug heir charms, al once and earnestly exclaimed to her brother, "See, William, these little buds have awakened in time to kiss their mother before she dies." Subscribe for the New Northwest. A Dinner nml n KK. "X hnvcTironsht your dinner, father," TIio blackiralth's daughter ald. As she toot from her arni the kettle And lifted its shining lid, "There's not any pie or puddl'ns, So I will Rive yon this," And upon Ills toll-ivnrn forehead .She left a fervent kiss. Tho blncksmllh took oirhM npron And dined In happy mood, Wondering much at the savor Hid In his happy food; "While all about him 'were visions Full of prophetic blUs, Hut lie never thought of the magic In his little daughter's kiss. AVIillo she, with her kettle swinging. Merrily trudged away, Stopplng-at sight of a squirrel, Catching some wild bird's lay; And I thought how many a sIkiJoh- Of life and fate they would miss, If nl ways pur frugaljdlnnera Were Masoned with a. kiss. The 'Wrongs ofSewing Women. There are several organized agencies in 2ev lork designed for the protection of "sewing girls" from the injustice they have so often experienced in their dealings with heartless employers. By the employment of legal counsel, antl still more frequently by showing their readiness and ability to defend those who sufler, these associations have ac complished much in this humane object. Iho pulpit, too, sometimes is heard. One of our most eminent divines (Bev. Dr. Talmadge) saitl : I tell you if God rises up to redress woman's wrongs, many of our large es tablishments will be swallowed up quicker than a South American earth quake ever took down a city. God will catch these oppressors between the two millstones of his wrath, and grind them to powder. Why is it that n femnle principal in a school gets only eight hundred and twenty-live dollars for do ing work for which a male principal gets sixteen hundred and firty ? I hear, from all this land, the wail of womanhood. Man has nothing to answer but llatter ies. He says she is an angel. She is not. She knows she is not. She is a human being, who gets hungry when she has no foot!, and cold when she lias no fire. Give her no morn I.attirioa- justice. I here arc thirty-five thousand sewing girls inXcw YorkandBrooklyn. Across thedarknesi of this night I hear their death-groan. It Is not fuch n cry as comes from those who are sinlifoiilv hurled out or life, hut a slow, grinding, horriblo wasting awav. Gather them l)cfore you and look into tlu-ir fhivw. pinched, ghastly, hunger struck ! Look at their fingers, needle pricked and blood-tlppeil ! Stand at the comer of a street In New York at half past five or six o'clock in the morniiiir. ns tlm u-mumi am t ii;- work. Many of then . have hail no break fast except the crumbs thr.t were left over from the night before, or a crust tlicy chew on their wav throutrh ihn street. Here they come, the working girls of New York and Brooklyn. These i engaged in bead-work, these in flower- uiuhiiig, in niiinnery, enameling, cigar . making,lookbiuding, labelling, feather picking, print-coloring.papcr book-mak-1 ing, but most overworked of all, nnd least compensated, the sewing women. I by do they not take the citv cars on their way up? They cannot afford the five cents. Jf concluding to den v herself something else, she get into a car, give her a scat ! You want to sec how I-iti- ' mer and Bidley appeared in the lire iook ai mat woman anil hehold a more horrible martyrdom a hotter lire, a more agonizing death ! Ask that wom an how much she irets for her work, and she will tell you six cents for making coarse snirts, auu liud her own thread. Last Sabbath night, in the vestibule of this church, lifter service, a woman fell in convulsions. The doctor said she needed medicine not so much as some thing to cat. As she began to revive in her delirium, she said gaspingly: "Eight cents! Eighteenth Eight cents! I wish I could get it done! Eight cents! Eight cents!" We found afterwards that she was making garments for eight cents apiece, and that she could make but three of them in a dav. Hear it! Three times eight are twenty-four! Hear it, men and women of New York and Brooklyn ! That one case was laid at the door of this church ; hut there arc thirty-five thousand such cases laitl at the doors of our Christian churches, demanding your prayers, your sympathies, and your charitable effort. Some of the worst villains of the city are the employers of uiese women Bights versus Ow.igatioxs. A man's wife is very often the real pro moter of his public actions, vet it is onlv an extremely small minority of women who nave anytuing tuat tieserves the name of a conscience on public nil airs. How could a woman have a conscience about public affairs if she were taught to believe