THURSDAY JULY 22, ISSO
WOMAN
SUFPBAGE AUD
THE
GEEENBAOZEES.
As there has let-n much mlsuuder
standing anil some warm feeling among
the readers of the Nkw NoirTiiwKST I
reference to Its course in Hie present po
litical campaign, we-have taken much
pains to look up all the evidence th
Greenback party lias yet given that
Is In earnest in Us reported recngnilln
of Woman Sufirage. Tin Coiiveulio
uuiuhcred 661 delegates, anybody who
cJtoee, as we understand, being admitted
as a proxy member of any State in lit
Union until the quota of representation
was completed. The following telegram
was received Juue 10th hy theConven
lion:
Iniuasai-oi.is. June M. lftsa.
To the National GkkesbAck Coxven-
tjn:-xh oreenbaclc party l a parly erf ad
vaneeo. wens or it ts nothing;. A new party
cannot succeed In an old field. The Indorse
ment or V, eraan SefTrage ami the Leartv e
l-oasa! of leeJr cause will meet the warm ap
proval 01 woasamisor fair-minded men, ami
meru me respect or all.
Signed) jj. F. Itomxso.v.
A. M. Alkiandbk.
V. IL Cahbalev.
The three leading men of this Conveu
Hon were De la Maty r oi Indiana, Solon
Chase of Maine, and Denis Kearney of
California. Theee men were all opposed
to the rights of woman, but Denis Kear
ney was the spokesman of them ull
They failed, however, to prevent a hear
ing of the Woman Suffragists, and, af
ter the address of Mrs. Gage and Its
favorable reception by all except th
"leaders," It was moved, seconded an
carried that Miss Anthony bo invited to
address the Convention. This brough
Denis Kearney to his feet, who Insisted
on being beard. He said he had not
traveled 2,600 miles to fool away bis
time hearing women talk, and moved
that the whole matter be referred back
to a convention of the daughters of Eve,
to meet In Chicago In fifteen years.
Applause and hises. J His motion to
table the motion was voted down, and,
when Miss Anthony arose to address the
Convention, Kearney left the ball In
disgust.
The Woman Suflraglsts prepared th
following resolution, the first half
which was referred to the committee,
but the secoud paragraph, without
which tho first, as tbo reader will see, I
only a "splinter," was not presented by
the gentleman having It In charge
Itesolved, That the right or self-government
la Inherent In the Individual and theiunda-
meotal principle of our government, and we
hereby piedKe oarselves to secure, by Const!'
tutlunnl amendment, tbe right of Miff rage to
the women of the Nation.
And we further pledge oarselves that wher
ever we hold the balance of power we will
maintain the principle of woman's right to the
ballot, steadfastly refusing all atflllaUon Willi
outer turtles unless they eoixwde to this prin
ciple.
The National CUlten says that this
latter half was regarded by Woman
Suflraglsts In the nature of au iron-clad
oath, such as the Government adminis
ters to repentant rebels, and was In
tended to guard against treachery or
"selling out" on the part of the Green
backers, and was deemed so imortanl a
guard by us that without Itn adoption,
together with the first part, as a plat
form, there Is nothing whatever to be
gained by affiliating with the Green
back party.
Tne platform was finally adopted
with the whole of the Woman Sufirage
plank left out. And the suflraglsts of
that party who have censured the New
oktjiwkst because it lias not seen
victory for woman under the Greenback
banners are now informed that the suf
frage plank of the parly, which wax tel
egraphed to the Oregoniun while the
Convention was In session, and copied
Into these columns, was only a blind,
a bid for the support of Woman Suffra
gists, who wereexptoted to fall into line
and train hereafter under the leadership
of Denis Kearney. That our readers
may know a little more altnut Kearney
and hla wife, of whom ue had before
heard nothing, except that he Is au tin
tutored Bridget of the coarsest stamp,
we append the following from the iVa
tlomtl (Milieu:
The afternoon of the seeond day. before the
Committee on Resolutions brought In IU re
port, Mrs. Spencer, of Washington, who Is a
Ureen backer In principle, succeeded In getting
the floor, and spoke In tavorof a Woman Suf
frage plank. The Convention received her re
marks with favor, but Denis Kearney again
In term pled, saying: "I will stale, for I he
ben&fltof the lady, that In all questions of that
kind I consult my wife. I have a wife, and am
ths father of live children, three of them liv
ing; and my wile Instructed me before I left
California to have nothing to do with Woman
riurfrage. She say8,Kow, Dents, if you med
die with Woman Suffrage, Instead of meeting
you with a kiss on your return, I will meet you
with a flat-iron.'
And so, It seems, it has come to this!
In order to save au Iguoraut Irish agita
tor like Denis Kearney from tho assault
of au equally Ignorant Irish Bridget, the
educated and enlightened motherhood
of America must staud between that
sovereign ruler and his wife's fiat-iron,
or he can get no kisses! O, the times,
the mannen!
General Garfield is writing a book on
the woman question. It Is said that he
began the work fr u,e purpose of fight,
lug tuesufl. vement, but the In
vestigation necessary to complete It en
tirely changed his mind, and the book
win auvocate instead of
measure.
