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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 1873.
KEEP THE BALL BOLLING.
Again we must urge upon our patrons
the necessity of renewing their sub
scriptions. A number of friends have
renewed during the week, and the solic
itude of many more has been awakened.
Let us have 1,000 subscriptions and re
newals at S3 00 each, forVolumo Third,
aud our barque will then have ballast
sufficient to steady it for a year. Next
week wo shall publish the number of
renewals received up to that time for
the full Volume. Help us, friends, to
make the number large. We must have
your aid.
PEEPABIHGT0 "BOLT."
The Orcgonian is preparing to bolt.
We have always contended that to bolt,
for good and sufficient reasons, was the
right of an American citizen. But
when a public journal, commanding
and receiving the patronage of a great
organization, sees fit to bolt that organ!
zation upon its own responsibility, that
journal must of necessity abide the con
sequences. An independent journal, or
one not committed to any party organ!
zation, may support whoever aud what
ever It pleases, and tho people cannot
question its right to do so, but a partisan
journal is not independent. To illus
trate: The New Northwest is parti
san so far as the Enfranchisement of
Woman is concerned. This journal
would have no right to prove recreant
to this Idea, no matter how deeply tho
rancor of its editor and ambition of its
proprietor may have been disappointed
by tho political preferment of others
over her head in tho public manage
ment of partisan affairs. To stand by
the Woman Suffrage party, aud
work with aud for its leaders in con
stant effort for the party's good, no
matter whether its choice of officers
or plan of action may meet its approba
tion or not, is the duty of every Woman
Suffrage journal until that work is
done, aud what is the duty of Woman
Stiff rage newspapers is equally the duty
of Republican or Democratic ones.
The Oicjoniana.A itsdisappoiuted and
disaffected clique should learn a lesson
from Horace Greeley and the New York
Tribune But it will not learn, we fear,
except by experience, a dear school,
needed by some people. So by, all
means, let it have the cxperieuce.
We have been informed byasprightly
aud intelligent lady Suffragist, at whose
house some Democratic office-seekers
aud Republican sore-heads were talking
these matters up, in the presence of her
Democratic husband, that the plan is
laid for the Orcgonian to go over to the
support of Nesmith in the coming
Congressional campaign, with "Hippie"
as Its bludgeon, and the Orcgonian
editor's "virtue" as its example for the
Democratic faithful to follow to reinstate
the bank organ's clique in office. Wc
shall see what wc shall see.
UroiGNANTSUFPEEEES.
The masses of the people, whom our
over-wise and ovor-nico authorities I
have denied the necessary relief Vy&na
, Jle..tUe.?n'ter replaco the burnt side
walks, while passing ordinances com
pelling them to be rebuilt at the ex
pense of those who have lost tho only
means by which they could render their
lots available, are beginning to talk so
riously of taking their own case into
their own bands. We are informed
that an indignation meeting Is sootr to
be held for that purpose in the Court
House.
A lady visited us the other day whoso
history is only one of many that we are
storing up for future use. This lady
owned a bouse and lot wlilcb she rented
for twenty-five dollars per month, her
only available income. The houso and
side-walk were consumed in the fire,
leaving her without means to rebuild,
and consequent! without means of sub
sistence. One thousand dollars of the
money so graciously tendered from
abroad, and so modestly refused by our
gbkl-loam1ng Mayor, would have ena-
Ibied her to go on with Improvements
an ber lot. She does not ask even
i & gift. A loan, free from Intor-
Kfor.a few years would satisfy her.
i owns two hundred acres of taxable
buTtuus&Iable land Upon the mountain
near.lhe.clty, and these authorities de
cide that,-own!ng this land, she Is not
destitute; therefore distant cities may
not aid her toTebuild and thereby help
herself. She is advised to sell her city
lot. This lot cost her 5,000, and she Is
offered $1,500.
The purpose of the Committee has
been to merely give present relief to ab
solute destitution. You may iodgo
family for a week In a church basement
and pay their board for the same length
of time at a hotel or restaurant, and
how much better off are they than
they were one week before? The fact
is, nobody here is destitute within the
meaning of this Committee. Offers of
free board and lodging were not accept
eu in any Instance. Tho people do not
ask tor charity. They want so much of
tiietr losses made good as shall enable
Uiem to nelp themselves In the future.
The Committee were not sufferers by
the fire. They are mostlv bankers.
brokers, real estate agents and city ofll-
uere. xiierc are in tneir number a few
benevolent, wuole-souled gentlemen,
who are themselves outraged at the op.
tion of His Honor the Mayor in refusing
aid to tho sufferers. This extremelv
modest man has even been so anxious
to prevent his left hand from knowlnc
the deeds of his right that he has pub
lished the acts of tne Committee rela
tive to the refusal of aid from San Fran
cisco in the papers of that city instead
of , the Portland dailies; or, rather, ho
did hot expect them to be published at
all. The Bulletin of tins city snows
very forcibly that if the Committee
were even consulted by the Mayor it
was done slyly aud not at an official
meeting, when reporters were present
Wo are indebted to tho Bulletin for the
following, copied from thetWa of Au
gust 2Gth:
Tbe Executive Commllipp nr Portland, to
consider the necessities of the citizens, who
suffered by the late are, have concluded that
mo money raised in Portland will be sufficient
for all immediate warns, nnd iimr have in
structed the Mayor to return, with thanks, all
muui-y coninouieu from other cities. -J lie fol
lowing letter has been received by Messrs.
lucuaru ratncK & Co.:
Mayor's Office, PoirfXAxn.o.,!
