FRIDAY AUGUST 4, 1876.
XOTICE.
Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon U3 to pay express charges upon
small sums, and they "Will confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
OPPOSITION THATAIDS THE CAUSE
It looks as if tbe recent defeat of the
Woman Suffrage bill in England might
turn out to be a woman's success after
all. John Bright having made a great
point against the bill by indignantly de
nyiug that men were unwilling to do
justice to women or to relieve them of
burdens, has had his attention called by
Lord Coleridge and others to the pres
ent condition of the law by which a hus
band may, by his will, deprive his
widow of the guardianship of her own
children without giving any reason, and
transfer them to a stranger; to the ex
clusion of women from medical educa
tion, etc. The result is that tbe vener
able statesman is compelled to try to
make his denial good, and has already
set his name to a bill by which all re
strictions against the attainment of
medical degrees by women shall be re
moved. Mr. Bright is evidently, by this
showing, a man whose convictions in
opposition to Woman Suffrage are hon
est, and when the fallacy of his state
ments is shown to him, quite ready to
acknowledge the same by mending
them. Men of this class do not habitu
ally do injustice to women or perpetuate
injustice upon them by laws which the
age has properly outgrown with intent
to be thus guilty, but with a mistaken
idea (and withal, considering the teach
ings of the ages, one not to be wondered
at), that men know better what is fit
and right and proper for women to door
not to do than women do themselves.
Men have so long considered them
selves as protectors of women in a sort
of pompous, patronizing way that it is
noteasy to convince them that this pro
tection is in many, if not a majority of
instances, a sham which does not lessen
oue iola the hardships and trials that
beset the path of working women. But
to their credit be it spoken that men
who resist the advancement of women
in the various avenues which their per
sistent demands are now opening to
them in the world of remunerative
work, from principle, readily yield and
face about when a plain statement of
facts that they cannot gainsay proves
their-position untenable.
It is only dogmatic assumption of the
superiority of sex, and the blind asser
tions of prejudice that will not yield the
point when clearly shown. Persons
ruled by the latter motives grow furious
when calm, dispassionate argument is
presented to them, and Instead of
weighing it calmly and fairly, they fly
off on some side track which' custom
keeps ever ready for such emergencies,
and by stale platitudes oriuuueudoes at
tempt to divert attention from the well
proven point or cast opprobrium upon
the character of the person or persons
who present it.
A PROPERREBUEE.
In a San Francisco letter to the Ore
gonian we find the following :
A terrible tragedytook place at the Brooklyn
Hotel this week, being the death or a school
teacher named LydlaBarnum, rrom the effects
or medicine administered to procure abortion.
The details are so revolting that I must be ex
cused from repeating them here. But little
doubt can be had tbatherseducerwas theman
Ivory, whose name, written on an envelope be
side the dead girl's body, was the only clue to
her identity, (for she was registered under an
assumed name), dying as she did among
strangers. The doctor(so-callcd) who attended
her, cannot be proven to have prescribed for
her, so he will probably escape. The hellish
trade he plies is a common avocation here,
and you can see the signs of these "private
physIcians"oneverycorner. I well remember
how the stern Spartan Justice of your State
punished Dr. Glass, and how the execrations
of society excommunicated a prominent poli
tician from your midst for advertising medi
cines of this class sometime before. Oregon
has nothing to regret in those cases, for they
speak wen for the humanity or her people. If
there is one crime more hellish than another,
it Is the slaughter of unborn Innocence.
And yet we who so heartily condemn
this cowardly and appalling crime can
perhaps have little Idea of tbe shame
and horror and remorse which drove
this erring girl to seek oblivion among
strangers, and concealment and relief
from yet another villain, whose traffic
Is in the blood of embryo humanity,
and whose wealth is the product of
young womanhood's dishonor. Away
back of all this sin and shame and
crime, with the attendant train of phys
ical and mental anguish, lies the great
wrong; and it consists in honoring, or
even tolerating, in man what Is set
down as the unpardonable sin in wom
an. When the proper ban of society is
placed upon the stronger as well as upon
the weaker criminal; when women
frown as sternly upon a departure from
the paths of rectitude in man as both
men and women now do upon a like de
parture in woman, we will see the "be
ginning of the end" of much at least of
this woe and crime.
To fitly describe the "physicians" so
properly rebuked in the above extract,
we lay tribute upon Pollock, who
declares (when, however, speaking of
another class of culprits) that
" The words that would sufficiently nenrse
And execrate such reprobate hutl need
Come glowing from the lips ol eiuest hell."
