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11 pje Men? $pztl)m$t MRS. A. J. DIMWIT, liltor and Proprietor, orrirn Cor. Third mid Washington .St. TKItMS, IK ADVANCE : One year. .$3 00 173 Klx mouths Three months- - 1 00 ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted on Reasonable Terms. Written for the New Northwest Tlie Ever Faithful Frlciiu. BV STEl'JlKJt XAYBEL-L. The lmt, alas, have many foe, And yet one slnele friend Proven ever true through all in all, Prove faithful to the end; Who'd rather weep that we should smile; WbeU starve that we should feast; Whose happiness springs from our own, Deereast as It's deereast. Ah, onee I had Just sueh a friend O, would that she were now! Hoverinc In my solitude, 1.8 vine my burning brow. Passing Iter hand along my hair, rremttng tiie kiss divine, ISeitding o'er her dreaming boy Tilts angel mother mine! ELLEN DOWD, THEPABMEE'S WIFE. f Entered, according to the Aet of Congress, In the year 1872, by Mrs. A. J. Dunlway, In the Of fice of the Librarian of Congress at Washington City. CHAITKIt X. Ellen refused to be comforted. "Who lias not witnessed the agony of child hood under sudden bereavement? There in his kennel lay the stiffened carcass of her noble friend, his head drawn back, his eyes protruding and ghastly, and the frozen froth adhering to his distort ed jaws. "I'll be avenged for this, poor Boun cer, some day!" fiercely cried the child. "I know that mean old driver poisoned you! You warned me, dear, that he was bad, and yet I didn't stay by you and save your life. Grandma, do dogs go to heaven?" Mrs. D'Arcy was astounded. ""What makes you ask me such a ques tion, dear?" "Because I know that Bouncer had a soul so big that most men's souls could be lost in its shadow. If there is no heaven for a dog like him there ought to be!" Away through the snow drifts in a deep forest by the hill side a grave was made, and Ellen, as chief mourner, fol lowed by the household, accompanied the hired man, who drew a hand sled, upon which a box containing the life less dog had been lashed by ropes. Deep as wasEllen's sorrow, loud and vehement as her lamentations were, the cortege could not sometimes repress their merriment over the burial rites, but the chief mourner was so terribly in earnest that they did not dare to appear amused. Let children's sorrows ever be respect ed. They are to them as pungent and real as the disappointments and be reavements of humanity of larger growth. Thank God that they may soon outgrow their trials, for, were It not thus, their griefs wauld often kill or craze them. Ellen was wisely allowed a season of several days in which to indulge her grief. No mention was made of her coming studies during this interval, but with much tact and skill her teachers gradually interested her in the tinkling melody of the grand old harp. Her voice was fine and wild and free as a bird's, and her tutor perceived with sat isfaction that she readily caught the airs of the quaint old tunes of which he ever had in store an extempore supply. The winter was long and cold. The large, many-paned window of Ellen's chamber in the second story early en crusted itself with a grand display of landscape and architectural scenery; i and the child drew back the heavy Hoi-1 laud curtains, that had been hiding the whole from view, and fastening them so that they could not longer conceal the fairy frost-work of the winter king, lay at night with the light of the moon and stars shining on her studio, while she would trace hour by hour some new and grand discover- into living, tangible shape of men and beasts and birds and fairies; of flowers, trees and rills and rivers; grand old houses and happy children; pictures of her sister Sarah in her cabin home ; of her mother In her days of privation and toil ; and of her own lonely life in the great house where peace and plenty reigned, while away upon one of the topmost panes she pic tured the grave of her dead companion, the true and noble dog. Her course of study was plain, but' rigid, and she soon grew passionately i fond of her pale governess, whose devo tion to her charge was only equaled by the child's dislike of the quaint old mu sic teacher. She soon acquired much skill in playing! upon the harp, bending her energies in this direction that she might succeed in ridding the house of her tutor, whom -she described to her grandmother as "the singing, grinning ghoul." The weeks and months and years wore on. At sixteen Ellen D'Arcy was tall and lithe, graceful and beautiful. Such wonderful progress