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FBIDAY-.. ...JUNE 21, 1872. PEOGEESS OFTHE CAUSE. Everywhere, O friends of Freedom and Humanity! our cause Is marching on. Though not advancing with as rapid strides toward the final coal of victory as many of us would fain be hold it, yet nowhere is it retreating or losing ground. During the past year the discussion of woman's right to the ballot has been more extended than ever before. The question lias fought Its way into Con gressionial Halls and Legislative Cham bers, and will stay there until victor ious. In another part of tills paper will be found some particulars of the agitation or tlie question before the New York Legislature. The speech of Mrs. Char lotte B. "Wilbour, of which we give an extract, is a master piece, and we regret that want of space prevents its publica tion entire. Hut the favorable report of the Legislative Committee Is the chief event, showing as It does the re markable change occurring everywhere In favor of the right. In Connecticut a noble band of Equal Suffragists had arranged to besiege the Legislature, but what success they met with we have not yet learned. In Iowa and Maine and New Hamp shire the question barely failed of pas sage through the Legislatures, and in Massachusetts was defeated by only a small majority. In the Southern Slates, where its agi tatlon is of recent date, AVoman Suffrage societies are springing up everywhere. and It Is not improbable that the sec tlon which was last to free the slaves will be first to free the women. In Wyoming Equal Suffrage lias been tried in the crucible of experiment and proved a success. Saloons and bawdy houses are unknown. The effect of woman's enfranchisement will be the same all over the country. No wonder some men behold with fear and trem bling the crumbling away of long es tablished usurpations and the ushering in of an era when better morals will prevail. Especially in this great New North west has the good work advanced with giant strides. 'Tis but little more than a year since the New Northwest em barked upon the sea of journalism, its grand object being to save poor ship wrecked man's riehts advocates and bring them to the smiling port of Hu man Rights. And we rejoice to say that many have been rescued, and still the good work goes bravely on. Thous ands who one year ago were so encrusted by the scales of prejudice as to be al most impervious to the reception of the tr.uth have since seen the error of their ways, gladly embraced the glorious gos pel of Human Equality and been saved. In short, from all quarters of our country come good tidings of great joy, and even from Europe and the Islands of the sea we hear encouraging news. Yet a little longer and success, grand, glorious and complete, will crown the heroic efforts of the noble men and women who are bravely carrying on the campaign against superstition and bigotry. Presidential nominee and her vast re tinue of hangers-on. I have not learned of these matters through the revelations of Christians, who may be prejudiced against the "nominee" because of her religious belief, but have gathered items from Spiritualists of position and cul ture, who, not having sufficient power to stay the enthusiasm or excited Com munists, have quietly given active work for "Woman Suffrage the go-by for the present, "while they confidently look for better days. There is no denying that Victoria and her followers are terribly in earnest, and all agitation causes investigation, TIMIDSOUIS. There are, in almost every commun ity, a class of timid souls whose senti ments and convictions are in favor of reform, but who, from motives of poli cy, never espouse an unpopular cause. Notably is the Republican party, whose present leaders were Douglas Demo crats at the breaking out of the Rebel lion, an instance of this kind. The founders of that party the men who in 1S5C and 1800 led the Republican col umnare now, many of them, read out of the party, and others have left of their own accord. But we did not set out to write a dis quisition upon the Republican party, but have only referred to it for sake of - illustration. As has been the case with that party, so undoubtedly it is and will be with the cause of Human Rights. Many a man Is willing enough to ac knowledge to us in private that he is a "Woman Suffragist, but adds: "Don't let it be known, as I am a candidate for office, and it might spoil my chances for election." Out upon such moral cow ardice! The candidato who Is afraid to avow the principles he believes in and tne views ne entertains, not caring who may oppose, Is unworthy the sup port of any true American citizen. "We give these political trimmers timely notice that our support cannot bo won, as some of them seem to suppose, by any such courso of action. They who are not for the cause are against it. A luke-warm friend does as much In jury as an enemy, and oftentimes more. GBAND 00N0EBT. Just think of Sixteen Thousand peo ple all singing at once! "Why, It's enough to make one's head swim ! - Yet that's the way they're