FRIDAY..
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by resilttl- v express charges upon
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.g to us through money orders or
red letters.
W PAPEE JEXT WEEK.
There will be no paper Issued from
this office nest week. Cause the com
positors, being patriotic, desire to help
celebrate the Fourth. Each subscriber
will receive the usual number of papers,
52 fora year's subscription, as the inter
mission will not break the succession of
the numbers.
PLEASEN0TI0E.
As will be seen by the "Editorial Cor
respondence," Mrs. Dunlway is very
slowly making her toilsome journey
eastward with small prospect of being
in Philadelphia by the Fourth. We
trust that subscribers will heed her ap
peal for substantial aid to the Sew
Northwest by way of dues, renewals,
and remittances, and promptly respond
is really wonderful how persons op
posed to Woman Stiff rage make items
for the newspapera -out of their own dis
torted ideas, and "how, even while fly
ing past Laramie City, they are able to
discover that the ladies of Wyoming are
heartily disgur.ted with "female suf
frage." Of what use Is it for Judge
Kingmau or successive Governors of the
Territory to bear repeated and conclu
sive testimony relative to the beneficial
resultsof the system, and the fact that
the women almost universally avail
themselves of the privileges of the fran
chise ? Mart. Brown, spinning through
the Territory of Wyoming on the fast'
flying trains of the C. P. R. R., en route
for the St. Louis Convention, declares
that "even now but few women avail
tbemaelves of the voting privilege, and
these who do so are only brought out
through the earnest solicitations of anx
ious candidates."
The legislators of this Territory are
chosen jointly by the votes of men and
women, and it does seem a little strange
if, as this sapient quill-driver asserts,
"the question of repeal of Woman Suf
frage were left to the women alone, it
would prevail by an overwhelming ma
ti Tn Imiui tn mppt. mnliv of
h e during Centennial week, and be Jority " that it is impossible to elect a
ororlif. n fulfilment amount I lJCt""""'5 r .. r .
enabled to credit a
upon our books to place the paper be
yond the possibility of petty financial
annoyance during the two or three
months of Mrs. Duniway's absence.
Do not fail, friends, to call at the edi
torial rooms, corner of Fourth and F
streets, or at the residence of the editor,
Fourth street, between E and F, and
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whether you owe or not, as we wish to
take as many of the patrons of the New
Northwest by the hand during Cen
tennial week as visit the city. During
the hours mentioned we shall remain at
home or office purposely to meet you.
DEPAETUEE OF THE EEPUBLIO'S
PIEST OENTUEY.
Before we again extend greeting to
our readers, the bells in all the cities,
the cannon from every fortress and war
ship, the bunting from every masthead,
will proclaim to a proud nation and a
listening world that the great Republic
has passed her one-huudredth natal
day, and with all her retinue of States,
which each In turn have added a starry
jewel to the crown that encircles the
pure brow of the Goddess of Liberty,
has swept royally into her second cen
tury. From where the tides of the At
lantic kiss the sands upon the sunrise
shore to where the majestic Pacific
makes ceaseless plaint upon the sunset
landsof the North American continent;
from the mighty lakes with their set
ting of emerald, to the restless gulf that
indents its southern limit, loud shouts
of patriotism and glorious songsjof free
dom will voice the pulsing air.
Down to us through the busy decades
of a century that is gone come the im
mortal words, "These Colonies are, and
of a right ought to be, free and inde
pendent Slates," and the invincible
thirteen, which first proclaimed this
declaration, were not more proudly con
scious of a glorious achievement than
are the thirty-seven that unite to honor
and applaud when the changing cycles
have counted off the century.
Then, as the sun sank behind the Al
leghanies, his beams lingered with lov
ing light upon the farthest western
limits of the United States of America.
To-day, as the broad Pacific hides him I
from view, his parting rays gild her oc
cidental verge. Then 3,000,000 of peo
ple, harassed by poverty, disheartened
by disaster, outnumbered by an arro
gant foe, struggled bravely to make
good the words forged in the furnace of
patriotism and tempered by its fierce
fires. To-day more than 40,000,000 of
loyal citizens attest the blessings which
the struggle secured to them.
