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VtAvZ:.7Z..l3LVKCH15, IS72. LOOK OUT. Those journals that Indulge In the luxury of indorsing a recent slander upon the editor and proprietor of the "New Northwest, which has just readied her, are hereby warned that they arc liable for damages, as is the proprietor of the Vancouver sheet, which originated the same. "Who wants to follow the Statesman i There is a point beyond which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. A. J. Duniway. Salem, Oregon March 13, 1872. PLAIN WOEDS TO ONE WHO NEEDS THEM. Sylvester Simpson, a word in your ear. lou are a younir man of averacre o - personal appearance and of something above average ability. Your opportuni ties for education have been amnio, and your friends, in their well meant but in judicious endeavors to further vour in terests, have heaped nremature honors upon you, which your embryo faculties are proving themselves unable to sus tain. Hence, we find that malignant hydrocephalus is leadiurr you to make a fool of yourself; and as there is great danger that this disease will take a chronic form if not speedily arrested. and thus prove your future undoing, as a matronly friend of all boys who are wise beyond their years (In their own estimation), we propose to lay our jour nalistic hands upon your head and in all Kindness attempt to repress its ten dency to further abnormal expansion You are not the first "youth" who has made a fool of himself and proved his native want of brain-balance by saying scurrilous tilings about the editor of this paper and her fearless, conscientious worn, we are disposed to deal kindlv with you far above your manifest des erts in this necessary medical pre scription. Older and wiser meii have erreti as you iiavcuoue aud Jived to be come ashamed of their conduct in a very short time, and we are not without hope that you will do likewise. "We have never seen a copy of the Mazcppa, of which you boast yourself a constant reader, and which in your at tempts to be "smart" you uudertake to compare to the New Northwest, but a gentleman who has seen it assures us that, like the Mercury since it came un der your control, it is a sheet that seizes upon the innocent and truthful ideas of other journalists and converts them into the low, wicked slang of the saloons and brothels. Now, Sylvester, when the incipient down upon your chin takes on the sub Rtance of the beard of manhood ; when the embryo brain power that you pos sess shall tone down its pruriency; when you become the man, mentally, morally and physically, which we and all your friends yet hone to see von be come; in short, when you tret cured of hydrocephalus and acquire a little of mc sonu wisdom of which you now get but a glimmer, we shall expect you to prove your manhood by acknowledging that personal scurrility Is not annimenr. and that the woman who conscientious ly excoriates the man-made evils of so ciety is honestly respected bv everv man who has the shadow of a claim to the title of ncnlleman. "Wo h avn i?r pected better thlncs of von thnn vnn have done, and if your future conduct snail warrant us In extending to you the right hand of fellou-slil forgive your late indiscretion and offer you the same right cordially; but w will not descend to the bandvimr c words or arguments witli any bov who exhibits such prurient tastes, save for the purpose of neutralizing the innate scurrility peculiar to his years. WHAT MAKES THE DIPPEEENOE? "The old leaven of proscription and prejudice seems to be still at work in St. Tin TrAlnrif.- TVktlrrTnca known colored orator and scholar, it seems, was iaiciy uenica entertainment account of his color. The Journal of wmmcrce oi mat, city, we are glad to see, stigmatizes the conduct of the pro prietors of the hotel as it deserves, and says that Mr. Douglass, 'in generosity and manliness, judged by no other standard than the act In question, and his treatment of it, is very much supe rior to those who perjietrated or author ized the outrage.' "Orcgonian. The preseiit leaven of proscription and prejudice is still at work in Congress. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the well known woman orator and scholar, was lately denied opportunity to address the Senate and House on account of her sex. But neither the Orcgonian nor the Journal of Commerce is pleased to stig matize the conduct of the "proprietors" of Congress as they deserve. Aud yet the people everywhere well kuow that this illustrious woman is very much su perior to those who perpetrated or au thorized the outrage. THE "UNI0NlsTE0IJBLED. TI e particular cause of IU distress is the SSLSSTr 11,0 ,atc rcn Temperance Convention conceding the right of women to vote on the Temper! anee question Iteally, we are Jr our brother. He is afraid Woman Suf frage will kill the Temperance que,tlon -so he says. We rather think he sees , t ul Woman will do more to abate the whisky nuisance limn nil nfliat QnAnniAu aah.1.! . ... nMH ukuvi uubiwa wmumeu. Won der if that isn't what makes him squirm Bro. Brown, of the Albany Democrat makes the "Amende Honorable" in re gard to Mr. Mcacham and ourself. Thanks. Attention is called to the Illinois eiuiturauee .Law, publlslieu in lull on the fourth page of to-day's paper. A PEW QUESTIONS TOE ME. 11."