doing the thing in Boston. The dispatches state that Hundred the grand old tune! the first niece sum T-Tnw do- riously it mUst j,avo sounded, welling lortu from sixteen thousand throats ! Old was DOH'T LIKE IT. Our contemporary of the Oregonian don't like the "woman resolution" in the National Republican Platform. He thinks it is too non-committal. In our unsophistocated ignorance we had sup posed that that was the very reason he would like it it is so like his own posi tion on the question. ENTEEPEISENG. The Nevada ladies are trying, their hand at mining stock operations, and mnnv of them have made fortunes re cently. EDITOBIAL CORRESPOND ENOE. Boston, Mass., May 20th, 1872. Dkau .New NoirruwtsT : The various and numerous labor leagues were upon a strike during my two weeks' sojourn in New York, and they, being composed of the voting or influential element of American society, attracted so much attention that it was difficult to awaken the people, and im possible to Interest the newspapers, upon any other topic than the "eight hour law and the rights of the working men," Consequently, though I held some very profitable and pleasant meetings in the city, and made many powerful and in fluential friends, scarcely a ripple was made upon the surface of newspaper- dom, and without such ripples to cause me to get up stump-speaking steam, I never feel tliat I make a public effort worthy of my constituency, myself or womanhood. But my meetings were well appreciated, as the long line of sub scribers' names enclosed bears witness. Although the "Woman Movement seems comparatively inert In the great Gotham which a Chinaman many years ago appropriately dubbed "the city of the thousand smells" I have found it to contain many ardent, enthu siastic supporters of staunch Republican principles, which I Interpret to mean that "taxation without representation Is tyranny ;" and if any Oregon reader doubts that they so understand them, let such go to New York, as I did, and be come acquainted with the leading men and women there who aro earnestly strucnlinir for the emancipation of women. But if I found the newspapers apa thetic, and the majority of the citizens so absorbed in money getting as to have no time to devote to the great Issues that form the very basis of our idea of Government, I was agreeably disap pointed upon arriving in Boston and re pairing to Tremont Temple to find a large, enthusiastic gathering of men and women, famous in the political history of the Government, and noted for their love of justice and equality, while the vast building was thronged by thought ful, earnest listeners to the gospel of glad tidings of the great joy that shall be to all people when the great Idea of sexual equality, for which we are strug gling, shall have become a living fact. "William Lloyd Garrison, with his clear voice, commanding form and in spired eye; Rev. Freeman ClarHe, the eloquent and whole-souled preacher, who dares to tell the truth and has force of character sufficient to make the truth popular; Rev. Stephen Foster, husband of Abby Kelly, whom I little thought I should meet at this time, vlien I, a few weeks ago, became his champion and hers when they were publicly assailed in far off Oregon a noble, earnest, con scientious man, whose noble wife poor preacher Colwell would not dare attack did not many thousand miles of dis tance separate him from his righteous indignation ; H. B. Blackwcll, husband of Lucy Stone, and one of the editorial stair on the Woman1 8 Journal; Lucy Stone herself, vivacious, logical and shrewd, whose every little speech was applauded to the echo; Ada Bowles, the gentle and elequent; Mary A. Liver more, the magnificent woman and pop ular orator, and a number of other speakers, whose names I fail to remem ber, made a galaxy of workers whose strength may be very accurately esti mated by the immense audiences which thronged the Temple night and day at the Anniversary meeting of the Ameri can AVoman Suffrage Association. Let anybody who presumes to say that the AVoman Movement has no strength in the East visit Boston during Anniver sary week and note the immense brain power that both drives and ballasts it. To stand upon such a platform, and address such an audience, is enough to inspire a person with less electrical vim than myself; and if the impromptu ad dress I there delivered was one of the best I ever had the pleasure of making, let the New Northwest readers ac cord due glory to the inspiration of the occasion. There are many symptoms of rabid Oregon fever reported among Tremont Temple patients to-day. AVhat with canvassing, making ac quaintances, traveling and sight seeing, I fail to find the time to keep my read ers posted as to mauy particulars, con cerning which I would dearly love to write; but theact" will keep, and when I am home again you shall hear all about them. The AVoodhull farce is working itself out very rapidly. On account her of professed extraordinary mediumship, many honest and zealous Spiritualists in the rural districts ha'e flocked to her standard, attracted in