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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 1S74. AXXUAI. MEETLXO AMKIHCAX W.S. A. The American Woman Sairrnee Association will hold Its sixth Annual Meeting for the elec tion of officers and the transaction or business, In Detroit, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 13 and H.at the Opera House, commencing at 10 A. sr. Iteports of auxiliary State Societies dur ing the past year trill be rendered. Thofoliowincauxillary State Societies should lie represented by their accredited delegates. viz : Maine, Xew Hampshire, Vermont, Mass achusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jer sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Vlrclnla. South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, California, Oregon. Auxiliary Societies thonld take care to secure representation by their lull quota or delegates, corresponding In number to the Congressional delegations of their respective States; and in every State where no such Societies cikt.nii friends or "Woman Suffrage who concur in the objects and methods or tho American Woman Suffrage Association are respectfully invited to organize in their respective localities. The necessity of a radical political reform Erows every year more evident. To-day our ..:. null-Hi lsnepuniican only in name In every town, in every ward, we are controlled by cliques ot trading politicians through the machinery or parties. Our nomination! - made in caucus by less than Ave per cent, or uurvoiersana are ratified at the polls by less than one-fourth of our adult citizens. A real political reform must enlist all the virtue, In telligence and patroltlsm or tho nation in a struggle against viee, and Ignorance, and self ishness. The whole American people must be come interested in political questions. In Im partial Suffrage lrreiecUvc of sex, lies the only salvation of American TJbertr. Conie, then, friends of Equal Rights, to our Annual oonveutlon! Help establish Impartial Suffrage, ami thus check tlie despotism ol mo nopolies, restore the supremacy of morals In public and private life, and redeem the future ot me great American Republic. By order of the Executive Commiltee. Julia WakdIIowe, President. I.ucv Stone, Chairman Ex. Com. THE C0NSEQHEN0E. How many mothers are there in our land, how many, reader, in the circle of jourown acquaintance, who have given upalifortheirchildren ? Wobaveju9t read the assertion that "affection often fails to attain the best ends through un wise direction.". There is many a " devoletl mother," patient, untiring aud faithful, wishing above all things to do her duty by her children, who by an unwise direction of her atfection for them, is "planting wrinkles in her brow of youth." It is one thing to be a good house keeper, quite another to be a successful home-maker. When children arc quite young, the most that they require is uiilgent care for their bodily needs, and many mothers, in exercising this care, forget or lose sight of the growing de mands of the social aud moral natures of their children. It is all too common for mothers of growing families to neglect society, and In common parlance "to grow rusty" in dress, manners and speech, think that they have no time for books and naners: in Miort, to make the petty details of cvery-iiay lire the great center arouud which all their interests rovolve. The home-world In this way becomes in a few years pitiably narrow, and un satisfactory to the children growing up within it. In the very nature of things they cannot feel the interest in all its workings that the mother does indeed. in her zeal to discharge her duty, she. not unrrequently assumes what should be their burdens. As a cousenunnpo. tho entire family finally come to regard "mother" as a sort of necessary house- uouiappendage,oId-fashioned, dowdyish and illiterate. True, they might be shooked to see this declaration in nlaln English, but their every act betrays tho lact. wc see the effect, and full well we know that there has been a cause. What is it, and how removed? Those who have crept into the shadow of their years, cannot now hope to undo themis- lakesor their early motherhood; they will most likely bs, what years ago they elected themselves, household drudges to the end of tho chapter. But to those mothers with their children still arouud their knees, we say, a little simpler fare at table, and more social intercourse therewith; serubblugs not quite so fre quent, and time thus saved given to book's; a wise economy of time that will enable you to keep up an interest hi the literature and leading questions of tho day, will enable you to be what every mother should be, a companion and leader for her children. They will have a respect for aud a pride in "mother" which a mere household drudge, how ever faithful in the discharge of her duties, could neveriuspire. And for this wise mother companionship, this glori ous mother equality, "herchildren shall rise upandcall