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INDIGNANT SUFFERERS.

The masses of the people, whom our
over-wise and over nice authorities
have denied the necessary relief - ena-
BILE them 70 replace the burnt side
walks, while passing ordinances COM
pelling them to be rebuilt at the ex-
pense of those who have lost the only
means by which they could render their
lots available, are beginning to talk Sc
riously Of taking their own case into
their own hands. We are informed
that an indignation meeting is soon to
be held for that purpose in the Court
House.
A lady visited US the other day whose
history is only one Of many that we are
storing up for future use. This lady
owned house and lot which she rented
for twenty-five dollars per month, her
only available income. The house and
sidewalk were consumed in the fire,
leaving her without means to rebuild,
and consequently without means Of sub
sistence. One thousand dollars Of the
money so graciously rendered from
ebroad, and 30 modestly refused by our
gold-loaming Mayor, would have ena-
bled her to 90 on with improvements
upon her lot. She does not ask even
this as gift. A loan, free from inter-
est for = few years would satisfy her.
She owns two hundred acres Of taxable
but unstable land upon the mountain
near the city, and these authorities de-
eide that owning this land, she Is not
destitute; therefore distant cities may
not aid her to rebuild and thereby helE
herself She is advised to sell her city
lot. This lot cost her 5000, and she Il
offered $500.
The purpose Of the Committee hal
been TO merely give present relief to alb
solute destitution. You may lodge I
family for a week in a church basemen
and pay their board for the same length
Of time at q hotel or restaurant, ant
how much better off are they than
they were one week before? The fac
is, nobody here is destitute within thI
meaning Of this Committee. Offers o
free board and lodging were not accept
ed in any instance. The people do no
ask Tor charity. They want so much o
their losses made good as shall enabl,
them to help themselves in the future
The Committee were not sufferers b-
the fire. They are mostly bankers
brokers, real estate agents and city off
GERS. There are in their number a fey
benevolent, whole-souled gentlemen
who are themselves outraged at the ar
tion of His Honor the Mayor in refusin
aid to the sufferers. This extremel
modest man has even been so auxior
to prevent his left hand from KNOWN
the deeds Of his right that he has puI
lished the acts of the Committee rel
tive to the refusal of aid from San Fra
cisco in the papers of that city insteI
of the Portland dailies; or, rather, ]
did not expect them to be published
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APPOINTMENTS.

Ferdinand Herchneld has beer appointed
Postmaster at LOOking-g lass, Douglas county
Walter Fernand, Rye Valley, Baker county
and Miss Emeline BctherS, Summit, Benton
the editorial staff OF the NEW NORTHWEST, and
furnish material for n sensational editorial.
-lEyening News.
Thank you. We should have over
looked the Sensational editoriap' if it
had not been for your kindly fore
thought.
There are many post offices in the
country which will not defray the ex-
penses of Nasby or support a b Bascom.
Such "e,ces cannot be sustained by the
unobjectionable sex, who, being voters,
can command better pay than Ameri-
can women or Cinnamon. So the Gov
ernment organizes itself into "Reliei
Committee" and to compensate the suf-
ferers from sex sometimes throws them
"the crumbs that fall from the masters
table"
Now, if you will copy the above and
give US the credit for it, We'll apologize
for having said, OH a former OCCASION
that II a woman should start a paper
and make such failure as the Daily
EUeRing Neips, we'd think she wouldn't
do TO vote.
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of the haystacks and hid the view oil all
in front of them.
Men with hair parted in the middle,
who twirled dainty ratans and simpered
soft nothings to their smiling sweet
hearts, could look over each others
heads in rows, but women had to wear
their haystaeks in the hall because be-
cause-it was the fashion, you know.
Patrons of a concert are always ready
to demand their moneys worth; SO
everything, good, bad and Indifferent, is
followed by an encore.
Mr.. Frank Glider makes the piano
give forth human sounds. Were Yours
Truly on the lookout for husband she'd
fancy him, only musicians, as class,
are said to be q woI thless set, and she
couldn't live on melody alone.
Mr.. Wilkie calls on "Maud'' to "come
into the garden' in a rapturous strain
Of entreaty that makes you wish your
name was Maud and that you had a
garden to go to. OF course he is eIcored,
for the audience has no notion of being
cheated, and all the while you are fairly
dying to see Madam Anna Bishop.