had been made in herltudies that her grandparents decid ed that she was ready to dismiss her teachers. The house of the D'Arcys was thrown open for a party in honor of its queen, the radiant girl who for six years had been its sunbeam. Midsummer in her georgeous robeS of green and gold sat down upon the earth and dropped her bounties in her grain clad bosom. Guests from the neighbor ing viuagc were Eummoncd, and all inrougii tue mansion, which so Ion"1 had closed its doors upon the gay, glad world, resounded peals of laughter and the merry jest, while waving lights went moving to and fro. The housekeeper, good mother Harris, ' ' VOH.TJ3kEE 1. was in her glory. Such cakes, preserves and pickles as hers sho fancied were but seldom seen. Such snowy bread, such golden butter, such roasts and bakes and fries and stews hnd not their equal in the range of all her gossiping ac quaintance. An array of tempting edibles was dis played upon;a long, narrow table in the low, bright kitchen, consisting of just such varieties of food as had been ar ranged upon that same table twenty seven years before, when Ellen's mother made licr grand debut. "You see, honey," said the house keeper to Ellen, "I thought I'd make it seem as home-like as possible to the old people. They'd like to forget that the other Ellen D'Arcy is dead. I do hope you've a brighter future before than she had, poor child." "Well, Aunty Harris, I want you to tell me more about my mother. I just slipped down here from the palors to see how the table looked, and to get away from the throng up-stairs. I sometimes think I'm not myself at all, but only some other person. I have such strange fancies. You can't think how queer it seems. Do tell me all about my moiii- er. "Not to-night, Miss D'Arcy. The company will miss you in the parlors. There'll be some gipsies here afterwhilo to tell fortunes. Killingsworth is going to bring tliem to the kitchen, and then, if you want to please your teacher, you must ask them into the parlor." "What? The band of gipsies that are camped down by the creek?" "Yes, but don't let your grandfatlier know we've been talking about tliem. He hates gipsies." "But what makes my ghoul want them to come up here? Do you know?" "Of course I don't. But do hurry back to the parlors, or Mrs. Brandon will be after you." Ellen returned to her guests and was earnestly importuned to sing. "0, please don't ask me! I can't sing to-night The moon sheds her pale glo ry over the earth and settles her beams upon the landscape like a silent an-1 them. Music's memory floats through my soul. I do not want its present real ity." "What an odd speech, Miss D'Arcy. I believe you are a genius," said a vapid-faced fellow, with sandy chin whis kers. "I believe I'm not myself, at any rate," was the earnest reply. Mrs. Brandon whispered in her car. "I will sing. Sir, pardon me," ad dressing a friend, "I am so little accus tomed to entertaining company that I forgot that you were my guests." The harp was stationed In the deep bay window, and as her fingers swept the chords, the melody welled forth from her throat and mingled with the tinkling harmony of the instrument, while the sweet, simple words or a quaint ballad dropped in limpid accents from iter tongue. A breathless silence pervaded the giddy throng: and when the song was finished the young musl cian dropped her head upon her hands and wept. "Woe ! woe unto the day when there shall come into this house a being who shall snatch away its treasure!" The words were uttered in a strange, sepulchral voice, and startled the large company into exclamations of terror- "The mother!i mantle falls upon the child. Tlie mother was, the daughter will be soon be guiled. Woe, woe the day, when from thy distant home Thy loved ones urged thee to these halls to come." "The gipsies! the gipsies!" exclaimed a voice. And sure enough, standing there with her bent form and features half con iccaled in an old red liood, her dirty hands grasping a staff, her scant dress carelessly wrapped about her, and her gray hair straggling over her strangely repulsive face, stood a gipsey, whom many recognized'by her apparel as one of a 'baud who had recently appeared in the neighborhood. The gipsey advanced to where Ellen stood and, confronting her, dropped to ncr knees. "Strange and dark Is the way before thee; Life's deepest woes shall all come o'er thee: The curse of paternity rests on thy head: Tlie parents who gave thee existence arc dead. nut there comcth a time yea, at hand it Is near ttiicn iiioirii long for the