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FRIDAY. -'NOVEMBER 22, 1872.
STODAT EVEMG LECTURES.
In compliance with the importunities
of many friends, we have concluded to
begin next week a course of Sunday
evening lectures in the Oro Fiuo Thea
ter, which "has been leased to us by
Manager "VValdron for that purpose.
It is known that, in addition to the
many church-goers who have no meet
ings of their own on Sabbath evenings,
there are very many transient and reg-1
ular inhabitants of the city who seldom
or never attend church anywhere. The
object of these meetings is to gather
such persons together to hear lectures
upon moral, religious, scientific and so
cial subjects; also to give all others an
opportunity to hear Bible topics treated
from an Independent and progressive
stand-point.
By special request, our first lecture of
tho series will be upon "The Christ of
Nazareth and the Christ of Christen
dom." Congregational singing will bo a fea
ture of these meetings as soon as we get
them fairly inaugurated, and we ask
everybody not otherwise specially en
gaged to come out on next Sunday
evening and help us to plan and prose
cute this work. Lecture commonces at
half past seven. Scats free.
THE OAffAL AM) LOOKS.
Now that public agitation has ceased
In regard to the Canal and Locks at Or
egon City and sober' second thought
has had time and opportunity to get
control of the minds of tho people, it is
fitting that something more than a
passing notice be taken of the works
and their present condition and relation
to the State at large and the corpora
tion which owns and tho monopoly
which desires to possess them. As the
action of tho Legislature has already
become a matter of history, it is not
necessary to go into detail concerning
It.
No ono will deny that a gigantic
fraud was perpetrated upon the people
of the State when the school fund was
appropriated for the construction of the
Locks, and permitting that public fund
to go into private corporation for the
purposo of enriching a few shrewd poli
ticians; but it is not more astonishing
that a body of impecunious Legislators
could be hired to perpetrate such a rob
bery than it is strange that subsequent
bodies of law-makers cannot unani
mously see that for the State to get con
trol of the Locks In their Infancy is far
better than to permit them to become
merged into the railroad interests.
Trivate corporations arc becoming the
bane of the American as they are al
ready the curse of the English people.
In a country like curs, where freedom
Is tho basis of government, every man
and every woman should have an equal
public interest in everything that per
tains to public welfare. No private cor
poration should be permitted to con
struct a public highway, except such
highway be subject to the control of
tho people, not through their represcn
tatlves, but directly by the ballots of
the masses, who should hold in their
hands the power, as they certainly have
the right, to arbitrate all matters and
adjust all differences in such a way as
shall compass the greatest good for the
greatest number.
The Legislature of 1ST0 perpetrated a
great outrage upon the people by grant
ing the school fund to a private corpo
ration, but a subsequent Legislature'
connives at further wrong when it per
mits a private monopoly to get posses
sion of the only avenue of free com
merce the people have left to them.
True, the cost is great, too great, hut
the wrong done the people, which be
gan by the appropriation of the school
fund to private interests, has already, in
the short space of two years, grown to
be such a giant that it frightens our
whole press and people when an effort
Is made to throttle it. Estimable gen
tlemen in the Legislature, who saw
clearly tho great danger of permitting
tho present transportation monopoly of
Oregon to get possession of the Locks,
voted against allowing the State to buy
them for no other reason than because
they thought them a few thousands too
high in price. This looks to us verv
much like the policy that moved our
worthy Governor when he allowed the
Immense Appropriation Bill to pass and
quieted his conscience by vetoing Mrs.
Sawtelle's grant of four hundred dol
lars. TEMPEBANOEJLEGISLATION.
On the 22d of February of last year
tho temperance people of Oregon held
an annual meeting, organized them
selves Into a permanent Alliance and
Prepared certain resolutions, praying
PIal legislation by our law-makers
for the purpose of restricting orregu-
the very men Who So SLfTi
islate for the people by int" ,P to ,CS"
vocates of tLlljL U,0.Sc strong ad-
represented the will r , " cermiy
WHO
tho people in that ,., ajl
ority of
, -"ance.
i"csnuii comes
why Wcro
tompcrance men,
who
were elected tJ
the Legislature
upon a tem rut...--
piauorm, muueeu to vote against th
very measures which they were sent up
by the people to advocate? We gladly
admit that many Legislators did vote
for temperance laws, but care was taken
by interested parties to so manace the
... i i j l.aiiue
vote that the desired measures should be
lost at every balloting. Now, somebody ;
y,m to niame lor tins, and whom? It is
51.
hard for women to believe that Legisla
tors were bribed to "count noses" anil
give these measures what is called a
"complimentary vote," taking care to
so manipulate their ballots that whisky
should invariably win; but we arc told
by men who have figured in past Legis
latures that these moral matters arc
always raauaged thus in order to hood
wink tho people who aro not politicians,
into the idea that the people's will can
surely be accomplished when the next
Legislature shall meet. "Well, time
rolls on and the body of law-makers
again convenes, and again tho same
system of swap and dicker is resorted to
with precisely the same result.