" ; pose the
The Sau Jose Mercury Is out I., n llvw
dress, and looks as clean and chipper as
a black-eyed maiden arrayed In white.
The Mercury Is one of our very best exl
changes, and we thought It looked well
enough In IU old clothes, but Its "new
suit Is just lovely."
A resolution calling for a committee
on the rights of women citizens Is now
upon the caleudar of the House of Rep
resentatives, and was voted for In com
mittee by Pry e of Maine, Garfield of
Ohio, and Stephens of Georgia.
WOMAK'B "IHFBBIOBITr."
Many methods have beeu employed
by writers to sustain the alleged Inferi
ority of woman, but Miss Hanlaker has
capped the eiliuas in a late tan ot the
JVorA Americnn Jleview. Her method
Is oue which rantmt lull to please the
vanity of the sex she has evidently
written to gratify; for a experience
has shown that vanity, jmre and sim
ple, III man, Is cnrreMiditigly inM hy
Its couulorpirt, flattery, In Hie appro
ballveness of woman. Aim! yet, Miss
Hardaker, adioitly as she reasons, with
the above tiunepareiit aim in iew,
proves iiil too much for her arctiHietii
when, to demonstrate that women are
narrow in intellect and iteflcieul iu rea
soiling power, she writes a strung art
cle, which proves If It proves any thing
-tue very opposite theory that she
would Illustrate.
Until woman has had equal righ
with man for some thousands of years.
It will not be possible to compare her
work with his In such a way as to sat
isfy the great mass of Impartial Ihlukei
that the sex lacks the Inherent power to
do everything that man cau do. That
she has done much more thau he in
moueami tllllereut branches of the
world's work, can be doubted by
womau who has reared a large family
and at the same time, without previous
education beyond the limits of the spell
ing bonk, mastered and followed from
one to half a a dozeu trades, and readied
a respectable aud remunerative place ii
art and literature, and is to-day knock
...s u uic puuaia oi iimiviuuul sover
iiit n( II.. . 1 -
eignty with eueh force of logic as no
man can refute and uo womau hinder.
If is necessary that a man. to be
luii-roumled specimen of manhood
Blioutil be a husband and father. IT
must know the raptures of conjugal love
aud the anticipations, joys, anxieties
hopes and fruitions of paternity. II
must experience the battles for a II veil
hood, the struggles for place aud power,
the Humiliations of defeat aud the tri
umpbs of victory that are needed
perfect his inherent mental, moral and
physical forces. But, above all,
must be free ; he must uot be hampered
by man-made circumstances which no
worth cau be allowed to surmount aud
no intellectual ability permitted toover-
tbrow. Circumscribe au individual
man In this way, as woman is alinos
universally circumscribed, and he is as
unreasoning, positive and emotional as
she, witli this difference: bis firmness
and self esteem being greater thau hers,
he is mure unyielding and consequently
less capable of listening to the demand
of reason than herself. Womau did not
crucify the Man of Nazareth ; nor did
she stone the Stephen, burn the martyrs
or imprison theGalllleo of history.
Necessary as it is that man, in nrde
to bo his highest specimen of self, shall
be full-rounded by the alteotinne, ex
perlences, trials aud emotions of mar
ried life, it Is equally necessary that
woman, to reach I lie full complemeuto
her womanhood, must experience her
part of a like destiny. She must know
the ecstasies of conjugal love, the pains
and terrors of humanity's birth-right,
and the ardent affections of maternity
Until Miss Hardaker hat had some of
these experiences, the more wis and
thoughtful of the sons of women will
loubt her ability to eternally fix the
tatus of the mothers of meu according
to her own standard. Tlie Nkw North
west kindly advises her to get married
and become a mother; and, after a
quarter of a century's experience In this
important relation, she may then be
able to belter comprehend the sphere of
other women.
VIOE-P RESIDENTS' DUTIES.
The time is near at liHiid when the
next Oregon Legislature will convene,
ami it is hoped that the Vice Presidents
of the State Woman Sufirage Associa
tion for the several counties will uot
fait to net In accordance with the offi
cial instructions received at the meeting
which elected them. They are expected
to correspond with the members-elect
of both Houses who have been chosen
by men as women's legislator, ami in
struct them in relation to the desire of
their unrepresented constituency for a
recognition of their right In a voice in
making the laws they are taxed to
maintain.
A meet ins of the Executive Commit
tee is to be ealled iu the near future, and
in the meantime the Committee hope
to receive letters from the Vice Presi
dents, stating that they have each and
all compiled with the conditions of
their official positi-m, and received satis
factory replies from the incoming low-
makers of their several counties.
There is every reason to believe that
the next legislature will submit the
uetiou of Woman Sufirage to a vote
f the men of the Slate. This Is all the
women ask at present. They believe
the intelligent voices of men can be
trusted. Oregon is not lettered with
the "greaser" vote of Colorado uor the
sand-lot rabble of San Francisco. The
majority of her voters are men of Intel
ligence, who arecapable of comprehend
lug the dignity of citizenship and the
boon that liberty brings to its possessor.
