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guess why he found no one "hospita-
ble' enough to proffer him entertain
ment. II must have been an oversight,
as the citizens Of Salem are as sociable
and friendly as any people we know of,
and we are satisfied that delegates would
be welcomed in their homes on any such
occasion, if it were but known that they
desired it. We think, though, that our
friends suggestion about the hall is es-
peciaily good; also the complaint about
the soeiable, which would have been
well enough after the Alliance ad-
journed, but, whatever those financially
interested may imagine, was an impo-
sition, occurring how and when it did.
Local societies ought always to be able
to keep up local expenses. We hope
such an enteuainment will not again be
given at such time, except for the ben
efit of the State Alliance. Then, nobody
will object.
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LETTER FROM PORTLAND.

Dear Mrs. DHlilCdy:-As you are one
of the few editors i'm the land who dare
to express an opinion without listening
first for the dictates of some master,
please permit me to use your columns
for little gTo10I. felt strongly moved
to make an Indignation speech when it
was decided that Salem was to have the
benefit of the next years Alliance Meet
ing.
If there is a town in Oregon that will
afford hall for such a meeting without
levying upon the delegates who have
already spent money for travelling fees,
and are compelled to pay hotel bills in
addition to such expenses, let that town
be chosen for the place of meeting, and
I, for one, will be satisfied. OF course
Salem can vote herself as the place Of
meeting every year. 1t costs her dele
gates nothing to attend-and she has
plenty of them-but it is her duty to
see that place of meeting is provided,
free of additional expense, to delegates
from a distance.
The Woman Suffragists, residing i'm
Portland, entertained the delegates from
a distance, in every case where oppor-
tunity was given to do so, without
money and without price. The stranger
was as kindly cared for as the acquaint-
ance. If Salem would exhibit little
more of that kind of hospitality she
would please the people much better
than now, and my gratuitous advice to
her citizens is this: Furnish free hall
and free entertainment to delegates who
are compelled to meet considerable ex-
pense in attending the meetings every
year, or allow them TO >be held some
where else, where the people are able
and willing to bear that expense which
you, everytime, allow delegates to bear
in addition to travelling fees.
Another thing: 1t is very strange If
Capital Lodge is so needy that it must
encroach upon a State Mass Convention
TO hold sociables for its own benefit. If
Salem wishes to sustain her good name
she must prove herself above such
dodges.
I do not know that you, Mrs. D., will
be willing to publish this growl. You
seem to be well pleased with the Salem
folks, and to have good time among
them, but if you will print it, you are
at liberty to make what comments
,.o,, pleasa and oblige q
DELEGATE.
We print the above in Difference to
onr eorrespondent, but we are at loss TO
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YOURS TRULY" AT THE UNION
AND ALLIANCE.

On the morning of the 10th inst.
Yours Truly availed herself of the con-
venienee of locomotion offered by the
East Side Railroad, and before noon ar
rived as delegate from one of the many
represented societies of Portland to the
Oregon State Temperance Union. She
had read Of the belligerent attitude of
many of the members of the Union who
were seceders from the Alliance be-
cause of the presence of the "pesky
women" but she must confess that she
was not prepared for the prosy, stupid,
tedious dullness of the two days ses-
sion, during which the display of mar
row minds and voluble tongues made
such clang and clatter as to almost
deafen her. There were some really tai
ented members present, but they were
mostly awed into silence by the jack
DAVIS; and the whole proceedings,
headed by the president of two State
organizations" went to prove that this
Union was n confederaey convened
solely to disrupt the Alliance, which be-
lieves in women's work in the temper
ance cause.
The first day, as Yours Truly sat near
the center of the hall in full glory of
immaculate ruffles, jaunty hat, fault
less gloves and fashionable frizettes, she
was disgusted by observing that one of
her frills had settled in pool of tobacco
juice made by one of the delegates Of
temperance" who was opposed to the adj
mission of the Woman Suffrage delega-
tion. Yours Truly gently demonstrated
with the filthy biped, but her admoni-
ton was lost upon him, for the ereden-
tials of the Marion County Woman Suf-
frage delegation were just then being
considered, and he couIdn' stop to mind
the ruin caused by puddle Of disgusting
amber.
Gathering her skirts about her i'm her
Indignation, Yours Truly betook herself
to another seat, and received welding
heat upon her indignation when the
packed President proclaimed that
srWomen Suffragists were neither tenn
perance nor religious people, and there
fore couldn't come in" Blank visages
exchanged ghostly glances for minute
and it seemed for "a time that chaos
would turn itself loose, but discretion
proved the better part of valor, and as
the whisper ran from mouth to mouth,
HWait till the Alliance meets! Mrs
Duniway will be here thenG' the Suffra'
gists refused to contend for seat in any
such fossilized, tobacco-be-splattered
temperance body; and, to the evident
chagrih of the belligerents; the whole
performance fell as fiat as a miners flap
jack.
] One old gentleman, who had waited
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dry dock ofSalt River, and you find that
your Scylla was a phantom and your
Cahrybdis myth, and that the real rock
of defeat upon which you were wrecked
was the hidden one of Neutrality, you
will have nothing left you but the
doubtful consolation that will waken
the echoes of departed slumbers-"fe
knew your duty but We did it not"
4 man who has no opinion upon this
momentous question, which excites the
profoundest consideration the greatest
statesmen of modern times, is not pos
sessed of sufficient intelligence to claim
the suffrages of the people. 4 man who
holds an opinion adverse to the equal
ity of the sexes is not worthy TO hold
office under the Star-Spangled Banner,
and the man who is afraid to express
his opinions and stand by them like a
hero, be they what they may, is too
weak in the spinal column to be trusted
anywhere.
We. are aware, Governor, that this
summary, as applied to you, isn't as
fiattering as we should like to make 1t.
Personally, we rather like you, and
should be glad to see you step forward
in the ranks of progress, like a man;
but We have long since learned to hold
all personal considerations in abeyance
to the public good. We are sorry to
count you as an enemy to human rights,
but your own acts compel us. "He
that is not for us is against u.s."
Get ready for Salt River quick.
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Olympia, February 16, 1874.
ANswERs no OORREsPONDENTs.

