-MARCH 20, 1S79.
SENSIBLE.
Judge Morrison, in giving bis opinion
previous to issuing a writ requiring tbe
trustees of tbe Hastings law school to
admit women as students, said:
There are, perhaps, many things connected
with cases which would dirgest a woman, bat
tbe court has liolhlnr. to do with that. It t
u QVienl for tbe court that the lecMAHtre nu
thorizes women lo practice law. That act wm
pending In the legislature at the time when
tbe act to establish the Hasting (Jot lege of
I -aw wan alao 1 tending. It Is not lor this court
to Inquire into tbe poller of tueh legislation.
At the session of Congress Just cloved, a law
wan pafcfd authorising women U practice law.
and the telegraph Inform u that Mrs. Lock-
wood has been admitted to the Untied state
Supreme fault. The new Slate cohsIIIhIIou
wblrh la to be submitted to tbe people for rati-
Deation, contains a clause that no person on
account of sex shall be disqualified from enter
ing any profession or occupation. The pre!
dent of the convention, J. P. Iloge. and one of
the delegates, 8. M. Wilson, are defendant In
this action. And tills convention says tliat
women ought to have the same htclltUee to
practice law that men possess. It seeing to be
the Intention of tbe law to put women on the
same footing in this respect as men. It H un
necessary to discuss the Influence women
would have ever college student.
This is tbe exact basis upon which
eveiy decision involving the rights of
any class of citizeus should rest. A
discussion of the expediency of any un
tried measure, from whatever stand
point, is at best built upon grounds
purely imaginary. Thus, to soy that
the admission of women to the practice
of law will work specialties, either good
or bed, is presumptuous and visionary,
and should have no weight as to
whether tbey be allowed to enter and
earn their livelihood in an honorable
profession. Justice, not expediency,
should be the watchword in all matters,
as it is reasonably sure that tbe former,
if allowed sway, would control the lat
ter. They tell us, as did Judge Ryan of
"Wisconsin, when denying the applica
tion of Miss Lavina Qoodell to practice
in tbe Supreme Court in that State, that
tbe practice of law will tend to render
woman all that is eoarse and unwom
anly; that it will militate against her
highest social and domestic good, etc.,
etc. How much more sensible to dis
pose of all this as did Judge Morrison by 1
saying, "it Is not for the court to in
quire into tbe policy of such legislation;
it Is sufficient to know that the legisla
ture authorities women to practice law."
Tbe question of expediency, together
with all social questions, will settle it
self, and men act the part of wisdom
wbo recognize the fact that women will
ehoote for themselves as to what they
can compass, and as to whether It is
womanly for them to follow the lead
of tbeir talents In any pursuit. Itseems
almost strange to contemplate the day!
when women will act tbeir part in life
unchallenged by men, even as men now
aet their part unchallenged by women,
concerning the expediency of doing
what they are able, willing and anxious
to do honorably and according to the
dietates of tbeir own conscience, or
urged by the spur of their own necessi
ties. Yet the day is dawning, and each
triumph like tbe one recently accorded
to Mrs. Poltz and Mrs. Gordon In Cali
fornia, and Mrs. Lockwood in the Con.
gress of tbe United States, greatly has
tens its approach. To the faithful
watchers upon tbe tower of liberty tbe
roseate hue of the early morning even
now appears, gilding humanity with its
soft radiance. Tbe opportunity to "prove
all things and bold fast to that which Is
good" will put the chimeras of preju
dice to flight, and to the peremptory
challenge, "Watehman, what of the
flight?" will oome the exultant answer,
"Heboid, the nlgbt is vanished; tbe day
is broke whieb never more shall close,
tbe day of universal liberty."
A EEMEDT.
The vast difference between modern
temples of worship and tbe lirst
temples employed, ere man learned
To new the shaft and lay the architrave.
And spread the roof above them,"
Is every year more noticeable. Tbe
CltriatktH Standard accounts for tbe re
luctance of men to connect themselves
with religious organizations by tbe fact
that religion in these days is made "too
expensive." Many are unable to bear
their proportion of the heavy church
running expenses, and they are unwill
ing to occupy free seats and be known
as "pious paupers;" so they remain at
home waiting for tbe time which seems
further off each year, when respectable
religion will be less costly. 'While we
do not advocate tbe doctrine of going
baek to tbe time of tbe disciples in re
ligious observances and customs, we do
believe that a less ostentations religion
in outward farms and surroundings
would cause Its votaries to partake in a
far greater degree of the spirit of tbe
Master and lead them more readily to
conform to tbe simplicity and earnest
ness that characterized his life. The
taxation of ehurch property would tend
toward greater simplicity and lessen the
denominational pride which erects
oostly and magnificent temples of wor
ship that exelude God's poor from the
sanctuary and foster arrogance and ex
oluelveneas in those qf whom It was
sold, "It Is easier for a camel to go
through tbe eye of a needle" than for
them to enter the kingdom of heaven.
