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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.
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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
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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.