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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-09-06
LETTER FROM RosERuRG.

RosEBuRG, Oregon, August q, 1872.
EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
1 assure you that you reused the lion
in his den when you lectured here last
week. am also pleased to inform you
that our army, though small, is strong
and earnest. Miss - is still with me,
and we are making votes for Grant to
add to the long list which you made
while here. Mrs. NJ sends love and
saws she will henceforth work for the
cause. Her husband is justly proud of
her. But the best nail you drove was
when you publicly rebuked the SANDER
ers of Mrs. NJ. 1t made the guilty
fIutter, and feel that this timely warn
ing will silence many a filthy tongue.
But wo1ld not have you or the public
believe that there are many here who
delight in scandal. People become scam
dal mongers often because they have
nothing else with which to busy them
selves. Roseburg is = quiet, orderly
place, and we have, as you know, many
very intelligent and excellent citizens.
We shall expect you during the cam
paign. In haste, b.
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WHY VOTE FOR UNCLE HORACE ?

EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
One day lately on the street n half
drunk Democrat seized my hand and
asked me if l We're not going for Uncle
Horace Greeley, as he had heard me Of
ten say in former times that Greeley
was o X. l replied that Greeley on
slavery, the tariff and temperance was
o X; but now, being found in very poor
company, and having to go back on his
life record to suit his new friends, or
else draw them out Of their dens and
holes and transform them into sober
men and abolitionists, and in favor of
protective tariff, the task was too much
for the Sage, and should not help to
place him in such predicament. He
dropped my hand and muttered, "d-n
itr
In passing over the country, find all
the filth and slush in the whisky mills
and gambling hells, and all the jeff
Davis shouters, and the Wilkes Booth
mourners, and the sore-headed, disap-
pointed and ignorant Republicans hur-
rahing for Greeley and Brown. In
word, the scum and antipodes in poll
ties, the incongruous masses, united on
no set Of principles but those Of the
''spoils" and anything to beat Grant"
are all shouting for Greeley and Brown.
The Temperance elements, the
Churches, the literati, the free thinkers
Of our Republic, and last and best of all
the ladies of our land, who see hope
in the future for their enfranchisement,
and full and equal rights before the law,
are with our noble Republican party
heart and soul. And with such aids
and moral power, we shall roll UP such
votes for Grant and Wilson next No
vember in Oregon, California and Ne
vada as shall astound and dismay the
enemies Of freedom, moral reform, equal
rights and true American Republican
ism. And by the year 1876 the ladies OF
our Union will cast their ballots under
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments, having been fully privileged to
DO so by declaratory acts of Congress,
none declaring to the contrary. 'The
good times coming" PUBLICo.
SALEM, Oregon, August 81, 1872.
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WE WORRIED HIM.

We We're at first dissatisfied with our
campaign speech Of last Friday evening. |
We were sick and exhausted, and the
hall, so densely crowded, was difficult
to fill with voice that had been almost
churned to pulp in the overland stage
coaches, and We went home sadly vexed
because we had forgotten some Of the
most important "points" of the argu-
ment; but when Saturday mornings
Herald appeared, and we saw how bad
ly we had worried its reporter, we grew
jubilant and happy. If the fight you
make displeases your enemy, and sets
him to work 10 burlesque that which he
can in no wise controvert, depend upon
it, you are doing your own cause good
service. a refutation of the HcrdIFS
misrepresentation of our allusion to Mr.
Greeley's declaration that his "daugh
ter was n Catholic" appeared in the
OregOninR of ID, which we print below
Women Of Oregon, you who say that
respectful consideration" in the Re-
publican ranks amounts to nothing,
don't you see that it does amount to
much You well know that we, as q
journalist, have been misrepresented in
every conceivable way by mans rights
opponents ever since our public career
began; but never, until the Republican
party declared in its National Platform
that the "honest demands of any class
of citizens for additional rights should
be treated with respectful considera-
tion," did any public journal think our
words or deeds of sufficient consequence
to be placed before the public in n cor
rect light. Now, however, our true
friends stand by us, and here is how
they talk when reporters lie:
We have been requested by a member Of the
Catholic Church To correct the statement in
the Herald" OF last saturday moruise, 10 the
effect that Mrs Duuiway, in her speech last
Friday evening, "made a blasphcmouS allu-
sion 10 the religion OF Mr. Greeley's daugh-
ters." To those who heard Mrs D. The correc-
fion is unnecessary, as well as 20 those who
know the utter abandon with which the gen
tlcman who reported that speech for the "Her-
aldm porYerfS and falSificS q speakers language
whenever IL suits his purposes 10 do So There
was nothing In the speech referred 10 which
could IN any way he taken as even a Slur NJ
the religion OF Mr.. Greeley's daughters or any
one else; and all that was said on that subject
was "A repetition OF a statement made by Gree
lev himself u the speaker in an interview
which they had In New York. That statement
was i'm Mr. Greeley's own words my Oldest
daughter is n Catholic. and had rather confess
10 a priest than east a ballot and was made
i'm answer to the question put by Mrs. Duniway
in this language: "Mr. Greeley, haven't your
daughters any political aspirations 90 What
"blaSphemous allusiOn" our contemporary can
find in that is certainly beyond the conpre-
hcnsion Of any one who heard IL.
The "woman question" worries the
Herald now just as the 'nigger ques-
ton" distressed it a few years ago; and
the Republican party, which secured
political supremacy then by respectfully
considering the rights of negroes, will
achieve a glorious victory in November
by respectfully considering the inalien-
able rights Of women.
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LINN COUNTY SCENERY.

