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FRroAY.....T.... .JANUARY 5, lS7i GEATZ BROWH CHIPS IN". The Governor of Missouri wants to be President. In his annual message this year he deprecates (lie tendency to cen tralization at the expense of the local State Governments, and severely criti cises the national administration. Bul Ictin. Of all the aspirants for the Presidency who have yet testified their willingness to be immolated upon their country's Presidential altar, Gratz Brown is the only one who comes out squaro and strong for Woman Suffrage. Now, brethren of the press, don't twit us with "George Francis Train." lie has no more desire to become President tlian we have, and he heartily enjoys the fun of being laughed at, therefore he styles himself a candidate. But Gratz Brown Is thoroughly and radically in earnest, and because he is a Woman Suflrage man we expect to see him succeed. The thousand hungry aspirants for this high position (not even excepting our Na- InnM linrse. Inrdrevl who fenr to eSDOUsc the "Woman Movement, lest they there by lose political prestige, may learn from the fate of A. A. Sargent, of Cali fornia, what an awful thing It is to cs iwuse an unpopular(?) cause. We tell our brethren candidly that the onlj- possible show for either party to succeed in the next Presidential cam paign is to choose a Woman Suflrage candidate. Our party will elect the next President. Depend upon it, we are right. TOEEST GEOYE POLITICAL GOSSIP. A much esteemed friend, writing us from Forest Grove, says: I have a hint from Yamhill that there are jiarties there who are trying to use the Northwest as an opening wedge to split the Republican party. General Collin and Dave Logan are the prime movers in this affair. Thoy arc work ing through a secret organization that was organized at Salem, and have a branch in Portland, in the interest of Judge Boise for the Senate, and in ha tred of Ben Holladay. Some of them have been out in our county, and. from what I can hear on the outside, their plans will come to grief, bo mote it be! We give the above for what it is worth. If such parties are trying to circulate Jthe New Nokthwest it is news to us, but we are very much obliged to them ; and if the Republican party swamps itself in its opposition to the one issue of the day, we are ready to let it swamp. We feel toward the polit ical parties just as Artcmus Ward felt about his wife's relations : we arc will ing to sacrifice all of them upon the al tar of right; and while wc would gladly see the Republican party continue to occupy the foremost scat in the car of human progression, alas! alas! it no longer progresses, and we must build our hopes upon the rock of truth, -while publicans fioat together adown time's gutter, unwept, unhonored and unsung, WILL THE "OEEGOHTAN"EXPLAIH? "Which or the items snow 'fraud' on the part of the canity administration ? Which of them is 'corrupt?' Which of them is in any way improper? Which of them is an expenditure that ought not to nave been made?" So queries the Orcgonian, and al though the question is not directed to us it being the policy of the Portland daily press to ignore our humble jour nalistic efforts in this matter we would remind the Orcgonian editor that although the New Northwest has repeatedly called upon him to ex piain sucn items as tne increase in wood bill, stationer-! militia, etc., lie has remained dumb as an oyster about the matter. The only excuse he pre sents for any of the increased expendi tures having any semblance of plausi bihty is -made for the Circuit Court, on the plea of increase of business. Do the tax-payers of Multnomah county be lieve that the Circuit Court expenses havtunereascd nearly one hundred per cent, in one year? The question will be answered next June, when the Court House Ring will be routed, horse, foot and dragoons, at the polls in Multno mah county. In the mean time will our brother please show that the items we have mentioned arc not "corrupt" or "impropor?" riGUEESBUN MAD. It is very unfortunate for the Tam many Ring of New York City that they could not command the services of the editor of the Orcgonian to "figure" them out of their troubles. He lias re cently shown at least he seems to think so that a county administration which required an increased expendi ture of SH.OOO has actually saved the sum of $17,000 to the county, and even goes so far as to attempt to prove It by an arithmetical jumble that reminds one very much of the celebrated problem "That one cat has'liine tails." It Is verily an instance of figures run mad. PENNOYER'SJJPPORTUNITY. Had Mr. Scott not fought on the oc casion to which reference is made we would havedespised him. But he did just wnat we expected mm to do Ue Touglit, and he fought to win, and for having none so we respect mm. isullelin. Pennoyer, here's your chance! All that you have to do in order to gain the "respect" of the editor of the Bulletin is to give him a sound drubbing. Wc shall examine the records of the police court with anxiety during the coming week. HE PERSEVERES. "Brother Ike" is still boasting of the "wonders" he has accomplished in ex posing the Multnomah Court House i:n