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WHERE Is THE WHEAT ?

This is a question that has been pro-
pounded with more or less anxiety in
business circles during the past week,
and as yet no satisfactory answer has
been given.
There have been for some days past
number Of vessels moored in the river
at our city's front, awaiting the incom-
ing of the wheat which our matchless
State has this season produced in such
abundance
The wheat has, as yet, however,
failed to come in in quantities sufficient
to load single one of the many vessels
at our wharves. This has, of course,
given rise to much comment and some
controversy. The Changers come in for
goodly share Of blame, being accused
of Withholding the wheat, to the mani
fest damage of our commercial interests,
waiting for rise and demanding a
price that it is impossible for exporters
to pay. We should like to see farmers
get the best possible price for their grain.
| No class of persons are more deserving
the full rewards of their toll than are
the sturdy yeomanry Of our land, and
their prosperity is the prosperity finan-
cially of the entire country. 1t be-
hooves them, however, to be careful in
in this matter of Withholding their
grain, as the experience of former years
will not warrant them in risking toe
much.
II is perhaps too soon TO expect wheat
to be in our market in full quantities
Harvests frequently linger until the first
weeks of September, and possibly the
bulk of the crop would not have been in
the market yet at any price. II, how.
ever, it is purposely retained, andw be
retained until the ships in port are
forced to go elsewhere for their cargoes
it will without doubt be to the detri,
ment OF our shipping interests in the
future.
In any case, the snathemas hurled al
the Changers will be breath misspent
for they will doubtless pursue the even
tenor of their way without regard tc
the advice or representations OF "mid-
dlemen."
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READING PAGES.

Among the powers given tous for our
guidance in the affairs pertaining toour
well-being, social and otherwise, is that
Of being able to read, or at least TO out
line, the characters of those with whom
We meet in the various walks of life, by
the faces they wear. True, many peo-
pie neglect this, and some even doubt
the existence of such . faculty, and in
disregard of its instincts, form friend
ships, or more intimate relations that
mar all their future lives. .-f .H ~1
Persons who have never given the
subject thought, can point out an idiot
at sight, and this is true also of a man
who has long been addicted to strong
drink. A little observation will enable
persons 10 detect many forms of vice
and many prominent traits of character
in the countenanee. Who ever saw a
miser who had not pinched features.
and n restless glitter of the eyes ? Or r
brutal man without the accompaniment
of n low forehead, u prominent chin and
thick neck2 y crafty man is betrayed
by his watchful eyes and sinister smile.
The thief carries the impress of his
besetting sin on his countenance as
plainly as though the word were stamped
upon his forehead, while those who lead
low lives of cunning and deception have
guilt so impressed upon their features,
that il is almost marvel that intelli-
gent persons can be imposed upon by
them. In childhood and early youth
these character lines upon the counte-
nance are not tsoappareut-are frequently
indeed not discernible; but by the time
mature manhood or womanhood ais
reached, they arc written in lines so
legible that he who runs may read. 1t
is frequently much more safe TO trust n
mans face than his words; aud when a
man has reached middle age with 4
countenance unwritten by the finger OF
vice, we scarcely think that it would be
possible for any one who is observant TO
mistrust him. Nobody's eountenance
is unwritten at thirty. Either Virtue
has been busy tracing his noble deeds
and kindly thoughts, or Vice has chis-
eled his record upon the open page, and
the tracings Of the one and the chisel-
ings Of the other are as unlike as is the
gentle goddess aud the hideous monster
who wrought the impress li 8lls
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UNIVERSITY HoNoRs FOR WOMEN

