FRIDAY. AUGUST S,
1873.
OUT OF THE TIEE.
The fearful holocaust that swept over
our city last Saturday has almost com
pletely paralyzed all business Interests.
Not only are hundreds of families
turned homeless Into the streets, with
their business destroyed and the earn
ings of a life-time laid waste, but hund
reds and thousands whom the fire fiend
did not directly reach will suffer In the
stagnation of their business until It will
bedifflcula'ndinmanycaseslmpossible,
to meet their engagements. This mis
fortune falls especially heavy upon the
New Northwest. Our second volume
had just been completed, and many
hundreds, whose renewals would have
been made this week, are now com'
pelled, through their losses, to disco n
tlnue the paper. Bo, although our office
did not burn, nor our house and cloth
Ing, our business Is crippled to a very
serious extent. We this week send this
copy of Volume Third to every sub
scriber in arrears with the amount of
indebtedness marked at the head of this
column. We also notify, in the same
manner, every patron whose subscrlp
tion has expired, and urge immediate
attention to the matter. We must have
money to pay our bills. Let our friends
everywhere exert themselves to assist
us out of the fire.
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
If the Republican party, during the
present Administration, fails to fulfill
Its "mindful obligation to the loyal
women of the country," and shall go
on to stultify its national record In Con
gress as it has done in Massachusetts
and New York, there is no power in ex
Istence that can prolong Its life. A
party that makes promises when it
wants office, only to break them after it
gets possession of the coveted prize, Is
unworthy of the support of a great peo
ple, and will fail to receive it.
But our confidence in the Republican
party is not yet gono. It must have op
portunity to do its work in its own sel
fish, one-sexed, imperfect way, and
women must wait for its cumbrous
wheels of masculine legislation to re
volve slowly because they cannot help
but wait.
But the party cannot afford, as a Na
tional party, to stultify Its record, there
fore It will not do it. Its principal lead
ers are men of sense, albeit two-thirds
of Its legislators are monkeys. The
men of sense will realize the approach
ing dissolution of the party unless the
vital principle of Human Rights bo
acknowledged, and the defeat of the
party in a few of the State elections
within the next two years, will frighten
the masses into a realizing sense of the
necessity of unmislable recognition of
the principle of equal rights before the
law.
The present political outlook for the
party Is bad. Back pay steals, Increased
salaries for men in office, and a denial
of increased pittances for women clerks,
Credit Mobiliers, and social corruption,
these are but a few of the acts of the
present Administration which women
are watching, and which will bring the
party into disrepute. But we see a
Providence in all this. We see a hard
ening of the party's heart, until its own
reprehensible acts will compel it, how
ever unwillingly, to make one great
advance movement foritsown existence
sake. Tills the Republican party must
do or die. It is leading itself, in the
onward niarch of the Inevitable, to a
condition that will compel this course;
and this is why, from the present po
litical outlook, we see the work of en
franchising woman in the hands of the
parly in power. It is worse than useless
to demand our rights of parties that not
only do not exist, but have no disposi
tion or power to bestow them. Say
what you will about corruption In office
In the Republican ranks, there is no
more of it there than abounds in all one-
sexed political bodies. To expect to
resussitate the dead Democracy Is non
sense. A new party must take Its place.
We should be proud to be a recognized
member of a new party in advance of
the Republican party as it stands to
day, but tiie Liberal Democratic affiila
tion that made a break for the vaults of
Uncle Sam last Summer, proved to the
Nation the fact that the great mass of
the progressive element among men, is
yet organized in the Republican ranks
True, wc find many excellent Demo
crats, gentlemen of high inoral worth
and progressive tendencies, but their
adherence to the decomjKised body of
their dead organization hinders their
progress, and wiii continue to hinder It
until thev shall no longer be able to
doubt that it is dead.
The political outlook for Woman Suf
frage iB favorable Through the needs
of the Republican party woman shall
be enfranchised, just as that party en
franchised the negro, because of its mi
merical necessities. Man-made politi
cal bodies are always sefilsh. and will
make progressive moves from no other
motives than self-luterest.
THE GBEAT CONFLAGRATION.
Portland lay asleep. All over the
city the Pcaco Angel hovered, aud the
dreams of thousands as they slumbered
In fancied security, were unbroken bv
premonitions of danger. But the in
cendiary did not sleep. With his fiend
ish appetite for destruction whetted be
yond its ordinary wont, lie prowled
among the sun-dried buildings wherein
yet greater combustibles were stored,
and at the silent hour of four, tho hour
when sleep Is soundest and danger and
suspicion of danger Is supposed to be at
rest, he applied the torch that laid a
city low. Well did he lay his plans for
his foul purpose. Firemen, watchmen
and policemen were alike lost in the
sweet luxury of a morning nap. Tho
prolonged whistles of steamers at the
docks for many minutes seemed to only
woo the dream god. But at last a soli
tary fire bell rang out its sharp alarm.
