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.JANUARY 31, 1873. SUNDAY EVENING LEOTTJEES. In consequence of Mrs. Dunlway's be ing absent lecturing In Salem for a few days, she will not be able to lecture on next Sunday evening in the Theater. The last lecture was very largely at tended and the subject, "Special Mis sion of Woman," highly appreciated. The subject for Sunday evening, Febru ary 9th, will be "Women and the Bi ble," and she will also treat of the "Spe cial Mission of Man." THE PEOPLE MOURN. It becomes our melancholy duty to record the sudden death, under very painful circumstances, of our efficient co-worker in the cause of Human Rights, lion. O. "W. Brown, whose un timely departure is a heavy loss, not only to his family and the community, but to the great cause of Woman's En franchisement, of which he was an able and earnest advocate. On last Tuesday morning as Mr. Brown was busy at his work at the Ilolladav lumbering mill, he unfortunately attempted to mount the cars as they were moving slowly on the track, and losing his footing, fell between the wheels, two of which ran over his leg where It Joined the body, crushing it frightfully, and causing agony and loss of blood which rendered him at once unconscious, and from which ho did not rally. The deceased has filled many responsible position irf society and politics. He was a member of the legislature In 1S5C. In 1857 ho became business manager and associate editor of the Standard, and as evidence of his industry it is related of him that after he attended to tho affairs of the paper he usually left for his farm, four teen miles distant, carrying a torch to light him through the forest. He was a carpenter by trade, and superintended and constructed the first line of street railway in this city. He had been in the employ of the milling company but a few days when his work was arrested by his sudden call to "come higher." "Ve kuow the emptiness of words and their incapacity to heal the wounds of dcatli that have pierced the hearts of his devoted wife and effectionatc children, but as we pen these lines our eyes over flow with tears of sorrow and our heart is full of unuttered and unutterable ex pressions of condolence. "We also mourn his loss as a personal friend and adviser, in whom we had entire confidence, and whose aid we need and shall sadly miss In our labors. Upon whom will his mantle fall iu this great struggle for Human Rights? Thoroughly honest, scrupulously honorable, untiringly zealous and always hopeful, his aid and counsel were an Inspiration to us to his latest hour. Fold the bands all seamed with labor. Close the erewhlle beaming eyes, Smooth the eekl and pulseless temple, Bow your heads a hero dies. He reeked not that that his lot was humble, Zeal his martcr, truth his .shield; Yet not less a hero was he Than the dead on tented Held. Hall, good friend and noble brother. Stricken hearts these tributes brine, And flirewellf, with faltering voices Thoe who loved thee sadly sing. THE DOMING CONVENTION. Our friends will see that quite an ar ray of names has been added to our original list in the call for a Woman Suflrago Convention. It is the inten tion of tho Committee to spare neither pains nor expense in their endeavor to make this meeting instructive, ennter talning and attractive. A full programe of the proceedings will be published as soon as it can be definitely arranged. In. the meantimo wo urge our friends everywhere to take upon themselves the duty of Committee of tho Whole, and prepare songs, essays, speeches and poems, for the edification of the multi tude. If you could realize flie prodigi ous amount of mental and physical la bor that devolves upon us as an Individ ual you would certainly need no per sonal invitation to come to our aid in the ranks and by your zeal in tho fight procure your speedy promotion. We hope tho friends of Woman Suf frage will not await the formality oj personal invitations to attend and as sist. Such invitations will be given as far as practicable, but if any are over looked who are willing to work, remem ber that if the editor of this paper had waited till somebody invited her to come out before taking her stand for Human Rights, the public would not have known her yet. Remember friends, the demand now is for a long pull, a strong null, and a pull alto gether. DONATION PABTY. On Friday evening of last week we were made the favored recipient of a genuine old-fashioned donation party. As we write, the cupboard groans with Its weight of the choicest edibles, the larder is plethoric and our pooket-i-well It is comfortable to have a little pocket money once in a while, even If you are an editor. But beyond and above all this we prize the hearty appreciation of fnends, the comforting assurance of their genial faceSi antl tbelr -1,,,, n our earnest and expensive enterprise L t i h,nm"y- We can only say to them In behalf