mm 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: age. cArrrAi. 3S S1UVU) 3.1. aiijo i- Si. ROOO fa iu),ao 73 SJWJOi S3 CWO.UO 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. do do do do do do do dd do do do do do do do do do do 3 6 8 9 10 12 15 IS 21 do do do do do do do do do 2wUS 81,875 1,171,405 154U.CW7 ,7W,H 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.