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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1873)
l)t Urn Utttmt$t FRIDAY....! OCTOBEH 3, 1873. NOTICE, No paper will be issued next week, on account or the State Fair. This Is n rub we Lave adopted, to give our boys a chanco to eDjor the pleasures attendant upon that occasion. A PAIR WARNING. Again we are forced to call upon the people for our dues. Illness haa inter fered with our lecturing during the past month, and whon the lectures stop the income to sustain tho paper dwindles to a pittance. After tho State Fair our boys, who have been out of school since our publication began, aro going to leave the printer's case for the school room. This will Involve an extra ex penso of $40 per week. We thall not run in debt for this money. If you want the paper bad enough to sustain It, we aro willing to do our part for nothing and board onrself in the bargain, as we have done from the beginning, but we re peat, we shall not run in dobt. Now Is the time for you to say whether you will sustain the paper or not. Let everybody who reads this get us one new subscriber and tho work is done. If you do not do this work while we are running the paper, wo will suspend its publication until we can do it for you Now friends, for a long pull, a stronj pull, and a pull altogether. TO PURE-MINDED REPUBLICANS. FmnNm: We have much to say to you. Your situation before the public Is at present a very peculiar one. You liavn Snvlla unou one hand and Charvbdis on tho other. Your bark, loaded with eternal principles, will be etranded if you do not out-general the mutinous orew who have resolved, to w.uttio your ship if they cannot hold the holm. These mutineers are not Democrats: they are not worthy to be named in the same day with pure- minded Democrats. They aro men who having enjoyed, aforetime, much Gov ernmental patronage, have learned many of the ways that aro dark and tricks that are vain that characterized the office-holder of their day. Know ing, as they do, ull tho mean things they might -have done while In power, they very naturally suppose that their successors in ofllco do these things, now that they have opportunity. Conse queiitly, they are suspicious, disap pointed and desperate. Theso mutl neersare determined to scuttle your ship, He on the alert. Your bark is freighted with ten thousand embryo principles which they would strangle; principles which must come to the pure light of Heaven under the fostering care o progressive minds and progressive gov ernment. These mutineers havedonned a very thin and badly tattered cloak of purity under cover of which they for pretense make long prayers; and when they show their countenances, they dls figure them that they may appear unt men to fust. Be not deceived by the Puritanic wails of sore-headed faction Ists, who, while "thanking God that they are not as other men are," are In' deed naught but whlted sepulchers, who seek to besllme everything that runs counter to their own gain or greed with the filthy exudes of their own minds. Woo unto such Scribes, Phari sees, hypocrites! If, through your apathy, or under the intimidation of their self-righteous clamor, any true lie publican shall slay away from the polls and thereby prove recreant to his manifest duty, remember, you must pay the penalty. Some of you say, "We are not pleased with the Mitchell resolution." Neither, dear friends, are we. But it is not a part of the platform on which your party stands. Tho whited sepulchers who tell you that it is are knaves or fools. They know better. If you are caught in such a nut you are gudgeons. But suppose it was a part of tho plat form, what then? Do two wrongs ever make one right? Every man of you acknowledges that J. N. Smith alias J. W. Nestnitli is Just as bad a man as J. H. Mitchell. Even those of you who profess to believe all the infamous stories afloat among the Senator's per uonal and political enemies say unqual ifiedly that J. W. Nesmlth Is as bad a man as he dare be. Then, do you ex peet to redeem your outraged honor (?) by repeating the very "iufamy" of which you prate so loudly? There Isn't an old woman in the State but has bet ter sense and more discretion. Don't strain at a gnat and gulp down a camel whole. Yet that is just what you are doing when yon bolt tho He- publican nomination, with a good man as its standard-bearer and nominee, and thereby throw your influence to elect a man whose Infamies, as compared to those of Senator Mitchell, are asacamel la to a gnat. Let the tbouoanda of passengers on board this ship bo warned against the, action of tho mutineers. They care nothing for purity, nothing for morality, nothing for righteous government. They only aim to scuttle your ship. Hiram Smith Is a man of good morals and unimpeachable reputation. He will not sell his influence to brothels and doggeries. Every brothel In this city Is presided over by fallen women who are electioneering for Nesmlth. Every debauchee who