Wonder if he thinks he can hoodwink the community into bcliev. lug that a falsehood well "stuck to" re as good as the truth? ti, wad some jwver the giftle gtc us To nurkvls as lllicrs see us, It would rrne many a blunder free us Aud foolish no: Ion. A DISAGREEABLE DUTY. To show our thousand4 of readers,,! who arc scattered all over the English reading world, the" base depths of infa my to which some of our obscure con? temporaries have sunk in their frantic endeavor to beslimc the Woman Move ment with their own abominable ideas, we priuLthe following, from.thcpeu.of. a "drinking, chewing, smoking leper," vwio views the works or all good women through his own lecherous imagination. The obscure publication which .flings ims nastiness Into the face of public de cency is edited by a broken-down Se cessionist, a rake and a roue, who, like all men of his ilk, naturally think that all women are as vile as himself, unless controlled by men. Tho only reason that we notice it is because we feel It to bo our duty to fell our fellow-workers where they may find Copperheads. We do not allude to Copperheads who were known as such during the recent war, for many of them are advocates of Woman Suffrage; but we do allude to just such snakes in the grass as Beriah Brown, who has been all his life a polit ical and private failure, a dead weight to his party and a scavenger of the low est and most execrable type. We do not wonder that his filthy sheet is In a starving condition ; we would wonder that it exists at all, only there are dog geries and dens of infamy enough in Se attle to give It half rations. The better class of people in that growing and beautiful town spurn this leper and shun him as they would a viper, and yet he essays to warn them against their friends. Satan warned the Savior, but it was all the good it did him : Under other circumsrniips m slinnlil deem It au ofTence against public de cency and private morality, to publish mi; extracts irom Airs. Vt oodliull's speech, defining the position of herself anu me party oi wnicii sue is the rec ognized leader, upon the question of the social rights of women. Our justifica tion is, that the emissaries anil confed erates of this bold, bad woman have been in this community, planting the seeds of which Mrs. Woodhull represents the iruiis: mey nave been received In koi r H . il i . of our most respectable families, ha rangued reputable audiences from Chris tian pulpits, and initiated some of our most, nigniy esteemed matrons and mal dens into the first decree of their infa mous order, under the pretext of organ izing for the protection of women against manifest wrongs, and propariu uie minus oi me novitiate to receive further revelations, which were prom ised, and consist of the wrltlmrs of this same Mrs. Wodhull. Mrs. Stanton and others of that ilk, to the same purport in me siteeuu irom wmcil we tJUOlc. At me iast, an women oi resnectalilo so cial standing, who were drawn into this movement under misapprehension of its purposes, have abandoned it to the ex clusive control of the open advocates of rree axivc. rMicu win be tlie case Here ' - ...... .... .J UllUblillVUIIl ..till sooner that time comes the better for public and private morality. The fact is that "women of resjiccta- ble social standing" in the East, to the number of hundreds of thousands, are stronger than ever in their noble work for woman's enfranchisement and more than ever determined that Woodhull and such of her emissaries as Beriah J'rown shall not be allowed to lead them. ALAS !ALAS ! Wc last week gave the current reiwrts of an alleged elopement, in which woman of hitherto irreproachable char acter was accused of absconding with a young man of good family. Later ad vices throw an entirely different color ing upon the affair. Not only is the elopement denied, but the child whipping is. proven to be a mere sensa tional scandal. Mrs. Savage, having grown tired of her lonely farm-life, and having failed in her efforts to induce her husband to spend the winter at home, placed six of her children at school or with relatives and taking her baby, her own team, sewing machine and other valuables, the product of her own uidustryt hired the young man t onnor to drive her to California, where she intended to spend the winter among ner relatives. Some suspicious demon telegraphed to her master that she had eloped. Now, while this woman was not "brcachy," while she stayed in the pasture to which her truant master con signed her, ho could stay away content ; but when the woman chose to exercise little freedom presto, change! He hastens home, pursues her as a crimi nal, takes away her baby, robs her of her team and money, blasts her reputa tion and leaves her In a Southern town, disgraced, outraced. heart-brok-pn. non- niless; and this grief-stricken woman can find no redress, beeansn ilm mall who committed these outraees Is her husband. Tins Mercury, which is the only newsiKiper that has as yet dared to speak for her, asks earnestly, "What wm uecomc or her?" Will those all-1 tors who have so deeply sympathized with the injurcd(? husband now come forward and testify that they, as well as that rash husband, have