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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1871)
LEOTUBE THIS XVEKHTG. Miss Anthony will lecture this Fri day 6veViIii?r,t'a'ifd w'HI discuss the" right of women to vote under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Con stitution. , WOMAN SLTPBAGE LECTURE. Miss Anthony lectured on "The Tower of thcBalIot"-atthe OroiFino-Hnll- on "Wednesday- evening stoi a darge,tintelli gent and delighted audience. The Hall was literally pagked with culm, dispas sionate and interested listeners, whom the speaker Tield spell-bound for au hour and twenty minutes. "Women, with bright countenances and radiant eyes, looked on and listened .to utterances of wisdom concerning realities which they beforo had not seriously considered, Men, with broad foreheads and thought ful faces, hearkened to prophecy, and philosophically prepared themselves to accept the inevitable. Susan's fund of anecdote, incident and argument is in exhaustible. The crowded state of our columns prevents a full report of her lecture from annearincr in this Issue. It will be given next week. J. B. rBOSTjSTAND UP! You are accused before Almighty God and these witnesses of perpetrating a li bel upon your own sex. You say that "in endorsing woman's rights you must ignore marriage and encourage prostitution." You Fay that "if the right of the bal lot is given to woman our Government would pass rapidly Into the hands of miserable despots, and the star of lle publicanism will set forever in degrada tion and shame." You say "with the first vote polled by woman's hand the death warrant of our Republican Government is signed." You say that "the noble women of Amorica will be dragged from thoirhigh estate down to the vortex of infamy and shame, and be obliged to share in the disgrace of a movement which they had no hand in originating, but would be de spoiled of the influence which they now exert, disrespected among men and dis honored and disregarded by their chil dren." There! This is the head and front of your offending. Hold your head up, so! Look us in the face if you can and give rear-on, if possible, why sentence for libel upon your sex may not be pro nounced upon you. Is it possible that you judge the wise and pure and virtuous women of Amer ica by your own ignoble standard? Is it right or just to accuse all women of needing tho peculiar legislation of man to keep them in the paths of decency because ioh need such restraint? Are you capable of feeling any sense of ier sonal shame? Do you think, because you can impose upon a nervous invalid of an editor, whose mind is evidently as weak as his body, and prevail upon him to print your platitudes and ignorantly thank you for them, that the wives and ; mothers of sensible men will harbor your opinions? Do you hope to curry favor with any man of brains by your insensate calumny? There! "We thought you'd quail! Go to! It's no use braying you in a mortar seven times, foryourfolly would not even then depart! "We can forgive au ignoramus of the genus masculine who reviles woman, but when a self-conceited upstart like yourself essays such wickedness she sins away her day of grace. It is possible that a study of the prac tical principles of Knglish grammar might help you soniowhut in your "ed ucation," but wc can think of no further benefit to lie derived by you from the deserved oblivion to which the women of Oregon hereby consign you. THE OEEGON EISAHE ASYLUM. Through the accommodating kindness of Jaeob Stltzel, Esq., llrs. Carrie F. Young and ourself were recently con veyed to the Insane Asylum, where we spent an hour or two in visiting the different wards, under the guidance of the gentlemanly physician in charge, Dr. -J. C Hawthorne. The buildings are large, clean, well ventilated and commodious, and the un fortunate inmates are well provided for. One noticeable and pleasing feature of the institution is that the patients are all fond of Dr. Hawthorne, and do not exhibit the least symptoms of fear or hatred at his approach. There is a park adjacent to the build ings where the patients spend much of their time in pleasant recreations. The location is healthy, commanding and beautiful. One elderly unfortunate stepped up to us as we wore promenading in his ward, and said as naturally as though his uram had never been unhinged : "We nave a very comfortable home here, madam; I imj MO i(Jea tbnt the accom. modations wcre good." We honestly congratulate htm upon his fortuiia(e ZZZ 3 tUn,cd to 1 W o the twaddle of a ma Avho , , date for the United Stat09 Senate for a number of years. We entered whh some spirit into Lis ludicrous bv-Xv so real to him, and yet such a phantom to thousands of men, whom nothing but an asylum can cure of their insane long ings for honors that never come Sitting in one of the bed rooms In tin. woman's ward was au old lady whose tidy surroundings were