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fo ftp ftottesi - 4 JUts. A. J. D CM WAT, Editor aad Proprltlor 3 FFIOE COK.FBOKT& WASBUT8XSTI!EBT TERMS, IN ADVANCE: Q"TMI-. . .00 1 Tiree meiitbt. -100 ADVERTISEMENTS Inrted on ReasoHaMe lerma. HER LOT OR, Whh Hon- She Protected. By Mrs. A. J. DUNI WAY. AUTHOR OP "JCDtTH KBtD, "KS.I.SS DOWK," "AM IE AND HENRY LJSE," "THE XAPPT HOME," "ONE WOMAN18 BFHBKK," "XADSE MORRISON," ETC, ETC, ETC Entered, seconding to Act of Coagre,in the year 1878, by Mm. A. J. Dantway, In the ofltce of the librarian or CongreM at WMtalngloa City. CHAPTER XXV. Often there was Dot one well woman In the neighborhood to wait upon the Sick ones. At all our gatherings, quilt lug bees, log rollings, and the like, the principal, theme of our conversation when tbe men were out of bearing was the family question; ami no wonder, for certainly it was tbe tbeme tbat most vi tally concerned us. We were not a new-fashioned com munity. We had not learned aught concerning tbe numerous latter-day hy pocrisies tbat have been invented and indulged to bide hymeneal villainies. We believed emphatically and implic itly In tbe command by Moses to wom en to multiply and replenish tbe earth, we also believed with equal ear nestness tbat men were the only portion of the human family wbo were to have dominion, and thereby subdue tbe same terrestrial habitation To this day I do not imagine why or when the division thus universally ac Knowledged by us began. Nor can I explain the reason, if one there be, why woman, who brings forth children in sorrow, should ever have considered It her duty to endure tbe double curse of eating her bread and providing tbe same for ber family in tbe sweat of her face. But it Is very certain that we all did so believe, I, because of my English birth, being much more systematically and constantly devout In tbe theory of obedience than the others. Because my protector entirely ignored his share of our mutual moral responsibility in pro viding for bis family, it was doubly necessary for me to be vigilant. The care of my twins bore heavily upon me. Then Gerald, once my baby, and after a few struggling years a mis shapen and delicate youth, grew more and more into tbe similitude of that despicable Elder Chalmers, both in fea ture and disposition. And then another calamity burst upon me in all Its ap palling horror. Tbe poor boy was also cursed with the Inherited appetite for rum. Never shall I forget my feelings as be was one day brought to me in a perfect stupor of drunkenness, and I realized for tbe first time that tbe dis ease, or sin, of the parent was Indeed upon bim. Poor afllicted boy 1 How I had loved him as he lay in my arms, an Innocent bundle of breathing humanity, when I was far away in Melbourne. How intensified my love bad grown when he became tbe Innocent victim of a fell misfortune tbat marred his beauty and compelled blni to go maimed and halt through a thwarted life. But oh, bow terribly Intense was my devotion to the erring unfortunate when I awoke to tbe awful truth tbat he was not only a cripple, but a sot ! Ah, me! Good reader, spare me. Even now I must shut my eyes as I shudder upon tbe verge of the awful horror that then froze my heart's blood. The dissipation of my eldest born was brier, but terrible. If Gerald, ray hus band, was a scourge when intoxicated, Gerald, my son, was a terror. One day they brought bim borne, not drunk, but dead I He bad been stabbed to the heart in a Bacchanalian revel, from which I had sought In vain to pre vent bis presence. Ah, I little thought in tbe long ago tbat tbe time would ever come when I should look upon the death even tbe tragic death of my erewhlle baby boy -with silent thankfulness. But it did come. Thank God, the likeness to Elder Chalmers died out of his face when the darling was dead. It was as though tbe spirit, ere It left its mortal prison, bad given one expiring gleam of gladness as it neared Its escape from its warped, misshapen tenement Into tbe realm of a liberty tbat carried with it no stamp of unjust aote-natal conditions with which to mar its beauty, and no mark of cruel parental blows to disfigure Its fair pro portions. Very calmly 1 composed tbe death wraps on his crooked form." And I can never tell how dear he was, as through an eye of faith I saw the promise of a future wherein be was to walk in the newness of a life immortal. My heart was wrung, but I sorrowed not as those without hope; and yet I knew the boy had given no outward sign of that re- pentance which my creed declared to be necessary to salvation. "Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such Is tbe kiugdom of heaven," said tbe Man of Sorrows, wbo, like ray own bumble