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DIVIDED IS OPLHOsfJ
The Wetaan Suffragists In tlte
areevWciy divided in olofl i r
"ur "f eourw to psmv in th-
ororeatroitfipalgn.
aigglpsonTBlaokwell.Stnueanil Llver
aisre si their liearl, have decdled to ""
wllh the Republican party,' the beat
r nearest exwnent of their vlews ou
Jle subject uf a free ai equal ballot ;
wjjlfle the National AodH,,on w,tl'
Tsan B. Authony, Mttllda Jnslyn Gage
aUd Lillle Dsvereox Rl"ke l the lead,
uvldenlly prefer the IMruoemltc cndl
dateTbe Woman's Journal elaima that
General Garfield, who has several time
presented bills favorable to Woman Suf
frage In the lower House of Congress, la
D advocate of the priuoiple ; hut, as au
offset to thje claim, Mis. Blake comes
forward with the following special to
be2iBvBKtRTii west :
i&rlleld Is Dot in favor of Woman
ys Anthony called on him In his
en tor, Ohio, and be told her that bo
to It. The Democrats at Clnctn-
eourtemi to the Woman 8uf-
eflles In marked contrast to Itepub-
ness ai Chicago ; still they gave no
recognition In their platform.
We afeo see by the New York Herald
thai Airs. Blake la decidedly iu favor of
eleotlBg Geueral Haneoek, her reason
ifierefer being that the Democratic Con
vention treated the Woman Suffragists
wjth more "geotility" thau did the Re
publican Convention.
1IV the" New Nokthwrst, it perms
that the matter eland? like this : The
play of Macbeth Is ou the boards, ami
tlfe managers of eaoh troupe have de
olde'tliat the play shall go on without
Lady $L; therefore woman need expect
bo recognition till the farce is ended.
After-that she may look for a fight be
tween the contestants, and during the
melee another troupe, composed of the
tvlsty members of both the o'lcr com
hlnatlnus, will take her op :tnd rle her
the proper place in the pointed (lay.
The NKW NORTHWEST flirri-ja the
ceuo with calmness, thoj'i 1: c i feesea
that It will not willing! n', '. t i meeting
an aristocrat like Genera' Hs nei.c'j, who
has no sympathy whatever with the
'masses. Around bis home aud iu it are
all the pomp and clrcum'3i.;t of roy
alty. A correspondent of a Chicago
journal says that "an fir'oe I sentinel
talks up audHo-.vn in fi ..ut .f bis pri
ate reeluat v all day ton:; ;U on
through tfierweary ulgl t what for,
iiobody. knows ; but, tired end ju'ed, Iu
unaUfue ami In storm, this poor soldier
rotisl' walk up and down before his great
master. At the General's resideuoe,
erything Is done iu a pedantic, inili
laryway. No ordinary citizen can see
Ibe 'General. Au orderly, buttoneil up
and baking In a regulation uniform, re
reives your oatd. A haughty chief of
staff .examines it, awl. If your otolites
are good-enough, he will permit you to
stand before the General a minute, while
he sits, listens and waves you away.
The ordinary Illinois farmer, with his
face browned and his hands calloused
with honest loll, would never be allowed
to enter the presence of the onintnamllng
General." The correspondent thus de
scribes Geueral Hancock personally:
His face l (TOM and sensual. His cheeks
puff irke a fat boy's, and tben his whole bead
itow smaller and smaller, till your eye rests
xi hta forehead, which hi low and narrow.
The General Is a ureal eater and a I tben I
J renter. He takes wine at ever) meal and
VMsky whenever he feels like lu Hltb living
"Ad liberal drtnkloc have given him a flabbr,
Kna.l donble chin, whleh hangs down and
lettc over his smanbed-down shirt collar. He
l7-y, phlecmaUc, and does nothing bat eat,
drink and enjoy himself sensually. He never
reads bboks. If he were not a Major-General,
He wouW be a coantry landlord, who sit
- 'HBd and lets his wife do the cooking, while
Lis sea attends to the bar. If elected lYesi
deat, be will do nothing himself.
Such a man would not enfranchise
woman If it were in his power to do Iu
The pugilistie type of American politics
1. not In favor of woman's liberty, the
new-style "gentility" enacted at its late
Conveutlou to the ooutrary notwith
standing. There is a higher power than mail
t' at rules womau a power that m tmr
tisan eclieme can hinder as all Repub
licans will learn to their cost, If they
permit the power that fought to perpet
uate the enslavement of the colored race
to gain by ballots what It could not by
bullets. The Republican parly will have
itself only to blame if it is defeated.
Had It. given fortli a certain sound In
relation to the fundamental principles
of a republican form of government
wtlch under ly tills woman movement,
the country would ere this have an
swered "back, through millions of wom
en's voices, the michty echoes or a
speedy triumph. But it was afraid,
when ,playing Macbeth, to tlar Lady
Maobelh. Yet, if Woman Suffragists
Uavo no interest in this play, how much
better oQ are they in joining the other
troupe, whose ghost of a past record will
down at the bidding of nobody?