that they were no concern of hers? Give woman tho same riehts as man, nnd the same obliirations would follow. Another reason is the vast amount of brain power and practical business talent which now lie waste for want of outlet into that great Held of usefulness, In which no one would pre tend that such qualities were not verv much wanted. The whole movement of modern society from tiie middle ages until now, nnd whicli has been greatly accelerated in the present century, points in the direction of the political enfran chisement of women. Thclrexclusion is the last remnant of the old state of soe'ety. The regime of privileges and disabilities, and of all monopolies, Is gone or going, and the whole spirit of the time Is against predetermining by law that one set of persons should be allowed by right of birth to have and to do what others are not by any amount of exertion or superiority of talent allowed to retain. John Stuart Jfill. An old Scotch lady was told that her minister used notes. She disbelieved IL Said one, "Go into the gallery and sec." She dill so, and saw the written sermon. After tho luckless preacher had con cluded his reading oil the last page he said: "Uut I will not enlarge." Theold woman cried out from her lofty position: "Yo canna, ye canna ! for yer paper's give oout." A young lady who was perfectly thunderstruck at hearing of her friend's emratrement. has since been provided J with a lightning-rod. The Uses of PasMon. A writer in the Boston Trantcrivt chats in this fashion about the uses of Fashion: Perhaps some husbands complain I dare say very unjustly of the amount of time women now give to dress, but what If everything was Icfttoeaehone'.s caprice? They must be glad that the law of fashion, Avhich settles many questions for them, gives tiicm leisure for anything else. Not that dress is anything less than one of the great interests of a woman's life. Aud justly so. It is the language by which she expresses her neatness, taste, judgment, and charac ter, not for the sake of exhibition, but for the realization of her own Ideal. What a grotesque appearance would any assembly of men and women pres ent, tlid no fashion prevail. Fancy a church filled with worshippers dressed in all Imaginable colors and cut. Who could keep a countenance befitting that sacred place? Who could so restrain his wanderinjr and wondering eyes as to give attention to the preacher, him self might be the most laughable carica ture thero? It was precisely to guard against thus that clerical officiating robes were at first introduced. In reading the Old Testament, perhaps we think that a great deal of unnecessary pains were taken to prescribe the pattern of the priest's tlres. But wc find a like mi nute care in the old pagan temples, and in the ancient sen-ices of the Bomuu Catholic Church. In times when the worshipers were half tlrcssctl in skins of wild beasts, and many not dressed at all, the decency of public worship re quired all this attention to robes, but any change of officiating garments is less neetieunow. Fashion is a great saving of time, and in the main a great educator of taste. But It is our most tyrannical master. A gentleman's stove-funnel hat is hard on Ills pate, and Is jammed down over his eyes perhaps half a dozed times a day. All the hat-makers In the world navo long been trying to get up some thing better. But not one of them can command those associations of gentility which gives pre-eminence to the dress of the head. Aston lady's skirt, a dozen things' might be said against It. It is un healthy, expensive, Interferes witli walking, and sweeps the dust. But what of all that ? We haveassociations of womanly modesty and propriety with mo garments wnieii will prooatiiy per- Ieiuaie it lorever. To tell the truth, I think the autocrat fashion is here in the right. Tiie skirt just hints at the lower limbs, but con ceals them. Bloomerism seems to me to be a prosaic, bold and impudent tell tale. 1 have sometimes thought that the long trains now in vogue came in as a protest against it. While I see the Inconvenience of the train, I like the protest. The traveler returning from Europe sees that sameness of dress Is all Ameri can defect. AYith us, all mcndressalike and all women dress alike. The barber wears a neck-tie and frock coat like that of the Bishop, and Bridget apes all the ribbons and flowers of her mistress. A Frenchman, and Englishman, accus tomed to see a style appropriate to each station, when ho conies here takes every barber font gentleman, anil every Bridg et for a lady, antl then goes home uud tells how vulgarly gentlemen and ladies behave in America. It is a clear case df optical delusion. In the habit of forming his opinion of lcrson.s by their outside itppcamude, he docs not note those other indications which tell us at once of one's grade of culture and good breeding. When Charles Dickens was first in America he was surprised that the man who came to measure him for a pair of shoes wore Kin gloves. 