heart and the shroud and the bier; For the blood of thy father runs warm in thy veins, And the fate of thy mother, her sorrows and pains, Thy heritage shall be, dear lady oflight. Unless thou wilt heed this, my vision, so bright, And become the glad bride of the gentleman true, Who would fain kneel before thee, his suit to pursue." "Capital!" shouted a bright-eyed girl. "Cross the old hag's hand with silver, do !" Ellen was visibly agitated. As she stood there, trembling in every limb, her proud eyes flashing with a nativ pride, her Hps quivering and her breath lal.orintr in short respirations, her grandfather gazed fondly upon her and said, "blood will tell. There's D'Arcy enough in her to suit even my fancy. "Shall I tell j-our fortune, lady?' turning to Mrs. Brandon, who timidly reached forth her hand "There has been sorrow In your past, my dear; mere will be pleasure yet in store for you; But there are duties unfulfilled, I fcar Arlso and act! there's work for you to do." Nothing very explicit, certainly POTtTJOiViVD, was the lady's comment "Can't you give me a hint as to the nature of my work?" "When you can save a precious lamb, Reach forth your willing arm; Be active, strong of nerve, and calm, And save her from alL harm, iryou your duties do forsake, Woe to my lady then; To save her from a lire's mistake Is now your work. Amen." The effector the gipsey's words and arts was electrical. What had begun in glee closed in consternation. "I do wish this party was over," said Ellen to her grandmother. "I haven't felt so doleful since old Bouncer died." Aunt Harris came bursting into the parlor in a perfect flurry of fright and excitement "Tito gipsey's! The gipsey's!" sho shrieked. "They have carried off all my fine victuals! Where's the hag that would come up here to tell Miss D' Arcy's fortune ? Whatever will we do for sup per for all this company?" The old gipsey was nowhere to be seen. She had quietly disappeared in the midst of the furore, and no trace of the kitchen marauders could be found. The party which had promised so much of happiness for Ellen, soon broke up in disappointment and gloom. The good grandparents gave a sigh of relief when the last guest was gone and they found themselves once more alone with the tutor, the governess and their adopted child: "Mr. Killingsworth," said tlie old gentleman, "what did you think of the strange warnings or that old gipsey? They were certainly very singular." I took her words down in short hand, sir. I really forget what they were, but this will soon recall them," bringing up from his pocket a crampled paper, from which he read the gipsey's warning. Ellen, my darling," said the old gen tleman, "go to your room. I want a little private conversation with your tutor to-night" The girl reluctantly obeyed, and going up to her chamber, sought her couch, where for long and weary hours she watched the moonbeams as they played upon the burnished window panes, where in bygone winters she had so often dreamed out landscapes, witli birds and trees and flowers on their frost-encrusted surface. Mr. D'Arcy leaned forward in the moonlight as soon as Ellen retired, and In a low tone remarked that the old gip sy's words annoyed him. "You know," said he, "that my own Ellen got into trouble by marrying against my will. Now I shall never be satisfied until her child is safely married to some good, honorable gentleman." "I wouldn't be uneasy about it, father," said tlie grandmother. "Ellen has never had an offer yet May be she won't have one for years." 'Mr. D'Arcy, what say you to nic as a suitor? I am satisfied that Ellen Is disposed to take up with some romantic, ill-timed offer, and I am satisfied too, sir, that ir she were my wife you would lways be contented about her." Why, man ! you are old enough to be her grandfather !" "No matter ! As my wife, she would always be near you. I should not think of breaking up these pleasant afcsocla tlons. We should be a united family." "But the child! Suppose she should object" "Ishould think she'd heed thegipsey's warning, sir." "Nonsense ! That old hag got up that ruse to get her horde Into the kitchen There's nothing but noacnso in herodd harangue." "Mrs. Brandon," said the tutor, "I believe that old gipsey gave you an ad' monition about this matter. I have been emboldened to speak to-night by her strange words. 