patronises and supports these hells Is quoting tho Ore gonian on "virtue" and "honor" when he readies the streets. Aro pure-minded Republicans to be caught in such company? If not, we conjure you to rally to the support of vour standard-bearer and acquit your selves like men. Heed not the hypocrit ical walls of self-righteous rascals who think that whatever they do that Is devilish that has the sanction of law, or license of custom, may be done with im punity. These are tue uqgs tliat are Howling upon the track of Senator Mitchell., lie not deceived, woe, woe, to tho cause that can only be made to prosper by the down-tearing work of vultures. Tiieso 'whlted walls" would cry out all thei more, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" n the Son of Man were here upon the earth to-day, if he should dare to preach the self-same g03pel which ho taught of yore. Let pure-minded Republicans beware. J. N. Smith, alias Nesmlth, alias "L'n- purchasable Woman," with his liber tlneism, his drunkenness, his obscenity and political treachery 's beforo the people for their votes. Hiram Smith, with his virtuous, temperate life, philanthrophy of character and plaiu, practical common sense, Is before you as well. One or the other must go to CongresB. If you stay away from the polls, you give a half vote, an emascu lated hermaphroditic vote, of which any man should be asliamcd, to repeat the very outrage which you claim that your party committed in passing tho Mitchell resolution. If you vote for Hiram Smith you will do your part towards re trieving tho political character of your party by aiding to eloct a man whose worst enemy can only say of him that ho is not known as a politician. Do j-our duty at the polls and all will bo well. TO BED-R00KDEM00RATS. We have told you before that we were taking no partisan side in the present Congressional fight. Tho primal object for which we are striving, which every body knows to be the recognition of equal rights beforo the law, as pro claimed in the Constitution and violated by its man's rights expounders, having been utterly Ignored by the platforms of botli political contestants, and each party's Convention having had the bad tasto to pass resolutions over the heads of the people entirely at variance with tho legitimate object for which said Conventions wero called, wo are more than ever disgusted with man-made politics. But we have accepted the sit uation as it Is, and must work, as a con scientious, law-abiding woman, with the best material at hand, and to the best advantage, under the circum stances, for securing, ultimately, the great objects of Just and righteous gov ernmonU Therefore, to you, O Demo crats, we now appeal : Aro you ready to elect a man to Congress whose whole paBt record Is so much at variance with your pouiicai interests mat you owe your defeat, as a party, In this Slate wholly to his disorganizing influence? If he proved traitor to you once, have you any reason to believe ho will not do so again? We are indebted to a recent issue of tho Daily Oreyon Statesman for the fol lag reminiscence of his sterling service In the interest of your party and its "time-honored principles," which orig inally appeared In the Statesman in April, 1862: Wasiii.votox, March 15, ISC T)Kr. llrsn: f wroto you some time since Informing you lliat nn order had been sent to Oregon to exclude the "Democrat" Irom the malls. ltercntly I got hold of a stray copy of the "Union AND UADK APPLICATION TO IIAVK IT Hxcxuimn AUto, but tho Postmaster-General refuson, on the ground that tho jwllcy of sup pressing dlMoral papers was only Intended to bo temporary and in uot nt present resorted to i at all. If a rurther Mated that as fcoon ns the traitors were driven out of tho Border State. I the now existing orders of suppression would be rescinded. I could and would have had all the Lane organs In the State share the fate of the "Democrat" ir I could have procured speci men numbers, as j am fclly hkteujiineii to cnusii tjik lank iEMOCRACV. I occasionally get a "Statesman;" that and the "Advocate" are all of the Oregon papers that do reach me. CShlol came Into the Senate Chamber yes terday," etc O'esmlth's respectful way of speaking of IiIn colleague, Mr. Hhlel, In the House. Speaking of lieu. Stark, who was then Ills colleague In the Senate, Mr. Nesmlth, further on.snys: "Stark Is bavin? an easy time of it, and Is not on a single committee, consequently he In nt leisure to do tho elegant, I only wish that you could be here to take a look at him In his court dreos,' as he calls it, and while kids. He really a subject of ridicule tor all Oregonlans here and U perfectly powerless, so far a his Influence go-, fur good or evil. In the Senate Or OUl Of It, HIS ATI-OINTMENT K1IOW OI.I1 WlIlTKAr Kit AS AS ASS." Wo well remember tho vehement out bursts of Indignation against Mr. Lin coln which characterized tho burden of your lamentations in those days, O Democrats ; and now, mark you, this J. N. Smith, alias