About one-third of tho members or
our last session were men of ordinary
ability; a half dozen were above tho
average, and the remainder well, if the
same number of men were to be chosen
at random from any public gathering,
numbering three hundred, anywhere
among white people, their counterpart
in mental inferiority, a3 a body, could
not bo gotten together. Tricky poli
ticians who cannot by any sort of
chicanery succeed in securing further
legislative positions for themselves,
manace to secure tho nomination of
putty men whose votes they know they
can control, and with these intellectual
effctes upon the floor and themselves in
the lobby, they can manage to prevent
the passage of any bill obnoxious to
their individual interests, and can also
succeed, by the same process of espiou
age, (with the use of money for the
doubtful ones) in passing any bill of in
famy favorable to their machinations
over the will of the people, who, taken
as a class, arc always on the side of
justice.
Wo would not decry the legitimate
lobbyist. The people have a right to
watch tho ramifications of legislation,
and we are glad to see them interested;
but we speak of political shysters now
who own and control at least half the
Legislators who sit as dumb as oysters
always until called upon to vote, and
then they vote as these shysters dictate.
Tills is the reason our Temperance Alli
ance bills were voted down, and this is
the reason the bill allowing women to
vote upon tho liquor question was made
to fall.
Now, men and brethren who battle for
the right, do you not see the potency of
our argument that women must have
the ballot? We tell you frankly that
you never will be able of yourselves to '
mitigate the liquor nuisance. You must
have women in your halls of legislation
in lieu of monkeys, that they may aid
the wise and good men, whom they will
help you to choose as their and your
law-makers, and then we shall have
some show to succeed In temperance
legislation. But you say, how can the
enfranchisement of women bo encom
passed except by the act of these same
Legislators? We answer, come out
strongly for the right. Demand the
emancipation of your wives and daugh
ters from the thralldora and rule of
liquor dealers and liquor drinkers. Rule
down those whisky bc-soaked and to
bacco be-fogged Legislators, (like some
we wot of) by the strong force of public
opinionsteadilysetin the right direction.
Nominate a number of good, truo and
staunch temperauce women for the
Legislature. This you may do without
treading upon the toes of tender-footed
law, because there is no law to prevent
women from being Legislators. Teach
political shysters to make more room in
the lobby for the people. Teach the
people that elernal vigilance is the price
of temperance as well as of liberty, and
above all, as temperance reformers, de
mand that woman be empowered with
tho ballot that she may thereby effect
ually aid you in ridding our fair Repub
lic of tho insatiate monster, Rum.
THAT TJNPUECHASABLE WOMAN.
Tho Polk county person, who scrib
bles over the signature of "An Vnpur-
chasable Woman," thereby proclaiming
herself for sale, whoso articles arc no
longer admitted in tho Herald because
of their offensive indecency, has at
length found a fitting instrument for
tho dissemination of her scandal in an
obscure publication known in limited
circles as the Salem Mercury. This
Mercury is presided over by a boy,
against whom wc could harbor resent
ment if wo would, because of his tender
years and consummate verdancy, which
arc only equalled by his egotism. These
are the faults of youth, which we look
for his increasing years to overcome;
therefore wc say to a lenient public,
"Deal gently with the child; ho doesn't
know any better than to be imposed
upon by this unpurchasable(?) creature;
neither docs he imagine the great wrong
he docs himself and the Democratic
parti "J the wholesale slander of intel
ligent men and women contained In
the letter alluded to."
Suggestive second thought induces us
to give the letter a place in ourcolumns,
that our many readers may sec the evil
machinations of woman's arch enemy.
The letter is its own best refutation, and
our only hesitancy about giving it place
Is because of its "bold billingsgate" and
"fish-woman abuse." But here It is:
EniTon MF-nrritY : Mrs. Punltvnv kavk a
noted brothel keejeror Portland threatened to
vote for President If she did. And why not,
pray tell ? I we no reason why they .should
not have voted together. If at nil. Ifllie moral
or Immoral inlluence the pair have exercised
In Oregon ror the lul twelve iiinnni! is greater
or less, better or worse, on the part ot one than
incomer, l veniy oeneve e au vantage js in
favor of the brolhr-1 keeper. The Inexorlble
sentiment of society, exhibited for thousands
of yearn, eonflnes her power for evil to com par-
auveiy narrow limits, wuue ino career 01 ine
other woman Is novel, startling, and, Willi un
willed minds, taking; and her demoralizing
and poisonous example not yet circumscribed
and bounded by people generally.
i1ml tltnld, and Indeed, those who are not
lio, ,r.afr?ul to riI")Se and avoid her fish
w,OI.n"n. abuse, j nm ,olJ tlllt many members
nr .t.i : . iuiu mitt jiiiiiiv inriiiuera
" "iciate Ix-clalaiurf v..il r.r nmmi,fH ,
vote rural n.t I... L" ;' .," '"
wl.ni.,.V. 'i .ih-miiiii-j wjivii xurir con-
jfieneeor iuUeinentdi!iTit.rnr.-i r.nif,.t)i
the .lSno?ff.'i'.?idiJroT"1: Manifestly, j
l) ewndui iVJ . ""' 'inie concerning
&7 4$2& k,S," heja,escore. .
inon or. ntroversr with a com-
twi.it. v" luKMiwwwiC
" '. inL .iumji. ,. - . '
given ImrmnlTv V? "" ence she Is
women are noi ' LUi . 1 mnguage, as such
teeiiondnit . "ft " '"J? your humble cor
Ilngrate, I haVe .hi " ,.?Ci,w "cr "O'J
that I hnvf. llTi 7t ""'Taeiioii of knowing
cernlng her eiilertnineSVll ,t ""m'ut con
ery right thliiklnSkJ anS'L0"0".0-v'
eommunliy. A eTOiumoM!'e
AMA DiomSOtf.
talented woman, whom
This
Mr.
