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FRIDAY.. .,PKIL 5, 1S72. OUE SECOND VOLUME. The season is now near at band when many hundreds of our subscriptions to the 2f ew Northwest will expire. Wo urge upon our friends everywhere the importance of immediately renewing their subscription fees. A little effort now upon the part of each of our numer ous readers will enable us to start out with the Second Volume with debts all canceled and in the enjoyment of safe financial prospects for the future. "We could then bring a light heart to our work, to which, since we took up the load of financial care that a large news- paper business requires, we have been a stranger. There are also yet many de linquents upon our list men and women who have regularly enjoyed the products of our toil for the pas.t year, and yet neg lect to pay for their paper. To all such we say in respectful solicitude, tec need tlte money. The sum of three dollars is small to each of you, but the aggregate indebtedness of several hundred 'delin quents makes a sum of much import ance to us. We trust that this call will not be passed unheeded. We have toiled diligently at dress-making, millinery, lecturing, story -writing, editorial work and canvassing, doing faithfully the work of half a dozen to keep up the ex penses of the paper, and our strength is severely over-taxed; and we now ask our friends, one and all, to cheerfully put shoulder to the wheel and help us through the Second Volume, which shall be in all resists superior to the first. GE1TEBAE OOIfPJEENOE -NOTICE. The clerical and lay delegates to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to bo bold In the city of Brooklyn, . Y., May lst,lS72, are hereby specially requested to In form the undersigned. Secretary or the Com mittee on General Conference arrangements, If they have made any private arrangements for thetr lodgings, or ir they have friends with whom It would be their pleasure to be enter tained ? P. 8. The Committee take no responsibility to provide entertainment Tor the wives or dele gates. Delegates will please Rend their address to the .secretary. J. K. Skam.es, Sec of Com. liltoOKLVN, X. V., Feb. 26, 1872. Tliore, ye women who for years and years have borne the heat aud burden of the ministerial day; who through self- denial, poverty, sickness and suffering have endured aud struggled that you might be able to do the silent but ardu ous work of giving aid and comfort to your lords in broadcloth; who have cooked for well-kept preachers when, in justice to yourselves -and unborn babes, you should have been in bed ; who have night after night slept on the floor witli your husband aud children that you might thus accommodate a pair of min isters, when the town was full of dele gates to your Annual Conference, lay not the flattering unction to your souls that you will be welcome at the General Conference, for there is there "no enter tainment for the wives of delegates." No matter if the greatMethodist church does owe its prosperity to the work of the ministers' wives; no matter if you do liave interests at stake identical with the best interests of your husbands; no matter If your brains do badly need the intellectual feast which thousands of the wives of lay members will be able to enjoy; no matter if you have done two-thirds of the ministerial work and borne four-fifths of the ministerial in conveniences during your married years, you do not own a dollar. The salary all goes to the men. You're nothing but women do you hear? Of course you can't attend the Conference, for you have no money to pay your board at ho tels; and "the Committee take no re sponsibility to provide entertainment" for such impecunious, irresponsible, dis franchised nobodies as your self-deny ing selves. Ministers' wives, how do you like it? Don't you know that you never will have opportunities equal to these ministerial lords, no matter how hard you may toil for them, until you vole T Until you, like them, become re sponsible citizens of these United States, like man, commanding pecuniary rec ompense for your labor, and, like him, demanding recognition of your equal inalienable rights, you need not expect but that you will be snubbed by the purse-holding half of humanity. And if you don't speedily begin to demand your freedom.we shall begin to fear that you deserve the snubbing. MUTUAL ADMffiATION SOOIETY. uur brothers or the Portland press are busily engaged in puffing the "com position" read on two occasions before societies in Portland, by Bro. Ike, alias "Col.", alias B. B. Taylor, of the Her ald. AY e had the extreme gratification of being present when this brother read his piece before the Y. M. C. A's, but we became so amused in watching the nod ding pantomime of the scattering aud ","",l"c"1' auuience that we went off peculations about the sudorific properties or the reader's animal mag netism. Tjist -n-i. .... . .1.7: "e spared our u,ul"" announcement, but we have since seen such a gushing letter to the "local" of the Herald, written. Z agine, by Bro. Ike himself, in which he claims the honor of being so cxtremelv class all other speakers (save