The proceedings of the twelfth annual
session of the Grand Lodge L O. G. T.
for the State of Oregon, held in Salem
June 13th, 14th, and 15th, 1876, come to
us in a neat pamphlet of twenty pages,
"which contains full reports of the grand
officers for the past year. We have al
ready given a summary of the condition
of the Order within this jurisdiction,
financial and numerical, and will not
recapitulate at present. The interests
of the Order during 4he current, as in
the past year, will be faithfully looked
after by G, W. C. T. Dunbar.
PAUPERISM EXEMPLIFIED.
Scarcely a week passes but we see
them these undeniable evidences of
woman's Impecunioslty and nonentity
as set forth iu "notices" similar to those
given of estray animals, with display
letters and exclamation points empha
sizing the fact that "my wife has left
my bed and board, and I hereby warn
all persons not to harbor or trust her on
my account."
Nay, the simile above given is scarce
ly correct, for no man would forbid his
neighbor to furnisli food and shelter
even to a sheep or dog; but his wife
another sort of an animal is one to
whom he is bound by no considerations
of humanity after she refuses to longer
remain in his service a servant without
salary.
That the means which he refuses to
share with her are the uudivided earn
ings of a Joint life of economy and toil,
makes not tbe slightest diffeience.
They are his to have and to hold, though
acquired in part, or, as is often tbe case,
mainly by tbe labor and 6elf-denial of
the silent partner of the matrimonial
firm. That which would be sufficient
to cause a man's indictment and sen
tence for grand larceny, were the de
frauded person other than hfs wife, is
tolerated and even protected by law,
and the woman partner is sent, or, if
you will, goes, penniless into tbe world,
followed by the stinging, humiliating
taunt of one who has become well-to-do
by her aid, as be, seizing and holding all
the property, publishes to the world
that not a farthing of the same shall go
to furnish to her food, shelter, or rai
ment. Not content with keeping her a
pauper for years, while prompt payment
of a tithe of her earnings, or a just div
idend of joint accumulations, would
have rendered her independent, he with
unblushing effrontery publishes.bis own
dishonesty and greed and her pauperism
by notices similar to the following:
rTUIIS IS TO NOTIFY ALL PERSONS THAT
J- my wife, Isabella McCarter, has deserted
me, and that I will pay no bills contracted by
her. Henry McCarter.
TV"OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT MY
i-' wife, Amelia Yokum,did,on the 6th day
of July, 1876, without Just or legal cause, leave
my bed and board. I, therefore, give public
notice to all persons not to harbor or trust her
on my account, as I will not pay or In any way
become responsible for any debts or contracts
she may make. Jacoii L. Yokust.
Why is it that the Isabellas and
Amelias, when go they must, thus de
part in beggary, while the Henrys and
Jacobs, who depart quite as frequently,
take with them the entire proceeds of
joint years of toil, or remaining, have
and hold the same exclusively ?
Our sapient law-makers tell us that
women are protected by the men and
the laws that they frame. Does this
look like it? They tell us that women
do not suffer oppression. What would
be the verdict of every man of them,
were but one man thus sent penniless
into the world, his poverty advertised,
and his share of a life-time's earnings
withheld ? What the verdict, ift after
years of unrequited toil with a tyranni
cal or brawling woman, he, unable to
longer live such a life, should find him
self compelled to advertise for a ser
vant's place in a respectable family,
giving his wife and daughters for refer
ence? Lest the unsophisticated think
this a picture ludicrously overdrawn,
we subjoin tbe following, which ap
peared directly underneath the first no
tice above quoted, in an exchange from
the interior:
"Vl" ANTED a situation in some respectable
' t tamily as a servant. References, Henry
McCarter and sons.
Mrs. Isabella McCarter.
We presume that the references given
will be considered the best, as doubtless
the woman has served them long and
faithfully. Let us hope that her en
gagement as tire-woman will be more
remunerative in the future than it has
been iu the past, so that if her situation
becomes from any cause intolerable, she
may not, on leaving It, be advertised as
a piuper.
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
The New Age, a lively and vigorous
reform journal published in Boston,
sums up an article on the above subject
in tbe following lauguage :
If, therefore, the Chinese wish to come en
tirely of their own motion, to become citizens
of the republic, we do not know or a principle
on which to base an objection ; but when they
are Inveigled to our shores with the design of
using them to degrade and subjugate a class of
our citizens, then we have a right to interfere.