of our public work, we thank you. Tue donatC of coinand ercbaudI amounted to$110. Hon. J H Mitchell, in token of his promise to treat our cause with "resnect ful consideration," called early in tuo evening for a half hour's ehaf then Laving a reception of his own, or rather of his gentlemen friends at the St Charles hotel, ho took his denarturo first placing in our hands an envelope containing a hundred dollar bill. AVe hope our few Woman Suffrage friends who have conscientiously regretted our preference for Mr. Mitchell for tho FRIDAY.. Senate will accept this fact as an crncst that ho will stand by our cause In Congress. He rcmariieu ucwiu us good-by that he had not yet taid a great deal on the subject, but he was ready to act, and when he had an oppor tunity would always be heard on our dde. We'd like to say ever so many of the good things that well up in our heart concerning the many otherfnends who are coming to our aid in our labors, but they're too modest to allow us to par ticularize, and we're too grateful to be garrulous, so we only repeat: We thank you, and hope always to deserve your assistance and encouragement. OALL POE A WOMAN SUITEAGE CONVENTION. At a meeting of tho Multnomah County Woman Suflrago Association, held on tho 15th of January, 1S73, It was decided to call ft mass meeting of the friends of Woman Suffrage in the State of Oregon and Territory of Washington, to be held in Portland on tho 14th and 15th days and evenings of February, 1S73. The object of this Convention Is to organize a State Society, that there maybe more united action and Influ ence In the work. Now is the time for firm, persistent, energetic action, and we earnestly urge the friends to make an effort to be present and participate in tho deliberations. We wish to organ ize a permanent State Society, to meet once in each year, and we also urgo the formation of auxiliary County Societies, to meet whenever they may choose. Eminent speakers and essayists from all parts of tho State and Territory are expected to be present and take part In the debate. The California State Suffrage Society is invited to co-operate. Delegates, or tho3o willing to officiate a9 such, are requested to forward their signatures at once to the New NoitTii- west for attachment to this call. H. M. SIIANAIIAN, President. A. J. DnxnvAY, Secretary. H.W. Williams, B. A. Owens, B. C. Duniway, G. W. Brown. H. C Brown. J. I EVOKE JOHNSON", E. Oakshett, A. B. Gibson, T. lu Eliot, M. Hendee, C. A. COBL'KN, W. li. jIBSON, D.W. Williams. Dn.M. A.Tiiompson, U. it. 11 END EE, J. W. Peters, J. T. Scott. . i-eters, W. T. Shan-ahan, Mits.CP.Cit andall, M. Odeneal, P. C. SULLIVAN, G. W. Dawson, E. Williams, M. O. Brown, A. A. Man'nino, T. V . JJAVKNTOKT, C. A. Reed, J. Hawkins, Dk.M. P. Sawtelle, S. A. Johns, E. Dawson, b. j. jsiiiaas, Cahey W. Johnson. ANN -l. J1AHTIN, 11. li. .MdJOItD, M. GlI.TNER, O. P. IlENltY. T. T. Mavlsby, E. L. Mendenhai.i- -U. J. -.L.INU, -M. J. iSIKI),- Joseph Magone, R. Scott. M. H. JiAMiiKitT, MarySilvnkSmitii ANSWERS TO COEEESPONDENTS. M. O. S., Eola: We don't know that our private religious belief has any thing more to do with our political work as a W oman Suffragist or Sunday work as a moralist than the religion of the editor of tho Bulletin has to do with his work as a Republican or Custom House officer, or that of the editor of the Herald has to do with his work a3 a Democrat and public lecturer. But, inasmuch as some anonymous writer in the Messenger has charged we aro Spiritualist, and many of ouf good woman Suffrage friends are sorely troubled in consequence, we will say for their benefit that we do most unquali fiedly believe in the Spiritualism of the New Testament. Wo have also wit nessed some striking evidences of spirit manifestations, or something far more unaccountable, but leave their public elucidation to those who make such matters their calling. Our work is em phatlcally .potfYcaf, and the private re ligious belief of our allies is none of our business. Our political friends are com posed of members of all churches, ad hcrents to all creeds, and ministers of all denominations. The Spiritualist makes just as efficient a Woman Suffra cist as the.Piesbyterian, the Catholic just as active as the Methodist. They are all welcome to work in our field, 1 ll 41. . . Jim au me more intelligent and en lightened ones are already in it. Their religion is between themselves and God. e noiu tliosanio right for ourself. Are you answered? A. M. M., Lafayette: Many thanks for your excellent letter, which appears elsewhere. It it a little strange that persons who ought to and do know bet ter take such delight in saying evil things of us, but the older wo grow the more cliantablo we get. It is verv nat ural for persons to imagine that we are what they feel that they should be in our position, and we shouldn't bo too nam upon them lor what they can't help. Your