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OUR SECOND VOLUME.

The season is now near at hand when
many hundreds Of our subscriptions to
the NEW NORTHWEST will expire. We
urge upon our friends everywhere the
Importance of Immediately renewing
their subscription fees. A little effort
noa0 upon the part of each of our numer-
ous readers will enable us to start out
with the Second Volume with debts all
Cancelled and in the enjoyment of safe
financial prospects for the future. We
could then bring light heart to our
work, to which, since we took up the
load of financial care that large news
paper business requires, we have been a
stranger. There are also yet many de-
linquents upon our list-men and women
who have regularly enjoyed the products
of our toll for the past year, and yet neg.
lect to pay for their paper. To all such
we say in respectful solicitude, lce need
the money. The sum of three dollars i.
small to each of you, but the aggregate
Indebtedness of several hundred delin.
quents makes a sum of much import.
ance to US. We trust that this call will
not be passed unheeded. We have toiled
diligently at dress-making, millinery,
lecturing, story writing, editorial work
and canvassing, doing faithfully the
work of half a dozen to keep up the ex.
penses of the paper, and our strength i:
severely over-taxed; and we now ask
our friends, one and all, to cheerfully
put shoulder to the wheel and help u:
through the Second Volume, which
shall be in all respects superior to the
first.
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JOURNALISTIC PRUDERY.

The Walla Walla Statesman found
something about the "woman market"
in Woodruff which it thinks "might be
tolerated in bagnio," but he "can't see
how anybody could publish it to the
world" Now, brother Statesman, are
these bagnios in themselves tolerable?
We have not seen the article in Wood
hull to which you allude, but we have no
doubt but its fearless and defiant editor
has been exeoriating some of the legiti-
mate outgrowths Of this very "bagnior
abomination.
Many men grow virtuously indignant
over the exposition of man-made vices
ana cry out against these "women's
rights papers" because they hold up the
"tolerations of the bagnion to the ewes
OF the public that that public, becoming
awake to the awful realities of the insti-
tuition, may arouse to the necessity of
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MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY

Our brothers of the Portland press
are busily engaged in putting the ''com-
position" read on two occasions before
societies in Portland, by Bro. Ike, alias
"Col.", alias B. B. Taylor, of the Her
aid. We had the extreme qualification
of being present when this brother read
ms piece before the Y. NJ. c. AS, but we
became so amused in watching the nod
uihg pantomime of the scattering and
somnolent audience that we went off
INTO speeulatiOns about the sudorific
properties Of the readers animal mac
netlsm' Last week We SHARED onr
brother this announcement. but wo bo,,o
since seen such gushing lettar - ,l,.o
"local" Of the Herald, written. as We -,
agine, by Bro. Ike himself, in wbicl, h.
claims the honor of being so extren,eI,,
successful in the lecture business &c -
class all other speakers (save one) who
have, during the past winter, edi.
fled audiences before these societies. with
"buffoons" and "clOwns," that we are
constrained to tell the people the fact
that the attendance on the evening
of the repetition of the composition, in.
stead of being "large," was very small
indeed. Probably these people were ''in.
telligent" enough, but they We're Ger.
tainly susceptible Of sedative influences
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GEN. MILLER.

A friend calls attention to the fact that
Gen. Miller, President of the late Che
meketa Hotel Company, has lifted all
that Company's obligations for which
the State was liable, and says that we
have omitted to mention the fact, al
though we gave publicity to the other
side of the question. We regret this in
for it has been nothing else.
We certainly have no cause to do Gen.
Miller any personal injustice, and would
not attempt such n thing if we had.
If our expOsitions hurried up that set
tlement on behalf of the State We are
very thankful We got the facts.
Wonder if our Clarke imbrOgliO isn't
going to benefit the State, too?
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GENERAL CONFERENCE NOTICE.