great meas ure by her able and fearless, though sin gularly obnoxious journal, for which she does not write; and in which the enthusiastic zealots, Communists aud Pautarchists of the age find vent for theories which would not be tolerated were it not that they come professedly from the lips and pen of a woman. But it is a great mistake to suppose that Spiritualists as a body have faith in Arlctoria AVoodhull. AVith the excep tion of the leaders above cited, who are not considered "orthodox" with the masses, she is looked upon as not only an ambitious enthusiast, but a victim of unscrupulous men, who use her won derful powers of magnetism to compass Utopian schemes of revolution in social and political life. The vast wealth of the AVoodhull, of which we have heard so much, orig inated in the imagination of Saint The odore when lie was under the glamour of Demosthenes. 'Victoria and Tennie have been compelled to abandon their uroker's office, I am told, for non-payment or rent; and the Weekly, which has been gratuitously circulated from Maine to Oregon, has gone into the hands or a joint stock company, who are soliciting money upon certain "bonds" house rent and other expenses of the and as herwore will awaken a demand for AVoman Suffrage among the rabble whom none but herself aud retinue can reach, I rejoice in her mission and bid her God speed in her labors. In the ab stract, ten thousand of her theories are correct, and though the day may be far distant when humanity shall become sufficiently elevated to be a law unto It self, it U coming on apace. Let ATicloria dig in social mire; let her tear off the scabs which cover social rottenness; let her lay bare the secret social vices of the genu! masculine; aud let her do this work in a way that best suiteth her. AVe who, never having been dragged through such social mire as she con fesses to have endured, must work in our own way; aud though, by the en thusiasm and folly of herself and co workers, she foiled the purpose of clear headed politicians in the Steinway Con vention, the platform of the so-called "party" is in many respects just what the people not only want, but will some day obtain. The American Woman Suffrage Asso ciation has decided to work against ev ery politician of whatever party, every candidate of whatever convention, that is opposed to AVoman Suffrage. They boast that they defeated Harvey Jewell, candidate for Governor of Massachu setts, and that their only cause of hos tility was his opposition to woman's en franclilsement. I boasted that we would defeat the Chappaqua philosopher for the same reason; others decided to de feat Grant or make him come to terms; and we all decided that if Philadelphia ignores or snubs us, Baltimore shall re ceive our attention; and if Baltimore aud the Democrats shall fail to accept their last opportunity for political re generation, we'll call a Pacific Slope Convention and nominate some man who shall be worthy of the support of the people. same newsdealers expect the natron- age of ladies! The greatest evil, however, that these licentious and immoral publications ex ert is their influence on the minds of the young. "Who can witness boys tak ing their first lessons in blackguardism and okscenity at one of these places and not reel a pang for the young and Inno cent miuds being turned astray from the path of virtue and filled with all man ner of moral uncleanness? As the twig's inclined, so will the tree grow; and these vendors of licentious journal ism are bending the twig of many a beautiful miud. trrowinir straleht to ward happiness and Heaven, so that it will become dwarfed and crooked and sensual. One thing is sure: "When women get the ballot they will abate all such nui sances. "PATIENCE PHIL ANTHEOPY' ' DITETH A LETTER. IN- ;er, 1 regon, V ! 5, 1872. J LABORjSTRIKES. The telegraph brings reports of im mense strikes in New York City in nearly every department of labor. AVendcll Phillips a short time since very appropriately said that New York was but Paris in a quiescent state, and that the Communist mob was a likely result of conflict between labor and capital in America as well as France. And, in deed, when ono reads of the police scat tering angry and threatening crowds of horny-handed and strong-muscled tollers, it would not be surprising to read of deeds of violence, bloodshed, ra pine and plunder in consequence. For tunately, however, tho. American im pulso is not so quick and fiery as the French, else long ago would the op pressed, down-trodden and ignorant working masses of New York have made the streets of the great American metropolis run blood. This conflict between capital and la bor is by no means a strange one. The mass of tho working people of New York labor on from year to year for a pitiful allowance barely sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of life, while their employers are continually growing rich aud prosperous "the rich growing richer and the poor poorer." Ignorance aim crime arc the conse quent results, and it is no wonder that every year so many are