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FRIDAY.. -DECEMBER 10, 1875,
KATUEALJ.EADEES.
It is said that women should be as
signed to subordinate positions in life,
because they are not natural leaders;
and further, that without a reversal of
of the laws of nature, women can never
be a leading force in the government,
"Sow, in the first place, when we reflect
that very few men are natural leaders,
the masses always being led by the few
and further, that women have not only
always shown the ability to govern, but
in numerous instances have governed
nations successfully and brilliantly, we
doubt this doctrine of ability to govern
or lead being based on sex. "Women
there have been in every civilized na
tion that has given its record to his
tory, who have participated in politics,
openly if customs and laws permitted,
covertly if their influence could not be
brought to bear otherwise. Hence it is
clear that here is a great perversion of
nature, or that there are among women
as among men, leading spirits, whom it
Is a perversion of nature to keep 'n the
background nay, who cannot be kept
entirely in the background by any
means yet brought to bear upon them
It is wholly unnecessary to adduce
proof to show that this governing talent
exists in women, as all will acknowl
edge that there have been women who
have possessed the most valuable polit
ical talents. If, however, we should
concede that women are not natural
leaders, we would still see no reason
wny they should not be allowed to
choose their leaders. The class of men
and they are in large majority who
possess none of the elements that stamp
them as leaders, choose those whom
they wish to lead them, or at least give
expression to their preference concern
Ing whom they shall be. Any one pos
eessed of reason, conscience, and com
mon sense is, or should be, entitled to
declare this preference at the ballot-box,
Inasmuch as voting requires the exer
cise of mind, Instead of muscle, women
should help make the laws, and elect
the rulers they are required to obey.
DIEE
EPFEOT POE
OAUSE.
SUFHOIENT
The coroners say that more than five thous
and dead babies are annually round In this
city, thrown Into the streets, Into the rivers.
ana into out-of-the-way places. N. Y. Sun
Less than four lines, but what a tale
of woe, shame, desperation, and sin
they unfold. Five thousand little waifs
yearly thrown upon the shores of time,
only to be abandoned by reckless
fathers, and destroyed by desperate
mothers, ere yet the bud of life had be
gun to blow. The feeble birth-wail
smothered by the feebler death-cry before
their unwelcome existence was well be
gun. An occasional paragraph in a news
paper claims for a moment the horrified
attention of the public as the revolting
lact is stated; an occasional lecture on
unwilling maternity is read by moral
Ists; that is all. The great wheel goes
steadily round and round as before, its
track marked by slaughtered innocents,
This wholesale murder, that reddens the
hands and hardens the hearts of hu
inanity, is the direct resuitof the thrice
accursed distinction made by society
between tbe sins of men and women;
ana these sins, so far as women are con
cerned, are nine times out of ten the di
rect result of their pecuniary depend
ence upon man. How many of these
mothers upon whom society places its
ban young, despairing, destitute have
been driven by gaunt famine and his
grim attendant, cold, to sell themselves
for bread, and at the last, inspired with
a faint hope to save themselves from
public obloquy, have destroyed the
tiny witnesses against them.
That giving girls a chance to be self
sustaining, an equal opportunity with
boys to earn honest bread, and for their
labor giving honest wages, thereby
rendering them independent in pe
cuniary matters, would lessen an hund
red fold the evils of prostitution, no one
will deny. That giving them work to
do that shall keep gaunt famine at bay,
at tne same time occupying their
thoughts and rendering them self-reliant,
will enable them more successfully
to resist the snares spread by the
tempter for the feet of the helpless and
unwary, all will admit. That the estab
lishment of an equal code of morals for
men and women, by raising the stand
ard for men, not lowering that for
women, would have a salutary tendency
toward diminishing crime, the fruit of
which is wholesale murder, Is certain.
Until these radical wrongs to which
women are subjected by the common
usage of society be understood and rem
edied, the slaughter will go on and on,
while gentle pity and tender mercy will
veil their eyes and weep; and charity,
even though heaven-born, will be pow
erless to conceal with her broad mantle
these erring ones who, bowed beneath
the double burden of their own and oth
ers' sins, desperately seek permanent
refuge in suicide, or strive to retain
temporary respectability by murder.
When women shall be free, no longer
the sport and prey of racking pecuniary
needs which, because of their sex, their
labor will not supply, this great wrong
will begin to right itself. In the mean
time, women, sisters, it has been said
with a show of truth and justice that
none are so merciless to these erring
ones as those of their own sex whose
lines have fallen to them in pleasant
places, let us cultivate charity for those
who have stumbled by the way.
