FRIDAY -JULY 20, 1877.
XOTICE.
Agents win p:case lane notice mat It Is a
great tax upon us to pay express charges upon
small sums, and they Trill confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
"OYSTEES AND DEINZS."
Women of the State, read carefully
the details of the Grover Investigation
Bow being published, and answer us
candidly, do men who go to the State
capital and baggie with notorious polit
ical tricksters about the price of a vote;
who beat around the disreputable places
of the city at unseemly hours, "when
good men sleep," takiug "drinks,"
smoking cigars aud gorging themselves
on oysters until whatever brain power
they may originally possess is perverted
and befuddled into a condition resem
bling idiocy, do they represent you ?
Betnember these are not our charges
against our legislators, but are facts
brought out on their own sworn testi
mony. A sample will suffice. Senator
Saulsbury interrogating State Senator
Palmer, of Beuton:
Q, Stiles states in his testimony that you
came into the hall and invited the whole lobby
to go down and take a drink with him. A. I
had some friends in the third house that I
wanted to get out and go down town with me
got up and moved that all go down and take a
drink.
0-He states that he Invited you and Gen
eral Brown to take oysters that night. A. I
went down and took oysters and drinks so
many times with different men that man
might have been In the crowd.
It is in midnight carousals, with their
late supper, drinking and smoking ac
companiments, that men of this class
batch laws for the government of the
commonwealth, and fresh from such as
sociations, proclaim that they legislate
for women more wisely than they could
legislate for themselves. Agai n we ask,
Women, do men of this kind who too
frequently form the majorities in legis
latures "represent" you, as they claim
to do?
WEAPONSEEVEESED.
The suffragists of Colorado are vigi
lant, quick to perceive an opportunity,
and ready to seize upon it. The Cath
oiic Bishop Machebeuf, of Colorado, has
recently delivered two lectures iu Den
ver against Woman Suffrage, and these
have called out a vigorous reply from
Rev. Dr. Crary. The Colorado Woman
Suffrage Association immediately had
five thousand copies of this reply struck
off on convenient size for gratuitous dis
tribution.
Among many people the Bible argu
ment against Woman Suffrage is the
most potent of all, as they deem it sac
rilegious toattempt to disturb the status
of woman as expounded to them by
priests and ministers, who interpret cer
tain Scriptural texts to suit their own
narrow ideas. When, however, these
are fairly met by more enlightened
ministers, and the absurdity of their
arguments shown up and refuted, hund
reds whose conscientious scruples have
caused them to array themselves with
the opposition see that there are no
Biblical reasons for assigning to woman
a menial or subordinate position, and,
truly converted, make public profession
of their belief in woman's political free
dom. The reply of Dr. Crary is an able
review of and answer to the so-called
Bible argument against equal rights,
and its distribution throughout Colo
rado at this juncture will be most op
portune. Thus the labored effort of the
Catholic bishop will add strength to the
cause of woman's enfranchisement, in
stead of being an instrument of warfare
against it. It is therefore quite appar
ent that His Grace the bishop buildcd
better than he knew when attempting
to strengthen the old citadel of error,
THE INDIAN WAE.
The mutterings of discontent against
General Howard for what seemed tardi
ness in pushing the campaign against
the Indians have been supplanted or
bushed by news of a victory achieved
by the forces under his command on the
12th inst. In his account of the battle
General Howard says: "The losses of
the Indians appear to be thirteen killed
and quite a large number wounded,
We have Captain Bancroft and Lieu
tenant Williams wounded; also eleven
enlisted men killed and twenty-four
wounded. Their camps were abandoned
in great baste, leaving much plunder.
The Indians fought as well as any
troops I ever saw, and so did ours, not
one man failing in duty. I now believe
that I am in fine condition, just as soon
as Green appears from Boise, to make
thorough work with these Indians.
Tbey are making for the Snake coun
try, and I for concentration at Mount
Idaho. Troops have never done harder
or more rapid campaigning or better
fighting than these."
We all understand how much easier
it is to fight imaginary battles upon pa
per than in rough, mountainous dis
tricts under a burning July suu with
powder and musket balls, and should
not hastily call in question the effi
ciency or criticise the conductof officers
who are working valiantly on the rough
edge of battle for victory over a treach
erous and well-equipped foe. It is well
for an enemy'who thinks that General
Howard will not fight on Sunday ex
cept with psalm-singing and prayer-
books to keep out of range of his guns,
while tbey "to tbeir mates thus in de
rision call," or the chances are that
their Sabbath day pastimes will be in
terrupted by the "diapason of the can
nonade." At all events, the General
has been making bis Gatling guns and
mountain howitzers speak in language
tbat needs not to be interpreted to the
Iudians.
