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The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18
LETTER FROM WALLA WALLA

To THE EDITOR or THE NEW Northwest:
What about that tremendous puff you
promised? Forgot it, you say? Well,
never too late to DO good; what's new
under the sun ? Why, Mrs D., haven't
seen the sun since you left, and wasn't
in Jail either but everything is calm,
serene, in fact, awfully dull. Scarcity of
hard cash in all directions, and that's
what's the matter. Farmers complain
because they can't sell their produce at
a killing price, merchants grumble be-
cause they can't make 800 per cent. on
25eents' worth hofmatches, and mechanics
hang the lower jaw dismally and justly
too, because their labor is too frequently
compensated with jaw-bone, a currency
very abundant, but like the Irishman's
pig, it won't pay rent. The only man
in this upper couptry who is really
making money is the o. S. \. Co. and
Joe Bauers.
This fall we had a good crop of grain
and grass widows, but no demand for
either In our present dilemma, we use
our grain to fatten our hogs and send
them to Portland. The latter clique to-
gether, as a usual thing, set up mil
linery or dressmaker shop and then go
to Chicago. What about the grass
widowers, did you say? Well, some
find a sympathetic breast to rest their
weary heads on and get happy again,
before the cup of sorrow is half full,
others linger and pine away under their
domestic aflliction, spend their time in
tears and their means on lawyers, just
as our farmers use the grain on hogs and
then send them to Chicago also.
The winter thus far is delightful. The
eur which growls at such weather ought
to be bound over to keep the peace for
ever; however we may catch it yet, and
in that case 1 shall take back the legal
suggestion.
There is considerable sickness preva
lent in our lovely valley.
Game is abundant. We all eat game
Some because they can afford it, other
because they can't afford anything else
Our library and lyceum promise hug
amusement during the long and drear.
winter evenings.
Judge Lewis has done his work
ending the fiscal year. Divorces wer
the prominent features on the docket
and We women got away with tn
lions share, aud henceforth is store'
for him, tthe Judge the crown of right
teousness, etc
Mrs. D., you are aware am no won
ans right man, but right woman
man, one good and true through rain o
shine but ! admire your ability an
genius, which prompt me to 60 as
promised. Respectfully yours,
c. b.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18
LETTER FROM HON. Q. A. REED.

READ BEFORE THE YAMHILI. COUNTY W. 5. A.
To the officers and members Of YamhiU
County Woman Suffrage association
an session assembled =
l am in receipt of the kind invitation
of your Corresponding Secretary to be
present at the meeting of your assoeia-
tion, to be held on the 27th inst. And
while it would afford me much pleasure
to accept the same, my business here
will prevent my doing so. have but
few suggestions to make, and they may
not be new to your association. L would
recommend that you keep up your or
ganization, and have as many auxiliary
associations as possible, but be sure to
preserve your county organizations.
Take a systematic course to educate and
enlighten public sentiment by the cir
culation Of newspapers and other docu-
ments, treating upon the great question
of equality before the law sustaining as
far as consistent, those who are enlisted
in the cause as public speakers, and
above all, keep an eye single to the
nomination and the election to office OF
men enlightened on this question, not
only to our State Legislature, but tc
the halls Of Congress.
There are men who are professeo
friends, who think our State Constitu'
ton stands in the way of the exercise o.
the elective franchise by women; hence
an enabling act by the Congress Of the
United States would do much to bring
the matter to a speedy and successful
issue, for if the State Constitution has t
be amended, it will take six years to bring
it about. / would, therefore, hope tina
solution of the question might b'
reached through Congress. l fear, how
ever, that we have small grounds 70
hope from the present ineumbents il
Office.
And last and most essential of all i
harmony In action. Let not petit.
jealousy prevent any one from takin
part in this glorious work, but let all c
US move forward as one person, holdin
to the vantage ground we have gainet
and be prepared for a more desperat
battle in the near future. Our cause
Just and God is just, hence we mus
triumph in the end. That this trump
may speedily be ours is the sincere wis
of truly yours, C. \. REED.
Salem, November %, 1874.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18