" Dare we condemn the Ills that others do T
Dare we condemn 7
Their strength Is small, their trials are not
lew.
The tide of wrong it difficult to stem.
And if to us more clearly than to them
Is given the knowledge of the good and true,
More do they need our help and pity too.
Dare we condemn?"
Orders have been received at the navy
yard to immediately fit for sea tho "Ti-conderoga."
PEESIDEHT'S MESSAGE.
TbeseverJth'annuarmessage of Presl
dent Grant was submitted to Congress
on Tuesday. The President gives sta-
tistlcs of the growth of the nation i
population, manufactures, mining in
terests, and commerce during the cen
tury, ana points with pride to our
progress in all of the learned professions
during the same period; refers vaguely
to dangers threatening our national
prosperity and happiness; declares it to
be of the utmost importance that all
should be possessed of intelligence and
education enough to cast a vote with
right understanding of its meauing, and
to this end earnestly recommends to th
consideration of Congress that a constl
tutional amendment be submitted to the
legislatures of the several States for rat
ification, making it the duty of each
State to establish and forever raaintal
free public schools, adequate to the edu
cation of all the children within thei
limits, irrespective of sex, birth-place,
or religion, forbidding the teaching
the said schools religious, atheistic, or
pagan texts, and the application of
school funds to any other object. At
tention is also called to the vast ac-
cumulation of untaxed church property,
The amount of such property in the na
tion the present year is $1,000,000,000,
and if it continues to increase as in the
past without check will amount by the
close of the century to three times as
much as this. To remedy the evils that
will surely grow from the exemption of
such a vast amount of property from
taxation, It Is suggested that all prop
erty, whether church or corporation, be
taxed equally, exempting only the last
resting-places of the dead, and possibly,
with properrestrictions, church edifices.
Our relations with foreign powers con
tinue on a satisfactory and friendly foot
ing. Questions with Spain have been
amicably adjusted by the settlement of
the "Virgiuius" affair, that govern
tnent having promptly paid the amount
demanded by the United States for the
relief of persons of the ship's crew, and
certain passengers of the same. The
Cuban question is discussed at length
but we shall not attempt a further syn
opsls of its statements.
The message generally cannot fail to
meet the approval of the men of the na
tion, and while the women could have
wished for a recommendation to the
consideration of Congress a constitu
uuiim ameuament oestowing upon
i .
them the fraudulently-withheld rightof
suffrage, they knew the President had
not sufficient moral courage to do them
ustlce; consequently "were not disap
pointed.
SENAT0EMIT0HELL.
The New Northwest (Mrs. Dunlway's pa
per) says "Senator Mitchell's trip throueh
Eastern Oregon was both a pleasure and profit
to me citizens of that portion of our common
wealth, who everywhere testified their appre
ciation of his efforts in their behalf by warm
and enthusiastic greetings. One of the mani
fest results ol his visit to that locality Is seen
in the lessened majority which those counties
gave the Democratic candidate In the late elec
tion. "We Join his many friends in wishing
mm a sare, pleasant and speedy transit across
the continent." All of which we entirely agree
with, except that" one ol the manifest results
of his visit to that locality is seen in the les
sened majority which those counties cave"
Hon. L. F. Lane. This we consider an attack
upon the hospltabillty of our people who re
ceived the Senator, not as Republican, but as
one holding a responsible position, and who
could and had done us much eood. Mr.
Mitchell did not travel through Eastern Ore
gon as a politician, and we doubt If he would
approve of allusions to his trip as having a po
litical significance. The decreased majority in
Eastern Oregon for the Democratic candidate
to be attributed to a sort of political lethanrv
into which people have fallen, and not to any
extraordinary action by any Republican, either
office-holder or candidate. East Oregonlan.
"We do not assert that Senator Mitch
ell traveled through Eastern Oregon at
the time specified as "a politician," but
reiterate our belief that one of the re
sults of his visit was as stated. He
might not have opened his lips upon
political questions to his most intimate
friends, but his presence could not fail
to be a reminder of the efficient service
he had rendered the people of that lo
cality as compared with what Demo
cratic Senators have ever done for them;
and in the election then pending it was
but natural that they should desire to
secure a member in the lower house
who would cordially second the plans of
Mr. Mitchell. Hence the "decreased
majority for the Democratic candidate."
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"0BIGIffAIiriI STYLE."...
An exchange, relating the pleasant
observances of the anniversary day of
society, says:
Tho response to the usual toast, "Tho La
dles," was decidedly original In style, contain
ing nnmor and facetlousness, with sublime
sentiment and poetry.
