FRIDAY -JULY 2S, 1876.
XOTICE.
Agents will please tako notice that It Is a
great tax upon ns to pay express charges upon
small sums, and they will confer a great favor
br remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
A NEW SERIAL STOEY.
Those who have pursued the fortunes
of "Madge Morrison" throughout the
successive weeks of the past six months,
bid her adieu this week, happy and
contented. As will be seen by notice
and advertisement elsewhere, Mrs.
Duniway's pencil will not flag, but is
already at work upon a new story en
titled "Edna and John, A Romance of
Idaho Flat," the principal incidents of
which she doubtless collected during
her recent visit to Idaho. It is not pos
sible to tell just when the new story
will commence, as the advance chapters
have not yet come to hand, but il will
certainly not be long. In the mean
time, we hope friends everywhere will
bestir themselves and send in new
names and renewals, so that all may be
gin with the new story and not be en
cumbered with back numbers.
"I WISH I WEEE A MAW."
Not an uncommon wish, yet withal a
very foolish one. We looked at the
wisher contemplatively, perhaps cu
riously, for a moment, and thought, "a
man, my dear, with no more energy
than you possess, would be dependent
upon chance for his meals aud charity
for his tobacco."
A young man who would sit about
the house from day to day with no
thought of pecuniary independence or
responsibility, would be in all things,
except depositing bis ballot, as much of
a nonentity as are girls who waste time
that should be given to energetic Hbor
in idly wishing for a vague something
that a transformation from one sex to
the other might bring about.
If it were not all too common to lay
the blame of everything upon women,
we might be tempted to blame the
mothers somewhat for tbe aimless life
which so many girls lead. Girls should
be taught that it Is the meanest selfish
ness to live upon the labor of others,
whether those others be fathers, broth
ers, mothers, or husbands, without giv
ing an equivalent of some kind; they
should understand that life without an
object must always be a failure, aud
that waiting for a husband to come and
take them off of father's hands, is, be
sides being unwomanly and degrading,
often tedious, with nine chauces in ten
of proving intheend howeveritends
unsatisfactory. We would appeal to
womanhood, to motherhood, in this vi
tal matter, to endeavor if possible (and
in this day nothing is impossible) to
give tbe girls an equal chance physic
ally and mentally with the boys. Di
rect the mind to some work; tbe labor
aud study to some end. Weakness is
an accompaniment of an aimless life,
tbe curse of a purposeless existence.
When girls learn to despise and over
come tbe weakness that so many of
them exhibit, they will learn to revere
their womanliness, to treasure it above
all God's gifts, and as the basis of all.
Strong in purpose, and in the know!
edge of purity and truth and individu
allty, no girl will cast the slur upon her
womanhood by giving utterance to tbe
foolish expression, "I wish I were a
man."
THE "WOMEN'S DECLARATION OF
EIGHTS.
The officers of that energetic and in
domitable body the National Woman
Suffrage Association addressed a letter
to General Hawley prior to the Fourth,
asking that they might on that day be
permitted to present, without remark
or debate, their. Declaration of Rights
at Independence Hall after the reading
of tbe original Declaration of Independ
ence. Mrs. Sara J. Spencer, who repre
sented the Association at the Cincin
nati Convention, said:
General Hawley, the women citizens of the
United States ask the men of the United States
one slight boon on the occasion of the birth of
our nation. We only ask that we may present,
In perfect silence, our Declaration of Rights.
To thi3 General Hawley, with a bow
which he doubtless thought ample
compensation for the privilege denied,
replied:
It seems a very slight request, but our pro
gramme Is published, our speakers engaged,
our entire arrangements for the day decided
upon, and we cannot make even so slight a
change as you ask for.
Mrs. Spencer continued
"We are aware that your programme Is pub
lished, your speakers engaged, and your entire
arrangements lor the day decided upon, with
out consulting with the women citizens of the
United States. For that very reason we desire
to enter our protest. We are aware that the
Government of the United States has been
conducted for one hundred years without con
suiting the women of the United States. For
this reason we desire to enter our protest.
The reply was:
Undoubtedly we have not lived up to our
own original Declatation of Independence in
many respects. I expx&ss no opinion upon
your question. It is a proper subject for dis
cussion at the Cincinnati Convention, at the
St. Louis Convention, in the Senate of the
United States, in the House of Representa
tives, at the State Legislatures, in the Courts,
wherever you can obtain a hearing. But to-
morrow we propose to celebrate what we have
done the past hundred years; not what we
have railed to do. We have much to do in the
future. I unaerstand the full significance of
your very slight request If granted, it would
be t he event of the day the topic of discussion
to the exclusion of all others. I am sorry to
refuse so slight a demand, but we cannot
grant it.
