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TO THE AFFLICTED:

l wish 10 state that lost the use Of my left
arm from my shoulder to the ends of my FIN
gers by a stroke Of palsy. I could not raise my
hand or arm from my side, and was fearful
that there was no cure for me. Ny friends at
the Dalles advised me to visit Portland and
place myself under the care of DR.. Aborn. ar
rived in Portland last evening by the Dalles
boat, and Immediately called at Dr. AbOrn's
Office and made my ease known. The Doctor
commenced treatment at once, and in ten min
utes time, to my great surprise and joy, he
performed a complete cure, so that now
1 have the use Of my arm, hand and
fingers, and can raise my arm up over my
head with as much ease as can raise my
right arm. This certainly is a very remarkable
cure, and in my estimation speaks volumes 10
the skill Of Dr. AbOrn. I am stopping at the
American Exchange Hotel; will leave tO-mOr-
row for home. ! am stOck-raiser, and reside
at Willow Creek, WascO county, Oregon, eighty
miles south of the Dalles.
WM. BURDEN.
PORTLAND, Oregon, March p, 1872.
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LOOK OUT.

Those journals that indulge IN the
luxury of indorsing recent SANDER
unon the editor and proprietor of the
NEW NORTHWEST, which has just
reached her, are hereby warned that
they are liable for damages, as is the
proprietor of the Vancouver sheet, which
originated the same. Who wants to
follow the Statesman? There is a point
beyond which forbearanee ceases to be a
virtue. a. J. DUNIwAY.
SALEM, Oregon March 1S, 1872.
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DIFFERENCES IN WoMEN.-There is
nothing more distinctive among women
than the difference of relative ace amon~
them. Two women of the same nnm9
Der OF years will be substantially of diff
ferent epochs of life-the one weariad
IN mind, faded in person, deadened i'm
sympathy; the other fresh and youno-
both in face and feeling; with symna,
tines as Keen aud broad as they were i'm
her hrst youth, and more so; still as
easy to be amused, as ready to love, and
as quick TO learn as when she first
emerged from the school room. The
one you invOluntarily suspect of under
stating her age by half dozen years OF
more when she tells you she is only
forty; the other makes you wonder If
she has not Overstated hers by just as
much when she laughingly eonfesses TO
the same age. The one is an old wom-
an, who seems as if she had never been
young; the other only girl, who seems
as if she would never grow old; and
nothing is equal between them, but the
number of days each has lived.
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THE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES
REPORT.

The Report of the State Investigating
Committee appointed by the last Legis-
lature is at hand. While exposing many
abuses and corruption under the last
State Administration, it is so intensely
partisan throughout as to deprive it of
any value whatever as an authoritative
document. 1t is about time we had an
Investigating Committee TO look after
our present State Government.
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PLAIN WORDS TO ONE WHO NEEDS
THEM.