Doubtful questions are getting set
tled fn Massachusetts. The last State
Teglslalure decided that intoxieating
liquor Is that which contains more than
tbree per cent of alcohol, and a Town
'MiuoJlJn Metiford has enlightened lu
rjukartJ-making constituency at to
jo are the drunkards to whom no
' ire Jiqaor shall be sold, by ordering
u names of all persons convicted of
': jnUpunees within half a jear to be
K"ed lu the saloons, and the proprle
t s are to be thereby uotiQed of their
.. vblljiy ' and revocation of license in
' ise'samls made to them.
By atunaplmous vote, the Trustees of
H too venOol lege, the oldest in the State
' Indiana, have Just decided to admit
v uggirwomeu on the same terms as
.j angnfen. The iustitutlon Is under
1'iesby.terlancoutrol, ami it is nearly the
iraf'lhe fifteen Protestant colleges of
AW'Slate to accept co-education.
nosa?
w raiser-
fa
ii-- tl e etnancipa-
ittftrt of
line alave meant a
tnnMran raw. He
at affirmant of theequal-
ra Ft was supposed, tru til
ws freed, that he need the
woT-i "i.tjerpgtHithcally; Kwtheo
idfscovf ! that l rrea noiumg Kir
slave wooieu, but to Interested Iu the
men nnly. Wiwrgjcuiie womeu.iiaugu
terfe of meu who fethjtit for American
Indepeixlence, aekftlj.
ley be al-
lowwl to exercise (Ub aaffiSrftJita as the
freeilraen, the Kr&te'edUarErfJeldtd hii
influence and flkt of Ui&aNew York
Tribune against llrelr claims. Hh nur-
rowiiens was in marked contrast to the
fairuexi of the loved aud lamented
Cbarlee Sumner, uho nobly ti.ld thai
every argument he had ever made in
l-l.lf of frfi(.in fur the -lave would be
equally apiilicibk- i womnnkfi.d hy Hie
substitution of "woman" fur "uern."
Greeley showed his love of domination,
his lust for place, his insincerity when
he prated of "human equality," by de-
eertiug, like a demagogue, the party
with which he had sfllliated hi nee Ho
inception, and beaomiug the leader of
the enemy. He rose to tlUtluctloii by
the ad voeaay of priitciplea ; but, inittak
lug as worstilp of himself the cordiality
whieh xreelnl his voicing of opular
opinion, he eurteavored to carry enough
power from hi old-time admirers to en
able hie new-fouud friends to place biui
at the head of the Nation. He also pre
sumed on a large negro vote. He dis
covered too late) his error. His treach
ery met lie reward in Ms defeat of 1S72
He uo longer Uvea iu the heart of the
people who once honored hitti. He ie
now remembered with pity by the party
whieh first gave him disliuction, aud
with ooutempt by tboae who endeavored
to use him as a leader.
The Tribune, so fpeciuusiy worded
during Greeley' rule, now displays the
narrowness- whieh was characteristic of
it founder, lint which he concealed a
long as poefcible. The nieatmreo it advo
cates are gauged by the prubable benefit
to the Rei-uMtcan parly, w hleh is served
in a truckling manner because the great
ediUii's j .uroal desire to be again the
organ of the parly. Tbe journal U
afraid the R"publleir8 would Hufter de
feat in a National mutest should they
live up to their record as a progressive
body and decfere in fnvor ol equal
rights. It carte nothing for right; it is
time serving. To show what a con
temptilile sheet It i, wequute a folio we
from a July issue:
Tbe rexull of the attempt of the Woman Suf
fragists upon the Nanonal Coo veil lions will
not be euooaraglog to tbe believers In that
doctrine. These enthusiasts can learn a lefc
on. If they are so disposed, from awjman re
siding In Connecticut, who, at a recent election
In that Hlate, was tbe mean of casting V
good Hepubllean votes. Sli- didn't do It by
writing to the nowspapers or going on tbe
platform and making a puMIc speech. Hut
tberewere known to bcr two Republicans ol
that cla-w wbo take so little lot. rest In politics
that they never vote uuIk Ihey cant help it.
Postponing a pleasure tour, she tried persua
sion on these careless possessors of the fran
chise, and induced them lo exercise their right
to vote. When this was done, she started on
her journey, and no doubt experienced more
salirractlon on learning that the Ute bad
gone Republican than any female suffragist
ever did after airing ber grievances In pubUc.
Wliat twaddle aud in the New York
Tribune. It is correct, some underling
editor Miys (and hi remtrks are taken
as the views of a great journal), for a
woman "to iMMtpone a pleasure tour"
ami "persuade" voter to'tlo their duty
as citizen ; it Is proper, this shallow
writer says, to keep In p ititical serfdom
women wiio are inter led in public af
fairs, ami to rtgarri as sovereigns men
who are so little concerned about poli
tics that "Ihey never vote unless they
can't help it;" It U Ht. this nettv
ecrawler eaya, for n woman lo tpend
days iu an endeavor lo get her opinions
expressed by men, rather thau to take
five or ten minutes and defioeit a liallot ;
and further, this senseless scribblereays,
an Intelligent woman, fully appreciat
ing the responsibilities 0f citizenship
and the power of the ballot, Is pleaded
at having, by bard endeavor and at
great luenvenieuce to herself, "in
duced" two sh if liens aud worthies
members of "the coare and common
lierd" to vote her convictions. Verily,
It mui-t be "sallnfactory" for tills high
minded woman to beg meu, who can
never attain her plane of culture and
enlfghtenmeut, to east their ballots for
the good of a couutry m which they are
rulers aud she Is a subject. A9 the
Tribune prattler finds she had h much
happiness iu postponing her pleasure
trip to accomplish the result accorded,
does he not think she would find more
satisfaction In directly edecting the
same end ? Does not her self-respect
cause her to desire to be placed side by
side with thoughtful meu, rather than
below her inferiors?