Greeley engaged to do lits electioneer
ing before she really knew of his oppo
sition to her enfranchisement, "lest she
should become a man," you know, at
last, in sheer pity for the old gentleman
because of his effeminacy and certain
defeat, held one mectiug in aid of his
sinking ship, just to show the more
cowardly men who deserted him that
she could and dared. The H'oniaii'a
Journal, with which we quite agree, as
serts that "Miss Dickinson deserved
I credit for magnanimity in coming to
the aid of a lost and ruined cause. She
was no rat, to desert a sinking ship."
Her meeting was described in the New
York papers as the most enthusiastic
ono of the Liberal campaign. Certain
it is, that the women's meetings have
been the most enthusiastic of -the Re
publican campaign, but there were so
many that they almost ceased to excite
extra comment, while Anna wa3 the
only woman of note who raised her
voice for Mr. Greeley, and she but once.
We are proud of Anna because of her
wondrous eloquence and womanly de
meanor, and while we regret that she
was not found this time upon the right
side of a great cause, wc know that it is
human to err; and in consideration of
her past and prospective championship
of the right, we gladly forgive the ono
harmless mistake of her life.
A CO-WOEZER.
An up-country editor whom we had
never recognized as ono of our co-workers
now comes to the front and goes
Into heroics over the fact that "Mrs.
Dunlway has voted!" He says to his
lady readers, "Rejoice and be exceeding
glad, for the day of your deliverance
from the tyrant man is coming."
O, lemjwraf O, mores
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Jenny O. G., La Grande: Wo have
no recollection of the communication.
It has doubtless gone into tho waste
basket. Could we be always at our post,
ready to attend to the contents of every
letter as soon as received, wo could
doubtless manage these things more
satisfactorily, but we are compelled to
bo absent from tho city for weeks to
gether, and during our absence such
letters accumulate until wc have more
" Hands tlian can be managed.
" ere every article ready to print as u
iconics to the office there would be no
! "ced of laying them away for future
consideration, but so many communica
must bo re-written before they can be
published that we aro compelled to cast
very many of them aside. Wo are
very anxious that every correspondent
shall have full justice, but in order to
secure prompt attention to their com
munications Intended for publication,
they must spell, punctuate and para
graph correctly.
B. A. B.: The same rule that applies
to Jenny O. will a3 readily apply to you.
Your poems havo merit, but you lack
the culture which a person of your tal
ents should seek, as you would readily
attain it with reasonable application.
I. S.: Your poem is meritorious in
many respects, but you can and will do
better. Should be glad to hear from you
again. Do not become discouraged with
one failure to get into print The first
attempts of most writers aro used in
editorial rooms to kindle fires. Excep
tions are where the writer has some par
ticular friend who suggests, criticises
and very often rewrites the amateur's
article entire before it is submitted for
publication. Let us hear from you
again.
Zora: Wc delayed answering your
question in regard to apprenticeship last
week because wc intended to write to
you privately. But as wc have not yet
had time to do so, wc now take this
method of saying to you lhatapprcntices
to the printing business arc taken in
San Francisco and tho East on three
months trial, they paying their own ex
penses. After three months they are
given all they cau cam; or, should they
find board with employers, six mouths
work without other pay thau personal
expenses of board ami laundry are re
quired. Should either of these ideas
suit you, wc can doubtless find you a
situation.
Martha G.: Woman's work will never
become as remunerative as man's until
she become equally free and equally re
sponsible with himself. When you
write that you "do not want the ballot,
but you do waut equal pay for equal
work," wc hardly known whether to
laugh at or lecture you. Such an asser
tion always reminds us of tho men who
during the war were "In favor of the
Union, but opposed to the only possible
means to insure its perpetuation."
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Wood in Walla Walla sells at $C to $S
per cord.
Klickitat county gives Garfielde 75
majority.
Walla Walla will build a magnificent
Court House
The Water Company of Olympia has
suspended operations.
Pacific county, W.T., gave a majority
of seventy for Garfielde for Congress.
The Statesman calls upon the City
Council of Walla Walla to erect street
lamps.
Hon. H. G. Struve has entered upon
his duties as Secretary of Washington
Territory
The San Juan settlers will have a ju
bilee when the island is handed over to
tt.i. Cm
LUUL'aaui
Gov. Ferry, of Washington Territory,
t..,wl 4 1, Met. o I ' I ' 1 1 n n I VI II IT I fUU-
imucu -
lamatlon for the 2Slh Inst.
The telegraphic cable to connect San
uan and Lopez Islands has reached its
destination and will soon be laid.
