She Item $wthm$i
FRIDAY JUNE 8, 1877.
xoTicn.
Agents will p!ease 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.
"OASES IN POINT."
Atid now comes Brother Brown, of
the Albany Democrat, with "A Word
for the Ladles," and some very signifi
cant facia he gives, too, concerning
what women can do in business, not be
cause of the aid of men and ballots, but
in spite of them. He quotes from the
Cincinnati Commercial the following
about women bankers:
Miss Frank McGrew has been appointed as
sistant cashier of the First National Bank at
Huntington, Indiana.
Miss Belle Wallace is cashier for Watson.
Huber A Co., bankers, Mechanlcsville, Iowa,
ana miss Anna M. King for A. W. Nayior's
bank, New Sharon, Iowa.
The banking business ol A. K. fc E. B. Young
at Fort Collins, Col., lias for some time been
conducted by Mrs. E. B. Young, the Junior
partner, who is said to be a lady of rare sagacity
and experience In money matters.
It appeals that the First National Bank of
Huntington, Ind., was the first one to grace Its
Board of Directors with the presence of a lady.
Mrs. Anna M. Daily having been elected dl
rector in 1863 and Mrs. D. J. Purviauce In 1873.
Of the First National of Peoria, HI., as has
before been stated, Mrs. Lydia Bradley was
elected director in 1875, and In the First Na
tional of Canton, Ohio, Mrs. Louisa McCall is
one of the board.
He further refers in terms quite com
plimentary to the success women have
achieved in journalism, and states, as
we have often done, that every daily pa
per of nolo numbers one or more wom
en upon its editorial staff, while lady
compositors are found in many offices.
including his own, one of his most care
ful and expert employes belnpralady,
For all of this well-merited tribute to
and acknowledgment of the worth and
industry of women we tender the Dem
ocrat our thanks. The editor, however,
makes a strange mistake in asserting
tuat we have argued that "women can
not fill proper stations in life or occupy
places ot trust or profit without the ben
eflt of the ballot."
We have published from time to time
mucn longer lists than the above, and
supplemented the same witli editorial
comment upon the thrift, worth, en
ergy and industry of women in the lit
erary and financial world, proving
thereby their right to the ballot as ill
telligent American citizens and import
ant factors in the great commonwealth
We have shown, also, that where worn
en have achieved financial success or
displayed journalistic ability, they have
first met and overcome every obstacle
that the jealousy of men in a business
way could possibly devise; that to pro
tect their property after it is with such
infinite toil and discouragement ac
cumulated, they need the ballot: that
they need the ballot in order that the
masses may receive protection in their
laboring interests, so that in any place,
from the Treasury Department of the
United States to the factories and school
rooms where under-paid women labor,
the women workers, because non-voters,
are always first dismissed when re
trenchment is demanded.
We know, and are glad to know and
proud to proclaim, that "women are oc
cupying many important as well as lu
crative positions." That they have
achieved these in spite of opposition,
ridicule, aud political disabilities only
foreshadows what they may and will do
when all of these are removed and they
can vote with rulers as rulers, instead of
sitting it the feet of their political sov
ereigns as serfs, expected to sue for and
take as favor that which Is accorded to
men as right.
Though the Democrat "has not before
heard it," we did have for about fifteen
months a young lady in the composing-
room of the New Northwest, where
she will again take her place "when
school is out," and cheerfully bear testi
mony to her skill and industry. That
we have not now aud all of the time
lady compositors, is owlnsr to the fact
that in the family of the proprietor of
this journal the girls all happen to be
boys, and the New Northwest is
mainly a family institution.
We hope to see in theDemocrat in the
future more frequently than we have
been privileged to do in the past "words
for the ladies" calculated to show, bb
those under consideration have done,
that women as energetic and industri
ous citizens deserve to be taken out of
the cataloguewith paupers, Idiots, crim
inals, Chinamen, and Indians, placed In
the lists of freedom, and endowed with
political privileges. Let us have some
more "cases in point," brother.
The steamship "City of San Fran
cisco" struck a sunken rock off the coast
of Mexico and was wrecked about the
20th ult. No lives lost. Many of the
passengers lost large sums of money.
