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FRIDAY -AUGUST 10, 1877.
XOTICE.
Agents -will please take notice that It is a
great tax upon us to pay express charges upon
mall sums, and they -will confer a great favor
by remitting to us through money orders or
registered letters.
A MULTITUDE J)F 00UKSEL0ES.
If advice, gratuitous, abundant, and
oft-repeated could accomplish that
which those who so freely offer it have
confidence that its observance would,
surely the New Northwest would
march through groves of bay and laurel
to Immortality. Unfortunately, how
ever, for the realization of the hopes of
these advisers, the editor, sitting in her
sanctum and making the conduct of the
paper a specialty, is, after weighing
this, hearkening to that and replying
to the other, forced to conclude that in
dividual judgment in carrying on a
newspapsr is indispensible to success
so feigning a meekness she does not
feel, she listens, returns thanks and de
pends upon herself. Breaking the seal
but now of a letter from a good friend
who has the "good of the cause at heart
and hopes that we will take her criti
cisms kindly," we are advised through
four mortal pages closely written on
both sides to "stick to Woman Suffrage"
and never let an article appear in the
paper but has that for text and sermon
"Suffragists expect it, the cause needs
it," etc., etc.
Struggling with our desire to writ
"Please mind your own business," on a
postal card aud direct it to this good
friend of the cause in our boldest hiero
glyphics, we rise to answer the door
bell, and find there a bland and smiling
face, the owner of which, when com
fortably seated in our office chair and
rattling our exchanges, says depre
ciatingly at first to see bow we will
take it "Don't you think you have
most too much suffrage in the paper?"
Then seeing our Imperturbable counte
nance "I do, and I tell them that you
ought to have one column devoted to
education and have it filled with school
and institute reports, commencement
announces, and such like."
"Especially 'such like,' " we an
swered, allowing a little covert sarcasm
to take the place of the sharp answer
that involuntarily rose to our lips as we
remembered that auother would-be-con
troller of our columns had informed us
that "those reports of teachers' institutes
were so awfully dry; nobody ever read
mem."
"We can only afford one paper and
must have the news," says one. "We
get the news in the daily papers; give
us suffrage articles and plenty of them,"
says another. "Don't touch upon the
ology," advises a third. "Show sec
tarian bigots where they stand," coun
8els a fourth. "Don't give a shadow of
endorsment to the miserable dogmas of
Spiritualism," whispers a fifth. "Please
give space to this remarkable spiritual
pbenomona of which I was a witness,"
writes a sixtn. ".Don't try to carry
temperance, It is so unpopular with the
masses," says a seventh. "Build upon
temperance, it is one of your strongest
planks," exhorts an eighth. "Let poli
lies aione, sentenuousiy onserves a
ninth. ''Show them that a woman
knows something about politics as well
as men do," sagely argues a tenth.
But there! We're out of breath
though our stock of patience has held
out wonderfully through the recapitu
lation and after reading the above we
hope our readers will not think us
wholly lost to reverence for the Holy
Scriptures if we intimate that we can
hardly agree with the text which de
clares, "In a multitude of counselors
there is safety."
"AEEJZ0U?"
W. B. Higby still refuses to answer
to roll-call. The statement that he em
barked atYaquIna on the U. S. light
house tender "Shubrick" and was con
veyed thence to Victoria is emphati
cally denied by the captain of that ves
sel. So that assertion falls to the ground,
and ingenuity is writhing in vain en
deavor to invent some new means of es
cape from the country for this man to
whose actions cling such unmistakable
evidences of perjury and fraud. It is
in vain to cry, "Higby, we are anxious;
Where are you?" "Are you?" Is echoed
back
still.
from the mountains, and all is I
The Sunday Welcome mentions the
fact that Hon. J. N. Dolph kept his
tongue running five and one-half hours
in the Holladay vs. Elliott case, re
cently tried before Judge Boise at Sa
lem, and cynically observes, "not many
women can beat that." We must, of
course, regard this in light of an argu-
,uculOBtt . women practicing law, as
we cannot think for a moment that an
ment against women practicing law, as
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talk standing ready for his columns
about tbe divinity, loveliness, and an-
gelic attributes of woman, could be
brought to fling even a covert Blur at
her. No, Indeed; not be.
As an item of news we see it stated
that "there are confined in the peniten
tiary one hundred aud six convicts, of
whom there is one woman, fourteen
Chinamen, three negroes, seven Indians,
and the remainder representing differ
ent nations." Habit is so potent that
even when classifying convicts, men
place the women who happen to be of
their number with tbe Chinamen and
Indians, and make the' men "represent
different nations."