hCr blessed." The quiet dignity with which Dr. Dillon asserts his intention of conduct ing the Advocate editorially, according to the dictates of his own best judgment, is as admirable as the spirit that prompts it is commendable. It Is im possible to submit to arbitrary dictation in a matter of this kind, without losing alike self-respect and the respect of other. We feel sure that the members of the M. E. Church will endorse the lKisition of Dr. Dillon by sustaining the Advocate. "ft will never do to burden woman with tho hardships accompanying the weighty affairs of State," say some of our Representative and Senatorial so lons. Of course not! Xo woman could endure the terrible waste of time con sumed in adjourning from day to day. It's such hard Wnrk; Jlut jj pat; might, in time, reconcile some of the most reckless ones to endure it, as the season is short. The meeting of the State Tern perauce Union was a grand tuccess. For partic ulars see the racy letter of "Yours Truly," who never fails to see and ap preciate somethiug good. Mrs. Duniway has the honor of a re porter's desk in both Houses, for which she is duly appreciative. FENOILINGS INTHE SENATE. As many of our readers have never vet had an opportunity to. enter tlii ! charraed circle of a Legislative body, wherein the solons of our Common-' to sit for their pictures as their co wealth are congregated to crystalize the j workers in the Senate, wo now proceed concentrated wisdom of the body politic, ami send it forth before tho public, em- oeuueu in a setting of accumulated law, we will now proceed to sketch several of tho members of the highest political tribunal of the classic land of Wcbfeet, begging pardon of each, if ho Im agines that we fail to do him justice. Mr. President, to begin with, and of course the most important personage in tho Chamber, is an elderly, klndly visaged, white-whiskered, bushy-haired Individual, with a ruddy complexion aud conspicuous spectacles. Ho has blue eyes, thin eyebrows, a low, broad forehead, full of latitudinal wrinkles, prominent cars and a firmly set mouth. As you look at him you imagine that you have met a man who will con scientiously perform whatever he con cieves to he his duty. At his right sits Colonel Tom Cornelius, whose seat In the Senate is at this moment being con tested. Honesty here beams upon you from a broad face with deep chin and prominent forehead, above which a luxuriant growth of-brown hair is care lessly brushed, while his bright blue eyes gleam restlessly upon his brethren in honor, who hold his Senatorial des tiny, for tho nonce, within the province of the mighty power of a speedily forth coming ballot. Next (but one) to luru sits a gentleman from Multnomah, who, as the ladies all call him handsome, we will not name in this connection, lest we "do him proud." To the left of the handsomo member, who (let us whisper) is intellectual aud clear-headed withal, sits the well, we came near saying master mind of the Senate, but we hesi tate, out of courtesy to some others who evidently feel themselves entitled to cap and bells and the title of Senatorial Sage. Then comes a gentleman with iron-gray hair and commanding form, who hails from Marion. A nervous af fection of some kind has caused a rest less twitching of his eye, hut lias Fit no way aflected his good sense and sound judgment. Next to the member from Marion sits his colleague from the same county, with black hair, prominent features, good proportions and bilious temperament. He looks like a thinker, and wc should like to hear him talk. Mr. Hanua from Union is in Ilia seat now. He is one of the hold-over Sena tors, with a scalp locks. good eye and scattering ' asked by privileged members, like our His place is between ' self, who have reporters' desks and seats Colonel Cornelius ami Mr. Hirseh, and he keeps his fine eye turned full upon, Mr. President whenever an important j motion Is pending. In the next desk I and on the right sits a gentleman In business suit and bushy side whiskers, with a prominent chin and deep brown eyes. Then comes a keen-eyed member til. ll . wim sBjooui iuccaud sanguine, nervous temperament. Across the next aisle Is a blue-eyed, nervous, elderly gentleman, with stiver-gray hair, big nose and high forehead. Then comes another with long face, prominent nose, chin whis kers, mustache and black hair. In the next seat, ranging on the right of Mr. President, is a member with retreating forehead, heavy whiskers, phlegmatic temperament aud dark blue eyes. On his left sits a benevolent looking man with gray hair, grizzly whiskers, large head, high forehead, rathor broad shoul ders and studious eyes. To his left is a somewhat younger man, with promi nent cars, black restless eyes and black-and-white goatee. The gentleman with his feet on the table, who sits next to him, Is a studious man, witli a kindly disposition and excessive firmness. In the second seat of the middle aisle and to the right of Mr. President is a tall man, with a long