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FRIDAY...
..JUIA' 12, 1S72.
NOTICE.
There will be a meeting of the friends
of "Woman Suffrage on Monday even
ing, at "1 o'clock, at the residence of D.
"V. "Williams, corner of Yamhill anil
Park streets. All arc invited.
THE rUTUEE0P OEEGON.
2Co State in the Union has such a glo
rious future before it, judging from
present indications, as Oregon. "With
matchless grain fields, unlimited water
powor and extensive mines of the pre
cious metals, besides largo deposits of
coal and iron, there is nothing to hin
der it from becoming at once the grand
bread-producing, manufacturing and
mining commonwealth of the Ureal
Northwest "With these three great el
ements of success and development
it is difficult to conceive how any other
than an era of the greatest prosperity is
in the near-by future.
The agricultural iutercsts are supe
rior to most other sections of the Union,
and certainly inferior to none. It is a
conceded fact that more bushels of wheat
can be produced from an aero of ground,
with less labor, in the "Willamette val-
ley than in any other portion of the
United States. "We do not know just
what the average wheat yield of Oregon
is, only that it is large; but, largo as it
is, It is not a tithe of what may be pro
duced. "When the population of the
State shall have increased from a hund
red thousand to a million something
may bo shown as to what the real
wheat-growing capacity of Oregon
approximates. Thccropsarcalwayssure.
The winter rains, of which so much
complaint is made, always insure a
good harvest. Drouths, often expe
rienced in California and the older
States of the Union, are consequently
unknown.
The manufacturing interests of this
young State arc also worthy of notice.
No finer water power can be found than
is furnished by the swiftly flowing
mountain streams. Already quite a
number of woolen manufactories arc in
successful operation, those at Salem
and Oregon City being the most promi
nent, all run by water power. Nearly
all the grist mills in the State are also
ruu by the same motive power. Ore
gon City, at the "Willamette Falls, is
destined to be the Lowell of the Pacific
coast. The water power there is ex
celled nowhere, and may be easily util
ized. Everything considered, the man
ufacturing interests of Oregon will be
nearly if not quite equal to the agricul
tural. Indeed, these two will go hand
in hand and co-operate witlx each other.
"What Oregonian can contemplate with'
out a feeling of exultation and pardona
blc pride the sure-coming future when
his State shall not only feed and clothe
its own mighty population, but send
abroad, by railroad and steamer, rai
ment and sustenance to other lauds?
To accomplish all this needs only the
aggregation of population and capital.
Both, in a steadily flowing and ever in-
crcasingstrcam, are constantly arrivin;
among us.
Tho mining interests are worthy of
mention. Eastern Oregon is a gold
bearing region, and though not equal to
Idaho or Montana, yet exports a consid
erable amount of bullion. Iron and
coal have been discovered in various
portions of the State in paying quanti
ties. "With the influx of capital will
come development of all these.
Eastern Oregon, besides being a rich
gold field, is also well adapted to cattle
raising. Nor is it altogether unfit for
wheat growing, some of the small val
leys being very productive of this sta
ple. The Umpqua and Rogue River val
leys in Southern Oregon, though small
in extent compared to the "Willamette
valley, also grow large crops of wheat.
This section of country has heretofore
been little noticed, on account of its dis
tance from market, but the Oregon and
California Railroad, just now penetrat
ing it, will bring about a different order
of tilings. "With a market brought near
by means of railroad facilities, Southern
Oregon will naturally and inevitably
attract a large immigration.
The climate of Oregon is salubrious,
and the death-rate is less than that of
any other State in tho Union. The
educational facilities are of the best,
The people aro moral, intelligent and
industrious.
"We have said this much in reference
to Oregon in general for tho information
of our Eastern readers, many of
whom have expressed a desire to know
something through our columns of the
resources of this young State. We can
not close this cursory sketch without a
brief allusion to the metropolis.
Portland, in our judgment, will main
tain the position she has already won
of being the largest city on the Pacific
coast north of San Francisco. With an
active, energetic population of about
twclvo thousand ; the terminus of two
railroads, one traversing the east and
the other the west side of the "Willam
ette; the prospective center of a mag
nmceiit railway system, which will
S?v ,1 Smit ,Ustribting point for
r nd ""'"B vcssl; the aggre
facts go to show that Portland will S
t nue to be wliat Mieis now-tl ecWef
city .of the North Pacific
And now a final vrord to those wish
ing to remove to Oregon: Don't come
with a determination that you vm
find fault, if possible, with the country
but rather witii a desire to like it ir vou
n. .
can. vajiuu wuxi iuc expectation of
experiencing a little more rainy weather
during the winter months than may be
especially desirable or agreeable, but
i realizing that the long, dreary winter
- xsSuH are worth more to the yoemanry
of Oregon than all the gold mines of
1daho or Montana, assuring as they do
perennial harvests for all time to come.