The world is not yet so mature in its moral ele
ments that it is not necessary to protect the
weakgalnst the strong. The Chinese, as im
migrants or as citizens, have rights which are
Just as sacred as those of any other human
beings ; but the Chinese question is not one
alone of legitimate immigration. The policy
of vested capital toward labor In this country
is clearly Involved in this question ; and from
this fact it assumes an importance and signifi
cance which it could not otherwise possess.
Its proper discussion must reveal the defects of
existing social conditions, and the Improve
ments demanded in our industrial systems. It
has been made a political question, but as a
moral question it Invokes the most intelligent
consideration.
In all of this we most heartily concur,
and while we have little sympathy
with "anti-Chinese clubs," indignant
manifestoes and other means used to
excite the populace against this class of
people, who, while the existing treaty
between China and the United States is
neither abrogated nor modified, are en
titled to the protection guaranteed our
own citizens, we yet recognize tbe ne
cessity of dealing with this question in
a spirit of self-preservation as well as of
tolerance.
Senator Mitchell concluded a forcible
and logical speech upon the jurisdiction
of the United States Senate in the case
of Belknap, late Secretary of War, with
these words: "Holding, therefore, to
these views as to tbe nature and extent
of tbe power of this government in the
matter of impeachment, it follows that
the plea of the respondent to the juris
diction of the Senate must be overruled,
and he cited to answer to the merits of
the articles of impeachment."
WHAT A DISPATOH TOLD.
We find in the dispatches an account
of the burning of the old Globe mill at
Philadelphia and the death by fire of
two women operatives. Also that the
owner and occupant of the mill wero
committed by the coroner who invest!
gated the case to await trial on charge
of criminal neglect in not providing
proper means for the escape of opera
tives. Seeing that the persons sacri
ficed were "nothing but women," we
were somewhat surprised at the actiou
in the case, but reading further, the
mystery was solved. One of the women
whose spirit went up in the smoke of
the old mill left "a husband and seven
children; tbe oldest child thirteen years
of age. the youngest a babe," iu pretty
much the same fix as was left the hus
baud and children of the absconding
washer-woman, we presume, "without
visible means of support." Hence,
doubtless, tbe action for criminal negli
gence. Let those who so delight to proclaim
that women are protected and supported
by men, pause for a moment and con
template this picture. A slender girl of
thirteen years struggling with the
house-work and growing weary with
the care of six brothers and sisters
younger than herself, the two or three
youngest babies; tbe mother toiling ten
hours each day in a factory to maintain
them; tbe husband and father well, we
can't imagine in what way he can be
plying his office of "protector and head
of the family" unless It be by "dozing
and grumbling o'er pipe and mug" in
the corner. Suddenly the mill wherein
the real supporter of the family labors
is wrapped iu flames, and she, unable to
escape, is sacrificed. Her life repre
sented bread and shelter and clothing to
tbe helpless husband and family, so suit
for criminal negligence was brought
against those who should see that
means of escape were ample.
Row, let some expounder of woman's
sphere declare that this woman should
have been at home. For once we will
coincide with his views; nay, we will
go farther, and declare that the nominal
head of the family should, if able
bodied, as under the circumstances we
have a right to suppose he was, be
placed at work under a guardian whose
business it should have been to see that
he lost not a day, and that his wages
were appropriated exclusively to keep
and maintaiu the mother of his chil
dren in her proper sphere, the "charmed
circle of home," that Divine intentions
might not have been thwarted, aud she,
in addition to her curse of "bringing
forth children in sorrow," might not
have had to have borne his also, by eat
ing her own bread, and earning that of
her husband and children iu "the sweat
of her face."
As this wife represented a money
value, we presume that her lord will re
ceive damages for the sacrifice of his
property that will enable him to con
tinue his life of ease, while the children
will augment the number in the over
crowded wards of the nearest orphanage.
MBS. HATES.
While all eyes are turned toward
Governor Hayes as the probable occu
pant of the White House for the eusuiug
four years, it may not be amiss to refer
to the little lady who, as mistress of the
same, will dispense its hospitalities.