narrow forehead, high self-esteem, gray-aud-tan chin-aud-side whiskers, acquiline noseand eye-glasses. We'd rather have him for a fricud than au enemy. The gentleman on his left has a large head, heavy beard, and kindly eye. Wo do not know him yet, but wc should guess, from the fact that hp is dead at the top, that he believes in tho "clinging vine" Idea upon the Woman Question, aud so has naturally to endure the result attained by all "pro tecting oaks" arouud whom the ortho dox "vine" has wound its tyrannical tendrils. Aud now, gentlemen of the Senate, who have kindly volunteered to sit for this picture, accept our thanks for the privilege to skctcli you, and allow us to assure you that the description will be, as they say iu serial stories, "concluded next week." Your organization is tho best looking one of the Order which wc have yet met. We don't mean beauty as generally accepted, when wo say "best looking," but we do mean intel lectual, studious, physical, manly good looks, that might be expected to free you from the slavish fear that haunts some men, lest women may get an even chanco with themselves in the nice political, and thus come out ahead. We judge that two-thirds of the members, and we know all the best and most in tellectual ones will vote for the passage of a Woman Suffrage bill. A. J. D. His Excellency's inaugural is a thor oughly exhaustive document, occupy ing, there is no telling how many pages, columns, etc., etc., of the daily press. Tlie address is replete witli carefully pre- pared and thoroughly digested faclsand ' suggestions, proving that the cautious Governor is paving his anticipated way to tho United States Senate with tho cobble-stones of human gullibility. I The crusaders, headed by Mrs. Dr. ' Thompson, made a visit to each branch j oi me legislature last week, and were . well received. Mrs. T. made brief ad-: dresses before each body. The ladies prcsenten a l,ocal Option bill, which was referred to a committee and will ' probably be favornblv t i " i many of the meX among ujkiuuers. i PENOILINGS IN THE HOUSE. Aa it would never do lo alight our hrethrpn nf tht TTonsn of Renresenta- tlves, who have certainly as good a rightl to sketch them, promising, as wo did with the members of the higher body, to continue the sketching if we can till portialts of all are finished for our readers. To begin with an outline, collectively speaking, of tho House as it is, wc sec but very few strongly marked faces, and very little that betokens a superior order of genius among the members. There is a noticeable array of young men, who are certainly cnlovinir the privilege of an excellent training school at the ex pense of the Slate. This is at it should be. We arc an ardent advocate of com pulsory education. Besides, it is much easier, generally, to Imbue the minds of the young with comprehensive, cosmo politan liberality of thought and action, than to engraft a vigorous growth of tho same necessary commodity upon the fossil-Iiko imaginations of men who live wholly In the past, as so many elderly gentlemen do. A very few of tho old members have been returned, aud several havo stepped from the House to the Senate. Mr. Speaker looks like a laboringman. He appears on the sunny side of thirty, and has no very marked trait of charac ter depicted in his countenance. Wo should judge that he would Inclino to believe that'tho men of a past ago were better calculated to think and act for him than he can be to think and act for himself. Indeed, this is a chronic com plaint, which afflicts many voters of the Republic at the present day. Colonel White, the Chief Clerk, has Iron-gray hair, bluelsh-gray eyes, a allvcr-whlto mustache, broad shoulders aud a tongue that cannot sound the liquid "r." He says rfo' and o' and Jld1 and io', for door and four aud tloorand sure, carry lug you back to the colored nurse who reared him, and moulded his vernacular into that of the unmixed African. We believe that one of the lights of a white child is that it be reared by a white mother, aud of colored children that they also be taught to articulate by their own mothers. The Colonel is aflablo and gentlemanly, and evidently does his work faithfully. Mr. Hadaway, Sergeant-at-ArmB, and Mr. Wagoner, the door-keeper, arc in their old places, ready, as formerly, to give necessary in formation concerning all questions w ithin the bar. Mr. 1 1, is a trille grayer and- Mr. V. perceptibly lamer; other- wise they appear just as they did twenty- four moons ago. The member from . Yamhill upon our left is young and 1 pleasant looking, and at his right is his colleague, who Is sullering with a huge 1 boll upon his nose. A pale-haired gen- ' At 1 uemiin occupies tue next seat, over 'against tho wall, and at his right sits Colonel Reed, the Woman Question's sworn ally, aud a fair anil candid de bater on any question. Behind him is a bushy-hended, thoughtful-looking member, with low forehead and eye glasses. At his left sits a member with