The excerpt given above is a sample
of the remarks of the papers which op
nose Woman So if race. They do uot
meet the question lu a fair manner and
candidly dlseuss the merits of the "doc
trine." They are opposed to the "inter
ference of women in politic" if the
women come as Intelligent beings ask
ing to exeroiso tbe right of an expres
sion of opinion ; they denounce as
"meddlers in the political pool" those
women who maintain that all percons
are created free and equal ; they sneer-
Ingly aunounce as "enthusiasts" those
women hIio, having to pay taxes with
out representation, respectfully usk a
voice in the mauoer of disbursing the
same; they speak contemptuously of a
woman who dares to publicly state that
she live In a "free republic" under
these disabilities; but they accord tin
stinted praise to the meu who in 1776
"aired" the same "grievances" against
King Geotge and his government.
Rev. Dr. Talmage, after bis rtcent
lecture iu Leadvllle, made a tour of the
dauce-houses and gambling dens. A
gill, taking advantage of leap year,
asked him to lead a set; and he took
advantage of his right to refuse.
ldom of l
"SHOULD ' VS.JSHOULD HOT."
A few day since we heard a voune
colore I man attempt to riiecum th
Woman Sailrage que Ion. n ia on-
posed ! the reform, aud ia forgetful of
the fael that thousands of women la
bored earueally ami faithfully to seeor
liberty to bis race, and that his father,
who eauie North by "underground rail
way," received hi principal assistauoe
from women. He desir-d to nmt.
mat, uumeti should not vole, aotl wa
Immediately carried off his poeltloii
when lie wUltetl in give a reason. With
the self-eou-scleufine that is horn of
pgoUeui, he remirked, "I ssy woman
- ,
ha no right to vole." U hMrilated
here, because he eooid command no ar
gument to support his p-wition. In ten
or lift ten seconds, he ninnl, "Can any
one give a reaxon why she should vole?"
Hull aat ilown. He had tint before real
ized how hard it h to make a logical ar
gument against the measure, and of
court) was exmnetliil to suiviiiio. It
was hut tiie work of it few miuutos lo
repent some of the common arguments
In favor of Woman Suffrage that
womau it an Individual, and one Indi
vidual it eulilled lo the same rights
which all others -nj iy; that womau Is
taxed, aud should have a voice In dis
tributing Ibe revenue; that she Is
oouie!kd to obey the Iiiwh, aud should
assist in makiac tbem : that nrt.nerlv
laws dlacrinilnaitt unjustly against her;
that. If she wielded the baliot,she would
seud representative to the legislative
halls to remedy the evils mentioned;
etc, etc.
The next time the young man hears
the womau question broached, he will
either tqiettk In lis favor or be silent. If
not converted, he lint learned to abstaiu
from urging .otijectious against the
movement. He has found It easier to
ask others to prove that women "should
vole" than to demonstrate that they
"should uot."
"SHALL JOSTIOE BE DONE?"
No one who is cognizant of tbe nut-
rageottt drci-iiMis of the late Supreme
Court doubts that the present Court
should, as a matter of justice and right
to ui-irauieti uitizens, re-open nnu re
hear eertain cases decided by the ap
pointed tools. Those who assert that it
would establish a bad precedent for a
Court to review cases decided by a
former judicial tribuual, should and do
know that it is a worse precedent to
uphold dishonorable judges iu their
robbery of citizens. Courts are insti
tuted to mete out justice, and It Is not
aound seueto maintain that fraudulent
derisions h "Willi stand.
Ou- very goMi resn for reviewing
the decisions which have shocked Un
people Is that the late Court was not
constitutional. The people had nothing
to say about its composition. The
proprrly-eouatiluted Court was over
thrown to make room for two men who
were able to barely gain a livelihood by
the practice of law, though one of them
had the prestige of the title of ex-
Senator. Even now the Governor has
hail to give him an appointment lo gel
him tomethtug to do, though tlu voters
emphatically deuoanced him in the last
election. If the vote re had selected the
late Court, there would be some reaaou
In asking U.em to eubtuil to its decis
ions; as it is, they have au undoubted
right to object and lo ask that il cases
come before the prevent Supreme Court,
composed of honest anil honorable meu,
selected al a popular election.
THAT EXPLANATION.
