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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1872)
IMPOETAliT. ladies of Portland, ladies of Oregon, ! Jadies everywhere, remember that before the New Northwest again shall greet you, the election day will havo gone by. Now, we ask you to go to the polls and vote. 'We'll agree to stand as hostage for your brethren, for wo know they will treat you well. They need strength ening in their spinal columns, these brethren, and to get them used to inev itable progression, Ave must accustom them to it. So we repeat, Go and vote! Vote With and for your country's friends, and you will not regret it. THEY TREMBLE. A very laughable feature of the "new political dispensation" is the avidity with which many Republican politi cians seek to dodge the one vital Issue of the present campaign. "While they all know that the Republican party has approved and Is now substantiating the doctrine of "equal rights before the law," they profess to fear that they will lose votes by saying so; therefore, just na they hesitated about becoming the negro's champion, they falter when compelled to stand by woman. Espe cially is this timidity noticeable in the Oregon Republican newspapers. "With the proud exception of the Oregonian, and once in a while a slight notice in the Statesman the two leading Repub lican organs, by the way not one of the party papers hardly dares to think or speak; and when, as S. matter of gen eral news, they are compelled to give Items, an attempt at facetiousness is the result of their cogitations and the bur den of their songs. Thus the benighted people, who have no light except the feeble rays these papers cast, are seized with astonishment when they learn the real strength of Republican women's organizations and power. But while the party press in Oregon thus fears to accept the flat of the inevitable, the leading journals of the East are brave and strong. An article from Harper's Weekly in another column, entitled "The Republican "Women of Massachu setts," will show the animus of Repub lican journals of influence and the true meaning of "respectful consideration." WE "WOBBY THEM. Our Greeley-cratic-Deniican son of the Salem Mercury deserved a little notice at our hands lust week, which he missed because we did not get his paper. The way we worry these Greeleyites when we hold a mass meeting is a wonder to Republicans, who, basking in the sunshine of women's approbation, feel none of the perturbation which our crow-eating contemporaries experience when trying to make believe they are happy. But Bud Thompson is trying to conjure up a faint cackleoverhis assertion that Minuie Myrtle Miller went back on Woman Suffrage. Ah, brother, you are sadly in error! You tried to believe the same of Carrie Young, but she, after humoring you a while, just to sec you happy, asserted her true principles and sent you grieving to your own cogita tlous over disappointed hopes. There is not a woman in this Republic with brains above the capacity of an oyster, who doei not either preach or practice Human Rights. Rough hew the matter as you may, dear sonny, the fact remains that wonv en will vote, grandmotherly old Greeley and his minions lo the contrary not withstanding. ETTEB PBOM SALT LAKE U1XX. I Tho Kepubhcan Women of Massachusetts. Salt IAke City, Oct. 2&1, 1S71. j The Republican women of Massa- Deab New Northwest: ! nuve issueu un uu. ''" Since mv last letter, the on J'v1" ! " '"J"" ..V..i BEPUBLIGAN MEETING. An intelligent and appreciative au dienco comfortably filled the fine Court House in Albany on last Friday even ing after a few hours' notice to learn of that "fourteenth plank" and what the women have to say upon the issues of the hour. Two-thirds of the audience were women, and the interest they manifested upon this occasion was but another incontrovertible proof of the fact that they are awakening to the! high public responsibilities. Ae no ticed in the audience many true and sensible Democrats, who make no se cret of the fact that they don't "hanker after crow." The Commissioucrof the General Land Office has decided that coal lands arc mineral lauds, and are subject to sale as such. This decision was made on an appeal taken by some parties wishin coal lauds on tracts claimed, under the land grant of the Coos Bay Wagon Road. AUTUMN. The blessed Autumn time, witli all its varied glories, is upon us. The sweet and sad South wind steals up from old Neptune's billowy cradle, creeps over the mountain tops and through the vales and gorges, roars down the chim neys, whistles in the key-holes, moans in the pines, sighs in the maples and sobs in the valleys, bearing upon its in visible breath the vapors of the deep, holding them in fleecy film above the tree tops or scattering them in gentle showers upon the sun-dried earth. The orchards, that ere-while were clothed in the emerald grecu of the Bummer, assume the gorgeous hues of the mellow fruit, which falls in richi profusion on the clover-clad bosom of the earth who bore them, and the dense forests, arrayed in hues of amethyst and ruby, adorned by carmine, pearl and amber jewels, which no pen can picture, drink the showers as they fall, and say unto the sad South winds as they stretch forth their arms to Heaven, "Peace, be still." But the winds and the clouds heed not, and even as the days roll on, they grow yet bolder, and ere many weeks the forest leaves and orchard fruits will have yielded to the encroachments of the Storm King, who, grown from autumn-hood into the full strength of winter, will reign supreme over the earthwho will rest from her labors till the sweet spring-time comcth, Thus is the perpetual work of God's cre ation finished, yet renewed forever. Thus may mortals learn that though summer and winter and seed time and harvest pass away in their season, yet they are not dead, but sleeping, and