11 lie Had not Known this man's business, I suppose that Dickens would not have doubted that the kid kIovcs marked one of our most cultivated gentlemen. now it wouiti ailil to picturesqucucss if each class had its appropriate dress! I think it was a step in the right direc tion to putpoliccmcniuuniform. Why should not each railway company uni form all its officials ? I was sorry when clergymen gave up their distinctive dress. I went this summer to nn Oltl School Presbyterian Church, and in the pulpit were two young ministers who wore turned-down collars and fancy neck ties antl white vests. An unaf fected prayer from the one and an earn est sermon from the .other made me almost foruet the incongruity; and yet tho service seemed shorn of some eflect through their want of deference to pro fessional propriety. uu inu wiioic, j U1IUK.WO ueeu nut rail at fashion. We owe much to it. Probably its sway has always been as imperial as it is now. It is curious, however, that we are quite ignorant of many details of tliedressof theancients. Such n vast nuinbcrof nudestatucs have come down to us, that we know more about the bodies of men and women of old times than about the garments that covered them. "Woman Sukkuaok. On a very brief notice an audience of respcetablp num bers was assembled at the Odd Fellows' Hall, on Thursday evening, to hear the subject of Woman Suflrage discussed by Mrs. Pauline Iloberts and Mrs. Laura De Forcif Gordon. The firstnaniedlady opened the meeting with a few perti nent introductory remarks, and was fol- lnrii1 Iiv "Mr. ( inrtlon. wlin.ii aIivhiamI argument in support of woman's right. oy xiviiie law nnu me iuntiamentnl principles of our Government, to equal privllegesof citizenship, held thoclosest attention of her auditors for nearly two hours and at its conclusion, on a vote of the audience, she consented to speak here again, at one o'clock to morrow, (Sunday), In the Odd Fellows' Hall, when there will no douut be a large au- clinnpf miYtmic f lionr ttm vin,Ad( .....1 .... . -- VMI11VJI, 11UU '.eloquent tliscourse of this able advocate Ari.Hu..1 .. .1 I . iti r wi uiimii iiim iinjr.iriiai Huurage. The ladies above named liave been addressing meetings at Antioch, Kan Ramon and other places in the country during the week and have appointments for Danville and Martinez next week, aud will probably speak at other places also. Contra. Casta. Paper. A young minister whose reputation for veracity was not verv trootl. once ventured to differ with an old doctor of divinity as to the efficacy of the use of ,111c roo. "wiiy," saiu ne, "tiie only , tlnio my father over whipped me was ; for telling the truth." "Well," retorted J the doctor, "ltcuredyou of it, didn't It?" Cuba. An intelligent writer fi in some light upon her prcs&ft liitiit and future prospects as fbllajvtK So much has been said flat J the style of warfare our friend -have adopted to secure freedf'. wish to nut in my little sa anutir Tt. Not that I believe in wur.nny,-fjrthf'ftfi Ido in medicine, but thea.nwi am .l ffetwWMrfS. -..(TaWK sick sometimes. s, anil t,ubaha4.en VXi'fcfiiute . . soiJK bad for a long time. If the people that had just anil iaifflrjfernWjaj mi ii .w lilt jijktivu .-uu:uw. Ajyf one seems to accord this much to tb85s'Jc but it Is the style they complaiwf. , . Sumner savs it is mn-rrillri -.-... 1 Well, so it is tiiat is, small W.rs.aucli as our fathers carried on with EnglamT1 to secure our liberty. Not such a war as we and the South carried on a few years ago. Let Mr. Sumner orany one else go through tho country where this Cuban war is going on and see if small war is not the Kind to wage successfully. What is the use of bringing ten thousand lialf-arnicd men up before as many well armed men to be snot down, when their lives, can be saved ami the same end achieved by small war. The settlements of the whole eastern end of the island of Cnba are remote from each other. The country is n wil derness nearly. The great valley of Canto, where the war began, has but half a dozen villages in a space of fifty nines square, up about the head wa ters of the river, north of San Jago, there is some small space of country where the estates are contiguous, and the country has a cultivated aspect. Leavinfr this section, and travplinir about eighty miles to the sea, there is not a single estate, and not over a dozen acres cleared of the primeval forest. Standing upon a high peak near to Jig uani, about twenty-live miles from Bay amo, one can see over nearly