FRIDAY...
...SEPTEMBER C, 1S72.
EEMOYAL.
The office of the Xew Xoktiiwbst
has been removed from the corner of
Third ami Washington streets to the
Oregonian building on Stark street.
The editorial room will be at our resi
dence on Sixth and E streets. Sub
scriptions or orders for advertisements
will be received at the business office of
the Oregonian or at the editorial office.
HNAtfOIAL NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that after Sep
tember 10th we shall stop every news
juiji a complimentary or
dead-head concern from this office and
present bill for arrearages. Vc shall
also present every delinquent's bill for
the past year and demand advance pay-
inont on the present one. This step is
aiwolutcly necessary to save us from ft
nanoial ruin.
To ourataiineh and trusty friends who
have aided us financially as well as
with good words and wishes, we express
our profound gratitude for services ren
"urmi. jo niose who have aided us
with good words and wishes only, we
airnoetly and emphatically declare that
we cannot pay printer's bills, paper-
maker ami pressman, or house rent and
city (axes, with buncombe. Our ex
tended and expensive trip in the East,
In the interest of Oregon and our con
stituents, has depleted our treasury and
rim us in debt. Now let our friends
prove themselves such in reality. W'c
are not working merely for newspaper
glory. And even if we were, we'd like
to know how we'd succeed without the
needful.
This is no idle talk, and we call upon
our friends to contribute such sums as
they are willing to give and able to
spare towards liquidating the one thous
and dollar indebtedness unavoidably in
curred in publishing the New Noktji-
wrst during our four months absence
in the East AVe are, of course, anxious
to sustain the paper. It has cost us
matry years of hard labor and nervous
anxiety, and now that it has proved an
unprecedented popular success, if the
people do not sustain it, wo shall let it
Mile. Other and lucrative avocations
are open to us, and while we shall leave
no ellert untried to keep our "Journal
for the People" ever before them, we
shall not wrong our children nor bank
rupt ourself to accomplish the aim near
est our heart.
We are free to confess that we don't
understand begging. We consider it no
personal charity to us for the people to
meet the expenses of the journal to
which wo devote our timo and energies,
and if ihey do not want it sustained,
neither tltall tee. A word to the wise is
sufficient. Now lot us see who
friends really are.
JOTTINGS 0P0UE JOUENEY.
The following was crowded from our
columns last week:
Leaving Mokolumne Station, Cal., on
Monday, August 4th, a short ride
brought us to Sacramento, where, ex
hausted and half sick, we remained for a
week, finding many friends and forming
hosts of new acquaintances.
Here I attended a Greeley "ratifica
tion," and saw Frank I'ixley, of San
Francisco, a life long Whig-Republi
can, endeavor to shake hands across
the "filthy pool" with Dr. Siiorb, of
San Francisco, a life long Democrat.
Pixley would orate and declare himself
and the "party" to bo Jlejiublican to the
core. Then Siiorb would orate and de
clare It was a Democratic institution;
and then the coalition would grasp
hands "across the chasm" amid the de
risive laughter of the small boys, who
could see through the farce most clear
ly, while old-line Democrats would vow
they couldn't "stand It" and retire In
disgust, Jand "liberal" Republicans
would shake their heads and grumble.
"A happy family" indeed is tins one
headed by the grandmother-in-chlef of
the Chappaquacks. The meeting called
together some live hundred persons all
told, of whom, judging from manifesto
lions of derision instead of appiaue, at
least two-thirds were Republicans.
Had the honor of addressing the Sac
ramenlons on the evening of the 12th,
and added a handsome list of subscrib
ers to the New Nohtiiwest. Spoke
the following Wednesday evening at
Marysvilie, and on Thursday took the
train for Red Bluffs, and was there met
by the stage, when I took passage for
Yreka, at which place 1 stopped and
spoke two successive evenings to good
audiences, and, as usual, receiving
goodly list of subscriptions.
Timo and sixicc will not permit a de
scription of the journey or places of in
terest winch I should dearly love to
give, bufiice It to say that the journey
itself over the seriientino and rocky
roadway, through the abounding and
abiding dust, the fatigue of successive
days and nights of traveling in mud
wagons misnamed coaches where the
jolting sfeicscopes your spinal column
and sets your brain to patting juba
against your skull, was one long to be
remembered, and not easily to be recov
ered from.
Stopped at Roseburg and spoke two
successive evenings, and then at Oak
land, where I compromised with a dauc
ing party that had pre-engaged the
only hall the place afforded, and ad
dressed the throng for half an hour, and
in the gray of the following morning
took the cars for home, where, were it
not for the necessity of working up bus
iness for the New Nokthwrst, which
Portland seems too poor and miserly to
afford, but without which she would
not get the credit of a woman's paper,
we should remain and rest for a month
at least. As it is, I must again go forth
to the battle, girded with the armor of
truth and shielded by the protection of
a good conscience.
our
COMMITTER MEETING.
The finance committee of tho Woman
Suffrage Association are requested to
meet on this (Friday) evening at the
Tesidenceof Mrs. Dr. Thompson to make
a report and transact other important
business. By order of tho Chairman,
G. W. Bhowj.
THE "HEEALD'S'WOMAN" AGAIN.