J. W. Xesmlth whom many of you know to bo sailing undera stolen cognomen could not suppress or have "oxcluded from tho malls" as ninny of your Democratic organs as he desln-d because, only, of the leniency of the Ad ministration. Again, you are opposed, and Justly, to the Infamous back pay swindle in which Republicans and Democrats alike took part. The record of J. X. Smith, alias J. W. Jsrsuiith, proves conclu sively that he voted for and received hack pay when a member of the United States Senate. It is your honest desire to secure such National legislation as shall cause the whole action relative to the back pay swindle to bo rescinded. Hiram Smith declares that, if elected, he "will not vote for norfrAcback pay." N. Smith Is not only silent now upon the subject, but his record proves that he did vole for and receive back pay. You say that you are disgusted with professional politicians. Are you will ing to prove your sincerity by refusing your suffrages to replace In power a po litical demagogue, who despises you; who did everything in his power to crush you, and who would spuru you with his heel to-day wero it not that he hopes to use you as stepping-stones upon which to climb to Congress? Wo cannot beliove that you are the fawning sycophants, the criuging lick spittles, tho crouching spaniels, which -cemiin evuiontly takes vou-fo be. But tho 13th of October will decide iuo manor, if the life and spirit of maniioou ana Independence aro dead within you, cast your votes for J. N. ! Smith, alias J. W. Nesmith, and place him high upon a public pedestal In the delusive hope that thrift may follow fawning. But if you are wro who are not to be bought by clap-trap or sold by politicians, vote for Hiram Smith, who never violates his pledges, never tried to suppress Democratic journals or sought to destroy your organization, and who will, If elected, under his fear less and manly declaration of principles, pay good heed to the best Interests of all conscientious Democrats. He does not come before you with long-winded speeches, and consume your time in re tailing dirty scandal, or cracking vul gar jokes. He simply states, in his ad dress, which you will find on the first page, his fixed line of policy and action Should J. X. Smith, alias J. W Xesnilth, take a seat In Congress, he would have no influence In that Body to secure such public improvements for the benefit of the Commonwealth as Hiram Smith proposes, because ho will be estimated at his truo worth. Asa man who proved traitor to Democratic interests when in the Senate, ho will not now be trusted by Democratic Rep resentatives. As a man who proves traitor to Republican interests upon his return to the House, in which the Dem ocratic party Is in a hopeless minority, he will have no influence to pass any bill for the benefit of Oregon's interests, If lie goes to Congress he will go with his hands tied, and with the stigma of his double-dealing resting so hard ujon him that he 'will be as powerless for good or evil as lie said Stark was when in tho same situation. Let it not be said of you, O, Democrats, as ho said of Gov. Whitcaker, that his election proves you to be an organization of donkeys, TO TEMPERANCE MEN. Do you, as a people, believe, with all the strength of honest,' earnest voters who are worthy to hold tho high posi tion of responsible American citizens, that it is necessary to check the grow ing evil of intemperanco? Then know; O, Temperance men, that, while J. N. Smith, alias J. W. Xesmith,Isspendlng his substance in catering to tho dogger ies that ho may thereby gain votes through the interest of the whisky ring, HiramSinitii stands before you as a tee totaler from principle. When a ring of whisky guzzlers ap plied to Iihn for money with which to pander to the one hundred saloons In Portland, Hiram answered: "J( I never tret to Congress till whisky takes me there, I'll stay on my farm." About a week beforo J. X. Smith's nomination he (J. W. Xesmltli) hap pened to be on board the Salem ferry boat with a Good Templar, well known in the State, who had intended to voto for him if lie should be nominated Hits Good Templar, whose name we are ready to give when called upon found our pure man so drunk that lie talked with thick and babbling utter ancK Tlie ferryman had gone to tea and this fellow Smith was In a buggy to go home, doubtless to sleep oil hi potations. 