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.
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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
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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
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icnu oi six monius tuition.
Allow me to express my approbation or your
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TH. PAKItOT, Prof, of Mulc,
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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
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Sore Eyes, Granulated Lids, OpaeJty or the Cor
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CHKONIC DISEASES, especially such cases
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