one) who nave, aunng me past winter, edi lied audiences before these societies, with "buffoons" and "clowns," that we are constrained to tell the people the fact that the attendance on the eveniug of the repetition of the composition, in stead of being "large," was very small indeed. Probably these people were "in telligent" enough, but they were cer tainly susceptible of sedative influences, for they, with: few exceptIonsr8lept1 calmly to the close. Our brother, as au editor, has mis taken his calling. Ho is in reality a genuine country parson, and ought to have pastoral charge of Sleepy Hollow or the Land of Shades. Conic forward, ye other brethren of the Mutual Admiration Society of the Portland Press, and let the public see if you can equal Bro. Ike with your su dorifics. J Since the above was written somebody has informed our brother of the Herald, who, being lately from Missouri, is ver dant about the sentiments of Oregon- ians, that his fulsome laudation of himself was in bad taste, so, though he does not take it back, lie instructs his local to apologize for its publication. The Orcgonian shows shows signs of lcavingthe Mutual Admiration Society; so now tho other editors must write each otherup as "the best lecturers of the season," before whom such orators as Condon and Nesbltt are nowhere. THE "PAEMEE" OH THE WAE PATH. The Willamette Farmer of last week came back at the Bulletin in the follow ing gritty style, because it had accused that journal of becoming "a Democratic organ : When James Flsk. Jr.. was murdered In Sr York, there was not a few newspapers to exult over the crime, as If Flsk was the meanest, most lascivious, and despicable wretch unhung. Yet circumstances are coming to light every uay uiai ucmuiisirate inai luc raurutiu ring in Portland Is Incomparably meaner and more dangerous than ever was the Erie, ring, of wnicn i-isk was ine ncau. j-o complete is nowadays ring organized, that If anybody In Oregon offends against him, he cracks his whip In the style of rlne-niaster to a circus, and out trots one of his sleek hash-caters,nppearlng as it a nan a oarrei i mru nnu occn useu in nutting him In "condition." receives bis orders. and executes his commission with an alacrity and subserviency that would surprise the most visionary writer of Action. If the offense has been committed In Portland, Salem, Albany, Eugcne.orany other town of the valley.all the trained houudsor the ring In that particular lo cality are turned loose upon the track of the of fender, and he is worried by libels and false hoods, and all means adopted from which will result Inconvenience and vexation In business. The "Farmer" has seen proper to compliment Mr. Holladaysencrgyonseveral occasions; but recently It has deemed It a duty to warn the peopleagalnst allowing themselves to be drawn Into this man's power, which would chain them more securely than was ever the more nbieet slave tliat moved under the burnlnc urn of the equator to the flourish of the master's whip. To silence this Insubordination on our part. It was circulated around the streets of Portland tnul wc had made a proposition to Holladay to buy us out, and that, falling, we saw proper to make an attack on him. Falling to accoinnllsh anything by this report, Mr. Ilolladay's paper. wic -isuueun," naA mmeu loose lu last gun and thinks to send terror Into our camp bv calling the "Farmer" a "Democratic organ." This is too thin. If Mr. Holladay expects to kkulk behind the Republican party and call persons "Democratic," or If he thinks to crawl in me renr oi me Democratic party, and de nounce nil menas"Itcpubllcans,"becausc they oppose his heartless schemes to enslave our poopie, no snows a weaker brain than wc have given him credit for. Ihe "tanner's" mission Is to advise and counsel the people as to their best Interests: Mr. Holladay business is to fleece them to the last farthing. We shall continue on In the tlls- cuunje oi our amy, regardless or threats, and we expect Mr. Holladay to continue on his present coarse until he is brought up at a 'snubblng-posf by the people. The genuine ginger pop that sparkles in tho foregoing is peculiarly refreshing, whatever may be said of its adap tability to tho throats of the occa sion. Give us an editor who dares to speak his sentiments, no matter whose toes he may tread upon, or whose pet interests aro thereby exposed to criti cism. If such an editor is wronir. time and tho public will convince him of his errors; if he is right, the truth ought to be told, no matter who gets hit. The Farmer evinces a spirit of fairness in publishing an article in the issue con taining the above, signed Justice, which we are gratified to see. "Wonder if that journal would allow both sides of the momentous Woman Question debated in its columns, that thereby the hundreds of lonely farmers' wives whom it regularly visits, who have no other journal to read, might be able to form some correct estimate as to the legitimate object of the movement? We shall see. THE "UNION" JJONVALESOENT. e are glad to see our whilom re spected brother giving evidence of relief from liis recent attack of rabies. His lias been