We therefore believe that churches be
yond a certain value should be taxed
equally with other property, beiuK
nothing more nor less than oostly plies
erected to sectarian pride, which luxury
it is right and proper should be paid
for to help defray tbe expenses of crime
that an aristocratic religion creates by
boldlug itself so far aloof from the toll
ing masses, that It falls as a preventive.
Among tbe convicts In San Quentin,
are one hundred and three boye under
nineteen years of age, a yoathful army
of criminals wbo are doing penance for
the sins of generations gone before them
THURSDAY-
EDITOBIAL 00EEE5P0NDENOE. 1
Dsab Kkadrxsok the Nkw Nokthwest:
It Is now nearly six mouths since you
heard from us In Salem. But here we
are again, at last, to And the city of
churches still enduring tbe reign do, !
rninof To.,11..,- 1M. .,.!.,
... w. aiiiitugii ,i,d
sceptre Is slowly departing, and iu his
stead King Sol comes steadily marching
to the mid-heaven, his heralds the low
ing kine and springing grass and sing
ing birds and romping children, his
maids of honor, the yellow dallodils,
the modest blue-bottle, and timid yet
presuming crocus.
As the train went coursing through
the valley on its way to Salem, it was
everywhere apparent that the water
god had not been balked in bis deter
mination to "die game." From Rwt
Portland to Aurora, from Aurora tofier
vuls, from tiervais to Salem, tbe valley
was inundated. The 'Willamette., the
Claekauias, the Molulla and Mill Creek
were all "high," by which expression
we beg to be understood to mean, on a
tpree. And iu a sad plight they were,
too. Bedraggled and muddy and slab
bering, quite unlike the tasty, well-kept
clear-eyed beauties they were lost sum
tner, when tbe hems of their green and
trailing robes were scalloped with peb
bles and embroidered with ferus and
flowers, and caught up here and there
with dogwood sprays and snowy brier
blooms, displaying underskirts of gray,
trimmed with moss and lichens. As we
watched their swollen torreuts as tbey
went moaning through the sodden
vales, we could not but liken them to
tbe poor human sots we sometimes
meet, who, having reveled to repletion
in Bacchanalian riots, can only endure
tbe evil consequences of tbeir over-indulgence
when the orgte has reached its
climax. And the valleys upon which
they have Intruded remind us, too, of
tbe long-suflerlng families of these hu
man sots, who are always made the in
nocent victims of rum's high carnival
And then, we muse and wonder much
at the analogy between things anl
mate and inanlnate. Is any living
thing inanimate? And can anything
be animate and be devoid of sensation ?
Reason only answers, "Who can tell ?"
We are cut short In these reveries, first
by a dinner at Aurora, and afterward
by conversation with friends, upon top
ics so widely at variance with our writ
ten cogitations that these same friends
will marvel when they read these pages.
We are surprised when Salem is
reached. Tbe way has seemed short, h
mentally busy have we been; but that
Chemeketa 'bus will startle the poesy
out of the most astute theorizer extant
If he embarks in it In the darkness and
goes bumping over the gravel roads, In
hearing of the roaring waters, toward the
distant settlements. We tbluk a nar
row-gauge railroad from the station to
Salem would be a paying investment
for somebody, and we hereby modestly
petition the present extra sessiou of
Congress to makeau approptatlon for the
purpose, and thereby do bo me good for
tbeir country.
Found our goo friend Matthews, of
the justly-famous Chemeketa hotel,
confined to his rooms by rheumatism,
but the capable landlady and well-
trained help keep everything going like
oloek-work. Here we encounter many !
friends, and spend a few days in a busy
round of receiving and returning calls,
in which business and pleasure are
agreeably Intermingled. Bright Mrs.
Mallory, earnest Mrs. Roork, logical
Mrs. Strong, practical Mrs. Ream, genial
Mrs. Reed, business-like Mrs. Ramp,
poetical Mrs. Cooke, and witty Mrs.
Minto are among the foremost of the
many co-workers whom we nre enabled
to meet in tbe short time at our dis
posal. How much the kindly sympa
thy of noble women and their evident
appreciation ol our bumble endeavors
cheer us on our arduous mission
they may never know, but tbe angels
know and will reward them bye-aud-bye.
Kot that we would underrate the
assistance and friendship of grand and
noble men. Very many of our best and
stanchest friends are gentlemen, with
out whose aid and countenance the pros
ecution of our public work would never
have been possible. If we did not re
vere and honor uouie mannooti, He
should feel abashed in the presence of
honorable men. But it Is woman's
work we are doing, and women who
ought to have known better have so of
ten disparaged our efforts, and are eveu
yet sometimes guilty of attempting It,
that we are especially glad when ladies
brave the odium of all the Grundys In
tbe land and stand proudly by the ban
ner of liberty that was planted on the
great Northwest amid so much opposi
tion and has been held aloft for so many
years through so much difficulty.