August 19, 1373. J
ilrtlTt. VifhnrA Pafrirh Cin firn Fmnruro. CaL
iear mrsi lour xpipirramifA instructions 10
draw on you for twelve thousand dollars, con
tributed brclUzens of vour cltv.for the relief
of sufferers by the Are, was acknowledged both
uy wire ana Dy m&n.anu referred to ine r-i ce
il live uommitieeor rener.
That Committee, aner ascertaining that tno
amount contributed br our own citizens would
be ample to supply all Immediate want con
sequent upon the Dre, instructs me to decline.
with thanks, nil tirorrers of aid from abroad.
I beg to assure you that the muniflcencoof
tne citizens oi san Francisco, anu mo prompt
ness with which their offering came to us, will
long be remembered by the people of Portland
with cratltudc.
Thanking you for your personal effort In our
bchair, I am very respectfully yours,
Heniiv Failing, Mayor.
It will also be remembered that the
dailies of this city recently, and prior to
the roundabout reception of the above
remarkable piece of news, published an
official notice from His Honor the
Mayor, stating that the $12,000 had
been received and appropriated, and tho
city was not in need of further aid. A
call for exhibit of disbursements has
been made in this journal in tho name
of unrelieved sufferers, nnd at tho insli
gation of subscribing citizens, but His
Honor the Mayor doubtless considers it
beneath his dignify to comply with the
wishes of his constituents. Euough for
him that he has got possession of the
money.
Again, a recent telegram from the
East further astonishes our city as fol
lows:
X kw YoRK.Renlcmbcr L The Mayor of Port'
land, Oregon, In relutlng aid from anonymous
correspondent sfor sufferers by the recent lire,
writes to say that the stories of want and disas
ter telegraphed were somewhat exaggerated,
and that the 3100.UM contributed by clUzens
will be sufficient to supply all the actual need,
mm mub uu ut-ciiui'n w uraiv oil MIC 9 UJUU cor
Iccted In San Francisco.
Who authorized His Honor to take
upon Himself such a responsibility?
What has become of that hundred
thousand? Who got it? The National
Bank? If not, how are the people to
know it did not? A recent letter to the
Orcgonian, the bank's organ, states that
a committee is to be sent cast to nego
tiate loans for the purpose of rebuilding
the city. This has teen tho game of the
Relief Committee, so-called, all tho way
through. They have so managed that
bankers, bank organs, brokers and real
estate men, taking advantage of the
great disaster, shall reap a handsome
recompense from the misfortunes of the
multitude whose all was in their homes,
their shops, their tools, their stores and
small city lots. Says this Committee to
those who have a lot: "Mortgage it, pay
interest, and bo at our mercy. If you
are homeless and hungry we'll lodge
you in a basement or voto you soup
tickets; but if any profit is to bo real
ized, it must accrue to the Commlttco
who have control of the fundv Our
bank organ will blush if anybody re
ceives aid that will assist him upon his
feet. If you have no lots to build upon
we will give you fire-wood next win
ter."
The dIssatisfacAoa m the uurnt ui
Wet, and, per consequence, nil over the
city, is fearful. Indignation meetings,
tar and feathers nnd rail rides are the
common talk among men who with
tears in their eyes or anger in their
hearts, stalk homeless and penniless
among tho blackened ruins, not know
ing what to do. And all the while His
Honor tho Mayor sits with llabby,
soft, white hands, in the counting room
of the National Bank, ainusiug himself
by declining the aid that other cities
offer, and either secretly hoarding what
has been thrust upon him by our own
citizens, or privately apportioning It to
suit a secret clique; adding to tho injury
which our people already sufler, tho
sult that their talcs of destitution aro
'exaggerated!"
time upon so small a sum as that named for
the outfit of the discoverer.
in iiiiureui'N "History of the United States,"
it tS Stated that Manhattan Tulnml nriorvanl
called .New Amsterdam, now the city or New
ork- was bought by the Butch from the In
dians for sixty guilders, or twenty-four dollars
t-ti, mu iuii oniy auout two uunurcu ana
any yean ago. And yet. If the purchasers
could have securely placed that SU where It
would have added to the principal annually
interest at tne rate nt 7 nr nnt.f tin Accumula
tion would exceed the present market value of
" ivui estate oi meciiyanu county oi .icw
luriu
Airaln. If n mnn nt ttiA n - rT rvftnfv.flve
should commence business with a capital of
one hundred thousand dollars, and could by
any possibility add thereto Interest at our legal
(in round numbers) as follows:
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nbout ZV, per cent per annum.notwlthstandlng
me assertion or those who have piaceu it mucn
higher, through comparing the old valuations
with the new iirhirh have been ereatlr In
creased), Instead or taking as the basis of their
calculation, as they should have done, tho ac
tual number of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, etc,
nt tho different periods. It is plain, therefore,
that the great mistake most men make Is in
nltcmpUng to use borrowed capital at an im
mensely men rent, ordinarily lermea interest,
which, by the use or gold as currency. Is oflen
forced still higher. While the growth of tho
national wcath remains nt tne present rate,
LAB 0B AiD CAPITAL.