Portland awoke awoke and flocked to
open windows, with drowsy eyes and
disheveled hair, with blanched cheek
and fluttering heart and gazed out upon
great mountains of smoke, surmounted
by Blender spires of lurid flame. An
other, and yet another fire bell rang.
Men liurried on their clothes aud darted
pell m ell down the erewhilo deserted
streets. Women, scarcely taking timo
to clothe themselves, followed at a little
distance. Thousands gathered at the
scene of disaster and gazed and strug
gled, till lot after lot and block after
block fell before the devouring clement,
driving back, with tho fierco tongues of
fire that possessed them, or the great
billows of smoke that they sent forth,
the frantic owners who fought for louger
mastery In vain.
Women, with little children clinging
to their clothes, struggled along the
streets under all sorts of burdeu?. Men,
divested or all thought of self, fought
the arch fiend face to face, saving prop
erty wherever they could. Brothels
emptied the low, vile, horrid life with
which they teem Into the open streets,
and filled the air with curses. Minis
ters stood upon the steps of costly
churches within a stone's throw of these
awful dens, and lifting up their hands
and voices, besought the God of ele
ments to stay His hand. Men, more
practical, enshrouded buildings in wet
blankets and prayed witii hoso and
buckets, and, we trust, silently as well
Other men, by dozens, became brutally
intoxicated, helplessly leaving their
wives and children to bear tho burdens
of the day. Our noble firemen did their
duty grandly. Assistance camo from
Salem, Oregon City and Vancouver,
and chiefly by the aid of these reinforce
ments was the conflagration headed oil
before it could destroy tho St. Charles
Hotel, tho only brick building that
stood between the conflagration and the
almost entire remaining front. The
loss is computed at $1,185,325; insurance
S25S.O0O. It is a greater calamity to the
Northwest than the Chicago flro was to
tho central portion of the Union, for it
is a far greater loss in proportion to the
age of the country, its wealth and popu
lation. But our people are again at
work. Nothing daunted, they will not
say die. Already preparations arc being
made to rebuild many business house?.
Relief committees will see that tlie
destitute do not suffer, and though years
will pass away before Portland recovers
from her shock, she will arise from her
ashes, better built than before.
PROTECTION TOE WOMAN.
Our brother of ihaBulleiin has partly
answered a part only, of the interroga
tories of last week's New Northwest
in the following stylej which is satis
factory iu part only:
Man does not In all caws protect woman.
Heoflcn deal unjustlyand criminally towardt
her. Injustice aud crime also oncn character
ize hH dealings with his rellow man. It ts not
safe for woman to relv Implicitly on man for
nmiectlnn. unless Oin llrst exercise due pree m-
tlon and prudence In ascertaining whether the
man on whom h relies 1 a person it In
tegrity and honorable character. Then she
may do so. sad as l the case of Mi7nleth
IClng, she committed a grievous fault, acted
most unwisely. In permitting herself tow lu
veleled Into a. kivrrt or mock marriage. ItffM
her duty to protect herseir aganiM mi ii-
nwtlAn itml tli MniMnnnrM. Tills ShPCOIlld
have done by requiring publicity. Goodrich'
fnniiijf tntmniihApvns criminal In the high
est degree. A mock marriage Is In violation i of
law. This brings us to the third question. No
additional legislation whatever conld protect a
woman in such a case. no inrowa nwuj mi?
the protection of tho law when sne consents to
n rr.t mntintllMi As file law noW KtUlldS
she has protection enough against such be-
trnyaiK, ir sue will only avail ntni
Hence she does not need Individual legUlatlon
with which to protect bemelt In such cases:
and slip rnnlil nut nmtivt herself If she had all
the legislation In the world. Ills not that the
law Is tnadenunte. for her protection as it
stands, but she does not avail herself ot Its pro
tection, rcvery woman snouiu snow, evurj
woman does know, that n secret connection
like that orKlizntwiii Kin? with Charles flood-
rich, even though the woman may regard It as
an nonorauie ana vauu marriage, is iuousu
and wrong. Onaman'spartllisanunmisuiK'
able crime If lie leads a woman Into such neon
nectlon and then deserts her. J he woman's
remedy Is caution and prevention, the true
remedy for all like evils; the remedy which
cannot be neglected without peril. When a
wrong step Is taken, the direful consequence Is
sure to iiiiinw. mature is inexorauie; irans'
trresslon brines the Inevitable penalty. Worn
an can protect hersell by being on her guard
acainst the first lmnrudent and foolish step.
Ilut If she takes that step she puts her means of
saieiy oui 01 jier nanus.
While admitting that it was Eliza
beth
OUR "MISTAKEN ENTHUSIASM."