Injured that poor, stricken wife? A SISTER GOOD TEMPLAR'S GOOD L0GI0. Editor Nkw Xouthwest : Mrs. Hoxter's so-callal "response" in the Oregon Bulletin, of Dec 31st, has caused me to take up once more mv long idle pen. I should not for a mo ment think of answering her, for she in deal lias found a foeman worthy of her steel in you, aud you do not ileal anv help; but, as a Good Templar, equal with herself in rank, 1 feci it to be my duty to show her wliat a false position. according to ner writings, she occupies before the world. Had she not shown a willingness to be enlightened by hum bly acknowledging her limited opportu nity oi gaming information, I should give her over to licr own destruction: oui, as sue uas eviueutly been lal bv some schemer, who Is a secret cucmv to the cause of Good Templars, to take one false step, which naturally leads to many others; and, as I wish to save her, li possiuie, irom tne further fearful con sequences of her own rashness, I now proceed in all kindness to give her some .evidently much needed information. You say: "There arc laws in exist ence which are opposed to tho best in terests of woman, and I think man would be willing to repeal all'such laws and enact those which would be alto gether efilcient." Now the question comes briefly, ichy tlonU (hey, then t You further say: "I cannot believe that my father, or my husband, or my brother, would legislate to my disad vantage ; they are willing to protect me In every possible way, and shall I say to them, 'A few of our laws arc oppres sive to me? I have no confidence in you? Let me vote that I may make them right?' No true woman would do this." Now, my good sister, why are you such an energetic Good Templar, if it is not to lend your influence to make a reformation in the laws? You are surely occupying a false position, ac cording to your writings, for, while you say emphatically that you arc willing to trust the men to make such laws as we need, and that you believe that they will do it, you are known as an active worker in the Good Templar Organiza tion, the object of which is to gain favor with the law-makers to such an extent that they will make laws, if not to en tirely prohibit, to at least render the liquor tralllc harmless. If this is not the object, why have they so often me morialized the Legislature to grant a prohibitory law? Now, Mrs. lloxter, you are surely dabbling in politics, and therefore saying by your actions that you can't trust the men to make the much needed reformation in this direc tion. One cannot doubt but that you arc aware of the object of this society after reading your report as G. W. V. T., from which I copy one paragraph: "I trust that every olllccr or member who forms a unit in this assembly has come with a heart imbued with brotherly and sisterly love, with no selfish motives, but with n desire, a determination to legislate in such a manner that our work, as an Order, cannot fail to be clll cient In time to come." My acquain tance with you as a Good Templar proves that you spend more time in the discharge of your duties to the Order than ninety-nine onc-hundredths of the men do In their political duties ; and If this is at the expense of the happiness of your family, I beg of you to desist, for one of the objects of the Order is to restore families to happiness and peace, and not by any means to cause disturb ance. Docs it not savor a little of inconsist ency to be so sanguine in regard to the reformation of otic law which afleets both men and women, and yet so seem ingly willing to trust the men to make the laws that are alone galling to wom an's happiness? I cannot see wherein woman's happiness is more at stake with the present liquor laws than with the laws in existence, which give the man tho power to use his wife's earn ings as he pleases, and to rob tho moth er of her children, and leave his wife penniless at his death, notwithstanding that the property may have been all hers at their marriage. My apprecia tion of the liberties of free press and free speech, bequeathed us by our forefath ers, has prompted me to write this, and I think as you become more enlight ened you will "either withdraw from your present public life, and let the men make the much needed reforma tions in their laws, or manifest your willingness to work valiantly for the reformation of all laws that are opiocd to woman's best interests. Fraternally, A Good Tinu-LAit. Poktivnp, Jan. 5, 1ST2. WOMAN- SUPPBAGE AT TOEEST GROVE. Kiimiu New Xokthwest: The gentlemen's debating club held forth last Tuesday evening in this place, and I, with nine other ladios, "notwith standing the inclemency of the weath er," ventured out to hear them, attract- ed by the following question: "Jlesolecd, That woman be allowed the right of the ballot the same as man," or something equivalent to that; I may not give the exact words. The first speaker on the affirmative thought that woman's right to vote was h recent need of society, brought into requisition by the progress of public enlightenment; that It had sprung Into necessary existence since the war; that woman had proval self equal in intellectual and financial fraglsfs after you "flayed" hersoeffect and governmental ability with her uaiVi i,ut the Marsh defense has comir brother man whenever and wherever tcracled it. We are looking with much she had been trial. He eulogizal the 1 women of the Revolution and the late war; said that the Government had al ways reccival the aid of women in time of war and collected taxes from them for the conducting of Governmental af fairs; that the women were debarral from their inalienable right to a voice in public affairs and its consequent right to hold public offices by pnysicaiioer,XorTiiw am, that ghe back md not by reason or common sei.