The clerical and Law delegates to the General
Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
10 be held in the city Of Brooklyn, y. Y, May
lst, 1877, are hereby specially requested TO in
forso the undersigned, Secretary Of the Com
they have made any private arrangements for
their lodgings, OF II they have friends with
whom II would be their pleasure TO be enter
p s.-The Committee take no responsibility
10 provide entertainment for the wives OF dele
gates.
Delegates will please send their address to
lhe secretary J. f. SEARLEs, Sec. OF Com.
BRooKLYN, n. Y, Feb. 26, 1872.
There, We women who for years and
years have borne the heat and burden of
the ministerial day; who through self
denial, poverty, sickness and suffering
have endured and struggled that you
might be able to do the silent but ardu-
Gus work of giving aid and comfort to
your lords in broadcloth who have
cooked for well-kept preachers when, in
justice to yourselves and unborn babes.
you should have been in bed; who have
night after night slept on the floor with
your husband and children that YOU
might thus accommodate pair of min
listers, when the town was full Of dele
gates to your Annual Conference, lay
not the fiattering JUNCTION to your souls
that you will be welcome at the General
Conference, for there is there "no enter
tainment for the wives of delegates -
No matter if the great Methodist church
does owe its prosperity to the work Of
the ministers wives; no matter if YOU
do have interests at stake identical with
the best interests of your husbands; nc
matter if your brains do badly need the
intellectual feast which thousands oi
the wives of lay members Will be able
to enjoy; no matter if you have done
two-thirds Of the ministerial work and
borne fOur-ffths of the ministerial in
convenienees during your married years,
you do not own dollar. The salary all
goes to the men. You're nothing but
acomell-do you hear? OF course you
can't attend the Conference, for you
have no money to pay your board at ho-
tells; and ''the Committee take no re-
sponsibility to provide entertainment
for such impeeunious, irresponsible, dis
franchised nobodies as your self-deny-
ing selves. Ministers wives, how do
you like it? Don't you know that you
never will have opportunities equal to
these ministerial lords, no matter how
hard you may toll for them, until you
ootef Until you, like them, become re-
sponsible citizens Of these United States,
ike man, commanding pecuniary rec
omPense for your labor, and, like him,
demanding recognition of your equal
inalienable rights, you need not expect
but that you will be snubbed by the
purse-holding half Of humanity. And
if you don't speedily begin to demand
your freedom, we shall begin to fear that
you deserve the snubbing.
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EX-GovERNOR YATEs.-Ex-SenatO
Yates is reported lying in a critical con-
ditiOn. What a warming this mans
life should be to our young men. A
man of brilliant talents, genial, culti-
waited and warm-hearted, who by the
pre-eminence of his ability rose step by
step to high station; a man to whom
life was full of the greatest possibilities,
and who could bravely aim at the most
exalted position, and yet what an awful
fall he has had. a victim to a base
appetite, he has reached the lowest
depths of degradation, and is scoffed at
and jeered by those who once fawned
upon him and sought his favor, while
even his friends and admirers can only
bow their heads in grief and shame as
they speak of poor Dick Yates. His
life, once so bright, so full of promise,
is now going out in the densest gloom.
Young men, his life is an awful example.
Consider it well. There have been few
faiTer works of God, and few blOtted out
so blackly. He fell, not in day, or
willingly. He fought against his beset-
ting sin, yielded again to temptation,
repented with bitter repentance, and
fell again. Before he knew his danger,
he was bound hand and foot in the
chains of his appetite. Consider his life
well. Poor Dick Yates !-GdIeSblTg
Register.
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THAT MoUKERY OF JUSTICE.