We have received, with the compli
ments of W.S. James, Grand Secretary,
tbe proceedings of tbe thirteenth annual
session of the Grand Lodge, I. O. G. T.,
of Oregon, a neatly printed pamphlet of
about forty pages, filled with statistics
and reports gratifying to members of
tbe Order and friends of temperance.
DO WOMEN WAHT TO VOTE?
Bead our "Colorado letter," aud then
answer the above query. But you Bay
the women who would prize, use, and
are willing to work for the franchise are
so few, comparatively. If this is true,
which is extremely doubtful, is there
any justice or fairness in keeping these
earnest, active, and energetic workers
in political bondage because of the iner
tia and indifference of eveu a large
number of their sisters?
Suppose a class of young women at
school, pursuing the study of mathe
matics. Two or three of them work
with energy, and desire and determine
to master understaudingly the most ab-
struse propositions. The majority of
the class see no necessity for it are, In-
deed, perfectly indifferent about the
matter. Would it be just and right for
the professor to decide that because a
majority of the class did not care to per-
feet themselves in the study those who
did so desire 6houid be bound down to
the limit or capacity of the inert ones?
Certainly not; and ths professor who
should dare to render such decision
would be marked down an unjust dicta
tor, and be speedily relieved of his posi
tion as ruler in that realm.
It is humiliating enough in all con
science for capable, intelligent women
to.be the political serfs of men without
regard to the intelligence of these latter,
without being taunted daily with the
assertion that a majority of unthinking
women hold the minority of thinking
women in bondage. "When I can be
convinced that the masses of women
want to vote," says Sir Pomposity,
twirling his thumbs in the arm-boles of
his waistcoat and puffing his cigar, "J
shall be willing." Then, as if the man-
date had for all time gone forth, he,
glanciug complacently at himself and
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patronizingly
at the woman lecturer
who knows more in a minute than he
can ever learn, dismisses the subject,
only to refer to it with a like brilliant
remark and flourish the next time it is
mentioned
Now, we should like to know how
these men became possessed of woman's
share of the ballot? Why is It neoes-
sary that their consent, or even the
consent of large-hearted, liberal-minded
men, must be gained before woman can
exercise the right of frauchise? By
what mysterious process is the political
rights, property rights, and financial
rights of women vested in men? Does
not common sense and plainest justice
stand shocked before such unwarranted
assumption of power?
'Women do not want to vote," do
you say, men or uoiorado? Then
surely it is no harm to remove restric
tions, for if they do not want to vote
tbey will not, and this will take the re'
sponslbility from your shoulders and
place it where it rightfully belongs
upon the women themselves.
But are you sure they will not vote if
they have a chance, or is it not a fear
that they will tbat causes some of you
to contemplate withholding your con
sent?
The man whom our Colorado corre
spondent speaks of gives, we think, the
key to the reluctauce of some men to
see women enjoy the privilege of the
franchise. "If he was sure they would
all vote the Republican ticket, he would
vote for their enfranchisement." In
other words, if he was sure that they
could be used as dummies placed on polit
ical wire's, and pulled hitherand thither,
or as political cats-paws to rake party
chestnuts from the glowing coals with
out flinching or stopping to enquire why
or wherefore, then lie would be willing
to have their votes counted. But a sud
den acquisition of a large number of in
telllgent voters in whom the moral ele
ment predominates who have reason to
guide and courage to act this is not to
be thought of by the class who arrogate
to themselves great credit for being
"free white males."
There is a class of men, however if
there were not the star of woman's po
litical freedom would long since have
set in gloom who, while they acknowl
edge the justice of woman's claim to
the ballot, feel the need of her influ
ence, backed by her vote in State and
national politics, and these we have
been led to believe are numerously rep
resented in Colorado. The result this
fall depends upon whether they or the
others are in the majority, for the worn
en of that State those who "want to
vote," as well as their uninformed and
indifferent sisters have no voice in the
question which is of such great moment
to them, and can only labor and wait.
Men and brethren, it is not for you to
stop and enquire whether womeu want
to vote. It is presumable, at least, that,
begotten by the same patriotic sires and
born of tbe same loyal mothers from
whose existence your own has sprung,
inhaling with every respiration the
sweet breath of
liberty, their hearts
warmed by tbe same glow of patriotism
" " lUD DaulD "'""T
that fares your own, that they desire tol
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Republic If you hinder them from so
doing you are responsible; remove re-
strictions, and the responsibility rests
upon tbem. If "to vote or not to vote"
is tbe question, tbe solution will be
theirs alone. And cease, we pray you,
repeating tbe insult to woman's intelli
gence, by quoting, "Women do not
want to vote."