straggliiigforotop, broad, retrcatingfore- lieail and high cheek lwnes. Most of the elderly gontletnen are getting bald headed, for which we are sorry, as we fear that the "clinging vines," they have encouraged to twine their teudrils about them, have withered their top most branches. The best possible remedy for baldness amoiic the "pro tecting oaks" of husbandhood, would be for them to puss a suffrage bill, which would have tendency tocausetho "cling ing vines" of wifehood to grow Into self-sustaining shrubs of sweet-lived womanhood. Wc never saw so large a gathering of gentlemen before in which there was sueh a general sameness of personal ap pcarauce. Barring the baldness, the description of one might readily be taken for that of another; a fact which tend to lessen your faith In the dis cernment of those clalrvoyauts who, with spirital eyes, discover and describe your dear departed friends. Readers, wc abandon the picture In despair. We've tried our best to do as we agreed, aud have succeeded as far as we've got, but we remember the story of tne Princess on trial for her life, and de sist. She said, "He brought another grain of corn, aud brought another grain of corn," and so on ad infinitum. But tlie usual motion to adjourn cuts ofl debate and brings this letter to a close. These public servants work three hours out of twenty, upon an average. And their work for two-thirds of that time seems to consist In reading newspapers, furnished by tlie State. How our heart acAcd for those unfortunate voters who are compelled by law to wear out their lives in the survive of an ungrateful country. A. J. D. THE ANNUAL MEETING. The Annual Meeting of tlie American Woman Suffrage Association, which' will take place in Detroit, October 13th and Hth, i i accordance witli the Call at the head of our columns, will be an oc casion of very great importance. A full attendance of the friends of Sutlrage from all parts of the county is earnestly desired. Let tho various State and Local So cieties take immediate steps to secure "V,?"" . S10 ' Bonalda full delegations, corresponding in num- vidual friends of Suffrage come and rep reseut themselves. Business of tlie ut most importance. will be transacted, and plans of work must be matured for the comimr year. Thero is no time to be lost; immediate action is necessary. Notwithstanding the scarcity of money and tho political apathy whicli everywhere prevails, let the friends of reform rally to the support or impartial Suflrago for women, fully aware that the establishment of Equal Rights for ah l? essential to tlie highest interests of civilized society. "WOMEN WORKERS. It is said that in tho city of San Fran cisco there are between three and four thousand women aud girls, ranging from mature age to almost infantile years, who daily leave their Homes to perform some kiud of work in the vari ous stores, shops, book-binderies, print lug offices, etc. What say tho sticklers for "woman's sphere" at this? These women and girls arc, through tho long hours of every day, away from their Iiomes. Are they out of their sphere, that God and nature designed them to fill? If so, who is responsible for thus thwarting the designs of tho Creator and subvert ing His laws? Of all the twaddle, familiarly called "objections," which wo daily hear, per haps that which is so persistently urged relative to home being the only legiti mate province for the exercise of wom an's talent, is the most exasperating to patience, because in the plainest viola tion of facts and common sense. To de clare that God desigucd all women to remain at home, and then witness tho stress of circumstances that compels so many thousands of them to work abroad in order to maintain a home, is equivalent to au accusation that He is unable to carry out His designs, in Hie formation of His creatures. Such sacri lego as this we leave for those who be lieve that were it not for the powerful aid that masculine humanity renders to Divinity, He would be totally unable to keep feminine humanity within proper and legitimate bounds. In regard to the manner in which the women workers of the world engage in the duties that fall to their share, wc quoto from tho Golden Era (San .Fran cisco) the following: ir there is one'thlng that testifies In woman's favor more than another, it U her willingness to work and gain au honest livelihood. Poorly paid many of them, tempted, often sorely pressed ror food, they pursue their duty. The life of a towing girl, us she tolls from morning till night, for a scanty salary, Is not the most cheering, still we sec her following the desolate lath, turning neither to the glided way nf sin, nor fulling Into the abyss of dliwlpnllon. Is there not a lesson of patience, tortltCde, perse verance and endurance in the llfeof thesewing girl thai ought to shame men from their why or Idleness and low dissipation ? I the "lord of creation" not sometimes shame-faced to re ill the. delicate creature Unending lier way home from work, a woman who lias lalMireil