Last summer, when we fearlessly gave
our own opinion of the One-sided legis-
lation which permitted a man to go scot
free who had attacked an unarmed fell
low-citizen, first with a cow-hide, and
then with a revolver, utterly running
his health and almost depriving him of
reason, our Democratic friends cried out
that the NEW NORTHWEST was a Re-
publican organ, because it dared to de-
nounce the ruffianly conduct of an en-
ragged Democrat. Since that time We
have sometimes denounced the misdeeds
of Republicans, and the cry is now
raised that we are running a Democratic
organ. Again comes up the same
Clarke Watkinds affair, which first
alarmed our Democratic brethren about
our politics, and of course, when we
chronicle the facts, somebody will again
cry out that the NEW NORTHWEST is a
Republican organ. Sam Clarke, eX-ed-
itor of the Salem Statesman, (who, as
our readers know, doesn't love as any
more than the law requires) sued the
man Watkinds for $4,000 damages, for
injuries sustained from a cow-hide and
bullet. Watkinds procured a change of
venue and removed the trial from the
Republican county of Marion to the
Democratic one of Linn. A jury, COM
posed of eleven Democrats and one Re
publican, advised by a Democratic
judge, decided that the price of cow-hid-
ing and shooting, and thus manning for
life an unarmed, unwarned man, was
one dollar. The evidence hung upon
the defendants Democracy; the plead
ing of the defendants counsel was OF ST.
mon-pure Democratic origin; and the
verdict was rendered in accordance with
Democratic ideas of justice. Judge
Strong, of this city, counsel for the
plaintiff, himself a Democrat, argued
that this was the first occasion, in all
his practice at the bar, where party pol
itics had been allowed to sway judge
or jury.
We hope Clarke will, if possible, carry
this matter to a higher tribunal
Whether he loves or hates us, we want
to see him the recipient of justice, and
we know he did not get it in the Linn
county court.
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THAT "NIPPING FROST" AGAIN.

This woman slanderer, this flippant-
tongued simpletOn, this brazen faced
sham, this blk and cheat, who peram-
bulated through Oregon and Washing
ton last fall, making frantic efforts to
induce all men to believe that all wom-
en- were as bad as herself; who went
away indebted for advertising and hall
rent from almost every town she visited;
who took up with a fifth rate Snowman
and passed him through the country,
sometimes as her uncle, sometimes as
her husband, and sometimes as her
agent, and with him made a raid into
Victoria lecturing upon the downfall of
the United States Government; who
purchased large quantities of Victoria
merchandise and decamped without
making payment; who purchased a city
residence for $1,000, and a farm for
$4,000 from the honest-minded subjects
Of Queen Victoria, and forgot to make
her payments; who did more good i'm
the great Northwest by lecturing against
Woman Suffrage than ten thousand OF
her class could do in speaking i'm its
favor-has begun to 'nip' the Californi-
ans. She recently lectured before a
large audience in Sacramento, in which
she said that none were Woman Suffra-
gists except free lovers, infidels and lewd
women. Her finale" must have been
lately engaged in giving her lessons in
grammar and elocution, for Sacramento
papers say nothing about her style OF
numbering the Kings English which
made so much fun for the Portland re-
porters.
Our readers will remember that she,
while here, made great boasts about her
"virtue,n which she thought would be
ruined forever if she should once vote.
Here is what Hon. John n. Collins, a
noble man and brother, a conscientious
helper in the great woman movement,
and an uncompromising advocate OF
justice and fair dealing, tells about her
in the Pioneer:
When Mrs. Emily Pitts stevens, at the close
OF her lecture, extended 10 Mrs. Frost her hand
and cOneratu lated her upon her ability 20
make so effective a discourse on the wrong side
OF the question, she exhibited the generosity OF
a noble nature. when Mrs Frost withdraw
ing her hand, repulsed Mrs. Stevens with the
pharisaical remark, "rm yirtuous woman,
and want nothing to do with your iree love
Glass; or words OF similar import Mrs Frost
demonstrated TO our mind that she was not
only n conceited cold and heartless woman,
hut as pretentious to her virtue as TO her
knowledge Of facts.
we hone the opponents 70 our cause will in
terest themselves in giving Mrs. Frost an ex-
tensive hearing in every city, town and school
district in this State. We hope woman SUI
frau friends will be sure TO attend her lectures.
such labor on her part would stimulate those
women who believe in suffrage, but are now
idle and Indifferent, TO action and effort, 10 Sc
cure the great object for which we labor.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-04-05
LETTER FROM LAFAYETTE.