1 -Said lie to the Good Templar (and his conversation was interlarded with din graceful oaths of the most blasphemous nature): "D-d-do you know how l-t-to r-r-nin the s-s-steam engine?" The Good' Templar answered in the negative. With more vehement cursing tho can didate said, "C-c-can you s-s-steer the boat?" Again he was answered, "No." Then this exemplary candidate broke out witli a fresh volley of obscene oaths, and so disgusted our Good Templar friend that he left the boat and went In pursuit of the ferryman. Ho says that scene was too much for his Democracy. No man who is a Temperance man at heart can vote for such a Representa tive whetfthere Is an opportunity to do better. Now, Temperance men, let us say to you as we say elsewhere to partisan Re publicans, you will fail in your duty as American citizens if you stay away from tho polls and allow the election of a Temperance man to go by default. If J. N. Smith, alias J. W. Nesuiilh, is sucli n reckless man when boozy that ho will seek to control a steam ferry boat that Is not his own property and bo ready to start to run with it on a broad river, whon he knows nothing of navigation, and has no right to meddle with it, is it not a dangerous exploit to start such a man out as pilot to guide our ship of State Representation through the breakers of Congressional difficulty? If yon are worthy the namo of Tem perance men you will not hazard the experiment. TO WOMAN SUFFRAGI8TS. Do you not deplore the impurity of State and National politics? Do yon not see that a one-sexed Government is necessarily as imperfect as a one-sexed family or school or society or church? Do you not see that the grand princi ples of Human Liberty that underly the structure of this Republican form of Government are Kipiality, Fraternity and Justice? Have you not decided that no Government can be pure or con tain within itself the elements of purifi cation or perpetuity without the com lined wisdom and intuition of the mas culinp and feminine elements every where visible in .Nature, aud every where else recognized except in politics? Do you honclly desire above all things else that we shall have a Government iu the future that shall be cleansed of the Augean rottenness that permeates the center and circumference of the body politic? Then put shoulder to the wheel in this campaign, and work with a will to elect as your Representative Hiram Smith, who, being a moral man, progressive man and a man of -sense, recognizes the great law of God in the economy of Nature, and Is ready to aid yon in Congress with his vote and Influ ence to incorporate God's Idea in the af fairs of State. Orn FALLE. HEROES. COMI-OSKII ATTIIETOMIIOKAIIBAIIAJI LINCOLN, - JUNBTnl.lST- BeMde the vernal, sloping shores That hem the broad Pacific's billow?, I stood and gazed toward the sea From underneath the weeping willows; And listening to the monotone Of ringing, surging, murmuring waters. I closed my eyes, as If entranced, roarco heeding gay Columbia's daughters. Who, chatting glibly as they sped 1 rom shrub to tomb, from tree to marble. Made discord with the melody OfwhlsperlngYrlndsand wild birds warble; Then, turning from the giddy throng In silence lest from sleep I'd wake her I passed an Infant's new-made mound And stopped bolide the grave of Baker. A low, stone wall and marble slab Ot name and date of birth gave token. And briefly xpoko hU greatest deeds, And wheu hU thread of life was broken; WJillo overhead the arching skies, And underfoot tho grasses venial, And all around the flowers and trees Spoke, to me of tho grand Ktcrnal, In words so plain I could not fall To heed and understand their voice As when Immortal spirits sing And uiy tried soul with bliss rejolcen. "rorercrfspako tho surging ocean; "Forevor," said my answering heart, "Shall live tho works ho put In motion." And while, alas, ungrateful man, Regarding hU great acts too lightly. I tears no meet monument to mark His wondrous words and deeds which rightly Live In tho hearts all leal und true . Of thoso who knew him but to love him, Fair California' arching skies In smiling beauty bend above him, And perfumes from the balmy breath Of breezy-laden plants exotic Fill all the air with redolence And rouso mo from my thoughts chaotic. No more shall mortals hear his voice, Hut thousands tell in song uud story Meet praises of his noble life. And martial deeds and well-earned glory. I turn me to the distant Kast, And ponder o'er the din of battle, Which called our brave and good lo face The cannon's rournud musket's rattle. Again I sing, and now my theme la not of surging, murmuring billows, Nor yet of flowers and ladles fair, Nor yet of waving, weeping willows. My lyre I time, and now once more I swoop the chords with trembling fingers, And strike a dirge, all grand and deep. Which In my sad soul fondly lingers. And from the vernal, sloping shore. Where I stand rapt In meditation. My memory notes the troubled clouds Which shrouded once our suffering Nation, When yielding lo his country's call, In her dark hour of tribulation, Slng softly, Muse, and do not wake her, Tho Infant under yon earth-mound,) l'p sprang to arms, mot death and fell, Our gallant, glorious Colonel Iiaker. Tho winds went sighing through the trees. And white sails decked tho foam-capped ocean, And San Francisco's busy hum Was heard above tho waves' commotion, Aud sea nulls In the craggy clefts, Against whoso feet wild waves were dashing, Cooed to their mates, who sought their food Where breakers Inong the rocks were crash' lng, Aud in my soul u qui. t cnce, Composed of Joy aud pain and sorrow. Awoke me to tho toll of lira And Its demanding, slorn to-morrow. 