We hope indeed tbat bis belief thai
ne win make tnorougn worn: witn tne
Iudiaus may prove well-founded, and
they receive such a castigation as will
cause them thereafter to be sought for
in vain on the face of the eartb.
PUETHEE JTESTIMONY.
Hosier of Wasco, he who was "burnt
out"- a year ago last April, and, as a
consequence, thought $1,000 would be a
"mighty fine thing," has given in his
testimony to the Senate sub-committee,
corroborating the damaging statements
made by Messrs. Nesmith and Good
man, but excusing himself on the
ground that lie threw out these remarks
concerning money in connection with
the Senatorial election as a "feeler."
He, however, repudiates Styles aud bis
$750 testimony, and denies in iolo that
he ever received a cent, directly or indi
rectly, for his vote for Grover. This of
course was to be expected : no one
thought he would march up to the con-
fessioual and tell who paid him money,
or how much.
If in all the mass of evidence taken
by the committee there has not been
found positive proof of fraud and cor
ruption in the election of Grover, there
has been tbat unearthed tbat carries
conviction to every candid mind that
mercenary arguments were employed,
and that they were effective in chang
ing the votes of certain members. The
Yamhill Reporter speaks pretty nearly
the popular sentiment when it says that
Governor Grover counting out coin to
anybody as a means of securing his
election we do not maintain; but that
money was paid to secure his election,
and that tbo payers thereof were re
warded by services to the said payers as
good as so much money, we have not a
doubt." If Hosier's testimony were re
peated a thousand times, and each time
rendered more emphatic, the verdict of
the popular mind would still be the
same.
For some years past the Is ew North
west has rigidly abstained from taking
any partisan course in relation to poli
tics, the reason being that there have
been no issues between the two organ
ized parties which have caused its ed
itors during that time to feel any prefer
ence for particular candidates. That
venality and corruption are the rule of
the present one-eexed political parties,
and honesty the exception in case of a
few individuals, aud that this order of
things will remain, no matter who gets
into power, till men and women return
to philosophical principles, and restore
dominion to man as God created
them, male and female, wo have not
only learned, but openly promulgated.
This reticence upon the part of this
journal is a source of constant annoy
ance toa fewstarveling journalists, who
would fain place us in the front of their
battles and keep us there as a target,
while steadfastly denying us the liberty
we mean to have in spite of them; con
stantly attacking us with charges more
or less covert or open, according to the
frequency and strength of their "drinks."
A fair sample of this, given elsewhere,
from the Salem Record, was eagerly
copied by the Standard, of this city. It
sounds so intensely Sam Clark-ish that
we're half inclined to charge it upon
him; and just here it occurs to us tbat
Gervais is the place where Tim Daven
port's erewhile anonymous correspond
ence with an "independent" Salem pa
per, now defunct, hailed from; and
Timmy doesn't take the New North
west, so he's liable to misrepresent it,
not only from choice, but from ignor
ance. But our sensible readers will see
so much to contempt in the scurrility re
ferred to that tbey will blame us, we fear
justly, for even deigning to notice the
contemptible whine.
To attack a gentleman who is not a
journalist, aud who has nothing to do
with political action in any way, for no
other reason than because he is honora
bly related to the New Northwest's
editor is the old style of opposition,
which is deserving only of contempt,
What "scheme," "contemptible" or
otherwise, the "custom-house ring," if
such ring exists, may have in band, we
certainly do not know. Foliticians long
ago learned better than to entrust us
with any of their wire-pulling schemes,
We havedisapproved the Grover "white
washing" from the beginning, because
we knew there would be no getting at
the truth. We have no idea but votes
were bought and sold, just as they
doubtless have been in former Sena
torial elections; but the fight isn't our
funeral, and we've only stopped a min
ute to cuff the ears of the contemptible
fiste who barks at us under cover of an
alias.
PBIMITiyEWQESHIP.
Away back in the store-house
EDIT0EIAL C0EEESPONDEH0E.
LET HIM PAETI0UL&EIZE.
The editor of the Salem Record, es
saying through a sham correspondent
located at Gervais to be pertinent and
witty, but only succeeding in being im
pertinent and untruthful, asks and an
swers :
Can you explain why Mrs. A. J. Dunlway, of
the New Northwest, always champions
everything that the Portland Custom-house
Ring has anything to do with, and always en
dorses any dirty, contemptible scheme they
have In hand ? Tivou.
The solution is as easy as rolling off a log
backwards. Mrs. Dunlway's better, but weaker
half, holds a petty clerkship in one of the of
fices of tbat building.