1 fear that some sad fate hangs over Ellen. If she were my wife she would be safe, you know." "Saved as by wolves, or by fire !" said Mrs. D'Arcy. "The child shall not be interfered with." "If she is willing, you shall have her, sir," said the old man. "My mind will be at rest about her then." Grandmother D'Arcy stole softly away to the child's chamber, sought her couch in the moonlight, and speaking her name inlow, winning tones, aroused her from her reverie. "What do you think I want to tell you, dear?" "I am sure I do not know." "Your grandfather has promised to marry you to old Killingsworth." "What, that hunch-backed, grinning ghoul?" "Even so, my darling." "Pit see them all in Heaven first" "Don't be rash, my pet. You must acquiesce. Pretend to be satisfied with the arrangement, only beg for time. Plead your youth. That will satisfy your grandfather. He is insane for fear that you will run away and marry like your mother did." "He'd better things! wouldn't he T ha ha! ha!" (To be continued.) Out in Illinois there is a child, now three months old, welgmng nut iwc nnnnil. Ttalpnirth is onlv seven inches, nnil its fhr-o about the size of a watch rrvstal. Its tinv arms are so slender that a small finger ring can be slipped nn either of them to the shoulder. This llfMn rrpattirn is already making quite nnlsn in its nart of the world, and hun drcds have called to see It The parents are of staudard size. Free Speech, Fkee Pres.s, Free People. OBEGON, FRIDAY, MARCH J?, lr. LETTER FBOM MISS ANTHONY. Rochester, Jan. lGth, 1872. Dear New NoimiWEsr: I am just homo from tlie Washington Convention, and a grand one It was too. Three days of continued Interest, audi ences increasing each session, until the last day large numbers could not .find seats in that vast Lincoln Hall. Mrs. Stanton, Hooker, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Mary F. Davis, Laura Cuppy Smith, Laura DeForce Gordon, and many others, all made strong and convincing speeches, and Anthony told the East of tho glorious Northwest Oregon and AVashington Territory which she rep resented. I send you tho Washington papers and copy of WoodhulPs Weekly, which, I am sorry to be compelled to say, is the only ll'bman Suffrage paper of the East that gives a report of the Washington Convention. Tlie Revolu tion and Woman's Journal barely make paragraphs of the fact The friends at a distance nil want a true and faithful report of such an important National Convention its resolutions, the general spirit of itsproceedingsand the'practical work suggested and the paper that gives them what they demand will be the one thoy will seek. I am not sorry that Woodhull meets this demand, but I do sincerely regret that the other papers do not rcalizo the importance of carrying so splendid a meeting to the hearths and homes of the true and earnest friends of the cause, away in the remotest nooks and corners of the nation. Our hearing before the Senate Judic iary Committee was a fitting climax to the work of the preceding Washington Conventions. In January 1S69, with the venerated Lucrctia Mott President, we held our First National Convention at the Capital. It was a good meeting, though we failed to secure a hearing rrom cither House, for our demand for a ICth Amendment Our second was in January, 1870. Both the Senate and House Committee refused to grant us the desired hearing, but tho District of Columbia Committees gave us a joint hearing on suffrage for women in the District Speeches were made by Mrs. Stanton, Paulina Wright Davis, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Madam Auncko and An thony of which Charles Summer said he had been on Committees for the past twenty years and listened to speeches and appeals on every possible question, but never had he heard such imjirexsive and unanswerable arguments as were those. Mrs. Stanton at that time made her claim for Woman Suffrage under tho guarantees of the 14th and 15th Amendments. Our third Convention, 1871, gave us, through Mrs. Wood- hull, a hearing before tho House Judic iary Committee. Mrs. Woodhull, Hon. A. G. Riddle, Mrs. Hooker and Anthony were the speakers. The impression on the Committee and the nation was most tartling. By this move our question was at once lifted from the sphere of prejudice and precedent into that or law and logic Tho question was no longer whether men were willing to allow women to vote, but whether women were of the "all persons" who are citi zens, and whether to be crowned with the privileges and immunities of citizens was to have the one fundamental citi zen's right to vote denied? And what an entire revolution it has made in our movement ! We now appeal to Congress aud the Courts to decide and declare woman's political status. We no longer beg at tlie feet of the masses of washed and unwashed "male" citizens to grantus our rights. 