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FRIDAY JANUARY 4, 1878.
XOTICC
Affat will f'.H take nonce that It Is a
(Tat Mi upon as to pay expreu charges upon
tnuill ranw. and tbejr Mill confer a great favor
or remitting to as through money order or
regtatered letters.
THE PROTECTED SEX.
Oue day last week a young girl of
good address and comfortably attired
presented herself at the Helpers' Home
on Columbia street and asked admis
sion, saying she was penulless, among
stntugers aud sick. The kindly matron
Ht ouee divined Die situation and or
dered her to report to the President of
the duciety. This was done, and a oab
was chartered In hot haste to drive the
poor unfortunate to the hospital where,
in a short time, her babe was ttoru.
The account she give of herself is
the old, old story. She had loved, not
wisely, but too well; and the man who,
under pledge of marriage, wrought her
ruin, had failed to ratily Ills part of, a
most solemn obligation, despite the faet
that the seal of paternity had atllruied
the contract.
The man who thus stultiffes.his self
hood by denyiug protection, respect,
sustenance, and eouutenanee to uU
etiild aud its mother should be entitled
to, aud compelled to reeelve far greater
iwoisbmentand fur greater infamy than
the midnight assassin.
We have uo word of apology for the
injured aud sulleriug girl. All experi
ence should teach such that there is no
protection for them where virtue fails;
but. alas, for the psyoologieal power ol
roan's unholy desire over woman's un
selfUh allectiou ! The old, old story is
repeated for aye, and the betrayer of
love and innocence goes forth free and
honored, while his victim bows her
head in suffering and sorrow, aud is
left to struggle unaided to support the
child of the worse than monster who
forswears allegiance to his own off
spring. After a few weeks lying-in at the hos
pital, an Institution that proves man to
be far more merciful In the aggregate
thau individually, this young girl will
go forth penniless and child-burdened
to life's rugged battle. Who will give
her employment T Where will this spec
imen of the protected sex And shelter
for herself and babe ?
Thauk heaven there is a Home for
homeless infante In the city, aud a tem
porary asylum for destitute working
girls respectable, only, at the Helpers'
Home above named. But there .Is no
rettatU for this wronged and ruined
girl, where she can be welcomed back
to social life aud honorable work with
the welcome plaudit, "Thy sins be for
given thee; come, and sin no more."
Yonder, goes the blear-eyed strange
woman, with bedizened array and
shameless features. Women shun her
as they would a viper. Men make her
the victim of their witless jokes. The
church, to her, Is as a sealed bonk. So
ciety closes its doors upon her, and well
it might, for her very presence breathes
a moral pestilence. Trace her hrstory
back to the days of her teens and you
will And a time when she, too, was lov
able, loving, young ami guiltless; when
her fond heart founded the basis oi a
judgment that only proved its own un
doing. Like theyoung girl above cited,
she trusted, and whs betrayed. Doors
were thenceforth closed against her,
and she, in desperation, became the fell
destroyer, the dread avenger, from whose
presence mothers teach their daughters
lo turn in loathing; Cannot something
be done to save the comparatively iu
uocent, though not lees unfortunate
girl in question froma Arte like this?
Until wooiej) help to make the laws
thf,y-cSrt" hope to bring men to jus
'Jfin such cases, but they can give
shelter aud employment to the unpro
tected girl, who under the shadow of a
great shame is struggling, unaided, with
destiny.
ABOUT EAILBOADS.
The railroad discussion In the Oregon
papers lias become so common that, bul
for the vast importance of the matters
to be considered, it would be decidedly
monotonous. Iu looking at the facts in
a logical sense, we can see at a glance
the great necessity of a oometltioii
trans-continental railroad. While all
must admit that the proposed Portland,
Dalles, aud Salt Lake line is the short
est, most natural, aud roost direct line
into Idaho, Oregon, and Eastern Wash
ington that can possibly connect with
any road already built, yet the cosmo
politan thinker cannot but realize that
with the Northern Pacific Hue com
pleted across the continent, tapping Da
kota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington,
not only will au immense country be
opened up for immediate settlement
that has heretofore been almost wholly
inaccessible, but the competition with
California's Interests would naturallv
compel the Central and Uuiou Pacific
lines to lower their rates, and thus
place travel aud transportation within
the reach of all.
And yet we are glad to see Senator
Mitchell pustnug the Portlaud, Dalles,
and Salt Lake road bill, and we hope he
will succeed, for, to our mind, this is
the first mad to be built. P'lild it, and
the other will naturally follow. What
if the North Pacific land gram -ho'-ld
revert to the government through the
bankruptcy of the whole coiicen?