Now, with duo deference to the opin
ion here expressed of "decided original
ity of style," we ask if this toast has not
from time immemorial been responded
to with "facetiousness, humor, sent!
ment, and poetry," instead of solid
common sense and creditable tribute to
woman as the equal of man. It has ai
ways been the custom of societies that
exclude women from their membership
to give at stated seasons, and after hav
ing feasted upon dainties which women
have prepared, a sugar-plum made up
of "humor, facetiousness, sentiment
and poetry," in the shape of u response
to a toast, as any one can testify who
has attended one of their spread-eagl
displays. The fact is that the time has
come when this maudlin sentiment is
by sensible women considered a poor
recompense for sitting shivering in an
ante-room, or standing huddled to
gether on a street-corner as was the
case in this city at an anniversary cele
bration last spring waiting for the
lords who toast them in such lofty styl
to go through opening or closing cere
monies of lodge or camp so they can re
join them. They prefer perverse crea
tures to take their toast at breakfast
and read poetry of their own selection
and If there Is anything good or solid or
sensible about these societies, enjoy it
with their brethren, and not in "side-
degrees" cooked up especially for them
either. If there is one insult more ual
pable than another which society oilers
to women, it is in the universal dis
credit thrown upon their integrity and
Intelligece by their exclusion from so
cieties that on public occasions toast
them as "angels," and make noisy dern
onstration of working for their best in
terests. Patting and coaxing and sugar
plums are very well for children, Inval
ids, and imbeciles; but they make weak
diet for women of mature years and ac
tive or even ordinary intelligence.
We are informed, however, that the
society that listened to the "original re
sponse" referred to above, rendered "a
vote of thanks" to the woman who had
prepared their banquet, and for this ac
knowledgment of the "angelic" deeds of
one woman, let us all be becomingly
graieiui.
"H0K0B US WITH TETJTH."
Every advocate of equal rights knows
full well that truth and fairness are un
known to many of their opponents in
the straits to which they are reduced, to
make the worse appear the better rea
son. If an extract is made from a jour
nal advocating woman's political free
dom, it Is garbled or detached from
other portions of the sentence of which
it iorms a part in such a manner as to
cause it to lose its original significance,
or pervert entirely the meauing, and
supplemented by comment intended to
display the wit of the dishonest quill
driver, it is set afloat, the author imag-
ining he has done something extremely
clever, because perchance he has suc
ceeded in exciting the merriment of r
persons of his own calibre, who hold
themselves in readiness to sneeze when
he takes snuff. Witness the following
from the first issue of the Albany Even
ing Democrat:
.Mrs. Dunlway's New Noiethwest of this
week "exhorts her sisters to self-sacrifice."
From what we have observed of the woman
movement we opine the "sisters" have been
sacrificing themselves all the time.
Small use to advance courteous argu
ment to those who will none of it;
less, perhaps, to appeal to their truth
and generosity; but with the faint hope
that "line upon line, precept upon pre
cept," may eventually accomplish
something even for them, we again ask
with Mrs. Browning that they
Deal nobly with us, women though we be:
And honor us with truth. If not with praise."
Harper's Magazine for December is a
number of unusual interest, and es
pecially rich in illustration. Probably
no more exquisite engravings were ever
published in any periodical than those
which illustrate the opening article of
this number, "Up the Ashley and
Cooper." This article will be a new
revelation to most readers, showing
that even in the New World are to be
iouna oia manorial homes worthy of
comparison with older countries. The
result of the publishers' euternrisR
in securing for this paper so many pic
tures never hitherto engraved fully jus
tifies the expense involved, and is a
significant illustration of the high pos
sibilities of illustrated journalism.
Our brother of the Lafayette Courier
having become convinced of its justice,
or, in order to keep up with the progress
of public opinion in Yamhill, has de
clared in favor of Womau Suffrage. It
Is always more pleasant, as well as
much more sensible, to climb upon the
car of progress and help urge it forward,
than to be crushed by Its steadily-advancing
wheels. We congratulate tha
brother mentioned upon "having
chosen the better part." It is neither
policy nor wisdom to bllndlv oppose the
inevitable.
Mrs. Dunlway is still lecturing in
Eastern Oregon or Washington Terri
tory. We have received no tidings o
her for some days, except such as we
find in our exchanges, and are not ad
vised as to her exact whereabouts. Let
ters directed to Walla Walla will prob
ably reach her in the course of a week.