To make Dr. Dean Clarke "do his
level best," just stir him upas Dean
Clarke. It very convenient for the
mortal, this claiming that an "lrreslsti
tile power" forces a man to turn to a
speaker whose argument he has not
heard aud proceed u give such inappro
priate "advice" as to make even the
most devout believer ready to laugh ut
his blunder; hut It is, to say the least,
uncomplimentary to the "spirit," who
Is accredited with the blame, and has no
Independent opportunity to speak for
himself. Mrs. Daulway declares that
if It wni a "control" outside of himself
that made her frientl Dean Clarke ac
cuse her of denying the fuel of her own
inspiration not "control" by which
she is humbly thankful to believe that
her footsteps aud speech are oftentimes
gulden), that "spirit" ought to go back
fur a season to tbe laud of shades to
learn the truth at the feet of some wiser
Gamaliel, before he again makes mor
tals credulous by his mistakes. The
Doctor's last flurt only makes Mm. D,
the more earnestly reiterate tbe little
paragraph that called forth his spirited
rejid dcr. A Dean Clarke, lie is u de
cided succesa; as n spirit judgiug him
by the mistake he made on the New
Kra platform he is almost a failure.
Hancock's letter of acceptance of the
Democratic nomination for the Presi
deney endorses the principles of the
Dem cratic party, but holds that "the
Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution of the
United States, embodying the result of
the war for the Union, are inviolable."
The prominent jiart of English's accept
ance of the nomination for the Vice
Presideuey Is his praise of Hancock.
Hon. Neat Dow, the cawlidate of the
Prohibitionists for tbe Presidency, is a
Woman Suffragist, and his party is
committed to the reform. All who are
dissatisfied with Weaver, Garfield or
Hancock should vote for the Prohibi
tionist. There Is uo chance that he will
receive a great vole, but a few billots
here aud there will show that the prin
ciples euuuoiated by bis party are
spreading.
Mrs. Isabella Beeeher Hooker has re
ceived a prize offered by The Wtntted
(dun.) Herald for the best communi
cation ou the aubjeet of Womau Suf
frage, aud has given Ihe monry to the
Womau Suffrage Association of Connecticut.
THE HOBMOK 0ELE3BATIOI.
On SnttinUy, JotTsirh, Mormons
or Uah cole taied tbe Uilrty-tbinl an
niversary of the Hot etl"uy arrival al
Salt Irtfco. A private letter, from a
gentleman well known In Portland, In
cidentally mentions that the commem
orative procession was "tbe graudest
and moat imposing" eve.r witnessed by
him. Much tlmo was used ami muoh
mon-v lavi.hHi lo raefce It a success.
It dlpl(iye.i at a giuueo the industries
of tiie Mormon, it apparently Indi
cated that Utah Iwd prospered nobly
under Mormon rule; but the census
shows that adjacent Stales uot aflUcted
with Utah's "peculiar Institution" have
miUtrlpped the laud of the Latter Day
Saints In population, in wealth and iu
roaluoMiuiK. Tiie proceseiou was in
tended In convey the idea that Utah
owe everything to the Mormons, rather
than that the Mormons owe everything
to the natural te-oorees of Utah. Ne
liraeka, iu leM lime and with hardly
equal natural advaulage, allows an In
crease iu wealth and In inhabitants sev
eral times as ureal at Utah's. The S.ill
Lake Tribune of July 31th, romiuemlug
on the celebration, make the fullnwinc
remarks ou the Utah ulcer aud predic
tions as to iu term iimt Ion:
It Is a custom which has rTu'n hallowed on
this coawt lo have annual ploueer reunions
and eelebratlous. It Is most proper that the
plooeers ol Utah should with appropriate cere
monies halt the dawn of the anniversary of
the arrival of the lirst foot-ire comers, and to
note the advance which In a third of a century
lias been made. There Is but one unpleasant
feature lo the da) : Becanse ol the un-Amerl-canism
ol tbe Mormon Cburcb.the celt-oral Ion
will be chiefly eo&aoed to those ol that creej.
Tills Is necessarily so for more tuwi tnan
one. In the heart of this Republic a kingdom
liai been established which on'y tt-n lcrs such
allegiance lu the ruling power as tle weak.
through fear, give bi the stronc He -Me, the
Kcll euttonn of ibis kingdom are In seme re
spects utterly repulslte lo tbe masse uf free
Americans. Intlod, this hi what ciuned tbe
coming oi tbe Srst colony. They came as the
banished come, becanse In their delusion tbt v
had become Insupportable to the men of other
.Stales. Tiie thought that was of most rhm i
tbem on their way was that they went pauluv
out from under the nag of tbe United States
and from out of tbe glare of the light ol the
gieat Itepubllc That feeling has never nassed
from their souls, and tbe greatest effort of their
leaders la yearly lo strengthen their exelnslve
new ami un-Ainertcanlsm, by adding to their
numbers some hundreds or thousand of tbe
least cultivated classes or lorclgn countries,
where a monarchy Is tbe hereditary govern
ment, ana wnere tne people have never
breathed the air of liberty. At a hint from
tt.elr leaders, these people, twenty days sin.
reiuseu, on tne anniversaiy wblcb marks a
dae the most sacred on earth since the Chris
tian era, to lay one dower on the altar of their
con it try. At a nod from tboae same leaders,
these people will today throng tbe si recta by
thousand, flu the air with muic, and rejoice.
Not one In Ave can tell why, except that he la
so ordered. So we are not wrong when we say
a kingdom, foreign In all Its attributes and un
repfiblleau In all Its ways, hi pianled here In
the heart of Ibis Republic Here Is a colony
which seeks lo reverse alike the wisdom aad
rjrogre of the years, and lo place man back
tn Ibe degr.iatloo and woman back to the
sis very of the eleventh century. What will be
tbe result? Will the school-house aud tbe
power lireas triumph, or will the system ex
pand until at last an appeal will be made to
tbe sword? One result or tbe other must
come. This thing, so abject In form but so Im
perial in rule, must perish at but either
through a light from within or tliroucb tbe
power of an outraged Republic from without.