The determined women assembled at
the rendezvous at 1431 Chestnut street
were not discouraged nor silenced by
this refusal. On the coutrary, it but
seemed to Imbue them with new cour
age with a stronger determination to
be heard, not only by the multitude
NOSING ABOUT POE A SKELETON.
M. H. Abbott, editor of the Oregon
Tribune, published at Dalles City, mor
alizes to an alarming extent in the last
issue of his journal over "domestic
trouble and iufecIHty," and in a man
ner that would lead his friends to hope,
did they not know tbe man so well,
that, if he had his life to live over
again he would really make a model
husband, provided he could succeed in
entrapping a woman into the matrimo
nial noose with himself.
Takiug up the bit of scandal fur
nished by the unhappy but temporary
aberration of mind of Sheriff Coffee, of
Vaucouver, and rolling it as a sweet
morsel under his tongue, he declares
that the "domestic trouble" of the gen
tlemen named, and which doubtless
never had an existence except in tbe
brain of some impertinent news-monger
and eager scandal-dealer, "consisted in
the fact that Mrs. C. some weeks ago
went to New York ostensibly to visit
friends; but, as subsequent events
proved, really to desert him." The fact
that "Mrs. C." returned home on the
last steamer, puts a quietus upon this
proof that must be somewhat em
barrassing to this self-constituted guar
dian of holy matrimony.
One would think, to hear this di
vorced editor moralize, that it is women
only who seek refuge from the turmoils
of discordant wedlock in the divorce
courts, and that men were never known
to prove recreant to their marriage
vows, or leave their wives and children
to loneliness and disgrace "without as
signing justifiable reason for their con
duct, and substantially admitting that
their wives were unusually lenient aud
confiding."
His theory regarding the imminent
peril in which the "sitcred Institution"
of marriage is thrown by tbe ex
tremely reprehensible conduct of wives
who are faithless, causes not the con
sternation which he evidently designed
it should produce, but rather provokes
a smile from persons who understand
that he sees said "sacred institution1
through the troubled glasses of recent
experience in a divorce court, wherein
he was doubtless proven anything but
the kind and tender husband that he
should have been.
The Vancouver independent, in a
EDITORIAL GOEEESPONDENOE.
there assembled but tjr the women of 1, djrectly oppo9,te lQ the carp,ug)
WE AEEPUZZLED.
Our Democratic exchanges one and
all declare, with all the zest inspired by
a new and important discovery, that
"Samuel J. Tilden was born in New
Lebanon, Columbia county, New York,
in 1814."
We suppose that rejoicing over what
in some mysterious way seems to be
thought by tbe exchanges aforesaid to
have been a most auspicious event, Is in
order. Now, we always like to rejoice
with those who rejoice, but we are a lit
tle in doubt what point in the above re
markable chronological discovery should
cause us to jubilate. Whether it is the
fact that Samuel J. Tilden was born, or
that he was "born in New Lebanon,
Columbia county, New York," or that
be was born in 1814, shall be the cause
of rejoicing, is what puzzles us.
Will Brother Norton or Brother Nolt
ner, orsome other rejoicing brother, tell
us what is expected of everybody in this
matter? We do dislike to iaugh in the
wrong place, and to appear stolid con
cerning a great event is not to be
thought of for a moment. Enlighten
us, brethren, we beg, for if left to our
self we will probably shock you by
rejoicing, seeing tbe fates decided that
Samuel J. was to be born in the county
and State aforesaid, in tbe year 1814,
that he was born of a sensible mother,
whose common sense teachings and
womanly example have caused Samuel
J. to be a Woman Suffragist, and if we
should even hint this, think of the con
sternation of many of the faithful who,
if they do not refuse to vote for him
upon this indictment, will have to con
sole themselves by doubting our ve
racity!
197G, who will doubtless read, each in
the other's countenance, her own as ton
ishment. first, for the necessity that
called the protest into existence, and
then for the arrogance that would have
denied it breath
Five officers of the National Woman
Suffrage Association were seated upon
tbe platform at Independence Hall
when the original Declaration of Inde
pendence was read Susan B. Anthony,
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sara J. Spencer,
Lillie D. Blake, and Phoebe W. Couz
eus. As the last worus oi tuis immortal
document stole up and out upon the
sultry summer air of the century new
born, these women advanced to the
speaker's stand, the guests, and mili
tary and civil officers of the govern
tu e tit making courteous passage way,
and Miss Anthony presented the parch
ment to Vice President Ferry, saying
only:
Mr. President, we present this Declaration of
Rights of the women citizens of the United
Stales.