Sylvester Simpson, word in your
ear. You are a young man of average
personal appearance and of something
above average ability. Your opportuni-
ties for education have been ample, and
your friends, in their well meant but in
judieious endeavors to further your in
terests, have heaped premature honors
upon you, which your embryo faculties
are proving themselves unable to sus-
tain. Hence, we find that malignant
hydrocephalOus is leading you to make
fool of yourself; and as there is great
danger that this disease will take a
chronic form if not speedily arrested,
and thus prove your future undoing, as
a matrOnly friend of all boys who are
wise beyond their years lin their own
estimation), we propose to lay our jour-
nalistic hands upon your head and in
all kindness attempt TO repress its ten
dency to further abnormal EXPANSION.
You are not the first "youth" who has
made a fool Of himself and proved his
native want Of brain-balance by saying
scurrilous things about the editor of this
paper and her fearless, conscientious
work. We are disposed to deal kindly
with yOu-far above your manifest des-
erts-in this necessary medical pre-
scription. Older and wiser men have
erred as you have done and lived to be-
come ashamed of their conduct in a
very short time, and we are not without
hope that you will do likewise.
We have never seen a copy of the
Maseppa, of which you boast yourself a
constant reader, and which in your at
tempts to be "smart" you undertake to
compare to the NEW NORTHWEST, but
a gentleman who has seen it assures us
that, like the Mercury since it came un-
der yO,T control, it is a sheet that seizes
upon the innocent and truthful ideas of
other journalists and converts them
into the low, wicked slang of the saloons
and brothels.
Now, Sylvester, when the incipient
down upon your chin takes on the sub
stance of the beard of manhood; when
the embryo brain power that you pos
sess shall tone down its pruriency;
when you become the man, mentally.
morally and physically, which we and
all your friends yet hope to see you be-
come; in short, when you get cured of
hydrocephalous and acquire a little of
the solid wisdom of which you now get
but a glimmer, we shall expect you to
prove your manhood by acknowledging
that personal scurrility is not argument.
and that the woman who conscientious
ly exeoriates the man-made evils of So
ciety is honestly respected by every
man who has the shadow of a claim to
the title of gentleman. We have ex-
pected better things of you than YOU
have done, and if your future conduct
shall warrant us in extending to you
the right hand of fellowship, we shall
forgive your late indiscretion and offer
you the same right cordially; but we
will not descend to the bandying OF
words or arguments with any boy who
exhibits such prurient tastes, save fol
the purpose of neutralizing the innate
scurrility peculiar to his years.
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S. A. CLARKE.
SALEM, March 1st. ]

SALEM, March 1st, 1872.
1Ly Dear Sdm:-YOu do what YOU
call editing the Statesman, and appear
happily unconscious of the fact that Won
thus make yourself laughing-stock for
the public. L have often asked if Won
had no friends to advise you, but have
hitherto been unable to discover any.
Your issue of last Tuesday settles the
question. You must be friendless. or
you would never have published such a
shallow bid for office. 1t is a melan-
choly reflection that daily paper, in
this enlightened age, at the capital of
Oregon, should be conducted by one
whose chief claims to notoriety are
impudence and imbeciIity.
And so you want Office-want to be
County Clerk-and say so in your Sam
Clarke style; but in the next breath de-
clare that you have no ambition for of
flee save to place the Statesman on an
independent footing" o, SamI that's
too thin! you can't deceive anybody
with such clap-trap as that any more
than the jackass could pass off for the
king of beasts by covering his body
with the lions skin, while his long ears
were left exposed. The long ears Will
show, hey, Sam?
Your whole article was in wretehed
bad taste, but that brilliant (?) idea of
yours about employing competent
deputy" that capped the climax oI
stupidity. People will ask, why not
give the Office to competent man at
once, and allow him the emoluments
as well as the drudgery? Why should
the people of Marion county be taxed 10
put money into Sam Clarke's pocket
True, you try to explain by saying, Il
can stifi write leading articles for my
paper" o, fie, Saml you can't do any
such thing as write a pleading article
office or no office. You and your paper
are dead weight for the Republican
party to carry, and when you talk about
generous patronage" you know very
well that you economic the truth, for
there are scores of good Republicans
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NJ. F. SPENCER.