We have received from Hon. ]. H.
Mitchell a copy of very able and inter
esting address delivered by him at With
erspoon Institute, Butler, Penn, on the
occasion of reunion of the graduates
and students of that Institute, October
7th, 1874, this being its twenty-fifth an
niversary. The manner in which Sena-
tor Mitchell responded to the special in
vitation rendered him to deliver this
address is a credit, alike to himself and
TO his alma mater.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18

Rev. I. d. Driver is out in the Ore
g0nidn with correction of misstate-
ments" in which II. w. Scott, formerly
of the Oregonian, Jas. O'Meara, formerly
of almost anything, B. F. Underwood
of the Boston Investigator, and Mrs.
Duniway of the NEW NORTHWEST, are
all implicated in having somehow con-
nived at certain alleged misrepresenta-
tions concerning the aforesaid /. d. ID.
While the Rev. Driver is about it, win
he please to explain how ii was thas he
came to tell a gentleman in Salem that
"NIrs. Duniway was so drunk she had to
be helped to the platform to make tenn
perance address ?" Also that other false
hood in which he asserted that some
body in Seattle had said that ''Mrs. Duni-
way was known as common saloon
hummer ?"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18
FACTS, NOT FAEOIES.

The OregOnida, in response TO some
very telling truths concerning the
"VOters' Book of Remembrance" which
were published last week in the Star, to
the effect that said "Book" was gotten
up by a member of the Independent
party, for the express purpose of bring
ing defeat on the Republican party in
the election of city Councilmen, declares
that ga more barefaeed falsehood never
was uttered;'' "that the document was
gotten up by a straight Republican" I"
etc, etc.
Now we hereby declare and are ready,
as also is another competent witness
whom we could name, TO testify OH
oath, if necessary, that one Edmunds,
a rsbid and blatant Independent of the
straightest OregoniGn type, said in our
parlor, in presence of aforesaid witness,
that he was the author Of the "Book; -
that he chad gotten ii up on purpose 10
ttrOw bomb into the Republican camp
that he "saw that the preachers who
were agitating the temperance question
cared more for the Republican party
than for temperance" etc, etc.
The Star is mistaken in saying that
the above facts were published in the
OregOniGH. 1t was the New NORTH
WEST that gave them. Alas, alas! you
can't depend upon the Oregonian now
a-days to publish facts.
We furnish the above statement for
the public eye, not because we owe the
Star civility which it has never yet
had the nObleness to bestow upon us on
like occasion, but for truths sake,
only.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18
A TACK TO AVOID THE CURRENT

Many persons who do not positively
array themselves against Woman Suf-
frage, dispose cf the matter to the salts
faction seemingly of their own con-
sciences, by saying, 'If women want
the ballot let them ask for it.n Ignor-
ing all argument, disregarding all pre-
cedent concerning the treatment of dis
franchised classes hitherto, they seek to
silence claims that they cannot justly
oppose by this pointless exclamation.
Not stopping to argue the justice oil
injustice of this demand, VIC would like
70 know In all conscience if women have
not been asking for this privilege
through memorials to the National and
State Legislatures for a season equal to
"twice told the period spent on stubborn
Troy ?" Have not leaders, second to no
women in the land for womanly qualifi-
cations, and to no men in the land in
intellectual endowments, asked re-
peatedly and again for this boon? Have
not newspapers published in the inter
ests of women and by women, asked for
them the ballot, and accompanied the
request by arguments able and well de-
Tended? We had supposed, indeed, that
women had asked for the ballot, when
we beheld the array Of signatures affixed
10 a memorial, praying our last Legisla-
tive Assembly to amend the election
10 ra f nro.,,,, oo fl,at ,,-or,o,, -. ;-l,t H.
permitted to vote, and heard the gratu-
itous advice of a member, whose only
claim to legislative honors is that he i:
"free white male" to these women tc
gohome and remain there; he evidently
10 his fright and horror, supposing thai
the hundreds of women whose names
were there displayed, were haunting
last years voting places waiting tile
action of the august body to which lie
belonged. Again, how many women
there are who devoutly believe in their
right 10 exercise the elective franchise,
who have no idea who to ask or where ;
who, pondering over the great princi-
pies of equal rights, have come to be-
lieve them inseparable from justice, yet
have never even had the opportunity to
afiix their names to a suffrage memorial.
Others believe not in asking of their
brethren that which in all justice al.
ready belongs to them. But the asking
has neither been doubtful nor timid from
large number, who clearly seeing tn,
right, rest not content without it. Tn,
most exacting of our opponents viii
scarcely claim that all women shoul,
ask for the ballot before it shall be givel
to any. The laws that men have mad
and the institutions they have ordained
in many instances TO work out their OWL
selfish ends, and to perpetuate their owl
supremacy, are dear to their hearts
Neither logic nor argument appeals t
selfishness, and this is but one OF th
many taeks which they take to ward oi
the force of head-winds in the form c
argument, which they encounter 4
their endeavor to stem the rapid curreu
of events. 1t is so much easier whe
hard pressed to cry out, "Let wOme
ask for the ballot if they want it," tina
TO give a good and sufficient reason fc
Withholding it..
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18

