FRIDAY. AUGUST 14, 1874.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE O.S.W.S. A.
The members of tbe Executive Com
mittee of tbc Oregon State Woman Suf
frage Association, aro requested to meet
at tbe residence of Hon. O. B. Gibson,
In tbls city, on Friday, August 14tb, at
5 o'clock r. sr. Tbe object of the meet
ing being to perfect arrangements for
tbc special session of tbe State Associa
tion at Salem in September, it is par
ticularly desirable that a full Board be
in attendance.
By order of the President.
Portland, August C, 1874.
CLOSE 01 VOLUME THIED.
The present issue completes the third
volume of the New Northwest.
We therefore take this time and
method of returning our sincere thanks
to those of our friends who have thus'
far accompanied us on our Journalistic
career, for the substantial aid rendered
by their subscriptions as, well as tbe
sympathy and encouragement they have
from time to time accorded, and without
which our task would have been doubly
hard, if not impossible.
Anu now, menus, as we enter upon a
new vol n me with the renewed courage
which augmented numbers and tbe
progress of our cause gives, while we re
turn to you these, our sincere thanks,
for favors in times past, we most re
spectfully ask a continuance of the
same m the future, promising on our
part, as heretofore, to use our best en
deavors to give you a newspaper in tbe
best sense of tbe term, and at the same
time strike as many and hard blows as
may be for Impartial Suflragc.
The beginning of a new volume Is
splendid time to subscribe. Send in the
names, good friends.
COUNTY CONVENTION.
It will be seen by reference to the
minutes, published elsewhere, of a pre
liminary meeting of the Multnomah
County Woman Suffrage Association,
that a public convention of the same
will be held on the evening of the lOlli
at Good Templars' Hall, in this city,
The regular meetings of the Association
have been omitted for several mouths.
It was deemed advisable by tbe officers
and managers that this course should be
pursued because of the time that many
of the members were devoting to the
temperance work.
" Now, however, that that work has
become systematized, tiie Suffragists
liavo decided that "this also can they
do and not leave the other undone."
It is true that many of our good sister
crusaders cannot see with us the vast
importance of this work to which their
efforts aro only auxiliary, but we fully
recognize the fact that it is impossible
for all to see alike, and that all must
walk by the light they have, and are
justified in so doing. We now expect
to have a harmonious and enthusiastic
meeting of the Womau Suffrage Asso
ciation, and we hope that it will be un
derstood that every one is invited, and
that specially. Great care will be taken
by tbe committee of arrangements to
furnish a programme that will be inter
esting. Numerous persons have been
Invited to take part iu the exercises, and
it Is believed that good and sufficient
reasons will be given to demonstrate
the justice and expediency of our claims
to political equality. The time is
Wednesday evening, August 19th, the
place, Good Templars' Hall, corner of
nurd and Alder streets, tbe theme, the
Enfranchisement of Woman, the work,
prompted by the needs of humanity, the
watchword, Equal Rioiits.
Do not fail, friends, to be on hand, to
help us if you can, to oppose us if you
must; in any case, come.
To substantiate our assertion made
elsewhere concerning the relative prog
ress of Intelligence and Woman Suf
frage, we reprint from the Toledo Jour
Ml a sample letter from one ot the men
who Is in his own estimation "able to
govern tbe State of Michigan yet:"
Henry B. Bi.ackwei.i Dear Sir: Yourcanl
Is at hand you greatly Mistake the lntellgence
of the peple or mlchlgan if you think that Uiey
will adopt the woman MilTrlge proposition the
men or Michigan Ik able to Govern this State
yet and yer plan of uo reprencntatlon U to
tlime a jiretex to need comment ra nave ycr
money for your ineeken ilo rourcaus more
hurt than good we hare'JUOjUUU majority aealnst
the schecm yer propotfetlon 1 was lalde before
the ladys and they voted as a unite against the
question of clvlns woman a wrlght to vote so I
repeat to yer that all money you ipcud In
vending tpeekerc to this ktute Is throne away
the voters of michlcan will drop there balats
like snow flakes asaliixi Hie thing
Your Truly, e. It. M.
O-xvola. M vtngMon Co., Mich., July 3, 1571.