As the editor of the Oregonian In
flicted the grossest and vilest possible
public insult upon Mrs. R H. Taylor in
commenting upou her unanswerable re
ply to Mrs. Brown's first letter to the
Oregonian, that lady will not further
attempt to reply to her through such a
channel. It therefore devolves upon us
to notice Mrs. Brown's last effusion, in
so far as it is deserving of any notice at
all. Says Mrs. B.:
I, fornue, have iieTer charged Mrs. Dunlway
with wanting promotion, and I know she Is In
earnest In the woman movement; hut at the
same time I claim that Senator Mitchell Is the
second obstacle that her mistaken cntliuMn-m
has thrown In the way that will retard the en
franchisement of the women of Oregon.
The Oregonian may not know it, but
the Woman Suffragists are well aware
that that other implied "obstacle" that
our "mistaken enthusiasm has thrown
iu the way," etc, eta, is the Republi
can party. It was all that Mrs. Brown
could do to hold herself from bolting
the Woman Movement when the entire
Association, numbering five hundred
thousand men and women, resolved to
prove their strength against their op
ponents by combining to defeat the
women's foe and Democratic candidate,
Horace Greeley. Mrs. Brown's" hobby
is a "new party," from the ruins of the
Democratic party, that shall crush the
Republican organization. To accom
plish this, and, wc arc being led to fear,
for little else, does she desire to enfran
chise woman. The Oregonian Is a ready
tool In her hands. If she and Mr. Hill
could prevail upon Senator Mitchell to
resign, Governor Grover would appoint
ex-Senator Nesmltli, the "Unpurchasa
ble Woman," iu his place, the dirtiest
scamp that ever spilled slop In newspa
pers, or sought, in the guise of woman's
garb, to beslimc the Woman Movement
with his innate indecency; a man who
would favor no project that would tend,
even remotely, to elevate woman, polit
ically or socially, above her present ani
mal plane, a dependent creature at the
mercy of the bad passions of men, and
place her beside man in power that she
might thus be able to dictate hor Ideal
social code to those iu high places.
i But let Mr. Hill and Mrs. Brown pos
sess their souls iu patience. Senator
i Mitchell will not resign to give Nes
mllli ...Ill l, I.. .nn...u
got across the B, .eel he fell upon the for lllat ' e or nny other, He wi
nerve ,dn ti, wnrr. : ihaT'niiiui cini
King's duty to protect herself
against a secret marriage, we cannot
admit, and neither, we think, will our
brother, that masculine legislation
tends to lead impecunious women to
thus protect themselves. Say what
you will, physical necessity js the first
law of nature. A woman may be per
fectly spotless In her desires, aud im
maculate In her relations to man, and
yet, through the needs of her nature
which money alone can supply, be
templed beyond her power of endurance
to barter her sex tho only marketable
commodity or service that man recog
nlzes In woman, or is willing to pay for
and thus fall a victim to his wiles,
when, were she equally independent po
litically, financially and socially with
himself, she would scorn to sell her sex
for a support exactly as man, no matter
how degraded, now scorns to do such a
thing.
It is true that "no additional legisla
tion could protect a woman in sucli a
case" as Elizabeth King's after she had
sinned, but it is equally true that proper
legislation would place her above the
uso of her sex for a support. It is not
"individual legislation" in itself which
women "need" or want, but only
itirongu sucn legislation can they se
cure equal rights witii men before the
law, that they may thereby obtain
power to make and control their own
destinies and thus outgrow the Idea of
placing implicit confidence in men's
wiles or promises for physical support.
The law is "inadequate" for woman's
"protection as it stands," because It
hampers her opportunities for a liveli
hood and independence, places her at
the mercy of man's bounty for the cut
tivation of her tastes, and, through the
whoio tendency of its teachings, im
hues her morbid, over-fed love-nature
with fulse faith in her protector (?) man.
It Is Idle to expect woman, in all cases, to
"protect herself," when law and legl-sla-
tion combine to lead her to look to man
for protection even though experience
prove that in most cases lie cannot be
thus relied upon except at hor "peril.'
Man-like, our brother dodges the main
question iu our catalogue and confines
himself to the questions that suit him.
We now repeat that main question and
ask him to favorus with a reply: Would
it uot.be fur better to restore to woman
tho equal use of inalienable rights, that
she might thus legislate for her politi
cal and consequent pecuniary Independ
ence, rather than place her at the mercy
of men who, when they violate every
obligation of honor aud sacrifice every
affection of her soul upon tho altar of
their selfish passions, leave her nothing
In palliation of her wrongs but murder
and its awful consequences?
Will he answer?
HE SQUIBMS.
Our brother of the Oregonian, who
lias been taking lessons from us lately
in matters of law, lias also recently
learned an. important Item in profess
ional ethics, therefore we are encouraged
somewhat concerning him.
Our article of last week, accusing him
of transcending all bounds of profess
ional ethics iu his editorial trickery,
had good effect upon him. It brought
him out iu the Daily of the Gth lust,
with tho best article we ever saw from
his pen one which he certainly needs
to study profoundly. Ho says it Li "a
dangerous method" when peoplo may
difler from you about matters of public
expediency to accuse everybody that so
differs of being guilty of social sins.