even so shall we, who are bound whith er we know not, again live and flourish after having donned the habiliments of dissolution. The wife of Jack Grant, late Repre sentative from Polk county, has shot and trapped 35S squirrels the last year. What lady can discount that score? WHYIS IT? The Eastern papers contain a graphic account of Joaquin Miller's ride in New York City with Colonel Tennio Claflin and her sister Victoria, but we do not hear one man or newspaper say aught against permitting Miller to exercise the immunities of citizenship because of his association with these avowed free lovers. Now, suppose Minnie Myrtle Miller should take a ride with Vic and Tennie. Immediately would a thousand papers proclaim the tidings that politi cal privillgcs must not bo accorded to women else they would all become free lovers. While we have no doubt but cither of these notorious women is better in precept and example than Joaquin Mil ler, who neither professes nor practices the virtues, wo confess that we are sur prised that some "pious" editor docs not see the horrible consequence that will accrue from permitting this man to vote, henceforth. VOX POPULI! VOX DEI! Before the New Northwest shall again greet our readers, the porteutious 6th of November will have passed, with 1U deeds, into history. Already the re sult is predicted with a certainty that admits of little doubt even in the minds of the most bitter enemies of the Ad ministration. The "tidal wave," which Mr. ureeiey imagined was to have landed 'him high and dry upon the Presidential beach, has stranded him in the quicksands of political de feat. It is with difficulty that we with hold his funeral obsequies for yet an other week. His pall and hearse are ready, and his mourners are preparing Kick cloth. Woe, woe their day! TERRITORIAL HEWS. A Congregational church is to be erected in Seattle. Register and Home is now tho title of the Vancouver paper. The Olympia Standard lias entered upon its thirteenth volume. Ringworm has seized tho children of Olympia, and many little angels are temporarily disfigured by it. Printer's ink is recommended as a cure. Among the new postoffices recently established in Montana Territory is one at Camp Baker. General John S. Hamraell has been appointed Postmas ter. The U. S. surveying brig Fauntleroy has gone into winter quarters at Olym pia, and no more outside work will be done till next spring. The crew were paid ofl'on the 24th and discharged. Tho Helena Herald says tho grain crops throughout Montana the present year are unprecedented and that the average yield throughout tho Territo ry cannot be excelled in the United States. Civil war is supposed to be imminent among the Chinese in Idaho Territory. They are collecting arms and ammuni tion on each side, and such a collsion is anticipated as shall cause Celestial blood to flow profusely. Judge Lewis, of Washington Territo ry, went to Yakima last week to hold a term of the District Court, but there was no business at all. The lawyers of that section who depend on the practice of their profession, are on tho point of starving. By the decision of Emperor William in the San Juan Island matter, Wash ington Territory gains about as much land as is embraced in the State of Rhode Island, and an addition to her population of about S00 persons, among them 250 voters. The last city assessment of Walla Walla, which was levied In May last, footed up the aggregate sum of 1,11" 374. The rate of general tax, five mills; special tax, four mills. Next year this special tax will be dispensed with, as the engine will have been paid for. Total assessment of Walla Walla coun ty, at 12J mills on the dollar, $3,407, 540. It would surprise many Eastern men to behold more than 500 miles west of Omaha and the Missouri river, on the threshold of the Rocky mountains a Court nouse worth $35,000, and many iron and stone front stores costing from $10,000 to $20,000, surrounded by nuin erous brick edifices worth from $0,000 to $10,000 ; yet all these are to be found at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. Some days ago while two young ladies were stopping alone in a house in the suburbs of Olympia, another woman whose appearance was very strange, en tcred the house and making some un accountable demonstration so frightened the two girls that they ran into a room and locked themselves up. Tho visitor then went through the house searching it pretty thoroughly, and turning things topsy turvey generally, hut carrying nothing away. After she had gone the girls came forth from their hiding place, bntoueof them was so seriously alarmed tnat she has since become totally in sane and has been taken to tho asylum i btoiiacoora. The antecedents IlKunnl . ,..W.1L, wucrcaiKHlts nf hn wnmnn who caused the sad misfortune arc not Known. mv last Conference has held its Semi-Annual Session, and has not done much to In terest the "outside" world. Its deliber ations were characterized by more lib erality of sentiment ian any previous session. Bricbam Young prophesied that It was no contrarv to the spirit of Mormonism for the "Saints" to send their children to "Gentile" or "Sec tarian" schools and have them admitted free of charge," stating that if the par ents were true "Latter Day Saints," the children would not "stray from the fold" the force of cxamplo restraining them from "apostacy." I wondered what the term or phrase "free of charge" had to do with the sub ject. The Inference to be drawn from It is clear to my mind If they (the par ents) are able to pay for instruction, then send to Mormon schools; otherwise it will not hurt the morals of the inno cents to bo instructed "free of charge" in "Gentile" or "Sectarian" schools; and it would havo tho double effect of educating the children and "spoiling the Gentiles" at tho same time, as "worldlings" or "outsiders" would de nominate that sharp