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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-20
About Women.

Rev. Miss Smiley assisted at q camp
meeting on Long Island during July.
Miss Carlotta Patti sailed for America
with Maurice Strakosch, On the 10th
inst.
Miss Alice Bird has twice been invited
to professOrship in the Iowa Wesleyan
University.
Six ladies will be admitted to the
Wesleyan University, at MiddletOwn,
at the next term.
Miss Rye is on her way from Liver
pool with another lot of model servant
girls for the Canadians.
Five young women We're among the
sixteen freshmen lately admitted to the
University of Vermont.
Mrs. Barnard, lady Of some journal
istic experience, has become managing
editor of the Washington Chronicle.
Three ladies act as notaries public in
Iowa. They are Miss Zoe Taylor, Miss
T.. c. Stebbins, and Miss Laura y. Berry.
'eThe charming Lotta" is abroad, dill
igently pursuing the study of French and
music in the boarding school of q French
convent.
Young ladies will hereafter be admit
ted to the collegiate department Of Girls
void College, Iowa, on the same terms
rs the young men.
The Academy of Sciences at Philadel-
phia has elected Il woman to full fellow
ship, and there is also lady on one OF
its active committees.
Aftera competitive examination, Miss
Carrie :. Sheads has been promoted from
a second to a first class clerkship in the
Bureau of Statistics.
Chicago has a woman sexton. She
does her duty we'll, but OF course she
cannot altogether escape complaint. 1t
is not charged that she has too many
relatives, or anything of that kind, but
they do say that she reserves all the best
graves for the young men.
Sicnora Aurelia Cinimo FalIiero De
Luna, a well-knOwn Italian autLOress,
has established in Florence . semi
monthly newspaper, entitled the Cor
BeIid, devoted TO the advocacy OF Wom-
ans Rights and the promotion Of the
education of Italian women.
A Mrs. Fuller left her fathers house
in Independence, went and laid her
neck on the railroad track. 4 passing
train severed her head from her body.
She had been unfortunate in marriage,
was deserted by her husband, and tired
of life, and was probably more or less
demented.
LatOur, a celebrated actress in Paris,
at a supper with several friends hap
pened to make a bad pun. y gentle
man cried out: 40! 1 beg you, madem-
Oiselle, do not say such ridiculous things,
it pains nler' ''Pray, sir" asked the
actress, "have YOU a patent right for
making stupid remarks? ?"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-20
SONORA HEWITT.

Entered, according 10 the Act OF Congress. in
the year Is72 by Mrs susie Witherell, in the Of
fee OF the Librarian Of Congress at Washington
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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

The people of Great Britain are looking for
ward with reasonable apprehension TO the COM
ing winter. Everything indicates a season of
unusual suffering among the poor, and of en-
forced economies among those who are above
the fear of actual want. The grain crops of the
year have been much below the average; the
potato crop in Ireland it is feared will be total
failure, and in England and Scotland it is scri-
ousy affected by the rot; cattle are dying in
many places, and the importation of cattle is for
hidden as a measure Of protection against the
dreaded rinderpest; the price of meat is already
higher than it has ever been before, with small
prospect Of a decline, and coal costs eighty per
cent more than the ordinary price. These things
offera gloomy prospect for workingmen and peo
plewith moderate incomes; but these are not all ;
the combination of unfavorable circumstances
has raised the price of almost everything; by in
creasing the cost of manufactures it has dimn-
ished the production and the demand for labor,
so that there is not work enough for all who
want it and need their daily wages for their
daily bread. The numerous strikes of the past
season have absorbed the workingmcn's surplus
where they had any, and now they are left to face
the winter with doubtful prospect of employ.
ment, and prices higher than ever. Luckily We
have wheat and corn in abundance, which we
shall be very glad to send them for considera-
zion, and shall send no doubt in larger amount
than usual, but in spite Of the fact that there is
abundance of food here and abundant means of
transporting it, the winter will be hard time
for the poor in Great Britain, and hundreds
probably will perish from actual want in the
richest city Of the world.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03
POLITICAL Notes.

