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- She lim orttoe0t FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 12, 1673. SPEOIALtfOTIOE. .Our friends who send us currency will please take notice that there is a dis count of fifteen cents on every dollar. Those who send us a three-dollar money order are only credited with $2 55. We are sorry, but as long as women are not allowed to economize in National house keeping, men will manage badly. THE DEM00BATI0 PLATFOEH. "Were it not that experience shows that man-made politics have become so corrupt that no reliance can be placed in political platforms, we should say that our brethren are promising pretty well for the future. For instance, the first plank "insists upon a strict construe- tion of the Federal Constitution, as nec essary to the inherent rights of the peo ple." But does anybody suppose that Ncsmith would dare to stand on that plank if he thought anybody understood it? It has been clearly proved to every intelligent mind, that the strictest con struction of the Federal Constitution will not abridge the Inherent rights of the people, "i et a Democratic construc tion, in its strictest sense, decs thus abridge these rights, and continue thus to abridge them, despite its planks and platforms. The resolution in support of "such legislation as has for its object the pro lection and support of the producing and laboring classes" was practically carried out before midnight by the faithful in the consumption of rye juice, to aid the producers, and Chinese fire crackers, to aid the laborers. There is a good resolution "that all corporations are subject to legislative control." Wo also find a demand for the im mediate repeal of the "salary grant" and a hearty denunciation of everybody who supported it, which just suits us provided, of course, that it means any thing. But there is no resolution to prevent corruption by removing the cause, and no evidence that the party sees the cause of corruption, as it really exists. We find no plank for woman no, not even a splinter there. Next week we shall sharpen our pencil for the Republican platform. Sorry we can't do so now. CALL EEPEATED. Again it becomes our painful duty to urge His Honor tho Mayor to publish an exhibit of-the disbursements of the fire relief fund. It is a shame to the city that we are compelled to demand such action upon the part of our city's Executive. But the suflerers by the fire and their friends and would-be as sistants are not to be satisfied by sullen exhibitions of affected dignity or silent contempt. Many of our friends who at first con sidered us a little too hard upon His Honor are now not only satisfied with our course, but arc engaged in collecting facts for future use in compelling this exhibit, provided our repeated calls for it are not speedily heeded. Men should not accept the responsible duties of Re lief Commissioners unless they have tune to attend to the business properly : therefore want of lime to make exhibits will not bo accepted as excuse for now fulfillment of a very important duty. Will His Honor the Mayor compel us to comply with the wishes of our cltl zens and call an indignation meeting? WHAT NEXVWE WOKDEE ? Well, the Democratic party hath spoken. It has rolled its reverberatinjr thunder away from tho phalanx of its faithful followers, and having flashed-in-the-pan, goes on its way with claquers at its heels who bear abroad a banner blazoned with the public claims of Bud Thompson's "Uupurchasable Woman." Ben Hayden bore the party's brain, but they decapitated htm per haps for that very reason. Then they resoluted themselves into the declara tion that social sins are not hereafter to be tolerated in any public functionary without protest unless such functionary is a Democrat! Oh, wisdom unparal leled! O, virtue, how immaculate! O, consistency, what a jewel! The object evidently is to frighten all Republicans of weak morals into the camp of the Democracy, where their early life mis takes may be covered with the mantle of Mlence and tl clr social crimes en tombed within the vaults of a fat State office. O, temporal O, moras! NO NEWS IE0H ALBANY. The State Republican Convention met at Albany yesterday. As we went to press before returns were received, we cannot say who is to be pitted against Xesmitb, but we do say that if the man chosen is of sound morals and a Woman Suffragist, we'll take the stump and keep it till he's elected. Nesmith can't go to Congress. Was there no decent leader for the Democratic party none? Could they get nobody but the Oregon Jell Davis, who fights and flees in petticoats, to hold on high for yet a little longer the flickering torch of one-sexed politics? Have they no men of merit none? It is in very bad taste for the Demo cratic Convention to ignore the rights of women in its recent platform, when i t has nobody for a standard-bearer who ZlT ""Woman Movement except inthoguise of a woman. e acknowledge the receipt of a com plimentary ticket to the Washington Territory Industrial Fair, to be held" on the 1st, 2d and 3d of October. A new paper will be started at Baker City about the 1st of October R. B. W. 