Tills is just what wo wanted him to
sny. We set out to make him squirm
and succeeded. And we say to him also
that it is equally "dangerous" to accmo
all persons who seek to reform the err
ing, or hold out light and encourage
ment ahead of the guilty, that they
may be thereby Induced to amend their
ways and atone for their misconduct, of
affiliating with or apologizing for the
crimes they have committed. "Just
tliis course" our brother lias taken in
regard to us, and that lie feels the right
eous fiaggeliation that ho compelled us
to administer is proof that he is yet on
praying grounds nnd Interceding terms
witii humanity.
But how he does work himself up
into heroics about tho purity of the av
erage public man! Because a man is
not yet caught in his slus is no positive
proof that lie is not guilty, brother, at
though it is circumstantial evidence in
his favor. We would fain believe that
all the great names you speak of are
spotless. We hope they are. But can
any or all of them be induced to cast
their votes, in high positions, for the
elevation of woman upon a political
and consequent social plane that
will place her as far beyond the power
of the libertine as they are beyond the
impossible oppression of courtesans
It is not men's records in tills great
moral battle that the women need, but
men's voles, and when you seek to raise
a stop-thief cry that smacks of caut, ac
cusing us of affiliation with crime, aud
publicly insulting other women iu the
same way, who come to our defense in
the great work which wc are struggling
among monied oligarchies and man-
made conditions of corruption to accom
plish, that the political and social at
mosphere may thus be purified of the
conditions that breed moral pestilence;
when you raise this stop-thief cry be
cause we work honestly for voice with
which to bring about this revolution,
you must abide the consequences. It is
beneath the dignity of n gentleman to
do ai you have done.
LETTER PROM BOSTON.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Miss V. 0.,McMinvilIe: Since the re
ceipt of your letter of last Monday, in
which you stated that fair treatment
from us would not satisfy you, but that
you would go over to the enemy if we
diil not print your own words in full, we
have looked for your letter every mom
ing in the Oregonian, but it had not ap
peared up to the time of our going to
press. We therefore conclude that sober
second thought has made you rcasona
hie, or else that your exemplary pet,
Mr. Hill, has concluded to hold back
your letter until this issue of the New
Noiithwest shall be out so that we
Editor New Xortuwest:
Enclosed you will find an extract
from a yet unpublished work, entitled
"Travels in Africa." I think some of
your readers will "see tho p'int." I
know you will. A hundred parallels to
this satire can be found in Bulwers de
scription of "The Coming Race," where,
in a volume of several hundred pages,
this classical writer keeps the reader
constantly engaged in drawing a paral
lel between the views, the religions, the
laws and customs of our race, and the
remarkable "Vrllyas" a more ad
vanced race that Bui wer found by ex-
ploring a very deep mine, when by the
sudden dropping out of the bottom of
the shaft he saw a now world below,
which by tho aid of long ropes he was
enabled to visit. His notes of travel
amoug the"Vrllya race" he found there
must have suggested lo our traveler a
short trip into Africa in search of the
antipodes of the "Vrllyas." This Afrl
can "yoke" is certainly antipodal to
the matrimonial yoke Bulwer saw in
use among the "coming race," though
it looks very much like a good many
"yokes" I see people wearing In Amer
ica. This "yoke" question is becoming
an important one, both in the pulpit
and on the stump. Tiie question with
vie is what yoke Is it? Is it the oue de
scribed in Mat 11:30 as "easy," or Is it
the one described in Isaiah 5S:G which
we are exhorted to "break" when it be
comes a "heavy burthen?" I know the
views taken by many of the advocates
of Woman's Rights, but then what do
women know about Theology? A dis
sertation on dish-washing, house-clean
ing or scouring tin, would be kindly re
ceiveil by me, or Bro. Thornton perhaps,
but when woman goes out of her
"sphere" to interpret Scripture, to ex
amine the reasons for law, or to inquire
Into tiie best forms orshapes of "yokes,"
we have no patience with her. Worn
mi's business is to wear the yoke, and
wear it patiently, no matter what
drunkard, brute or imbecile may be at
the other end of it. Her superior refine
ment, delicacy and sensibility seem to
peculiarly fit her for It. Woman's pe
culiar organization seems to harmonize
with the teachings of our venerated pil
grim divines, whose tombs I often visit
in Cops' Hill Cemetery. These divines
hail positive ideas about the "sphere
aud duties of woman." I know that
Bcccher and men of his stamp, whose
benevolence often beclouds their vision
wlieu looking at that most admirable
attribute of Jehovah's character, which
our ancestors called "immutable jus
tice," are geting some strange notions
about tiie proper interpretation of such
Scripture as plainly fixes the status of
woman. Beeciier's "dangerous doc
trines" on this and other subJccLs,which
constitute the swarm of now fledged
isms that arc cropping out in all our
departments of modern literature, as
contained in books and papers, have all
been born in consequence of our theolo
gians having too mucli neglected to
dwell upon the "immutable justice" or
"sovereignty of God," which In my
boyish days I was fed on by tho "holy
man ot God" neirly every "Sabbath,:
while I sal for two mortal hours in a
hot day under the "drippings of the
Sanctuary" and munched dill to keep
nwake. Our Fathers I said had positive
Ideas on these subjects. All men have
positivo Ideas on all subjects, when they
do not allow themselves to read much
or think much. As sure as men begin
to read all sorts of books and think for
the burning sun or shivering in a snow
drift, with uo agent of a "society to pre
vent cruelty to dumb animals" to dis
turb theirowners and slumbering "wor
shlnors of God" in church.