Keattlo cast !Q votes at the recent
i election, being an increase of 131 upon
the number cast at the same place two
years ago.
The people of Sleilacoom have pur
chased the old material of the Port
Townscnd Argue, and contemplate the
publication of a weekly paper.
The people of Walla Walla county, by
a majority of over two hundred, havo
voted to levy a special tax, tho revenue
from which is to bo expended in build
ing a new Court House and jail
The late improvements instituted on
the Chclialis Reservation by Gen. Mil
roy arc well under way. A largo school
house, two stories high, 2Sx44 feet, is
being built. Also a store-house 18x70
feet and two shops each 18x24 feet.
Yakima City contains about a dozen
houses, but there is room for more.
There are two or three stores and about
an equal number of saloons and black
smith shops. There arc two hotels, tho
Chemeketa and Occidental.
A pet rooster in Olympia exhibits a
decided partiality for a life of single
blessedness. He has chosen a little dog
for a playmate, and manifests a hostile
spirit toward every hen that comes near
him. He is evidently bent on leading a
bachelor life.
Tho Union says! "Tho early fall sown
grain in Walla Walla Valley is now up
to a good height and looks fine gener
ally, and that sown later is coming up.
They havo had so much rain that grain
looks better than it usually docs at this
season, and there is also more sown
than is usually put in in the fall. Some
farmers are still plowing and sowing."
The Starr Bros, havo disposed of their
entire interest in the steamboats navi
gating the waters of thcPuget Sound.
The purchasers are the Northern Pacific
Railway Company, and the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company intends
monopolizing the water carriage of Pu-
get Sound. They will also build first-
class steamers of the Mississippi model,
and run them between Kalama and
Walla Walla on the Columbia river.
The following paragraph appeared in
the New York Tribune of November '1
"Mr. Clark Davis, now of Seattle,
Washington Territory, was born a slave
of George McLean of Logan county,
Ky., and, after his marriage he and his
wife became the property of Beacher
Davis of tho same county. In 1832, by
permission of his master, Clark Davis
went to California, since which timo he
has not seen his family. Ho has ascer
tained that one, William Hannibal, ran
away before the war, and he hopes he
may be found in tho North. Silas was
sent South before the war, and Peter
left home at the time of the battle of
Port Donalson. Any ono who can give
any information respectintr either of
these men is requested to write to the
distressed father, who will pay any ex
pense incurred in finding them. Other
papers aro requested to copy."
LETTER PR0MMISS ANTHONY.
RociiESTKn, New York,
November 7, 1S72. J
Editor Xew Northwest:
The slips I send you from our Roches
ter ipers show that the officers of one
Wanl of our city hiciv their duty and
did it. In nine of tho fourteen Wards
of our city women presented their
names to register; four boards accepted
them and live rejected. But on the
final test only one board received the
votes. That was in the eighth Ward,
wie two Jiepubiican inspectors were
sure they were right, and when the
Democratic inspector objected to my
votes going into the boxes, they said
yes, "put them in;" "we will fight it
out on tliis line if it takes all winter,"
and In they went. My thrco sisters all
voted aim ten otuer women in our
Ward. Two of the sixteen who regis
tered failed to offer votes.
Tho Hon. Henry It. Seidell will lake
the action of the inspectors who refused
women's names and votes into the
courts, and wc shall sec whether our
New York Judges will be able to read
the law and declare I he duty of the f
S. Government to protect its citizens
women as well as men against any
and every attempt to invade their po-
j litical as well as civil rights, whether in
New York or North Carolina. What
have wc gained by all tho blood and
treasure of this four years' war If we
have not established this one principle
the supremacy of the national law to
protect the American citizen over that
of any and every State law to the con
trary? And if to be an American citi
zen is not to be crowned witli tho right
to a voice iu making the laws he or she
Is bound to obey, what a mockery is all
our boasted liberty! That one point
must be declared by both Congress and
the Supreme Court. To deny it is to
fall Into innumerable pits and mires
and overthrow all true Democratic and
Republican principles.
I sec Mitchell is your Senator. Good!
He understands law and the Constitu
tion. I had a long talk with him com
ing over the Rocky Mountains last Jan
uary. Can it be that twelve months have
rolled round since wc were on Puget
Sound and at Olympia, Seattle, Port
Townscnd, etc., etc? How like a dream
Stall seems, and what a beautiful one,
too, to live over and over.
I do hope Oregon women's citizen
ship will be recognized at the ballot
box, as our Rochester Keening JZrprcss
says if woman's right to vote is not ad
mitted legal under the existing Consti
tution it will be a long time they will
I havc to walu y.Q must pU()h
this
measure. Jt is me true method, I feel
more and more sure. Our judges and
lawyers say no at first, but just so fast
as they seriously study up the question
they see our position is a sound one.
Good cheer to all of us! Let us bo sure
that we work while we are waiting pa
tiently tho national flat that shall for
bid any State on due pains mid penal
ties "to enforce any old law or make
any new ono that shall abridge or deny
the right of women citizens to vote."
Sincerely but hastily,
Pl'tfAX 15. Avthoxv.
The Voting of. the Ladies in Boclester,
.Hew xoiic.
