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AUTUMN.

Tie blessed Autumn time, with all its
varied glories, is upon us. The sweet
and sad South wind steals up from old
Neptune's billowy cradle, creeps over
the mountain tops and through the
wales and gorges, roars down the CHM
neys, whistles in the key-holes, means
in the pines, sighs in the naples and
sobs in the valleys, bearing upon its in
visible breath the vapors of the deep,
holding them in feecy film above the
tree tops or scattering them in gentle
showers upon the sun-dried earth.
The orchards, that ere-while were
clothed in the emerald green of the
summer, assume the gorgeous hues of
the mellow fruit, which falls in rich
profusiOn on the elover-clad bosom Of
the earth who bore them, and the dense
forests, arrayed in hues of amethyst and
ruby, adorned by carmine, pearl and
amber jewels, which no pen can picture,
drink the showers as they fall, and say
unto the sad South winds as they
stretch forth their arms to Heaven,
''Peace, be still.v But the winds and
the clouds heed not, and even as the
days roll on, they grow yet bolder, and
ere many weeks the forest leaves and
orchard fruits will have yielded to the
epcroachments of the Storm King, who
grown from autumn-hood into the ful
strength of winter, will reign suprem'
over the earth, who will rest from he
labors till the sweet spring-time cometh
Thus is the perpetual work of Gods ere
alton finished, yet renewed forever
Thus may mortals learn that though
summer and winter and seed time ant
harvest pass away in their season, ye
they are not dead, but sleeping, an'
even so shall we, who are bound whith
er we know not, again live and flourish
after having donned the habiliments o
dissolution.
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WHY Is IT2

The Eastern papers contain a graphic
account Of Joaquin AIiller's ride in New
York City with Colonel Tennie Claflin
and her sister Victoria, but we do not
hear one man or newspaper say aught
against permitting Miller to exercise the
immunities of citizenship because of his
association with these avowed free
lovers. Now, suppose Minnie Myrtle
Miller should take ride with Vic. and
Tennie. Immediately would thousand
papers proclaim the tidings that politi-
cal privileges must not be accorded to
women else they would all become free
lovers.
While we have no doubt but either
Of these notorious women is better in
precept and example than Joaquin Mil
le1, who neither processes nor practices
the virtues, we confess that we are sur
prised that some "pious" editor does not
see the horrible consequence that will
accrue from permitting this man to vote,
henceforth
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One Woman's Work.


For months now, a quiet, modest,
maiden lady, of middle life, has been
observed in the police courts, sitting on
the benches reserved for the public,
who, when peculiarly distressing case
came up with reference to some poor
unfortunate girl, was reported in the
papers as expressing n desire to receive
the prisoner" which offer was grateful
ly accepted. The name of this quite un-
known to magistrates and public until
recently.
What could she want Of these grace
less outcasts of her own sex, who came
from time to time to the surface of the
police dock? 1t transpired, a few weeks
ago, that she was a Miss Stride; that
early in life she had met with "disap-
pointments," and her fortune had been
shattered; that then, instead of devoting
herself in sour misanthropy to tea and
her cat, she took an humble lodging,
and set upon her life-journey with one
of the noblest resolves that ever actuat-
ed a feminine breast.
She went out upon the highways
and byways of vast London-Oftenest
upon the byways-and brought back to
to her little rooms one after another OF
those poor, forlorn castaways who
throng in such sad professions in the
streets of all great cities; and she shared
her bread with them-her bed with
them; gave them no solemn lectures;
but, by very loving kindness, with sis
| terly sympathy, with gentlest, fearful
appeal and encouragement, by win
ming them from despair to hope, from
/ hope to actual amendment and honesty
/ she impaired a new life to what was {
/ living death. Her nOblest deed was hel
sacrifice. Within a year, out of sever
hundred and fifty pounds, mostly giveI
| in charity, and to which was added hel
own and a benevolent companions pitt
/ full incomes, she gave n home, food
clothes, medicine, and doctors care, anC
new and happy life, to three hundred
and seventy-five girls, poor, painted anC
poisoned, and ragged, patched wretches
In two-thirls (two-thirdsD of these
cases the cure was complete, the diseas,
was subdued, the new life was perma
nent and blessed. And how was i
done? "God will forgive us everything, ,
says some one, everything but de
spair." Miss Stride never despaired
were her subject the most blasphemou
and hideous young viragO of the Sever
Dials. She saw that they hated tn
"stuccoed and penitentiary system.
Her most triumphant reiormatlons Wer
of females over whom the prison chap
lains most obdurately shook their heads
They needed, indeed, no chaplain, but
sister. And a sister, the gentlest, mos
loving, most cOnsiderate most ten
derby anxious, they found i'm the " dis
appointed maiden lady, Miss Stride
And what potent charm used she
, what claiTvoyance and magnetism
were hid at the little house, No.
Hart street, Bloomsbury square?-E'
: dBiiIcF.
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WHERE DOES THE GOLD COME
FRoM?-This question has never been
satisfactorily answered by geologists.
They can see as far into a milestone as
anybody, but where the great depot or
quarry from whence the gold comes that
has been rasped of in principles and
thrown towards the surface to be rolled
in the sand by the action of running
water, or caught as prisoners in quartz
rock while that was either held in solu-
tion or in the condition of pulveriZation,
is the problem.
Occasionally such enormous nuggets
are found quite solitary. Itseems to in
dicate they were broken off from n large
mass somewhere and driven away in 4
torrent of gravel whose onward upward
course WAS Irresistible until il met with
counter currents.
That old theory which supposed the
precious metal was existing in combi-
nation with others in a gaseous form
and occasionally precipitated by elec-
/ tricity into Jumps which worked theil
way like moles from the interior through
strata of the earth's compact crust, Is
now quite obsolete. An impression is
gaining, which advocates that gold does
actually exist in great bodies, some
where, not very far down from whence
/ fragments and particles are gradually
brought up by aquatic agency. This
gives a more reasonable explanation oi
/ the diffusion of gold in small parcels all
over the globe.
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THEY TREMBLE.