'Boyd, editor and proprietor. ANSWEBS TO OOEBESPONDENTS. Our dear friend, H. C. Brown, whose great misfortune it is to disagree with us as to methods while agreeing fully as to principles, writes us as follows: "Let me assure you that while I differ with you in the course you are pursuing In reference to Mr. Mitchell, as I did in reference to Gen. Grant, I am noue the less your personal friend and well wisher, and will work with you when ever your course Is consistent with my own principles, for I am just as much in earnest in the woman movement as yourself. Now, I would say to you ear nestly, whatever else you please to charge me with, never again intimate that I have or would violate my dead husband's principles." In justice to our friend, we gladly give place to the above, feeling that her own words have a right to appear in self-defense against our criticisms, although what we said was merely the natural result of her own action. Wo never charged her with violating her husband's princl pies. We said and still say that sho would not have caused this controversy If he had lived. Mr. Brown, as a polit ical sage, applauded our course during his earth life, and applaud3 it to-day from bis homo in the Elysian fields. His wife is in earnest; she is honest and good: but sho must learn that it is principles and not pcrsons-veith which the leaders in the woman movement must deal; that is law which must bo changed, bo- fore we can change custom, Sho must learn that while women do not possess tho key to their righful heritage, all her heroics about purity in tho politician of tuo day is nothing but nonsense. This may not suit her pride, but it is truth. and truth is no respecter of persons. We hardly expected our sister, after we had Half a dozen times assured the pub' lie that tho Mitchell controversy must end, to send us another communication upon the same subject. She knew we would not print it, because she knew that we, to be consistent, ought not But we do not blame her. We like to see everybody die "game." Her letter will be welcomed, doubtless, by the Or- gonian, as the other one was, aud that Is the placo for it. So, let it appear. Barkis is will in'. W. H. Smith, Astoria, writes: "I con sider your paper the best in Orecon. My wife and I both feel a deep interest in the success or your mission and the prosperity of the paper. We will both try to contribute to Its columns from ims on." Thanks, friends, not only for the contribution that came to back your kind words, but for the promised corres pondence as well. J. A.Womack, of Tygh Valley, writes: "May the New Northwest not only prove a profitable investment for you, but I sincerely hope that as the organ of Human Rights it may exist 'while the trees of Paradise yield their fruits or uie fountain or life its river.' " We shall hand tho business matterof wliich you write to the Superintendent of bcuoois. Mrs. C. A. C. writes as follows: ,rTho New Northwest is Just splendid! As uie .Mitchell ghost is fairly laid, we wonder a little what your next fiirht will be about. But tho occasion will come, in some way, to make things lively and give you a chance to show your mettle." Mr. J. C. Hays, Gervais, in a letter Inclosing two renewals and six dollars, says: "Hoping our paper may still live, notwithstanding the financial loss you sustained by the Mayor withdrawing his patronage, I remain yours truly." M. F. S., San Francisco: Thanks for a copy of the "Revolt." The paper camo last spring in our absence and was mislaid. It throws much light on the matter. Sorry we were not publishing at the time. M. O. Brown, Seattle, writes: "Keep up good courage. If I had a thousand dollars to aid you, I would give it as freely as I give tho enclosed six." John Holton, of Phoenix, writes: "We are well pleased with your paper. It is worthy of universal support." Many more letters are awaiting their turn. Be patient friends. We won't slight anybody if we can help it. JOTTINGS ANDJOUBNEYINGS. Knowing instinctively that the letter from Lafayette, published last week, would awaken some very sharp criti cism from well-meaning friends, who are constantly solicitous lest we say or do something that may cause somebody, of whom tec have no fear, to bring or try to bring reproach upon tho glorious gospel of Human Rights, we last week crowded three days work Into one, and accepting a kindly' invitation from a number of Portland friends, visited the Spiritual camp-meeting about eighteen miles rrom this city, at Zum Walt's grove, near Graham's Landing, where "Mrs. Chamberlain, tho Spiritualist and seer," was to be tho chief attraction, and where we could see her for ourscif. We confess that there is much about the Spiritualists that we like o study. One reasou that we like to notlco them in the New Northwest