Tho following are the different ac
counts regarding the registeriugand vot
ing of the ladies in Rochester as given
by several of the local papers:
Citizenship no more carries the right
to vote than it carries tho power to fly
to tho moon. If it did, women would
have had just the same right to vote
before the adoption of tho fourteenth
amendment that they have now; for
they were citizens before, as were, and
are children.
Eveumrtfc citizenship does not carry
the right to vote. Thus, in the State of
Rhodo Island, winch Is Republican by
two to one, malo citizens of tho L'nlted
States and of the State, who are not
native born, are denied the elective
franchise. And as the Woodhull wom
annow In luuiow street jail m rcw
York for tho most obscene and disgust
ing publication that ever shocked any
community and Miss Anthony, and
others, petitioned tho House of Repre
sentatives, these male citizens of Rhode
Island petitioned the l nlted btatcsfcen
atc, anil were answered in an elaborato
report from the Judiciary Commltte of
mat body mat their citizenship gave
them no right, or color of right, what
ever, to vote, or to excrciso political
functions of anv kind. The "prlvileires
and immunities of citizens" mentioned
in sec 2, art. 4, and again in sec. 1, art.
14. of the Constitution of tho United
States, refer to cit'i7 rights, not to politi
cal privileges. Tho civil rights of the
citizens aro natural, absolute, and equal.
The political privileges of the citizen
aro conventional, discriminatory, and
unequal, ir these women in the Eighth
Ward oiler to voto they should bo chal
lenged, and if they take the oaths and
the Inspectors receive and depositc their
ballots, they should all bo prosecuted to
tho full extent of the law. Rochester
Union Z)em.
About nine o'clock this morning Su
san B. Anthony and clxht other ladies
went to the Polls of the First District of
the Eighth Ward and tendered their
ballots to the Inspectors.
ine votes were cuaiiengcu, me oatn
was administered and accepted. The
votes were then deposited in the several
boxes. At a later hour eight other
females who had previously registered
in that district repaired to the noils and
deposited their votes.
This is not the first instance m the
United States in which females have
voted. We understand that a lady in
Detroit has voted at two successive elec
tions. It is safe to say that in the event
that the vot?s cast bv women to-dav in
this city should determine the result be
tween any two candidates, the matter
will be taken into the courts. Onon
and Advertiser.
The most novel incident ol tho day
was witnessed at the Eighth Ward
polls. Here sixteen women voted, the
first beinir Miss B. Anthony, whose
voto was challenged, but she took the
oath, and her ballot was then received,
Those who camo later voted minues
tioned. As far as wc learned, these
ladies were subjected to no insults or
rudeness. Fifteen of them voted for
Grant and Wilson, and ono for Horace
Greeley. Seven of them came to the
polls together in the morning, and the
rest during the afternoon. In the First
and Third Wards several ladies who
had been registered attempted to vote
but were not allowed to do so. Chroni
cle.
New Postal Oode.
Although extracts from the new
postal code have frequently been pub
lished, many persons are still ignorant
of its provisions, and even business men
arc constantly making mistakes, thus
subjecting themselves to increased
postage and fines. Wc here publish
some of the main features of tho law as
to rates of postage and rulings of the
Department upon the same:
1. Tho division of mailable matter
into three classes remains as heretofore.
First, letters; second, regular printed
matter; third, miscellaneous matter.
(Sec 130.)
FIRST CI.ASS.
This embraces all correspondence,
wholly or partly, in writing, except
book manuscripts and corrected proof
sheets, passing between authors and
publishers. (Sec. 131.)
letters by mail, from one post office
to another, for each half ounce or frac
tion thereof, prepaid by postage stamps,
three cents. (Sec 150.)
Drop or local letters, at other than
letter-carrier offices, from each one-half
ounce or fraction thereof, prepaid by
postage stamps, ono cent. (Sec. 157. 1
Letter postage shall be charged on
mall matter, not lawfully franked or
entitled to pass free, when not so
wrapjied or secured as to permit of its
examination without destroving the
wrapper. (Sec. 136.)
Letter postage shall be charged on all
mail matter which is wholly or partly
Iu writing, except book manuscripts
and corrected proofs passing between
authors aud publishers, and local or
drop letters; on all printed matter which
Is so marked as to convey any other or
further information than is conveyed by
the original print, except the correction
of mero typographical errors; on all
matter which is scut In violation of law
or the regulations of tho Department
respecting Inelosures; and on all matter
to which no specific value of postage is
assigned. (Sec 158.)
Manuscripts for publication in news
papers, magazines, or periodicals, is
subject to letter postage. (Sec. 159.)
Letter postage shall be charged on
mail matter subject to less than letter
rates, In which is inclosed or canceled
any letter, memorandum, or other
thing, or upon which is any writing or
memorandum; except
1. Tho publishers of newspapers may
print or write upon their publications
sent to regular subscribers, the address
of tho subscriber, and the date when the
subscription expires, and may inclose
their bills and subscription thereto
without subjecting sucli publication to
extra charge. (Sec. 141.)