Women throughout tbe State are
considering their property rights with
a great deal of awakened and growing
Interest. Tbey are Just beginning to
comprehend the importance of the uew
school law, and thousands who never
before cared to consider themselves
property-holders are eagerly asking the
way to be financially saved. Although
a comnarauveiv siuuu nuiuuer ui
,, i . r
avowed Woman Suffragists voted at tbe
late school meetings, many who bad
never expressed a favorable opinion on
the subject availed themselves of the
franchise. And this spirit will grow
and its votaries will multiply quite rap
idly enough for the public good. Man's
rights doctrine, which dies so bard, is
dying surely and not very slowly.
We have uever yet been to Silverton,
and we've planned to go perhaps fifty
times; but now we're off. Tbe
stage is a common covered cor
ryall, drawu by two patient plugs, hold
well In hand by a young, but capable
and obliging Jehu, wbo guides them
deftly over the muddy and uneven road,
anu kinuiy gives us the names of tbe
many farmers along the route whose
mall matter be drops at their diors, and
whose little relays of dry goods, hard
ware and groceries he regularly brings
them from tbe city, thereby constitute
ing himself a sort of aettHnniodatlon
train with facilities superior to tbe pro
posed "narrow-gauge' for whloli the
people are alamorlng.
Salem prairie is left behind at last,
a'"' tnen a skirt of timber with break-
neoK 11 CUW3V IB eUCOUUierwi. IUB
pass In safety, iu spite of roots and ruts,
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and emerge Into Howell prairie, one of
the most beautiful or the many grandly
beautiful farming districts iu this far
famed Willnmette Valley. Wheat
fields to the right and left of us, mead
ows on all side, farm-houses, bums and
orchard!) In everjvdlrectlon, ami berry
patches and vineyards at intervals make
monotony impossible. At last, when
within six miles of Silverton, ne reach
tbe beautiful farm of Mrs. M. A. Cllne,
where a sudden change In our pro
gramme occurs, ami we stop lor lue
night, being attracted as much by the
getiiul friends to our mission whom we
know we will encounter as by the sym
pathy weleel for the struggling posses-
sor of these broad acres, who is endur
ing the throes of a law-suit, in which,
of course, her arbriters are all men. A
number of years ago, her mother, then
in good health, and we doubt not of
sound mind, made her will, taking the
precaution to have her sanity tested by
medical experts, and bequeathed to
Mrs. Clitic tills farm, and divers and
sundry other properties, to have and
hold to her heirs nud assignees forever,
This action excited the cupidity of the
old lady's son, who has ever sinee been
struggling to dispossess his slater of the
legacy. The matter Is soon to lie de
cided in the Supreme Court, and though
no fair-minded person doubts but that
Mrs. Cllne will be victorious, yet the
worry and suspense have toW upon her
quite sevetely. The fact that the will
was made by a woman and in favor of
a woman, was no doubt the primal
cause of the litigation, the member of
the protecting sex' who was not favored
by the testator, though rich from his
father's legacy, not being content that
his erewhlle Impoverished sister should
receive equal favors with himself. Itut
judges anil jurors are fast learning to re
spect the inalienable properly rights of
the taxed and unrepresented classes,
and there is fur more hope of Justice for
them now than formerly.
We did not stop over at this place ex
pecting to lecture, but, as usual, there
was a demand for the gosjiel of liberty,
so it was soon arranged that we should
speak on Sunday upon "Everyday Re
ligion." Rut there was one great draw
back shown as the astrologers say.
Thecommunlty bad built a school-house
some time ago, and turned It ever to
trustees who have all along kept It
locked of Sundays and evenings to pro
tect It, as they say, from the mud and
tobacco juice of tbe men. Rut the re
cent advent of women voters in the dis
trict had roused the people to a deter
mination to open the house for children
of a larger growth; and Mrs. Cllne caused
our appointment to lie circulated. At
the hour designated, the neighbors as
sembled on the school-house steps and
7 '. . 1 . V . 1
with the key. so we stood on the steps
- I. Xnl'M.s U. I Haas n.asAB
aud did the speaking, the audience
which had built- the school-house sit
ting on the fence and looking in crest
fallen helplessness at lis locked entrance.
The lecture, with the Golden Rule ft9
text, was not wanting In material for
illustration, and the Interest was so
great that we decided to areept the invi
tation of Mrs. Wood worth and remain
over on Monday evening and address
the citizens at her farm-house upon the
woman question. This decision has de
layed our visit to Silverton for yet
aunther day, so this letter hnib from
Howell Prairie. A J. I).
March 17, 1&79.