1872 gives us our fourth National gath ering at Washington, and a hearing he- fore the Senate Judiciary a step higher you see. -Mrs. riooKer openeu wiiu ine most condensed and lucid statement of tho Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend racnt argument I have seen or heard; especially did she clear up Senator Car penter's stumbling-block the word "male" in the 2d section of the Jjour- teeuth Amendment, and I hope that gentleman will be large enough to ac- knowledce himself helped out of his doubts by it Mrs. Stanton followed. going over the same ground, but with her own matchless rhetoric and diction that made one oblivious to the fact Then Anthony followed Stanton, not with au argument, but with a recount ing of grievances at tho hands of the Republican party since tlie war and by the reconstruction legislation ; that un der the old regime, prior to the war, when the question of the extension of the ballot to new classes of men was al ways submitteed to the rank and file of those already voters, women thought of no other method of gaining their right But when the Republican party lifted the question of man's suffrage above the States, and so amended the "Supreme Law of the Land" as to prohibit any State from interfering with the rights of the United States citizen, we at once saw that tlie question or woman's suf frage was alike taken out of the power of tlie States to deny or abridge. In the olden time or State's Rights It was our pride and our boast that the Federal Constitution had not a word or a line that could bo construed into a permit to disfranchise women any moro than i i . . men, ami we uiwnys useti lo say our work would be done so soon as we could expunge the word "male" rrom our sev eral State Constitutions; hence, when the propositions or Scheuck, Jenckens and Broomall were made on the floor or Congress, in 1SG5, to Insert the word "male" in the Fourteenth Amendment, my friends, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Rose and others of us who stood at the front, rushed into Congress with petitions urg ing that the Old Charter of American Liberties be not thus desecrated. But Republicans hushed our progress and begged us to desist, saying, "Tills is the negro's hour." The word "male" in that section puts up no new barrier against woman. Even Senator Sum ner, standing on the floor of the Senate, holding in his hand a remonstrance, signed by Lucrctia Mott, Ernestine L. Rose, Lydia Maria Child and scores of equally noble and representative wom en, said: "I present this petition because it is my duty as a representative of the people, but I consider it exceedingly in opportune that, at a moment like tills, women should obtrude their claims upon Congress." When, I ask, should women pray and protest, and that, too, witli vehemence, if not at the very mo ment when Congress was in the act of laying violent hands on the legacy of feeedom "left us by tho Fathers." Against all our appeals the Amendment, witli the word "male," became law. Then came tlie proposition for the Fif teenth Amendment, forbidding any State from disfanchlslng any citizen on account of race, color, etc Again we sprang to our guns petitions aud fired them Into Congress like hot shot, ask ing, nay, demanding, that "sex" should be added. And again we were bidden to be silent "This Is the negro's hour." The fact that the won! "sex" is not there will not be in the slightest a bar rier against woman. We beg you do not embarrass us at this critical hour with your woman question just wait until we get tho negroes secure in their freedom and then your turn shall come next And again the Republican party of the nation, in the face or our prayers and protests, adopted the Fifteenth Amendment without tlie word sex. And these same Republicans who bade us be silent, who assured us tho presence of tlie word "male" in tlie Fourteenth nor the absence or the word "aex" in tlie Fifteenth would bo any new barrier to woman, now bid us go seek a Sixteenth Amendment to undo the mischief of the implied right of the Stales to disfran chise women, because of the presence of the one, the absence of the other. Had ou, Honorable Senators, or any class of intelligent men citizens, been thus treated by this Government, thus rouged and insulted, a downright rev olution of blood would have been the re sultand the only reason that the women who appear before you to-day, and the thousands, nay, the hundreds of thousauds