It is apparent to the most casual
reader that this question was trumped
up solely to give the editor a chance to
fling in a little scurrility by way of re
ply, and this opportunity be is not slow
to improve. That "petty clerkship" in
the Custom-house seems to be a terrible
thorn in the side of this editor, who is
owned, now by Mart. Brown and now
by Sam Clarke, and whose politics and
opinionsare, according to bis own sworn
statements before the Senatorial com
mittee, "mixed" like bis potations.
Let him particularize concerning any
"dirty, contemptible scheme which the
Custom-bouse Ring have in band," and
which is endofsed by the New North
west, and we will engage to prove him
a falsifier, as be has already proven him
self a blackguard.
of
memory, occupying a long-forgotten
chamber, are remembrances of the prim
itive camp-meetings of "ye olden time."
Whether these have in the progress of
the age been left behind, or whether
chance and .change and circumstance
have caused our path to have a wide di
vergence therefrom, we know not; but
we do kuow that a visit to the old-time
"camp-ground" seems liko recalling a
half-forgotten dream.
Availing ourself of a kind invitation,
we took a seat in a carriage behind a
pairof lively-stepping bays on last Sun
day, and were whirled away toward
"Ames' Chapel," about eight miles from
this city, where, In the grounds contig
uous to a white and solemn-looking lit
tle church, camp-meeting was in prog
ress. Preparations for the meeting were
exceedingly primitive, and as we were
told in comparison to those of two de
cades ago, were exceedingly meager.
Bough board shanties, weather-beaten
and moss-grown, rude benches, without
backs, a ruder pulpit decorated witli
evergreen, the well-worn Bible, and
Methodist hymn-book, flanked on either
side by-a pitcher, each filled to its ut
most capacity with gorgeous poppies,
marigolds, and snap-dragons; the table
in front covered with the snowy linen,
whereon lay the emblems of tho "shed
blood and broken body" of our Savior;
these were the preparations for worship.
Tho July breezes sang a psalm of quiet
thanksgiving to the soft and dreamy ac
companiment of .the swaying branches
of the giant firs tbat seemed to vie with
each other in their efforts to catch the
first ray of sunlight, as we took a seat
In front of the white table and rudely-
fashioned pulpit and hearkened to the
voice of the presiding elder, while the
words, "As the hart panteth for the
water-brooks, so panteth my soul after
Thee, O, God," stole up and out upon
the sultry noontide air.
The sermon ended perhaps before
we glanced about us. Belies, as it
seemed, of a bygone age, were the gray
bearded fathers and bowed and bent
mothers in Isreal who sat upon chairs
in the shade of the moss-grown build
ings or shifted their position on the
rough benches to escape the rays of the
scorching sun, that as the day advanced
came here and there through the tall
tree-tops. Living in the depth of the
deep green woods, many of them have
spent a quarter or third of a century in
wrenching a subsistence for themselves
and children from the soil which nature,
resentful for their trespass upon her
wild domain, struggled ever to reduce to
a state of primeval luxuriance. In the
hard and unceasing struggle these men
and women have been partial victors,
for here aud there through the woods
are small clearings, in the midst of
which comfortable homes appear, and
from their doors on Sundays and gala
days step smiling and healthful daugh
ters, whose bright ribbons scarcely rival
the damsels' cheeks, and stalwart sous,
content to live where their fathers have
lived, and wrest by the same slow and
toilsome process their living from the
soil.
Here, leaning against a tree, the
trunk of which has been worn smooth
by tbe annual friction of jean and hick
ory, is a group of old men, their bauds,
misshapen from toil, clasped across
tbeir knees, while with white heads
bowed they listen to the preacher's
words. But look ! The treacherous
wind lias loosened from its fasteuings a
rude lantern which has been swaying
over their heads, and down it comes
with a crash that causes them to glance
about them in blank amazement for a
moment, thinking, perhaps, of the final
throes of nature; then, as tbe truth
slowly dawns upon them, they ruefully
gather up the fragments of broken glass
through which their evening light has
been accustomed to shine and resume
their former attitude of devotion.
Grandmothers are here who speak with
pardonable pride of the enthusiasm tbat
attended the early camp-meetings upon
this ground, bending low to catch the
familiar words; young mothers who
plainly bear in their countenance the
impress of the "double curse" are here,
soothing the restless two-yeai-old, keep
ing an eye upon the five-year-old, and
dandling the nursling, while they en
deavored to derive comfort from divine
promises, and with the closing hymn is
mingled many a wail of tired Infancy.