The President took tbe document in
embarrassed silence, and tbe delegation
retired to the front of Independence
Hall, where Miss Anthony's clear into
nations gave it to tbe breezes that bore
it to tbe ears of the multitude who had
failed to gain admission to the Hall
After the reading was completed the
committee repaired to Dr. Furness'
fault-finding tone of tbe journal first
quoted, says:
Domestic trouble is mentioned as one cause
of Mr. Coffee's derangement, which Is a very
unjust Imputation to Mrs. Coffee, who Is an es
timable lady, and highly respected, not only
by the community, but by Mr. Coffee himself.
Wo would suggest to the splenetic
quill-driver of the Tribune, while nosing
around other people's closets in the
hope to make gleeful discovery of a
hidden skeleton, that he would better
be careful, lest the whitened bones and
grinning skull within his own be, by
his own rashness, revealed.
"WOESE THAN MTJEDEE
One of the barbaric cruelties estab
lished by tbe old Mosaic law of a "life
for a life," which is yet perpetuated in
the horrid aud revoltingsystem of hang
ing, is thus forcibly denounced by tbe
San Francisco Alia. Alluding to an
execution of a criminal, in which a vic
tim dropped eight feet and had his head
torn from his body, it says
Of all the beastly and abominal methods
which society have at different times adopted
for taking human lile when Justice demands
the forfeit, thnt of strangling a man with a
rope seems the most bungling and horrible.
When properly performed, the process Is
cruel one; when buujllngly, It Is abominable.
And bow often it Is bungled. The victim
Dear Readers of the New Northwest:
Our labors having closed for the time
being in Idaho City, behold us on Sun
day afternoon aboard the stage and
bound for Placerville, where we were
engaged to speak in tbe evening.
Brother Kingsley aud his excellent
lady had previously written to several
of their personal acquaintances appris
ing them of our expected arrival, and
had also fortified us with letters of in
troduction to the landlord of the hotel,
and Mr. Weller, the principal merchaut,
both of whom, with many other gentle
men and ladies, treated us with that
whole-souled hospitality for which the
great Northwest is everywhere remarkable.
Our road lay through, or rather over,
the great Idaho Basin for twelve miles.
We have never in our life seen but oue
thoroughfare that equaled it in crook
edness, and that is the tidal river
Skipanon, which lies like raveled
crochet loops between Astoria and Clat
sop beach. All the afternoon we rode
through the Interminable mountain
gorges, now gazing high upon the sur
rounding and distant peaks, bald here
and there in mighty patches, and again
clothed in primeval forests of pine and
fir, aud now peering from our precan
ous perch beside the driver into awful
abysses, so deep and dark aud solemn in
their silent dignity that we would hold
our breath and ask, as did the Psalmist
of old, "Lord, what is man, that thou
art mindful of him, or tbe son of man,
that thou visitest him?" Oftentimes
the road lay alongside of purling, crys
tal streams that laughed at the feet of
vernal groves of stinted cottonwood,
wild cherry, willow, and alder, flanked
by syringas in snowy bloom, aud cur
rants loaded with yellow fruit. Again,
we would ascend a sidelong ridge where
mother nature had carpeted the parched
earth with variegated hues, too beauti
ful to be allowed to
"Waste their sweetness on the desert air."
Then we struck the bed of Grimes'
Creek, an erewhile mining camp from
its source to its mouth, but now com
paratively deserted, where evidences of
the toil'of thousands of miners will re
main for aye, to tell ot
"Scenes and sounds departed.
And the end of hopes deferred."
Like Moore's Creek, of which we last
week gavo description, the bed of this
stream has been stripped to the bed
rock, and all the soil turned over and
burrowed out. And there is yet much
gold that but for the scarcity of water
would yield constant wages to the in
dustrious miner. Indeed, water here,
in many places fabulously rich in ore, is
quite as precious as the gold itself.