Tbe affidavit of B. Goldsmith comes
all the way from New York and sets
forth tbe fact that he did not use, fur
nish, or cause to be furnished to others.
one dollar to influence members of the
Legislature to vote forGroverfor United
States Senator, and further, that be,
Grover, had no money to use, and did
not wlBh his friends to use any to secure
bis election. How unfortunate tbat tl-
ties are not allowed in this Republic,
"Grover, the Immaculate," would be
just tbe thing for our Senator.
Sweden, in view of the political sit
uation, contemplates some military
preparations.
DOUBTPUL WIT.
Many men who lay claim to respecta-
bility very falsely imagine that slurs perpetrated, now by the Russians when
and sneer, more or less covert or open, the red tide of war gives them tempo
shadowing the purity of leading Worn- rary advantage, and now by the Turks
an Suffragists, are not only permissible when by strength of opposing forces
but extremely clever. Nay, after vole-
ing one rather more bold, indecent, and
uncalled-for than usual, these vaunted
protectors of women imagine them-
selves possessed of wit, sparkling, brll-
llant, and of first quality. The more
far-fetched and irrelevant to the subject
in hand are such slurs, the more self-
complacent are these doughty knights
of the quill.
Hard pressed for a simile was W. A. I
McPherson when, in a letter published
In the Oregonian of last Friday, he,
struggling to make known hisignorance
of certain matters, declared that be
knew no more about them than "Susan
B. Anthony knew of connubial felicity."
Of course this was smart. Men who
are every way the inferiors of Miss An-
thony rubbed their bands, squirted the
tobacco mice from their mouths, or
puffed the blue wreaths of smoke from
their lips, and declared, '"pon honor,"
that "Mac had made a pretty good hit
on the old girl."
But harder pressed than he for a bril
liant answer to this brilliant "bit" was
A. L. Stinson, who, in replying, stated
that "as to the correctness of the com
parison the court w.ould hear further ar
gument."
If men who are guilty of irrelevant
slurs, of which the above is a fair sam
ple, upon women whose whole lives
have been devoted to the single object
of ameliorating the condition of the op-
pressed of their own sex; whose in-
stincts are all womanly aud pure and
true; whose sympathies are quick and
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tender, and whose private life is above
reproach, if they could imagine the con-
tempt which such words, so totally un
caled-for, unchristian, and ungentle-
manly, arouse in the minds of just men
and women, we think they would hesi
tate long before again sullying a page
with such abortive attempts at would'
be wit. The men who are swift to be
lieve women as corrupt in morals as
tbey themselves are in morals and in
politics, will applaud and laugh, and
feel in some indefinable sort of way that
it is an immense thing to be a man
however vile, and a disgrace to be a
woman, even with tbe shadow or sus
picion, which-has no better foundation
than can be found in tbe innuendo of
some tippling ex-official, upon her
name. But men and women who have
a decent respect for themselves will see
how totally foreign to the investigation
of tbe manner in which the State print
ing of Oregon has been and is done is
the mention in connection therewith of
t.lift nnma nf Rnann Tt
Anthony and
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coupling tue same wiiu a siur upon uer
chastity.
Make the most of these low practices,
ye who delight therein; the cause or
woman gains by your unseemly levity
over such doubtful wit,
POBEIGNKEWS.
Tbe whole imperial guard has been
ordered to Bulgaria.
Emperor William has gone to Ischl
to confer with the emperor of Austria
Hobart Pasha bas command of the
entire Black Sea forces, consisting of
twenty men-of-war and transports.
Another ukase signed by the Czar at
Biela, July 22d, orders a levy of 188,600
of laudwehr. The levies meet with
much enthusiasm
An imperial decree has been issued
at Constantinople decreasing the salar
ies of all government officials fifty per
cent, until tbe end of tbe war,
Mukbtar Pasha telegraphs, under
date of August 5th, that 1,000 Karapack
horsemen defeated two Russian battal
ions at Demarc near Ardaban
A telegram from Bucharest announces
that Mehemet All and Osman Pasha
have defeated the Russians at Tirnova,
with a loss of 15,000 killed and wounded.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
in the naval engagement IntheSuliema
River the Turkish iron-clads attacked
seven Russian gunboats, and destroyed
two of tbem.
A special reports tbat Redlf Pasha
bas been suddenly taken ill. His phy
sicians think he will not live a week,
Tbe suddenness of his illness caused
various rumors,
The Turkish minister of foreign af
fairs bas sent a circular to Turkish rep
resentatives abroad, reciting the barbar
ous acts committed by Russians, and
says it is necessary tbat tbe civilized
world should become acquainted with
these horrors, to express its indigna
tion and to brand tbem.
The Porte has Issued a circular re'
counting horrible massacres perpetra
ted by Cossacks and Bulgarians. These
include burning alive of seventy Mus-
, t
auiiuuua ui luu viiiuue ui avuuuuii uuu
sulmans of tbe village of Ayukelmi and
tbe cold-blooded massacres of forty oth
ers, as well as women and children. Tbe
circular declares the English military
attache has ascertained the truth of the
allegations.