PORTLAND, Ogn., March Sth, 1872
Mr.. NJ. F. iSpeneer-,Sr: L should
despair of reaching you by this answer
after your crushing epistle, which 1 do
you the justice to print, exactly as you
sent it, were it not that / know that
there is sufficient of the old Father
Adam curiosity about you to make you
borrow some other mans NEW NORTH
WEST after thus peremptorily refusing
your own.
Now, sir, in all kindness, want, for
the benefit of yourself, myself and the
public at large, to ask you a few leading
questions:
lst. Did you send back the OregORidn,
marked refused" when it came out
with an infamous SANDER upon the
social purity of Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
I'd. Did you, as protector of wom-
anhoOd (for such you must consider
yourself to be, or you would be willing
TO allow women the privilege to protect
themselves feel your sense of justice
outraged, when every newspaper in
Oregon except the NEW NORTHWEST
garbled Victoria Woodhulrs article on
chastity, and persisted in making the
public believe that she said vile things
which all those papers kne'0 she did not
mean?
Sd. Did you grow angry and stop the
Statesman, because, when /, as a cOnsci-
entious public journalist, exposed the
corrupt manipulation of the State finan-
ces, in which the Statesman editor was
implicated, that editor did his puny best
to vilify and slander me?
4th. Ifmen, who are the acknowledged
rulers of a great nation, have social rec
ords so black as that which was COM
PEELED, as truthful journalist, to depict,
in order that men like yourself might
pluck the beam from their party's eye,
is it not time that mans rights journals
stop their cant about the alleged impur-
ity of man-styled women leaders? g.
5th. Do you not know that whom the
gods destroy they first make mad?
9Th. Are you not now satisfied that
whip of scorpions is the only weapon
with which women may hope to drive
party politicians along the paths of jus
tice?
9TH. Do you suppose that your name
on my subscription list is absolutely
to keep the New NORTHWEST
alive?
sth. Don't you know that every man
who thus shows his fright at sight of
truth by stopping his paper, but calls
forth n score of new subscribers to attend
the funeral of his signature?
9th. Haven't you been a little hasty?
10th. Had you not better read your
own NORTHWEST until the subscription
expires, aud then renew it like a man
writing your dissent of its doctrines for
publication in its columns, where they
will always be eourteously treated
rather than be compelled to borrow it
from your wiser and more good-natured
neighbOrs in order to see what it has to
say about you?
llth. Have you wife, and if you
have, did you consult her wishes when
you "refused' the NEW NORTHWEST &?
All of which is respectfully and kindly
submitted by your sincere friend,
A. ]. DUNIwAY.
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A WOMAN's VIEWS ON POLITICS.

EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
1 am not much of politician, but /
often hear my husband and others talk
ing on that subject, and 1 read your
paper and others. 1t seems to me, from
all l learn about the present state of
political affairs, that there is no great
difference between the parties now-that
the Republican party has the offices,
and the Democratic party pretty gener-
ally despairs of getting possession of
them, and therefore proposes passive
policy" in the next compaign.
Now, admit that the Republicans
fought for and obtained the freedom of
the colOred race, does this give them
any right to sit down with their laurels
on and enjoy for a term of years the Of
fees of the Government, while Woman
Suffrage and the great Temperance Re
form movement must be kept back for
their ease and emolument? 1t seems to
me that patriotism is degraded by pay,
or, at all events, that only the War PEN
sion Office should be rightfully looked
to for payment for any military ser
vice rendered the country. 1 cannot
cOncede that General Grant and the
great army of fRepublican nofiice-holders-
very few of them having been in actual
military service-have an indefinite
right to hold the offices of the country
as bonus for their services. Then why
not seize the present moment to fur
nish candidates for an entire National
and State organization of the Woman
Suffrage and Temperance Reform move
ment? Why not nominate candidates
for President and Vice President, Con-
gressmen, and all State offices where
elections are to take place? If the De-
mocracy, as they propose, will every
where vote for anything or anybody to
beat the Republicans, itseems to me that
we ought to allow them change to give
our causes their strength. What doyou
think of this? only write as an in
quirer and an earnest friend ofthe reforms
l have mentioned. Mrs. NJ. +. L.
SALEM, Oregon.
p. S. a friend suggests that 1 ought
to add that our causes are the only ones
that could draw votes from the Repub-
liean party, and thatif we gained a great
victory and carried the National and
State offices, our candidates being re-
formers, no peril could attach to past is
sues or results, and the country would
be carried forward safely for many years
for the freedom and the good of all.
Mrs. NJ. L. L.
In reply to the suggestions of our
friend we have merely to say that if the
pledges of political partisans were TO be
at all relied upon, her opinions would
be correct. But the bedrock Democrats,
despite their demands for a third party,
would all vote straight Democratic tick
cts. We have seen then tried. The
party whippers-on would drive them up
to vote next June like sheep, and as
there is really no political issue worth
contending for between Republicans and
Democrats, we do not feel disposed to
use Woman Suffrage or Temperance as
cats paw to rake out political chest
nuts for either party.
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UNANIMOUS.