A very laughable feature of the "new
political dispensation" is the avidity
with which many Republican politi-
clans seek to dodge the one vital issue
of the present campaign. While they
all know that the Republican party has
approved and is now substantiating the
doctrine of "equal rights before the
law" they profess to fear that they will
lose uotes by saying so; therefore, just
as they hesitated about becoming the
negro's champion, they falter when
compelled to stand by woman. Espe-
cially is this timidity noticeable in the
Oregon Republican newspapers. With
the proud exception of the OregOnidn,
and once in a while a slight notice in
the Stdtesnadn-the two leading Repub-
lican organs, by the way-not one of
the party papers hardly dares to think
or speak; and when, as matter of gen.
eral news, they are compelled to give
items, an attempt at righteousness is the
result of their cogitations and the bur-
den of their songs. Thus the benighted
people, who have no light except the
feeble rays these papers east, are seized
with astonishEnent when they learn the
real strength of Republican women's
organizations and power. But while
the party press in Oregon thus fears to
accept the fiat of the inevitable, the
leading journals of the East are brave
and strong. An article from Harper's
Weekly in another column, entitled
''lhe Republican Women of Massachu-
setts," will show the animus of Repub-
lican journals of influence and the true
meaning of respectful consideration. !"
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4 Boy OF SEVEN MURDERS \ GIRL OF
FIVE YEARS.-On last Sunday after
noon the people of Lexington, Scott
county, were Mortified at the announce
ment that little son of Mr.. Hugh
Lotus, of that place, only seven years
old, had shot a daughter of jerry
Chandler, mt the tender age of five years.
They were together in Il room at LOTUS
house. Young LOTUS said he would kill
the little girl, when she ran away, but
subsequently, returned, when the young
fiend deliberately took up shotgun
and fired, filling the poor little girls
stomach with sIugs. She survived until
last Monday, when she died at about
daylight. The above is substantially
what the little girl stated after the ter
rible tragedy. \ resident of Lexington
states that it was not many days previ-
Gus to this that he saw young LOTUS in
a stable trying to get the little girl to
nut her arm under the blade of the cut
ting machine, in order that he might
cut it off. This certainly is the most
shocking case of a naturally depraved
and blood-thirsty taste we ever recorded,
and one that seems to amount to a mon
omania.-Ne5g Al5dny Ind Ledger.
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A VESSEL FOUND AT SEA WITH ALL
HANDS DEAD.-James Dugan arrived at
New York, October Sd, from Sidney,
Cape Breton. He reports that, on the
9th Of September, the schooner Laneas-
ter, on which he was a passenger, fell in
with an abandoned vessel, on which was
found a skeleton, crushed by fallen rig
ping. and five other skeletons, four of
which appeared to be more recent than
the other two. Inquiry seems TO show
that ali on board perished from hunger.
The bowsprit of the vessel bore the
name GIenalvon. Two decompOsed
eorpses were found in the forecastle.
The captains corpse was found in his
state-room. Nine bodies were found,
altogether. The papers found on board
were given to the authorities at Sydney,
with a view to learning the history OF
the Glenalvon.
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VOX POPuLIl VnY Dell