Another battle has been fought south
of the Balkans, by which Suleiman
Pasha bas recaptured Kezanlik at the
southern mouth of Scbipka pass with
all its guns and material, driving Gen
eral Gourkospell mell across tbe moun
tains. This is tbe chief Incident since
tbe battle of Plevna. Turkish divisions
from Plevna and Loftscba now occupy
Selv,i and Russians are melting away
before Turkish troops,
The Russians met with a terrible de-
feat at Plevna on tbe 1st inst. The loss
was between 6,000 and 7,000 in killed
and wounded. Tbe brigade of the 32d
division suffered most heavily. Besides
the terrible loss of men, It sacrificed
the imperial banner of one of its regi
ments. The whole of tbe 30th division
has been smitten very sorely. All of
tbe three brigades of Schackosky's
command are for a time in a state of
disorganization.
BULGABIA.
Beading the fearful atrocities that are
they beat back the crimson torrent upon
their foes, one cannot suppress a sbud-
der of horror that "man's inhumanity
to man" renders possible such terrible
scenes. The inhabitants of hapless
Bulgaria, without regard to age, sox, or
condition, have been trampled upon and
torn, subjected to the most relentless
outrages, because fate bad located them
in the path of the Invader.
Bulgaria derived its name from the
northern hordes who Invaded the coun
try in the Seventh century, from which
time, until its final conquest by the
Turks. In 1392, Its history was one of a
series of conflicts with their final mas
al mas-
,Greek3i
te named
ters, together with the Servians
and Hungarians. Since the date
the once kingdom of Bulgaria has been
a dependency or .European Turuey, its
entire northern boundary formed by the
Danube, and a parallel chain of the Bal
kan Mountains forming its southern
limit. Its population prior to the pres
ent war was about 5,000,000, of whom
about one aud one-iiair millions were
Christians, the rest Mussulmans, Jews,
Servians, Gypsies, Greeks, Germans,
Italians, and Russians. Agriculture
flourished here to a greater extent than
in any other portion of Turkey, and its
territory has been and is of first im
portance to the Turkish Empire.
Of the sufferings of Bulgaria since the
commencement aud immediately prior
to the war, every reader of current
events is aware. Stung to retaliation
by the atrocities committed within their
border, they have in turn been guilty of
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the most shocking cruelties toward oth-
era, and the misery and woe and crime
that during the past few mouths has
been the portion of this unhappy prov
ince can never bo pictured, painted, or
penned. Her waters have beeu dyed
with crimson, her cities pillaged and
razed, her villages sacked and annlhl
lated, her fields laid waste, her people
by hundreds wautonly destroyed,
Of the occupations of Bulgarian worn
en ere yet tbe avarice and ambition of
monarchs bad let loose tbered-moutbed
'dogs of war" to desolate their homes, a
correspondent of a London paper writes
Every house has Its rude loom, of a make so
primitive that one wonders howsuch good ma
terial Is produced by It, for the Bulgarian cloth,
though rather rough in texture, Is of excellent
quality, and will wear for years; a finer kind Is,
however, produced In the' towns and at Kazan,
In the vilayet of the Danube; I was assured
that they could Imitate any quality or pattern
of cloth that might be given to them. Tbe
other woolen articles made are chiefly carpets,
generally in long narrow stripes ol bright color,
something like the Spanish blankets; rugs of
dlfferent patterns, cushions or pillow cases,
and bed coverlets; these are sold either In the
pr0vlnces or to the Constantinople market,
and I do not think there Is any export for
them; indeed, as the sheep or Rounieiia give
only about two pounds and three-quarters of
wool to a fleece, the amount produced Is prob-
Hon. One of the most striking things In these
villages Is the apparently ceaseless industry of
the women and girls, every one of whom,
whether seated on the door-stop, walking In
palls over her shoulder on a yoke like a milk-
maid, always carries a hank of wool tied on a
dlstaffunderonearm.andtwlrlsasplndle. In
Kazan I walked for twenty minutes without
uiciim uuio w uuu uuc mcianj uuo nuuiu
or girl above eight years of age without this ac-
companlment, and mothers carry their little menng neat comes uown upon tnesura
bables in a sort of bag on their backs, so as to mer-coated earth and fills the air with
have their hands free to use the spindle.
LETTEB PE0M HEW YORK.
To the Editor op the New Northwest
Please accept tbe sympathies of one
who, like yourself, is a victim of over
work, and hence is ou the retired list
this summer. For six weeks past I
have been enrolled thereon, idle, except
in thought and conjecture,
Of our New York conventions in May
you have had full accounts, and I will
only add my testimony that they were
good. With Dr. Lozier as our PresI
dent and Susan B. Anthony as chair
man of our executive committee, we
feel that a prosperous year Is before us.