.... II 4-
In those days history imonua ua umk
three women, for holding tho "damna
ble heresiesvof the Quakers," were com
nollpd to walk fourteen miles in mid
winter, through snow anu ice, ueu u.
hind a cart, and stripped naked down to
waist, while a stalwart man, wielding a
' ii i 1. till
whip, lashed them over me uuck mi
the nipple of one of them was cut in
A Strange People.
The following is the extract referred
to in our Boston letter, from an unpub
lished work entitled "Travels in Af
rica:"
Passing up the river Zanfreta, through
a very dreary and desolate country, wo
came to a settlement which presented
some of tho most singular peculiarities
we nave ever met.
e spent some months in studying
their habits and customs.
There were somequite intelligent peo
ple amoug them, but most of them were
very ignorant aud strongly attached to
their customs, some of which seemed
twain, aud the blood ran down and left exceedingly ludicrous. One of the most
rimn.,i fnnf nrints all along the snow singular, though almost universal hab-
I WnmPit in those was " o putting strong yokes on
uuttiiii-u wcjr . two persons of the o
davfl bora their slicht suflerings with
patience, knowing it was tno win 01
fjo.1. nnd that "woman was made for
man, not man for woman" just as the
"niireers" were made for our bouinern
brethren and they saw very clearly
how their sufferings, which were "but
for a moment," harmonized with "sov-
ereitrnty" and "immutable justice," anu
when the head of the family, beiore re
tiring, read for an "evening lesson" tho
first chapter of Exodus, and then
prayed, "Oh, thou that sendest one to
heaven aud ten to hell, all for thy glory,
and not for any good or ill they've done
afore thee," all retired to bed satisfied
that God was now reconciled to them, as
they had been around the "family at
tar," and sent the hungry, tired boys to
bed supperless for not committing the
allotted portion of the Catechism "with
out missln'." Now these most excel
lent doctrines of our fathers havo be
come nrettv mucn oosoieie. i never
hear them from any pulpit in Boston,
and never see them ofi'ered as medicine
by doctors of divinity out west, unless I
am fortunate enough to hear Bro. Grib-
blc, or some other enlightened brother
of the hard-shell persuasion. I under
stand they are never oilered in Portland
unless heavily sugar coated. But we
are still using the yoke our fathers in
vented and .put on tho women. Why
not exchange It for some kind of har
ness or silken, velvety collar, just soft
enough to work easily, and just strong
cuougli to pull a reasonable, decent load,
but which will break when a woman Is
compelled to haul a brute, who buys a
barrel of whisky with half a dozen pros
titutes sitting astrido of it, throwing
mud on iter and picking her brute hus
band's pockets?
Either let us restore the theology that
patented the yoke, or shape the yoko to
the "advauced views" of the present
age. .Let us be consistent. W. L,. i
Boston', July 23d, 1S73.
cannot comment upon it But we will i them8elvc9 thcy are not near so 1)osilite
A barefoot Chinaman was comrwlliHl
by a member of the Emmet Guards, on
the day of the fire, to run thmili
burning street at tho poiut of a sabre,
although the poor fellow, who could not
speak English, protested as well as he
could against the outrage. When he
Ide-waiK, quivering m every
with pain. Some gentlemen carried
him to the shade of a tree, bound up his
charred and mutilated feet In oil and
flour, and putting him in a wagon with
one of his countrymen, sent him away
,to be taken care of.
that he has promised to do for woman,
that It Is to his Interest to do, and the
Democratic party of Oregon will not
arise upon his ruin, however keenly
Mrs. B. the Democratic party and the
uregontan may desire It.
THE "WIDOW'S MITE.
Mr. J. W. Kern, of East Portland,
publishes in the dally papers a most
reprehensible act of Coroner Dryer. A
man, iu attempting to render assistance
to our city on the day of the fire, was
drowned. Tho .river was dragged, but
the men who were searching did not
find the body. It was afterwards found
by some boys. Mr. ICern, who had
been dragging the river, did not wish to
have an inquest held, because all the
money some fifty dollars that the un
fortunate man's family possessed, ex
cept fifteen cents, was in the drowned
man's pocket, and the family needed it.
But the inquest was held, and thirty
dollars of the bereaved widow's last
mite went into the pockets of a drunken
coroner and his confreres. This is only
another instance of the way in which
women are legally protected by men.
