FRIDAY JUNE!
1877.
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The
MAETHA
Maid and
MABBLEHEAD ;
Matron of Ohehalem.
Mrs. Dunlway's new serial story,
bearing the above title, will begin with
No. 42 of the present volume, and will
continue without Interruption during
the next sis months. These stories of
real, everyday life, which have become
a standing peculiarity of the New
Northwest, are in no way diminished
In interest, is thousands will testify
who have followed the principal charac
ters through lives of toil and vicissitude
to their final triumph in the story of
"Edna and John," justclosed. "Martha
Marblehead" Is not a fictitious cbarac
ter. Her lot was cast at an early day in
Oregon, where many of her friends yet
reside, and where she hopes to return
and live again before her work on earth
is finished. To all who follow her nar
rative faithfully we promise an Instruct
ive treat. The story will abound
throughout iu craphic descriptions of
the localities given, though fictitious
names and places are substituted for the
real ones for obvious reasons.
Those who wish to supply their friends
in the East with descriptions of Oregon
scenery, wrought into a life experience
of thrilling interest, should subscribe at
once for the New Northwest and for
ward it to their address as a present.
LET TJS SEE WHAT "INFLUENCE"
WILLJDO.
The summer's campaign In Colorado
will afford a capital chance to decide
whether wom&u's influence is a myth,
or the potent thing that It is claimed to
be. "Woman's influence is all power
ful," they tell us, ind though we are
skeptical ou this point, and believe her
votes would accomplish much more,
still, as her votes are not at present
available, and her "influence" is sup
posed to be ubiquitous, we must depend
upon the latter. We are told that if the
women, instead of the men of Colorado,
were to decide the question of Woman
Suffrage by the ballot this fall, that it
would undoubtedly prevail in that State;
but as men alone are the arbiters of
woman's political status and destiny,
thedesired goal must be reached through
them.
So, women of Colorado, now is your
golden opportunity to prove the strength
of your influence, it is in your power
to get this question before the voters of
your State upon its merits. There Is
said to bo a larger proportion of men in
your State who are willing to give the
experiment of Woman Suffrage a fair
trial than are to be found in older com
mutinies where men live and die for
generations where their fathers have
lived and died. In your newspapers
you have valuable auxiliaries, and their
outspoken voice is a glad prophecy of
triumph in the coming contest. Use
every endeavor to circulate them so that
no man in all your State who can read
will go to the polls in October without
having read aud bad time to digest the
reasons eo many and so cogent that are
from week to week advanced in advo
cacy of impartial suffrage. Hold up the
hands and strengthen the hearts of the
women lecturers who will labor for you
during the coming three months. So
this by attending and inducing voters
who may be within reach of your "in
fluence" to attend, and if they go away
unconvinced, induce them to attend
agaiu, and talk of the matter at home,
Do not by your inactiviti have it said
that the women of the lovely Centen
nlal State are content to remain politi
cal serfs; content to be minors in law all
of their lives; content to remain iu the
catalogue with idiots, paupers, aud
criminals, nor make an effort to place
their names on the lists of freedom. If
your "influence" is of any avail, let it
stand you in stead now, aud liberty and
justice will be crowned with new laurels.
INDIAN OUTBREAK IN IDAHO.
News of an Indian outbreak in Idaho
has burst with horrible suddenness and
sickeniug detail over the country, strik
ing terror to many hearts. A dispatch
giving the first news, which was re
garded as scarcelymore than rumor,
was received iu this city on Saturday
evening, asking for a steamer to convey
troops from Wailula to Lewiston, and
reporting the murder of a settler near
Mount Idaho, and the wounding of his
wife. The steamer "Almota" was dis
patched with 'all available troops, and
on tier return from .Lewiston brought
news ot a startling character. A num
ber of settlers, men, women, and chil
dren, aggregating, so far as known at
this time, about twenty-nine, had been
killed and a number of houses burned
A military force of one hundred men,
twenty friendly Indians, and several cit
izens left the Lapwai garrison on Fri
day eveuing for Mount Idaho, under
command of Colonel Perry. An engage
ment occurred, in which it is said that
Colonel Perry and half of his command
were killed, leaving the remainder of
the troops surrounded by Indians in a
caflon, and fighting against great odds
This story may or may not be exagger
ated, but sufficient is known to render
the tale of the outbreak and violence to
settlers certain. Mount Idaho is about
sixty-six miles southeast of Lewiston,
and, as may be supposed, the excite
ment at the latter place Is intense. The
mayor of this city has been called upon
to furnish arms to the citizens of Lewis
ton, as they are poorly prepared for de
fense. The Indiaus tiius far engaged in
this murderous assault are portions of
the Nez Perce tribe, which have so far
steadily refused to remain upon the res
ervations in accordance with treaty stip
ulations, but have long rendered them
selves the pest aud terror of settlers by
their roving habits aud threateningatti-
tude. Thesettlers are rapidly concentrat
ing at different points for mutual protec
tion, leaving theirgrowing crops, homes
and stock at the mercy of the savages.