LAFAYETTE, Ogn., March 81, 1872.
Dear lhrs. Duni,cdy:-I have Just fin
ished reading Mrs. Beecher HookeTs
unanswerable argument before the Ju-
dietary Committee, and am highly
pleased with it. But / would like TO of
fer you a few thoughts of my own on
the same subject.
If were opposed to Woman Suffrage,
L would come out and say, as did Chief
Justice Taney in the Dred Scott decis-
ion, in regard to negroes, that women
were not persons in the eyes of the law.
That is what our opponents mean, and
/, for one, would respect them more if
they would speak out plainly and be
done with it. 1 think the whole matter
rests on that word 'persons" in the
Fourteenth Amendment. Ii women are
persons they are entitled to vote ana
have all the rights and immunltles Oh
other citizens. If women are not per
sons" they are no better than any other
animals; they have no souls, and there
fore are not responsible for their actions
any more than other animals, and their
keepers should be made responsible Tor
them. And, if women are not persons
all the money spent in educating them
is so much money thrown away the
more ignorant they are the easier Kept
in subsection.
But / hope for better things. The
time is not far distant when women will
exercise all the rights of other citizens,
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-04-05
CHALLENGE.

Rev. c. NJ. Blake, late Chaplain L. S.
A, has the honor to invite w. d. Hare,
elector nominee, pledged to vote for
Ulysses S. Grant for President of the
United States a second term, to a PUB-
Lie Discussion as to the merits Of Grant
before the People-the same to take
place at Hillsboro, in Washington coun-
ty, Oregon, during some night in the
last week of this month, other prelimi-
naries to be arranged hereafter.
FOREST GROVE, Or, April ,, 1872.
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and our government will carry out in
action, as we'll as in name, the great
principles of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the Constitution of the
United States.
Hoping you will visit our town and
lecture on the great question Of human
rights that is agitating the public
mind, ! subscribe myself,
SISTER MARY.
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for they, with few exceptions, slept
calmly to the close.
Our brother as an editor, has mis-
taken his calling. He is in reality a
genuine country parson, and ought to
have pastoral charge of Sleepy Hollow
or the Land of Shades.
Come forward, We other brethren of
the Mutual Admiration Society Of the
Portland Press, and let the public see
if you can equal Bro. Ike with your su-
dorifics.
Since the above was written somebody
has informed our brother of the Herald,
who, being lately from Missouri, is YER
dant about the sentiments of Oregon
ians, that his fulsome laudation of
himself was in bad taste, so, though he
does not take it back, he instructs his
local to apologize for its publication.
The Oregonidn shows shows signs of
leaving the Mutual Admiration Society;
so now the other editors must write
each otherupa as "the best lecturers of the
season." before whom such orators as
Condor and Nesbitt are no1chere.
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GRATIFYING.

In pleasing contrast with the efforts
1f few shOddy aristOcrats to do away
with the City High School stands forth
he magnanimous example of such men
IS Mr.. Failing and w. 5. Ladd, two of
he largest taxpayers in the city, who
rot only contribute large sums annually
% its support, but who have worked for
years with disinterested zeal to foster
is best interests.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-04-05

\ most calamitOus earthquake Oc-
cured in Owens River Valley, Califor-
mia, on the 26th of March. At Lone
Pine the houses We're shaken to pieces
and the people buried beneath the ruins.
The scene which ensued is beyond de-
scription. Groans and screams were
heard i'm all directions. Nearly the
whole population of the town We're
buried beneath the ruins. Cries for help
and screams of pain from the wounded
filed the air, while those who escaped
from the ruins were calling for help to
rescue fathers, brothers, wives and chill
dren. The first shock was followed in
quick succession by three others. Over
three hundred distinct shocks were felt
between half-past two o'clock and sun
rise; in fact, the earth was in a constant
shake and tremble. For over three hours
chasm was opened extending thirty
five miles down the valley, ranging
from three inches to forty feet in width.
Rocks were torn from their places and
hurled down into the valley everywhere.
Through the valley are seen evidences
of the terrible cOnvulsiOn of nature. A
large list Of killed and wounded is pub
lished in the telegraphic dispatches.
Should such an earthquake visit San
Francisco its fate would be terrible.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-04-05
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ASTHMA. BRONCHITIS, CATARRH

Affections of the Lungs, Deafness. Discharges
from the Ears, Nervous General Debility,
Sore Eyes, Granulated Lids, Opacity OF the Cor
nea, Films, etc, are successfully treated by DIR.
AbOrn, corner Third and Morrison streets.
CHRONIC DISEASES, especially such cases
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-Moderate and agreeable to the cir
cumstanceS or the patient, that all who are
afflicted can procure his treatment If they
wish. n32tf
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-04-05

As "Gipsy' is only "young girl of
SIXTEEN" We think there is little doubt
but that she will be convinced that
she ought to have few more rights
than women now have by the time she
arrives at womanhOod. The benefit of
few Northwest breezes will help
wonderfully to bring her latent ideas of
justice and equality into healthy, vigor-
Gus action.
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LETTER FROM ILLINOIS.