The Legislature will not he disturbed
by the election of a United Slates Sena
tor this year a good reason for believ
ing tltat that augu-l Itfxly will have
time to study principle, and act upon it.
The majority In both Houses Is Repub
lican, and the Governor is Democratic;
so there will be uo danger of inaction
for fear of the political partisanship
mat sometimes makes one faction afraid
to commit Itself because the other dares
not.
We believe that the V.ce Pri.L,.f.
of the O. S. W. S. A. Will do th-i,
of the work and do it well. We urge
them to beglu now. By cnrresiMtml
with members-deei, ther mav !,,..,...
some of them lu the stildeei u,i. i..."
scarcely yet given it a tlMmght. Lti,.r.
from Vice-Pre.hlents or others
for the Committee may l,e forwarded t
Abigail Scott Duuiway, this office.
Mr.-iif:TrtT
WHY SLBEPE8T THOU?
If the Republican party rlode Itself
com pel led to pass through the baptism
of defeat In tbe pending National strug
gle, awl learns as a consequence that all
the lsues of the slave-holders' rebelllou
are to be fought over ngair, It rill also
Im compelled to eec, written Uhiii its
trailing banner in letters as black as
midnight, thn soul-sickening word-.
"Ye knew your duty, bnt ye did it not!"
We nil remember the story of the hare
ami the tortoise. The hare was disposed
to compliment itself upon Its superior
ieed; hihI, after long bantering, the tor
toise laid a HRer that it could beat bi
bnre-liip in a race. The hare Marted oil
lib great xieol, while the tortoise
plodded leisurely on. lu a little while
the hare was s-i far ahead of the tortoise
and felt so secure iu his position that he
flopped by the wayside to eat Ills dinner
aud take a uap. The tortoise came up
while bis liareship was sleeping, and
cunningly crept by without auuklug
him, thus winning the ruoe. "And now
for the race." thought the hare, when
he opened bis eyes; and on' he xd
agaiu.ouly to 11 nil, when he readied the
goal, that the tortoise had won it.
The Republican party Is taking lis
dinner and its nap. It plumes itself
upon Its past speed rather than its fu
ture progress. The Democratic party,
lu the meantime, is constantly phxhliug
on. It lias accepted the Issues of the
war, and has appointed a Union bo Idle
to trill I the banner of Jefierson Davis i
the dust. If the Republican party
dues not turn aside at once from
its feasts and Its napping, it will share
the fate of the hare in its rttee with the
tortoise. And the verdict nf twenty
millions of women will be, "Ye have
sown as ye reaped."
Power aud -place aro very seductive
and enj lyable, but they are not prlncl
pies, nor are they living i-suea. Th
great party that for years has grown fat
from tbe taxation of unrepresented
women, and has dared, as at the Chi
cago Convention when besieged by
Woman buflragists bearing twenty
thousand letters from as many different
women tax-payers askiug for political
recognition on the great platform of
right, liberty and justice, to refuse to
guarantee to all the citizens a republi
oun form of government such a party
deserves defeat. Like Pharaoh of old, I
has hardened its heart. The plagu
spots of Egypt are upon it, and th
Democratic pests are guiding ground
daily
But it is uot yet too late for the Re
publican iirty to let the people go. It
Is not yet too late for it to arouse Itself
from its slnmber nnd go forward in tho
race. Tne turtoise lias not yet overtaken
the bare; hut it will surely win the race
in the end if the hare does not awake
and go forward. "Why sleepest thou,
O sluggard ?'
WOMEN TEUSTEES.
The Chicago Legal A'etra asserts that
at the twenty-fifth auuual meeting of
the Northwestern Unjversity there was
quite a spirited coutest iu the Board
over the election of oue of the trustees.
The question uas whether the trustee
should lie a man or u woman. Some
years ago, when the Woman's College
became a college of the Uulverslty, and
the women who had tile control of that
college turned It over to the University,
together with all its property awl debts,
It was agreed iu writing between the
trustees of the Woman's College and
the trustees nf the University, and was
one of the conditions of the transfer, that
not less than five of the tniiteisof the
University should always be women,
and that one woman should be on the
executive commit tt-e. Notwithstanding
tills solemn agreement, the Committee
on Nomination, of which Judge Good
rich was Chairman, reported, recom
mending the Rev. Mr. Siieppard to rill
the place made vacant by the expira
tion of the term of Mrs. Greenleaf. -His
election would have red-iced tlie num
ber of women trustees to four, and vlo
Iated the cumrmcl entered Into between
the two Binls. It was claimed by the
Committee that tbe agreement was void
mat It was discretionary with tlie
Board to elect either men or worn en.
Tlie Rev. N. II. Axtell, of Jollet.
daced in uomliintion Mr. Henry Kinli.
of the hitler city, to fill the vacancy of
Mr. Greeiilwtf, saying that she was a
lady of ii ll.ience, executive ability,
moral wnrili, and intellectual power.
On tlie ballot being taken, Mrs. Kisli
received 13 vote to her opponent's 12,
and was elected, awl the University
saved by oue vote from the disgrace of
having it said it knowingly violated Its
promise to the noble women who
founded the Woman's College.