self, was once acquainted with grief. And was not my thwarted and benighted Gerald as a little child because of his infirmities? They laid him away in the tangled ferns of tbe somber wlldwood, and I wandered every day to the spot where they had bidden tbe clay from ray sight forever. ArOLT73XE VII. Now, good reader, do not think me crazy, or imagine I am now or was then a victim of either mental or visual hal lucination. I have said to you tbat I felt thankful when my darling was dead. Once, when I had become so wearied after a hard day's toil as to be scarcely able to drag my tired limbs to the som ber wlldwood, I went, as usual, to the hallowed retreat, resting and almost ceasing to think at all, my dear boy stood before me, as palpably plain as ever I bad seen him in tbe llesb. And his form was as erect as tbe fabled Ap pollo's, his features as perfect as those of tbe famed Adonis, and his face as radiant as a summer's sunrise. "This mortal has put on immortality, mother mine," he said to me, pointing 10 me eariu-mounu w 11 ere me casuei lay, and again indicating tbe glorified representative of his present self, as he smiled in ineffable sweetness. Dear readers, I know I shall be cen sured for telling you this. Some of you will persist in believing, despite my as sertion to tbe contrary, that my intense affection and earnest longiug for my loved oue Induced this vision. Others will know I was mistaken in what I saw, because of certain vague and dis connected prophecies, tbe product of an era tbat tried even more assiduously than tbe present one to stifle free Inves tigation. No matter. I speak only of tbat which I know, and testify only of what I have seen. And, let tbe public verdict be what it may, I am content with the knowledge which that real vis- Ion brought me. From tbat day to tbe present I have patiently awaited tbe appointed time till my change, too, shall come. But, again I fear I am growing gar rulous. I was telling' you about my twlus. But they were not my only chil dren after Gerald and Ethel. I.Ike the other women of our neighborhood of whom I told you, I thought I obeyed tbe divine injunction to the letter. But I often Inwardly rebelled against my lot, and what I inwardly rebelled against because I could not help it, ray daughters in their turn have repudiated openly, because they think it right to do so. I allude to the subjugation of their selfhood in tbe holy domain of sex. Not tbat they refuse to bear tbe sacred obligations of maternity, but each reigns a supreme priestess In the realm of maternal responsibility, and their children and ray grandchildren, though not so numerous as were my own little ones, attest the wisdom of their determination and triumph in superior health, happiness, and men tality. The world doesn't need more children, but better ones. But this idea Is to me a late development of my mental un derstanding, and has oulj served me in my second and third generations. God had mercifully removed Gerald, ray son, to be with the angels, but for some mysterious reason be had left Ger ald, my husband, to be my terror and plague spot. Poor Gerald ! He rarely came home sober after the tragic death of our son, Indeed, be made his grief the excuse for increased potations. The dogs, the children, and the very bouse cats tied at his approach. I only, as his wife, was compelled to stand tbe storm and endure brunt of bis undoing. I remember one time, as I lay In my bed, with one of my tiny unwelcome waifs of a few days old upon ray weary arm, tbat he came borne in the usual maudlin condition and paid open and, as I considered, shameless court to a strapping halfbreed woman whom I had been compelled to employ about our wretched home till I should be again upon ray feet. I did not dare to resent the Insult to my wifely dignity, so I smothered my disgust till I became the victim of a raging fever. While I was half flighty with tbe Intensity of the fever, my hus band hailed a bevy of passing miners, all more or less under tbe influence of liquor, tbe same as himself, and calling them into ourapologyof a sitting-room, bade them wait till he could bring for ward and exhibit bis new heiress. It was raining, and the day was cool, and I was afraid to trust my delicate baby in his unsteady bands. Alas, did I not well remember the fate of Gerald, my boy ? Weak as I was, I raised my will, and the will or a mother aroused for the safety of her offspring is not trifling, be sue ever so weak, and I ordered tbe men r 1. 