(or the spirit ot this age will not permit long a
imbllc holiday at which Americans will be
held as stranger. Tbe Hag of the United
suites jtus not Intended for a divided sov
ereignty, and It will, before long, exact from
every man wbo basks in its shade an undi
vided allegiance.
"STOPPINGA PAPEB."
We wish lo say a word to subscriber
who may desire us to discontinue their
copies of the NkV NoKTllWKST. Don
write an excessively complimentary
preface tn the real point. It is cruel
(perhaps intended to be Hiicas'.lc) tn
bt, highly laudatory and then destroy
the full furce of the praise by ordering
the discontinuance of the paper.
kind wortl is always "appreciated, even
when a subscriber desires, for financial
or other reasons, to withdraw patron
age; hut fulsome adulation, never. If
you don't want to take the paper any
lunger, say ra; that Is enough. If you
feci tmiielled to give a reason, that we
may kuow you are tint displeased with
tho piper, do so as brielly as possible
but we don't wish to he paralyzed by
such encouraging letters as this:
Dear Koitiik: -Your very Interesting pa per
lias comt to me eery week for tbe past year,
oueii with encouraging news for women, bong
may it prosper and gladden tbe hearts or op
pressed woman till It has fulfllled lu mission
of mercy and love. When my subscription ex
piles you may aiseoiiunue It.
In one of his leoturrs, Colonel Robert
G. Ingersoll said : "I tell you, women
are more prudent than meu. I tell you
as a rule, women are more faithful than
men ten times as faithful as meu.
never saw a man pursue his wife into
the illicit aud dust of degradation and
take her iu his arms; I never saw
man sluud at the shore where she had
been morally wreaked, walling for th
waves to bring hack eveu her corpse to
Ills arms; but I have seen woman with
her white arms lift man from the mire
of degradation and hold him to her
bosom ns if he were an angel." Yet
Mr. Ingersoll has seen fit to assert that
he tines uot want women, with the!
prudence aud purity, lo enter politics
and raise their brothers from the "mire
of degradation."
Tiie Independent People's Labor Con
veution lias endorsed GarHehl. This
was to have been tinticinnleil. Garfiehl
has always been a huid-wnrkiug roaa
and has labored by the day, while Han
cock is a representative of military aris
tncracy. It is natural for the laboring
classes to support a ni.ui who rose from
their ranks.
Mrs. Meredith Read, the wife of ou
Minister to Greece, Is a very sparkling
and original woman, cultured and re-
flued, and a delightful representative of
American ladies. Her conversation
bubbles over wllh wit ami geutle humor,
aud the exhilaration .of .her society Is
spoken of as refreshing in tbe atmos
phere of Courts.
EDITOBIAL OOBBE8P0SDE50E.
I ih I; r.r, . K xui X iw North west .
We fli.d no spot In all our wandering
where we more Utomugbly enjoy an an-
..oai visit man al the Cascades,
U 1
aeuington Territory. He. Mr. 8. W
Hamilton settled thirty years ao, with
his wife and large family of little one,
and here they have remained until the
ohlWreti have grown to matorlty, and
tna most of tbem are married ami set-
tied near them, In tils employ a', the O.
-V Company, and engaged in their
turu lu rearing Interesting families of
sons an I daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton can tell tniny
au interesting Indian story, and it is
better than reading a slory book to lis
ten to the iucideuts of their wtrly life in
this r-iinintlc spot, h.rd by the i
tree-eiad mountains that hmnt in
reit
sol
tun dignity from the Columbia's edge
on ihe Oregon side, so seemingly near
though mlLs away) that each particu
lar tree and rock seems like a fond, fa
miliar frieml. On the Washington sr,
where th? Hamilton farm is situated.
there Is un undulal ing va'e, where hun
dreds of rr-rt of the choicest tneado
land are nestled amid luxurious, fringes
of deciduous trees, with here nod lucre
au orchard, a vegetable garden or a pas
ture, all rich from the loauiv deposit?
of tho mighty tl ods that three times
within thirty years have swepl over the
lower plains, making tbe lands fabu
lously fruitful, ami well repaylui; tbe
htisiiantfman in the succeeding season
for each year's delay iu gathering the
crop.
The flood of this year, tboogh not so
great as thai of '76, did much damage at
the Isiwer Caseaile. Tiie store ami res
idenee of Mr, Mottetl were flooded, aud
the residences: of Mr. Joue and Mr. Mc
D inald were surrounded for several days
by a deep eurreut that la many place
was so rapid that boats could not be
rowed Ihrough it. The water Anally re
ceded, leaving great boles in the sandy
soil, and imparting a wild appearanee
to the place, that would seem desolate
only for the genial ooiiany of tbe
warm-hearted i teniae ns of the busy
bamht, wtit.se hospitality drives dull
care to the abodes of the busy and hun
gry mosquitoes.