1 turned and sited mo through the vnles And o'er tho frowning, snow-clad mounjalus, Through broken wilds aud desert plains, Ovr arid wastes, past gurgling fountains. Lone Mountain still slept by the sea, Whtlo on I sped from hill-tide ltincon, ' Aud passed Oak, Itldgo's welcome gates, And stopped lieslde the tomb ol Lincoln. The clreumnmblent air was still; The warm, spring day with Peace was laden And trees and birds and flowers and bees Hang welcome to tho blissful Aldden. I stood beside tho monument And gazed, enrapt Into tho portal, Where rests all that belongs to earth 01 proud Columbia's son immortal; And as I mused upon his life, And oil his dreadful death-scene pondered. Methought he from the vault emerged Anil stood before me as I wondered. His fine, expressive countenance Willi thought anil joy and peace was beam lng, And "welcome" spake his kindly voice. While his glad eye with lovo was gleaming. I stood transfixed, and while I gazed Tho misty, dream-like vision vanished, And font moment time and placo Wero from my 'wlldered senses banished. Hut roasontralllcd to my aid, And memory iilckly re-assured me. And back upon life's real piano Their Joint endeavors gently lured me; And then J mused upon his life, Wlien firm lie held our helm of Nation, And on his tragic, martyr death, And his loved country's lamentation. When the quick telegraphic wires Flashed forth, without a second's warning. Mute tocsin of his fearlul fate, And all the land was draped In mourning. Oh, why, bravo hearts ot fallen friends, Come ever to tho heart of woman Tho thoughts that stir and words that burn With fires dlvlno on altars human, If to her thirsty, waiting soul No privilege or hope Is given To trend with man earth's patha to fame. And like him walk high roads to heaven ? Why, brothers, circumscribe her sphere ? ' ,Why hedge with human legislation ner soul. Which, like yours, should be free To seek Its choseu destination? What wo ailmlro let's emulate, Dear sisters mine, so on life's highways We travel with the good and great While shedding light along Ufa' byways. The twilight falls; you know I sped I'ast far Pacific's lilll-slde ltincon. From Baker's grave, where sea-gulU wed, And Mopped beside tho tomb of Lincoln.' A.J. D. TAKES THE STOMP. Our readers will see by a notice another column, as well as by tho press in general, that the editor of this paper nas accepted the situation and gone fortli upon tile canvass. It requires no small degree of mor.il courago to face the music nt such a time as tills. But the woman who steti fearlessly upon the threshold of the Au gean stable of politics, with a firm re solve to do her part towards clearin and repairing it, counts tho cost and shrinks not from thediscliargo of a con sclenttous duty. Mrs. Dunlway goes lortn to tho battle with much faith i the inherent good in the heart of man She asks no favors In the way of areu tnent, but demands respect, and has no icar but that she will command it. W hope friends and foes alike will attend her lectures and refute her, arguments If they aro not sound, and uproot hor premises If they are not tenable. ISNT APPBEOIATED. When Jay Cooko & Co. waked up one moruiug-and announced their failure, hy didn't they appoint His Honor, our Mayor, who is well known as a be nevolent man, to oversee and dictate lo Relief Committee, whose duty It should be to echo his decisions as to hetlier the losers by the failure, (who, like our losers by the fire, were mostly of the laboring and poorer classes) were 'able-bodied;' or not. If there is any one tiling which delights His Honor above all things else it evidently is to be at the head of public charlties(?) With hat Christian grace tho dear fellow counts and recounts the gold in the cof fers of the First National Bank, and then, putting it under lock and bolt and bar and key, turns to the woman who lias lost her all, aud whose children are homeless, or to the man who is left with nothing but a dependent family, while refusing aid from those who would, and gladly, give it, says: "You aro not a fit subject for relief. You can work. If you're hungry, here's a soup! ticket. If on have no place to sleep, yonder Is a church basement!" We wish His Honor to understand that this article is intended as a tribute to his capacity as a judge of what con stitutes aid for sufferers by either fire or failure. Jay Cooko & Co. should send for him at once. The many struggling poor who have lost their all in that gigantic fraud called a "bank" might not be suited with the bland fortitude with which he would endure their dis aster, hut tlie bank and bank organs would like it, nnd that's enough. We wonder that His Honor Isn't more highly appreciated, both at home and abroad. just think: op it. Judging from the prurient slum that fiuauates from theaverageOregoii Democratic- newspaper, we are sometimes tpiiulled at the work yet to be done to elevate the average Oregon Democratic