The tenth plank in the platform re
contly adopted by the Iowa State Re
publican Convention Is no slender splin
ter which may or may not mean this or
that, but staunch, strong, aud unequiv
ocal, capable of giving immense aid to
the Republican party iu that State, as
well as powerfully advancing the cause
of woman. We have hopes yet that the
Republican party may return to the re
formatory days of it infancy. Here Is
the plauk :
That since the people may be entrusted with
an questions of governmental reform, we favor
the nnal submission to the people or the ques-
.in ?. ame,nJI"c Constitution so as to ex-
o ti e ' f 8unrra,!e Pursuant
to U,e action o thg KlfIeemh Qeaen
The election in TIu7rstouc7unty, W
T., on last Saturday, to decide whether
the County Commissioners should be
authorized to issue bouds for $75,000 in
aid of the Olympia atjd Tcuino Rail,
road, resulted in favor of the measure
Two-thirds of all the votes cast were re
quired, aud the result shows about forty
more iuuii iuu icijuisne number.
rejoice with tho people of Olympia over
their railroad prospects. Washington
Territory moves with tho rest of the
world.
A SOCIAL REVOLUTION.
The social and religious world is evi-1
dcutly upou the eve of social dissolution '
or suppuration. When h hideous ulcer,
too monstrous to be admitted to public
view, and yet too offensive to be hidden
from olfactory sense, becomes so offens
ively obstruslvo as to fill the entire at
mosphere with the reckings of its rot
tenness, one of two alternatives is both
necessary and inevitable the patient
must die, f. c, put off the old order of
things aud put ou a new, which is all
that is implied in the change wc call
death, or a suppuration must take place,
by which tho physical life of the pa
tient may be sustained till auotber hid
eous ulcer crows, to be In turu subjected
to similar treatment with similar conse
quences to the body afflicted.
The Beecher-Tilton scandal, over
which the public has gloated for nearly
a year, while bringing shame and sor
row to the brows and hearts of tens of
thousands of the good and true, evident
ly brings trepidation to hundreds of
thousands who fear that through this
exposition in high places may be
brought about a publication of their own
complicity In things equally unlawful.
Thatour social system is rotten to the
very core Is proven not only by the
great eruption now going on at its apex,
but also by the feverish excitement un
der which the whole body corporate
and corporal Is laboring while the ulcer
is being treated by physicians who evi
dently themselves need healing.
The philosopher and philanthropist
and to be one must necessarily include
the other who views both ulcer and
patient iu the light of science aud rea
son, elearly sees that for all this moral
rottenness there must bo a cause, aud
that cause goes far back of the present
effect, else the disease, naturally slow
iu its growth as compared to its present
proportions, could not have assumed its
present chronic type and so demoralized
tho victims under its immediate influ
ence that they speak under "hallucina
tion" and the witchery of a spell which
causes them to apply new meanings to
old, well-established, plain Anglo-Saxon
words, hitherto supposed to signify just
what they expressed. It causes them
to equivocate, prevaricate, latitudinatc,
attitudiuate, and niiti-raatrimony-mate.
And what will It all amount to ?
Evidently our present code of social
ethics is at fault somewhere, or these
things would not be.- Excresenccs never
grow upon a healthy body. No one not
affected by a malady has a fever merely
because others are sick. The fever
shows that be Is sick himself.
So we conclude that as the whole so
cial body is affected by the scandal now
suppurating iu high places, the social
system itself needs renovating and re
building iu such a way that it will breed
uo more ulcers. How this may be done,
we propose to show, in a scries of carefully-considered
articles as soon as we
can get time to prepare the people to re
ceive and comprehend them. Of course
we shall give these opinions as our oini.
Divers and sun lry persons, have from
time to tlme,out of the depthsof thclrown
innate nastlncss of imagination, accused
us as wc are reliably informed of ad
vocating, or at least tolerating the hide
ous doctrine of promiscuity aud Its
kindred accompaniments.
When a woman has lived for nearly a
quarter of a century with one man, and
is still living with that one; who is the
mother of a large family of children,
and who has spent and is spending her
life in their service, it would seem ihzt
her actions might speak louder than
other people's suspicious. For this rea
sop we do not stoop to bandy words with
the lewd In heart, or declare our denial
of such accusations for the benefit of the
low and ignorant accusers who would
not read them, aud who would much
prefer to believe us as wicked as them
selves if possible.
But a social revolution is imminent.
It must come. When a reservoir be
comes so old aud rottcu that it will not
longer safely bear the pressure of waters
thut ail needed to sustain tiie life of a
great city, is it better to dread rebuild
ing until the receptacle bursts and
deluges and destroys the city than to
go to work bravely to build a new and
more substantial reservoir? And ought
not every plan to be submitted to the
people that they might compare Ideas
and get the benefit of every builder's
skill?
Acting upon this belief we propose to
peak at length, as we have time and in
clination upon the 'Social' revolution
aud what should come of it.."
ANNIVERSARY MEETING IN 0ALI
EORNIA. The fifth anniversary meeting of the
first Woman Suflrage Society-organized
on the Pacific Coast took place in San
Francisco on the twenty-seventh of last
month.