Since the University of Michigan, in
obedienee to the behest Of her I.egisla-
ture, opened her doors to all prepared
for her curriculum, there have been
several lady graduates sent forth from
her Halls. Co-education has there been
a complete success. One of the Profess
sors being recently interrogated upon
the subject, replied, at is a success in
every respect. We would not go back
to the old regime if we eould.r
In the College of Literature and Arts,
there has never been anything but cour-
tesy on the part of Professors, and kind
ness on the part of students. From it
were graduated one Bachelor of Philoso-
ply, four of Arts, one Master of Arts;
and from the Scientific School, one
Bachelor Of Science-dubbed by her
classmates Alba Longa-the tall Ken
tncky girl who solved the problem that
had been given in vain 10 each sue
eessive class for fifteen years. As she
stood upon the platform to receive her
diploma, she lowered head and shoul-
ders above her companions, which
would no doubt distress Dr. Clarke as
much as her mental superiority. l
The Hahnemann Medical College, Chi
cago, has for several years been open to
women, albeit somewhat grudgingly,
and they have not been backward in ap-
propriating its benefits. The Faculty,
much to the dismay of the friends Of co.
education, recently appended to long
list of advantages offered to students OF
the College these words: sThis College
offers to women, this year, for the last
time, the same facilities for thorough
medical education as are enjoyed by stu
dents of the opposite sex" Afterward,
however, upon petition being made, the
Faculty by unanimous vote rescinded
the Objectionable resolution. SO here
again are women triumphant. ..
! or course we know that 1t will all end
in these girl graduates falling victims
i to premature decay, that because ol
their cultivated minds their poor bodies
will utterly fail TO serve the great pur-
4 poses OF. creation, and that doubtless a
touching obituary of one or more Of
their number will serve as a preface te
DR.. Clark's next work on "Sex in Edu.
ton" Uphappy graduates! sagaciOu,
Doctor, .. ....
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MINISTER'S IN COUNCIL.

To the protected, and consequently ir-
responsible sex, who are denied oppor-
tunity 10 participate in the deliberations
of our annual Conference, the war Of
words which has cannonaded the walls
of the Methodist Church in this city
during the past ten days, not TO allude
TO the ears OF the long suffering multi
tude, who have listened to unintelligi-
BILE utterances of mutual Accnsers con-
cerning clerical guile, suggestion in
voluntarily presents itself from which
to PROFOUND new teachings TO these in
vestigating mor;llists and astute ex-
Founders Of the written Word.
The first lesson which the feminine
mind suggests is that ministers, be their
professions of holiness what they may,
are human, as well as others. And the
second is, that men, alone, in managing
the ministerial calling, make mistakes
quite equal 10 those made by men, alone,
in the Governmental arena. at is not
good for man TO be alone" good breth-
rem. This rule applies quite as well in
the affairs of Church and State, as In
the social circle and the house.
But we are glad to see our brethren
showing disposition to examine thor
oughly into the effects of wrong under q
man. made order of ecclesiastical irregu-
larity Yet when they stop paying Sc
rious attention to effects merely, and
turn their busy brains TO the work oi
investigating canses, they will able Ia
see much more clearly than now the
proper remedies to apply TO ministerial
differences. Many of the accusations
are evidently born of jealously. Were
it not that many Of our readers. who
have superstitious reverence for cler-
gyDen, which we, having been brought
up among them, long ago outlived-al'
though we have never lost our respect
and esteem for them, except in individ-
ual instances-we should head this arti-
Gle, "The Battle Of the Ganders," and
proceed at once 10 point a moral. But
we never forget that it is due to oul
readers to pander as much rs is Teasona'
bic to their inherent pet prejudices, anc
so we with difficulty restrain our eagel
and ready pen out Of courtesy TO them
And this, only, is why we have made
these brief illusions under the head o.
ministers in Council"
IThe above article was intended fol
last weeks issue, but was inadvertently
omitted.1
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Mrs Belva a. lockwood, lady law
yer Of Washington, speaks thus con-
cerning the different codes of morals for
men and women: "Why, in the great
scandal of scandals now shaking Brook
lyn 10 its center, have Beecher and Til
ton both rushed to defend the purity OF
Mrs iTilton, and why did Tilton pre-
serve his secret so long, but for this
same public opinion that calls that an
unforgivaJle crime in this hunted wom-
an, that'it fain would palIiate in the or
ator and the divine? We have one code
of morals for shrinking, untutored, in
experienced womanhood, and another
for educated, self-reliant, experienced
manhood. Where Is our womanhood,
that we can see this same drama enacted
over aud over, week after week, and
day after day aud not rise in rebellion
against 1t I? Down with the libertine,
be he divine or what not, who tramples
woman's virtue under his feet, and
filings il to the windsl If virtueis worth
anything it is worth as much in a man
as in woman If we want our chill
dren to be pure, let US look as well to
the purity OF tile father as the mother
Teach the boy to he pureas well as the
girl that vile thoughts, vile language,
whisky, tobacco, aud unseemly compan-
ionships are rs unsightly in him as liz
her. Teach the girl to think, to reason,
to work to feel that there is a nobility
in the ability to support herself; that
there are for her labor, emolument, and
reward; that she has 4 fair and even
race in lifei that she is the equal and
companion Of man, and you make crime
the exception, and virtue and happiness
the rule" r.- .....
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STATE TEMPERANCE UNION.