Don't como here expecting never to be
sick, for there are a few drug stores and
doctors here, as well as elsewhere ; and,
above all, don't come too confident of
the speedy and complete cure of deeply
seated maladies, even though a great
many, similarly circumstanced, have
been benefitted. Don't come with the
expectation of becoming rich in a few
weeks or months, but rather come with
tho will and energy to amass a comfort
ble allowance of this world's goods in
an honest manner, no matter how long
a time it may take.
To all who can receive our advice In
tho spirit in which it is given and act
upon it wo say Come 2
THE ISSUE MADE UP.
The Cincinnati platform and nomi
nees have been adopted at Baltimore,
with but little opposition. With this
suicidal act the Democratic party ceases
to be a national organization, and passes
from the field of politics to rest in the
grave by the side of its old Whig an
tagonist. We had fondly hoped that upon the
disruption of the Democratic party
there would spring up from its ruins an
organization which would Inscribe
upon Its banner "equal and exact jus
tice" to all. But, alas, instead of a dec
laration of high and noble principles,
the movement has narrowed down to a
apilcful opposition to ono man. No
party can be successful on such a basis.
"Atiyiuing to beat urant" is a poor
watchword with whicli to arouse the
enthusiasm of tho American people.
Thus much for Cincinnati. Let us
now turn to Philadelphia.
For the first time in the history of
American politics woman has secured
recognition In a national platform.
True, it Is rather "Weak and non-com
mittal on the suffrage question, but
what there is of it is just so much more
than has been done by any other na
tional organization. Then the endorse
ment of President Grant and Senator
Wilson amounts to a good deal, espe
cially wnen wo consider that more
women have been appointed to office
by General Grant than by any former
President, and that Horace Greeley
publicly declares that women arc unfit
for official duties.
Compelled, then, to choose between
the Cincinnati-Baltimore and the Phil
adelphia Conventions, the great mnjor-
of the Woman Suffragists will heartily
support Grant and Wilson. The issue
is made up, and we predict that the
party which has uttered the first favor
able word for woman's cause will tri
umph by sucli a majority as will con-
vinco even the most skeptical that
Woman Suffrage is a power in tho laud,
GBAHT AND WILSON PLACE THEM
SELVES 0NBEC0BD.
Here Is the way in which the Repub
lican candidates express themselves In
reference to the Woman Suffrage plank
in their platform. It will be seen that
each of them go a good deal further
than the platform. General Grant
closes his letter of acceptance with these
noble words: "With the expression of a
sincere desire to sec the time when the
title of citizen will carry with it all the
protection aud privileges to tho hum
blest that it does to the most exalted."
That means Woman Suffrage. It can
mean nothing else. Since the enfran
chisement of tho negro women are the
only citizens who have not tho "protec
tion and privileges" alluded to.
Senator Wilson is even more ex
plicit, lie says: "To woman, too, it
extends the hand of grateful recogni
tion, and proffers them a most respect
ful hearing. It recognizes her noble de-
- it 11 i i r , i
vuiiuii iu uic country aim irccuum; vci- :
comes her admission to wider fields of!
usefulness; and commends her demauds '
for additional rights to the calm and
careful consideration of the nation; to
guard well what has already been se
cured; to work out faithfully and wise
ly what is now In hand, aud to consider
the questions which are looming up to
view but a little way before us."
Tho Republicans have struck the ksy
notc of victory. An overwhelming tri
umph will be the result In November.
WHAT HEW0ULD DO.
The old white-coated philosopher of
the Tribune in sadly in his dotage.
There was a time, In his younger and
better manhood, when his heart beat
true to the grand principles of freedom,
before the purer visions of his brain
had been addled by Presidential ambi
tion. There was a time when Horace
Greeley respected womanhood. To-day
he casta a foul aspersion upon the name
of woman by declaring that wherever
she has been tried In the public service
she has become corrupt, and the old
dotard indulges iu gleeful anticipations
of turning every poor, half-paid woman
clerk out of the various departments, to
make way, we presume, for large,
brawny, broad-shouldered men, at full
prices. But, like Victoria Woodhull,
the deluded old Sage-hen Is counting
his Presidential chickens before thev
arc hatched, and we venture to say that:
he will never hear the faintest ciiirn to
reward his labors of incubation.
Theodore Tllton supports Greeley and
wears a white hat. It is supposed that
he threw off on his first love because he
didn't want to "unsex" himself bv
wearing a Woodhull bonnet.