the only journal which the puonc tieems respectaoie mat. to our knowledge, has stooped so low as to copy the Vancouver sheet's scurrilous falsehoods concerning somo truthful but humiliating revelations published by us upon the authority of some of the best citizens of Vancouver, and which the aforesaid sheet did not dare to meet in a respectful and dignified manner, that would warrant any lady or gentle man in noticing his calumniations. And now, brother Smith, as you show some evidences of returning to your senses, we take pleasure in giving you the ben efit of the following clipping from your paper, asking you, in return, to copy our correspondence signed C. and the reply, on the first page of this paper, that your friends may see that you are willing to deal as fairly by us as we de sire to deal by you. We don't wan't to mislead our readers about your sobriety, and we hope you do not want to mislead yours about our veracity. "We shall see. But here is the clipping from the "Walla "Walla Udion: Mrs. Dunlwav thinks that wc "snnlrm" ho- cause we know the vote of women will do more to abate the whisky nuisance- than all other agencies combined. Wc think you are slightly in error, sister. We have no Interest in the "nuisance" Whatever, and have Imbibed no more or it uuring our me man has your own temperate self, let that be however small an amount as It may. JOUENAIISTIfJ PEUDEBT. The "Walla "Walla Statesman found something about the "woman market" in Woodhull which it thinks "might be tolerated In a bagnio," but he "can't see how anybody could publish it to the world." Now, brother Statesman, are these bagnios In themselves tolerable? "We have not seen the article in "Wood- hull to which you allude, but we have no doubt but Its fearless and defiant editor lias been excoriating some of the legiti mate outgrowths of this very "bagnio" abomination. Many men grow virtuously indignant over the exposition of man-made vices and cry out against these "women's rights papers" because they hold up the "tolerations of the bagnio" to the eyes of the public that that public, becoming awake to the awful realities of tho insti tution, may arouse to the necessity of itsexternilnatlon. " Men wlHTpcrmitj and tolerate such sheets as the Day's Doings and Police Gazelle, and all other papers which encourage the vices of the bagnio, or roll immoral ideas as sweet morsels under their journalistic tongues, should look to the causes which have made women's excoriations of these public abuses necessary before they take on spasms of journalistic prudery and raise the stop thief cry of holy hor ror because their pet and private insti tutions arc being shown up in their true character before an astonished, awe struck world. If anything is "tolerated in the lowest bagnio" that is not fit for the public eye, it is not fit to exist even there. Let every man and woman who lias the courage to stir up these awful abominations and expose them to the purifying atmosphere of public inspec tlon shrink not from their manifest duty. It is not a shame that these things are fearlessly exposed, but it is a great and crying shame that they exist at all. In the good time coming we shall have none of them, and then indecent publi cations will die of themselves. THAT MOOZEET OF JUSTICE. Last summer, when we fearlessly gave our own opinion of the one-sided legis lation which permitted a man to go scot free who had attacked an unarmed fellow-citizen, first with a cow-hide, aud then with u revolver, utterly ruining his health and almost depriving him of reason, our Democratic friends cried out that the New Nokthwest was a Re publican organ, because it dared to de nounce the ruffianly conduct of an en raged Democrat Since that time we have sometimes denounced the misdeeds of Republicans, and the cry Is now raised that we are running a Democratic organ. Again comes up the same Clarke-Watkinds affair, which first alarmed our Democratic brethren about our politics, and of course, when we chronicle the facts, somebody will again cry out that tho New Northwest is a Republican organ. Sam Clarke, ex-ed itor of the Salem Statesman, (.who, as our readers know, doesn't love any more than the law requires) sued the man Watkinds for $10,000 damages, for injuries sustained from a cow-hide and bullet "Watklnds procured a change of venue and removed the trial from the Republican county of Marlon to the Democratic one of Linn. A jury, com posed of eleven Democrats and one Re publican, advised by a Democratic judge, decided that the price of cow-hid ing and shooting, and thus maiming for life an unarmed, unwarned man, was one dollar. The evidence hung upon the defendant's Democracy; the plead ing of the defendant's counsel was of Si mon-pure Democratic origin; and the verdict was rendered in accordance with Democratic ideas of justice. Jud Strong, of this city, counsel for the plaintiff, himself a Democrat, argued that this was the first occasion, in ail ins practice at tho bar, where party pol itics had been allowed to sway a judge or jury. We hope Clarke will, if possible, carry this matter to n. higher tribunal. "Whether he loves or hates