Another tirade of scurrility and per
sonal abuso appeared in a late issue of
tho Herald, purporting to come from
"an uiipurchosable woman." It looks
to us very much as though the Herald
editor, fearing to attack us boldly and
squarely, had planted himself behind
an Imaginary "woman's" ink-stand.
ami mat nc Holds on to her apron
strings for protection while casting mire
and dirt at us, which he dare not under
take to throw while acting upon his
own responsibility. But wo will give
the "woman" idea the benefit of
doubt, and have only to say to her, if
Indeed a woman lives who is low and
vile enough to thus attack us, that
whenii woman takes pains to convey to
the world that she sits upon unap
proachable heights of modesty and vir
tue, good people beware of her. They
decide at once that she is a person of
doubtful reputation and a stranger to
the precepts of respect. So when
woman publicly boasts that she is "un
purchasable," and brazenly vaunts her
incorruptibility, while vulgarly accus
ing her sisters of the blackest crimes in
the catalogue, wise people start
at once to buy that woman if they
wuit such a commodity, as they know
hey m get her cheap.
11,11' 5,bU7! fctfn thinks
the streets, "her Tan'
chaste nor elegant." VZ
Moron-it, catching at a hmt t
"-b" J uutlclina i .1.
thought, and like a vulture, croaks
loriu ioui uongnu
The Annual Conference of the M. u.
Church closed its- deliberations this
weok in Salem after a very busy and
harmonious session. The list of ap
pointments for the ensuing year, aiid
Correspondence and various Items of
importance, have been crowded out
"WE "V70EEIED HIM.
We were at first dissatisfied with our
campaign speech of last Friday evening.
We were sick and exhausted, and the
hall, so densely crowded, was difficult
to fill with a voice that had been almost
churned to a pulp in the overlaud stage
coaches, and we went home sadly vexed
because we had forgotten some of the
most important "points" of the argu
mont; but when Saturday morning's
Herald appeared, and we saw how bad
ly we had worried its reporter, we grew
jubilant and happy. II the light you
make displeases your enemy, and sets
him to work to burlesque that which he
can in no wise controvert, depend upon
it, you are doing your own cause good
service. A refutation of the HcraliVt
misrepresentation of our allusion to Mr.
Greeley's declaration that his "daugh
ter was a Catholic" appeared In the
Orcgoninn of 2d, which we print below.
Women of Oregon, you who say that
"respectful consideration" in the Re
publican ranks amounts to nothing,
don't you see that it doe amount to
mucltf You well know that we, as
journalist, have been misrepresented in
every conceivable way by man's rights
opponents ever since our public career
began ; but never, until the Republican
party declared in its National Platform
that tho "honest demands of any class
of citizens for additional rights should
be treated with respectful considera
tion," did any public Journal think our
words or deeds of sufficient consequence
to be placed before the public in a cor
rect litrht. Now, however, our true
friends stand by us, and here is how
they talk when reporters lie:
We have been requested ly a mcnilier of Hie
Catholic Church to compel tlie statement in
Hie "Herald" of lat Saturday mornlvg, to the
(fleet tliMl Mrs. Dtiiitway, in ner ieecii last
Friday evening, "made a blasphemous aim
tan to the religion of Mr. Greeley" daugh
ters." To those who heard Mrs. I), the correc
tion is unnecessary, as well as to tnose who
L-twv the utter abandon with which the gen-
tlcinan who reported that seech lor the "Her
ald" perverts and falsifies a speaker's language
whenever It sull his jmrioses to do so. There
wax nothing in the speech referred to which
could in any way Ik- taken a even a slur at
the religion of Mr. Greeley's daughters or any
AIM else- and all that was said on that subject
wna a reeilIlon 01 a siaiemem iiimjr vi fer
ine iiiniseu im liic HiM.-aKi.-r in mi ineii-n
which they had In Xevr York. That statement
was In Mr. Greeley's own words: "My oldest
.imi.i.tsr im Cniliollc. ami had rather confess
lo a priest than cast a uaitoi,-- ami was maue
In answer to the question put uy .Mrs. nuniway
ln this language: "Mr. Greeley, haven't vour
daughters any political aspirations Hal
"Mnuiihcmou niIusionour contemporary can
find in that is certainly beyond me compre
hension of any one who heard It.
The "woman question" worries the
Herald now just as the "nigger ques
tion" distressed it a few years ago ; and
the Republican party, which secured
political supremacy then by respectfully
considering tho rights of negroes, will
achieve a glorious victory in November
"J respectfully considering the inalien
auie rights of women.
EEM AEKAB LEW0EK OF AET.
While in Sacramento recently we
isited at the house of Mrs. Dr. Water-
house, whose skill in landscape and por
trait sketchiug and painting is of a very
remarkable character. The lady Is
sixty-two years of age and has never
taken a lesson in drawing or painting,
and never knew, until within the past
six months, that she had a talent for art.
Her first work began In penciling upon
the plastered walls of her sttlng-roora,
and progressed, as she avers, by the aid
of shadows which appeared to her as
she sketched, but which were visible to
no one else. She continued sketching
from right to left and rice vena until a
picture of hieroglyphics of very ancient
design, and unique in every particular,
was finished, which is six feet by three
In size, and from which she demonstrates
many useful life lessons.