peculiarly re freshing. She was busy making floor mats, and appeared as happy as a queen. A pile of pafti-cblored strips of cloth lay beside her, and she braided, tewed and twisted them into shape and comeliness, talklngincessantijvand evidently happy as the day. (We forgive Stephen Mussett and the . papers for bilking the public in a certain 'Entertainment," after we read up his fMassett'shvisit to the asylum. We'd print hbrletler iujilace of this editorial, only we'veuost the Bulletin containing jiope lie s mouuieu now.) Thi'll Wft. mw nil nll unrrtfwa tliA mothcr.offwctify-tliree children, a hid eous monster of meiu sufficient to con vert Darwin himself to a life long ad herence to his own theories. Twenty- Hirec cluliircn ! "to'nursc through mea sles, whooping cough, mumps, scarlet fever, rash, teething, weaning, jaundice, dystntery! XbHvonder she's insane! -Then-there-ans-the epileptic, idioties and deaf, mute and blind. Oh! The iniquities of the parents are indeed visited unon the children! These histories arc not unwritten, for they are here stamped legibly upon these blighted lives. The food for the patients is of excel lent quality consisting of breads, fruits, meats and vegetables, all well cooked, well ordered and clean. There is but one Innovation which the people of Oregon should labor to secure. The asylum needs a woman phyt.iciau for the care of the women and children Will not our State authories see that our request Is granted? THE LAW80F OEEGON. A lady friend lias been reading up the laws of Oregon, and calls our attention to the following sections thereof: Section 1,095, page 423 says : Until administration of the estate has been cranted. the widow and minor children of the deceased are entitled to remain in the possession of the home stead, all the wearing apparel of the familv and household furniture, and aLo to have a reasonable provision for their support, during sucn iKariod, to he allowed uy tnc court or judge mereoi. Section 1,005 continues : The courtor judge shall make an onler setting apart for the widow or minor children, if any, all the property of the estato exempt by law from execution. The property thus set apart, if there be a widow, is her property, to be used by her in the maintenance of herself and children. Ladies of Oregon, look at the above, Men accuse you of being improvident idle, vain. They say you care but little for your husband's business; that you are butterflies and dolls, and what not, Xow, we want you to ask them how they can expect you to be anything else than dolls so long as they Impose such laws upon you? In case of your husband's death the court or judge im mediately assumes jurisdiction over his proierty mark you, notyour projicrty and sets apart, for the use of yourself and minor children, all his eflocts not claimed by creditors. But this property is only yours for your own and children's mc. You cannot legally dispose ot it without an order from the court or judge, and if such judge or court bo contrary or disposed to ask you to marry him, as the case may be he may, by law, com pel you to keep sucli property, marry again, or starve to death. Have you all the rights you want so long as such laws as this remain upon our statute books ? Section 1,007 contains the following: If from the inventory of an intestate's estate who died leaving a willow or minor children, it aniwars that the value of the estate does not exceed one hundred and fifty dollars over and above projicrty exempt from execution, uiion Ming tnc inventory, tne court or judge shall make a decree, providing that the whole of the estate, after the payment of funeral exicuscs and ex penses of administration, be set apart for sucu wuiow or minor children in liKe manner ami witli jikc eiiect as property exempt from execution. If the Intestate shall leave no lineal descend ants, real property shall descend to his wile. There, ladies ! Think of it ! If there is nobody else who has a claim upon your husband's property it may descend to you in case he dies intestate ! If he makes a will to the contrary, you have no redress. Pago 710, Section 22: 2o woman who shall be endowed of any lands shall commit or suffer any waste upon the same, but every woman so endowed shall maintain tlic houses and tenements in good repair, and shall be liable (o the person having (he next immediate inheritance therein for all damages occasional by any waste com mitted or suffered by her. Section 23 : A widow may remain in the dwelling house of her husband one year after his death without being chargeable with rent therefor, and shall have reasonable sustenance outot his estate for one year. Before we read these laws of Oregon we wondered much why men persisted in saying they were "brutes." It's all clear now. "Conscience makes cowards of us all." We do not believe that these laws, which are to-day a disgrace to our law makers, were originally framed