Great ghosts of what were once great
flumes for carrying water long distances
for hydraulic mining yet rear their
skeleton frames high in the air, aud
speak to you of days departed when the
busy hum of human voices, the reso
nant clangor of pickaxes, and the dull
rumbling of disemboweled and falling
earth were heard in the haunts that now
contain but scattering squads of miners,
mainly Chinamen, who wade in the
muddy water of the creek In gum boots
reaching to their waists, and wield long
handled spades and clumsy wheel-barrows
with dexterity aud profit. The
whole country abounds in gold. You
can take a pan-full of earth from any
gravel point along the road-side and get
a "prospect" anywhere. Some day,
when chemical analysis has solved the
problem of securing the gold that here
abounds, without water, the historic
wealth of ancieut Ophlr will pale into
insignincance.
It was four o'clock when the open
coach emerged from tbe gravelly bed of
Ivingsley's family had not yet break
fasted. Good coffee and golden cream,
glad faces and cheery voices, hot cakes
and omelet for breakfast. What a
feast after such a glorious ride!
Then camo delicious, dreamy rest,
and after it lunch and canvassing.
Again tbe Journal of Peace received
many added subscribers.
Evening came, aud with it another
goodly audience in the M. E. Church,
the good people listening gladly to the
gospel of freedom. Again good-byes
were spoken, and many friends bade us
God-speed.
Seven o'clock a. m., aud stage time.
We are off for Boise. Again we traverse
the long mountain road described in the
last letter, tbe only important change
being in the dinner station, which we
reach when within twelve miles of
Boise. Here a tidy housewife sets a
dluner worthy of the appetite of a tired
missionary. The station is kept by an
intelligent, industrious young couple,
who have earned themselves a borne in
Kansas within tbe past three years by
living here, to which they design re
pairing in the spring. Wo knew we'd
get a subscriber there when we stopped
to dine. Whenever we see a tidy, in
uustrious, economical Housewife, we
know Bbe wants the woman's paper.
Three o'clock, and Boise. Dear Mrs,
Kelly meets us at her gulo, and wel
comes home the missionary. A bath
ana nap relresn us, and at night we
meet a large and fashiouutilo assembly
in the Methodist Church, a stately edi
flee of brick, to which, (the good pastor
being now at home), we were wel
comed as becometh Christians. To
night we are to give the farewell "talk,"
and are to have a crowded house. On
the morrow we are off for Winuetnucca,
having chosen that instead of tbe Kel-
ton line, as we had intended, because of
the intervening towns where we can get
audieuces.
What we should do, or whither go, if
we should violate the laws made by the
protectors of women in this land of sov
ereigns, we really do not know, for
there is no spot on this green earth yet
visited by us where we have not met
old acquainteuces.
In the printing office of Judge Kelly
we were surprised to meet the sons of
our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord, for
merly of Albany, and now residents of
Sparta, in Eastern Oregon. They are
enterprising aud steady youug men
well worthy of their parents.
In Idaho City we were pleased to
meet Mr. Jones, proprietor of the
World, who crossed the plains with our
liege lord in 1830, and also worked with
him in the Salmon River mines in '62.
We might mention scores of other
old-time friends', did time and space
permit. All greet us cordially, aud are
ready at all "times to render every
needed service. The gospel of freedom
finds no opponents among the people of
well-developed mentality.
But it is nearing lecture time, and we
must close this hasty scrawl to make an
evening toilet aud meet a sympathetic
multitude. A. J. D,
Boise, Idaho, July 13, 1876.
THE TENT MEETINGS AT 0EEG0N
OITY.
To the Editor of the New Northwest:
Taking advantage of your liberality
in presenting opportunity for all parties
aud faiths to have a fair hearing, I
shall send you a short account of the
tent meetings so recently held in this
place by the Seventh Day Adventist
minister, Elder Van Horn, of Walla
Walla.
The tent was pitched on a vacant lot
near the Methodist church, and lectures
on the prophecies and history, which is
only the fulfillment of prophecy, were
commenced May 20th, continuing five
weeks.
The weather, being at first cold and
rainy, was very unpropitious for a great
attendance, but those present gave good
attention. Elder Van Horn is a fine
speaker aud handled the various sub
jects which he preseuted for our consid
eration with perfect understanding.
Did you ever know a protracted meet
ing to be conducted during five cousec-
utive weeks by one minister without
aiil, each evening findiug him ready to
speak for one, and sometimes nearly two
hours, completely holding the attention
of his audience from first to last ?
The arguments were so clearly and
forcibly presented that many expressed
themselves convinced and convicted of
duty to act as well as tbink upon the
truths preseuted, yet they hesitated to
make a start. Seven have signed a cov
enant to observe the Bible Sabbath, but
a3 yet no church Is formed. The meet
ings closed on the evening of July 2d.