Do tell me from your standpoint what
you think of Woman Suffrage prospects,
and whether you pin your faith on to
State work or Sixteenth Amendment
petitions. As to the first, I am not very
favorably inclined toward it. It seems
enough tbat the men of our nation
should so fail to comprehend tbe princi
pies of our government.
What? Deprive States of the power
of coining their own money, controlling
heir own postal service, and other such
minor matters, and yet put the suffrage
Individual representation, the very
foundation of our nation in tbe hands
of States? How unwise and short
Righted. Tbe next great national battle
will be fought, morally or physically, to
settle tbe question of United States
rights.
How long can we remain a nation un
der tbe present condition of affairs?
and where is the rock upon which our
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o muwuuu .--ui.j
Amendment by-play, experience bas
taught us tbat petitions amount to little
unless backed by votes. Even anti
slavery petitions hung by the eyelids
and were met by gag-laws, though
white male citizens prayed. Mahomet
was wise even for this generation when
he said, "Tbe sword is tbe key to heaven
and of hell." So far In the world's his
tory it has been the key of all political
heaven.
Perhaps it is the depressing influence
of weakness and inability to work when
so much is to be done, but I sometimes
fear that we older workers, the advance
guard in this protracted struggle, will
be forced to enter the kingdom unen
franchised. We will, however, have
the satisfaction of knowing that we
have sown liberally that others may
reap a bountiful harvest; and as from
ML Pisgah, Moses beheld the fair
Canaan of promise, so we can even
now from the summit or Jione catch
glimpses of tbe broad fields of freedom
waiting to be possessed by those who
CO 1X16 tft6I US
Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Onondago Co., N. Y.f July 21, 1877.
EDITOEIAL COSBESPONDEHOE.
Dear Readers or the New Northwest: I
Did you ever commit the unpardona-
ble folly of cutting your work short for
one week, consoling yourseu witn a
promise to do better next time? And
didn't you know, if you'd stop to think
when you promised, that when the
"next time" came, you'd be no better
prepared to do your duty than before?
Well, whether this query fits you or
not, it is certainly appropriate to us.
Aud, if we indite an editorial letter
worth reading on this occasion, with a
brain as bare of Ideas as the atmosphere
is void of life, you'll please admit that
we've accomplished more than did the
Israelites who couldn't make bricks
without straw.
Astoria uau aer "oacK up." rue Ben-
atonal commission bad been invited by
the Mayor, and other gentlemanly dig'
me .mayor, auu omer genuemaniy uig-
nitarles, to become the guests of the
ambitious city of salmon. The com-
mission consented, and Astoria opened
her purse and came down handsomely
for expenses. Everybody was on the
qui vive, but somehow the arrangements
lagged, whereupon Collector Hare, one
of the roost enterprising and courteous
Federal officers of the Mitchell adminis
tration, telegraphed to Senator Morton
for information as to time of arrival,
manner of coming, and-so-fourtb, to
which Wm. Reed, of the Portland Board
ot Trade, responded in a tew days, by a
letter that came on the same boat with
the commission, saying the party would
take meals on the steamer and proceed
at once to other places.
Then it was that the city got its "back
up." It closed its canneries, called
away its wharf men and wharf rats, sat
itself sullenly down upou its dignity,
sent Its Mayor on an excursion to
n i i t. rt i i i i. n a
a,lod,Haler CJJ inceuseu me oeuaiors,
wuo coumH 1 'uiaB'ue ffua' it was an
about, and humiliated tbe Board of
Trade, who perfectly understood that
their little game of monopolizing tbe
people's big men was about played out.
While Astoria was a toothless weanling
her bigger sister Portland could snub or
patronize her with impunity; but since
tbe urchin has her eye teeth cut, she's
waxing fat on fish, aud can afford to be
sassy."
Explanations, apologies, and-so-fortb,
were In order. Then Senator Morton
went to Clatsop and Senator McMillan
to the Occident to bed. Tbe next day
the latter gentlemnn took his departure
for home, and after a few intervening
days tbe former returned from the sea
side in triumph, without tbe Portland
Board of Trade, and with tbe officials of
Astoria, municipal and Federal, who
bad gone to meet him at the Skipanon,
with hospitality and music and banners,
Then all Astoria grew gracious. The
canneries were thrown open for Senato-
nai inspection, tue oest oi dinners were
n.nnnlnr1 fn. C.nntn.tnl nnnntltin . , 1
H "c utu"",li"1 "W"1'! "
the best of Individual appetites were
whetted for Senatorial speeches.