She has also painted in colors an im
mense landscape picture representing
the Yosemite Valley, the river Merced,
the Bridal Veil, etc. But the remarka
ble feature of this landscape lies in the
lessons which it conveys, and which she
says were pictured unconsciously to her
self as she proceeded with her labor. It
is impossible in a sketch like this to do
this picture any sort of justice, but we
will endeavor to give some idea of its
strange peculiarities. The Merced river,
breaking through the mountain gorge,
is shown leaving their base, and as they
tower above thedecp valley their rugged
outlines reveals forms and faces, many
of which can be readily recognized as
leading minds in our Republic's history
One huge, graceful, female figure forms
the highest mountain, which siie calls
the "Sleeping Giantess," or "Woman
Suffrage." A concourse of women ap
pear clambering up the mountain side,
as If intent upon arousing this sleeper,
while one bold, defiant woman shakes
her clenched list in their faces and defies
them to proceed. Other women, be
longing to tne same company are
stretching forth their hands to arouse
the Magdalens, who are pictured as
groveling among animals, or sinking
m the river Merced. On the right, in
the foreground and near the highest
pinnacle of the mountain, is a perfect
profile view of Gen. Grant, supported by
a large company of men and women.
To the right of this and behind and be
low is a correct portait of Mr. Greeley
with his half hidden friends peeping
fortli from behind the Bridal Veil, while
lie looks anxiously at Gen. Grant, whose
eye is fixed ujion the shadowy form of
Mr. Lincoln, as he appears, surrounded
by seraphs in the spirit-thronged clouds
above "Sentinel Rock," which is pic
tured upon the opposite mountainasthe
"Goddess of Liberty." Every rock and
stump and every knoll reveals the out
lines of a human face, which bears, ac
cording to the artist's interpretation,
some significant relation to some great
political fact. The picture is surmounted
by a rainbow which spans its entire
breadth, the wholo forming a very
accurate view of Yosemite Valley, with
its wonderful beauty, wildness and
grandeur of scenory.
Welearn that it is Mrs. W.'s intention
o exhibit this picture in California dur-
ng tlie coming campaign, and wo
should be pleased to see it come to Port-
and.
olive aud nut brown, aro considered the
moat desirable colore. The printed Em
press cloths are also of very fine quality.
The ground is black, strewn with Pom
padour designs, small llowers, leaves
and vines of shaded gray and brown
hues, with occasional relief of color.
Bright colors are shown in goods of in
ferior quality.
Serge poplin, a mohair goods with
sllk-faccd stripes, heavy twilled, like
serge, Is an excellent fabric for interme
diate seasons; It has usually a gray or
white stripe on black ground.
Morocco belts are now fastened by
buckles of imitation tortoise shell, and
have two pendents with hooks, on the
left side, for supporting the fan, um
brella or bag.
The fall styles of millinery are not
yet decided upon, but we are assured
that they will be graceful and stylish.
It seems that Brother Brown or the
Democrat couldn't get up readable items
paper lo amount lo anything if
Yd T, Jlrs- Duniway." This,
w th him, is an exhaustible theme.
lilflfl linla on .1 . .
" "eepiy interested. Sorry
iiuAqitiu.f .... .1.
.... . .......j, iriuni me compliment.
The Lafayette Courier is sorely troub
led just now about tlie public example
we made of "The Silent Man of Des
tiny" last winter when we resolved to
stop the cant of Republican editors
about the alleged impure social ideas of
women politicians. Remember, broth
er, mat air. urant's evil habits were
contracted aud indulged in while he
was a Democrat. Since he has been a
converted Republican his social life has
been beyond reproach.
LINN COUNTY SOENEET.
IIditoh Xrw Xokthwest:
In a southerly direction from Albany,
and from twelve .to twenty-five miles
distant, four prominent landmarks
called buttcs arise from the level prairie
to an altitude of several hundred feet,
giving a picturesque and pleasing op-
peanmce to what would otherwise be a
monotonous level plain.
Washington, belter known as Peter
son's Butte, takes its name from the
settler first known on its north-eastern
base. Ward's, also named by its owner
and first settler, rises abruptly from the
level prairie, pyramidal in form, and
although rather difficult of ascent, its
summit, when reached, discloses a scene
of much beauty. Saddle Butte, south
wust, takes its namo from its imaginary
resemblance to an old-fashioned saddle.
Gray's Butte, several miles south, great
ly resembles Saddle Butte in its general
appearance, but is perhaps a trille more
rocky at its southern terminus. Its ge
ological formation, as seen in a quarry
at its base aud croppings at its summit,
indicates a great deal of iron in Its com
position, and is very hard and of great
specific gravity. The stone of the quarry
is of cubic form, aud Is piled. up in
laj'ers almost perpendicular, with clay
seams resembling mortar between each
layer of stone, giving it the appearance
of rude masonry, trending north east
and south west Although its altitude
is not so great as that of the other
buttcs, yet it seems to have been a great
resort aud land mark of several Indian
tribes prior to the advent of the present
owners of tho soil. The loose stones
upon its sirTnmit have been placed in
positions that would indicate a purpose
perhaps a means of communication
witli each other, or of one tribe with
another, as was custom of the Indians
of tho Atlantic coast. Bo that as it
may, tho view from this point is well
worth the trouble of tourists, very few
of whom have been curious enough to
make the ascent. On reaching the sum
mit, the best portion of the valley lies
below you like a variegated carpet
spread at your feet, while lands, while
with the ripening oats, yellow with '
golden wheat, or green witli luxuriant i
gardens and fruitful orchards, smile ati
you as you gaze. To be sure, the carpet
is but a homely in-grain, but neverthe
less rich enough for a Queen. The Wil
lamette river in the distance, with its
broad belt of green limber, courses along
the valley, fed by its many tributaries,
clothed in the same emerald hue, add
ing greatly to the beauty of the scene.