The labor reform state central committee mel
in Boston yesterday aud appointed the follow
ing permanent officers: Chairman, f, NJ. Cham
pertain; secretary, Charles T. Crane; treasurer
L. d. Linton.
We were inclined not 10 express positive
opinion in regard to the result in Pennsylvania;
but Upton announces that it viii go for Gree
ley; therefore it may be set down rs sure for
Grant and Wilson by great majority.
Judge Stephen j Field of the United STATES
supreme court has declared that he cannot sup
port Greeley and Brown. He is one of the lead
ing democrats Of the country, and has much
influence, especially in California.
The New York World regrets that it is not
numbered among the trusted counselors of its
presidential candidate, in order that it might be
in position to advise him to forbear speech
making during the rest OF the campaign.
John S. Barber, Esq, a lifelong democrat
and recently one Of the leading speakers on the
Greeley coalition side, has declared for Grant
and Wilson, and will 90 upon the stump for the
republican ticket. 1t creates immense enthusi-
assn and sensation here, says a telegram from
Cortland, N. Y.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

The indians, so far as they are gathered on
reservations and subjected to some measure
Of restraint and instruction, are encouraged to
build houses and cultivate the soil. Few of
them take to that occupation very kindly. The
change from their natural lawless, rowing life,
with its occasional fierce excitements and inter
walls Of apathctc Incidence, to steady, plodding
industry, is too great. To pass abruptly from a
life spent in hunting and war to one Of agricul-
tural labor, is to omit one Of the steps Of a nat
ural progress. Pastoral pursuits occupy an in
iermediate place, both by their own nature and
according 10 what is supposed to be the actual
order Of development, between an absolutely
savage and civilized condition. Whether the
Indian race has any capacity for selfim-
proyement, and would, if left TO itself
have found its way by slow and natural
processes to some respectable degree Of attain
ment in the arts and social and political refine
ment, may be doubted; but it is pretty clear
that whatever capabilities of that kind it had
were destroyed or rendered ineffective by con-
tact with a stronger and more advanced people.
II we are to do fer them what they are unable
and in iisposed TO do for themselves, it would
seem reasonable TO follow the order Of progress
which common sense and history agree to pro
nounce the most natural; that is to say, encour-
age them TO adopt pastoral, instead Of an ag-
neultural mode Of life, which in itself would be
great advance, and would lead on naturally
70 something better still. correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, advocating this policy
suggests the following method Of operations:
We would place some large tribe. united bv
ils uloal sympathies, on favorable territory
We would make few experiments with tLfs
single tribe. We would build for its nen,bars
simple dwellings, furnish them horses II ,ba,
have none, and also guns, SO as 10 allow tbe5go
70 keep up TO certain eXteut, as a postiun
their old habits Of hunting. We would thnn
supply them with hOc&s aud herds 10 tend ana
by the inducement OF pay for the animals tbev
raised, and By attractive accessories. suc6
as watching aud taking care Of the AM.
finals on horseback, with ample spaces
over which 10 roam, lead them from hunting
the wild buffalo to tending herds Of domestcated
animals. The chiefs could be invested with a
certain additional amount Of authority, and I'M
der the advice aud instruction Of few judicious
OIL cers Of our army, order aud regularity could
gradually De introduced into the wild, rowing,
incohercut Indian life.
With a comparatively small sum the exDer.
meni could be tried and, IL successful, the la.
dian races could gradually be domiciled on the
slopes VI the Rocky Mountains, and rendered
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES,
AT GENEvA.-A correspondent of the Boston
Advertiser, writing from Geneva, says:
at must be said in the interest of truth that
the conduct Of the British gentlemen here has
not won them the friendship OF the Independent
Switzers. They have avoided much intercourse
with the GeneyaiS, and even failed TO appear at
the Berne excursion till the moment of the grand
dinner. This conduct caused an intense feeling
Of indignation at the capital No Englishman
| shakes hands with a SWISS, said worthy citi-
zen of Berne, as Lord Teuterden passed by
| drawing in his Saxon garments. An English.
| man arrived one day at the Hotel Beau Rivage
| and was shown into fine room just vacated by
| Gen. Sherman. In few moments he descended
| and asked, angrily:
"Why is that American flag suspended from
my Window
| Because, replied the unbane landlord, this
| hotel is the headquarters of the American dele
| CATION to the tribunal, and because your room
| was lately occupied by Gen. Sherman
The fierce Briton rushed out of the house
without word, sought another hotel, aud sent
a porter for his baggage. This story has a very
remote connection with the subject of arbtra.
ton; but it is characteristic of the itnerant
Engishman, and shows a national trait which
the British representatives at the tribunal
| lacked the sagacty to conceal.
The judgment is not only victory for Justice
and civilization, but in a narrower sense it is a
| victory for American talent, skill and energy.
| Ii was an occasion on which the two greatest
lawyers Ofthe AnglO-SaXon race crossed swords
in neutral arena. It was a duel of giants, but
the American won. Sir Rounded Palmer is a
scholar and an orator, and stands at the head OF
the English bar, but he is no match for Mr.. Ey-
arts. In fact at every point of the cause the
English were worsted. The American had the
best tacticians and the heaviest artillery. The
American residents in the citv-and they are
counted by hundreds-were proud of their rep
| resentatives, and loved to contrast them with
| their opponents at the great court. The Swiss
| too, who are good judges Of character, and poor
fiatterers, took off their hats respectfully when
Mr.. Adams or General Gushing passed, aud
looked into Mr.. Evarts' iron face with a kind oil
awe"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