practice, The "President" also had a good deal to say or "prophesy" In reference to the "Babylonish fashions" of the Sisters, sometimes speaking sarcastically, and at other times descending to vulgarity and almost to obscenity strangely in keeping with his prosltion brlngin the blush of shame and indiguation to many a fair check. He says there arc many young men who are desirous of marrying and helping to huild up the "Kingdom of Heaven" on the earth, but stand appalled at the prospective expense of supporting one or five wives; that it is all a man of moderate mean3 can do to support one when ticcniy-four yards of material are put in one dress; therefore tho Kingdom languishes ami is not built up, and the women arc to blame for it. It is a pity about the j)oor, imiocoif young men, and the Kingdom also, Both have my sympathies. But, se riously, the "Babylonish fashions" are doing more to break up or down polyg' amy than all other forces combined Make a note of that, ye rcbukers of woman's folly and vanity; and while we acknowledge our weaknesses with all humility, allow us poor benighted creatures to tako to ourselves tho credit of doing something to benefit human ity, if witli no other weapon than our love of pretty things, or, as Brother Brigham would term it, our "Babylon ish fashions." "our sphere?" But I notice that the venerable "prophet," "seer" aud "reve lavor" usually wears the fiuest of cloth aud an elaborate watch and chain, with seal attached, and heavy gold buttons in his sleeves, etc Now, I have no objee Oao Woman's Work. respected names, the first two being those of Lydia Maria Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The address declares the cause of woman to be that of civili zation, and asserts that the Republican party is pre-eminently the party of civ ilization. It acknowledges the courtesy of the Philadelphia fourteenth plank, and greets with the utmost pleasure the resolution of the Massachusetts Repub licans in favor of equal suffrage, irre spective of sex. It expresses the fullest confidence that General Grant would sustain any Congressional action favor able to tho cause, but declares that Mr. Greeley has shown himself botli hostile and contemptuous toward the move ment. Mr. Wilson is one of its early friends. "We are willinir to trust the Republican nartv and its candidates as saying what they meau, and meaning wnar, mey say; anu, in view oi tneir iiouorame record, we nave no lear oi a betrayal on their part." Tho address exhorts all American women to accent the Republican action as prophetic of tneir political enfranchisement at a uay not lar distant. The names sinned lo the address give to it tue hishest character as a wen considered, crave, and temperate ex. pression or a conviction which cannot oe disregarded, and which will not prove to oe iruitiess. There is no doubt mat those who sign it justly suppose that all practical progress m the enlargement oi tue suiirajrc in tnc manner which tney desire will be mnde bv the intelligence and conscience of the country, and tnat these are naturally attracted to the Jie- nuhlican nartv. It Is not. of course. true that every Republican favors the views of the address, but It Is true that the spirit and logic or the party are favorable. And the declaration of the Massachusetts Convention justifies an earnest appeal to the Legislature to test the reeling oi the ttiatc. o presume that this appeal will be made, aud if so, it will be under the most aumirauic auspices. The serious and reasonable manner in winch tue itcpuuncan wom en of Massachusetts present their views is itself a powerful argument. Nor can wo avoid observing that the two names which arc first signed aro those of the most conspicuous of anti-slavery women In tho old time. Thoy declare them selves Republicans because they believe that liberty and justice everywhere and for all are most secure with that party. The Little Tyrant. Who have we here, with a scowl on his face and a whip in ills hand? The hens and the little birds fly away at his approach. Carlo, the dog, gives one look at him, and then scampers oil. Even little gi rls press the! r dol Is to the! r hearts, and get out of his way as fast as they can. This is a picture of little Henry the tyrant as he once was. He liked to scare or harm all who came near him. whctlier beasts of the field, or birds of the air, or little girls of the household, or little boys of the playground. Butthc time came at last when Henry had to go to school; and there he met with a bigger and stronger tyrant than he was himself, aud one who kept him in fear, or mado him cry with rage and For months now, a quiet, modest, maiden lady, of middle life, has been observed in the police courts, sitting on . --" ww..w..v IU4 lilt; JJUUJ., who, when a peculiarly distressing case came up with reference to some poor umortunaie gin, was reported in tho papers as "expressing a desire to receive the prisoner," which oiler was gratorul- ly accepted. The name of this quite un-! known to magistrates and public until recently. What could she want of these grace less outcasts of her own sex, who came from time to time to the surface of the police dock? It transpired, a few weeks ago, that she was a Miss Stride; that early in life she had met with "disap pointments." anu uer lortunc nau ucen shattered; tnat then, instead of devoting herself in sour misanthropy to tea and her cat. she tooK an humble lodging, and set upon her life-journey with one or the noblest resolves tnat ever actuat cd a feminine breast. She went out upon the highways and byways of vast London oftcnest unon the ovways anu brought uaci: to to her little rooms one after another of those poor, forlorn castawavs who throng In such sad processsions in the streets or an great cities; and sncsnared her bread with them her bed with them; gavo them no solemn lectures; but. bv very