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4 ) gem jfettSjWst FRIDAY DECEMBER 1, 1876. XOTICI. Agents will please take notice that It Is a great tax upon us to pay express charges upon small sums, and they will confer a great favor by remitting to us through money orders or registered letters. NOTICE. Mrs. Nelly Mossman Is authorized, to receivs subscriptions and renewals for the New Northwest at Olympla and receipt for the same. Mrs. Longbary will call upon delinquents at Dayton, Amity, McMInnvllle, aud Lafayette within the next two weeks and furnish her autograph in exchange for amounts due on this paper. We hope friends in these localities will he prepared to re ceive our agents and promptly pay the hills presented. SOUTH OAEOLINA. A LOOZ UPON VANOOUVEE. EDITOEIAL GOEEESPONDEHOE. 1 Deah Readers op the New Northwest: The continued absence of "ye chief It wag i in New York. rendering It desirable, not to say neces- BalQ jn the country meaU8 a dark sary, for some one to do some collecting d wet grasg flowers 8miiing through tears, dripping trees, slippery highways, and a leisure time indoors for books or for the New northwest outside oi this city, we, on Friday afternoon, step ped on board the stanch and gallant steamer "Vancouver" bound, for the de lightful Tittle city whose name she bears. Quite unlike in the matter of luggage Is.the woman who journeys for pleasure, and the woman who journeys ou busi ness, and consequently in lieu of the traditional trunk, band-box, basket, dog and bundle, we bore only the bills of our delinquent subscribers aud a comb and brush in our side pocket, and an 'ambril" (which should have been blue cotton, but wasn't) In our hand. Everybody goea to Vancouver, and everybody exclaims with delight at its beautiful, sightly and romantic location on the banks of the swelling Columbia blue in song and summer, but muddy in reality, and winter as augmented by melting snows and fast falling rains she sweeps in grandeur and majesty from beyond the Cascade Mountains to the mighty Pacific. "We were met at the wharf by Mrs. Things are boiling in South Carolina, A dispatch of the 28th ult. says: "At midnight the State-house in Columbia was occupied by Federal troops, who camped on the rotunda and kept the doors barred. This morning a guard of sentinels was formed around the build ing, and admittance was denied to all except those having passes from Gov ernor Chamberlain's private secretary, of a gentle and womanly friend of worn W. It. Jones. The streets of Columbia an upon whose face and form a life are thronged with people from all parts cf sunshine and shadow have left many of the State. Quiet reigns, but the ex- traces, and in the early morning, despite citement is intense." The Legislature the fast falling rain, sallied out in corn- was organized at 1 p. 3t.,'and consists, as pany with Mrs. Coffee upon our errand then organized, of five whites and fifty- Vancouver is quiet and homelike, de- four negroes. The Democratic members void of bustle and unused to change, met at Carolina Hall on the same day. At least its most loyal and contented Sixty-four Democrats and two Republi- denizeus tell us that it has long been cans participated, and were sworn in by stationary as regards improvements, Judge Cooke. Each House will demand Knd to us it seems to have a staid and of the Secretary of State the return of permanent appearance which suggests music. In the city, and especially lu New York, rain implies mud, confusion, hurrv. filth and umbrellas. We had engaged to visit South Manchester, Conn., on such an afternoon, but we were only a novice about a New York rain, so the fact that, in spite of lower ing weather, we must spend the fore noon alternately in North "William street and Broadway, among printers, stereotypers, designers, engravers and publishers, inspired us with no forebod ings, and we set out very early in order to complete our rounds by twelve o'clock, when we were to take the train for the evening's destination. Verdant novice that we were, we had donned good clothes to encounter that rain. Mud! why, we've seen the horses mire in the Weiser Slough of Eastern Oregon, have almost lost sight of their ears in the sticky clay of the Sierra Ne vadas of California, have plowed New York rain we had left iu the city, but leaving behind its muck and slush and filthlness. In the cheerful parlors of our host a genial company assembled, where we spent hour after hour in an swering queries, relating experiences and incidents of life and travel, and, when at last a late bed time assigned us to a silent chamber, and the faces of our far distant loved ones passed before us like a radiant panorama, we fell asleep and crossed the Continent on a chariot of dreams. This letter, dear reader, reminds us of a sermon we heard once that was all In troduction. We set out to tell you all about the Cheuey Silk Works, but the preliminaries have occupied the space, and we must defer the story itself till next week. A. J. D, New