Mrs. Hayes is a Kentucky lady, who
freed her slaves of her own accord. She
is described as a lady of high education,
of the most graceful form, and most
pleasing manners; one who co-operates
with and has always done credit to her
husband; who aided him in his mil
itary life, encountering and sharing
with him its dangers and hardships, and
was beloved alike by soldiers and friends
wherever she was. With such a woman
in the White House as a power behind
the throne, the women of this nation
will not lie treated with the supercil
ious indifference which has character
ized the occupancy of Mrs. Grant, who
has, so far as has ever transpired pub
licly, taken no interest in anything
during the eight years that she has
been an almoner on the nation's bounty,
outside of her daughter's wedding
trousseau, and the birth of that
daughter's baby. Mrs. Hayes will be a
fit successor to the honors of Abigail
Adams honors tbahe touch of time
makes only more beautiful, and the
changes of a century have failed to dim.
HOT WEATHER IN THE EAST.
While denizens of Webfoot are treated
to moderate days, and nights deliciously
cool aud invigorating, the people of the
East and middle West are suffering
from the torture and lassitude of a heat
that is so scorching as to give them a
foretaste of a tropical existence sup
posed to be in store for many "beyond
the river." We quote from a letter re
ceived a few days since under date of
July 21st, from Latrobe, Pa.: "Shall I
attempt to give you any idea of the
discomforts of a summer here? It is
now rather more than six weeks since
I came East, and) until to-day,
the temperature has scarcely been
below ninety day or night Much of
the time it has stood well up toward
100, with no sliding up or down to
wear out the thermometer. The lan
guor aud lassitude one feels after vainly
endeavoring to rest through these
nights, are extreme. No one who has
ever experienced the agreeableness of
our nights on the Pacific Coast would
live here permanently. To-day is the
coolest day for nearly two months.
Now, at 3 p. m., it is eighty-two In the
shade. At Philadelphia it Is terrible.
No pleasure nor satisfaction possible."
We hope chronic growlers of Oregon
climate will read the above, and
grumble nevermore.
A telegram from Mrs. Dunlway, un
der date of July 26th, announced her
safe arrival at Kelton, since which time
we have not beard from her. She Is
doubtless in Philadelphia ere this.
A BOAST THATIS NOT IDLE.
While the men of the nation are
boasting, us they have an undoubted
right to do, of their liberties, their
prowefe, their aohievemt'nts, their
progress, it i, not to be expected that
the women will remain silent, espe
cially as their brethren do not seem dis
posed to sound other than their own
praises. True, we haven't mueh liberty
to boast of, aud our power, when meas
ured by brute force, is iuconsiderable,
but tbe achievements aud progress of
woman during the last quarter of the
century just closed are neither to be
gainsayed nor ignored. Iu the increased
facilities for the advancement of woman
the century has shown a remarkable
progress. We do not need Centennial
memories to convince us of this those
whose lamp of life has been lighted for
a quarter of that period can testify to
many remarkable changes. Lydia
Maria Child remarks: "I remember
seeing Mrs. Rowson and Hannah
Adams pointed out as wonderful proofs
of what woman could do, because one
had written a wishy-washy story about
'Cuarlotty Temple,' and the other had
compiled a very prosy 'History of the
Jews.' "
The brilliant women writers now
are legion. Count them over in your
mind and place vigorous and accom
plished George Eliot at their bead, as
you will be certain to do after you have
read "Daniel Deronda," and your ac
knowledgment of tbe literary advance
ment of woman is sure.
Turn now to medicine. In olden
times, and not so ancient either, tbe
woman who knew how to treat measles,
or could concoct a specific for croup, was
considered exceedingly wise, a treasure,
in fact, in a neighborhood. Now,
women who bold diplomas from medi
cal colleges are numbered by the dozen,
while tbe annual income from their
practice aggregates many thousands of
dollars. Even the jealousy and ill-feeling
with which their professional
brethren were wont to regard them is
melting away before the new custom.
When the remains of Dr. Susan Dim
mock, who perished on the "Schiller,"
were brought home, the first physicians
in the land, in token of their high ap
preciation of her worth and knowledge,
volunteered to act as pall-bearers.
It has not been long since ministers
aud elders grew hoarse in declaring with
St. Paul, "It is a shame for women to
speak iu the churches." Now women
occupy pulpits and preside over pasto
rates without exciting remarks.
The profession of the law has been
heretofore considered as peculiarly fit
ting for masculine minds. Lately, bow
ever, women have passed examinations
in legal lore with sufficient credit to be
admitted to the bar. Whether they
will prove themselves as capable as
men have done, of making the "worse
appear the better reason," remains to be
seen. There is one law firm in Iowa,
consisting of a man and his wife, doing
business under the name of "Foster &
Foster."