The schooner Mia Rond, which went
ashore recently in TillamoOk Bay, is in
fair way to be relaunched.
The bids for doing the printing for
Washington Territory were opened by
the Auditor, at Olympia, last Wednes-
day, G. b. Bagley's bid for 1896 25, be-
ing the lowest, was accepted.
Prof. Condor delivered his lecture.
"Teeth and Claws" at Eugene CITY, on
Thursday evening of last week. A large
audience were pleased and interested by
the lecture, and the able manner of its
delivery.
The telegraph announces that Charles
Stephens, aged u years, son f. b.
Stephens, Clerk of Douglas county, was
shot and instantly killed December 9th,
by the accidental discharge of shot
gun. The deceased aud an older brother
were scuGliug for the possession OF the
weapon, when it discharged, taking ef-
feet in the stomach and tearing it in
terrible manner.
The Methodist Church in Salem, so
long an unsightly object, has recently
been undergoing an Overhauling, and
now presents quite an improved ap-
pearance. The gable. ends have been
built up, the cOrnices put in place, ana
it is expected that the basement Will be
ready for occupancy by the New Year;
a substantial sidewalk has been placed
in front of the building to insure the
good understanding of the faithful
The first lecture in the course, for the
benefit of the Oregon City Library,
was delivered by Rev. G.. H. Atkinson,
on Tuesday evening of last week. Those
who have had the pleasure of listening
to this gentleman's efforts in the lecture
department, will readily believe that
this effort was replete with good sug-
gestions and pleasant instruction. The
next lecture in the course will be deliv-
cred by Hon. Syl. G. Simpson. Subject,
"Slightly Geological"
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18

We have received a lengthy eommuni-
cation from the person whose special
champion the NelUs was last spring,
which communication awaits the wri-
ter's order. Doubtless the Nelrs will
enjoy giving it publicity, as it is from
the pen of its favorite representative ~
of the Woman Movement, who is crazy
OH sexual reform, but "sick and tired
of political and Woman Suffrage agita-
tion.n
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18

We were misinformed last week in
reference to the removal of Mcdonald of
the Statesman. A private letter at hand
gives notice that Captain CrandalPs Po-
sition on the paper was only temporary,
aud that the change for the better in
the conduct of the Statesman was not
because Mac. was gone, but because he
was too drunk to tUrite.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18
NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that it is a
great tax upon as 20 pay express charges upon
small sums, and they will confer great favor
by remitting TO us through money orders or
Registered letters.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18

Vicksburg dispatches announce that
business is again resumed, and that the
people are organized and watchfuI of
the negroes.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-12-18

A Walia Walla Benedict, whose nup-
.iAis we promised to "puff" and-forgot
it-furnishesa racy letter to our columns
this week.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-01