The lesson that "resistance to tyranny
is obedience to God" was early learned
by not only the sons, but the daughters
of the United States, and its observance
has led the Republic to come off victo
rious in every encouuter with foreign
despot and domestic foe. Men of
every nation have sought and found
shelter beneath the starry emblem of
the free; the colored men, after long
years of unrequited toil, can now bare
their brows to liberty's breezes, and
pointing proudly to their emancipation
deed, swell the glad chorus of rejoicing
that shall send pieans of triu mph through
the years of the nation's century new
born. Women, not less loyal and patriotic
than are their brethren, as many heroic
deeds attest, alone dwell yet in the
shadow of oppression's wing; yet true
to the inspiration of freedom which is
their joint heritage from brave sires and
devoted mothers, they chafe against
restrictions that hold them in political
ondage, and, mingled with the rejoic
ings of those who are free indeed, is
heard from all quarters their protest
against "taxation without representa
tion." Beneath the very shadow of Inde
pendence Hall these words of earnest
protest will go up, mingling with the
reverberations which the glad winds
and ready echoes will bear up and out
upon the air, telling a nation's glorious
story of liberty. Knocking, not tim
idly, but with courage bom of right,
they stand at the portals of the Temple
of Liberty, not supplicating as a fuvor,
but demanding, in the name of justice,
that the last bolt of tyranny shall fly
back, and the self-evident truths enun
ciated by the Declaration of Independ
ence be applied with equal force to the
political. condition of men and women.
Toil on, brave laborers in the field of
right, and, when your children's chil
dren shall count the last days from the
years of the Republic's second century,
and sum up its records for yet other
generations, they will. give no prouder
rehearsal than is embodied in your just
demands for equal rights.
the act conferrincr the boon. It is al
most too bombastic for even Mart. Brown
to declare that the men of Wyoming
keep this law upon the statute books in
defiance of the wishes of the women. If
Mart, is so devoid of sagacity, so "inno
cent abroad," as to be thus imposed
upon by his "informant, a gentleman of
intelligence," let him not hatter him
self that unsophisticated innocence a!
home is thus credulous.
Again, it is plain that if the "anxious
candidates" of Wyoming are as anxious
as Oregon candidates for office, that
very few voters would remain at home
on election day; so that little bit of lie
lion vanishes before sober and well
known fact.
While endeavoring to convince his
readers of the unpopularity of Woman
Suffrage where it exists, he gives vent,
albeit with his usual coarse language
and vulgar attempt at wit, to a fact pat
ent even to his mind, as the followin
preface to the remarks above referred to
proves
Here also doth abound the woman voter and
the female Justice ol the Peace. (For you all
do know that female suftrage prevails in the
Territory of Wyoming.) It reallydocs seemas
If the women are working square In the lead In
this region, for at every eating station since we
entered the Territory, some buxom matron or
hollow-chested old maid bossed the dining-
room and feathered onto our greenbocks.
According to this statement, the fran
chise has conferred upou working worn
en a right equal to that of working
men, viz.: the right to collect "green
backs" which they have earned, and to
earn greenbacks iu any honorable way
that presents itself.
Pity that such a wonderful discovery
relative to the detrimental effects
Woman Suffrage cannot be sustained
even by the discoverer's own observa
tions.
"EQUITABLE ADJUSTMENT."
To our notice of expiration of sub
scription and solicitation for renewal of
the same, a subscriber at Creswell
writes:
"It is perhaps proper to Inform you that
since the New N orthwkst has become a visi
tor to our domicile, there has been an equitable
adjustment of property which will make it ob
lisaiorv. (or convenient, if you please), for
Mrs. to pay for her favorite paper ; and I
will here say that it is quite probable that she
will renew her subscription when she disposes
of the wool clip from that one hundred head of
sheep which said paper cost me last year In
addition to the subscription price of S3 (XX
Formerly I have been an enthusiastic Woman
Suffragist, while my wife approved, but now
the scale is' reversed ; she claims the enthusi
asm, and I occupy her former ground."
This is as it should be, good friend
first "equitable adjustment of property,"
then individual responsibility for indi
vidual accounts, joint responsibility for
joint accounts. This is a lesson which,
though slowly learned, will prove salu
tary and satisfactory to all parties In
the end. Take away the feeling of pe
cuniary dependence which the junior
partner iu the matrimonial firm is so
often made to feel, and all the other ills
and crosses incident thereto will grow
small by degrees and beautifully less.
Let us have "equitable adjustment,"
by all means.
IT TAEES A BEAVE "V701IA1T TO
LIVE."
In speaking several weeks since of a
wife 18 years old who, tired of life's toil
tid endeavor and disappointment, had
rashly brought all to a close so far as
this world is concerned by drowu-
ng herself, we remarked with per
haps seeming severity: "If, instead
of grieving after a husband who 'had
peremptorily requested her, in a harsh
note, not to write to him again,' she
bad gone bravely to work to make
something of herself, she would not
have left behind her the cowardly rec-
ord of a suicide's death, nor by the ill
considered act have gone stained with
crime into the lsfnd of souls. Any cow-
ard can die; it takes a brave man or
woman to live when assailed by out
rageous fortune."