The Spirit of the West will henceforth
be conducted by B. M. Washburn, he
having burchased the entire interest of
Mr. W. I. Mayfield, former proprietor.
The first number of the Grant County
Express, H. H. Gale Esq., editor, will be
issued at Canyon City about the com
mencement of tho new year.
EDIT0EIAE- G0BEESP0NDES0E.
Dear Readees op tob New Northwest:
We have a dim recollection of writing
you a nurried letter on the eve of our de
parture from Baker City, In which we
may have said all we wanted to about
the city and its vicinity, but we rather
doubt It; and now, as we cannot remera
uer wnat nas been written, we do not
care to attempt addenda, lest we merely
repeat what you have already read
ine last evening's lecture waB fol
lowed by a lunch before retiring.
of
what seemed a harmless cup of tea and
piece of simple pie, but which came near
carrying us to the Land of the Leal be
fore morning. It seemed as though w
were poisoned with verdigris, from the
effects of which we are siill suffering fa
week later), though the good ladies of
the hotel were not aware of any new de
parture In the culinary department, and
the accident, which came nearer being
fatal than we at first imagined, must be
attributed to some stupid blunder of a
heatheu Chinee.
On Wednesday, the 24th lust,, accom
panied by our good friend Mrs. Hannah
of Uniontown, we mounted the seat be-
siae tne driver upon the great stage
coach, and long before the first glimpses
of old Sol's streaming hair had begun to
greet human eyes with a shimmering
array of golden tangles a-spread upon
the clouds and mountains, we turned
our faces Union-ward, well wrapped in
veils and nubias to protect our eyes and
noses from the frosty, icy, snowy gloom
By and by the molten sun climbed up
the sere, bleak mountains and gazed at
us for a moment with his single, sullen
eye, and then slunk away, out of sight
behind a friendly cloud that caught the
tangles of his unkempt locks and shook
them defiantly at the vast expanse of
snow that sparkled everywhere.
though the frost-crested waste were
literal sea of diamonds. Then the tan
gled, golden hair was hidden, and the
whole earth was shrouded in a cold array
of dead, monotonous whiteness.
We bad sighed over being shut up in
the coach on our way to Baker City, for
we wanted to see the country. To-day
we were to be gratified; for Boreas was
holding his breath, aud from our perch
beside the driver, our vision was only
bounded, at a distance of many miles
across the level vale, by chains of bleak,
white mountains, with here and there a
purple ridge of cone-shaped trees, all
mantled with the snow.
The ground being frozen, and the ruts
filled with snow-drift, the roads were
better than when we went over a few
days previous; but on many sidelontr
places, the coach would slide until the
danger of upsetting was imminent. We
had thumped and rumbled and crushed
and glided by turns over the diversified
roadway, and had come within a half
dozen miles of our day's journey's end,
when we met, for the dozenth time that
day, one of the immense frieght wagons
with what teamsters call a "train'
behind it we hope no fashionable train
draggler will imagine it to be like her
own. It is simply a common heavv
wagon with a stubby "pole" hooked
under the running gear of the forward
i . , . . .
veuicie to wmcn we mean tne one
last named) were hitched at least eight
rat-tailed, ewe-necked mules, with
spindle legs and shaggy coats and over
grown joints, reminding us strongly of
many overworked specimens of mother
hood we wot of, who foolishly Imagine
that they "have all the rights they
waur."
We were just coming upon a long,
narrow grade from which the landscape
sloped toward a rocky gulch, when we
met the above-mentioned team aud
train. The team halted, and our driver
veered to tho right to pass by it, when
the great stage adopted a sudden sliding
scale movement, suggestive of immedi
ate dissolution.
"Whoa !" cried the driver.
"Let's dismount," said Mrs. H.
"How can we?" answered we.
"Sit still !" commanded the boss.
"We'll have to," thought we both.
"Say, teamster, take hold of the hind
end of the coach and steady it till we get
by, won't you ?" said the driver, as cool
as a cucumber.
bald teamster wasn't in any hurry,
but he finally obeyed.
We had three Chinamen inside tho
coach, but they proposed to fight it out
on that line if it killed the whole crowd
of us, and they wouldn't budge an Inch
So the teamster clung to the upper and
well-locked coach wheel, looking about
as big and heavy as a horse-fly clinging
to a buffalo; our driver said "get up,"
cracking a keen "persuader" vigorously
as he spoke, and then a sudden jolt took
us over the most dangerous rut. Graz
ing the traces of tho forward mules in
the .freight team with our horses, and
slapping the single-tree3 against the
reed-like legs of the hinder ones with
our coach wheels, we gained the level
ground aud went rumbling on.