A SPEOIMENSUQAE PLUM.
Willie restricting women iu their
property rights, or defrauding them by
keeping the earnings of a lifetime in
the names and subject to tbe alisolute
control of others, it seems to have been a
policy tacitly adopted to throw to them
an occasional sugar plum to silence
questioning or beget gratitude. The fol
lowing is a fair speeimeu of the attract
ive ingredients which compose a sugar
plum of this kind: 'Three-fourths of
the successful men of the day owe much
oftffer prosperity to a wife's help. The
load ol life is so heavy that It takes a
team of two to draw it. Tbe ship not
only wants a captain but a first male."
Now, this statement, borne by tlio
white wings of tbe press, has traversed
again and again an entire continent, Its
truth unchallenged; aud yet all the
time the injustice of practice as com
pared with the facts it sets forth has
been passed by in silence. How many
wives are known to each of us who,
after a long life of labor, economy and
self-denial have found themselves wid
ows wi thout a dollar's worth nf theestat e
they have helped to make within their
control? Compliment may satisfy the
unthinking, aud appreciation is well, but
sensible and independent women prefer
justice In property matters to the ful
some expression of the one or the pa
tronizing laudations of the other. It is
plain to all lovers of equity that tbe ac
cumulations of the matrimonial firm
should belong equally to both parties
thereto, during the life of both, and ex
clusively, without legal intervention, to
the survivor upon the death of either
trusting to parental instinct aud anxiety
to care properly for the offspring of the
marriage uulil able to care for them
selves. That fathers are so trusted and
a Judicial guard set over mothers In like
circumstances is an outrage upon wom
anhood that no laudations concerning
"helpmeets'' can adequately compen
sate. Sugar plums may satisfy fretful
childron, sick men aud weak women,
but tbe men and women who bear the
brunt of life's battlq demand moro
wholesome and substantial food.
The London Quern says that the de
mand of the times is women wbp catM
teach women.
eXeoution of beowh and John
son.
Xot withstanding many of our citizens
had hoped otherwise, the condemued
murderers, Johnson and Brown, were
executed on Friday last. Theirs was a
sotnowbat peculiar case. On tbe 20th
day of August last they entered a busi
ness house in this city iu broad day
light, and dealing the proprietor a stun
nlng blow with an Iron bar, effected
tbeir escape from the premises currying
with them n considerable sum In money
and jewelry. Being hotly pressed, they
turned, and firing at au officer, the ball
glanced and instantly killed another
person. They were at length arrested,
one of them but a few miles below the
city, the other In Los Angelos, Col.,
tried iu the Circuit- Court and found
guilty nf murder in the first degree-
having taken life In the commission of
another felony and sentenced by Judge
Bellinger to bu hanged on the 14th day
of February. They appealed on error .o
the Supreme Court, claiming that the
robbery was oonsummatedoforc the kill-
lug, aud lienco they were not answerable
to the sectlou of the statute under whloh
they were couvlcted. But on the 20th
day of January the Supremo Court
liasswd upon the appeal, affirming the
judgment and proceeding of the court
bolow. Governor Thayer thou granted
them a res idle, until the 11th day of
March following. This in brief is the
history of one of the most daring crimes,
and the termination of the most re
markable and ably conducted criminal
trials that has ever occurred in the State.
Whether from a growing sentiment
iu opposition to capital punishment, a
want of correct understanding of the
degree of the prisoners' crime, from sy m
patliy with them on account of their
extreme youth, or from all these con
slderattous, many of our good citizeus
from the time that the decision of the
Supreme Court was published up to al
most the last moment, put forth ear
nest ellorts to procure from the Gov
ernor a commutation ol llie sentence to
ouc of life imprisonment. But His Ex
cellency was inflexible, and at no time
gave any encouragement that he would
interfere, aud finally on the morning of
the fatal day, telegraphed to Sheriff
Xorden to proceed with the execuliou
The writer had visited aud couversed
with the prisoners since their coudem
nation, and although by no means con
vinced that the world had attained the
stage of progress where the death pen
ally could be bafely abolished, deeply
sympathized with them in tbeir great
trouble, aud should have found no fault
had the executive Interposed his author
ity In behalf of one of them at least, but
I doubt not that It is better ns it is. For
young as they were In years, they were
both old In crime, and were living ex
amplrs of the terrible truth that, how
ever designed, immuremeut iu our pen
itetitiarles lias little tendency to reform
bad men.
The fatal day dawned, however, ami
the necessary preparations being com
lileted, the doomed men were led to the
scaflold and furnished seats on the plat
, ,.,., ,
foirn. Johnson, who had maintained a
genteel demeanor all through his tiial
ami Incarceration, looked haggard ami
seemed burled iu thought, but his com
panion in crime sat with bead erect and
gazed boldly arouud, his iuperturable
features displaying loss coucern than
the faces of the sherill" and the specta
tors. The Jerking of the former's fsce
told plainly of tho terrible storm that
was sweeping Ills heart, while the lat
ter acted as though anxious to earn
posthumous fame by dying game.