For this a friend who lias borne the
storms of life for more than half a cen
tury, now facing the blast with firm de
termination, aud again bowing before it
n the vain hope that it might pass by,
takes us to task for what she terms 'bur
harsh strictures upon the case, al
though every day of her life has given
abundant testimony to prove the asser
tion that it 'takes a brave person to
live.' " We quote from her letter :
It Is not so very strange that when a woman
can find no place in the world for herself she
should feel like getting out of it. You say it
takes a brave person to live; yes, It truly takes
bravery that borders on presumption In some
cases. The person to whom reference was
made by you was young.and life's possibilities
were all before her; but let us suppose a case
where notonehopeof youth has been realized
although the patient toiler has mounted the
third score of her years. Her protector has
proved a (allure; she has not sufficient educa
tion for when she was young education was
not thought necessary for a girl to enable her
to teach, or carry on any kind of business; she
has no capital, for the accumulation of the
matrimonial firm all belong to the protectoi
aforesaid, to be retained at his will, or doled
out at his pleasure. There is nothing left but
manual labor, aud this, with shattered health
and age creeping on apace, Is neither certain
nor remunerative. She can scarcely, even
when usually well, earn more than her board
for from time immemorial woman's time and
woman's service have been counted as naught,
and paid in the same way as counted. Under
these circumstances, of what avail is it to her
that her heart is brave, and what road or even
bridle-path, obscure and blind, is there to lead
her weary feet into the long-dreamed-of fields
of Independence T Often neglected by friends
always maligned by the evil-minded, mis
judged by the more favored children of fortune.
what wonder if she should feel that in all the
wide world there is no place for her, and look
toward the mystic veil that shrouds from her
view the beautiful beyond, with an almost 1
repressible desire to lift her hand and dash it
aside ? No myth, but a real living and breath
ing reality is this woman, possessed of a will
power sufficiently strong, but lacking the phy
leal strength to hew her way through obstacles
that at every turn beset her endeavors. If she
were young she might perhaps fit herself for
something. If she were strong she might
work, no matter how hard the labor. But as
is, she must consent to remain a burden to her
friends. This is not an overdrawn picture.
From my own knowledge It Is drawn, and
more than one subject In my immediate ac
quaintance illustrates it. Praying that yon
may be blessed with health, strength, and wl
dom sufficient for your needs In the great con
diet with error, I am most truly yours.
The foregoing, if intended to disprove
the assertion that heads this articl
certainly fails in its objeet. A sudden
plunge in the cold waters demands no
courage compared to that which is re-
uired to battle unceasingly with the
ills of life, hoping nothing, expecting
nothing but a peaceful voyage across
the dark river at its close. Surely the
sorrows of this life are sufficient, with
out jeopardizing the possible pleasures
of the life to be, by a reckless plunge
nto its mysteries. And though life's
fairest fruits have after patient toil in
the gathering turned to apples of Sodom
n the grasp, anil to bitter ashes upon
the lips, falter not, O weary and dis
heartened worker, but be assured of the
final rest promised to those who thank
fully take life's pleasures, and patiently
bear its pain.
A FA0T PULLT DEM0NSTBATED
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, President of
the American Woman Suffrage Assocl
ation, has returned from her recent suc
cessful trip to California and issued the
following call :
The American Woman Suffrage Association
In grateful remembrance of the adoption of the
principle of equal political rights for woman
by the Province of New Jersey, on the 3d of
July, 1776, will celebrate the event In the city
of Philadelphia, on Monday, the 3d of July
next, by a public meeting In Horticultural
Hall. There will be two sessions, In the morn
lng at 10:30 o'clock, and In the afternoon at 2:30.
This zealous worker in the reform
field took but three days' rest after her
journey across the Continent, when she
repaired to Philadelphia to take part iu
the convention of the temperance worn
en of America. In view of such an ex
ample of physical endurance, the ques
tion of woman's comparative physical
and mental ability for severe and pro
tracted labor is not only proved but
demonstrated.
The Tribune's Washington special of
the 27tb says there are no favorable in
dications that the appropriation bills
will pass before the end of the fiscal
year. Randall himself says there is lit
tie hope. Grant says nothing is left
him but to enforce the laws, which are
imperative. The Democrats are getting
frightened, but there is no time to re
trieve blunders.
It is thought that Morrill will not ac
cept the Treasury bureau, as bis ser
vices are at the present time invaluable
in the Senato,
I1TT0LEBAU0EILLUSTEATED.