Is because no other Oregon paper dares to do so upon editorial responsibility; and our sympa thy naturally runs with the proscribed classes from the fact that our position as a political nonentity causes us to hold involuntary rank In the same cat egory. Again, unlike all other religous bodies with whom we meet, they in vite us to their platform and give us lib erty to preach our gospel of peace on earth and good will to men and women according to the dictates of our own conscience, none daring to molest or make us afraid. Then, too, they recog nize the right of the women of the nine teenth century to preach aud teach, and this pleases us; so, therefore, while we belong to the Christian Church, and ad here to the doctrines of Christ, wo in tend, no matter who may be displeased with us for so doiu, to follow the Scriptural injunction to ."prove all things and hold fast to that which is good." Awaking with the Friday morning dawn, we rubbed our aching eyes, reached languidly for pencil and paper, and while the household was yet asleep, and ourself but half awake, scribbled tho partly finished chapter of "Ellen Dowd" which appears, with a very ab rupt termination, on our first page. A hurried toilet and more hurried break fast, and we were off for the train. Took tho Yamhill boat at Canemah, and reached Graham's Landing at 10 a. m. A walk of three-quarters of a mile through the ferny woods was next in order, and nobody knew tho way. Sev eral "mediums" had by this time joined tho party, and, at the suggestion of one of our number, we sat down by the way side to wait for the spirits to direct us. A few moments' waiting and munching hard tack, which n lady's sensible fore thought had provided, and we got the "revelation." A young lady "medium" had struck tho trail mentally! This would have been a splendid "test," only the sequel proved that the course Indl cated was exactly in tho wrong direc tion! Finally, when all were tired and one of us really ill, a good angel in the ma terial guise of a barefoot boy, with bright eyes and obligiug disposition. came to meet us, aud, leading the way, soon brought us to a beautiful grove witli scats and stands and camps pre pared very much after tho style of all modern Druidic worshipping places. Disposing of our weary body upon a rick of sweet straw, that temptingly interposed its better than downy bless ings between us and the earth, we nald no further heed to other companions man our uorlc muse and the brown birds that twittered in the leafy covert over our aching brain. One by one and two by two the cu rious "aud faithful came, until at even tide wo had a congregation of fifty or sixty souls. Rrascd by a cup of country coflee, we gathered strength to listnn. for the first time, to the teachings of tne lady preacher, whoso fame had at traded us thither. We had listened spell-bound to Henry Ward Bcccher8 magnetic eloquence, had hunrr. as if en tranced, upon the studied utterances of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and floated off into ethereal ccstacy over tho well-coin milted lecture of Bishop Peck, but we know what we are saying, and hazard our reputation as a judco of ethics, elo quence and logic when we declare that -Mrs. Uiamberlaln excelled them all. It was announced from the platform af ter the lady had made her anncaranee that a committee, to bo named bv the audience, should select her subject This was done, and then Mrs. C. who oy tue way, Is a fine-looking woman of uie .Mrs. btanton type, near fifty years of age, jolly, pretty and dumpy, an nounced that she was under "control." The subject was then named, and without a lecond's waitinir for nraver or preparation the fea.st of reason and now or soul began. But we shall not attempt to report the lecture. We'd fail entirely if we should. Besides, Portland shall havo au opportunity to hear for herself, and we shall not skim the cream of expectation from any wait ing mortal's Intellectual milk. Rev. E. W. Shortridire. an crewhilo "Soul Sleeper," who has lately been converted to Spiritualism, and is now a preacher of the "Soul Wakine" doc trine, interested the believers and got up a circle, i urther than this, for that evening meeting deponent ronortelh not. Accompanied by Mrs. Chamberlain. we repaired to an adjacent farm-house and retired for the night Such a head ache! When Satan afflicted Jr.Ii ! boils, ho might have known ho couldn't subdue him. Why didn't ho trv ilm headache? Putting our fevered brain a-soakin in a soiled pocket handkerchief, we lay mere pressing our throbbing eve-balls. and Mrs. Chamberlain, at our renuost. began to "see spirits." But her graphic ucscripnons awoke no recognition, and we gave it up, assigning ourself to slcen. or rather to a futile attempt to woo the tirowsy god, who couldn't come because of the headache. "I sec," said our companion, "an old ish man, with a delicate, round face, white whiskers, bald head, crav side locks, short nose and bluo eyes." "I can't recognize him," was our fe verish answer, as we re-turned the hot. wet handkerchief, in Uie vain hope to nun a cool place on it "If I should tell you who ho looks like you would laugh," said she. 