The theory prevalent among uavai offi
cers is that there had been a submarine
upheaval at the time of the recent earth
quake. The wrecked ship was sailing
on a regular course, and, as stated. Can-
talu Waddell had frequently sailed over
the spot when- she struck. It was a
perfectly bright, dear day, aud only a
few minutes before the ship struck the
Captain had made his log entries, so
that there could have b-en no possible
mistake about his position.
The recent disastrous fire in Astoria
began in the "Snng saloon." If it had
broken out in a Chinese laundry, we
should have heard curses loud, deep,
aud many upon the moon-eyed Celes
tials, coupled with dark threats for their
extermination. We hearnothingabout
exterminating saloons, nor is there any
blame attached to the proprietor or fre
quenters of this one for this disaster.
The serious illness of ex-Goveraor
Packard is announced.
HELP POE THE HELPLESS.
One day week before last the matron
of the "Home" provided by the "Wom
an's Band of Helpers" was called upon
by the chief of police to know if she
could give shelter to two young girls
who had been brought to thiscityon the
"Ajax" by an infamous procuress under
false pretenses. Of course there could
be but one answer, and the girls were
soon beneath the hospitable roof and
under the care of the humane band of
women who are determined to the ut
most limit of their power to protect aud
aid those of their sex who require aud
ask it.
These girls, aged about nineteen years
respectively, were brought here by a
woman who has one name in San Fran
cisco aud another in Portland, but whose
business in both cities is the same
that of decoying young girls to their
ruin and were assured by her that tbey
could here find work at remunerative
wages. Inexperienced, deluded, culpa
bly fool-hardy they might have been, in
trusting to the promises of an utter
stranger; but their story was straight
forward and always the same, and they
possessed every appearance of innocence.
Various attempts were made to get
them from the shelter they were so for
tunate in procuring; but the police were
vigilant, the women of the "Home"
careful and determined, and at midnight
on the third night after their arrival
they were conveyed by the chief of po
lice again to the steamer and returned
to San Francisco.
The event caused no inconsiderable
amount of excitement in the city, and
sufficed to arouse the understanding of
many who had before been apathetic or
ignorant concerning the wiles and arts
used to inveigh fresh victims iuto the
vile pitfalls whose "steps take hold on
hell," and who sadly realize as they pass
the dark portals that she who euters
there "leaves hope behind."
It is certainly time for humane and
Christian men and women whose "lines
have fallen to them ia pleasant places"
to meet and contend with the giant evil
that is sapping, and not slowly, the very
foundations of society bidding defiance
to morality, outraging common decency
even on the public streets, corrupting
the you tli of the land with its deadly
poison, and blighting the lives of hund
reds of young women witli its with
ering breath.
Language is inadequate to set forth
the devilish arts of those engaged in the
traffic of virtue, and to describe the
lives of utter self-loathing and misery
that are the portion of fallen women.
" We strive In vain to set these evils forth.
The words that would sufficiently accursc
And execrate such reprobate had need
Come glowing from the lips of eldest hell."
AUXILIAET LABOE.
Other journals in theState are coming
up to the help of the weak against the
mighty by advocating the doctrines of
equal rights, either editorially or
through correspondents, which the New
Northwest alone for years advocated.
From the "Home Circle" department of
the Farmer of last week we clip the fol
lowing:
Victor Hugo has said, and wisely, "To civil
ize a man you must first civilize his grand
mother." I think it high time that not only
were some grandmothers civilized, but fathers
and mothers as well. In fact, all who oppose
giving girls the same path they allow to boys,
are In danger of barbarism, and need civiliz
ing. Let the aforesaid parents read more them
selves, let them take newspapers that give the
uews of the world, let them not be afraid of the
New Northwest, but read it, and they will
And that their boys will be as good as they are,
and their girls as good as the boys.
Another correspondent says; and we
duly return thanks:
For the benefit of some ol your readers I will
state that Mrs. Duniway was not the originator
of Woman Suffrage, that It did not "get its start
in Yamhill," and that her paper Is not the
only-woman's Journal in existence. The writ
era on "woman's rights" In your paper seem to
labor under that Impression. Mrs. D. and
such as she, are to blame (?) If women are any
better off than they were fifty years ago. Don't
Ut your girls read her paper, although It Is full
ol pure and elevatlngthought.and not a record
ol the crimes and sins of the world, unless you
wish them to know that getting married Is not
the only end and aim or woman's existence,
and that they are possessed of equal talents
with their brothers, together with, perhaps, a
delicacy of perception and refinement which
would make them superior to men.