York, October 24, 187G. 00EEE0TI01I. To the Editor of the New Northwest: There were a few errors in the min utes of- the proceedings of the Yamhill County Woman Suflrage Association as published last week. Will yon please correct them ? On the resolution proposing that through seas of slush along the Cowlitz committee be appointed to select speak- Wi Wnsliincrf.nn Tfrritnrv. lmvfi rndo I ,u nf KIa nmintv . , . T. o j i i cia iu uuuicsa tuc iicutc ui fcuw wuwy Coffee, the estimable wife of the sheriff bub.d tbrougb the black loam on tbe subject of eqUai rights,'' a com- Ul wauBWuuVl "" Illinois bottoms, ana seen tue bottom mwtoa nf iimtoml of mm. was nn 1 A. 1 II .IM,1 I I U"VI " I pieasam, auu wen uiuww ui itsef faii throuirh the hhrhwavs of nif,l ti,nf hinn- Mrs Hnnkp wuere a mus. ut--K"""i ""'"s " " Hardscrabble In Oregon, but for intru- Also. farther on. where it reads. "At spent. Passed the night at we uouae K abominable Urr9. Pond's ronnest. Mrs. Loueharv mud, we never saw anything worth complaining of till we encountered a New York rain storm aud was com pelled to cross Chatham street afoot, ride through the Bowery In a crowded street car, get wet through aud through promised to be one of the speakers," it should be, "Mrs. Loughary and Mr, Derby promised to be speakers on that occasion.1 The names of committee ou finance are nor given. They are as loiiows when wading through the slush among Mrg fjooke of Lafayette, Mrs. Higgin the vote for Governor. WHO IS TO BEPEESIDENT ? This question continues to be anxious ly asked and is yet answered only by vague conlecture. "Do tell us who is elected?" writes a sojourner in a lonely "district in Eastern Oregon. "Who'i3 elected?" ask the children as we unfold the morning paper, and scan its tedious telegrams, no wiser for the scrutiny, "Who is elected?" ask anxious office holders of each other, and the question is echoed by would-be office-holders, doubly anxious. And so it goes all over the city, State and nation, partizans betraying an anxiety that belies their no thought of recent growth. The dis trlct school, under charge of Mr. John Dillon, who but recently returned from the East, together with a competent corpsof lady assistants, has just closed a prosperous term. The public fund be ing exhausted for the present school year, the public school will be discon tinued; the children will not, however, be left to run at large, in pursuit of mischief which, we are told, Is always furnished to idle hands by his Satanic Majesty, as Mr. Dillon has opened a pri vate school in the district school-house with promise of large attendance. Just now the good and progressive people of the little city are agitated over, or are agitating the question, of establishing a public library and reading-rooms. The the teams at the street crossing beyond Cooper Union, and cap the climax by dodging behind the steaming horses on Broadway, carrying a bundle in one hand and an umbrella in the other, leaving our skirts to catch the slimy of North Yamhill, Miss Olds of Mc Minnville, aud Mrs. Loughary of Amity, An excellent production was received by the Corresponding Secretary from Mrs. J. DeVore Johnson, but it cam just after the meeting adjourned, aud ooze of the thoroughfare and our com- consequently too late to be read before plaining shoes to absorb the filthlness that skirts failed to encounter. But, by noon, we were ready for the train, in spite of adverse circumstances, and were glad of the darkness that hid the worst of our predicament from the hos pitable friends who greeted us at night fall at the mansion home of Frank Cheuey, Esq., and his genial wife and daughters, who welcomed us with as the Association. We hope, however, to soon see it in the New Nohtiiwest, as I have instructions to forward it to you for publication. Truly yours, S. M. Kelty Lafayette, November 27, 1876. .A LONG PEEIOD OF UNEEST. It will be remembered thatHouse, th kindly greeting as though our bedrag- great divorce lawyer of New York City, LETTEE FE0MASHJNGT0N. TO THE ErtlTOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST: Excitement Is at fever heat just now, and, strange to say, there cannot be found a woman in the public depart ments who does not admit her desire to vote "just this once." Work is at a standstill; the men are all away, it hav ing taken them ten days to deposit their ballots, and meantime the women have sat at their desks aud kept-up fairly the- current work of the various bureaus, Out of ten femiuiue representatives of the F. F. V.'s who now earn their livelihood in office, nine have become so reconstructed and progressive as to declare that to see Hayes elected they would veil themselves and casta ballot, and the tenth she was not lacking, oh, no; away with all feminine delicacy, she too would vote early and often for Democratic administration and Confed erate supremacy. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, one of the most successful and popular lawyers In the District, has been refused permis sion to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States because, "By tbeuui form practice of the court, from its or ganization to the present time, and by the fuir construction of its rules, none but men are admitted to practice before it as attorneys and counselors. This is A PLEA POE WOMAH. will, and for authority will refer to the READ BEFORE THE YAMHILL COUKTV WOMAN' I wuul" 1 . suffrage association November 15, 1876, improved condition or the negroes since thev acquired the right of citizenship. Mrs. President, Members, -Friends.- The Amendment that covers the ground. In taking up this subject to-night, it is f0P them does not enforce the right to fitting first that we pause and consider vote, but simpiy forbids that a right al the remarkable significance of theques- read,j possessed shall be not denied. tion involved, and of the incalculable interests at stake, upon so important a matter as the demand for the enfran chisement of one-half of the human Where did our brethren first get this right? We will tell them. They in herit it from their God, and every one of thesovereign people inherit it from the race, btriklng, as it does, a vital uiow 8ame Infinite source. He knew no such at the social structure of every nation ignoble distinction as that of sex When underlying in Its import and eflect the creating men and women with like con- whole fabric of society we cannot but ditiousand necessities. call to mind the significant remark of The right to vote is higher than State one of the pioneers in the cause of hu- laws, higher than constitutions, and man rights, uttered a quarter of a cen tury ago, that it was "the most magnifi cent reform ever lauuehed upon the world." The question of human rights without regard to sex is the spirit of American politics, is constantly being material ized, and on all occasions is creeping in, is hovering near, demanding respectful hearing, and, like a veritable ghost, will not down at the bidding of priest, po tentate, or power. It looks all other questions out of countenance, for upon it hiuges the prosperity of future gener ations. It matters not that the old pre vailing irlona nf flio lirrsf nri nimlnSt. it. - , , ........ b j. o --i in accordance with immemorial usage 0r that bigotry and prejudice are still In England, and the law and practice in abroad in the land, clad In priestly garb, all the States until within a recent pe- nnrl ns of nl.l pnfnmintr nroscriDtion and riod, and the court does not feel called commanding obediance to one-sided upon to mate a change until such a iaws. 'rbi3 protest against the wrongs change is required by statute, or a more 0f aEea is but the continuation of or exteuded practice in the highest courts ganjzed protests against the oppression of the States." jNow, it seems rather Und enslavement of human beincs. A hard that iu the Centennial year, one subjugated state is nothing more or less Hundred years since tins itepubiic thau a state of slavery, draw It mildly deemed itself capable of constructing its as we may. The love of freedom, more own laws, and when, by reason of not poteut than human enactments, higher considering the laws of England as suit- than human law, has been fighting its able for the government of a free-spir- way like a thuuder storm, until, with Ited and independent people, they estab- its accumulated force.it stands to-day lished a government for themselves, that the Chief Justice of the United States should deem it necessary to take shelter behind the laws of England, and render a decision iu couformity with the usage of that country. And yet the usage of Great Britain does not reserve its places of honor exclusively for men: challenging the respect of Christendom. We know there are many who blink at this issue, who try to get around it, who fain would Ignore its existence. There are men wno lear an open neiu, wno have a shrinking consciousness of not beinir ready for the battle in a clear field. This we take as a tacit confession the queens of England have had their 0f risk ou their part to their Imagined feigned security in the result, everybody asking an all-absorbing question which city has been divided into sections and none are wise enough to answer. The is being thoroughly canvassed for sub- count in the meantime goes slowly on scriptions to the fund for the purpose. in the erewhile if not now rebel States; ye did not learn the degree of success questions of ineligibility of electors lu with which the project was meeting, various localities are sprung; assertion but.are assured that so worthy a scheme follows contradiction and contradiction treads upon the heels of assertion and each travels upon the wings of light ning back and forth and all over the Continent, and still the question of "Who will be the next President of the United States?" remains unanswered. We still hold to the opinion expressed last week, that Hayes will be the man, and will continue to hold it unless the countiug of the votes in