Cannot another basis of subsidy be had?
Is the decision of the present Congress
upon any question to be final? We
want the Northern Pacific road, and we
want it speedily; but we believe the
Portland, Dalles, and Salt Lake road
can be (he sooner built, ami that one
nad will only open the way for the
othvr, and that Ixith will come within a
very few vara.
Moody, the evangelist, has been ill.
AGITATION NECESSAEY.
Stagnation utter, complete, unmis
takable fctsgualion among the great
masses of women this, sisters, is what
Imrs progress and keeps a sex, the full
half of humanity, In bond. True, these
bonds were originally made, and have
since been wielded by the sex n power,
but the sex In Itoudage have so supinely
submitted that they have become ac
cessory after the fact, to this great in
justice. Oo where you will over the
country, keep your eyes and ears open,
and, but for a little judicious iWawing
out, your tongue quiet.
The same state of things exists in al
most every rural district. Women are
drudging In farm-house, surrounded by
broad acres tliey have helped to earn,
and worked In seed-time and in harvest
to rentier remunerative, their bodily
strength gone, their intellects dwarfed
aud starved, their tempers soured, their
raiment scant, their youth departed,
and for all this labor, privatiou, and
self-sacrifice, laud and stock and money
to their kytbatul. Dlscontsuted they
kuow not why, paupers in so far as per
sonal control of a single dollar of their
life's earnings Is concerned, human
beings deprived of all individuality,
what wonder that womanhood Is uot
exalted by such representatives; thai
.posterity is not blessed and endowed
with a rich mentality by such mother
hood ? A woman eo situated wiio is
possessed of u natural heritage of inde
pendence and a strong will, finding no
iegitlmateuiideustoin sanctioned means
upon which to exercise the forces thul
were not created to remain lateut, beats
about iu-nu unaided, uncultivated man
ner toward the light, and, hedged lu on
every hand by petty restrictions and
tyrannies, develops into a termagant.
Her sisters, less strong Intellectually
than she, misunderstand her utterly,
and of courre misrepresent her and
unite with theirchuckllng lords in pity
ing her hmOand.
Tills is not a fanciful or isolated case.
Every neighborhood contains Its couu-
teriMrt. Such mothers never produce
children of the stagnation type, but oi
them, warped, dwarfed, misconstrued as
they are, are bnru the world's workers.
The greatest need that now exists is the
need of these workers to go forth into
every hamlet and district, aud after set
ting the people, meu and women, to
thinking, give them food for thought.
Tbousauds whom lire unerring Instincts
of their nature have told that something
was wrong, have been unable, in their
blind struggles, to eveu approach the
light. The self-evident truth that all
were created free aud ejual, with cer
tain inalienable rights which belong uot
to sex or condition, has never been pre
sented to them, and they have never
stumbled unon It.
When these thlugs are understood, in
ertia is at an end, and an abidiug and
lively interest lives and grows where
erewhile fur ages injustice has kept
women iu bonds, deprived them of their
earnings, and given to men the absolute
control of the accumulations of both.
Agitation is the salvation of the race,
tlie pioneer of progress; inertia is the
enemy of reform, aud the obstinate foe
to human liberty and happitiese. Let
the World's workers see to it that agita
tion is the watchword, and equal rights
will In due time prevail. ' c.
THE "PE8SIMIST."
We are glad to see our able corre
spondent at Washington confessing
himself ready to acknowledge the popu
lar will of the progressing public iu re
gard to woman's enfranchisement, even
though he accepts the Inevitable with a
demurrer that, but for his concluding
remark upon the subject, would doubt
less eud with an obstinate determina
tion to resist the logic of events to the
uttermost. It is not dear to us as to
how he cau conclude, with the pes
simist, that "whatever Is, is right,"
when he tells us that Woman SuHrage
iu Wyoming has not been productive ol
good results, and yet it.
Perhaps our correspondent has had
some experience in Wyoming aiialagou
to (hat of the editor of the Oregon State
Right Democrat. The editor in ques
tion is said to be very fond of his regu
lar dram. In crossing the continent
last summer he did not encounter the
least obstacle iu the way of bis regular
supply of the anient till he reached
Wyoming. But wlien he put up at the
hotel iu Laramie City and called for his
accustomed glass of grog, the joke goes
that the laudlonl was compelled to send
out for the iuebriating article, and in so
doing made complaint that since the
abominable habltof voting had been in
dulged in by the women of Wyoming,
tlie uusexetl creatures had voted away
his right to keep a bar. Of course Mr.