The rhif wliMi w.0i,i.1i
r'ncejl on the fiugcr ofliis bride Mrs.
Martha Curtis. tln lionutifui vmu,n
served0 Jannaty, 1728, is still prt
ened. it is a gold ring set with a to-
D?1nvY25nIn publican says that
U travdlS nft Uo Afrlcau explorer,
EDITOEIAL- COEBESPOHDEKOE.--
Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Juue 23, 1872.
Dear New Northwest :
So many and varied have been my
experiences within tho past ten days
that I really cannot remember when or
upon what subject I last addressed, you.
Since leaving Springfield, III., I have
been visiting and lecturing within the
sacred circle of dear childhood associa
tions, with my mind in such a wliirl of
olden memories and present realities as
to totally uufit mc for newspaper du
ties.
Have held large, pleasant and -well
appreciated meetings in Atlanta, Dcle
vau, Hopcdale, Tremont aud Grove-
laud, Illinois. On the last evening of
my sojourn in my native Slate, a largo
company of old timo associates assem
bled at the dear old homestead, where I
had the melancholy pleasure of address
ing them in tho grand old rambling
farm house, where once our father's
voice and mother's song made melody ;
where ouce our aged grandparents on
both sides of tho geneaiogic tree, with
dear old "Grauny," tho great grand
mother of u loug line of descendants,
kept ward and watch over turbulent,
impetuous and oftentimes rebellious
Young America; where once grand
father's "Chat" and "Choatc" and 'Tip
toes" the dear old man was an illus
trious nick-namcr tripped over the
clover-dotted sward, aud sometimes
danced barefoot to the tune of stinging
bumblebees' song of ono of which
have lively recollections to this day;
where "Biug," the mastiff-, with whom
we children were brought up, and whose
teeth were all worn out loug before we
mourned his last long sleep, aud
"Watch," tho noble plc-bald cur, who
followed us to Peoria on the morning of
twenty years ago, when our oxen aud
wagons were "Westward hound, and who
refused for weeks afterward to be com
forted by our desolate grandfather be
cause we were not; within the moonlit
shades of old time apple trees, upon
wnicii the winter blasts or hair a cen
tury have beaten in vain; under the
protecting branches of the Old Elm
Tree, whose majesty has mado the Pleas
ant Grove Farm notorious for a radius
of many miles, as well as through the
mazes of the large cities that flourish
near its borders ; where once the merry
laugh of childhood and tho fond lover's
sigh resounded ; and where now live
new loves and new associations of other
families who yet keep bright and vigor
ous tho hallowed associations aud most
striking landmarks of the days of Auld
Lang Syne, in respectful remembrance
of the occupants of a by-gone era, for
which in my heart of hearts I reverent
ly thank them. There! I must make a
period and catch breath. We had in
tended to hold the farewell meeting un
der the Old Elm Tree on the lawn, but a
light shower came up a while before
sundown, which not only caused us to
repair to the house, but prevented a
large number of the friends from com
ing. As it was about two hundred were
present, and sucli a meeting! The beaux
of the olden time, among them
"A lonn- lad I railed my lover,
A bonny lad who loved no other,
No oilier lass but me,"
came oh, shades of romance! how
shall I tell the story? with a hand
some, well-kept wife at his side and
bonny lads and lassies almost ad infin
itum. Men and women, boon compan
ions of my parents in the golden long
ago, whom I remembered with plump
faces, beaming eyes and youthful mcln,
grasped with wrinkled hands my trem
bling Angers, aud as I looked into their
faded eyes and noted the ravages of
hoary Time upon their straggling locks,
the laugh with which I greeted them
sounded hollow to my senses, aud the
memory of departed joys swept over me
iu a torrent of unutterable retrospection.
It was midnight before the last dear,
well-remembered guest was gone, and I
repaired to a large, square chamber,
which was used as a parlor when we
girls were young, and sitting down upon
the floor beside tho open window, I
watched the Iiuixid moonbeams of the
long ago as they played upon the famil
iar brandies of the sighing trees; and
while to my tangible senses came no
sound of dear ones' voices, memory at
tuned iUclf to melody and I said, half
audibly:
"When at eve I hit alone.
Thinking of the lust nml gone.
While the clock, wllh drowsy linger,
Marks how slow the minutes llnser.
And the ember, dimly burning,
Tell of life to dutt returning.
Then my lonely cent around,
With a solemn, mournful Round,
With n murmur, soft and low.
Come the shouts of Ions ago.
One by one 1 count them o'er.
Voices that are heard no more.
Tear that loving checks have wet.