Our I e.; lure In Moflell's Hall proved
au enjoyable time, it wo may judge by
the eourleous attention aud liberal pat
ronage bestowed. Any eommtin ity that
ia sufficiently wide-awake to secure a
footing lu such au advantageous gap In
the great mountain gorges, that open
here aud there to form commercial
highways lo connect broad, mighty and
widely separated agricultural districts
aud bear their products toward the sea,
has braina enough to lie progress! ve and
energy enough lo promulgate its ad-
vauceu lueas.
The business of the transportation
compiuy at this point is enormous.
From fifty lo seventy-five men are eon
stanlly employed as laborers, and i
mese-house is provided for their accom
modation, wtie'e wholesome food is fur
nished fur four dollars per week. All
uitfiil aa well as all day, Sundays not
excepted, the trundling of trucks goes
on, the different portages requiring
everything lo be hand sad so often on Ihe
river that It is not wonderful that the
freights are high
We wattled very much to go across
tlte bridge to tiie Upper Cascades, but
the walk was loaded down with rocks
soil aaud bage, am) we did not care to
risk our neck by trying to slep tbe tie
above the roaring torrents that surged
beneath like angry anacondas. Neither
could we visit the locks, for the reason
that we did uot fancy the journey aerne
the boiling rapid in an open bout.
So, our visit being over for tbe pres
ent, we look the boat for Portland, our
spiritual strength renewed by associa
tion with so many genial friends, and
our willing hands fairly burdened with
blackberries, which we'll help lo eat
nest Winter while living over again
tlte associations connected with procur
ing them. A. S. D. '
Portlaud, August 3d, 1880.
EVOLUTIONS.
Tn the EnrrnR op tub Nkw Nobtmwbst:
Please publish the following reeolu
tions, and oblige the Spiritualists of
Oregon :
Jletolvetl, That the spiritual phenom
ena a re scientific facte, Btte-tw-d ' y :a-iy
of the most eruiuent scientists of Eorope
and America, and as they demonstrate
human immortality ami reveal our fu
ture destiny, they are worthy of the in
vestigation of all rational utinds, and
neither pulpit nor press can afford either
to ignore them or longer to depreciate
their value aud importance, as they are
the cherished symbols of the great re
ligion of the future already embraced hy
millions of intelligent ut id cultivated
people whose opinions and Isabels de
serve the respect of ihe would be leaders
of public sentiment.
Jletolvetl, That the spiritual gifts uf
modern mediums are identical iu source
aud kindred in nature with those ukui
which Christianity aud other religioos
of tbe past were founded, ami that all
the clergy who now opposo them are
"blind leaders of the blind," leading
their followers Into "the last ditch" of
Infidelity and materialism, and we ear
nestly eutreat them lo "consider their
ways and be wise," lent they lie found
"fighting ngainel God," whose "minis
leriug spirits" are working through
"mighty site us and wonders," that His
will may be done ou earth as it Is done
in heaven.
Jletolced, Tb.tt Spiritualism a phi
losophy aod religion is no more respon
sible for the crudities ami immoralities
of any of its votaries than is Cnristuui
ity for the vagaries and moral lapses of
thousands of lis adherents and hundreds
if its clergy who have t een judicially
convicted of crimes, which are justly at
tributable In both oases to the weak
nesses and imperfections of human na
ture, ami wo commend lo our aceoseis
the adaiouitive Injunction, "Let him
that is without sin eaai the first stone."
Jletolvetl, That lite Secretary lie In
structed to request tbe press of Oregon
tn publish these resolutions as theseutl
meiilsnf the Spiritualists of Oiegon iu
oonveutlon as-emitted.
The foregoing were presented at the
recent Spiritual camp-meeting al New
Era hy Dr. Dean Clarke, Chairman of
the Co nun It lee on Resolutions, aud
were unanimously adopted by a large
autlieuce. Thos. Buckman, Sec'y.
SS HEB OWN DEFEHSL.
Tl.'- ilal!v p-l"" :u mention
or a ias ra Salem, whemu a wi.w bad sea
arrested, imprt suited and nasxl for cruelty
wliinnln. h..r little flanhlr. The -wed
i-. . iii.. a.nlMlnrv lUv. Uk tbe
, "TlIU im DUiUWIHl v;.isissii .
Nti North WK.ST, which. In Justice not SWT
to he raelf . bat the entire rmes of mna mMi
man-tried, man-una riatsd aad mail sTallfM
ettisens of tbisso-eaUsd HeaaMle.bt pull feasts'
that both -aides may have a harij to
Saukm, J'y 30, M80.
T:i f. EutroR op tub t iv Noj.-thwsst:
If you will read the Utatemnan of the
20. h nit, you will see a one-sided ac
count of the great trouble that I have
lately passed through. I am a woman
without education, can barely reatl and
write, aud must look to you t correct
my grammar and spelling where neces
sary. Like any other woman who has
to do ail kinds of rough work away from
borne for a livifg, I have enemies, and
they have been talking evil of me to my
children wheu I have been obliged to be
away earning their bread, ai.d have
made ibeut believe that I was mean to
them aud made them work too hard.
T.ie Statesman says I went to one of
the neighbor's to stay over night, and
had left all my dowers, to water and a
large house to clean up. Now, the facta
are that I went across the river In Polk
county, a jouruey of ten miles, afoot, to
get some fruit to put up fur Wioter.