EDITOR NEW NORTHWEST:
In 4 sOutherly direction from Albany,
and from twelve to twenty-five miles
distant, four prominent landmarks
called buttes arise from the level prairie
to an altitude OF several hundred feet,
giving a picturesque and pleasing ap-
pearance to what would otherwise be
monotonous level plain.
Washington, better known rs Peter
sons Butte, takes its name from the
settler first known on its northeastern
base. Wards, also named by its owner
and first settler, rises abruptly from the
level prairie, pyramidal in form, and
although rather difficult of ascent, its
summit, when reached, discloses q scene
of much beauty. Saddle Butte, south
west, takes its name from its imaginary
resemblance to an old-fashiOned saddle.
Gray's Butte, several miles south, great
ly resembles Saddle Butte in its general
appearance, but is perhaps n trifle more
rocky at its southern terminus. Its ge-
illogical formation, as seen i'm a quarry
at its base and groupings at its summit,
indicates a great deal of iron in its COM
position, and is very hard and of great
specific gravity. The stone Of the quarry
is of cubic form, and is piled up in
layers almost perpendicular, with clay
seams resembling mortar between each
layer Of stone, giving it the appearance
Of rude masonry, trending north east
and south west. Although its altitude
is not so great as that of the other
buttes, yet it seems to have been a great
resort and land mark of several Indian
tribes prior to the advent of the present
owners of the soil. The loose stones
upon its summit have been placed in
positions that would indicate a purpose
perhaps a means of communication
with each other, or of one tribe with
another, as was custom of the Indians
of the Atlantic coast. Be that rs il
may, the view from this point is well
worth the trouble of tourists, very few
of whom have been curious enough tC
make the ascent. On reaching the sum.
nit, the best portion of the valley lie.
below you like 4 variegated carpe
spread at your feet, while lands, Whit
with the ripening oats, yellow will
golden wheat, or green with luxurian
gardens and fruitful orchards, smile a
you rs you gaze. To be sure, the carpe
is but a hOmoly ingram, but neverthe
less rich enough for Queen. The vii
lamette river in the distance, with it
broad belt Of green timber, courses alonl
the valley, fed by its many tributaries
clothed in the same emerald hue, add
ing greatly to the beauty of the scene
Towns and villages, warehouses an,
goodly dwellings stand out clear an,
bright or peep from overshadowing foil
age, and church steeples and colleg
spires mark an era in the advancin
civilization of a free and contented peo
pie. SHEBA.
/ ALBANY, Oregon, August %, 1872.
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FINANCIAL NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that after Sep
tember 10th we shall stop every news
paper going as 4 complimentary or
dead-head concern from this Office and
present bill for arrearages. We shall
also present every delinquenps bill for
the past year and demand advance pay
ment on the present one. This step is
absolutely necessary TO save us from f.
nancial ruin.
To our stauneh and trusty friends who
have aided us financially as well as
with good words and wishes, We express
our profound gratitude for services rem
dered. To those who have aided us
with good words and wishes o1ily, we
earnestly and emphatically declare that
We cannot pay printers bills, paper
maker and pressman, or house rent and
city taxes, with 6'glcoB15e. Our ex-
tended and expensive trip in the East,
in the interest of Oregon and our con-
stituents, has depleted our treasury and
run us in debt. Now let our friends
prove themselves such in reality. We
are not working merely for newspaper
glory. And even if we were, we'd like
10 know how we'd succeed without the
needtjA
This is no idle talk, and we call upon
our friends to contribute such sums as
they are willing TO give and able to
spare towards liquidating the one thous-
and dollar indebtedness unavoidably in
CURED in publishing the NEW NORTH
WEST during our four months absence
in the East. We are, Of course, anxiou.
to sustain the paper. 1t has cost u.
many years Of hard labor and nervou:
anxiety, and now that it has proved an
unprecedented popular success, if the
people do not sustain it, we shall let Il
slide. Other and lucrative avocations
are open to US, and while we shall leave
no effort untried TO keep our journal
for the People ever before them, we
shall not wrong our children nor bank
rupt ourself to accomplish the aim near
est our heart
We are free TO confess that we dom
understand begging. We consider it II,
personal charity to us for the people t,
meet the expenses Of the journal T.
which we devote our time and energies
and if they do not want it sustained
neither shaU 1re. A word to the wise
sufficient. Now let Us see who on
friends really are.
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olive and nut brown, are considered the
most desirable colors. The printed En-
press cloths are also of very fine quality.
The ground is black, strewn with Pom
padour designs, small flowers, leaves
and vines of shaded gray and brown
hues, with occasional relief of color.
Bright eolors are shown in goods of in
ferior quality.
Serge poplin, mohair goods with
silk-faced stripes, heavy twilled, like
serge, is an excellent fabric for interme-
diate seasons; it has usually a gray or
white stripe on black ground.
Morocco belts are now fastened by
buckles of imitation tortoise shell, and
have two pendents with hooks, on the
left side, for supporting the fan, UNI
brella or bag.
The fall styles of millinery are not
yet decided upon, but We are assured
that they will be graceful and stylish.
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Platform Of the Woman Suffrage Party of
the Pacific Slope.