AIater statement from Washington represents
the situation in Japan as less discouraging than
it appeared from a dispatch which we published
yesterday Mr. Mori, the japanese minister,
gives his view of the causes and probable effect
of the apparent change of policy, which is in
substance that the progressives, numbering al
most all the travelled young men of the country,
pushed themselves boldly TO the front, and mo
nepolized the offices and the control Of public
affairs to the exclusion of the experienced and
cautious statesmen OF the older time, who were
temporarily staggered and discounted by the
influx of new ideas and new ways. The mikado,
or tenno, as it seems now the fashion to call
him, wisely desired to hold an even bal
ance between the opposing influences,
but the old men were timid and reactionary,
dreading and opposing all changes, and refus-
ing to have anything to do with introducing
them, and the young men were impetuous and
confident, eager TO adopt at once all the good
things of the western civilization, and to abandon
all the traditional customs and institutions that
were inconsistent with it. The tenno himself
desired progress in moderation, but, as the older
men would not cooperate with him, he was
obliged to choose his officers from among the
representatives of "Young Japan, who have
harried him along the new paths faster than he
was disposed TO go. Mr. Mori himself has seen
the danger of too rapid progress, and feared tie
reaction that he believed would follow. lie has
held the opinion that stability OF government
could not be hoped for, nor the fruits
of progress be effectually secured, unless the
idea of educating up to the new
standards, the reluctant conservatives should
prevail over the policy Of retiring them
from all active participation in the government.
For this reason he has for some time urged the
acceptance of his resignation of his diplomatic
office, and has declined to assume the title
of minister plenipotentiary conferred upon
him by his government. He hopes to be sue
ceeded by an older and more experienced states
man, as he thinks age an important qualihca-
ton of diplomatst On the whole Mr.. Mori
thinks it of better promise for the future of
Japan that the conservatives should recover
some share in the control of affairs now than
that they should be kept permanently in the
background, and the impetuous progressiyes be
allowed to hasten forward in their untried paths
without check Or restraint.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03
OBJ 9aIp SPY: dduest, GbursOag umn9, October 8, 1872

of Indians unless they hear the talk of the very
individuals who have lost relatives or friends at
the hands of the savages. OF course, our re-
ligion at this time of day does not permit us to
justify the "eye for an eye and tooth for a
tooth" doctrine; but let an advocate of the
coaxing policy have one child shot full of arrows
as it wanders through the woods, or one
brother burned at the stake, and if he still adj
vocates Cancellation perhaps these impulsive
westeners will listen to his arguments, though
| do not think they will even then.
"Ihat Colonel Chivington who led us at Sand
Creek was Methodist minister and first rate
soldier" said Crittenden, admiringly OF
course, no one will be wild enough TO accede to
such principles as those set forth by this attrac
tive semi-heathen; but the effort TO persuade
people here that the Indians are anything but a
wicked and treacherous species of vermin have
found labor thrown away,-Cor. Nelc York
Evening Post
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