Towns and villages, warehouses and
goodly dwellings stand out clear and
bright or peep from overshadowing foli
age, and church steeples and college
spires mark an era in the advancing
civilization of a free and contented peo
ple. SlIEUA.
Ai.iianv, uregon, August 187i
LETTEE EEOM EOSEBUEG.
RosEnuno, Oregon, August 27, ISTi
Editor New XoirniwnsT :
I assure you that you roused the lion
in his den when you lectured here last
week. I am also pleased to inform you
that our army, though small, is strong
aud earnest. Miss is still with me,
and we are making votes for Grant to
add to the long list which you made
while here. Mrs. M sends love and
says she win nenceiortii worlc for the
cause. Her husband is justly proud of
her. But the best nail you drove was
when you publicly rebuked the slander
ers of Mrs. M . It made the guilty
flutter, and I feel that this timely warn
ing will silence many a filthy tongue.
But I wonld not have you or the public
believe that there are many here who
delight in scandal. People become scan
dal mongers often because they have
nothing else with which to busy them
selves. Roseburg is a quiol, orderly
place, and wo have, as you know, many
very intelligent and excellent citizens.
We shall expect yon during the cam
paign. In haste, B,
TEEEITOEIAL NEWS.
Olympia has no political clubs.
Olympia has Sill school children.
There are five papers in Olympia.
Seattle is to have a daily paper in two
weeks.
Olympia will hold an annual fair in
October.
The Sound is entirely enveloped in a
cloud of smoke.
T., is to have a
T., will have an
the 0th, 10th and
Brother Ike of the Herald complains
that he "has lost all control over his
columns." We should say ho had.
TASEION.
For the benefit of our many lady
readers we shall endeavor hereafter to
sustain a fashion department in the
New Noutjiwest; not that we con
sidcr close adherence to fashion as par
ticularly important, but-u-e do consider
a general knowledge of prevailing styles
and general information as to where
best and most stylish and reasonably
economical fabrics can be obtained of
much consequence to women of limited
means or sensible, practical ideas. We
call the special attention of merchants,
moditc and milliners to the fact that
we shall visit their establishments as
regularly as jiossible, and shall take
pleasure in calling the attention of our
readers to the stores of such as advertise
hi the New NonTHWEsr.
The earliest importation of dress goods
has arrived. The undressed cashmeres
are thick aud heavy, and resemblo
somewhat tho Cheviot cloths worn by
gentlemen. They are in their natural
ecru state, free from dyes, and conse
quently show little variety of color.
They aro of dark, grayish-brown tints,
The material is intended for mantles
and over-dresses that require soft, yield
ing, yet heavy fabrics. Tlie velvet pet
ticoat that such effort was made to In
troduce this season at our watering
places will be very fashionable this fall
and winter on the promenade. Tlie ef
fort to banish polonaises will fail, as
they combine grace aud convenience;
the ladies will not willingly reiinquisu
them, although they will be altered aud
mollified considerably. The introduc
tion of skirts ruffled to the waist be
hind, and worn with an apron front,
will bring into favor the polonaise, in
which the basque and apron front are
combined. This garment descends to
the knee in front, is sloped sharply up
ward on the sides, and has merely a
shorter basque behind, dipensing with
the long back breadths now used.
The newly imported Empress cloth is
of a very superior quality; It is flexible
and snlt The dark -hades, eipi-nally
"WHY VOTE TOEJJNOLE HORACE ?
EllITOR ?EW XoRTUWESr :
One day lately on the street a half-
drunk Democrat seized my hand and
asked me if I wore not going for Uncle
Horace Greeley, as he had heard me of
ten say in former times that Greeley
was O K. 1 renlted that Greeley on
. -
slavery, tho tariff and temperance was
O K; but now, being found in very poor
company, and having to go back on his
life record to suit his new friends, or
else draw them out of their dens and
holes and transform them into sober
men and abolitionists, and in favor of
protective tariff, the task was too much
for tlie Sage, and I should not help to
place him in such a predicament. He
dropped my hand aud muttered, "d n
it!"
In pacing over the country, I find all
the llltli and slush in the whisky mills
aud gambling hells, and all tho Jeff
Mason county, W,
new court house.
A new hotel is to lie built soon at
Lcwiton, Idaho.
Wheat is selling at Walla Walla for
.10 cents pjr bushel.
The new Baptist church in Seattle
was dedicated on Sunday.
Walla Walla is said to be again as
suming its former life-like activity.
Many of the Idaho peoplo are taking
up their beds and jogging up to Oregon-
Passengers from Olympia reach San
Francisco in a few hours less than five
days.