At last she comes, and storm of ap-
plause shakes the building and you
hold your breath. You cannot under
stand one word she says and you do not
wantto. Such tintinnabulating melody,
such rippling harmony and warbling
rhapsody rolls up and down and out and
over her that you shut your eyes and Wis
ions Of sunny Italy fit before them and
yourdream is just delicious. o, iftheau-
dience only 1Uould be quiet when she is
done! You want the melody to die
away in distant echoes, while you Ian
guidly arouse yourself from dreaming
reverie that has stolen upon you una
wares; but no, that audience clamors,
! and your nerves are pierced by ten
thousand agonies until she reappears
and the stamping dies away and you
hold your breath again. "HOme, sweet
Home" is given us i'll words which we
can understand, and we go offand of in
spirit, in quiet ecstacy.
} Then Mr.. Gottsehalk, the baritone,
comes in and sings. If Yours Truly
should describe him and his singing
just as she saw and heard, the New
NORTHWEST would burn this whole
critique and the world would lose all
: this labor, so she won't attempt it. She
cannot avoid saying, however, that
when John Mortimer, whose surname
is Murphy, imagines that has singing is
the best in the troupe, he's-oh, mis-
taken. Do you understand?
But Madame Anna sings again, and
again Yours Truly is in transports. God
bless her! May she live a hundred
years!
But somebody bespattered her best
ruffles with tobacco juice, as usual, and
sent Yours Truly down from her imagi-
nary heights into the bitter realities Of
things present and unpleasant. When
tCiU men learn to leave their cuds at
home, and thereby render themselves
less obnoxious in the estimation Of
Yours TRULY?
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Our Salem friend, NJ. J. r., takes us
to task for having published Professor
Underwood's letter to Rev. Mr.. Driver
In the following style: "No good can
come of stirring up strife in any such
manner. Certainly Mr.. Driver has
never given you cause to publicly at
tack him in this way over the shoulders
Of anybody else. 1 am very sorry you
did not say, when requested to publish
the correspondence relative to the de-
bate, that il was personal and offensive,
and you therefore declined to do it. 1t
is not best TO make an enemy of Mr..
Driver" We assure our friend that we
have little to fear from Mr.. Drivers en-
nifty. We should not have published
the correspondence (the fight was none
Of our funeraD but for the fact that this
same Driver has, more than once, ae-
cused us in public places Of drunken
ness and "saloon bumming." The char
acter Of such man should be shown
up. We have no animosity against
him. We should have vastly preferred
that another than ourself should have
lifted the mask. Or had we any reason
to believe him penitent, or any hope
that he would not thus offend again, we
should pass his libel by, but we have no
such assurance. Had we known, when
addressing Mr.. Underwood, that Mr..
Driver had so maligned US, we should
have simply refused to notice the man
in any manner, but the correspondence
indirectly brought out the fact. Mr..
Drivers life is libel upon Christianity,
disgrace to the great Methodist
Church. Yet he has many good i'm
pulses, and could he learn to control
his conscience, tongue and temper, he
might yet be useful. No man sins be.
yond the reach Of Gods aboundine
mercy. May Driver be speedy subject
Of redeeming grace.
Boarding Schpol Girl: II you marry
without the knowledge and consent o
your parents ydu will deserve to be mis-
cradle as long ss you live. II he is {
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thorough gentleman he will scorn to
take you as his wife until he has con-
suited your father and mother. If they
will not then consent, ask him to wait
until they learn so much good of him
that they can urge no reasonable obJec-
ton. A girl Of seventeen is a very poor
judge Of matrimonial offer that might
not suit at twenty. Don't be rash.
Wait a year and then write us again.
J. C. V: Your poetry is not good.
The spelling is imperfect, the rhyme
bad and Tythm horrible. Evidently
poetry is not your forte. Yet IL you
really possess the divine affiatus, this
criticism will only increase your ambi-
ton. Send us q prose article. Pegas-
sus is a difficult charger for experienced
riders to mount and handle gracefully.
You have reined him up till he jumps
as though he were hobbled.
Henry, Halsey, asks: "What are neap
tides ?" If you had consulted your die
tionary you would have found that neap
tides are simply low tides, occurring in
the middle of the second and fourth
quarters of the moon. They are the
opposite of Spring or "high tides"
Mrs. H. S. H., McHenry, Ills: We
have none Of the extremes Of heat and
cold so common with you. Thunder
storms are seldom known in the Will
lamette Valley, although We think they
occur more frequently than formerly.
NJ. o. B., Seattle: Your letters are al.
ways welcome and refreshing. viii
see if we can find the MSS. In remov-
ing Jour Office was completely overhauled
and searching for papers is like hunting
a needle in hay-stack.