the Electoral College causes us to change it. WE OONOUE. The Womaris Journal says: If the Republicans have lost the control or the government, it Is because they have re- fubed to take up the great progressive Issues of the present and future "Woman Suffrage, tem pcrance, labor anil civil service reform. They offered no new object, no inspiring principle. The same old leaders have cried "Wolf ! wolf I" so often that they were no longer believed, and now the wolves have devoured them. They denied suffrage to their allies, the loyal women ol the Republic, and so when the votes ol worn1 on -would have saved them, their hands were tied. There is more in (his assertion than at first appears. It is certain that there never has been an election held in which the women of the nation took such an enthusiastic interest. Among all of the fortthe mental Improvement and growth of all classes of citizens will not fail be cause of the parsimony or ill-directed economy of Vaucouverites. A call at the office of the Independ ent revealed Brother Daniels, busy as a bee, and happy as a working Republi can lias a ngut to be in wasnington Territory (as well as iu Oregon) just now. His paper is indispensable to the people of Vancouver, and is, we believe, well sustained by them. Whether all the people are sensible and propresslve enough to value and speak kindly of the New Northwest and the cause of human rights which it seeks to advance, or whether our good friend, knowing us a novice in the business of canvassing aud collecting, escorted us only to the of fices and habitations of this class, wo know not; certain it is that we received words of encouragement wherever we went and a number of new subscriptions and renewals. Under these circumstan ces it is to be supposed that our remem- brauces of Vancouver will bo exceed ingly pleasant. We found in our per ambulations about the town some whom we remember as friends in the halcyon days "when we were young," and sat on rudB benches in a Yamhill school-house, gled skirts and shoes were invisible creations of a morbid fancy. Our route lay through the beautiful valley of the winding Connecticut, through New Haven and Hartford, and beyond the Charter Oak city, out into a lovely alluvial succession of hills and dales, as. beautiful as the surroundings of Itoseburg and as peaceful as the vales of Yamhill. The rain had not yet overtaken South Manchester, and the blessed Indian summer was in a haze of glory. To our surprise and joy we found that Mrs. Cheney was one of the Cushing daughters, a family well and honorably known in Illinois when we were both children, and when Delavan Prairie, where her father lived, was a howling wilderness. Brought up almost within hail of each other, yet she had removed In her early maidenhood to the farthest East, we to the farthest West, and now, with sons and daughters grown to maturity, while yet gray hairs are strangers to the temples of both, we are permitted-to was some months ago killed by his wife, This wife, in announcing her intention of becoming a public lecturer, thus writes to a brother of her husband. We fear that a long period of "unrest" is before this woman who has been so sorely wounded in all the finer feelings of her womanhood, by witnessing the nefarious arts of a professional "divorce procurer," if she really "never rests un til divorce for every cause is abolished all over the United States." Hear her : I shall never rest until I have divorce abol ished for every cause all overthe United States, I shall never rest until I have the laws relat ing to schools so changed that Christianity, from infancy, shall be instilled as thoroughly as the alphabet, accompanying every study, and fit my charges so that sin cannot get hold of them. The world will learn that, although I have; ead medicine, and might become a practicing physicicn, and make a living by curing, yet I believe in prevention more than euro later applied, In that as well as other practice. I have got my mind firmly made up that all the faults and sins and evils of life can be entirely overcome eradicated by commenc ing with conslstant correction and Christian instruction with the infant mind within the very first years of life. share of the administration of the gov ernment, aud the appointment of its of ficers; nor is Mrs. Lockwood the first nor the only lawyer unhappy iu beinga woman; the list begins with Queen Esther pleading loyally for her people, and women will continue to plead until usage gives place to justice, and talent is unsexed. Mrs. Lockwood has been a member of the bar forover three years, and has a practice of $10,000 per' annum, The Woman's College started by this lady has just been opened, with such elements as, we trust, will render it successful. There are many women in superiority if they consent to meet their sisters in the lecture hall or in the lab ratory of science. There are many good men who honestly fear that political rights would be the total destruction of true womanhood. To