subscription was paid in recently. All right. I. T. M., Kalama : Yonr name is re corded with pleasure. Wo shall cer tainly expect you to be present at the Convention. Thanks for renewal. M. F. C, Lafayette : Subscriber and money order received. Send us a list of names for our call. Thank you. Mrs. R, M., Tangent: S3 CO received and order attended to. A SPLENDID OPPEE. It is well known that the regular sub scription price to DemorcsCs Magazine Is S3 00. That our friends may reap the tho full benefit of such opportunities as we cau command to secure themselves an extra supply of good reading, wc have made arrangements by which we are enabled to send the New North west and DemorcsCs Monthly Maga zine for one year for $4 50; or for $5 50 you can have the New Northwest, vcmorcecs Montldy and a splendid pair of chromos (Falls of Niagara, and Yo semitc Falls), which could not bo pur chased at the book store for leas than variahu?6" f thl3 kIud M --' ijoth.publlcatlons at once. i WOMAN SUPPBAGE IN OALIPOE- MIA. Mary J. Collins, Corrcsnondlnrr s tary of the San Francisco Woman Suf frage Association, writes as follows: en, me Lib's and Dem's wcro terri bly defeated. Mr. Greeley has gone to his spirit home, and tho Republican party will, we earnestly hope, politically enfranchise tho women of the country and thus placo them in a condition to command respectful consideration. Su san B. Anthony voted as an ernest of her early triumph, and tho officials of tho political party which she so vehe mently advocated have confined her to a prison cell. This outrage, which finds earnest defenders in both parties, will, we trnst, won a speedy revolution. "Our Society delegated Mrs. E. C. Curtis of Sacramento and the wife of our Senator elect, A. A. Sargent, to rep resent us In the National Woman Suf frage Convenlfon, which met at Wash ington on the 17th inst. "Wo want you to hold yourself in readiness to attend our annual meeting. We expect it to be an Imposing demon stration. Tho time will bo favorable for you to circulate the New Northwest more eftectually in this State. The Suffrage movement In California- as sumes more importance now than ever before. Men and women of influence speak of it respectfully, and politicians seo in it more of reason, right and jus tice than formally. "We arc busily at work trying to movo the Suffragists in tho Stato of Nevada to force the claims of women upon the Legislature now iu session at Carson. My timo is now occupied in correspond ence with our trans-mountain asso ciates. I enclose a copy of a Report and Laws, submitted to the Assembly of the Cal. Legislature by a speelal committee raised by that body to consider tho sub ject of woman's political needs and re port thereupon. Tliisconimitteoquietly invited the President of our Woman Suflrago Board (Mr. Collins) to prepare such a report and such laws as would, in his judgment, harmonize with the views and feelings of the Assembly and submit them to it the Committee for its consideration and approval. The re port and laws are just as they came from his pen. You will be pleased to note by what a huge majority the first two laws were adopted. I trust your labors will show their fruits in tho next Legisla ture of Oregon." LAURA GORDON HEAED FE0M. From a private letter just received from our friend and co-worker, Laura DeForce Gordon, who has been absent for the past year In the East, wc extract the following: "I came home in September, but was so troubled by a sort of bronchial allec tiou that I was unable to engage actively in the Presidential Campaign. However, the result has proven that my aid was not needed. Toor II. G. had his wish, viz.: that he should not live to see his daughters vote. "My health Is fully restored now, and I long for the timo tocomo to be at work again in our good cause. I have been waiting witli almost bated breath to Know tho result or dear, noble Susan B. Anthony's arrest for illeiral votincr. Sometimes lam half persuaded that the verdict will be iu our favor, and we women may be recognized as citizens without opposition. Again ! reflect upon the bitter prejudice and obtuse bigotry of the opposition in regard to tho legal status of w6mau, and inv heart sinks within me at the prospectof tue work yet to be performed. The whole future of our work now rests with the court or courts in charge of Miss Anthony's case. Oh, how anxiously we are all waiting for the verdict. What is your Oregon local Society doing? "I hear from our patient, brave help ers, Mrs. Schenck and Mrs. Wallis. of California, and Miss Clapp and others of evaua, ana llnd. ouo all waiting anxiously and hopefully the termination of the suit against Miss Anthony.. "I enclose a slip from a Nevada paper, reporting the action of tho Assembly upon a Woman Suflragc motion. I be lieve it would have passed but for the desire to re-model the whole State Con stitution." LETTER PROM LAFAYETTE. Dear