mind to a level of true gentility. Could we ' iwssibly load the New Noutii vf.st with the filthy garbage that floated through tho columns of our Deinot'ratic exchanges during the last week only all thrust at us personally, and for no other reason than that we tell the truth, fearlessly, kindly aud sincerely our thousands of readers, who never see Mich journals, would be hor rified beyond expression. Remember, friends, that every one of these dirty logs is a sovereign voter. Remember that if they wero the chivalrous protec tors, the generous masters of women which they claim to be, nothing could induce them to thus attempt to heap indignity upon the head of a Govern mental ward wiio simply dares to think for herself. But a disenfranchised class must always endure tho gibes and taunts and coarse aud obscene thrusts of the ignorant rabble, who claim supe riority on the score of political advant age. Xne negro sullereu tneso indigni ties from these same Democratic sources while he was yet a political nonentity. Like him, women will be enfranchised aud have seats in tho United States Senate, when tho names of these low- minded scamp4 will have rotted in ob livion. POIt SHAME ! Last Wednesday evening ono J. N. Smith, alias J. W. Nesmlth, afias "Un- purchasablc Woman," whom the. un washed Democracy had the bad tasto to foist upon the people as candidate for Congress, held forth in this city to a crowd of delighted whiskey guzzlers, and a few disgusted decent men, using language that would have caused the arrest of any wanton or vagrant if ho had dared to utter it upon tho street. We did intend to bo present, but knew the crowd would befoul and the speaker no geutleman, so we sent a reporter, who brought back the sorrowful tidings that the speccli was too obscene lo bo reported. And this man expects to be .elected to Congress because only that a few silly Republicans fear that the elec tion of- aulecent man will make them "bigamists." Oh, shame, whero is tiiy blush ? "WHO IS 'YOURS TEULY ?' " This question lias been so often asked that It is becoming monotonous. We Can only answer the thousands who aro taking an interest in her that she is a lady dependent upon her intellectual efforts for a livelihood. We should fa vor the public with ono of her racy let ters every , week if we could afford to pay her a moiety of what tho public justly thinks they are worth. Send us a thousand new subscribers, friends, aud we'll employ her as a department editor. She hai special reasons for re maining incognito fora few years. Not ono of you has yet guessed at her Iden tity, and if you should guess It would avail you nothing, for printing office se crets are not to be divulged without permission. STOOKTONLEADER." Our friend Laura DeForce Gordon swings a bran new banner to tlie breeze in Stockton. A short time since we saw Hashes of her genius gleaming through the Harrow Gauge, a paper in which she held control of a "woman's department," Now we find her at the head of the train on a locomotive of her own, which she styles the Stockton Leader, and on she comes, calling upon all Xarrow Gauges ami other small fry to switch oil on a side track. Long may she prosper. We do not like the freeze-out game which the O. &. C. It. R. Co. is playing upon the dray and hack companies in Hits city. . When will men learn lo live and let live? W. Lair IIHI has gone to Washington to straighten up the atlairs of the gen oral Government. His presence there, no doubt, is badly needed. "YOURS TRULY" OH THE "AMERI CAN EAGLE." Weil! Yours Truly's disgusted! She had heard from early childhood, from Fourth of July and other political stump orators, much vaunting braggadocio about the masterminds that had caught the American eagle and taught him to soar in majesty above their heads wiitlo bearing aloft the proud emblem or Na tional greatness. She had marched in rapt bewilderment and silent ecslacy behind the "Groat Invlnclbles" and the white toadies who wero catering to their votes. She had listened to tho stirring strains of "Hail Columbia" from thePortland brass baud and caught her flounces on a spike in the side-walk whilo keeping tlmo with other sterl ing patriots, to "Marching through Georgia. She had heard so many spread eaglo declamations from divers and sun dry school-boys In squeaking voices, and seen so many school-girls decked in red, white and blue, to adorn tho stages and pander to the school-boys' vanity withal, that she had learned to look upon tlie genus masculine as a species of superior mentality whoso wisdom it was not admissible for school-girls to sneezo at. But Yours Truly's disgusted! Site's nauseated! She's mad! Jut to think, as Mark Twain would say, of the tons of sentiment she's wasted on tlie im aginary wisdom of man! Professor Royal's a little sqeamish about the political precocity of school girls. Ho's a proper man is the Profes sor, and so blandly precise. And then, brother Roberts Is so gingerly and nice! With his face beaming all over