these we have only to say that women are made and upheld by God's own hand; you have only to mete out justice and fear not. But there are myriads of men with in tellects large enough to do honor to woman's heart, and hearts large enough to do honor to woman's intellect. There is yet another class of men, and they are legion, who firmly believe in the old or -ITT , ? . .1 rl.S 1 fI,U l.nf I wasuingiou, cierKS in tue goverumeut uur oi luiugs, uuu uuycuihuj wnu """Innd sermonizing departments, wno win giauiy avail themselves of the means of higher edu cation and the prospect of independent livelihoods. Other fields are gradually opening for women; wood carving is be ing extensively engaged in by themi and why should not wood graining be adopted by women as a trade? It is easy work, and gives full play for taste and fancy, besides being very lucrative; they should be continued; these cannot see the need ot individuality in wom an. They believe that Mrs. Jones, when she dies, should have a tombstone erected to her memory, setting forth the fact that she was the faithful wife of Thomas Jones; but they see no reason why Thomas Jones' tombstone should bear the inscription that he was the faithful husband of Hannah Jones. dark wood or imitation of walnut and They imagine that through the tradi women who have expressed themselves parsing and transposing and analyzing upon the absorbing topics of the day in our presence since the election and these comprise every woman with out exception whom we have met since the 7th day of November and for some days previous all with but a single ex ception have expressed their anxiety over the geueral result and nearly all have declared their eagerness to vote. We do not say that all of these, or per haps an uudue proportion of them would have voted the Republican ticket, but it is natural and just to suppose that the great mass of women would have voted with the party that gave them power to vote at all, in preference to the party that treated them and their just and courteous demands with contemptuous silence In their convention. If the Re publican party is defeated, it is because it was narrow and short-sighted and corrupt, where It should have been pro- under the erudite instructions of a long departed pedagogue the sentences and paragraphs in "Sander's Fourth Read er" old edition; others with whom in the shadowy past we had met aud chat ted for a brief time and parted, and yet others who knew us only iu name, but still gave us cordial greeting. These meetings break in upon the humdrum of office and home life, which, when pursued with unvarying sameness for weeks and months, become monotonous, and give for a time as pleasing an ef fect as a sip from the fabled fountain of youth could do. Everywhere after the first greetings were over we were interrogated as to the probable time of Mrs. Duniway's re turn, and the length of time that would probably elapse thereafter before she would visit Vancouver to deliver a course of lectures. Our answers to these gressive, prescient and pure. The lead- questions were as lucid and conclusive ers became, either stupid from being overfed, or arrogant from long triumph, and exhibited a stolid indifference to the demands of a progressive people, In a transition era, and wiitie tney nave as uncertainty could make them. Step ping on board the "Oneonta" in theafter noon, we returned to our office, glad that we had braved even the driving storms of one of the most inclement meet beside the cheerful fire of her ele gant home and recall the history of a Saltenstall, a Stockwell, and a Perkins, the memory of a Scott, a Roleofson, a Wright aud a Cushing, and all the hal lowed associations of the springtime of a life with which these names were as sociated. Again, as when we visited dear old Treraont and its environs, our fingers tingle to leave the tracks of prose and wander into realms of verse, But there is other work than retrospec tion before us, reader. Morning came, and presently church time. A stroll abroad through the country air on that quiet day of days was indeed a privilege. The mansions of the Cheney brothers, four of whom reside within sight of the paternal Homestead ot a Hundred years ago, which is now occupied by an unmarried one of their number, and kept in per fect repair by loving hands that delight to preserve its low ceilings, quaint little window panes, old-fashioned clock, with pulses stilled in the long ago, even as were the heart beats of its ancient ovners, form an agreeable contrast be tween the ancient and modern, aud we reach the model church with our mind full of pleasing and painful fancies. The church is called a hall, and Is used, as all churches should be, for hu manity, its builders having sufficient faith in God to believe Him capable of building His own special castles, if He wants any, which we honor Him too highly to believe for an instant. One of the progressive steps in the religion of Christ wilL be the doing away, as hu manity