Mrs. Duniway: I havo just finished perusing tho New Northwest and am glad to seo the call for a Wom an butfrace Convention. I am clad to see that the friends of Human Rights are still alive to the exigencies of the times. The arrestintr and imprisonment of Miss. Anthony is one of the best things that ever happiened to further the. cause of women. I am pleased to see my name appended to the call; but I wish you would print it Ann M. Instead of A. M., because there Is a man up here who is a very strong oppo nent of Woman Suffrage, who has the same initials, and there might le some misunderstanding about it. Did you notice that hint in the Mes senger ot your being a spiritualist? I thing I understand your views on the subject of spiritualism too well to be lieve you aro a spiritualist in the com mon acceptation of tho term. Ourclose intimacy for years gives both of us a better insight into each other's viewsand opinions than we otherwise would have. get considerably annoyed sometimes to hear people, that ought to know bet ter, so totally misreprescutyouropiuioris and character. But I hopo it won't al ways be so. Go on with your work aud the Lord will bles3 you, for you are on tho right side, and Ho will always bless those that are trying to do good to the human family. ' How I should like to attend the Con-, veution atPort!and,butI will not be able to be there this time. Your affectionate friend Ann M. Martin. P. S. Be sure and take a brave and firm stand at tho Temperance Alliance. PORTLAND C0ERESP0NDEN0E. Editor New NoirrnwKST: Last Saturday Yours Truly availed herself of the benefits of a visit from her very sensible mother, and jingling a couple of quarters in her pocket, pro ceeded to the matinee "for women and children." "School" was having a "run," aud the audience was large so large as to make it difficult for those to get comfortable seats who had not taken the precaution topre-engage them. (Ahem! I think the two p's in those words present a particularly pleasing appearance. Don't you?) Well, tho usher with difficulty made a seat for me beside a sorrel-topped, carrotty-com-plexioned animal with an Incipient mustache, who held an Infinltessimat ratan In his mushy-looking digits, with which he made the situation doublv uhcomfortable by tat-tattingon the floor wuen one of the smaller but equally sensible children essayed an impatient sniffle. I gathered firmness enough to conquer indignation sufficiently to ena ble me to endure a steady look at him, and, as I gazed, this mental question was uppermost In my mind: "Who is it, or what Is it? This entertainment is for 'women and children.' Tho posters say so. Now this nondescript .can't be a woman, for women are stromr-minded enough to walk without canes; it can't waeiiw, lor children know better than to make continual vulgar allusions to 'mothers and their tarnal young ones. No, it isn't a child, that's ovident.' Then the creature rolled a filthy-looking cud from under its tongue Into a mushy- looking cheek, opened Its mouth, aud out came, with a sort of hissing noise, a yellow, filthy-smelling fluid, which sought the daintiest ruffle on my best outfit and left, oh, horrors, such a slain! I'm very much afraid my mother will give Brothers Royal and Roberts in structions that will keep mc away from tho nutinco hereafter. But when I look at my dress I can't help thinking that that nondescript should be kept at home instead of Yours Truly. Tho usual thrust at mothers-in-law was bting patiently endured by the women from the actors on tho stage, when my equanimity was wholly upset by hearing my nondescript say to its somewhat similar appearing com panion: "I intend to get a wife without such an incumbrance as a mother-in-law, when I marry, eh, Gus?" the creature, interrogated as "Gus" chuckled audibly aud said in a sibilaift whisper, "I want no mother-in-law in mine." Yours Truly shrugged her shoulders indiguantly, and loosening her boa to expand her rising wrath, gathered her skirts around her preparatory to leaving the hall. The curtain falling just then, the twain sallied forth, as I suppose, to "liquor up" between the acts, aud I hitched over to wherea matronly woman, with two bright little girls near her, had been enduring the insults of my sorrel top and his associate "Gus" until she was thoroughly dis-Gus-ted. Seeing my look of annoyance, she said to mc: "That popinjay .and his puppy as sociate forget that it isn't but a little while since they wore pinafores." "Oh, I havo it!" I said, in tho ex ultant joy of an original idea. "I'll ask Mr. Waldron, through theNEW North west, to specify the meaning of 'wom en and children' in his placards, so that popinjays and puppies can't come here to insult them." "Oh," said the lady kindly, "that would be too cruel. These creatures haven't money enough to pay their way in the evenings. 