with any but wiseand good intentions. They were made upon the supposition of woman's Incapacity. And now that that supposition has proved a fallacy, we call upon our lawyers and statesmen to undo their errors and remove the un righteous intermeddling of the laws re lating to a widow's property. Give women equal rights with men. This Is all we ask, and what wo certainly will obtain. Then you will no longer feci that lurking consciousness that women re gard you as "brutes." Clear up your past record, and remove from your wives and mothers the reproach of being classed with idiots, criminals and minor children, and all thoughtful women will call you blessed. THE DEMOCRATIC BL00K. STUMBLING The new Herald, haying failed in its efforts to soil the Xkw XoirrmvnsT with its innate indecency, now tries an other tack, and accuses us of scoffing at and discarding the Bible, and by his ac cusation conclusively proves that he bc- iTJh ftn' last Wcck allJl. "bo i It is not our intent!,,., i , . with this opponent about our relight belief. The intelligent people of Oregon, who have known our religious record for nearly twenty years, and who have witnessed our triumphant .vindication of the Bible as a woman's rights organ through the columns of the Xew Northwest of which vindication this verdant Missourian knows liothing will receive his blatant growling at just what it is worth. In the meantime, we arc ready to meet him on Bible jjrounds, and vanquish him, too, just ns we met and vanquished his predecessor, who differs from him in that he is a gentle- tnan, who knows better than to stoop to low scurrility in lieu of nrgumenh- Of all the little mistakes which our Democratic brethren have made in Ore gon, the employment of this pettifogger upon the Portland Herald is the most pitiful. Written for the devolution.) MISS AHTH0NYPB0M 0BEG0N. Portland, Oregon, Sept. 4th, 1871. Dear llccolution: The last week of August Mrs. Stanton and myself left California, after an ab- sensc of three months from home. She returns to her New Jersey cottage to see her four youngest children oil" to college and boardingschool; I come to this far-off Oregon to continue the work of rousing the women of this Pacific slope to a knowledge of the fact of their enfran ehlsement. Our last meetings were at Santa Cmz, In the beautiful little Unitarian church built during the Pastorship of Key. C. G. Ames in that city, where we were the guests of Mrs. Ellen K. Van Volkcnburg, a tax-paying widow with three children, whose name the County Clerk refused to register, and who, through her attorney, Judge Hagan, car ried the question beforo the District Judge, McKec, of Oakland, and after a full three days arguing of the case, pro and con, before large audiences, Jud; Hagan most ably presenting our claim under the original Constitutional guar nntecs for equal rights to all citizens, as well as by the more specific securities o the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend mcuts, Judge McKee, echoing the an thor, Judge Bingham, of Ohio, of those recent assertions, decided that women are citizens only In matters pertaining to civil rights, and not at all In thoc pertaining to jwlitical rights. Mrs. Van Volkcnburg will not stop with such a decision, but will at once appeal to the higher courts directly to the United States Supreme Court at Washington, if such a thing be possible as to jump tho Circuit Court of the State. If any of the friends in Santa Cruz had any doubt as to the wisdom of this "women already voters" "new depar ture," they quickly vanished. Men who had never given a thought to the question were debating It at every street corner, and saying: "Well, neighbor, what do you think about Judge Mc Kce's decision? I always thought that what I call my wife wes a real en titv, but now I find that she is nothing. Keally, it is too bad for the Judge to snatch from us husbands the fancy that what we loved was something and somebody !" Whole months of protracted discus sions by Woman .Suffrage advocates would not have so awakened the men of all clashes as did this three days' argu nient in the court room by Government olliciuls. Oil! If only all the Woman Suffrage newspapers and lecturers could but have seen this new occasion, and at tuned all their words and actions to its new duties, what revivals, what conver sions, what hosts of new workers should wc have rejoiced over to-day ! With the Jlcvolulion and Woman's Journal on the cast side the Kocky Mountains, and the Pioneer and 2fi:v Xoktiiwkst on this side, adding the weight of their influence to the "instant in season and out of season" Woodhull and Ctajtin's Weekly, all as one voice shouting their earnest appeals from week to week during the past eight months, urging every woman especially every tax' paying widow to tender her name and her vote to the proper officers of her election district, and, if rejected, to sue