Allof Unavailable troop9 will be ordered
to the scene of devastation and slaughter
without delay, and it is hoped their ex
peditiou will prevent further massacre
of tbe defenseless settlers. When we
contemplate the repeated horrors that
have been perpetrated upon pioneer set
tlers ou this continent from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific, we are almost ready
to advocate extermination, as the only
safe and permanent treaty that can be
concluded with treachery.
CLOSE OF THE SCHOOL TEAE.
To-day the public schools of Portland
close for the annual vacation. Teachers
aud pupils will alike rejoice at the pros
pect of freedom from books aud school
duties during the next two months.
That these schools are the nride and
boa9t not only of this city, but of the
State, will not be wondered at after a
tour through their various departments.
Order, method, precision, and diligence
prevail in every room.
We had the pleasure of visiting for a
short time the fourth grade of the Cen
tral School, uuder the supervision of
Miss Kate Dwyer, ou Monday afternoon,
and found from forty to fifty bright-eyed
and anxious pupils busy over the semi
annual examination in "Practical
Arithmetic." A momentary suspension
of the busy pencil, upon which just
now so much depended, a quick glance
at the visitor, and click, click, the pen
cils were again at work, readv expo
nents of the active brains that so anx
iously propelled them. The number of
pupils in this room is fifty, the average
age ten, and as the quiet teacher moved
among them, scanning slates and mak
ing up their standing, we sat in silent
admiration of her wonderful skill and
power, mentally resolving that the
time but a few decades ago, when school
ma'ams were a myth, should be tacked
on to the period known as the "dark
ages."
Professor King, indefatigable, faith
ful, and prompt, has been in his ele
ment during the past ten days, moving
through the various departments in a
mauuer suggestive of ubiquity, while
the entire corps of (eachers have worked
with a zeal and earnestness that has
meant promotion for their pupils. One
or two of the most valued teachers have
decided upon a respite from school du
ties during the whole of the next year,
aud the Board, ever watchful for the in
terests of the schools, are casting about
them for suitable persons' to fill the va
caut places.
The increasing number of pupils will
necessitate the employment of add!
tioual teachers, and the extension and
improvement of at least a portion of the
buildings. These arrangements will all
be completed during the summer vaca
tion, so that when the soft air of Sep
tember bears to the ears of teachers and
pupils the sounds that usher in the new
school year, everything will be in read
iness to receive them, and assist them
in the laudable avocation of imparting
knowledge, and the equally laudable
desire of obtaining it.
EAELY DAYS LIVED OVER AGAIN.
Those who journeyed in the early,
early days toward the setting sun,
sturdily resolving "to make them a
nome in its ngut," met in genial re
union at the State Fair Grounds last
week, and as the "glowing camp-fires,
with rude humor," revealed each to the
other, the days that are past were
marched in review before their chil
dren's children, who listened to tales of
pioneer life almost as little ones listen
to tales of fairy land. How the amused
laugli went round, as the primitive
cabin walls of ye olden time were
painted by the memory of the silver-
haired matron, who spent within them
tue earner years oi lier bright young
womanhood, and how glances of inerri
ment and incredulity were exchanged,
as the limited stock of household uten
sils were counted over.
These are the pleasing pictures painted
by our pioneers for the amusement of
posterity, but they are often supple
mented by tales of Indian depredations
aud cruelties, to which the bravest
listen with "shuddering horror pale,
and eyes aghast." Oregon ha9 had her
chapter of these horrors, as the silent
cafinns of Rogue River Valley could
testify, could they but find a tongue,
Washington Territory has had hers, as
broken ruins of block-houses witness.
Idaho is now iu the terror of the first
alarm of hers, and fleeing families there
recite the too familiar tale of savage
atrocities upon the border.
All hail to the noble pioneers! And
as the years go by and each one chroni
cles the last words aud bears to the last
resting-place tiie forms that once in
stinct with life aud ambition aud enter
prise, braved the dangers and endured
the hardships of a border life, witli our
lingering farewells is mingled gratitude
and honor and reverence.