'leil me, then, for I want to lauch." we answered, dreamily. "Weil, he looks like Horace Gree ley." "If there is anybody on the other ahln of Jordan who needs to apologize to me before ills soul can rest, it's Uncle Hor ace," said wc. a little interest!. In spito of the headache. the seer threw up her hand with n sudden motion and exclaimed, excited ly: "He says that if he had accepted tho Woman Movement when vou offi cially tendered it to him he would have been President and alive and well to day." "Arc you acquainted with the circum stances?" we asked, by this timoquito curious. "What circumstances ?" "My Steinwayllall speech in favor of Mr. Greeley: mv amnesty mnMnn- my official visit to his sanctum, tender ing him the aid of tho Woman Move ment in consideration of hlsofflclal recog nition of the same, and so on ?" "No; I had not heard that you were the vessel chosen to do that work; but Horace says you're right. He says you served him right, too. And ho further promises to aid you from the other side." Mentally saying that we should have belter appreciated more tangible aid when he was compassed by a tangible body, we forgave the great Horace and went to sleep, somewhere about the grey dawn of the morning. Breakfast time found us no better. "Awah-kah-nc-ah-hosh-tah" Phoe bus, what a name! which being inter preted, means, "I come to cure," seized the seer something seized her for she blew like a porpoise, pounded ourcrani um, slashed cold water in our face and eyes, made magnetic passes, talking all tho while in broken "Injin," and still morebroken English, aud in half an hour stowed us away in bed, and everybody but the Indian, who promised to stay and watch us, went oft to canip-meet-ing. In the hallowed quiet of that deep, grand wood we spent the blessed day. The mental and physical rest so badly needed had come, and oh, how keenly we did enjoy it! Sometimes we'd half listen for the wild whoop of the intangi ble Indian with the jaw-breaking name. But not a sound broke the delicious stillness. Even the song of birds was hushed. Evening came, all too soon, but it found us with the headache gone, the fever cooled, aud a wagon waiting to convey us to the camp. "Conference" was being held. Speak ers, good, bad and indifferent in uormal and abnornal conditions arose aud testi fied, making the occasion one of variety, to say the very least. "Mediums" In different stages of "de velopment" mounted the rostrum and spoke in trances. But oh, wasn't some of the weakest-minded of the faithful mad at usf We'd been a "reporter," as tho reader knows, aud last spring, af ter having visited the Woodburn camp meeting, we dished It up, as in duty bound, for the daily Bulletin. We thought we'd been wonderfully truthful and so did everybody else; but one or two who were hit a little in the report, got mad, just because we'd told the truth, when for that reason, if no other, they should have blessed us! But that's always the way. You'll never be ap preciated till you're dead. Some of the trance "mediums" have very poorly cultivated "controls" and some of these "controls" put bail grammar, redundant verbiage aud tedi ous repetitions in the mouths of their oracles, and would bore you terribly, only they can't "hold" the mediums long, aud so, to the relief of everybody, they break down aud you breathe easy. But the most inexperienced of those do a3 well as some preachers we've heard who didn't know enough to let go when their piece was spoken; and now, wc hope that last sentence will be used as a soothing syrup, and the offended will forgive us, even as wc forgave Uncle Horace the other night. Sunday morning in the grand, green woods! Willi headaciio gone and the cool, quiet languor of incipient conval escence upon us, we sat down amid a now assembled multitude to listen, for the second time, to Mrs. Chamberlain's "control." A committee of anti-Spiritualists chose for a subject the question "What is Psycometry?" You could no more convey a clear idea of that speech than you could paint a passing moon-beam or portray a bird's most thrilling melody. Other speeches, music, recess, dinner, and then another speech from Mrs. C. The committee, of which wo this time were one, agreed upon the subject "Slan der." The speaker, while awaitincr the Committee's action, sat passively upon the platform with her eyes closed. Pres ently she spoke: "The 'control' is ready for the subject." It was given. In an Instant sho was on her feet Looking over the rostrum and on the ground below, she said: "I 8co an open grave. On its borders arc lying all manner of offensive tilth, and near by a toothless, faugless and half dead old man whose name Is" Suddenly a voice was heard calling for a physician. In the middle of this sentence the speaker stopped. "Who is