GENERAL HAHOOOK'S PRIMOIPLES
The Cleveland Leader, whlsb ought
n be good authority on the subject, is
reponMuie for the following summing
up of General Hancock's political prin-
Iptes:
On tbe subject of the currency, he is s mat-
nIScent tonkin lei low.
On tbe rabjeqt of the tariff, be is a splendid
soldier.
On the subject of free trade, he wears a bril
liant uniform.
On the subject of river and harbor Improve
ments, be make a grand appearance on
horseback.
On State rights, he appears well in his epau
lets and brass buttons.
On el vll service reform, he his a Hue military
bearlne.
Ou the so-called reform In tbe administra
tion of the Government, he Is a modern si a rat.
On the Indian question, he is the finest look-
UK Indian fishier the country has ever pro
duced, notwithstanding that lor every Indian
he killed Itfott theJovernra-nt ilfiaom.
On tbe (abject of hanglnc Mr Surrat, he
bung her In a soidier-llke manner, but he
would rather nothing be said about IL
On the Southern question, he behaved like a
gallant soldier, and made him-elf popular
with every Ku-KInx, While IJt.er, bullloer
and ballot-box stuffer.
On Ihc subject of our foreign rei-nirns lie
Wi-iirsaspleudli moustache.
On the school iiuestiun. be ts u hundvome
looking man.
On all other onesllons of public policy, lie
has a martial 1 , .
DOMESTIC IKSURBEOTIOH.
, The JJee, with Its characteristic enter
pr!s hi searching fur Items of Interest
to the public has been examining the
divorce record", and finds that in nearly
every Instance where the complainant
has been a woman and, with few
exceptions, Hiny are women the al
leged cauc of domestic Insurrection
has lieen "cruel and inhuman treat ment
ami HouaI Indignities." Surely, after
looking over, this divorce docket, the
most thouglitleea person cannot but
wowler that men should lay so much
claim, hi a class, to the idea that they
re protectors of women. Now, don't
get scared, everybody, and accuse the
New Nokthwkst of goiug after the
"tyruill mail." Nobody Is hit by bald
facts save lhoe to whom the blow is ap
pliuatile. There nre liad wives as well
us bad husbands lu the land, and the
complaining parties are nqt all women;
butthatthe womeu wlio find that the pro
tection of husbands whom they have
trusted has been "cruel aud Inhuman
treatment," from which they have lieen
obliged to seek retires-) as above, largely
exceed in number men so situate I, any
one can see who will read for himself.
The Nkw Northwest does not be
lieve that muter a proper code of human
ethics divorce courts would be ueces
sary. How much a woman will bear
from the inequalities uf a conjugal post
t!o:i that subjects her to servitude with
out wages, before she will take such
questionable refuge as the law grants
her, aud how many womeu have tin-
cnmpluinliigly borne the conditions of
such inequality until death has claimed
them, the world may never know; but
we to know that as intelligence in
creases, and education among tlie
younger women becomes general, there
Is a growing determination on tlie rt
of women to break tlie yoke when they
Hud It an unequal one.
A few days ago :i worthy lady told us of
a circumstance which merits a notice iu
connection with tills discussion nf the
divorce question. A young husband
and his wife, nearly half a century ago,
iu a western State, "set up for them
selves" on the bounty ol tlie bride's par
ents; but the husband was not pleased
with tlie outfit, aud, to show Ids lod-g-natinn
because lie had not received
more, he packed upon a horse the
feather bed that Ills wife's mother bad
given them, and compelled his bride to
go back to her pireuls with It, crying
as siie went. To-day, in America,
woman knows better than to submit to
suoii an indignity. Her parents would
wiiiiugiy tuiie uer nome irom sucu a
husband, and protect her from such in
human treatment by nn appeal to the
divoree court. While women hnve out
grown the old law, the spirit of Its stat
utes nnd penalties remains; hel.ee the
record, as the Jiee Ins shown.
There is but 0110 way to quell do
mestic Insurrection, and that is by re
nouncing tho cause for it. Let hus
lunds treat their wives ns their equals;
let them claim uo prerogatives and ex
ercise no rights whleh they will uot un
hesitatingly grant them, and there will
soon be a marked decrease in the longth
of the divorce docket.
TRUE TO THEIR PBINOIPLES.
The Democratic journals nro just now
circulating this item from the Philadel
phia Times, under tlie title, "Working
Girls True to their Principles" :
Some of tbe young women employed In tbe
caustle-od department of tlie Pennsylvania
Salt Works declared their symiwUiles for tbe
Demoeiatic candidate by chalking these words
on a large tank standing near the building:
Our Choice for President,
BBN. WIXPIEt.II SCOTT HANCOCK.
Hancock Forever!
The circumstance wai reported to the Super
intendent of the wiHk-i. who Immediately or
dered that the girls w w had thus expressed
nieir political preference should erase the
word at once. None ot the doten female em
ployes, however, would give the names of the
offenders, and tha Superintendent rlnally de
creed I hat they mw either wash off the words
or walk oft themselves. Uoon this announce
ment one and ojl declared they would leave
rather than obey such a com inand, whereupon
they were ordered to go. This they dhl, and as
they marched away liandkercntefs were waved
and three rousing clieerj Wc-re sent up for Han
cock.