It is represented as having been one of
the most successful and enthusiastic
meetings every held In the State. The
morning session was devoted exclu
sively to business.
The officers elected for tbe ensuing
year are Mrs. Sarah Wallls, President;
Mrs. Laura DeForce Gordon, Vice Presi
dent; Mrs. Matthews, Record! ngSecreta
ry; Mrs.Watsou, Corresponding Secreta
ry, one Vice President for about half tbe
counties iu the State, and a competent
Board of Directors. Speeches, which
were logical and interesting, as well as
sparkling and witty, were given In the
afternoon.
The evening session was largely at
tended, and the time fully occupied by
several brilliant speakers. The speeches,
though necessarily brief, were so mani
festly to the point, as to elicit enthu
siastic applause.
It is with much pleasure that we
record the harmonious acliou of the Suf
fragists iu our sister State, aud wc as
sure them that their earnest endeavors
to hasten the day of woman's enfran
frauchtacment, meets with tbe cordial
sympathy aud best wlsliesof very many
workers iu the cause iu tills State; and
to these wo add our own ferveut God
speed Iu all that Bhall tend to promul
gate tho gospel of Equal Rights.
SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS.
While the fricuds of Womau Suffrage
see many obstacles that have yet to be j
overcome, and some of the less hopeful
workers are at limes disposed to feel
discouraged at the formidable front
which tho "Hill Difficulty" presents, It
is yet true that we have much to en
courage U3 in the steadfast endeavor to
overcome future obstacles. A retro
spective glance over the field that has
been so hotly contested and so com
pletely won, surely should furnish some
elements of strength for future conflicts.
Among the things which tend some
times to discourage even the most ear
nest aud zealous workers iu the great
reform, is the stolid Indifference of a
large class, whose views cannot extend
beyond the narrow limits of their own
mental horizon, and who accept as a
divine decree tho conditions which
usage aud prejudice impose upon them.
The feeble estimate which a large class
of women have of the great capacities
and needs of woman, is also frequent
cause of disgust, if not discouragement.
Yet, as an offset to this last, we can re
flect that tho power and capacity of
woman is constantly developing aud In
creasing on every hand, aud that it will
eventually bo felt and recognized by
even these.
It Is, moreover, beyond the power of
our opponents to stay, much less to
sweep back the swelling tide, which has
been, and is being, borne iu on the ever
expanding sea of opportunity.
And whether our triumph will date its
beginning from tho coming contest in
Michigan, or it be our lot yet longer to
labor aud to wait, wc arc perfectly as
sured of its llual consummation. And
we believe that each of the rapidly re
curring events that have marked the
progress of the movement thus far, is a
solid stone in the foundation upon which
the grand structure of universal freedom
will eventually be built.
In addition to the Michigan contest,
which lias enlisted for that State, this
fall, so much of earnest endeavor, and
such a noble army of helpers, we have
also the State of Iowa coming up to the
rescue. The action of her last Legisla
ture decided to submit Womau Suffrage
to the people, and now comes the Iowa
Republican State Convention, with a
resolution unanimously adopted endors
ing that position. This political en
dorsement will possibly aid Its success
at the polls, and in the ovent of its tri
umph, It will be again submitted to the
Legislature, where, if approved) it will
become incorporated in the Constitu
tion. Yet if both Michigan and Iowa
fail in thcattempttoincorporate Woman
Suffrage in their respective Constitu
tions, an important step will have been
gained. Two great Stales will have
voted upon it, and the dominant party
in one of them has endorsed It. The
.defeat would have in it many elements
oi victory wouiu, in lact, not show
failure of principle, but that the limes
were not ripe for Its advancement.
Intelligent, thoughtful persons will
bear us out iu the assertion that this
struggle is to lift mankind, aud woman
kind as well, from an impracticable.
selfish, superficial view of life, to a
higher standard or excellence, and to
the practical, unselfish performance of
mutual duties and obligations. Tills
class of persons know that tills reform
is needed ; know that it is demanded.
If it is defeated In the States mentioned
this fall, it will he, not because it is not
needed, nor because it Is utijust, but be
cause the masses are not properly devel
oped and educated to receivo it. And
so far from the friends and advocates of
tho cause feeling' discouraged, they
must work with renewed energy and
steadfastness to educate the rieii and
poor alike up to this stand-point.
When the great desideratum shall be
attained iu one State, others will keep
dropping into line, unless, indeed, the
General Government shall save them
the trouble of working out their own sal
vation by performing the entire job at
one stroke. So we assert that our nrosr-
rcss Is onward and upward, in direct
proportion to the march of intelligence
In communities, or among the masses.