\ conclusive report on the same subject has
been made by the chemist of the agricultural
bureau, the result of which proves that our
sumac contains both cOOring matter and tannin
and is used in dyeing and calico printing as
substitute for nutgals, for producing shades of
grey color and for dyeing Turkey red; it is also
used extensively for tanning the finer kinds of
leather
As this subject is destined ere long TO attract
the attention Of the farmers and others of the
middle states, we will give some additional facts
concerning it. An English produce broker who
has personally examined the sumac of this
country, in his Importers and Exporters Cir
cular9 thus speaks of the superiority of the
American over that of the Sicily, and thinks
that a great revolution is about to be witnessed
in this tanning and dyeing MATERIAL sumac, and
adds:
Supplies have commenced to arrive from
Virginia, United States, the quality Of which is
the best that has ever reached Great Britain
[alluSion is then made to the analysis first
given above. If, therefore, finest Sicily is
worth POS per hundred weight, finest American
is of the value of 24S.; but il is quite certain
that as a rule the American will undersel the
Sicilian considerably, although, as shown, the
quality is 20 per cent better. In common fair
ness it must be added, however, that the very
worst tests of the American are superior to the
best Of the Sicilian; this includes not only the
sumacs of Virginia, but those Of Maryland,
Tennessee, &c"
III NCOI ZStONuJ ~ va EISuGllShSbuIS, Nd'y
and in Western Virginia, and elsewhere a
heavy business is being done in the grinding
and preparation of sumac for the market, and
it is now found that the obstacle heretofore in
the way Of preparing it for the finer kinds of
leather is being overcome by late Improvements
in its management. One tanner in Whining
ton, Delaware, uses 400 to 800 tons annually,
prepared In Fredericksburg, Va, and we learn
that a Mr.. Chase of Alexandria has introduced
mill for grinding it, which is described in one
OF the agricultural bureau reports.
"rhe trade in sumac in Virginia has been
considerable of late years, and is bringing an
immense revenue into the state. Since the war
there has been at least sixty thousand dollars
yearly paid out for this article in this place
alone"
In Sicily they plant the roots or small plants
as we do corn; hills about three feet apart; ;
rows about four, so that the pillow or harrow can
save the hard labor of the hoe. 1t is hoed two
or three times before it rains, finished in May
and gathered in July and August.
For market purposes the upland sumac has
been heretofore preferred. OF this, the stag horn
variety, Rhus tgpina, and the smooth sort, r..
gldbra are used; but now it is found that the
dwarf or copal sumac, r. copalina is more val
liable than the Others named"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

ILLUSTRATIONS OF lNsTINCT.-It is the
common instinct of insects which are wood
borers in their larYa state, but which have no
such power in their subsequent stages, to guaw
their way to the surface of the tree before they
stop feeding, so that they can emerge without
obstruction after they shall have completed
their transformations. The plum gouger which
in its larval period occupies, not the flesh but
the kernel Of the plum, when ii has completed
It's growth and is ready TO transform in the
kernal, takes the precautiOn to gnaw round
hole in the shell, through which it may subse.
quently emerge. If it did not do so it would be
fatally imprisoned, in its future beetle state,
within the mature and hardened shell, an event
which the gOuger carefully guards against,
though the horticuturst might regard it as
consummation deyoutly to be wished. The dis
ippus butterfly lives, in its caterpillar state on
different kinds Of willow. In this state it pass
es the winter, inclOsed in a willow leaf rolled
into a cylindrical case. But as the leaf would
fall like the rest, when touched by frost, or be
blown away by the wind, the insect iasiens its
lOotstalk with silken threads to the branch on
which it grows, and thus securely rides through
the irOsts and storms of winter The larva of a
beautiful East Indian butterfly, the theiclais.
ocrates, live in companies Of half dozen or
more, in the fruit of the pomegranate, and there
also pass the pupa state But before changing
to crysalids, each larya cuts round
hole in the rind, through which the future but.
teriiy, which itself has no teeth, but only a
slender flexible proboscis, may be able to escape,
and as the worm eaten fruit would be likely to
iall prematurely to the ground, the lary@ crawl
out and make the stem fast TO the tree with
their web, and then return and 20 through their
transformations. Many kinds Of wasps exhibit
a wonderful provisional instinct. The female
wasp burrows into the ground, or sometimes
INTO rotten wood, constructs cell at the bottom
OF Tue cavity, and there deposits her eggs. She
then carries in insects which may serve as food
Tor her future progeny. Some species take the
additional precaution to disable but not kill the
insects thus provided, SO that the young NAV
find themselves provided with fresh provisions.
Having completed her task she closes the hole,
and never again visits it, but shortly after
perishes.
Now, are we TO understand that these insects
are really endowed with prophetic vision? Do
they know what will be their own condition the
next month or the next year, or what will be
the future necessities OF their offspring which
perhaps are yet unbornP IL is said That Gaen
was converted from atheism by the conempla-
ton Of the human skeleton; but confess that
nothing has so strongly impressed upon my own
mind the presence Of an ali-peryading intelli-
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03
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new YORK sTccz ssARzEr.