On the following Wednesday three of
the seven were baptised one a lady of
culture and refinement, who had at the
tent, and for the first time, heard the
Bible explained to her satisfaction, de
cided to acknowledge Christ as her Sa
vior in the symbol or memorial of our
Lord's burial and resurrection. There,
by tbe water's side, with the approviug
presence of her noble husband and three
lovely daughters, she cast aside the
tie continued to wage until he settled
the matter to bis own satisfaction, I
presume, by bringing Dr. McClintbck, a
gentleman who has the houoror being
still living, for aught I know to the con
trary, to the rescue, this latter gentle
man's opinion being sufficient.
Tbe tent meetings were set aside on
two of these occasions, that none might
be kept away from hearing.
The inhabitants of this place express
themselves as much pleased with "the
open, straighttorward course oi x.iaer
Van Horn.
Elder J. H. Waggoner, who has re
cently arrived from Oakland, California,
to assist in lecturing and preaching, is
a logical, clear, and concise speaker.
The tent, which,- when new, cost five
hundred dollars, is used because with it
the lectures are Independent.
Yours faithfully,
Mt. Supra.
Oregon City, July 23, 1876.
LETTEE PEOM SOUTHEEN 0EEG0N.
To tiie Editor of theNew Northwest :
Situated as we are in a secluded corner
of Josepbiue county, I thought perhaps
I might write you a few items that
would be of interest to the many read
ers of your valuable paper. Although
women are but few here, we find some
that have tbe stamina to openly advo
cate the right, and are making inroads
upon tbe prejudices of some of the peo
ple, that awakens them to think of
things that apparently never entered
their minds before.
I am pleased to see the steady and
firm progress the Woman Suffrage
question is making in the different
States and Territories, and the consider
ation it received at tbe handsof the late
National Conventions of the two great
political parties of tbe day. It is con
clusive evidence that ere tbe dawn of
another Presidential election, our moth
ers, wives, sisters, and daughters will
stand side by side with us, and will
have an equal voice in tbe nominating
world with its vanity for the service of and electing of tbe persons (not men)
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
and many others. The Convention
held, over Ave hours, an audience whose
enthusiasm would not allow tbem to
adjourn.
The full text of this great Declaration
of Rights of the women of the United
States of America, we will publish as
soon as we can make room for it. In
the meantime women, and friends of
equal rights, know that tbe leaders and
representatives of the great cause In the
East are making a record that shall re
dound to the dory of woman in the
centuries yet to be.
00-EDU0ATI0NAT 00ENELL.
At tbe eighth annual commencement
of Cornell University, which took place
on the 15th of June, 1876, five ladies
graduated.
Women were first allowed to enter
this college in 1S72, and tbe class re
ferred to is the first through class since
that period. Iu tbe class of 1875 the
vote on co-education stood, 16 for and 37
against it, while this year 29 were in fa
vor and 29 against, showing a rapid gain
in its favor. Instead of the standard of
study being lowered by tbe presence of
women, it has been constantly raised
since their admission. In an open let
ter President White states that in but
one instance has a lady failed to pass
required examinations; and as regards
health, that of the young women has
averaged better than that of the young
men. A test of this character is more
than sufficient to refute the "sex-in-ed-ucation"
theories so elaborately built up
by Dr. Clark.
death again. How much better the French
method, by means of the guillotine; and the
Spanish, by tbe garole. The old system, by
the axe and block, was better. If the law and
Justice and the good of society require the sac
rifice of human life, surely human invention
might produce a method of snuffing out this
poor, brief candle of ours without mashlngand
mangling It. Such an execution is worse than
the murder which it is intended to avenge.
les, worse; and lor many reasons,
among which is the fiendish thirst for
vengeance displayed by law and its
baleful effects upon tbe minds of those
who witness it. The law simply does
with cool deliberation, in a shocking
and barbarous manner, and in tbe pres
ence of witnesses, that which the indi
vidual did secretly, aud perhaps in the
heat of passion. And all this is prac
ticed by a so-called Christian nation,
whose book of creeds emphatically de
clares that "Vengeance is mine, I will
repay, saith the Lord." Why such a
law, the operation of which is so shock
ing and so degrading to humanity,
should blot tbe statute books of any en
lightened commonwealth, is a mystery,
or would be, were it not in company
with so many other legal absurdities,
Mrs. Duniway, writing from Silver
City under date of July 17th, says: "I
am getting along somewhat, slowly,
but doing tbe best possible -under the
circumstances. Have been goue from
borne five and a half weeks, lectured 22
evenings, staged 800 miles, canvassed
every town, written four chapters of
story, aud sent seven of 'Editorial Cor
respondence.' I will get to Phila
delphia in ample time for the Conven
tion, and get home In three months
from the time I started. Commenced a
tew story entitled 'Edna and John, A
Romance of Idaho Flat,' and will send
you several chapters in it few days. I
lecture here to-night, and start for
Winnemucca to-morrow."