-i.. His logic was able, sound and, to the minds of tho women, ovcrwiicimingij convincing. Tho negative was so frigntcneu on uc- pmmf nf tho tiivsenco of a few lames that alwut all he could say was thatj the ballot would degrade woman ; then , he blushal, hesitated and sat down The next affirmative inougm- mui, this question, involving as it did the In terests of humanity at large, was one of vital importance; it had set all iutcin riancc, .k gent men and women to Investigating, the fundamental principles of govern- ment and society; that all reform re - quired agitation; that he was glad to see the people discuss this question, pro and con; that people were always timid about advocating new reforms, but that experience should teach them that pro backward. Salu thatlImewaswIicnmanypeop:ib"ThIs Is only the third time such an the country would be ruined if the slaves uonor has been extended to a woman. - .... MOfltt ' "V. 7' were emancipated, but no "-" had followed; and now, when wc arc on the eve of enfranchising tho better elc- meut of society, the same class of croak - crs see nothing but ruin staring them in the face ; there was no other country on the face of the earth so enlightened as our own, wherein the women had so few privileges. He read a portion of the Constitution and argued that "Govern ment derives its just powers from the consent of the governed." Evidently the powers which denied woman the right ofconsent or protest were noJust; that tho reason we have so much cor ruption in public life Is because men and women do not meet in public as they do at home. Enfranchise tho wom en and we will soon have good men in ofllce. The next speaker on the negative de clared women would become as corrupt as men if they held office. Said that the leader of the suffrage movement was a bad woman, repeating all the slang which is going the rounds of the newspapers about a certain woman in New York, but did not add to whom alone the men who hold tho National offices will hearken, and, as is usual, laid the blame of these men's acts upon the virtuous women of the coun try, who have no influence over the men whom our voters have placed over us. Then he grew vehement about the inability of women to do the work of men. "Said women would not be able to work the roads, build bridges, go to war, and so on, all of which your cor respondent knows to be much easier per formed than the menial, unpaid drudg ery to which thousands of women sub mit all the days of their lives, and that, too, without hope of ever reaching any thing better, because they get no pay for their drudgery. He said that if men gave women the ballot they would vir tually concede that they were not cajia blc of any longer carrying on the Gov ernment without the help of women. Au affirmative then thought that women ought to vote because their re fining and ennobling influence was needed In our legislation ; that the talk which he heard about the hardships of voters was Imaginary twaddle; that it was as easy to dejto-dt a ballot as to mail a letter; that many men were fright ened over the fact that women were go ing to vote ; that they sought by point ing the finger of scorn at women who arc determined to vote to deter their wives from voting. Then followed a number of other speeches, pro and con, which arc not worth recording. One man said he knew women would never vote, because he had a jircsaitimatl that they would not, which assertion, taken in conjunc tion with the remark of one speaker, that "if women were granted their right to vote, men would virtually concede their inability" and so forth, satisfied the astute judge, who promptly decided in the negative. There was some visible dissatisfaction at the decision, but all ugly, rough and "smart" talk came, as is usual, from the opposition. The weather has been so very bad of late that we have postponed our "Inves tigation meetings," but will resume them when the good, old-fashioned rain comes again to gladden us. The people here are about equally divided on the suffrage issue. Some of your best friends think you were too severe on Mrs. lloxter, though it Is true wc were astonished at her uncalled-for conduct- She is a woman who stood high among the Good Tem plars here, and It Is a pity slip made the mistake she did in attacking our Asso ciation In the Bulletin. It has injured her enough without your castigation, and I regret that you were not a little more merciful. Yours for Woman Sufkisaok. THE MABSH-H0XTER LETTER. Forest Grove, Jan. .Til, 1S72. Eihtoi: New N'oimiwusT: This community has been considera bly excited