A VOICE FR0MTILLAM00Z.
We are In receipt of a letter from Mrs.
E. A. Corwin, of Tillamook county, in
which, after recounting her endeavor to
organize a Suffrage Association iu the
sparsely settled region iu which her lot
is cast, she thus discourses upon tho sit
uation there: "There are n good many
who are avowed Suffragists in the
county, but the country here Is so
broken up and divided by water, that it
makes it very inconvenient for any
number of persons to keep an appoint
ment. Quite a number have told me
that they would be glad to attend a con
vention, but the distance renders it im
possible. So it seems to be no use to
try to organize here at present. We,
however, send you a Senator and Repre
sentative who are sound on the Woman
Question, and it Is Tjuite a satisfaction
to us who are unable from oursurround
ings to do a local work for the cause, to
know that we will be well represented
In the Legislature."
We think our Tillamook friends
should not be discouraged at the obsta
cles iu the way of their county organi
zation. It Is Impossible to work with
out available material to work with,
and while the local disadvantages under
which they labor may prevent enthusi
astic gatherings of the faithful, they
can each rejoice In the assurance that
the cause is safe in the hands of their
representatives; au assurance which
many counties boasting of well organ
ized conventions do not possess.
So we say to those who dwell between
the heights of tiie Coast mountains and
the borders of the sounding sea Be not
disheartened; your Inability to work in
a body does not prevent you from rejoic
ing singly, and there is no placo so re
mote but tho New Northwest can
bear you weekly tidings of the glorious
progress of our common cause.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Our esteemed friend, Hon. B. F. Nich
ols, of Polk county, sends us tho follow
ing list of questions, which we appenu
with such answers as occurred to us as
we read them :
First "Is it not true that tho perpe
tuity of our republican institutions de
pends upon the moral Integrity of the
masses?"
Yes; but the existence of such insti
tutions also depends upon the political
power of the people, who can fully exer
cise that power only through the ballot,
the representative of Individual sover
eignty.
Second "Is It not true that to the
women, the mothers and wives of our
nation, wo are to look, inoro than to
any other class, for the moral training
of the young?"
Yes; aud for that reason we demand
for woman untrammeled opportunity to
traiu up the young according to the
highest aspirations of which mother
hood is callable. Yet it Is not necessarily
true that this should depend entirely
upon women. For there should he an
equal code of morals for men and wom
en, and each should be equally fitted to
impart moral instruction, both by pre
cept and example, to the rising genera
tion. Third "Is it not true that a very
large majority of our best men, (includ
ing ministers of the gospel,) when they
engage in political contests for place
and power, and continue therein, be
come corrupt?"
It is not probable that eminent men
are, as a rule, more corrupt than those
in the lower walks of life. As there arc
many persons in humble life whose
deeds of charity, goodness and love are
unknown, so also the evil deeds of many
arc concealed; and we argue that, while
the eminence of an Individual may ren
der his wickedness conspicuous, it docs
not necessarily increase It. Human
eminence docs not' engender venality
and corruption, but it often unmasks J
them. Vices of persons iu elevated po
sitions, like the city which is set upon a
hill, cannot be hid.
Fourth "Is it not true that women,
as a class, aro quite, if not more ambi
tious to accomplish what they under
take, than men ?"
Wo know no reason why they should
not be. Ambition is a quality usually
lauded and encouraged in men, and we
argue that women ought not to be cir
cumscribed in the exercise of any laud
able desire that they possess equally
with men. It is scarcely probable that
the great Ail Wise" endowed women
with any faculty that should be dwarfed
by disuse or perverted by misuse.
Fifth "Is it not true that men are by
nature as pure aud as moral as aro wom
en ? In other words,-is not an infant
boy as pure and innocent as au infant
girl?"
Yes; undoubtedly.
Sixth "If femalo adults are more
pure than male adults, Is it not attrib
utable alone to the fact that the latter
aro constantly coming in contact with
evil from childhood to manhood?"
No; it is not alone attributable to this
I irfiu.-;. , luwiiri, Usui ibi3uiliuuia-
! ble to the fact that all the way up from
babyhood, boysare permitted to do num
berless things that girls arc taught to
consider disreputable. In other words,
tho enormity of the crimo is considered
in proportion to the sex of tho person
who commits It. Girls are taught to
overcome temptation; boys, that yield
ing to its force will, because of their sex,
be readily pardoned.
Seventh "If the foregoing ho true,
would it not lessen woman's Influence
morally upon those who look to her for
precept and examplo should she engage
in political contests the same as men,
using money to corrupt legislatures, buy
votes, etc., etc. ?"