of women of this Republic our peers in intellect and culture- horn we represent, have borne all these repeated Injustices, Is attributed to the fact of the social tics of father, brother, husband, son. Now, gentle men, as you could not, would not trust the decision of the black man's right to the ballot to the ignorant masses of white men, so we ask you to save tlie women of the nation your mothers, sisters, wives, daughters from the hu miliation and delay of a submission of their right to vote to the ignorant masses of men white and black, native and foreign born, rich and poor, virtu ous, vicious, sober and drunken. For re member by these two amendments you have placed this crowning right of citi zenship on the head of every man out side of the State prison and lunatic asy lum. You know, as do we, that tills question of the extension of the ballot to woman, like that of the negro, Is a question of brains, of culture, of breadth of understanding, and, hence, to remand us back to the States is to bid us wait at least a whole century for tho education and elevation or a majority of the low est aud most besotted classes of men, You know, as well as we, that had you waited the negro's enfranchisement for the majority vote of the white men, it would have taken you twice one huud red years to have educated them up to a recognition of his equal rights. I appeal to you, do not compel the cultivated tax-paying women of New York to go dowu into John Morrissey's District and beg his fisti-cuff constituency to concede to them their right to a voice in the government of tlie city of New York nor tho proud-spirited, Southern-born woman to sue the but yesterday planta tion slaves for their right to tho ballot For you, gentlemen, tlie picked repre sentative men of the nation, possessing the power, as you do, by the passage of a law, to compel the States to protect their women citizens in tho exercise of their right to vote, precisely as you have passed laws to protect men citi zens ; for you, possessing this power, to at once lift womanhood from the post tlon of servitude and slavery into that of Independence and freedom, to send us back to tho ignoraut rabble is an indig nity you can ill afford to inflict, and one we shall not be likely to submit to with the grace and meekness you may deem fitting for subjects nnd aliens. And the Sixteenth Amendment plan to which some of you recommend us. though less degrading to our self-respect, and less tedious and hopeless as to time, will take years and years of hard work first, to educate a vast ma jority of the members of Congress to submit the proposition, then three- fourths of the members of two-thirds of all the State Legislatures to ratify it And, gentlemen, I ask you to speak us into freedom and save us from any fur ther importunings for the concession or our inalienable rights, lou see many or as have grown gray in the work. Al ready for more than a quarter of a cen tury have we been instant in season and out of season in our efforts to secure your recognition or woman's political equality in thi3 professedly Democratic Republican Government I ask you to endeavor to believe, if but for a mo ment, that women feel under all these violations of the great principles of free government precisely as you yourselves would feel if your peers should vote you out of the pale of political action. Could you thus really believe, our prayer would be promptly answered and the law of Congress be passed that women citizens of no States should be obstruct ed in their attempt to vote. I join with Mrs. Hooker in urging you to report immediately, favorably if possible, against if you must, but report at once, that we may get an expression of Con gress and learn who and how many our friends are, and what to expect and hope for at your hands. Mrs. Lockwood then presented to the Committee a petition signed by over 50,000 women or the Republic all fas tened together in one immense roil. Senators Trumbull, Frclinghuysen, Conkling, Carpenter aud others of the Committee pronounced the arguments most able, and all seemed deeply im pressed with the earnestness and power of the .demand for woman. The effect of the hcarhur was heightened bv the immense crowd of women who rushed to the Capitol, each one hoping to be one of the one hundred that could get inside the Committee room. The halls and corridors were packed and the streets leading to the Capitol also. It was an occasion matched only by that of our Revolutionary Fathers in their struggle for their liberty. But I began this