them in the courts, we should have had tens of thousands of court room scenes like this one of Santa Cruz, and through them the entire nation all ablaze with enthusiasm, ready to accept the situa tlon, viz: Women are persons hence citizens hence voters: endowed, not only by their Creator, but by their Gov ernment also, with "the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." .But, perchance, the his toric "Forty years in the Wilderness" dispensation might have been interfered with by such unity of purpose and plan in our ranks; and hence each person, party and paper given over to the advo cacy of some pet route, apart from all the others, to the goal each and all so much desire to reach, may be a part of the "how not to do it" scheme of the arch enemy of woman's freedom, to which we should Iow as to tho inevit able. The Nkw Xoutiiwust, published here by Mrs. A. J. Duniway, says you do not come In exchange. Of course It is an oversight, for you cannot but wish to recognize this Xnw Northwest auxiliary to our ranks. Mrs. Duniwav is a sprightly, Intelligent young woman, filling the office of wife and mother to the full requirement of the law, having live sons and one daughter. She has been successful as a farmer's wife, school teacher, music teacher, public speaker, milliner, dressmaker and housekeoper, and her life has not yet reached its me ridian. Her newspaper Is sprightly, vigorous and prosperous. Her three oldest sons boys from sixteen to ten set the type ; her daughter a fine mu sicianwill sing a Woman Suflragc campaign song, composed by her mother, at my lecture on the (Jth ; her husband a sensible man is proud that his wife possesses brains and self-respect to use them. Remember, of December, , Congress meets tho first In Salem this evening. Alas ! poor Un , and will need to feel the ' derwood 1 firm, united, not to be said no to, de mandiOf all tho Woman Suffrage papers, societies, conventions, households, for the Immediate passage of a DcelamtoryJ Law for woman's enfranchisement by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend; ments. if I Incw that Gen. Butler were to nm for Governor of Massachusetts I would take the very next steamer back to San Francisco, andthoneespeed.jnQ, eastward over the railways, and stump inc old Bay State, from Barnstable to uerksiiire, with all my powers. I long for the opportunity, tlie privilecre. thc pleasure, to prove to the world myapH preelatlou of his unanswerable report In iavor of the demand of the Woodhull memorial. If the man who has done such a mighty work for our cause who lias declared woman's status In the re construction as he did that of the ne gro's in the war should receive the nomination, and the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage women and paper do not forget all other candidates and parties and work for his election, they will prove themselves earnest for some thing else, tnore than woman's freedom. Susan B. Anthony TWIN BELICS OF BABBABISM. The Enquirer has tho following: A re cent telegram from New York city said: A lady calling iierscir jirs. itoriense Watson, alleged to be the wlfo of Judge Watson, of California, was prosecuted by the proprietor of the Coleman House lo-uay lor nur nuiei uni. .11 living nu means or payment, juugesuaiidiey sent her to the penitentiary for two months. She swooned on hearing the sentence. Where are the representative men of tlie period? And why don't some one of 'cm go to the penitentiary in her stead? They are willing to vote for her, hold of fice for her, try her, sentence her and so on, neconllng to their ideas of represen tation, but why in the name of consist ency don't they submit to imprisonment for her In onlcr to carry out their idea of protection? Ah, gentlemen ! your dodges are un derstood ! You are no longer able to make the "arrived woman" believe that you are honest In your protestations of protection to the "weaker sex," whose greatest charm, you tell us, Is in her weakness and dependence upon the men who mercilessly compel her to bear the personal penalties of her man-made misfortune. "COBBEOTIOH," ET0. Our friend Justice Moreland wants us to know that when we sympathize with a breaved(?) court we don't allude to him. He also calls our attention to the fact that our last week's articio iion "thwarted justice" was incorrect in part. Haywood's victim did not appear in court as wc were told, and it is believed that her betrayer has hired her to secrete herself. If this be the case the indlgna tlon of our Justice is pardonable. While wc have a very poor opinion of girls who can be led astray by such libertines as Haywood, wc also have strong desire to see such libertines consigned to the pen itentiary, where their raids upon the virtue of weak, confiding and foolish victims may be wholesomely checked by prison fare and hard labor. The morally insane, whether men or women, should not be permitted