and amused over a certain communication from the pen of one of the Marsh brothers, which appeared in a recent issue of the Bulletin over the signatureofMrs.Hoxler. These Marshal are members of the Forest Grove Facul ty, and have frequently made them selves ridiculous by their opposition to Woman Suffrage. Of course it was not intended that thoMarsh-y part of the afl fair would be mado public, but, aside from the fact that everyliody knows the arguments- (?) therein given by heart, the parties concerned were careless with the "copy." There was some sympathy her-There for Mrs. Hoxter amonir anti-suf- interest for vour "renlv." but we arc certain of one thing: It will not be writ ten by a nifwi. Yours for the right. In-vkstioator. For the benefit of those of our readers who do not get the Oregon Bulletin it is necessary to explain that Mrs. Hoxter rallied her forces after our strictures upon her were publishal in tho New . . ,..,.. ...lth - two column article of platitudes and fustian, to which we plainly but courteously re plied through the same iwpcr. The above racy expose from Forest Grove is in relation to this matter. Jean Tngelow's name is generally mis pronounced in this country- .Tho !fM I. ii.ojlinft. as in Angelo. Au American who ? IloP savs that she aud her sister rcmindal him of two little brown birds. Miss Ingelow is benevolent. She gives away a great , , T ,. onrned bvauthorhii. ig mU to gVe a dinner to the poor . year, which is called Misslnge- : low's copyright dinner. Appress to the Legislature. While addressing the meeting of wom-au-suirragisU at the Hall of the Young Mcu' Christian Association, Miss Susan B. Anthony reccival a telegram inviting ner to address tne legislature at Sacramento before leaving the State. , sjTEAMBOATixo. Boats arc running regularly on the Willamette as far up as ' Corvallis. LETTEB FE0MMISS "-ANTHONY. Nevada.' City, Dec. IS, 1S71.. Dear Dunitcay:va now pushing. Eastward. Not a line have I had from you. Hope to get many of them when" I rea"ch Rochester, New York. Will you ask the friends in Oregon and Washington Territory who paid me the one dollar for the History of the Woman Suffrage Movement, and other tracts and arguments proving women already citizens and voters, who haveJ not received their package to write me Immediately, care of Mrs. J. S. Grlf ling, Washington, D. C, that I may sec that all mistakes, if any, are recti fied. I have gathered up and sent on to Washington over two hundred names and $200 during my tour in California, Oregon and Washington Territory. Some good seed sown, isn't there? and sure to bring forth good fruit, too. I find Laura DeForce Gordon working right royally to plant the Fourteenth Amendment gospel of women already voters. Mrs. Gordon fully meets my A'xpectallons of her. You can't imag ine how it delights my soul to find such an earnest, noble young woman possessed of powers oratorical almost to match our peerless Stanton. Extend my kindly remembrance to all the earnest friends I met throughout your beautiful New Northwest country. The five mouths spent on the Pacific Coast will ever be a pleasant memory to me. I carry over the mountains and to the Washington Convention the cheeriest words of the women of this Coast so free, so ready to do and to dare any and evcrythingso soon as they sec the truth and the right. Sincerely yours, Si'SAN B. Anthony. FACES THE MUSIC. Upton, of tho Mercury, has much to say about Woman's Rights. Guess he's nu the anxious scat. One thing is cer tain, he is not afraid to discuss the sub ject, and we arc glad to find one Oregon editor besides ourself who has stamina enough to face the direct issue. "Miss Alta M. Hewlett is a martyr to the law of Illinois. She had studied law, and. passed a successful examina tion, but comintr before the courts was denied the right to practice, and now if something isn't done site will he let loose as a lecturer to tell of the brutality of man." And this is all the Tribune has to say of a decision which denies a competent woman the right to practice law in the Illinois courts. It tosses otl in an 1 don't-care style, a few sentences actually in contempt of woman, instead of a word concerning the Injustice of the law. If the courts had denial a man the right to practice law, or Had mere bo?n any Constitution or statute abridging his right to practice in the courts, would not the Tribtme have had something to "tell of the brutality of man," or of the injustice of the law? Or, if woman had thus legally abridgal the rights of man, would not the Tribune have had some thing to say about the brutality of woman? Let us sec how Mr. Greeley puts it when he is proscrlbal, or when efforts arc made to injure his political aspirations. In the Jribunc of .Nov 27th, Mr. Greeley, speaking of the iK)s- lC011Versation, and the interchange of slbllity of himself being the next Prcsl- i congratulations upon the bright pros dential candidate, says: ! liects of the cause they represent, the lrt rnciuiAl r.il I v. iimfnef nfmmar 1 1 lit ' ... . . . 1 l .... 