Brown decided that lie was not pleased
with the work of Wyoming's women iu
politics; and he had an ally, too, lu his
fellow-suilerer for whisky; so he wrote
to tlie Democrat, saying that suffrage
for women was a failure iu the Terri
tory; that It was unpopular, and so
forth, and the other meu's rights jour
nals, whoe names are legion, caught
up the refrain aud sent it reverberating
from Maine to farthest Oregon.
It mattered not that the governor,
chief justice, the public press, and the
legislature and courts of Wyoming
were unanimous in their praises of the
system; for what was all that when
placed in tlie scale against the individ
ual wants of a lorn traveler In search of
grog? Hut the time Is coming, aye, is
even now upou us, when our friend
Brown will exclaim with the pessimist,
as does our correspondent, "whatever Is,
is right."
Here's our hand, brethren. We oor
dlally accept your late conviction, aud
assure you that we realize somewhat of
the state of things iu heaven, where
there is more joy over one tinner that
repeuteth than over the ninety and uine
that went not asiray. We stand not
upon the order of your euterlng the
ranks, but rejoice that you come at all. '
THE PROTECTING SEX.
Last Monday, as we were rushing
along with tlie tnutifarious duties de
volving upon editor, book-keeper, houe
keeper, dressmaker, and hostess, the
door-belt rung for the half-dozenth time
within an hour, disturbing at the same
time a mental reverie upon the eva
nescence of tin muiilhliigs (for it was the
last day of the year), and the exact
mode of trimming a new polonaise,
through which Die busy needle was Hy
ing rapidly. Mentally hoping for a
cash customer, we answered the bell iu
pereou, and confronted two strangers,
who gazed, one curiously, and the other
expectantly, into our wondering eyes,
while both seemed as badly perturbed
as ourself. Not knowing what else to
do, we Invited them to the sitting-room,
where u cheerful tire somewhat reas
sured us, though it evi.ienllv failed to
put them at ease.
TliU Is the lady ?" said oue, address
ing the other interrogatively, and imll
eatlng us.
"Yes."
"Mr. Brovui," said the first speaker.
by wuy of Introduction. "I am a police
ollleer," politely, throwing buek Ills
overcoat and disclosing thedreadfulstat
and buttons.
What naughty thing had we been
aud gone ami dune? we wondered. But
our cogitations were cut short tiy the
veritable Mr. Brown iu question, who
exolaimed, hurriedly :
"I saw you when you visited the pen
Itentiary at Salem."
"Ah ! I uuderateud. Is there any
thing I can do for you ?"
"Yes. I've got Into trouble, and 1
want you to pay this officer two dollars,
so I oan beset at liberty."
"And what will be the consequence to
you if I refuse ?"
"I'll have to go back to the cllv tail
for another day, aud I don't like the
company tliere. Tlie associations are
bad."
"Then, air, you should not break the
law."
The fellow's impudence was as pitia
ble as sublime.
The officer spoke:
"You said," turning to the prisoner,
"that you were well acquainted witli
this lady, else I should not have brought
you here; aud now it turns out that slit
has sometimes lectured to the convicts,
and you heard her onoe while you were
au inmate of the peniteuliary. There
are thousands of honest, law-abiding
people In Portia ml who can claim ac
quaintance with her on the score ol
having heard her lecture, but I doubt II
she'd feel called upou to give any one
of t hem two dollars on such a pretext."
"But I only ask the money as a loan.
I'm going to the country to-morrow to
go to work."
"Theu," we said, "you'd better re
main in prison till to-morrow, and save
your two dollars."
"But I'm sick."
"Then how could you go to work "
No answer.
"What are you under arrest for?"
"Oettiug drunk."
"And you'll oo.ne loa lady, who eau't
aflord the luxury of getting drunk her
self, aud ask for money to get you out
of drunkeii scrapes, eh ?"
"I thought you'd help rue."
"I'd be glad to, poor fellow, if by so
doing I could do yon any good. But
the iieuitontlary's the best place on
earth for you, sir. You can't get
whisky there, aud no doubt you'll soon
ue there again."
"I'll never drink again."
"That's what they always say," said
the officer, "but they never keep tbeii
word."
With that the policeman apologlzrd
for having intruded, and went his way,
witli the woman's law-maker lu his
custody, leaving u to our cogitations
ami dress-making.