The next day the revenuecutter "Shu-
w iw ucuaunui nj uuumc
the bar, and your correspondent, being
tired of the mud and raiu tbat rendered
the further prosecution of ber business
exceedingly uncomfortable, returned to
f orlland 10 recuperate, said recuperation
being nothing more nor less than doing
double duty "all along tbe line.'
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drowsiness, the streets with dust, aud
tbe kitchens with house flies.
There! We haven't another word to
say. In tbe morning we start again to
Astoria, to try to gather up the raveled
threads of business, and meet, as best
we may, tbe heavy demands upon purse
and brain required to keep afloat the
People's Paper. A. J. D.
Portland, July 6, 1877.
BEOEBTEVENTS.
The total amount of United States
bonds held as security for tbe circulat
ing notes of national banks is $337,523,-
100.
The Cabinet authorized and the Pres
ident has issued an order prohibiting
tbe sale of arms aud ammunition to In-
diaus.
The main building of the Wesleyan
female college was burned on tbe nigbt
of the 6th. Loss, $75,000; insurance,
$30,000.
Upton, of Oregon, will succeed C. C.
Carpenter, who retires October 1st from
the office of second comptroller of the
Treasury.
Jay Gould and forty-seven others
were each fined $250 on Monday for
failing to answer when called on tbe
list of petit jurors.
Wm. B. Ogden, first mayor of Chicago
and first President of the U. P. R. R.,
died in New York City on the 3d inst,
aged seventy-two years,
Sir James Douglas, founder of Vic-
L ' d flr9t ov 'r of lhe colonv
torl and first governor of the colony,
died suddenly at that city on the 2d
inst., having attained an advanced age,
The Secretary of the Treasury to-day
issued the 54th call for the redemption
of $10,000,000 of 5-20 bonds of '65; $7,000,
000 coupon and $3,000,000 registered
bonds,
Tbe Herald intimates tbat the recent
raid on liquor dealers Is merely a poiiti-
cal maneuvre. The excitement among
them Is quite high. Tbe lower order of
houses are mainly Interfered with.
About twenty arrests were made in
New York on Sunday for violation of
tbe excise law. Mainly the poorer
classes were raided. Drinks were ob
tained as usual at decent places and tbe
attempted enforcement is regarded as a
failure.
The Secretary of War has received a
letter from the committee of public
safety at Pittsburg, thanking him for
his action during the recent troubles,
and requesting a permanent garrison as
,. ih.nnrtitinn nf thn'nrmv will
admit to be stationed at the Alleghany
arsenal.
OUB OOLOBADO LETTER.
To the Edttor op the New Northwest
Very soon we hope to have more stir
ring news of our work here to write;
at present the papers are quiet on we
subject, and Mrs. Campbell's canvass
Ing is the only active movement that is
now in progress. She writes of a very
good meeting at Alma: "We have
heard by a man who came over the
range to Granite that we created great
excitement at Alma, and he said we
should come near carrying it there, but
not quite do it for he should work with
all his might against it, notwithstand-
Ing his wife and mother are both in
favor! He said If we could convince
him that everv woman would vnt the
Republican ticket ha
with all his might."
Noble motives influence that man, do
tney not? And men constantly talk
about women being governed by preju-
dice to the exclusion of principle ! Miss
tViow r.r.o a i . . ,. I
inev ndt r Ann man nnn.finMif lnlF I
Eastman, speaking of the way one
woman's characteristics serve for the
whole sex, says: "The world would
seem to be made up of many men and
one woman. We know more than one
man who will not look at the principle
of this or any other question, but that
does not prevent our belief tbat the ma
jority or men, w.ben they are led to
consider the subject seriously, will vote
'yes' for the sake of Its principle, to
the entire exclusion of any party inter
est or personal prejudice."
Mrs. Campbell says: "At Malta there
was no place large enough for a meet
ing, and I spoke from the steps of the
hotel, Mr. Campbell having secured
the use of lumber enough to make seats
in front for the men, aud the women
filling the small dining-room of the
house. At Granite the house was too
large for the people. They say it was
never filled except at a dance, which
tbey came forty miles to attend."
Mrs. M. V. Longley is soliciting funds
for us in Cincinnati. She writes: "This
is bard, and to me, very disagreeable
work, but remembering a remark James
Murdoch once made to me, tbat if worn
en did not care enough for tbe ballot
to make great sacrifices to obtain it.
they deserved to go without it, I started
out. The first day I collected fifty cents,
It costs me sixteen to go into tbe city
and back, besides street-car fare while
there. The next day received eleven
dollars, street-car fare sixty cents. I
continued most of the week going in
each morning and remaining until
completely tired out, late in the after
noon. I collected thlrty-tbree dollars,
wnicn is in tue nans. J. nave some
places to call at yet, but I do not believe
you need depend on more than fifty."