sick?" she asked. "Only a child," said a voice. "What Is the matter?" "It is in a fit." "Will the audience excuse tho me dium while the control takes her to cure the child ?" "les, go. It is your duty," said somebody. As straight as she could go to the sick child she went The audience with one impulse aroso to follow. "Stay where you are! I command you! Let not man or woman leave your seat till I return!" Everybody obeyed except tho lone representative of the press. Remem bering what was due to the fraternity, she dead-headed herself to tho side of tho sick child, which lay with rigid limbs and distended eyeballs in the arms of its anxious father. The head and heels were half drawn together And the purple tongue protruded fearfully. Whether tho phantom Indian with the jaw-breaking name possessed the speaker, or whether she is within her self both priest and doctor, no matter. A few seal-like puffs aud spasmodic passes from her sufficed to relax the rigid limbs and restore circulation aud respiration. In less time than it takes to write of it she was back on the rostrum, and resuming her lecture in middle of the very sentence she had dropped, she said, "a toothless, fanglcss aud half dead old man whoso name is Slander." Agaiu we are compelled to forego all attempt to make an appropri ate report Suffice it to say that she buried the old villain so deadly deep before she had done with him that our staid, reverend self felt just like dancing on tiie dead dog's grave. Then it was our turn to talk. Spirit ualists who know that wo are convinced of the philosophy of their phenomena have abused us badly because wo would not join their sect and become one of them. They havo said that we "want to cater to popularity;" that wc "are hypocritical;" that we "are after the almighty dollar," and so forth. (That last impeachment, let us whisper, wo caunot deny). So, when, In spite of their fault-finding, they invited us to address them, we proceeded to tell them "Why we were uot a Spiritualist" Dear reader, we won't tell you at least not now for it would make this report too long. We were feeble from recent illness, and soon grew very hoarse, but the angels, so they (tho seers) said, manipulated our throat and cured us. At all events, we took a drink of water and proceeded without furtherdifllculty. We saw no angels and felt none, and couldn't say they were there. It all religious sects would treat us as well as the Spiritualists do we'd dearly love to give them proper credit. But they will, by-and-by. The evening was devoted to "confer ence" and "tests." A gentleman from Gervais, being entranced, gave a short lecture which was principally an ex hortation to kindness, purity and truth. Tho language was well chosen and the delivery pleasing. After the hymn and chorus, "There'll be no more sorrow there," he again came forward, this time representing himself as an un happy spirit who had committed sui cide. When his little speech was done, Mrs. C. arose and said, "Stay, Spirit, stay." Evidently sho was in earnest Her words of consolation, advico and hope were grand beyond description; and her exhortation to the living to be careful, "for what yo sow, that shall ye also reap," was awfully pathetic Aud yet she is at times brusque, aud almost coarse. She will offend good taste by "you bet" and other slang expressions, and in live minutes set you soaring into the clouds by eloquent flights of a fancy seemingly cultivated to n marvelous exactness. But the Gervais medium got another "control." This timo it was "Wild Bill, from Varmounl" and and we'd rather this "Wild Bill" would stay in his spirit home until he becomes a cultivated aud refined gentle man. Sunday evening propriety was badly disturbed by his antics, but this was the only disturbing scene of tho whole meeting. Laughter was soon quelled, and "Wild Bill" pirouetted down the steps and away Into the night and darkness, arousing the people's risi bilities no more. There was much old time camp mcetiug singing and Bible rending, and, witli the above single, exception, no "manifestations" to offend the most strictly devoted Christian. We were glad to observe this, as this sect is grow ing more rapidly than all others, and the time will speedily come when the science which lies at the bottom of their manifestations can no longer be ignored by Christians. They ought not to ig nore it now. The meeting was over, and with other friends we repaired to a bird's nest of a home on a "Delectable Mountain," near tho winding Willamette, and retiring to rest in the "Chamber of Peace" slept soundly until morning. Monday was spent in this cool, clean, quiet retreat, among congenial Christian friends, who having seen much of the phenomena of Modern Spiritualism quote Scripture to sustain it and go on their way rejoicing. ! Itiosdav morninrr. and wn liniteil flio Governor G rover on her downward trip. Our first passage through the canal and locks was safely made while a splendid dinner was