And now, good reader, let us reason
together. Who did sin against this
man's mother, that he was born a
drunkard and a thief? Anil if the
mothers of America must look to tin
ballots of such as he for protection, who
is to surround them with conditions
that shall develop higher specimens ol
maiibood ? Suah an apology for a man
is but a striking proof of the balefulnes.s
of a system that thwarts humanity of its
birthright through the subjugation ol
the mothers. Do men gather grapes ol
thorns or tigs of thistles ? Not a guilty
man Is convicted of crime but the phys
iologist can trace out the ante-uatul
conditions of the motherhood that
prompted him, at last, to commit the
deed. Not a man becomes a hopeless
Inebriate except he inherit the appetite
through some cause uot generally ob
servable to the surface thinker. But, to
a member of the disfranchised and con
sequently impoverished sex, the idea of
a member of the protecting sex appeal
ing to us for financial aid, while they
have all the political power In their
hands, Is the sublimity of absurdity.
Let the meu that gel the profits from
the liquor tratlle liquidate the debts of
the druok, emphatically say we.
Senator Dawes, from the committee
ou public buildings, reported adversely
on the petitions from the friends of
Woruau Sullntge asking lo be allowed
the use ol the Senate chamber to present
arguments before the committee on
privileges and elections in favor of a
Sixteenth Amendment. In submitting
the report, the Senator said the com
mittee was not adverse to the Amend
ment, bul the Senate had invariably de
clined to allow the chamber to be used
for any other purpose than the business
of the Senate.
Marcus D. Boruck, editor and propri
etor of the California Spirit of the Timet,
is nut with au illustrated December edi
tion replete with interest and informa
tion. The well executed cuts, repre
senting California seenery, are only
equalled by the admirably written arti
cles of det-cription with which the pub
lication Is filled.
EDITOHIAL COEBBSPONDEHOE.
Oca Kkadebs or th New Xobthwcst:
Pleasure-seeking Is ooe thing, health
seeking decidedly another. At least
this was our verdict, as, tossing rest
lessly fur three days and nights in a nar
row berth on board the good steamer
"Elder," we watched the rise and fall of
the mighty Pacific through the square
of glass that served to light our state
room, as wretched and retching a speci
men of humanity as ever attempted to
regain shattered health and restore lost
strength by a voyage to a milder clime.
What disgustlngsoup-drlnklngs those
more fortunately constituted passengers
did keep up iu the lower cabin during
those dreadful days, to be sure; and to
what unreasonable lengths it seemed
that their merriment extended. Then
the dizzy aud aimless gyrations of the
sea-gulls, never sea-sick, always hun
gry, now whirling backward, now round
ill circle', and again swooping cm maste
after the scraps cast overboard from the
ship's larder, their tireless activity was
really exhausting to the sea-sick be
holder. "Is uot this dreadfully rough?" we
gapped, as, clinging to tlie arm of an
obliging gentleman, we reached the
deck on the morning of tlie third day,
our best gait being u ludicrous cross be
tween an umblu and a shuttle.
"Not (taitieularly so fur Ibis seasou oi
the year," lie answered, as he leisurely
I'ghled u cigar, the fumes of which
caused us, iu defiance of propriety, to
pay immediutu tribute to old Neptune.
This was our only attempt at sociabil
ity during the jussuge, and we hud a
troug conviction that this effort was
uot appreciated by our fellow-passengers,
eo beating au undignified retreat
from deck, where everything was "so
lovely," we souk more limp and help
less than before upou our disordered
shelf, feebly gasping, "Oh, that mine
enemy mightgo tuseu and get sick."
Steadily on and ou went the steamer,
buffeting the fierce wiuds thai dispute!
tier progress and lashed the sea into
great billows, tbut bore her uow to theii
foamy crests, and now pluugei! her reel
ing into their deepest recesses. On
.Monday, however, the wind shifted, the
sails were spread, and the favoring
ales, atoning for their previous obstl
uule ranting, lent thelruld to the steam
power they hud so striven against, aim
on Tuesduy at 2 o'clock a. m. we entered
(lie Golden Gate and stopped, pauting,
at the feet of the Golden City.
Foggy and gloomy she looked, in her
drowsy early morning garb, and, if first
impressions were ulways lustiug, we
could never conscientiously write an
eulogy upou Sun frauclsco. A bath,
breakfast, rest, aud sunlight will, how
ever, work wonders for dilapidated hu
muulty, and, refreshed and aided by
these, we fouud the city in the after
noon to be neither foggy nor drowsy,
but bright with sunlight, throbbiug
with life, aud agog with business.
Hustle anil hurry everywhere held sway.