T. C.B. G., Muckwanago, Wis: Yes.
Send US along the piece about Josiah
Aliens wife. We don't remember any
thing about. The "play" you speak of
has not yet been received.
/ c. f. s., Olympia: SS 90, placed to your
credit with thanks. Will write to you
just as soon as we can snatch the time.
Hundreds of letters remain unanswered.
We are doing our work according to the
guidance We get. Glad to get your sug-
gestions. Sorry you did not come to
the Convention. 1t was feast of rea-
son and flow of soul. Stir up our
friends to fill their columns in the paper
every week. California is getting
ahead.
NJ. C., San Francisco: The latter part
of your letter came, but the remainder
did not reach US. Write again.
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as we talked, that electric throbs of sym
pathy aud harmony aud hope and con-
ISOLATION found response in the hearts of
all who listened. These diversions
should often occur. Mrs. DIR. Sawtelle
made few remarks at the close of the
lecture, after which came more music,
and those Of us who desired were per-
mitted TO go through the various de-
partments and inspect them to our
hearts content.
We strongly commend the excellent
management of the Superintendent.
The prisoners are well fed, kindly
treated, kept clean and warm, and those
who use tobacco are supplied with it.
The commissary department is .admira-
bly, provided. We noted with pleasure
that there were no women in the Peni-
tentiary-another proof that women,
who govern themselves better than men
do, should be free to govern others.
There is a good library, we'll thumbed,
and blackboard, well used, in the pris-
oner's hall. The whole building is well
supplied with hot and cold water, and
every convenience needed for the refor-
nation of these wards of the State.
Returning from the Penitentiary to
the Opera House, we were in time to
witness some very pleasing acts in a
popular local exhibition for the benefit
of the Methodist Church, and when, at
a late hour, we sought our couch, we
were lulled to sleep with the reflection
that we had enjoyed a well-spent day.
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STATE TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE.

The Annual Convening of this Asso-
citation occurred in Salem on the 18th
and 10Th insts., and was well attended
and harmonious.
The Woman Suffrage delegation, over
whose admission such fight was made
a year ago, were admitted this year
without opposition, and the harmony
that ensued was sufficient to prove to
everybody that the presence and active
participation of women in the delibera-
tions of a debating body, was not the
cause of the year ago disturbance.
AS the daily papers have given COM
plete and fair accounts of the two days
session, it is not our own purpose to go
into details. Suffice it to say that much
interest is manifest among the masses
upon the temperance question, and
many who were ardent opponents Of
woman's work in the cause one year
ago, are now firm in the belief that
nothing else but her legal cooperation
with men in making wholesome laws
will ever abrogate the cause of intoxi-
cation.
Considerable feeling was manifested
in favor of third party, TO be founded
upon temperance, or prohibition plat
form; and resolutions to that effect were
passed by a fine majority. a State
Central Committee was consequently
appointed, several of whom declined to
serve, ourself among the number.
What the motives OF Others may have
been, we are not prepared to say, but
for ourself we can state that we have no
notion of crippling the Woman Suffrage
movement by allying ourselfor the New
NORTHWEST to any faction or party,
of any name or order, which does not
consider the enfranchisement of woman
the first need of this Nation. Enfran-
chise woman and the temperance
question will soon settle itself.
In many respects the Temperance Al
lance proved itself a grand success as
compared to former years. The bellig-
erents who made the former meetings
disgraceful, headed by Modoc Thornton
and the recalcitrant Wooden, had seced =
ed year before and formed confedera-
ton of their own, to which all the dis
affected adhered, leaving the more quiet
people in undisturbed possession of the
field.
The Alliance is fortunate in securing
the services of Professor L. J. Powell as
President and Mrs. C. A. Coburn as Sec
retary.
a notable feature of the last evening
was the reading of letter from the pro-
prietor of the Opera Saloon, inviting
the ladies to go in body to his Saloon
and hold prayer meetings. He promised
that nothing should be seen or heard
to offend the most fastidious, and we
should not be surprised if the ladies of
Oregon should soon initiate the exam
pie of those of Ohio, by entering the sa-
looms armed with a mighty moral
power which shall be felt all over the
commonwealth.
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LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