1 . . iiuiu me uouse anu lor bade my pro tector to remove the babe from the bed. I erbaps tbe latent sense of modesty, sooriety, anu justice was aroused In these men, for they silently withdrew, mountea ttieir Dorses, and rode away Gerald felt that his dignity as head of His own house had been Insulin! have always noticed that tbe lower a man falls in tbe social and moral scale, ..mre ins imaginary dignity rises, , aB,er "e considers himself ..r- fended therein. The coarse Woman I had employed as emporary domestic agreed with my Innl In l.t. .1 . J ..vow ... . uunciauoiw or my de voted head.-and I was already well-nigh crazed with their abuse and lnni,,.- when my husband, who stood at th foot of my bed a frail, rickety thing my own bands had long ago constructed and shaking the bed violently, threw it to tbe ground with a crash. My terrified screams were mingled with tbe shrieks of the frightened cbll PORTLAND, OREGON, THTJBSDAY, dren, wbo rushed frantically upon the fallen structure and struggled to rescue their Infant sister from tbe wreck, wherein I lay as helpless as the babe itself. How I recovered from that cruel shock I really cannot tell. Sometimes I think women possess more than tbe nine lives attributed to domestic cats. My children helped me, aa best they could, to take refuge In another bed, where I lay lor weeks in a weary, en feebled state, from which at last I rose, the mere wreck ol even the miserable hack I had been. Then came another trial. In my English simplicity, I had not deemed It worth my while to pay any attention to such division of our landed domain as would oroould have placed me In meas urably Independent circumstances. Gerald and r owned each tbe half of a square mile of land in fee simple, and it so happened, I suppose because it was my lot, tbat the crude Improvements I bad been able to make were upon that portion which was allotted to my hus band. After a while a cow was missing, and then again another, and I learned that both had been seized by tbe proprietor of tbe village store In payment for rum. Then tbe love for Gerald tbat I had hitherto galvanized into intervals of spasmodic life, in spito of bis cruelty, died out because of tbe threatened abso lute destitution of my children. But again, as I bad a thousand times before asked myself, came up the old question, What shall I do? and whither shall I go from his presence? Had I not repeatedly, when my life was young, and my strength and ambi tion in full play, essayed to steal away from bim and engage In business for myself? And had he not always found roe and broken up my plans? What, theu, could I now do, with a half-dozen children, all girls for Gerald, my son, was not? How was I to keep my fam ily together, except under my roof, which, poor us It was, still offered us an apology for shelter from the storms ? So I redoubled my weak exertions, and managed In every possible way to eke out an Income. To wash and Iron, and cook, and milk, and churn; to make garden, gather berries, dry fruit, and raise cbiokens; to wash dishes, do chamber-work, nurse babies, and bear chil dren, would certainly seem to be work enough for one woman, and could give reasonable excuse for tbe employment of half-a-dozen; but all this work was accomplished dally and weekly, year by year, by my own efforts, and Is being performed to this day by a million of so-called protected wives and mothers in the laud. Yet, In addition to the work above named, which is Indispens able in every farm-house, I did all the plain sewing for men that I could pro cure. I made miners' shirts, drawers, and overalls for good round prices, and sold pies and cold lunches to passing teamsters, thereby earning enough to keep my children fed, clothed, and pro vided with books. As long as my poor home was spared to me, we did not suffer; but one after noon when, after an extremely hard day's work, I was sitting on tbe door step nursing my babe upon the over heated milk that I knew was a slow poison to Its constitution, a bevy of men came over from tbe adjacent town and wandered about the town, while Gerald looked on uneasily. "What In tbe world are those fellows searching for?" I asked, with a strange sense of apprehension, as Inexplicable as unexpected. "What d'ye want to know for?" was the curt reply. I was fo thoroughly accustomed to Gerald's way of addressing me tbat bis answer did not stir a ripple, even of dls gust, In my tired breast. He was lying on a settle outside the door, retting, as was his habit whenever the weather was warm. Indeed, I often envied him the rest he was able to take while I and the little girls were struggling for bread, See," said I. "They're examining the fences and the orchard and the pring and the garden, ami everything. Gerald, what does it mean ?" I added, with my heart In my throat. "I s'pose it means that they wont to see what kind of property they're about to possess," was the careless reply, A pang like the