He had probably worshiped the I in
probable criminal heroes created by
Hush writers uulil his chief ambition
was to win a name in the same immor
tal niche! Think of a man singin
t-ongs replete with slang, and boastiugly
telllnir of his fearlessness iu crime.
even while the swiftly-advancing shad
ows of death were thickening arouud
liim! Think of the depravity of litm
who could, while standing face to face
with his maker, prefer au unjust charge
agalust a fellow-couviot, or challenge
listener lo a contest with knife or pistol
Such was Archie Brown
But Is it not the duty of good people
everywhere to frown on all attempts
to immortalize criminals or glorify
crime? Should a man who during hi
lifetime tramples on all law, human aud
divine, be apotheosized only because h
was made to expiate his crimes with
his life? No, no! We may sympathize
with their heart-broken parents and
friends, anil let fall the tear over the
terrible and disgraceful death they have
suffered, but we owe it to ourselves as
law-abiding citizens, we owe it to the
rising generation to reprobate every at
tempt to honor criminals or to laud
crime. A. F. J.
PAST ALLDISH0N0E.
Ou Saturday afternoon the remains of
the executed criminals, Brown and
Johnson, were laid to rest In the green
bosom of Lone Fir Cemetery. "The
warrant has been executed," and the
two misguided ami unhappy men, "past
all dishonor," sleep not less peacefully
that the awful shadow of the gallows
falls athwart their graves. Let the si
lence or death, sacred and unbroken,
set its eternal seal upon the frailties
that caused them to sutler the full ex
tent of human penalty for violated law.
Mrs. Charles Brook, who died re
cently 'iu Lancastershlre, gave the
Church of Eugland duriug her lifetime
not less than 5700,000. Had this sum
been Judiciously expended for the bene
fit of the poor of her own sex, what a
vast amount of crime and suiterlng
would have been prevented, which the
pampered clergy piously groaned over
In public and Ignored In private.
The highest rauk of esteem a woman
can give to a man Is to ask for his
friendship, and the most signal proof or
herludiirercDce Is to ollerhlm hers.
GOEDIAL RESF0NSE3.
rhoogh somewhat out ofdate. we meaent the
Mlowtac letters to our readers, showing the
sentiment upon the womanousstloa cherished
by tome or the ftmuHMtnaenorourState. Did
our suae permit, we might greatly add lo the
list.
On receiptof iuvitatlou to address the
O. S. W. S. A., there was some pros
pect that I might be able to respond af
firmatively. Waiting to determine this
explains my delay Iu answering the
courteous note of the committee. I
find it quite impracticable, however,
to attend any meeting of the Associa
tion. Other engagements are impera
tive, and absoiliall the time and thought
t my command.
Sincerely yours In the cause of human
rights and human progress,
A. U I.tNiwr.EY.
Portland, February 12, 1S70.
I have to Hekuowledee the receiptor
an Invitation to be pre-eut at a eiiuveu
thin or the Oregon State Woman Suf
frage Association to be held at Masonic
Hall, iu this city, on the 11th ami 12th
of Fubruary.
It uill not be convenient for me to be
present at said convention, but lean as
sure you of my hearty sympathy with
auy movement having fur its object a
guarantee to women equal rights with
all other citizens, particularly the right
to participate In the selection of those
who are to make laws which govern
them. J. C. AiNswoRTir.
Portland, February 1, 1S79.
Your kind favor of theoth was brought
to me while upon a sick-bed, where I
was confined for nearly a week, and I
thereforeembrace the first hour possible
to reply. At this late day aud In my
feeble health, I can only thank you for
your kind invitation to be present to
morrow. I regret it very much, for to
tell you the truth I am brim full with
speech upon the "right of woman,"
which I should like to Indict upon some
unfortunate audience.
More seriously, the "rights of man'
has been the war cry of reformation and
or progress, ami has enlisted the noblest
faculties and utterances of all the dis
tinguished reformers and statesmen or
modern times. A halo of glory sur
rounds tiie name aud the monument o
llHk-e who have led the van in the great
woik of redeeming man from oppression
and wrong. Rut only iu a reflected
manner have the burdens of woman
lieeu ineideiitly lightened. No direct
onslaught has been made to recognize
by law the God-given ami natural rights
nf woman. By law she Is still treated
as au Infant or a protege of man and
not as his true yoke-fellow aud equal.
Let wisdom and truth and "sound
speech that cannot be gainsay ed" char
acterize tbe preeeut reformation, aud all
the Ignorant and corrupt men of the
land cannot prevail agalust it, though
their sneers aud stealthy thrusts you
may most surely expect. I regret
much my Inability to lie present, but
shall ever remain the truest friend of
woman and her rights, ol which f shall
always be proud to be au advocate.