the whole valley of the Canto, and not a break of the forest is visible, except a small space about the two towns. What would be the use of an army of one hundred thou sand mfcn in such a country? There is not a carnage road which tieserves the name In the whole eastern department of the island. If our Qovcnimcntfouud dUllcultics in providing for our army in v lrgima, wnat couiu uespetles anil Ilia government do in the thickets of tropi cal Cuba? More than ten years ntfo. one of the higherolllecrs In the present Republi can government of Cuba told me he could pick eighty from his own men with whom he could hold out against all the army of Spain for a year. No exaggeration was 111 the assertion. A gang of Bandoleroes held the woods within twenty miles of Cienfuegos for several years against a regiment of Lan cers. Tlie peculiarities of the country de mand the policy of small warfare (guer rilla) no othercan be successful. Spain has fried the massing of troops, and what good has it done ? Has the Span ish army gained a foot of ground from the lilierutingariny ? If eo, only tohuld it while t heir shoetaps cover it." It is fit indeed they should hold the home of the gallant leaders of the move ment toward freedom, the old town of Uayamo. Their miserable rule since this century came in has been fast de populating it. The bushes have driven the town info a small compass about the plaza; it is a town nmitl the ruins of a city. It is sad to ride through ruined streets to get to a town in this America. Jerusalem is flourishinir compared to Bayamo. Must we now blame a people because tyranny has so impoverished them that they cannot earn on a great war because their country is so little de veloped that a great wai cannot be con ducted successlully? How much suc cess will fill the nieasurcof our adminis tration up to the mark of recognition? One, two or three years of unsuccessful combat? Shall the ample cause of Cuba, groaning under the worst despotism on the face or the earth, be counted as noth ing? Our forefathers were incensed by a paltry tax on tea. Cubans have been taxed upon everything, from birth to death inclusive. Woodhull and Clut- flin's Weekly. Tub Lakk Supebiob Siia-ekMinks. General Sibley received a letter yester day from his brother, A. H. Sibley, President of the Silver Island Mining tympany, on tiie nonn snore ot uxvm Superior, accompanied by a specimen of the Silver ouartz front the mine. The specimen sent, (represented as an average of the mine,) fully sustains the almost fabulous reports concerning tlie surprising richness of these mines; the quartz is tiucKiy impregnated with suver, many particles ot which are soiui silver of considerable size. Mr. Sibley writes that thc.average yield of me quartz is aoout suuu per ton, or 1 per pound, although they Jiave taken out quartz which yielded from 15,000 to $17,000 per ton. He says they1 r-hipped $155,000 worth or the ore to the smelting works in New Jersey, on the 1st of May, and that they had about the sameamount awatingshipment when lie wrote. The workiugof these mines is vet In Its infancy. From all the indications the deposit of silver on the north shore of Lake Superior is beyond all calcula tion. The farther the rock is quarrietl, the richer becomes the deposit. We learn that this marvelous discovery has induced a company to commence the erection of smelting works at Detroit, for the exclusive purpose of smelting the ore from these mines. We have heretofore been disposed to look upon the reports concerning these mines as greatly exaggerated, but confess that the facts are fast convincing us that "the half hath not been told" regarding their richness. The specimen sent to General Sibley was examined with great interest by a large number of our citi zens, at the City Bank yesterday. .SV. lxul Pioneer. If words are feeble to express our abhorrence for the abominable barbar ities of the Paris combatants on both side-!, what shall wc say of the young tigers who lately in the public streets of raii .r ruuuicu siuueu u. iiiiiiaiuan 10 death, while not a policeman nor a citizen raised a hand to defend the poor foreigner ? Ahd what execration is aeon enough for the jury that brought In a vcrtlict of "Death rrom cause unknown2"i is tuis tno civilization and Is this the Christianity which Mr. Burllngame would have us take with the shining Ui7re is oneJ comfoT not quite gone to the bad. It is reported ianUuieu veruict, it is, as the German says, tiuiteff.tixuaciinau'iaTne toetwrincae bad. s. F. Pioneer. :rirm kii i r.whenSpwf ri wr- M n , ws?frW-,: -fcr&lfifJt&Siir . ,.r- I'WKllfoiiJ.,. r1jiaRR?rfi -nct?w. ,,.'M'-- .nSHHW lo ' e"v Like song'in'aWilia .i !L 3 i.u' ' hail " "ryu airs panted 'nmniw -i there, ,ru S'- .swans iT .Whtefi, uylUevIoUs-VaygflSeyii,., , , e io claim, J Aml the voice ot lovo-ll fronm. J. -ootc near, '" And the crippled sunbeamSc-irnc. And ncvcraesirooftlicnoIsonioJLr, The din or the streets or the dln?y i't2 Did the vouns srowths tako In fixity trUt -i thero, -jfti As If blessed witli a genial grace. J Never a caro took the Bean, but to vio '"rt With Ivy and Hop, that blindly rui., With small hands holding the siring!, whereby They feel their way up to the sun; Xor the Daffodil, bat to dazzle and yield A tune to tho eye with its golden bells; Xor the Giant of Battle, whoso blood-red shield Enchants the look which It quells. Hut Io! a mound a miniature mound! A sensitive plant, with Its hands h;ilf-luit. Stands softly near as in prayer profound A Ileart's-ease smiles at the foot. The quaint old Jew, w.tii his cheerful chat On the habits and hues and names of. flowers If ever glanced at this, the gem of t lie plat, And, most likely, the laborer hours. Till I said, -What Is it, my frlfifrflti niouud. Moss-mantled and wee, liklglllrave, And those typical plants Itint jlluni trnrrjilnd?" I paused at the sigU 1 Jjy1R . , He spoke 110 word, butdjUmwgemai-. The air grew sUll andWtjiiitqg, And then, as the SensTnve'pluj; .wuslujua a Byihe old man'a'hhftWt'v1 , ... , , r "J Ti:t -f li.lli A vision aroeof agreenfgraxe T In a distant land, tn th dlin$??r:l And I knew tho mourner MsfciT6nf!Ciia l gav, A yotitliful trlbuteof rrn. .rf&M And 1 thought, this aUltitye terv.i&fuix i2 May have lived by b rwfc,) ryujfi n ft a! i May have fawned, and lie grown gray In the sordid curse of , an J But surely, I though:, love .. -.like .ltv On Ills heart from tha, r..vn c'by-guue hours; r9n,i) . . f am And surely God loves thallttlc old Jit, So cheerful and lond pQSAnvvt. The Various Few people arer ftwaru'f .the. many gradations of cojpi.rgjibLaefe thl the commercial value!IV pJMi Of course tlie first plaey-Wm:coreil fr Svhst is called a diamond of fryuv w itejr. -This means a perfectly colorless siohe fres from every possibIe'gkade.''Tiiuap th? lowest place is given co yellov si one. though there is at.ijpec'itiijriy. & Idt. brown, a most delicateji. nce, y dch amateurs especially ptrah The reft vons for lowering tlie stanSaHF o Ue'yts ov. diamond arc siniply.vtliiwLiw ocrall aud demand. If it,rtenuit;.Un'l t ' the tint of the topaz. It has, howe cr, an inherent lire aud prllhaitey wll, ch make the humbler Jtbpiifc; toxmeuu luteiy unit by compact!!, met d.a- what impair its firoKThe ' lue tiamonj. where the azure oflthBai4juiie s ev bincd witli the natuxaJLJu-it . l" lbr '.!. mond; tlie rose-cdloretL fiu.utii'g tls fire of the ruby; tlnfgreeii diarrt jifd, ri valing the emerald,! att- j.iverr Rliade When these colors are fntns)f,Hiait the depth of tone is positive. tUiyy-jbecome rarities of untold prlS'iu'' fire fancy stones, on whicli no poSitl' "Value can be placed. Milky ston with i lack diamonds, save for the lustrlJj arts, have as ornaments no. ihil worth. Some very rpmarkable f rtftraajs have been instituted to chrV' tti'eolor of diamonds. It would, iwtaseirpbirlrorth. untold fortunes could xuceuineven depriving a ycllowTui.wiqd?of"ifs un popular tint. It wa u hcWt one time that this could I' e-ftcfc-- 'hrougb the agency of heat Fa.ufryella5 atones, by long subjection to tnc furnace heat were convertible into pale rose-colored diamonds: but, unfortunately, after a certain lapc of time, they slowly but surely resumed their original tint, i or the United States where all the foreign stocks are especially culled for gems of only the purest water, colored diamonds are rarely, if ever, to be seen. On exam ining a number of unique collections, recently, we only saw jewels of the clearest and most limpid color; and, though our curiosity to examine a blue diamond is as yet- unsatisfied, we were fully contented with viewing stones which, even for the difficult standard of American taste, cannot but fail to be re garded as the most perfect of their kind. Brooklyn Eagle. Thk Women Captubh Trumbull. The advocates of woman suffrage hae reason to rejoice and to be encouraged. Not only have they won over Sargaut, but they have secured the valuable assistance of tlie distinguished Senator from Illinois, Lyman Trumubll. This is a most signal victory for them. Sar gaut will not be of much service, but they will justly look upon Trumbull as their hig gun. The latter showed his hand very suddenly aud unexpectedly on this subject. He was the orator of the day at the celebration 011 the Fourth at Galesburg, Illinois. In his oration he exnrossiwl thn hone that the time may speedilyarrive "when wonien-hall re ceiysirxDisaiive pay for theomrBeifeerviee f1 jf it v-.tf frri H30 to ,ia iengiha k? itrcz-JZiTui jua s r ,tw t) Hyt