sudden thrust and twist of a poniard darted through my breast, and I gasped for breath. "Gerald, are you proposing to sell tbe home t" I asked, as soon as I could speak, 'My creditors have kindly relieved me of the trouble," be answered, with au oath. "O. Gerald !" "Stop your pussy-cat whining, old woman, or I'll shut up your head with my doubled fist! You needn't 'O, Oer aid' ic" "But are we to have no home al all ?' Wo" with another fearful oath "You've made me what I am by your want of respect, and your general mis conduct. The sheriff has levied on the ranche, and It's to be bidden ofl to-mor row by the meu who are now examin ing their property. Don't be a fool There'll be some way provided. We've never gone hungry yet; though if I only bad the proper sort of a wife I'd not be rr. xnis was another remark I was ac customed to, and so I did not mind It. "But, Gerald, how came you to be so uccy.y involved?" i asked, with my ueiub in my mroat. Free Sr-EEcn, Free Pkess, Free People. "Ask Morse," he answered, alluding to the proprietor of the "store" In the village, where be spent the most of his time and everything else he could com mand for his uses. "O, my God ! Is there nothing I can do tbatwillsaveusashoUer?" I wailed, as I rose to lay aside my baby and pre pare the evening meal for the family, with what zest the reader can jndge. To be continued. "Sir Senators on the "Woman Question." Under ths above bead the editor of Woman's Words, published at Phila delphia, thus comments upon the report of the "commltteo on privileges and elections," Senators Wadlelgh, McMil lan, Ingalls, Merrlman and Salisbury, relative to tbe petition Vor n Sixteenth Amendment. This report we published in our Issue of July 12th, and we trust our readers will read it again and then read the following : Several millions of women in this re public have always been denied the right to assist in making the laws which they are required to obey, are "totally inexperienced in political af fairs," therefore, they coutluue to be de nied this right, but they sbonld become "experienced in political allairs," and equal In wisdom and statesmanship to tbe freed men, Mexicans and Cboctaws. These women "are quite generally de pendent upon men," whom they en dowed with life, brought safely through tbe trying periods of teething, measles, whooping-cough, scarlet fever ami tbe first vote, und for whom they continue to labor, without pay, until their white hairs drop into the grave. Womeu can not, or will not fight, and if they are permitted to take part iu legislation, they may undertake to in stitute a government based upon moral force, In which case they will be mure soundly whipped by their natural pro tectors at the ballot-box than wives of drunken men are at home, and will learn to their cost that this is a govern ment of muscle, and not of brains. If they should persist iu voting under such circumstances, tbe race will be extermi nated. As we do not know tbe wishes of these million of women on this subject, never having given them an oppor tunity to express their opinions in the manner most women would prefer, by a silent vote, we conclude tbat they are inflexibly opposed to it "by a large ma jority," and we propose to protect them from the fearful responsibility of doing what they please about governing them selves, which responsibility so many of their natural rulers "eek to evade." For tbe above reasons It would be ob viously unjust, unwise, and impolitic to grant the prayers of the womeu wbo have petitioned us to recognize their right to self-government. The large number of names presented this session asking for this amendment were pro cured by the Woman Suffrage societies, thoroughly organized, with active and zealous managers, who, being "totally inexperienced iu political affairs," and but it wasu't much of a shower, any way, ami "no evldeuca " or anything In particular. it Is "strongly urgou" mat women are subject to oppression and injustice. Now. everybody knows tbat the strong cannot and do not oppress the weak, that the best way for woman to protect Iter own Interests in. legislation Is to let them alone, and that the "spirit of tbe age," an exclusively raascullue spirit, descending Iu a direct lino from father to son, has been at work Improving tue condition of woman, until we are com pelled to put a check upon It, lest, II more I recti o in is granted tier, her well known aversion to marriage may lead her to attack and destroy the relation to which we have been able thus far to hold her by virtue of our superior mod esty and chastity. -hven now so much favoritism Is shown women In courts that men do not stand any chance, and If women are prepared to administer law but tbat Is