Dinner under the cool shades, served
by women whose stained and battered
hands had prepared it, accompanied by
a social chit-cbat, subdued because of
tbe sauctity of tbe dayand tbe occasion,
and again tbe voice of the minister calls
together the scattered congregation, and
as his voice in "lining" the hymn is
heard, we turn our faces homeward, sat
isfied that primitive camp-meetings are
not entirely a recollection of a bygone
Dead Turks have so effectively "as
sumed tbe offensive" in the town of
Bayazua that il is impossible to remain
in the place.
Harper's Weekly, commenting upon
General Grant's reception in Eugland,
says: "Could old King George open
his eyes upon bis great-grandson con
gratulating the realm that General
Grant was Its guest, and know that the
reason "of the congratulation was that
the guest was illustrious because of
maintaining unbroken tbe independent
national Union whose formation the old
king himself had striven so hard to pre
vent, he would gladly close his eyes
again and resume bis dream of unbroken
empire. Yet while tbe feeling of which
General Grant is bailed as the symbol
continues, that empire is not only un
broken, but is bound together more
closely than ever. The true English
empire is tbe realm of tbe political
ideas of the English race; it is the em
pire of civil and religious liberty under
popular institutions. England has a
just right to be proud of America, as
America may, with equal justice, re
joice in every step of political progress
in England. Their meanest and most
insidious mutual foe is tbe jealousy and
suspicion of those who should be tbe
most intelligent of friends."
Dear Readers or the New Northwest:
There can be no more delightful rural
retreat anywhere than that afforded by
the suburbs of Oregon City. At this
season of the year the very rocks are ri
oting in a wilderness of green. Laugh
ing rivulets go rippling through' mossy
roadbeds, or, widening in the low places,
lay asleep in silvery lakelets in which
little children play. White clover,
kept eaten by the happy cows as short
and crisp as fresh-mown grass, perfumes
tbe air with passing sweets. Perns, as
luxuriant as feathery, droop low over
tbe lichens that face the overhanging
rocks which guard the brow of the
mighty cliffs as they lift their gray
heads heavenward.
Mount any oue of the several rows of
wiuding steps that lead from the narrow
plaiu en the riverside, where the busi
ness part of tbe little city flourishes,
and you will be rewarded by a view of
weird magnificence.
The roaring falls, as white as new
born snow, and us restless as a rolling
weather beach, keep up for aye the
ceaseless monotone of theEternal, while
mountains, purpleas twilight and green
as emeralds, gaze solemnly upon the
scene with tbe same silent majesty of
demeanor with whicli they listened
when first tbey heard the morning stars
as they sang together in the mystic
shades of the long ago.
After a while you get accustomed to
the distant roar of the waters, and then
you hear the echo of the hammer, the
buzz of the saw, the rumble of the fac
tory, the rattle of wheels, the rippling
of laughter, and the din of the dinner
whistle. Now the Chinamen swarm
from the factory in a drove, like so
many hogs. They are on their way to
the "mess-house." Girls and older
women perch themselves in the win
dows of the great building for a taste of
the delicious air that fans their cheeks
and fills their breath with invigorating
gladness. The men who were wading,
breast deep, a moment ago, in the waters
of the "basin," where important im
provements are going on, climb from
their watery surroundings to the adja
cent banks and hie away to the noon
tide meal.
Now look around you, and behold an
other and nearer prospect. The peace
ful town, under the bluff, raises its
church spires in such a manner as to
throw their shadows across the doors of
groggeries, as in many places more pre
tentious. White cottages, and here and
there a considerable mansion, sit cosily
among trees and gardens. Little shops,
in which tidy women do deft work in
feminine apparel, dot the edge of the
sidewalk at intervals. Stores, abound
ing in everything in the commercial
line from a cambric needle to the mate
rials for a woolen factory, are flanked by
grocers' supplies upon the one hand and
hotels upon theotber. Lawyers abound,
and the usual quota of county, State,
and Federal officers are serene and gen
ial as Is their wont. The oldest mer
cantile establishment in Oregon flour
ishes here; tbat of Thomas Charman,
Esq., which began Its existence a quar
ter of a century ago under the firm
name of Chcrmau & Warner. Mr.
Warner long since exchanged the yard
stick for the plow handle, and is one of
the most successful farmers of the
county, while Mr. Charman goes on
with tbe old business, which, years ago,
assumed gigantic proportions. The -En
terprise, a weekly journal under the
management of Mr. Dement, is in a
healthy and growing condition. The
Cliff House, a well-kept hotel under the
supervision of Mr. Rhodes, is driving a
thriving trade. Our old friend, J. M.
Bacon, Esq., has changed his head
quarters to a more commodious build
ing. Ed. Fellows has given up steam
boating for a grocer's business, in which
his good wife takes acceptable part.