1 1 ... acrimony, tho malevolence, the pro- scnptlve venom, manifestal by certain journals which have been set on to clear the field of all intruders." Ah! It makes quite a difference when the Tribune ox is goral ! Instead of en gaging in it, why did not the Tribune "protest against the acrimony, the ma levolence, the proscriptivo venom, man ifestal by certain journals," during the recent campaign in this State? Mr. Greeley is now being paid in the same coin that he dealt out to others over the political counter, and his article shows clearly enough that he prefers to hand it out nuner man receive it back, Woman's Journal. AVhat Was Hi:? A jolly young fellow, namal Corcoran, when he ar rival hi this county, some years since, proiKiunt SS whiS1" '-ln presVnUng n sMw Aorh.5 i-.?: l,$hl s . beautiful bouquet which I in the N belie val lo i:ie siiuriem-u uiuiiiiiu-iai s days. Corcoran went for his "first papers, s W. l.s a serious old chap, who, without look ing up, proceeded to put the formal in terrogatories: "What's your name?" he demandal. "John Corcoran." ," Your age?" "Twenty-one!'' ' "What nativity?" "Well, that's what bothers me; I'll tell you, and maybe you can make it out. My father was Irish, my mother English, and I was born on a Dutch brig, under the French flag, In Flemish waters. Now, how Is It?" . The old clerk looked upagliast.snovai his spectacles on his brow, aud slowly made answer: , ., , "Young man, your nativity, and that of our Savior, are the only ones which ever puzzlal me." A Famous Doctor. Tlie cele brated lady doctor Miss Fowler in practice in New Jersey, was recent ly inarrial, and is now Mrs. Ormsby. She o r Knwler. the phrenologist, and has niet with cxtraotlfnao-noc I as a malical practloncr of the homeo-, lvilhtc school. Her Income from her Iiailiic ntiiooi. -- , L3TT, fr vears past been from I ii-.m.i .-n.ooo vcar. She treats Pa- . timits. of both sexes: has the names of over COO families on her practice books, and has more business than all the half dozen men doctors ot tlie place put to gether. In carrying on her profession slie drives between fortv and liftv miles every day. Sho is remarkably success- fill as a doctor. She Is a handsome woman of forty, clear-headed, stout- heartal, strong willal, vivactousand in- tcllcctual. Her husband is a New York merchant. ... FijOffED Ci.HA Ovkiu The Oregon City J-Mcmritc has all along been very severe atrainst the "Lock and canal Swindle." as it terms it. In its issue of Friday It comes out in a long leader squarely In favor and In praise of the scheme, f'lifiin. " It likewise Hatters the "Salem Somebody has been tickling it,.-n?.i;n. i The poor thing was up here lately to ' Another aged woman, a Mrs. McGuire. receive Instructions and whatever else who lives on the corner of Seventh and the Ring had to give, and It is a well Columbia streets, has been troubled so fact that whatever tho lting touches much with sore eyes for the past five turns not to gold perhaps, but gold no years that she could barely see a person doubt turns It. It is safe to say that in a room. She placed herself under Tonv was not an extensive purchase, the care of Dr. Aborn a week ago, and Ho lias to be traded for too often to cost , now she can see distinctly objects at a much at a time. They ought to get his long distance, and all soreness and ten wholesale llgures and not let him retail derness have left the eyes. These facts himself out by driblets in that way. speak for themselves, and there is no Statesman. 1 necessity for comments. Herald. "Women Already "Voters." This was the subject of a lecture deliv ered last evening by Susan B. Anthony, at Piatt's Hall. Tho Hall was about twotthirds full. Miss Anthony said that during her recent trip in Oregon she had delivered sixty lectures, and had thereby pro veil that she was capable of much more physical endurance than was necessary to enable her to cast a ballot. She argued that the true province of a Government was not to give rights, but simply to protect citizens in their in herent rights. The legislative bodies of the United States seemed to be befogged on this question, and to act on the sup position that they had the power to grant rights. According to the Consti tution of California, special provision had been made for the exclusion of cer tain classes from voting, such as Indians, idiots, etc, but no mention was made of women, therefore women were not by the Constitution debarred from voting. She argued that it was foul injustice to compel women to pay taxes, and deny them the right of representation by ballot. She cited cases of women successfully resisting the tax collector, and urged all women to efuse, as a matter of duty, to pay taxes until al lowed to vote. She argued from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, and from dictionary defi nitions, ami from an early Supreme Court decision that women are citizens, The Government in many cases recog nizes them as citizens in the registration of ships, the pre-emption of lands, pass ports, trial for treason, etc. Tho trial and convic tion of Mrs. Surratt for trea son established beyond a doubt that women are citizens. No one except a citizen can commit treason. Charles Summer had told her that he never should vote to enfranchise women, for the law had already accomplished that; also