While these women in this hot month
of July are riding through the country,
speaking from hotel steps to rough, ig-
norant people people who nil a hail
I ...I....- .1. I.. .1 I 1
""'Jf wueu were js u uauua people wuo
help make tbe laws which govern the
cultured lady who begs them to let her
help, too, and walking through the
uunr onecm ui uiumuuau, sum-mug
money for the same cause; while these
women are working thus, their lords,
lounging in their cool and shady stores
or offices with an unusual amount of
time to gossip, because business is so
dull this hot weather, are saying: "O,
women don't really want the ballot.
These lecturing women like the excite
ment and notoriety, and the rest are
just restless and dissatisfied women tbat
bave to be stirring up something or
Other 'cause they haven't got anything worn. No order attended to unless accom
else to do." Ab, well! It is with the panted by the cash, and all transactions to be
world as with individuals. We are
. ui- i j
born blind, mentally; aud as, one after
another, the great truths of life are re-
vealed to US, so to the world, one by one
tbe great truths of justice are made
manifest. The eyes are opened, aud
things before passed heedlessly by, as
empty and meaningless, become filled
with a new and deep significance.
It is with great regret that we report
Mrs. Livermore's inability to be with
us this fall, as we had hoped. She
writes of financial losses which make
her contemplated journey impossible.
Far from being cast down aud discour
aged, she seems to bave met ber mis
fortunes with uudaunted courage, and
speaks of regret only in connection with
her disinterested visit to Colorado. I
wonder if those who so object to strong
minded women ever wonder what a
feeble-minded one would do in an emer
gency like this ! H. L.
Denver, Colorado, July 29, 1877.
An importnnt decision has been
made by tbe Attorney-General and
acted on by tbe President holding that
recommendations for office, however
they may be on file in the department,
are not matters of record. They cannot
be inspected except by those personally
interested, nor can copies be furnished
upon application for use as evidence in
the trial of tbe causes to which private
citizens are parties, and much Ies3 for
publication,
P i
The Illinois Legislature has appropri
ated $50,000 to fiuish the monument to
Stephen A. Douglas in Chicago. The
foundation and tomb were completed In
1866. Tbe monument when entire will
be 100 feet in hight with a base diame
ter of 52 feet. It will be surmounted by
a statue of Douglas in bronze nine feet
in hight.
Tbe midsummer number of tbe West
Shore is at hand. Itcomprlses32 pages,
illustrative, literary, and descriptive,
It contains, among other excellencies,
an interesting article from the pen of
Mrs. F. F. Victor. It Is essentially a
Pacific Coast production, and one of
which Pacific Coasters may well be
proud.
A petition to tbe President for tbe
pardon of young Barr, sent up last
spring for counterfeiting money, Is be-
Ing circulated and numerously signed
In Douglas county. It seems that Barr
kept a country store and received the
money found in bis possession without
knowledge of its character.
HEWSJTEMS.
STATE AND TERRITORIAL.
Water In the Upper Willamette is
extremely low.
Buyers are offering: SI 00 per bushel
for wheat as far up as Eugene.
The O. S. N. Co. are building twenty
cars at The Dalles for moving the grain
crop.
Beacon Lodge, I. O. G. T., at Dunce-
cess, W. T., will soon complete a flue
two-story ball.
The wheat crop in Wasco county will
hardly come up to expectations, but
will be average.
Ail the inmates of the penitentiary
except six signed a total abstinence
pledge recently.
Harvest is In full blast throughout
the greater part of the State, and unusu
ally good yields are reported.
The Mountaineer says that fears are
entertained that the entire peach crop
mis season ia injureu uy uiigut.
",Z Y a 7 7, t
jSSt?
thrown from his buggy last week.
A Mrs. Howell, of Ashland, has woven
during the past live years 3,500 yards of
carpet. The ghost of her graudmotber
must attend her.
The Boise Statesman reports large
numbersof immigrants passing through
Boise City en route for Oregon aud
Washington Territory.
Senator Morton and wife, accompa
nied by a number of the citizens of As
toria, visited Fort Canby on Friday.
The Senator expressed himself highly
gratified with his visit to the seaside.
Hood River is a popular resort for
health and pleasure-seekers this season.
Picnicking, fishing, hunting, and feast
ing upon fresh fruits and vegetables,
trout, vension, grouse and bear meat is
tbe enjoyable programme.
Cornelius Westerfleld, the young man
who was arrested in Yamhill county
and taken to The Dalles last week on
charge of striking R. H. Vibbert with a
dangerous weapon, had an examination
before Justice fcjehutz and was bound
over in tbe sum of $150, to await the
action of the grand jury.