us, wc want to see him the recipient of justice, and we know he did not get it in the Linn county court THAT "NIPPINGPE0ST" AGAIN, Tills woman slanderer, this flippant- tongued simpleton, this brazen faced sham, this bilk and cheat, who peram bulated through Oregon and Washing ton last fall, making frantic eflorts to Induce all men to believe that all worn en were as bad as herself; who went away Indebted for advertising and hall rent from almost every town she visited: who took up with a fifth rate showman and passed him through the country, sometimes as her uncle, sometimes as ner nusuauu, and sometimes as her agent, and with him made a raid into Victoria lecturing upon the downfall of the United States Government; who purchased large quantities of Victoria merchandise and decamped without making payment; who purchased a city residence for $3,000, and a farm for $15,000 from the honest-minded subjects of Queen Victoria, and forgot to make her payments; who did more good in the great Northwest by lecturingagalnst Woman Suffrage than ten thousand of her class could do in speaking in its favor has begun to "nip" the Callfornl ans. She recently lectured before a large audience in Sacramento, in which she said that none were Woman Suffra gists except free lovers, infidels aud lewd women. Her "male" must have been lately engaged iu giving her lessons in grammar and elocution, for Sacramento papers say nothing about her style of murdering the King's English which made so much fun for the Portland re porters. Our readers will remember that she, while here, made great boasts about her "virtue," which she thought would bo ruined forever if she should once vote, nere is what Hon. John A. Collins, a noble man and brother, a conscientious helper In the great woman movement, and an uncompromising advocate of justice and fair dealing, tells about her in the Pioneer: When Mrs. Emily Pltt-s Stevens, at the close or her lecture, extended to Mrs. Frost her liand aud congratulated her upon her ability to make so effective a discourse on the wrong side of the question, she exhibited the generosity of a noble nature. When Mrs. Frost, withdraw ing her hand, repulsed Mrs. Stevens with the Pharisaical remark, "I'm a virtuous woman, and want nothing to do with your free love class," or words of similar Import, Mrs. Frost demonstrated to our mind that she was not only n conceited, cold and heartless woman, but as pretentious to her virtue as to her knowledge or facts. Wc hope the opponents to our cause will In terest themselves in giving Mrs. rrost an ex tensive hearing in every city, town and school district in this State. We hope W oman Suf frage friends will be sure to nttend her lectures. Such labor on her part would stimulate those women who believe In suffrage, but are now Idle and Indifferent, to acUon and effort, to se cure the great object lor which we labor. The culture and sale of flowers is a light and remunerative business for women of taste. Smoky lamps may he Improved by putting three or four spoonfuls of salt in ' them. WOMAN'S EIGHTS. Knrron If ew Northwest: Knowing your journal to bo the champion of progress In regard to this movement, I thought a few sober ideas, from a masculine standpoint would bo acceptable. In tho Inclplency of every reform, the opponents are generally inclined to rid icule it, and thus kill it in the minds of weak persons before it has established its demands for candid investigation. Tho woman movement has nassed through this ordeal and has come out better and stronger. Woman's rights is no longer called a fanataclsm of much abused New England; but its presses are scattered from tho Atlantic to the Pacific, demanding as a right that the voice of oppressed woman should be heard and her wrongs alleviated. It is gaining a hold upon tho public mind, and what we heard laughed at In our boyhood is now In our manhood spoken of in soberness and discussed in legisla tive assemblies. It is time that we wake out of the lethargy that wo have been in for ages past, and canvass and discuss with reason this subject which we once spoke of with ridicule. We have been looking at an object through a mist and its proportions and excres- ences have been greatly enlarged to our vision; let us throw the light of reason and intelligence upon it, and we may find that that which we so much de tested on account of its ill proportions lias become graceful and even beautiful to our sight. Let us throw up the debris that his tory lias covered the "angel of crea tion" with, and see whether under this docs not shine forth an intelligence and virtue that sheds a lustre over theage iu whicli she lived. True, we have fur nished the majority of the poets, heroes and statesmen of the past, but yet nobly shines forth the names of Zenobia, the Spartan mothers, Joan of Arc, and sev eral others who have asserted rights which belonged alono to men at that time; aud who liave not only added lustre to their nation's annals, but who helped to make the history of the world But woman's field of labor has been In se cret, andlfwecouldonlylook"behlnd the scenes," wo might seo many a noble- hearted matron