WHEREAS, We, the representative women OF
The Pacific Coast in Convention assembled in
san Francisco, this 2lst dag of June IS72 beIiev-
ing the time has come 10 form new political
party, do organize under the name of the Wom-
an Suffrage Party Of the Pacific Coast, and
declare the following platform of principles
lst. All men and women are created free and
equal, and are endowed alike with certain in
aienable rights, among which are the rights 10
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Al We mold That under the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments To the Constitution o.
the United states women are already cnfran-
chised and entitled to the right 10 vote and are
deDarred OIthc privilege only through prejudice
and misiuterpretatiou OF the law.
3D.. Pending decision of the supreme Court
as 10 the fuil import OF these Amendments and
III view OF the possibility OF an adverse decision
we VIII labor with our utmost zeal and energy
for an additional amendment TO the Consiitu-
tion TO secure these rights. We VIII also work
with determination for the revision and modl-
heaton OF the Constitution and laws OF our
respective States
9TH. All persons alike, both men and WOmei'
are entitled to equal rights before the law.
9th. All persons and parties who oppose iitso
principles shall be treated as our politlcii c5ie
mics, from whom we will Withhold our lIiilu-
ence in politics and our patronage IN business. @
9th. We will work for the clectlou HI H iS aiiS
worthy candidate of whatever party VINO VIII
work with US and we viii vigorously opp9so
any candidate of any party VINO Is "PPoaoo q"
/ these principles. i., ,,,,.,, ,i,is
I'm. As a political party we unite upon W., tuiS
l common platform, regardless OF hhti'H"i''Si .
sex, religion or condition
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JOTr1EGs OF OUR JOURNEY.