Would you call a person who lives five
miles away your neighbor?
Afler I walked I lie re, I gathered a
large pail full of berries and walked
home, carrying them with me. I left
my girls, one past leu and the other
past twelve, at home. There was a
family of children near us that I told
Ihem not to play with, and had driven
away from my house. I told the gir's
to water my pansie and weed Up a
couple of small beds that I wanted tn
sow turuips iu, and to stay right at home
while I was away, and Ihey faithfully
promised to do it. No sooner was I gone
than they dressed up in my best aud
only deeent clothes, aud weut right
over to the house where I had told them
they must not go, and not one pail of
water did they draw. Tuey left the
gate opeu, and theeattle got in tbe yard.
I had put the house iu good order before
leaving, and on returning, exbansied
with my hard work, walkiug and carry
ing tbe berries, I fuitnd everything in
the house topsy-turvy. Some carpet
rage I had in a box were strewn all over
the house aud yard. Tuev went after
the children that I hail forbidden the
house, and all hands went tn work lo
get a fine dinner. They got into my
fruits, pickles and preserves, anil strewed
them all over tbe house. I hail left
eongh of everything needful in the safe
to do them a week, Inelutliug jam, pre
serves, pie ana eaae, wtui meal tin
butter, so they bail nothing to do but
rook their own bread and meat, and, if
they wautrd vegetables, tltere were
plenty iu tlte gsnleti.
I admit that I whipped tbem, and
know I ought to have done it; but I did
not whip them unmercifully, nor would
they have thought so if they had not
been put up In it by the neigh bom
When Ihe ease was in court I was not
allowed to say oue word. Tiie children
were put up to testify against me. They
were (Hit up to say that they had not
been told to have me arrested. And
any person with reasonable sense would
know thai children of their age woo Id
uot know enough to do any such Uilng
uulees incited to it by older heads.
When I got them home they told me
that liooney's folks hail told them to do
it. This man Rjoney Is my bitter
enemy for reasons best known to him
self. For his wife's sake I will ii.it state
them.
Tiie Prosecuting Attorney, in his ea
gerness to convict a mother wbo has
fairly gone through Are to feed and
elnlhe her children, aald he had It from
good authority thai I kept my children
on bread and water most of tbe lime,
and the looks of the children proved iL
Now, you can uot flod two healthier
children, or better fed ones, in Salem
the Moore ebil Jren not excepted Then
he went for my eyes, and you would
have thought, to hear him, that I had
made them myself, and ought to be
hung for it. Rut I did feel a little
ashamed of them when I got home and
looked in the glass, fur I thought they
looked like the Prosecuting Attorney's
It I had been a man, and had punished
those children ten times as hard for
their disobedience nod the way they de
strnyed the things in the house, uobody
would have said n word. I know a man
In my own neighborhood who has re
peatedly done so, and uo fault was found
with him
My trial and floe fell hard upon me,
hut it is nothing compared to the wound
in my heart, made by my own children,
or woosie sane i am a aruuge ami a
slave. My tears wet the paper as I try
lo write, anil my toil-stiffened baud
senes till I can hardly hold my pen.
Rut I cannot close without calling pub
lie attention to the condition of the jail.
Kvery place inside is as filthy as it can
lie. The floors, windows, sinks and
olosets emit a sickening odor; and the
blankets the Sheriff's wife loaned to me,
though she called them clean, were
beastly dirty.
Mrs. FiaiRENcn Garrison.
L Miking around ou the noisy inanity
of the. world, words with little meaning,
actions with little worth, oue loves lo
reflect on tke great Kuipire of Silence.
Tne ooble silent men scattered here aud
tlie.e, each in his department silently
thinking, silently working, whom no
morning newspaper mentions ; they are
the salt nt the eanu. A country mat
has none of these Is In a bad way like
a forest which has no routs, which lias
all turned into leaves and Imnehs, which
must soon wither aud he no forest. Woe
for us if we bad nothing but wbat we
cart show or speak. Silence, the great
Empire of Silence higher than the
stars, deeper than the kingdoms of
death! It alone is great; all else Is
small. Ourlyle
An effort is being made to induce Dr.
J. L York to deliver a course of ten
lectures in Seattle. Seventy or eighty
dollars have been subscribed towaid
tuia,eud.
BJSIHO TO EXPi
tgnoaoPTHKNaw XCl :
Having long since learn'
: "di-
rettou Is tbe belter part of
eo-
. i. - lose
lege
ave
iffer
than
when,
bU6 in a
tleavor to avoid olllioa
xyiio, by prerogative tif sex, ,
of position, will be q-jlte s
tbe last word;" betice I pr
eofwJdeimbie personal affro-,
enoourJler editorial eriilc'fn
ihroosTh Inadvertence r
surraianed before !!
manner oomprbmfelng; my honor, or la
a way to Injure my- paldie usefulness, I
feel It my duty lo challenge il""n"i"'
which misrepresent y st-lj. . . "
tentlmeuts. In Ihe NBW . oKi'Fi'.- -
f July 29th, in the column o "I
rial Correspondence," n find, auvi't'
uotes upon the recent Spirttttal;t camp
meeting at New Era, the' follow if g at
lusions to myself: "Dean Clark
on hand with some very ood philoso
phy, but it was a new feature to Port-
landers to see him affect the trance. He
would certainly succeed better every
where hy claiming the evident personal
responsibility of his own utterances." I
Italicize statements in tlte above quota
tions at which I emphatically demur.