Word whoe music lingers yet.
Holy faces, pale and fair.
Shadowy locks ot waving hair.
Gentle sight and whispers dear,
Nongt forgotteu many a year.
Up of dewy fragrance, eyes
llrlghtcr, bluer than the skies,
Odors breathed from Paradise,
Ax thus at eve I ll alone.
Thinking oftho pastand gone,
All around me sad and low,
Come the ghosts of long ago."
A soft white arm stole lovingly around
my neck, and for an instant I thought
my own raven-tressed daughter from
the fur Pacific was kneeling by my side;
but the locks were flaxen and the eyes
were blue, and Cella, my departed cous
in's darling, now a cunrming young
lady, whom I could only remember as a
little birdllng of a happy home-nest,
kissed me back to life and Its present
realities,
Header, did her precious mother
In the moonlight hover near?
Hid around us dawn the glories
Of the bright, celestial sphere ?
Lulled at last by the wlcrd and well
remembered music of the moonlit trees,
I fell asleep, and spanning time and dis
tance in my dreams, looked in upon my
dear ones as they lay locked in slumber
in the far Northwest, and was finally
awakened by a robbin's merry twitter
as he chirruped forth his welcome to the
morning sunbeams. With that feeling
of half joy, half pain which we realize
when tho mind nnd body are in differ
ent places, I aroo and began tho unro
mantlc preparation or packing up for a
final departure; and now, while cousin
Celia is engaged at this necessary work,
Iaskyou,-patientr-reader, to go back
with me for a few days previous to the
time above described and visit witli the
other dear friends of long ago.
At Atlanta I found aged maternal rel
atives aud their jolly, happy daughters,
who know me at a glanco In spite or
wrinkles which they had never seen
and gray ltairs that they knew not of.
It seemed almost wicked to allow my
much-changed features to Imj reflected
from tho mirror which had been my
mother's in her youth, and which I, in
long gone years, had so often studied, as
is young ladies' wont, but I looked at
last, and was startled to sec how much
more my altered face resembled moth
er's thau my own. I stood expectant,
as if waiting to hear her speak, but aunt
addressed mo by my girlhood's name
and broke the sudden spell. In one cor
ner of the cozy sitting-room sat grand
mother's vacant chair. She had been
for many years a cripple dear blue-
eyed, golden-haired old darllug and
her amputated foot yet sleeps in the lit
tle garden of the long ago. Tho chair in
question was of the most primitive, sub
stantial pattern, guiltless of paint or
polish, but scoured to a severe whituess,
with its plethoric cushion of feathers
covered with a snowy case upon which
she rested her crippled limb while en
gaged in her household duties long after
every child had married into another
home. How severely neat, precise and
prim she was! And how I love to think
that when she reached tho shining shore
she found no dirt to blemish aud no
grease to tarnish her immaculate sur
roundings. What a terror to us children
was her mania for cleanliness! How
good aud loving and solicitous she was
when one of us grew sick !
Grandfather's well-worn Bible and
hymn book lie near the vacant chair.
Tears blind mc as I write ; but after all,
thank Heaven ! their work on earth Is
done, aud it is better so!
At Delcvan I encountered more ma
ternal relatives and other dear friends of
other times, with whom for several
days I visited, devoting the evenings to
lectures, and crowning the last one of
my sojourn by attendanco at a "China
Wedding," with the principal actors of
which I had cause to cherish sacred
memories. Tho wedding was a grand
affair, the gifts were splendid, and cv-
cryDouy appcarcu nappy. Twenty years
of wedded life have set lightly and
gracefully upon the "bride," but the
"groom" has almost faded from me
morial vision, though his soul shines
through his eyes as of old, and in his
I T- ti it. i
j :",cu jw ' oi yore.
v hciu juuug luirta w ncu x. siw
him last, but on this occasion after
twenty years his son, a fine, manly
fellow of nineteen, escorted mc home
from tho party, and his wifo and chil
dren kissed mo good-bye on the door
step. Such is life. Sunday morning,
and my friend the "groom" conveyed
mc in a carriage to the homestead of
my you Hi. How changed and yet how
familiar were tho many scenes I wit
nessed! Every tiling seemed hampered
and diminutive, but how dear and vivid
were the many memories of old that
thronged and pressed and crowded mo !