letter to tell you of my snow-bound trip over tlie Rocky mountains nine days getting from Og- deit to Omaha but pleasant times ncv erthcless, for I was in company with the Hon. A. A. Sargent, wife, two daughters aud son, and a most delight ful family they are. And a strong friend we have in Mr. Sargent, returned to Congress now for the next eight years, He will make his mark for justice nnd equality to woman and in his wife we have an earnest and able ally to our cause. And when a public man has the prize of a strong, noble, seIf-oised woman for a wife, there is hardly any moral height we may not hope hint to reach. I see your Senator Corbett's wife is declared the handsomest of the Sena torial wives. I claim for California the truest, best Woman Suffragist of Sena torial wives greatest glory of all. Tell everybody to send on their peti tions to Congress their demandsl like better. With remembrance of our pleasant journeyings through Oregon and Washington Territory, and of all the good people who greeted us every- here, I remain yours sincerely, Susan B. Anthony. LETTEE PE0MJ3EEG0N 0ITY. Oregon City, Feb. 2G, 1S72. Editor New Northwest: One evening not long since I chanced to be so fortunate as to attend a concert at the Baptist church in this renowned City of tlie Falls." As shown by the 'programme," the best musical talent in the city, both men and women, were engaged. So I naturally looked forward to quite a treat and I will here state that my expectations were moro than realized. Arriving early, I had time, while awaiting the first appearance of the singers, to glance over the audience, and, somewhat to my surprise, beheld quite a number of persons who last Fall were shocked at tho spectacle of a wom an being so far forgetful of womanly modesty and digulty as to appear upon the platform and address a promiscuous crowd, now waiting, eager and expect ant, to be entertained in part by women appearing in this obnoxious manner, and who, if they succeeded in pleasing the audience, must certainly sing much louder than Miss Anthony spoke. Now, said I to myseir, we will see how these self-constituted champions of womanly modesty will show their disapproval and frown these women back to their proper sphere their home duties and the care of their children. Would you believe it? Instead of frowns they were greeted with appreciative smiles, and me curtain leii witn eutliusiastic ap plause! Can it be possible, thought I, that men who declare that women have not time to vote will be so inconsistent as to encouratre these women hi the wastc(?) of time necessary for the re hearsal of thl3 muslo? What, O what is to become of the "babies" if women are to be smiled upon, applauded and encouraged while thus neglecting their maternal duties? Think of the helpless little creatures being compelled to re ceive indigestible "pap" at the hands of unfeeling hirelings during their moth ers unnatural absence from the nursery (That the babies of the ladies under con sideratlon those of tliem at least who are blessed with the article are past the tender age wherein they take their nourishment in a liquid state has noth ing whatever to do with the argument you know.) No sympathetic masculine near the door arose this time to plead ior mem. uut my reveries upon the imaginary woes of neglected bnbyhood A Journal for tho Teople. Devoted to the Interests of Humanity. Independent In Politics and Religion. Hive to all Live Issues, and Thoroughly Radical In Opposing and Exposing the Wrongs ol the Masses. Correspondents writing over assumed signa tures mast make known their names to, the Editor, or no attention will bo given .to their communications. were terminated as the curtain was again drawn aside, and a graceful and accomplished lady came forward and rendered "The Bridge of Sighs" in an Impressive manner and witti a full, ricli voice, that could scarcely fail to excite me ailmlratlon of the most inveterate stickler for "woman's sphere." Who says that the gifted woman should hide the talent God has given her even in the sacred precincts of home? Not her her husband evidently, for she was cer tainly there with his consent and appro bation. And I will venture to predict that no vision of buttouless shirts, un tidy stockings or neglected children cast a shadow over his gratification at his wife's triumph. Now, does it not seem absurd for a woman to be frowned upon and shamefully misrepresented when and because she appears in public as a speaker, while her appearance as a singer in a manner equally public is greeted