faithfully, who has been tempted surely,wuu home is comfortless, MlKe table is HNrly sup plied, yet who lifts been faithful to her trust In all things, while he has fallen from work, spent his money In vicious ways, aifd made himself a disgrace to his species. How will It average to compare the six or eight thousand men who are to lie seen in the saloons, low places of amusement and loafing on the street corners at nights with these three or four thousand women ? Which Is following the steepest path with the bravest purioe ? Which meets temp tation and puts It aMde with the firmest hand 7 Where is the softest nature and the most re deeming spirit? And yet, though Ihelrservlne le harder, these women are not iald like men. THE APOSTLE OFRIGHT MOURNETH. The ll'dlcdu of Friday uttered a la mentation not loud but deep, because the honorable House of Representatives in session assembled did see fit anil proper to extend to several ladies tlie courtesy of a seat Inside tlie bar, and give respectful consideration to a meas ure that they proposed. In this matter tho sage of the JIullclin declares that the "House exceeded its legitimate sphere of right and duty." Weshudder to con template his pangs and contortions, when tho Woman Suffrago memorial, witli its hundreds of names, Is presented. Now if it is impossible for James O'Meam to be on hand to post the House at a critical moment, concerning tlie legitimate limit of its right and duly, wesuggest that special telegraphic com munication be established immediately, between tho JJullelin office aud the Leg islative Chambers, so that our indiscreet representatives may be enabled to re ceive advice from headquarters quickly and to tliq point. This is manifestly the only way to keep theso solons from frequent "departure from right." "But if in spite of all the sago can say" the noiuirauic uooy win persist in giving ear to petitions, and allowing tho citi zens of theStatoit is supposed to rep resent to present memorials-we think that as an act of mercy there should be an appropriation made at once to pro cure, at the expense of the State, suffi cient soothing syrup, or other mild soporific, to keep thisludividtiarsnerves in a slate of quietude ; else his outraged senso of right and duty will surely over power him. The Salem correspondent of the Ta fayotto Courier must bo a sorry judgo of physiognomy. Speaking of tlie per sonal appearance of an honorable mem ber of tho Lower House, whom ho de scribes as "an elderly gentleman of medium height, short, thick neck, having upon his upper lip a large car buncle aud wearitnr spectacles." he displays his lack of skill in reading faces, by declaring that he supposed (?) the member to be "an advocate of Local Option untl Woman Suffrage." It would be a standing joke on tlie Woman Suf fragists to have such a champion as the gentleman above described. Such men aro as instinctively and unalterably against woman's ciifranchismeut, as they are opposed to bavins tho whisky privileges of tlie voters restricted. Our superannuated Modoc friend. .1. Quinn THornton, with a pertinacity characlerastlc of the played-out poli tician, has ottered in the House of Ren- rescutatives a communication, request ing Ins election by the Legislature to tlie office of State Librarian, because of his being an old Oreconian. f'.tiif.ifn Jack was an older Oregoiiian than he, nnu uiey hung liim. There is said to bo a ladv in who refused to sign the petition for Lo cal Option, although herself a stanch teetotaler. One of the kind undoubt edly, who believes that women should not meddle in politics. Evidently a reader of the Corvallis Gazelle. . "TOUBS TEULY" AT THE TEMPEE ANOEJJNIOH. jjSsotnsa delegate; no, thank you. She 166 dlstinctlyfremembered the dis graceful fact that thls Union originated as a fungus outgrowth of-the disaffection of a few babblers in tho Temperance Alliance, who seceded from that body because they couldn't control Mrs. Dun iway and keep her "voting resolution" out of its archives. The intemperate proceedings of these same confusionlsts were quite too fresh iu the memory of Your Truly to allow her to accept a delegateship even hail one been ten dered, which last was not the case. Yours Truly was visiting at tho Capi tal, The governor had renewed the usual unlimited yearly run at Clarke & Henderson's, of whicli she had taken tho accustomed annual advantage, therefore she resolved to spend her sixty dollars, earned in teaching a summer school, in travel and sight-seeing. San Francisco was tlie goal of her girlhood's ambition, but hor purse wasn't heavy enough to admit that lux ury. Dick went, though. He had taught school three months and earned a hundred aud eighty dollars, aud of course lie could afford the outlay, Yours Truly being only a school-ma'am, belonging to the gemts feminine, and, tuoreiore, entitled by custom to one third of the wages allotted to the pro tecting sex who support women, was compelled to limit her autumn excur sions to Robinson'sHiil, Vancouver