Our friend will readily see that the
last question is rendered pointless by
the answers given to those that precede
it. Wo think, however, that ho need
have no fears relative to political priv
ileges depriving women of their moral
influence. What better application
could be made of this same influence,
than its use In preventing the corruption
of legislatures, the buying of votes, and
tho tlreadful , etc, etc. Cease,
good friend, your speculations concern
ing what women may do, and help to
give them a chance to prove what they
can do.
MULTNOMAH COUNTY w. S. ASSO
CIATION. A called session of this Association
met at tho residence of Hon. O. F. Gib
son on Tuesday evening, August 11th.
The President mentioned the removal
from the county of the Recording Secre
tary, A. A. Rice, aud appointed C. A.
Coburn Secretary pro cm.
The minutes of the session or March
10th were read and approved.
It was announced that the object of
this meeting was to make arrangements
for a regular session of the Convention
to tako place, on some convenient even
ing previous to August 20th.
Mr. B. C. Duuiway, from committee
appointed to secure a hail, for the meet
ing or convention, reported that Good
Templars' Hall could be secured on cer
tain named evenings.
On motion, a Committee on Pro
gramme Tor next evening was appointed,
consisting or Mrs. Victor, Mr. Combs
and Mrs. Duniway.
On motion, Mr. B. C. Duuiway was
instructed to procure the Good Tem
plars Hall on Wednesday evciilng,
August 19th, for a public meeting of the
Association.
There being no Committee ou Music,
tbe Committee ou Programme was in
structed to invite Mrs. Dal ton and Miss
Cardinell, and others whom these ladies
might choose- to invite, to furnish suita
ble music for the occasion.
Ou motion, the Convention adjourned
to meet at tho time designated.
Mas. J. L. BniGas,
Mrts. C. A. Cobukn', President.
Secretary pro tern.
PRACTICAL WOMAN SUFPSAGE.
As an offset to tho timid theories of
those who acknowledge the justice while
they doubt tho expediency of Woman
Suffrage, wo respectfully submit the
following testimony or Governor Camp
bell, of Wyoming, relative to its practi
cal workiugs in that Territory. This
staunch aud reliable Governor was re
cently addressed by the editor of the
Ypsilantl (Michigan) Commercial, and
the following reply was received :
Execcti VEOrFirE,W'Youiso TsnnrronY.
CUETEO.-E, July I, iS7t. S
Mr. C. U. Patterson- Dear Sir:-In regard
to your inquiries ns to the success of Woman
Sutrrage In this. Territory, Its Influences upon
tiie women and the men, whether good or bad,
and its effect upon the body politic In repress
ing crime and exalting virtue, I would respond
affirmatively In every way. I send yon a copy
of my message of last November as an expres
sion of my views. Mlchlgnn.rlchln every element-material,
Intellectual and moral that
goes to make up n Slate, with her famous uni
versity, and no less famous common school
system, needs this beneficent reform super
added to constitute her a truly Republican
Commonwealth, and the model Stale or the
Union. Wyoming has taken the lead of the
Territories in adopting this reform. "Wc trust
that Michigan will pioneer her sister States.
Yours very truly, J. a. Campbkll.
From the message to which reference
is made, we make this extract:
The experiment or granting to woman a
voice Iu the Government, which was Inaugu
rated, ror the first time In the history ot our
country, by the first rglslatlvc Assembly of
Wyoming, has now been tried forfouryears. I
have heretofore taken occasion to express my
views in regard to the wiiulom and Justice of
this measure and my conviction that Us adop
tion had been attended only by good results.
Two years more of observation of the practical
working of the system have only served to
deepen my conviction that what we, In tills
Territory, have done, has been well done, and
that our sytem of Impartial Suffrage Is an un
qualified success.
Now, friends, we ask you iu all can
dor, is not a few words of plain unquali
fied statement concerning the practical
workiugs of Impartial Suffrage, In a lo
calily wherein it has been on trial for a
period of years, entitled to more consid
oration llian the cunningly-devised the
ories of tho.-.e who are only loo glad of
any pretext to doubt its expediency?
We cannot see how any candid, sensi
ble, unprejudiced person can do other
wise than respond affirmatively to this
question. If tiie editors who crowed so
lustily when the Legislature of Wyo
ming, something more than two years
since, passed a bill repealing the Womau
Suffrage Act, but utterly refused or ne
glected to mention tiie veto or Governor
Campbell, which prevented the bill
from becoming a law, would display
equal energy in circulating this reliable
testimony, they might perhaps convince
the people that Prejudice does not sit
umpire over their opinions upon this
great question.
THE RECENT PL00D AT PITTSBURG.