instilling the principles Into a son while yet in infancy which in after life has placed him high In the list of fame. Heroes, statesmen and poets receive their first impressions, which finally grow to future greatness, lu the cradle or on tho maternal knee. The son is landed to the skies for his talents and virtues, but the mother is forgotten in oblivion. The tale of the Spartans at Thermopylae is read with enthusiasm by evcryoouy, uui wnat cnronicler ever spoke of the noble mothers who made those Grecian youths the "bravest of the brave?" Not one. Even Rolliu, the candid and Christian historian, mentions them with upbraiding. Yes, it is no falsity to state that history (pro fane) has covered women with the debris of oblivion, and that such characters as have struck out into tho ocean of pub licity, (like Zenobia, Boadicca and Joan oi Any nave citiier been ridiculed or considered fanatics. Tho history of the world In ages past furnishes proof that woman was not only possessed of great mental powers, but rid of its prejudices and sophistries, shows that the nucleus of Republics, moral reforms and social and intcllectu al advancements were first formed In prattling infancy and imbibed from uoblo mothers. Tho world to-day, no doubt, is Indebted to a Christian mother for Luther's reformation, and to the same for the social and moral revolu tions which have followed since. It is not penned, but we know that ideas gained from the cradle liavo ripened Into acts which have astonished Chris tendom. But "let the dead past bun' its dead," and let us give our attention to the pres ent age of progress, and see whether or not in the advanced civilization of our own loved country we arc dragging with us somo of tho "debris" of history's past sucn mat tiio "coming" man or worn an will have to dig up and throw to the winds. Have we no Spartan mothers. whose fame spreads no farther than the domestic hearth, and whose sphere of labor is contracted to the wash-tub and kitchen? We have noble-hearted worn en in the United States, who, If only nl- lowcd the right, would turn the world upside down, and set in successful oper ation reforms which we liave vainly en deavored to do for years past But thank God, Americans are arousing to a fun sense of the right of the woman movement, and It Is no longer a disgrace for woman to appear in public in the capacity of the debater or reformer. Churches are awakening to the true text of their theology; and wc hail with joy tho solicitations of some denominations for women preachers, who have hitherto ensnrouded themselves with coats of doctrine mildewed with bigotry and superstition. The sun has appeared in the cast, and the beams of its transcen- dant light have sped over the snowy peaks of the Rocky moun tai ns, descended deep down Into the valleys of the Sierras and dispelled the mists on the minds of the dwellers by Willamette's flowing stream, until the New Northwest lias made rapid strides to overtake her older sister the East Wc arc often asked the question, are tne gins or to-day competent to exercise tho newly acquired rights, if gained? True, some girls are not intelligent on general subjects. But that is the fault of tho old fogyisms that we drag with us from the past Throw open the colleges (as is already being done in many places) to girls, and we shall find wom en as competent to fill the professions as men. Let mothers teach daughters self-reliance instead of dependence, and we shall soon find that woman will need no natural protectory. Besides, there arc a certain class of women that are forced to self-protection such as widows and single ladies who have no brothers or sons to support or care for them and. wo do think, they should have equal rights with men before the law. Certainly, thev can mam- hut. n true woman will not barter away her persou when sho cannot give her heart. The "girl of the period" has received much blame and condemnation, and in some instances she merits it. Wc know there are thousauds of girls fed on music and French by Christian mothers, in order to charm the ear and please the taste of some old candidate for matri mony, who pays the price and gets his slave; but he lives long enough to regret his purchase and she to deplore her slavery. But this is another "debris," and wc are glad toheartiiedisseminators of woman's rights preaching a doctrine of common sense and morality, aud telling girls to eoir out of the market, and mothers that a noble son-in-law loved by the daughter is more to be de sired than a rich one to whom the daughter has been sold. The new regime will effectually dispel thlsmlst which has crept into society in company with the worship of gold, and when theso music and French dollies shall have learned hard sense by a dependence on them selves and a sojourn In college, they will learn to ridicule this foolish and wicked notion of weak-minded mothers, The world is moving in this direction, and wo thank the propogators of this new movement for the onward march. I have attempted to rid the masculine mind of some of its prejudice, but find I have only stepped upon, the threshold of a subject which opens vast