Pew people stop to think, in the ex
igencies of their business, which, under
under our system of commerce, seem to
render the payment of interest neces
sary, of tho rapid increase urising from
such, interest. Tho world's system of
finance tends to the amassing or capital
in indestructible consolidation- Such a
thing as the equitable adjustment of
business upon such a plana as would
place capital upon a par with human
life has nofytt entered into' any system
of financial economy, and will not so
long as monled men control the entire
Interests of the world.
Wallace B. Groom, In a recent lecture
on the "Currency Needs pf Commerce,"
gives the following startling facta and
figures relative to the growth of Na
tional wealth as compared with the ag
gregation of individualized capital:
If one dollar be Invested, and. the. Interest
added to the principal annually, at the rate
nameu, we snau nave me. following result as
me accumulation oi one nunarea years:
One Dollar, 100 years, at 1 percent...
tho average man who attempts to pay even 7
percent. lor all the capital necan get, snouia
not expect to avoid bankruptcy as the result.
Leaving National finances for tho
present, let us como down to more com
prehensive facts, or those which will
more readily adapt themselves to indi
vidual ideas. First among theso we
may mention usury, or exorbitant rates
of interest. The argument in favor of
high rates of Interest, or against neces
sary legislative restriction to prevent
money changers from extortion by
usury, looks plausiblo as viewed from
the stand-point from which it is given,
namely: that tho usq of capital is en
titled to the same recompense as the use
of labor. Admitting the terms labor
and capital to be synonomous, or rather
premising, as is usually done, that each
represents or complements tho other,
the above argument is conclusive; but
tho commerce of the world, the con
tinued aggregation of capital aud tho
above facts and figures alike attest that
labor and capital, though complement
ing each other in principle, aro literally
antagonistic in interest. And this, not
because of any inherent antagonism in
both or cither, but because, while labor,
from its inscparablo connection with
human life, is necessarily finite, cap!
tal, from its aggregation for a scries of
unnumbered centuries, is in reality in
finite. Our citizens can all instance
individuals within tiic limits of Port-
laud, who began business in the city
twenty or more years ago, without other
capital than business tact and shrewd
calculating brains. Entering as they
did some business which, in the excite
ment attendant upon the settling up of
a new country, they could easily tlo,
they soon acquired a few hundred dol
lars, to place at interest. Tne years
rolled on; Interest twelve times com
pounded, at 24 per cent (tho rato of
early times) on $100 alone, amounts.
with the odd cents left out in the compu
tatiou, which would add many dollars
not here given, to tho sum of $1,512.
$1,000 thus placed at interest by a man
who was fortunate enough by some sud
speculation to amas3 sucli a sum, ac
cumulated during the days of our "two
per cents" to the modest sum In round
numbers of $1,512,000. Tho labor of an
average life-time of SO years, at SC00 per
year, (being more than tho average
ni would amount to $18,000. Of this
sum three-fourths must annually aggre
gate itself o the principal already in
the. hanils of tVc capitalist. G-uuot the
people sco thediflercuce between capital
and labor? A man, havintr money to
loan, objects to legislative restrictions
as to the usury he shall demand, back
ing his sophistry by the argument that
no man is compelled to abide such
restrictions concerning the sale of pota
toes or fruit. Were these commodities
indestructible like gold, there would in
deed be basis for his logic, but the pota
toes and fruit are bought and eaten. To
supply their place requires reproduction,
while capita, being indestructible, can
not of right belong in tho samo cate
gory. But this subject has opened n
wider field than can be explored In one
short editorial. Wc shall resume it
next week. In the mean time, let the
laboring masses read nnd ponder well
concerning what has been already said.
lations" always come to men? Our
friend will, we hope, excuse us for tho
following suggestion; at least, if sho
does not now, she will sec the day when
she will at least remember it: When
her husband of a few weeks or mouths
shall get a new religious streak upon
him, and shall want to languish in tho
arms of Mrs. 2d, let her get a "revela
tion," and say to him that she Is getting
a new spasm of piety, and let her tell
him firmly, "All right. What Is goou
for man Is good for woman. 1'vo re
solved to take another husband. Tho
vows of God are upon me. I must obey
the divine behest."
We expect this to shock her now. It
would doubtless shock us were we in her
position, but let her wxezrA- the prophecy.