A heavy ruin, the first of the seasou,
had fallen ou Sunday ulgbt, cuusiug the
streets to look fumlliarly sloppy. With
the exceptiou of a walk up Montgomery
street, we were com net led to fureeo
Sight-seeing about the city until our re
turn from an interior county, whither
we go lu search of health. Contenting
ourself, with this oxceptiou, with view
ing metropolitan life from the windows
of our hotel, we passed the day. Speul
the early evening iu pleasant chit-chat
with the erewhile foreman of the New
Noktiiwest office, now au industrious-iype-stiuker
on the Morning Call. Ac
cepting his invitation to "show us
round" oti our return, we hade him au
early good-uveniug, aud retired to oui
dreams, in which were blended a strange
medley of home and absent ones, sea
gulls, ami heaving billows, further jour
ueyiugs, and future avoirdupois which
haply might result therefrom.
The deepest solitudes are not an loueli
its are the peopled thoroughfares of a
itrauge city, aud nowhere in the great
realm of naturo does a person feel of so
little consequeuoe as lu a crowd where
each one carries with him a self-sufficiency
that leaves room for uo thought
of others. We have often thought that
the most deeolulo picture that could he
drawn was that of Tennyson's "ship
wrecked sailor, wailiug for a sail." We
arc now constrained to believe that its
companion piece could lie produced in
"a home-sick stranger looking vainly
for a familiar face."
Yonder ou the curb-stone sits an old
mail, thedamp breezes blowing his long
gray locks about his shoulders, while
"his old, decrepit, withered hand that
palsy shook" exteuded, mutely asking
for alms. Jostling crowds surge by;
the trembling ialm remains empty, as
each, intent ujion business, cogitating
upon a rise, or nervously foreboding a
full Iu stocks, or busily revolving some
scheme of promised pleasure, extends
uelther veneration or pity lo the needs
of indigent :ige. But tliere! A woman,
whose black garments reveal the fact
that the "death angel" has visited her
household, perha with tender thoughts
of a venerated father whose white locks
wore but now hidden from her sight iu
the greeu bosom of Lone Mountain,
speaks a few words, and placing a
bright coin iu tho outstretched baud,
moves ou. Slowly toiling up the busy
mart, past windows ablaze with jewels
aud precious stones, past massive, piles
whose vaults securely hold the coined
wealth of au opulent city, pushed this
way and that, without regard to age,
sex, or condillou, is au old womau. If
women are born to be protected, why is
II, we involuntarily ask ourself, that the
primal law Is so llagrantly violated by
men, who extend to this poor creature
uelther courtey, protectionnnor aid, as
with feeble, outstretched hand and yet
feebler voice she implores it? But let
us uot form a hasty judgmeut, for, be
stowing uHiu her a look which we will
for sweot Charity's sake not Interpret
as oue of uunnyuuee, a gentleman's
baud goes to his pocket, aud rattling!
the heavy watch-chain, as It Is, altera!
minute's search among the loose coin,
withdrawn, he deposits in the out
stretohed hand a dime, and virtuously
conscious of duty performed, turns his
back and talks agaiu of "Ophlr." Help
lessness iu a great city! Can misery
coin n sentence more suggestive of woe?
Sorrow treading closely upou the heels
of joy; vice hungrily seeking to entrap
virtue; strength crowding weakness to
the wall, the primal sin of selfishness
overshadowing all; truly the great city
is man-made; the beautiful country Is
of God. But these are realities of the
day, not dreams of tho night to which
we loug ago referred, and asking pardon
for the digression, we will bid the reader
a temporary good-bye, a, boarding the
swift and queenly "Yoseiuite," we turn
our face toward Vallejo. C. A. C
Sau Frauclsco, December 19, 1877.
rOSEIGN NEWS.
Nine hundred horses perished iu the
vicinity of Sislovu during the recent
storm.
Iu compliance with a summons by
telegraph, Midbat Puslru has started for
Loudon.
The Freneh Academy of Naval Sci
ences has elected Ralph Waldo Emer
son one of its foreign associates.
It Is reported tliere are 36,000 sick iu
Bulgaria, and supplies are inadequate.
Die number probably includes the sick
among Turkish prisoners.
From the tone of the English aud
Continental press a war involving a
greater portion of Europe is very liable
to be the outcome of the present situa
tion. It is believed that should Kussia reject
mediation, Lord Beacousfield is prepar
ing to appeal to the country on the
question of declaring war fertile defense
of British interests.
A Constantinople dispatch says that
Austria, iu reply to theTurklsh circular,
reserves the right to intervene on the
opening of peace negotiations as a guar
anteeing and frontier power.
Bridges crossing the Danube at Sim
mtza were taken up to prevent their
destruction. It is hoped the bridge at
Petroeheiii, Just reported as having beeu
carried away, cau be repaired.
Ex-Preshleut Grant landed at Malta
last Saturday. He took luncheon with
the'Duke and Duchess of Ediuburg, and
dined with the governor. A gala per
formance of opera was given iu houor
of the General in the evening.