added to the ranks of law-breakers and criminals, The correction of this state of affairs Biziness Corner, Umatilla county, Orego: June 5, I beleave I giv you all of the facts of importunce which I was fortunate enough to pick up durlu my visit to neighbor Marks'. AVell, the next mornln, after the airth had been nicely aired, an all natur was a-rejolcin, I set out on my tower agin, a-rejolciu also. It was a lovely road over the foot-hills that I had to travel, but the curlews hovered around me and screamed their delight in my ears, an, although their singiu wasn't quite as plesant as the meadow lark's, an sicn like birds, yet they did a mighty site of good, as they ken me from beln' lone some an skeery like, an the prarie dogs giv me a friendly grcetin as I passed their towns, an their wise companions, the owls, stared at me as If they fully apree.iated the importunce of my under- takin, an afore I had time to think of tho loneliness of my situation I was right at Mr. Hall's gate, an a-feastin my eyes on as nne a larin as can uc ier- duced in this valley, an that is sayin a good deal, for that farmer must bo pow crful weak, both in mind an body, that can't have a farm hero a leetle better than most anywhar. AVell, I opened the gate and went In, an right thar, a leanin on his hoe, an admirin his per- sessions, stood farmer Hall, in the midst of a patch of tatcrs. I thought as how he'd better be a holn, fur the weeds war rather gettin the advantage, but says I to myself, probably he'll fix that all up In time, fur I see everyt'''S else is in mighty good order. But I hadn't much time fur observin an soliloquizing, fur the squeak of the gale caused him to look round aud diskovcr who'd come. "AVhy, how d'ye do, aunt Patience?" says he. "You're quite a stranger in these parts. The old womau'H be mighty glad to see ye." "Yes," says I, "I hain't been round much lately. Spose the folks are all eu- joyln good health." "AVell, they're about so so. I'll go in with ye an rest awhile. I think a good deal of that feller who said, 'All work an no play makes Jack a dull boy.' " I didn't say anthing to that remark of liis'n, but begun to be afeared he was a lectio lazy. Now, tho house wasn't very close to the road, so we had considerable time fur conversation aforo wo got thar. "You see water ain't to be found everywhar in tills valley; consequently the people have to build their houses sometimes nigh onto the centre of their farms, in order to get near their wells-, which ain't no bad plan after all, as there is a mighty sight of dust arisin in the roads here durin the summer season "I see you have a head fur biziness, Mr. Hall," said I, as I took a prolonged look over the farm "Well, perhaps I have," said he, "but I let the old woman do all the planniu, and everything comes out so well that I begin to take some interest in agricultur myself. You see I had to work mighty hard fur a long time to get tilings start- a-laugnln. "I never trouble myscii about crazy people as long as they keep away from me." But we've got gals, an if this ere AA'oman Suffrage biziness ain't put down there's no tellin where it'll lead 'em to." "That's so," said she. "I don't want ... . ... any oi 'em to come rounu me wun any of their new-fangled ideas, an I'll tell you what's a fact, aunt Patience when ever women vote, an hold offices, an en joy all the liberties, as they call 'cm, that men enjoy, they'll get above the biziness God created 'em fur, has com manded 'em to do, an lias given 'em a capacity fur doln 'Liz,' you deserve killin, an I've a good notion to no it, rur standin thar an gapln as though you'd come up yerself an driv a cow inter the bargin, as the sayin is. Thar, take that fur a beginnin!" an she giv her a box ... . . i.tu.. on me car mat sent uer winrwii, i wakened up her Idees generally. "Liz" was one of her gals, an was old enough to know how to behave, an reckon she did after that. AVell, the dinner was soon ready, an it was a good one, too green peas an new talers.an this only Uie29tIior.May. The children all come rushin In, jest home from school, but they were sent out agin in a twinklm, with orders to wash an comb, an not- make their ap pearance agin until calleu'to dinner, but presently one little four-year-old slipped up to the table behind her mothers el bow, an stood lookin as though she be- cruded even mouthful that we was eat in. She soon got a word an a blow rrom her mother, however but the blow come first an the child sneaked offlike a whipped puppy, an wo eat the rest of our dinner in peace, and we took our time fur it, too. "Joe," says Mrs. nail, while we were still at the table, "you must keep the boys from school till that later patch is cleaned out. You know it'll spoil the taters to cultivate them after they're in full bloom." "Yes, I know," replied Mr. Hall, "but uiehhy 1 can weed em out in time, an Bill says he never can get through his Rithiuelic if we take him from school so much." I know what's the matter," said Mrs. Hail ; "he's been kept in school so steady that lie's gettin lazy. I tell you