Another dear friend of tho golden long
ago is tho gratified owner of tho patri
archal grounds, aud royally does he
keep and care for them. An uncle from
a dozen miles away, whom I had not
met for a quarter of a century, having
learned that I would visit the farm thai
day, was there before us ; and after din
ner we all strolled out through the fields
and pastures, over the well-remembered
grounds and through the well-kept or
chards, past the sites where once resided
both ancestral families, beside the
graves of long-departed dear ones, along
the banks of the "Branch," a stream In
the pasture whose every rock and crook
was to me a reminiscence; and while I
gazed upon all of these, and-turiicd from
objects inanimate to the changed fea
tures of my dear companions, tho tablet
of unutterable thoughts was traced upon
my soul, and I wished, oh, how fervent
ly! that wu were young once again!
But the desire was only for a moment.
I would not, if I could, recall the twenty
years.
My friend nnd I spent the night with
other relatives, among whom many
gaps have been mado by Death, and In
the morning, with dear cousin Celia, wo
repaired to the graveyard to &icnd an
hour among our dead. I cannot dwell
upou this subject now. I brought away
mementoes from each well-remembcrcd
one's last resting-place, and when my
Muse Is ready will do them up in verse.
The trunk is packed now, aud the last
bundle is ready, so we must leave these
reminiscences aud start with miuc host
of the old homestead and his bright
eyed wife to Peoria, where I am to take
the cars for Council Blufl's aud home.
Reached the Bluffs at 9 a. jr. on tho
24th Inst., where my father's sister, who
bad not seen me for twenty-eight years,
but who knew me by the "family resem
blance," for which we arc all noted, met
me with a cheery welcome, and in her
cool and quiet guest's chamber I sit and
scribble, scarce heeding the flying mo
ments. Have engaged to lecture here two
evenings, and will then write again.
June 27, 1872. !
I start in the morning for the bracing
breezes of the billowy Pacific. i
Have agreed to lecture in Salt Lake
City, Cheyenne, Laramie City, Sacra-1
mento (if the weather isn't too hot) and i
San Francisco before departing overland
from California for home. It seems as
though I had been gone an age. Two
months to-morrow since I heard the
last good-bye and hied, all breathless,
to the steamer's docks, where I em
barked from Portland on my eastward
way. Wonder If men politicians feel
half as much solicitude about their dear
ones?
As I was coming from Buffalo to Chi
cago tho train stopped for breakfast at a
station, where I had not tho remotest
Idea that an acquaintance could be rounu
for hundreds of miles. I was hurrying J history as leader ln the vairof the inev
to the dining room, bent upon securing liable. As a word to the wise is auffi-
a hasty meal, when some one spoke my
name. Looking around Mrs. Governor
Woods, of Utah, herself on her home
ward way from New York, with her
face wreathed In smiles of welcome and
recognition, grasped my hand with a
look of Inquiry and wonder. To thus
meet an old friend, an Oregonian, after
the lapso of years, In a spot so remote
from the scenes of our early associations,
was a mutual pleasure, which we en
joyed to the utmost. She gives manv
interesting facts concerning Utah, polyg
amy and Brigliam Young, and reports
much dissatisfaction among the Mor
mon women.
Council Bluffs, where I havo been lec
turing for several evenings, is a beauti
fully situated city, where I found a
uumuer oi mc menus aim neighbors of ,
tno auiu x,ang toyne. The editors of .
tne two uauy papers nere are jolly and
geiitlemanly, with none of the assumed
pomposity with which tho stiff-necked
New York knights of tho quill aro wont
to greet their visitor's, and I fairly real
ized tho pleasing fact that I was home
ward bound when I encountered the
genial, 6oclal life of their editorial sanc
tums. Thero is a spirit of cosmopolitan
liberality of thought, sentiment aud ex
pression among tho Western people that
gives way to social conventionalism as
you go farther east. Though there are
genial exceptions to tho general rule,
and I met men in the Eastern cities
who were apparently as uuconscious of
their own dignity as all great men and
women really are, yet the rule is that
when you meet them they impress you
us though they had said, "Aren't you
surprised to see what a wonderful per
son J am?" This is not said with a
wish to detract in any way from the in
telligence, culture or well meaning of
the gentlemen of the East, but is given
as a fad, the reasons for which I leave
the reader to imagine.
Have just been honored by a pleasant
call from Mrs. Maynard, wife of the edi
tor of tho Xonparcil. Mrs. M. Is Presi
dent of the Council Blufls Woman Suf
frage Association, and is a wide awake,
energetic woman.
Mrs. Amelia Bloomer, of Bloomer
dress notoriety, editor of the Lily, the
first woman's paper published in Amer
ica, also resides iu this place; and Mrs.
Matilda Fletcher, a lecturer of no mean
ability, makes Council Bluffs her home.