"SO HE TELLS ME."
A woman writing to the Farmer from
Umatilla, who gels the knowledge from
"her husband at home" and insists on
ail other women doing likewise, dis
plays such shocking ignorance and
makes such ludicrous blunders about
plain matters that we're discouraged
from attempting to gain knowledge
from such a source, even if we had an
expectant lord at home impatiently
waiting to instruct us. Hear her and
thauk your stars that there is at least
one couple well mated, even if both are
simpletons:
As for woman's rights, I think the Holy Bi
ble teaches us our rights. It tells us to leam
of our husbands at home. And, again, " Wives,
obey j our iiusbaudo.'" if
the time should ever come, and God forbid It
should, that -women will be allowed to go to
the polls and vote, the men had best take care
of themselves, or their equals will crack them
over the head with the broomstick.
Evidently all that savesune poor bus-
baud's cranium irorn violent contact
with the broomstick is that his spouse
cannot gain his consent to the family dis
cipline. We advise him to keep so un
ruly & creature in subjection by all
means. A ballot in her hands would
break bis head, sure.
Resolutions embodying a vote of
thanks to the editors of newspapers who
have furnished the Ybuug Peopl&'s
Christian Association of Albany with
copies of tbeir papers, were passed at a
recent meeting of the Association.
HONOE US WITH TEUTH.
A brilliant woman once said that "the
only reason why she wished to be a man
was because people would then speak
honestly to her; they would cease to
flatter ber, and she could then leam by
her failures as men did." This is cer
tainly "a consummation devoutly to be
wished," for one of the greatest obsta
cles in the way of woman's advance
ment to-day Is the dishonesty with
which men speak of her efforts. Not
that this Is all by way of iudiscrimin
ate praise; bless you, no, for censure,
just as unjust and indiscriminate, is as
often accorded to woman's work, if,
perchance, she independently decides to
follow an avocation of her own choos
ing, regardless of sphere lines and cus
tom exactions. Women must first learn
to bear the truth concerning their ac
tions, and then men must learn to tell
the truth relative to the same, divested
of obsequious flattery or severe censure.
Nothing is really either praiseworthy
or censurable, simply because a woman
does it. Yet the average man seems to
think it incumbent upon him because
of his sex, either to speak of woman's
efforts when these extend beyond the
atmosphere of home with fulsome flat
tery if he happens to be kindly disposed
toward the woman movement, with, if
.he opposes it, unbridled censure, Inev
itably lugging in something in the first
case about her "angelic" attributes, and
in the second something about her ab
normal proclivities, hinging everything
upon tier sex. 10 an sucu, we again re
peat the words of Elizabeth Barrett
Browuing:
" Deal with us nobly, women thouzh we be.
And honor us with trutli, if not with praise."
A SHOET LIPE, AND A SAD ONE
Almost every subject is studied thor
oughly before the human body and the
laws of health are considered worthy of
attention. Much more can be done
than is at present beinc done toward
the avoidance of disease.
In some instances parents are unable
or indisposed to teach their children
what would be the most valuable por
tion of their education. The desire to
make money, and other ambitious mo
tives seem to absorb the attention of
the masses, and divert their thoughts
from the care and consideration of
health.
My college classmate, Corrine, was a
brilliant brunette. She arranged her
long, abundant black hair in one bund
red curls when going to attend a class
party, sing at a concert, or read an essay
at the Literary Anniversary. She had
flashing biackeyes. Her form was very
Iran, it seemed impossible that so
much energy aud strength of will to
overcome mountains of physical and in
tellectual toil could be possessed by one
with such a delicate frame.
She was a gay, dashing girl, with
something grand about her. She bore
herself, with a certain majestic grace
that gave her a queen-like dignity. An
only child, early Iu life she studied in
an Eastern seminary. Her father dying
with consumption, she came to Ohio
and commenced the literary course in
the State, continuing to take lessons in
vocal and instrumental music.
t uereuuary tenueucy toward con
sumption, constant study, unwholesome
food, corsets, heavy skirts borne upon
the hips, ail these enemies disastrous to
health, tortured her frail physical frame,
deranging the nervous system, until she
grew very weak. With winter winds
came a constant, troublesome cough
Her physician gave her cod liver oil,
until her stomach rejected it. She
should have bad nourishing food, rest,
worn Hygienic garments, and spent
much time in the open air, with free
dom from ail forms of excitement.