To the President and members OF the
O. S. W. S. A.
Sincerely regretting my inability to
respond in person to your invitation by
accepting an appointment as one of the
delegates to represent California at
your annual meeting, 1 hasten to for
ward you a written missive, believing
it will not be unweleome.
Since reports will be in order on that
occasion, I would state, as Recording
Secretary of the California State Board
of Control, that that body was never
more active and earnest than at the
present hour. During the past year it
has held twenty-four meetings whose ses-
sions have been characterized by unity
of purpose and unbroken harmony of ae-
ton.
The most noteworthy results have
been the preparation and issue of two
petitions-the first of which was for
warded to Hon. A. A. Sargent, one of
our California Representatives in Con-
gress, and by him presented to that
body, and reported to an appropriate
committee. The second was addressed
to the California Legislature, received
and presented by Senator Edgerton,
and finally entrusted to jointcommittee
of the Senate and Assembly, in whose
hands it now lies awaiting their action.
In addition also to other important
documents, issued under the instruction
of the Board, by our indefatigable Cor
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responding Secretary, Mrs. NJ. J. Col
Inns, letters have been addressed by her
TO each of the Pacific Coast Senator's
repudiating the Frelinghuysen Otan
Bill.
Thus you will preceive that though
the Board has recently made no Puohe
demonstration, its private labors nave
not been insignificant. We are now
busily preparing for our next Annual
Meeting of the State Association as
which We hope you will reciprocate our
fellowship by the appointment and at
tendance of delegates from your Soci-
ety-and especially that your worthy
editor, Mrs. a. ]. Duniway, who is so
energetic and unwearied in the good
cause, will not fail to be present on that
occasion.
Wishing you full attendance, and
abundant success at your approaching
Convention, am very truly yours, IN
behalf of Woman's Enfranchisement.
MARY F. SNOW.
San Francisco, February 2, 1874.
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LETTER PROM WASHINGTON.

Mrs. 4. j. Dluil0dy-DedT MdddTl:-
1 send you the inclosed report of the
Convention held in this city last week,
thinking you may like to make some
extracts or give some account of the
meeting in your paper. But perhaps
it will reach you too late to be of much
use.
The Convention was success. The
people here who attend, call it the best
one ever held in Washington.
A Committee appointed by the Con-
vention had a hearing before the House
Judiciary Committee at their room in
the Capitol on Tuesday, the Goth inst.
The principal speaker was Mr.. Francis
Miller, of this city, who presented the
legal arguments of the cause. He was
followed by Mrs. Sara ]. Spencer, Mrs.
Lockwood Frances, Ellen Burr and
Miss Phoebe Cozzens. The speakers
were all listened to with respectful
considerations" but, it is to be hoped
they will give US something more than
that. Legislative action would answer
the purpose better.
Shall return to Hartford this week.
Please send paper to
FRANCES ELLEN BURR,
7SS Main street, Hartford, Conn.
THE report of the Convention was re-
ceived and published a fortnight since.
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GLASTONBURY AGAIN.