loving kindness, with sis terly sympathy, with gentlest, tearful appeal anil encouragement, by win ning them from despair to hope, from hone to actual amendment aud honesty, she imparted a new life to what was a living death. Her noblest deed was her sacrifice. Within a year, out of seven hundred and fifty pounds, mostly given in charity, and to which was added her own and a benevolent companion's piti ful incomes, sho gavo a home, food. clothes, medicine, aud doctor's care, and a new and happy life, to three hundred and seventy-five girls, poor, painted and poisoned, and ragged, patched wretches. In two-thirds (two-thirds!) of these cases the cure was complete, the disease I was subdued, the new lire was pcrma nent and blessed. And now was it done? "God will forgive us everything," says some one, "everything but de spair." jiiss Mriuo never despaired, were her subject tho most blasphemous and hideous young virago of the Seven Dials, bhe saw that they hated the "stuccoed and penitentiary system." Her most triumphant reformations were or remaies over whom the prison chap lalna most obdurately shook their heads, They needed, Indeed, no chaplain, but a sister. Aud a sister, the gentlest, most loving, most considerate most ten derly anxious, they found in the "dis appointed" maiden lady. Miss Stride. Aud what potent charm used she, what clairvoyance aud magnetism were hid at the little house. No. 17 Hart street, Bloomsbury square? llx- ammcr. Pemiiiine Beauty. The lovliest adornment of perfect wo manhood is unconsciousness of self. If the woman possessed of this rare virtue be lacking in physical beauty, nay, even plain, there is a chair in her innocence and simplicity more potent than the smiles of the fairest featured siren that ever deluded the susceptible heart of man. There is someunug m us once of a vain and pretentious woman that, bo she ever so lair, repulses ratuer than attracts admiration. &uo is re garded only for the symmetry of her form and features, and like a cold and senseless statue of stone, her eyes never chauge or lose their fixed and soulless expression; they never lighten up with tue beauty or thought nor sparKie wim the conception or any new anu suonme idea; their changeless look is not tho re- National Bepublfcan-Platform. i For President, i'iissns s. grant. For Vice President, IIENUY VTILSOX. Presidential Electors, A. II. Wcachani, of Umatilla County. W. I. Hare, of Washington County. Jas. T. Gnzlcjr, of Douglas County. Tho Republican Party or the United States as sembled In National Conventlonlnthecltyor Phlladelphla.on theSth and 6th days of June, 1S71', again declares Its faith, appeals to its history, u announces Its position upon the questions before the country! , 1. During tho eleven years or Its ascendancy It has accepted with grand courage the solemn duties of the time; has suppressed a gigantic re bellion, emancipated lour millions of slaves. pose of peace, nor the steady gaze oi unchanging happiness it is only the fixed .stnrn -nf n. heartless, worldv WO- xhiblting unpar- punisneu grief every day. This bigger tyrant was , " t i... - -r Wonder if we arc out of ! S , plained of Ralph; but the teacher said, "You are the boy who, before Ralph came, was a terror to all the little boys : and girls in the school. ou Knocked oil their hats or bonnets, you pushed them about, you took away their play- - things. I hope you will now learn that tion to these articles, and rather admire we ought touoas we would no done by. . t 1 t T 1 t 1 -kJKJ Hill IU J KfKi It UUIU 4 could not help thinking , tll0111 tlo ...... .... thJat is thc ol(!on I vi 1 1 i-t niwl T-T n m lirto nf Iult fAtttwl If rtlf i t lilt) 41 lit litilllj .-3 l IS tlUb VII itta IkWUW Hois no longer thc little tyrant, but the them; but I that by thc sacrifice of these "vanities" he might help some brother to wed his thirdly, and thus promote thc "King dom" but this Is from au "outside" stand-point. Rev. Norman McLcod is still lectur- ng on "Polygamy." He also recently delivered two lectures on that dreadful tragedy, the Mountain Meadow Massa cre, which, if the main points arc true, (and he says he can bring proof of all he afllrms), is enough to stir tho heart of thc Nation to its depths. The picture he drew of murder in cold blood, after sending a flag of tnice to induce them to surrender; the violating the women and girls, and then murdering them, is enough to fill with horror any one pos sessed of a soul. The beautiful tresses of mothers and daughters were taken from their heads for tho unhallowed purpose of making a lariat to tie the horse of one of the murderers, and was used for that purpose for months. He also denounced in scathing terms thc vandalism that could destroy the mon umentsreared by U. S. officers in memory of the victims and disinter their bones, that loving hands had bur ied, and again scatter them on the plains to "blauche in the wastes," as Brigham had predicted. Mr. McLcod intends going cast to lec ture in Washington when Congress convenes next winter. I have some cu riosity to know what impression he will mako on our vencrablo Uncle Sam and his advisers. Last Saturday morning we were star tled and horrified at the announcement of the death, by licr own hand, of Mrs, W. G. Poiner. It is another of those dreadful tragedies that are so often caused by intemperance and its first cousin, domestic infelicity. It is said that her husband was in thc practice of indulging in the accursed habit of drinking, and when intoxicated would devote his manly energies to beating his wife; and on that fatal Friday morning actually kicked and beat her until she bore the marks upon ner person, hho was rendered perfectly desperate, and evidently intended to mako her work sure, as sho used two ounces of lauda num aud one of chloroform. Poor, er ring woman ! how she must have suf fered ere sho could havo resolved to "put out the light that no Promethean lire could again relume." Tender hands ad ministered the last sad rites, and she sleeps at thc feet aud under the shadow of the grand old mountains, beneath thc light of thc pitying stars, while the wail of thc winds sound a requiem over her tomb. "One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate. Gone to her death." May the tender Father of us all, who saw all tho agony of her soul, gather and enfold her in His merciful arms, and also extend to the aged mother and sister, faraway on the shore of Michi gan's mighty lake, His tender consola tion in this hour of deepest sorrow. Our Indian summer still lingers with us, but for a few days past we have had indications that old Boreas is getting jealous and Intends to disturb this tran quil order of things. Wc will submit, when we are compelled to, as gracefully as possible. Truly yours, SvBtr. little gentleman. He is kind to his sister, and to all the little girls he meets. If they ask him not to blow his trumpet, or not to make a noise, he stops at once. Ho is kind even to tho lower animals tho birds and thc beasts. Dear child, if like Henry, you have a fault, learn to correct it while you are young; for it will be very hard to get rid of it when you grow up. The Xursery, In the parish of St. Damicn, county of Bcrthier, there is living a woman who has attained the extraordinary ago of one hundred and eight years. She was born in 1SG4, at Marquette, Mich., which was then a trading station. Her father was a Frenchman named Auger, and her mother an Indian woman. In early life she came to Sorcl, in Canada, and nearly thirty years ago removed to St. Damlen, where she is now living with one of her sons. She Is quite blind and nearly deaf, but still enjoys a degree of physical health and soundness of mind which are remarkable in a person so aged. Once started in conversation, especially ir it is about the circum stances of her youth, she talks for a long time and with considerable animation. She still keeps nearly all her hair. which is of an iron-gray color, and long and coarse, like that of her maternal race. Sho relates that when she was a girl, an Indian of her tribe, who died at 115 years of age, prophesied that sho would live until her hair became white as snow. She takes pleasure in repeat-1 ing this story to visitors, and one might suspect it to be a fabrication invented to heighten the interest naturally felt in one so aged, but her family state that she has always related this story and believes thc prophesy to be true. In thc adjoining parish of St. Gabriel dc Brandon lives another of her sons, named Louis Gordin. He is her first born, and is ninety-three years old. He retains all his senses and physical strength In a most remarkable degree of preservation. Few men of sixty years can do more work in thc fields, and this summer he came up to Longgueull, where he worked several weeks at hay ing with one of his sons. Fake Hair. Heavens! Let all ladles who wear deceitful locks read what the British Medical Journal tells us about false hair! There i3 a M. Lindeman who has given his mind to this subject, aud who announces that every hair in a false plait ends with "a nodosity;" each nodosity' contains fifty "psorospermrs" and each psorosperm throws oil minute sphere which become "pseudo-navicelke." But this is by no means the end of a bad matter. The ftscudo-navlccllre in a ball-room contain ng fifty ladies, all with the spurious tendrils, amount to 43,000,000, which, when Inhaled, make their way into the circulation and bring on cardiac affec tions! This is too bad; but then doesn't real hair sometimes produce cardiac af fections? New York Tribune. AVnnisi: I)oi:s the Goi.i C'omk Fiioji? This question has never been satisfactorily answered by geologists. They can sec as far into a millstone as anybody, but where the great depot or quarry rrom whence thegoid comes that has been mstMMl oil in nrincinles and thrown towards the surface to be rolled in the sand by thc action of runnin water, or caught as prisoners in nuartz rock while that was either held in solu tion or iu theconditiouof pulverization, is the problem. Occasionally such enormous nuggets aro found quite solitary. Itsecmsto in dicate they were broken ofVfrom a largo mass somewhere aud driven away in a torrent of gravel whoso onward upward course was irresistible until it met with counter currents. That old theory which supposed the precious metal was existing in combi nation with others in a gaseous form anil occasionally precipitated by elec tricity into lumps which worked their way liKemoiesirom ineinicnor through strata of the earth's compact crust, is now quito obsolete. An impression is gaining, which advocates that gold does actually exist in great bodies, some where, not very far down from whence fragments and particles aro gradually brought un bv anuattc agency. This gives a more reasonable explanation of tho ditluslon or gold in small parcels an over the globe. man, whose only thought is oi sen , who is over iiwoimi bin to the pleasure of doing good to others an expression of unchangeable sclushhcss. True beauty lies in the hidden perfec tion of the soul. The most lovely type of perfect womanhood is thc being whose heart is not insensible to refined and tender fpolinga that mingles and blends lUelf with every act and deeu oi her life. No feminine face is truly beau tiful that does not wear, to a certain ex tent, an expression of contentment and and repose. jtusUin has said: "uo not think you can mako a girl lovely if you do not make her happy. There is not one restraint vou put on a good girl's nature there is not one chock you give to her instincts of affection or of ellort which will not be indelibly written on her features with a hardness all the more painful because it takes avgy tho brightness from the brow of virtue, Thc perfect