Do not the Philadelphia Times, the
Portland Standard and other Demo
cratic journals believe that the "dozen
female employe" of the Pennsylvania
ball Work, who wore Intelliirent
enough to ex rcss their political prefer
ences, and w ho stood by their principle-
tn defiance of the Superintendent'
threatsand urtious, haven right to vote?
Matilda Joslyn Gage says that the
most humiliating sight nf tlie whole Re
publican Nominating Convention was
he call m ule by the three New York
delegates upon Senator Coukliiig iu bis
room at the Grand Pacific, where Susan
R. Anthony, that heroic soul, with a
life as pure and unsullied ns an angel's.
stood by tlie table and pleud with Ros-
coe Conkliug forn recognition of the
rights of her sex. Near her Mood Mrs.
Gage ami Mrs. liluke, uhilo through
the open door Into the hull could be seen
tier upon tier nf meu'i heaiN, each
over the shoulder uf the other, look
ing and listening in silence lo catch
what might bo said. Coukling, In his
lordly way, the depnl that lie Is, with
whom uot even his own family is at
peace, and whom Ihe tonguo nf scandal
has often touched, stood grimly silent-
no word nf hope falling from bis lie;
no recognition of woman as apart, even,
f humanity; no hint that by his aid
she should ever be acknowledged a
factor iu the body jiolillc. Lezirus was
fed by the crumb that fell from the
rich man's table; but no crumb nf po
litical comfort fell from New York's
lordly Conkliug In aid of the women
whose money keeps him in office, and
who number more than one-half the
people of that Slate he is falsely tup-jo-ed
tort-present in the Senate of the
United Slates.
The Whltlaker cai-e has been sul
tnllted to tbe Secretary of War, ,ut be
will not paa ut-on it for some days
POINTED.
The Rational Citizen for June comes
to our aauotum bristling iu every sen
tence with the fiery darts of war. It
contains f,( rejeirls of die women's
mats meetings among the Republicans
the Greeubackers and the Democrats,
:iu. tlie full text of addresies at each Na
tional Convention. It spires uo pains
to express its mind, nnd we are glad of
it. -MM. wage calls the great political
nominating conventions tobacco nnd
whisky carnival-, awl ays :
It is no subject of surprise that men and
women are bi.Aen down and nervous, with
denuded digestion, and iusanlty upon tbe in
rease. As long as men will continue to live
in an atmosphere of tobacco, nothing le,i can
be expected. The halls, ihe corridors, the pr
lors, ihe sleeplng-rooui of the hotel, at Ch icago
and Cincinnati were blue with smoke from
cigars, while the crash with which these hos
lelrie bait taken occasion to cover their car
Pts was brown with UAaeco-Juke. Tbe whole
atmosphere was poisoned with nicotine,
which not only users of tobacco w.re com
pelled to breathe, but also every passing
stranger. Theselnshnewwhlchunbesltatlngly
pollutes the air that another must breathe
wl II not recognise the right of that other to
olitlfMl Ireedom. The women who work in
temperanoe must strike their first blows at to
bacco, for one accompanies Ihe other. .So un
governed was this crowd of men, maddened
by tobacco, whisky and political excitement,
that tbe proprietor of the Palmer House was
obliged to protect his elegant mirror and his
marble stairways by huge beams of umber,
which Incongruously kept their place by these
eiegancles of civilisation as long as the 1 re
publican hurly-burly of madness, called a
nominating convenUon. lasted. Tbe scenes ol
those few days weie like an Intoofc upon
ItaMes Inferno or Milton's hell. If a place Is
to be round lu Ihe world where woman's re
sponsible power Is needed, it Is there In jsril
Ucs. Hret Udrte-s pictures of a California
raining camp without women can be paral
leled by i-IIUcn with woman excluded, and
one will be cleansed, like tbe other, by her In
troduction. 0HI0AG0 MASS MEETING.
The mass meeting of women at Chi
cago, called for June 21, gave promise
of such extended interest that Kartell
Hall was also engaged for June 1st, and
so continued was tlie interest that before
the second day's proceedings closed
money was voluntarily raised by tlie
audience to continue the meeting tlie
third day. The number of jmstals and
letters addressed to this Convention from
wuuieu who uesire to vote was very
great. Tbe whole time of each session
could huve been spent in simply reading
these. They represented many thous
and women from every section of the
Union, one day's mail alone bringing
letters or postals from the following
States anil Territories, viz : Maine, New
Hamitshire, Vermont, Masj-ueluit-elts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Alabama,
Jlorlda, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min
nesota, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky,
Nebraska, California, Oregon, tlie Ter
ritories of Arizona, Dakota aud Wash
ington, mid also a tetter from one of our
officers residing In Kugland.
