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THAT UNPURCHAsABLB WOMAN.

The Polk county person, who scrib-
bles over the signature of "An Unpur-
chasable Woman" thereby proclaiming
herself for safe, whose articles are no
longer admitted in the Herald because
Of their offensive indecency, has at
length found a fitting instrument for
the dissemination of her scandal in an
obscure publication known in limited
circles as the Salem Mercury. This
Mercury is presided over by boy,
against whom we could harbor resent
ment if we would, because of his tender
years and consummate verdancy, which
are only equalled by his egotism. These
are the faults of youth, which we look
for his increasing years to overcome;
therefore we say to q lenient public,
''Deal gently with the child; he doesn't
know any better than to be imposed
upon by this unpurchasable(?) creature;
neither does he imagine the great wrong
he does himself and the Democratic
party by the wholesale slander of intel
ligent men and women contained in
the letter alluded to-"
Suggestive second thought induces US
to give the letter place in our columns,
that our many readers may see the evil
Vaccinations of woman's arch enemy.
The letter is its own best refutation, and
our only hesitancy about giving it place
is because of its ''bold biIlingsgate" and
"fsh-woman abuse" But here il is:
EDITOR MERCURY Mrs. Duniway says n
noted brothei keeper OF Portland threatened 10
vote for President II she did. And why not,
pray tell ? ] see no reason why they should
not have voted together, II at all. II the moral
OF immoral influence the pair have exercised
in Oregon for the last twelve months u greater
the other. verify believe the advantage Is in
favor OF the brOthcl keeper. The ineXorible
sentiment OF society, exhibited for thousands
OF years, confines her power for evil 10 cOmpar-
atively narrow limits, while lhe career OF the
other woman IS novel, startling, and with un-
settled minds. taking and her demoralizing
1n9 poisonous example not yet circumscribed
anu bounded by people generally.
=, MIS-. Duniway's termagant tongue makes
.tlem umid, and indeed, those who are not
,rillu' afraid TO oppose her; and avoid her fish
~ ~D.ial man abuse am told that many members
Vo, sno % iaie legislature v0ted for, omitted TO
/ -. aEalnst, her measures when their con-
] the silo'l ~ Judgment disapproved. Manffestly,
49, - lice OF The press OF fhe STATE concernIrg
-s conduct j. aerounted Tor ~, tbc s,,,,, s
mon s5No NlgNo public controversy with "A com,
women -. 80. iiYt choice in her language as such
MSaeen M lnpunity. And while ", ~, neilce t Sle y
ii,,i.-N. eject shall not csrsr,s 49, tIS ~
Thar ba,-, tnaNe the satisfaction az lrno,yi,,,,
- IiiIns neT entertained all o,,or geht ssileht con
- llsnt thinking man and ,,,o,,,.s ,sSh y eN-
NNFO hShA-AHLE MoNAS
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ANNA DICKINSON.

This talented woman, whom Mr..
Greeley engaged to do his electioneer-
ing before she really knew of his oppO-
sition to her Acknowledgement, 'lest she
should become a man." you know, at
last, in sheer pity for the old gentleman
because of his effeminacy and certain
defeat, held one meeting in aid of his
sinking ship, just to show the more
cowardly men who deserted him that
she could and dared. The WomdIt'S
Journal, with which we quite agree, as
serts that miss Dickinson deserved
credit for magnanimity in coming to
the aid of lost and ruined cause. She
was no rat, to desert sinking ship.h
Her meeting was described in the New
York papers as the most enthusiastic
one of the Liberal campaign. Certain
it is, that the women's meetings have
been the most enthusiastic of the Re
publican campaign, but there were so
many that they almost ceased to excite
extra comment, while Anna was the
only woman Of note who raised her
voice for Mr.. Greeley, and she but once.
We are proud Of Anna because of heI
wondrous eloquence and wOmanly de-
meanor, and while we regret that she
was not found this time upon the right
side of great cause, we know that it i
human TO err; and in consideration oI
her past and prospective championship
of the right, we gladly forgive the one
harmless mistake of her life.