with a worked-np smile, suggestive of a per spiring tallow dip on an August after noon (remember this is a whisper for your ear only, Mrs. D.) he puts on a holy tone and advices school girls, in a sepulchrally solemn voice, relived, re member, by that omnipresent smile to "keepthemselveslntheirproperspherc," which we usually understand to mean almost everything else but politics. But Yours Truly will read thn newspa pers. They're as much a part of her daily education as are her efforts to square the circles or solve the mystery of the parallelogram of forces. First comes the Advocate, devoted to local interests, religion and the Metho list Church. An excellent paper with two or three readable columns besides the advertisements every week. (Phil! keep your eyes oil your sister's compo sition! You know it must be prepared for Inspection to-day; and its bad man ners for brothers to meddle with what doesn't concern thorn.) Then we have the New Northwest, with twenty odd columns of readable matter, aud nothing to skip but the advertisements and a few old fogyish admonitions to school-girls. Here is tlie Oregonian with its essays on school books, and its personal animosities and dissertations, which used to be a readable journal, but which has become monotonous of late, because of a continuous caterwaul on one falsetto note. We also have the Bulletin, which employs a short-hand reporter to give verbatim accounts of political Conventions. Yours Truly reads 'em all, but particularly tlie latter when she wants to know of a truth just what people say in meetings, where women are not expected to appear for fearsome political j)roteclor will insult them! Yours Truly read the proceedings of the Democratic Convention, long winded declarations and all! She read the sensible remarks of Ben Hayden, the spread-eaglo rhapsodies of Slater, Helm and Nesmith, and tho wholo ac count of the Platform, resolutions nnd mock-heroics, and laughed till she cried! "Oh," she thought, "they have lost the American eagle and caught buzzard! Instead of tho great eagle whom we remember ns a clean, hlgl minded bird, who soared clear above all ofiensive oflal, behold their buzzard burying his talons in the dead carcass of the old leperScandal and glutting his foul appetite thereon! Behold him be sliming whatever his talons touch with the reeking putridity of his inherent rottenness!- Behold him seeking to get astart into tlie Empyrean by an attempt to boost himself, all reeking as he is, from the prostrate carcass upon which he feeds!" Then Yours Truly dreamed dream which it is not lawful for her to utter or Interpret. The passing days rolled themselves away upon tho great scroll of the Invis ible, aud another the Republican Con veution met and wrangled. Again Yours Truly read the-RuffWih and agai laughed till she cried. Another company of political sages had sought to corall the American ea gie, and lo! it was tho same buzzard which the Democrats had caught, and they didn't know the difference, either. Plunging the blizzard iuto a great bath of kalsomine and carbolic acid, they thought to clean it, and when their whitewashing- work was done they turned it loose upon the air and shouted "Long live the American eaRle." Then the buzzard, true to its native Instincts, buried its talons deeper than ever in the putrid carcass of the old dead leper Scan dal, and fastening them into the col umns of the Oregonian, loaded that doomed paper down with recking stench and noisome nastiness. Yours Truly Is only a school-girl, but she knows full well the mighty difference between a turkey buzzard and the great American eagle, who, sounding forth the ftiil toned clarions of freedom, perches him selfabovo the low scurrility on which the buzzard feeds. Therefore she comes de liberately to the fixed conclusion that men are no longer capable of managing the affairs of State, and it is quite time that such responsibilities be shouldered and hereafterborncbyschool-girls whose vision is clear enough to look above the reeking buzzard and discern the glo rious eagle. That tho day may come ri.,i.f ,,,r.Hlv when the clearest vision he. dally Prayer of Yours Trvy. . -IRIENDLY AD VICE. Our young and talented friend, George E. Strong, has taken possession of tlie editorial chair in the Oregonian office, formerly occupied by W. Lair Hill. We ardently hope lie will relieve that journal of much of tlie odium that.un fortunateiy rests upon it now. He should learn one tiling, however, and that is that "S. A. C," the "incorrupti ble" weakling who does the Oregon cor respondence for the Sacramento Union, is very poor authority for the political situation as it exists among clear headed Oregonians. He'd do better to edit the paper liimself and keep Sam Clarke's disgusting falsehoods out of sight. Sam has been poor authority among Republicans ever since ho got that fifteen hundred dollar steal out of the State Treasury through Democrats Influence. He'd better go slow till he refuuds that money. ANOTHER