ilrnna tfiA ivirto hrooVa onil Vi o la fnrwul nimfn
Church, where a crowded house listened upon the gallows to undergo all the horrors of the literally uprooted creek and bore us
with close attention to speeches from m,,1 mm. , ,. IW ' ... ,
us a cordial welcome.
The evening brought us a fine audi
ence. Miners irom yuartzuurg, urauite
Creek, and Gold Hill, valuable and pay
ing quartz mines within a radius of a
few miles, came in to hear the gospel of
peace on earth and good-will to men
and women, and the citizens of Placer
ville turned out en masse. We sup
posed we had at last reached a place
.where nobody knew us, but were agree
ably surprised when, at the close of the
lecture, the Garret brothers and their
wives and Miss Emma, their sister, old
"Hardscrabble" neighbors of ours in
the land of Webfeet and red apples,
came up aud spoke to us with gladsome
greeting
We had intended to return to Idaho
City on Monday, but as fate would have
it, awoke witli one of those excruciating
headaches which will visit us about
three times in every year. A stage ride
and that headache were not to be
thought of in the same day, so we re
signed our rebellious cranium to a wet
towel and ourself to the solitude of a
cozy chamber till 3 P. M., when tbe
racking pain in eyes and temples hav
ing somewhat subsided, we went a-can-vasslng,
accompanied by Miss Emma
Garrett, who knew everybody. The
Journal of Peace will heuceforth be uo
stranger to the denizens of Placerville.
As our headache was too severe for
stage riding, and just mild enough for
lecturing purposes, we again met a
goodly audience on Monday evening,
and talked upon the "good time com
ing." The good people heard us gladly,
aud it was late when tbe last good-bye
was spoken and we retired for a little
much-needed rest.
Three o'clock and stage time. But
the headache was gone, we were much
refreshed by a dreamless sleep, aud were
soon rattling our bones over the stones
that lined the bed of Grimes' Creek
The morning stars were singing to
gether, and tbe gray harvest moon was
smiling for joy as she bung iowoverthe
dark-browed mountains and lit the
frost-clad gulches with scintillating ra
diance. Our teeth chattered ana our
feet were numb with cold. But sunrise
came at last, warming the chilly air
and banishing from sight tbe morning
stars and harvest moon
Seven o'clock, and Idaho. Brother
PHEEN0L0GY NOT DYSPEPSIA.
A valued friend and occasional corre
spondent sends the subjoined verses and
writes: "Poetry is not my forte, I am
well aware, although O. S. Fowler told
me x coma write it, and 1 Have bad a
half unconscious desire to try to do so
ever since tbe old humbug examined
thebumpson theoutsideof my cranium
This afternoon I felt like rhyming, and
now I send the trifle to you that you
may judge of its merits. I have
been thinking of several subjects that
would be appropriate to discuss in the
New Northwest, but illness has pre
vented me trom preparing the papers
I shall send you something soon, how
ever."
on ! NOT IX hours of mikth and oladnrss,
Oh ! not In hours of mirth and gladness
Would I then remembered be;
And, oh ! less the hours of sadness,
I'd wish to bring thee thoughts of me.
Oh J not when other friends are smiling,
Filling all thy heart with glee,
Shadows from thy brow beguiling,
Would I have thee turn to me.
But when softly by thy bedside kneeling.
All thy soul to God revealing,
Then, oh I then thy thoughts I'd share.
Name me, name me, in thy prayer.
A HUMANE LAW.
A most humane law is to be found
upon the statutes of Massachusetts rel
ative to the employment of children in
circuses, shows, and public exhibitions
of various kinds, which our State Leg
islature would do well to imitate. Tbe
Act was passed May 29, 1874, and reads
as follows: "No license shall be granted
by the Mayor, Aldermen, or select
men of any city or town, for any exhi
bltion at which children under fifteen
years of age are employed as acrobats,
contortionists, or in any feats of gym
nastics or equestrianism." Tbe passage
of such an act Is a credit to any body of
men.