There will speedily come a day when
these thoughts will como homo to her
soul like a thunder-cloud of swelling
and indlguant grief. We do not know
that sho will ever publicly acknowledge
tho fact; but we do know that in her
own soul will rise tho spirit of resent
ment against encroachment upon her
marital rights whenever the shaft shall
strike homo. There is nothing easior
thanbearlngother pcopl e's so rro ws. It is
only our own that we can fully realize
or feel. If we had no other argument to
make against polygamy than the fact
that it is a one-sided institution, made
by mau and for man, in which he has
all the happiness aud the wives all the
sorrows; in which he has all the privi
leges and they all tho privations, this it
self would be sufficient to satisfy us that
It was unjust, and whatever is unjust is
wrong.
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There are probably few. however familiar
with the subject of the rapid Increase of capital
put nt Interest, who would not be startled at
the statement that the cost br the outfit of
Christopher Columbus In his first voyage of
uiscoTery, put at interest at six pcrcent..wouia
by tills time have amounted to more than the
entire money value of this continent, together
with the accumulauons from the Industry of
nu wuo nave uvea upon it. if nDy doubt this,
let them reckon the amount, csiimatlnir tlm
entire outfit to have cost only the small sum of
uvo tnousana aouars, anu rememDenng mat
money uouuies, at six per cent., in a mile less
uuui nyi-ivc years or accurately, in eleven
years, ten months, and twenty-ono davs. Al-
- " .r ,fc w wmuie every twelve years, tnis
nvo uiousand dollars nt Interest at six per
cent, since 1132. it will bo found, would have
. wj iBojL.ijujitjjji: witirn. rsiirnni
ins the population of the on tiro onntfnftnt nf
mmiS rlh and South) to be eighty-five
lurtn? fu?frJM!Ve,.,teen n""n families iaver
tha8amfn? eacll) woulJ clvo more
ervV1,'?" ursastho possession of ev
dcau at iwS. Th8. 'Purest upon a million
lars whf,h nt-.u "x,y thousand dol
Ktte'Jrn," the princely annual
famUiM fntnf htSi thCBe "eTenun millions of
families from the accumulations up to this
WHO EDITS THE "BULLETIN?"
This query lias becomo as common
upon the streets as was that other one a
few years ago of "who edits the JEW
Northwest?"
A mouth ago Jas. O'Meara got sulky
and "retired" from the editorial staff.
Now report hath It that II. W. Scott is
sulkina and off, and O'Meara is back
again. If women couldn't agree auy
better than that, men might justly say
that they were not qualified for self-
government. But let tho Jiullctin be
edited by whomsoever it may, it lias
contained in the last few issues more of
tho genuine ring of old-time Kepubli-
canism than we have seen in all the pa
pers of thoStato within tho last six
months. Ixt it keep up to thlsstandard
aud the people will not fail to sustain it.
Let it also take a stand for "equal rights
for men and women before the law,"
and it shall see such an increacc of pat
ronage as would gladden the heart of
any publisher. But wo fear that It isn't
yet strong enough for this. Tho time
is coming on apace, however. If the
Bulletin would lead, it must take the
proper stand as a leader aud maintain
it. Then it shall descrvo success.
thorough gentleman he will scorn to
take you as his wife until ho has con
sulted your father and mother. If thev-
will not then consent, ask him to wait
until they learn so much good of him
that they can urge no reasonable objec
tion. A girl of seventeen Is a very noor
udge of a matrimonial offer that might
not suit at twenty. Don't be rash.
Walt a year and then write us again.
J. C. Y.: Your poetry is not good.
The spelling is Imperfect, the rhymo
bad and rythm horrible. Evidently
poetry is not your forte. Yet if you
really possess tho divine afflatus, this
criticism will only increase your ambi
tion. Send us a proso article. Pegas-
sus is a difficult charger for experienced
riders to mount nnd handle gracefully.
bu have reined him up till ho jumps
as though he were hobbled.
Henry, Halsey, asks: "What aro neap
tides ?" If you had consulted your dic
tionary you would have found that neap
tides are simply low tides, occurring in
the middle of tho second and fourth
quarters of the moon. They aro the
opposite of "spring" or "high tides."
Mrs. II. S. H., McIIenry, Ills.: We
have none of the extremes of heat and
eoid so common with you. Thunder
storms are seldom known in the Wil
Iametto Valley, although we think they
occur more frequently than formerly.
M. O. B., Seattle: Your letters are al
ways welcome anu reiresmug. win
seo if wo can find the MSS. In remov-
ingour office was completely overhauled,
and searching for papers is like hunting
needle in a hay-stack.
Inquirer: If a vacancy should occur
in the Senate while the Legislature is
n session, a new election would be con
stittition.il, but otherwise, tho duty of
ppointing his successor would devolve
pon the Governor.
M. L. C, Lafayette: $C 50 currency
received anil credit given. Tne lauy
who thinks "her paper will read better
when it is paid for" is one after our own
heart.
W. W. B.: Many thanks for your ex
cellent letter; shall have occasion to uso
it to good advantage.
12. C. II., Olympia: $3 00 currency re
ceived. Gave you credit for $2 63 coin
APPOINTMENTS.