with marked approval? Who can see wherein "home duties" would suffer more in the one case than in the other? How can it be more unwomanly or in any way more reprehensible to enter tain an audience with original ideas than to merely rehearse for their edifi cation the words of others? If there is a difference it should be in favor of those who own and icork their own brains. That in the "good time coming" these tilings may be viewed impartially from the solid standpoint of common sense let ns live in Hope. LETTER IE0MP0EEST GE0VE. Fouest Grove, Feb. 2G. Editor New Northwest: Your last issue has tho true ring, especially what you say of the "Silent Man of Destiny." Shame and misery on us all, if "we, the people of these United States," can't elect a better man as our Chief! Ex-Senator Ncsmith and many others who knew Grant here years ago have told me the same in effect as you now state. Go on in your course. The issue is only a question of time. Ruin must sooner or later come to all such basemen, as our degraded President, aud woe betide the "whitcd sepulchers" uphold ing him ! What the country needs and must have is an independent party the peo ple's party of men and women true to themselves. Go on as you have begun, and the victory shall be yours at the last, when right-minded, intelligent men and women will shout the "harvest home." Index. Laura D. Fair. The reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle gives the following account of an interview with Mrs. Fair since a new trial has been granted in her case : blnce tlie welcome intelligence, of a new trial being granted, Jlrs. Fair has wonderfully improved in appearance. Her checks have gained something of color. The expression of utter abandon ment which she wore when we saw her last in tlie Fiftecntli District Court room, on the occasion of her suit with Dr. Trask, has disappeared, and A BRIGHT, HOPEFUL I.IQIIT ow beams in her eyes. The woman has evidently undergone a change. The prospect of nn impending death of dis grace on tlie gallows, succeeded by a new lease or life and a nope or ultimate acquittal, have wrought a complete tran formation. In answer to our inquiries as to the counsel sho would employ in tue new trial, .Mrs. i?air saiu: " Juuce is. ureene uurtus and Judge Quint will be my attorneys." Reporter Can you give me any in formation, Mrs. Fair, about the probable proceeding in your case ? jura. air At present nave notnintr which could Interest any one ; but when nave anvthlwr or interest to commun icate, I shall always be pleased to give it to the press. 1 do think, however, that I have not been treated fairly by some of tlie newspapers. They have said some Hard tilings against me. This closed the brief conference, and the reporter withdrew. ATTITUDE OF THE PROSECUTION. We understand that Judjre Campbell will argue that the decision of the Su preme Court is notaccordinprto thofacw submitted, nor based upon law. The evidence iu regard to tlie prisoners chas tity was not Introduced to prove uer un chaste, but in refutation of the plea of insanity. As to the objection to the opening and closing of argument by the prosecution, mo siaiueo i luuviut.-. that an perecutions snau navo mu ing and close. Judge Campbell will move for the reargument or the case be fore the Supreme Court. ILLNESS OF MR. BYRNE. Should tho second trial take place the aspect as the case as regards counsel on both sides will be materially changed, as Elisha Cook Is dead and ex-District Attorney Byrne, who prosecuted for the people in tlie first trial, is reported to bo in a dyinjr condition. His malady is Bright's disease of the kidneys, and so low is at the present that it is not ex pected he will survive through the weeK. Henry Ward Becchcr's lecture on "Tlie Redemption of tho Ballot" coil tains the following excellent passage: r.veu an ignorant man is Detter quali fied to vote than is an educated man to vote for him; one man is not fit to vote for another. Tlie lower classes come up by forcing their way up. It is so in re ligion. Even ministers at one time did not like laymen to be considered their equals. AU would remember that it was not many years since Woman aiu frago began to bo felt. Hewasnot there to argue tho subject, but the time was not far off when women would vote, doubtless it would shock many, ire pare to be shocked." uSh-Vail norance will yield to reaso". We shall have more newspapers and bcUer ones Sulfrage is a natural right A ng s education. Every vow. ,p hBnd masters, uiv i"'- ,:r, l..,,,, and the party ou the left hand.