SCAVENGER. One Mart. V. Brown, a low, lecherous-minded puppy, whose' Instincts are governed by his enormous cerebral de velopment, and wiiose ideas of woman and womanhood are in keepiug with his own animal organism, being always runable to meet our arguments witli logic, resorts continually to tho com mon weapon of base and feeble intel lects, the throwing of ofiensive swill. A voter is indeed low down in the hu man scale when ho finds himself com pelled to subsist by swimming in tlie slop lie throws at his disfranchised su periors. When will Democratic editors learn that obscenity is not argument and smutty levity is neither wit nor sense ? THE NATION'S DEAD. Wo have been so often requested to ublisii the poem "Our Fallen Heroes" that appears in our columns to-day that e have at last gathered energy enough to commit it to paper. Asan.improniptu ffort of the heart rather than the brain we send it fortli upon tho open sea of public criticism, asking nothing for it but the patriotic soul sympathy of all ho would honor and emulate our loved, lamented heroes of the mighty struggle through which tho Nation passed in its clliirt to give birth to a higher phase of Human Freedom than it had known before. G0NEEAST. Our old-time friend, W. Lair Hill, having rung the changes on "Mitchell- Hipplei' until ids stomach was over gorged by a constant re-swallowing of tlie "dose that wouldn't stay down," and having so disgusted even tlie vilest of the pack who backed him that his iufluence could no longer be felt, has now gone to Washington to see if he cannot further disgrace himself and his party by re-hashing tho same dose for the palates of Senators and Representa tives. He will succeed there as he did here, in disgusting evorybody who can bo prevailed upon to listen to hint. ENCOURAGING. A hurried journey into Yamhill county last week brought before our eyes such visions of incoming grain as we never before beheld. The roads ev erywhere aro literally lined with all sorts of vehicles conveying wheat to the various depots along the railroad line. Farmers are in excellent spirits in spite of tlie diHtrvhich is so thick in many places as to. totally obstruct all vision. We are glad to seethe farmers jubilant. When agricultural interests prosper all other industries naturally thrive. Love strengthens and purifies tho human heart, ennobling men's lives, crowning them with sweetest "flowers, filling them with richest fruits, lifting them farther above the brutes and nearer to the angels. C. V. One of the greatest jokes of the season is the Yamhill Reporter's attack upon Mr. Geary in tlie issue following tho one in wiucn it frantically called on "men" to vote for him. OUR AGENTS. The following person are duly authorized to act as Agents for the Nbw Northwest: A. W. McConnell North Yamhill Horace II. Day New York City MaS. M.Miller . Lan Chance Mm. Mary llybee Iwer Clear Lake, Cat Mrs J. ll. Foster..- Albany iVshby l'enrce.. Benton county Dr. Bayley Curvallin A. A. Manning..... uiympm Miss Virginia Oldx. Mc.Mlnnville Hiram Smith Harriiburg Mrs. J. W. Jackson Kugene City AY- W. Bench liuena Vista Her.AVm. Jolly IIIllRboro Hon. T. W. Davenport Sllverton Mary J. Magers. - Gerrals A. W. Stanard llrownsvlllo S. H. Claughtou .....Lebanon C. A. Heed 'SJ Mrs. O. T. Daniels SJnj Mr. Nellie Curl....- - S,aI,?5S I. C Sullivan....- vrril",,T Mrs. M. K. Cook.. Ijifayetto Mrs. M. C, Cllne Mrs. It, A. Vuwters . Mrs.lt. . Bishop. Iter. J. K. Damon- Itev. D. lUgley.- Mrs. Jane M. Wilson I'hlltp Kitz P. H. Moore - - Joliu llolten . ..Kaiama. Waltsbunt ...JVndletou ..Seaftlo Sealtla Walla Walla. " " '-...Walla Walla port Tbwnsenil Traveling Agent ' I-ortlamt '.'."..Traveling Agent .. .Traveling Agent -Wiwhlngton county Traveling Agent Lafayette Albany Saleia Mr. M- ! WW a. B. Blnoil.-.- .Mr". M. JeflrW II. H. Welch Dr. J. W.Wiilt- Mrs. M. Kelly jf. Arnold '(. W. 1-nwMjn Dalles fi-Jv" I robTi'm KorestGrove Mrs' J" DeVor Johnson Tllo'i. iMirons Oregon City MllwaiiKlo .The DallcH Yoncalla. Miss salllc Applegate. It. l'enuuu"; Roseburg J. T. ScoK, i"l-7 Mrs. A. K. Corwln Geo. Engle .1. W. Jackon f orest urove -Nehalem Traveling Agent Kugeno I p. t-isner san iranciseu Sirs. Iuira DeKoree (.'onion California Mis Nellie Mobsman. Olympla I.T. Maulsby Vancouver i. W. Brock Union Ridge, W. T a. W. Barnes Ochoco Valley J. N. Gale Washington Territory Mr. K. oakstiett -Traveling Agent Mr. J. C. Haves GervaU. Oregon James Vance .Yreka, California Mrs. L. K. Whltmore...Sarramento, California Mrs. Sarah Harry Stockton, California MrR. Sarah Wallln Mayflcld, California Mrs. Chapman Yales. San Jose, California "Woman's Journal" -lesion, Massachusetts Charles W. Tappan. Salt Lake City, U. T Mrs. U M. Howell PlicnUc, Oregon Sirs. M. J. Pentium Halsey, Oregon XIrs. M. A. Dimlek- ..Hubbard, Oregon D. 1. l'orter. Shedd's, Oregon Other parties desiring to act as Ageuta will please forward their name. We want Agents at every poktoinee throughout Oregon and Wauiug.tnn Territory.