"A BILL OF ATTAINDEE."
One of the "Articles of Impeachment"
which the Declaration of Rights of the
women of the United States "submits to
the Impartial judgment of the people"
is this:
While making a show of virtue in forbid
ding the importation of Chinese women on the
Pacific Coast for immoral purposes, our rul
ers in many States, and even under the
shadow of the National Capitol, are now pro
posing the sale of American womanhood for
tbe same vile purpose.
Could sham protection and sham
virtue well receive a more scathing re
buke amorecorapleieexposure? Some
persons should wince at this, or Shame
should abdicate ber throne and retire
forever from their presence, taking with
her the blushes she is powerless to plant
upon their cheeks. Mock modesty ill
becomes advocates of licensed prostitu
tion.
DEATH OF AN ATJTHOE.
Harriet Martlneau died a short time
since at her home in England, at the
age of 74 years. She was descended
from a family of French Huguenots,
who fled from France on the revocation
of the edict of Nantes. Iu the best sense
of the term, she was a strong-minded
woman, and one who did much for her
generation by the brilliancy of ber
genius and the depths of her sympa
thies. Her first published work was de
votional in its spirit and aim, and all of
her earlier stories were intended to con
vey moral and religious lessous. As
she advanced in years, she became more
speculative and philosophical, and sev
eral of her later works were undertaken
to illustrate the principles of political
economy. In all her writings she dis
played vigor and clearness of thought,
conscientious fidelity to convictions,
and careful regard for facts. Her ad
vauced age is another proof that intel
lectual labor is not detrimental to tbe
health or fatal to the longevity of
woman.
The Cherokee nation pays men teach
ers $225 per month, and women teach
ers $200. They set an example which
nations that make much more preten
slon to civilization would do well to fol
low, tbe wages of their men and women
teachers being more nearly equal than
in any other nation we wot of.
The Republican candidates forPresi
dential electors have decided to divide
the State for campaign purposes into
three districts, southern, middle, and
eastern. W. H. Odeli will canvass the
first, J. W. Watts the second, and J. C,
Cartwrigbt tbe third. Democratic can
didates have been notified of the ar
rangement, and appointment for joint
discussion of political issues will doubt
less be satisfactorily arranged.
Congtess will not adjouru before the
1st of August. Iutense heat is thinning
ont tbe members.
God and his dear Son, Jesus Christ
So comparatively few understand our
principles of faith, I shall take the lib
erty to summarize tbem and note briefly
tbe difference existing among those
called Second Adventlsts. Of course all
those expecting the soon coming of
Christ are really Second Adventists,
but many seem entirely ignorant of the
fact that there are two distinct classes
bearing this name
One class, keeping the first day of the
week as a Sabbath, are frequently set
ting a day for His undoubted appearing,
bring reproach upon all bearing the ap
pellation
The other class, denominated Seventh
Day Adventists, are so named because
they insist upon their adherents' restor
ing, so far as they are concerned, tbe
seventh day or Bible Sabbath to its
honorable and rightful position, being
in their estimation quite as import
ant as auy other in the Decalogue in
deed, being the only commaudment iu
the law written upon the tables of stone
by the finger of Jehovah that contains
the name of its Author, thus becoming
tbe seal of that august Instrument
They claim from facts which the most
learned have thus far failed to over
throw, that prophetic time ceased in
1844, and that we are now awaiting the
test which is soon to come upon us, as
to whether we are to obey the behests
of God or those of man.
Tbe Sunday question, which is soon
to form that test, in that the denoraina
tious, including all who exalt the first
day above tbe seventh, shall unite in
gaining for it an honorable position in
tbe Constitution of the United States,
when it will be rigorously enforced. Of
this result none can be in ignorance
who read such papers as the Christian
Statesman, and other religious papers
whom editors and contributors are first
day observers, and have noted the rapid
ity with which this sentiment has
gained ground in the past ten years,
Now, you have doubtless observed
that learned men never, if they can
avoid it, discuss tbe Sunday question
with those who show forth tbe claims
of the Bible Sabbath in opposition to its
papal rival, Sunday, for learned men
know full well that the first day institu
tion is based on false foundation, and
that its advocates are like a drowning
man catching at a straw ; that the Bi
ble, either by inference or otherwise,
gives no hint that the ten command
ments were annulled and a new law
given in their stead, for every one who
has the least understanding concerning
municipal or legislative a flairs knows
that when a new law is framed and
even passed, it cannot take effect until
the old law, which the new oue is in
tended to replace, has been declared
null and void by the same authority (or
one w equal power) mac irameu ine
new.