Yours kindly,
S. C. Adams.
Salem, February 10, 1S79.
We are in receipt of your polite note
inviting us to lie preeeut ami wuiiclKite
iu the proceeding of your State Con
vention, soon to be held iu the city of
Portland.
Let us assure you that il would afford
us great pleasure, should It be conven
ient for us to aocept it, anil lot assured
whether present or absent that you have
our beet wishes for Ilia buoct-iM of the
cause. As heretofore, you can rely upon
us to aid and nssist as much as in us lies,
every ellort to pub forward to ultimate
triumph this most glorious work. We
have watched the ouwnrd progress of
events with anxious hearts ami almost
bated breath, uulil we have witnessed
what was at lirst only a little rivulet
like a sliver thread on the mountain
side, gathering strength as it flowed
along, until it has heoume, as it were, a
mighty river, moving onward with re
sistless force to mingle and In-come one
in the great oeeau or human right.
Fear not, then, for our cause is just
aud will triumph at last, although the
rubbish nf Ignorance and selfishness
may Impede its progress aud delay the
long looked for day. It will surely
come, when equal rights will prevail and
equal laws adorn our statute books
with a halo of glory, while the great
prlnolplenf the equality of human rights
will dwell in the hearts of the American
people. With high regard, we remain
Sincerely yours,
MiC Mrs. C. A. Rkbd.
Salem, February 2, 1S79.
A dispatch dated Walla Walla, March
18th, says: "Governor Ferry and General
Howard will be passengers down by the
"Annie Faxon" in the morning to The
Dalles, where they will meet Chief
Moses In company with Captain Win
ters, from Slmcoe reservation. Moses
was captured a few days ago and arrested
by the sheriff. Bond was required and
given, and "Moses Is now en route to
Vancouver, rrom whence the start tor
Washington will be made byMajorCor
noyer and his dusky chleftalus. It is
thought by General Howard that Smo-
holla, the most restless and influential,
and consequently the most duugereus
Indian on tlieermst, is In company with
Moses. Tile General and Governor both
reel confident that this action on the
part of Moses and other chiefs virtually
ends all probabilities of Indian hostili
ties the coming summer.
The question was once asked of a
slave-holder: "Would you be willing
to be a slave?" He looked surprised
and answered: "ir I were a nigger I
wouldn't cre." So in the matter or
suffrage men think, "If I were a woman
I should not care."
Logic, as every one
will at once perceive.
A Montana itemlzer says: "When one
looks at tbe preponderence of note lu
the House, he will not wonder that the
'ayes' seldom 'have it.'"
EE0ENTE7EKTS.
A snow-storm of seven hours duration
prevailed at St. Louis on the 17lh.
The Chicago rauteh factory was burned
on the night of the 17th. Loss, $15,000.
A furious -sleet and snow-storm pre
vailed at Louisville, Ky., oil Sunday and
Monday.
A rain which left a yellow deposit re
sembling sulphur fell at Reading, Pa.,
on Monday.
The eighth anniversary of the revolu
tion of March 18th was celebrated at
New York with communist demonstra
tions. The funeral of lUyrtrd Taylor took
place on the 15th. Tile remains were
deposited witll becoming pnmpat Long-
wood.
A convention of prominent Ilebrevs
is called to meet In New Yoi;k, July 7tb,
to consider means for an exlenslve col
onization cheme.
The will of the late Asa Otis makes
the Board of CorumieMouers of foreign
missions residuary legatee of bequests,
amounting to nearly $750,000, half a
million goiug to foreign missions.
hill puulshing tramps upon con
viction with six months in the peniten
tiary passed the Uew York assembly on
Friday. It wns modeled after the New
Hampshire law whloh rid that State of
tramps.
Congressman Whlteaker made the
. . . .. ...
mstest time on recorti ueiween ban
Francisco and Washington. He sped
from Omaha to Chicago, a distance of
five hundred miles, In twelve and a half
hours.
In a caucus or Republican Congress
men, ou the 17th, it was resolved that in
the sense or the same no legislation shall
be entered upon duriug the special ses
sion other than that ror which it was
specifically called.
The World tells of a tenement-booee
In New York City iu which seventy-five
people are so densly packed that the av
erage spiee allotted to a whole family
Is ten feet by eleven, and the average
saee for the same to sleep is eight feet
by ten.
Msjor-Geueral Thomas F. Sherman
diet! at Newpotf, R. L, on the 18th, of
pneumonia. His wife died a few days
previous, of consumption. He was a
brother of General W. T. Sherman, and
had been, at his own request, on the re
tired list sinee 1878.