WAB EECOEDS.
The records of war, red with the blood
of thousands of hapless human beings,
and laden with the agonized eries of
maimed men and sorely-stricken wom
en, come to us upon the wings of light
ning across coutinent, ocean, aud con
tinent again, sending shudders of hor
ror through all of our veins. War with
all of its "devlish enginery" trained to
devastate and destroy, directed by the
Ingenuity of men and waged forward by
their passions, has reared his gory front,
and civilization, apparently undismayed,
looks squarely In his hideous face and
comments with serenity upon the ruin
and devastation and suffering that com
pose his ghastly train. Who can un
derstand or explain the strange delusion
that so blunts the finer feelings of hu
manity as to enable men and women to
read with eagerness of fearful scenes of
carnage? Musing upon this phase of
human nature, Coleridge says:
" Boys and girls
And women that would groan to sec a child
Pull off an Insect's leg, all read of war.
The best amusement lor our morning meal.
As if the soldier died without a wound ;
As If the fibres of this God-like form
Were gored without a pang; as If the wretch
Who fell In battle doing bloody deeds
Passed off to heaven, translated and not killed,
As though he had no wife to pine for him,
No God to Judge hlra I"
Commencement exercises at Willam
ette University next week, together with
the annual re-union of the Oregon Pio
neer Association at the fitatn Fair
Grounds, will draw many people Salem
ward. It is hoped that the face of na
ture will wear a more smilinir exnrps-
siou or, in other words, that the rain
will be oyer before that, time, so that
"ye pioneers" will not have to hold urn-
Drenas over tneir evening camp-fires.
A EEMAEEABLE OUEE.
As an evidence of the wonderful suc
cess of lady physicians in the treatment
of chronic diseases, we are pleased to
make mention of a case which has re
cently come under the personal observa
tion of the editor of this journal, the
like of which is unknown among the
most eminent practitioners of the other
sex.
Mrs. Amelia L. Brown, of Browns
ville, Oregon, daughter of the late Rev.
H. H. Spaulding, was injured some
eight years ago by a fall which induced
a spinal aflectiou that gradually grew
worse, until for the past seven years she
has been confined to her bed, often suf
fering excruciating agony, and always
unable to walk a single step. Other
diseases, more or less complicated, and
all of a very serious nature, attacked
her, rendering life a burden. A number
of the best physicians within her reach
were employed, but she obtained no per
manent relief, and all hope of her re
covery was at last abandoned.
In this condition, while emaciated to
a skeleton and helpless as an infant, her
friends were induced to place her under
the care of Mrs. B. A. Owens, M. D., of
this city. Dr. Owens called a council of
physicians, who pronounced the case
hopeless, but, nothing daunted, she un
dertook the cure, and now, after three
months' treatment, the invalid is so far
recovered as to be able to return tempo
rarily toBrowusviile tovisit her family,
who will welcome her as one rescued
from the brink of eternity. Within a
few weeks she has gained thirty pounds
in flesh, her finger nails are growing
anew from the roots, and there is every
indication that she will eventually be
fully restored to health.
We know a number ot bed-ridden wom
en whom wo verily believe Dr. Owens
could rebuild if they would place them
selves under her treatment. Those who
have been afilicted for years with
chronic diseases need not expect to be
cured instantly; but, if they will give
themselves up to be treated for at least
as many months as they have been
years under afiliction, they can almost
invariably recover.
Dr. Owens cures by giving violated
nature a chance to rebuild and renew
the diseased aud wasted tissues. Her
treatment is scientifically hygienic, and
the magic of her presence is of itself a
healing power of the first magnitude.
An invalid in need of scientific treat
ment cannot do better than to place her
self in her care.
AN UNIMPEACHABLE WITNESS.
"A Jenny Lind cannot be stopped in
her singing, nor a Siddons in her dra
matlc career, nor a Currer Bell in her
authorship by any opposition ot fortune;
but none of us can tell how many worn
en of less force and lower genius have
been kept useless and rendered unhappy,
to our misfortune, as well as their own."