A woman, and an ardent friend of woman,
handed us a few days since the subjoined
statement, which, In accordance with the re
quest of numerous friends, and Illustrative of
the ungodliness and intolerance of sectarian-
m, as well as the bigotry of some persons (or
parsons) who, with "Impious piety," declare
themselves called of the Master to do His
work, we publish, leaving those who believe
that "women should keep silence," as well as
those who believe that God, Creator wise, gave
women tongues wherewith to sound ills
praises, to form thelrown conclusions. Ed.
On the evening of May 30th, I at
tended a Methodist camp-meeting on
the banks of the Roeue River. After
preaching was over, "mourners" were
called for, aud the call was responded to
by four or five persons, who knelt, ask
ing prayers. After about an hour had
passed I went to the pastor in charge,
Rev. J. S. McCain, and asked per
mission to speak to those who knelt at
the altar. He replied, "Say on." I
then quoted the thirty-eighth verse of
the second chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles, which reads as follows: "Then
said Peter unto them, Repent and be
baptized, every one of you, in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of
sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost." "Only this, and nothing
more," I said, aud took my seat. On
the evening of June 1st I again at
tended the meeting, and, by invitation,
took a seat inside the altar, participa
ting in the worship of God with true
purpose of heart by mingling my voice
with others in singing praises to His
holy name. After preaching, repeated
prayers were offered asking God to
come down right now aud bless and save
these poon sinners who had been per
suaded aud pulled down into an attitude
of supplication at the mourner's bench
in the hope to get religion. Two hours
passed in prayer and exhortation, and
the meeting was dismissed without auy
manifestation of pardon on the part o
seekers. Before leaving the ground, I
felt it my duty to speak to a mourning
sister who stood near, and, approaching
her in love and solicitude, I quoted
again the text above referred to. No
sooner had the words of Peter fallen
from my lips, than Parson McCain
rushed up to me, exclaiming, in angry
tones, "You hush.' This i9 our meeting
aud I won't allow you to interfere I
will have you arrested !" at the same
time waiving his hand in my face, and
gave me a slight push backward. He
then mounted the mourner's bench aud
called for his officer, gesticulating, and
threatening to arrest any and every
one wuo should disturo nis meeting,
The reader will bear iu mind that all
this occurred after the meeting had
been dismsssed. If his religion prompts
him to have a woman arrested for
quoting a verso of Scripture that sh
considers applicable to the case of those
who- are seeking the better way.
might perhaps lead him to pull on tli
end of a rope iu order to help hang an
innocent man. My reason for making
this statement, aud asking its publica
tion in the exponent of equal rights is
that I have been maligned aud misrep
resented by this preacher, and wish tb
people to know the facts in the case.
Ann M. Griosbv,
Jacksonville, June 3, 187G.
The names of some twelve or fifteen
persons attesting the truth of the above
statemeut, we omit for want of space.
EDIT0EIAL 00EEESP0NDEH0E.
"HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
A PE0TESTMEETING.
To the Editor op the New Northwest:
I have been requested to inform the
people of Yamhill county geuerally, aud
those who believe iu equal rights par
ticularly, that the friends and leaders of
the Woman Suffrage movement in this
county propose to hold a protest meet
ing at McMiunvilie on Tuesday, July
4tb. A programme is being prepared,
which will appear in the couuty papers,
but I am not as yet advised of its details
sufficiently to give them to you cor
rectly.
The oration will be delivered by your
humble servant, Mrs. H. A. Loughary;
the Declaration of Independence will be
read ; also, the woman's declaration of
the same, as read at the Rock Island
celebration one year ago. Appropriate
music will be furnished and a basket
dinner prepared. In short, we intend to
"protest" with what might we have
against taxation without representa
tion ; to celebrate with patriotic enthu
slasm the anniversary of those liberties
which we in common with ourbrothren
enjoy, and be sociable, hospitable, and
happy, as befits native-born Americans
on the natal day of the.greatest Repub
lic the sun has ever shone upon.
We cordially invite all who delight iu
the enthusiastic pleasures that wait
upon Fourth of July celebrations to join
lis, and while the July breezes give
voice to our earnest protest against the
words of the immortal Declaration o
Independence remaining longer a dead
letter to one-half of the nation's patri
otic children, we ask you to draw near,
and with hearts imbued with patriotic
zeal, with minds broadened by the de
velopments of the nineteenth century,
with understanding stimulated by the
sharp reminders of justice, with preju
dice disarmed and love of liberty quick
ened, to answer and tell us if there is
not just cause for a recital of grievances,
in that for a century past men "have
usurped the power to legislate for women
In all cases whatsoever."