being served to a select party in the dining-room, and tho busy Falls went roaring, dashing, foaming, crashing through their rocky roadways, giving us a glorious view of works of God and man. Home again! and at our desk as wo make these hurried jottings we assure you, reader kind, that we shall consider ourself amply repaid for our journeying8 if you, in perusing these thoughts, shall be edified. LETTEE IBOM SAN PBAN0IS00. S.vx Francisco, August 27, 1873. Dear Mrs. Duniway:Ijong ere this I intended lo have written you, express ing my joy that your paper is revived, and that you are as earnest as over in the great cause in which we havo both heartily enlisted. During the present political excitement, tho California State Board of Control has deemed it expedient to work quietly, and to show you that wc have not been idle I enclose the following official document, which was prepared with a viow to create among politicians a public sentiment in favor of Woman's Enfranchisement, and more especially to influence the coming Legislature. It lias been extensively circulated throughout the State and sent to each member of the several nominating Leg islative Committees, accompanied by a brief note calling attention to tho disa bility of woman, aud expressing the hope tiiat in the selection of candidates her claims will not be ignored. Frequently, also, the more prominent members have been visited by ladies from our Board, urging upon them the importance of the movement and gen erally an appreciation and sympathy with our alms has been expressed which is a pleasing Indication of the rapid growth of public sentiment upon the subject. Yours very truly, Mary F. Snow. Tho President, officers and members of the Convention to nominate candi dates to represent the people in the next California Legislature havo each re ceived the following circular: Gentlemen: The Board of Control of the California Woman Suffrage Asso ciation respectfully represent that "taxation without representation is tyrauny," a3 much nowasin the stormy and trying days of the American Revo lution; that "all Governments derive their just powers from tho consent of the governed," now aud in California, as then and in the thirteen revolting American colonies, and that the "equal" and "inalienable right of all to life, lib erty aud the pursuit of happiness" is as just, important aud sacred in 1873 as it was in 177C; the Board further represent j that the constitutional exclusion of the women , of California from the ballot-1 box, the reservoir of all rightful and i just public authority, the very citadel and sanctuary, In a Republican form of Government, of individual freedom, not only ignores our cherished and sacred principles of self-government, but also the foregoingand other declara tions of the fathers and founders of the American Republic, which are now, by tho people of California, accepted as po litical axioms; and it further represents, that having been taught to cherish, with reverent regard, our inherited in stitutions and customs, this hereditary disfranchisement of woman, this bolting against her the doors to political author ity, which enacts laws, defines crimes, determines their penalties, and directs the moulding andcontrollingconditions of society for good or evil has been blindly accepted by tho people as right and In harmony with our boastod prin ciples of political equality and justice. This has rendered the public insensible to the great wrongs which class author ity has imposed upon woman and which class-Interest seeks by legislation to per petuate. Deprived of political authority, it fol lows, that whatever of legislation, which modifies tho asperities of woman's posi tion, comes by the grace of tho domi nant order, inasmuch as those of the disfranchised and subject cias3 are pow erless to enforce their claims. Strongly impressed with the convic tion that a majority of those who com pose the favored and enfranchised sex are animated by the spirit of right and justice, and are disposed, as they shall discover the Injuatice and cruelty of her legal disabilitiea, to repeal those laws which, resting for authority on heredit ary custom, operate to injure, proscribe or -oppress their mothers and sisters, wives and daughters, the Board here with submit, for your earnest considera tion, a few of the many legal disabili ties under which the women of Califor nia are now laboring, and which you, gentlemen, as party representatives, convened to select wise and just men as candidates for election to the Legisla ture, to frame aud enact laws for the protection and government of the peo ple, in the interesl of right and justice, havo It In your power, at the present time, to do uiuch for their removal, as follows: 1st They are held amenable to laws which they have had no voice In enact ing, aud to which they have never been invited to yield theirassent; laws which deprive them of their property, their liberty and their lives. 