"By George.' that was a mighty close
shave 1" said the driver, earnestly.
"Hope we won't meet another team,"
wo said, tremulously.
"It's nothing, once you get used to
it," remarked Mrs. H., dryly.
"Getting used to it's the rub," said we,
solemnly.
Then Mrs. H. beguiled the journey by
relating a number of laughable hair
breadth escapes, and, after a. while, we
were In the great cafiou leading down to
the Grand Ronde valley, where the
scenery Is as wild and desolate, if not as
extensive and picturesque, as Weber
cafion, in Utah.
Reached Uniontown at 1 p. m., and,
after a nice dinner and refreshing nap at
Mrs. Hannah's elegant home, we met a
fine audience in the evening in the Good
Templars' Hall, and held them two
ohurs in a talk upon "The Temperance
Problem."
The next day (Thursday) after bidding
the kind friends who had so hospitably
entertained us a regretful good-bye, we
gratefully accepted the kindly aid of
Hon. James Hendershott, who took us
to The Cove, nine miles, distant, where I
we were soon ensconced in his hosplta
ble home, his good wife greeting us
gladly.
In all our travels we have never seen
a spot that equals this In beauty. It is
a little valley containing about eighteen
square miles, cuddled up under an en
closure of mountains at least nine hund
red feet high, which are covered at in
i ,. . .
icivuis wiiu groves or massive ever
greens. At the time of our visit, both
hills and dales were coated with snow.
though not deep enough to hide the
rank bunch-grass that everywhere
adorns the beauteous landscape. The
valley Is of course thickly settled, the
farms being mostly small, and all fenced
and cultivated. The litttetown of Cove
sits under the lee of the farthest hills,
and contains a number of fine dwellings
a store, Mr. McDaniel proprietor, and
universallst society and church, of
which Rev. Mr. Morrison is pastor.
The people are almost all suffragists,
uur lectures were given iu the church
and well patronized, despite the intense
cold.
Many of the women In Grand Ronde
valley, of which The Cove Is a part, own
extensive property, carry on business
and pay heavy taxes, although they
cannot vote. Mrs. Hendershott,
(whose husband Is Register in the State
Land Office, and whose business call
nim to uniontown) has, iu the past
year, carried on a large farm, raised
over a thousand bushels of grain, and
put up a hundred tons of hay. She has
paid her own farm-hands, done her own
house-keeping, and commanded uni
versal respect. Her husband often asks.
"Why shouldn't she have a vote ? Her
hired men are ail voters."
The effects of verdigris poisoning at
Baker City still lingered upon us, and
after the second lecture, we were taken
seriously ill. Couldn't have beeu i
better hands, though, for Mrs. Hender
shott, who is styled the "good Samari
tan," doctored and nursed us, and by
Saturday morning so far restored us that
we were ready to accept a seat in th
wagon of Mr. Rees, a brother-in-law of
our friend Ben. Hail. Esq.. of Wood
burn, aud, accompanied by Mrs. Hen
dershott, Mr. Rees and Rev. Mr. Mor
rison, we went over to La Grande,
where we became the guest of Hon
Daniel Chaplain and his splendid wife,
where again wo were doctored by gen
tie, womanly hands; and where, com
pelled to lie by, like adamaged steamer,
for repairs, we waited and rested till
Monday evening, and then met a large
assembly in the Methodist Church
Elder Hlnes presiding, and the people
listening with marked decorum to
temperance lecture.
xue snow, wuicn a lew days ago
wrapped everything anear and afar in
Its spotless coverlet of icy down, has at
length departed upon the wings of a
wild "Chinook," and the air at thi
writing is as mild as a Webfoot April
day.
The change in the weather changes our
programme, and to-morrow we are to
proceed Walla- Walla-ward. A. J. D.
November 29.
P. S. It is excessively mortifying to
the soul of an editor to perpetrate an at
tempted "goak," which, when printed
requires the next week's paper to so ox-
plain that the reader may see where tho
wit comes in.
Jf anybody but ourself can see the
point of our declaration in our Uulon-
town letter, that wo were "six hundred
miles from home," when, really, the
journey from Portland to La Grande
"both ways" only makes the distance
mey are more astute than tne poor
joter, who, for once, attempted to be fa
cetious and failed. A. J. D.