Numerous calamities, costly to life
and property, have recently been visited
upon various portious of the country,
aud foremost among them we may
reckon the great Hood which, without
precedent or warning, swept through
tho cities of Pittsburg and Alleghany a
short time since. Tho positions of the
two cities are well-known, they lying
on opposite banks of the Ohio river,
which is lu-ie formed by the junction of
the Alleghany and Mouongaliela rivers.
Below this point ror many miles are
large aud thriving towns. A great
rain-storm broke over tho valley ou the
tweuly-seventh and twenty-eighth, or
such prodigious force and volume as to
cause the river to burst its natural
bounds, and the result was an overflow
or the two cities, as sudden as it was
terrific, and the mighty torrent went
sweeping down the valley, beariug
death and devastation in its awful train.
It seems almost impossible to reconcile
the terrible effects recorded to the rain
storm reported. No ordinary freshet,
the result of a few hours' rain, could
work such disastrous results. The pre
vailing theory is that the disaster was
caused by some kind of a waterspout.
Otherwise it would seem that the win
dows of Heaven were opened for another
flood. The devastation was so wide
spread that full particulars could not be
given fordnys.
The Telegraph speaks or it as the
most awful disaster that has ever oc
curred in the State, and asserts that iu
comparison "all others pale into insig
nificancethe great fire, the arsenal ca
lamity, the Hood of '32, all lose the tcr
ribleuess or their grandeur when com
pared with the Tearful sweep or the
Storm King that devastated portions or
the two cities, and carried more than a
hundred men, women, and children, in
an Instant almost, from the happy
scenes of their Sunday evening homes
to the dread uncertainties of eternity."
Hundreds of houses were crumbled lo
pieces, the streets iu some portions of
tiie Hooded districts were piled twenty
reel high with debris, and a total or two
hundred and nineteen persons were
drowned.
Ills aiino.-t impossible at this distance,
and all unvlsitcd by the dreadful calam
ity that has In the less favored portions
or our country wrought such desolation
and dismay, to realize the rull extent or
the sufferings of many or our fellow
creatures that this awful visitation has
rendered homeless and penniless, and
in many instances bereft or dearest
friends.
Aud while "with shuddering horror
pale and eyes aghast" wc contemplate
this wholesale wreck or household gods,
it Is meet tltat our hearts should swell
alike with pity for their condition and
thankruliiess for our own brighter lot.
sensible!
Susan B. Anthony is represented as
having thus spoken to a reporter who
called at her residence lo interview her
concerning the great scandal:
"During my whole public carccrl havo never
answered any personal newspaper allusion to
myself any scandal, charge, gossip, or mean
thing; not even the charge that I was drunk
on the plutform In New Yotlc last May. And
now that I am flfty-Qve years of age, on the
second turn toward llic centennial, I shall not
oramence."
Sensible Susan, erest-falleu reporter!
QN "SLANG."
A few fricuds havo taken us very
kindly and plainly to task for our man
ner or punishing scurrilous newspaper
attacks upon U3 whicli occasionally be
come so offensive, if we do not resist
them, as to be absolutely uueudurable.
well, friends, if calling things by
their right names, using good, hard,
houest Saxon words to properly desig
nate them, is "slang," wo are not only
guilty, but wo decline to repent.
hen the Forest Grove Independent
uses Its columns for the circulation of
obscene personalities, it is a smut-mill.
hen the Lafayette Courier behaves it-
seir decently, it Is a public beneractor.
Beth expressions are souud, decent and
applicable, but in no sense "slangy." ir
one is more Inelegant than the other, it
Is only becau3o one tersely anathema
tizes wickedness and the other tersely
commends goodness.
IT tho Commercial Reporter is con
ducting itself respectably, and upon a
basis of truth and fairness towards all
parties as an expounder of correct com
merciarprln;Iples, it is a friend to hu
manity. If the Tenyerance Star perverts the
truth, it is a falsifier. If it stoops to
double entmdres, It is a turkey buzzard,
and must bo treated as such. The
homely old adage, "ou've got to fight
the devil with lire," Is more applicable
to newspapers than anything else.
If tho Standard conducts itself in a
becoming manner, it Is a respectable
newspaper.
If the JCclio bays the moon until It
can no longer bark, but whine, It Is an
exhausted pupjty.
It becomes our duty Iu curing those
rabia creatures that attack us merely
because they thiuk they can do so witli
impunity, to deal with them according
not only to their deserts and the offen
slve nature of their mental maladies,
but to apply such remedies as they can
asssimltate to tlieir respective meutali
ties.