!. 1 8PEK0EB. Gervais, Oregon, Feb. 27, 1872. "Duniway1' .-You will please discon tinue my paper. I do not endorse your sentiments at all. "The Silent Man of Destiny" is fully sufficient for me. Should your paper come again I will not take it out of the office. "With this I return to you a copy containing the above-named article. M. F. Spencer. Portland, Ogn., March Slh, 1872. Mr. M. F. Silencer Sir: I should despair of reaching you by this answer after your crushing epistle, which I do you the justice to print, exactly as you sent it, were it not that I know that there is1 sufficient of the old Father datn curiosity about you to make you borrrow some other man's New "North- west after thus peremptorily refusing your own. Now, sir, in all kindness, I want, for the benefit of yourself, myself and the public at large, to ask you a few leading questions: 1st. Did you send back the Orcgonian, marked "refused," when it came out with an infamous slander upon the social purity of Elizabeth Cady Stanton? 2d. Did you, as a "protector" of worn anliood (for such you must consider yourself to be, or you would be willing to allow women the privilege to protect themselves) feel your sense of justice outraged, when every newspaper in Oregon except the New Northwest garbled Victoria "Woodhull's article on cliastily, and persisted in making the public believe that she said vile tilings which all those papers knew she did not mean? 3d. Did you grow angry and stop the Statesman, because, when 1, as a consci entious public journalist, exposed the corrupt manipulation of the State finan ces, in which the Statesman editor was implicated, that editor did his puny best to vilify and slander met 4th. If men, who are the acknowledged rulers of a great nation, have social rec ords so black as that which I was com polled, as a truthful journalist, to depict, in order that men like yourself might pluck the beam from their party's eye, is it not time that man's rights journals stop their cant about the alleged impur ity of man-styled women leaders ? 5th. Do you not know that whom the i-ods destroy they first make mad ? 6th. Arc you not now satisfied that a whip of scorpions is the only weapon with which women may hope to drive party politicians along the paths of jus tice? "tli. Do you suppose that your name on my subscription list is absolutely necessary to keep the New Northwest alive? 8th. Don't you know that every man who thus shows his fright at sight of truth by stopping his paper, but calls forth a scoreof new subscribers to attend the funeral of his signature? 9th. Haven't you been a little hasty? 10th. Had you not better read your own Northwest until the subscription expires, and then renew it like a man- writing your dissent of its doctrines for publication in its columns, where they will always be courteously treated rather than be compelled to borrow it from your wiser and more good-natured neighbors in order to see what it has to say about you ? 11th. Have you a wife, and if you have, did you consult tier wishes when you "refused" the New Northwest? All of which is respectfully and kindly submitted by your sincere friend, A. J. Duniway. OPPOSED TO WOMAN SUFPEAQE. "Our Delegate, SeluciusOarfielde. had an invitation to attend the Women's National Suflrage Convention in Wash- "&CV,J1 ao.f.,a?.('- 'ao- ou4iiiAjii jiu uremics me invitation, saying that he docs 'not be-! neve sutirage will elevate woman or ucuci ui vuiiuiiiuu. xio concludes i..:.. suffrage movement in this countrv would confirm me in the correctness of my conclusion.' Now we wait to hear from Mrs. Duniway." Olympia Tri bune. How arc the mighty fallen! and how are the aspirations of the honorable Sclucius now brought low! No more for him in the halls of Congress waits the willing seat ! His "silver tongue" is forever silenced, aud his "pious" heart is racked with conscientious pangs! Poor, pitiful, played-out politician that he is, he sees and knows that the seven teen women whoso votes two years ago were so gladly accepted, and but for which he would not have gone to Con gress, arc determined, with their grow ing experience, to select a better man a man whose vices do not outweigh his virtues; a man who has "piety" and conscientious scruples about his own moral conduct, as well as bigoted tur vcillaucc over the inalienable rights of the women constituents who once elected him, but who now know that they can do better, and knowing tills are i determined not to commit another sucli mistake. This is the "recent tendency J of the suffrage movement" which this sham aristocrat deplores, and well he may deplore it, for off shall conic his political head next election. THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE'S EEPOET. The Report of the State Investigating Committee appointed