We have received from Herman
Snow, 319 Kearny street, San Francisco,
"The New Gospel of Health," a work
intended to teach the principles of vital
magnetism, aud how to replenish the
springs of life without drugs or stimu
lants. The plain, common-sense views
which are given concerning the cause
and cure of consumntiou alone enti
tles it to wide circulation and care
ful perusal. We believe that hundreds
go to premature graves every year who
might have been restored to health, or,
better still, never have been attacked
by this fell destroyer, had they pos
sessed a knowledge of the information
here imparted. While we commend,
we should be sorry to endorse all the
sentiments expressed in the book; as,
for instance, "girls need only so much
education as will make them eood
mothers." A chapter of trash In this
strain is, however, offset by the decla
ration that "whatever a girl wants to
do, she should be encouraged In doing."
The book will repay careful study, and
may be obtained from Herman Snow,
319 Kearny street, San Francisco, Cai
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printers for the State of California, have
one of the most complete printing estab
Ilshments In San Francisco. A late
number of tho Churchman contains an
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enterprising and reliable firm has estab
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commodation of their country patrons,
Their references are unquestionable, and
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prompt attention. Address Cubery &
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The property of the late William B.
Astor is estimated at $100,000,000. He
leaves three sons aud two daughters.
His wife was a daughter of General
Armstrong, Secretary of War, under
President Monroe.
Tbe Secretary of War asks fnr nn niv.
propriation of $15,000 from Congress for
the construction of a military prison at
Fort Canby. The Engineer Bureau ask
lorsou.uw mr tne improvement of the
upper Willamette,
BEOEKjCEVEKTS.
Charles S. Abel!, proprietor of the
Baltimore Sun, died on the 2d Inst., of
typhoid fever. .
A post office lias been established at
Bake Oven, Wasco county, Oregon,
with Mrs. Ellen Burgess postmaster.
All tbe Pacific coast Senators, Repre
sentatives and Delegates were in their
seats on Monday, except Nevada Sena
tors and the Idaho Delegate.
The municipality of Paris has con
tributed $6,000 toward the subscription
to send a deputation of French work
men to the Centennial Exhibition.
The $6,000,000 suit against Tweed has
been postponed to give the sheriff time
to consult counsel, he being now a party
to the suit, owing to the escape of the
defendant.
Money to the amount of $400 was col
lected and sent to the Virginia City
sufferers on Saturday by Colonel Ste
venson aud Charles H. Blinn, of San
Francisco.
Apprehension is felt in Baltimore for
the safety of the ship "Itasca," whic.i
sailed from that port on the 23th of
April last for San Francisco, with a
cargo consisting of 1,800 cases of canued
goods, and 2,000 tons of coal. She was
spoken on the 31st of May thirty miles
south of the equator, and has not since
been heard from.
At a large meeting, on the 6th Inst.,
in Boston, of the Methodist Episcopal
Sabbath School Union and Tract So
ciety, also weekly meeting of preachers,
comprising nearly 200, Bishop Haven
urged as a measure of relier for the pub
lic the re-nomination of General Grant
for President. His views were adopted
by a unanimous vote.
The opening of the Forty-fourth Con
gress was niarKeci by the presence
around the Capitol of a larger crowd
than probably ever before watched slm
liar proceedings. Although wet and
dreary, tho weather eeemed to have lit
tie or no effect In restraining the eager
ness of the multitudes which have
flowed into the city during the past few
days, and from an early hour the galler
ies of the House of Representatives were
packed as closely as possible. The at
tendance of the members was very full
nearly every seat being occupied. There
were two nominations for Speaker, viz
Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, and Jas,
G. Blaine, of Maine. Whole number of
votes cast, 280 ; necessary to a choi
141; Michael C. Kerr received 173; J.
Blaine, 106.
The jury In the case of Daniel Doty,
tried at Jacksonville during the present
week for assault with intent to kill
Brooks Johnson, after four day's delib
eratlon, returned a verdict of guilty,
This Doty will be remembered as the
man who attacked Mrs. Johnson in his
field with a club some months ago, and
seriously wounded both the woman and
her son, who attempted to interfere.
The first number of the Albany Even
ing Democrat was issued on Saturday,
Mr. E. O. Norton. late of the Salem
Statesman, Is city editor. The general
editorial management is conducted by
the senior editor of the Democrat, wh
promises to spare no effort to make tb
paper a welcome visitor to every house
hold, as well as a prize to every busi
uess man in the State.
The wrecked schooner "Sunshine'
had on board $10,000 in coin for parties
at Coos Bay. She was owned by Cap
tains liennett aud Johnson, Mrs.