Stop THAT.-One-half of the world
doesn't know how the other half lives,
and a recent commentator adds, doesn't
IRE 1t seems incredible that the prac-
tees u correspondent urges shall be
discontinued can exist, but we give
the farmers wife, a hearing.
Stop putting lard in your butter if
WI must eat hogs fat, pray give it to us
pure and not mixed with rancid butter.
Girl, stop dipping your fingers in the
bucket of milk and wetting the cows
teats; of all dirty habits this is the
worst,
Wives, stop setting your cream jar in
the family living O to make the
cream sour.
Husbands, stop hanging your socks
on that same cream jar to dry "
night.
Women, stop putting your butter In
the back bedroom to stay till you are
ready to go to market.
Ladies, stop holding your noses when
you go into your ~cellers to attend to
your milk. You might as well smell
the rat and the mold as to eat 1t daily
In your hutten and cream.
Women, stop telling fbs when you
take your butter to the store. Did any
body ever know a woman to sell butter
over a week oldq Stop coloring your
butter with anatto, and then asking
folks If they can't taste the blue grass
in it. If you will stop all these things
the next time / write | shall tell you
something pretty.-[Farmer's Wife, in
n. Z. Tribune.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-01
.asEI.I.- -
MIR. Summers First Election.

When Charles Sumner was elected a
Senator, in 1854, George S. Boutwell, was
G~ovefaor of Massachusetts; Henry Will
son, President of the Massachusetts
Senate, and Nathaniel P. Banks, Jr.,
Speaker of the House in the Massaehu-
sets Legislature. Sumner and Wilson
| represented 27,803 Free Soil votes, and
Boutwell, and Banks represented 36,369
DemOcraticVOte in coalition" against
57,S64 Wings. The coalition" shocked
the established order in Massachusetts
in more ways than one. 1t was q raid
by young and aggressive men, OF whom
the current inquiry was, Who are
they z" 1t was a trick in politics so
shrewd that subsequently, by. common
consent, the way to its repetition was
barred by constitutional amendment, in
Producing the plurality system in all
elections with a fixed number ofseats in
the Legislature.
To explain how it was DONE. The
"C~OalitiOnistsn voted separate party
tickets for Governor, and united un o5tn-
didates for the Legislature, electing, in
the House, 210 members against 174
Wings. The maiOrityin the House filled
the vacancies in the Senate, which was
made to consist of tWenty-seven COall-
tionists and thirteen Wings. Then the
two bodies in concurrence, elected the
Governor and other State officers. 1t
was comparatively easy to carry out
that part of the programme which in
volved BOutWelfs election as Governor,
and it was also easy to elect RantOul
(Democrat) to the unexpiVed. six weeks
of the Senatorial term; but to elect
Sumner, an abOlitiOnist, to the full
Senatorial term, there was the rub.
The contest was prOtracted at the State,
House from January to May, a. large
number of Democrats scattering their
votes, fearing to go on the record as
voting for an AbOlitionist, but fearing
more that by absenting themselves a
Wing (Robert c. Winthrop should be
chosen. In that Legislature were, We
believe, Ben Butler, Caleb Gushing,
not openly voting for Sum-
ner, and Samuel Hooper and Henry l..
Dawes, Wings, voting for Winthrop.
Finally the Legislature framed, what
was famously known in Massachusetts
(until abolished), the sealed ballot
act" for q election, and on the first
lot" Charles Sumner was found to be
chosen. When, subsequently, Caleb
Gushing was in Pierce's Cabinet, and
Ben Butler was the Democratic candi-
date against Banks, Republican, for
Governor of Massachusetts,, and when
Democrats had patronage and a South
ern constituency, responsibility for
Charles Sumner in the Senate was readi-
ly shirked by an appeal to the record of
viva vOce votes, and the secrets OF the
&c sealed ballots" were ever sealed. The
coalition was in power two years, but
could not survive the presidential cleo
ton Of 1859; and with the ascendency
of the Democrats in the nation, and the
reascendency of the Wings in Massa-
chusetts, it looked gloomy enough for.
the young men who had SO bravelys
a State in defiance of hereditary
rules and tradition. Who, then, could
have predicted that these young men Of
1951-Sumner, Boutwell,, Banks, Wilson
and Burlingame-were so largely to ill
the pages Of history since written?
lChicagO Tribune. a.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-01
How Wolves HINT DEER.-Last Fri