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TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION

On the 22d of February of last year
the temperance people of Oregon held
an annual meeting, organized them
serves into permanent Alliance and
prepared certain resolutions. pravinp
Ior special legislation by our Iaw-mal,ers
ior tne purpose Of restricting or ..recr
latlng' the sale of intoxicatino -
,s Ases- II Is well known that tbeso roso
it iu'iohs We're promptly rotea ,So,ra - -,
tne very men who We're sent mn - - -: y
islate for the people by tboso s, up 10 leg
vocates Of Temperance who 9,ao.g nor.. ad-
represented the VIII of the ,,,S.il:. oei'aihiy
the people in that grand Allianoo lloii'y oi
Now, the question comes. ,rI,,
temperance men, who were aloo. "eie
the Legislature upon temnaro,. 70
platform, induced TO vote against - ~
very measures which they were sent ,,'.
by the people to advocate? We pIadl1.
admit that many Legislators did vofs
for Temperance laws, but care was taken
by interested parties to so manage the
vote that the desired measures should be
lost at every balloting. Now, somebody
Was 10 blame for this, and whome II il
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LETTER FROM MISS ANTHONY.
ROCHESTER,, New York, !
November Z, 1872. !

ANoA lf-fkf 4NGH IOlhf
November Z, 1872.
EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
The slips l send you from our Roches-
ter papers show that the officers of one
Ward of our city Enel0 their duty and
did IL. In nine of the fourteen Wards
of our city women presented their
names to register; four boards accepted
them and five rejected. But on the
final test only one board receiUed the
Uotes. That was in the eighth Ward.
The two Republican inspectors were
sure they were right, and when the
Democratic inspector objected to my
votes going into the boxes, they said
yes, "put them in;" 1--WE will fight it
out on this line if it takes all winter,r-
and in they went. My three sisters all
voted and ten other women in our
Ward. Two of the sixteen who regis
tered failed to offer votes.
The Hon. Henry r. Selden will take
the action of the inspectors who refused
wOmen's names and votes into the
courts, and we shall see whether our
New York Judges will be able to read
the law and declare the duty of the L.
;. Government TO protect its citizens
women as well as men-against any
and every attempt to invade their po-
litical as well as civil rights, whether in
New York or North Carolina. What
have we gained by all the blood and
treasure of this four years war if we
have not established this one principle
the supremacy of the national la'0 to
protect the American citizen over that
of any and every State law to the con-
trary? And if to be an American citi-
zen is not to be crowned with the right
to a voice in making the laws he or she
is bound to obey, what mockery is all
our boasted liberty! That one point
must be declared by both Congress and
the Supreme Court. To deny it is to
fall into innumerable pits and mires
and overthrow all true Democratic and
Republican principles.
1 see Mitchell is your Senator. Good!
He understands law and the Constitu-
tion. | had long talk with him COM
ing over the Rocky Mountains last jan
uary.
Can it be that twelve months have
rolled round since we were on Puget
Sound and at Olympia, Seattle, Port
Townsend, etc, etc? How like dream
it all seems, and what beautiful one,
too, TO live over and over.
/ do hope Oregon women's citizen
ship will be recognized at the ballot
box, as our Rochester Erehing Express
says if woman's right to vote is not ad-
mitted legal under the existing Consti-
tuition it will be n long time they will
have to wait. We must push this
measure. 1t is the true method, | feel
more and more sure. Our judges and
lawyers say no at first, but Just so fast
as they seriously study up the question
they see our position is q sound one.
Good cheer to all of u.s. Let US be sure
that we iCOrk while we are waiting pa
tiently the national fiat that shall for
bid any State on due pains and penal
ties "tO enforce any old law or make
any new one that shall abridge or deny
the right of women citizens to vote"
Sincerely but hastily,
SUSAN y. AHTHoNY.
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Some of the Queer Things to be Seen in
Mormondom.