So highly important a contribution to
history does the Chicago Historical So
ciety deem these expressions of woman's
desire to vote, that it has made a formal
request to bo put lu possession of all
these letters ami postals, aud will care
fully guard them In a lire-proof safe. Iu
bis letter of cequest, Mr. Albert Hayes,
the Secretary, says that in one hundred
years from now those letters will be
looked u"n with the same interest and
bu held as valuable as the manuscript
letters and papers connected witli the
Declaration of Independence would now
lie, had they been preserved.
Judge Deady, a referee in tbe case of
tbe Stale of Oregon vs L. F. Grover, S.
V. Chadwick and L. Kielscliner, the late
members of the Hoard of School Land
Cnnnniisloiiers, finds that tiiere is tlie
Siioi of $5,019 4S due the Slate.
Why Didn'tIIk RK8iax?-SpeakitiK
cf the hanging of Mrs. S-irrett, the Eu
leka Leader says :
Hancock might not have been able to
prevent Mrs. Surratt's exnlntini: her
crime on tlie gallows, but If he consid
ered tier au innocent victim, there was
tin power on earth that could have com
pelled him to acquiesce in her eeuteiice
orctrry it into ellect. His resignation
would have relieved him from all re
sponsibility ami cleared him uf all com
plicity In her death. That be did not
resigu is proor (Mieitlve that he consid
ered her guilty of the crime charged
against nor, anil meriting an ignomliii
us death on tlie scallbld. The Democ
racy has alw&vs charged that the bang
ing of Mrs. Hurratt was an atrocious
murder of an inniveiit woman, against
wiiom no crime wa proved or provable.
If this is so, their candidate for Presi
dent cannot rscape the charge nf being
at leat an accessory to this so-called
"murder of nn Innocent woman."
The women of Carlhnce were not
playing at warfare when they cut off
tneir nair to make Itow-strings fur tlie
defender of the city. The women of
Holland were not playing when tliev
broke down the dykes and let lu the neu
over their fields nnd orchards that they
might drown out the Spaniards. Tlie
German women were not playing ot
patriotism when they cave their irnll
ornaments to the Government for the
expeuseeiif the war against Napoleou,
ai.l wore. Instead. oriiumentR of iri.
JC'ttional Jlaptist.
The Chicago Journal says the errly
death of Miss Lavluin Gondell, the Wis
consin I iwyer. ewrceals the nni
whether women are aide to emlute tlie
bard usage and severe meutal applica
tion Incidental to a leual nrof-.inni
creer. Miss Goodell was aged forty-one
years. Henry Arinltt Urown. the noted
young lawyer of Philadelphia, dipt! re
cently, at thlrty-two. We would like
losuggs-l tne query whether men are
able to endure tbe hard u-age, etc One
swallow does not make a Summer In
dependent. The Southern Pr-hyteriaht flatly re
solved that woman's -'public eXound
Ing of God's woid" is an irregularitv
"not to be tolerated." H'lty-h'ity!
Toleration has the odor of faggot and
fire about It. It ought to be an out
grown word in this country as applied
to religious liberty of thought or action;
lor when meu say they will "tolerate" a
thing, it implies tbe right or the power
not to tolerate it and that sort nf tblni,
N a hundred years or more too late.
Golden Jiule.
Grant endorsed Garfield freely in nn
mervietv ii o-tn-i cce.itlv.
DAMPING OUT.
BT A VICTUt.
On last FrWny a party of seven souls
hoarded the steamer Traveler, bound for
the hanks of the raging Washongal, and
intent on recuperalitig their shattered
energies by several weoks of camp life
In the mountain. The souls consisted
of one baby ("the sweetest Iraby in the
worid," of enure). four womeu ami two
men. The outfit embraced a few useful
articles, with almost everything that a
party does not need on suoii a trip, and
could only have lieen irot together by
novices at "roughing It." Kor instance,
there was an elegaut carriage for
"baby," trunks of clothes that could uot
be worn iu the mountain?, several
steamers, stew pans atHl breod-patis,
rocking chairs, "baby's crib," and other
necessary article, while no frying-ptin
was included aud tlie bedding was
short. No bam was taken, as the Nlm-
rods considered themselves abundantly
abletoprovblegameaiid fish. However,
the camping spot was not yet reached,
aud all were In blUsful ignorance as to
the merits or demerits of tiie prepara
tion. Down tlie Willamette and up the Co
lumbia, pjst tlie pretty city of Vancou
ver, the steamer sped, the sengers
carefully untieing the devastation
wrought by the Hood, and wondering
why an All-wise Creator did not make
the bank higher, the chnn lie's deeiier,
or the snowfall lighter.
J'isher'. Lauding was reached about
noon, and tlie party concluded to dis
embark and seek the banks of the Jiack-
atuas, some five miles in the cout.try.
A farmer's wagon, with a bay-rack. uu
it, was chartered to transport tlie outfit.
Before half the tilings were aeked on
the vehicle, tlie masculine memberi of
the party became aware that the matri
monial go cart ami crib and numerous
other articles might have been left at
home. However, the articles wero nt
last fasteusd on the rack, the ladies were
placed on top, and the load started un
tlie duly bill in tlie broiling beat. Ry
the time fifty yards bad been covered, It
whs ascertained that "baby's wagon"
was getting demoralized by the jolting,
ami it became necessary for one of the
men in uu ins appointed --puere as
baby-hawker and push the thing up the
long grade through tlie s-ind and over
the rocks. It began to dawn on hioi
that recreation was a delusion and a
snare, or, if he must recuperate, a sea
side hole! would be a good plaee. How
ever, the carriage was left at a farm
house for that day as soon as the hard
part of the road was mustered.
