The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-03
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.


tourney down the Sound. The water,
which at the time of sailing was as
placid as the Willamette on n midsum-
mer morning, gradually grew turbulent
and furious, and by the time that we
had ploughed its depths for a dozen
hours, the waves had lashed themselves
into frenzy and disturbed the meals OF
most of us.
We touched for a few moments ut the
various ports-Ludlow, Gamble, Town
send and so on-and reached Her Majes-
tvs Dominion about p. NJ. on Tues
day.
The rain was by this time pouring
down III a heavy Oregon fashion, delug-
ing the streets and sidewalks, bringing
into requisition long unused umbrellas
and causing the use of numbering
vehicles with ewe- necked, ratish-
looking and half-asleep horses, whose
services we were glad indeed TO sum-
mon. We drove to the Driard House,
branch of the Colonial Hotel, a
building recently opened, after a Rip
Van Wrinkle sleep Of half a dozen
years. This hotel was built when Vic
toria was in her palmy days-when
mines were good, and miners with pock-
cts full of dust were far more num-
erous than now. We learn that our
friend Mr.. Jacobs, the present proprie-
tor of the st. Charles hotel in Portland,
was once "mine host'' in this establish
ment. The house is being thoroughly
repaired and refurnished. Two addi-
tional stories are being added, and the
prospect is good for the new proprietor
to realize Il handsome income from flu
ture probabilities. As sample of de-
probation in Nictoria's real estate we
may mention the fact that this building,
which was originally erected at a cost of
$4,000, was bought the other day, lot in
cluded, for 5000. Victoria has evident
ly once been a very flourishing place;
but like all towns that owe their prom
inence to mines, its success was short
lived, and il to-day has many tenant
less houses that are rapidly falling to de-
cay.
At eight o'clock, on Tuesday evening,
we repaired to the lecture room, COM
Portable and we'll lighted hall, where
probably were assembled "a hundred men
to hear woman lecture. But three
women were out, the men having come,
as Miss Anthony aptly and archly eX-
pressed it, to hear women scolded. If
the lecture had been intended for men
the women would have been out in
/ force.
We were struck with the regular
Johnny Bull features of the really intel
ligent audience. There is an indescriba-
BILE difference of nationality that is ev-
erywhere palpable to the understanding,
but it is not possible to tell just why il
lated the people in few opening re-
marks upon the privileges they enjoy
under the rule of n woman. While these
people of Her Majesty's Dominion really
I IGNtIt tlitGi NtutNllf We iAhI AAiaN AANe
rejoice i'm the belief that they are virtu-
ally free from the mother country. The
Canadian and British Columbian Gov
ernments having recently been united,
the grown-up daughters of Queen Vic
toria have a strong desire to form a mat
rimonial alliance with Uncle Sam, and
we predict that they will soon either set
up for themselves in a national house
keeping establishment of their own or
ally themselves with us if we are will
! ing TO assent to the union.
Miss AnthOny's first lecture was upon
the Power of the Ballot, in the hands of
both men and women, and the fact that
it was so well received by the citizens of
Victoria was plain proof to us that all
the men as well as all the women of
British Columbia hope some day to
vote.
Her second lecture was devoted MAIN
ly to answering objections that are usu-
ally urged against the exercise of suf-
frage among the masses, particularly
by the women. The audience was about
the same as on the first evening, except
that instead of three women there were
seven or eight in attendance.
We particularly urged the gentlemen
to bring their wives on the third even
ing, which, as before, they signally failed
to do. Miss A. told the men that half
dozen women had visited her at the no.
tel, and they had all told her that wife
whipping was very common in NictO-
ria, and she proceeded in her peculiarly
facetious style to give vent to her opin-
ions in way that finally walked up i'm
the newspapers letters from imaginary
correspondents, after the manner Of the
Portland Herald, showing plainly that
at last the stolid SONS of Britain are
awakening TO the fact that women
some of them at least-know their rights,
and knowing, dare maintain them. The
cry lecture. We find them intelligent,
industrious and law-abiding. While
there seems to be no desire upon the
part of the races TO intermarry or min
gle socially, there is not that prejudice
of caste existing here which we see in
Portland. 4 colored man is spoken of
as Mr. and n colored woman is always
addressed as a Iddy.
Mr. Higgins, of the British CoIoaist,
seems very much a gentleman. He was
out to our meetings every evening, and,
in the main, reported them quite fairly.