twon't do. I'd rather my boys'd hav good business habits than all the book larnin in creation." Then she called the children to din ner, sue didn't go to tne irouuie oi washin plates fur 'cm, as I've seen some mothers do, but sot 'em right down, an if they growled they got another of them box ins as silenced 'em mighty quick. "Now stuff yerselves," said she, pilin tho vittles on their plates, an takin hold of one little feller's ear, who was lookin sour because they got mixed. "Cram it down, fur, ef you don't, you'll go away hungry, as I am a-goin to wasli the dishes in about ten minutes, so as to go into thc.gardcn with aunt Patience." I've stretched my letter out so awful long after tellin you about that ere fact that I will quit right off. Yours truly, Patience PmrVNTHRorv. visited tho leading colleges which have introduced the system, and learned the views of their instructors, and by con siderable correspondence, mainly with those who had experience of co-education, collected a mass of information of the greatest interest. AVhat report they brought back to the trustees those who have seen the working of the system could very easily guess. ine experience oi academies anu nor mal schools ought to be allowed some weleht. Thev stand a srrade lower than the colleges, but no lower than tho pre- naraiorv dcnartmenis connecieu wiwi most AVestern institutions. And their students, being somewhat younger, are of lust Hint most dautrerous ace when they have hardly learneu 10 unueraiauu tho necessary reserve Detwcen uie ii sfixpn A ml vnt pxiwrience is now con fessedly and unanimously In favor oi It T . a ? -- 11.,.. b.linnla Til. iue imxeu sysiein iu moc awiw nrinoinnls of four normal schools in XpirVm-v stnto snnkft mor-t unreserved- lv of tin. success of the system wun them. Kavs Principal J. AV. Arm strong, D. I)., of the Frcdonia Normal rcnooi: "Mr nWrvation Shows that the mor als of stiuipiit.s nf either sex deteriorate, apparently, in proportion to the rigor of uie separation oi tne sexes, me .-amc is true of their delicacy of feeling, their sense of honor, and their love of truth. "Jn all mixed seminaries and acade mies wlnrf social intercourse of the sexes was either forbidden or largely re strainwl. flin ladies lost in prudence, ... . .i i in delicacy anil iruiniuiue.ss even iusici man tite gentlemen. "For many years my views of school government' have been much mora lib oral than tlin common nractice would justify. In this Normal School I allow, and even encourage, an tne ireeuoin oi Intercourse between the sexes winch would be allowed In a well-regulated family. This has been tested for two years. The results are good in the recitation-room, where they mingle as they choose on the seats ; in the halls, where they communicate as freely as at home; in the boarding-places, where they have only the same restrictions. They visit, walk and ride out together, out of reci tation hours, whenever and wherever they please. The results are, they study better, are moro polite, visit far less, walk and ride together far less, than when restrained, and never under im prudent or objectionable circum stances." President White found that the same laws govern young men and women studying geometry and languages in college as in seminaries. At Oberlin he saw two hundred young men and wom en dinimr at the same tables, and a thousand scholars of both sexes reciting lies with tho capitalists themselves. If c,i, an it didn't suit me a bit. Farmin they continue to oppress the working masses as they have done and are now doing, there will surely come, sooner or later, a day of mad vengeance and terri ble retribution. MRS. M. P.J3AWTELLE. This lady has just returned from the f-ast, where, alter graduating at the BcIIcvuo Medical College, she turned her attention toward Inducing women to Immigrate to Oregon, AVashtngton and Idaho. And to pave the way and oiler inducements and encouragement for such immigration Mrs. Sawtelle went to "Washington for the purpose of getting through Congress, if possible, a bill giving women the same home stead rights as men, or even better, If obtainable. Her efforts were so far suc cessful that a bill for the purpose, which we published some time since, has been introduced in Congress and will un doubtedly pass at the next session, it having, in all probability, been Intro duced too late for any action to be taken at tho last session. Mrs. Sawtelle intends residing at Klamath Lake, to which point she lias Induced ouite a colony from the Eastern States, which will probably arrive this summer or next full, to per manently locate. Personally, Mrs. Sawtelle is well pleased witli her Eastern visit, and we never saw her In better spirits than in our sanctum last Sunday. A life of honor and usefulness, already in deed bemin. lies before her. May suc cess ever attend her. OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS. Certain newsdealers in Portland from week to week exhibit to the public gaze through the medium of their shop win dows obscene nlctorial newspapers of the most disgusting