H. A. Loughary
Amity, June 22, 1976.
Mart. Brown is one of the Committee
on Platform in the St. Louis Conveu
tion. Of course a "twelfth plank"
now assured.
A little while ago, as I paused in the
midst of a large washing to rock the
cradle and rest a while, I picked up a
paper and read a paragraph under the
above caption. And now, as I am sit
ting down again with ray foot on the
rocker, I desire to quote from the article
referred to and make a few comments.
A farmer's wife has the same right to be neat
and fashionable and refined that a woman of
the city has.
Of course she has; and many an over
tasked farmer's wife, who has naturally
a strong desire to be neat and fashiona
ble, sighs ofttimes because she cannot
hive the time to gratify her taste in
that respect.
Because she lives on a farm, and leeds the
pigs and chickens, Is no reason that she should
make a drudge of herself and not care for per
sonal appearance.
Perhaps not, and if feeding the pigs
and chickens was all the work she bad
to do, I doubt if it would be necessary
for her to make a "drudge" of herself, or
look very untidy, either. But when one
woman has to do all the work of a farm
house, including the sewing, washing,
and raising babies, how is it possible
for her to be anything else but
"drudge?" She may care everso much
for "personal appearance," but amidst
so much work, how can she avoid look
ing very untidy sometimes? And of
ten, when her work is done up and she
glances at her soiled dress, she longs to
array herself in clean and fresh gar
ments; but the knowledge of the extra
washiug'and ironing such a proceeding
would make for herself puts it entirely
out of the question.
Don't slip on a dirty wrapper In the morning,
and twist your hair up in a knot, and kick the
dog, and tread on the cat, aud scold your hus
band, and tell the children to keep out of the
way, for you have a big day's work to do and
you must not be hindered. Don't do it all the
work you will do will not compensate your
family for your looking so dirty and untidy.
I wonder what the man who wrote
that would say if his wife would "do
up" her hair in the latest style and dress
herself in fashionable clothes aud then
say she could not do that "big day'
work," (which must be done, and h
can't, or won't, hire it done), because it
would soil her clothes, muss her hair,
aud make her look untidy.
The burden of many of these newspa
per paragraphsis, "don'tscold yourhus
band." No, that would never do, no
matter how creat the provocation. Not
even if vou have worked hard all day,
with a tooth-ache for company, aud
then have to eet supper with a "colicky"
baby in your arms, aud no wood to do it
with. Show me tue woman, or man
either, who would go through such an
ordeal wuu a iace wreaineu iu amues,
Yet. according to these same paragraphs
there is no excuse for a woman who
loses her temper.
Dear Readers of the New Northwest:
After finishing our last editorial letter
on board the steamer "Tenino," we re
spouded to a friendly invitation to read
the same to the assembled tourists,
thereby securing a number of new sub
scribers to the People's Paper, who ex
pressed themselves anxious to possess
that they might have opportunity to
read the present one at their own ex
pense.
Amid pleasant conversation and
merry laughter we traveled on and on,
climbing the rapid Columbia at a labo
rious rate, but gaining continually upon
the hills that seemed to flatten as we
proceeded, meeting here a little river at
Its mouth, and there a foaming water
fall, that poured ceaselessly over the
roaring, rocky solitudes where the
rabbit and sage hen abide, sometimes
passing a solitary farm-house, where
the one woraau, who is a three or four
fold servant in all save wages, gazed
lovingly at the feminine life that she
could see from the steamer, and then
turned to her supported and protected
condition to hurry; perchance, for the
next hour, for the five minutes spent iu
gratifying'her curiosity, the farm-house
n question being surrounded with
orchards and vegetables, the fields
loaded with growing grain, and the ad
jacent common stocked with horses,
beep, and cattle.
Umatilla's nose was in the water,
even as we had seen tue nose ot rue
Dalles. The river had completely
swamped the Wilson Hotel, thereby
driving our friend, the landlady, to
the higher gravel for safety, and break
ing up her business for the present,
which is most unfortunate.
Went ashore for a little while as the
steamer was unloadiug, and materially
augmented our subscription list iu a
few minutes. Had the pleasure of tak
ing tea and strawberries with Mr. and
Mrs. Leezer, who, like everybody else in
Umatilla, and all along our route, reads
the serial story, and anxiously awaits
its coming from week to week.