The Jacobs brothers have sold their ele
gant mansion to T. Charman. Carey
Johnson basbuilt a palatial residence
on the hill, and many other changes,
more or less notable, attract us, not tbe
least of which is a new literary venture,
entitled, "The Wooer of tbe Molalla, or
the Conquest of Mary Ann," said by ex
perts to be tbe offspring of the genius of
our esteemed friend Charlie Church. It
is believed tbat the publication of this
venture in thecolumnsof tho Enterprise
will add materially to the already large
subscription list of that ably conducted
hebdomadal.
After a pleasant and profitable season
of distributing copies of "David and
Anna Matson" and recruitiug for the
Journal of Peace, the undersigned left
Oregon City on theafternoon of the 12th
and strolled along the river margin to
Canemah; tbe walk of a mile, between
the towering bluff upon one hand and
the glassy waters of tbe Willamette
upon the other, setting the July sun to
beating and beaming upon our corpor-
osity, till, by the time our destination
was reached, our adipose tissue was in a
condition borderiug on that of melted
butter. We had a splendid view of the
Locks, during the walk, with a steamer
going through, but couldn't stop to ad
mire lest we'd flatten out on the blister
ing sidewalk like a heated cake of mut
ton tallow. But good Mrs. Elliot wel
comed us at the end of tbe long ramble
in her cool, shaded veranda, where we
were soon ready to do ample justice to
the excellent edibles which are always
in readiness for the tired missionary
wherever she may go.
If Oregon City is quiet in the summer
season, Canemah is sleepy. Most of her
enizeus have business elsewhere, and
retreat to their rural homes at nightfall.
This is one of the best places in all the
range of our itinerant experience for tbe
brain-weary to go for rest. The air is
as pure as ether, and the water from the
abounding springs and brooks as pure
as tbe air. The view of the falls is mag
nificent, and tbeir roar a sedative,
We'd like to remain a week and gather
needed strength from the delicious re
spite, but the demands of business drive
us forth again, and we bid a regretful
good-bye to genial friends and return to
the heated metropolis, bringing with us
the memory of all we have tried to
chronicle, and much more that is manna
to us, which would not interest the gen
eral reader. Everywhere we meet Eood
friends and true, who welcome us in the
interest of woman aud freedom, and the
work goes marching on. A. J. D.
Portland, July 16, 1877.
EXEE0ISE 0AEE.
Forthe credit of Oregon abroad, and
the consequent permanent prosperity of
tbe State at home, our farmers cannot
be too careful in placing in the market
in good condition the great staples, of
which the financial aud commercial
importance of tbe State is made up.
Shipments from Oregon to Eastern
cities and foreign ports have always
been a credit to her when carefully
made, whether these shipments have
been of fruit, flour, wheat, or wool. It
is to be regretted, however, that due
care has not always been observed, and
some of these productions, perhaps
more especially the latter, have not
been a credit to producers. Apropos to
the subject, we submit the following,
taken from the leading New York and
Boston circulars, being assured that
wool growers will at once acknowledge
the truth of its timely suggestions:
We would again call the attention of farmers
to the necessity for honestly and carefully put
ting up their wools. Every season buyers dis
criminate more closely in their selections, and
any community that will put Its wool in the
best merchantable condition will soon find
that it cannot only command tbe highest
price, but that it will have a ready sale when
the wools of other sections are neglected.
EEOEHTEVENTS.
James Russell Lowell, minister to
Spain, sailed on the 14th. A salute of
fifteen guns was fired from the Boston
ua'y yard.
The senate of the university of Lon
don has decided to admit women to de
grees in other faculties, as well as that
of medicine.
Vice-President Wheeler is enjoying
excellent health at his home at Malone,
and refuses to allow his serenity to be
ruffled by the many rumors circulating
in the newspapers about him.
The Secretary of the Navy has in
formed Captain Howgate, originator of
a plan lor establishing a colony lor
Arctic explorations in the far north,
that he regrets his inability to detail a
civil officer or loan instruments forsuch
purposes.
The Herald's special of the 14th says:
Grant is stopping at tbe Hotel de Rus
sie, iu Frankfort. Yesterday was de
voted to sight-seeing, and last night he
visited Hamburg. To-day he,will be
given a banquet at the Zoological Gar
dens in that town, which promises to be
a magnificent affair.
Through confessions made by several
members of the silk and lace smuggling
ring at New York, three trunks have
been secured containing a mass of in
voices, bills of lading, canceled checks
and private letters. These papers will
be used to secure the arrest of impli
cated parties, and as evidence against
them on prosecution.