Three year9 passed. Because she pos
sessed an unusually strong will, she
overcame her physical weakness, com
pleted the course of study, graduating
with high honors. She had the best
literary, artistic, and musical training
the country could afford; but the all-im
portant physical training was left out,
After two years' training in domestic
duties, varied with lessons iu vocal
music, she formed the acquaintance of a
man of considerable musical talent
one whom her friends thought in every
way worthy of her. How they were de
ceived. He proved to be a shallow man
of the world, aud a heartless libertine,
determined to live upon Corri tie's for
tune. This hypocrite had won a pure,
accomplished young girl as his own
and in a short time the seeds of the
most intense suffering were sown in her
already perishing body. Her remaining
days were spent in excruciating pain,
and death came to her iu a most ago
nizing form. In her rich bridal robes
she was laid to rest. The truthful
cnronicier or sucu a nie and sucu a
death, "though divine, might weep."
Medina county, Ohio.
The uukindest cut of all: A corre
spondent of the Hillsboro Independent
tells tho editor thereof, in his own pa
per, that If be had the business energy.
and thrift possessed by Mrs. Duuiway,
bis subscription list would soon be much
Increased.
EDITOEIAL OOEEESPONDENOE.
Dear Readers of tiieNew Northwest:
We have an apology to make, and of
all things despisable upon the face of
the earth we do detest apologies, and
we are never compelled to make one but
we're ashamed of It. Looking back
through thirty odd years of active effort,
we see the first foundation of all the
apologies we've ever been compelled to
make for periodical attacks of illness.
Nobody has auy business to be sick,
and everybody who lays foundations for
constantly recurring fits of illness by
overwork, and fails to eschew further
abuse of vitality in the same direction,
ought to be put in a straight jacket.
Wo first "broke dowu" at the age of
seven by gathering flax from a blue
grass lawn, under the vigilant eye of an
houorea grandfather, who Kept our
youthful spine iu a bent position by
vigorous reminders of duty from morn
ing till night, one day, uuder the old-
time impression that children never
need tools to work with, (if they happen
to be girls), and never need rest under
any conditions. A common garden
rake in our puny hands on that occasion
would have saved us yearsof subsequent
suffering.
Then, when we were nine, wo sodded
the paternal door-yard with blue grass,
a job requiring the strength of a man;
yet we never knew till many years of
womanhood's experience had come to
teach us wisdom that our constantly
recurring periods ot illness through a
life of active toil could be traced to
early periodic overwork. But the fact
remains, aud hence this apology. The
constant effort upon our part in later
years to sustain the finances of bur mis
sion brings us down with fits of illness
every week or two. Then we lay by
and rally, and in a few days, well, (but
not sound, as the sequal proves), we sally
forth again, greeted everywhere with,
"How well you look," to which we re
spond, "Never better," aud on we strug
gle till suddenly we are ill again, and
then our calculations fail, and we're
ashamed of overwork and the conse
quent failure that comes of it. At the
present writing, with arrangements ail
made for a trip to Albany, we are sud
denly prostrated; and yet, before these
words shall greet the reader, the writer,
who pens them on a couch of suffering,
will be again in the lecture field. If de
linquents aud friends iu general would
only rally as they should to the finau
cial support of the New Northwest
for one short month, till its worn-out
field editor could gain a little perm a
nent strength, perhaps fewer apologies
would he necessary.
Sudden illness deprived our readers of
tiie benefit of Commencement exercises
of all kinds in Forest Grove and Salem;
anu, inougn we raineu and made a
flying visit of a business character to
both places immediately after, taking a
peep at Cornelius and auother at Hills
boro, in the meantime, the fatigue of
the Pioneer Re-utiion, and the business
cares for the People's Paper that accom
panied us through its exercises, have
again prostrated us and set us to moral
izing afresli upon the iniquity of over
work.
As we lie here, in our own cosychatu
ber, thinking of these things, and mak
ing crooked hieroglyphics to puzzle the
typos, we recall many incidents which
our brain had chronicled for the reader's
use, which are now presented to our fe
vered vision like the broken images iu
a cracked kaleidoscope.
We remember a reception with the
Grangers at the Chemeketa Hotel in Sa
lem; also a visit to the Willamette
University nnd the Medical College, de
scriptions . .til of which were crowded
from these columns by sudden illness,
which, like the present attack, sent us
home and to bed until the serial story's
time for being written came, and ex
hausted further effort till after the paper
had gone to press.