Mrs. Child, whom we quoted above,
advises women never "to do anything
unless they can do it earnestly and
thoroughly." When anything, however
great or small, is well accomplished, the
right to do it is well established.
WONDERFUL !
"Women were intended to be the
mothers of the race," quoth a doughty
dogmatist a few days since, rubbing bis
nose contemplatively as he gave voice
to this startling fact.
Seeing nothing in this assertion, re
markable us it is, to cause doubt, or
give chance for argument, we replied
not, but meditatively sharpened our
pencil, while we waited for a further
unfoldment of the wonderful plans and
intentions of tbe Almighty in the crea
tion of woman.
We waited not long. Eucouraged by
the conviction which our silence led
him to believe his wondrous words had
wrought, he stroked bis chin and con
tinued: "Women were intended to have the
care of home and the rearing of children,
aud nothing else." (This last by way of
a clincher).
"What, when they have no home ex
cept tbey maintain it, or their children
are grown ?" we asked. "Would you
shut old, middle-aged, or single women
up in convents, or send them, by quick
and easy transit, out of the world at the
expence of a grateful commonwealth ?"
"I said," he remarked, sententiously,
"that women should have homes."
"How many of them are you able to
supply in this regard ?" we asked, with
lurking sarcasm, as we glanced at tbe
seedy coat or our oracle and reflected
upon his well-known impecuniosity.
"I wasn't speaking abouUmyself, but
of your hobby of woman's rights"
with intonations upon the last two
words intended to be peculiarly wither
ing. "Women have got to be the
mothers of the race, and to take care of
homes aud children, aud that's rights
enough," and, with this recapitulation
of wonders, aud (to him) conclusive re
assertion, he left, imagining, no doubt,
that we would so profit by tbe astound
ing facts set forth that we would spend
tbe afternoon in making puddings, and
the evening in contriving imaginary
wardrobes for children long since able
to contrive their own.
Overwhelmed with the vast profund
ity of his knowledge and duly aston
ished at his originality we were, and,
amongst all these wonders, we have
ceased to wonder that equal rights are
withheld from women, when such truly
wonderful arguments are brought to
bear against the theory.
Mrs. E. Goodchlid delivered the Centennial
oration at Ashland. "Weight not known. Al
bany Democrat.
"Masculine but not manly," is the
brief aud just comment on tbe above in
the Ashland Tidings. We expect better
things of the Democrat during tbe ab
sence of Mart. Brown.
CHRISTIANITY AND WAR.
To the Editor of the New Northwest :
In looking over our leading journals
from time to time, one cannot help be
ing astonished at the preparations made
by the different European nations in
war material, as means of aggression
and defense. One nation no sooner in
vents an improvement iu the art of
slaughter than others, not to be behind
hand, sedulously strive to attain equal,
if not superior art, iu the same thing, iu
order to make themselves safe, and, at
tbe same time, prevent their neighbors
from being too secure.
One, in bis calm thinking moments,
can hardly imagine the necessity or
even propriety of this emulation In the
ways and means of taking human life.
It would also seem that if A. climbs up
a hundred feet to throw down stones on
B., and B. reciprocates the endeavor by
mounting to a corresponding altitude to
retort on A., their relative positions are
about the same, plus the labor and fa
tigue of the ascent. Then behold the
loveliness and consistency of Chiistian
nations professing peace and practicing
war!
Are not "whited sepulchres" nice to
look at? But inside, what? Is it not
a heavenly idea to send missionaries
among the Hindoos aud Africans to
teach them "Christaud Him crucified,"
while His reputed followers at borne in
the very land where those same mission
aries come from, Christian rulers and
brethren, are daily multiplying the
most formidable engines of destruction
which art and science can possibly in
vent to rival each other iu social diab
olism? Would it not be instructive
could those tawny converts raise the
curtain and get a peep at the scenes be
hind ? Would they not the more read
ily appreciate the deep gratitude of
King David when he praised the Lord
so fervently that he "taught his hatids
to war and his fingers to tight !"
Perhaps it is necessary to rend tbe
heatheu veil with the sword aud Gatling
gun, to throw the Bible in and make
proselytes sharp-shooters, evert while
making them sharp Christians.
England forced her ship loads of
opium upon the resisting Chinese by
threats of bombardment, if not actual
bombardment itself, and apologized by
the sanitary declaration that the Bibb,
in her regime, necessarily plugged up
the bullet hole and sword thrust!