Theobald has retired from tho edito
rial control of tlie Olympia Courier.
Next!
Oneida county, Idaho, in which the
famed Soda Springs are situated, has a
population of 4,775.
Clarke county, W.
Agricultural Fair on
11th of October next.
A considerable trade in walrus tusks
has sprung up with Alaska. These tusks
are used as ivory by cutlers.
It is rumored that Hon. IT. G. Struve,
of Vancouver, will soon assume the edi
torial control of the Puget Sound Cou
rier. Col. O. II. Urrabee, formerly propri
etor of the Scattlo DUpulcli printing of
fice, has jtint sold out his interest to
Beriali Brown and brother.
There is niucli dissausruetion ex
pressed in connection witli the recent
establishment of a mail route lietween
Lewiston and Spokane Falls.
Several large fires are raging in the
woods near Vancouver, which probably
accounts for the smoky state of tho at
mosphere in this part of Oregon.
Olympia contains twelve saloons and
only one school house. A local paper
says "the saloons aro provided with all
the appliances that modern luxury can
command, while tho school house is
barely shelter from the sun ami rain."
Colorado wheat promises well this
year, and Colorado farmers soy they can
prove it to lie tho best wheat in tlie world.
In Denver, Colorado flour is $14 per 100
pounds, and Eastern flour $10, really a
good argument to prove "what Colorado
wheat can do."
Seattle has a population of two thous
and, does a buMness of over a million
dollars a year, has several large stores,
six churches, two public schools, and
contains also tho Territorial University,
and claims to bo the commorci.il me
tropolis of Washington Territory.
The Courier thinks an outlay of $000
in premiums by the Puget Sound Agri
cultural Society, say $200 for horses,
$200 for cattle and $200 for the best
wheat field, would add SG0.000 to the
wealth of the Territory by the competi
tion the offer would excite among stock
raisers and grain growers.
Tlie'Olympla Tribune tells us that
.Mungcr, one or tlie most gifted young
artists of America, whose celebrated
picture of the fulls of Minnehaha has
A Card.
(From the Woman's Journal.
The public are invited to come and sec
the homestead set oil to a wiuow in
Washington County, Maine, by a Board
of Commissioners consisting of three
men; to wit: James A Coburn, of bjxst
Montpelier, Willanl Martin, of Plain-
new, and i-jieKiei v. yc, o ium.
Montpelier, a village included within
East Montpelier; after three days of
deliberation and consultation.
Tlie following is copied from assign
ment: "Commencing with the house on the
first floor. The front door and doorstep,
the front hall and stairway, tho parlor
and parlor bed-room and clpset adjoining
in the wet end of the house, ine large
sleeping-room known as 'Mrs. Liliey's
sleeping-room,' and the pantry between
the said sleeping-room and front hall.
On the second floor the largo chamber on
the west end of the house, also the closet
on tho nortli side of the house adjoining
tiie large chamber as now divuieu, tne
said Mrs. Li Hey shall have half attic in
the main house off the west end, with
privilege to go to and from, also the
west end of cellar as petitioned off, also
a space six feet eight inches wide under
the front hall back thirteen feet six
inches to the north side or door leading
to cellar partition set off. Mrs. Lilley
shall build a door and cellar stairs from
fmnt hall tn noWnr in a cood. workman
like- mnniior nnil at her expense. Mrs.
Lilley shall have the present pri vilege oi
gotngtoamt rrom tne cellar unui Jan. ,
1S73. We also give Mrs. Lilley the land
her part of the house stands on as
divided hv division of collar, alsoa piece
ten feet wide from east side of front door
casing running parallel witli tlie house
lo highway, said land shall not be
incloAml an a to obstruct the drive-way
as it now is, ai.o the land between the
end of flip linns- and hiirhwav. also a
piece of land on the north side of the
house commencing sixteen feet one inch
east from the northwest corner of the
house, twenty feet wide running parallel
witli tlie house to highway, also the
privilege to use tlie water from the well
in common, and the ritrht to go to and
from the well in tlie niot convenient
way from the front door, and to have
the right to lav lead pipe from tlie well
to any part of the house. May put a
mi inn into the cistern and may have the
roof of the west end of the house to the
: east side of front hall. Ave also give
Mrs. Lilley the garden piece, so-called,
measuring seven by six rods and two
feet six inches inclusive of highway,
and the right in common to said house
from the highway. The foregoing, all
of which we annraise ut tlie sum of $500,
whieh shall constitute the homestead of
the aforesaid Celinda A. B. Lilloy.'
WHAT THEY DID NOT OIVE.
Among tho feathered creation tho ea
glu and raven, the swan and parrot, are
each centenarians. An eagle kept in
Vienna died after a confinement of 114
years, and on an ancient oak in Sel
bome, still known as the "raven tree,"
the same pair of ravens are believed to
have fixed their residence for a serious
of more than 90 years. Swans upon
the river Thames, about whose age there
can be no mistake, since they are an
nually nicked by tlie Vinters Company,
under whose keeping they have been for
the last five centuries, have been known
in cirvivo ISO vears and more. The
melody of the dying swan is entirely;
mythological. I pon tne approacu
ot
death the bird quits tlie water, sits down
upon the bank, lays its Head upon tne
ground, expands its wings a trifle, and
expires, uttering no sound.