character. No lady can enter such a place without being virtually Insulted by the base ca ricatures of her sex. Aud yet those didn't seem to be my fort, neither, an I couldn't see any beauty in it, but she worked with mo an encouraged me till the beauty begun to show itself so plain ly that anybody could see it, an now I flatter myself that I'm a purty good farmer. Then the boys arc a mighty sight of help since they was able to ban lie the hoe, an we make 'em work, I can tell ye." "'Pears to me as how your wife would have very little time fur work out of doors, after doln tlie housework fur her large family." "I don't know how she manages to do It, lint workin's her fort, ye see, an she's never contented unless always on the ge." "Why, bless my eyes! if here ain't aunt Patience, soul and hotly!" ex claimed Mrs. Hall, as she came to the door after a bucket of water. "You look tired. Come right in an rest your hands and feet," an she fairly dragged nie into the house an sot me down in tier big arm chair, which was proper comforta ble after my long walk, I can tell you "Well, I'm nearly done out, I be lieve," replied I. "Fact is, I've been powerful weak ever since that air sick spell rimd this spring, you know." "No, I didn't know you'd been sick lately. AVhat was the matter?" "Confusion of the brain, or sutliiu like II. I don't know as that was jest what Uie doctor called It, but It suits the case bctter'n anything else I ken think of." "You have been workin too hard per haps." "No, I spose it all come of my thiukin so ham lately." "Thinkin!" ejaculated Mrs. Hall, with rale concern depicted in her come ly face. "Why, what has gone wrong witli you lately, aunty?" "Oh, nothin with me in particular, but you know I alius did sympathize with other people in their miseries, an now the wiuien's goln crazy, the trouble comes nearer home than ever." "Oh, Is that all?" said Mrs. Hall, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. AValter C, Portland: It is a peculiar and delicate case, aud we would not pre sume to advise you. Avoid giving of fense to the young lady, if possible, in your endeavors to set the matter right. In all probability the representations of third parties have done much to aggra vate tlie case. Minnie AV., Springfield, III.: H7f- lamette is the generally accepted pro nunciation of our beautiful river. "Carrie:" Never mind. You will live over this trouble and look back aud wonder why you were so foolish. Iu tlie meantime remember that there are just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught. "Matilda:" Your understanding of the matter is correct. F. M., San Francisco: Cannot inform you. Mary E.: Yes. Oo-Edacation of the Sexes. AVhethcr or not, says the New York Independent, it would be safe for a woman to go to college with her brother and sweetheart; whether it would not make her sweetheart and her brother lazy or lackadaisical or effeminate, and whether it would not make her coarse and unladylike; whether she could en dure tlie physical strain of study, and whether it would not lower tlie standard of scholarship for tlie young men; whether it would not present facilities for forming attachments that might re sult in marriage; and whether it might not lower tlie standard of social moral ity, and give rise to cases of scandal all these aro questions that have often been discussed and settled, theoretically, a thousand times against the women, by those who knew nothing of the sub ject. AVe even had, several years ago, an eiauonue rejiori, on una iuauer, ue ciding against the mixed system, and presented to the Regents of the Univer sity of Michigan. The Regents' Com mittee, desiring to continue tlie exclu sion of women at that time, wrote to a large number of the gentlemen connect ed with the old monastic institutions of tlie East, and to a very few others. It was, says President AVhite, as if tlie Mikado of Japan, contemplating tlie in troduction of railroads and telegraphs, hail sent a commission to visit the Chi nese Mandarins and get their advice on the matter. Yale and Harvard reported that co-education was not safe that it would spoil the boys and ruin "the jrirls; as if Harvard and Yale knew anything about it. They had forgotten for the moment their luductivo philosophy for that of Duns Scot us aud other ante-Baconian dunces. But the Regents got what they wanted an excuse for delay. A report of a different sort just made to the trustees of Cornell University ought to seme inc matter oeyonu lurtuer con troversy. Hon. Hcnr- W. Saire. of Brooklyn. offered to give Cornell University two hundred aud fifty thousand dollars, on the sole condition that it would provide for young women an education as com plete and thorough as that it eives to young men. Before deciding whether to accept uie gut, or, li so, how to ex pend it, President AVhite and Mr. Sage together, witli no loss of onler, propriety and refinement. President Fairchild's judgment was wholly favorable as to the results of tills experiment, which lias continued for a generation. He es timates tlie gain to good