alunde. The States ore already grant- ng su II rage to women without any very disastrous results, aud the States which have granted it believe in it more than tbe States which have not. In a free country It would never answer to allow three-fourths or the people to decide any question. The remaining one-fourth might be averse to it. r ror these reasons the committee re ported back the Woman Sullrage reso- utlon with a recommendation tbat It be indefinitely postponed. Vxc-iimsTiAN Names. At the recent commencement of Boston University, there were 1S7 Graduates from the dif ferent schools between 35 and -10 or them women. Tbe catalogue Is aca demic In rorm. It seems absurd to Latinize the names of students. e have become somewhat accustomed to the pranks played with tbe names of hoys, but the absurdity striKes me reader with new force when girls' names become Latinized. Geornius and Arthurus are bad euough; Jtitricus Is not so common a form or 1'atrlcK. une wonders If Samus is the Latin of Sam; but Ludovica Florcnlia Chambcrlayne Pitkin is ouite overpowering. Ger- truda, Jessina, and other names of tbat class are made absurd by the scholastic change, all the more so because they are in company wltu sara, .a una, auu .uar tha, plain names that require no cbangrw There seems to be no more reason in giving a student a Latin name man there wouiu ue in uressiug mm in u . !... ir ft arlftj nr la BilnnfiQPil tn add, to the dignity of the boys, the girls must submit, lor me Bane 01 equal rights and equal wrongs. Mrs. JT. Astor, or New York, Instead or sending bridal presents to her son's wire, choe to give $1,500 to the Chil dren's Aid Society, which was imme diately used to senu one uuiuirea ooys to homes In tbe West, ir Mrs. Snob bery Shoddy anil her rriend, Mrs. Grundy, would adopt this sensible sug gestion or a sensible woman when their daughters marry, there would be more hope ror fashionable weddings than now. As it Is, most or them are mere selfish parades or egotism and roily. . Some one talked of challenging rhnntH'a vote on the ground that he could not write. "Better not," said a friend; "be will band in a specimen of bis penmanship, and then challenge your vote on tbe ground tbat you cannot read." JT3X.Y tZS, 1878. OUE -WASHINGTON LETTEE. lo toe Editor or tue New Northwest : It Is often pleasant to review mem ories of the past where fraught with In terestlng incident, and under such im pulse we visited Lynchburg and Dan ville, Virginia, recently, that we might note the familiar ground of soldier days during and subsequent to the war. Taking a train on our "alphabetical railroad" tho Washington City, Vir ginia Midland aud Great Southern we ran through that portion of Virginia which, during the whole war, was one continued scene of marching and fight ing, and there Is hardly a station be tween hero and Lynchburg but what has many war reminiscences connected with it. At Manassas still appear some of tbe forts and earth-works thrown up la 1S61 and 1862, which, though dis mantled and with broken and crumbled faces and ditches, remind us of severe exhausting marches in the mud aud cold and wet of those winters, and re call, too, tbe Inevitable hard-tack and tough beef meted out to us by the Com missary Department, as well as tbe faces and voices of many comrades of the eleventh corps, who long since spread their silent tents on the eternal camping-ground of the other world. Of those who were spared to life, Schurz is Secretary of the Interior, Devens Attorney-General, Le Duo Commissioner of Agriculture. Slgel is in private walks, makiug, we hope, his mark as brightly as those who are wearing his political honors, and there aro many others who are doing life's duty as bravely aud nobly as when battling for their country with lives pinned to their sleeves for an enemy's bullet to pluck off. We could not help a fervid "Thauk God ! The sword of civil war has been beaten into tbeprunlng-hook of peace." Here, where grim-visaged war had one vast slaughter-pen, the husbandman has reappeared with all tbe parapher nalia of comfort and tranquillity, and tbe contrast between the present indica tions of peace aud amity and the ruin and devastation of war times is simply sublime. Nothing theu was spared. The bullet, the fire, and the soldier's stomach swept out of existence every thing which could be appropriated. A rough board shanty constituted the only building at Manassas at one time when we were there, but now appears a town whose numbers of freshly-painted new bouses almost rouse the question : Was war ever here? Everywhere from Washington to GordonsvlIIe, houses, fences, cattle, sheep, cultivated fields, etc., have supplanted the tent, the cor ral of army wagons and