National Eepnbb'can Platform
For President,
rr.YssES s. cn.vxr.
For Vice rresHent,
HK.VKY WILSOX.
Presidential Electors,
A. II. HpHdtHni. ofrmaUlla County.
V. II. Mnrr. of Washington County.
Jan. r. CInzIpy, of Pooelas County.
Tlie Itemibll.-nn Party of the United States a?-
MMnbleil in .National Convention in the city of
I'hilauVluliia,,
1ST, again
.ii the .Sin and 6th daynof June.
dm-lures ItH faith, anneals to its
history, ami aiinotmc-p its no-'ttion lttmn the
questions u-!nre the conntry:
1. During the eleven year of Its aieendaney
It lias aeeeuti-,1 with rr-.inil courare the solemn
duties of the time; has suppressed a srisr.intlo re
bellion, emancipated four millions of slaves,
decreed the i ,,n.,i citizenship of all and estab
lished universal sntrraee. Kxhihiting unpar
alleled magnanimity, u cr.minailv punished
no man ror political n"cnse, and has warmly
welcomed all who nroved their lovaltv bv
obeying the laws and deniins justly with their
neignuon. n inmaicua new policy toward tne
Indians; the lacia- nail mad and similar vast
enterprises have loen generously aided and
successfully conducted ti completion; the pub
lic lands have Ix-en freely given to uctual set
tlers; Immigration has leeii protected and en
couraged, and n full acknowledgement of tho
rights of naturalized citizens secured from
European powers. In the form of National
currency, ft has provided for the National
credit, and sustain.-.! it under the most extra
ordinary burdens. It has negotiated new bonds
at lower rates of in'eret. The revenues have
been carefully coll. -. ted and honestly applied.
Despite the annual large reductions from the
rate of taxation, the public debt has been re
duced during I . S. UrantN l"resideney at the
rate or S109,(JUOIW per year. A great financial
crisis lias been averted, and peace and plenty
They gave no kitchen, no buttery, no
sink-room nor sink, no water without
going more than eight roils from front
door to the brow of a descent of seven-
eiehts of a vard in ten feet to set to the
well. They gave no barn nor shed of
any kind, no wood-house, nor place for
clotlies-yani, no privy; nor place to ouuu
any of these iudtsponsable accommoda
tions are here but are withheld from the
widow.
The public are invited to verify these
tacts, and see for themselves what the
"Washington County Courthascontlrmed
as homestead for a widow. Said home
stead issituated about three miles nortli
of the vlllace of North Montpelier, on
the hill road leading to Cabot, where the
aforesaid widow will be glad to exhibit
her endowment.
Celixd.v A. IJ. Lilley.
prevail throughout the land. Menacing foreign
uintcumes nave oeen peacriuiiy ami miminiuiy
comprised, and tlie honor and power of the
gallon Kept in a mgn position uiniuguuui me
world. This glorious record of the past is the
Mirty's best pledge for tlie future, and we tie
ieve that the people will not entrust the gov
ernment to any party or combination of men.
composed ot tnose wno cnieny nave resisted
every step in this benefieial progress.
2. Complete Ilbertyand exact equality In the
enjoyments of all civil, political and public
ngiiis snouiii oe cstauiisncu aim enwiuaiiy
maintained throughout the Union by efficient
and appropriate State and Federal legislation.
Neither law nor Its administration should
admit of any discrimination in respect to ctti
aens bv reason of race, creed, color, or previous
condition of servitude.
3. The recent amendments to the national
Constitution should be cordially sustained be
cause they are right, not mere!y tolerated
because they are law. and should be carried out
according to their spirit by appropriate legisla
tion, tne enforcement ot wuicn can oe saieiy
trusted only to the party that secured the
amendments.
4. The National (Jovernment seeks to main
tain an honorable peace with all nations, pro-
tens everywhere, and syrapathiz
pcoplcs who strive for greater
uueriy.
Tin: Time to Advertise. Tlie dull
season, as it is called, is the best timo
lor remunerative advertising. v lien
leople have most leisure they read most.
At the watering places and numerous
summer resorts, where tourists are
, congregated, the merchant wiio takes
advantage oi nis opportunity win not
fail to. send his circular: or, if he depends
upon newspapers mainly, he will not
pass by the quiet dullness of summer
without keepinjr las business constantly
before the people who have deserted the
town for more congenial life in tlie open
country. 1 1- pays to advertise judicious
ly it pay.s lo advertise if the truth is
told, it don't pay to non advertising.
All you have spent is wasted, if by your
neglect to Keep me puuuc acquainted
with the advantages you can oner, tney
discover the usual enterprise wanting
at any time for any reason m tho man
aeement of your business. "What's the
matter with A. Ii. C & Co., they don't
advertise any more. Guess they aro
played out," said a friend of ours, not
long since. Well, sure enough, when
we Had our attention called to tlie ract.
it did appear so to us, and it was not
long before wo read among the items of
tne uay, "we regret to announce the
temporary suspension of the well-known
firm of A. 11. C & Co. Liabilities and
assets not yet ascertained," etc. "By a
throat latch" wins the nice. Keep a
little ahead; don't gel tired, for it is just
uere tne applause is against you, and
once the popular current sets in ad
versely, you may "throw up the
sponge," for you are no longer connted
among the probablo winners of tlie race!