to ran at large 0UE 00NGBATULATI0NS. Mr. Holladay, the Irrepressible, has purchased the steamers, locks, perquis ites, good-will and privileges of the time-honored 1. T. Company. While we are constitutionally opposed to the one-man-powxT of centralization and monopoly, we congratulate the Oregon people upon tho character for enterprise and liberality of the gentleman who rep resents their commercial and traveling Interests. We hope Mr. Holladay will live to acquire a hundred millions of money to expend upon internal improve ments in Oregon. Tho ladies are on his side, anyhow, for by his liberality their champion, Sus.vx K. Anthony, was brought to Portland to give us an intel lectual treat. We hope he'll have long life on earth, and a "free pass" to Heaven in the far-distant future. PB0F. 0HAN2Y. We were present through the greater part of two lectures given bust week at Oro Fino Hall by this gentleman. The Professor gives evidence of long, la borious study, and of course we have no means of knowing but that his re searches are scientific. We present our readers this week witli his views upon the "woman ques tion," and invite the public to peruse them carefully. Of course, being a woman, wo have no knowledge of dead languages, and have no opinion to oiler concerning his rendering of the Hebrew word EloMm; therefore we desire that the clergy will "explain." Our columns are ojhmi for free discussion. AIT ADMONITION. Our respected brother of tho Orcrion- ian thinks that he will soon be done with "Custom Houses and all sublunary things." We were not aware that he was in a decline, and cannot but hope that his apprehensions are ill-founded. e hope he is not of that class of men who "want to die when women vote." for if he is of that "persuasion" the chances arc against his recovery. Well, well, good brother, we cannot but admit that your present state of "carnal secur ity" Is your worst symptom. "Let him that thinketh ho etatiileth take heed lest he fall." A PB0ST-BITTEN PUBLIC. Wcsecthat the Salem Statesman's "ed ucated woman," whose sentence for libel appears in another column, Is to give a "common sensa" view of B. F. Under wood aud "Free Thought" In a lecture GBEELEY AHD WOODHULL. DOES 3IR. GREELEY SUPPORT MRS. WOOD- HULI,? Keporter Is Mr. Greelev n iin.miw.r.ftr the League? r Mrs.fYoodhull I don't know. Itenorter That is hanllv Mr Tr Greelej, as a reformcr,-.must be known1! to you. Mrs. Woodliull lo you mean the ed itor of the Tribune ? Keporter Certainly; the Hon. Horace Greeleyj - ' Mrs. V oodnuil on, lie is one of my warmest friends and supporters. Keporter I beg your pardon, madam, but 1 must have misuudcrstood you. Do you mean to say that the Hon. l'lor ace Greclcyls oneof yoursupporters? Mrs. Woodhull Certainly I do; and I value his support very highly. Wait a moment till I show you. Here Mrs. Woodhull produced a jwn derous scrap-book, and, after fumbling over its leaves a few minutes, found what she wanted. Pointing her delicate finger at the extract, she said : "Kead that; that will tell the story whether Mr. Greeley Is my friend or not That Is an extract from an editorial printed in the Tribune Jan. 12, 1S71." The reporter read as follows : Mrs. Woodhull has at last risen to her rightful place as the legitimate leader oi me woman sullrage movement. "Now read this," said Mrs. Woodliull, polntine: to anotlior extract, tnk-nn from the editorial columns of the Tribune of aiay v, 1S71. ilie reporter read as follows: mil ori:ki.i:y Tossr.s ms hat up for woodhixu For ourselves, we toss our hats in the air for Woodhnll. She has the courage of her opinions! She means business. She intends to head a new rebellion, form a new Constitution, and begin a revolu tion beside wiiicli tne late war will seem year from this day and hourof graeoher demands be not granted out ot Hand. Tliis is a spirit to respect, perhaps to tear, certainly not to be iaugucd at. Mrs. Woodliull Now do not vou think I would be justified in counting the writer of such words my friend ? Keporter But you do not know Mr. ureeiey iersonaliy .' Mrs. Woodliull Certainly I do. He is a frequent visitor at my house. He spent an evening mere last wcck. Keporter Tiiat is very strange. Why, it is out a tew days since Mr. lireeley printed a letter addressed to Theodore filton, in which he takes strong grounds against woman sullrage, and uses some language not complimentary toyou per sonally. jrit. GnnKi.i:Y's tactics as a rnnsinnx- TIAI candidate Mrs. Woodhull That is easily ex plained. When the extracts you have read were printed I was the only candi date in tne tteid rortnetTcsidencv. .Now Mr. Greeley Is himself a candidate. am sorry to sec him. in the prosecution of the campaign, resort to the old-fashioned expedient of defamingand traduc ing an opixHient in onlcr to make votes. But I can understand that this is the school of politics in which he has been educated, and that