aud the Capital. She hadn't intended to visit tho Tern perauce Union, but the news came, aud speedily Hew all over Salem, that "Mrs. Duniway was a delegate." But little interest was taken in tho meeting prior to that announcement. A few wrinkled crusaders from Portland, and several bnld-heAdt-d preachers from other places, were gathered arouud Mrs. Dr. Thomp son, who made a capital captain; but outside of that there was no enthusiasm. lieu it was known, however, that Mrs. Duniway had come, the attend ance began to increase, aud by the open ing of tlie session of the second evening, there wits a largo audience of Salem's chivalry and beauty and intellect and wit;nnl among them was Yours Truly, iu the full glory of the latest Parisian agony atop of her jaunty frizzes, while herdress, made by her own busy fingers, set half thi! girls to wondering who was, nr-dd dc, the well-rigged lady's dress maker. And onrsTruly had a beau. He was none of your conceited upstarts, either, with yellow mustache and bleached complexion, but a great, stalwart, black- whispered, bushy-headed, ideal and practical man, upon whoso strong arm sho leaned with :i restful feeling, such as poor Tom never inspired her with, not even when he found her alone and out of money at that never-to-be-forgotten Fair. Carefully settling herself in a seat at tho Opera ilout-c, and arranging her I nifties in proper shape beside her beau, Yours Trrtly soon found herself wonder i of wonders ! eugngcU in listening to a i "resolution" which smacked so sharply of Woman Sutlrage that sho whispered I to hor escort, and said : I "That's Mrs. Dun! way's work." "Of course," replied her ideal mascu line friend; "Mrs. Duniway adminis leretl the pill, but was sharp enough to sugar-coat it with Dr. Watts." "Pretty deeply coated," said Yours iruly, as tho doctor, like a great, good natured behemoth, arose and made a telling speech in favor of the needed political nostrum. An elderly clerical gentleman in red hair, with a wonder fully beautiful baby on his arm, arose and moved to so amend the Sutlrage Resolution as to include ladies of eigh teen. Mrs. Duniway objected. "We don't ask to transcend our brothers' privileges. All wc ask is tlie recogni tion of equal rights." Mr. Allen, a reg ular brick, witli squint eyes and "level" head, thought women ought to voto at eighteen, "because they knew more at that age than men did at twenty-one.' Mrs. Duniway "begged pardon." She "hadn't thought of that." Then every body laughed; but not one word was ut tered agahut the resolution, which was unanimously adopted after the amend ment had been unanimously voted uoun. uu una, ioo, in tms same "Union," whicli was formed expressly to get rid of the very pill tliat it now swallowed whole. But the most pro voking tiling of all wag the matter-of-course way in whicli Mrs. Duniway ac cepted her victory. Justice to tlie rest of us, who fought for and stood by her wiieu tlie battle was raging hottest, called for just a little exultation from ner, nui sue ilidn't indulge us; whether from jierversity, or lack of a proper ap preciatiou of her own prowess, Yours iruly knowelli not; but we wcreall dis appointed. It was too provoking. un.ee, during the evening, when Mrs. Dr. Thompson was iu the midst of a telling address, the new President was escorted to the stand. Without noticing Hie doctor, who was "nothing but f woman," you know, the retiring Presi dent aroxc, and tendering ids seat, pro ceeded to. deliver himself of a speech whii li he had leen studying for several hours, and which he did not dare to postpone a little for fear he should for get It, The doctor stopped short In the middle of an elaborate sentence, looked onmpiacenuy upon the accumulated maeeuiiuo wisdom before her, and de scended from tho platform. Then the new President made a speech, forrreltin also to treat Dr. Thompson witli proper courtesy. How Yours Truly did tcaal lo be a delegate for just one moment, so that she might move that an apology be tendered Mrs. T. by the retiring and acting officers, and that the doctor be invited to tlie platform to finish her speech. But nobody thought of it but Yours Truly, who bit a hole In the index finger of her three-buttoned buff Alexandria iu her successful efforts lo hold her tongue and keep In "order." Don't say a woman cttn'f be silent. A. lengthy and spirited debate came up upon Local Option and Prohibition, in which Greek met Greek, and the tug of friendly war was terrible. It's worth a trip to Salem any time to hear Mrs. Duniway in debate with a lot of minis ters, iu on organization whoso rules comncl them to give her a fair chance with themselves in argument. This time her position was supported by Rev. Mr. Pierce, of Portland; and lours Truly heard her say privately that tho ladies were unanimous in tho opinion that the new Baptist preacher of Port land was a "brick." The evening session adjourned to meet for the final transaction of business upon the following morning, and Yours