Mr. Montgomery, of tho Times, is a
very pleasant gentleman, a Democrat,
who thinks he has sugared Greeley till
he can manage to swallow him. As it
was against my moral principles to bet,
I declined to win a fortune ofTof his en
thusiasm, but I prevailed upou him to
agree to write and tell me of his sorrow
ful emotions next November when his
"man" starts up Salt River.
Laramie Citv, W. T.,
July 1st, 1S72. j
I stopped In this place on the 2Sth
anil have been lecturing with usual suc
cess before the only citizens of the
United States who are all such in real
ity. Laramie Is a perfect gem of a village,
with about two thousand inhabitants,
five churches anil good, enterprising
and intelligent society.
I have been stopping at the residence
of Dr. Hayford, editor of the Laramie
Sentinel, and Territorial Auditor of Wy
oming Territory, who, with his pretty,
bright, young wife, has entertained me
likeamicen. From him T have learned
a detailed historv of Woman Suffrage
and its effects in Wyoming, which Ii
have not time to give in full at preent,
Although it is intensely interesting and
I should dearly love to writo it up. Suf
fice it to say that I have talked with a
number of gentlemen who arc trying as
Democrat' to gulp the Greeley pill, and
with others who regret, as I do, that the
women arc doomed to run tho present
Presidential campaign on a diet of wa
ter and gruel, while their brother Re
publicans help themselves to the beef
steak and plum pudding, and all, irre
spective of partisan bias, agree that the
results of woman's enfranchisement
have been for good.
The sensation stories, gotten up by
tho man's rights press, about the bad
workings of the jury system are laughed
over by the sensiblo lady jurors and
their equally sensible aud well pleased
husbands, who not only never did object
to their wives fulfilling the duties of
citizenship, but who honored them for
so doing aud sustained them In their sa
cred obligations to the commonwealth
as only freemen can.
The houses of ill-fame that flourished
hero before the women became voters
have betaken themselves to man's
rights quarters in Colorado, aud but for
the support the saloons receive from the
traveling public of the man's rights
States and Terrritorics, there would not
be a doggery sustained in the place.
The people here are especially wide
awake, public spirited and liberal ; and
if they could only realize how famous
Wyoming has become all over the
United States for her noble position in
the van of political progression, they
would feci, even more keenly than
now, tho injustice of being deprived of a
voice in the Presidential election.
Tho idea that an individual who for
twenty or forty years has voted for
President or Governor in New York or
Iowa, becomes partially disfranchised
as soon as he removes to a Territory, is
beginning to show Its absurdity on its
face, and when I get to tho United
States Senate, I shall see if wo can't
further free tho Territories.
I wish our Oregon Legislature could
travel over tho United States and learn
how famous Wyoming has become of
her political position. Then I know
that Honorable Body would decide cn
rnasnc to bring our Stato Into favorable
public notice by not only enfranchising
Its women, but by becoming the first to
send n woman to the Senato of this Re
public, that tho fair name of far off Ore
gon might thus become prominent in
cient, I do not think It necessary to an
nounce myself as candidate.
Two daily papers flourish iu Laramie.
Both have the independent ring of wild
Western freedom aud enterprise, toned
down by tho culture and good common
sense of their editors and proprietors;
and though they fight, spat, spar at and
abuso each other before the public, in
private they are as courteous when they
meet as aro your humble servant and
Mr. Holladay's man Friday.
I start this evening for Salt Lake, to
sco what can be done with man suffrage
and Brigham Young. Woman Suffrage
and Victoria Woodhull have been re
ceiving too much of my political solici
tude of late.
It will never do to allow men too
much liberty.
They'll all become
polygamists
if tho ballot isn't taken
from them.
Isn't Brigham Young a fit
examnlo of thn dire conscfllicnces of
mau suffrage?
ANSWERS TO OOBEESPONDENTS.
"Ochoco:" No letter from the party
received. Your poem, while containing
some excellent things, is hardly merit
orious enough to appear In print The
poetic feet are not very regular, and the
language seems strained iu order to
make the rhyme. Both these faults
might, with study and practice, be over
come.
Sirs. S. R. L.. Dayton, W. T.: Your
note is received aud your name placed
on the subscrintiou books. You are
authorized to act as agent.
B. A. O., Roscburg: Note, with name
of subscriber, received. You are a re
agent.
Mrs. S. A. U.jThorndike, Mass.: Sub
: scription fee received.
Dr. J. W. W., Lafayette: The propri
etor will "fix the matter up" with you
when she returns.
"A Subscriber:" Durauy's is consid
cred the best work on
suppose it can be had
Portland book-stores.
dancing. W
at any of the
From the S. K. llulletin.
Pacific Slope 'Woman Suffrage Conven
tion.