Kerdlnnnd Hcrelifleld has been appointed
j'nuiuiier nt i4xKing-ginf, uougias county
Walter Kcninnil. Rye Valley, llakcr rouutv
nnd Miss Kinellno IVthers, Summit, llenton
county. This lust appointment will encouraze
the editorial stalfoftlio New XournwT,iind
nimisii material lor n sensational cunoriai,
Evening Jow.
TiianK you. Wo should Have over
looked tho "sensational editorial" if it
had not been for your kindly fore
thought.
There are many post offices in the
country wlilcu will not defray tho ex
penses of a Nasby or support SiBascom
Siieb "Cites cannot bo sustained by tho
unobjectionable sex, who, being voters,
can command better pay than Ameri
can women or Chinamen. So tho Gov
ernment organizes itself into a "Belief
Committee," aud to compensate the suf
ferers from sex sometimes throws them
'the crumbs that fall from the master's
table."
Now, if you will copy the above and
give us the credit for it, we'll apologize
for having said, on a former occasion
that If a woman should start a paper
and mako such a failure as the Daily
vcnina News, we'd think she wouldn't
do to vote.
POLTOAliT.
The Woman'' s Exponent of Salt Lake
City and the Balanccot Chicago are en
joying a refreshing controversy upon
polygamy. Onr Salt Lake friend, being
& member of the holy order of Latter
Day Saints, imagines that she would be
very proud to acknowledge herself aa
Airs. 2d,-3d or!2Ui. Bat sho spoils the
declaration by rather pompously assert
ing that she is Mrs. 1st. We hope to
hear from her when Mrs. 2d comes
comes along, we'll venture that she
will then desire an Interview with Judge
M'Kean.
Wc are not of thoso who rank the por
lygairdc women of Utah with adulterers.
f rom weir stanu-point mey aro re
markably virtuous, yet our short stay of
one week among tbem, while it eu
deared us to many for their noblo hero-
Ism and genuine hospitality and good
ness of heart, revealed to us In Individ
ual cases such poignancy of grief, es
pecially among first wives, whoso hus
bands had found other -loves and
founded other families, as we hope
never again to meet 'anywhere. As we
write thero rises up before our mental
vision the palo image ot one of these
victims of the lust of men, miscalled
religion, whoso earnest appeal through
us to her relatives In Portland, for
means to get anywhere out of Utah, that
she might be able to get her daughters
away from tho blight of polygamy
haunts us yet. Our Utah friend is a
very ablc&rponcnl of tho equal political
rights of women. Will she be kind
enough to tell why, If polygamy is right
for men, that It is a one-sided institu
tion? Why is it not as necessary for
wives to have more than one husband,
as for husbands to havo more than one
wife? Why is it that religious "reve-
ANSWEBS TO .CORRESPONDENTS
Our Salem friend, M. J. 11., takes us
to task for having published Professor
Underwood's letter to Rev. Mr. Driver
In the following style: "No good can
como of stirring up strifo in any such
manner. Certainly Mr. Driver has
never given you causo to publicly at
tack him In this way over the shoulders
of anybody else. I am very sorry you
did not say, when requested to publish
the correspondence relative to tho de
bate, that It was personal and offensive,
and you therefore declined to do Jt. It
Is not best to mako an enemy of Mr.
Driver." We assure our friend that w
have Httlo to fear from Mr. Driver's en
mlty. We should not-have published
the correspondence (tho fight was none
of our funeral) but for the fact that this
samo Driver has, more than once, ac
cused us in public places of drunken
ness and "saloon bumming." The char
acter of such a man should be shown
up. We have no animosity against
him. We should havo vastly preferred
that another than ourself should havo
lifted the mask. Or had wo any reason
to bclicvo him penitent, or any hop
that ho would not thus offend again, wo
should pass his libel by, but we have no
such assurance. Had we known, when
addressing Mr. Underwood, that Mr.
Driver had so maligned us, wo should
have simply refused to notice tho man
in any manner, but tho correspondence
indirectly brought out tho fact. Mr.
Driver's life is a libel upon Christianity
a discrace to tho great Methodist
Church. Yet he has many good Im
pulses, and could he learn to control
his conscience, tongue and temper, lie
might yet bo useful. No man sins be
yond tho reach of God's abounding
mercy. May Driver be a speedy subject
of redeeming grace.
Boardlntr Scbkil Girl: If vou marry
without ,the krfawledge and consent of
your parents yoa-will deserve to be mis
erable as long m yo live. If. he Is
at the homo of his Dulclnea, and upon
his return to tho classic Yamhill ho
found that tho ferry-boat had been
taken across the river by his rival, a
young clerk who, so the story goes, bad
been Jilted and wanted to get even. Our
hero had no other alternative, so like
Lcahdcr, Aikcnhead or Byron he crossed
our miniature Hellespont, not to meet
his lady love, as did the .first of these
his illustrious prototypes, but rather to
get homo and sleep till morning. The
rival, who was secreted in tho bushes on
the town side of the river, enjoyed his
perturbation and bath till tho joke got
out, and now it's the clerk who is blue.
A new bridge is to bo built across the
Yamhill, a prospect which pleases the
young swimmer vastly.