Truly, accepting the arm of her escort, wended her way to the hotel, where she was en ployed till a late hour in scribbling this critique. May it be appreciated accord- lug to its superior merit, and bring a just compensation in shining dollars, is the half doubling prayer of Youks TKUrr. GENERALITIES. Sixty per cent, of all the school teach ers in the country arc women. Virginia has a woman 122 years old. They aro keeping her for the centennial exhibition. Lyndon (Vermont) boasts of an old French couple, a man aud wife aged re spectively 103 and 90. A lady at Saratoga wears a Boman brcast-platc of emeralds and diamonds, purchased at London for $12,000. Miss Harriet Upton has bequeathed $1,000 to the City of Salem, Mass., the interest to be devoted to the poor every Thanksgiving Day. Beecher and Tiltou have each received an offer of $75,000 for fifty lectures, to be delivered during tlie season at the Chicago Exposition. Tho whole number of horses in the United States is estimated at nearly 9,000,000, representing tlie value of $700, 000,000 or $SOO,000,000. Duriug July there was a total of sixty four railroad accidents, whereby .twenty persons were killed and no hundred and four suffered serious injury. Tlie reasou why Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., confines himself to writing for the peri odicals is because the legitimate func tion of a Cobb is to produce a cereal. The water iu the hot springs near the Geysers visited by the newspaper corre spondents in Iceland was found to bo exactly the temperature for making hot Scotch whisky. A party of six surueyors, from Law rence, Kansas, were massacred and scalped by Indians on Wednesday, the Kith Inst., near Lone Tree, forty miles south of Fort Dodge. The mother-in-law of a Brooklyn mil lionaire sells newspapers for a living. For social, literary, political and finan cial anomalies, of all sorts, commend us to the City of Churches. The silk manufacture in 2"ew Jersey gives employment to 3Am persons, whose wagesannually amount to$L139, iSS. Tlie capital employed is $5,497,416", and the annual product is $5,C15,9S3. auuut io.iuv tetters were posieu in England last year without any address whatever, and nearly 500 of the letters contained cash, checks, or bills of ex change to the value of more than $13,000. Miss Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy in Vassar College, is going to give a courso of lectures on her favorite sci ence, at Gothic Hall Boarding School In Stamford, Conn., during tho coming scnool year. For pure grit and long-continued pa notice you want to go to Toledo. A young lady in that town has sent 101 pieces of poetry to a newspaper, and though all have been rejected, she i struggling with another. In a Chicago library there was a book on self-cnlture which never obtained reader, and in order to give it n new chance the librarian had it rebound.and caneu it a lounglan on His Muscle. ow that book is always out. Mrs. Mary C. Wilbcr, widow of th first President of tho Cincinnati Female College, was honored by receiving the uegree ot a. JI. from that institution, at us recent Jommencement. Mrs. Wilbe is one of tho Board of Instruction in th college. Mrs. Martha Magee, thirty-five years oiu, of Cynthlana county, Kentucky owns 400 acres of land in the blue grass region, and raises cattle and takes them to market like other drovers. She is smart woman, and is respected by the other drovers. Virginia boasts of a woman, named anoy Dougherty, seventy years old who, duriug the past season, has with her own hands built a cabin, cleared and fenced twelve acres of land, and raiseii a crop of corn which will proba uiy yield 250 bushels. Miss Ingelow lias a nephew, Edward Ingelow Pitman, to whom she is giving a collegiate education at the college in ew Brunswick, X. J. This yountr rren tleman, fifteen years of age, came to this country alone and unattended, to satl-fy tin earnest desire to see America and be educated here. Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen (Florence Percy), the author of "Rock Mc to Sleep Mother," is at present editorially con nected witli the Portland Advertiser. Thcnoeni was written by her whilo a factory girl in Maine, upon tliosncct oi cnnrin. lirnivn wmiitiilll-naner III WUICII she had brought her noou-llme lunch, anil while waiting for the hour to re commence her labor. Tho women of New Jersey were en franchised from 1770 until joo i-e of thirty-one years. "'H"; " has since that time been unlawfully and unjustly withheld from the women clti- J . . .