The Multnomah Republican County
Convention last Saturday was remark
dOty unanimous affair. Twenty-four
delegates were nominated and elected
on the first ballot. All of them were
members Of the Convention, too. How
pleasant tits for such as brethren are in
unity to dwell!
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Lectures in the Valley Towns.

DRs sBOITRNE. distinguished during nearly
Il y twenty wears in san Francisco, for his great
success in curing Chronic and Acute Diseases,
WITHOUT THE USE or MEDICINES being on MS
rpfI1rn nom n northern tour, will visit the towns
in the Willamette valley within feW Weeksy%ilid %
will endeavOr to increase the measure OF ~ ustlut
ssFeaIth-its preservation and restoration Whgn
fn1naired bv disease, without the use OF Hieql-
ci,,i.,S.i, and also upon Physiology, etc His
,rn nfsss{onal services may be obtained by those
In, have failed to secure desired relief through
tiradss of medicines and medical quacSery, and
none Others, as Or. Bourne will have no time 10
waste upon those who think medicinal pOiSOns
necessary to the cure of disease
Ifany desire to correspond. my address is
DR. GEORGE NJ. BOURNE,
n32tf Portland, Oregon
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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

SALEM, March II, 1872.
DEAR NEW NORTHWEST:
Very large audience last night in OPP
era House. Subject-Bible and Women.
Speeches at close by Davenport, CLANCY,
Thornton, Miller and others. Enthusi-
astic meeting. Appointment again for
tonight. Movement growing immense
ly popular. Mail going. Greeting.
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Henry Ward Beecher said to his con-
gregatiOn i'll n sermon on Home Life and
Hospitality, Sunday: 81 honor the wOm-
an who comes to me when l call in the
dress suited to her work | don't like to
sit buried in plush in the parlOr waiting
three quarters of an hour for q toilet.
What is good enough for you is good
enough for your friends"
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ASTHMA. BRONCHITIS. cArAnHn

Affections the Lungs, Deafness Discharges
from the Ears, Nervous or General Debility,
Sore Eyes, Granulated Lids, Opacity OF the Cor
nea, Films, etc, are successfully treated by DR..
AbOrn, corner Third and Morrison streets
CHRONIC DISEASES, especially such eases
as have resisted the ordinary modes of treat
ment, are the class OF maladies which Dr.
Aborn treats with unparalleled success. No
CHARGE for Consultation.
Terms-AOderate and agreeable 10 the cir
eumstanees of the patient, 80 thai all who are
wish. n32tf
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TESTIMONIALS.

We, the undersigned having, been the recip-
ents of the services of Mrs. NJ. C. White in
teaching the science Of Music on the Piano
forte, take pleasure in giving a hearty testi-
mOnial that we have employed her in our
families as teacher OF her New method OF in
struction, !" and that it has proven superior to
any method we have ever known; and that al
though the first cost may be a trile greater than
some Others, we believe it 10 be in the agsre-
gate much cheaper, besides being a great econ
only in point Of time. We therefore take great
pleasure fR recommending her to the patron
age Of all who may be deSirOuS Of obtaining a
musical education as n very superior instructor
To those who desire TO know more about 10
before incurring any expense, we give a cordial
Invitation 10 call at our houses and interview
her pupils
tSigned) +. DILLARD HOLMAN,
y. W. cor. Seventh and College Sts.,
Portland
GEO. W. HILLMAN,
2l3 Second ST., Portland.
NAT. IL. LANE,
East Portland.
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EAST PoRrLAND. Jan. 3. lS7I.