mules, and tbe wastes made by an army, and show us with most undlsputable signs that this afllicted portion of our country Is now entering upon an era of progress and Improvement which will make it event ually oue of tho grandest spots of tbe nation. Wo predict tbat this railroad will ere long be oue of the most favored routes for tourists, becauso every portion of its surroundings will ever figure most prominently In tbe historical annals of our country. Starting from here. It touches old and ancient Alexandria, whoso Washington land-marks will over keep it alive. A few miles west of tbat city it reaches Manassas, and from there to Charlottesville It touches near the great battle-fields of Manassas, Bull Run, Brandy and Brlstow Stations, Ce dar Mountain, near Culpepper Court house, Chantilly, Centreville, etc Every foot of the country has been oc cupied by troops and for warfare, and no one to whom the Rebellion has any in terest can resist tbe inclination, at some time or another, to visit these historical places. It flanks the foot-hills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and touches the great Piedmont region, which, extend lng from the Potomac River down through Virginia, Tennessee and Ala bama, will be eventually the greatest agricultural center or the United States, From near Alexandria to Charlottesville the road runs through an immense plain, as susceptible or Improvement and grain and grass growing, as the fa mous Genesseo Valley of New York State. Grass, the great desideratum of tbe farmer, grows luxuriantly every where. France does not surpass It for wine purposes, while tbe mild winters render stock-growing an easy matter in comparison with the rigorous climate or Northern latitudes. The fine markets of Washington aud Baltimore will always enable the farmer to dispose of his pro ducts, and we know of no place East or West which offers so many Induce ments to tbe immigrant as this Pied mont region. Charlottesville, with its Monticello and University, the legacies of tbe Immortal Jefferson, must ever be a place of resort. Here the Chesepeake and Obio railroad debouches Into the plain from the mountains, and from this point distributes Its immense freights of lumber and minerals north ward and to Richmond. We feel as sured that Alexandria and Washington will yet become, through these inter ests, great shipping-marts, and that from here to Charlottesville will become aa thickly-settled, thrifty and wealthy as tbat between Albany and Buffalo on the New York Central, and that, too, In a very few years. Immigration once turned southward will quickly sleze upon these plains and foot-bills, and en joy their superior ad vantagea of soil and climate. We spent nearly four years among these hilts after tbe war as an army officer, and can bear witness, NtDIBER 45. through such extended personal obser vation, to tbe many attractions and ad' vantages the Piedmont region offers to tho Immigrant and to tbe tourist. We grew attached to its climate, and to the grand sceuery of its mountains and landscapes. It is worth a tourist's trip South to go upon "Collego Hill" at Lynchburg, and look upon the sunset of some fair summer evening. Tho Peaks of Otter, tbe highest mountains south of tho Potomac, will stand out boldly limned against the western horizon be fore blm, and no grander picture can be seen In all tbe country than tbat given by tho sun as ha slowly sinks to rest be tween their peaks. Rough and rugged as Lynchburg Is, owing to its being built upon a steep river bluff, yet it has Its compensation to the traveler in the beauty of its picturesque surroundings, and we commend Its rare scenery to all pleasure-loving tourists. Lauds are cheap all through this region. The best of farms can be bought ror one-hair tbe prices asked prior to the war, and though Impoverished somewhat by slavery, yet they readily respond to the labors or freemen, and no better country can be round in which to make a true home, one surrounded with all the lux uries or fine climate and fruit. Fkux. Washington, D. C, July 5, 1S78. Another Memorial. Tbe following memorial was presented in Senate and House June 15th, by Sen ator Terry and Speaker Randall : To the Senate and Home of Jlepiesenta- tire oj me United States in congress aatembled: Whereas. The acknowledged errors. discrepancies and Incompleteness or the ninlls census render It an unsatisfactory and unreliable record of tbe population. wealth, industry, and physical, mental and moral condition of the American people, and Whereas, Tbe borne, and woman as a house-keeper, have no place in the re port, only the occupations called "gain ful" being noted and over twelve millions of American womeu being overlooked as