The following was crowded from our
columns last week:
Leaving AIokolumne Station, Cal, on
August 4th, a short ride
brought us to Sacramento, where, ex-
hausted and half sick, we remained for a
week, finding many friends and forming
hosts of new acquaintances.
Here / attended n Greeley ''ratifica-
tion," and saw Frank Pixley, of San
Francisco, life long Whig-Republi
can, endeavor to shake hands across
the "filthy pool" with DIR. Shorb, Of
San Francisco, n life long Democrat.
Pixley would Orate and declare himself
and the "party' to be republican to the
core. Then Shorb would crate and de-
clare il was a Democratic institution;
and then the coalition would grasp
hands "acrOss the chasm" amid the de-
risive laughter OF the small boys, who
could see through the farce most clear
ly, while old-line Democrats would vow
they couldn't 'istand it" and retire in
disgust, ,and '1iberal" Republicans
would shake their heads and grumble.
"a happy family indeed is this one
headed by the grandmother-in-ehief of
the Chappaquacks. The meeting called
together some five hundred persons all
told, of whom, judging from manifesto
tions Of derision instead of applause, at
least two-thirds were Republicans.
Had the honor Of addressing the Sac
ramentons on the evening of the 18th,
and added handsome list of subscrib-
ers to the NEW NORTHWEST. Spoke
the following Wednesday evening at
Marysville, and on Thursday took the
train for Red Bluffs, and was there met
by the stage, when I took passage for
Yreka, at which place l stopped and
spoke two successive evenings to good
audiences, and, as usual, receiving q
goodly list of subscriptions.
Time and space will not permit q de-
scription Of the journey or places of in
terest which I should dearly love ia
give. Suffice it TO say that the journey
itself over the serpentine and rocky
roadway, through the abounding and
abiding dust, the fatigue of successive
days and nights of travelling in mud
wagons-misnamed coaehes-where tn,
jolting steiescopes your spinal column
and sets your brain to patting jub:
against your skull, was one long to b,
remembered, and not easily to be reeov
cred from.
Stopped at Roseburg and spoke tw,
successive evenings, and then at Oak
land, where I compromised with a dane
ing party that had pre-engaged tn
only hall the place afforded, and al
dressed the throng for half an hour, an,
in the gray of the following mornin,
took the cars for home, where, were i
not for the necessity of working up bus
iness for the NEW NORTHWEST, whicl
Portland seems too poor and miserly tC
afford, but without which she wOulC
not get the credit of woman's paper
we should remain and rest for a montl
at least. AS it is, must again go fortl
to the battle, girded with the armor o
truth and shielded by the protection o
n good conscience.
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REMARKABLE WORK OF ART.

While in Sacramento recently we
visited at the house Of Mrs. DIR. Water
house, whose skill in landscape and por-
trait sketching and painting is of very
remarkable character. The lady is
sixty-two years of age and has never
taken n lesson in drawing or painting,
and never knew, until within the past
six months, that she had talent for art.
Her first work began in penciling upon
the plastered walls of her stting-roOm,
and progressed, as she AYERS, by the aid
of shadows which appeared to her as
she sketched, but which were visible to
no one else. She continued sketching
from right to left and rice rersa until a
picture of hieroglyphics of very ancient
design, and unique in every particular,
was finished, which is six feet by three
in size, and from which she demonstrates
many useful life lessons.
She has also painted in colors an i'm
mense landscape picture representing
the Yosemite Valley, the river Merced,
the Bridal Veil, etc. But the remarEa-
BILE feature of this landscape lies in the
lessons which il conveys, and which she
says were pictured unconsciously to her
self rs she proceeded with her labor. 1t
is impossible in q sketch like this to do
this picture any sort Of justice, but we
will endeavor TO give some idea Of its
4
breaking through the mountain gorge,
is shown leaving their base, and rs they
tower above the deep valley their rugged
outlines reveals forms and faces, many
Of which can be readily recognized as
leading minds in our Republics history.
One huge, graceful, female figure forms
the highest mountain, which she calls
the "iSleeping Giantess," or "Woman
Suffrage" a eoncourse of women ap-
pear clambering up the mountain side
rs if intent upon arousing this sleeper
while one bold, defiant woman shake:
her clenched fist in their faces and defie.
them to proceed. Other women, be
longing to the same company ar,
stretching forth their hands to arOus,
the Magdalens, who are pictured a
groveling among animals, or sinkin.
in the river Merced. On the right, il
the foreground and near the highes
pinnacle Of the mountain, is a perfec
profile view Of Gen. Grant, supported by
a large company Of men and women
To the right of this and behind and be
low is a correct portait of Mr.. Greelel
with his half hidden friends peepine
forth from behind the Bridal Veil, Will
he looks anxiously at Gen. Grant, who's
eye is fixed upon the shadowy form o
Mr.. Lincoln, as he appears, surrounde,
by seraphs in the spirit-thronged cloud
above Sentinel Rock" which is pic
tured upon the opposite mountain as tn
Goddess of Liberty" Every rock an,
stump and every knoll reveals the out
lines of human face, which bears, &C
cording TO the artists Interpretation
some significant relation to some grea
political fact. The picture is surmounte,
by a rainbow which spans its entir
breadth, the whole forming a yer.
accurate view of Yosemite Valley, witt
its wonderful beauty, wildness an
grandeur Of scenery.
We learn that il is Mrs. WIS intention
to exhibit this picture in California dun
ing the coming campaign, and W
should be pleased to see it come to Port
/ land.
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Among the feathered creation the ca
gle and raven, the swan and parrot, are
each centenarians. An eagle kept in
Vienna died after n confinement of ia
years, and on an ancient oak in Sell
borne. still known as the Craven tree
the same pair of ravens are believed to
have fixed their residence for serious
of more than 80 years. Swans upon
the river Thames, about whose age there
can be 10 mistake, since they are an
nually nicked by the Winters Company,
nnder whose keeping they have been for
the last five centuries, have been known
TO survive $50 years and more. The
melody of the dying swan is entirely
neurological. Upon the approach OF
death the bird quits the water, sits down
upon the bank, lays its head upon the
ground, expands its wings trile, and
expires, uttering no sound.
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COMMITTEE MEETING.