Before the New NORTHWEST shall
agAln greet our readers, the portentious
6th OF November will have passed. with
its deeds, into history. Already the re-
suit Is predicted with a certainty that
admits Of little doubt even in the minds
of the most bitter enemies of tho Ad-
ministration. The 'tidal wave, which
Mr.. Greeley imagined was to have
landed him high and dry upon the
Presidential beach, has stranded him
in the quicksands of political de.
feat. It is with difficulty that we with.
hold his funeral obsequies for yet an
other week. His pail and hearse ar,
ready, and his mourners are preparing
sack cloth. Woe, woe their day!
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TERRITORIAL NEWS.

y Congregational church is to be
erected in Seattle.
Register and Home is now the title of
the Vancouver paper.
The Olympia Standard has entered
upon its thirteenth volume.
Ringworm has seized the children of
Olympia, and many little angels are
temporarily disfgured by it. Printers
ink is recommended as a cure.
Among the new postoffices recently
in Montana Territory is one
at Camp Baker. General John S.
Hammell has been appointed Postmas-
ter.
The [. 5. surveying brig Fauntleroy
has gone into winter quarters at Olym-
pia, and no more outside work will be
done till next spring. The crew were
paid off on the oath and discharged.
The Helena Herald says the grain
crops throughout Montana the present
year are unprecedented and that the
average yield throughout the Terrific
ry cannot be excelled in the United
States.
Civil war is supposed to be imminent
among the Chinese in Idaho Territory.
They are collecting arms and ammuni-
tion on each side, and such 4 collision is
anticipated as shall cause Celestial blood
to flow profusely.
Judge Lewis, of Washington Terrific
ry, went to Yakima last week to hold a
term of the District Court, but there
was no business at all. The lawyers OF
that section who depend on the practice
of their profession, are on the point o.
starving.
By the decision of Emperor William
in the San Juan Island matter, Wash
ington Territory gains about as mucl
land as is embraced in the State o
Rhode Island, and an addition to he
population of about 500 persons, among
them $50 voters.
The last city assessment of Walli
Walla, which was levied in May last
footed up the aggregate sum of 81, 1l2,
S74. The rate of general tax, five mills
special tax, four mills. Next year thi
special tax viii be dispensed with, a
the engine will have been paid for
Total assessment of WalIa Walla coun
ty, at 12l mills on the dollar, So, ,4O7,
$40.
1t would surprise many Eastern me-
to behold-more than 500 miles west G
Omaha and the Missouri river, on tn
threshold of the Rocky mountains
Court House worth $50, 200, and man
iron and stone front stores costing frou
! $4,000 to 100000, surrounded by nun
erous brick edifices worth from 5000
to $4,000; yet all these are to be foun
at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory.
Some days ago while two young ladiC
were stopping alone in a house in th
suburbs of Olympia, another woman
whose appearance was very strange, er
! tered the house and making some III
accountable demonstration so frightene
the two girls that they ran into ROOF
t and locked themselves up. The visitC
5 then went through the house searchin
: it pretty thoroughly, and turning thing
a topsy turvey generally, but carryin
e nothing away. After she had gone Il
e girls came forth from their hiding plac
n bnt one of them was so seriously alarme
: that she has since become totally il
/ sane and has been taken to the asylul
i at Steilacoom. The antecedents {
re present whereabouts of the woma
Y VINO caused the sad misfortune are N,
known.
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gbe fle,u Aortbwest.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER I, 1872.
FRIDAY.
IMPORTANT.