2. No extra postage shall bo charged
for a card printed or impressed upon an
envelop or wrapper. (Sees. 142, 1 13 )
Letters prepaid one full rato shall bo
forwarded, charged with the amount
11) cctc, on delivery. (Sec.
Letters wholly unpaid shall besent to
the Dead Letter Office, but when, by in
advertence, they reach their destination,
double the prepaid rates should be col
lected on delivery. (Sees. 152, 103.)
The ruling of the Department, iu Sep
tember, in answer to J'ostmastcrs, is as
follows: No. 18, Sec. 152, of the new
Postal Code, is held to apply to matter
partially prepaid, and Postmasters
should rate up the unpaid for weight at
double rates, to be collected at tho office
of delivery-
Under this ruling, on all mailable
matter, when not fully paid, the unpaid
rates are to be rated double aud collected
on delivery. For Instance, a letter or
paper upon which Is paid one rate, but
upon which two are due, six cents will
be collected and delivered.
SECOND CIjASS.
Thh clans embraces all mailer ex-
clusively in print, amhTeguIarly issued
at stated periods from a known office of
publication, withoutaddition of writing,
marlc or sign. (Sec. 132.)
TJIIItD CliASS.
f This class embraces all pamphlets, oc
casional publications, 'transient, news
papers, magazines, hand-bills, posters,
unsealed circulars, prospectuses, books,
book manuscripts, proof-sheet, cor
rected proof-sheets, maps, prints, en
gravings, blanks, flexible patterns, sam
ples of merchandise not exceeding
twelve ounces in weight, sample candy,
photographic paper, letter envelopes,
postal envelopes and wrappers, cards,
plain and ornamental paper, photo
graphic representations of dilferent
types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots,
scions, and all other matter which may
bo declared mailable by law, and all
other articles not abovo tho weight
prescribed by law, which are not rrom
:!.: r .. Itnt.ln In ilimtmv
iiivu luiiuur ituiuic, iiauit, s" v-.--j ,
deface, or otherwise injure the contents
of the mail bag, or the person of any one
engaged in the postal service. All
liquids, poisons, glass, explosive mate
rials and obscene books shall bo ex
cluded from the mails. All matter of
tho third class, excentlmr books and
other printed matter, book manuscripts,
proor-biieets, antl corrected prooi-sueeis,
shall not exceed 12 ounces iu weight,
and all matter of the third class shall be
subject to examination antl to rates of
postage as hereinafter provided. Sam-
pies or metals, ores and niineraiogicai
specimens shall not 'exceed twelve
ounces in weight, and shall be subject to
examination and to rates 01 postage us
hereinafter provided. (Sec. 133.)
On mailable matter of the third class,
exeept as herein stated, postage shall be
charged at the rate of one cent for each
two ounces or fraction tnereoi. uoume
these rates shall be charged for books,
samples of metals, ores, minerals, and
merchandise prepaid by posiago stamps.
;cc vss.
Noti: All the articles enumerated
under the third class must be open so as
to admit of examination, otherwise iiiey
aro chargeable with letter postage.
Notched envelopes are chargeable with
letter postage. Compliment, of the
author, or writing upon the fly-leaf of a
book or wrapper subject uic same to let
ter postage. Writing upon a uews
nanerin pencil orink. or unon the cover.
subject tho same to letter postage.
inciters auuressed to "initials" are not
deliverable. The postal regulations
require the Postmaster to forward such
letters to the Dead Letter Office.
Any person who shall inclose any let
ter, memorandum, or other thing in any
mail matter not charged with letter
postage, or make any memorandum or
writing thereon, and deposit forconvey
anco by mail at a less rate than letter
postage, shall for every such olfense for
feit and pay five dollars, and such mail
matter or inelosures shall not be deliv
ered until the postage is paid thereon at
letter rates.
Womaa Suffrage in Ohio.
The regular meetings of the Toledo
(Ohio) Woman Suffrage Association
were resumed, after the usual summer
interval, last Thursday week. The
members were cheerful over the pros
pects ahead, aud ready for work never
was there a time when the Woman's
Rights cause assumed more cnouraging
features. In Illinois, women had"been
admitted to all the rights of citizenship
but the ballot; that, it was hoped, would
soon follow. In Massachusetts, the Re
nublicau nartv had followed out the
spirit of the Republican National Con
vention, aud declared for Woman Suf
frage; obstacles seemed gradually melt
ing away, and in our own place the in
terest developed was encouraging. The
torpidity manifested with a certain class
of individuals, and the opposition from
some others, only instigated to more
vigorous and determined eflorts. Faith
in the good cause ami triumph of the
right surmounted obstacles, and swept
away barriers, and the Association
pledged themselves to unswerving faith
fulness In the future. The subject which
awakened the warmest interest was the
recent action In Massachusetts, and the
following resolutions wereintroducetl by
Mrs. Baker, aud unanimously and en
thusiastically adopted:
Wiierbas, The Republicans of Mas
sachusetts, in State Convention assem
bled, have declared their unqualified en
dorsement of the right of sulfrage for
woman, with an earnest desire for her
speedy emancipation, and have empha
sized the same by the adoption of a reso
lution. lie it resoti ed by the Woman Suffrage
Association of Toledo, That wo heartily
rejoice In this action of the Massachu
setts State Republican Convention, and
that wo again recognize the Republican
party as emphatically tho party of prog
ress; that in its success wo look for the
embodiment of the truo principles of
emancipation, wherein woman will at
tain to her just and proper position as
equal and eo-worker with man.