Haugfastead, and E. B. Dean. She was
registered 327 tons, was built at a cost of
$32,000, was launched in September
last, and was Insured for $10,000.
tV dispatch from New York, under
date of the 4th Inst., gives the follow
ing account of the escape from Ludlow
jail of William M. Tweed:
William M. Tweed has escnnpil from
J..UUIOW jail. A dispatch received at
the police headauarters this evenlnir
ai.ui.eu mat wiuiara m. Tweed had just
escaped from the custody of Warden
JJunham, of Ludlow-street jail. Word
was Immediately telegraphed to every
police station in this city, Brooklyn,
and the neighboring cities, notifying
me uunce to oeon tne lOOKOtit. wanlpn
JJunham subsequently called on In
spector JDflk, at the police central offinp.
and stated that he bad accompanied the
unauuci iu me reaiueuce 01 jurs. i wp.pn.
Madison avenue and 59th strppr.. nnrl
while there, Tweed had requested per-
iuibsiuu 10 see ins wne privately. Dun
ham unhesitatingly granted therenupst.
and Tweed went up stairs to his wife's
rooms, leaving one of his sous to enter
tain Dunham and the dpputy. After
waiting about ten minutes, Dunham
became uneasy, aud sent young Tweed
up-stairs to ten nis lather to come
down immediately, as they desired
to return to tall In a short timp
mi .
xne young man returned and in
formed Dunham his father had eronp.
Dunham at once searched the house,
but no trace of tbe Boss could be found.
Leaving the deputy in charge of the
uouse, Dunnam uurned to the residence
of Sheriff Connor and informed him of
the escape. The police authorities were
promptly notified, and tbe central nfflnn
detectives at once went out scouring
the city in all directions. The Dolice
are of opinion that Tweed passed out of
iue irons oasement door ana was taken
to Sixth street and East River, where
he embarked in a small steam vessel.
The bouds of the sheriff for the nroner
and faithful performance of his duties
are lor iou,uou, and those of the warden
are sai.uuu.
Uhe "leaser." a small stpm-wlippl
steamboat runninir between Port Town-
sena and Whatcom, San Juan and adja
cent Islauds, has been forbidden to carry
passengers, blie is a good enough boat
n Bmooiu water and pleasant weather.
but in these days of gales and storms,
and in such water as the Straits of Fuca,
strong, substantial boats, which can
stand a rough sea, are requisite.
The Democrat says: "Ans. Marshall
has the right sort of pluck. Instead of
8ittinir down iu the ashes of his late fire
and weeping over his losses, be has al
ready put lumber ou tne grounu with
which to rebuild, aud will commence
the work immediately."
Thft npf. nrnflfji nf tho fair ami tnnoa nf
I iJoue City were $i,oiu.
From Portland up tho Columbia.
By request of a gentleman from Wasco
county, we re-publish the following ac
count of a trip from this city to The
Dalles, which appeared In No. 13, Vol. 1,
of this journal :
On the morning of the 22d of July,
1871, we availed ourself of the prover
bial hospitality of the O. S. N. Co., aud
atfiveo'clock went on board the steamer
"Oneonta," and were soon steaming
toward The Dalles. A stiff breeze was
blowing up the river, and the early
morning air, though exhilarating, was
quite chilly and disagreeable.
Our company was pleasant and social;
but among them all was not one cham
pion of equal rights but our humble
self. Opportunity for proselyting was
freely given, and we succeeded, as we
always do, In convincing our brethren
that we, at least, have just as much
right to a voice in the making of the
laws as they.
But we left Portland to get away from
newspaperdom for a season, and to en
joy the sceuery of the Columbia. This
river scenery far surpasses in magnifll
cence anything our eyes ever before be
held. It was our first trip up the Co
lumbia, and we felt a childish eagerness
to see, admire, and interrogate.
Vancouver is the handsomest sito on
the river, and the day will surely come
when it will be a very Important town.
Of the O. S. N. Co.'a works, one rail
road bridge had been injured somewhat
by the recent high water, but the other
Improvements along the portage are
well kept and seem to be in a good stata
of preservation. The Company's boats
are in perfect order, and the officers are
kind and obliging. They are justly
proud of the river sceuery, and as we
gazed at the ever-changing beauties of
the mountain slopes, we felt a strong
desire to mount a Cayuse Pegasus and
endeavor to invoke the chanting num
bers of the singing Nine. But respect
for Joaquin Miller's new-found reputa
tion stayed the whip and spur, and kept
us In the old and beaten path of dry and
plodding prose.