At last, after alternate riding and
walking through a giguntic but black
ened forest, which had beeu a victim to
the January gale, and was swept by n
terrific fire some weeks ago, we reached
the camping spot. Then tlie real en
joyment of the trip commenced. Tlie
tent whs smaller than was ordered, and
tlie tent-poles had to be readjusted, and
wood for tbe fire was hard to obtain,
and it was necessary to airry water over
a hundred yards. We were all so "well
pleasel with our trip," us tbe High
School pupils say, that we would will
ingly have gone home the first evening.
No mi mber of the jutrty had ever be
lieved that so much satisfaction could be
crowded Into so short a time.
At night it wasfnun I that tlie lieddipg
was short, and, as tlie tent was too
small, the men slept outside on the
grouud with their guns beside them,
being kept comfortable by the thought
that within the tent were four "pretty
and fssclnating females" for them to
protect. However, they proved recreant
to their trust, as the mosquitoes and
gnata fiercely assailed the ladies.
For four days the party sweltered in
the hot sun, fought the mosquitoes,
cooked and ate in the smoke, and enter
tained the baby, vainly endeavoring to
gtt rt team to transport them tn the
landing, that they might go home. The
monotony of the coutiuuous pleasure
was marred only hy the catching of one
or two trout in tlie Luekamas, a stream
which flows through an extremely wiid
and mountainous meadow ; the slaying
of a cinnamon bear (pine squirrel) which
had prowled too near tbe camp; the
ctpture of a s!rlied fawn by a large dog
about two hundred yard from the
camp; the practice of tlie hunters upon
a chicken which they had puiubased
from a farmer, tied to a tree, awl biased
away at for fifteen minute before its
life blood dampened the soil (they did
not wish to mutilate it, be it under
stood, and were trying lo decapitate It) ;
the fright of the ladies wheu a wagon
appeared at the lord of the stream when
they were sporting iu the water; and a
raid of a band of pigs on tbe camp.
r-lnally, on the lifth day, u wagon and
team was ecu red to brlug a portion of
the party to the landing, and the rest
would have been glad to come had t)ev
not made s.i many calculations about
thi.r trip befote starting that they did
not rare to return aud endure the eibea
ot ttieir Iriei.tl-i.
On the rtturn by steamer from Fish
er's Ltndiiig, the three bolting or re
treating members of the party spent
their time Iu patching up white lies
about their I lea-ant time in the moun
tains with which to regale their friends
Since their arrival, they have all ear
nestly declared that they bad a "lovely
lime," am! are urging their acquaint
ances lo visit the same place, ai the
pure air of the mountains is so benefi
cial, and tlie game is so abundant, and
tbe weather is so cool, and the scenery
is so charming, and the light of tbe
CMmpflre Is so cheerful, and the pleasure
of trout fishing is ho great, and bear am)
oik bunting is so exctlr.g. They are
unable to satisfactorily account for their
bug-eaten faces ami hands, severe colds,
and wrecked nppearance generally, but
still insist that they enjoyed themselves
"so much," and wish "business would
permit them to go agaiu." They are
looking every day for the return of the
remainder of the party, knowing two
drops of rain will ailord them au excuse
f-ireomlng back o- accovr .f tbe --
i r?'.' s'rt.i iu Ue mount ur
LETTER FBOM PHILADELPHIA.
kkom our kkgclak cokkesP' svk: .
PHILADELI'lUAj,a.,JoIy 10 1S.
To thk Editor of the Nw Noaniw r-r-There
is but little doubt that Pbilai.
plila has the best facilities for celebrat
ing the glorious Fourth of any dty li
the oouutry. Such being the oase, sin
takes due advantage of it without anv
conrientious scruples. Tbe DOsfee&Hlnn
of tlie main building of the Ceptumiai
Inhibition s (lords her an opportunity
of c-nrentrali-ig all her energ:.-
single oijiclive point, and the resu!t .
the Fourth was a moat satisfactory one.
Notwithstanding tbe rum, which poured
in torrents the greater nr.rtltHs.of th-
day, over 30,000 people, by th reort of
the gate-keepers, were admitted lo the
building upon the paymet.t of twenty
five eeuts, for whleh an abundant re
turn was given. The exercises consisted
of the usual reading of tbe Declaration
of Iin'i-pcudenee, the delivery of patri
otic speeches, sluginr, etc. Tlie First
Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia was
present and weut through a drill, and a
procession, composed of a large number
of individuals nf both sexes, prouieu
nded tbe building, presenting what may
be termed a "Caniivnl of Nature." The
pavilions were fillet! with elegantly
dresed ladies in the Centennial cos
tume, who received callers 4 admit
ted them to tbe several enclosures upon
the payment of fifty cents, which enti
tled the payee to the use of a seal during
the day. Two of these pavilion were
especially noticeable for tbe beauty of
tbe fair ones. Oue of litem was called
Valley Forge, aud a not iter was under
the charge of Mrs. John W. Forney and
her charming daughters. A bicycle
race took place iu the afternoou, am!
when darkness set in the bolldlng, was
illuminated by elect ria lights nf 'he
lighting power of 20,000 caudles, which
made the interior almost as light as day.