We are working in the very foundation-laying
of the great moral structure
of human rights. Whatever rises in
our way as au obstacle, however un
pleasant it may be to touch it, must be
dealt with according to its nature, and
not ours. This work is not pleasant, but
it is necessary. You cannot allay the
odor or a polecat with ottar or roses. Wc
tried it raithrully on the farm and
failed. The only effectual remedy was
lo slay the skunk and bury it.
GRATIFYING.
As an evidence of the value attached
to our paper by the gentlemen of the
press who have sufficient ability to ap
preciate it, we subjoin the following
note:
Tnmuxn Office, Tacojia, August 9.1S71.
riease snd me your las.t Xoistiiwest. My
exchange did not conic. I am quite Interested
in your serial, as well as your editorial matter,
and cannot afford to do without even one Issue.
With regards, Titos. W. Pnoscii.
The paper has been sent, good brother.
Care will be taken that you are not
again disappointed. Long may you
prosper.
Gratifying To note the attention
which the editor of the Xews is devot
ing to tlieNEW Northwest. We invol
untarily mrm a good opinion of a man's
judgment when he studies the People's
Paper.
REOENTEVENTS.
Bismarck's son killed his opponent in
a duel on the 4th Inst.
The North Carolina election resulted
iu a Democratic victory.
A destructive fire, lasting five hours,
occurred at Moutreal on the 0th lust.
Loss, $250,000.
The inhabitants of northwestern Iowa
are suffering severely from the ravages
or grasshoppers.
The first election In Canada under the
ballot system took place August Gth,
and resulted in favor of the Govern
ment, Grasshoppers have eaten everything
in Northern and Southwestern Kansas
and totally destroyed the corn crop In
Nebraska.
A. C. Burton, colored candidate for
the Tennessee legislature, was shot and
mortally wounded by an unknown per
son on the 0th inst.
A fire occurred at Paolo, Kansas, on
the night or August 0th, which de
stroyed the best or the business part or
tho town. Ixss, $73,000.
The steamer Pat Rogers was burned
on the Ohio river ou the morning or
August 5th. She had a cargoor cotton.
Forty persons are known to have per
ished by the disaster.
Advices from Fort Laramie indicate
thai an Indian war is Imminent. The
tribes mentioned who are expected to
engage iu the war are the Cheyennes,
Apaches, and many or the Sioux.
The steamer Henry Ames, from St.
Louis to New Orleaus, struck a snag and
sunk in twenty-five feet of watery near
icksburg, on the night of the 7th Inst,
Four lives are known to have been lost.
The boat and cargo were valued at
S130.000.
A serious riot occurred in Memphis,
Tenn., on the 7th inst. Political differ
ences are reported as the cause, and
negro politicians are especially impli
cated. Two men were killed, and a
number seriously wounded. The riot
was quelled iu the evening.
Tbe Washington journals are discuss
ing the claims of rival candidates for
the next Presidency. General Sherman
Is urged as a candidate for tiio Democ
racy. Chlcr Justice Waite's and Sec
retary Brlstow's names are mentioned
in connection with the regular nomina
tions. Mrs. Theodore Tiltou is the mother or
four children Florence, aged sixteen;
Alice, aged fourteen; Carroll, aged
cloven, aud Fraukle, aged five. They
are said to be very handsome aud Intelligent.
GENERALITIES.
Delaware's peach crop is estimated at
602,000 baskets.
Local option was totally defeated
throughout Kentucky.
St. Louis calls its great bridge tho
buckle of the nation's iron belt.
Agues Strickland, the historical au
thoress, died on the 20th ult., agedsixty-
eight.
Vermont this year turns out 12,000,000
pounds of maple sugar, worth ten cents
a pound.
San Francisco sent twenty-one insane
persons to the asylum during the month
of July.
At Wooster College, Ohio, the femi
nine students, it is said, equal the mas-
culino ones In mathematics as well as in
languages.
Miss Richards, of Stapleton, near
Bristol, England, has performed the
feat of walking one thousand miles in
one thousand consecutive hours.
Tho new steamboat law imposes a fine
of five hundred dollars upon a steam
boat owner who neglects to have the
regulations hung up In his boat when
ruuning.
AVillls Moon, of Futon county, Mich.,
during the present season, made 2,000
pounds of maple sugar from oOO trees.
He carried the sap and performed the
labors of making all alone.
There are 20,000 Granges in the Un
ion, with an average of fifty voters in
each, or a total of one million. Tills
represents a power capable of immeas- '
urablo good, if properly wielded.
New Orleans has adopted the London
and Paris plan, and the street car com
panies are obliged to refuse transporta
tion to a greater number of passengers
than can be accommodated witli seats.
A man in Washington county, Tenn.,
has a cow which lias given by accurate
weight 2,0101 lbs of milk in thirty days.