But little is being dono at present
with the Woman Movement Wo look
anxiously for tho New Northwest
from week to week. Tho general opin
ion Is that, though surprisingly good at
first, it grows better as it grows older.
Crops in Yamhill are excellent, and
the farmers are Jubilunt.
Our Good Templar Lodgo Is generally
well attended. Tho people are prover
bially social and temperate.
But you will think I am more than
usually garrulous. I must close or you
will chalk mo out for prolixity, and
thus thwart the designs of a well-mean
ing CrrizES
Lafayette, Oregon, Sept. 2, 1873.
LETTER PB0MLAFAYETTE.
My Dear Mr. Duniwrty:Hha latest
sensations in this vicinity have
been those of variety, to say the least.
First, wc had the Advcntists among us
who held forth night after night
upon "Soul Sleeping," and the literal
resurrection of the rightous, and final
destruction of the wicked. They seemed
to back their doctrines by Scripture,
and succeeded in making some converts
to the very uncomfortable theory that
death is a sleep from which there is no
mtnediate awakening. Following theso
speakers, which, by the way, boliovc in
Paul's injunction to women to keep
silence in the Churches, nnd, to bo con
sistent, employ a woman to do the sing-
ng and attract the crowd, came B. F.
Underwood, of Boston, who discoursed
upon Materialism and nationalism upon
several occasions. Like tho Adventists
he "took" immensely, drawing large
and attentive nudienccs. After wo had
been dosed upon Materialism pretty thor
oughly, we were i"HcwetI by Jlrs. Hello
Chamberlain, tho Spiritualist and seer.
The interest in this speaker far excelled
that of cither of the others. I have
been for many years inclining toward
Materialism, aud though brought up in
tho Church, havo lately had distressing
doubts as to the immortality of the soul
To mention these honest doubts to tho
minister only brought upon my head
the charge of infidelity, so I havo kept
my own counsel hitherto. But I went
to hear this new speaker with a hope of
gaining light, and justice to the truth
requires mo to say that I was not disap
pointed. When in her normal condi
tion, Mrs. C. claims that she can both
sec and hear spirits, being clairvoyant
aud clairaudicnt. In this way she
gives many striking tests or a power
and intelligence which she calls spirit
and which must bo spirit if it is any
thing but jugglery. But the most
striking fact connected with her work is
her trance speaking. If she Is not
entranced she is an arch deceiver, whose
ability to play upon tho credulity of
critical public is past my comprehen
sion. If sho is entranced, as she avers,
aud is simply tho instrument in the
hands of a highly intillectcal inhabl
tant of the spheres, she Is as a "medium1
between the seen aud the unseen,
most remarkable success. I certainly
never heard her equal for eloquence, or
met anyone in public who was as ready
as herself in giving a retort courteous, or
In silencing opponents by ready-made
logic.
l'rofessor Fowler, says that women
being naturally more spiritual than
men, aro much more susceptable of
spirit influences than men. After
heard Mrs. Chamberlain,! was half In
clined to agrco with him. Between
Soul Sleeping, Materialism and Spiritu
allsm, the people here had such a rush
of conflicting theories to deal with that
our church was deserted, and brother
Spaulding's voice echoed to well-nigb
empty benches.
It strikes me that the time has come
when tho Churches must accept the
fact of spirit communion a3 taught in
tho Bible, or the people will gradually
drift away from tham. I like your the
ory upon the subject. Tho Bible Is full
oflt, and if Sabbath-keepers and Church
members hold themselves aloof from It,
they must not wonder if out-siders de
velop from it, as sometimes they do,
theory and practice that are demoraliz
ing. I believe, as you say, that we can
and do attract just such spiritual Influ
ences as we desire.
But I did riot intend to write such
letter as tills. It has slipped from my
fingers unawares.
A young gentleman connected with.
the press, of this village recently over
stayed a little when on an evening visit
"WHEAT."
Tho following letter, written by an in
mate of the Insane Asylum, will deeply
Interest our readers. This writer has
several times favored us with stanzas
intended for publication, ono of which
entitled "Liiionef, or tho Autumn
Leaves," wo should have published but
for tho temporary suspension of tho
New Noktiiwi:st. Before resuming
publication the poem was -mislaid. Wo
remember it as a wierd, strange medley
of sentiment aud fancy, and should bo
glad if ho would favor us with another
copy. The poem "Wheat" Is not so
good, yet thero is much unbalanced
poesy in it. We nro not acquainted
with tho writer, but we feel a pecul
iar interest in his olrgiual and disjoint
ed phantasies. But here is his letter,
which smacks more of sound practical
sanity than many which we have
seen from those who ha von1 1 sense
enough to go insane:
Insane As'LVX,(don't be afraid),
East Portland, Aug. 31, 1873.
Mrs. Duniu-ay:! have tho honor of
addressing you a few lines, if you please
aud alsoof enclosing n poem of one hun
dred lines, which you have the privil
ege of publishing if you choose, though
I shall not charge you $100 (dollars) for
tho same.