The J'ott publishes the following in
official form: "We are sorry to gather
that there is little prospect of England's
ffers of inediatiou being accepted at St.
Petersburg. Russia seems disposed to
rely on the possibility of engagiug the
Porte iu direct negotiations."
The Daily Newt' Bucharest corre
spondent states that intelligence is re
ceived that the bridge at Petroeheiii,
the last remaining across tlie. Danube,
has been carried away. Few boats oc
casionally cross, passage is hazardous,
and several persons have already beeu
drowned.
It is impossible to procure full infor
mation regarding the condition of the
Russian and Itouumuiau soldiers and
Turkish prisoners who were ou their
way to Bucharest duriug the snow
storm, but from disconnected details at
hand, It is evident there bits been terri
ble sulleciug.
The Madrid Upoea states Dan Carlos
was expelled from France at the re
quest of the Spanish government. Ex
Queen Isbella has wrltteu the Parts
Figaro protesting against the expul
sion of Don Carlos and repudiating the
accusation that she was conspiring with
him against King Alfonso.
The JleraltVt London special says:
"Iu English military olrcles wr is con
sidered almost inevitable. Arrange
ments are completed and regiments al
lotted for au army of SO.OOO men, am(,
ste are already taking toward the for
mation of a nucleus for a reserve army.
Profound uneasiness prevails here, with
great depression in trade and finance."
The Timet' London special says that
vast supplies of canned food are being
shipped to Malta. It Is said on excollcut
authority that 60,000 Indian troops are
being prepared to move at call. That
Egypt, either by force or purchase, will
be tukeu possession of, is a contingency
liable aud almost sure to occur. It is
urged that the present is the most favor
able time for war, owing to the vast
number of unemployed men who would
eullst to escape starvation.
After an exceedingly difficult passage
over the snow-covered mountains and
frozeu footiaths, the vauguanl of a Rus
sian division has occupied the Balkan
passes between Arabakouk jyid Sophia,
aud favalry lias already been stationed
on the Sophia roads. The Tu.ks were
taken by surprise, consequently the
Russians lost only live wounded. Aloug
the eastern front, namely, the River
Lom, tlie Turks have withdrawn all
their positlons.leavingonly small-armed
bodies, composed of troops aud inhabi
tants. Tlie latter, with arms, retire to
woods after burning their own villages.
Thomas Gorman, of Salem, got drunk
the other day, aud whipped his wife
most unmercifully, nfter which hedrove
her out of doors, where she nearly per
ished from exposure. To got eveu, the
Injured luw punished the fellow with
twenty-five days' imprisonment in the
county jail. Tlie dally poiers call for a
public whlpplug.post. We would sug
gest an asylum for the iuebriute, and for
bis wife, liberty.
We have received from Senator Mitch
ell a copy of his fumous speech on "The
Northern Puclfia and Portlaud, Salt
Lake, and South Pass Railroads." It
is a most elaborate and exhaustive nr.
gumentin fuvorof railroad legislation
for the Pacific Northwest, ami we opine
that the Senator wlll6ecure the needed
Congressional subaldvif it n i... ..,.....
at all.
EE0EN TE VENTS.
The port of Bangor, Maine, is olosed
to navigation by Ice. . m
Secretary Thompson left for his Indl
aun home Juuuary 2d for it week's rest.
The President und Mrs. Hayes cele
brated their silver wedding on the even
ing of December 31st.
The Treasury now holds $31(5,217,550
In U. S. bonds to secure bank circula
tion, aud $13,OSS,000 to secure public de
posits. The Pennsylvania Legislature met at
Harrlsburg January 2d. In the SeDate,
Thomas W. Cooper was chosen Speakei
pro tern. This being an adjourned ses
sion of the legislature of 1S77, with but
few exceptions the officers of both
Houses are the same as last year.
Professor Henry, of the Smithsonian
Institute, reports that Professor Fores
ter, of Berlin, has announced the dis
covery by Palaslu, ou the 29th of De
cember, of a planet of the eleventh mag
nitude, 7 hours, 8 minutes, right ascen
sion; 39 degrees, 37 minutes, north de
clination.
A number of working meu's meetings
were held iu Sau Frauclsco on the even
ing of December 31st. Thomas Bates,
seceder from the Kearny crowd, held
forth at the Palace Ampltheater, but
Wellook bulldozed the meeting by with
drawing most of the audieuce to listen
to him outside.
At a dinner of the Banks Club iu Bos
tou, ou the evening of December 29th,
General Butler spoke at length ou the
political situation. He defended the
President's title, but criticised his South
ern policy. About eighty prominent
Republicans were present. Banks and
others made speeches.