J'csolrcd, That we congratulate the
women of Massachusetts on the cordial
endorsement of their claims for suffrage
and equal rights by tho Republican
jmrly of that State; and that by the un
llagging energy of the noblo band who
have labored to educate opinion to a full
recognition of the claims of their sex,
wc tako renewed hope and courage to
labor assiduously in the common cause
of liberty and equal rights.
licsolvcd, That wo here pledge our
selves to each other, to Increased eflorts
for woman a universal emancipation.
liesolved. That a copy of these resolu
tions be forwarded to the ll'oman'
Journal, and also handed for publica
tion to the daily papers of this city, and
be inserted in the Toledo Sunday Jour
nal. Loon H.vi'i'Y. Look happy, If you
do not feel so. Present a cheerful ex
terior, though your heart and mind be
troubled. Never wear a face which, as
Sidney Smith says, "is a breach of the
peace." Dr. Johnson used to observe
that the habit of looking at tho best
side of things was worth more to a man
than a thousand pounds a year, and
Samuel Smiles observes: We possess
tho power to a great extent of so exer
cising tho wiU as to direct the thoughts
upon objects calculated to yield happi
ness and improvement rather than their
opposite. In this way the habit of
happy thought may bo made to spring
up like any other habit. And to bring
tin men or women witli a irenuino na
ture of this sort, a good temper and a
nappy frame of mind is, perhaps, of
even more importance, in many cases,
than to perfect them In much knowl
edge and many accomplishments.
Tub Rrssi.w Aimw Tho Russian
army at present consists of forty divis
ions of the line, besides seven divisions
of guards and grenadiers, making a to
tal of ICS regiments of three batallions
each. The strength of the army In all
branches, Iu the time of peace, Is 1,S00,
000. This foreo can bo increased, in
time or war, to 2,500,000 drilled sol
diers. Matrimonial A lady Informs us that
she finds more difficulty in husbanding
her nine daughters than she does, in I
husbanding her resources.
Rosa Bonheur's last work is said to bo
her masterpiece. It presents a tiger
fighting with a hyena.
Some of .the -Queer Tiing3'to be Seen in
Mormondom.
You aro struck by the great uumbcrof
children everywhere here. Some houses
absolutely overflowing with them; some
tables are embowered in "oltve
branches." Tho different sets get along
very well together generally, but that is
little wonder, after the miracle of agree
ment between the mothers. Polygamy
does not seem to spare women the cares
of maternity. I know a Mormon house
i.fti.i in veiiieh two middle-aged wives
count about two dozen children between
them. I took two little iair-uaireu su
for twins and they were a sort of polyg
amatlc twins, born almost at the same
time iu the same house, of different
mothers. It seems to me that the chil
dren here do not look as happy and
bright as in our towns; I fancy that tho
little girls, at least, have something of
the subdued, repressed look of their
mothers. But some of them are pretty,
and nearly all neatly and comfortably
dressed. I hear that they have very
good schools, and are under good discip
line at home, answering to the roll-call
at night, and duly honoring their father
and their mothers.
Many Mormon wives are sisters, and
it is said they get along quite harmoni
ously. The very nature of women seems
to be changed here, and turned upside
down and inside out. An Intelfigent
"first wire" told a Gentile neighbor that
the only wicked feeling she had about
her husband taking a second wife was
that he did not take her sister, who
wanted him. or rather a share of him.
She would have liked to have the prop
erty kept In the family. I saw tue
other day a pair of younjr wives, sisters,
walking hand iu hand, dressed alike in
every particular, of the same height and
complexion, and of the same apparent
age indeed, looking so exactly alike
that it was almost a case of mitigated
bigamy. It must seem queer, even to
them, to say "our husband," as they
used to say "our piano," or "our pony."
The most singular and unnatural mar
riages here are those of men with their
wives' mothers. These are not unfre
quent. It strikes me this is a seditious
plot against immemorial domestic
authority, the- most ancient court of
feminine appeal that it is an attempt
to do away with mothcr-in-laws. When
young wives aro taken, the three or four
or five do not always become ono flesh,
there is sometimes rebellion and even
hostility on tho part of the old wife.
Occasionally a husband objects to hav
ing oven a second wife imposed on him.
I heard of one the other day, who,
though he finally submitted to the com
mand of the imperial Brigham, that ho
should take and provide' for a certain
poor woman "a lone, lorn, cretur,"
declared that he couldn't "bear her,"
and at once put her away on a ranch
forty miles from town pensioned and
pastured her out.
Lunar. -The women of the old towni
of Anjou are celebrated for their art in
folding linen. Tho renown Is an old one
but It lias, nevertheless, bestowed no
mean celebrity on the ladies of Angers.