I have addressed you several times,
and I do not know whether you will
liko "Wheat" or not, but I have failed
to get a response from you yet. I begin
to think you must carry some rather
heavy skeletons about yon, and must
be as afraid of a Lunatic Asylumaslam
of offending a woman, but consideting
how happy you camo off in your Ka
lama and Hillsboro addresses, and how
successfully you floated your banner of
free and independent rights to the breeze
again I have made up my mind that
yvu uuys considerable of that western
genius called "pluck,"' and If I, In con
sideration of all your "virtues," not to
say "abilities," had anything against
you, I would " 'pluck' it outof my heart"
as Shakspeare says, and It should live
"unmixed with baser matter." It
strikes me that you are a little sectarian
in your sex, though you did puff Steph
en Maybell and Brick Ponieroy, and I
hope you won't forget tho "Wheat."
You will not only find a cosmogony of the
Universe in it, but you will find some
thing which stands for the individual
and will please your sex. which it gives
to and gets all tho laurels from.
I think a combined, diplomatic body
of women to work on the editors and
divines of tho land would bo a (rood
idea, and I think you will have tho bal
lot In half of the States by tho "Centen
nial" and poor Susan so moto it be.
Piunce Thobbau.
of the haystacks and hid the view of all
in front of them.
Mnn with hair parted in the nuuuie,
who twirled dainty ratans aud simpered
soft uothings to their smiling sweet
hearts, could look over eadh other's
heads In rows, but women had to wear
their haystacks in the hall because, be
causeit was the fashion, you know
Patrons of a concert are always ready
to demand their money's worth; so
everything, good, bad and indifferent, is
followed by an encore.
Mr. Frank Gilder makes tho piano
give forth human sounds. Were lours
Truly on the lookout for a husband she'd
fancy him, only musicians, as a class,
are said to bo n woithless set, and sho
couldn't live on melody alone.
Mr. Wilkie calls on "Maud" to "como
Into tho garden" in a rapturous strain
of entreaty that makes you wish your
uamo was Maud and that you had a
garden to go to. Of course he is encored,
for the audience lias no notion of being
cheated, and all the while you are fairly
dying to see Madam Anna Bishop.
At last sho comes, and a storm of ap
plauso shakes the building aud you
hold your breath. You cannot under
stand one word she says and you do not
wantto. Such tintlnnabulatlng melody,
such rippling harmony and warbling
rhapsody rolls up and down and out and
over her that you shutyour eyes and vis
Ions of sunny Italy flit before tbem and
yourdream isjust delicious. O, if theau
dience only would be quiet when she is
done! You want the melody to die
away in distant echoes, while you lan
guidly arouso yourself from a dreaming
revcrlo that has stolen upon you una
wares; but no, that audience clamors,
and your nerves are pierced by ten
thousand agonies until sho reappears
nnd the stampiug dies away and you
hold your breath again. "Home, sweet
Home," is given us in words which wo
can understand, and we go ofl'aud off in
spirit, in quiet ecstacy.
Then Mr. Gottschalk, the baritone,
comes in and sings. If Yours Truly
should describe him and bis singing
just as she saw and heard, the New
Northwest would burn this wholo
critique and tho world would lose all
this labor, so she won't attempt it. She
cannot avoid saying, however, that
when John Mortimer, whose surname
is Murphy, imagines that his singinir is
the best in the troupe, he's oh, mis
taken. Do you understand ?
But Madame Anna sings again, and
again Yours Truly is in transports. God
bless her! May sho live a hundred
years!
uut somebody Bespattered ner oest,
ruffles with tobacco juice, as usual, and
sent Yours Truly down from her imagi
nary heights into the bitter realities of
things present and unpleasant. When
trill men learn to leave their cuds nt
home, and thereby render themselves
less obnoxious in the estimation of
Yours Truly?
"DUN-I-WAY AND DUN-AWAY."
Our friend of the Chicago Balance in
noticing the Portland fire says: "Wo
hope tho New Northwest of that city
Is is not Dun-i-way with."
We aro both "Dun-i-way" and "dun
ning away" and yet not done away; but if
you could see the effort we are making
to dun away at delinquent subscribers,
whose effects were not wholly "dono
away" in the conflagration, you would
wonder that we havo any prospect of
rcmaininga live "Dun-i-way." But we
shall not be wholly "done away" for a
while yet; at least not while our efforts
to "dun away" are crowned with as flat
tering success as wc have met with since
our Mayor's patronage was "done
away."
The "Sorosis," of New York, has is
sued what they call a "Messenger,"
asking "all women who have conquered
an honorable place in any of the leading
reforms or the day" to co-operate with
them in calling together a "Woman's
Congress," to be held in New York, in
October, 1873, to renort nrotrrpsa nnd
disctiS3 "ways and means." Any ono
wishing to assist In this mattter is re-
auested to send name and post-office ad
ress either to the presidont, Mrs. Char
lotte .E wiiuour, 151 .East ir irty-lirst
street, New York city, or the Secretary,
Miss Alice C. Fletcher, 25 Stuyvesant
street, samo city.
"Y0UBS
TRULY" GOES
OPERA.