Since the above was In type Mr. Dryer
has come to the front, denying the main
parts of the above and calling Mr. Kern
a cJiainpion of dead men.
give you tho benefit of the former sup
position, as it is more In conformity
with the good heart and good sense
which we have always given you credit
for professing than is the latter suspic
ion. In another column you will find
that ire have acted falriv. Another
issue of the Oregonian will, perhaps,
satisfy us as to whether you have so
acted or not.
Mrs. E. A. C, Nebraska: Jitter re
ceived and six dollars. Thanks. Will
write you privately. Your wonls of
cheer give hope and strength. Glad
you like the New Nokthwkst.
Mrs. J. D., Dalles: We to-day received
a letter from our pen, written to you
over two months ago, and returned
through the dead letter office. Will re
mall it to you and see if it can have bet
ter luck next time.
Mrs. M. A. II., Salem, writes: "I
don't know how to keep house without
tho New Nohtiiwest. Every child
about the house, oven four-year-old
Sue, clapped their hands when the pa
per came again after its vacation.
Dear sister and friend, go on in the good
work. God will bless and help you,
aud you will come out more than con
queror in this great moral battle."
Thank you friends, one and ail.
Letters similar iu tone to the above
are reaching us by every mall, and from
many diflereut posl-ofllccs. We may
never see the facesof thousands who thus
cheer our way, but we thank them for
writing, and are doubly thankful that
we are enabled to be the means of giv
ing them crumbs of real comfort on the
way of life.
Other letters will be answered next
week.
A SPLENDID OFPER.
It is well known that the regular sub-
Miss Virginia Olds wishes her views
recorded in opposition to the vote of Mr.
Mitchell upon the Woman Question in
the United Slates Senate, and in favor scription price to DcmoresVs Magazine
of the views of airs. Ji. xjrowii. ane
thinks with Mrs. B. that we do not need
votes but records in man-made legisla
tion to restore the inalienable rights of
women. As she has written to us stat
ing that her rejected letter has been for
warded to the Oregonian for publication,
we do not thluk It necessary to comment
further upon her acts and views until
we see what the Oregonian is going to
do about It. That journal is probably
withholding her letter until this issue
of our paper goes to press.
The McMinnville
September 15th.
College will open
Is $3 00. That our friends may reap the
the full benefit of such opportunities as
we can command to secure themselves
an extra supply of good reading, we
have made arrangements by which we
are enabled to send the New Noutii
WEST and DemoresVs Monthly Maga
zine for one year for S4 50; or for $5 50
you can have the New Nohtuwest,
DemoresVs Monthly and a splendid pair
of cliromos (Kalis of Niagara, and Yo
semito Falls), which could not be pur
chased at the book store for less than
S10. Orders of this kind must be In
variably accompanied by tho cash for
both publications at once.
about tho truth of their former teach
ings. To-day there is a public library
In Boston, free to all, containing a
hundred and twenty thousand volumes,
To-day there Is an organized society
here to "prevent cruelty to dumb ani
mals." Notices are posted up at tho foot
of all the hills in the city: "Please un-
clieck your horses while going up hill."
The man who severely whips a horse,
or drives a lamo or sick auitual, is ar
rested and fined. This Society yester
day advertised an offered premium of
S50 to any man who will Invent the best
harness to take the place of tho "yoke"
now worn by oxen. Can such Beecher
fanaticism be satisfied with "breaking
tiie yoko" now worn by oxen? Will
not the "yoke" that now galls the necku
of thousands of suffering women, badly
mated, bo next broken, or some kind of
legal "single harness" be fixed up in
which a woman can haul her load of re-
sponsiblilies through this world alone,
without having to haul n drunken hus
band too, who speuds all their combined
earnings on "wine and women," or who
is otherwise a repulsive clog to her?
Iu the days of Cotton Mather there
was no public library in Boston: chil
dren studied the blessed Catechism;
grown people confined their readings to
such works as "Dodridge's Saint's Rest,"
"Bunyan'a Pilgrims' Progress," "Paley
on Sanctlflcation," "Funkhouser's Evi
dences of a New Heart" and "Danforth
on Justification." Every "Sabbath"
all the peoplo sat for four long hours
under the "drippings of the Sauctuary,"
while the holy man thundered of the
"terrors of the law," made plain tho
"doctrine of election and reprobation,"
discoursed of "tiie exceeding sinfulness
of sin," or harmonized eternal torment
witii those admirable attributes of Jeho
vah, known as "sovereignty and im
mutable justice;" all squeezed out by
submitting Moses lo a theological high
pressure engine, and then distilling him
and drawing off the essence. Then, the
men being weary with toil, and having
full faith that tho preacher was "called
and sent," and consequently would go
right without watching, weut to "sleep
in nieetln'." while the women, filled
with more piety, as women generally
are, and probably having their rever
ence for the preacher somewhat in
creased by his being a man, Instead of a
woman, kept awake by munching dill
or chewing catnip; while the half-
starved team that brought them to the
"Sanctuary" stood out doors, gnawing
at the fence, and either Bweltering hi
LETTER FROM OHIO.