In the evening, a spaee about two hun
dred and fifty feet square directly lu the
center of the building, wliieb baa been"
floored expressly for tilt purpose, wsiT
used as a ball-room. Tbe opening dance
was a minuet, all of the participants be
ing dressed lu elegant costumes of tbe
period of tlie Revolution. It eeftai'i!
was a very grand allair, nasi ihe days i.f
the Centennial Kxhibitloa were vividly
brought tn mind. Even as lite exhibits
now stand, but very few fairs through
out the couutry could present anything
like tbe show that is found to tbe Per
manent Exhibition.
Oue of the pleasant features of (be day
was the giving nf a dinner lo 860 news
boys by George W. Chi Ida. th proprie
tor of the Philadelphia LeSger. Not
withstanding the strictures that are
passed upon Ibis gentleman by Ibe so
cialistic editor of a New York dally, we
have a high respeot for Mr. Childs on
account of his numerous charities. In
addition to tlie dinner, -the newsboy-
were presented with tickets of admis
sion to file 1jX IjfrHtlrMS. Tff nlarr a ear
ticket to enable them to ride home.
P0REI8M NEWS.
The Eoglish Earl C Daluouaie is dead.
Fiftr-eieht Jeuit bavw arrtoatl at
Valencia from Marseilles.
The Emperors of A trias
ianasiAMBa
ny
are to have a eufer . srjBPT
Princes Ijouise a
! Prince Leopold
-i the 311.
will sail for Englan
The Montreal woo,, nitla and Stair's
nail factory were burned on the 11th.
The first issue of Ilocbefort's new
journal In Paris had sale of 193,XJ
copies.
Excessive rain In F.neiand and Ire
land have caused Wj-MerajbU daoaaee
to croM.
violent parthnoafce tMMMrred at
Maoila, iu the Philips tie Islands, on the
iron insi.
Extensive preparation-! ire heino;
made at Constantinople hi ease of war
Willi Greece.
At the Wimbledon , tbo Amer
icans have made wi i-derlM shooting,
and take tbe lead.
The report that the Russian Govern
ment will prohibit fie exportation of
corn is contradicted.
An explosion occurred in a colliery at
Rises., Wales, nn the I V.b InsL bnrying
120 meu in the mine. -
The Australian Ministry lisi been de
feated iu the election of ixeruuefof the
Provincial Parliament. Vwlst-
Twenty stores iu the .;.5
the town of Arnprior, Oi
burned on the loth Inst
rt of
Gladstone, lu conseq eni-e
eriiw and low prices, ha lower
au-i leinllteil dues lo h;s tt-na
The CbiHaus have sa, feed We, after
the capture eoniiuiuin great outrages
Olllcers professed tube unat le toeouiro'l
their men. -
Adviees from Calm I state that the
publiu recognition ot - ' I una lis
Khan as Ameer will probably n-t be
long delayed.
Several German fins nciers and legal
functionaries have bee i psacesl at tbe
disposal of the Porte U aasist'sfi carry
ing out reforms.
Government troops f red on the mob
at nu election diHtur nice in Bra ill
recently, killing tweti y persona and
wounding many others
The Mexican Govert nent bank has
commenced operations, i -ting $600 bOO
of its notesi iu circula'
maintain their standing
Fifteen thousand rifi
iti Vienna from every I
pire to celebrate Ihe fin
test of tbe United Rifle
The French Governm
struclions to its repress!
tn assist with money au
amnestied Cnnimuniett
relum to France.
1 ne notes
par.
.i assembled
of'AusU-U.
'as aent In-
ea abroad
erwtse aov
" desire to
The Czr has declined i.i -pe Marquis
Tseng, Chlne-eambarssa ' t h, St. Peters
burg, declaring that, in i- i of lbCbJ
uese rejection of the for., t-r Irentyaffa
Petersburg, there is no i . "er-AjaL
lolutton of the Kuldja U'U.cB(PB-
It Is announced that Per . and Roflvla
are altoul to enter Into -. oofeuVraii,-,..
ami become one country nt-der one
fftllll filia frii.Tar.i maul u. . , I -
t" be know..
as the United States of P
The preliminary basis Ii
n oudRollvis.
T?ad bee,
iruwu up uuil signed in
Gen. Skobeloirs mc
s-ii
. :na.
' r wb baa
If, and no. "
t-'y murderwf
r ra-n,-, was
- " 11 ! hospi.
1 -s-iaa cap-
h' did U, taj,
been busy organizing si
pltals lu Tuikey, was I
when traveling, aud t
stolen. Her cairiace w
tal stores at tbe time. .
's!n i.a i- I F' i-.;-,
i tm-ied.
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