William M. Tweed has offered to con
fess judgment in all the New York City
suits now peudiug against him. These
include two suits on the six million
claim, the same as that in the people's
suit, iu which judgment lias beeu recov
ered, and a suit of $55,000 against Mar
riuer t Tweed, aud one for $500,000
against G. S. Miller fc Tweed. Corpora
lion counsel has accepted the offer In
the last two suits.
The Chicago Tribune's Washington
special says: "At a request of Represen
tative Mills, the President has ordered
a commission to investigate aud report
facts regarding the El Paso troubles.
General Ord is directed to detail two
army officers to act with such person as
Governor Hubbard may appoint ; the
three to constitute a commission. They
will summon witnesses to report whether
Mexicans from Mexico, and what num
ber, took purl in the allair at Sun Ell-
zario."
The weight of testimony seems to
show that there was after all no explo
sion at the Barclay-street fire in New
York, but that the disaster originated
iu the glviug way of heavily laden floors
aud walls of the bulldiug adjoining
Greenfield's candy manufactory, which
carried dowu the latter also, the fire
being communicated instantly by the
overturning of numerous kerosene
lamps. No traee of the presence or ac
tion of any kuowu explosive ageut is
discoverable.
Great exeltemeut has prevaifed in
Washington since Saturday because of
a terrible outrage perpetrated upon a
young lady in the eastern part of the
city last Satuiday. A movement is ou
f.iot for the organization of a vigilance
committee to patrol the streets. Two
negroes were arrested yesterday, and
but for stroug protests of the police the
crowd would have taken the matter in
their own hands aud summarily pun
ished at least oue of them theu and
tliere. A largely attended indignation
meeting was held on the eveniug of
December 30th.
The Oregottian of New Year's day, a
maguilicent double issue, contains,
among a legiou of other good things, au
admirable scientific thesis from the peu
of Dr. William H. Watkius, upou the
manner of propagating diseases by
"bacteria" aud other parasitic animal
cube iu both the animal and vegetable
kingdoms. Now, let the learned doctor
pursue his investigations yet further,
aud we opine that lie will demonstrate
the theory we have loug advocated, thai
drunkeuuess aud the tobacco mania are
each traceable to the presence of para
sites, the former iu the blood and the
latter in the mouth, that cry constantly
for their peculiar food, aud thus create
the unconquerable appetite for these
stimuli, which is akin to hog measles,
sheep scabies, and human itch.
Mrs. Belle Lynch, of Uklali, Call
fornia, who has "all the rights she
wants," cannot complain that men treat
her as though she were a man. Al
ready she has been whipped by two in
dignant readers, and the people have
solemnly resolved to drive her out of
the country. Upon the death of her
husband she assumed charge of Ills pa
per, and, It seems, said offensive things
about her readers, under the cloak of
her dependent femininity. We like to
see a woman who "has her rights" en
joy them.
Our young and talented friend J. G.
Stevenson, of the Oregon City High
School, has taken unto himself a wife.
Of course we wish him and the fair
girl from Eugene, who has undertaken
to care for him, all imaginable happi
ness through a long and prosperous life.
Mrs. Collin, of Oakland, California,
died on the 27th of December from a
stab received from her son, a young
man about seventeen years of are. The
trouble arose because his breakfast was
not prepared to suit him.
Two things in this world that should
not be trilled with a woman's opinion
aud the business end of a hornet.
There-is little difference betweeu not
possessing aud not desiring.
NBWSm5MS.
STATS AND TXHrNaUI.
Tacoma needs a jail.
Venison is almost a drug In the Seat
tie market.
A skating rink bus been opened t
Walla Walla.
A 023 pound steer was recently killed
iu Boise City.
A rich vein has beeu struok In the
Tellurium mine.
Oats have advanced to $2-a hundred
weight at Seattle.
Real estate at Walla Walla has as
upward tendency.
An express office has at last been
started in Brownsville.
Counterfeit notes are making their
appearance in Dayton, W. T.
In Marion county, 117 marriage li
censes were issued during 1S77.
A dozen new mines are beins opened
in the Suake River district, I. T.
A surveying party is engaged laying
ut a township on PHI Creek, W. T.
Charles Robertson, on Touohet, lost
three children in teu days with diphthe
ria.
Mr. Buchanan, of Beutou county, is
raising some very valuable Perclieron
horses.
B. F. Drake's foundry at Salem is
turning out a great deal of mill machin
ery this winter.
The Dallas Jtemizer will henceforth
be issued on Fridays Instead of Satur
days, as heretofore.