The resolutions were disposed of as
follows:
Whereas. As the welfare of the peo
ple depends in a great measure upon the
laws by wincii tney are governed, anu
the laws in turn depend upon the char
acter of those who make them, and as
the richt of suffrage in a Republic lays
at the foundation of the law-making
power, therefore,
llciolvcd, That the enfranchisement
of women .should bo the first, if not the
exclusive aim of the friends of equal
richts and trood order, and that all social
and religious questions should bo ig
nored, as bavins no necessary connec
tion with the movement for equality of
political privileges.
Laid on table temporarily to allow
member to propose a substitute.
Ilcsolvcd. That the promise to obey in
the marriage contract is an insult to the
Human soul.
Adonted.
Jleeolred, That we will not, by voice,
vote or pen, aid in the election of a
Presidential candidate who is not great
enniiL'h and just enough to advocate
woman's right to the elective franchise.
Reiected.
Rctolvcd. That wo will work with
any earnest soul who may desire the
benefit of the ballot without regard to
antecedents or reputation?.
Adonted.
The Committee who visited the Dem
ocratic Convention reported that the
resolutions passed at the morning ses-
Ision had been presented to tho Demo
craticConventlonandconlially received;
and submitted to tho Convention the
following resolutions:
I ho California oman feultragu Con
vontinn ronnpotfullv nrf that vonr lion
orablc body instruct your delegates to
tho Baltimore Convention that they
urge upon that assembly the importance
ot recognizing tne constitutional n
of women to the elective franchise.
ht
Conx Starch Paste. Corn starcl
makes the host naste for scrap books.
Dissolve a small quantity in cold water,
then cook it thorouirhlv. Be careful
and not net it too thick. When cold it
should be thin enotmh to apply with a
brush. It will not mold nor stain tho
paper. It Is the kind used by dngucrreo
typists on "gem" pictures.
An exchange thinks tho snail has a
"right smart chance for a toothache."
He lias one hundred and ten rows of
teeth, with one hundred and ten teeth
in cadi row, or twelve thousand two
hundred nnd ten in all.
For tlic very heft pliotogmpltx, go to Bradley
4 Kulofron'ij Gallery without .STAI113
oa-ASCKXD IX TUB ELEVATOR, tSJ Mont
gomery St., San Francisco.
OUR AGENTS.
Tlie following persons arc duly authorized to
net a Acents for the Xew XoimtWEST :
.Mrs j. it. i-oster Alhanv
Asliby loarw.
I)r. llayley
A. A. Manning
Ml Virginia Oldx...
Hiram Smith
J. II. I). Hendeion.
W. W. neneh
uemon county
..Cor-aIIU
Oiymtila
MrMlnnvlllo
unmnbu
Eugene City
Ilaena Vista
uin.
ltev. Win. Jolly
. " V siiverton
Mary J. Stagers.. Kerrnl
St""nri1 Umwnsville
VV . J-."""?"10" I.nbanon
A. Heed.. Kaletn
Mrs. O. T. D.inlels salcni
Mrx. Nellie Curl. ...Salom
r. l . Sulllvnn IVillns
Mrs. M. V. 5ook
-Lafnyctre
Mr. M. C. Cllne
Mrr. 1L A. Vawlen
Mrs. IS. It Illxhop.
Uev. J. F. Damon
iiev. I), ltaflev.
Mrs. Jane M. Wilson.-...
riilllp Ilttz
r.D. Moore
Mrs. IS. J. fi corse
Mrs. M.J. Knslxn. .
(J. lL lilood
-Kalama
WalNbunr
I'endlelon
Seattle
.Seattle
Walla Walla
Walla Walla
..l'ort Townond
.Traveling Agent
itirtland
-Traveling Agent
Mrs. M.Jctlric
IL II. Welch.. ..
l)r. J. Watts
A. X. Arnold-...
ti. AV. I.avson...
..Traveling Agent
.Washington county
1-irayctte
.. .Albany
Salem
Dalles
-Forest Grove
Oregon City
Mllu-nukie
The Dalles
.. YoucaI!a
ltoaeliujft
Forest Grave
Xchalem
-Traveling Agent
M. 1 Onren..
Mrs. C. A. Cohurn.
Mrs. J. DcVore Juhnon .
Thos. Parsons
1L 1'enllaml
Mls Sallle Applegate..
Mlt t K A. nwvns
J. T. Scott, Esq
Mrs. A. E. Corwiu
r:co. Knle
J. W. .Iwrbmn
..Kugene
U I Fisher-
-San Francisco
Mrs. l-iur.i DeForeo (Idrdon.
Mlii Nellln Mossinan..