A temporary rally at home, aud then
the visit in Forest Grove before alluded
to, where we met old friends and rela
tives after a year of absence with that
feeling of half joy and half pain which
you realize when the mind and body
are in uniereut places. Since last we
had seen our father's house in Oregon
we had visited the old homestead in
Illinois, and a retrospectof voices, days,
and scenes departed kept us voiceless
company. Forest Grove in vacation is a
very different place from Forest Grovein
school. During the latter periods she is
a restless urchin, alive alike to the ad
monitions of Alma Mater and the fasci
nating allurements of fashion and fun.
During the former spell she is a babe,
asleep upon the peaceful bosom of the
earth-mother, who smiles in benignant
complacency upon the child of her fos
tering care. Business languishes here
at this season, and everybody leaves
town who can, yet our friends Hexter
andHinman sustain a comfortable trade
in general merchandise, Mr. Hughes
deals largely iu farming implements,
Mr. Myers dispenses drugs, Dr. Bowlby
practices the healing art, Mrs. Buford
keeps up her millinery, Mrs. Grant
makes dresses as of yore, and Mrs. Sloan
excels, as usual, iu keeping a hotel.
Fields, gardens, and orchards are bur
dened with promises of abundant har
vest, and tiie glad eartli is a very bower
of the grandly beautiful.
Cornelius, the railway station, two
and a half miles distant, is growing
steadily, and seems quite a business
point. Here we found a lady in the ex
press office doing business with dexter
ity and skill. Mrs. Cornelius greets us
with a sunny face in her well-conducted
store, where lady clerks are also em
ployed, and Mrs. Ennls, who appreci
ates the People's Paper, bids us cordial
welcome. We can remain but a few
minutes in any place, (or we must go to
Hillsboio on the morrow, whither our
younger brother, who is a genius in his
way, drives us in the buggy with his
favorite "Humbug," who shies at
bridges, but couldn't be hired to run
away. We spend the day in convass-
ing, and are pleased with our success, as
well as with the growth aud improve
ment of the county seat of Washington
county, where we And many friends of
our mission. We owe much of our suc
cess iu Tualatin Plains to the witless at
tempts of the Hiilsboro Independent to
do us barm.
Dr. Boyce is again located in Hills
boro with a drug store and gallery. Mr.
Archibald keeps an excellent and exten
sive assortment of general merchandise
at a very low flcure. Mr. Leathers
keeps an excellent hotel. Our good
friend Mr. Luelling greets us at the
Court-house. Wo are sorry to see Mrs.
j... prostrate, iiko ourseir, she owes
humanity an apology for overwork.
On all sides we see well-tilled fields,
aboundiug iu promises of a plenteous
harvest.
Thursday, and Portland. Friday, and
thePioueers' Re-union. We might have
kuowu so much hurried effort would
prostrate us. But business won't wait
upon overwork.
Hon. Elwood Evans, of Oiympia,
maue a graua aauress. There was no
lack of attention to women in any of
the proceedings, a remarkable change
within two years. Mr. Staats had a
good deal to say about men and females,
but not a word about women. Other
wise his address was good. The day
was delightful. There was nothing to
mar the harmony of the occasion
throughout the protracted exercises.
Mrs. Minto aud Mrs. Loughary made
capital speeches. The undersigned did
the best she could in the same line.
Many tripped the light fantastic toe,
Restaurants nbouuded, and soda fouu
tains, and everybody was happy.
It was almost eleven at night when
we entered a hack and drove to the
Chemeketa, to find it full to overflowing.
We were weary euough to . rest on the
spongy side of a board only there was
no board. Mrs. Matthews settled the
difficulty by making us a capital bed
on her parlor sofa. We had never seen
the hotel so full before. It is cheaper to
stay in a hotel at Salem prices than to
ooaru yoursen. ir the prices were
doubled the patronage would fall ofl
fully two-thirds.
Saturday, and home. Sunday, aud
sick. Monday, and ditto.
Now, good readers, how many of you,
upon reading this painfully peuciled let
ter, will make an effort to send us your
dues, if iu arrears, or a new subscriber,
if your dues are paid ? We cannot tell
you how much you might thus aid us to
cease the everlasting overwork that be
gan when we were a child of seven, aud
lias continued, except during intervals
of prostration, ever since. A. J. D.
Portland, June 18, 1877.
LETTEE IEOM IOWA.
TO THE EDITOn OP THE NEW XoRTHWEST:
Alter having read your paper for
nearly a year, and ever since my earli
est recollection been very much inter
ested in the cause you advocate, the
thought occurred to me whether I might
not throw in my little mite to advance
the noble cause in which you are labor
ing.