-til. Dm sltflir. irrenn- zensot America, - o tion iu Wyoming during tho last four years. . TELIPEBAN0E UNION. The third annual meeting of the Ore gon State Temperanco Union, which took place at Salem last week, was well attended, and much zeal in the temper ance cause was manifested. A series of resolutions were offered, asking the Leg islature to pass a Local Option Law, and were offered to the Committee on Politi cal Action. This Committee, on tho afternoon of the second day, submitted a report, recommending the adoption of a Local Option Law similar to that of California, with tho necessary changes . to bring it within the purview of tho Constitutiou of this State. Also the adoption of the Civil Damage Law of the State of New York, and theappotut mcut of a committee to prepare a hill as above indicated, for action by tho Leg islature of our own State, now in session. W. F. Owen, J. H. McClung and W. Cranston were named for this service. On niotion'of T. B. Handley, Mrs. Dr. Thompson, Mrs. D. D. Briggs ana itev. Clinton Kelly were appointed a com mittee to draft a Prohibitory Liquor Law. The committee on Political Action re ported the following relative to the for mation of a temperance party: Resolved, That a State Central Com mittee be appointed by thi3 Union, con sisting of one member from each county represented here; Provided, That upon recommendation to tlie members of tho Central Committee appointed by this body, from five well known temperanco men in any county not represented here, said county shall be allowed a member of the Central Committee. Resolved, That each member of the State Central Committee shall, at tho earliest possible moment, see that in his county a perfect organization of the Temperance party shall be had. Resolved, That the Temperance State and County Central Committees shall, In due season, call a convention to nomi nate officers to be voted for at the en suing election by tho Temperance party. Resolved, That this State Temperance Ceutral Committee shall have power to eflect an organization and appoint such sub-committees as shall appear to the Central Committee for the bestinterests of the Temperance party. Dr. Watts offered a resolution asking the Legislature to remove the political disabilities of women, and allow them to vote on the liquor law. This resolu tion was referred lo the Committee on Resolutions, and was afterwards mado the special order for eight o'clock, at whicli time the report of the committee was read and adopted. The Committee on Political Action were empowered to use all houorablo means to secure the passage of the Local Option Law, to which committee all petitions were referred. The following additional resolutions were adapted: Resolved, That we, as members of this Union, re-pledge ourselves to go forth In the strength of God and our holy cause of Temperance to work for tho fallen ones of onr race, made so by the rum traffic, and especially will we labor for the young and rising generation that they may escape a slavery more intol erable than human servitude that of tho slavery of rum. And as means to this end, we will extend our individual and united influence to sustain and sup port the Temperance Star, now our ac credited organ; and as a second means, we should labor to do away with all legal disabilities of our noble ladies. Offered by David Jsewsom. Resolved, That tlie Union, in voting to lay the resolution for a Prohibitory Law on the table, it is not, norshould it be considered to mean that this Union is opposed to such a law. Offered by Dr. Watts. Resolved, that the Union elect or ap point two persons before the close of the present session, to present at our next session essays on the method for the ad vancement of temperance, to be followed by discussion. Offered by Mr. Price. Resolved, That we hereby approve of the spirit and mode of the Crusade move ment, and earnestly sympathize with their work. Ofl'ered by Rev. Mr. Stewart. T. B. Handley ofl'ered a resolution thanking the different transportation companies for courtesies extended dele gates. After tho singing of one of the Crusade 6ongs, the Union adjourned to meet on the third Tuesday of September, 1S75. ITEMIZING-- To the Editor ok thkNkwXobthwkst: I have just read two Items which have pleased me much, and I herewith send tliem to you, hoping thoy will please your many readers: The valedictorian of a St. Louis Sem inary this year is described as " .V jierlect woman, nobly planned. To warm, to comfort ami command." Also, the female apostle and woman revivalist, Mrs. M. Van Cott, has re turned to San Francisco and opened fio on the satante strongholds. In one year Mr Van Cott has spent 1,796 hours in religi ms meetings, traveled 7.20S miles, wrote fi-'H) letters, conducted S2S meet- I 900 fifllfW mill roonltroil ings, pivaencu -w.v 1 735 iiersons into i" nwnnniisi, xiusco- pal Church. Gentlemen, iook uui or uie tallies will out do you, if not out vote you yet. Hear and heed this, ye Oregon Legislators now in -session. O. S. Pjirlps. Portland, September ISth. What terrible creatures the California Woman Suffragers" must be, to bo sure. We nave it on the authority of an old lady in Washington county, that thoy aro "actilly a goin to change tho matrimonial" in that state. The good old lady, in her evident horrorat the im pending calamity, forgot to tell us how they were likely to proceed in the prem ises, so we can only clasp our hands and tremblingly await results. r