The Secretary of tbe Interior summa
rily dismissed L. S. Hayden, clerk in
tbe Indian bureau, on the 14th. This is
the first public result of tbe pending in
vestigations and fraudulent practices in
the Indian service. The Secretary says
the investigation shows that Hayden
has accepted valuables, and has corre
sponded with outside parties concerning
official business. This cannot be en
dured, aud similar action will be taken
with all similar cases. Hayden is- a
Marylander, sixteen years in the ser
vice. He claims the testimony has
been misunderstood, and asks a suspen
sion of sentence for four days.
LETTER PE0M G0L0EAD0.
To the Editor or the New Northwest:
Tbe "glorious Fourth" has. come and
gone, and tbe sound of fire-crackers in
the land has fled. Some one has said
that this day, which means so much to
riien, means nothing to women. But
we think it means mucii to all, fordoes
not broader freedom for man argue
broader freedom for woman, just as the
freer life for woman that we are now la
boring to introduce will bring also still
freer life for mau ? At any rate, the
Coloradans determined that it should
mean something to women this year,
and planned a suffrage celebration at
Colorado Springs. The "Woman's Col-
umn" in the JYews of this city gives a
glowing account of the occasion. See
extract from Rocky Mountain 2?eurs in
another column; Ed.
Mrs. Margaret W. Campbell, whose
name rouses feelings of. gratitude in oil
friends of equal rights here, has just
started with her husband on a journey
south. Going in her private carriage,
she will be able to make a thorough
canvass of that part of the State which
is included iu her route, aud it is hoped
that her labor will bring forth abund
ant harvest in the shape of clubs and
conve'rts.
The heart of the Association beat with
renewed warmth, nope, and courage
when the liberal present of two hundred
dollars from Mrs. A. J., Margaret, and
Ellen Hamilton, of Fort Wayne, Indi
ana, was received.
The Pennsylvania Association are to
send Miss Leila Patridge to help us this
fall. The "Woman's Column" speaks
of her as a graceful and effective speaker,
aud if report says true, this lady will be
worth more than her weight in gold to
the suffragists of Colorado.
Susan B. Anthony will bo another of
our helpers. Her suffrage lectures are
eutitled, "Woman Suffrage," and "Why
tbe men of Colorado should vote yes.
Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell
are coming, and perhaps Mrs. Liver-
more and Wendell Phillips.
We throw up our hats and shout
"Can Colorado help being converted ?"
We think not, if friends of the cause
everywhere will realize the importance
of her conversion and give us all possi
ble aid with pen and pencil. H. L.
Denver, July 8, 1877.
In Memoxiam.
The Liberal Association, of Portland,
on Sunday, July 15, passed the follow
ing resolutions upou the death of Dr.
James Pilkiugton :
Whereas. In the course of events
this society bas beeu bereft of one ot its
most devoted members by the death of
Dr. James Pilkington, a roan whose
chief desire was to gain a perfect knowl
edge of life and its duties, and use this
knowledge to tne benefit of tho human
race; therefore, be it
Resolved, That in the death of Dr.
James Pilkingtou this society has lost a
most devoted and influential member.
and society at large a beneficent friend.
Resolved, That the faith or our de
parted brother in Immortality as re
vealed to liiru by tne communion, as ue
believed, of spirits, through whom he
judged immortality, is one not easily
disproved, and suouia not oe miy dis
carded, and tbat in his case it did not
tend to loosen ins bold on eariniy ex
istence or lessen his efforts to free man
from -the shackles imposed by intolerant
priestcraft.
Resolved. That In the death of our la
mented brother, free thought has lost
one of its most earnest champions, sci
ence one of its most enthusiastic devo
tees, and social progress one of its most
fearless advocates.
Resolved, That the sympathy of tills
Association be tendered to the relatives
of tbe deceased, these resolutions be
spread up'on the records of the Associa
tion, and a copy of the same be trans
mitted to the New Northwest for
publication. H. B. Nicholas,
becretary.
HEWS ITEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL
P0EEIGN NEWS.
Concentration of the Russian armies
is very slow.
Five thousand Russians arc at Beb
rova, marching on Kars.
Mukhtar Pasha is at Kars with about
40,000 men, all told, including the Kars
garrison.
Refugees say the Russian troops at
tacked wagon trains fleeing to Shurala
and murdered people indiscriminately.
Correspondents in Shumla state they
personally witnessed the Russians at
tack unarmed Turks, wounded, old men,
women and children.
It is stated that Austria intends to
propose mediation as soon as decisive
action of either of the belligerents has
clearly defined the military situation.