loveliness of a woman's countenance can only consist In the ma- iestic neaee which is found in the mem- ory ot happy anu useiui years, iuii oi sweet records; and from tho joining of of this with that yet more majestic childishness, which Is still full of change and promise, opening always, modest at once and bright with hope of better things to be won and to be bestowed. There is no old age where there is still that promise it is eternal youth." TA-rxn and Hwearixg. Old Parson S., of Connecticut, was a particular kind of a parson. Ono day he had a man ploughing in his field, and he went out to see how the work was getting on. The ground was very stony, and every time the plough struck a stoue thc man tool; occasion to swear a lime. "Look here." cried Parson S., "you must not swear that wav m mv held." "Well. I reckon vou'd swear too," said the man, "If you had to plough such a stony field as this." "Not a bit or it," said Mr. a. -just Inf. mn show vou." So the parson took hoidot tue plough but he very soon had considerable trouble with tho stones. As stone after stone caught the plough-share, Mr. S ejaculated: "Wen, i never saw tuo iikci" And this ho repeated every time a stone stopped his onward way. As soon ashebnd ploughed around once he stop ped and said to the man: "mere, now; iuu see a txiu iuus' without swearing." "But I guess it's pretty near as bad to He," answered the man, "and you told dozens o' lies. Every time tho plough struck a stoue. vou said, '1 never saw thc like,' when thesame thing nappencu a minute berorel" decreed the equal citizenship ot all and estab lished universal suffrage. Ksiiiuiii nllMrsl lnairnnnltnttv. 1L criminally nn mnn Trr ,uiIIHm,l nfTpnsCS and BttS Warmly welcomed nil who proved their loyalty dj obeying the laws nnd dealing Justly with their neigiioors. it initiaieuanew vuhi-j ui i; Indlans: the Pacific Railroad nnd similar vast enterprises have been generously aided and successruny conducted to completion; me pun He lands have been freely given to actual set tlers; immigration lias been protected nnd en couraged, and a full acknowledgement of tho gnts or naturalized citizens swureu mini uropean powers. In the form. or ruiiionai currency. It has provided ror me isnuonai credit, and sustained It under tho most extra ordinary burdens. It has negotiated new bonds at lower rates of interest. The revenues havo iieii cnrniiif li.wtofi nmi nonesiiv anDiiou. Despite the annual largo reductions from the rate of taxation, the public debt has been re duced during t . Sj. Grant's Presidency at tho rate of siuo,ou,uU) per year. crisis has been averted, Acreat linancial and peace and plenty Bir-tY Forrester. The Washington correspondent of the New xork Ann, September 8th, gives this about the al leged murderer of Benjamin Nathan, thi wpjillhv Jewish citizen of New York, who was found butchered in his own clegaut masion two or three years ago: Forrester is a Scotchman, about 30 vcars of age, and probably the most ac complished burglar in the United States, and has a particular failing for racking linnL-H TTo Rjiva ho had nothing to do with thc Baltimore Bank robbery, but wished he had had a-hand in it. He read of it, however, in the papers, has au idea he knows whose work it is, from a description of it, but he don't "leak" much tn tlin detectives on that or any other matter of "business." A number of persons called to sec him during the uay, to allot wnomnespoKC reuuuj, and appears to be very cheerful, not hav ing the slightest idea that anything can be proved on him in thc Nathan, mur der case. Ho says Iio was not in New York for a week before or after tho mur der, but at this time don't propose to tell where he was, as it will be used against him. Juvenile Smokers. An English physician, with a desire to bo of benefit to the rising generation, has published some interesting facts regarding thc ef fects of tobacco smoking upon boys. Of thirty-eight boys under fifteen years of age. whom ho knew to bo smokers, ho discovered in twenty-seven injurious traces of tho habit. Twenty-two had disorders of the circulation and diges tion, palpitations of the heart, and more or less marked taste for strong drink. Twelve were troubled with hcniorrahage of the nose, and an equal number had slight ulcerations of tho mucous mem brane or the mouth, liiese symptoms were all mitigated and iu some cases eradicated by a discontinuance of the habit of smoking. Although all were treated for tho above named disorders, ouly those were cured who abandoned the habit. A Boy of Sevkx Murders a Giri. of Five Yiuks.-Oh last Sunday after noon the people of Lexington, bcott county, were horriheu at tne announce ment that a little son oi Jir. .nugi Loftus, of that place, only seven years old. had shot a daughter of Jerry Chandler, at the tender age of five years. They were together iu a room at Loftus' iirtti ouncr IjOILUS saiu iiu nuuiu inn Hin littlo girl, when she ran away, but subsequently relumed, when tho young Menu deliberately iook up u buuu-jjuh and fired, tilling the poor little girl's stomach with slugs. She survived until last Monday, when she died at about daylight. Tho above is substantially What the little girt siaieu auer me ici rihio f meed v. A resident of Lexington states that it was not many days previ ous to this that he saw young Loftus in a stable trying to get the little girl to put her arm under tnc oiaue oi tue cut ting machine, in order that he might cut it off. This certainly is the most shocking case of a naturally depraved and blood-thirsty taste we ever recorded, and one that seems to amount to a mon omania. Ncte Albany (Ind.) Ledger. Dean Stanley's parrot one day man aged to open her cage and get away, to the consternatioti ot the wnoio house hold. After a great search some one found Polly in the garden ou the top or mi moIo tree. The welcome news was communicated lo the