Iu reading the article "Domestic Tyr
anny," it seemed to me that the ideas
advanced would apply equally to our
selves and the Constitution of the United
States as to individual parties. - Our
present Constitution is tyrannical
toward our sex, yet we have never failed
to submit to its whims, aud we too well
know that its operation has been at
tended with a great many evils. Still
all along we have fostered aud aug
mented these evils by our unreasonable
submission to its requirements. Then
why continue longer in this channel?
Why not stand upon our diguity and
quietly, nut unlhuchiugly, assert our
selfhood and assume our rightful re
sponsibility, and never again be found
guilty of going about childlike, askiug
the tyraut whether we can in those all
important questions of the day have
our say, as well as our brothers, hus
bands, and fathers, who are no more
concerned than we ?
I have often thought, why were the
Indians not enslaved as well as the Afri
cans? Was it because the while race
would not have done It? Most certainly
notjbut because they could not. The
Indiaus would not submit to the pale
face, consequently they were compelled
to treat him with deference, but the
poor African had not the will-power to
resist, and I ueed not stop to tell you
the result. So it is to-day with our own
sex; we crouch back in the corner like
well-trained dogs, aud wait till we are
bidden before we taste of the tempting
morsel, when all we have to do is to
step forward and claim that which is
already ours. No wonder we are classed
among the idiots and insane when we
are too cowardly to help ourselves at
our own table. I, for oue, do not feel
very mucli elated over the prospect of
being told, "Well, you may go to the
polls this time and we'll see how things
come out, and if everything works all
right maybe you may go agaiu." It
seems to me this is too humiliating for
any intelligent woman to submit to.
I know we have women all over the
land that say, "We don't want to vote;
I have as much as I cau do to take
care of my family; I have all the rights
I want, etc." All such silly, insignifi
cant remarks as these are made, but
they are not the women I am appealing
to, for I doubt whether they have self
confidence sufficient to cut out a baby's
pinafore without first asking their hus
bands what shape it shall be; but to
those that feci and know the unfavor
able circumstauces in which we are
placed and want to step out from under
the yoke of bondage, to you I would
say, "Come, let us reason together aud
see if we are not kept iu bondage simply
because. we submit to the yoke."
Tyro
Iowa, June 2, 1877.
EEOENTETENTS.
Tweed is very depressed iu spirits and
weaker in health.
The Issue of one and two dollar green
backs is discontinued at the Treasury.
James Russel Lowell has accepted the
Spanish mission, and will shortly leave
for Spain.
The consul to Loudon will be recalled
next month, and ills successor named
from the South.
The Typographical Union has reduced
prices to 40 ceuts per 1,000 "ems" on
newspaper work, and 35 and 37 on book
work.
The class of 1SS0 of Princeton Col
lege, numbering nearly 100 young men,
has been suspended and required to
leave the town.
The Times says, editorially: The ex-
Queen of Spain, it is said, appealed to
the Pope to use his influence to prevent
her son, King Alfonso, from marrying
a non-Catholic princess.
The State aud Uuited States ento
mologists, after a careful examination,
express a confident belief that the grass
hoppers nave nearly ceased to be a
cause of danger in Nebraska.
Senator Conkiing sailed for Europe
on the lu'.h. A company or distin
guished Republicans accompauied the
Senator down the bay. Passing steam
ers screamed a good-bye and dipped
flags.
Twenty thousand dollars' wortii of
laces were found on the 14th by Inspec
tor Chapman, of the New York Custom
house, with three persons, two women
and a man, in the steamer "Herda,"
from Hamburg.
The World's Washington special says
the well-known philanthropist, W. W
Cocoranr distributed $20,000 among poor
men and women who were recently
thrown out of employment by reason of
reduction in the departments.
President D. C. Gilmau, formerly of
the California University, was married
at Newport recently to Miss Lillie
Woolsey, niece of ex-President Wool-
sey, of Yale College, and sister of Susan
Coolidge, the well-known authoress.
Conversations with the President
show that the policy of the administra
tion will not be to appoint any more
Democrats to office hereafter, except
possibly in a few Southern places where
qualified Republicans aro uot attain
able.
The Tribune's Washington special
says: Gail Hamilton attacks becretary
Schurz, reiterating that George Schuel
der, of Chicago, loaned him money to
start a newspaper, and that this secured
Schurz' influence for his (Schneider's)
appoiutmeut to the Swiss mission. Sec
retary Schurz denies the story as an un
mitigated falsehood and slander.