TO THE
xours ixuiy laiu aside ner pen a
month or two ngo, and engaging herself
in washing dishes and linen, making
beds and butter, drying plums nnd ap
ples, round no opportunity until last
week of attending amusements, in the
city, that sbo might thereby punish
the public with scientific reportorial
critiques. But she's back, to town
again.
The Portland Academy and Female
Seminary how I wish thoy'd drop that
word "female," which Is used as though
the students might be cats or cows haa
again assembled its learning and fun,
Its piety and dignity, its assiduity and
Idleness, and Yours Truly, partly to
please herself and partly to spite the re
porters, again goes forth from her stud
Ics at eventide and invades the reporto
rial domain.
Everybody bad heard of Madam Anna
Bishop. So had Yours Truly. So on
the evening appointed for the opera be
hold her (.Yours Truly, not the "BIsh
op,"J In a stunning array of ruffles, with
pannier and hat a la mode, and a pair of
new kid gloves, too tight, and a pair of
shoes too high in the heels; The iden
Meal blackberry boy who whistled so
maliciously when Bho tried to sell her
leather medal she must get off that
subject or she'll get mad met Yours
Truly at the door and repeated his dis
mal whistle as she sailed into the hall
In the awkward consciousness of a new
train, which was a nuisance, and a new
beau, who was frightened.
Tho crowd came in slowly. Aud
such toilets! The bonnets loomed up
like haystacks. Grcatroses with trailing
vines hanging at haphazard among
laces and tulle and fuss and feathers
and nonsense, perched themselves atop
OUR AGENTS.
The following persons aro duly authorized to
act as Agents for the X ew Xortu west :
A.W. JlcConnell Xorth Yamhill
Horace 11. Day New York City
Mrs. H. 31. Miller... Ijist Chanco
Mrs. Mary Byhee Uiwer Clear Lake, Cal
Mrs J. II. Foster Alhany
Ashby Pcorce Benton county
Dr. Bayley Corvallia
A- A. Mannlnfc Olympia
Miss Virslnia Olds. MoMinnvillo
Hiram Smith .llarrlshurc
Mrs. J. W. Jackson Eugene City
M. w. ucacn uuenn v is in
lie'
iv. Wm. Jolly
Hon. t. w. ixivcnport
Mary J. Mngcrs.
A. w. Stanard
S. J I. Claugbton
u. A- iieea
Mrs. O. T. Daniels
Mrs. Nellie Curl
P.C Sullivan
Mrs. M. F. Cook
Mrs. M. C. Cllne
Mrs. It. A- Vawters
Mrs. 11 B. Bishop.
iter. J. t. Jjamon.
Hillsboro
iJilverton
.Uervals
Iter. D. Bagley.
Mrs. Jane M.Wilson..
Philip RItr
P. D. Moore
John HoUen
Mrs. M. J. Enslim
O. li. Blood
Mrs. M. JefTrics
IC H. Welch-
Dr.J.W.WntU,
Mrs. M. Keity
A. Am OKI
G.W. Lawson.
M. P. Owen
Mrs. C A. Cobum
Mrs. J. Devore jonnson.
Thos, Parsons-
K. Pentland-
...HrownsvllIo
Lebanon
Salem
Salem
Salem
Dallas
Larayetto
.Kalama
Wnltsbunr
i uiiuiemn
.Seattle
.Seattle
Walla Walla
Walla Walla
Port Towusend
Phcnlx, Oregon
Portland
..Traveling Agent
Traveling Agent
Washington county
a raveling-Agent
LAiayetlo
Albany
aiem
Miss Hal Ho Applegatc
MIss B. A. Owens
J.T.Scott, Esq
Mrs. a. a. uorwin
ueo. Enile.i
J. W. Jackson
L. F. Fisher-
..- Dalles
...Forest Grovo
Oregon City
- Mliwauklo
The Dalles
Yoncalh
lloseburt
Forest Grovt
-Nehaicn
..Traveling Agcr
....Eugen
Mrs. Laura De Force Gordon.
Miss Nellie Mossman .
I. T. Maulsby . ,
G. W. Brock Union Ridce. W.
..San Francise
Cnllforn)
Olymp
vnncouv.
G. W. Barnes
J. N. Gale. ,
Mrs. E. Oakshctt-
-Ochoco vall
Washington Terrlto
..Traveling Agci
.uervais, uregt
Mrs. J. C. Hayes.
James Vance Yreka, Califorr
Mrs. L. E. Whllmore Sacramento, Calirorn
Mrs. Sarah Harry Stockton, Calirorn.
Mrs. Sarah Wallfs Mayfleid, Calirorn!.
Mrs. Chapman Yates San Jose, California
"Woman's Journal". Boston. Massachusetts
Charles W. Tappan Suit Lake City, U. T
Mrs. L. M. Howell Ashland, Oregon
Mrs. M. J. Peniand Halsey, Oregon
Mrs. M. A. Dlmick Hubbard, Oregon-.
D. P. Porter Shedd's, OregoiFV
Other parties desiring to act at Agents irlll
please. forward tholr names. We want Agents
at every' postof&ce throughout Oregon and
Washington Territory.