Learned meu not finding any scrip
tural authority for a change concerning
the Sabbath, it was not surprising that
they did not accept Elder Van Horn's
oft-repeated and courteously expressed
offer of tbe tent aud its appliances for
their use in showing the people he was
in error either scrlpturally or historic
ally, if tbey so considered him. One
minister did attempt in his church on
three succeeding Sundays to tell us
when the change was made. He set
out by Informing his hearers that who
ever observed that law (pointing to the
ten commandments, which were framed
aud hunt: near him) should die, but
those who did not observe them should
live, thus virtually telling his audience
that all were uow free from the restraint
which we were wont to suppose those
precepts imposed. After groping vainly
during most of three sermons In search
of Bible proof for Sunday observance,
he left that venerable book and betook
himself to tha testimonies of theFathera
with much the same desperate air that
characterized the worthy skipper who,
after vainly sounding for anchorage,
cried out, "Here we are three fathoms
atop and no bottom;" and thus tbe bat-
who fill the various offices of our coun
try.
The principal interests of this county
are the mines that are being developed
in quartz and gravel ranges. There is a
company now incorporated that have
commenced work on the Great Yank
ledge, and from present prospects, it is
destined to become the bonanza of the
Pacific Coast. There are many other
ledges that prospect well, and will
doubtless be valuable in the near future.
The great gravel range and 'ditch for
merly owned by J. H. Reed, of Portland,
is now in the hands of an English com
pany, that have expended seventy-five
or eighty thousand dollars in bringing
in a ditch and putting on machinery.
It is paying well, and will do much
toward developing the gravel ranges of
Southern Oregon. Also the claim of
Courtney & Co., on the same range, has
yielded well. Though not worked on so
large a scale as that of the English com
pany, they have moved a great amount
of gravel and opened up an old channel
from two to three hundred feet wide,
that prospects better than anything I
have seen in Southern Oregon, and tbe
owners deserve great credit for the en
ergy they have displayed in opening up
their mine, and they will undoubtedly
be well remunerated, as they have a
splendid water right and plenty of
good ground to last them for many
years.
The farming in this county is very
limited, but crops, so far as they go,
look well.
That the time will soon come when
the Immense resources of this locality
will be made to add to the wealth of en
terprising laborers, is tbe wish of
A Miner.
Galice Creek, July 17, 1876.
AT NEW EE A.
To tiie Editor of the New Northwest:
Though perhaps a little out of date, I
would like to give you a short sketch of
our Centennial celebration at New Era.
It was a celebration that gave to all
equal chance to be heard, and was, iu
fuct, oue of equality, politically, socially
and religiously.
The ever glorious stars and stripes
were hoisted upou a pole 60 feet in
height, straight, white and beautiful,
aud no prouder piece of bunting waved
in the July breezes on that day than
this flag the handiwork of an ardent
Suffragist which floated over the en
thusiastic band here gathered to cele
brate tbe great Centennial birthday of
the nation.
Mr. S. Johns was President of theday;
Rev. J. Casto Reader of the Declaration
of Independence, and Mr. Foster, Orator
of theday. The three gentlemen named
are all residents of New Era or vicinity.
Mrs. J. A. Johns of Salem read an es
say on equal rights for humanity, and
this was followed by a forcible and elo
quent suffrage speech by Rev. J. Casto.
Refreshments were now in order, and
all partook of a bountiful repast, with
out which no celebration, however Im
bued with patriotism, is complete.
After dinner resolutions were called
for and were responded to by Mrs. Johns,
who read one claiming political rights
for woman. This was signed by all
present except one woman and two or
three men. After some further discus
sion the company dispersed, each well
pleased with the exercises of the day.
That New Era is a charming rallying
spot for the friends ef equal rights, Is
the opiniou of Observer.
New Era, July 17, 1876.
Mrs. Lincoln is proved to be sane, if,
indeed, she ever was insane. A short
time since a brotber-In-law, Mr. Ed
wards, of Springfield, filed in the county
courta petition signed by Mrs. Lincoln,
praying that the management and caro
of ber estate, which was taken from her
one year ago by order of that tribunal,
might be restored to her. The conserv
ator, Robert T. Lincoln, made no objec
tion to tbe proceedings, and waived the
ten days' notictf required by statute.