NAV YORK, Oct. 2.-MOney active and stringent at
from l32 and interest to 3l6 per cent. The extra pur
chase of bonds by govenmentIeased the rates Temporal
riy but the demand continued TO the close Sterling
dull at lOIA for prime 60 days. Gold opened at l4a
but on the announcement Of large purchase of bonds
by the treasury the price fell to llSK erward rallied
to the opening price; the corner in cash gold was
broken, the loan rates falling to fiat after having been
forced up to per cent for borrowing Clearngs
S9l,OOO,OOO Treasury disbursements s69000 Govern
ments baoyant and = q ~ per higher Secretary
boutwell, accepted S3OO00O0 all offered except one
In legal tenders In the stock market, Pacific Mail aud
western Union absorbed attention, with enormous
movements while the latter was strong and higher, on
and Erie active rising one per cent on the rlmor Thai
Erie and New York Central We're fighting for its control
The general market dun and weak with
some pressure to sell, especially Vanderbilt shares The
earnings q the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota
railway for September were SllsO0 since the admIs-
sion to the stock exchange of this companys first mort
gage per cent gold bonds, the dealings IN them have
been active. 1870
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

NEW YORK, oct. 2.-Cotton nc higher and firm salos
1886 bales; niddng upands nj IBEc EIour ,,,ii M Il
heavy sales b6isi state s6O % SIS; Ohio SI25esSl0,
western Sb,lOg9,B5i southern $3.50 40 sl26O WTestI,
heavy and shade lOwer sales o. OO0 bs, Ma so%in,
$@ @ 1875 No do $l6O9l 5B ;iwmler rcd western
yl6V W l,iVi white Michigan S76 40 200 Corn L.
iOwei, WIN t an export anu moderate home trade de
manu- manu- sales i41OOO bush; steamer mixed western gsb
Qtlci san DO. 6ih@B5c. Oats active without anv AZ
csueu Gnse IN price sales 81 600 bush new white 4g6n
s3c; Od western mixed 45 az 46c. Beef quiet ana nn.
endangeq. rOrk ilimerj new Sl420 Lard duiat
Hun esseI ~ sSeg99l6e Butter quiet;i state 2iCa2sc
Whskey active andseady at g2c. Rice auiet al ~ a.
sAe. sugar nfln and quiet; MuscOyado C6 IOs, rs-
ins - ~ VIC. Co1ee frm; sales Rio l4Gl7Bc Mo-
iasse. a9il Iurpentne quiet aud steady a "a "a 64Se
dosn d1ll ~ $500 Petroleum firm crude l3cci renned
1nchanaad on steauy " W n 96-l6c. Wool dull aud
ui,,Cnangeai domestic fleece t7be pulled l5aGtJiH c
Hhiosee oet Flour quiet and unchanged Wheat
eaSh Vi seier octoberi No spring $780, rejected p20