The art does not flourish now as it used
to, and is, Indeed, nearly confined to the
grand old chateaux of the place. The
linen presses of a magnificent hospital
still show, too, some chefs d'eeuvre of" the
kind. The good sisters throw open the
doors of their immense cupboards with
a natural feeling of pride, and reveal, to
the astonishment aud admiration of the
visitors, tho wonders of their dexterity.
In a vast sheet, folded into a through,
twenty-four sheep formed of chemises,
are drinking, guarded by a night dress
in the shape of a shepherd, and so on.
Linen castles, windmills, towers and
abbesses aro frequent tours de force of
those dextrous linen folders.
An inquiring man thrust his fingers
into a horse's mouth to see how many
teeth he had. The horso closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the man
had. The curiosity of each was fully
satisfied.
OUR AGENTS.
The following persons are duly authorized to
act as Agents Tor the ITew Northwest :
Mrs J. II. Foster lbnny
Ashhy Fearee Benton county
Dr. Bayley- Corvallis
A. A. Manning- Qlympia
Ml Virginia Old-....- McMInnvflle
Hiram Smith . .... .Ilarrishnrg
J. II. II. Ilemlerson Eugene City
"W. YV. 15ach. u Baena Vista
Kev.Wm. Jolly lllllsboro
lion. T. W. Davenport Sllverton
5Iar" J. Makers. - , .-Gervals
A. W. Slananl Brownsville
S. ii. C'laughton Lebanon
C A. Iteetl ..Salem
Mrs. O. T. Danleia 13'nlem.
Sirs. Xellie Curl. .".y
I'. a Sullivan. .Dallas
Mrs. M. V. Cook Lafayette
.Mrs. M. C. Cllne
Mrs. It. A. Vawters
-.Kalama
'Wnltsbunr
Pendleton
Seattle
Mrs. B. B. Bishop -
ltev. J. F. Damon
Itcv. D. Bagley.
Mrs. Jane M. Wilson
Philip ltlti...-
1. D. Moore....-
Mrs. It. J. Cieorge
Mrs. M. J. Ensign
-bcattlo
Walla Walla
Walla AValla
Port Townscnd
Traveling Agent
...Portland
- Traveling Agent
Traveling Agent
Washington county
- . Larayctto
Albany
- Salem
Dalles
G. U. Blood
Mrs. M. Jeirries-
II. II. Welch -
Dr. J. Watts .
A. N. Arnold -
(S. W. Lawsoiu
M. V. Owen
Sirs. C. A. Cobuni
Mrs.J. DeVore Johnson
Thos. Parsons .
It. I'entlnud
Miss Kallle Applegato.-..
Miss Ii. A. Owens
J. T. Scott, Esq
Mrs. A. E. Corwlu....
Forest Grove.
.Oregon City
Mlhranklo
The Dalles
Yonealla
-..Rosebnrg
..-Forest Grove
Nelialem
!eo. Engle-
In A
J. W. Jackson.......-
Lueeno
.San Francisco
California
I P. Usher.
Mrs. Laurn DeKorce Gordon
Miss Nellie Mossman
.Olympia
I.T. Maulsby
.Vancouver
Union Bldge.W.T
. Oelioeo Valley
. Washington Territory
-Traveling Agent
Gervals, Oregon
Yrafca, California
.Sacramento, California
.Stockton, California
O. V. Brock
O. V. Barncs
J. X. Gale
Mrs. K. Oakshett
Mrs. J.C. Hayes
James Vnnce..
lhmlel Waltman
Mrs. Sarah Harry
Mrs. Sarah "Wallis...
Maynem, waiuomi
San Jnne, California
Mrs. Chapman Yates.
V "lll'lll JllUi Hilt' n.,aMlJUMUII ... n . . -
Charles W.Tappan -Salt Late City, U.T
Other parties desiring to net as Agents will
please forward their names. We want Agents
at every postofflco throughout Oregon and
Washington Territory.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
TO SnnlTUALISTS AXO OTTtEJl I.tnEBAI.
Thinkkim. A mil supply of Splritnaltet and
ltefiirm Books kept constantly for saleatSnow's
Liberal and Iteform Bookstore and General
I"ae!n Agency, 319 Keaniy street, up stairs,
near Bush. Also Adams & Co.'s Golden Fens.
Orton's Antl-Tobaceo PreiamtIon, and Spence's
Positive and Negative Powders. All goods sold
at Eastern prices. Hemittances In United States
paper currency received at pur. Circulars and
catalogues mailed Tree. Address Herman
Snow, P. O. Box 117, San Francisco, Cat. v2nH
The Mothlug- Trade linn, within the
Inst thirty davs, undergone a regular revolution,
by Flshel A Koberts having opened a tlrst-class
Clothing establishment, corner of First and
Washington streets, where Men and Boys can
bo ntted to perfection in every kind of Clothes.
They are manufacturing on a large scale, and
cau make nny thing for Men and Boys' wear to
order In tho very best style, at extreme low
prices. Theirnlm Is to please both in llttinganu
In quality. Acall to their c.stabllshment.corner
First and Washington streets, will convince all
ofthefaot. arttrtr
W. H. COBURN,
Boole ana Job Printer,
5 WASHINGTON STREET, UP-STAIRS,
Fortlnuil. OreS"
ro,k dene at REASONABLE BATES. IU