On the way up to Wallula iu the
evening, it was voted that we should be
invited to lecture. Mrs. McMahou, an
excellent mother in Israel", who has
been an Orego'nian since '44, engineered
the matter, and a goodly audience
listened respectfully to the gospel of
freedom for an hour and a half. The
captain and other gentlemen were af
fable, and the servauts obliging. The
occasion will be long remembered, and
the friends of freedom, who materially
assisted to cheer us on our way, will
never be forgotten.
Spent the night on the boat, aud went
ashore in the morning, Mrs. Cummings,
the good landlady of the hotel, making
us welcome iu ber hospitable way, and
Mr. and Mrs. Peabody also giving us
kindly aid in our arduous undertaking.
Met the citizens of the little rocky,
wind-worn village in the bar-room iu
the evening aud gave' them a "talk,"
after which we slept peacefully, despite
the oppressive heat, the first and hot
test heat of the season.
Monday morning fouud us aboard the
train, in company of the President and
owner of the railroad, Dr. D. S. Baker.
This gentleman, though quite along in
years, is as active and enterprising as a
man of forty. He has built and
equipped thirty miles of railroad at his
own private expense, after having
rafted the timber used in its construc
tion down the Yakima, a distance of
two hundred miles. He owns all the
rolling stock, also, aud naturally feels
great pride in his enterprise. Freights
have been vastly reduced, aud the trav
eling public greatly benefited by the
road in every way, yet, a few Granger
teamsters have raised a cry about their
private interests, which lias compelled
most of the Walla Walla merchants to
signau agreement that they will-not
transport their freight from Wallula
except in wagons; all of which proves
that there isn't any monopoly among
dangers.
As we were rumbling along over the
railroad, the "dead-ox ear" going so
steadily over the solid road-bed that we
were surprised to learn that we were
not upon springs, our sense of smell, al
ways the keenest, became insufferably
offended.
What's the matter?" we asked the
doctor, as we looked in vain for the de
caying carcass that filled the air with
putridity.
"The Secretary of the Grangers, who
owns a farm near us, yonder, lost a
horse some little time ago, and hauled
it oil his own land, and dumped it
against the track for the beneiit of our
passengers," was the explanatory reply.
By this time the stench had been
wafted beyond, and we drew a pure
breath with a sense of relief.
Human nature is naturally tyrannical
when it has opportunity, no matter
where you may find it, good reader.
All of us, from Granger to scissors
grinder, would be monopolists if we
could. The joke is, that so many con
flicting interests keep up a pretty fair
equilibrium, iu spite of us.
Reached Walla Walla on Monday, at
noon, where we rejoined friends with
whom we had parted company at Wal
lula. The Stine House, where we took
refuge, is as line a hotel, and as well
kept as the Clarendon, in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. O'Bryan spare no pains to
make their guests comfortable, and we
cheerfully i-vcommeud their house to
the traveling public.
Engaged a hall for a lecture on Tues
day evening, and took excessive pains
to thoroughly advertise the same. Had
possession of the key to the hall aud all
seemed lovely, when a very young man,
who isn't yet a voter, came to the par
lor and asked for the key for a few min
utes, that he might arrange the seats.
Gave it 'up without suspicion, and
calmly awaited the eveniug. It came,
and with it a fine audience, but the door
was locked, the prospective protector of
women who had got possession of the
key hid himself from our gaze, and was
ferreted out of his retreat behind' the
door of his boss' barber shop, only to
say that he had obeyed orders in placing
the key beyond our reach. There was
nothing left for the protected citizen
but to submit; so we invited a few
dozens of the waiting friends to the
Stine House parlor, aud held an indig
nation meeting.
Hon. T. N. Catou and Hon. Philip
Ritzand their estimable families were
among the visitors, and to-tuem we
were indebted for an invitation to re
main over till the next evening, they
pledging themselves to return us that
missing key, that the outrage might be
avenged to the satisfaction of ourself
aud the citizens. Wednesday evening
brought us, sure euough, the missing
key aud a good audience. The weather
is so hot, and nights so short, that
lecturing one's way across the continent
is decided up-hill busiuess. But the O.
S. N. Company, the Overland Stage
Company, the railroad, and hotels have
beeu so hospitable thus far as to greatly
encourage us, and, but for hot weather
aud homesickness, we should be happy
as the day.
Walla Walla improves slowly. The
numerous shade trees, which deserve
the coguotnen of the Ritz poplar, as
they are all descended, to the number
of over a million, from ,a couple of
twigs of the Lombardy poplar that Mr.
Ritz planted in Ills yard some fifteen
years ago, ornament not only the city,
but the country as far upas Lewiston
There are many fine farms in the val
ley. The wool crop is now in the mar
ket, and wheat promises well.