You are struck by the great number of
children everywhere here. some houses
absolutely overf1owing with them; some
fables are embOwered in "Olive
brauches.D The different sets get along
very well together generally, but that IS
little wonder, after the miracle of agree
ment between the mothers. Polygamy
does not seem to spare women the cares
of maternity. l know Mormon house
hold in which two middle-aged wives
count about two dozen children between
them. / took two little fair-haired girls
for twins and they were sort OF poIyg-
amatie twins. born almost at the same
time i'm the same house, of different
mothers. 1t seems to me that the chill
dren here 10 not look as happy and
bright as in our towns; L fancy that the
little girls, at least, have something OF
the subdued, repressed look OF tneIf
mothers. But some Of them are preIty,
and nearly all neatly and comIortaOly
dressed. / hear that they have very
good schools, and are under good diseip-
line at home, answering to the roll-call
at night, and duly hOnOring their 1ather
and their mothers.
Many Mormon wives are sisters, and
it is said they get along quite harmoni-
ously. The very nature OF women seems
to be changed here, and turned upside
down and inside out. An Intelligent
"first wife, told Gentle neighbor that
the only wicked feeling she had about
her husband taking a second wife was
that he did not take her sister, who
wanted him, or rather a share of him.
She would have liked to have the prop
erty kept in the family. / saw the
other day pair of young wives, sisters
walking hand in hand, dressed alike in
every particular, of the same height and
complexion, and of the same apparent
age-indeed, looking so exactly alike
that it was almost a case Of mitigated
bigamy. 1t must seem queer, even to
them, to say "our husband" as they
used to say "Our piano. or "Our pony"
The most singular and unnatural mar
riages here are those of men with their
wives mothers. These are not unfre-
ouent. 1t strikes me this is a seditiOus
blot against immemorial domestic
authority, the most ancient court of
feminine appeal-that it is an attempt
to do away with mother-in-laws. When
Young wives are taken, the three or four
or five do not always become one flesh,
there is sometimes rebellion and even
hostility on the part of the old wife.
Occasionally a husband objects to hav-
ing even a second wife imposed on him.
/ heard of one the other day, who,
though he finally submitted to the COM
mand of the imperial Brigham, that he
should take and provide for a certain
poor woman-''a lone, lorn, cretur," y
declared that he couldn't "bear her."
and at once put her away on ranch
forty miles from tOWn-pensiOned and
pastured her out.
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TERRITORIAL NEWS.

Wood in Walla Walla sells at 80 to SS
per cord.
Klickitat county gives Garfielde %
majority.
Walla walla will build a magnificent
Court House.
The Water Company Of Olympia has
suspended operations.
Pacific county, w T., gave majority
OF seventy for Garfielde for Congress.
The Statesman calls upon the City
Council of Walla Walla to erect street
lamps.
Hon. H. G. Struve has entered upon
his duties as Secretary Of Washington
Territory.
The San Juan settlers will have ju-
bilee when the island is handed over to
Uncle Sam.
Gov. Ferry, of Washington Territory,
has issued the usual Thanksgiving Proc
lamation for the 2Sth inst.
The telegraphic cable to connect San
uan and Lopez Isl ands has reached us
destination and will soon be laid.
Seattle cast $50 votes at the recent
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LINEN.-The women of the old town
Of Anjou are celebrated for their art in
folding linen. The renOwn is an old one
but it has, nevertheless, bestowed no
mean celebrity on the ladies of Anglers.
The art does not flourish now as it used
to, and is, indeed, nearly confined to the
grand old chateaux of the place. The
linen presses of a magnificent hospital
still show, too, some chefs d PltUTe of the
kind. The good sisters throw open the
doors of their immense cupboards with
q natural feeling of pride, and reveal, to
the astonishment and admiration of the
visitors, the wonders of their deXterity.
In vast sheet, folded into n through,
twenty-four sheep formed of chemises,
are drinking, guarded by n night dress
in the shape of shepherd, and so on.
Linen castles, windmills, towers and
abbesses are frequent tours de force of
those dextrous linen folders.
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THE CANAL AND LOOKS.

Now that public agitation has ceased
in regard to the Canal and Locks at Or
egon City and sober second thought
has had time and opportunity to get
control Of the minds of the people, it is
fitting that something more than a
passing notice be taken of the works
and their present condition and relation
TO the State at large and the corpora
ton which owns and the monopoly
which desires to possess them. AS the
action of the Legislature has already
become a matter of history, it is not
necessary TO 90 into detail concerning
1t.