Thus spoke the Edinburgh Review a
score of years ago, and still the repres
sion aud hedging up aud circumscrib
ing of woman's sphere goes on, though
in these two decades many avenues of
labor then closed to women have opened
to her persevering demands.
And now, as we have been sometimes
accused of censuring men unjustly for
the prejudice and jealousy that have so
long caused them to close and securely
bar tiie doors of honest livelihood, if
not honorable competence, to women,
we will quote one paragraph more from
the same source aud ask the considerate
judgment of our readers upon it, pre
mising tbftt tiiey remember the unim
peachable character of the witness that
speaks: "To return to the difficulties
created by the jealousy of men in regard
to the industrial independence of worn
en; it shows itself with every step gained
in civilization, aud its immediate effect
is to pauperize a large number of worn
en who are willing to work for their
bread, and we need not add, to condemn
to perdition many more who have no
choice left between starvation aud vice.
In the Staffordshire potteries women
are largely employed in painting porce
lainan art they are better qualified to
practice than men. It will hardly be
credited, but we can vouch for the fact,
that such is the jealousy of the men
that they compel the women to paint
without a rest for the hand, and the mas
ters are obliged by their own workmen
to sanction his absurd act of injustice."
ON THE EIGHT SIDE.
We congratulate our friend3 at La
Graude upon having so just, fearless
and able au advocate of intelligent suf
frage in their midst as the Mountain
Sentinel has lately proved itself. The
editor of that journal concludes au arti
cle upon the "Suffrage question" in a
recent issue with the following words:
Could intelligence, regardless ofsex or color,
be made by wise delegation the standard, we
have no doubt wise and beneficial changes
would soon bo inaugurated that would re
dound to the honor of our nation. Can that
intelligent person be found who dares assert
that the noble-hearted, clear-headed women
of America are not far more capable of exer
cising the elective franchise wisely than many
who now, on account of gender, are endowed
with that privilege ?
We know that during the darkness of the
past the potent words of that old lossll, Paul,
have been rigidly adhered to and frequently
quoted by man. Not because they revered
Paul, but because his utterances suited their
case. But we rejoice in the belief that we are
fast drifting out Into broader sunlight, and
that the time Is not far distant when intelll-
gencewlll command a high premium In the
world's market, and will be crowned with a
garland of everlasting honor.
Thus one by one the Intelligent meu
of our times find courage to voice their
convictions in favor of intelligent suf
frage, and as the years roll on the ban
ners of oppression and Injustice will be
left drooplug in the hands of old-fogy-i8m
too weak to bear them aloft.
We hope to receive details of a'grand
rally of the suffragists of La Grande,
which took place on the 19th Inst., In
time for our next issue.
The postal business of the United
States Is steadily lucreaslng.
"UNHESITATINGLY !"
An East Portlaud correspondent fur
nishes us with a resolution, published
elsewhere, and unanimously passed by
the Mt. Hood Hook & Ladder Company
of that delightful little city on a recent
occasion, wherein the boys had had the
pleasure of testing the Hnaucial ability
of the ladies. This resolution our corre
spondent gives as a text, and asks us to
preach a sermon from it. Being not
only willing, but anxious to oblige our
patrous at all times, we sharpen our
pencil, read over the text again, and lo!
we find it in itself both text and ser
mon, and from it we derive the follow
ing conclusions:
1st. That when women set about it in
earnest and with unity, they can ac
complish, alike to their credit and the
satisfaction of themselves and brethren,
any object which they undertake. 2d.
That men assertions prompted by
mawkish sentiment to the contrary,
notwithstanding prize financial aud
executive ability in women and ac
knowledge their appreciation of it in
manly and generous words, when wom
en have proved it to them.
Compare this resolutlou, given as a
text, if you please, with the patronizing
words in which Masons and Odd Fel
lows toast their wives aud daughters at
feasts which these latter have prepared,
aud are geneiously allowed to sit at
after the men have returned from secret
conclave in the lodge-room. See which
evinces the most appreciation of wom
an, the subtle flattery which assumes to
consider women angels and irresponsi
ble beings, and intimates its readiness
to "protect" them, or the open and
manly acknowledgment of woman's
worth, foreshadowed by the announce
ment that women are able to help them
selves, and should be allowed and en
couraged to do so by the adoption of
equal rights principles.