The th;rI regular session OF the Ore-
gon State Temperance Union VIII be
held on Tuesday, the 18th OF September
1874, at o'clock 2. N.
All temperance societies and other or
ganizations entitled to representations IN
the Union will have right to choose
one delegate for every twenty members
i'm good standing, and for every traction
of twenty over ten. 1t is earnestly re-
ouested that all such societies ana OF
ganizations send full delegations. Busl-
ness of the utmost Importance to the
TEMPERANCE cause i'm Oregon Will De
brought before the Union at this session.
This meeting was appointed to be held
during the session of the Legislative
Assembly. The members of the Union
desire to DO something effective towards
securing the enactment OF laws to pro-
tect the people against the evils OF the
liquor traffic. They ''mean business
The Oregon and California Railroad
Company, the Oregon Steamship Com
pany, and the Oregon Steam Naviga-
ton Company, have kindly consented
to carry delegates and members to and
from the session at reduced rates. Dele
gates can purchase tickets for the "round
trip at any ticket Office of the o. & c.
r. r. Co. by exhibiting to them certih-
Gates of election and paying full fare one
way. Those who come on the boats of
either of the companies above men
toned, and pay full fare, will be re-
turned free upon presentation of proper
certificates from the presiding officer OF
the Union. The reduced rates allowed
by the o. :. y. Co. do not apply to boats
plying between Portland and Astoria,
as those boats are already carrying pas
sengers cheaply enough.
SYI. c. SIMPSON, President.
w. r. DUNBAR, Secretary.
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A CONGRESS OF WOMEN.

\ call WAS issued last fall for a Con-
gress Of Women, to be held in New
York city, and in response thereto, a
large number Of persons assembled, who,
"by their example, inspire Others not
only to eovet earnestly the best gifts,
but to labor earnestly for them" From
this Congress sprung a Society for the
Advancement of Woman" whose OBJ
jeet, as definedby its constitution, is, "to
receive and present practical methods
for securing TO woman higher intellec-
tual, moral and physical conditions,
and thereby to improve all domestic
and social relations" OF this Society,
Mary \. Uvermore was elected Presi-
dent, Julia Ward Howe Vice-P President,
and Charlotte +. Wilbour Chairman OF
the EXECUTIVE Committee. Its one
hundred and fifty members include
many OF The best women preachers,
teachers, Physicians, editors, authors,
and practical philanthropists in the
country. .... .....r. u.
The Executive Committee have de-
cided to hold the second annual meeting
in Chicago, and the time set for the de-
liberations Of the Society is the 18TH
10th and 18th OF October. 1t is earnestly
hoped that The coming meeting will b,
apower for good to all striving to better
woman's, physical condition, and intel.
lectual and moral developement.
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GENBRALITIES.