Nikopolis was captured by the Rus
sians on Suuday, after severe loss. The
Turks, finding their line of retreat
threatened, abandoned the town, which
was filled with Turkish dead.
And now it is said that W. H. Higby
has left for parts unknown, the. state
ments of one, Lake, before the invest!
gating committee being too damaging
for him to withstand. Every villainy
has been disclosed by this investigation,
from casual "drink-taking" to habitual
drunkenness of legislators, aud from
unseemly jocularity In members con
cerning tbe offeringand takingof bribes
to tbe lowest deeps of perjury in wit
nesses. Women, areu't we proud of our
protectors, our law-givers, our exam
plars, our heads?
The execution of ten "Molly Ma-
guires" on the same day jti Pennsylva
nia doubtless has beeu some check on
the movements of this secret organiza
tion. But continued and vigorous
measures will be necessary, it would
seem, to show the power of law. Re
ports have been received from the min
ing districts that several witnesses
against the "Molly Maguire" murderers
have disappeared, aud that two persons
have been assassinated.
The Investigating committee will
probably complete theirlabors this week,
Harvesting has commenced in South
ern Oregon.
Fiftv-three schools are taught in
Douglas couuty.
Baker couuty will hold an agricultu
ral fair beginning bepteniber 4th.
Jacob Hoover has beeu elected mayor
of Stellacoom by tbe common council.
Puget Sound rivers are nowseuding
down unprecedented numbers ot saw
logs.
Quite a number of horses are in train
ing for the full race3 at the State Fair
grounds.
A camp-meeting is in progress this
week on the Webfoot grounds near La
fayette.
Seattle has fifty-six liquor saloons,
which beats even Astoria iu proportion
to population.
David Newsome and wife, of Marion
county, celebrated their golden wedding
one day last week.
The brick work on the foundation of
the new jail at Lafayette was com
menced last week.
The Postmaster-General Is to be peti
tioned for a daily mail route between
Salem and Lafayette.
M. H. Abbott is about to move the
material of the late Dalles Tribune to
La Grande, Union couuty.
Altogether $200,000 would not cover
the property losses already suffered at
tbe bands of the Indians in ldabo.
The Tacoma Herald estimates the
yield of hops in the Puyallup Valley
this season at lour or nveiuousanu oaies
Emigrants from California and else
where continue to arrive In the Snake
River country, iu spite of the Indian
scare.
Eldridge Morse, of tho Snohomish
Star, has been commissioned lieutenant-
colonel of the militia of Washington
Territory.
The house of George Charlesworth,
near Seattle, was destroyed by fire on
the 10th. His youngest child perished
iu the flames.
Professor J. W. Johnson, of the State
University, has gone with his family to
Foley's Springs, on the McKenzie, to
spend vacation.
The run of salmon is said to be on the
increase during the past week, aud
hopes are entertained that after ail the
season will not prove a iaiiure.
Mr. Carter, of the Corvallis Gazette,
lost a bright little daughter four years
of age with the diphtheria last week.
The dread scourge rages with unabated
violence in that city.
Captain Oliver C. Applegate, of Lake
countv. has purchased the Ashland Tid
ings, and will herealter conduct that
sheet. There is a rumor that it will be
taken to Lake couuty.
Only a little more than 100,000 cases
of salmon were shipped by the first of
July from the river, and tne Astonan
asks where the balance of 5, 0, or 700,000
cases are to come from.
Work on the White Bull of Santiam
continues. In that locality several per
sons are at work on placer mines,
Ditches are being dug and thorough
preparations made to test tbe banks and
bars.
A dispatch from New Tacoma says:
"Grading of the Puyallup branch of the
Northern acihc Kailroad to the coal
mines has been completed. Coal fully
equal to the Alleghany coal of Pennsyf
vania is being got out. Track not com
plete; waiting for iron."
The deficiency in tbe salmon catch as
compared with former years Is thus ex
plained: Between thirty and forty miles
oj net Is spread by two tnousand nsuer
men, nightly, near the mouth of the
river, besides numbers of trans aud
seines are in use; and bow effectually
these arrest the passage of fish to upper
portions of the rivers, and to their
spawning grounds, is apparent to all.
A correspondent of the Oregonian,
writing from Kittltass Valley, W. T.,
says: "All kinds of grain, vegetables,
and fruit are now grown iu the valley,
and no irrigation is necessary, although
every part of it can be irrigated from
the river and side creeks at little or no
expense. We have frequent showers of
raiu and well-defined seasons; no win
ter winds and no extreme cold or op
pressive weather ; no doctors ; no
graveyards."
Suffrage Celebration in Colorado.