Remember that at the "first alarm of
the bell," laddies, the women not only
of East Portland, but wherever the
New Northwest goes and its field is
everywhere will expect you to make
good the words of your declaration, and
they feel certain that you will do so
"unhesitatingly."
EEOENTEVENTS.
Senator Morton left New York for
Oregon on the night of the 4th inst.
The National Typographical Union is
in sejsion at Louisville, Kentucky.
Wm. E. Chandler will probably suc
ceed Maynard as minister to Constanti
nople.
Senator Conkling has just purchased
aresidence in Washington, for which lie
paid $20,000.
The weather in New York has been
very warm, the thermometer ou the
first inst. showing 93.
The President goes to Boston on the
17th to witness the graduation of his
son from the Harvard Law School.
A man sixty-six years of age is sen
tenced to he hanged at Eimira, N. Y.,
on the 20th of July, for murdering his
wife.
The Tribune's Washington special
says: "Thirty more dismissals from the
Treasury Department makes additional
desolation."
Thetmarriage of Judge O. C. Pratt, of
recent bunko fame, to Miss Lizzie Jones,
of California, is announced. The event
took place in New York.
A terrible tornado passed over the
city of Mt. Carmel, Illiuois, on the 4th,
doing great damage to property and de
stroying a number of lives.
Forest fires have broken out and are
raging fiercely in Michigan. Hund
reds of people have been rendered
homeless and a vast amount of property
destroyed.
The St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad Company has offered a reward
of $1,000 for the apprehension of the
gang of desperadoes who attempted to
wreck and rob a train on that road Sun
day night last.
A passenger train was wrecked on the
Lehigh Valley railroad near Scranton,
Pa., on the night of June 2d. Two per
sons were instantly killed and seven
teen wounded. Six of these are not ex
pected to recover.
A bill to prevent intermarriage of the
races has been defeated in the South
Carolina Legislature. A similar bill
has passed in all other Southern States.
The colored meu most determinedly op
posed it on the ground that it was draw
iug the color liue.
The velocity of the wind in the late
Illiuois tornado is estimated at 150
miles per hour. During its prevalence
the air was filled with flying roofs, win
dows, doors, lumber, rails, clothing, etc,
Men aud women were blown about as if
they were feathers.
The will of Charlotte Harris.of Charles
ton, Mass., gives $80,000 to the Perkins
Institute for the Blind, $10,000 to the
Charleston Library, and $7,000 to
other institutions. The rest of ber for
tune, after deducting private legacies,
goes to tiie Massachusetts General Hos
pital. The Grover investigating committee
are en route for Portland. Senator
Saulsbury and niece, Senator and Mrs.
Morton, ex-Governor and Mrs. Burbauk,
D. S. Alexander, clerk, C. N. Stagg,
phouographer, and Senator McMillan,
who join them at Omaha, constitute
the party.
Linn county is famous for temperance
picnics this year. One was held on the
summit of Knox's Butte on the first, at
which there was a large turnout, nearly
all present signing the total abstinence
pledge. There will be one ou the 16th
and 17th at Roberts' Grove, near Al
bany, which is widely advertised. It
has been surmised that the usual Dem
ocratic majority in "old Linn" will be
materially reduced at the next election,
if this thing Is allowed to go on.
LETTEE FB0M NEW T0EE 0ITT.
'otue Editor op tub New Northwest:
The so-called carnival came oft duly,
as aunounced, on the 15th Inst., and
New York Is blushing and hiding her
face in shame ever since for her dis
graceful failure. The city was thronged
with people from the rural districts,
who flocked to the city for a jollifica
tion. The day was insufferably hot.