No one will deny that a gigantic
fraud was perpetrated upon the people
of the State when the school fund was
appropriated for the construction of the
Locks, ard permitting that public fund
to go into private corporation for the
purpose Of enriching a few shrewd poll
ticians; but it is not more astonishing
that body of impeeunious Legislators
could be hired to perpetrate such a rob-
berry than it is strange that subsequent
bodies of Lawmakers cannot unani-
mously see that for the State to get con-
troll of the Locks in their infancy is far
better than to permit them to become
merged into the railroad interests.
Private corporations are becoming the
bane of the American as they are al
ready the curse of the English people.
In a country like cnrs, where freedom
is the basis of government, every man
and every woman should have an equal
public interest in everything that per-
tains to public welfare. No private cor
pOration should be permitted to con-
struct a public highway, except such
highway be subject to the control OF
the people, not through their represen-
tatives, but directly by the ballots of
the masses, who should hold in their
hands the power, as they certainly have
the right, to arbitrate all matters and
adjust all differences in such a way as
shall compass the greatest good for the
greatest number.
The Legislature of 1870 perpetrated a
great outrage upon the people by grant
ing the school fund to a private corpo-
ration, but subsequent Legislature
connives at further wrong when it per-
mits a private monopoly to get posses
sion Of the only avenue of free COM
merce the people have left to them.
True, the cost is great, too great, but
the wrong done the people, which be-
gan by the appropriation OF the school
fund to private interests, has already, in
the short space of two years, grown to
be such a giant that it frightens our
whole press and people when an effort
is made to throttle it. Estimable gem
tlemen in the Legislature, who saw
clearly the great danger of permitting
the present transportation monopoly of
oregon to get possession of the Locks,
voted against allowing the State to buy
them for no other reason than because
they thought them few thousands too
high in price. This looks to US very
much like the policy that moved our
worthy Governor when he allowed the
immense Appropriation Bill TO pass and
quieted his conscience by vetoing Mrs.
Sawtelle's grant of four hundred dol
lars
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being an increase Of 1874 upon |
the number cast at the same place two
years ago.
The people of Steilacoom have pur-
chased the old material Of the Port
Townsend ArgUs, and contemplate the
publication of a weekly paper.
The people of Walla Walla county, by
a majority of over two hundred, have
voted to levy a special tax, the revenue
from which is to be expended in build
ing a new Court House and Jail.
The late improvements instituted on
the Chehalis Reservation by Gen. Mil
roy are well under way. \ large school
house, two stories high, 2sx44 feet, is
being built. Also store-house 1Sx70
feet and two shops each 1Sx24 feet.
Yakima City contains about dozen
houses, but there is room for more.
There are two or three stores and about
an equal number of saloons and black
smith shops. There are two hotels, the
Chemeketa and Occidental.
A pet rooster in Olympia exhibits a
decided partiality for life Of single
blessedness. He has chosen little dog
for play and manifests hostile
spirit toward every hen that comes near
him. He is evidently bent on leading
bachelor life.
The Union says! ''The early fall sown
grain in Walla Walla Valley is now up
10 n good height and looks fine gener-
ally, and that sown later is coming up.
They have had SO much rain that grain
looks better than it usually does at this
season, and there is also more sown
than is usually put in in the fall. Some
farmers are still plowing and sowing"
The Starr Bros. have disposed of their
entire interest in the steamboats, navi-
eating the waters of the Puget Sound.
The purchasers are the Northern Pacific
Railway Company, and the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company intends
monopolizing the water carriage of Pu-
get Sound. They will also build first
class steamers of the Mississippi model,
and run them between Kalama and
Walla Walla on the Columbia river.