'Sorrel-top,' as you call him, got his money from his mother, and I know Gus didn't carji his halfdollar." "lie's a lea(l-ueal!" wnisperetl a black-oycd little boy in front of Us, who was eyeing the ladies frizzled coiffures upon his knees, his elbows on the back of the chair. "He's a dead-head," he repeated earnestly. "He never had a half dollar in his life unless he begged It." "No wonder he wants 'no mother-in law in his,' " I said savagely. "For his mother-in-law would ho compelled to provide 'her lamb' with food and shelter for both of them." Tho bell jingled, the curtain rose, and Gus and Sorrel-top struggled down the aisle with contemptuous smirks on their flabby faces, rudely pushing tho "chll dren" and casting sheep's-eyes at the younger "women," doubtless even then in search of a future wife who may be free to support them without the incumbrance of a "mother-in-law." Yours Truly is only a school girl, but she here declares most emphatically, that any son of woman who has no more respect for womanhood than to slur at a mothcr-In-law without whose suffering, anxiety and toil he could never hope to get a wife, is unfit for the society of pure-minded daughters who love their mothers and delight to honor them and sec them honored. Yours Truly will bo in tho market some of these years, but she wants it understood that she will take no matri monial stock in any bandy-legged, soft patcd specimen of masculine humanity that dares deride a possible mother-in-law, speak Insultingly of "young ones" at matinees "for women and children," or spit tobacco slime upon her ruffles. Sohool girl associates, how many of you coincide with Yours Truly ? Sensirle Girls. Tho girls iu the first class of the High School in Port land, Maine, between thirty and forty in number, have agreed, with only two exceptions, to adopt for a school dress a plain, substantial, and not expensive material. Overskirts, laces and velvets are to be wholly discarded, and ribbons used onlv to a limited extent. No jewelry except a plain pin, and one plain ring is io oo worn, ine gins agree to wear no otuer costume to school be tween this time aud their graduations uext June. Many pupils in the lower classes are following their example, and It is hoped that it may become quite general in the school. Among the things discarded, slang talk may be mentioned, which they agreo to drop entirely. OUR SALT LAKE LETTER. Salt Lake City, Dec 29, 1872. Deaii New Northwest: Tho Christmas festivities have come aud gone, freighted with joy and sor row. While many a young heart has beaten high with joy at the prospective pleasures of the annual holiday, perhaps to as many other hearts the scene brought more of sadness, as tho days of other years rushed over memory's tab lets. "Friends fondly cherished" that mingled their glad and happy voices with ours have passed away never to return, and with whom wo shall not meet except on tho "other side." Thoughts sad and sweet came throng ing Into my brain as I looked down the lo-g vista of ears, and called to mind the friends of my youth who, ono by one, havo grown weary and folded meekly tho hand and lain down to rest ere their sun had reached its meridian. 'Tis well to think of the past, but not specially Interesting to your readers to moralize upon the closing year, so I will dismiss tho subject by hoping you had as merry a Christmas as you de serve, and wishing you a happy and prosperous New Year. Siuce my last we have been treated to a change from our delightful weather to the mud and slush of the land of "ye Webfeet," and, not having any side walks, we have to pick up our drapery and, like Sally Dillard's cousin's wife, "wade right through." It Is anything but agreeable. Iu Cottonwood recently, during a storm, a snow slide covered up eleven men who were going into tho mines. Just think, if you can, of a body of snow, full half a mile iu extent, rushing at one timo down the mountain nearly a mile, and with such force that It went across the creek and up the mountain on me ouier side live hundred feet! It is perfectly appallinir to think of. vor such is the fact; and these poor fellows, trudging along, footsore and weary saw i . J' me impending danger, but could not es cape. It was a terrible fate. Some of the bodies are not yet found, and will not bo until the soft winds of spring come to break the snowy bands that bind them. Salt Lake City is insufferably dull this winter in a business point. Social ly, there are balls aud parties, church sociables, etc, while there are lectures aud concerts to instruct and amuse. In political matters speculations aro rife as to who will be the next corps of officers for Utah, for it is generally be lieved there will be an entire change of programmo within the next ninety days. It was rumored that the head of Geo. Ij. Woods had already fallen, but it lacks confirmation. His successor was named in the same dispatch, viz.: Judge Casey of Illinois, who is a fino lawyer and very clever centlomaii though iu legal ability perhaps not tho equal of his predecessor. Perhaps a sketch of Judge McKean and his court would not come amiss to your readers. I will commence with His Honor, who Is a fine, bland-looking gentleman of perhaps fifty-five, with beautiful soft hair, wherein the "al mond blossoms flourish," surmounting a fine legal head; his benevolent face adorned with sweet, pleasant smiles; In person tall and graceful; rather slight physical development ; always wearing the air of a Christian gentleman; in faith a sterling Methodist. The Judge Is- a great favorite with the ladies. beard an envious gentleman say not long since, "Tho ladies are all in love with Judge McKean."