by the last Legis lature is at hand. While exposing many abuses and corruption under the last State Administration, It is so intensely partisan throughout as to deprive It of any value whatever as an authoritative document. It is about time wc had an Investigating Committee to look after our present State Government Late news from the Eastern States in dicates that the Republicans have car ried New Hampshire, and that the in famous Erie Ring has been overthrown. EDITOEIAL C0EEESP0NDEN0E. Buena Vista, Oregon, 1 aiarcu lutu, 1872. j Dear New NoimrwEsr: The interest which was all pent up and waiting, ready to exhibit its friendly power in Corvallis, whenever sorao worker in the great suffrage movement should appear among the people, became a living, moving avalauche of action during our brief sojourn in thecity. "We arrived in Corvallis on Tuesday, the 5th lust., and immediately sent circulars through the town announcing a lecture for the evening upon Politics. At the close of a two hours' talk, which was so well and enthusiastically received by the audience that we were astonished to find that we had spoken so long, we made the usual proposition forquestions, suggestions, or opposition. One gentle man arose and flatteringly compli mented the speaker of the evening. "We began to wonder If we hadn't made something of a convincing speech, but ho soon upset our self-complacency by acknowledging himself open to convic tion as soon as he should hear some Woman Suffrage arguments 1 We set tied back in our shoes, almost persuaded that public speaking wasn't our forte; yet remained serene and happy. "Why," said he, "I am open to convic tion. Brother Driver was converted in one hour at the State Convention. This sort of conversion may yet be my fate, but I'll have to first become convinced." lit 11.- tt r 1 . ... --.urciurcii, oniu we, rising, Willi as rueful a visage and doleful voico as in our amusement wo were able to com mand, "I hope you'll all pray for the conversion of brother S." The house emphatically caiuetfouw. Asked if any particular subject would bo the choice of the meeting for the second evenin Leading citizens of Portland, let ua whisper In the your ears that the Cor vallis and Salem men of Infiueuco have back-bone enough to talk right out in our meetings. Judgo Chenoweth said that he should like to hear us on the so cial phase, of the womau movement. Flattered ourself that he had broached one of our strongest points. Would be happy to oblige him. Mr. Biddlcsaid that at their Carlisle. Society on the previous evening, Woman Suflrage had been discussed pro and con and decided in the negative by the Chair. That the decision hinged upon the 2d clause of the 14th Amendment, which specified male voters, and he would be pleased to ahem hear the ahem (that ahem's ours, not Judge Chenowcth's) able and distinguished lecturer's opinion on this legal point. Would be happy to accom modate him. If the speaker had a strong forto it was on legal decisions. Judge Strahan wanted to hear about "the good time coming." Thanked him. That was our sj)ccialty. Meeting closed with a handsome col lection and a number of new subscribers for the New Northwest, and wc occupied the next day in receiving calls, writing editorials, letters and "Ellen Dowd." Wednesday evening brought a large audience. All sorts of seats were im provised for the occasion, and everybody made comfortable. Then the fun began. Proved that while the Fourteenth Amendment excluded those unfortunate "males" from citizenship who had been guilty of certain misdemeanors, no such penalty accrued to women who had been thus guilty. Gave the "social phase" of the woman movement from the stand-point of tho New Northwest, and made every bachelor happy. Tried to picture the "good time coming" in glowing colors for the benefit of the "brother" who had the prayers of the audience. Called, as usual, at the close for questions and opposition. Tho Southern Methodist preacher was op posed to Woman Suffrage on Bible Inilsing Woman Suffragist, bv th. jjiuuuua. xr. jiayicy an uncomnra t ..i - i .. .. ,lcserves a wat In the United States ociiaic ciiauengcu mm to discuss the t .muic question wiui jirs. Duniway. The fccnpture-iovlng divine refused. Wn asked him to come out and hear us on the Bible question. He pleaded previous engagements, Puckered our counte nance into a persuasivo grimace, in tended forabcncvolcntsmilc, aud gently urged him to postpone his previous en gagement. Failed. Felt sorry. Father G. arose and was ready to prove that the Bible degraded women from Genesis to Revelations. Agreed to prove the con trary. Packed Court House on Thursday evening. Many failed to obtain nuy kind of scats. Halls aud aisles full. Everybody enthusiastic. Bible argu ment of over one hour. GUI for opposi tion. Couldn't rouse it. Called for questions. The old gentleman who had promised to prove woman's degredatlou from a Bible btaud-point, contented himself by asking if the women intend ed to engraft God aud Jesus in the Con stitution. Replied that