order to be very great, that morality is promoted, dissipation, which might otherwise be nllou-ml. sepmiiisr intolerable when la dies are present; while the presence of brothers and sisters, mutually sensitive as to anything that would degrade each other, is of great value. The girls do not break down in health more fre quently than tlie boys. Of those who have graduated since 1841, one-twelfth of the Indies have died, and one in nine and a half of tlie youug men; though, if allowance were made for those Killed m the war, the result would be about the same for the two sexes. That the ladies are not unfitted by their education for tlie duties of a wire and mother is proved by tlie fact that, of eighty-four ladies who havo taken the college course, only twenty-seven have not married, and of these rourdicd eany.aiid out turee nave been out or college for six years Presi dent Fairchild admits the charge that some matrimonial engagements will be likely to be formed ; but he remembers that the majority of sucli engagements are made at the age when young ladies would be at college; and he is of the im pression that they might be made under circumstances less favorable for prudent judgment. This being a crucial case, wc uo not dare to dwell on the further testimony, all of which was unanimous. President AVhite and Mr. Sage found that young women had been admitted for four years at tho State University of Michigan, and that the scholarship of tlie sixty la dies was quite equal to that of the gen tlemen. Jn mathematics one of them had carried of the prize for solving a difficult problem, which had been too much for several successive classes. The ianitor savs that the students are much more quiet and orderly than five years ago, and ne lias no douut as to inc rea son. Accounts equally favorable were heard from Evanston, from the Illinois Industrial University, from Antiocli Collece. and other institutions. Those who had experience in theni agreed that the influence on young men and on young women was such as might be ex pected from following the wise arrange ments of Nature iu the family, and that tlie cases of scandal so much feared were much less frequent than in schools gov erned by strict rules and arranged on the monastic plan. Tlie question ought now to be consid ered as settled. Co-education of the sexes has been proved economical, safe and wise. Cornell accepts Mr. Sage's proposal, and within a very few yeara our old Eastern colleges must follow its example. AVhlcii will take tlie lead? Shall it be Williams, or Amherst, or Harvard? The Woman's Century' J 11 V J"ANE tl. IJEFKOST. 1 A small, cheap picture hangs on the walls of my cottage home, and, could it not be replaced, I would not exchange it even for a Raplieai. Underneath I read, "inc feouuer uoy on uuty," anu, loos ing up, meet the smiling blue eyes and beautiful young face of a lad, as he stands proudly leaning on his gun. In tne background me stais and stripes are floating from tlie tent of the command ing officer, and just behind the young hero stands a wide-mouthed cannon, threatening deatli and destruction to the enemies of the nation. Though he looks cheerful and happy, there is an air of resolution about the "soldier boy;" lie will "do or die if necessary." Not only as a tender remembrance Is this simple picture dear to my heart", but also as a perpetual reminder that I, too, should be "on duty." That there are great moral conflicts about me in which a woman's frail hand should strike for justice. The right of oppressed races are usu ally secured by the terrible resort to physical strife, but thank Heaven, there is no such dreaifful alternative neces sary to promote theelevation of woman. Yes, there must be earnest and aggres sive efforts in training tlie public mind for advancn thought and action. Shirk ing, cowardly souls will do but little for any cause; and none ever neeueu cour ageous and determined advocates more than woman's in this iter country, aii enthusiastic self-abnegation and lofty devotion to principles as she places her self "on duty," conquer or "die with the armor on," should characterize every thinking woman who places herself in that noble baud who are laboring so zealously for the elevation of her sex. Thoughtful souls had long felt that this was emphatically the "woman's century" before the bewildered and dis tressed divine so pathetically exclaimed, The, nineteenth century and the wom- eu arc upon us." . . As uiirisiianiiy mm n.u spread their blessed influences abroad over the earth, physical force has grad ually been displaced by moral and In tellectual power, ami woman, b. held in subjectiou for lack of physical might, is taking her rightrui place at 1ib sidn of her brother. Encland and America are not alone in their demands that woman shall be educated and made fit to be the helpmeets ot men. ine Orieutal nations, who, during the long, dreary ages, have treated woman as but little above tne unite creauuu,iu.viem Ing to the influence of the hour. India has her woman's paper, anu an euucuieu and taleuted lady