2d. They are excluded from sharing the honors and the emoluments of thous ands of official positions, of large pay, light work and short days; to discharge the duties, of most of which, woman is naturally as well fitted as man. 3d. They are denied official authority in tho management of the public school department, and are, therefore excluded from tho most lucrative and honorable positions as teachers, even though more than four-fifths of the educational staff, in large towns and cities, are composed of women. 4th. They subject the femme depave class to indignities and n system of pro scription and oppression, which they do not impose upon their male partners in crime. The laws discriminate, with cruel se verity, against tho wife, as the follow ing facts indicate: 1st. They confer on the husband ab solute control over the management aud disposition of the common property of husband and wife, and afford him facil Itics, if ho be so inclined, to defraud his widow of her equitable share of the fam ily estate. 2d. They deny her tho same absolute dominion over her private property as is possessed by the husband over his in dividual estate. 3d. They deny to tho widow the same rightof inheritance of thecommon property, aud the same unrestricted right to its management, on the demise of the husband, as they award to the husband on tho death of the wife, but, at his disease, the estate goes into probate, to be closed up by strangers, by a tedi ous and cxpensivo process. 4th. Tnoy afford the husband the means of depriving his wife and the mother of his children of the socioty, direction and education of her own off spring. 5th. They allow the husband, while the common property Is lu his posses- alon, without requiring even the formal ity of a legal complaint, tho taking of an oatb or the filing a bond for the good faith of his action, to denounce, through the press, his wife as a deserter, and forbid her credit 6th. They require tho wife, who may bo burdened with an invalid, imbiciie or ilrunKeu Husband, before she can transact business legally in her own name and on her own account, to sub mit to an expensive, tedious and humil iating process before a tribunal which may finally deny her application. 7th. They exclude her, however well qualified, from official positions on boards of management of joint stock corporations in which her money may be invested. The Board Is encouraged to address you on this subject, because the Na tional Republican Convention, in June, 1872, at Philadelphia, proclaimed in its platform of principles, which was en dorsed by eacii of thoState andTerrilorial Republican Conventions of the Federal Union, that "the Republican Party is mindful of its obligations to tho loyal women of the Nation for their noble de votion to the cause of Freedom," and "will treat with respectful consideration any honest demands for additional rights." In view, therefore, of tho foregoing considerations, and firmly believing that women, if allowed to participate in the affairs of State, would gradually infuse into the Government tho same peaceful, humane, moral and refining influences which have, by means of hor presence nud labors, made the Church and the school the centers of order and refine ment, aud the home the symbol of pur ity, peace and love, the Board most ear nestly, but respectfully, appeal to you, that, in the selection of legislative can didates, you nominate only those men who, if elected, will give to this import ant subject that favorable consideration aud legislative action wliich it is enti tled to receive at their hands. By order of the Board of Control. Mrs. M. A. Lewis, President " E.A.H.Dr.WoLF,VicePres't " Mary J. Collins, Cor. Secy. " Mary F. Snow, Rec. Secy. " Eunice S. Sleeper, Treas. Officers of the Board of Control of the Cal. Woman Suffrage Ass'u. Mrs. C. M. Palmer, President " M. A. Duncan, Vice Pres't " Lena Clark, Secy. Officers of the Cal. W. S. Ass'n, and members of the Board of Control. Why She Refused. You say you went to a party last night, and you saw Mrs. Smith, an old friend, whom you had not seen since she and your sister were at school together. You had a very pleasant talk until supper, when you gave her your arm and took her to supper. When some one came along with a few glasses of wine on a waiter and offered her a glass, you saw her shudder as she said "No!" and you wondered why Mrs. Smith, who didn't use to be particular about such things, uot only refused, but shuddered when she said No! You cannot tell why? I can tell why. You went on with your talk, aud a little flirtation, did you ? I won't say you didn't She was very gay and seemed very glad to forget her self, did she? Very well, I am very glad you gave her that hour of the even ing. 1 can tell you whore she went af ter the party was over. She went homo tho latest persons from the partyj She was glad it was late, for her hus band nau not come nome. sue sat and read for an hour, and her husband did not come. She wrote for