men only had ever been verdant enough to seek to unite Church aud Stale. Women would always be too wise to attempt It. Ap plause. Asked for an expression from the audience as to whether or not wom en should be allowed to vote. Hundreds arose, both men and women. Called for the negative. A few striplings from i the agricultural college and a hoary- headed Methodist preacher rose. Told the boys they were evidently bachelors, who had been jilted by some of those pretty girls who were going to vote. Laughter. Pitied the poor preacher too much to tell him anything. Third handsome collection and more subscrip ere. Oir on Friday for Buena Vista. More anon. UNANIMOUS. The Multnomah Republican County Convention last Saturday was a remark ably unanimous affair. Twenty-four delegates were nominated and elected on the first ballot. All of them were members of the Convention, too. How pleasant 'tis for such as brethren are in unity to dwell ! LETTEB FEOM A POETLAND SUB-; SOEIBEE. Portland, March 12, 1872. Editor New Northwest: Your long absence from this city has tempted me to write you about matters and things In ceneral. Now. I. don't know whether I shall conclude to write you at all, but if I do I shall be pretty certain to follow your example, that is, not to use much soft solder. I'm almost afraid if I should write to you it would make somo of our Temperance men mad. Indeed, I am almost afraid some times they are mad now. I will tell you the reason for my fears. Soon after they returned from the Alliance held at Salem, they were heard to make such remarks as the following: "Mrs. Duni way acted very Injudiciously; she is en tirely too spiteful, too hasty," etc., etc, concluding by saying they were her best friends and had intended to bring her out in flying colors if she had not pitched into the Alliance in such an un-lady-llke manner. Now, if every lady had good hard sense, I'd feel no delicacy in writing, but the more I think of writing the more I hesitate, seeing that you, who have much more experi ence in writing and speaking than I have, came so near insulting somo fool ish people by simply giving them the plain, unvarnished side of the question during the late session of the Temper ance Alliance. Now, such aud kindred expressions as these have led me, as I beforo said, to fear to write you such things as I would like to for fear some body would get mad. Aud now, dear editor, if I were to write you at all, I'd be sure to thank you for the noble and dignified part you took in the Temperance Alliance, for hurling back tho wholesale slanders uttered against womau. To tell tho truth, the day I read tho proceedings of that Alliance was one of the proudest of my life, especially your reply to Rev Driver. I must confess I was real mad before I had read half his slanderous re marks, but I was scarcely prepared to see you knock all tho iegs from under the Rev. gentleman at once. However, ho picked himself up gracefully, fell into our ranks, evidently feeling that he that would bo great among us must first humble himself. Now, if I were going to write you, I would tell you that some of your friends, who were vociferating so loudly for Temperance and Woman when you left here, have come to the conclusion that the coming election can't be carried without the whisky vote. I arrived at this conclusion from tho fact that ou the day of the Republi can primaries some of these gentlemen occupied prominent positions, enrolling as many as could bo Induced to attend said primaries. I am informed that it took much whisky for a few votes, for the primaries were poorly attended, the larger and better portion preferring to stay away that they might be free to voto for good and honest men at the coming election. In fact, the tax-payers are every day becoming more and more convinced that if they follow these igncs fattu, such as the Orcgonian, Herald and Jiullctin, they will soon be so thor oughly swamped in the political mire that they will never be able to extricate themselves. The New Northwest Is gaining favor every day; It is generally conceded to be the only journal in Port land that will expose fraud and tell the truth. Now, these other journals spend their whole time of late in fighting sham battles, thinkiug by this means to direct the attention of the people from their derelictions. The enormously In creasing expenditures of this county and city arc matters of but little interest to them; they care but littlo how much tho people smart under heavy taxes, But, if I mistake not the signs of the limes, their days arc numbered. Now. If I were going to write you, I'd advise you to continue to urge upon ail well meaning editors to step right upon our piatiorm, or they will soon go where the "wood-bine twlnelh." But then am surrounded by so many doubts and fears and troubles about writing, that mayuc it would be better for me not to write at all; besides, I'd hardly know what to write about. Now, if you con elude to put this letter in the New Northwest, don't put It in the ones you send to the twelve