Daring destroys, genius elevates, good
sense preserves and perfeets.
Compulsory education began in Call
fornia recently under the new law.
Leavenworth is written "l1worth" in
that region, and Wyandotte is abreyi-
ated ''Y 81
1t is easy enough for the st. Louis pa
pers to predict that the new bridge will
last 200 years, and then say, "Wait and
see.". t.IE
An arsenic mine in England is said to
produce enough of the mineral in a
month to poison the entire population
of the world.
Schuyler Colfax, who was once Vice
President, is lecturing on Odd Fellow
ship in Colorado. He was to speak at
Denver on last Tuesday.
OF the Harvard graduates, this year,
two were in the rebel army and one in
the Union. The class is the largest ever
graduated from that college.
Thewidow of congressman Mellish
has been appointed counter in the
currency division Of the Treasury De-
partment at a salary of $500 year.
A man in San Francisco, who closed
his saloon one night recently to allow a
lady in the room above to die quietly, is
now suing her heirs fOr $3.50 for the IA
vor. .-
It is reported that Rev. Robert Laird
Collier OF Chicago, has agreed to preach
to the Unitarian congregation at Leices-
ter in England, for one year for $1,000
in gold. f.. a.
A young lady will sail in the next
steamer from Boston for Europe, who
doesn't expect to marry nobleman;
another one who isn't going to Italy to
study music. -al
The National Educational Convention
recently held in Detroit recognized
women in its election Of officers, by ap-
pointing among the twelve Yice-Presi-
dents, four women.
The remains Of mastodon, the third
which has been found in this country,
, have been exhumed in Dansville, \. Y.
The animal is thought to have been at
least fourteen feet high.
BY the published proceedings OF the
Rocky Mountain Conference of the NJ.
f. Church, we learn that Rev. G. G..
Stratton. formerly of Oregon, has again
| been stationed at salt Lake City.
, Claiborne county, Miss, is horrified by
, the marriage OF young white lady, be-
, longing to an influential Democratic
family, to Hon. Hawkins Smith, col
ored Representative of the district in
Congress.
Henry Ward Beecher is under con-
tract with Mr.. James Redpath for 20
lectures, to be delivered in Boston and
other parts of New England early in the
autumn. The sum to be paid for them
is said to be $4,000. ra-
Anna Dickinson has not given up her
intention of going abroad, but is DELAYED
by the necessity Of finishing a book
1t is a chronicle of certain experiences
and adventures in her Iecturing tours.
amusing and otherwise, with record of
one summer spent in California and
another in Colorado.
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TO WHOM 1T MAY CoNogRg.

EDIroE OF TIE NEW NORTHWEST:
\ certain gentleman (?) of the
legal profession in this city, has
lately rendered himself extremely Of
fensive to respectable ladies, by un-
seemly calls at their homes during the
absence Of their husbands, and while he
the legal dignitary aforesaid-was in
state of maudlin intoxication. He
has further, during call of this kind.
made himself impertinentIy inuuisitive
concerning the number of sleeping
rooms in the house, asking the privilege
of lowering the window blinds, and
other acts Of improprlety.
When a man who makes pretensions
TO respectability thus deports himself to
the annoyance of decent women, It
seems to me high time that he should
be taught salutary lesson; so let him
consider this the alphabet of needed
lesson, which, if necessary, will be en-
larged upon and Its application enforced
by T1eER
Portland, August %, 1871.
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REHABILITATION.