he means no real re Uectlon upon inc. Indeed, heshows this by continuing his friendly social rela tions with me. It Is one of the boasts of tlie woman suflragists that the Introduc tion oi tne lemale element into politics will tend to elevate and refine our nub- lic men and purify the atmosphere that surrounds the ballot-box. In order to to show that we mean this, I make no answer to Mr. Greeley's asperations of my cnaracier, nor will l taKe pattern from his example and seek to calumni ate him. I respect him very hiirhlv. and whatever he may say of me for political n . ...in .i - i i ... y vui-vi iwu nut uwiit .i reiuri lit Kiiiu iriiiu me. A NONri.V.SSKD IXTKUVIEWElt. itcporier nut it strikes mc as very strange mat Air. ureeiey siiould con tinue to visit you and at the same time indulge his pen in such bitter language toward you. Mrs. Woodhull Xot at all strause. Have not men always in the history of our country, wnen arrayed against each other, used the stroncest epithets toward and denunciations of each other, yet sun retaining personal incnusiupv :so, no; that does not prove Unit Mr. Gree ley is not my friend; it only proves that he wants to be President, and is indeitl a tribute to my strength as an opposing candidate. Eeporler X. V. .Sun. We entreat Victoria, Horace and Geo. Francis Train to walvo their Presiden tial aspirations till such time as the peo ple of these United States may decide to nominate them. Bad taste, very, this pompous and persistent pressing of claims which the people ignore. "BBOTHEE IKE." The "puerile Herald" is again pamd lug "gender." We beg the public to be as lenient as possible with the indiscre tions of this verdant youth. Thcsmart ics whieh he at present cll'ects is pecul iar to his condition of chronic hydro- cephalous. After he has learned a little wisdom he will be ashamed of himself. "Out of tlie abundance of the heart the mouth speakcth." Tiik Woman Sckficaob Question. Oro Fino Theater was Hllcd last night in every part by an intelligent audience of ladles and gentlemen, who had as sembled to listen to an address upon Woman Suffrage from Miss Susan B. Anthony, one of the few women of America who have taken the forum in advticaey of female suffraire. Th shaker was introduced by Mrs. A. J. Duniway of the New XoirTirwEsr. nmi spoke for over an hour, during which nine sue was irequently applauded. Her remarks were listened to with an interest which betokened that she was makintr a marked imnrposinn hearers, very few of whom, perhaps. eer ueiore listened to a woman lecturer about Woman's Rights. She made some very plain, blunt statements by way of illustrating tho necessity which exists-, according to her theory, for an extension of the right of suffrage to women, and closed by saying that all women have the right delegated to them by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, and said that on Friday night she would speak again, at which time she would snow how this right had been given to women, and would nppeal to them to enforce their claims. On this occasion , Professor and Mrs. McGibeny are to favor the audience with a number of nonnlar soncs. Miss Anthony takes the ground of appcalingtothe sellish nature of mankind to gain her points for suf frage and power, and after twenty years of moral appeal, having exhausted that kind of logic, throws persuasiveness anil scolding to tlie dogs, so to speak, and is now oj)tn for an interview with any set of poliUcIans or political party with whom a trade can bo niade of "present power" for "future votes" when women ! shall be enfranchised. Bulletin. A San Francisco mineralogist is said to have discovered a method by which a substance harder than 6teel can be made by amalgamatlnglron and copper. CAMPAIGX SONG. 9 Air- -Xen Thousand Mile Awny." Hull to the brightly daivnliiAlay Wtien tluglorious Ship of State, Withjmen and women all embarked To meet their coming fate, Slialftiavisate the dhipny friend, v here pollticlanx play, For theyve Inken a trip In the Government ship -AB-J MJlvmntaslnr. CHORUS. Then blow ye trindi n-lio a vntln; we will go; We'll tny no more on the barren shore, Hut hand In hand witH lirothersTblandr JWejhKujde the Ship ofState "TcttK flYe rastRs ma!K '" ' " OfUovenimentuI .sens, lily frleiid,i ,, To meet our coming fate. Cood-bye, good-bye tp the whisky rinpt; Good-bye to Government broil: No more shall men Willi vote and in Appropriate the spoils; For we'll navigate the Ship ofStnte l!elile our brothers dear. And when tlve breakers round us dash We'll shun 'tint never fear. Then blow ye winds, etc Good-bye, jtood-hye lo servile work here wneex are not known: John Chinaman Is hen- to wuli And sew your buttons on- He'll cook your beefsteak too, my toys. And darn your stockings well,- While we, like yon, will legislate i And trade and buy and sell. Then blow ye winds, etc. We'll keep the fire-side too, my lioys. And read your musty tomes; We'll Use the money that we earn To beautify your homes; We'll use the wisdom we acquire To legislate for good; We know that with our raits you'll stand When Ave are understood. Then blow ye winds, etc, The Frontier Wedding. 