fields for in vestigation; but your space forbids any further thought on this important sub ject at this time. Unknown. Portland, March 31st, 1S72. LETTEE PE0MC0EYALLIS. Corvallis, Ogn., March 27th, 1S72. Mr Dun Northwest: I seo you haven't much news of our beautiful little place, therefore I have made bold towrltetoyou. lamonethat would oppose Woman Suffrage bitterly. i cannot tliliiK it right tliat women should have the ballot. To be sure consider tueir intellect is as great as man's, If not greater. But If they mix with the "lords of creation," on just the same footing that they stand, it will destroy all the fine sensibilities of a pure and true womanhood. I think that women have rightscnough. Give them what they ask now, and soon they will be after more. As a general thing women arc more ambitious than men, and will not stop to join in their monot onous life thcygctfalrlystarted in their pursuit, whatever it may be! Now, honestly, how would you like to have a woman rule you? I, for one, could never endure it. To bo sure Victoria rules England, but that is quite a differ ent matter. When our fathers cast off the oppressor's yoke, they made alto gether new laws. When Washington was President why didn't he give tcomcn the ballot? Simply because they didn't need it. Perhaps you think I am like Mr. Stevens in the late rebellion wait ing to see the popular side before going in too strong. But I already see the popular side. Beyond a doubt women will have the privilege to vote iu a short time. Well, I'm open to conviction. wishlcouM think It right. Can't you convince mo? I have heard that you will not publish anything in opposition to Woman Suffrage. If so, I've come to a ilangcrous place. I nave read your paper regularly for several months. always have to borrow It of a friend, as my step-mother would not allow me to subscribe for it I enjoy your witty re torts on some of the masculines very much. I think you have one of the best edited papers published in Oregon But my opinion will be nothing to you I'm afraid, as I'm only a young girl of sixteen. Yours witli respect, Gipsy' As "Gipsy" is only a "young girl of sixteen," we think there is little doubt but that she will be "convinced" that sho ought to have a few more rights than women now have by the time she arrives at womanhood. The benefit of a few "Northwest" breezes will help wonderfully to bring her latent ideas of justice and equality into healthy, vigor ous action. LETTEE FE0M ILLINOIS. Ridott, 111., March 17, 1872. Mrs. A. J. Duniway:! liave just seen a couple of numbers of theNEW North west, dated last July and August, that were sent to a rrlcnd of mine here by her daughter, who resides near Ellens burg, Curry county, Southwestern Ore gon. I like yourpaperand feel strongly In sympathy with all the truly progres sive and self-reliant, In whom adversity has wroughtdepth of thought and calm ness of soul. Such must bear this great burden of the Woman Question of the im-si-iii, uuj-, iur me ucneut oi our weaker sisters. Enclosed you will find subscription price for your paper three months. I hope to come to Oregon this season, and am seeking all the informa tion I can get I wish you would send me those Prize Essays on the resources and advantages of Oregon by yourself aim j. ijuinn Thornton. Are there any maps accompanying them? I cannot get a good map of your State here. I am a widow, with eight children, poor in this world's goods, but have health, energy and capacity to adapt myself to circumstances, and am determined to plant my family on tho Pacific coast I believe it Is a better climate, a better fruit region, and that labor and energy are better rewarded there than in tills region of long, severe winters. Please answer as soon as convenient Yours, etc., S. E. M. The Essays to which you allude have not yet been published. Consequently wo are unable to comply with your re quest. Do not know how soon they will bo published, or whether they will be published at all. EDIT0EIAL 00BEESP0NDEN0E. Gervais, OrcgonrApril 3, 1S72. : Dear New SfoirrawxsT : , The largest audience here last night that ever convened in the village. All the citizens of the place were out; even the saloons were closed. Farmers came from a distance on horseback, in two horse and four-horse wagons, aud on foot. The church, whicli is a very com modious oue,was literally packed, many men standiujr patiently for over two hours to hear the new gospel of peace on earth and good will to men and women. Two drunken men were present in the beginning, who evidently had some sort of backing among a very small but ac tive rowdy element, and they undertook to display some disorderly conduct, but the constable soon settled them, and one Is to be tried to-day before a Justice for attempting to disturb tho peace. e had been told, immediately upon arriving, that certain gentlemen were veryauxious for opportunity to debate, and our friends wished them ruled out of order in consideration of the fact that we had been invited to lecture rather than debate. So our would-be oppon ents sat there, fearing that their fine speeches would perish In embryo ; but, as usual, at the