The finance committee of the Woman
Suffrage Association are requested to
meet on this CFriday) evening at the
residence Of Mrs. DIR. Thompson to make
II report and transact other important
business. BY order of the Chairman,
G. w. BROWN.
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THE TIME To ADVERTISE.-The dull
season, rs il is called, is the best time
for remuneTative advertising. When
people have most leisure they read most.
At the watering places and numerous
summer resorts, where tourists are
coneregatel, the merchant who takes
advantage OF his opportunity will not
fail 10 send his circular; or, if he depends
upon newspapers mainly, he viii not
pass by the quiet dullness of summer
without keeping his business constantly
before the people who have deserted the
town for more cOngenial life in the open
country. II pays to advertise iudieiOus-
ly-it pays to advertise if the truth is
told. II don't pay to stop advertising.
All YOU have spent is wasted, if by your
neglect 10 keep the public acquainted
with the advantages you can offer, they
discover the usual enterprise wanting
at any time for any reason i'm the man
agement of your business. "What's the
matter with \. Il. G 4 Co., they don't
advertise any more. Guess they are
played out, " said n friend of ours, no
long since. Well, sure enough, wher
we had our attention called TO the fact
it did appear so TO Us, and it was no
long before we read among the items o
the day, eve regret to announce tn,
temporary suspension of the well-knOwI
firm of \. b. c & Co. Liabilities anC
assets not yet ascertained," etc. "By ;
throat latch' wins the race. Keep ;
little ahead; don't get tired, for it is jus
here the applause is against you, anC
once the popular current sets in adj
versely, you may "thrOw up the
/ sponge for you are no longer counted
among the probable winners Of the race
Intelligent persistent effort; truthful
advertising in season and out of season
fair dealing, small profits, one pric,
strictly adhered to, and the terms c. o
ID. to all, will surely result in success L
a retail establishment
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SHORT AND LONG PHRAsES.-The
strongest impression is generally the
briefest and the best. Take the old bal
lads of any people, and you will find few
adjectives. The singer says, "He
laughed; she wept" Perhaps the poet
of more civilized age might say-''He
laughed in scorn; she turned away and
she'd tears of disappointment" But
nowadays the ambitious young writer
must produce something like this-"A
hard, fiendish laugh, scornful and pitt
less, forced its passage from his throat,
through the lips that curled in mockery
of her appeal; she covered her despairing
face, and gust and whirlwind of sor-
rowing agony burst forth in her ire
sistible tearsw
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REMOVAL.

The Office of the NEW NORTHWEST
has been removed from the corner OF
Third and Washington streets to the
Oregonion building on Stark street.
The editorial room viii be at our resi-
dence on Sixth and Z streets. Sub
scriptions or orders for advertisements
viii be received at the business Office Of
the Oregoniaa or at the editorial Office.