- I think this is drawing it rather strong, but they would not show a lack of sense if it were true. I hope the Judge will not blush. If ho were at all possessed of the vanity of some of his sex, I might have spared that part of this paragraph Next comes Judge Strickland, who In person is above medium height, has florid complexion, reddish-brown hair and face slightly pox-marked, his physiognomy betokening good humor aud a fondness of the good things of life. He is no more a favorito with the "Saints" than tho Chief Justice, and for similar reasons, Then there is Judge Hawley, last and least, physically, of the trio ; but I am told he is the best lawyer of all. In person ho is rather below medium height, thin, "lean, lank and dyspep tic." His head is well shaped and set firmly on his thin neck, faco indicative rather of acidity than sweetness. His thin, well-cut lips show strong and de termined will. He is not as general a favorite with the Gentiles as either of the others, but from some cause, unex plained to me, is more in favor with the "Saints." In faith he is a strict Pres byterian. There! I have imperfectly sketched the Supreme Bench of Utah. The Bar I will give at some future time. As I said or intimated before, Uiere is a good deal of speculation in the minds of both "Saints" and "sinners" as to what will be the policy of the Govern ment in regard to Polygamous Utah, and there is some uneasiness manifest in tho minds of those iu authority in the "Church." Polygamous marriages are more num erous man formerly, or at least your correspondent hears of more of them. I heard of one last week whero an old cool of fifty,having lost his number five by death, went south into that part of I tali known as Djxic and found a young girl of sixteen who was willing to console him for his loss; so as no Mormon marriace can take nlaceexcent i .uormou marriage can take piace except at the Endowment-House in this city, : the twain who wished to bo made one set out on their three hundred miles iourney, traveling all day and ?mph,g j in uiu aguu me hooiuu uu uigui. ; suouid be hold. It was the worst con What do you thluk of that for purity? stitution of any State iu tho Union. Yet this is a common affair, I am told. : No less curious to us aro these ecles- lial marriages, as they are called. One took place recently In this city (I will only mcutlon one, but they are very common) whero tho "bridegroom" was a young man from Scandinavia, about thirty years of age, who was sealed to an old woman of sixty, a native also of tho same quarter of the globe. She ex plained the matter thus graphically to "an outsider:" "I no lives mit him In this world; wc lives together in the res urrection." There isspirituality for you. I was told very gravely a short time since by a zealous "Saint" who was la boring for my conversion that there was no hope of my salvation unless I became a Saint, except some Polyga mous Mormon should be baptized as proxy for me, and no hope of ray "get ting" my husband in the next world ex cept the aforesaid Polygamous friend and his wife should be married by proxy for us. My reply was rather more forci ble than elegant when I told him I pre ferred damnation to salvation on such terms. But few Mormon3 comparatively are well versed in tho teachings of tho Bi ble. True, there are some like Orson Pratt, Sen., who are pretty thorough, but the younger ones, who have had polygamy crammed into them, and who have seen its bitter fruits in their own homes and those of their friends, have become disgusted with a book that seems, as they are taught, to sanction so much of mtserj'i and" many of them are apostatizing and becoming scepti cal. I do not find, every home of the .pfii ralist a place of uuhappiness. I do know one wh,ere the two women and "their husband" live very pleasantly together. This is the exception. I can not imagine how any young girl in her senses can consent to accept a second, third, fourth or fifth-part of a husband. But that they do is evident, and It is done almost daily. I know now of a young Swedish girl who is engaged to be "second" to a man who has a legal wlfe nml six children in Europe, and wou,tl 1,ave "taken" her