The street was crowded, and the long
advertising procession of brewers'
wagons and furniture drays was more
like a funeral cortege than a carnival
istic pageant. It would have been
simply ridiculous had it not been a gi
gantic fraud a swindle which the peo
ple are not likely either to forget or to
forgive which the lookers-on swearat,
aud the parties engaged in blush for,
and which confirms the opinions of the
sages that all people are not fashioned
alike. H is not in the nature, as it is
evidently not within the comprehension
of the Anglo-Saxon, or of his cousin,
Uncle Sam, to originate aud carry out a
genuine revel. There is too much
method, too mucli precision, too much
order for spontaneous enjoyment. There
was doubtless many a Mark Twain
present at the farce, who, left to him
self, would have enjoyed the spree, but
who couldu't laugli to order, and who
couldn't carry out some one else's plan
of fun. It takes the Latin races to give
themselves up, body and soul, to amuse
ment; but who ever heard of the Cam!
val of Venice, for instauce, being ar
ranged, planned, or organized? Who
ever heard of a procession of flaunting
advertisements, moving up and down
certain streets? of people hired for the
purpose of acting mimic marshalls and
personating majesty in imperial purple
robes? If every hotel had advertised a
free lunch at a given hour, I warrant
the city would have been just as full of
strangers, the same harvest would have
been reaped by business men, and peo
pie would have gone home better satis
fled with the day's frolic, especially if
the entertainment had been given in
the cool shades of Central Park, where
nature is looking her loveliest, and if
bands of music aud Chinese lanterns
and fire-works had invited the populace
to a revel on the sward in the evening,
No place in the world ever had and lost
so good a chance for a grand spectacle
and a magnificent business speculation
as did New York last Wednesday.
Governor Robinson has vetoed the
bill passed by the Albany Legislature
makiug women eligible as school
directors. He doesn't think the "God
of Nature" intended women for such
positions, aud therefore he cannot per
mit the plans of the "God of Nature" to
be interfered with. It is rather curious
how very particular men are to call
upon Providence and make the Al
mighty responsible for their human acts
of injustice, and how extremely tena
cious they become when any extension
of privilege or right is to be accorded to
the other sex. The fact is that there is
apursein this raatlerof school trustees,
and the "ring" do not feel sufficient
confidence in their own integrity to al
low an honest woman to hold one string,
or perchance to investigate the expend!
tures; and so women, who have as deep
au interest in schools, aud, for the most
part, more experience in the needs and
instruction of children, are ruled out in
the most arbitrary maimer from partic
ipatiou in the direction of these, whilst
children are deprived of the benefits of
their piotectiou, aud the country of the
bent fits which would unquestionably be
derived from the watchfulness, natural
economy and keen perception of women
as regards the education and practical
training of the rising generation, and it
does seem as if the "God of Nature"
would rise and protest against this con
ceited and unwarranted interpretation
of His laws by His Excellency Gov
ernor Robinson, of New York.
Every one seems to be making prepa
ratious for an exit from Gotham. The
stores are daily crowded. Ready-made
costumes are in great demand, and,
spite of the constant cry of hard times,
dealers seem to be reaping a harvest
Sea-side bunting continues to be the
fashionable material for suits, and is in
all colors of French, English, and do
mestic manufacture. The price of this
ranges from thirty to seventy-five cents
per yard, and preference is usually
given to the French goods, for its supe
rior softness and durability. Instead of
the somber black which for so many
years was the favorite costume of Amer
ican ladies, the lightest shades are now
seen, and the most brilliant colors in
bat aud bonnet trimmings, composed
for the most part of field flowers, daisies,
buttercups, blue and yellow corn flow
ers, lilies of the valley, etc., etc. Pale
lemon color aud black prevail, but
light shades of all colors are adopted to
suit the taste and complexion of the
wearer.
The number of business failures which
have lately occurred has thrown the
household goods and furniture of many
of the wealthy upon the market, and
old and valuable paintings have lately
been sold at auction for prices which I
blush to mention. At a recent sale one
old German masterpiece, representing
"Germania," brought only the small
sum of $200. After the reaction ot
1848-9, this painting was ordered to be
burned, and was only rescued on condi
tion that it should be taken out of the
country. It was brought to the United
States; yet, notwithstanding its his
torical interest, no one was willing to
give over $200 for this huge allegorical
painting.
Summer has set in with all its vigor.
The thermometer has gone up, and
promises to stay in the eighties, and
soon the papers will be busy reporting
cases of sun-stroke aud hydrophobia.
Everybody looks limp, disheartened,
and sleepy, and this before Old Sol has
bad time to heat the bricks and tin roofs
thoroughly. Look out for July and
August ! Cactus.
New York City, May 22, 1877.
LETTEE FE0MGALI0E 0EEEK.