I.T. Maulsliy. ..
a. W. Brock
G. W. names
..uaitrorniu
i-.OIympla
Vancouver
Union nidge, W.T
J. X. Gale Washington Territory
ucnoco valley
Mrs. K. Oakshett -Traveling Agent
Other nartlc desiring to net ax Agents will
please forward their names. We want Agents
at every postoftico throughout Oregon and
Wahlngton Terrllory.
A. centleman once tfsked a little girl,
an only child, how many sisters she
ii fin r ti t t"
Hail, nntl was torn "liiree or iuur.- Jier
mntli.-r nsked Marv. when they were
alone, what induced her to tell such an
untruth. "Why, mamma," cried Mary,
"I didn't want him to think you were
so poor that you hadn't but one child.
WOUHItl't lie tuoilgm we were unauiui
poor?"
SfMI(.tv winks at the wealthy knave
and tramples on tho poor knave. Soci-
ty is wortny oi an praise
SPECIAL NOTICES.
The Clotuliiir Trndc has, within the
la.t thirty daysjundergonearegulor revolution,
by Flihel & ltoberU having opened , a flrst-closs
Clothing establishment, corner of Urst and
Washington streets, wnere jien uu wio uu
!x titled to nerfectlon in every kind of Clothes.
They are manufacturing on a laree sonic, nnd
can make anything for Men and Uoysi wear to
order In the very bct style, at extreme low
prices. Tnclraim isiopieHse umu in muus aim
tn quality. Acall to tnoir iwiuuiiMiiiirni.cunier
First and Washington streets, will convince all
of the fact. upSrtf
W. H. COBURN,
Book null Job 3?jrintor,
5 WASHINGTON STRKET, VP-STAIRS,
Portland, Orcpoa.
-Work done at REASONABLE RATES, nl
GRAY'S
MUSIC STORES!
CLAY ST.,
San Francisco,
101 Tlrxt Street,
Portland, Oregon.
Steinway & Sons'
Kranlrb, Barb & Son's,
HAINES BROS,'
M
Pi
. CRAY'S
i.N08.
the
World Renowned
BURDETT
ANU
S1IOXIXOKR
ORGANS.
"HOWE'S"
Xtw Improved
SF,WING MtCIIISE..
nUTTEIlIGICS
Celebrated
Patterns
0F
Udlts' and ChlldrraV
GARMENTS.
Agents Wanted
In Every County on
tha Coast.
G. r HcVRXSH,
Manager
Oregon Branch House.
fS-nO-tr
$50 00!
$50 00!
THE 3JEW WILSON
STltAIGHT XKEDLE, UXDEUFEED
SEWING 3IACIIINE.
MAKES THE LOCK STITCH ALIKE OX
lloth Sides.
i ituns easy, ana win no enner jigm or neavj
scwlng. Is the only first-class Sewing Machine sold
for less tlian i Oil
Examine and Judge for yourselves. Don't be
humbugged Into paying ;C3 IJO for a SowlngMa
chine, when you can get a Xew Wilson for SM.
OFFICE .VXD SALESROOM,
Xo. 73 Flrt Street,
l'oitTL.txii, om:cox.
AGENTS WANTED!
MIXEK & PEAHSOX.
v2n9
General Agents.
THE CLOTHING STORE !
IS THE TLACE WHERE
GENTS' CUSTOM-MADE CLOTHING,
IJojV nnd YontliV Clothing,
Furnishing Goods, Hats and Caps,
OOOTS AND SHOES,
Etc, Etc.,
Etc.,
CAN BE HAD AT
Snu Francisco I?ilec I
113 Front .Street. 1'orlland.
Harris & Prager.
Wm. Harris,
Han Francisco.
. rRAOER,
Portland.
2n7
MRS. 31. J. EXSIGy,
Fashionable Dress and Cloak-Maker,
Third Street, Xear Washington,
(Xcxt door to Xew Xortkweot Office),
HAS A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF PAT
tcrnifor Ladles and Children's Clothing
for sale. ,
Dressmakers can get full assortment or pat
terns, consisting of nrteen (full size), tor S3 00.
which will be sent to any part or the State on
rwoitit nt iiiHmv T.cttpr of fashion, how to trim
nnd make will le sent with eacn pacKage.
I"rlecs of
nolonalsc.
i.u.t
-'i'"v. ""J- i.fi.
-. . ... . 1. ....... . rt
uutiing ana rating uoue "".""',. ,;,-.,
1'Ieasc state age in sending for children's
hTabove patterns will be mado for homo
me. nnd will be found much superior to East-
em made. . ,.
All orders promptly ai;;"" VCIV
Givcmeacail. 2nS MRS. M.J. EJSIGX.