Inquirer: II vacancy should occur
in the Senate while the Legislature il
in session, new election would be con.
stitutional, but otherwise, the duty o.
appointing his successor would deYolve
upon the Governor.
NJ. L. c., Lafayette: Sc so currency
received and credit given. The lady
who thinks "her paper will read bettel
when it is paid for" is one after our Owl
heart.
w. w. B.: Many thanks for your ex
cellent letter; shall have occasion to use
it to good advantage.
E. c. H., Olympia: So 90 currency re.
ceived. Gave you credit for 50 65 coin
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at the home Of his Dulcinea, and upon
his return to the classic Yamhill he
found that the ferry-boat had been
taken across the river by his rival, a
young clerk who, so the story goes, had
been Tilted and wanted to get even. Our
hero had no other alternative, so like
Leander, Aikenhead or Byron he crossed
our miniature Hellespont, not to meet
his lady love, as did the first Of these
his illustrious prototypes, but rather to
get home and sleep till morning. The
rival, who was secreted in the bushes on
the town side Of the river, enjoyed his
perturbation and bath till the joke got
out, and now it's the clerk who is blue.
A new bridge is to be built across the
Yamhill, a prospect which pleases the
young swimmer vastly.
But little ia being done at present
with the Woman Movement. We look
anxiousiy for the NEW NORTHWEST
from week to week. The general opin'
ion is that, though surprisingly good a
first, it grows better as it grows older.
Crops in Yamhill are excellent, anC
the farmers are jubilunt.
Our Good Templar Lodge is generally
well attended. The people are proven
bially social and temperate.
But you will think 1 am more thai
usually garrulous. must close or yol
will chalk me out for prOlixity, ant
thus thwart the designs Of a well-mean
ing CITIZEN.
LAFAYETTE, Oregon, Sept. 2, 1873.
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The "Sorosis," of New York, has is
sued what they call a Messenger
asking ''all women who have conquered
an honorable place in any of the leading
reforms Of the day" to cooperate with
them In calling together "Woman's
Congress" to be held in New York, in
October, 1878, to report progress and
discuss "ways and means" ANY one
wishing to assist in this matter is re-
quested to send name and post-office ad-
dress either to the president, Mrs. Char
lotte +. WilboUr, Isl East Fifty-first
street, New York city, or the Secretary,
Miss Alice G. Fletcher, % Stuyvesant
street, same city.
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There are probably few, however familiar
with the subject OF the rapid increase of capital
put at interest, who would not be startled at
the statement that the cost OF the outfit OF
Christopher Columbus in his first voyage of
discovery, put at interest at six per cent would
by this time have amounted TO more than the
entire money value OF this continent, together
with the accumulations from the industry OF
all who have lived upon it. II any doubt this,
let them reckon the amount, estimating the
entire outfit 10 have cost only the small sum of
fve thousand dollars, and remembering that
money doubles, at six per cent, in a little less
than twelve years-Or accurately, in eleven
years, ten months, and twenty-one days. Al
ioMlns II TO double every twelve years, this
nNe Thousand dollars at interest at six per
cent. since 1892, IL will be found, would have
amounted 10 Sll s95, ,7O0Q0),OO0; which, estimat-
/ ms the population OF the entire continent OF
91iirlea A9n1erlea North and SOUTH to be eighty-five
n, ltOnsi si OF seventeen million families layer-
1Ss.ns nNs members each) would give more
s -. lltlion y y dollars as the possession OF ev-
~ S3,one one ol these. The Interest upon a million
Isrs ", a. slx per cent Is sixty thousand dol
iieIs, Nhieh would now be the princeiy aunual
income OF each OF these seyenteen rnitiS,,,s -
families from the denominations up 10 hi,
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LABOR AND CAPITAL.

Few people stop to think, in the ex-
igencies Of their business, which, under
under our system Of commerce, seem to
render the payment Of interest neces-
sary, Of the rapid increase arising from
such interest. The worlds system of
finance tends 10 the amassing Of capital
in indestructible consolidation. Such a
thing as the equitable adjustment Of
business upon such plane as would
place capital upon par with human
life has notyet entered into any system
Of financial economy, and will not 50
long as monied men control the entire
interests of the world.
Wallace b. Groom, in a recent lecture
on the Currency Needs OF Commerce, p
gives the following startling facts and
figures relative to the growth Of Ma
tional wealth as compared with the ag-
gregation of indiyidualized capital:
II one dollar be invested, and the interest
added 10 the principal annually, at the rates
named, we shall have the following result az
| the accumulation OF one hundred years.