To the Editor op the New Northwest:
As I feel deeply interested in the great
cause for which you are battling go
hard, I feel it my duty as well as a great
pleasure to offer something to encour
age you ou your way.
When reading sketches of the letter
from Jacksonville, and the low, cow
ardly advantage the man (if man he
might be called) took of his loving wife
in taking out her letters, reading them,
and answering to suit himself without
her knowledge, and then putting her in
front to stem the current aud expiaiu
the dilemma in which they had fallen,
my cheek tinged with shame to think
that one of my sex, born of a mother,
nurtureu, lovea ana clierlslieu by a
mother, should allow his narrow gauge,
pent up orthodox ideas to be pinched in
by the casings of such blind prejudice.
But until women stand on an equal
footing, free aud independent beside
their fathers, husbands, sons and broth
ers, then, and not till then, will they
assert their liberty and not be made to
crouch beneath the tyranny of those
they well know to be their inferiors.
As I write I call to my mind an in
stance of a man that has long been in
this section, with no ambition oraspira-
tions beyond sufficient food and limited
clothing. But as fortune favored him,
and accidental circumstances drifted
him into the society of women, he made
the acquaintance, courted aud wedded a
lady of some business talent. His mar
ried life has been but short, but how
marked the change; he now comes to
the front aud is looked upon as a man
of business, and a useful and good citi
zen. And yet the main drive-wheel
that has brought about this great change
and Keeps the machinery of business in
motion stands in the back-ground, and
is only known to the outside world as
Mrs.
And so it is iu many cases that bus
bands are buoyed up by their wives,
aud held to an honorable position in
society and among their fellow men
But when they lose that loved compan
ion aud her kiud counsel, they grad
ually sink to the lower grade of society
as naturally as water will seek its level.
We often, if not always, find these same
individuals opposed to Woman Suf
frage. When Napoleon forsook the Empress
Josephine, from that time his decline
appears to have commenced, and yet
history tells us that after he had for
saken her and thereby outraged her
feelings, he often went to her for couu
sel, which she freely gave.
But the time is approaching and peo
ple are beginning to think for them
selves, consequently more liberal views
are taken, and we are gradually gain
ing ground.
And now may God help on the cause
And sound the gladening note,
When legislatures change the laws
And let the women vote.
A Miner.
Galice Creek, June 1, 1877.
PE0M EASTPOETLAND. .
To the Editor op the New Northwest
East Portland is neither dead "nor yet
sleeping." On the evening of the 30th
of May there was held at Odd Fellows1
Hall iu this place a strawberry aud ice
cream festival, "the like of which never
was seen before." It was gotten up by
the ladies for the benefit of Mount Hood
Hook and Ladder Company, aud It was
a success in every particular. The
beauty of the whole thing is that no
man or set of men can claim any credit
for it all. The members of the company
had made two attempts to raise the cash
by giving parties, and with a moderate
degree of success; but when the ladles
counted their cash this evening, they
found that they had $125 25 net, almost
or quite as much as the gentlemen had
been able to realize at their two at
tempts.
I want to tell you about how good the
boys felt when they got hold of the
money, but must first tell you who were
the main workers In bringing about this
great success. Well, there was Mrs. C.
B. Bartel, Mrs. I. N. Sanders, Mrs. J,
Prondflt, Mrs. Z. S. Gordon, Mrs. W.
V. Knott, and Misses Annie Bartel and
Carrie Pope, who I am told were most
active and determined in the enterprise.
devoting almost an entire week in prep
arations. And oh ! how nicely they
had the ball decorated on the evening
of the festival. Flags and evergreens,
aud flowers and flags, and flags and llow
ers again. They were assisted, I am
told, iu the decoration by Mr. C. B. Bar
tel, and are iudebted to the captains of
the "Aldeu Besse" aud "Mountain
Laurel," good ships now in port, for the
bunting. Well, it went off nicely, and
I enjoyed the first two or three treats
that the boys gave me "hugely," but
after that well, I submitted to straw
berries and ice cream as long as I could,
for the ladies wanted to "sell 'em," you
see.
Now for the best part of it: Ou this
evening the ladies weut to the Couucil
Chamber for the purpose of turningover
the cash and just did what they had not
expected captured the whole compauy
aud enlisted them each and every one
on the spot for equal rights! Just read
this one, among several resolutions that
were there and then unanimously passed
by "the boys," and see if you can't
preach a little sermon from it:
Besolved, That we unhesitatingly de-
clure our determination to rally to the
support of woman's rights "at the first
alarm of the bell."