laborers or producers, or left out in common with those pursuing disreputable employments, and not even incidentally named as In any wise af fecting the causes of increase or decrease of population or wealth, and Whereas, Gross errors iu enumerating tbe births, ages, diseases and deaths of children, are the inevitable result of tbe natural barriers in tbe way of men as collectors of social and vital statistics, who frequently oi.tain inlormallon, in the language of the report, from "fa thers, nurses, servants, and unsympa thetic fellow-boarders," and HVierea. There 19 obvious justice and propriety in the employment of intelli gent women tn collect vital statistics concerning womeu aud children; there- lore. e pray your Honorable body in en acting a law providing for the taking of the tenth census, to make provision for a more carelul enumeration or women as laborers and producers; ror a record of tbe wages of men and women in all occupations; for a record of causes of pauperism, vagrancy, vice, crime, in sanity, idiocy, blindness, deformltv and disease; for tbe enumeration or all men and womeu engaged in disreputable oc cupations; for full statistics concerning all reformatory institutions; and We further pray that you will enact such law or amendments as may be I requisite to secure tbe employment of a fair ratio or suitable women as collect ors of tbe Centennial census. Tricks of Indian Servants. Domestic servants in India occasion ally display an amount of ingenuity in dealing with their employers which would notdlscredittheirEuropean breth ren. A Calcutta paper relates that a khit malgar In tbe employ of a gentleman in tbat city, having completed his month, aud feeling disincliued to remain in the service of his employer, probably be cause he had a better engagement else where, feigned illness and took leave earlier tbau usual. Tbe following morn ing his employer was waited upou by a host of ieople, men and women, who claimed relationship with the dead ser vant, attired themselves as If iu mourn ing, and exhibiting the deepest emo tion, announced, with tears in their eyes, the death from cholera of the un fortunate man, at the same time beg ging the master to pay up his "dues," which were urgently required to defray funeral expenses. The master, sympa thizing with their distress, "aid up," and even offered to meet tbe charges at tending the demise, wiien it was ascer tained that the man reported "dead" was in perfect health, iu good spirits, aud employed elsewhere. The ruse was discovered by oue or tbe native servants observing a woman, relative of the al leged deceased, wearing her ornaments, which, if bis death itad been a fact, she would, according to native rites and ceremonies, be prohibited from using. - The death of Mrs. Sarah Helen Power Whitman, an Americau poetess of some celebrity, has been announced. The de mise occurred at ber native place, Prov idence, Rhode Island, where Mrs. Whit man has resided since 1S33. Her liter ary career commenced nearly hair a ceutury ago. She will be best remem bered from heracqualntance with Edgar Allen Poe, to whom It was understood she was engaged to be married. But Poe entered upon one of his unfortunate drinkiug bouts, and the' lady shrunk from such an alliance. At tbat tim she was a widow, her husband, a lawyer of Boston, having died in 1833. Mrs. Whitman retained a lingering regard ror Poe, and in I860 she published a de reuse or his character and genius in a volume entitled "Edgar Allen Poe and his Critics." Her other l.et books are "Hours of Lire and Other Po ems," and "Fairv Ballads." '? 1S?7V In llle ,ast named she was as- eioieu oy uer sister, Annie Marsh tc j "Ultmn was born In lovj auu marneu in lKia. xuo L-uuor oi a country newspaper gives his opinion of a rival thus: "We hope we-sball not be called upon again to crush the crawling mass of poisonous vituperation." A JonrnaUerthePeople. Uevotad to tfae iDtaraatsof Humaaliy iBUepwiiIeiit la rolltlea and Religion. Alive to all Live Issue, and Thoroughly Hadteal In OppotlngandKiposlngthcTVrongs ot the Maasee. Correspondents writing over aaonmed signa ture muii make known their names to the Editor, or no attention will be given to Ibelr communication. PBONTIEE SKETCHES. NO. 8. BT X. o. S. BKDKA. About a montii after the departure of the luckless Bogg, a Creole trader ar rived at tbe village, bringing with him a number or horses aud a gaily-bedecked squaw, the former heavily laden with goods, nis selection attested his expe rience iu that hazardous vocation, for by rar the larger portion of his invoice was calculated to gratify tbe whims, rather than supply the wants of the proud sons and daughters or nature. In fact, with the exception or a few dosen