Dean, who, with thc whole of tho inmates, rushed out at - i , ri. it T . once, accompanieu oy ur. vaugnaii. who. with some other tnends, were then on a visit to the Dean. Polly was found swinging herseir on a topmost orancn, but when she discovered the large audi ence below her, she looked gravely down at them, and said, "Let us pray." Tower. Knowledge is power, gold is power, fame is power; but there is a power stronger than any or all theso combined; a silent, potential power that cannot bo deceived by knowledge, nor bribed with gold; a power that had Its birth in the morning of creation, and living, will glide down unsheathed through time and eternity. The namo of this wonderful and incomparablo power which may be crushed but cannot be destroyed ss "Truth," a power that will beautify and ennoble youth, and make old ago respectable and happy. Boys and girls, secure this prize and retain it. OUR AGENTS. The following persons aro duly authorized to act as Agents for the New Xokthwest : Mrs J. II. Foster Albany Anhbv Pearc...- - Benton county Dr. Ryley Corvallls A. A. Manning- - Olympia Mlas Vinrinla Olds. MeMlnnville Hiram Smith . llarrislmrg J. II. D. Henderson Eugene City W. W. Reach Buona Vista Rew Wm. Jolly Hillsboro Hon. T. W. Davenport Silverton Mary J. Magers. Oervals A. V. 8tannrd Brownsville S. H. C!auxhton . Lebanon (". A. Reed .Salom Mrs. O. T. Daniels Salem Mrs. Nellie Curl Sutem P. C. Sullivan. Dallas Mrs. M. F. Cook Lafayette Mrs. M. C Cline Knlama Mrs. R,A.Vawters Waitsliurg ill. It. li. ISUuop. t'enuieton Rev.. I. F. JMmon. Seattle Rev. D. liwcley -cattle prevail throughout the land. Menacing loreign dltllcultles have been peacefully and honorably rnmnrlsed. anil llm finnnr and liower of tho nation Kept in n high position mrougnoui mo world. This glorious record of the past is tho Fiarty's best pledge for the future, and wo to leve that tho peonlo will not entrust thc gov ernment to any party or-combinatlon or men. composed of those who chiefly have resisted every step in mis oencnctni progress. 2. Complete libertyand exact equality In tho enjoyment of all civil, political and public ngms suouiti oe estauiisneu anu uiieciuuuy maintained thmncliont the Union by efficient nnd appropriate state and Federal legislation. Neither law nor Its administration should admit of any discrimination In respect to citi zens ny reason oi race, ereeu, coior, or pie iuua condition of servitude. 3. The recent amendments to the National Constitution should be cordially sustained be cause they are right, not merely tolerated because they are law.anu suouiu oocarrieu out according to their spirit by appropriate legisla tion, the enforcement or whlcn can oe saieiy trusted only to the party that secured the amendments. 4. The National Government seeks to main tain an honorablo peace with all nations, pro tecting ltscitizens everywhere.and sympathiz ing witn an peoples wno strive ior grouter rty. o. Any system oi civil service uuuer mtu thr Gttlmrtllnntfi Twiftfnns nf the Government are considered rewards for mere party zeal, i.5 ratally demoralizing, anu we tuererore mvorit reform of thc system, by a. law which shall abolish the evils of patronage and mako hon esty, efficiency and fidelity tho essential quall flcations for public po.sition,without practically creating a lilc-tcnuro of office. e. we arc opposed to runner grants 01 nuouc lands to corporations and monopolists, and de mand that t lie National domain beset apart for free settlement by tho people. 7. The annual revenue, after paying current debts, should furnish a moderate balanco for tnoreuuciion 01 me principal puuucueui, iiuu except so much as may be derived from a tar on tobacco and liquors, be raised .by duties on importations, WHICH snoniu oe nujnsieu 10 am in securing remunerative wages to laborers, and to promote me inuusiries anu growiu anuptua pcrltvoftho whole country. 8. Wchold lnundylng honorthc Koldlcrsand sailors whoso valor saved the Union. Their pensions aro a sacred debtor the nation, ana ine wiuowh anu orpnansui iiiums wmuuittu ui the country are entitled to tho care of a gener ous and grateful people. 'We favor such addi tional legislation as will exiena ine oouniyui the Government to an our soiuiers anasnnora who were honorably discharged, and who In tnetimoor unty oeeame uisaoieu.wunoui re gain 10 lengtn 01 service or ine cause ot bucii discharge. 9. Tho doctrine or Great Britain and other European powers concerning allegiance, onco a subject always a subject, having at last, through the efforts or the Republican party, been abandoned, and the American Idea ot the right of an individual to transfer his allegiance having been accepted by European natious.lt is the duty of our Government to guard with Jealous care the rights of adopted citizens against the assumption of unauthorized claims by their former Government, and we urge a continued and careful encouragement and pro tection to voluntary emigration. 10. The franking privilege ought to bo abol ished and n way proposed for reductions in tho rates of postage. 11. Among the questions which press for at tention is that which concerns the relotlonsof capital and labor, and the Republican party recognize the duty or shaping legislation so as to secure a full protection and ample Held for capital, anu ior larmr wuicn creates capital: tno largest opportunities add a Just share of the mutual profits of these two irreat servants of civilization. li W e noia that Conrresssand the President have only fulfilled an Important duty in their measure for the sunnression of violent and treasonable organizations In certain lately re bellious regions and ror the protection of the ballot, and therefore they are entitled to the thanks of the Nation. 