members of tho Allianco who wouldn't step on our plat form, for fear it will make them mad, and then I'm afraid I'd never get in the notion to write to you. P. S. Now, when you return, I'll come and have a long talk with you, and maybe I'll conclude to write to you somo time. Patsey. FEOM WASHINGTON TEBEITOEY, Mount Jefferson, W. T 1 Feb. 22d, 1S72. j De.ii: Mits. DrsiWAV : I write to say thank God for the New Northwest, tho paper for tho times; the paper for the million; tho paper for the wholo world; the paper for oppressed humanity; for all those women who have all the rights they want; for those timid men who fear that women will forsake their homes, and leave them to care for the babies, do the house-work, nnd toll forever for their board and clothes. How I do wish men and women could change occupations for a season. Don't you think it would do us good for men to And out by experience ju3t how wom en live? Wouldn't they speedily change their minds as to who 'supports the family ?" Wouldn't they speedily learn why women arc always sick and over worked, aud so often pwvlsh and fret ful ? But they never would understand it all, for women would always be too tender-hearted to treat them as they have treated us. A little of our expe rience would be the surest way to teach them that we really need the ballot. Qo on, Mrs. Duniway, aud God bless you- E. C. H. Seven woincn.w'ere recently allowed to vote at a special election in Vallejo, Cal. MES. MILLERS TEIUMPH. FonTLA-ii, March 1, 1S72. JIiw. M.5L Miluer: We bes leave to assure ou that your late lecture upon "Mnn Hlx "ast. Present and Future'" lias ollrttcil fmm those who heard It last Thursday many expres sions of high commendation and admiration; and believing that 1U repetition would clve voryecnerai erauueauon, we respectfully ten der the request that you will consent to deliver the lecture niraln at an early day time and place to be selected by yourselt Very respectfully yours, Geo. V. Williams. eo. H. Durham, J.W.Whalley, Geo. Yenablc Smith, A. C. Glbbs, E. D. fchattuck, R. Wilcox, O. P. Mason, John Dolan, J. W. Cook, R.J. Walker, K. a Taylor, Co!.Jas.K.Farish. SI. W. Fcchheimcr, O. L. DcPrans. J. A. Chapman, IV. F. R- Sewall, Jos. w. Davis, W. I .air Hill, C. W. Parrfsh, Ilvron Z. Holmes. John Flnncn, Oeo. E.OIIbert, Thomas Young, Portland, Ostu, March 6, 1S72. nrrsTl.FJUEN: Gnitllled Indeed for thn kfml appreciation of my audience last Thursday evening, and sensible of the honor done me by yourselves, I accept your Invitation to repeat my lecture, and would Inform you that the time nnd place best suited to my convenience are Saturday evenlns, ICth Inst, at Phllhai- monic ii.ni. i nave me nonor lo remain, as nearly as my Imperfect Judgment permits me, M. M. MlLLEE. We gladly give place to the above, in behalf of our friend Minnie Myrtle Mill er, whom this journal is proud to claim as a co-worker In tho great cause of woman's emancipation. We particular ly praiso her sharp political finesse in pandering to the approbatlveness of the abovo named gentlemen by saying, in spite of her own convictions to the con trary, that the "right not to vote Is the one to which women should cling." How she must enjoy her triumph over the weak side of these easily flattered citizens of Portland, who are not only ready to catch at straws, as are all the drowning champions of man's rights, but are also ready to come down with cash for tho privilege. Wc predict for Mrs. Miller a full house. Our views of her ability arc loo well known to need further comment. Go on, sister; there's nothing like patting men on the back. We've tried it and know how well it succeeds. A WOMAN'S VIEWS ON POLITICS. Editok New Xoitthvest: I am not much of a politician, but I often hear my husband and others talk ing on that subject, and I read your pajer and others. It seems to mc, from all I learn about the present state of political affairs, that there is no great difference betweeu the parties now that the Republican party lias the offices, and the Democratic party pretty gener ally despairs of getting possession of them, and therefore proposes a "passive policy" in the next compaigu. Now, admit that the Republicans fought for and obtained the freedom of tho colored race, does tills give them any right to sit down with their laurels on and enjoy for a term of years the of fices of the Government, while Woman Suffrage and the great Temperance Re form movement must be kept back for their case aud emolument? It seems to mo that patriotism is degraded by pay, or, at all events, that only the War Pen sion Office should be rightfully looked to for payment for any military ser vice rendered the country. I cannot concede that General Grant and the great army of Republican oflice-holders very few of them having been in actual military service have an indefinite right to hold the offices of the country as a bouus for their sen-ices. Then why not seize tho present moment to fur nish candidates for an entire National and State organization of the Womau Suffrage and