Now, Mrs. Editor, if you don't say
something good from this text, I won't
let John take yourpaper any longer.
X.
East Portland, June 2, 1S77.
Mr. Ladgdon Caldwell, a young den
tist of Corvallis, was thrown from a
horse on Friday evening aud instantly
killed. His rematns were brought to
Oregon City, his old home, aud still the
residence of his parents, ou Monday,
and interred in the cemetery near that
city.
F0EEIGN NEWS.
It is said that the Russians lost 3,000
len in recent attacks on Kars.
The Turkish division under Mnkhtar
Pasha Is thought to be in a critical posi
tion.
Kars Is comnletelv invested. Tele
graphic communication ceased some
uaya ago.
The Russian armv on tho Dannhe is
to be increased to 400,000 men. Provis
ion contracts have been made for this
number.
The Minister of War savsTurknv will
fight to the last. The Sultan ha ,ian
up all hope of aid from the English cov-
ernment.
Five thousand pllzrims. mostly Ital
ians, had audience with the Pone on
the 3d, which was the fiftieth anniver
sary of his elevation to the episcopate.
The departure of the Esvntian con
tingent for Turkey is postponed until
me arrival of Turkish war shins. Th
Egyption fleet Is totally unfit to act as
their escort.
A Constantinople correspondent says:
'The Sultan is a nonentity, with 3f)0
women and 5,000 persons of all classes
to feed. The" strain on the treasury is
enormous. There is no patriotism
among officials."
The Turkish soldiers are said to ha
good and patient, but miserably fpil.
The officers, with a few striking excep
tions, are not equally good. The com
mander-in-chief Is old and Infirm. Th
troops are well armed and the cavalry
well mounted.
NEWSJTEMS.
state and territorial.
E. L. Applegate will orate at Yon
ealla on the Fourth.
They have commenced taking a cen
sus In Washington Territory.
Sheep sell for $2 a head and cattle for
$20 apiece at Summer Lake, Eastern
Oregon.
There are yet thousands of acres of
good land in Umatilla county waiting
for settlers.
The saw-mill in the basin at Oregon
City has been sold at commissioner's
sale for $3,500.
Linn couuty promises to have 1,000,
000 bushels of surplus wheat for ship
ment this fall.
Twenty-five Immigrants arrived at
Oakland last week. They will settle In
Douglas permanently.
About seventy-five Indians from the
Coast Reservation are now camped on
Mill Creek, near the Salem depot.
Mount Hood has lately been Indulg
ing in a smoke, or else the hoary mon
arch Is belied by inquisitive observers.
The annual Presbytery of the Oregon
Cumberland Presbyterians was held at
Cottage Grove, Lane county, recently.
Sam. L. Simpson will write a poem
for Pioneers' Re-union at Salem, ou the
15th lust. Of course it will be a fine
production.
The hop growers of Lane county have
organized a permanent association.
There will be another meeting at En
gene on the 8th inst.
The requisite amount of stock for or
ganizing the Monmouth Alden Fruit
Drying Association is taken up, direc
tors elected, and maohinery' ordered.
During the month of May there were
recorded in the couuty clerk's office for
Marion county, twenty-seven mort
gages, thirty-one deeds, and ten mar
riage licenses.
A paper will shortly he started atNew
Tacoma culled the Northern Pacific Ter
minus. It will be edited by Mr. Wm.
Pickett, formerly of the Kalama Beacon.
Mrs. Money, an accomplished lady
printer, is announced as publisher.
Salem mills have dropped to $1 20
per bushel for wheat, with little offer
ing at that price. Some small lots pre
viously purchased are coming in, aud
it seems possible that the home supply
will not more than equal the demand.
Reed's Opera House has been engaged
for the week previous aud fair week by
Mr. John Jack, now managing the the
ater at Astoria. It is Mr. jack's inten
tion to have at that time the best dra
matic; company that has ever been in
Salem, or even in Oregon.
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In all styles of the art, and has all the advant
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any other man and at as reasonable prices, and
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the block, First street, between Morrison and
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