However disinclined to exertion the
intense heat made most people, tbe Suf-
irage uiub at tne springs did not share
iu the general laziness, but were inde
fatigable in their eltorts to ensure suc
cess for their celebration. When the
train arrived from the north, the scene
which greeted the passengers was most
pleasing. The railway station, the pri
vate nouses, and the school building
were all gay with the national colors; a
military company in unique uniform
awaited the in-coming friends, while a
brass band discoursed inspiring strains.
In holiday procession we wended our
way Into the village and toward the ex
cellent banquet which tbe capable
housewives had prepared for the hungry
crowd. At 2 o'clock the commodious
hull in the second story of the beautiful
school-house was overflowingly full
many being obliged to remain in tne
vestibules and smaller side rooms dur
ing the exercises. The band gave some
good selections while the audience was
getting settled; then there was a prayer,
followed by a soug of welcome from a
Glee Club, and a graceful little speech,
of similar import from Mr. Blodgett,
pastor or tho M. IS. Church. . Then there
was more singing, alter which Mr.
Wolff, who presided admirably, intro
duced Mrs. Margaret W. Campbell.
She took as the textof her discourse the
memorable preamble of the Declaration
of Independence, aud showed in the
simple, earnest, straightforward man
ner that is so characteristic or ner ad
dresses, how those grand utterances ap
ply alike to men and women, and that
all that the friends ot equal rights ask
is that there should now be removed tno
invidious discrimination which really
makes our government an aristocracy
ot sex. One by one tile old disabilities
have beeu removed, until it matters not
what is a man's religious belief or dis
belief, his wealth or poverty, his color
or nationality, he is absolutely upon au
equality before the law with every other
man. It remains for Colorado to put
into the hands of her women the ballot,
which is tlie symbol of the fact of the
rights of citizenship, and thus attain the
proud distinction of becoming the first
State which carries to entire practical
aud logical sequence the immortal prin
ciples 6et forth by tbe Declaration of
Independence. 5lrs. Campbell was
often interrupted by applause, and at
the close of her address tuere was
abundant demoustration of the pleasure
with which she had been heard.
Then was heard the prelude to "Amer
ica," and, by the way, since we
"adapted" that air bodily from our
British sires' "God Save the King,"
would it not be well for us to "odapt"
also the English custom of standing
during its recital ? As a nation, we are
so much afraid of showing undue rever
ence for anything, that we are likely to
become fixed in the opposite extreme of
giving respectful coguizance to nothing.
What Englishman does not spring to
his feet at the first note of "God Save
tlie Queen ?" Do we revere our country
less than he does his?
Tlie hymn finished, and Professor Ed
wards, of McKeadon College, Illinois,
who, with many students and teachers,
is encamped near Mauitou, made a brief
address. He spoke very warmly of the
high standing that the young women,
in the classes which lie is accustomed to
conduct, have taken during all the years
since McKeadon opened its doors for
their eutrance; and argued irom that
the probable good effect of giving wom
en political as well as educational free
dom. Supplementing this "feast of reason,"
a delightful banquet of strawberries, ice
cream, etc., was served iu Unity Hall
by tho efficient ladies of tho Suffrage
Club.'
At 8 p. jr. ix festival was held on the
lawn surrounding Unity Hall. Toasts,
vocal and instrumental music, and
short, stirring speeches made the even
ing brilliant and interesting. Rocky
Mountain Keivs.
At a recent meeting, in which there
was much religious iuterest, an old man
gave expression to bis joy by shouting,
and continued it until it began to inter
rupt the services. Brother i said
to Brother W , "Go and stop that
old man's noise." He went to him and
spoke a few words, and the shouting
man at once became quiet, xsroiiier
H asked Brother W , "What did
you say to the old man that quieted him
so promptly ?" Brother W replied,
"1 asked him lor a uoiiar ior ioreigu
missions."
A pious hen crawled iuto a Methodist
Church iu Jefferson City, recently, and
laid an egg in the contribution-box.
While the minister was making an
earnest appeal to his congregation for
foreign missions, the heu suddenly left
her nest, and, presenting herself in the
chancel, cackled most energetically,
Tlie deacons discovered the egg when
they went forward to get the boxes.
The pious hen's contribution was
adapted to the domestic rather than the
foreigq field.
The Danube and its tributaries drain
an area of 300,000 square miles. At the
points now occupied by the contending
armies it averages three-fourths of a
mile in width with a three mile current
at low water.
Even if a boy is always whistling "I
want to be an angel," it is just as well
to keep the preserved pears on the top
shelf of the pantry.
Late estimates of tbe losses by the St.
John fire place tbe figures at over;
twenty milllou dollars.