Temperance Reform move ment? Why not nominate candidates for President and Vice President, Con gressmen, and all State offices where elections are to take place? If the De mocracy, as they propose, will every where vote for anything or anybody to beat the Republicans, itsccms to mc that we ought to allow them a change to give our causes their strength. What doyou think of this? I only write as an In qulrcr and an earnest friend of the reforms I have mentioned. Mrs. M. E. L. Salem, Oregon. P. S. A friend suggests that I ought to add that our causes are the only ones that could draw votes from the Repub lican party, and that if we gained a great victory and carried the National and State offices, our candidates being re formers, no peril could attach to past Is sues or results, and the country would be carried forward safely for mauy years for tho freedom and the good of all. Mrs. M. E. L. In reply to the suggestions of our friend we have merely to say that if the pledges of political partisans were to be at all relied upon, her opinions would becorrect. Butthebed-rockDcmocrats, despite their demands for a third party, would all vote straight Democratic tick ets. We have seen then tried. The party whippers-on would drive them tip to vole next June like sheep, and as there is really no political Issue worth contending for between Republicans and Democrats, wc do not feel disposed to use Woman Suflrage or Temperance as a cat's paw lo rake out political chest uuts for cither party. DipEREXCEa in- Women. There is nothing more distinctive among women than thcdifrerenceofrelatlveagcamonir them. Two women of the same num ber or years will be substantially of dif ferent epochs of life-lhe one wearied In mind, faded In person, deadened in sympathy; the other fresit and young" both in face and feeling; with sympSl thies as keen and broad as they were in her first youth, and more so: still as easy to be amused, aS ready to love, and as quick to learn aa when she llrst emerged from tho school room. Tho one you involuntarily suspect of under stating her age by half a dozen years or more when she tells you she is only forty; the other makes you wonder If she has not overstated hers by just as much when she laughingly confesses to the same age. The one is an old wom an, who seems as if she had never been young; the other only a girl, who seems as if she would never grow old; and nothing is equal between them, but the number of days each has lived. The magnificent Asylum for tho In sane at Washington, Is very largely the result of the humane and tireless efforts of Miss DIx, tho well-known philanthropist. LETTEBS FEOM SALEM. Salem. March 7. 1872. Editoh Snr NonrinvEST: lou should have been at Salem yes terday if you want an argument of the incapacity of man to .govern himself without the honest and purifylng influ ence or women. The County Convention met and was soon transformed into a body of wooden men. One hundred and seven-men of the delegates were easily manipulated and voted by the political sharps of Sa lem. There are only two paying ("cor rupting) offices in the county, Sheriff anu cierK. One of these sharners had thirty-six voters at his back; the other had thirty, and the two combined their forces and nominated themselves, and all the officers of the meeting and offi cers of the county and the people, of course, next summer will ratify their fraud. The Sheriff is a man of family, and perhaps does well enough but for the corruption of his nomination. The Clerk is a ricli young man, who has no wife or children, and has got rich off of the public crib, while poor men, as well qualified, and having large families to maintain, were oversloughed by this in famous coalition. Neither one of these men was the choice of the Convention by themselves, but onlj- a small knot of delegates ; but by aggregating to them selves the Interests of others and their own, they palm themselves upon the community as its choice. I am well satisfied if women could vote that such proccediugs would be indignantly spurned, aud such candidates, even if nominated, would be rejected at the polls. What becomes of tho boast of our peo ple, that In this Government "the peo ple choose their own rulers?" Tho offi ces might as well be stolen. What food is there in such a country for tho soul of the patriot? Who would aire to go forth to the battlefield and peril life, liberty or property for such a country or such a people? For God's sake hasten the time when the ballot in belter hands shall save men from themselves. Observer. Salem, March 11, 1672. Enrron New XonTmvxsT : A little more on the Salem Convcn tion. Since making my last "observa tion," I have been greatly amused aud edified by the remarks of dissatisfied Republicans. They have caricatured the leaders in the nominations for Sher iff and Clerk as the "Salem Tammany i Ring." Maliory is Boss Tweed. Knight is Sweeney. Scott is Connolly, aud Murphy Is Mayor Hall. The pot is boiling terribly. Numbers of Republicans swear they will scratch the ticket or vote for a