Increases in wisdom, with the theory that man can honor Omnipo tence by walls of brick and plaster set apart especially for the use of a clerical aristocracy on one part of one day in seven, while at every other time It is Petitions for the commutation of the sentence passed upon Kay Neil, for the murder of S. W. Hayes, are being ex tensively circulated by the ladies of Linn county. We believe that it would be a much more useful, humane and en lightened method of punishment to place this offender and all others of his class to making brick for, or otherwise serving the people of the- State, thau "hanging him by the neck until dead" could possibly be. Hence we hope that the number of names to the petition above referred tj,"may be sufficient to cause the Executive to commute this man's sentence to imprisonment for life. The people of Yamhill county feeL very keenly the misfortune by which the completion of thesteamer "McMinu ville" has been delayed. The machinery for her was ordered from the Oregon Iron Works, and $2,500 paid upon it, when the company went into bankruptcy and neither money nor machinery is. forth coming. If it is impossible to get it on this contract, the company will shortly send to San Francisco for the necessary power to enable the gallant little craft to plow the placid waters of the Yam hill and Willamette. The delay will be considerable. alternately slumbered and boasted, the Nays of the season, and visited for a few ge'and ulcttnil a8 a Golgotha; enemy, viguaut and prompt, have stolen a march upon them that if it do not re sult in disastrous route or close defeat will give them such a scare as will com pel them to look after live issues before the nation's ballot-boxes again open to hours Vancouver and its kind and hos pitable-denizens. A postmaster who is not shaking in his boots at present Is pointed at as a man who Is utterly regardless of the fu receive an expression oi opinion tuat tureor would be so pointed at if such will ueciae wnicu oi tue two great par- a one could be found ties shall drive tbegovernmental chariot. Failure to vote this year will be worse than a blunder; it will be a crime. AVron Beacon. By this Bhowing millions of women in the United States are criminalsun willing ones, however. James Whiteside, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of the Queen's Bench, Ire land, died on the 15th ult., aged CS, The church, or hall, belonging to the Cheney brothers would .do honor to any city. The architecture is modern, and its platform a happy combination of a theater and pulpit. Here any respecta ble man or woman can preach the gos pel of Mb own understanding, according to the dictates of his own conscience, none daring to molest or make him afraid. Service over, and Sunday School ex ercises as well, and we spent the re mainder of that blessed Indian summer Sabbath day in wandering through the gorgeous glories of the golden forest, communing with God and witnessing Fifteen thousand votes were polled in His power, in eyery bush, burning with Massachusetts for the Woman Suffrage the radiance of the autumn holocaust, and Prohibition candidate. ' Evening came, bringing with it the Nearly a thousand specimens of an cient pottery, supposed to be 2000 years old, recently dug up in Missouri, have been received by the Peabody Museum at Yale College. The Yamhill County Woman Suffrage Association, through a commute raised for that purpose, requested Mrs. Lough ary and Mr. W. R. Derby to hold meet ings in advocacy of equal rights at Day ton on the evenings of t lie 29th and 30th of November. We expect to hear glow ing accounts of these meetings. The Tribune's account of Weed's in terview with Tweed says Tweed, while a prisoner on Blackwell's Island, was anxious to restore the city all his prop ercy, but his counsel objected. It is stated that Captain Allen Young, who commanded the "Pandora" in her recent trip to the Arctic region, will next spring again attempt the north west passage In that vessel. We acknowledge the courtesy of a call from Rev. Mr. Simpson, formerly of Silver City, but more recently of Boise City, Idaho, who has been sojourning for a brief space in this place. The Polk county. Telegram has been revived by Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wheel er. who will chance its name to the Polk county Tribune. oak is being almost exclusively used in all new houses; even library aud hall floors are laid in blocks or patterus iu mosaic style, and it would seem but natural, since this will reduce the scrub bing and cleaning of paint iu the wom an's household sphere, it should be em ployed by her as a trade. Grainers and wood inlayers are few in number, and their wages large; come, women, with your oil and brushes, your carving tools and pretty wood designs. A young lady lu the Cincinnati school of design has just received an order to carve an organ tor tue great Tans .Exhibition, the one carved by her having received the prize at the Centennial show iu Philadelphia. Let