Ladies of Portland, ladies of Oregon,
ladies everywhere, remember that before
the NEW NORTHWEST again shall greet
vou, the election day will have gone by.
Now, we ask you to go to the polls and
vote. Well agree 10 stand as hostage
for your brethren, for we know they
will treat you well. They need strength
ening in their spinal columns, these
brethren, and to get them used to inev-
liable progression, we must accustom
them to it. So We repeat, Go and vote
Vote with and for your country:
friends, and you will not regret it.
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In the parish of st. Damien, county
of Berthier, there is living a woman
who has attained the extraordinary age
of one hundred and eight years. She
was born in 1864, at Marquette, Mich,
which was then trading station. Her
father was Frenchman named Anger,
and her mother an Indian woman. In
early life she came TO SOrel, in Canada,
and nearly thirty years ago removed
TO st. Damien, where she is now living
with one of her sons. She is quite blind
and nearly deaf, but still enjoys degree
of physical health and soundness of
mind which are remarkable in person
so aged. Once started in conversation,
especially if it is about the circum-
stances of her youth, she talks for long
time and with considerable animation.
She still keeps nearly all her hair,
which is of an iron-gray color, and long
and coarse, like that of her maternal
race. She relates that when she was a
girl, an Indian of her tribe, who died
at 1l5 years of age, prophesied that she
would live until her hair became white
as snow. She takes pleasure in repeat
ing this story to visitors, and one might
suspect IL to be a fabrication invented
to heighten the interest naturally felt
in one so aged, but her family state that
she has always related this story and
believes the prophesy to be true. In
the adjoining parish Of st. Gabriel de
Brandon lives another of her sons,
named Louis Gordin. He is her first
born, and is ninety-three years old. He
retains all his senses and physical
strength in a most remarkable degree OF
preservation. Few men of sixty years
can do more work in the fields, and this
summer he came up to LOnggueuil,
where he worked several weeks at hay
ing with one of his sons.
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PowER.-Knowledge is power, gold is
power, fame is power; but there is a
power stronger than any or all these
combined; silent, potential power that
cannot be deceived by knowledge, nor
bribed with gold; power that had its
birth in the morning of creation, and
living, will glide down unsheathed
through time and eternity. The name
of this wonderful and Incompatible
power which may be crushed but cannot
be destroyed IS TRUTH power that
will beautify and ennoble youth, and
make old age respectable and happy;
Boys and girls, secure this prize and
retain il.
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al would sum up the policy of the Admins
tratiOn to be n thorough enforcement of every
law: a faithful collection OF the tax provided
for; economy in the disbursement Ofthe same,
and a prompt payment OF the debt OF the ma
ton: reduction OF taxes as rapidly as the re-
Quirements of the country viii admit reGuc-
ton OF taxation and tariff 10 be so arranged as
to afford the greatest relief to the greatest NUM-
Der: honest and fair dealings with all otner
inc consequences may be avoided, without sur
rendering any right or obligation due 10 the
United States: reform in the treatment OF tne
Indians and the whole civil service OF the
country: and, finally, in securing pure re'uqInI I'M
trammeiIed ballot, where every man ehtl5ieu en- i
10 "a II n vote NAV do 50 just once at each eiee
-, ,,tbouf fear of nolestatiOn or prOscrl ptlOn
on aeconnt OF his political faith, nativity; or
honor.
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Dean Stanley's parrot one day man
aged to open her cage and get away, to
the Consideration of the whole house
hold. After a great search some one
found Polly in the garden on the top Of
an apple tree The welcome news was
communicated to the Dean, who, with
the whole of the inmates, rushed out at
once, accompanied by DIR. Vaughan,
who, with some other friends, were then
on a visit to the Dean. Polly was found
swinging herself on topmost branch,
bat when she discovered the large audi
ence below her, she looked gravely down
at them, and said, "Let us pray"
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FALSE HAIR.-Heavens! Let all
ladies who wear deceitful locks read
what the British Medical Journal tells
us about false hairl There is NJ.
Lindeman who has given his mind to
this subject, and who announces that
every hair in false plait ends with "a
nodosity;" each nodOsity' contains fifty
"psorospermrs'' and each psorosperm
throws off minute sphers which become
''pseudo-navicelle" But this is by no
means the end of a bad matter. The
pseudo-navicelle in ballroom contain
ing fifty ladies, all with the spurious
tendrils, amount to 45,000,000, which,
when inhaled, make their way into the
circulation and bring on cardiac affec-
tionsl This is too bad; but then doesn't
real hair sometimes produce cardiac af.
fections ?-NelO York Tribune.
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Weary OF breath,
Rashly importunate,
Gone IN her death