Van Wert, Ohio, July 21, 1873.
Mrs. DunucayDear Madam: 1 ex
pect within a few months to mint a
new home In the far West; and learn
ing that your city supports a paper
edited by, and in the Interests of our
sex, I have thought It quite likely that
the same public sentiment would sup
port a lady In another sphere. My
object in finding a new home is to en
gage in the practice of medicine. While
I hope to be prepared to, and will at
first, at least solicit a general practice,
I desire to give particular attention to
obstetrics and diseases of my own sex,
and eventually make this branch of the
practice a speciality. I will go with
a diploma of graduation from the
Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl
Vania, located at Philadelphia, an insti
tution In every respect equal to, and
whose standard of graduation is as high
as those of the schools for the education
of tho opposite sox, and with an ex
perience of six months as assistant in
tiie Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia
You will please inform me whetheror
not you havo any lady physicians in
your city, the sentiments of your people
concerning women filling the profes
sions, and your opinion of my prospects
provided I should stop with you. My
husband is an attorney-at-Iaw, and of
courso we desire a location which will
be profitable to both of us, but as no
such prejudice .exists against men as
against our sex, he would hope in time
to receive his share of business at any
place.
Sorry lo put a stranger to so much
trouble. I havo thought a correspond
ence with you the surest way lo ascer
tain the desired Information.
Respectfully, Mus. H. C. Glenn.
onnosite sex which
they were compelled to wear until one
of them died.
Some of these vokes were quite costly.
being made of precious metal and inlaid
witii jewels. It seemed to be the effort
of the parents, especially the mothers,
to nave tneir children yoked very early
in nie tiie bovs at about ten years oi
age aud the girls at about six or soven.
we couiu not discover mat mere was
any particular care taken as to their
fitness tor such unions, either in size
physically or in mental temperament.
By a strange infatuation they were in
duced to go to certain duly qualified
officials who were prepared to rivet these
yokes, and secure them so firmly that
tney could never come on.
We have said they were sometimes
quite beautiful, but the main point
seemeu to ue to mauc mem strong anu
enduring. It was considered a great
calamity if one should happen to bo
broken, uo matter now galling it might
have been to both parties, and they
were ever afterward disgraced and
driven from respectable society.
If it were not lor the sullerincr which
these people endure, it would have been
a source oi amusement to see mem.
Sometimes you would see a tall and
graceful lad, with a line form,"beuulng
over in the most awkward and uucom
fortable manner to reach down to be
voked to a short iiiri, who, in turn, was
obliged to strain aud reach up in order
to get tlio yoke upon ner necic. n was
more common, nowever, ior large ana
fine looking women, wilu noble powers,
to be yoked to some little pigmy of a
man. Even where they were nearly of
a size and seemed adapted to each other,
it was very seidem mat tueir growtu
did not take one away from the other.
We scarcely found an instance of per
sons forty years oi age in wnicu me
movement of the parties yoked together
was not antagonistic, so as to make
them very unromfortable.
We discovered mat mese people were
almost all suffering from this custom,
which was said to have been introduced
by their gods in ancient days, and the
custom was to invoke the blessing ot
tho gods whenever a yoko was put on;
aud much more importance was at
tached to this invocation than to the
fact that the parties were adapted to
each other.
We saw persons who wore their yokes
in such a manner that they could turn
their backs to each other, and then tho
stiongest one would walk ofr with tho
other, often dragging them in a very un
comfortable manner, especially if there
was any resistance on the part or me
weaker one. There was no provision
made by which these yokes could be re
moved, it being considered to be a great
crime to do this. We were informed,
however, that some of the higher classes
had a secret means by which tney couiu
unlock these yokes; sometimes known
to both, but generally only to the man.
In the latter case he would detach him
self and enjoy for a time his freedom.
We were informed that there was a
country not very fardistant where these
people could go and have their yokes
taken off, but so great was the prejudice
that very few persons had moral cour
age enough lo go, and we never heard
of any one returning, as they would not
be received in the community at home.
Strange as it may seem, while this cus
tom was almost universally complained
of, it was almost worth a person's life
to say anything against this ancient
and sacred rite; even the suggestion
that there could be any improvement
upon it rendered the person liable to
bitter persecution.
We spoko to some of the more intelli
gent persous about it, and while they
admitted the evils resulting from it,
they were unwilling to try any plan to
remedy it. The idea of individual free
dom and responsibility did not seem to
have entered their minds. They were
positively assured that freedom, or any
thing short of an absolute yoke, would
demoralize society and lead to the most
disastrous results.
The constant suspicion that prevailed
amoug these people, even with tlioso
that were yoked together and were
obliged to be in each other's company
all the time, made social life very unde
sirable. AIUSTOTI.K.