end of the lecture we in vited those who had anything to say to come forward and address the meeting. A Mr. Eagen, who had been preparing himself to slaughter us for a week or two, was called out, and after the stereo typed apology that "the honor was whol ly unexpected," he proceeded to make his speech. He is a bachelor, and like ail men in his situation, terrifically frightened lest women will neglect their babies ; aud he drew a lurid picture of poor, wailing infants, for whose natural nourishment their unnatural mothers had prepared India rubber substitutes, and closed by the old saw about "crow ing hens." We replied that it was nothing unus ual for bachelors to worry lest mothers neglect their children; that married men liave no such uneasiness, for they know that true mothers will not neglect their children under any circumstances. In answer to the "crowing lien" story, we remarked that we once saw a rooster try to "set," and, like the crowing lien, lie made a failure ; so that hen argument was all exploded." He came forward a second lime, but couldn't awaken any enthusiasm. Dr. Magcrs, in the Chair, took the sense of the audience as to whether the meeting should be protracted. Carried unanimously. Gekvais, Oregon, April 4, 1S72. Dear Sew Nokthwest: Packed house again. Subject, contin uation of "Women and Politics." A few questions submitted in writing, but no debate or opposition could be aroused. Great enthusiasm. Many new subscrib ers. On the first evening our opponent, Mr. Eagan, had said that women, if voters, could not enforce the laws; there fore they should not help to make them. We told them last evening, in reply, that we had seen a drunken vagabond enter the hotel in Gcrvais, and the land lady, with grace and dignity, stepped to the door, opened it and asked him out. He hung his head aud departed like a whipped puppy; that if that woman had been sent to the front on the pre vious evening to arrest the drunken un fortunate who had made tho disturbance in the church, he would not have re sisted the arrest, but would have also obeyed abjectly; that woman had moral power to more than match man's phys leal force, and that there was here : home illustration of the fact This morning the drunken man, who was arrested on Tuesday evening, came round to the hotel and gave this item for the New Northwest: "On Tuesday evening a woman peaeeably ejected drunken man from the hotel. On Wed nesday evening I was left in the care of the wife of the constable, while he at tended a woman's lecture. And if a woman had asked me to leave the church because I was drunk and disor derly, I would have been all obedience. I'm a woman's rights man ; and when tho women vote they'll stop the whisky business." The Gcrvais citizens are social, excel lent people. Wc have been cordially treated by scores who were previously pledged against the womaan move ment Everybody is ready to espouse it when the scales of prejudice fall from their eyes and they are permitted to see through the optics of reason. LETTEE PE0MLAFAYETTE. Lafayette, Ogn., March 31, 1872. Dear Mrs. Dunitcay:! have just fin idled reading Mrs. Beechcr Hooker's unanswerable argument before the Ju diclary Committee, and am highly pleased with it But I would like to of fer you a few thoughts of my own on the same subject. If I were opposed to Woman Suffrage, I would come out and say, as did Chief Justice Taney in the Dred Scott decis ion, in regard to negroes, that women were not persons in the eyes of the law. That is what our opponents mean, and I, for one, would respect them more If i they would speak out plainly and be done with it I think the whole matter rests on that word "persons" iu the Fourteenth Amendment If women are "nersons" thev are entitled to vote and have all the rights and Immunities of other citizens. If women are not per sons" they are no better than any other animals; they have no souls, and there fore arc not responsible for their actions any more than other animals, and their keepers should bo made responsible for them. And, if women are not persons, all the money spent in educating them is so mucli money thrown away; the more ignorant they aro tho easier kept in subjection. But I hope for better things. The time is not far distant when women will exercise all the rights of other citizens, and our (gOYC5!,imcn .wijlfcarry, puffin action, .is vtcu us in' iiuiiic, me' great principles of the Declaration of Inde pendence and the Constitution of tho United States. Hoping you will visit our town and lecture on the great question of human rights that is agitating the public mind, T subscribe myself, Sistek Mary. GEN. MILLEE. A friend calls attention to the fact that Gen. Miller, President of the late Che- meketi Hotel Company, ha3liftedall that Company's obligations for which the State was liable, and says tliat we have omitted to mention the fact, al though wc gave publicity to the other side of the question. We regret this In advertence, for itlias been nothing else. We certainly have no cause to do Gen. Miller any personal injustice, and would not attempt such a thing if we had. If our expositions hurried up