all these things encourage women to move forward and occupy all the fields of employment wherever they fiud themselves capable of reaping some profit for their labor. There are almost as many women teachers now in the United States as pupils, and as for seam stresses, it is really sickeuing to read and hear of the misery they endure, and the straits to which they are reduced for a bare subsistence. So long as woman's circumscribed sphere is overstocked with laborers, so long will her pay be small; let her move forward, feeling that ail work is honorable, and her abil ity to work a God-giveu inheritance. Washington is looking forward to a season full of excitement. Whichever way the tide turns, it must bear upon its bosom a new supply of at least tempo rary inhabitants. A new administra tion and a new Congress always mean tloual rib they hold a mortgage upon womankind until death. Multitudes of women who are ignor ant of the dignity of enobled woman hood, ignorant of the dignity and power of the ballot, affirm, as did many of the slaves a dozen years ago, that "they have ail the rights they -want." To these we say there is no compulsion in this matter iu exercising prerogatives which are yours by nature as much as your Husbands' ana brothers', nut we do claim that if only one woman in a million desires to have a voice in the laws to which she is accountable, no government has a right to deny that one. There are thousands of male citi zens in this country who seldom or never vote. TUey are not denied, they pursue happiness by not voting. Be cause this body of citizens do not choose to exercise the right to vote, could it be assumed that they be permanently denied the exercise thereof? And were it true that a majority of the women do not desire the ballot, it would be no rea son why those who do should be denied. It Is not the women who are happily situated, whose husbands hold positions of honor and trust, who are blessed by the bestowal of wealth, comforts and ease, that we plead for. These do not feel their condition of servitude any more than the happy, well treated slave felt her condition. Had ait slavery been of this kind, it is questionable if it would not have still been in existence, But It was not all of this kind. Its bar barities, horrors, and inhumanities aroused theblood of some who were free; when our laws are brought to this standard, we shall have a Republican form of government, and not till then. I believe that woman's cause is God's cause, and that He fights the battles of the weak. I believe that this move ment has a strong under current fed upon deep springs and will not sink into the sands. I believe in the omnipotence of freedom, and that all will come right iu time. Weshall yet see the day when the husband and wife go to the polls to gether and vote. Then we shall see that Woman Suflrage Is not so bad after all. We are not going to pull our houses down about our ears, or blow up our iieartiistoues, or maKe Don tires or of our cradles and dressing gowns and slippers. The wives of timid gentlemen will not be driven to Congress like sheep to the shambles, nor their fair daugh ters be offered upon the altar of public service. Epithets attached to intrepid reform ers are fast losing their terror, and the word "strong-minded" applied to us is already something to boast rather than to be ashamed of. The cry of "aboli tion," which has clung to anti-slavery reformers for three-quarters of a cen tury, has been shorn of its terror, aud during the long and sanguinary strug gle for the freedom of the slave, it shone the brightest. When the epithet "blue stocking" first came to woman, it was so powerful that no woman dared to be known as having literary taste, aud when she wrote a book, or an occasional article for the press, she always disguised her self under a nom deplume. That terror has vanished like the morning dew. When the word "strong-minded" is sounded in our ears, we confess we can not help liking it, for we have always said if women were to be divided into strong-minded and weak-minded, we would vastly prefer to be classed with the strong-minded. I beiieve the tendency of all human beings is toward what Is noble and true. Step by step the race has been made for higher progress, and why cannot men and women be trusted with the same re lations ? Inasmuch as cajolery, satire, have all failed in making woman happy and con tented with her lot, we ask that another plan be adopted. We ask an interest in business enterprises and in dustrial pursuits, in politics and legisla tion and professional honors. You give us enough of adulation, and it is all very pleasant as adulation, but equal wages for equal services would be more satisfactory and buy more bread, and butter. We do not ask special protec tion; we think we are able to protest ourselves, and are willing to come right n under the same laws and take an in dividual part in the great drama of hu man aflairs. The great school of this people is the jury-box and