Congressman Whlteaker passed rap
idly by special train from San Frauciseo
to Washington last week, arrived there
on Monday morning. The run Trom
Omaha was made in quick time. From
Burlington to CJalesburg, forty-three
miles per hour was made, ami at other
places on the Illinois division a mile a
minute was made.
Rumor says negotiations far a modifi
cation of tue iiurlingame treaty are
making such uuexpeetedly rapid pro
gress that tbe President will probably
be able to send to the Senate, during the
extra session, a protocol of a revised
treaty with China which he thinks will
meet the reasonable desires of tbe en
lightened eitlsens or the eon o try at large,
though it may fall short of the demand
of the Paeiflc Coast sentiment. The re
port, which cannot be verified, is prob
ably premature.
r0EEIGN NEWS.
Bismarck denies that he Intends to
dissolve tbe German parliament shortly.
The damage at, Szegedin, the inun
dated city of Hungary, is placed at XI,
500,000. The position nf Knrnpeaus in British
Burmah is regarded us critical in the
extreme.
The latest instructions sent to Mukhtar
Pasha authorise him to offer Greece
half the territory she claims.
Reinforcements are anxioosly awaited
at Cajie Town. There are symptoms of
uatlve hostility in all directions.
The Cambridge University boat erew,
to compete with Oxford iu the annual
race, has begun practice on theTbames.
At Belfast, ou tlte 17th, the police were
stoned while trying to prevent Interna
tionalists from entering prohibited ill -
trtcts. Several officers were Injured,
ami the procession fired on.
The Portugese explorer, Pinto, has ar
rived at Pretonia, South Africa, with but
eighty followers, all who remain of -100
with whom he set out. He was obliged
to fight his way through native tribes.
The waters atSaegedin are slowly re
ceding. Two thousand ieople, at the
lowest estimate, were drowned. Sixteen
thousand horses and cattle and ninety
thousand sheep have been lost. Har
rowing cases of individual distress are
reported.
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"Poor Whitesand WMsky.
We clip the following relative to the
hue aud cry against the Chinese from a
correspondence in Monday's Oreyonian:
The great argument against these
Chinamen Is that they crowd jsior white
people out or employment, and thereby
degrade and impoverish them. Now, if
the men who use this argument were
reaiiy sincere, l couki respect them,
notwithstanding our difference in opin
ion. But to expose their want of can
dor in tiie matter, I have to refer to but
two fucts, viz : first, that whisky and
tobacco have injured these "poor
whites" a thousand fold more than all
the Chinamen in America ever have or
ever enn injure them; second, that those
who make the most noise about the
Chinamen have never uttered even a
whisper against whisky ami tobacco.
It is well knuwn that one of our low
grog shops can degrade aud impoverish-
more persons than a thousand China
men: and yet, if there Is au ellort made
to close them, these noisy advocates of
the "poor whites" will rally to their
support.
An Irate lady correspondent of the
Bozeman Courier thus classifies the
"old baches" In her vicinity: "First,
those who would be bad If they dared;
second, those who nre bad, but are not
fuund out; third, those who are bad aud
everybody knows It."
IfBWBlTBMB.
STATE Ajro TUSROBIaL.
Lumber to in great demand at Pendle
ton. f
Grans Is starting in Umatilla eoanty,
and stock will soon begin to thrive.
There is a fine steam saw mill run
ning about 30 miles from the Spokane
Falls.
At the date of tbe last official report
in Aug"!, o ii r State insane aaylomeoo
taiiicd 235 patieots.
A ferryboat i " ply between Van
couver and H- Oregou til of tbe Co
lumbia next summer.
The "Ladies' Improvement Society,"
of Corvallia, eoutiuue to hold regular
and interesting meetings.
Tile eitlaens of The Dalles propose to
buy a Are engine, and have contributed
over $2,000 for that purpose.
The new boat on tbe ways at CeJilo
will Ik launched about tbe middle of
M This will make tbe sixth boat
above the Nils
A spl ndid quality of coal lias been
taken from Cockscomb hill, Astoria.
Coal was found in the same locality as
long ago as ISIS.
A. F. Wagner, ror some years a resi
dent of Salem, died at his home in that
city ou the 12th of March, after a linger
ing illness of four months.
The blue ribbon club at Albany num
bers upwanl of 600 members. Eugene
City has the largest eluh iu tbe State,
numbering upward of 1,000.
Mr. S. F. Mntthews, the popular pro
prietor of the Chemeketa hotel, Salem,
was able to appear on the streets last
week for the first time (n six weeks.
Recent storms have rendered the min-
Mnr nntlnnk in Southern Ore-sou more
-Pi, ,., month will be
much more profitable than tue last
three.
a. in aiir a -w w
A new temperance paper has been
started at Albany, tbe Temperance
Memenger by name. It contains eight
pages, is printed lu magazine form, auu
is issued mouthly.