Mrs. Duniway herself was the only
person, to my knowledge, who"afecfeci
the trance." aud allow me lo say that
her first effort at phjios; a false part
was too decided a success to be encour
aged. As for myself, I have oever, dur
ing fifteen years of public speaking.
claimed to speak in a trance. I m .
known to tbe entire Spiritualist fra.er
uity, who have read our papers, or heird
nte define my position, as an inspira
tional speaker, usually spoaklDg, as ou
tbe aforesaid occasion, Itnpn coptu, and
(us I know ami have the urage and
honesty to lestify) generally under i
spiritual afflatus which botl qnicketw
my owu mentality ami, as lamis in
stanee, often lorees Hirougti y up.
words aud sentiments foreign to my
thought. Iain no egotist, c aiming a
my own powers payebolog cally con
ferred upon me, nor am I a bjyocrl!'-
' affecting the trance" to please tl. -
credulous, nor do I disown nly medium-
ship to hoodwink the cavil tig skeptic
and evade criticism. Reverently and
gratefully I acknowledge the asalBtaoc
of divine powers that frequently contro.
me to speak "as the spirit givelb utter
ance," but 1 never consciously maK
tbem responsible for my personal sins,
nor attribute to tbem my own premedi
tated thoughts; therefore, to accuse me
uf "affecting the t ranee" or of trying to
shift upon tbem "the .evident personal
responsibility of bis ( my ) owu
thoughts," is as unjust as it is ungener
ous, aud calls fur the amendt honorabh
from the oue wbo prefers such an un
complimentary accusation. I am not
aware that, ou the aforesaid occasion, 1
spoke with "eyes shut" (though somi
timee I am made to when not in good
conditions for control), for I distinctly
recollect seeing ray audience, and -no
distinguished individual in particular,
to whom I was turnwl wit), irresietible
power aud forced to speak words of ad
vice aud admonition, which I positively
kuow were not liiy own, aud to bold tie
personally responsible doe vtoleaee to
well-known laws of medtamehip, and
reflects upon my personal Integrity iu
disavowing tbem in a way which im
pels me tu ask the privilege of this ex
culpation. Yours for truth and justice,
DB DKAH &.ARKE.
. i
FOREIGKKEWS.
Premier Gladstone is seriously ill
London.
Russia has ordered M8
Seltl guns.
Krupj.
Rtins are damaging crop in portion
of England. '
In the French elections, Republican
gains are large.
The Afghans and tlte- British both
lost heavily in the recent battle.
Tbe ltll Mall Gazette advises tbe
British to abandon Afghanistan.
Au international exhibition will
probably be held at Roue iu-B8o.
The Chilean tratuwHirt Loohas boen
blown up in Callao Bay by u tor pes -
The flgure-head of tho ill-fated .n
lanta has been pieked up by a Rrui'-h
vessel.
Sir Birtle Frere has been called !v-
the British from the goverameot of the
Cape of Good Hope.
Die British Generals ineemmarid in
India and. Afghanistan are roundly de
nounced for Burrows' Weat,
Ex-Etiprees Eugenie was received in
France by peisonal admirers only. Th
Ronnpartisl party is dead, except in
Kiigluiil.
Now that the potato crop Is ripe, aud
there is no further need of hefp, tbe
British Parliament has passed a bill for
the relief of Irish distress.
The Chileans have proved brutal vic
lom. At Ariea and Tkena thty butch
ered wou tided Peruvian soldiers, violated
women and girls, ami destroyed tbe
buildings. .
The Russians ou tbe Black tea don'r.
want immigrants. A company of
Greeks and Armenians was recently
driven away, the Russian Jpoal authori
ties having ttred ou their slilp.
The World ays that Bareness Burdett
Otitis will soon marry Aslfried Bart
lett, her secretary and almoi&r, though
she will l-e 100 000 a year by it.
When the Duchess of Stalhans lelf her
property to Miss Cotitts, she decreed
that the heiress should Ira Iter Inter
est in the Coutts aak andother prop
erties if - she married a foreigner or a
naturalized citizen. Bartlett U .an
American, but was naturalized a short
time since.
The American colony lu Paris has
not yet recovered from the commotion
caused by the tlelh of Mrs." Wstmore,
who committed suicide because tbe
Maiquis of Atio-y, while enusgetr to
her, married ...-t tier lady..-TJW tele
grap says he i'i-Uaved cruelly to her,
and that "he is wea!tuy,jJuscruploo,
ooble and Ignoble, and Jis ageo . "
not shriuk from disiionejjJogMr et
more's memory." He ha pa'"' ' ,e pR"
pers lo stop their corum'suH on biBS.
Tho vnilnir .-or..-.. i-I,., fs Cftltlg H
marry the son of the Prince Iafpcrtal of
Russia is not much to be envied, not
withstanding the superior grandeur of
his family. His left arm IS B,yfd'
and always will be, aud waltzing is his
only accomplishment.
A New York mother til
all clrls. The display o
ion her wash line mast be
iOi&fltUen,
CSTmfiSl livery