Some time since, we, by request, ad-
dressed IA card TO Abby II. Smith, in-
quiring if she was not the Abby Hutch
inson, of anti-slavery times. The ques-
tion called forth the following reply,
which, though not intended for pubiica-
tion, is too good to be lost:
My Dear Mrs. Dunitcdy:-I am not
Abby Hutchinson, though had good
deal to do in the anti-slavery struggle,
but my name is Abby Hadapah Smith.
1 never had one idea that by my little
town-meeling speech should come into
notoriety. One of the Hartford papers,
seven miles from here, says Ably
Smiths cows have gone from Maine to
California. Neither should / have so
much credit for good works, for all L
have done is, when have believed any
thing to be right, to fight It ont. l. am
not conscience-bouna, for believe, as l
search out Gods word and love it with
all my heart, we are on the right ground,
and bring not moral question into my
religion, for that is between me and my
God.
Had we had any notice that our cows
would have been taken and penned up
in that narrow place, they would have
been disposed of before hand. The
most the town has injured us is in our
feelings, by the suffering of our animals,
and they knew it when they did it. AS TO
the rest of this controversy We are by
no means martyrs, for we are upheld by
so many friends, and powerful ones, too,
by letter and also by pecuniary aid, that
they must soon begin to feel that we are
not to suffer any loss in our property,
which is an eye-sore, because they fear
we shall not be brought down. We
were told by a newspaper reporter in
Hartford that they would seize our fur
niture next. We told him we did not
believe it; but if they did, we had had it
long time and it would be but little
while that we could enjoy it, and it was
not animal suffering. He acknowle lged
that we reasoned somewhat philosophi-
eally.
We are so pressed just now by letters
that require immediate answers az
takes all the time of my sister and J.
that cannot write half want to for ]
want to help you, Of all others. Your
card Of the seventeenth came in ouI
mail last night, among the other mat
ter, which always astonishes us greatly.
Our town yet holds out against us, but
we cannot imagine what they are going
to do with us. They are in bad pre-
dicament-much worse than we are, fol
we are standing on right, and they can
only plead law, which they tell us they
are not to blame for, and we reply, at
is a most remarkable law which ena-
bles you to take our property from us,
and injure us all you please, and gives
you no power whatever to protect us in
any way. According to your ld'o you
cannot do that" All We are contending
for is, that to rob woman is just as bad
as to rob a man, and worse, for they
have not the physical strength to re.
sist.
Yours, with great respect and esteem,
ABBY III. SMITH.
p. S. If can procure a number oI
the Boston Post, whose editor came or
from there last week on purpose to take
a view of us and our cows, will send il
to you. He has two long columns in
both the 22d and 23d of January deserib.
ing his visit. A. II. S.
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ON THE FENCE.

One Of the most amusing examples Of
spinal eomplainp' that has ever come
under public observation is the ludi-
crOus- attempt of his ExcelIency, our
Governor, to avoid any expression of
opinion upon the Woman Question. In
his weakness anu timidity he beholds
Scylla on one side and Charybdis on the
other of his precarious political baTque
The opposing breakers that surge around
him are so violent that we very much
fear he will be dashed against the rocks
of Neutrality and beached high and dry
upon the sands of political ingratitude.
OF the many letters received by the
Corresponding Secretary and read be-
fore the annual Convention of the o. s.
w. S. A., none but the Governors
avoided the expression of an opinion
favorable to human freedom. His let
ter was so guarded, nOw-eommittal and
namby- -pamby-like that it conveyed not
the ghost of n meaning to any senses
but the prejudiced ones of the Oregon
City Enterprise. That paper says the
Governor declares himself opposed to
the movement" but his Excelleney as
earnestly denies the harsh impeach-
ment.
Well, Governor, the Woman Suffrag-
lists are resolved TO carry on this right
eous crusade against taxation without
representation" all the same as though
you would espouse their cause. And
'hey are resolved, further, to consider
everybody as against who is not for
mem And when the Ides of June come
Around' and what little is left of your
Pohtleal craft goes crippled from the
open sea oil politics, to be stranded in the
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LETTER FROM OLYMPIA.

Mrs. 4. j. DURiCdy:-It gives me
much pleasure in reading the NEW
NORTHWEST, to see so many brave
spirits mastering under your banner.
hear and see many men who few
months since were bitterly opposed to
the movement, and who spoke of Mrs.
Duniway only with q scoff or sneer,
who now quietly admit that there is only
one hope for the\ regeneration of our
country, and that is to give the suffrage
to women, and it will be a safe prophecy
to say that before your valuable and
unflinehing paper has doubled its pres
ent age, woman will stand equal with
her "broad-shouldered" friends at the
ballot box.
Find inelosed amount of subscription.
j. L. MYERS.
Olympia, February 16, 1874.
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Recording Secretary

The Santa Barbary hndcr is a
sprighly and spicy paper, hailing from
the Golden State and edited and pub
lished by William and Virginia Rus
sell, under the firm name of Russell &
Co." Another example of the right
kind Of business co-partnership. We
wish the firm abundant success.
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His Excelleney, the Governor, wishes
it distinctly understood that he's that
man that never has an opinion upon
any principle until that principle has
become an established usage.
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to the contrary are considered as wishing 10
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OF their newspapers, the publisher may con-
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3. Ifsubscribers neglect or refuse 10 take their
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directed, the law holds them responsible until
they have settled the bills, and ordered them
discontinued.
4. II subscribers remove TO other places with
out informing the publisher, and the newspS-
pers are sent TO the former direction. they arc
held responsible.
5. The courts have decided that refusing "a
take newspapers from the Office, or removing
and leaving them uncalled for, is prima fseis
evidence OF Intentional fraud.
6. The postmaster who neglects to give the
legal notice OF the neglect of a person TO take
from the Office the newspapers addressed to
him, is liable TO the publisher for the subserip-
tiOn price.