Intelligent, persistent effort; truthful
advertising in season and out of season,
lair dealing, small prohts, one price
strictly adhered to, and the terms V. O.
I), to all, will surely result in success to
a retail e&tauiiHiiment.
Any system of civil service under which
the subordinate positions or the (Jovernment
are considered rewards for mere party zeal, is
fatally demoralizing, and we therefore favor a
reform of the system, by a law whieh shall
abolish the evils of patronage and make hon
esty, efficiency and fidelity the essential quali
Ilcalions for public position, without practically
creating a lire-tenure of office.
we are oDPoscd to further grants of public
lands tn corporations and monopolists, and de
mand that the National domain be set apart for
free settlement by the people.
7. The annual revenue, after paying current
debts, should furnish a moderate balance for
the reduction of the principal public debt, and
except so innch as may be derived from a tax
wavw snouters, aim me vUKes ijooin , gIvcn llim a Iiational reputation, has
mourners, ami me sorc-iieaucu, uisap- com lo lIls coast with a cornmision
A - .1 9 A 1 I
pouueii ami ignorant ucptiuiicans iiur- fronl :l prominent citizen of Now York
railing for Greeley and Brown. In a to a ,.irge 1)icturo f Mount Kain-
worn, uic scum aim aiiiipoucs in pou-
! ier.
tics, the incongruous masses, united on
no set of principles but those of the
"spoils" and "anything to beat Grant," j
are all shouting for Greeley and Brown. I
The Temperance elements, the
Churches, the literati, the free thinkers
of our Republic, and last and best of all
the ladies of our land, who see hope
in the future for their enfranchisement,
and full and equal rights before the law,
are witli our noble Republican party
heart and soul. And with such aids
and moral power, we shall roll up such
votes for Grant and Wilson next No
vember in Oregon, California and Ne-
A "Walla Walla correspondent of tho
Willamette Farmer, under date of Au
gust 21st, says: "As our harvest is now
nearly all in the granary, I sec that the
farmers are better satisfied with tho re
sults of their yield. Prices for wheat
are very low, and many farmers are
feeding hogs as a means of converting
to better profits. Tire yield, I think, of
our wheat crop has been about an aver
age of 25 bushels, although we frequent
ly hear of from 40 to CO as being
threshed."
Pretty soon there is to be a silver wed
ding that will be worth talking about
in earnest. Mr. Bccchcr and his wife
were married twenty-livo years ago,
come the tenth of October, and Ply
mouth Church is to make a four day's
jutiiiee over it. The pastor was not
married as early as ho might have been,
lor lie is verging upon sixty already;
but no man has said and written pret
tier or profouudcr things about the sa
crodiiess of marriage, and tlie large con
gregation that is wont to hang on his
words does well to make a serious all'air
of it a four days meeting in fact. If
tlie silver presents don't pour In upon
the Brooklyn parsonage, then it is of
no use to resort to guessing. There will
be enough sterling ware accumulated in
that house to stock a silversmith's shop.
And the beauty of it is, tiiat those who
forget lo send in their presents on tlie
first day have three days of graco be
sides to testify their feelings in.
A touching incident is reported from
Chattanooga. An utter stranger called
on a respectable farmer and asked him
if his house had been robbed during the
war. Tlie farmer replied that it had.
I," said the stranger, "was one of tlie
mat inn it. x tool; a
maraud ins party
Short and Loxo Phiia-sks. The i little silver locKet." "lliat locket,"
vada as shall astound and dismay the 1 strongest imnression is cenorally the, said the farmer, bursting into tears.
enemies of freedom, moral reform, equal briefest and the best Take the old bal
... , . , . -r, , ,. ! lads of any people, and you will find few
rights and true American Republican-' a,ijeCtjves. The singer says, "He
ism. And by the year 1S7G the ladies of j augiietl; she wept." Perhaps the poet
our Union will cast their ballots under of a more civilized age might say "Ho
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
had been worn by my dear dead child."
"Here it is," replied the stranger, visi
bly affected. "I am rich ; let me make
restitution. Here is $20 for your little
son." lie gave tne lurmer a ioO bill
menls, having been fully privileged to
do so by declaratory acts of Congress,
nono declaring to the contrary. "The
good time's coming." Pi'iii.ico.
Salem, Oregon, August 27, 1872.
laughed iu scorn; she turned away and! anil received SJU in ciiange. lie then
shofi fears of disappointment " But ', wrung the farmer's hand warmly and
iinw.swlavs Hie ambitious vountr writer . left. The farmer has since dried his
must produce something like this "A tt and loaded his shotgun. The $50
.... - , ..... l.SII I 1
hard, fiendish laugh, scornful and piti
less, rorced its passage irom ins tnroai,
through tho lips that curled in mockery
of herappcal; she covered hcrdespairing
face, and a gust and whirlwind of sor
rowing agony burst forth in her Irre-
Dr. Robinson, a medical officer of an
Enclisli workhouse, said that nine-
teuthsof the patients who came under j sistiblc tears!"
ins nonce in mat, capacity oweu iiieir
illness to drink and tobacco. Subscribe for the New Nortiiwtst.
bill was bad.