Mrs. NJ. c. WHITE-Respectcd Madam =
Having heard OF your System of teaching the
PianOfOrte, known as the Robins American
Method, and having been present n few days
since at the exercise of one OF your pupils, Miss
Lane, of East Portland was much surprised
and exceedingly gratified, at the perfect per-
fOrlnance of the most difficult pieces, (such as
GOtschalk BangO, etc.,l and this after the short
term OF six months tuition.
Allow me to express my appreciation of your
system Of Instruction, and with my best
wishes for your success allow me to subscribe
myself, Yours Respectfully,
tn. PARROT, Prot Of Music,
n36 and Leader OF the East Portland Band.
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Late news from the Eastern States in
dleates That the Republicans have car
ried New Hampshire, and that the in
famous Erie Ring has been overthroyn.
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MRS. MILLER,s TRIUMPH.

PoKrLASD, March 4, Is72
Mrs. NJ. NJ. MILLER:-We beg leave to assure
YOU that your late lecture upon s'afan-HiS
Past, Present and Future's has elected from
those who heard 1t last Thursday many expres-
siOns of high commendation and admiration;
and believing that Its repetition would give
very general qualification, we respectfully ten
der the request that you will consent TO deliver
the lecture again at an early day-time and
place to be selected by yourself
Very respectfully yours,
Geo. W. williams. Geo. II. Durham,
NJ W. Fechheimer, J. W. Whalley,
@. l. DePmns, Geo. Venable smith,
]. a. Chapman, A. Z. Gibbs,
w +. r. Sewail, +. ID. Shattuck,
las W. Davis, r. Wilcox.
W. Lair Hill, o. p Mason,
g. w. Parrish, John DOlan,
Byron z. Holmes, ]. W. Cook,
John Finnen, X j. Walker,
Geo. f. Gilbert, b b. Taylor,
Thomas Young, Col. Jas. X. Parish.
PoRTLASD, Ogn-, March 6, lS72
GESTLEMES:-Gratihedi indeed for the kind
appreciation OF my audience last Thursday
evening, and sensible of the honor done me by
yourselves, / accept your invitation TO repeat
my lecture, and would inform you that the
time and place best suited to my convenience
are Saturday evening, 10th inst, at Philhar-
monte Hall. have the honor to remain, as
nearly as my imperfect Judgment permits me,
Yours, for the right,
NJ. NJ. MILLER.
We gladly give place to the above, in
behalf of our friend Minnie Myrtle Mill
er, whom this journal is proud to claim
as a co-worker in the great cause OF
woman's emancipation. We particular
ly praise her sharp political .tinesse in
pandering to the appropriateness of the
above named gentlemen by saying, in
spite of her own convictions to the con-
trary, that the fright not to vote is the
one to which women should cling"
How she must enjoy her triumph over
the weak side of these easily fiattered
citizens of Portland, who are not only
ready to catch at straws, as are all the
drowning champions of mans rights,
but are also ready to come down
with cash for the privilege. We predict
for Mrs. Miller full house. Our views
of her ability are too well known to
need further comment. Go on, sister
there's nothing like patting men on the
back. We've tried it and know how
well it succeeds.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.
A REMARKABLE CURE OF PALSY.

wyI. BURDEN, 4 STOCK RAISER OF WILLOW
CREEK, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, lost THE
USE or HIS LEFT ARM By PALSY; WAS CURED
IN TIN MINUTES BY DIR. ABORS, COR. THIRD
AND MORRISON SIS.
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The magnificent Asylum for the In
sane at Washington, is very largely the
result of the humane and tireless efforts
of Miss Dix, the well-known philan-
thropist.
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Bro. Brown, of the Albany Democrat,
makes the "Amende Honorable i'm re-
gard to Mr. Meacham and ourself
Thanks.
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Attention is called to the Illinois
Temperance Law, published in full on
the fourth page of to-day's paper.
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Seven women were recently allowed to
vote at special election in Vallejo, Cal.
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A FEW QUESTIONS FOR MR.. n. F.
SPENCER.

GERNAIs, UregOnl FED. z, IoI2.
"D,n,iwdy" You will please discon-
tinue my paper. I do not endorse your
sentiments at all. ''The Silent Man Of
Destiny is fully sufficient for me.
Should your paper come again will not
take it out of the office. With this 1
return to you a copy containing the
above-named article.