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KEEP THE BALL ROLLING.

Again we must urge upon our patrons
the necessity of renewing their SUD-
scriptions. A number Of friends have
renewed during the week, and the solic-
itude of many more has been awakened
Let US have 1000 subscriptions and re-
newals at sS 90 each, for Volume Third,
and our barque will then have ballast
sufficient to steady it for a year. Next
week we shall publish the number OF
renewals received up to that time for
the full Volume. Help us, friends, to
make the number large. We must have
your aid.
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time upon so small a sum as that named for
the outfit fthe discoverer
In Hildreth's -History OF the United States, -
II Is stated that Manhattan Island-afterward
called New Amsterdam, now the city of New
4ork-was bought by the Dutch from the In
ulans Tor sixty guilders, or twenty-four dollars
lszilr and this only about two hundred and
nIty years ago. And yet, II the purchasers
could nave securely placed that s2i where II
would nave added TO the principal annually
interest az the rate of per cent, the accumula-
llon would exceed the present market value OF
York.
Again, If a man at the age OF twenty-five
should commence business with capital oi
one hundred thousand dollars, and could by
any possibility add thereto interest al our legal
rate OF per cent. annually, the result would be
I'm round numbersl as follows:
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OUR AGENTS,

The following persons are duly authorized to
act as AGENTS for the NEW NoRrHwEsr:
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Other parties desiring 10 act rs Agents Will
please forward their names. We want Agents
at every postofice throughout Oregon and
Washington Territory.
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II one dollar De invested, and the interest
added 10 the principal annually, at the rates
named, we shall have the following result as
New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-24

M-.chnot.' ,l.tqa! insurance Compaas
vs. A. c. Labatt, Agent, etc.
CIxTR DISTRICT CouKT FOR THE PARISH o.
y orleans, No. 4560.-By virtue Of Q writ Of seiz
are and sale to me directed by the honorable the
sa or me nscs 81 To m
public auction. at the Merchants and AuctiOneers
Exchange, Royal street, between Canal and Gus
ety. on TUESDAY, September l6, 1873. at twelve
Cock H.. the following described property, to
CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND with the build
ings and improvements thereon and appuvteDances
thereof and the rights ways and servitudes there
to beiengng situated IN Inc FShrt h sIt stfc1 r :.
Seventh and Chestnut streets designated by the
letter c, on a sketch made BY j. N. B. de Peuilly,
August, 1866, annexed 10 an act in the office Of
E. g. Gottschalk. late notary public in this city,
dated fourth sept.mber, 1859, and measures. ae.
street BY depth between equal and parallel lines
of one hundred and twenty seven feet two inches,
which lot of ground forms part Of lots designated
as lots numbers nfteen, sixteen. seventeen and
eighteen, on plan of L. II. Pile late surveyor, de-
posted in the office of the late ". H. Peters, then
five; and again designatsd BY the same numbers
on another sketch annexed to an act dated fourth
September, 1866. in the office of said late rotary
Gottschak. Being the same property cguired BY
Jackson E. Labatt, defendant herein Represented
BY his attorney in fact A. C. Labatt), by purchase
from Felix Arroyo, per act passed before p G. Gu
WELLER, notary puLlc il tins city. Ga the.senty.
second of August, ls1f
Seized in the ab0vebuf.
Tsrms-I. Cash n a sufficient 1mostt 20 rsv
Plaintiff claim, say the sum Of hftesn hu,ored
dollars, with s,.he per ceft iI,eIess pc, anrum,
credit of two huAdred dollars on September le,
1872; five per cent attorneys fees on the amount
sued for, and costs Of suit 2. Akd on correspond.
ing terms of credit, to meet the payment Of the
following sums, to wit: Fifteen hundred dollars,
Auguet Is, la73 fifteen hundred dollars, August Is,
1874 fifteen auDdIed dollars, August 25 ls3s; three
hundred dollars; August IS, 1873; three hundred
dollars. August rs, 1874 three hundred dollars, Au-
mum from maturities, and five per cent attorney Q
fees on said am0unts. ...
". p. HARPER
aui5 81 sells sheriff of the Parish of OrleAn9
New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-24

Theophllus F. Kendall W. n. Conpell.
CIXTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THK PARISH
y of Orleans, No. 454.-By virtue of Q writ Of
feri facias against plaintiff and in favor Of de-
fendant to me directed by the honorable the
Sixth District Court for the parish of Orleans. in
the above entitled cause, will proceed to sell at
public auction, at the Merchants and Auctioneers'
Exchange, Royal street, between Canal and Gus
tomhouse streets, ia the second District Of this
city, on MONDAY, August IS, 1873, ct twelve
O'Clock NJ. the following described PROPERTY to
wit f'-
THREE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together
With all the improvements thereon, situated in the
Fourth District OF this city. in square bounded by
Locust or Soils Freret or Jacobs Philip and First
streets and designated a. lots numbers eight nine
and ten on sketch annexed to an act from g. Far
ren and James Hsgan. to c. Othon before William
shannon, notary public in this city on the seventh
February, 1866, and measuring each thirty feet
front on First street, by depth Of ninetyone fee,
nine inches, between parslel liuss: acquired
Jaaaes HAgan, PER act passed before said notary
Shannon, on the twenty seventh Of February, 1856
Seized In the abeve suit. ltfc TO
Terms-Cash on the spot.
jy7. sulo - Sheriff Of the Parish Ct OrleanA.
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=. II
aul3 a sel$ Eherih.of the Parish of Oreana

Herman Wilke vs. Charles Chevalier.
C1XTH DISTRICT COURT FOB THE PARISH OF
- Orleans, No. 5054.-By virtue of writ of
seizure and sale to me directed by the honorable
the Sixth District Court for the parish Of
Orleans in the above entitled cause. I viii
proceed to sell at public auction, at the Mer'
chants and Auctioneers Exchange, Royal street,
between Canal and Customhouse streets, in the
Second District OF this city. on SATURDAY. Sep
tember s, 1879, at twelve o'clock NJ. the following
described pr0pe ftv, 10 wit
LOT OF GROUND, with all the buildings and
Improvements thereon. situated in the Fast Dis.
trict Of this city, an this square bounded by Dry.
ades, BsccLUs, TerIschOre and Melpomene streets,
and deslgnated by the number seven on plan
drawn by c. A. HeGln, late surveyor, and deposited
in the Office of T. o. Stark notary public in this
city, A. plan number one hundred and ffJy-one
Said lot measures tweDty,three feet Elk inches
front on Melpomene street, by depth OF seventy.
nine feet four inches six lines. being portion OF
certain lots which were acquired by I. W. Greg.
ory from P. ,. Martin Oh the thirteenth OF Jan
uary, l8i8.
Said property was purchased by Widow Charles
act before r. j. ker. notary public in this city,
dated March s, 1860; and on the twenty eighth Of
June, 1872 according to judgment OF the honor.
able the Second District Court for the parish OF
Orleans, in the succession of Anna Summervlle,
widow ef Charles Chevaer, No. IS 22 of the docket
Summervllle, a. universal legatees OF said Widow
Charles Chevalier, were put in possession OF said
property and on the twenty eighth OF june 1872,
cor0ing to act Of partition in kind between the
eaid defedant and Charlotte Summerviile, before
Octave Morel. notary public in the city, the said de-
fendant became the gner OF the entire property.
Seized in the above suit.
Terms-Cash on the spot.
aus II ee6 Sheriff Of the Parish Of Orleans.
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CIxTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF
- Orleans. No. 5G83.-By virtue Of . writ OF
seizure ard sale to me directed bv the honorable
the Sixth District Court for the parish Of Orleans,
in the above entitled cause will proceed to sell
at public auction at the Merchants and Auc-
tion.ers Exchange, Royal street. between Canal
and Customhouse streets, in the Second District of
this city on SATURDAY, September 20, 1873 at
twelve O'clock NJ, the following described prop
e'ii that CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND together with
the buildings and improvements thereon. and ap-
purtenances thereunto belonging, situated in the
Second District Of this dity in the square bounded
BY Chartres, Bienviie, Decatur (late Old Levee)
and Crst0mhOuse streets. Tho faid.l0t Of ground
forming the northern corner Of the said square
measures twenty-0ne feet eleven inches four lines
front Chartres street oy sixty three feet eleven
inches three-eghtbs Of line in depth and front
said Bienville street. Which property devolve1 on
the heirs Of Mrs. AAthildA D. Mountfort dec01bed
wife of the late John Noun tfort, aud was al
lotted to the defendant herein, party hereto, %
one Of the said heirs. ct partition made between
them Of the property Of the succession Of the saad
late Widow MOuntl0rt by N act passed before
Felix Grima, . notary public in tns city, on the
twenty eighth Of December, 1859.
SeiSed in the above suit.
Terms-Cash on the OpOt. - fFt
". P. HARPER.
aul9 81 SEQ Sheriff Of the Parish Of Oreana