To-night (Thursday) we are to go on
to Weston, where we are to address the
citizens, our destination thereafter La
Grande, Uniontown, and Baker City
And now, good readers, we want to
ask you a grave question. What are
you doing to sustain the New North
west while we are away? Do you re
spond promptly to your subscription
dues, so the Journal of Peace may be
sustaiued in our absence? We believe
and bone so. When we return, we
shall have much important matter with
which to enrich these columns. Do not
allow them to be overburdened with
debt. Pay your bills as they mature,
and we shall have no trouble. Ask
your friends to subscribe, und forward
the money to the home office. The
naner is left in your care. Do not
desert it, for it is your standard-bearer,
and you must hold up its. hands, or it
will fall. A. J. D,
Walla Walla, June 15, 1870.
After posting the editorial jottings of
last week's journey ings at Walla Walla,
your humble servaut proceeded by stage
to Weston, some twenty miles further
on her journey, the road leading through
a flue alluvial valley in a thriving state
of cultivation. The weather, which
had been insufferably hot during the
week, was cool enough at night, and
tuanv wrans were needed to make the
tourist comfortable.
Reached the place of destination at 1
A. jr., where the wiuding stage horn
awoke the sleepy landlord, who showed
us to a room, where the drowsy dream
god took immediate charge of the
weary missionary.
Spent half the forenoon in catching
up with runaway sleep, and the entire
afternoon in making aud receiving calls
from the excellent ladies of the little
town.
Met a fine audience at dark in the dis
trict school-house, the only freo hall
open for the accommodation of women
in Weston. There were other halls and
churches, but the men hold a monopoly
over them which the excellent lady
school-teacher, Miss Purintou, though
considered possessed of sufficient judg
ment to train the average incipient
mind masculine for the future high
ways of individual sovereignty, failed
to open to us, and we thanked God for
school-houses, and we're happy.
Weston partakes of the chronic dull
ness with which business Is everywhere
afflicted, yet her growth is healthy aud
constant. As elsewhere, the progress of
the woman movement Is especially
gratifying.
After the lecture, when many last
good-byes were spoken, we retired at
eleven to snatch a little needed rest,
which came spasmodically; for that
well-remembered stage horn kept send
ing its winding echoes through bur im
agination, and we knew we must be on
the move at 2 A. jr.
The solitary ride through the cold
grey of the star-lit summer morning
was delightful. The air was as pellucid
as ether, and the broad prairies, lit up
by the uncertain twilight, were wierdly,
wildly beautiful. It was broad day
when the stage drew up at "Cayuse," a
dilapidated station most appropriately
named. Here we had breakfast, and
were glad enough to get it. There's
nothiug whets one's appetite like traveling.
The sun was shining with a fervent
brightness, which partly reconciled us
to the selfishness of a certain protector
of women, who went to the barn and
climbed upon the outside seat of the
coach, which he had heard us tell the
driver had been engaged for us at Walla
Walla. So we took the inside because
of 'the force of untoward muscular cir
cumstances. During the long day we
journeyed on and on, the beauteous
Blue Mountains, in their vernal and
floral wealth of summer glory inspiring
us with a quiel rapture which even ab
sence from the dearones at home failed
wholly to subdue.
The pointless tamarack and pine,
The laurel tree and ivy vine,
The rhododendron, eglantine,
And modest, scarlet columbine,
The solemn, stately, spreading yew
And mountain ash, adorned with dew,
The lichen-covered bowlders hoar,
The cataract's resounding roar,
The dewy bosom of the earth,
That to the floral world gave birth.
The somber, purpling, distant hills,
The near-by busy laughing rills,
The
There I good reader! We've got to
stop and catch breath. The stage-coach
lurches suddenly, and with a thump,
smash, bang, wo telescope our spinal
column aud relapse into the sleepiest
kind of prose.
Chauge horses and takedinnerat Pel-
icau Station what a name for an In
land wayside inn ! But we lose sight of
the incongruity of the cognomen in the
excellent repast the place affords.
Strawberries and country cream in the
wild fastnesses of the Oregon moun
tains. Think of it, good reader, and
may you always fare as well as we did.
The day wears ou, and .La Grande, re
posing like a white pearl upon a ma
sonry of emerald, smiles at us from the
bases of the eternal hills. Here, in the
elegant home of our good friends, Mr.
and Mrs. Chaplain, we doff our dusty
garments and indulge in-an ablution
that, despite our tired bones, makes us
almost as good as new. The day is aw-
ully, scorchingly hot, but what matter?
Haven't we alighted among friends?
fand isn't thesltuation pleasant? To be
itinerant missionary is fatiguing,
but to be eutertained by Mrs. Chaplain
is superlatively refreshing.