The Bridal Veil, on the left bank of
the river, with Us precipitous fall of
nine hundred feet, is indeed a rare reva
Iation of the beautiful. Using a glass,
we could see vivid rainbows all the way
down the fall, which, long before it
strikes the vale below, scatters Into a
foaming and misty spray, suggestive of
its appropriate appellation.
Castle Rock, ou the right bank of the
river, is another noted sight. It is said
that Jay Cooke has purchased this rock
aud that it is now called Cooke's Castle,
but we don't suppose the owner will
ever care to occupy It as a homestead.
It is massive, wild and wierd and beauti
ful; but as a Willamette Valley tourist
said, "A mighty poor place for raising
vegetables."
Leaving the steamer "Oneonta" and
tbe accommodating cars, we board
another steamer above the Cascades, and
are soon iu Eastern Oregon. Fir trees
now give place to pine, but for a long
distance the timber is so far away that
the unaided eye cannot note tbe change.
Farms and farm-houses sleep lazily
along the foot of the mountains at in
tervals, giving forth a picture of rural
comfort that Is specially inviting to a
long pent up Portlander. Everywhere,
upon either hand, the undulating moun
tains roll themselves back in the dis
tance, while often bold-browed hills rise
perpendicularly from the water's edge
to an amazing altitude. Occasionally
some enterprising pine tree flourishes
in these forbidding rocks, a proud result
of perseverance under adverse circum
stances. And, last, but bv no means
least, the mighty Upper Columbia, In
Its never-ceasinsr course, ntrikp.q nnr
pleased fancy as a living joy,- aud its
grandeur will abide with us as a never
failing memory.
Four o'clock P. M. and we nrriv nf.
The Dalles. This pleasing town bpara
much evidence of present nrosnprltv.
but also has many marks of the naafc
mining age, when houses were thrown
up in a day and abandoned at a mo
ment's fancy. Many of those shells of
buildings aie yet standing, untenanted,
unkempt, and cheerless relics of a by
gone era. We should be glad to see
those empty houses demolished or re
paired, and hone the citv fathers will
also get the sidewalks mended.
As the guest of Mr. R. Pentland and
his amiable wife, we are hospitably en
tertained in a charm ins: marvel of a
cottage house, among a nest of trees,
nign up above the busy town. The air
is delightfully dry and pure, the breeze
refreshing, and the scenerv grand. In
the quiet and country-like solitude of
the guest's chamber, we sit and write.
our thoughts going out with veamincr
solicitude to the loved ones at home.
whom we hoDe soon to meet, rpfrpshed
and strengthened bv the hripf rpsnlto
from our usual toil.
HEWSJTEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL
A. Washington county man raised 210
potatoes in one hill.
The Salem woolen mills received
300,000 pounds of wool last week.
The population of Seattle, exclusivo nf
Indiaus and Chinese, is estimated at
3,480.
The snow was two feet deen at Ormrf 7.
burg, Idaho, last week, aud the weather
very cold.
Preslnent Gatch. of the WillamptfB
University, will take charge of tho
State University early next year.
A new Lodge of Good Temnlars was
organized at Stayton, Marion county, on
uie mi,, wiiu a goou memoersnip.
The Santiam River was within a fVw
inches of being as high recently as it
was during the great flood of 1861.
The convention of Pucet Sound log
gers that was to have been held In Seat
tle last week, has been postponed until
the first of January.
The next issue of the Wnshin trtnn
Standard will contain the opening
chapter of a serial story written by a
icaiucub ui uiympia.
A miner named Miller, near Butte
City, Montana, is reported to have
found in an ordinary gravel rock, a spec
imen of surface gold worth $1,800.
The bridge at Lafayette has become
somewhat endangered by the high
water. The Yamhill surges under and
around it iu a threatening manner.
Mrs. Briggs and her son David have
been lodged in the penitentiary, sent for
five years each from Josephine county.
for killing the school-teacher, Dela
mater. During the month of October. 3.322.-
000 pounds of bullion were shipped over
the Utah Central railroad, the greater
portion of which was conslrnpd tr.
Omaha, Chicago and St. Louis refineries.
The superintendent of the TT. R
office iu Denver, Colorado, says that the
increase of gold and silver assayed there
for the last four years has hppn fniiw
forty percent each year in excess of the
preceding year.
Fonrot the trusteps of thn
Territory Insane Asylum, appointed
under the new arrangement by the last
Legislature, have signified to the Gov
ernor their accentancp. One ha dp.
cllned, Mr. Barnes, of Olympia, and
one calls for more Ucht nnon tha snh.
Ject.