How WOLVES HUNT DEER.-Last Fri
day Mr.. Turner was going west on a
ridge of land covered with pine, when
he saw a large deer bounding along
with his tongue out, and running in the
same direction he was travelling. Pref
ty soon he heard a yelp and saw a large
grey wolf upon his track. In a moment
more another wolf appeared upon the
scene between him and the first, and
running in q line PARALLEL with in. The
deer took q turn to the north and north
east around the ridge, keeping in the
valley all the time. After he turned, the
second wolf, which was not at first upon
the track, but was acting as q 1anking
party by a line across, struck the track
of the deer thirty rods or so ahead Of his
companion, coming in about fifteen rods
behind the deer. When he struck the
track he announced it by q single yelp.
Then the first wolf abandoned the track,
and turned himself into a 1anking par
ty on the left of the chase, while the Sc
eond wolf continued on the track of the
worried deer. The deer finally faced
about, taking a turn around q swamp,
making to the north, west, south, and
east again, until the, first wolf, which all
this time kept his eye on the main chance,
by coming across struck the track ahead
Of his comrade. He in turn announced
it by a single yelp, when the other left
the track again and resolved himself in
to a fanking party. In this manner they
continued the pursuit of their prey and
disappeared from his view. How the
affair terminated is not known. They
were all running with tongues out as If
they had been long on the chase, Doubt
less the wolves worried down and de-
voured their game.
Who will say, after witnessing such a
scene, that foxes are the only four-footed
wild animals that have cunning and fore
siglt,ICor Grand Rapids. (Mich.l Ea=
gle,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-01

SHEEP ON Poor FARMs.-The impress
sion is prevalent that sheep upon the
pastures bite the grass SO very close that
they are therefore of injury to the field,
butt is suggested that they cal only bite
close where the pasture is short only on
a farm that has been too much exhausted,
and that in such cases there will be
found an abundance of weeds, briars,
and brush in the fence corners, and
sheep are the very best means by which
these pests can be eradicated. The
American Agriculturist recommends,
under such circumstances, that a farmer
who has $50 or upward in cash Tor cred
it, and then let him borrow the amount,
if he has to pay u percent a month for
the use of it,, invest it in as may ewes,
not older than three years, as you can
get for the money. Put them in the
summer in such field as we have des-
cribed, and, give, them, in addition to
what they can pick up, a pint of wheat
bran and cat m~eaEdaly, with frfeaccess,
to water and salt.
They will first go for'' the briars,
and clean them out; every portion OF
that field will be trodden over and over
again, and the weeds will have no
chance. Fold them on that field during
winter, and carry to them feed sufficient
to keep them thriving. Get the use of
a good buckin season-Southdown.hay
luck Chat means.if you give them prop
er attention, and feed regularly)-you
will raise more lambs than you have
ewes. The money will be more than
doubled, and the wool and manure will
pay for their feed and interest. In the
spring you may put that field in corn
with the certainty of getting fifty per
cent. increase of crop.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-01

ALFALFA GRAss.-The Natehez Dem
ocrat and Courier has the following of
interest to every farmer in the State
1Col. j. y. Harrison, who has lately re-
turned from California, brought with
him two hundred pounds of the seed of
Ilatcelebrated eseulent grass-Alfalfa-
to which we made reference some weeks
ago. Col. Harrison believes this grass,
in our soil will almost take the place of
corn, being immensely productive, and
adapted, either in the green Ordry state,
for all animals-horses, sheep, cows,
mules, etc. Col. Harrison has left the
seed OF this new eseulent at e. F. Vir-
gins on Grayier street, and has made
arrangements, through Col. Andrew
Haynes, to express from California, any
amount of the seed which may be de-
manded. 1t needs to be planted at once,
viii stand any amount of drOuth or close
grazing, and can be cut as hay, on good
soil, once o month";
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-05-01
Change of Schedule ON the. Following
U. 9. Mail Roufes.

Route No. 8o81-From Opelousas, La..,,'to Pla.
queinine Brul6e, La. Leaves Opelougas every
Saturday at A. NJ, arrives at Plaquelnine Brri.
lee same day by u NJ. Leaves Plaquemine Bru.
lee same day at l p. M, arrives at Opeiousas by
6 p. NJ, same day.
Route No. 8115-FrOm Opelolsas, La, to Hick.
DRY Flat, La. Leaves Opelousas every Tuesday
at GA. NJ, arrives at Hickory Flat next day by
u III. Leaves Hickory Flat every Wednesday at
l ?: NJ, arrives at Opelousas Thursday by 6 1. NJ.
bacher, the intermediate Post Offices.