that woman had the brains, the time and the money to work out her own salvation through the courts. The lecturer asserted that tho recent decisions of Judge McKec and others that women were not citizens were many times more infamous than Chief Justice Taney's decision in the Dred Scott case. She scored Judge MeKee most unmerci fully for his decision, anil gained much applause thereby. The speaker contended that under the provisions of the common law of Eng land in force in this country to-day, all women were in a state of legal servitude. But the Constitutional amendment granted the ballot to all who had been in a "previous condition of servitude;" therefore women now have the right to vote. She believed that the declaratory act inakiiiir women voters would pass the present Congress. Mr. Garfield of Washington Territory, had been elected by the votes of seventeen women. President Grant came in for a quantity of tongue-Iashingforhis reticenceon the woman question. The next President must be one pledged to universal suf frage. She presented a resolution denouncing urant, eulogizing Sargent, and support ing her position on the suffrage question. The lecture occupied two hours. Fri day afternoon, at two o'clock, Miss An thony will lecture at tne loung .Men's I Christian Association Hall, to women I only, on the subject of the social evil and Dr. Holland's bill, and in the evening at the same place a meeting will be held to discuss the best method of concertal action. .S'. K Bulletin, Dec. 1th from the Kan Kmnnlsco Call or Doc. 11 Miss Anthony's Reception. The friends of Miss Susan B. Anthony, to the number of about fifty, comprising the more prominent of the leaders of tlie Stmrage movement, asscnibiai m the parlors of the Grand Hotel last ovnnnur Aftnrnn lintir sivnir in snoifil ,iing hall, where a bountiful collation iiad been spread, to which ample justice was done. After the music of the knives and forks had ceased, and a short time had been spent m a table talk, MISS ANTHONY Hose and said : My whole reception on this (Toast, from San Francisco to Oregon and Washington Territory, has been so much beyond anything 1 had expected tnat 1 cannot give expression to my fa-lings. I go from you freightal with a burden of low and gratitude, and of the receptions I have met, none have been more precious than those I have reccival at the hands of tho hard-working men and women with whom I have been thrown in contact; and to-night when the poor woman, who earns her livelihood by selling flowers through the hotel, came to thedooroftlie parlor, and me witii tne hold in my . ,,,, ,... -, , i,:,. !,,...,. Vnn workingwomen? it brought tears to my eyes, unused to weeping, i mil a thrill of gratitude that I had been per nilttal to prosecute this work. o who iro seated around this board to-mgiii, probably have all the rights we need, but we are not working for ourselves, it Is for those whom we find all around us, who, through the spread of wroiigJdeas or woman, are suffering to-night. For them, our sisters, and for future genera tions, must we work. I wish to THANK THE PRESS Of San Francisco, whose representatives are scatal with us to-night, for the gen eral fairness and respect, couries.v, jjen erosity and justice with which I, and the cause I represent, have been treatal. I thank all, of every class and station, for all that has been done. Miss Anthony took her seat amid warm applause. Mrs. Gordon being called upon, briefly roturna! thanks, aud promised earnest and enthusiastic ellorts in the new field to which she was coing. Anumberof brief, pithy speeches ! were made, and at a late hour the recep- ,Tc oedVa 1 d IspV J " . " ' Pf y0' TPf?" lo, u, l,ut l,i,l Mior lifiil spcrsing witii a nearty uciitcit nuiy in wnosc "enaii tney nan assemoiai, , I'kmarkaui.e Cukes. Dr. Aborn . the celebr.ital oculist and nurist, is still continuing his wonderful cures. We callal unon a man yesterday, Wm. i Gaddy, of Nez Peree county, Idaho, who ' was totallv blind in one eye, and could only fee a little through the other two months ago, and who had been a 111 ic ted that way for ten years previous. Afew weeks ago he placal himself under the care of the doctor, and now he can sec as well as he could in his youngestdays. I We saw this man when almost blind, ; audcould hardly believe it was thesame man when we saw liim yestenlaj-j so , mucn was ne cuangeu in iooks. This is certainly a very remarkable cure. A young woman from Eugene Is also under the doctor's care, to be cured of deafness. A week ago she could hardly I hear a loud sound, but now she can hear the tickintrof a watch a loot irom ner. . "Our Brooklyn friends arc having a hard time battling with the enemies of honest suffrage. The men who have stuffed the ballol-boxesare now stealing the fraudulent returns, both originals and duplicates. Where their enemies both lie and steal, honest men fight with unequal weapons." ,,., So says the ScworiTrtbunc in a re cent Issue, and we wonder why it does not demand that the ballot shall bo taken from men who so terribly abuse their privileges. This is tho reason as signed for having taken the ballot from the women of New Jersey! It is as serted by