Catholicism, with her absurd claims,
is keeping Europe armed to the teeth
to-day, depleting still more and more
her destitute and starving poor in the
vexing and complicated questions of
Territorial supremacy, balance of power,
and dogma of infallibility.
So-called Christian nations are wast
ing more every year in the means of war
and devastation than would feed and
clothe all their needy and impoverished
citizeus, if rightly husbanded and ap
plied to the arts of peace instead of
brute force. Some may think perhaps
when we get God in our constitution we
will be more inclined to convert the
spear into the pruning hook, the sword
into the plowshare, and eschew war and
follow peace. The Jews had God in
theirconstitutiou did they fight lessfor
that? The Saracens aud Christians iu
their fight over the holy sepulchre
caused some four or five millions to bite
the dust. Religious wars have ever
been the most sanguinary on record. I
candidly think it is about time that the
different religions, or any one of them
should come to a more careful reckon
ing with themselves uuder close exami
nation, abating somewhat their oft-repeated
pretentious assertion that to
Christianity or religion is due all tbe
civilization man possesses. Science
owes nothing to any religion. She
stands and lives to-day independent of
their exactions. She breathes a different
air aud produces more ameliorating and
useful elements iu the grand structure
of civilization than any religion what
ever. Beliglous devotees have bad
their boast long enough. Their effront
ery has browbeaten maukind long
enough, In view of the long array of Bi
ble wars, Hermit Peter raids, inquisi
torial persecutions and butcheries,
Quaker hangings and drownings, God-in-the-Constitution
agonies, and lastly
their silly attempt to throttle liberal
thought by those effete Sabbath Puri
tanism at the world's fair in the city of
Brotherly Love. - W. B. Rightek.
Turn water, July 24, 1876.
We respectfully suggest the following,
taken from the Oregonian of Wed
nesday, as a text for another discourse
from Brother Abbott, of the Tribune,
concerning "domestic infelicity:"
We are reliably informed that the mental de
rangement of Sheriff Coffee, of Clarke county,
W. T.. which was mentioned some time since,
was not domestic troubles.as then stated. His
domestic relations have always been pleasant
and harmonious. His mental disorder is at
tributable, so far as can be ascertained, to bod
ily ill health. The mental disorder was by no
means so violent as first reported.and, we are
glad to learn, has proved to be only temporary.
He Is all right again, and attending to his offi
cial business as usual.
Also from the Vancouver Independ
ent: Mrs. A. L. Coffee returned from her visit
East by the steamer "AJax."
Put this and that together, and let us
have another pious dissertation on
"domestic trouble" aud "desertion,"
brother.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Mrs. S. A. McC, Sheridan : Explan
atory letter received. Proper credit is
given and name changed as directed.
Shall be glad to hear from you fre
quently. Mrs. M. T., Salem : Contribution re
ceived a week since and placed to your
credit on the proper list. Thanks for
response and the kindly sentimeuts ex
pressed in your letter as well.
J. B. W. Olympia : Address changed
as per order. Hope the school will be a
pleasant success. Shall certainlyaccept
your kind invitatiou when fate or for
tune wafts us to your beautiful and
homelike city. Mauy thanks for kind
wishes.
PAUSE I CONSIDER!
To the Editor or the Nrw Northwest:
I see by the papers that Oregon's ex
hibit at the Centennial exhibition Is at
tracting a good, deal of attention, and
under the efficient management of Mr.
Dufur and his aids will doubtless be in
strumental in attracting many enter
prising home-seekers to this far-oil
land. This is what we greatly need.
We must have more people before we
can expect to fully develop the almost
endless resources of our fair young
State; yet it does appear to me that it
would be well, while laboring to induce
immigration, to cast about us as care
fully as maybe and see If we cannot de
vise some plan to keep those amongst
us who are already here. Poor Rich
ard, among the many sensible views he
originated, said 'that it was not what a
man earned that made him rich, but
what he saved. It is Idle for us to draw
people hither if they are to leave imme
diately after their arrival for want of
employment; yet this is just what has
been going on for the past year or more,
and what will continue, unless they can
find employmeut, sufficient, at least, to
meet their current expenses. I do not
purpose a senseless tirade against the
Chinese who are amongst us, but I do
desire to awake the good people of the
State to the fact that we must give the
preference in matters of labor and busi
ness to our own race, or we will never
grow in population as we would desire.