that set tlement on behalf of tho State we are very thankful we got the facts. Wonder if our Clarke imbroglio isn't going to benelit the State, too? GRATIFYING. In pleasing contrast with the efforts of a few shoddy aristocrats to do Sway with the City High School stands' forth the magnanimous example of such men as Mr. Falling and W. S. Ladd, two of the largest tax-payers in the city, who not only contribute large sums annually to its support, but who have worked for ears witli disinterested zeal to foster its best interests. CHALLENGE. Rev. C. M. Blake, late Chaplain IJ. S. ., has the honor to invite W. D. Hare, elector nominee, pledged to vote - for Ulysses S. Grant for President of the United States a second term, to a Pub lic Discussion ers to the merits of Grant before the people the same to take place at Hillsboro, iu Washington qoun- y, Oregon, during somo night in the last weok of this mouth, other prelimi naries to be arranged hereafter. Forest Grove. Or., April 2, 1872. Ex-Governor Yates. Ex-Senator Yates Is reported lying in a critical con dition. What a warning this man's life should be to our young men. A man of brilliant talents, genial, culti vated and warm-hearted, who by the pre-eminence of his ability rose step by step to a uign station; a man to wuom life was full of the greatest possibilities, and who could bravely aim at the most exalted position, and yet what an awful ran lie nas nau. a victim to a base appetite, lie lias readied the lowest depths of degradation, and is scoffed at ami jecreu uy tnosc who once iawneu upon him and sought his favor, while even Ills friends and admirers can only bow tbeir Heads in grief and sliame as they speak of poor Dick Yates. His life, once so bright, so full of promise, Is now going out in the densest gloom. Young men, his life is an awful example. Consider it well, lliere nave been few fairer works of God, and few blotted out so blackly. He fell, not iu a dayt or willingly. He fougut against lugeset tiug sin, yielded again to temptation. repented witli a bitter repentance, ana fell again. Before he knew his danger, he was bound hand and foot in the chains of his appetite. Consider his life well, roor Dick Yates 1 Ualcsburg Register. tV most calamitous earthquake oc curred in Owens River Valley, Califor nia, on the 20th of March. At Lone Pino tlie houses were shaken to pieces and the people buried beneath the ruins. The scene which ensued is beyond de scription. Groans and screams were uearu in all directions. iNeany tiio whole population of the town were buried be'neath the ruins. Cries for help and screams of nain from the wounded filled the air, while those who escaped from the ruins were calling for help to rescue fathers, brothers, wives and chil dren. The first shock was followed in quick succession by three others. Over tliree Hundred distinct shocks wore felt between half-past two o'clock and sun rise; in fact, the earth was in a constant shakeand tremble. Forover three hours a chasm was opened extending thirty five miles down the vailej, ranging from three inches to forty feet in width. Rocks were torn from their places and hurled down into the valley everywhere. Through the valley arc seen evidences of the terrible convulsion of nature. A large list of killed and wounded is pub lished in the telegraphic dispatches. Should such an earthquake visit San Francisco its fate would be terrible. Portland Market. , . Flour Krtra, 6 per barrel; Extra -country brands, $5 !iogu To. , Wheat Market nuscttled. - ' Butter Flno dairy, -tVyjCc per pound; ordin ary, SVgjTTKe. Egss Zfc per dozen. OUR AGENTS. The following persons are duly antlierizeU to act as Agent for the Nnw Northwest : Mrs. M. J. Ensign Perttand 0. 1L Wood Travellnc Agent Mr. M. Jell'rles. .Traveling Ascent II. II. Welch Washington county Dr. J. Wntbt Ijifiiyette A. N. Arnoltl Albany O. W. Lawson .Salem M. r. Owen saiem Mrs. C. A. Cobum Mrs. J. DeVore Johnson Thos. Parsons . R. Pcntlnnd - Mlis Snllle Applecate.-.- Oregon Clty Oreson City Mllwnukio The Dalles Yoncalla Uoseburs Forest Grove MIks 1L A. Owens J. T. Scott, Esq Mrs. A. E. Corwln O. W. Morgan J. W. Jackson- - NelmIem Wlln Walla .Eusene .sin rraneiseo MN Nellie Mossman 01ympia I. T. Maul'by. aireouver Othor parties desiring to act as Agent will please forward their names. We want Agents at every po'tollce througliout Oregon and Washington Territory. SPECIAL NOTICES. ASTI1MA. IlltOXtHITIS, CATARRH . Affections of the I.unsrs. Deafness. Discharges from the Ears. Nervous or Cenerat Tkthllitv. Sorc Eyes, Granulated Lids, Opacity of the Cor nea, hums, etc.. are successfully treated by Dr. Aborn. comer Third and Morrison streets. riirrmVTr thui? t2uci . .. n ... i. as have resisted the ordinary modes or treat ment, are the class of nmfadles which Dr. Aborn treats with unnamllplMi tmoM!t- CHARGE for Consultation. Terms Moderate and agreeable to the clr cumstanccs or the patient, so that all who are afflicted can procure his treatment If they wish. nS2tf COBURN & McCABE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS,, 5 WASHINGTON STREET, UP-STAIRS,t I'ortlnnd, Oregon. Woik done at REASONABLE RATES. u