RIDOTT, ILL.,, March II, 1872.
Mrs. 4. j. DaaiIgdy:-I have Just seen
a couple of numbers of the New NORTH
WEST, dated last July and August, that
were sent to a friend of mine here by
her daughter, who resides near Ellens-
burg, Curry county, Southwestern Ore
gon. I like your paper and feel strongly
in sympathy with all the truly progress
sive and self-reliant, i'm whom adversity
has wrought depth of thought and calm
ness of soul. Such must bear this great
burden of the Woman Question of the
present day, for the benefit of our
weaker sisters. Enclosed you will find
subscription price for your paper three
months. Ihope to come to Oregon this
season, and am seeking all the informa-
ton l can get. wish you would send
me those Prize Essays on the resources
and advantages of Oregon by yourself
and ]. Quinn Thornton. Are there any
maps accompanying them? 1 cannot
get good map of your State here. I
am widow, with eight children, poor
In this worlds goods, but have health,
energy and capacity to adapt myself to
circumstances, and am determined to
plant my family on the Pacific coast.
1 believe it is a better climate, a better
fruit region, and that labor and energy
are better rewarded there than in this
region of long, severe winters.
Please answer as soon as convenient.
Yours, etc, SEM
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Portland Market.

Flour-Extra, s6 per barrel; Extra country
brands, s. JO95 -.
Wheat-MarSet unsettled.
Butter-Fine dairy, 45esjee per pound; Orlin-
ary, SjdS1lc.
Egg+25c per dozen.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-04-05

The culture and sale of flowers is a
light and remunerative business for
women of taste.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-04-05

Smoky lamps may be improved by
putting three or four spoonfuls Of salt in
them.
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The Essays to which you allude have
not yet been published. Consequently
we are unable to comply with your re-
quest. Do not know how soon they will
be published, or whether they will be
published at all.
The Van Buren press., 1872-12-10

SELF RELIANCE - People who have
been bolstered up ali their lives are sell
dom goou for anything IN crisis When
misfortune comes, they look around for
somebody to cling to or lean upon. II
the prop 10 not there, down they 60.
Once down they are rs helpless as q cap
sized turtls, and they cannot find their
feet again without assistance. Such per
sons no more resemble men who have
fought their way to position, making diff
fculties their stepping stone ana deriving
discrimination from their defeat. than
vines resemble oaks, or sputtsring rush
lights the stars OF heaven. E6orts per-
sisted into achievements, train man to
self relisnse and when he ha, proven to
the world that he can trust himself, the
world will trust him. One Of the best
lessons q father can give his son is;
Work strengthen your moral ana men
tai faculties a. you would strengthen
your muscles by vigorous exercise. Loarn
to conquer circumstances you are then
Independent Of fortune The men OF
athletic minds. who left their mark on
the years in which they lived, were oil
trained in rough school. They did not
mount to their high position by the help
of leverage; they Icsped the chssm,
grappled with tho opposing rocks. avoid
ell avalanohes, and when the goal was
reached, felt that, but for the toll that
had strengthened them ns they strove, 1t
could never have been obtained.
The Van Buren press., 1872-12-10
The Alabama Muddle.

Washington telegraph dispatches OF
the 9th, says committees representing
both branches Of the Alabama Legislature
are here Thar representing Gov. Lewis
and the court house body to day asked
an interview Of the president, and were
answered that he preferred they first con
fer with the attorney general. They
consequently will confer with Judge vii
liams to morrow. The committee repre-.
senting the capitol branch will make q
statement OF their case Saturday. While
The general will give full atten
ton to every matter presented by these
committees, he will not render any opn
ion or take any other action thercon,an
the fixed determination Of the govern
ment is not to interfere in the condition
of political affairs in Alabama unless
something should arise under the consti-
tuition Of the United States which shall
render such interference necessary.