The following paragraph appeared in
/ the New York Tribune of November .:
''AIr. Clark Davis, now of Seattle,
Washington Territory, was born slave
of George Mclean of Logan county,
KY, and, after his marriage he and his
wife became the property of Beacher
Davis of the same county. In 1852, by
permission of his master, Clark Davis
went to California, since which time he
has not seen his family. He has ascer-
tanned that one, William Hannibal, ran
away before the war, and he hopes he
may be found in the North. Silas was
sent South before the war, and Peter
left home at the time of the battle oi
Port Donaldson. Any one who can give
any information respecting either OF
these men is requested to write to the
distressed father, who will pay any ex.
pense incurred in finding them. Other
papers are requested to copy"
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SUNDAY EVENING LECTURES.

In compliance with the opportunities
of many friends, we have concluded to
begin next week a course of Sunday
evening lectures in the Orc Fino Thea
fer. which has been leased to us by
Manager Waldron for that purpose.
1t is known that, in addition to the
many church-goers who have no meet
ings Of their own on Sabbath evenings,
there are very many transient and reg
ular inhabitants of the city who seldom
or never attend church anywhere. The
object of these meetings is to gather
such persons together to hear lectures
upon moral, religious, scientific and So
cial subjects; also to give all Others an
opportunity to hear Bible topics treated
from an independent and progressive
standpoint.
By special request, our first lecture OF
the series will be upon "The Christ of
Nazareth and the Christ Of Christen-
DOM"
Congregational singing will be fea-
ture Of these meetings as soon as we get
them fairly inaugurated, and we ask
everybody not otherwise specially en-
gagged to come out on next Sunday
evening and help US to plan and prose
cute this work. Lecture commences at
half past seven. Seats free.
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clusively in print, and regularly issued
at stated periods from known office OF
publication, without addition of writing
mark or sign. (See. 49,.
THIRD CLASS.
This class embraces all pamphlets, oe-
.casional publications, transient, news
papers, magazines, hand-bills, posters
unsealed circulars, prospectuses, books
book manuscripts, proof-sheetS, cor
rected prOOf-sheets, maps, prints, en-
cravings, blanks, flexible patterns, SAM
piles of merchandise not exceeding
twelve ounces in weight, sample candy,
Photographic paper, letter envelopes,
postal envelopes and wrappers, cards,
plain and ornamental paper, photo-
graphic representations OF different
types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots
scions. and ali other matter which may
be declared mailable by law, and all
other articles not above the weight
prescribed 10y law, which are not from
their form or nature, liable to destroy,
deface, or otherwise injure the contents
of the mail bag, or the person OF any one
engaged in the postal service. All
liquids, pOisons, glass, explosive mate
rials and obscene books shall be eX-
cluded from the mails. All matter OF
the third class, excepting books ana
other printed matter, book manuscripts
proOf-sheets, and corrected prOof-sheets,
shall not exceed Il ounces in weight,
and all matter Of the third class shall be
subject to examination and to rates OF
postage as hereinafter provided. sam
piles of metals, ores and mineralogical
specimens shall not exceed twelve
ounces in weight, and shall be subject to
examination and to rates of postage as
hereinafter provided. (See. 133.)
On mailable matter of the third class
except as herein stated, postage shall be
charged at the rate of one cent for each
| two ounces or fraction thereof. Double
these rates shall be charged for books,
samples of metals, ores, minerals, and
merchandise prepaid by postage stamps.
/ Sec. 1851
NOTE-All the articles enumerated
under the third class must be open so as
/ to admit of examination, otherwise they
are chargeable with letter postage.
| Notehed envelopes are chargeable with
letter postage. Compliments of the
author, or writing upon the fiy-leaf of a
book or wrapper subject the same to let
ter postage. Writing upon a news
paper in pencil or ink, or upon the cover,
subject the same to letter postage.
Letters addressed to "initials" are not
deliverable. The postal regulations
require the Postmaster to forward such
| letters to the Dead Letter Office.
| Any person who shall inclose any let
ter, memorandum, or other thing in any
mail matter not charged with letter
| postage, or make any memorandum or
writing thereon, and deposit forconvey-
ance by mail at less rate than letter
n.
felt and pay five dollars, and such mail
matter or Enclosures shall not be deliv-
cred until the postage is paid thereon at
letter rates.