May the tender Father of us all, who
saw all the agony of her soul, gather
and enfold her in His merciful arms,
and also extend to the aged mother and
sister, far away on the shore of AIichi-
gan's mighty lake, His tender consola-
ton in this hour of deepest sorrow.
Our Indian summer still fingers with
us, but for a few days past we have had
indications that old BOreas is getting
Jealous and intends to disturb this tram
duiI order of things. We will submit,
when we are compelled to, as gracefully
as possible. Truly yours, SYBIL.
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The Commissionerofth of the General Land
Office has decided that coal lands are
mineral lands, and are subject to sale as
such. This decision was made on an
appeal taken by some parties wishing
coal lands on tracts claimed under the
land grant of the Coos Bay Wagon
Road
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LYING AND SWEARING.-Old ParSon
s, of Connecticut, was particular kind
of a parson. One day he had a man
ploughing in his field, and he went out
to see how the work was getting on.
The ground was very stony, and every
time the plough struck stone the man
took occasion to swear little.
"LOOk here" cried ParsOn s., "yOu
must not swear that way in my field"
"Well, reckon you'd swear too" said
the man, "If you had to plough such
stony field as this"
''Not a bit of it," said Mr.. 5. "Just
let me show you.n
So the parson took hold of the plough,
but he very soon had considerable
trouble with the stones. As stone after
stone caught the plough-share, Mr.. S.
| calculated:
"Well, l never saw the likeu'
/ And this he repeated every time a
stone stopped his onward way. AS soon
as he had plOughed around once he stop
ped and said to the man:
'rThere, nOwi You see l can plough
without swearing
"But / guess it's pretty near as bad t
lie,u answered the man, "and you tolt
dozens o. lies. Every time the plougl
struck a stone, you said, i never saw
the like when the same thing happeneI
n minute beforen
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The wife of Jack Grant, late Repre-
sentative from Polk county, has shot
and trapped S5s squirrels the last year.
What lady can discount that score?
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Feminine Beauty.

The IovIiest adornment of perfect wo-
is Inconsistencies of self. II
the woman possessed of this rare virtue
be lacking in physical beauty, nay, even
nIain. there is a chair in her innocence
and simplicity more potent than the
smiles of the fairest featured siren that
ever deIuded the susceptible heart OF
man. There is something in the pres
ence of vain and pretentious woman
that, be she ever so fair, repulses rather
than attracts admiration. She Is re-
garded only for the symmetry OF her
form and features, and like cold and
senseless statue of stone, her eyes never
change or lose their fixed and soulless
expressions; they never tighten up with
the beauty of thought nor sparkle with
the conception of any new and sublime
idea; their changeless look is not the re-
pose of peace, nor the steady gaze OF
unchanging happiness-it is only the
fixed stare of a heaTtless, worldly wo-
man, whose only thought is of self (;
who is ever insensible to the pleasure OF
doing good to others-an expression OF
Interchangeable selfishhess.
True beauty lies in the hidden pertee-
tion of the soul. The most lovely type
of perfect womanhoOd is the being
whose heart Is not lnSenSlbie 70 reHLeui
and tender feelings that mingles and
blends itself with every act and deed OF
her life. No feminine face is truly beau
tiful that does not wear, to n certain eX-
tent, an expression of contentment and
and repOse Ruskin has said: ''Do not
think you can make q girl lovely If you
do not make her happy. There is not
one restraint you put on good girPs
nature-there is not one check you give
to her instincts of affection or of effort
which will not be indelibly written
on her features with hardness all the
more painful because it takes away
the brightness from the brow of virtue
The perfect loveliness of q woman's
countenance can only consist in the ma
iestic peace which is found in the men,
DRY of happy and useful years, full o
sweet records; and from the joining o
of this with that yet more majestic
childishness, which is still full of changt
and promise, opening always, mOdes
at once and bright with hope of better
| things to be won and to be bestowed
! There is no old age where there is still
that prOmise-it is eternal youth"