Since sojourning in Washington county
I have met a number of men just on
from the Atlantic States valuly seeking
employment, notwithstanding tbe plod
ding Mougollau was busily engaged iu
plain view at wages little below what
they would have willingly worked for.
Oue old gentleman stated to me that he
had left Boston some two month since,
and though he had industriously sought
employment int liree different counties
of the State, he had not been able to
earn a single dollar, and would be com
pelled to leave the country or starve.
Now it does seem to me that it is
high time that tbe citizens of thiscoun
try were awakening to the realities of
tbe situation. May it not be that the
same specious plea that seemed to jus
tify tbe colonists in importing negro
slaves into this country centuries ago
that of needed cheap labor will ulti
mately entail a curse upon us similar to
that produced by the forced immigra
tion of Africans one that will permeate
every ramification of politics and com
merce and oue the final eradication of
which will cost us millions of treasure
and thousands of valuable lives, unless
we take it in time? Do not think, Mrs.
Editor, that I am needlessly alarmed on
this subject, for I do not think I am;
but I am couvinced that the Chinese
question is oue of greater moment to
the future of this Pacific Coast than any
and all others, and I tremble when I
think how lightly it is treated by the
good people generally. Cynic
Some curious statistician thus sums
up the cost of "ministers, dogs, lawyers,
tobacco, and liquors :" The salaries of
all the ministers in the United States
are said to amount to six millions of
dollars annually; the cost of supporting
the dogs of the country is seventy mil
lions; the fees of lawyers is thirty-five
millions; over six hundred millions are
spent for tobacco, and over fourteen
hundred millions for liquors. Thus it
will be seen that the cost of men's in
dulgences and tbe cost of their religion
is out of all proportion.
A man will die for want of air in five
minutes, for want of sleep in ten days,
for want of food at varying intervals de
pendent on constitution, habits of life,
and tbe circumstances of tbe occasion.
Instances have been given where per
sons have been said to live many weeks
without eating a particle of food; but,
when opportunities have been offered
for an investigation of the case, it has
invariably been found that fraud was at
the bottom of it.
Harper's Magazine for August is a
worthy successor to h long line of illus
trious predecessors. As usual this fa
vorite periodical is replete with all that
can "delight, arouse, refine, and ex
pand" the mind. It is just the thing to
read when "stretching your listless
length at noontide" upon tbe green
sward at a summering place, or lazily
reclining in a garden chair under your
own vine and shade-tree.
A lady temperance lecturer, Mrs.
Sbeppard, has several times recently
addressed the people of Roseburg on
that important topic. This is a subject
upon which women are peculiarly
well fitted to speak, aud oue upon
which men listen to them with "re
spectful consideration."
Olive Harper writes to the Alia that
the Sunday prohibition of tbe privi
leges of the Centennial grounds only
extends to the "poor people." The
Commissioners, tbe press, and every
body who has a "chalked hat" can visit
the show at any time.
Tbe circular of Pacific University and
Tualatin Academy has come to baud,
containing names of teachers, curricu
lum, rules, etc. First term commences
on the first Wednesday in September.
Will t,he cruelty and heartlessuess of
women never cease? This time it is a
washer-woman who has decamped,
leaving a husband and four children
without visible means of support.
It is said that there are at-preeelit in
Philadelphia 30,000 men out of employ
ment, searching dally for work, but
without success, and living off of the
charity of friends and neighbors.
It is said that the excitement of the
Presidential campaign keeps people
from thinking they have the hydro
phobia, and gives tbe poor dogs a rest.
RECENT EVENTS.
Vanderbilt is again seriously ill.
The Dover (N. H.) Cotton Mills have
shut down for thirty days.
Nearly 2,000 longshoremen are on a
strike iu New York City.
During the past week 437 deaths and
416 births occurred iu New York City.
George William Curtis declines being
a candidate for Governor of New York.
The funeral of Senator Carpenter, of
West Virginia, took place on the 28th
ult.
All but two of tbe nominees of tbe
Prohibitory party in Massachusetts have
declined.
Joseph G. Morse, U. S. Consul at
Trinidad, died of yellow fever on the
25th ult.
Grasshoppers have overrun the west
ern part of Minnesota, destroying every
vestige of crops.
Notices have been posted in all mills
at Fall River, Mass., announcing a re
duction of about teu per cent.
The State Prohibitionists' Convention
met at Louisville, on the 27,1b, adopted
a platform, and discussed the question
of supporting a Presidential candidate.