knives aud half as many hateuete, be brought but little that this Interesting people really needed, yet his advent was hailed by old and young as an event marking a prominent epoch in their history. All their hoarded pelts were eagerly brought out to exchange for bright-colored cloth, cheap beads and pinchbeck jewelry, at a rate to have ex cited an Astor to the highest possible pitch. I had now enjoyed tht3 genuine hospitality of the Tabeau family for nearly two months, and, determining to avail myself of the opportunity of ac companying the trader on his return to tbe settlements, I thought of expressing my gratitude to tbe Tabeaus by making some or its representatives appropriate presents. I accordingly invited the two daughters to walk over with me to where the tempting display was on ex hibition, there to select, each for her- self, a souvenir or my gratitude and munificence. I had previously arranged with the peripatetic knight of the yard stick tbat he was to become owner iu fee of ray notorious cur, to which his squaw bad taken a peeuliar liking, in consideration of allowing these two ryoung'ladies to choose each any article that her judgment or caprice might dic tate. Aud now I saw exemplified the fact that "blood will tell;" for, Instead of yielding to tbe passion for personal adornment that is universally displayed by the full-cast Indian belle, one of them chose a butcher-knife, and the other a hatchet. What other articles could they have chosen to so perfectly symbolize their half-way position be tween civilization and herbalism? But tbe time was approaching when I must bid adieu to my kind eutertaln ers and again attempt tbe unfrequented wilderness, and the nearer it came, the less I felt inclined to do so. The wild, unrestrained freedom or savage life had begun to develop charms to my ardent nature tbat I bad not dreamed of before, aud only ror a pair of blue eyes near tbe shore or Lake Erie, that had followed me like guardian angels wherever I bad wandered, lam not certain that I should not have resigned myself cheerfully to a home with this family, fori bad never seen a home where all, except tbe pa ternal head, seemed so contented and completely care-free prior to my mak ing known my intention or leaving them, to return, perhaps no more. Since then, alas! tbe deep-drawn sigh oft chased away tbe merry ringing laugh, and I saw tbat trouble Is the common lot of all mankind. When I say that Lucille she or the baUjhet took my leaving most toheart, thetheme will require no rurther elucidation. Tbe reader will not wonder if I state that by this time my wardrobe was sadly in need of repairs. But the femi nine part of the Tabeau household were equal to the emergency, for they went to worK wltu n will, and the evening before my departure they presented mo with an outfit of a character not only to assure ray comfort, but to attract atten tion to rae rrom all eyes, whether civil ized or savage. My pants were made or red calico, my Mlled aud ruilled shirt of yellow, wlille moccasins of the most exquisite workmanship enveloped my feet. But the most beautiful part of my dress as ray headed ami fringed tobacco-pouch, without which no mountain man is thought presentable. It attested the patient industry and studied skill of poor Lucille, and was given me by that artlees maiden "with eyes that spoke, with lips that moved not." On it she had traced with silk and lieads the significant words: "II vaul mieux aimer personne que vous ne pourrez jamais espouser, que d'espouser une pertonneque vous ne pourrez jamais atmer." i,ti is better lo love a person whom you cannot marry, than to marry one whom you can never love.) I gave them the parting hand reluctantly, shall I say aud four weeks thereafter reached the frontier settlements of Ar kansas, where I parted with my Creole friend, tbe trader, and at the same time the interestiug features of my deg were forever lost to my view. I hastened to St. Louis, took steamboat for Clnnln. natl, thence by stage-coaoh home to Norwalk, where I learned tbat the angel I was so eager to meet and to greet in my dashing costume had given me up for dead, and had al reedy applied the balm of matrimony to her wounded heart, (THE END. At a receut experience meeting, a female convert explained how reliislo" airected her. "I kuew when I wassanc tilled," said she, "by this. I made my own dresses, aud, when they dWo't us to fit, I got into a rage and geoWed anti stormed. Now that ugly fre"K is a" taken away, and I could try on my dresses ten limes over lo mke tIlem and never get out of patience. My .. .....ft... (mar " ureturen, tuai-s m AsDrlcof hea7t'a ease will take root under the right conditions, but, very few people cultivate IU