good Republican and Democrat for those offices. The names of Jacob Conscr, Democrat, for Sheriff', and Mr. Laughhead, Republi can, for Clerk are freely talked of. Many Republicans desire a call of a new convention, in which an nnbought, unsold and unpacked ticket may be formed. Unless the dissatisfaction is in some way healed, the county will not be able to give two hundred Republican majority on the general ticket, and the Sheriff and Clerk will be beat. It is fun for the Democracy. Now to the rem edy. When women can vote, how soon these frantic and corrupt struggles for office will be removed, simply by put ting those officers upon salaries, say of twelve hundred dollars per year. Good, competent men stand ready to take either of those offices at that figure now worth five or six thousand per year, aud which it takes burthensome taxation to pay, and which the struggle to possess shakes the county to its cen ter and corrupts many men by Its temptation. Observer. WONDEES ILLNEVEE CEASE So Sam Clarke wants tho Clerkship of Marion county that he may be able to hire deputies to do the work and spend surplus money on tho Statesman.' Wonder if he'd lift that fifteen hundred dollar uoto if the citizens of Marion county would vouchsafe him a further grab at the public crib? We'd shar pened our pencil for a full tilt against the impudence of this canine effete in thus seeking to secure Clerk's fees to support a party press, but Prof. Chaney anticipated Us aud stole our thunder. Thanks, Prof. C. Here is tho way he dis poses of Clarke: S. A. CLAllKE. Sai.em, March 1st, 1872. My Dear Sam: ou do what vou call editing the Statesman, aud appear iiuinni,) uiivuiisciuus oi uie iact liiatyou thus make yourself a laughing-stock for the public I have often asked If you had no friends to advise you, but have hitherto been unable to discover any Your issue of last Tuesday settles the question. You must be friendless, or you would never have published such a shallow bid for ofllce. It is a melan choly reflection that n tl.-iil tins enlightened age, at the capital of Oregon, should be conducted by one wnose cnict claims to notoriety are impudence and imbecility. And so you want office want to bo County Clerk and say so in your Sam Clarke style; but in the next breath de clare that you have no ambition for of fice save to place the Statesman on an "independent footing." O, Sam! that's too thin! you can't deceive anybody with sucli clap-trap as that any more than the jackass could pass oil' for the king of beasts by covering his body with the lion's skin, while his long ears were left exposed. The long ears will show, hey, Sam ? , , Your whole article was m wretcueu bad taste, but that brilliant (?) Idea of yours about employing a "competent, deputy" that capped the climax of stuniditv. Poonln will ask. why not give the ofllce to a "competent" man at once, nnd allow him tne emoiumeiua as well as the drudgery? Why should the people of Marion county be taxed to put money into Sam Clarke's pocket . True, you try to explain by saying, "I can still write leading articles for my paper." O, fie, Sam! you can't do any such thing as write a "leading article," ofllce or no office. You and your paper are dead weight for the Kepublican party lo carry, and when you talk about j "trencrous natronacro" you know verv well that you economize the truth, for there are scores of good Republicans here, in Salem ,wh6 jvill ,n6t have your paper on-any terms. Your vanity is excusable only on ac count of the feebleness of your intel lect; but in order to make you "bomb proof," as Mrs. Duniway would say, against rebuke on that score, what a weakly tiling you must dc: iue iueu in conferring an oince on you, to oe -laniieu out" to a ''competent deputy" to do the work, while you draw the lion's share of the pay, strutting around as big as a largo dog, writing "leauing arneiea ior my paper," how preposterous! But perhaps your faint glimmerings of in tellect are not capable of preceiving the absurdity of your position. If not, then you are to be pitied more than blamed, and shows that you are indeed friendless, or you would have been better advised. Sow, Sammy, a worn oi auvice. lour career as editor lias not been very bril liant, ami you'd bettor throw up tno sponge. You never can succeed, never can be large. Remember the fate of the toad that strove, by swelling, to imitate the size of the ox, and toi'tdo likewise. Speaking of the ox suggests another thought, and with that I will close. Sell out your paper, close uri business, and make immediate application to some first-class cow doctor, that he may bore your head with a large-sized gim let, and have the vacuum, (for Nature abhors a vacuum,) filled with pepperand salt to cure you of the hollow horn. Yours, serenely, W. H. Chan-rv. EDITOEIAL C0EEESP0NDEN0E. Salem, March 14, 1872. Deak Xkw XoimiWRs-r: Very large audience last night in Op era House. Subject Bible and Women. Speeches at close by Davenport, Chaney, Thornton, Sillier and others. Enthusi astic meeting. Appointment