the ballot box, and so long as great political ques tions stir the deepest uature of one-half the nation, passing far over the heads of the other half, a great wrong is suffered to exist that no republic, however great, can long survive. change in this city In the fullest sense and by their'efforts slaves were elevated of the word: new cabinet officers, new bv Constitutional Amendment to the department clerks, new lobbyists, new interests, new questions, aud even new grammar in the House of Representa tives. .This next session cannot fall to be rich in fun; the fascinating widow rights of citizenship. We repeat, it is not for those who are so well cared for as not to wish for a change to enlarge their sphere of action, but for the loil ina millions of working women we Butler will undoubtedly grasp the reins plead women who cannot, dare not, with familiar hands, aud lead his un- plead for themselves. It is not that we initiated followers a spirited race. Pull, think less of men, but that we love the Randall, pull, Butler, will be the war- interests of humanity more; humanity. cry of the next Congress, and as Sammy whose well-being rests so entirely on will never be sure whether the widow Is the advancement of women, who have looking at him or at some one else, an.d always labored under the dark shadow as the widow will suspect everybody of of disadvantage, cramped, fettered, ex keeping an eye upon him, especially eluded, degraded, and ranked before the when Louisiana is discussed, he will fix law with idiots, criminals, and lunatics, his one. sharp eye upon a copy of the A famous English duke once said that Congressional Eecord, and patiently a woman should appear upon the plat- await his chance to level it aud thun- form only when she was to be hung, derbolts against the enemy. Justice, on the contrary, demands that The party has done well to elect him, woman should have a voice in making and whatever may be said against Ben the laws by which she can be married B., he has always proved a stanch friend to woman and her cause and in terests. Cactus. Washington. D. C, November 13, '7G. divorced, have all her property wrenched from her, Imprisoned, sentenced and hung. And if to secure these requires her to appear upon the platform, then the platform should be free to her. It Secretary Chadwlck, it is said, will may be affirmed that the elective fran make official announcement of the vote chise will not ameliorate the condition . . . n. , . - r V I f TV-! tTT. tt 11 . I . oi tne state next jjionua. 1 of suffering women. We affirm that It Euled0ut. The Xcic Century for Women thus discourses upon the "great day for which all other days were made" Election Day, aud woman's part, or rather the part that woman does not have in the same: The one day in the three li unci red and Hixty-flve that closes its doors upou the woman, is Election Uay. Thanksgiv iug Day is hers by right of the kitchen altar, and Christmas comes to her through the children. In the fourth ot July she has complex aud varied inter ests, and on Moviug Day, as on St. Val entine's, she Is indispensable, iiut Elec tion Day has no welcome lor her. it is not because she does not care for the elections, for she is too much of a parti san not to have her own candidates, but she has nothing to do with the bal lot-box, and Knows only the excitement of waiting for the returns. If they do not come at night when the master or the house returus, she waits Impatiently for the morning paper, yet rarely looses her breakfast from either joy or grief. There was a time when she made Elec tion Cake, and so had her share in the festivities of the occasion, and in the days of our grandmothers the New Jer sey woman who owned fifty pounds weut to tne pons and Had her little say ou paper about her preferences. iiut these days are over. The .Elec tion Cake has given place to refresh ments she does not brew nor bottle, aim the one thing that has no weight that day is the woman's choice. Several weeks ago specimens of the "mud" taken from Mud Springs, Wasco county, were sent by the Bonanza Min ing Company down to .air. wm. vjur rier, now In San Francisco. On receiv ing the samples Mr. Currier took them to one of the most scientific and experi enced assayere in San Francisco. The mud or slimy substance was subjected to the usual tests, and each assay indi cated that the article was very rich in silver, yielding over $3,000 to the ton. This encouraging result was telegraphed to this city baturday by Mr. Currier. More veritable relations, near of kin of the late Finice and Elizabeth Caruth ers, have come to light In Arkansas and with their "natural, simple aud straight forward story" will endeavor to prove their right aud title in virtue of said re lationship to valuable real estate within this city. John Campbell, Esq., late of Arkansas, represents the parties here. The side-walk mania has broke out in Lafayette. It is hoped that it will prove of a contagious, confluent type aud run through thrftown.