There Is no friend to man so true, so
kind, so real and so good, as woman.
WRIT OF SPECIAL ELE0TI0N.
To the Sheriffs of the several counties
within the Stale of Oregon:
Whereas, At a general election held
on the third day of June, A. D., 1872,
the Hon. Joseph G. Wilson was duly
elected representative of the State of
Oregon iu tho Forty-third Congress of
the United States; and
Whereas, Since the said election,
said office haB become vacant by the
death of said incumbent; and
Whereas, By provision of the Con
stitutlon of tho United States, aud the
laws of tins State, it has become the
duly of the Governor thereof to issue
his writ of election to fill 8uch vacancy.
TCow, therefore, I, L. F. Grover, Gov
ernor of the Stale of Oregon, do hereby
command you and each of you to notify
the several judges of election within and
for your several counties, to hold
special of representatives in Congress to
fill the vacaucy aforesaid, on Monday,
the thirteenth day of October, 1873, and
that you cause all proper notices to bo
given thereof according to law.
Given under my hand and the seal of
tho State of Oregon, at Salem,
u s. this tentli day of July, A. D.,
1373. L- F- Grover.
Attest: S. F. Chadwick,
Secretary of State of Oregon.
OUR AGENTS.
The following persons are duly authorized to
act as Agents for the Skw Northwest :
Horace It. Day.. . 3Jew York City
Mrs. S. M. Miller .last Chanco
.Mrs. alary Uybee Lower Clear Iakr, Cal
Mrs J. H. Foster- Albany
Ashby I'earee- Benton county
Dr. Bayley- CorrallIs
a. a. .Manning Olympia
Miss Virginia Olds McMlunvtllo
Hiram Smith Harrlsburg
Mrs. J. W. Jackson Eugene. City
At. W. Reach Uuena Vista
Hov.Wm. Jolly Hllisboro
Hon. T. W. Davenport .. Sllvertoii
Mary J. Magers. Gervals
A. V. Stanard Brownsville
S. H. Claughton
& A. Reed
Mrt-O.T. Daniels
Mrs. Nellie Curl
1. C. Sullivan
Mrs. M. F. Cook ..
Mn. M.C. Cline
Mrs. It. A. Vawters
Mrs. IS. U. Rlshop.
Ilev. J. V. Damon..
Rev. I). Bagley.
Mrs. Jane M.Wilson.
Philip ltitz...
P. D. Moore
John Hnltcn
Mrs. M. J. Ensign
O. H, Ulood
Mrs. M. Jeffries-
H. II. Welch
Dr. J. W
The Webster Times says there is fam
ily of four children In that vicinity who
were all vaccinated some time ago, and
are now all four broken out with a fear
ful humor; and one of them must die.
They were all healthy ueiore and ot
healthy parents.
..Lebanon .
Salem
.Salem
. Salem
Dallas
Lafayette
Kalama
Waltsburg
Pendleton
...Settle
.Seattle
Walla Walla
Walla Walla
Port Tawnsend
Phenix, Oregon
Portland
Traveling Agent
Traveling Agent
Washington county
'wniu Traveling A cent
Mrs.3I.KeUy -.-.Lafayette
A. N. Arnold.- - - A!11?".?"
G. AV. IJiwson - VT ..
M. P. Owen -.Dalles
Mrs. C. A. Co burn Foreat Grove
Sirs. J. DoVore Johnson -..Oregon City
Thos. Parsons - Mllwaukle
R. Pcntland The Dalles
Ml Hallle Applegate. Yoncal!a
Ml" U. A. Owens. Roseburg
J. T. Scott, Esq Forest Grove
Mrs. A. E. Corwin Xehalem
Geo. Engle Traveling Agent
J. W. Jackson Eugene
L. P. Fisher .Snn Francisco
Mrs. Laura Deroree Gordon California
Miss Nellie 3Iossrnan Olympia
I.T. Maulsby Vancouver
G. W. Brock- .....Union Ridge. W. T
. W. Barnes Ochoco Valley
J. N. Galo Washington Territory
Mrs. K. Oakshett Traveling Agent
Mrs. J. C. Hayes. . .Gervals, Oregon
James Vance Yreka, California
Mrs. L. K. Wliitmore ..acramento, California
Mrs. Sarah Harry Stockton, California
Mrs. Sarah Wallls Mnyileld, California
Mrs. Chapman Yates ..Sn Jose, California
"Woman's Journal" Boston, Massachusetts
Charles W. Tappan Sa!l Lake Clty.TJ.T
Mrs. I j. 31. Howell Ashland, Oregon
Mrs. 31. J. Penlaud .Halsey, Oregon
3Irs. 3L A. Dimlck Hubbard, Oregon
D. P. Porter -Shedd's, Oregon
Other parties desiring to aet as Agents will
please forward their names. Ae want Agents
at' every postofflce throughout Oregon and
Washington Territory.