an hour, and iicr husband did not come. She sat at the piano for au hour, but iie did not come. At length, between 3 and 4 o'clock, there was a noise at the door. She went to the door, and two police men held him in their arms. She knows them both by this time. It hap pens so often that she knows every po liceman on tho beat. They bade her good-night She had locked her child's room that lie might not abuse him. She took the abuse as lie flung himself on the bed. She dragged off his neck cloth and coat, and sat tiiere until ho should fall into his stupid sleep. She -was the woman who refused the glass of wine with a shudder. You thought slie was guy and bright. I know her story because I am her minister. They have a sort of skeleton in the closet which we are permitted to see, and you are not And when wc see that skele ton do you wonder that wo sometimes say pretty sharp things about moderate drinking, and the temptations offered at parties 1Rev. E. E. Hale. Calls for Women. Never in tho annals of history, or at any period of man's existence, has there been so great a call for woman's influence as at the present time. Woman is now con stantly receiving calls to give her influ ence to assist man to accomplish his de signs, either religious or reformatory. There is a call nowfrom the temperance reformers in Michigan for woman to w give her influence in enforcing the pro hibitory law. Then there is another call for women of the United States to give their influence in "behalf of such amendment to the Constitution as will recognize God Almighty as the source of all authority in civil government." To the latter call I would say: My dear Christian brothers, your religion lias ever deprived woman of all rights as a human being; and now that we are making some headway in educating and elevating ourselves, here you are asking us to sign our own death-warrant bv as sisting you to govern us and to trammel tree tiiougnt, and action. No, brothers! we have sad experience under the bonds of the Christian Church, and will now throw the chains of bigotry from off our spirits, aud will now stand free and untrammeled. "Wo will think our own thoughts and find our own employment We are now waiting to have another call from our national House, to get tho tansies out of the crimin.il The House is getting so disorderly and ii such uomusjoii uiat tue men there will be calling on woman to give her influence and increiiuitv to nlp.nt. sennr. purge and purify, aud to set the houso ill order. Well, we urn T-nmlir in nlnon aud purify, and minister to real wants; uui.ua mf Kviugouriauor and lnllucnco to prevent freedom of thou rit. miff speech, we never can. Mrs. 3f. T. T.nn. sion. OUR AGENTS. The following persons are duly authorized to set as Agents for the New Northwest : A. V, McCohnell vor,h Yamhill Horace ii. Day s Ynrfr miv Mr. H. M. Miller Mr. Mary Ilybee Mn J. H. Foster Ashby I'enrce. Last Chance -Lower Clear Like, Cal .Albany . lienton county C0rvulli4 Olympla MeMlnnvlllo .llMrrlhtHirc Bugene City Hueiia Vista Hlllsboro SUverton Oervals Urmrnsvllle Lebanon ur. liayiey. . Manning Ml Virginia OldK. Hiram Smith Mri. J. W. Jackson &4 W TtAnoll lttv.Wm. Joily! " lion. T. w. Davenport Mary J. Magprs A. V,'. stanard H. H. Claughton u. a. need iin. O.T. Daniels -Salem ..Salem ..Salem Mrs. Vallle Curl P. C Sullivan Mrs. M. K. Cook Mm. M.CCIIne Dallas Lafayetto Kalama Walt.sbunr renilleton .Seattle .Seattle Walla Walla , Walla AValla Fort Townsenil .. .. Traveling Agent -....rrtlanil Traveling Agent Travel Ins Agent -Washington county Traveling Agent Lafnyctto Mrs. 1C A. Vawtcrs Mi, n. It. Rlshop. Key. J. F. Damon Kov. D. UnIev.. Mr. Jane M.Wllson . t-imip itaz 1'. D. Moore John Holten Jin. ii.J. Knslgn. U. U. illOOU.. Mr. M.JeffrIes H. H. Welch Dr.J.W. Watt-.. Mr. M. Kelty arnyi .Alb: A. 3i. .moiu O.W. I.awson.. any .-.Salem M. F. Owen Mrs. C A. Cobum.. Dalles ..Forest Grove Oregon City Mllwauklo The Dalles y Yonealla -.Itoseburjr -Forest Orovo Mr. J. DeVore Johnson. Tho. l'a.rsona -, IC Pantlaud.. Mlis Sallle Applegate Ml B. A. Owen T. Scott. Eso Mr. A. E. Corwln , eo. hngle, -Nehalem J. W. Jaclcon. -Traveling Agent ...Eugeno Ij. 1'. Miner.. T. l?u,ra Ioree Gordon California . 12.. ,H. Mosaman Olympla LT. Unulabv i--...Xu., Jx:k Union Kklse, W.T r,,v-.-liJrI,cs Ochoeo Valley J. J.. l.alO..... Wwililn-'tnii Territory Mpi.E-OaVshctt Mr. J. C Haves. -Traveling Agent Gervais. Oregon .lames vance. -Yreka, California Mr. Ij. K. "Vi httmore Sacramento, California Mr. Sarah Harry .Ktoekton, California Mrs. Sarah AV'allls Maytleld, California 5Ir. Chapman Yatos. -San Jom), California ' Oman's Journal" l!o.ton, Massachusetts Charles W. Tappan -Salt I-ake City, U. T Mrs. L. M. Howell Fhenlx, Oregon Mr. M. J. Fenland HaUey, Oregon Mr. XI. A. Dlmlck .HiiblMnl, Oregon D. P. Porter SheddS, Oregon Other parties desiring to set as Agents will please forward their names. AVe want Agents at every poitofflce throughout Orogou antl Wasblnctoa Territory,