Tlie brother of Miss Vhjiiie Ream, the
umi1tprtDa mwl Tn f nf PmiOpoaa lino ltnn
sentenced by tho United States Court at
Fort Smith, Arkansas, to serve six
months iu tho penitentiary at Little
Rock and pay a fine of $1,000 for selling
1UJ1IOI 111 lir ll.lHII -Uliuil.
on tobacco and liquors, be raised by duties on
importations, wnicn snoum be adjusted to am
in. securing remunerative wages io laborers, anu
to promote the industries and growth and pros
perity of tlie whole country.
S. We hold In undying honor the soldiers and
sailoc whose valor saved the Union. Their
Itensions arc a sacred debt of the nation, and
tlie widows and orphans of those who died tor
the country an- entitled to the care of a gener
ous and grateful people. We favor such addi
tional leM:ition as will extend the bounty ot
the (iovernmeu: to all our soldiers and sailors
who were honorably discharged, and who in
the time ot iliuy iii-jine disabled, without re
gard to lcnxihof service or the cause of such
discharge.
B. The dte-trine of fireat Britain and other
KunMu-au iio-.vers concerning allegiance, one
a sniijeet mwayg a sobject, having at last,
inrougn ' enoris 01 tne Kepubllean party,
been abandoned, and the American Idea ol the
right of an individual to transfer his allegiance
having been accepted by European nations, it
Is the duty of onr Government to guard with
jealous cm- Hi.- rights of adopted citizens
against tin- :'---.imption or unauthorized claim
hy their former iovemment, and we urge a
continw-il :md careful encouragement and pro
tection to voluntary emigration.
ill. The franking privilege ought to be abol
ished and a way proosed for reductions in the
rates of postage.
11. Among the questions which press for at
tention Is that which concerns the relations oi
capital and labor, and the liepublican party
recognize the duty of shaping legislation so as
to secure a fuU protection and ample fleld for
capital, and for labor which creates capital ; the
largest opportunities add a just share of the
mutual profits of thce two great servants ol
civilization.
12. Wchold that fongrvsKs and the President
haveonly fulfilled an important duty in their
measures lor tlie suppression of violent and
treasonable organizations in certain lately re
liellious regions and lor tlie protection of the
Iwllol, and therefore they are entitled to the
thanks of the Nation.
13. We denounce the repudiation of public
debts. In any form or disguise, as a national
crime. We witness with pride the reduction of
the principal of that debt, and of the rates ot
Interest upon the balance, and eonfldently
expectthatourexcellent national currency will
be ierfeeted by a speedy resumption to specie,
payment.
II. The Republican party is mindlul of its
obligations to the loyal women of America for
their noble devotion to the cause of freedom:
their application for admission to further use
fulness Is received with satisfaction; and the
honest demands of any class nf citizens for ad
ditional rights should be treated with respectful
consideration.
13. We heartily approve of the action ot
Congress In granting amnesty to those engaged
In the rebellion, ami rejoice In the growth ol
pence and fraternal feelingthroughout the land.
IK. The Republican party proposes to respect
all rights reserved by the people tothemsefves,
as carefully as the power- delegated by them to
the State and Territorial governments. It dis
approves of asserting constitutional laws for the
purpose of removing evils by the interference
with rights not surrendered by the people to
either the State or National Government.
17. It is the duty of the General Government
to adopt such measures as will tend to encour
age American commerce aud liip-building.
Is. We believe that the modest patriotism,
the earnest purpose, sound judgment, practical
wisdom, incorruptible Integrity and lllustrioirs
services of 17. ft. Grant have com mended htm to
the heart of the American people, and with htm
at our head we start to-day on a new march to
victory.
Platform of the Woman Suffrage Party of
the Pacific Slope.
WHEREAS. We, the representative women of
the IMeltVc Coast, In Convention assembled In
San Francisco, this ii.st day or June, 1872, believ
ing? the time has come to form a new oolitic. l
party.doorganlze under the name of the Wom
an Su II rage Iarty of the Pacine Coast, and
declare the following platform of principles :
isu -u men aim women are created tree and
enttal.and are endowed nllke with certain in
nllennble rights, among which are the rights to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
"cuoiu uiai umier me rouneentn ami
rifteenth Amendments lnili Constitution of
the United States women are already enfran
chised and entitled to the nght to vote, and are
debarred of the privilegeonly through prejudice
miu iiiisiiiicrpreiauon oi rnc taw.
3d. Pending a decision of th Supreme Court
as to the full Import of these Amendments, and
iu viewot tne possibility or an adverse decision,
we will labor with our utmost Zealand energy
for an additional amendment to the Constitu
tion to secure these rights. We will also work
with determination for the reislon and modi
fication ot the Constitution and laws of our
respective States.
llli. All persons alike, Isiili men and women,
are entitled to equal rights l iorc the law.
3th. All nersons and narti-s ho oppose these
principles shall l treat. -.1 a-our political ene
mies, rmm whom we will withhold our Innu-
enee'ln politics and our patronage '".'"ff:
Hh. We will work fo. th- electton ol any
worthv candidate ol nh 'r 1"W. wn? IU
"Vft MrSiiK-al party we unite ;,.,. thi
common platform, regardless oi not., i. .Mt,
-.ex, religion or eonJmou.