the past sumraer la(- not tne "Prophet" forbid- ,1 1.S 111 1 . lit t den him until he should bring his wife and children to "Zion" to "gather" with tho "Saints." She will come in tho first emigration in the spring, and then he will lake No. 2. Can you im agine the home-coming of that wife and her children ? I was told very gravely the other day that a "man's nature was richer who wa3 Possessed oi a number of women." liut what of the women ? If ono is to judge by their physiognomy, their na ture is quite tho reverse ot rich. I will leave the subject lest I weary you. but in passing let me say that with all their glaring errors I never saw a kinder peo ple or one more ready to oblige. They aro industrious and plodding, honest and thrifty, and deserve a great deal of credit for making this wilderness bud and blossom as they have. "Honor to iU0111 nonor," etc. How such a sys- tcm of Earing contradictions ever got . together passes my comprehension. But enough for this time. Yours truly, Sybil. LETTER IE0M ALBANY. Bear Mrs. Daniicay: In looking over the columns of your excellent journal wo seldom see anything from your old Albany home, yet we doubt not you are aiways pleased to hear from us. The past two weeks will long be re- j membered by a portion of the citizens ' ot tnis place as a time of considerable religious enthusiasm, and a time of awakening from the Rip Van Winkle somnolency prevailing in the churches of this city for the last twenty years. Tho week of prayer has been prolonged to a fortnight with increasing interest, anu me meetings still go on, accompa nied with a zeal and unanimity never oeioro witnessed here. Most of the churches have for the last fivo or six years been declining in membership, while the alarming increase of intem perance warns us to assume again tho aggressive, rather than the questionable character of the easy-going no policy portion of the community, always ready to follow in the train of the ma jority, right or wrong. Tho friends and workers in the great cau?o of Temper ance seem to realize the situation, and aro working with a will and determina tion that must ultimately meet with success. The Good .Templars' Lodge is doing a good work indeed, and many are to-day ranked with the cohorts of Temperance that formerly were wont to congregate in the temples of vice. Public installations, ball3 and private parties, together with amateur dramatic performances, have been the order of the day in the way of amusements, in terspersed with Intellectual treats of lectures on various subjects, and for the bencntof as manydiffercnt objects. On last Thursday Rev. Mr. Ncsbitt of Cor- vallis lectured in the Congregational church of this city for the benefit of the Young Men's Sigma Phi Society of Al bany Collegiate Institute, and the gen tleman's experience In the lecture field led US to look for SomptblnrF ronl and we were not disappointed. ' urs, Shera. Suffrage in Nevada. T" .11 I'onowintr is the oflinlfil rnnnri r .evaua a .legislative action on the Suf frage uiii; Grey's ''Female Suffrage amendment to the constitution resolution," coming ui' " oct-uuu rtauiog, ue moved its reference to the Committee on Elec tions. Savage moved to indefinitely postpone Grey said that independent of the dis courtesy of the -motion to him. h ttV0USI,t l Improper to so summarily ,53,, of so important a matter. Street said that he would favor the postponement of this particular pro P3- amenumenr, lo said that the jftSUtKS .. ilaTt favored a reference. He believed ance and one well worthy of tho consld l"v,t"jrv"w V." .Puwi"s ""pori- eraiion 01 tue House. Drake was opposed to doctoring or patching up the State Convention. He was satisfied witli that document as it now stood. Morrison favored tho reference and deprecated any action which would pre vent the justand proper consideration of any proposition submitted to the House. Crawford said that while the rules allowed a motion for indefinite post ponement, he was iu favor of using it. and he meant no discourtesy if he voted wr sucu disposition or the resolution. The motion to indefinitely postpone prevailed by the following vote: Yeas Adams, Allen, Andrews, Arnold, Burgess, Craig, Crawford, Derby, Drake, Hoppin, Horton, Lem mon, Mack, Matthews, McCall, Owen, Prague, Price, Randall, Rickey, Robin son, Sanford, Savage, Sessions, Shoafl", Smith, Stern, Street, Viunedge, Wal lace 30. Nays Brunner, Carpenter, Cole, Dangberg, Elzy, Fox, Gallagher, Grey, Hart, Keyser, Lvmaii, Morrison, Shep panl, Stoddard, Tobriner, Twiss, AVil son, Mr. Speaker, Dr. Bowmon IS. At 12:10 p. jr., tho House adjourned till 11 o'clock a. m., Monday. Merit. Real merit of any kind can not long be concealed; it will be dis covered, and nothing can depreciate it, but a man's exhibiting it himself. It mayuotalways be rewarded as It ought; but it will always bo known. 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