Met the good citizens on Sunday at 4
- . m i. 1 1 .!!
p. jr. In tue iYietnoaisi unurcii, anu ui-
coursed upon "Woman and the Bible."
Rev. H.ICHines Is now absent Iu the
East upon business connected with the
La Grande University, and the pasto
rate is occupied by Brother Stubbs, who
kindly gave us permission to preach our
gospel of peace in the church, just as
Elder Hiues would have done. We al
ways rejoice when we meet a preacher
who lias faith enough iu his God to be
lieve we couldn't annihilate Him with
our woman's tongue. The ministercame
forward at the close of the lecture and
heartily indorsed our mission, thereby
greatly delighting his flock of earnest
co.-workers in the vineyard of Right.
Substantial aid and comfort was
given to render our paths pleasant, and
we took the Monday's stage for Union
town, where we were soon a guest in
the hospitable home of Hon. Sam. Han
nah, the Portland Collector of Customs,
whom we regretted to And in Uie poor
est health, aud utterly prostrate? He is
hopeful of speedy recovery, however,
and his many friends join with his ex
cellent wife in the fervent wish that he
may be speedily restored to his wonted
activity and usefulness.
Our friend Hon. J. Hendershott and
his good wife aud daughter kindly ar
ranged for a lecture in the court-house,
which was well attended and liberally
responded to, the good people, as in
other places, fully sustaining their
former reputation for hospitality and
enterprise.
Took stage at night for Baker City,
our fellow-passengers numbering four,
two gentlemen and two ladies. The
coach was so full of baskets, valises,
wraps, knapsacks, and bundles, that a
delightfully crowded state of affairs pre
sented itself. Our trunk, without which
we are in the Flora McFlimsey condi
tion, was left behind. The water was
high, but the driver was careful, and
through the long night we bowled
along, fetching up once in a while at a
damaged bridge or a deep mud hole, and
suoozinga little in spite of the baskets
that bruised our shins, till we sighed
for gentleman's boots to protect them.
One diversion we must not forget to
chronicle. The time was midnight; tbe
situation, owing to high water, doubt
ful. The south-bound stage met us aud
halted, and the colloquy between the
drivers was as follows :
"How's the road ?"
"By the holy powers of mud, it's aw
ful . How's the Powder River bridge?"
"Unsafe, I'd say." Our coach had
just crossed it. "Apron afloat, banks
full, mud by Jimlny !"
"Well, we'll try it. We may give up
the ghost, go dead an' busted, pass in
our checks, or go to Davy Jones, but
we'll ask the Ole Man toput us through."
"Have we any more bad bridges?"
asks a uervous lady passenger.
"There's a mud-hole on ahead that'll
mire a saddle blanket," Is the encourag
ing reply. "The mud'll come over the
sides of the coach an' cover all but your
eyelids; but it's good, to what it has
been 1" and cracking his whip, he dis
appears in the darkuess, and we go on
and on, looking anxiously for that mud
hole, aud failing to find it, whereof we
are glad. A. J. D.
Baker City, June 20, 1S76.
I. 0. G. T.
From the annual report of the Grand
Secretaiy I. O. G. T., we gather the fol
lowing statistics: Number of lodges in
the jurisdiction at last report, 02; or
ganized since that time, 40; 'reor
ganized, 9; ceased working, 26; whole
number now in working order, 115; to
tal membership at close of the last
term, April 30, 1876, 3,563; estimated
membership of lodges not reported, 540;
total receipts for the year, $2,749 47; ex- -peuditures,
$2,33S 76; balance cash on
hand, S410 71.
W. R. Dunbar was unanimously re
elected G. W. C. T.; Mrs. Kate
McCIung, G. W. C; Miss Joanna Lyle,
G. W. V. T.; T. H. Crawford, G. W. S.;
Mrs. E. Kellogg, G. AV. T. The next
session of the Grand Lodge will be held
in Albany.
(jf -v. C. T. Dunbar will again imme
diately take the lecture field, laboring,
as we understand, principally in South
ern Oregon until time for the State
Fair. His zeal and energy in the cause
in which be is enlisted are, as is well
known, unbounded, and will doubtless
in the year to come, as in the year past,
make a telling and glorious record for
Good Templarism. "To rescue the
fallen and to save others from falling,"
is surely a noble mission, and one at
tended with all honor. The fervent
"God speed" of all men and women in
terested in the .great branch of reform
which he so ably represents, will ac
company Mr. Dunbar in his journey
iugs ihrough the sunny portion of our
State.