13. Wo denounce the repudiation of public debts, in any form or disguise, as a national crime. We witness with pride tho reduction ot the principal or that debt, nnd of the rates ot Interest upon the balance, nnd confidently expect thatnurexc-ellent national currency will oe penecieu uy a speeuy resumption to specie payment. II. The Republican party is mindful or its obligations to the loyal women of America for tneir nouic uevotion 10 tue cause 01 ireeaom; their application for admission to further use fulness is received with satisfaction; and the iionest demnnd.s of any class of citizens for ad ditional rights should be treated with respectful consideration. li We heartily approve of the action or Congress In granting amnesty to those engaged In the rebellion, nnd rejoice in the growtnnt peaec and fraternal feelingthroughout the land. Hi. The Rcnublican party proposes to respect all rights reserved by the people to themselves, ascarefuilyosthe powers delegated by them to the State and Territorial governments. It dis approvesof asserting constitutional laws for tho purpose 01 rciuuwiis uvus mu imerierenco with rishts 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 and ship-building. IS. "Wc beliovo that the modest patriotism, the earnest purpose, sound Judgment, practical wisuom, lneorrupuuio integrity anu illustrious services of U.S. Grant hnvo commended him to thchenrtoftheAmerican peoplo.and with him nt our head we start to-dny on a new march to victory. ncc. chant's rr.rscrrz.Es. "I would sum up tho policy of the Adminis tration to be a thorough enforcement of every law; a faithful collection or the tax proviueu for: economy In the disbursement of the same, and a prompt payment ot the debt of the na tion; n reduction or taxes as rapidly as the re quirements or the country will admit; reduc tion or taxation and tariff to be so arranged as to afford the greatest relief to the greatest num ber; honest and fair dealings with all other -people, to tho end that war, with all its blight ing consequences, may be avoided, without sur rendering nny right or obligation due to tho United States; a reform In the treatment of the IndkmV nnd'thc whole civil servlee or the country ; and. Anally. In securing a pure, un trammelled ballot, where every man tn east a vote may do so Just onco at eaeri eiec- honor. A Vessel Found at Sea With All IIands Dead. James Dugan arrived at New York, October 3d, from Sidney, Cape Breton. He reports that, on the 0th of September, the schooner Lancas ter, on which he was a passenger, fell in with an abandoned vessel, ou which was r,iT,ii cl.-nlplnn. crushed by fallen rle giii", aud live other skeletons, four of which appeared to bo more recent man tho other two. Inquiry seems to show that all on board perished from hunger. Tho bowsprit of tho vessel boro the namo Glenalvon. Two decomposed corises were found in tho forecastle. The captain's corpse was found in his state-room. Nine bodies were found, altogether. Thc papers found on board nm friven to the authorities at Sydney, with a view to learning the history of the Glenalvon. "Women, wako up!" exclaims tho Revolution; ami au inuoient rurai editor adds: 'Tcs, turn out and mako a fire and put tho tea-kcttlc on," Mrs. Jane M. Wilson Philip RIU l". D. Moore Mrs. R. J. Geonse Mrs. M.J. Ensign G. It ihoou Mrs. M. Jelu-iew II. II. Welch.. .. Dr. J. watts A. N. Arnold G. W. Lavown - M. P. Owen - Mrs. C. A. Oobum. Sirs. J. DeVore Johnson - Thos. Parsons- IS. Pentlnnd, Walln Walla Walla walln Port Townsend .Traveling Agent a'oniunu Agent MIssSuIIIeAppIegate. Miss li. A. Owens- J. T. Scott, Esq Mrs. A. E. Corwin - Geo. Ensle... J. W. Jokon I P. Fisher.....- " -rt-ltn Traveling Agent .'.V.V.V.'.'. V-Wasliington county any saiem " Dalles ".'.Forest Grove Oregon City Jlllwaukie ....The Dalles Yoncalla ...Roseburg Z Forest Grove Nehalem Traveling Agent .Eugene San Francisco .California . jirs. jjiura , Olympia Miss Nellie Mossmau- .Vancouver I.T. Mauisby "union IUdge, W.T G. W. Brock Oehoco Valley G. W. RarnCS- -W., ,.l,lntnii Territory T V ilnle Mrs-F-OaksheM -Mrs. J. C. Hayes.. James Vance. Traveling Agent Gervals, Oregon Yreka, California Sucmmento, California -Stockton, California Mavfleld. California San Jose, California ivinirl Waltman MrB. Srah Harry. Mrs. Sarah -,-" Mrs. Chapmau ,, iioston, Massachusetts ?.K1?.tSSS5L: Salt Lake Clty.U.T Other parties desiring to act as Agents will please forward their names Ve want Agents at every post office throughout Oregon and Washington Territory. Platform of the Woman Sufirage Party of the Pacific Slope. ,,.,, we. the representative women of ilSJinr Const, m Convention assembled in s?,iw33l ast day of June,lS7J,bellev m" tbe time has come to form a new political '""rtv ilo organize under the nnme or tho AVom Kn Suffrage I-arty or thc lclllc Coast, and declare the following platform of principles : 1st. All men and women are created lree and equal, nnd are endowed alike with certain In alienable rights, among which are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 2d. Wc hold that under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution or the United States women are already enfran chised nnd entitled to the right to vote, and are debarred ofthe privilege only through prcjudico and misinterpretation of the law. 3d. Pending a decision of the Supremo Court as to the full lmportof these Amcndments.and Iu view of the possibility or an adverse decision, we will labor with our utmost Zeal and energy for an additional amendment to the Constitu tion to secure these rights. "We will also work with determination for the revision nnd modi fication ot the Constitution and laws or our tAUpen!ons alike, loth men and women, are entitled to equal rights before the Ljw. 3th. All pcrsonsnnd Ptlcswhoposo theso principles shall be re'fll,oaJnKlinflS mies,from whom wo will withhold our mnu encoin politics and our patronage DS worVhAnTd these principles. Dftrty we unite upon this Plr rgrdiess of natality, sex, religion or condition.