1IYTIIE JUNISTEU'S WIFE. One day in early winter, my husband received a summons to Burke's settle ment, to unite a couple in tho bonds of wedlock. It was especially requested that his wife should accompany him, as we should be expected to remain all light and partake of the festivities. It was twenty miles to the settlement, and we reached tlie log house of Mr. Burke, the fatherof tlie expectant bride. about noon. A dozen tow-haired chil dren were at tne door, waiting our arrival. 'I hey telegraphed the news instantly. "Marm ! inarm ! here's the cider and his woman! They're nothing but folks.' She's got a man's hat on, and a turkey wing in front of me; his nose is just like dad's crooked as a cowhorn squash!" Alas for Mr. Morrison's aquiline nose, of which he was a little vain ! "Sam !" cried a shrill female voice from tlie interior of tlie cabin, "run out and grab the rooster, and I'll clap him into the pot ! Sal, you quit that churn and sweep the lloor. Kick that corn dodger under the bed. Bill, you wipe tlie tallow out of that cheer for the min ister's wife, and be spry about it." Further remarks were cut short by our entrance. Mrs. Burke, in calico short gown, blue petticoat, and bare feet, canie forward, wiping her face on her apron. "How tlo you tlo, elder? How d'ye do, marm? Must excuse my head; hain't had a chance to comb it since last week. Work must be tlid, you know. Powerful sharp air, hain't it? Shoo, there! Bill, drive that turkey out of the bread-trough. Sal, take the lady's things. Set right up to the lire. marm. Hands cool? Well, just run 'em in Bill's hair we keep it long a purpose." Bill presented his shaguy head, but I declined with an involuntary shudder. "Lawk, if she ain't a shivering!" cried Mrs. Burke. "Bring in some more wood. Here, marm, take this hot corn dodger inter yer lap; it's as good as a soaistone." A fearful squall announced the execu tion of tlie rooster, and shortly after he was bounciug about in a tonr-quart kettle, hung over the fire. Sal returned to her chum; but the oxtmordinary visitor must have made her wireless, for she upset the concern, ami buttermilk went skimming over the lloor. "Grab the ladle, Bill," erieil Mrs. Burke, "and help dip it up. Take keer! don't put that snarl of hair in. Strange how tolks will be so nasty. Dick, do keep your feet out of the buttermilk; it won't be lit for the pigs when the but ter's gathered. Drive that hen out, quick; she's picked up a pound already, t'here, Sal, do try aud churn a IIttlt more keerful. 11 you are gwine to bo spuceu to-morrow, you need'nt run crazy about it." "I advise you to dry un !" remarked the bride elect, thumping away at the churn. By the time I had fairly wanned, dinner was ready, and you may be sure I dill not Injure mysell by over-eating. Night came on early, and after a so cial chat about the event of the morrow, I signilied my desire to retire. Sal lighted a pitch-knot, aud beffan cllmbiuga ladder, in one comer of the room; 1 hesitated. "Come on," said she; "dowthe aftahL ".,iii and Bill and Dick, aud oil ,t of ye duck your heads whilethe djer-g wire "i;- "" for boanls, ninmi;a,Mlnil.OT you'll smash your hmins nUt against tlie beami TnL- i-. of tho hole where the chjmi,Iy COme.s inrougn." Her warning came too late. I caught my foot in theend of a board, stumbled. and fell headlong through what anneared to be Interminable space, but it was only to the room I had lust left, where I was saved from destruction by Bill, who caught me in his arms:, and set mc on my feet, remarking eooly: "What made you come that way ? We generally use the ladder." I was duly commiserated, and at last got to bed. Tlie less said about that night, tlie better. Bill and Dick, and four others, slept in the same room with us, and made the air vocal witli their snoring. I fell asleep, and dreamed I was being shot from the muzzle of a columbiad, and was awakened by Mr. Morrison, who informed me that it was morning. Tlie marriage was to take place before nreaKiasi. aim sally was already clad in her bridal robes when I descended the ladder. She was magnificent in a green calico over a crinoline full four inches larger man tue rest oi Her apparel; a white apron witli ml strimrs. blue stoakiiics. a yellow neck ribbon, and white cotton gloves. Hor reddish hair was fastened in pug bohind,-nnd well'ailorned with the tail-feathers of tlie defunct rooster before mentioned. When it was announced that , Loin Lord, the groom, was coming, Sal dived behind a coverlet, which hunjj across one corner of the room to conceal sundry pots and kettles, and refused to come forth. Mr. Lord lifted one corner of the curtain and peeped in, but quickly re treated with a few sharp words from Sally, advisiug him to mind his own business. Lemuel was dressed in blue with urignt buttons. The entiru suit hml 'been mndo for his grandfather, on a ' similar occasion. His hair was well Pgrease'd'with'tallpwf&ridjhis 'huge feet encased in skin pumps. Very soon the company began to gather, and the room was well filled. "Now, elder," cried Uie bridegroom, "drive ahead ! 