Senator Hamlin has a plan for re-establishing
the fast mail, which be will
attach to a post route bill that is now
under consideration in the Senate postal
committee.
Lord Duflerin left Ottawa on the 31st
ult., bound on a special visit to British
Columbia. The citizeus of the latter
place are prepariug to give him a mag
nificent reception.
Charles Vivian, the celebrated singer,
was married in Oakland a short time
since to Miss Imogene Holbrook, the
reader and elocutionist, who visited this
State last winter.
At the State Conference of colored
voters at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 26th,
a resolution was adopted recommending
the colored voters of the State to vote
for Hayes and Wheeler.
The Secretary of the Treasury baa
stopped the coinage of trade dollars at
Philadelphia and Carson mints, and or
dered tbe San Francisco mint to coin
sufficient quantities to meet actual ex
port. The mother of Charlie Ross is stop
ping at Brock field, Mass., with her five
remaining children. She believes her
boy will yet be recovered or that she
will receive positive evidence of his
death.
M. House, tbe great New York di
vorce lawyer, was recently shot dead by
bis wife. He was ber third husband,
she having been divorced from former
ones'. House bad also been divorced
from a former wife.
Small-pox is causing terror in San
Francisco, and is constantly increasing.
94 new cases and 19 deaths were re
ported last week. No part of the city is
free from the disease, the best as well
as the worst localities having furnished
cases. Hundreds are vaccinated dally.
Ann Eliza's alimony has been, by de
cision of Judge Sehseffer, reduced from
$500 to $100 per month, and Brlgham
given thirty days to pay the amount
($3,600), aud provides, io default of such
payment, that execution shall issue
against his property. Ho will also be
Compelled to pay the cost'of the suit.
It is reported on good authority that
Tilden has informed Cox and other
prominent Democratic Congressmen
that he will decline acceptance, and
leave the party without a Presidential
candidate, in case the House passes any
bill to repeal any existing law provid
ing for resumption of specie payment.
The National Republican Committee
have printed 25,000 copies of Sargent's
speech on tbe evils of Chinese immigra
tion, which will be distributed through
out the country as campaign documents.
Sargent will himself distribute 5,000 of
them. He has already sent out 5,000
copies previously printed at his own ex
pense. Official returns made to the bureau of
statistics show that, during the fiscal
year ending June 30tb, 1876, there ar
rived iu the United States 22,572 Chi
nese immiglants, of whom only 250
were female. During the correspond
ing period of 1875, the total immigra
tion to the United States from China
was 16,437, of whom 82 were females.
' At the unveiling of tlie Lincoln Statue
in Washington on the 14th of April,
there stood on the platform besidqpGen.
Logan, near the President of the United
States, Louis Clarke, alias "George
Harris," who saw the" negro ''Uncle
Tom" whipped to death by Tom Cana
day, of Garrett county, Kentucky. Im
mediately afterward he crossed the Ohio
on the ice and gave tbe particulars to
Harriet Beecher Stowe, upon which she
wrote the story of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Belknap has been acquitted, tbe vote
standing 35 for conviction, and 25 not
guilty less than the required two
thirds. Those who voted guilty were
Bayard, Booth, Cameron of Pennsyl
vania, Cockerill, Cooper, Davis, Dawes,
Dennis, Edmunds, Gordon, Hamilton,
Harvey, Hitchcock, Kelly, Kernan,
Key, McCreary, McDonald, Merrlman,
Mitchell, Morrill, Norwood, Oglesby,
Randolph, Ransom, Robertson, Sar
gent, Saulsbury, Sherman, Stephenson,
Tburman, Wadleigh, Wallace, Whyte,
and Withers. Those voting in the neg
ative were Anthosfy, Allison, Bout well,
Bruce, Cameron of Wisconsin, Chris
tiancy, Coukling, Conover, Cragin,
Dorsey, Eaton, Ferry, Frelinghuysen,
Hamlin, Howe, Ingalls, Jones of
Nevada, Logan, McMillan, Paddock,
Patterson, Spencer, West, Windom and
Wright. Jones of Florida declined to
vote, ou the ground that the Senate had
no jurisdiction. Two-thirds of the Sen
ate not havingvoted in favorof sustain
ing the articles of impeachment, it was
ordered that a judgment of acquittal be
entered, and the Senate, sitting as a
court of impeachtneut, adjourned sine
die.