lecturer. Japan decides mat her tiaugnters aiso must be educated, and sends tnem as pupils to tlie United States. American women, as missionary physicians, are gaining entrance to those Pagan and Mahommcdau Homes where the women, viewed solely as nunian animals, nave been kept in strict seclusion. Even in Constantinople, one of the sixteen daily papers there published is the especial champion of woman's rights. France and Germany throw open tho doors of their famous medical colleges to the persecuted daughters of our own land, and various schools are being es tablished for the more thorough train ing of girls. Italy, too, furnishes her orators and writers among women. The British Isles, for so many years the center of Christian civilization, seem destined to take the lead in this grand movement of tlie age; not only by striving to secure equal educational advantage for women, bnt by placing them In important offices, and giving those women who own property tlie suf frage in municipal elections. The right to prcacli lias for many years been granted them iu some of their churches, and affairs now indicate that Parliament will soon pass laws granting suffrage to women on the same equality witli men. In our own country we can see with greater clearness the remarkable rapid ity of woman's advancement. Fifty years ago women were comparatively uneducated. If our revered grandmoth ers and great-aunts could read, write, and cipher, their education was deemed com plete. To-day, our educated ladies are found in the physiciau's office, the ar tist's and sculptor's studio, with the mighty pen iu their hands, upon the lecturer's platform, at the bookkeeper's desk, before the compositor's frame, and in ail our schools. At the beginning of this century women had scarcely any acknowledged rights in the Christian churches; to-day many evangelical bod ies givo them equal privileges in the ftrayeraud business meetings, and even icense them to preach. In 1S0O, mar ried women had but few rights that "men were bound to respect;" seventy two years later find very many improve ments In the laws and men's interpreta tion of them. Had women ventured to advocate the extension of the elective franchise to all the citizens of this coun try without regard to sex when AVash ington was candidate for the Presidency, they would probably have suffered mar tyrdom as witches; to-day no class of women in the land are wielding such a power in behalf of woman's progression in all the relations of life as those who advocate her equal political rights. Even if some years elapse before these are attained, the agitation is arousing the public mind and doing much good. New and more generous views spring up; the traditional inferiority of women, is less urged by men of common sense, and broader fields of usefulness are year ly opened for woman's energetic effort. The opposition aroused by this success only tends to increase tne zeal ot au true reformer's, and mauy who have striven by falsehood and defamation to injure this cause will nnd their words rebounding to their own hurt. The ac tion of the Presbytery in the case of Dr. Cuyler will do more to furnish tlie pul pits or me country wun women preacn- ers than years spent in urging their Heaven-born right to labor for the sal vation of souls. "Tlie nineteenth century and the women." Yes, brethren, even so; and in your assumptions and denunciations it would be well for you to pause and consider, "lest haply you be found to fight against God." These signs of the times are no haphazard events, the hand or tlieAlmlglity guides and directs them. The religion ot Jesus is redeem ing woman rrom the thralldom ot ages ; and, looking back over the dark night of her degradation and despair, my heart goes up witli thankfulness for birth iu a Christian land in the nineteenth century, when woman's day is so glo riously dawning. An elderly lady, who was handling a set of false teeth in a dentist's office and admiring the fluency with which he de scribed them, asked him, "Can a body eat witli them?" "My dear madam, mastification can be performed- by them with a facility rarely equaled by nature herself," re sponded the doctor. "Yes, I know; but can a body eat with them?" Tlie man whose hair turned wli! in a single night Is surpassed by tlie girl wiu iu.il, tier in one uauce. OUR AGENTS. Tho following persons are duly authorized fo act as ABonts for the Xkw Xouxkwkst : .Mrs j. H. Fotrr Alhanv Benton county CorvallU Olrmpta McMinnvllle ...Harrisburg Kuscne City Uuena Vista HIllRboro .SI 1 verton Gervals Brnwnxvllle I'hanon Salem Pal era .. ..Kalcm Dallas I.ifnyette Knlnma WaltsbuiK Pendleton Seattle -eiittlo W'alln Walla Valln Walla ....I'ort Townsend -Traveling ARcnt -I'omana Asllbr I'eam. Dr. Kaylcy "'.Z -v. a. Miinmnc Miss Vlnfliilntflliti lllram Slmttlt ... ... ciun Iter. Vm. Jolly M-ry J. Masers.....!.....TI A.W. Stjmnr,! f-'lnu5htonZZZIZIl a A. KceilT. " i W.O.T. Daniels Ml?. Nellie Curl I. C. Sullivan Mrs. M. F. Cook... ' " Mrs. M.acilne T Mrs. It. A. 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