She is an Ayrshire breed, and the small
est amount given in one day was 57
pounds.
Among the graduates of the Normal
School at Salem, Mass., last week, was
one young lady, graduating at the head
of the class, who has run a sewing ma
chine aud earned money to pay her ex
penses during the two years.
There is uo stoue yet to mark the
spot in Mount Auburn cemetery where
Charles Sumner is buried, and a lady
who visited the cemetery, a few days
ago, found it, after hunting a long time,
with a stake at its head bearing a visit
ing card, on which were the words,
"Sumner's Grave."
A New York paper says: The largest
minister's salary in this city is paid to
Henry Ward Beecher, of Brooklyn, who
receives $15,000. Dr. Morgan Dix, of
tho Church or the Holy Trinity, receives
512,000, and Dr. Porter, of Grace Chtlrch,
the same. The highest salary In the
Methodist body is $3,000. The income
of a Roman Catholic priest is under $1,
000. What a commentary unon earlv mar
riages is supplied by the telegraphic an
nouueement from Fonda, N. Y., the
other day: "Mrs. Anna Jefferson, fifteen
years of aire, committed suicide on .Tnlv
23, by takinrr arsenic. The cause of the
act was domestic trouble." Poor child !
a wife at fifteen, and a self-murderer
through domestic trouble. We pity
Auna's parents, if it was with their con
sent that she became a wife.
Notwithstanding the trreat flood In
the Mississippi Valley in the spring, the
New Orleans Times estimates that iha
sugar and rice crops will be abundant,
tue latter yielding thirty thousand hnr.
relsmore than in 1S73. Iu sugar, the
losses by Hoods will be about ten thous
and hogsheads, and tho total yield from
ninety to one hundred thousand hogs
heads. Tiie acreage devoted to ricn
culture shows an increase of six thous
and acres over last year, and the rico
crop is expected to be 110,000 barrels.
PlTRI.Tr OtiVTw n- Wr.x-
FKAGE. The tide is turning' as regards
Woman Sntlrrinro n,. ,,,i , ,
the atmosphere is warmed up enough,
wc shall see the clergy venturing out on
our rostrum. Like greenhouse plants,
however, they require a good deal of
shelter, and are not calculated to meet
or encounter storms. One hardy plant,
however, came out on Monday evening,
. ul sec mat ii cuu mm any
harm: imloml im i, i.s i ,r.
, , i tuiu.t;ii uruveiy
through the experience. The society
SOTO mir nn tin .
wvo uui,uu us new career under very fa
vorable ausnices. with oralln.t m
vtra 1 ttIe sunl in 1,10 treasury.
oman Suflrage is now almost an ac
complished fact, because it is a neces-
....inr,, men as well as wom
en. In view of tills fact, which ia so
near us in the foture, let me call upon
...... Ul; (iicjuihi tor tue troublous
times that are .it hnn. I ., .u. "i "f
ship or state, with torn sails and creak-
iiiK i.ia.-ii.-, auau seem aoout to plunce
swallow iter. Then will be your tlm
c .-. w i .. r t 1 f A T 1 . i
iiiuhi.cia ui isiiuri ; iLen uireauy be
gin dimly to foresee this, and will ere
long look to the prescient inspirations
of woman, divinely Inspired now, as she
always has been in times of great peril
and emergency. They will look to her,
I say, to light the beacon lights of di
vine inspirational light along the shore
to save them from swift destruction.
C'o;)i))?o.i Sense.
"LN-rni-i.ECT of Womex. The Dean
of Chester recently made a speech In
which he quoted the opinion of the ex
amiuerof Latin at the collegiate schools
to the effect that, comparing the girls
with the bnvs u-lm lm.i ct.,.i
during the same time, lie would give a
.y.w.ut uecmcuiy in lavoror the girls.
The tendi'iipe nf nw.lm i ,
J v... ...iiut.j a iv
SUOW POIlfIllMivi.lv 11, .f ll.n In.ir. n n
cepted theory that sex afreets tho mind,
!.) tl. ...... S..1 .1 , '
"" ii iu 1 1 uiu iiiiiereiujy more in
tellectual than women, is erroneous.
When we give women the same opnor-
luumes in muuerii society uiai wc give
mi,tl 111 rl.i. i.o. rf it.ilt...,ei wl.nn
...w.a, ... tut. .tjr vi iii,uo,tj auu ciuva-
tion, what is called the Womau Ques
tion will settle itself." A". Y. Herald.
A Viit int irorf!iti illeomtrfinil ffn -
the text "How old art thou ?" aud tho
iiiYt ilnv nlmnf. mio.fltlril nf lYin wmat
of the congregation called to tell him it
r i . i i t