Prisoners sentenced to tbe peniten
tiary from Northern Idaho, are taken
through Washington Tetritory ami
Oregon to reach Boise City, tbe borne of
the convict urlgatfe.
About twenty of the convicts in tbe
Washington Territory iienitentlary are
engaged in putting up trestle work
trom the Kealcn mine to the track of tue
North Paetflc railroad.
Post offices have been established at
Tjtnrel. Washington county. Oregon,
and Anaeortis, Whatcom county, W. 'P.
ftiat at Milton, King county, W. T.,
has been discontinued.
It is the ltoaet of Seattle that they
have the highest trestle work iu the
United Slates upon auy railroad but
one. The union racine exeeeos ineni
six feet. 'Hie trestle on the Seattle road
is 118 feet high.
A correspondent writes to the Cor-
vallis Gazette; "No amount or 'hide
ami co seek' will disguise tbe fact that
the Slletz Reservation is doing no good,
and that it is a great leech lying there
absorbing the substance of tbe eputriry.
while producing nothing In return."
Why Notjjndeed ?
G. B. Smith, of Corvallis, writes thus
to the Gazette :
Would it not lie right and just for our
next legislature to memorialize Con
gress to adopt the Sixteenth Amend
ment to the constitution, leaving out
the won! "male" eitiaen and saying
"every" eitiaen that is twenty-one years
of age, either he or she, shall tie a legal
voter; ami also the same change to be
made in oar State constitution. We
find that this is nothing more than au
advanced step of right and justice, aud
directing a higher standard of morals.
Taking this question in all its bearings,
I am astonished that this band of true
women has been kept from tbeir rights
so long. Starting over six years ago,
fighting for their rights with only one
paper, the New Northwest, they have
received some favors by the last legisla
ture, such as voting In sebooi meetings,
ete. Now, why not itive them tbe riieht
of the elective franchise in full or Ibis
commonwealth ? "
The San Franeieco Chronicle says:
"Tiie British House of Oommotis lias
voted two to one against Woman Suf
frage. There are indications thai, on
this eoast, public sentiment Is growing
more favorable to an experiment of the
kind. At all events, arguments on tbe
subject are listened to with more inter
est ami toleration than formerly."
"Filly -years i( tieaeeful progress,"
said the English reformer Holyaake,
"are equivalent to a revolution." Noth
ing encourages a reformer so much as
the uneonseious working of the spirit
of the age lifting tbe enod ship nf
progress, by tbe mere swell of tbe tide,
over a bar that appeared impassable.
T!i t'raiu ulna" Diseotery.
All the "phones" nt this phonetic age are
surpassed In practical benefit to mankind by
the discovery of Allan's AnM-Pat, the great
and only known remedy for obesity, or corpu
lency. It produces no weakness or other un
pleasant or Injurious effect, its action being
simply confined to recnlatln diajestloa, and
preventing an ondae assimilation of tbe car
bonaeeoao, or Oeab-prodaeiac, elements of the
food. Sold by druggist.
Kllswobth, Kan., July 13, 1878.
Botasic Hsinci Co., Buffalo, X. Y. Oaar
tlkmkic: Allan's Anti-Fat reduced me seven
pounds in one week. Yours respectfully,
-MRS. TAYMR.
Come llnlii 3fe All Ye Who
troubled with coughs, cold. Influence,
Are
difficult breathing, and all affec
tions of tbe throat, bronchial tabes and lungs
leading to consumption, and purchase tbe
popular article known as Hausj Hobby of
IIoaaHoriro Ar TAK.aad my word for It, you
wl'.l And tbe lirst dose will give yen reiki, and
six bottles will cure tbe wont cases. Sold at
all drug stores at 50 cent a bottle, or six bottles
ror 12 .10, and at depot, 7 Sixth Avenue, New
York City. C X. Crittentoa, sole proprietor.
Large si se. II, or six bottles for K.
UelllolC4t.
J. Van Beorden, the Jeweler, has removed to
D. W. Prentice A Co.'s Music Store, where he
will be pleased to show the panlie bis
stock of Imported and American Watches,
Diamonds, and Jewelry; also. Plated Ware
and Clocks. Repairing a specialty, and
prices lu satisfy. 8-K
aw the Naponal Gold Medal was asvarded
to Bradley A Roiomou for the best Photographs
in the United States, and the Vienna Medal
tor the best la tbe world. Meatasnawry
street. San Francisco.
B by mine" has Improved so much since I
commenced giving ner the Oregon Bleed Puri
fier. It Is so nice for the little
Mis. iit. until,
tloHMopathlc phyHlcian and eleetihilan, Wrst
street, liwn-n Morrlsou ami Alder. g-I
"Hnmc.swri-t home" i-not "tnplefaNrlthoal
a botUof Plunder's Oregon Blootf
Pike's Toothache Drops cure in one minute.