again for to-night. Movement growing immense ly popular. Mail going. Greeting. Henry Ward Beeclier said to his con gregation in a sermon on Home Life and Hospitality, Sunday: "I honor the wom au who comes to me when I call in the dress suited to her work. I don't like to sit buried in plush in the parlor waiting three quarters of an hour for a toilet. What is good enough for you is good enough for your friends." SPECIAL NOTICES. A REMARKABLECURE OF PALSY. WM. IICKDEN, A STOCK ItAISKR OP WILLOW CHEEK, WASCO COUNTY, OBHflON, LOST TUK USE OK 1I1S LEFTAISMMY I'AWti WAS CDIIEI IS TEN MINCTES BY D1C AIW1LN, COIt. HIIItI AND MOKKISOX STS. TO THE AFFLICTED: I wish to state that I lost the use of my Ielt arm front my shoulder to the ends of my fln- ser-i by a stroke of pnly. I could not raise my hand or arm from my side, and was fearful that there was no cure for me. My friends at the Dalles advised me to visit Portland and place myself under the careofDr. Aborn. I ar rived in Portland last evening by the Dalles boat, and immediately called at Dr. Abom's office and made my case known. The Doctor commenced treatment at once, and In ten min utes time, to my great surprise nnd Joy, he performed a complete eure, so that now have the use of my arm, hand and fingers, and can raise my arm up over my head with as much eae as I can raise my right arm. This certainly Is a very remarkable cure, and In my estimation speaks volumes to the skill of Dr. Aborn. I am stopping at the American Exchange Hotel; will leave to-morrow for home. I am a stock-raiser, ami reside at Willow Creek, Waseo county, Oregon, eighty miles south of the Dalles. WM. I1UKDEX. Portland, Oregon, March 12, Igre. f. Is, . .1 r '-iisJ2v .IS i. TESTIMOXIAIS.. We, the umterslcned having, been the" recip ents of tne servlees or Mrs. M. C White In teachins the science of Music on the Piano forte, take pleasure in glriiHr a hearty testi monial that we have employed her In our families as a teaclierof her "New metiiod of In struction," and that It lias proven superior to any method we have ever known; and that al though the first cost may bea triflegreaterthan some others, we believe it to be in the aggre gate much cheaper, besides being a great econ omy In point of time. We therefore take great pleasure Ik recommending her to the patron age or all who mny"be deslrons of obtaining a musical educalionasnvery superior Instructor. Tolho- who desire to know more about it before Incurring any expense, we give a cordial invitation to call at our houses and interview her pupils. ItJIgncd) F. DILTjAKD HOUIAS, X. W. cor. Seventh and CoIIexe 8ts., PortlaniL OEO. W. 3IIU.MAN, 38 Second .St., Portland. NAT. II. LANK, East Portland. East Poktl.vxd, Jan. X 1871. Mrs. M. C. "White Ttesrectpd Mnrtnm ? Hnvlng heard of your System of teaching tho Pianoforte, known as the ltobln's American Method, and havine been present a few dnvs since nt the exercise of one of your pupils, Miss Lane, of East Portland. I was much surprised and exceedingly gratified, at the perfect per formance of the mort difficult pieces, (such as Gotschnlk. Bango, etc.) and this after the short icnu oi six monius tuition. Allow me to express my approbation or your System of Instruction, and with ray best wishes for your success allow me to subscribe myself. Yours Respectfully, TH. PAKItOT, Prof, of Mulc, n3G and Leader of the East Portland Band. Lectures in the Valley Towns. DIL-BOUKNE, distinguished during nearly twenty years in Kan Francisco, for his great success in curing Chronic nnd Aeute Diseases, wrrnoLTTHE csk ok MEniciNJf , belns" on his return from anorthem tour, will ft the towns in the Willamette valley witidn afewweelnd will endeavor to Increase the measure or usenu toowfed among the peo We by lecture, upon "Health IU preservation and restoration hen Impaired by dlsea.se, without theuso of medi cines rnnA aIo upon Physiology, etc. His nilireision.il services may be obtained by those fvho tawfalledto securedesired relief through the ordinary modes, and who are "sick and tlred'-of medicines and medical quackery.and " ti.nK ns iii Itotirnewill have no time to waste upon those who think medicinal poisons necessarr to the cure ot disease. If any desire to correspond, my address Is nit, GEOlUiK M. bouknh; n32tf Portland, Oregon A.sTiurA. nnoxciirris, OATAiriur Affections of the Lungs, Deafness, Discharges from the Kars, Nervous or fteneral Debility, Sore Eyes, Granulated Lids, OpaeJty or the Cor nea, Films, etc., arc successful ly treated by Dr. Aborn, comer Third and Morrison streets. CHKONIC DISEASES, especially such cases as have resisted tho ordinary modes of treat ment, are the class of maladies which Dr. Aboru treats with unparalleled success. NO CHAUGE tor Consultation. Terms Moderate and nsreeable to the cir cumstances or tho patient, so Hint nit who are afflicted can procure his, treatment If they wish. nKtf COBURN & McCABE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, 5 WASHINGTON STREET, UP-STAinS, lortlmi!. Oregon. "Work done at REASONABLE RATES, al