The following Deputy Collectors of
Customs at New York have been dis
missed and their divisions consolidated
H. C. Manning, J. J. Osborne, H. T.
Warren, and H. G. Williams. Each
had a salary of $2,500 a year. Williams
graduated with ex-President Grant, and
fought under him in Mexico, aud was
appointed by him in 1S01. Manning
had been In office five years, Osborne
three years, and Warren six years as
Deputy Collectors.
Marshal Douglass visi ted St.Michaei's,
Talbot county, Maryland, on the 19th,
for the first time since he left a fugitive
slave forty-one years ago. He was well
received by his former master, Captain
Thomas Auld, and by William M. Bruff,
who taught him readingand geography
fifty years ago. In an address to the
colored people Douglasssaid that if in
twenty years from now the colored race,
as a race, had not advanced beyond the
point where it was when emancipated,
it is a doomed race. He encouraged
them to earn money and to keep it. A
poor people are always a despised peo
ple. To be respected, they must get
money and property. Without money
there is no leisure, without leisure no
thought, without thought no progress.
THE 0UEOX PIOXEEHS.
by syi c. stursox,
IThe following boantllul nnd suesesttve Doem
was written for tho annual re-union ot the Pio
neer Association, but unfortunately was not
received In time to be read at tho June meeting:
In the dusk of forgotten years,
Ana me rain oi meir arming woe.
Where thecityofPriam rears "
Dim walls by Scamanders flow.
Lies the harp that old Homer strung
On the fabled and fadlncr shore.
When the story of Troy was young,
Anu i;arv'ry was mr oeiore.
In the silence of eld, and the dew
Of the sorrowful mists of time.
As the ages go on and renew
The chalice of lire sublime.
His harp lies at rest, though his son;
is echoing onwaru sun.
Detaining the beautiful throng
Of tue gous on tue classic uin.
But the heroes or wnr rem lln,
And. alert as the call of late.
Tbey return to the stormy plain
From me snips anu tue rsc-ueuii Kuicj
And tbe groups-of the glorious gods.
In tnecounoi mr munuerer, juve.
Lean over, and note where nods
Jiach plume mat tney naie or love.
Bold hearts that have gained the west !
hot Hector nor peieus- son
In their knlghtllest deeds and best
Have rivaled what you have done t
For spirit of valor doth yet
In tbe bosom of manhood burn,
Though tbe genius of Homer has set
Anu the gods nerermoro return.
In the faces that circle here
Are tbe signets of toil and care.
But tbe light of a purpose clear
lev lingers, nice sunset, tnere;
And I read, on your brows of calm,
The record of many a fray.
In the scars that have won the palm.
Ana tne lines mat nave come to stay.
For I read of the toiling train,
Anu tne trail oi us austamr,
And the Crows and the Sioux, again
Area hovering cloud of war
Of tbe graves that you have left, with tears,
In tbe deserts of sand and sage.
And the sorrow that seams and sears
Willi a heavier nana than age.
And I read of tbe sweet desires
That you wreathed on the sunset's bars.
As ever your red camp-fires
Were traveling on with the stars-
Till the goal of your hearts was won
Tn thivmlstK nf Pnolflp's snmv
In the purple tents ot the sun.
Anu ine camp oi me weary uay.
Where the forests o'ershadowed, and where
The fountains of crystal are born,
And the mystical voice of the fir
Is singing at eve and at morn,
Your cabin is built in a day.
Anu tne wne is eutnroneu, to tier joy.
And you look and rejoice, and you say.
sue is lairer man iieien ui xrpy I"
And the rifle, the axe, and the plow,
Arc tne texts mat you preacu to tne wua,
And the crests of the forests bow,
And the wastes, by your toil beguiled
Move back with a wider sweep
From orchards and fields of grain.
And you sow though you may not reap,
in the snauowy days or pain.
For the locsin of war may call
The toller from fence or field.
And you go where so many fall,
And you fight till the foemen yield !
It was thus, in the bronze of toll,
And the blood of the patriot's fate,
And deep in the rocks and soil
sou grounaeu me pillars or state.
On his throne of the wild Cascades
Sits the glittering monarch. Hood,
As the days with their wheeling shades,
rass on in a solemn moon;
Aud away to the east and the west,
in uii seas oi.me goiuen air,
He may see that Ills wilds are dressed
With a glory of harvests rare.
And tho rivers are tracked with foam.
As the steamers go up aud down.
And the glittering spire and dome
Mark many a busy town;
And trom myriad homes there springs
A murmur of sweet content.