Mr. John D. Crawford, brother of
Medorum Crawford, of Yamhill county,
was found dead in his orchard near his
former home in Butteville last Sunday.
A shot gun lay nearshowing that either
by accldeut or design he bad shot him
self. He had been absent from tbe
house since Saturday evening.
A Leavenworth dispatch under date
of August 4th says: "The remains of
Captains Custer and Yates, and Lieu
tenants Mackintosh, Smith and Cohain
arrived yesterday afternoon and were
deposited in the chapel where a guard of
honor was stationed. A large number
of people visited the chapel this morn
ing to view the remains. Tbe funeral
took place to-day. Mrs. General Sher
man, General aud Mrs. Pope, General
and Mrs. Laxton, and other distin
guished persons 'were present. The re
mains were taken to the cemetery about
a mile distant. In the procession were
nearly 300 carriages. All leading citi-
zens were present. The fact that the
lamented dead were well known and
I . 1 I 1 i
nonoreu oy our people creaieu 1 mease
feeling aud sympathy among the entire
community. Arriving at the cemetery
the Episcopal service was read and a
saiuie oi wireo voiiejra nieu uver euuu
grave."
PURCHASING AGENCY.
Clara Dunlway Sieams otters her services to
the public as a Purchasing Agent. Orders for
every conceivable article of Ladles' and Chil
dren's Wear, or for Jewelry, Silver or Plated
Ware, Notions, Patterns, Musical Instruments,
etc., etc, will receive her prompt personal at
tention. Persons living at a distance will find
It to their advantage to send their orders. In
ordering millinery, ribbons, ties, etc, state the
age and complexion of wearer, color of hair
find fiVM. fltvle nf features, and how the hair is
considered final. The same conscientious care
'will be exercised in making purchases as
tnoU2h the owner were Dresent. anQ Mrg.
Stearns acquaintance with the trade will al-
ways enable her to secure honorable bargains,
Terms of commission, five per cent. Ladies
styles, etc, must Inclose a stamp to pay return
postage.
One More Unfortunate.
Almost every day the papers chronicle the
suicide of some poor unfortunate whose mind
has been enfeebled by dyspepsia, over whose
earthly horizon a heavy gloom has gathered
from the untold and untenable agonies of this
cruel complaint. Dyspepsia is one of the most
depressing diseases afflicting humanity. It Is
cosmopolitan In its nature no country is ex
empt from Its visitations, no family free from
Its attacks. There Is a balm In Gllead; It comes
in the shape or the Peruvian Syrup. For
years It has been scattering Its blessings
abroad. There Is, probably, no disease which
experience-has so amply proven to be remedi
able by the Peruvian Syrup as dyspepsia.
The most Inveterate forms of this disease bave
been completely cured by this medicine, as
ample testimony of many of our first citizens
proves. Sold by all druggists.
The American Newspaper DirectoryIs an
epitome of newspaper history. It is also re
garded as an official register of circulations.
This feature requires the closest scrutiny to
prevent it from leading to abuses. The plan
adopted by the publishers of the Directory to
secure correct and trustworthy reports is rigid
In Its requirements, and is adhered to with
impartiality. Successful publishers, who have
something to gain by a comparison, are gener
ally prompt, not only to send reports in con
formity, but give Messrs. Geo. P. Kowell & Co.
such Inlormatlon as enables them to weed out
unsubstantiated statements of pretenders In
journalism, .ine popularity ui iud uuu&,uuu
the general confidence in Its accuracy and good
faith, are attested by the Immense body of ad
vertisements It receives. 4 26
From X. Plnmmer, 31, Auburn, X. H.
"Although averse to countenancing patent
medicines, I cheerfully make an exception of
your very excellent lung preparation Dr.
Wistak's Baiam of Wild Cherry. This
preparation I have used In my practice for
more than ten years past, and have always
(bund It to be of more effectual service than
anything within my knowledge. I recom
mend it with the greatest confidence to those
subject to coughs and pulmonary complaints."
Sold byall druggists. - 46
A Valuable Discovbky. Dr. J. P. Miller, a
practicing physician at 327 Spruce street.Phlla
delphla, has discovered that the extract of cran
berries and hemp combined cures headache,
either bilious, dyspeptic, nervous.or sick head
ache, neuralgia and nervousness. This is a tri
umph in medical chemistry and sufferers all
over the country are ordering by mail. He
prepares it in pills, at 50 cents a box. The Doc
tor is largely known and highly respected.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The human cuticle is sorely tried by diseases
or abrasions, but these may easily be remedied
by the use of Glenn's Sulphur Soap, the cel
b rated antidote to maladies which affect the
skin, as well as to sores, bruises, scalds, sprains,
etc Sold by all druggists.