Anti-Suflagists, particularly those
who revel in the details of the great
scandal, still continue with undated
eagerness the attempt to cast odium
upon the Woman Movement, because
of the knowledge certain of its leaders
possessed in relation to the Beeeher ir-
regularities.
These charges have so often been met
and so completely refuted tnat 1t would
seem waste of time to mention them
again, but it is only by frequent "repe-
tition hammered on the ear" that we
can hope to convince certain obtuse
mortals that a woman who advocates
political equality is not necessarily a
monster of social iniquity.
Will some of these ready accusers Of
as pure and true women as our land can
boast, tell us how they can make it APP
pear that because Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton believes that those who are taxed to
sustain a Government, TO whose laws
they are amenable, should demand Just
and equitable legislation, which will
recognize them as part of the law-mak-
ing power, that she is thereby warning
against marriage and honorable ma
ternity? This charge, taken in connec-
tion with the life of Mrs. Stanton, a
loyal wife and a devoted mother OF
numerous children, carries with 1t its
own refutation.
The Woman Movement now numbers
among its advocates and believers
thousands of as faithful wives and loving
mothers as this land can claim-women
who have never in any manner indi-
Gated that they hold the marriage tie
lightly, but whose lives have been and
are being given to the work of fulfilling
its most sacred obligations; who have
never by word or deed expressed a wish
to enlarge the liberty of wrong-doers,
but who demand for women equal OPP
portunities with men, so that, by their
united exertions, check may be placed
upon wrong-doing, which men alone
have as yet been unable to fasten.
The moral phase of the question is
not greater license to do evil, but equal
restrictions upon and punishments for
those who SIM"
Just here is where the trouble lies, so
far as certain class of men are con-
cerned. They have been so long aecus-
toned to shift and see shifted upon
women the great burden of the social
sins Of the race, that any step that viii
tend to equalize the distribution of
shame and disgrace where equal COM
plicity in crime between men and
women occurs, meets their unqualified
disapproval, their fiercest denunciation.
They cannot say so in so many words,
and in this dilemma they stand and
shout "Free Love" at Woman Sufira-
gists, vainly hoping 10 frighten them
thereby.
II there are women in the world un-
fortunate enough to sustain the relation
OF mother, wife or sister to the men who
thus Indirectly proclaim that the strong
arm of the law alone prevents al
womanklnd from rushing into promis
Guilty, we do most sincerely pity them
We ardently hope and believe tha
there are comparatively few men whC
thus seek to cast a stigma upon al
womanhood, but while such Insulting
innuendoes are thrown out, We ar,
forced to believe that there are som,
who are thus debased. Out of their owl
mouths we judge them.
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y The Overland Monthly for September
is at hand, aud furnishes the usual in
ielleetual feast. From the variety
spread before the literary eplcure, we
make mention Of further "Glimpses of
the Court of China a glowing descrip-
ton of the ''Isiand of Santa Rosa, !" an
account Of the preparations for the tram
sit across the Continent of the first
"California Aquarium Car" q paper
concerning the Timber Belts Of the
Pacific Coast and "Gold Diving" ex-
perienee Of 40. The lighter articles are
also attractiye and readable; in fact, the
entire number will amply repay perusal.
john II. Carmany & Co. Publishers,
No. 4O6 Washington street. San Fran
cisco, 'i .ia- sH ua
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The suggestion of our correspondent
relative to distributing our petitions
among members of the County Assoeia-
uon is good one. We have sent quite
a number, and hope that each person
VINO receives a copy will lose no oppor-
tunlty OF securing name, and that
each wlii be returned, well filed, to the
Recording Secretary Of the State Asso-
ciatlon, one week previous to the State
meeting, which has been called for the
end Of September at Salem. We have
a number of the petitions on hand. and
will mail them to any one upon apnli-
cation. Come, friends! Rally to the
help of those who are working against
such odds, for the overthrow of injustice
and the triumph OF Equal Rights.
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We happened to hear one Of the weak
minded sisterhood, 3 few evenings since,
declare that she had stopped the New
NORTHWEST" Knowing the immense
power for evil that persons of this class
possess, we were momentarily some
what startled. a subsequent investiga-
tion of the condition of affairs at our
Office convinced US, however, that the
assertion was premature. The laborious
duty OF striking the name from our
mail-books VIII, We trust, not prevent
tue NEW NORTHWEST from going TO
press at the usual time.
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STATE WOMAN SUFFRAGE Ass0-
CITATION.

A special session Of the Oregon State
Woman Suffrage Association will con-
vene in Salem on Tuesday, September
%. at lOA.N. Members are requested
TO be promptly on hand at the time
specified, ready and willing to work.
The Vice Presidents Of the Association
are requested to be present il possible,
and If not, to forward written reports of
the progress of the work in their espec
ial localities, to the Secretary, Mrs. C.
A. Coburn, at Portland, by the 18th of
September.
By order of Executive Committee.
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The Forest Grove Independent re-cop-
les from the Portland Bulletin the
"Views on Woman Suffrage which
that delectable sheet copies from the
New York Herald. No doubt Brother
Luce thinks that he has now succeeded
In extinguishing the last ray of light
for the Suffraglsts. --.--.
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NOTICE.

Agents will please take notice that II Is a
great tax upon us TO pay express charges upon
small sums, and they VIII confer a great iAVor
By remiting 10 us through money orders or
registered letters.
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Petitions for Woman Suffrage, TO
which were attached 10000 signatures,
have been presented to the British Par
lismsnt.
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The steamer City of Panama left New
York Saturday for Asplnwall, with 500
tons of assorted freight for San Fran
cisco.