1 want it done up mee; I am able to pay for the job; do ye hear? Come, Father Burke, trot out your gal!" But Sally refused to lie trotted. She would be married where she was, or not at all. We argued and coaxed, but she was linn; and it wasfinally concluded to let her have her own way. Mr. Morrison stood up; the happy couple joined hands through a rent in the coverlet, and the eeremony pro ceeded. Just as Mr. Morrison was asking Lemuel: "Will you have this woman?" ,Tctc7rdown'camethrrcoyerIer;cnvPlopIng iiotn minister and bridegroom, and lin ing the house with dust. Dick had been up in the loft and cut the strings which held it. Mr. Morrison crawled out looking decidedly sheepish, and Sally was obliged to be married openly. To tho momentous question, Lemuel res ponded: "To bo sure: what else did I come here for!" and Sally replied, "Yaas, if you must know." "Salute your bride," said Mr. Morri son, when all was over. "I'm ready to do anything, elder," said Lemuel, "but skin me, if I know about that, sir. Just show me how, and I'll do it it it kills me !" My husband drawback nervously, but Sally advanced, threw her arms around Ins neck, and gave him a kiss that made the very windows clatter. "I rum, if I don't do ditto !" cried Lemuel, and hastily taking a hue bite from a piece of maple sugar, which he drew from his pocket, he made a dash at me smashed my collar, broke my watch-guard into a dozen pieces, tore my hair down, and succeeded in plant ing a kiss on my nose, greatly to the delight of the company. Then he turned to my husband. "Now, elder, what "is tho damage? Don't be afraid to sicak." Lemuel produced a piece of fur. "There, elder," said he, "there's a musk-rat's skin, and out in the shed is two heads of cabbage, and you're welcome to the whole of it." My husband bowed his thanks; the young people went to dancing; Mrs. Burke went to getting breakfast; at my earnest request, Mr. Morrison got our horse, and we bade them adieu. I never could have lived through another meal in that house, I feared, with a sound stomach. I have since heard that Mr. Lord said if he had seen the elder's wifo before she was married, Sallic might have gone. "Alas, it might have been !"' 9u - Camfoiinia Election. Tin ! Her nia election occurred on Wednesday last. The returns so far are "not decisive, but seem to indicate that Booth has been elected Governor. More accidents occur in hotels from children sliding on the banisters than from all other causes combined. JL, A. -S 07 NIG II T MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Tlie IVorld-Iteiiomieil "Woman Suffrage Advocate, lately from the East and California, WILL LECTURE THIS (FRIDAY) EVENING AT OKO FINO HALL MR. AND MRS. J. B. McGIBENY Will favor the audience with' vocal and In strumental music ADMISSION.. .PIETY CUNTS KKSKItYKn SKATSTWKNTY-PIVK CKNTS WILLIAM DAVIDSON, It esil ISKtiito Dealer. OFFICE-No. 64 Front Street, l'OItTIVXD, OltKKOX. RKAI. KKTATK IN THIS CITY AND EAST INirtlnnd, iu the mmt ilxinbi kxnMIftes, nmlliiis of lurrs, li.iu' IIuktk-s and Blocks, lIou.tKS and Stoiiks. AIkO, IMIMHIVKII KaKJIS HIkI VALUABLE I'N- cULTlVATKn liASUS, Iuoitd In all portx of the .State, for Milo. UkalKstatk and other lToperly imrelioseil forCorrexpoiHlcnts In Tills CrrY it through out the .Status and Tkhhitoriiw, with great care, and on the met Advantaobous Terms HOUSKS AND STOIIKS I.KASKR. LOANS NHGO- tiateii and Claijis ok all Dbm-hiptions rnojUTLY CoLLM-rnii, and it ;kxkkal Finan cial and AUKNCY llUstNEwSTKANSACTBll. AGENTS oftllis OrPICB Jn all tlutniTinu-inil Towns In the State wilt receive descriptions of Faux Pkoi-hhty and forward tho same to the above address. xtt '.It Parrish, Atkinson & Woodward, REAL ESTATE AGENTS Corner Alder mid Front Streets. HAVK PUOPBRTY FOIt KAI.K IN rOKT Iand and throughout Oregon generally. Vc can offer SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS to Purchasers of Iienl Kstate. Ilouven United, IE cuts Collected, Money Irfiniied, TlKN Paid, And everything tliatipertalni to thalteal Ks- tate 13us!neto attended to with promptness. ICQAL PAPERS WRITTEN AMD ACKNOWIEOGED J. L.'ATKIMiO.V, Notary Public. r jr. I'Aititisir. TYT.EK WOODKIBD. EMPLOYMENT 0PFICE! Xo. 80 Front Sfc American Exchange Bulldlnsr. CONTKACTOKS, Hotel Keepers. Farmers Carpenters and Builders, Families, and In tact all who require help of any kind, will Und I t to their ndrantage to call and leave their ad dress. 3 1 WITIII. ltVI.I fosSic.1 ,mve aIw 0uT tiood yarmjaJn;1 " it k.