the opponents of woman's en franchisement, that women in that State behaved very naughtily aL.the polls, that they disguised themselves, and repeated their votes, and all that, and so their rights and privileges were abridged as a proper punishment. We'll admit it all though facts do not justify all that our opponents have said about the New Jersey women. If the ballot ought to have been taken from women because they abused their priv ileges, as claimed, why not deal pre cisely so witii men for tho same reason? The 'Tribune tells us how men voters not only stuffed the ballot-boxes, but how they steal the fraudulent returns. Why not demand that the ballot bo taken from these lying, thieving men? Ah! gentlemen, it Is because you are unfair and unjust towards women tuat-you dis criminate against them, and make laws that bear heavily and sometimes op pressively upon them. You have one mode of reasoning for women ami an other for men. AVe protest against this Injustice and inequality. II Oman's Journal. ' SPECIAL NOTICES. Another Well Attcslcd Cure NASAL CATAKlill A CARD FROM J. C KINGSI.KV. Portiand, Oregon, Dec 1. 1S71. This Is to certify that my IlUIe daughter, now plghl years ofnge.ha!! been afllleted 'with Xufcal Catarrh ulnce she was two years of age, cauMU by scarlet fever. I placed her under the care ol Dr. Aborn, anu after two month!.' treatment sho wanenHrely cured, and it Is now two months sinee the treatment was discontinued. Her general health has been greatly improved, and sheJiaa ialnod several pounds In weight. J. C. KINGSI.IiV. Another Cure Worthy or Xote; The following Is an extract from a latter Just received by Dr. Alwrn, fretu one or lite -tlcnts: ASToniA, Oregon, Xor.SD, 1371. Dn. Aeors Dear Sir: I um happy to state that by foltowtncyour directions and twlng your medicines for a few weeks after I came home, I find that all my ills aro removed; my hearing continues good, my lungs, I believe, are sound, and the catarrh Is cured. My brouebtal aiIetfons are letter than they have been for ten yrars. I am fully satisfied that no other Doctor could have saved me from CoSsumitiok, or cured me of deafness, bronchial affections, etc. My deafness was cured in three dtiy?, lungs and bronchial affections in about four wesks. May yon live long to blew the world by rettev Ing suffering humanity. Yours truly, DAVID IN'OALUs. Lectures in the Valley Towns. DP, BOrUN'K, distinguished during nearly twenty years InSan I'ranciwo.for Ills great success In curing Chronic and Acute Diseases, wmiouTTtir use of siKiucixresbelBc on his return from a northern tour, will vbtitthetowns In thcWlllHinctte valley within a few weeKsmd will endeavor to Increase the measure of useful knowledge among the people by lectures upon "Himlf li-lts iirescrvation and restoration impaireu iy uiM-ase, wimoiu uieuwoi mrm- professional services may lie obtained by those who have fulled to secure desired relief through the ordinary modes, ami who are "slek and tired" or medicines and medical miackery, and none others, as Dr. liourne will Jvc no time to waste uKn those who think medicinal poisons necessary to the cure ot disease. a aio niton I'liysioiogs , nc. Il any desire to correspond, my auurerfs is 1)1 1. OKOIIUK M. BOUKNK, rortlnnd, Oregon. nSfitf ANTI13IA. lUtOXCmTIS, C.VT.VKKII Affections of the Lungs. Deafness, WlMnfes from the Kars, Nervous or Ueneral rMWIlt, S?re Kves, liram.taled MtK Oij ly; ilea. Films, etc.. are successfully treated Dj Dr. "lOTrti.conier Third ami Morrison streets. CIIKONir DISKANKS, especially eh cases as have resisted the ordinary modes of treat ment are the cla-s of maladies which Dr. YlHini treats with unparalleled suceeos. NO CI I ItfIK rorfNinsultaltoH. i-ir... Moderate and mtreMkle to the cir cumstance of the patient, so Hint all who aro arnlcted can procure his treatment if they wish. "Mr WILLIAM DAVIDSON, Real 33 n t it t o Dealer. OPriCE-No. 64 Front Street, TO BTIAXD, OltEC OX. TJKAT. ES-TATK IN THIS CITY AND BAST XX, Portland, 111 the most desirable localities. consisting of lrrs, JIai.f I:i.ocks ami l!xui.-u IIocsKS and stores. ' Alo, iJtrnoVED Faums and Valuahi.t- ti. cui.Tlv.VTKH I.anih, located In all turns or the State, for sale. ItnAt RsTATr. and other 1'roneriv mmh..i for CorresiKindcnts, In this Citv anil tlrrouch out the Ktatks aud Tkhihtokies, with great care, and on the most Aiivantagkoxts Thrms Houses ,xn Stoiiks I.vucn. t-.-u tiatxd and Claims ok ai.i. DnscHimovu 1'KOMITT.Y COLI.ICTKO, and a IJENKUAl. Fix v- i iai. and agency ISpscgm Tkan-sactki. ' " Acns.-Tsofthls Office In all the Cities and Towss In the State will receive descriptions of i arm l'Koi-Kinv and forward the same to the above address. -I .f - EMPLOYMENT OFFICE! Xo. 80 Front St., American Exchange Itulldln. CONTRA CTOns, Hotel Keepers. Farmers . .-"Tenters and Dullders, Kamllles.nnd In. tact all who require help of mi v kind, will And ittntheirailvuutageto call and leave thelrad "n: J. 1C VITIIKItKI.I. 1 . Ss. I have also some (iood Farms and Lots for sale, a J. It. V. COBURN & HcCABE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS 5 WASHINGTON STREET, UP-STA1US, Portland. Oregon. Wotk done at ItKASON'ABI.E HATES, nt