And 'tis there, though no Homer sings,
True souls, you have monument I
But by many a mansion fair.
In the shade of the dreamlngfirs.
Where the spider Is weaving ber snare
To the music of dropping burs.
Is the cabin you bulltin the days
That tested the fibre of men.
And the softest of sunlight plays
On the root that you loved so then.
So rude, and unlovely and old,
By the side of your mansion fair,
It is clasped in the richest gold
Ot the odorous summer air;
But a mansion not made by hands.
Is gilding their dreams as It uears,
And tbe Angel ot Welcome stands
At tbe door of the Pioneers !
Mrs. Hannah Anthony Moaher, of
Rochester, New York, sister of Susan B.
Anthony, died recently in that city of
consumption. This event had been for
some time anticipated, as Mrs. Mosher's
steadily failing health had too surely
indicated the final result. It was to at
tend the bedside of this sister that Miss
Anthony felt compelled to cancel her
lecture engagements through the month
of April. Mrs. Mosher was, like ber
sister, an earnest friend and advocate of
womau's emancipation, but home du
ties had largely engrossed bar time, aud
ber influence had been principally felt
iu the social circle. She showed, how
ever, her thorough independence of
character and loyalty to the demauds of
justice by voting at tbe Presidential
election in 1872, with others; for which
act Susan B. Anthony was arrested and
tried by the United States government.
Rev. I. D. Driver la married again,
We hope the seventh act in the tragedy
will close with, "And last of all, the
man died also."
P0EEIGN HEWS.
Russian losses before Kars are very
heavy.
Turkey, as a precautionary measure,
has decided to occupy the principal po
sitious in Servia.
Portugal has proclaimed her neutral
ity in theRusso-Turkisk war. Germany
will not issue a special proclamation of
of neutrality.
The commander-in-chief of the Otto
man army has decreed that every Rou
manian soldier taken prisoner shall be
put to death.
Mukhtar Pasha has received a rein
forcement of twenty-four battalions and
two batteries. He intends sending suc
cor to Kars from along the whole line.
Prince Gortschaff disavows any wish
on the part of Russia to take possession
of Constantinople, and declares that the
city oufiht to belong to none of the Eu
ropean powers.
Intelligence received at Constantino
ple represents that the position of tbe
Turkish army in Asia has improved,
and that the Turks are preparing to as
sume the offensive.
The Turkish column, advancing
through Wassojevitch district, makes
slow progress, and has not yet readied
Kolaschiu. It destroys all villages
within reach, but has thus far not en
tered the mountain country.
Sisters of Mercy, a large number of
whom recently arrived, are constantly
visiting the camps and various hospi
tals, from which it is thought there are
many sick, though the Russians do
their utmost to prevent the obtaining
of information on the subject.
Private letters from the Danube state
that the Russians are extremely busy
constructing bridges and repairing roads
so as to secure the utmost facility of
movement when the decisive moment
arrives. A field telegraph now connects
the headquarters of all Russian corps
with those of Grand Duke Nicholas.
A sample of the opinions and exhor
tations to women, concerning their sup
posed rights, privileges and "sphere,"
is found iu the following contradictory
paragraph, which appears iu the same
article in the Denver Tribune:
When the women of the country, as a wholer
ask for the ballot, then there Is no doubt but
what men must grant the request, and they
will do it cheerfully. If Woman Suf
frage Is to come, let It come from man's call,
not lrom woman's clamor.
Thus we are told that when women
ask for the ballot they shall have it,
and in almost the same breath they are
admonished uot to make the request.
Just what would be the nature of the
dire catastrophe that would ensue should
this admonition be disregarded, we are
cruelly left to conjecture.
Mart. Brown asserts that he "has never
yet countenanced tbe disfranchisement
of citizens already. possessing the suf
frage." He certainly did his best to
piaco tho women citizens of Wyoming
who exercise the franchise In a false and
ludicrous light before his readers when
giving an account of his flying trip
through that Territory last year. Is
this your method of countenancing
Woman Suffrage where it exists,
brother? or is your memory failing?
The plea of insanity Is put iu for the
young man, Moore, whose brutal treat
ment of his mother caused her to make
her final quietus witli morphine at
Hiilsboro a short time since. We hope
indeed, for the credit of humanity, that
the plea Is well-grounded.
The Woman's. Journal says that the
ninth annual convention of th6 New
England Woman Suffrage Association
was oue of the best, if not the very best,
that has ever been held.
Governor Packard has recovered from,
his recent illness, and departed for New
York. He will not, It is said, go to
Washington.