Eighty thousand dollars have been
tlready subscribed to the Dyten and
Grund Roude Railroad.
The bridge on South Mill Creek, Dear
Salem, which was washed away by the
late iresuet, is Delug replaced.
At Salem the stage of the river is but
two feet above low water, and boats
have difficulty crossing the bars above.
The Herald claims that the popula
tion of New Tacoma has increased dur
ing the year lS77from 80 persons to fully
700.
Governor Cbadwlek has appointed
Mr. N. O. Weldeu a Notary Public In
and for Oregon, to reside iu Claokamas
county.
Frank Rayburn, of King's Valley,
Beutou county, disposed of a steer at
Albany receutly which weighed 1,685
pouuds.
Prof. Collier, of the Willamette Uni
versity, will spend the present wiuterat
Topeka, Kausas, returning to Oregon in
the spring.
W. H. Fife, of Tacoma, has expended
one buudred dollars to bring water to
his bouse through a pipe, aud allows alt
bis neighbors to use it free.
It is said that Hon. Thomas Char
man, of Oregon City, will submit his
name to the Republican Convention for
the office of State Treasurer.
Prof. O. B. Johnson, curator of the
Oregon Natural History Society, went
to Uorvallis tins week to dell veer a series
of lectures on natural history.
The Seattle Tribune says: Though
not much is heard uow-a-duys of the
Olympia railroad, we are assured that it
is neither dead nor sleeping, but that it
is possessed of more life aud substauee
thau ever before. Early iu 1S78, the
ties, which are uow being got out, will
ue laid, at the same time the Iron being
-tretched across them, and that by the
4th of July, IS7S, the irou horse will be
dully praucitig from the capital city to
the point of junction with the Northern
Pacific Railroad. The bonds of the
company are selling readily at 95 per
cent, of tbeir face value. The road is of
three feet guage, of about the same char
acter as tbut from Seattle to Newcastle.
W0EE TOE EVERYBODY.
Circulate petitions for a 16th Amend
ment, to enfranchise the womeu, not of
one Stale alone, but of all the States
and Territories. Woman's right to a
voice iu the government under which
she lives is a uulural right, aud must be
guarauteed to her bv tba Federal Con
stitution. .Now is our time to knock at
the doors of Congress aud plant this
right deep in the fundamental law of
the land.
Petitions fora Sixteenth Amendment,
for woman's eufrauobiseineut, from
10.000 United States citizens, from
tweuty-two States, have beeu presented
iu opeu House aud Senate by 31 Repre
seututi vesand 20 Senators siuce Jauuary
19, 1S77. The friends of Woman Suf
frage iu both houses, who intend to ad
vocate the Ainendmeut iu the new
Congress, desire its friends to sustain
them by mammoth petitious from every
quarter. Circulate this petition throuirlt
the autumu aud winter un to Januarv
i0, 1S78. Obtain the names of all who
have signed similar petitions to the
present Congress, and as many more as
possible. Head the petitions with sucli
well-kuown names as vou wish to liav
appear in the Congrestional Record.
Fill the blanks for State, town, and
county, that members may refer to.
their own districts iu presenting peti
tions. Have all the names siirned
plainly with iuk on two copies of the
petition, one for the House, aud one for
the Senate. Ask each signer to remit.
at least teu cents to the Treasurer of the
National Woman Sufirage Association,
Mrs. Elleu E. Sursent. No. 1.733 T
Sales street, Washtugton. D. C. to
defray expenses of classification for
presentation to the45th Congress. Kver,,
name received before December 1, 1S77,.
will be classified with its appronriate.
State aud county petitions, and pre
sented by the appropriate Representa
tive and Senator. Send with the twti.
tious name and post office address of
each one who obtains signatures, so the
officers may kuow the workers.
Cut this out, and paste it at th ho.!
of a sheet of paper aud go to work. Put
the names of men on the right, and
iv omen on tlie left of your petition, and
trace every name carefully iu ink :
PBTITIOX FOR
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
To the Senate and Jlouse of Rrw,'
latives, in' Congress attembled : The
undersigned, citizens or th tt.,i,i
States, residents of the State of -
county of , town of , earn
estly pray your lionoralila
- .w wuvaj m
adopt measures for so ameudlng the
v-.inuiion as to prohibit the several
StatesfromdisfraucliIsiugUnited States
citizens on account of sex.
Wlni i. -i
, iu ueuouo aoout the annual
meeting of the Stale WomausulJrg&
Association? It seems to us qmtetlme
the matter wim tn.t,if u ..!a f .ui t ...ii
"b &-vu' AMUICV,
do not let the meetlugs lag, we beg you.